[expert] mdk 9.2 installed perl
The perl that was installed by default on 9.1 would NOT let me install anything with CPAN. I considered 9.1's perl install to be flawed because of that. Has 9.2 fared any better or is using perl with CPAN still broke? Or another alternative -- I should've installed something ELSE to make CPAN work well? If so, what? Jerry -- Registered Linux User: 275424 Today's Fortune: Yow! Are we laid back yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?
I'm using a 9.1 system. I'm trying to install the mplayerplugin rpm. However, everytime I go to install, it complains about a conflict with the mozplugger package. Hey, I've got my config files setup so that the two can co-exist. So, looking at the man page I see that I can pass the rpm options of --force and --nodeps by using the --allow-force and --allow-nodeps of urpmi. urpmi --allow-force --allow-nodeps mozplayerplugin still wants to remove the mozplugger package. Is the man page wrong, urpmi broken or am I doing something wrong? --Jerry -- Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:54:02PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: : On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:04, Jerry A! wrote: : I'm using a 9.1 system. I'm trying to install the mplayerplugin rpm. : However, everytime I go to install, it complains about a conflict with : the mozplugger package. : : Hey, I've got my config files setup so that the two can co-exist. So, : looking at the man page I see that I can pass the rpm options of : --force and --nodeps by using the --allow-force and : --allow-nodeps of urpmi. : : urpmi --allow-force --allow-nodeps mozplayerplugin still wants to : remove the mozplugger package. : : Is the man page wrong, urpmi broken or am I doing something wrong? : : --Jerry : : Your not doing something wrong.. the conflict is apparently coded into : the mplayer and mozplugger rpms. Usually this is done because they : share a filename... but not content. It's possible you could download : the smaller of the two src rpms. Then edit the spec file for it and : install that way. I've got mplayer on my box and I'm not missing : mozplugger myself... but that's just me. The conflict comes from the fact that both the default setups for mozplugger and mplayerplugin control the various video/* mime-types. Regardless, I can download either of the two rpms and install it via rpm --nodeps rpm and everything is all cool. I'm curious as to why --allow-force/nodeps isn't being passed to rpm by urpmi. --Jerry -- Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:05:59AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: : On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:03 am, James Sparenberg wrote: : Great. after september 30 this year I won't have a single : supportable box U Gentlemen. Are you going to give me new : laptops with my 9.1 distro? It wouldn't be a problem if I could manage : to get software that would last as long as my hardware... well... let's : see 8 years on Win95 ... 6 on 98 .. h me thinks the product : life cycle is t short. : : Could someone clarify, please? Does this mean that there will be no security : fixes after those dates? If those continue we would be no worse off than : with any windows distro. After all, if it works for us now it will continue : to do so. But without security updates it's a whole new ball game. Or any other Linux distro. Or most software programs for that matter. Personally, I'd rather see Mandrake do like everyone else and EOL a product rather than keep dumping time and money into something that get's them no return. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] sftp and chroot
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:41:39PM -0600, J.P. Pasnak wrote: : : Todd Lyons said: : : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- : Hash: SHA1 : : Franki wrote on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:51:50PM +0800 : : So would I... I had to give out two logins recently, and would have : loved to : be able to lock them in their directory.. : I was hoping Todd would respond with some wisdom on this one.. :-) : : Due to the way that the privelege seperation in ssh works, I don't know : that it's possible. I realize that _anything_ is possible if you put : enough work into it, but it's going to consume a lot of space. You : might as well chroot the whole distro. : : So you're saying my latest endevour, trying to get pam_chroot.so to work : are fruitless? With stock OpenSSH yes. Check out the patches at http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/ to accomplish what you're after. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mysql install problem
On Thursday 23 January 2003 09:06 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: I don't *HAVE* a my.cnf should I have one? should one of these packages i installed have one? here is the packages that I installed: MySQL-client-3.23.52-1.2mdk MySQL-bench-3.23.52-1.2mdk php-mysql-4.2.3-1mdk libmysql10-3.23.52-1.2mdk perl-Mysql-1.22_19-5mdk MySQL-3.23.52-1.2mdk jerry BTW a reboot did not help On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:41, jerry wrote: I installed mysql from the 9.0 CD's everything was ok during install. did a service mysql start and get the following error message: 030123 19:18:50 mysqld started 030123 19:18:51 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 030123 19:18:51 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ? 030123 19:18:51 Aborting 030123 19:18:51 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 030123 19:18:51 mysqld ended I do not have a mysql.sock in /var/lib/mysql anyone had this same problem? I have also had some weird problems with mysql. One of those problem was that after installing mysql without any apparent error, there was mo /var/lib/mysql. Check this one. Also, you may get into problems if you have not created /etc/my.cnf. What I now do and always works it installing from the RPMs obtained at mysql.com. int the following order. rmp -i MySQL-client-x.rpm rpm -i MySQL-4.0.9-.rpm It used to work installing both RPM at the same time, but for some reason it doesn't work this way any more. __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (609-6213) -- -- Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary -- Value Freedom (Linux) -- not Tyranny (Microsoft) Linux Registered User 275424 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mysql install problem
On Thursday 23 January 2003 07:41 pm, jerry wrote: well i finally found the problem. the main problem was the permissions on /var/lib/mysql after pouring over the post install instructions in the manual, and after searching for my error, i found this: when mysql rpm's are installed: /var/lib/mysql ... is owned by root and group root after changing the owner and group to mysql in recursive mode it came up. you never know how the simplest things can be overlooked so easily. now it comes up fine even at boot time. one of the posters in this thread mentioned my.cnf and i didn't have one. so i snooped around (did a locate for .cnf) and found 6 different my*.cnf files so I chose one and copied it to /etc so there were 2 problems (the first one kept me from running mysqld) probably would have run without the my.cnf, but probably not. GOOD, now I can begin. thanks to all who helped. jerry I installed mysql from the 9.0 CD's everything was ok during install. did a service mysql start and get the following error message: 030123 19:18:50 mysqld started 030123 19:18:51 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 030123 19:18:51 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ? 030123 19:18:51 Aborting 030123 19:18:51 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 030123 19:18:51 mysqld ended I do not have a mysql.sock in /var/lib/mysql anyone had this same problem? -- -- Why is everything made of Lycra Spandex? -- Value Freedom (Linux) -- not Tyranny (Microsoft) Linux Registered User 275424 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mysql install problem
I installed mysql from the 9.0 CD's everything was ok during install. did a service mysql start and get the following error message: 030123 19:18:50 mysqld started 030123 19:18:51 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 030123 19:18:51 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ? 030123 19:18:51 Aborting 030123 19:18:51 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 030123 19:18:51 mysqld ended I do not have a mysql.sock in /var/lib/mysql anyone had this same problem? -- -- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -- Voltaire -- Value Freedom (Linux) -- not Tyranny (Microsoft) Linux Registered User 275424 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Apache 1.3 RPM Install - what's wrong?
when I do a /usr/sbin/apachectl configtest I get this: I *Do* have the module, but I am not sure what to do from here. I have RTFM'd for any troubleshooting tips and such, to no avail here is the output: Checking configuration sanity for Apache 1.3: Syntax error on line 23 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Can't locate API module structure `auth_anon_module' in file /etc/httpd/modules/mod_auth_anon.so: /usr/sbin/httpd: undefined symbol: auth_anon_module [FAILED] -- -- Them as has, gets. -- Value Freedom (Linux) -- not Tyranny (Microsoft) Linux Registered User 275424 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] perl 5.8.0 is broke on mdk 9 ?
perl runs ok, but I have been unsuccessful in installing ANY CPAN module. i know how to, it is just that for one reason or another the modules never compile, and stuff it ought to be able to find it doesn't. Should I just uninstall the perl rpm and then install perl from perl.org? -- -- sillema sillema nika su -- Value Freedom (Linux) -- not Tyranny (Microsoft) Linux Registered User 275424 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] chkconfig --del question
According to the manpage, 'chkconfig --del' should remove a service from chkconfig's management. Thus, it shouldn't show up when doing a 'chkconfig --list'. However, that is not the case. Has anything changed or am I doing something wrong? If this is the expected behavior, maybe the manpage should be updated? --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] chkconfig --del question
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:16:06PM -0500, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: : On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 11:52, Jerry A! wrote: : According to the manpage, 'chkconfig --del' should remove a service from : chkconfig's management. Thus, it shouldn't show up when doing a : 'chkconfig --list'. : : However, that is not the case. Has anything changed or am I doing : something wrong? : : If this is the expected behavior, maybe the manpage should be updated? : : --Jerry : : Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... : ...It's much more important than that! : : I noticed the same behavior here; however, the --del qualifier reset all : runlevels to off. Maybe that is what is meant by However, on my Redhat boxes, chkconfig behaves as described in the man page. This makes for less clutter when viewing what services you have running/actively managed. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] chkconfig --del question
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:04:06PM +0100, Steffen Barszus wrote: : On Tuesday 10 December 2002 18:29, Jerry A! wrote: : On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:16:06PM -0500, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: : : On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 11:52, Jerry A! wrote: : : According to the manpage, 'chkconfig --del' should remove a service : : from chkconfig's management. Thus, it shouldn't show up when doing a : : 'chkconfig --list'. : : : : However, that is not the case. Has anything changed or am I doing : : something wrong? : : : : If this is the expected behavior, maybe the manpage should be updated? : : : : I noticed the same behavior here; however, the --del qualifier reset all : : runlevels to off. Maybe that is what is meant by : : However, on my Redhat boxes, chkconfig behaves as described in the man : page. This makes for less clutter when viewing what services you have : running/actively managed. : : No chkconfig --del service delete the service to be not started at boot or : init-change. To delete a service make: No, from the manpage: CHKCONFIG(8) CHKCONFIG(8) OPTIONS --del The service is removed from chkconfig management, and any sym- bolic links in /etc/rc[0-6].d which pertain to it are removed. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] chkconfig --del question
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:19:19PM +0100, Steffen Barszus wrote: : On Tuesday 10 December 2002 19:46, Jerry A! wrote: : No, from the manpage: : : CHKCONFIG(8) : CHKCONFIG(8) : : OPTIONS : --del The service is removed from chkconfig management, and any : sym- bolic links in /etc/rc[0-6].d which pertain to it are removed. : : Ok then lets get academic :D : If all runlevels are switched off and the given default runlevels does not : start the service, how would you determine that the given service is managed : by chkconfig in time ? Please give a definition of managed and give me the : proove that your managed is the same as it is meant by the author of the : manpage. Maybe you are using a different namespace than him, and so your : definition conflicts. But isn't it the desired effect that the service will : not be started anymore in any runlevel ? Sorry I did not understand your : problem. Anyway. write a little script and filter the off messages out and : all is fine ;) No, this isn't academic. There is a precise difference between removing a service from management and turning it off. It's very simple, 'chkconfig --del service' removes the package from chkconfig's management. 'chkconfig --add service' puts it back. 'chkconfig service off' turns it off, etc... If it's removed, you don't want to see it. That's the way it's advertised to work. That's the way the manpage reads. And that's the way it works under the distro it was cribbed from. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help with fetchmail?
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:49:13AM -0500, Praedor Tempus wrote: : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- : Hash: SHA1 : : Something has gone wrong here. I have tried to setup fetchmail to work with : my local postfix and procmail. I have fetchmail setup to query my yahoo pop : mail server every 2 minutes. It is actually downloading the mail from yahoo : to what appears to be a blackhole on my system, however. : : In testing, I logged into the yahoo web mail interface and saw a new message : there in my inbox. I ran fetchmail and it vanished from yahoo but it never : appeared on my system here. : : I am using kmail and have set it for local mail. I have tried pointing it to : /var/spool/mail/praedor and /var/mail/praedor with no affect. No new : messages ever appear. I cannot find where fetchmail is placing the mail. : : Where might I look to find the location fetchmail is stashing messages? Try looking through /var/log/mail/* and seeing where postfix says it's delivering the mail? /var/log/mail/info should tell you where it's being delivered to, and /var/log/mail/errors should show you if it's being bounced. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WLAN -Pism2 Chipset-Mandrake9-config question.
: On 2002-11-19 Bharath Sankaranarayan said: : : card,DWL-650 wireless card based on Prism2 chipset on pcmcia) with Grub : : I installed a workstation with a few additions to the standard install : and did the update towards the end of the installation. Now I would : like to have my DWL-650 wireless card working. The machine has a built : in e100 and it was properly detected. wvlan_cs should be a viable driver for the DWL-650. Actually, so should orinoco_cs and prism2_cs. I'm cc'ing this to cooker b/c I'd like to start a discussion about updating /etc/pcmcia/config or creating a /etc/pcmcia/orinoco.conf. While the wvlan_cs driver works, I thought that it was deprecated in favor of orinoco_cs (which is actively supported) for Hermes-based cards. : So I went to the folder called /3rdparty and found that there were : precompiled versions of prism2_cs driver which is what my card uses. I : modified the /etc/pcmcia/config file to change the driver for the : Intersil Prisim II to read prism2_cs instead of wlan_cs. Also I added on : my /etc/modules.conf alias wlan0 prism2_cs I rebooted and my card beeped : 2times like before and then I got a steady green light Upon lsmod I : found that prism2_cs was loaded and so was p80211 and ds and : yenta_socket. The prism2_cs driver doesn't implement all the kernel wireless extensions. Thus you will not be able to use iwconfig(1) for configuration. Please grab the prism2-utils package from contrib. The prism2_* drivers require wlan-ctl(1) for configuration. Another solution might be checking out the prism2 hostap driver at http://hostap.epitest.fi/. It supports the prism2_cs stuff, as well as providing hostap mode. Oh, and it does have the current wireless extensions so you can use iwconfig(1). Who's ear could a I put a bug into for evaluating this driver for kernel-2.4.19-20mdk? Hope you find this helpful. And for everyone on the cooker list, sorry for the cross-post but this seems like a good way to kill two birds with one stone. --Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Preventing Boot to old kernel
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 05:50:52PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: : I'm sure someone here can help me with this. Say I have two Linux : kernels. One, is version 2.4.19 and the other is 2.4.18. In lilo.conf, : I've labeled 2.4.19 as linux and 2.4.18 as linux-old. Those are now : the options that show up in the LILO graphical menu at boot time. : : My question: Is there anyway to prevent a normal user from booting into : linux-old? I want to keep it on the menu as an option but I really : only want it to be used if there is some problem booting into 2.4.19. : Can a password be put on linux-old so that only someone who knows it : can boot into it? If not, is there anyway to accomplish what I want? Suprisingly enough, there's an option called password. Check out the man page for lilo.conf for the specifics. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Preventing Boot to old kernel
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:37:42PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: : I checked into the man page. it is *almost* what I want. However, the : man page says this about the password option: : : A password is only required to boot the image if parameters are : specified on the command line (e.g. 'single'). : : If I have no parameters on the command line. it seems to me the password : is not required. However, I'll test it out and let you know. Read more carefully and look at the distinction between mandatory and restricted. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OpenOffice.org vs StarOffice
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:14 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: Hi All, This question isn't about StarOffice versus OpenOffice.org features. This question is about the interoperability of the two. I've heard that OpenOffice.org has a high level of interaction with Mandrake9.0. The reason why I'm asking this, is that I'm thinking about getting the Powerpack edition. Will the included StarOffice offer the same interaction as OpenOffice.org or will it be a stand alone product. I'm just interested. If you can help, thanks in advance. Craig files from either can be read and written in the other. What SO may have the OO doesn't are some of the clipart, sound clips, icons, samples and propriatary stuff like print drivers. I use SO 6 at home and OO 1.01 at work. I saved the clipart, sound clips, samples from SO 5.2 and installed them on OO. Worked great. -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GTK Font Override in 9.0?
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:27:22AM -0500, Vox wrote: : Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Jerry A! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : I set a custom font in my .gtkrc (via gtk-switch-themes) and I'm : noticing incosistent behavior applying the custom font. : : For instance, xmtr, Samsung's printer utility, SJog, all work : correctly. However, aumix, gkrellm, AbiWord, Gnumeric don't respect the : .gtkrc setting. : : Now the odd part is that the rest of the stuff set in .gtkrc does work : correctly (widgets, buttons, colors, .etc). It's just the fonts that : seem to be flaky. [snip snip] : For your problem...I *think* maher's theme switcher is for gnome1 : and 9.0 uses gnome2...so what you do with it only applies to : gnome1 apps, not to gnome2 apps. I don't think that's the problem. All the applications that are listed are linked against GTK 1.2. Even so, I thought that .gtkrc was still the correct dot-file for GTK2 apps. Anyone seeing anything like this? --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] well done - mandrake 9.0
i have a laptop (dell inspiron 8100) i had bought the 8.2 Pro and i tried over and over trying to get the right X Config to make it work and couldn't no matter what the settings i tried. I downloaded the 9.0 ISO images out of desperation and voile' it came up with flat panel display and it tested good. now i am happily in X with the gui of my choice. thankyou mandrake, now i have mandrake on my server AND my laptop!!! -- -- A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. -- Alexander Hamilton -- Value Freedom (Linux) -- not Tyranny (Microsoft) Linux Registered User 275424 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] GTK Font Override in 9.0?
I set a custom font in my .gtkrc (via gtk-switch-themes) and I'm noticing incosistent behavior applying the custom font. For instance, xmtr, Samsung's printer utility, SJog, all work correctly. However, aumix, gkrellm, AbiWord, Gnumeric don't respect the .gtkrc setting. Now the odd part is that the rest of the stuff set in .gtkrc does work correctly (widgets, buttons, colors, .etc). It's just the fonts that seem to be flaky. This is the same setup that I've always used and have also used on other OS's w/out any problems. So, I wondering, has anyone seen similar behavior? Could I be missing a package to affect applying the settings? Etc... Thanks in advance. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r
I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I searched th archives and found nothing. I have downloaded all 3 isos did m5sum on them all checked out ok. But when Itry to burn cd 1 or 2 gcombust tells Me theres not enough room on disk. What am I missing and how can I burn good copies if some parts are left off?? Thanks in advance for any replies. Jerry White Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r
Michael Viron wrote: You need to purchase 700 MB cds in order to burn them. But I DO have 700 meg cds x24 speed the size of cd1 is 700.9 megs so by time write info on disk leaves off 900kb of files same true for cd2 Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online http://www.findaschool.org At 07:29 AM 8/12/2002 -0400, you wrote: I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I searched th archives and found nothing. I have downloaded all 3 isos did m5sum on them all checked out ok. But when Itry to burn cd 1 or 2 gcombust tells Me theres not enough room on disk. What am I missing and how can I burn good copies if some parts are left off?? Thanks in advance for any replies. Jerry White 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] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r SOLVED
To all that responded thanks The problem was brand of disk With TDK disks wouldnot fit with Memorex I was able to burn. I have 9,0beta installed now happily using it. Jerry White Todd Franklin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">I have an Acer 12x8x32 burner and have had no problems burning the iso images with eroaster. Michael Viron wrote: You need to purchase 700 MB cds in order to burn them. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online http://www.findaschool.org At 07:29 AM 8/12/2002 -0400, you wrote: I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I searched th archives and found nothing. I have downloaded all 3 isos did m5sum on them all checked out ok. But when Itry to burn cd 1 or 2 gcombust tells Me theres not enough room on disk. What am I missing and how can I burn good copies if some parts are left off?? Thanks in advance for any replies. Jerry White 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] Bug.... maybe maybe not.
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:32:04 -0400 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IT should be forever scuttled and banned from the landscape of so wonderful an OS never to be seen or heard from againEVER! (as a result: there's no way they're taking it out now, especially if they read messages from people who don't like it) lol ;-P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] question recompiling kernel
OK, using dist Mandrake 8.2 kernel-source-2.4.18-6mdk.i586 (from the rpm on dist cd) AND Athlon thunderbird cpu, ASUS VIA/PROMISE motherboard (2 built-in usb, serial, agp, pci cards, p/s2 mouse, no ISA slots) agp voodoo3 videocard, dlink usb card (bought seperate.. going to remove since it's worth about as much as a good stomach pump) Avance Logic ALS4000 soundcard (needs alsa driver) CNET Ethernet card (driver is either tulip or dmfe. disk with card has dmfe so i'm not sure if it's using tulip for eth0 or usb but it's used for something...) canon bjc parallell printer (but not used often so usually not installed) steps taken: 1)take current kernel tree (/usr/srs/linux) rename it so it doesn't get overwritten. (changed to /usr/src/lin) 2)urpmi the kernel-source. 3)coompile: first: make xconfig. using docs from all my hardware and howtos on linux (kernel, sound, HOWTO, etc) enable support / modules keeping undeeded drivers out. 4)make dep. 5) make clean 6) make bzImage 7)make modules 8)make modules install. 9)copy bzImage from /usr/src/linux/arch/... to /boot (haven't used make bzlilo yet.. does it work? work better?) 10) lilo conf. HISTORY: I've gotten the kernel sucessfully compiled (albeit incorrectly) once but messed up the lilo and hosed a good part of my HD.. reinstalled. Took a few weeks off to learn lilo specific info. (the first thing you do with your new penguin is think you can just walk right in and rebuild the kernel? oh. ok. lol) hope that helps. On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 17:02:26 -0400 ai4a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jerry wrote: for compatibility issues / changing hardware / removable usb devices etc... when recompiling the kernel, is it better to have the versions on modules symbols set or not? I've yet to successfully recompile one Jerry; What release of Mandrake are you running? Also, please list the exact steps you are using to compile the kernel. Perhaps you are not doing all of the steps! Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] question recompiling kernel
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:22:04 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone is sure to point out that make mrproper is advisable before any version of make config. To get that ALS4000 to work with the current ALSA drivers, you are going to need some options lines in /etc/modules.conf It is a very very poor support that ALSA offers for that card at the moment (8.1 played it out of the box). Civileme Thanks, Civileme, i probably would have missed the modules.conf. So is the alsa stuff done after the kernel's built then the modules just inserted at boot? Probably a good idea to make a backup copy of modules.conf i suppose, so i have the commands from the current working system. Have restarted, this time doing make mrproper before make config and durring make dep i already see some of the errors gone. (thanks todd). (Crossing fingers) thx again. Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3 - Solved ?
On Sunday 23 June 2002 05:22 pm, Hoyt wrote: On Sunday 23 June 2002 15:52, James wrote: Now I need to crank up my AGP settings (currently AGP2x in the BIOS and AGP 1x in XF86Config-4) to see how it works. Then maybe I'll remove mem=nopentium. Maybe it will solve my troubles too h yep time to fix it till it breaks *grin* James AGP 4x works OK. I also noticed that the XFree86 upgrade replaced the official Matrox drivers with the XFree mga drivers. sigh One more thing to evaluate. Just incase someone at Mandrake is reading I recently moved from SuSE to Mandrake. Mandrake's video setup is superior to SuSEs. My ATI Rage R128 AGP was selected automatically and 3D acceleration was installed. The acceleration works beautifully when I run Tux or fly with FlightGear, etc I have disabled it, however. These are the reasons why, all of which deal with the operation of of the desktop when a 3D program is not being run: 1) Most mouse actions cause Klipper to popup, which gets very aggrivating. 2) Accompanying some mouse actions, like clicking to place the text icon, causes in brief, almost instantaneous, freeze of the desktop. 3) When running MediaPlayer mouse actions cause pausing, skipping and/or popping of the sound. 4) Realplayer play backs exhibt the same skipping and popping with mouse actions. SuSE's 3D acceleration was a lot harder to setup, and envolved adding manual tweeks to the XF86Config file, inserting a couple of load options, but I never had mouse interaction problems while running on the desktop. I think this is because MDK's configuration of the ATI Rage R128 appears to exhibit active acceleration even when not running a 3D app. ??? Anyway, it doesn't matter to me because I rarely use 3D. I just wanted to pass this along in case there was a solution out there or if the MDK folks need to make a tweek somewhere. -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel compile-errors last one .
Below are the error's I got when doing make bzImage I had no support for i2c enabled durring make xconfig... is it telling me it's required for this driver? also.. got an error1 on kallsyms (i'm guessing because it couldn't compile this module?) and error 2 on vmlinuz (couldnt write?/notcomplete?/something else?) last call before error: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux' ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o --start-group arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o drivers/parport/driver.o drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/char/drm/drm.o drivers/net/fc/fc.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o drivers/usb/usbdrv.o drivers/sensors/sensor.o 3rdparty/3rdparty.o net/network.o /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a --end-group -o vmlinux errors: drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `saa7111_write': drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x39b64): undefined reference to `i2c_master_send' drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `saa7111_write_block': drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x39bb1): undefined reference to `i2c_master_send' drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `saa7111_read': drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x39bf7): undefined reference to `i2c_master_send' drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x39c29): undefined reference to `i2c_master_recv' drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `saa7111_attach': drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x39d3d): undefined reference to `i2c_attach_client' drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `saa7111_probe': drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x39d70): undefined reference to `i2c_probe' drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `saa7111_detach': drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x39d8b): undefined reference to `i2c_detach_client' drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `saa7111_init': drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x3a136): undefined reference to `i2c_add_driver' drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `i2c_usb_add_bus': drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x3a5ca): undefined reference to `i2c_add_adapter' drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `i2c_usb_del_bus': drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x3a5e7): undefined reference to `i2c_del_adapter' make[1]: *** [kallsyms] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2 [root@c327911-b linux]# Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server
On Friday 21 June 2002 01:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a client who has a Windows app that runs ODBC connections to a file server. The software company wants the client to set up a MS SQL server to supposedly fix the problems we are having. I'm a little familiar with MySQL, but is it a direct drop-in replacement for MS' product? I need connectivity to Win2k workstations. Ideas? Bob IMO, PostgreSQL is a better, more powerful RDBMS, that includes transaction tracking, commit and rollback, inheritance, etc It includes a lot of features that MySQL only has useless stubs for. The stubs only maintain 'compatibility' with ANSI standards by not blowing up if a script tries to use them. You won't find a 'drop-in' replacement for MS SQL (it's propriatary, including formats), but IF you can export our of your old system to a tab delimited or CVS file, then you can import into PostgreSQL. -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server
On Friday 21 June 2002 04:16 pm, J. Craig Woods wrote: Jerry Kreps wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 01:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a client who has a Windows app that runs ODBC connections to a file server. The software company wants the client to set up a MS SQL server to supposedly fix the problems we are having. I'm a little familiar with MySQL, but is it a direct drop-in replacement for MS' product? I need connectivity to Win2k workstations. Ideas? Bob IMO, PostgreSQL is a better, more powerful RDBMS, that includes transaction tracking, commit and rollback, inheritance, etc It includes a lot of features that MySQL only has useless stubs for. The stubs only maintain 'compatibility' with ANSI standards by not blowing up if a script tries to use them. You won't find a 'drop-in' replacement for MS SQL (it's propriatary, including formats), but IF you can export our of your old system to a tab delimited or CVS file, then you can import into PostgreSQL. I would have to ditto what Jerry has stated here. If it is an enterprise solution you seek for your RDBMS, MySQL most likely will come up a bit short. Having worked with both MS SQL and Oracle, PostgreSQL is about the only open source database that will come close to meeting your needs. You can, however, look at Oracle 8i. There is a free version for Linux. I forget where I downloaded the bin from but a search on google should reveal something. drjung It's getting harder and harder to find. A couple of years ago I was able to download it and some assciated apps, like Tora, which is similar to Toad, but not as good. Oracle 8i is a difficult install and requires specific versions RH libraries that may (?) be available from the RH website. If he'll email me privately I'll send him my address, to which he can mail a self-addressed and appropriately stamped CD mailer. JLK -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pptp - some problems
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:44 am, hans schneidhofer wrote: hi, have an adsl-connection via eth0 and an internal network via eth1, both ethercards are now 3Com3c905 (10/100) but the process of opening a connecton to the internet is very slow. Not the speed itself. sometimes it takes between 2 - 4 minutes. the system I have is a mdk 8.0 and pptp-version: pptp-adsl-fr-1.0.2 CPU=350 MHZ. sometimes it happens, that if I only want to see the transactions on eth0 and eth1, the switch between eth0 and eth1 takes about 2 minutes or more. Is anyone there, who has experiences with two ethercards and (or) adsl-connection via pptp ? the ppoe is not possible, reason is on my provider. thanks for some hints and tips bye hans schneidhofer I had two 3Com 3C905B-TX ethernet cards in my Sony VAIO. One was connected to a Cisco 675 router my ADSL ISP had supplied and set up as a DHCP server. I was running SuSE at the time and configured it as a dhcpd. The eth1 was hooked to a NetGear 4 port hub, to which my other two computers were attached. The Sony was my internet fireway, router and server, besides being my wife's workstation. The connect took a 3 or 4 seconds on boot up and the same when the lease was renewed every twenty four hours. Surfing the internet from my PC, via my eth0 3C905B-TX card to her eth1 and then out through her eth0 to the internet was essentially instantaneous. The slowest part of the connection was the 40 -120 miliseconds that connecting to a website took. When I got my current box, also containing a 3COM 3CC905B-TX, I also changed ISPs to RoadRunner. They supplied a Toshiba cable modem, which I connected to my eth0 and configured it as a dhcpd with MCC. The connection is almost instantaneous. I suspect your connection is not creating /etc/resolv.conf and/or it is taking too long to resolve the DNSs -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 11:01 am, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Ladies and Gents, I'm having the following problem: Time changes every time I reboot the server. I keep changing it back, but the problem still persists. I did work with hwclock, tzselect and all that. I can do export TZ=MDT to change the timezone, but as soon as I log out, it kicks back so it seems that this is only for the user. This is really messing my day up. Can someone point me in the right direction so I can RTFM about this. Again, here is the problem: 1.) I can't keep the timezone set correctly on the server. Does it get its values from the hardware clock? THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! Regards, Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. Installed xntp, if it wan't already installed. I have a script in /etc/cron/cron.hourly called settime with the execute attribute set. The script contains: #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/ntpdate -b 199.240.130.1 In the config file /etc/ntp.conf I added the two server lines below 'fudge' server 127.127.1.0 # local clock fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 server 199.240.130.1 # ntp1.kansas.net server 199.240.130.12 # ntp2.kansas.net in case I ever make xntpd an active service. But, once an hour, my clock gets the latest setting from a time server. - -- JLK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9D52uq1Ef6ZbWHeERAi0oAJ0fKud1yNEn5+c49qcWrvfouOCq+QCg426V 6dfP4uzOnrp+L12CdjgSiE0= =+XUO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Error with a large File
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 10:25 am, INGNAR ALEJANDRO FREY ROS wrote: I am using dd and netcat to save the image of cd from one computer to another. on the machine with the cd I do dd if=/dev/cdrom | gzip | nc 192.168.1.1 12300 on the server (which is running Mandrake 8.2)I do nc -l -p 12300 disc.img But after the server has received about 130megs. The pipe breaks and says this error message: file too large Is the Mandrake box an Athlon by chance? - -- JLK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9D5wBq1Ef6ZbWHeERAm0/AJ9+uYJu/4+Wo6A9GW8dA7uMK4ndAgCgqUtv yFc+P3d0oSgJO5sXcu04xec= =tqZV -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] my system locks when shutting down/rebooting w/ error...
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 05:30 pm, iggy wrote: my system locks when shutting down/rebooting with this error message umount: /net: device is busy. I noticed that when I disabled Supermount and installed my own mount/umount desktop icons, this problem appeared. The cause was related to the binding of Konqueror, which I was using to access the mounted CDROM, to the mounted drive. Changing the display to another subdirectory other than /mnt or anything underneath didn't help. I had to close Konqueror before the CDROM before the umount would work.Konqueror, Mozilla and Galeon have children thread services which can stay in memory, locking a mounted device, or a kio_uiserver deamon. Try closing those with KDE System Guard. -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Strange error from rpm
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 06:26 pm, James wrote: When I do rpm -bb --target i586 somfile.spec on my install I get Finding Requires: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires)... sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression snip_ with the sed line repeated for a couple of minutes then it goes ahead and finishes the build of the rpm This happens no matter what rpm I'm building or no matter who the spec comes from.. I'm running 8.2 with the stock rpm packages from the powerpack edition. Anyone else see this or have any idea what is happening? James What does rpm --rebuilddb do, as root? -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] galeon and new mozilla
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:01 am, James wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:09:36 -0500 Jerry F. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority On Sunday 16 June 2002 11:26 pm, James wrote: thanks james, ftp'd it down, put it where it wanted to be, but now I get this! /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/bin/galeon-bin: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsCOMPtr_base16begin_assignmentEv is the libc++mem.so not the correct one? texstar only made one.? jerry Jerry Are you running KDE3? I get this occasionally and it only happens when I am running KDE3 (unfortunately that's a lot lately I'm a sucker for empty desktops.) For me it seems to happen when KDE3 has recently had a long period of idleness. Mozilla and Sylpheed did that last night and not even a telinit 1 telinit 5 brought it back I had to pull a windows and gulp reboot. I'd like to throw this up to the crowd and say any ideas? Civilme HELP *grin* James yep. have kde3 only. but am running gnome in my account. -- Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary - Free yourself from the endless moneypit that is Microsoft -- do Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to shut off modem volume and other modem question
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 08:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings - I use /sbin/ifup ppp0 to start my dialup connection, and I'd like to figure out how to shut off the modem volume. Also, I can only start the connection currently if I switch to root. I'd like to enable other users to stop and start the modem connection. I configured everything during the install and didn't do anything unusual. Any ideas? TIA http://www.lisa.univ-paris12.fr/Electronik/Hayes.htm If you lost your modem manual or never had one in the first place this reference might come in handy. I for instance finally found out how to turn my modems speaker off: ATM0 -- Finally: Silence ! -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla 1.0 Problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 June 2002 02:26 am, D. Olson wrote: Question for you all: The problem people have been having (myself included) with the floppy lockups in KDE... Can this be solved by disabling supermount in the Mandrake Control Center, for the floppy drive? If so, then I will be adding a tutorial to my site for n00bs, so please let me know. Thanks. I didn't get a chance to experience floppy lockups because, prefering the standard way of mounting devices, I disabled supermount shortly after I installed MDK 8.2.However, using the Mandrake Control Center worked for the CDROM, but not the floppy. And only floppies formated with DOS could be mounted. Ext2 formatted floppies gave a 'bad superblock' error. I ended up having to manually edit /etc/fstab, which now looks lke: /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,noauto,suid,unhide 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,defaults 0 0 The cdrom line is as MCC left it, but the floppy line is what allowed me to mount both DOS and ext2 formatted floppies. I added device icons on my desktop and they worked to mount the devices in the tradition manner. One last comment: after making these changes the supermount module still cannot be unloaded because it reports back as 'busy'. when rmmod is used on it. Apparently supermount is loaded early in the kernel boot process because during booting I get two error messages, one about not being able to mount 'local' filesystems and the second, after switching to init 5, about not being able to mount 'other' filesystems. dmesg shows: oend_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 and boot.log shows: Jun 9 16:02:45 jlkreps mount: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Jun 9 16:02:45 jlkreps netfs: Mounting other filesystems: failed I ignore these messages. Mandrake should offer two identical kernels at install, with one not having supermount in the kernel, and let the user choose. IMO. - -- JLK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Cdx2q1Ef6ZbWHeERAv5uAKCl8ZNeciZnB1SyHbF+JdLYAVu3fQCgmwGB 5T7gKM/fu3fWsDxOFhiP/Lw= =1KwX -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OpenOffice 1.0 + PostgreSQL ODBC
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 June 2002 12:32 pm, Seppo Järvinen wrote: pclinuxonline.com had an PDF article howto setup MySQL with OO, I did try to adapt that to PostgreSQL but the results were bad. What ever I try, OO can't connect to the db. I would appreciate help from someone who has done more of this kind of setups. Just for grins, where it asks for the name of the localhost leave it empty. - -- JLK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9CjVTq1Ef6ZbWHeERArReAJ9iXj+uEMz7U1WRDd0wMkxjnLsSMACfUDt/ HfODVXfxE7qeZ6udV0EkCYg= =4n4Q -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OpenOffice 1.0 + PostgreSQL ODBC
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 June 2002 02:53 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Seppo Järvinen wrote: Just had an idea and tried the Organizer in datasources. It says: cannot load component libodbc.so or it is corrupted. I had an earlier OO install from rpm but removed it and then installed 1.0 from openoffice.org tarball. Should I do a reinstall of 1.0 or what...? Leaving the server directive empty didn't work either. I assume because of what is stated above. Jerry, To the best of my knowledge OpenOffice and program of this type use ODBC to connect to databases to retrieve information. you're going to have to setup MySQLODBC, if it will even work in this manner, in order to connect to the database using OO. Thats the only way you're going to make that happen. Right you are, but on outside chance he had odbc or jdbc setup, sometimes what keeps PostgreSQL from loading is the wrong localhost name, or any localhost name at all. - -- JLK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Ck+Dq1Ef6ZbWHeERAsyfAJ9WO3/ProRcO+yn9pS/jyl87rdjXACgsgQX G57cXgrk0G7wd0v/rllfVuQ= =FHy2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Need Property Assessing Software Recommendations
On Thursday 13 June 2002 06:57 am, Tommy Eaton wrote: Hi everyone, Do any of you have suggestions for Linux software to be used in an Assessor's office? They're currently using a DOS based commercial estimator program, but I'd think a conversion would be feasible. Obviously free would be best, but even if wasn't that would work. Perhaps a UNIX based package that could be used on Linux? I tried searching the web, but my search skills are weak Thanks in advance. Is the DOS based program compiled or interpreted? If compiled, do you have access to the source? That would make conversion to another Language under Linuix easier. But, there is another way. Run DOS under Linux (See FreeDOS on google) and see if your DOS apps run in that environment. -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix aliases.db
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 04:27, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:11:54 -0400 Jim Tarvid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 08:55 pm, you wrote: Hi All, I'm new to Mandrake, having just installed 8.2 from the 3 CD download set. I'm trying to get Postfix to send my mail from Kmail. Having edited /etc/postfix/aliases I tried to run postaliases, but got a message saying that command not found. I ran whereis postaliases and sure enough it is not installed. Which package do I have to install to get postaliases? jerry try postalias Thanks! Of course, that worked. [root@corinna root]# urpmf postalias postfix:/usr/lib/postfix/postalias postfix:/usr/sbin/postalias postfix:/usr/share/doc/postfix-20010228/html/postalias.1.html postfix:/usr/share/man/man1/postalias.1.bz2 Jim Tarvid Ok...but why did it work cause I've never seen that before and I can't help but be very interested it what it did and why it did it. Mark Well, when you edit the file /etc/postfix/aliases you need to rebuild the file /etc/postfix/aliases.db the database file. Running postalias /etc/postfix/alias.db rebuilds that file. HTH 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] test
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 test - -- JLK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Bn4Wq1Ef6ZbWHeERAr0MAJ9/OSdSF4Dp49i+Q2def5NPNN9qugCgjll9 2qIC4qoRDQGVKxasjdATSgw= =HMZf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] test
test message -- //GO.SYSIN DD *, DOODAH, DOODAH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Connection to ODBC database
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 10:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a client that is using a Windows program to access a database file on a Samba share. The program is using Windows built-in ODBC drivers. Question: how can I make database queries to this file? The only info I've got so far is that it is a Fox pro database. It's not being served from a database server; each windows client uses its odbc to serve it to the client. Bob, Is it an actual Foxpro Database, which is a container for Foxpro tables, views, triggers and stored proceedures, or is it just a DBF table? If it is just a table how many records are in it? Believe it or not, OpenOffice has a nice built in odbc DBF connection. All you have to do is create folder to contain dbf tables or point to a directory which contains them. You can use Access-like query makers to generate queries that can select records, and you can create forms with data-aware controls on them to display, edit, add and delete records! -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DVD viewing with xine - help needed, ogle
just a quick thought.. check that it installed libdvdcss into your path(/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, etc) if not reinstall it into the correct path (or symlink it? not sure on that though) not sure if that's been mentioned already. hth Jerry Language is a virus from outer space. -William S Burroughs. - Original Message - From: darklord [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [expert] DVD viewing with xine - help needed, ogle On Sunday 09 June 2002 09:37 am, you wrote: I am having the same problem with xine it does not play dvd's. I tried installing ogle and all the required packages but keeps telling me that libdvdcss is not installed..? Here are the RPMs that I installed for Ogle: a52dec-libs-0.7.2-2.i686.rpm libdvdcss-1.0.0-fr1.i586.rpm libdvdread-0.9.3-ogle1.i686.rpm libxml2-2.4.13-1.i686.rpm ogle-0.8.2-fr1.i686.rpm ogle_gui-0.8.2-ogle1.i386.rpm and in this order IIRC, I obtained all these from the Ogle website... Hope this helps! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 problem
Is the USB port mounted as a filesystem/storage device on automount? I have the same kind of problem with my ATAPI IDE cdrw drive... it's automounted at startup and does not respond (device is busy) but if i su and umount it then insert media and remount it works fine. (still haven't quite figured out how to allow regular users to mount/umount grrr. oh well low priority) I know it's a I-tried-this-and-it-worked answer but it's something to try. best of luck with it, i cant get my fugi camera to work under linux at all, so you're doin' better than I HTH :-) Jerry -- Last night I had THAT DREAM again. I dreamed I had to take a test in a Dairy Queen on another planet. And I looked around and there was this woman. And she was... making it all up. And she was... writing it all down. And she was laughing. She was laughing her head off! And I said, HEY! Gimme that pen.--Laurie Anderson - Original Message - From: Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 7:04 PM Subject: [expert] USB problem Hello All, Forgive me for asking this question yet again; there must be an answer, surely. My Kodak DC3400 camera is auto-detected by gphoto2 correctly as being connected to the USB port. Yet when I try to use the camera an error message tells me that the USB port is busy. Busy doing what I wonder? Anyway, I have nothing else connected to the port. Could this be a hardware compatibility problem between the camera and the USB port? I have an A-Bit LX6 motherboard that is on the list of Linux compatible boards. The camera does work correctly under Microsoft Windows on the same motherboard. -- Regards, Phil [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
Re: [expert] Postfix aliases.db
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:11:54 -0400 Jim Tarvid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 08:55 pm, you wrote: Hi All, I'm new to Mandrake, having just installed 8.2 from the 3 CD download set. I'm trying to get Postfix to send my mail from Kmail. Having edited /etc/postfix/aliases I tried to run postaliases, but got a message saying that command not found. I ran whereis postaliases and sure enough it is not installed. Which package do I have to install to get postaliases? jerry try postalias Thanks! Of course, that worked. [root@corinna root]# urpmf postalias postfix:/usr/lib/postfix/postalias postfix:/usr/sbin/postalias postfix:/usr/share/doc/postfix-20010228/html/postalias.1.html postfix:/usr/share/man/man1/postalias.1.bz2 Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lots of freezes in LM 8.1
Only hang problem i have in 8.2 is (and this started yesterday so i haven't
checked it yet) durring boot, it successfully checks (kernel configuration?
i dont' remember now.. been awake too long) and just before init enters
runlevel3 it'll hang. It'll hang GOOD there too 2 hours yesterday while i
went and got something to eat went to the store.. i can Ctrl-C but the
rest of the boot fails that way. I started just pushing buttons once and
when i hit the print screen/SysRq button BOING it went cruising along
(still had a failure but it went by too fast). then at shutdown (well..
sometime durring boot too) when it syncs with the hardware clock, it's
totally 100% dead frozen.
Any ideas on this? like i said i haven't checked the logs yet... i'll do
that... (oh.. but wait.. i dont' have syslog because that was hanging too...
eeek.) maybe partition type? does it need to be a primary partition?(i
thought for sure it was...) Other than that oddity, though, 8.2's rockin'
right along. ('cept Wine:-( i've lost my fileserving on mIRC)
Jerry.
- Original Message -
From: Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] lots of freezes in LM 8.1
8.1 was terrible for me and would hang all the time, i think my longest
uptime
was a little under a day !! 8.2 rocks though, much much more stable, at
least
for me, much much quicker too!!
mark
On Saturday 25 May 2002 04:56 pm, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm sadly experiencing a lot of freezes in my LM 8.1 box. I just hope I
won't have to give up saying that Linux does not hang to my buddies,
but right now it's kind of difficult. I'm having daily hang-ups.
Here goes a quick summary of my system :
Linux Mandrake 8.1, using ext3, on a (somewhat problematic I know)
A7V133 with a Duron 800 (not overclocked).
2 sticks of Micron PC133 (256+128)
TNT2M64 AGP :^(, XFree 4.0.3, latest Nvidia binary drivers
kernels 2.4.8-26mdk, 2.4.8 (recompiled), 2.4.18 (stock Linus kernel)
Well , what happens is that I've been experiencing these freezes for
about two weeks now. I haven't made any major modification to the system
prior to the hang-ups. The system seems to freeze completely; at first I
thought it was just X locking (not commom, but not quite unexpected) but
I realized there was something more deeply wrong when I couldn't telnet
into my machine. Telnet wouldn't reply; it would just stay at the prompt
without giving an access denied, couldn't connect or any other error.
Ping , strangely, worked fine. Prior to that, my system had been
rock-stable for months.
I started trying to figure out what was wrong; there was nothing in the
logs. The system would just die. I thought it could be a (strange) IRQ
conflict problem ( since as I said my system had been running well for
months) and moved my ethernet board to another PCI slot. The hangs were
still there. Can someone tell me if an IRQ conflict can do that sort of
thing? The hang-ups always seem to happen when I am either using my
(soft)modem or xmms (problem is that I'm almost always doing these, so
it 's not much of a information).
Only once I got an error in the log; it said the kernel couldn't handle
a paging request, so I began to suspect it was a memory problem. I went
to BIOS and lowered the settings of the memory; then I remembered
reading somewhere that having the kernel optmized for Athlon/Durons
sometimes led people to hangs, so I downloaded the latest (2.4.18)
kernel, an compiled it without going for Athlon arch. Which actually got
me somewhere, everything hanged but the mouse; this time I managed to
telnet into my machine and seemed that X was consuming 101% CPU (well,
something like 99,5% actually). But the day after I got another complete
freeze.
I have some people saying that I should do a BIOS update, install LM8.2,
but I don't think any of these may help since the system was performing
normally just a while ago. I am limited right now to boot into window$
(blergh!) and see if the if it also freezes (not much of a deal,
considering it is window$, but even my window$ didn't have daily
freezes). If it does, then it is most probably a hardware problem. What
bothers me is that it never freezes when I'm running CPU/memory
intensive programs, like Quake3 or watching DivX/DVDs. I also tested the
memory (and other subsystems) in window$ using Sandra2001 and it
reported no problems. If it were a hardware problem then it was bound to
happen during a stress situation...
I am very willing to listen to ANY suggestion anyone might have, since I
am becoming quite a bit desperate about it. Also if anyone has had any
similar problem , I'd be more than happy to listen, perhaps I can find a
solution to my problems.
TIA,
Jeferson L. Zacco
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(if possible include a CC to my e-mail above)
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5:23pm up 1 day, 8:25
Re: [expert] kde3 upgrade?
if you go to the kde ftp site and look for the README in the (er.. i think) top level folder for kde3/mandrake it tells you how there. basically, d/l all the rpms to a folder by themselves (i used /root/rpms/kde3) then shell to that dir and urpmi -v * be ready though, for it to take some time since it has to install all locales if you don't have them already. mine's still working on it (it'd d/l thru ftp) hth Jerry On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 16:20, Darren King wrote: Is there any doc on how to upgrade to kde3? I'm using 8.2. Darren 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] Installing 8.2 on Sony VAIO SR7K - CD drv not found
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 06:32:33PM -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: : Sony laptop PCG-SR7K, external CD-ROM drive PCGA-CD51 : : Install disk 1 boots, but soon stops with error about cannot find install : media. I get a list of drivers to try. Which one do I use? Or, how can I : install? : : This computer has Windows 2000. I used Partition Magic to create a 3GB : partition for Linux-Mandrake 8.2. Is there a way to install from inside : Windows? : : This CD-ROM plugs into the PC-CARD slot and can be used to boot and install : Windows. Boot the installation with the following invocation: expert noauto ide2=0x180,0x386 The noauto is necessary b/c you want to skip the pcmcia hardware detection phase. Otherwise, the pcmcia probes screw up the cdrom which up until said probes thought it was on the ide bus. In other words, the pcmcia probes cause the ide cdrom to become orphaned. Just remember to install the pcmcia-cs package and configure pcmcia support by hand when you reboot. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Evolution , dual users
I have the Ximian build of Evolution 1.0.2 and for me it just simply switching the from address. I have up and down arrows to the far right of that box that allow me to toggle users. The reply to is them the one tagged to that accounts mailbox. On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 14:15, richard wrote: Hi all If you configure evolution to have more than 1 account, how do you send my as not the default user? If you reply to mail addressed to the second account, it will send it to the smtp deamon as configured for that accont But if you want to send mail as the secound account holder, how ?? it always comes up with the sig block and e-mail address of the primary default user TIA -- Best regards Richard Bown 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] databases for linux
Pervasive has a Linux version also. I am sure this list will just keep growing as everyone chimes in :) On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 08:51, Mike Leone wrote: From: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] »Harold Hartley« sagte am 2002-02-19 um 08:16:50 -0800 : I was wondering how many database software is there available for linux hmm, i can think of 4 right now. and what the names of them may be.. mysql, postgresql, oracle, cache Also Informix, DB2, and probably others have Linux versions. 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] harddrake doesn't start
I am using Mandrake 8.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8100 (laptop) computer. From a terminal window, when I attempt to start harddrake I get the following error messages: can't open file '/dev/fd1 for reading' Generic VGA (or unknown SVGA) Can't open file '/proc/paraport/0/autoprobe' for reading' Terminated Note that using ls, I see that /proc does not have the directory paraport How can I get harddrake working? Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished
On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 15:35, Mike Leone wrote: I've just got a quick question on this topic: with all of this hoopla on nVidia's closed source Linux drivers, what is wrong with them? Do they not do something right? To the best of my knowledge, they implement OpenGL 1.3 to the letter; is something broken? What is wrong with them is (to some people) the fact that they are not open source; this makes them less good (from a philosophical/ethical point of view) than the equivalent open source. The fact that they work extremely well (if not perfectly), and provide better/faster operation than the open source versions, is immaterial. js And to add to this, it's sad that some people worry about what may or may not happen in the future. Consider this, Nvidia is supporting Linux, they are providing drivers which is more than some companies are doing and some people fail to give them their props for that. More so, some companies support Linux by releasing the hardware specifications and leaving it up the Open Source programmers to implement, then they ride the we support Linux wave. Nvidia is using their programing talent to support these cards, there is something to be said for that. I don't care as much about how the support is coming, as long as it is there. Now there are those who are more philosophically pure then me, and they have the choice to use what they want. As I have that choice for myself. I accept the reality that the programing talent in the Open Source world can not keep up with every piece of hardware for the pc world and if a manufacture choices to support there hardware they have the right to chose how, be it open source or not. As to the argument I am a slave to them because I use there cards and drivers is a far cry from being a slave because of my data being locked in a closed format. I can switch a video card much quicker than I can change critical stored data. It's only a piece of hardware, it's not my data which is more important for me to own access to. Because, after this open/closed source debate is over we will still be left with the fact that nVidia's closed source drivers work better than ATi's or Matrox's. The performance of the drivers doesn't count, for some people. js Or the fact that X has support for Nvidia cards that is open source, granted it is only 2d. But heck open source drivers are there for use. Although I can't see doing that, it's like buying a Mustang to take your grandmother to church. 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] Xircom Modem/Network PCMCIA card
I am running Mandrake 8.1 and am attempting to install a Xircom combo Modem/Network Card: Xircom RBEM56G-100BTX [According to http://www.xircom.com/cda/page/0,1298,0-0-1_20-476,00.html this uses the Linux driver XIRC2PS_CS (see also http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ ] With the computer (new Dell Inspiron 8100) turned off I inserted the card, then rebooted the computer. The boot startup completely froze at the stage Checking for new hardware. Here is complete log of everything from the screen: - Checking for new hardware [ OK ] To use Backward Compatibility with ipchains for kernel 2.4 Use: /sbin/modprobe ipchains Starting pcmcia:[ OK ] cardmgr[765]: watching 2 sockets Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up interface lo: cardmgr[765]: executing: 'modprobe cb_enabler' cardmgr[765]: executing: 'modprobe serial_cb' - [this is where it froze] Any hints what I do now? -Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MP3 Players on USB interfaces
Thanks for the feedback. I only hav linux at home, so if I went the windows route I would have to use my work pc, not a big deal. That is why I was thinking if I got the riot and happens to work great, if not I just load it at work. On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 21:25, gnerd wrote: I like my Rio 600 a lot. I use mine when I'm working out...it's certainly better than a portable cassette player. It comes with a spandex holder with a belt clip that makes it considerably thicker, but you can place it in such a way as to be unintrusive. Mine is 64M, but it seems like they have one that's 128M. Given hindsight I wish I'd gone that route. You can purchase memory expansion units for them that have rechargeable batteries built in, but they're pretty pricey. Check out Rio's web site for details. I guarantee you wouldn't want to use rioutil to load up the Riot. It would take a whole weekend. If you want one of those, best to just use the windows tools Rio ships (if you have a M$ PC). If you get a 600 or 800, ditch the earphones immediately and get some of those over-the-ear-around-the-back-of-the-head headphones or traditional buds. Rio's earphones hurt like the dickens after half an hour. That's about all I can think of to tell you. I like mine. Mike Jerry Sternesky wrote: Timely topic since I just started looking around for mp3 players. I followed the link and saw the Rio 600 and 800 is supported by this. How do you like the 600, I am looking for something will be compact enough to wear while working out in the gym? Actually the rio riot looks just like what I have been looking for, fm tuner with mp3 playback. But it doesn't look like that is supported. :( On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 17:43, gnerd wrote: snip 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] MP3 Players on USB interfaces
Timely topic since I just started looking around for mp3 players. I followed the link and saw the Rio 600 and 800 is supported by this. How do you like the 600, I am looking for something will be compact enough to wear while working out in the gym? Actually the rio riot looks just like what I have been looking for, fm tuner with mp3 playback. But it doesn't look like that is supported. :( On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 17:43, gnerd wrote: Tools for loading them with music are pretty sparse. I have a Rio 600, and the only tool I've found to deal with it is rioutil (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rioutil/). It doesn't have any polish like the ability to make upload lists or the ability to automagically keep track of how much storage space you've used...things like that. Essentially, you use the command line to upload a tune, then do it again to upload another, etc. You have to occasionally list the contents of the Rio to see how much space you have left. It's spartan but functional, and meets my needs. I recall having an issue with needing id3lib to compile rioutil. I downloaded the source and compiled, but later found some Mandrake rpms for it at rpmfind.net. My take on it is that it could be a lot better, but it's certainly adequate the way it is. Mike Ric Tibbetts wrote: Has anyone tried any of these yet? I'm thinking about getting one, and was wondering how Linux deals with them. For example, my digital camera is a USB device. When I hook it up, Linux recognizes it as a USB Mass Storage device, and maps it out. I just mount it up, and access it. (slick!). Can I look for the same with the MP3 players? If so, has anyone had any good/bad experiences with any in particular? TIA! 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
[expert] Evolution Conduits
I am using Mandrake 8.0 with the Ximian desktop. It seems there is a problem with the gnome control center that prevents me from getting to the conduit settings. My conduits appear to be stuck on copy from pilot since all information I enter in the evolution calendar, contacts and etc flow from the pilot to evolution, but the changes made in evolution do not flow back to the pilot. I have been hunting around looking for some type of configuration file I might be able to edit by hand to fix this. I thought the were E-calendar.Conduit for example, can only find them in usr/share/gnome-pilot/conduits/ so I don't think they are what I need. The ones in /gnome/gnome-pilot.d don't seem to relate to evolution. Does anyone know if such files exist and where I can locate them. I would have assumed they were user specific so I have been hunting all over my home directory for them and no luck yet. Thanks, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Comcast @home
Any other comcast @home users out there. Have you received your package yet about switching to the new network, with the failure of @home. Mine is a cd that run windows only software and wants to set outlook express as the default mailer. Since I use linux I can't run this When I tried going out to the support page I got this error message about plugin only supported in windows, MAC version not available. No information to read, it would be nice if the put a text version out there. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has made transition yet and how it went. I will be on the phone with them later, since I use a linksys router behind the cable modem. Given MS's huge investment in the ATT comcast deal I am wondering if this will fast become a windows only segment of the internet, if so I would rather switch only once and make it to dsl instead. Anyone have a heads up on this? Thanks, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Comcast @home
James, After banging my head at it for about an hour I picked up the phone only to find out the date on my letter was incorrect, From what the phone tech told me I now go live on the 27th. So I will try again then. On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 14:24, James Sparenberg wrote: Jerry, From one who made the switch about 2 weeks ago from ATT@home to ATT@play *grin* I can say. Ignore most of what they tell you. It was straight forward DHCP for us here. The only hassle was teaching the weenies at ATT that the reason I and even windwoze users were having trouble was because they had the gateway and your IP number on two seperate subnets. Yes I know this is doable but doing it creates more problems than it is worth. Install the dhcp packages, set your external nic to use dhcp and wait for the light to appear on the modem. It worked here. hope it works there as well. James On 21 Dec 2001 11:09:05 -0500 Jerry Sternesky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any other comcast @home users out there. Have you received your package yet about switching to the new network, with the failure of @home. Mine is a cd that run windows only software and wants to set outlook express as the default mailer. Since I use linux I can't run this When I tried going out to the support page I got this error message about plugin only supported in windows, MAC version not available. No information to read, it would be nice if the put a text version out there. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has made transition yet and how it went. I will be on the phone with them later, since I use a linksys router behind the cable modem. Given MS's huge investment in the ATT comcast deal I am wondering if this will fast become a windows only segment of the internet, if so I would rather switch only once and make it to dsl instead. Anyone have a heads up on this? Thanks, Jerry 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 palm pilot howto?
Francisco, I am currently using a visor with the USB connection. The only difference should be the kernel module that gets loaded. Check your modules.conf and see if a usb driver is being loaded. For my chipset (intel based mb) I have: alias usb-interface usb-uhci also check in /stc/sysconfig/usb and see if USB=yes then check to see if the usb service is running as root service usb status if all is well you should be able to put the palm in and hit sync. It probably will not connect to anything, but then do a dmesg and see if a usb connection is made with a unregistered device. Then try loading the module for the palm device, I think it will just be m505. Then sync again and dmesg to check if the device is recognized this time. If it is, you are almost there. You can check things out from a command line: pilot-xfer /dev/usb/ttyUSB? -l ? = 1 on my machine With usb you need to hit sync on the device first and then run this command. If the connection is made you can point jpilot right to that device or you can make a link to /dev/pilot as I do. Also, be warned permissions can come into play here, so you may be able to do it as root by not a user until you fix that. I did a chmod 666 on the device to get it to work. Hopefully, I didn't leave anything out since I am typing this quickly before I head off to work. Jerry On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 04:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear folks, I gare my Christmas auto-present; a wonderfull Palm m505 ;-). The installation in windows98 was perfect but., you know!; I prefer to use our favourite OS: linux, specially the Mandrake distribution. Wel, jpilot seems to run fine, but unfortunately is more apropriate to use a palm conected in a serial port and in the original package the palm came with a USB conection. I can get a serial conection but spending more money :-(. In fact is seems that a USB conection is possible, but I don't know how to do that; perhaps I need to erase the /dev/pilot device and create a new one (that was created automatically) pointing to an usb device; actually I have not idea about what to do and how to do that. Could anyone help me? Thanks a lot in advance for the comments; yours sincerely Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) 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] Parallel printer over Ethernet?
What your are looking for is an HP Jetdirect EX Plus. We use this devise at our office. It's a little box with a parallel port for a printer, and an ethernet port. I think they will only support HP printer, but I'm not sure. Jerry Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi, Samba is fine, but it means a computer to do the job. We want a computer free solution. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: Sounds like you want a print server adapter. Bestbuy and probably everywhere like them have them for around $89 or so. Samba wont work for you ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet? Hi List! I'm looking for a product (if it really exists!) to allow me to print via Ethernet using parallel printer. I mean, a kind of box with one RJ input (so I could set a IP address) and some parallel ports, where I would connect printers. So I would be able to set printers in my linux (even Winblows and Applows) to print over network. Is such a thing possible? Is there a such device? Thanks for any suggestion. --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de FÃsica Biológica Instituto de BiofÃsica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de FÃsica Biológica Instituto de BiofÃsica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 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] 8.1: hand calculator?
Where is the hand calculator for Mandrake 8.1? I'm using KDE. Both kcalc and xcalc (which I used to use in earlier versions of Mandrake) are missing. Moreover, although I got a copy of kcalc from the web, when I attempted to install it there was a conflict between a library it needed and the Mandrake 8.1 installed /usr/lib/libmng.so.1. Any hints? Surely I shouldn't need to start a spreadsheet to get a simple calculator. - Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Server
I am not sure how far along this project is, I haven't followed it to closely, but this site: http://www.enabling.org/linux.html Has some linux links to various speech output projects, one of them is BLINUX which is dedicated to supporting Linux for the blind. I know this doesn't answer the networking question, but it may offer a linux solution for your wife. On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 22:02, Robert Boggs wrote: I have a small network using netbui, and I would like to make it work in linux. My wife has to use windows, because she is blind, and so far, no program has been setup for talking in X KDE or Gnome. I would like to know how to set this up. You may reply to [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] disk repartitioning (after Windows XP)
The new computer I just bought has Windows XP. I'd like to re-partition my (20 GB) hard disk keeping most it for Mandrake 8.1. Does the disk re-partitioning software that comes with Mandrake 8.1 work with a disk originally formatted for Windows XP? Note: Partition Magic has a new version 7 for Windows XP, claiming some incompatibility for earlier versions. Thanks, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cable modem analysis
I have noticed a significant decrease in the performance of my cable modem lately. The modem is plugged into a linksys 4 port router that then has 4 PC's for a home network. What tools can I use to analyze the bandwidth I have available and how many people I might sharing with? If this is even the right approach. Looking at packets and determining what the results will mean is new territory for me, so if someone knows of a good write up for the novice I would appreciate it if they could point me to it. Thanks, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] POP3 server 8.1
Can anyone tell what program is listening to port 110. I look at the process running and I can't find any that are running pop3. I am running a Domino server and I get an error message that port 110 is not available. any help would be great. Thanks, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1
If I want to use the Domino pop3 server, then the pop3 line in /etc/inetd.conf should be disabled. I will take a look at the line and see what it looks like. I thing that the line is enabled by default. Jerry Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro wrote: pop3d is a service of inetd. look at /etc/inetd.conf and find that line: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d be sure that the line is enabled (without a # in the beggining). HTH orlando Jerry Sommerdorf wrote: Can anyone tell what program is listening to port 110. I look at the process running and I can't find any that are running pop3. I am running a Domino server and I get an error message that port 110 is not available. any help would be great. Thanks, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ,~~v~~,,~~v~~, ,'. .', ,'. .', === + ====== + === / ~ \ / ~ \ /\_m m_/\/\_m m_/\ .\ +--+ /. / ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! \ / +--+ \ `\m/ \m/' `\m/ \m/' 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] Domino Server on 8.1
Anyone running a Domino server, and if so, any one having problems with it crashing? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1
Do I have to just delete the file to prevent the pop3 server from starting, or is there a file I need to edit? Michael D. Viron wrote: At 02:45 PM 10/23/2001 -0200, you wrote: pop3d is a service of inetd. look at /etc/inetd.conf and find that line: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d be sure that the line is enabled (without a # in the beggining). HTH orlando of course, inetd isn't used in 8.1, xinetd is. Pop3 will be one of the files under /etc/xinetd.d/ Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida 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] POP3 server 8.1
Michael,
I'm not able to verify ipop3 att. I looked at this file earlier and if I
remember correctly it was set to disable =yes. I will check on this later. If
is set to disable, any idea as to what other program would be listening on port
110.
Thanks
Jerry
Michael D. Viron wrote:
At 04:02 PM 10/23/2001 -0200, Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro wrote:
you don't have to delete the file... just comment the line with a # in the
beggining of the line.
orlando
That would be true if he was using 7.1 or earlier, since they use inetd
(and hence inetd.conf). For 7.2 and letter, you need to edit
/etc/xinetd.d/ipop3, such that it looks as below:
# default: on
# description: The POP3 service allows remote users to access their mail \
# using an POP3 client such as Netscape Communicator, mutt, \
# or fetchmail.
service pop3
{
disable = yes
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/ipop3d
log_on_success += USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
}
Jerry Sommerdorf wrote:
Do I have to just delete the file to prevent the pop3 server from
starting, or
is there a file I need to edit?
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[expert] software manager
I did some updates from cooker and now when I run the software manager to try and install a package I get bad rpm message. However, when I drop to the cl and do an rpm -Uvh it installs just fine. Has anyone else encountered this? Any suggestions of what I might need to update to get it working again? Thanks, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Phobos 430 4 port NIC help?
I'm trying to install a Phobos 430 on Mandrake 8, but Mandrake sees it as a tulip card. I know there's a binary driver for 2.2 kernels, but I can't seem to find anything for 2.4- anyone have any experience with these cards? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound on X from a server
I had selected network transparency on the server side in the arts setting, but you have given me an Idea I need to try later. I am going to login from the client and see if arts is running locally, if not I will try and start it from the command line on the client before connecting to the server. Thanks, Jerry On Sunday 15 July 2001 08:44 am, Nathan Callahan wrote: X itself does not support remote sound AFAIK. However both arts and esound do support this. They will have to be running on the machine with the X server (the client) and I don't know how to tell the client program (the one running on the server) that it should send its sound output to the remote daemon, but some reading of documentation should get you there. Or perhaps someone on this list can offer some more informative advice. Hope that some of this helps. But somehow I doubt it. On Sunday, July 15, 2001, at 09:31 PM, Jerry Sternesky wrote: I have been playing around with running X on a client from a server. From a console I type X -once -query [hostname], I get the login menu from the machine acting as a server. Login and no problems with running apps. However, if I play a sound it comes from the speakers of the machine acting as a server, how do I get it to play on the client? Are there any good howto's out there that address something like this? I am trying to help a friend out who wants to run a fat server and a 2 thin clients. The goal is to have a local console version of Linux on each of the clients but do the gui from a server. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jerry
Re: [expert] NFS and permissions - NEVER MIND
Please ignore this question. I did an idiot move, I su'd to do something and forgot to exit back to my user account before moving the files. Someday I will learn to pay attention to what I am doing. :) Any way I am off to write 100 times. Do not work as root! Sorry Jerry On Saturday 23 June 2001 07:51, Jerry Sternesky wrote: I moved all my saved files off a server, wiped the server clean and installed Mandrake 8.0. I am using the 2.2.19 kernel since I have a scsi cdr that is having issues with 2.4. I Setup nfs on the server and from an up to date Mandrake 7.2 client started moving files back to the server. I noticed when I create dir's and files on the nfs share from the client machine they are assigned user and group of 65534. When I do it from a terminal on the server it has the name and group of the id I am logged in as. Is this OK? Or an I looking at a potential issue? I also have this same dir as a samba share so I can access it from a windows client and the dir's created from windows have the name and group as the user creating and moving the files. Since this is the first time I have encountered this I am wondering if there is cause for concern. It seems the files are accessible as I want them to be. Thanks, Jerry
[expert] NFS and permissions
I moved all my saved files off a server, wiped the server clean and installed Mandrake 8.0. I am using the 2.2.19 kernel since I have a scsi cdr that is having issues with 2.4. I Setup nfs on the server and from an up to date Mandrake 7.2 client started moving files back to the server. I noticed when I create dir's and files on the nfs share from the client machine they are assigned user and group of 65534. When I do it from a terminal on the server it has the name and group of the id I am logged in as. Is this OK? Or an I looking at a potential issue? I also have this same dir as a samba share so I can access it from a windows client and the dir's created from windows have the name and group as the user creating and moving the files. Since this is the first time I have encountered this I am wondering if there is cause for concern. It seems the files are accessible as I want them to be. Thanks, Jerry
Re: [expert] LILO name
I think it is as simple as Linux Loader if I recall, it's has been awhile since I thought about it. So a guess would be SI is Solaris Loader and MI could be for minix. On Saturday 02 June 2001 19:35, Vincent Danen wrote: Does anyone know what LILO stands for? I thought it meant Linux In Linux Out, but if that's the case, what does SILO or MILO stand for? I don't think SILO stands for Solaris In Linux Out... =) Of course, I'm probably really showing my ignorance here, but I've never bothered to find out before. Now that I'm writing an article on it, I've got a pressing need to figure out what it stands for. Thanks. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: [expert] my telnet server doesn't work (mdk 8.0)
Is telnet server installed? If you did a client install chances are it isn't.
On Sunday 03 June 2001 15:20, Luis Duarte wrote:
My telnet server doesn't work in a local network (ethernet). I have
xinetd running, and the file telnet in /etc/xinetd.d is configured like
that:
service telnet
{ disable = no
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
log_on_failure += USERID
}
I didn't anything to file in.telnetd.
Anybody can help me?
thanks
luis duarte
[expert] Networking Help dchp/dns
I just installed Mandrake 8.0 on machine that will act as a server for an
internal network (using the 192.168 range of addresses). I have dhcp working
so when my clients boot up they get an ip assigned by the server. I would
like to set up dns internally so as each client can be located by it's name
instead of ip adress. I would also like for all requests for the internet to
be forwarded out to my isp's dns servers. The network topology is a cable
modem to a linksys 4 port router and the server and 3 clients to the this
router/hub.
I think I am close, but don't have it nailed, so I am looking for thoughts
and/or help. I have been going through the how-to's and some web articles on
setting up dns and I think I am confusing myself more than I am helping
myself.
my dhcpd.conf is as follows:
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
option routers (ip address of router);
option domain-name-servers (lip of ocal server), (ip of isp dns server)
option domain-name (mydomain.com)
range (starting ip) (ending ip)
}
This part apears to be working fine, I think if I get dns working right I
should be able to take out the isp's dns and have my local dns forward to
them. For DNS I setup /etc/named.conf and have forwarders set to the isp dns.
I also have a zone . pointing to file /var/named.dbcache retrieved using:
dig @e.root-servers.net ns/var/named/db.cache
I also setup a name to ip zone file that has my server and domain in it.
IN NS server.mydomain.com.
master IN A IP address
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
server IN A ip address
There is also an ip to name zone file
IN NS server.mydomain.com
1 IN PTR server.mydomain.com
Then finally the local host zone file.
on the server my resolv.conf has
search mydomain.com
nameserver server ip
my nsswitch.conf host entry is files nisplus nis dns.
I am runing nis so if I read correctly this is the proper order. If anyone
can get pointed in the right direction with this I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Jerry S.
Re: [expert] USB startup question
Neal, This drove me insane for awhile and then I finally nailed it. I would type service usb status and get not running, yet it was starting the service at boot. what I had to do was create a file in /etc/sysconfig called usb. The contents of the file are as follows: USB=yes MOUSE=no KEYBOARD=no STORAGE=no VISOR=yes notice no quotes around yes and no. Also since I am using the stock mandrake kernel, I needed to have some stuff in /etc/modules.conf: alias usb-interface usb-uhci post-install usb-uhci modprobe visor Hope this helps you out Jerry On Thursday 24 May 2001 21:11, Neal Lippman wrote: I am trying to sort out some USB-related stuff, specifically related to the modules for syncing my Visor. I have all that stuff working, but it is a pain to have to load the modules after each boot so I can sync. I notice that in /etc/init.d there is a script called usb that starts up usb devices and should load all the visor modules as well. It seems to look for a subscript called /etc/sysconfig/usb, and after attempting to execute that script, it uses a number of shell variables (eg $VISOR) to decide what to do. Unfortunately, I don't have the /etc/sysconfig/usb script - probably because when I installed MDK 7.2 I didn't have any usb devices. In anycase, does anyone know if my understanding of this is correct? if so, it seems that all I would need to do is to create /etc/sysconfig/usb and put into it: $USB=yes $VISOR=yes and the modules will get loaded at boot time. Help, anyone? Neal
[expert] ximian 1.4 - evolution and Mandrake 7.2
Has anyone out there been succesfull with getting ximian 1.4 and evolution onto a mandrake 7.2 machine. I got the redcarpet installer, did the install and got ximian to work, minus a few packages that will not install, like gimp. Anyway according to ximian I should have a channel called evolution and be able to get the software from there, well the channel doesn't exist. I down graded from mandrake 8.0 to try this and no I am even more pissed. BTW the evolution version in 8.0 worked nice enough EXCEPT for the palm conduits which didn't exist. Which is the whole reason I want evolution, an intergrated mail, calendar and contact solution. KDE doesn't have anything that comes close and while it is a nice package I am tired of jpilot, since it intergretes into nothing. Anything anyone, I am getting angry with this whole process. I really could use a little help here to recapture my sanity. Thanks, Jerry
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 GLX (Nvidia)
It looks like you are having an issue with the agpgart (agp) stuff, during the install Mandrake loads a kernel driver based on the chipset it detects, by commenting out what Mandrake detected and loads I was able to get the nvidia agp driver to load. I just check my /etc/rc.sysinit using vi, in my script the entry was at line 796 here is what it looks like: # Load agpgart here. This is a hack, and will probably go away soon. #if grep driver: agpgart /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /dev/null 21 ; then # modprobe agpgart /dev/null 21 #fi I had to add # to the last three lines, and I hate to say this but rebooting the system will be a lot easier than trying to stop and restart services. Be warned, if you upgrade your scripts any changes you makes to this file will be overwritten. Since you indicated that you followed the Nvidia instructions, I am guessing you made the edits to XF86Config-4 to add glx and change the chipset from nv to nvidia. Also you checked to make sure none of the other gl stuff (mesa) is conflicting with glx. There used be a good writeup on mandrakeuser.org about setting up nvidia cards, but since the site changed I no longer have the link to refer you to. Good Luck Jerry On 02 May 2001 06:31:05 -0400, Nathan wrote: Jerry, Thanks for trying to help with this, if I manage to fix this problem I'll probably give up Windows all together. What is your agp status? Enabled or Disabled. and agp driver says NVIDIA cat /proc/nv/card0 brings up the following - NVRM Version: 1.0-769 Model: Riva TNT2 Ultra IRQ 11 AGP status: Disabled AGP driver: Bridge: Ali M1541 SBA: Supported [Disabled] FW: Unspoorted [Disabled] Rates: 2x 1x I had to go into /etc/rc.sysinit and comment out the loading of agp to allow the nvidia one to get loaded. in /etc/rc.sysinit there is no reference to AGP I'd be grateful for any ideas you might have, Nathan On Monday 30 April 2001 21:59, Jerry Sternesky wrote: As root do a cat /proc/nv/card0 What is your agp status? Enabled or Disabled. and agp driver says NVIDIA You can also confirm which x is using by checking your /var/log/XFree86.0.log. If it is the one from the kernel you need to stop that from loading, so the nvidia one can get in there. I had to go into /etc/rc.sysinit and comment out the loading of agp to allow the nvidia one to get loaded. Jerry On 30 Apr 2001 11:17:23 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: I don't have help for your specific errors. But at least make sure you are running X 4: X -version And that NVidia loaded properly: lsmod If you are definitely running X 4.0.x and NVidia shows up in the list of modules, right back with specific information about your hardware and Linux distribution. Also, list what version of the nvidia drivers you are using. --- Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have compiled and installed the Nvidia kernel GLX source code without any problems. In fact everything seems to work for a second or two, until the 3D image freezes or X Windows crashes (depending on the 'OpenGL' program I run). I have checked that GLX is loading correctly and that there are no conflicting libraries, have tried everything in the Nvidia documentation, and everything else I can think of. But X Windows continues brings up the following error (in its log) - RM failed to reinstate pixmap cache (I've also had warnings such as - Open APM failed Failure reading EDID parameters for head 0) I'd be very grateful if anyone with any idea of whats going wrong could let me know how to fix this. I have a Guillemot Max Gamer Cougar Riva TNT2 M64 Card, and have tried a similar card by a different manufacturer too, but had the same problem. It works fine under Windows, but I don't often need or want to use Windows for reasons everyone on this list I'm sure understands. Any help would be appreciated. Nathan Taylor __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Anyone running 8.0 and play heretic2?
Have you tried changing your sound settings in KDE? There are different options and I know when I had it set to real time priority I couldn't get real audio to play sound because the sound device was busy. It's under configuration, kde, sound. On 29 Apr 2001 14:26:49 -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote: Crap. I simply cannot get soundfx working with heretic2 under MD 8.0. It will not do it. I have libSDL and all that installed and sound works fine in KDE but the game only provides CD music, no soundfx and it gives me this: Initializing SDL sound Cmd_AddCommand: play already defined Cmd_AddCommand: stopsound already defined Cmd_AddCommand: soundlist already defined Cmd_AddCommand: soundinfo already defined Couldn't open SDL audio: No available audio device I checked /dev/dsp and it has rw permissions set for everyone (I even did a chmod 666 on it to make sure). I did not have this problem with Mandrake 7.2. What has changed, presumably in artsd, which prevents it from allowing anything but itself from accessing/using the sound system? What else can be done? It is NOT a proper or good option to have to kill artsd every time you want to play a game, but this is what I am left with, it seems. On Sunday 29 April 2001 06:28, Jerry Sternesky wrote: I don't have heretic, but with Solider of Fortune, I had to change permissions on /dev/dsp to get sound working. I did a chmod 666 /dev/dsp From a security stand point I honestly don't know if this is the best approach or not. Before doing this check to make your users are in the audio group, that fixed the problem for me when I had the same issue under 7.2. Jerry On Saturday 28 April 2001 22:52, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have Heretic2 from Loki. Under 7.2 I was able to play this game fine and had sound. Now, since installing Mandrake 8.0, I no longer have game sound. I have posted to the Loki games newsgroup but get no help. I have libSDL installed and the game recognizes this (just as with 7.2) but I get a message: Couldn't open SDL audio: No available audio device What is this? Artsd didn't used to completely monopolize my soundcard under 7.2. Now under 8.0, it appears to be unwilling to release the card for use. Anyone have 8.0 and heretic2 with properly working sound? Is there something I need to do to my system like make /dev/dsp read-writeable for users? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 GLX (Nvidia)
As root do a cat /proc/nv/card0 What is your agp status? Enabled or Disabled. and agp driver says NVIDIA You can also confirm which x is using by checking your /var/log/XFree86.0.log. If it is the one from the kernel you need to stop that from loading, so the nvidia one can get in there. I had to go into /etc/rc.sysinit and comment out the loading of agp to allow the nvidia one to get loaded. Jerry On 30 Apr 2001 11:17:23 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: I don't have help for your specific errors. But at least make sure you are running X 4: X -version And that NVidia loaded properly: lsmod If you are definitely running X 4.0.x and NVidia shows up in the list of modules, right back with specific information about your hardware and Linux distribution. Also, list what version of the nvidia drivers you are using. --- Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have compiled and installed the Nvidia kernel GLX source code without any problems. In fact everything seems to work for a second or two, until the 3D image freezes or X Windows crashes (depending on the 'OpenGL' program I run). I have checked that GLX is loading correctly and that there are no conflicting libraries, have tried everything in the Nvidia documentation, and everything else I can think of. But X Windows continues brings up the following error (in its log) - RM failed to reinstate pixmap cache (I've also had warnings such as - Open APM failed Failure reading EDID parameters for head 0) I'd be very grateful if anyone with any idea of whats going wrong could let me know how to fix this. I have a Guillemot Max Gamer Cougar Riva TNT2 M64 Card, and have tried a similar card by a different manufacturer too, but had the same problem. It works fine under Windows, but I don't often need or want to use Windows for reasons everyone on this list I'm sure understands. Any help would be appreciated. Nathan Taylor __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Anyone running 8.0 and play heretic2?
I don't have heretic, but with Solider of Fortune, I had to change permissions on /dev/dsp to get sound working. I did a chmod 666 /dev/dsp From a security stand point I honestly don't know if this is the best approach or not. Before doing this check to make your users are in the audio group, that fixed the problem for me when I had the same issue under 7.2. Jerry On Saturday 28 April 2001 22:52, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have Heretic2 from Loki. Under 7.2 I was able to play this game fine and had sound. Now, since installing Mandrake 8.0, I no longer have game sound. I have posted to the Loki games newsgroup but get no help. I have libSDL installed and the game recognizes this (just as with 7.2) but I get a message: Couldn't open SDL audio: No available audio device What is this? Artsd didn't used to completely monopolize my soundcard under 7.2. Now under 8.0, it appears to be unwilling to release the card for use. Anyone have 8.0 and heretic2 with properly working sound? Is there something I need to do to my system like make /dev/dsp read-writeable for users?
Re: [expert] gnome-control center and pilot-link information
Josh, Check a couple of things. Do you have usb service starting at boot? In /etc/sysconfig/usb do you have an entry VISOR=yes In /etc/modules.conf do you have the following entries: alias usb-interface usb-uhci (this is for intel chipsets, ali has usb-ohci I think) post-install usb-uhci modprobe visor In /etc/fstab none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 These are just some setup type things to check. Also, my /dev/pilot is a symlink I had to add, my visor is using /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 so the command was ln -s /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot Hope this helps you out. Jerry On Saturday 07 April 2001 18:49, Josh wrote: Dear Experts, I have a Handspring Visor Deluxe with the USB cradle that I use in Windows. To configure this device for linux, I was told to go into gnomecc and set it up. If I go in as a user, the device can't tell that it is connected to the computer when it is prompted for me to push the hotsync button. However, I figured that this was due to permissions and decided to try using gnomecc as root. When I click on the Pilot Link capplet, it launches another copy of the control-center and does not add the device as it did when using this as a user. I noticed that it is looking for /dev/pilot, however, I do not have this entry in my /dev directory. How do I add this, and if it is symply a symlink what do I link it to? I am running beta 3 of mandrake 8.0 with no updates (clean install) so far. Thank you, Josh www.thesauerfamily.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Civilme: inquiring minds want to know
No On Monday 26 March 2001 09:35, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:03 -0600, s wrote: Am I the only one who had to look *nadir* up? :-/ -s Ts ts ts, you may have missed your advanced astronomers classes in kindergarten, did you! ;-) wobo
Re: [expert] RPM -src
Jerry Sternesky wrote: You can do an rpm -Uvh on the package and it will install the source to /usr/source/RPMS. Then to build it go into /usr/source/RPMS/SPECS Then rpm -ba --clean --rmsource spec-file Then based on your compile options a shirny new rpm should appear in one of the sub dir's of /usr/source/RPMS/RPMS. Mine usually end up in i686 or noarch. I usually do this when I have to change an option in the spec file, such as turning on usb support for gpilot. Jerry S. On Saturday 24 March 2001 19:15, Stefaans Mostert wrote: hi all I was wondering what are the commands for installing from a src-rpm ? does it unpack it somewhere and you build it as normal? Or do you build the rpm and then install? Sorry but I am wacked by this one ;-) Stefaans On Sunday 25 March 2001 06:12, Stefaans Mostert wrote: Normally when I want to know what my options are I would type #./configure --help How do I do it in src-rpm? Stefaans I usually go to the /usr/source/RPMS/SPEC dir and in the *.spec file, there is a line ./ configure followed by options. I don't know if that is the only place where they can be contained or not, but for the few rpms I needed to change options on that is where I did it. This is about the max of my knowledge on rpm as I am still trying to learn some of the finer points of it myself. So if there is more to this, I hope someone else will chime in. Jerry S
Re: [expert] no sound as user on 8.0b
If you are using kde check to see if arts was installed, during my install it seems that was missed. After I added it my kde system sounds started working. On Friday 23 March 2001 14:03, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I have a sound blaster live value, and Mandrake 8.0b2 installed. I appear to have no sound as user, with the exception of Realplayer. No system Events, nor Xmms sound. Checked perms, all seem fine. Anyone else having this prob.. I have only recently noticed this as I have been logging in as root to configure things for now. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager)
Re: [expert] apt
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Hi, I was wondering that now that apt has RPM support if there are any plans to incorporate apt and dselect into Mandrake? This, in my estimation would be the last good reason to switch to debian. The reason I'm asking is that redhat and mandrake esp. have great install programs with really nice tools. However, maintainability is a s.o.b. This is debian's great strength and it would be nice to have an OS that's both easy to install and easy to maintain. Anyone else like to see apt on mandrake? Cheers, Sheldon. As I understand it, Mandrake is incorporating apt into 8.0, so this process is already underway. Aaron On Friday 23 March 2001 15:29, Civileme wrote: How far it will go is another question apt-get works so well because there is extreme care and discipline in managing the assembly of debs. In the bazaar where we operate, with packagers as volunteers for much of our product, that sort of discipline is a wishlist item for when we are as rich and hated as Microsoft .-). So 8.0 packages are apt-get capable but definitely not debs. Civileme/QA Will it check for dependancies and get those packages also? If so as long as someone uses an "official" mirror and sticks to support packages shouldn't they be ok? Jerry
Re: [expert] RPM -src
You can do an rpm -Uvh on the package and it will install the source to /usr/source/RPMS. Then to build it go into /usr/source/RPMS/SPECS Then rpm -ba --clean --rmsource spec-file Then based on your compile options a shirny new rpm should appear in one of the sub dir's of /usr/source/RPMS/RPMS. Mine usually end up in i686 or noarch. I usually do this when I have to change an option in the spec file, such as turning on usb support for gpilot. Jerry S. On Saturday 24 March 2001 19:15, Stefaans Mostert wrote: hi all I was wondering what are the commands for installing from a src-rpm ? does it unpack it somewhere and you build it as normal? Or do you build the rpm and then install? Sorry but I am wacked by this one ;-) Stefaans
Re: [expert] Re: Human centric computers (was: I like cups)
I for one will agree that the documentation that ships with programs and distributions could be better, with my one major complaint with man pages are they do not allways include an example. Take sox for example, the man page is very informative about what the program is, what it can do and all the switches. However, there isn't an examples line, contrast that with the tar man which does include some basic examples of usage. With that said, I have found a good linux book can be indispensible. Back in 96 when I first got involved with linux I bought "Using Linux second edition" and still find myself opening that book from time to time. Actually the spine is shot and cover is about to fall off. There are many people out there who use linux and are not developers, and many times I hear them say what can I do to contribute to linux. I usually reply, if you encounter a "bug" contact the project and report it. Cruise the list servers and offer help when to others when you can. Then the big winner that I usually point out, projects need good documentation people. Get involved, developers want to develop and will always welcome someone who is willing to take on the documentation for a project. That poses another challenge as previously mentioned, how do you keep up with a moving target. I would say start with a "supported" version of a project and get the core functions of the program documented, as minor releases and patches come out release a "change log" kind of update for the documentation. Then roll the changes back into the main document for each major release of a program. Yes it's a lot of work, but if half the people who complained about poor documentation contributed to it, the problem would go away. On Tuesday 13 March 2001 00:12, David Rankin wrote: "tony K." wrote: At 07:21 12-03-01 -0500 some list member(s) wrote: My 2 cents worth as well. I am using cups with Mandrake 7.2/Samba 2.07. It works great. I have no idea how I got it to work, it just works. Ah, there is the problem. Anything is great when it works. Problem is when it does not work and figuring out "what" you have to do... The problem is not inadequate software. The problem is inadequate documentation. Allow me to elaborate: The documentation is usually written by the software developer. He - as a general rule - just does not understand that the user is operating in different ~operational~ and ~previous knowledge~ context. It is unfortunate that many a hard day's coding work has been totally wasted by documentation which lacks nothing but an intoductionary "Concepts and Facilities" chapter. CUPS is no exception. tk Anthony K. Transportation Systems - no HTML mail please. My Observations and Experience: Alright, I started this ball rolling so I feel obliged to at least add my observation regarding the above. I think Tony has a very valid point concerning the sparseness of the documentation available to get you up an running with Linux/Cups or whatever. I was new to Linux as of January and I decided to take the plunge. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but I was willing to "pay the price" to learn. The Linux movement is one of the greatest things taking place in technology today. The OS is elegant and flexible and its capabilities are unmatched. That, in and of itself, is Linux's double edge sword. When I decided to take the Linux plunge, I was of course new to Linux. However, I was far from new to the computer world. I was involved in sewing JSC's lan together in Houston during the late 80's early 90's starting on 8086 machines, sperry Univax, etc. I have baby sat 750K lines of fortran assent simulation software (remember common blocks), programmed in assembly, C, Fortran, Ada, etc.. I have built PC's and written drivers starting with 286's when IBM DOS, PC DOS and MS DOS were arguing over who would win. Windows 286 - ME, NT, etc. So how much different could Linux be to make friends with? A LOT! Why? Because with just about everything else above you could pick up a relatively good manual or reference guide and have a reasonably good roadmap for the journey. Not so with Linux -- not a fault with Linux -- just not so with Linux. The documentation that exists for Linux is scattered across the Linux World in a million different places, largely due to the number of core components of a Linux distribution being developed and maintained in at least that many different places as well. There are numerous basic Linux manuals available, however, none are relatively comprehensive as far a providing a good roadmap to get you through the maze. Most of the time spent learning Linux/Samba/Apache/DNS/Bind/DHCP/Sendmail/etc..(or at least getting it to work) is spent searching for the right Man page/How-To/Web site/Mailing List/etc... that has at least most of the information you are looking for. I say most, because no matter
Re: [expert] Linux box as printer server?
Install and set up samba. Then your linux box can act as a print and file server for windows clients. On Tuesday 06 March 2001 11:05, Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) wrote: I've got three machines at home -- one of which is a Linux box. All three are networked together and it's working well. What I would like to do is to hook our printer up to the Linux box (which is always on anyway) to have it act as a print server. What configuration do I need to do within Linux to make it work as a printer server? What configuration needs to be done on the other two (windoze) machines? --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu/ http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [expert] sound cards
emu10k1 driver for the soudblaster live is a module in the 7.2 kernel. The install found and configured mine with no problems. On Monday 05 March 2001 10:52, Garys wrote: Hi all, Need input on sound cards. I have a Soundblaster Live card as I want to replace my PCI Ensoniq The Ensoniq is recognized by Mandrake just fine. I just picked up 7.2 Powerpack, and was wondering if the Live card is recognized already without any problems.. or does it need separate drivers. Thanks for your input and help. Best regards, __ Best regards, Gary
Re: [expert] gui login panel
/etc/X11/wmsession.d You should see files in there 01kde, 02gnome and so on, if you open one of them up you can see the syntax of the file and follow it ad other entries. You will need to do a complete restart of X and the window manager to get them to appear in the menu. On Thursday 22 February 2001 00:45, Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE wrote: Mandrake uses a window manager session file that on bootup checks this file and then adds the wm's in it to XDM/KDM/GDM. Now, for the bad news, I forget what file it is. I think it is called windowmanager.session. It should be in /etc/X11/??? Or /usr/share/X11R6/?? Or something like that. I hope this helps. -Original Message- From: Collins Richey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 4:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] gui login panel On Tuesday 20 February 2001 08:02, you wrote: On Sunday 18 February 2001 10:13 pm, you wrote: 1) - In theory, at least, the gui login panel should allow one to choose the window manager, and it does provide tabs for gnome, enlightenment,etc., etc. However, when I choose one of these, I always get KDE, no matter which I have chosen. Take a look in /etc/X11/kdm. There is no such directory on Mandrake 7.2 Can someone else help with this? I would like to add a menu entry for xfce.
[expert] MandrakeUpdates - command line version?
Is there some command line equivalent for MandrakeUpdate? It would be very useful for a remote system I take care of, particularly for security updates. - Jerry
[expert] Realplayer 8 sound only as root
Realplayer used to work fine when I was in my account, now I have no sound from real player. If I open a terminal as root and type realplay, I get sound. Any one else experience this? Have an idea what it could be? I had to change permissions on /dev/dsp to get SOF to play. So I went into devices and set dmfm*, dmmidi* to mode 666 and tried real player and that did not work. Is there a sound device that realplayer uses that I should check for permissions on. I am making a guess that is it, since KDE startup sounds play, music cd's play. No midi's, they never did so that is no big deal. This seems to have started since I upgraded gnome to helix, installed evolution and the natulis (which broke evolution). Any way I would like to get realplayer back under my user account. Thanks, Jerry
