[expert] harddrake doesn't start

2002-02-12 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan 

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



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[expert] Xircom Modem/Network PCMCIA card

2002-01-27 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan 

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



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[expert] 8.1: hand calculator?

2001-12-02 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan 

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



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[expert] disk repartitioning (after Windows XP)

2001-11-21 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan 

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



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[expert] MandrakeUpdates - command line version?

2001-02-20 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan 

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] Mandrake 7.2 cannot mount my CD

2001-01-28 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan 

I am attempting to update from Mandrake 7.0 -> 7.2 (Powerpack Deluxe). 
As usual, I made a bootdisk and ran it -- but it could not mount my
SCSI CD (although it seems to have recognized that it is SCSI).  
  The error message is:

   "I could not mount a cd on /dev/scd0"

This surprises me since I've been running various flavors of Linux on
this same computer since 1995 and the bootdisk has always recognized
and mounted the CD *automatically*.  [My bios doesn't allow booting
from the CD].

For the record, when I run dmesg with my current Mandrake 7.0, the CD
part reads: 
-
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: PLEXTOR   Model: CD-ROM PX-6XCSRev: 1.00
  Type:   CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi0: Target 0: Queue Depth 28, Synchronous at 10.0 MB/sec, offset 15
scsi0: Target 6: Queue Depth 3, Synchronous at 5.00 MB/sec, offset 15
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 
-

[I have one SCSI harddisk and one IDE harddisk.  There is no hardware
change since I got Mandrake 7.0 last year.]

Any hints?  This must be simple.

-Jerry

[expert] Nvidia drivers .96 for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-01-19 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan 

Nvidia's page:

http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html

has new drivers (Jan. 18).  However they list only drivers for Mandrake 7.1:

  Mandrake 7.1, one CPU, uniprocessor kernel:
   NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6.mdk71.i386.rpm
   NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-6.i386.rpm

 Mandrake 7.1, SMP kernel: 
   NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6.mdk71smp.i386.rpm
   NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-6.i386.rpm

Will these same drivers work for Mandrake 7.2?  If not, how should one
proceed for Mandrake 7.2?

Jerry