Re: [expert] Verizon/GTE DSL and Mandrake
Nick Webb wrote: On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Tom Wike wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any experience with Verizon/GTE DSL and Mandrake?? Thanks in advance. I have DSL from Verizon/GTE and it works great under any distro. However, I think it is the ISP you have to worry about. Around here Verizon/GTE only supplies the line, so you have to get a separate ISP. My ISP does not use pppoe or any thing like that, all I had to do was plug it in and go, just as if I was on a large network. My ISP also gives out static IPs so DHCP or BOOTP was not a problem. I think your best bet would be to talk to your ISP and see what they are using. From what I hear though, it should work even if they do require pppoe or DHCP . . . good luck! Verizon also supplies ISP services in some areas. If you are using Verizon in my area, for example, they use pppoe. Fortunately, I use Concentric and they don't - the modem's just another device on my 10baseT lan. (I know, I should use a gateway for security. Don't have a spare ethernet card or the knowhow to configure it if I did.) -- Mage Grimau So now you should spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Is it possible to switch from user A to user B without rebooting? That is, just by logging out of KDE (or Gnome) as user A and relogging as user B and back to user A? Or do you have to reboot each time you change user on a single Linux machine? Text/console: exit brings you to the login prompt. Log in. X: logout brings you to the login screen. Log in. -- Mage Grimau So now you should spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Automatisation d'installation / Automatic installation
Taczynski Pierre-Yves wrote: Bonjour, je vais devoir installé Mandrake sur de multiples machines et je cherche une solution pour ne pas me taper la sélection des packages en mode expert à chaque fois. Mon idée serait de faire cette install une fois et ensuite de générer une disquette d'installation personnalisée. Merci pour votre aide. Hi, I have to install on several box Mandrake and I'm looking for a solution to avoid an expert installation (and select every packages I need) each time. The idea would be to install once and then generate a personnalized installation floppy. Regards. At the end of the installation process it asks you if you want to make an install floppy. Select yes. Use that floppy to make future installs. -- Mage Grimau So now you should spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] well now i have a new problem and it sucks
install such as very few if any utilitys could be found i figured i havent done much with the system and simply formatted my linux partition and reloaded linux, well i figured i had a successful install i managed to play with the various settings and even found a theme that was made with the laptop user in mind, well i decided i needed to figure out tar files because my computer needs a particular set of files or i cant run it too long due to the fan not running, so i tried to reboot, linux unloaded no problem. restarted the computer try to load windows well it decides it doesnt want to start and automatically throws me into the starting point again so i run scan disk and defrag in safemode and then reboot grub starts to load, next thing i know, i see grub)_ press tab for available options this disturbed me so i type linux command not found TYPED windows command not found so i press tab i get a set of options including boot ok typed boot linux starts to load and then it gets down to kernel panic! system stops ctrl alt del reboot the system i try my boot disk wich i made right after i installed linux, (fianlly after having linux for 3 weeks) it starts to load linux kernel panic! ok lets try to use the recover feature dont know what it was trying to do i guess load a modified version of linux well it crashed must be a bad boot disk ontop of something wrong with linux, aparently copied over when i made the boot disk so i get the install disk and use the recover feature it worked now i have [$recover@root$] ok lets try fdisk hda5 aparently is larger then it was partitioned for i finally using maximum linux magazine used the windows boot disk to restore the booting procedure but this means i cant boot into linux, should i try and install lilo or osxboot or something, but what about the kernel is that just totally jacked up, i need some serious help, and i shouldnt keep formatting and reinstalling linux thats killing my disk space given that every format kills sets of blocks If format keeps marking more blocks as bad, you've got a bad drive. No software fixes can help you. -- Mage Grimau So now you should spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Windows after Linux???
maxtor wrote: To all: Before I installed mandrake 7.1 I had both Windows98 and Linux 7.0 installed. While installing 7.1 I formatted all partitions including my windows partition. Then i installed mandrake 7.1. And my Windows partition still exists but with no operating system on it. When I boot with grub I have the option of linux or windows. My question Can i now install Windows NT4 wkstation on my existing windows partition? If I install windows will it take priority over my grub boot loader? And if so how can I make it so that I can still choose to either boot to linux or windows in my grub? Maybe someone out there can help me. Really would be appreciated. Maxtor NT4 will behave nicely and install itself without screwing up grub or lilo. Since the windows partition is already seen by grub, it should work just fine after you install NT4. Note that Win95/98 will NOT work fine - it will trash grub or lilo. -- Mage Grimau So now you should spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk Mandrake
Stefan Srdic wrote: You probly have your BIOS set to auto detect your hard drives specs!! What you want to do is enter the specific amount of sectors, cylinders and heads that your hard drive contains. This will correct your problem, Linux only sees as far as your BIOS does!!! Nope. My BIOS sees a 1G drive. I have a 20G drive. Linux sees it just fine. -- Mage Grimau Now you could spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] forum.mandrakesoft.com
Jon wrote: Have I missed something? The forum seems to be down, but I haven't seen a thing on this list about it. I miss it. -jon- www.mandrakeforum.com -- Mage Grimau Now you could spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] ide-scsi and real scsi
I was using ide-scsi to use my cd burner under 7.1 just fine. I added a real scsi (adaptec) card and HD. Now cdrecord -scanbus just sees the real scsi and not my cd burner. Can they work together, or do I have to remove the real scsi to use my cd burner? -- Mage Grimau Now you could spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] terminal
Tom Massey wrote: Foris Gabor wrote: thank you anyway :) Just thinking about this some more, I don't think that you'll be able to run X on a PC running terminal emulation and connecting over a serial port (I think this is what you want to do). Connecting a text only terminal on a serial port is pretty easy to do, you just have to add a line to /etc/inittab to run a getty on the serial port, then hook up the pc with a null modem cable, run some terminal emulation software and make sure the settings in your terminal emulation software match those set up in the getty on the Linux box you're connecting to. Problem is - I can't think of any terminal emulation software that would be able to understand X codes. I know that there are terminals that can do this - after all X was designed to run on a central machine and display on many terminals (it actually works much better/faster this way then the way it's currently often used on Linux boxen with a single user at a time - as an aside to anybody who doesn't think X runs very well on their machine: it wasn't designed to be run the way it often is on a Linux box). Sorry if I'm rambling a bit here... My point is that when you hook up a PC to your Linux box on the serial port, and run terminal emulation software on it, then all you've got on the PC running emulation is the capabilities of the terminal it's emulating. Generally this doesn't include the ability to run X. eg If you've got it running VT100 emulation (pretty much the most popular), then all the PC will understand is VT100 codes, which don't include X. If you've got reasonable hardware (say 486 and above) you'd be better off installing Linux on it properly, and sticking a NIC in. There are Xterm emulators available, but I don't know of any free ones. -- Mage Grimau .. So you can spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed. .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / ICQ:71694384
Re: [expert] How to install Grub?
Stefan Srdic wrote: I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 a while back. I have been using a boot floppy and LINLOAD to boot into Linux whenever I'm not playing games in Windows :-D Anyway, I want to install Grub on the MBR so that I can choose at boot up which OS to load. I cant use LILO because of the location of the root filesystem, its above the 1024th cylinder. I tried using DrakBoot with no success, I know that I have Grub installed on my system. How do I configure and install it? Stef In 7.1 you can use LILO - it knows about big drives. I have 2 - 2G partitions on my drive, both of them before my / partition. LILO is in the MBR and works fine. I couldn't get grub to work at all. -- Mage Grimau .. So you can spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed. .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / ICQ:71694384
Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: "Julia A . Case" wrote: Yes. startx will start a session alt-shift-f7 and start :1 will start one on alt-shift-f8 Julie Quoting faisal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can i have two Xwindows at once like on shift f1 root shift f2 have normal user login ?? Unless u are comparing Window managers, why would u *want* multiple X-servers? Many managers give u virtual desk tops X4 gives u multi-headedness, and all let u open as many xterm sessions as u like. Maybe Faisal is confused about what X window managers actually do? As he said - he wants to log in as root under one, and as a user under the other. When I need to do a lot of stuff as root I do the same thing, since I don't know much about using linux from the command line. -- Mage Grimau .. So you can spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed. .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / ICQ:71694384
Re: [expert] g++ can't find iostream.h!
Peter M Aarestad wrote: Now, this is weird. I'm trying to compile a program (yudit, in particular) that has #include iostream.h in one of its header files. Pretty normal header file for C++, right? Well, g++ chokes back that it can't find it! I tried a simple "hello world" program using iostream.h in the same way, and it wouldn't compile that, either. Now, mind you, it compiles other programs just fine, like code using stdio.h, but I think it's having problems finding the ANSI C++ files. What gives? Is there an easier solution than making symlinks to each and every header file in the /usr/include root directory? The ANSI C++ header is iostream - no .h -- Mage Grimau .. So you can spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed. .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / ICQ:71694384
Re: Re [expert] To the Powers That Be.
Mallard wrote: Allen Bolderoff wrote: I say moderate. this way only one person needs to put up with the crap. Yea, let's get a mandrake kiss ass corporate employee to censor out stuff so you won't find out how crappy this 7.1 release really is. Worked fine for me, even though I'm new to linux. Works great. Haven't had any crashes except Netscape (which is to be expected, considering the source). That way the stock price will dictate what you can and can't post to the list. The request for censorship had nothing to do with positive/negative comments. Only abusive, ill-informed, childish tantrums. Good move. So I was pissed when I wrote my little rant, have you ever thrown your keyboard and mouse across the room? No. I stopped throwing temper tantrums when I was 4. Yes, I have a bad attitude towards lame geeky user interfaces, but that's just me. So go back to Windows. Those of us with a clue LIKE having control over our computers. I think they need to hear loud and clear that when they put out releases or call things "stable" that arn't, they will cause people great frustration, including damage to anything close by :) 7.1 is stable for people who install it correctly. I don't want to cause this list to be censored, please don't even consider it. Just take the responsibility of setting your filtering on your mailer, or even better, write a nasty message to your mailer developer and ask why they don't have a way to simply "right click" on a message and say "block this thread of messages" so you don't have to miss out on all my messages, sometimes I help people (really I do). By screaming at them and whining that they didn't do things your way? This reminds me of when people ask the government to be mommy and censor the net for them. First time I agree with you on anything. (there goes that nasty attitude again, I better shut up) Second time. -- Mage Grimau .. So you can spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed. .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / ICQ:71694384
Re: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set the default editor so I can TRASH IT?
I must be missing something here. The editor I get when I type "vi" in a console/terminal/whatever is simple to use. Cursor keys work just as I expect them to. If I want to start inserting stuff, I just type an i and the word INSERT appears at the bottom. Then I move around with the cursor keys, typing what I want, using the delete and backspace keys as I would in any other editor, and make all the changes I need. Hit escape, the word INSERT goes away. type :w then :q and I'm back at the prompt, all my changes nicely saved. What's so hard about that? Even the old DOS "edit.exe" wasn't any easier. If that's too hard to learn how to do, the person isn't a newbie, they're an idiot. Yes, I know there are advanced features that require learning a little more to use, but by the time I need them I've fixed the conf file that was preventing me from starting X, and I use a GUI editor, which is what all the whiners seem to want, anyway.
[expert] Gnome - two problems
Is there any way to make the Helix-Gnome desktop icons single-click instead of double-click? Due to arthritis, I can't double-click effectively (and you should see the way I type!) but I really like the speed of the latest Helix-Gnome. Also - can I disable that "save yourself" stuff for specific applications? I use kmud a lot, but under Helix-Gnome I get a box every few seconds that says something like "This application has not responded to the save yourself message." and then gives me options to terminate the app or cancel. If I cancel, the box shows up again a few seconds later. If I terminate, well, obvious. Thanks folks. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] SawFish problem
From the HelixCode installation (which is the neatest install I've seen for anything) you can trim it to as little as two hours or as long as eight, depending on what you want to install. It would be really nice if: 1) It supported all single-click operations for those of us physically incapable of double-clicking, 2) There was a way to tell it to NOT try to autosave KDE apps that don't respond to the "save yourself" message. That annoying box makes MS software seem almost usable. For now, I'm stuck with KDE (not bad, but not as fast). --- Espen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Anton!!! That did the trick! BTW, with a 56k modem, does anyone know how long it takes to download Helix-Gnome? tor, 01 jun 2000, skrev du : Submitted 31-May-00 by Espen Knut Trydal: | Hello all, | I've got a dependency problem while installing sawfish-0.27.2-1mdk.i586.rpm | | This is the error message I get: | *** | rpmerror: failed dependencies: | /usr/sbin/install-menu is needed by sawfish-0.27.2-1mdk | *** | What kind of package is that??? | | Thanks in advance It's not a package. There are two different ways of defining things that an RPM needs: First is Requires. These are packages or virtual packages (set by Provides) Second is Prereq. These prerequisites aren't for a specific package, but for a specific file. My guess is that you are trying to install the shiny new sawfish on a 7.0 or earlier system without the new menu system. [anton@bladehawke anton]$ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/install-menu menu-2.1.5-19mdk Grab the menu rpm from cooker :p -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered! = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Distro improvments: A solid IDE
Get the latest KDevelop. It's a major improvement over 1.0. --- Payne Stanifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest problem, well not problem, but ease of use issue I have is in all of the Linuxes I have tried there isn't a solid IDE (integrated devlopment environment). I haven't used the latest Kdevelop, but the one I have used was extremely buggy and basically didn't work. I don't want to have to go out and pay another $50 to mandrake for your developer kit because I think there should be one included. I know what everyone is thinking because when I brought this up before everyone just said use a text editor and gcc. Hey, that's great for hello.c, but it's just easier and speedier to have an IDE to do it with. I've used Borland's C++ Builder 4 and it's very nice, but who wants to use winders? I think id mandrake lead the way and developed a GPL'ed, useable IDE it would be wonderful. Thanks for your time. Payne Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] CD burner puzzles
Works fine for me - my CD-RW works as both a writer and as a CDROM. Mandrake 7.0 --- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 20 May 2000, you wrote: Oh, yes, I have to use cdrecord as root - is there any way to run it as an ordinary user? as root, "chmod +s /usr/bin/cdrecord" (or wherever cdrecord is on your machine.) I had no problems with my SCSI cd recorder being used as a CDROM *and* CDR/W in Mandrake 6.0. It may be a problem with the SCSI emulation. John = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] OT: /root
The virus/worm is dependent on the Windows Scripting Host (Windows Security Hole). The major cause for concern for linux admins is that if your users are clueless Windows users and use Outlook as their mail client you can get swamped with a lot of crap email. All other stories of it being ported to linux/Unix are a hoax, as of 4/8/2000. --- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pj wrote: I know the guru's already know the "Love Bug" copycat has been ported to Linux, so this isn't for you. The new versions are called "Jokes" and "Mother's Day Order Confirmation." The bad news for Linux users is if you read your mail in /root and NOT as /user - you are vunerable. Nuff said. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was under the impression that 'love bug' was written using VB sript and took advantage of the scripting host in Outlook Express... how then would that affect Linux? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ====== = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Changing bootable partition
I don't know how to fix your problem, but I do know that it ISN'T the bootable flag. My bootable partition is hda3, which is Win98 (was, actually - Win98 corrupted itself and I haven't bothered to fix it). My /boot is hda5, which is NOT flagged bootable. The one time I had your problem, I just booted from a floppy and ran lilo. That fixed it. YMMV. I'm just here to hear from the experts, I'm not one myself --- Ken Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Mandrake 7.0 installed and have to use a boot disk. Lilo stops with "LI". I ran fdisk and it shows /dev/hda3 to be the bootable partition, but /boot is on /dev/hda1. Can someone tell me how to flag hda1 as bootable without messing up my installation? -- Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] RE: [newbie] Fix the damn mailing lists already
It must be connected to the Newbie list - I'm only on expert and cooker and I don't see it. --- Glenn Crouch - ESB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops - I do see the problem now the repeated msgs are often a dozen or so msgs apart and I was scanning rather than reading closely - my apologies - and yes this is a pain :( -Original Message- From: Glenn Crouch - ESB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 7 May 2000 2:43 pm To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Fix the damn mailing lists already Curious - I'm subscribed to both but am only getting single copies... = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Help!
The driver is emu10k1. It's on the iso image from Mandrakesoft - I never bought the set. Probably CD1 from any of the sets. I'm not sure if there's an easy way to copy it over - I just did a fake upgrade and it worked fine. :) I'm on the expert list to hear from the experts, I'm not one myself --- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Mage, I have to confess, I can't find the drivers on the CD! How's that for dense?? What are they called? I tried the "sndconfig rpm" but I don't think that is what you ment. I've got the full set (all 6 CD's) searched them all, please this "blind newbie"! Vern Mage Grimau wrote: That's the same card I just got - I found the drivers that came with Mandrake 7.0 work best. I tried others with little luck, then copied the Mandrake ones from the CD, ran sndconfig, and everything works fine. Next time I need drivers, I'm checking the CD *first*. --- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I finally sprang for a new audio card, a brand new Sound Blaster PCI 512. This must be new one as it was the only affordable PCI Sound Blaster card Staples had. So I did all the research on available drivers for Linux and found same at ALSA so attempting my first source code compile I got it to make the object code module and installed it per "readme" instructions. My CD plays music fine but I can't get any of the system sounds to play. I've been through all the mixers and such in both KDE and GNOME with no success. Any help would be most appreciated! After working with this for 2 days I think I've tried all the combinations possible. HELP! Vern -- -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Have you hugged your penguin today? *** = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Coordinating Address Books
Windows directory structure doesn't support the permissions stuff, so all you can do is set some global rule for the whole Windows partition. --- Piero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to coordinate the Netscape address books in the Windows partition and those on the Linux partition, I erased the files corresponding to the last ones and substituted them with symlinks to the files existing in the Windows partition. It wasn't so smooth, but it finally worked. Now, in the process of doing this napoleonic manoevre, I stumbled over something that made me perplexed, and for which somebody has perhaps an explanation. All the files in the Windows partition belong to root and have mode: rwxr--r--. When I work under Linux I work under username piero. Since the changes in the addressbooks, that piero makes under Linux, have to be reflected on the Windows partition files, I logged in as root, and tried to change the permissions of these files (chmod o+w filename). Impossible. I tried the to change their ownership: impossible. I finally modified /etc/fstab, in such a way that piero has the ownership of all the files in the Windows partition (uid=piero's user number). This made the think work, but I do not find it satisfactory. Does anybody know what prevents root form changing permission or ownership of the files belonging to the Windows partition? = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Help!
I use Xmms for cd mp3 stuff. It would be perfect if it had support for cddb, but I can live without that. --- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay I finally got things functional, I got the latest sndconfig from Mandrake and it recognized the PCI512 card as a SB Live! card and had a bunch of errors. I didn't think it worked but all the little click pops and bangs are now working. It will play MP3's in the Midnight commander mode but KMP3 won't load the .mp3 files. So I'm going to try and get another GUI MP3 player. Thanks for all your help! Vern Mage Grimau wrote: The driver is emu10k1. It's on the iso image from Mandrakesoft - I never bought the set. Probably CD1 from any of the sets. I'm not sure if there's an easy way to copy it over - I just did a fake upgrade and it worked fine. :) I'm on the expert list to hear from the experts, I'm not one myself --- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Mage, I have to confess, I can't find the drivers on the CD! How's that for dense?? What are they called? I tried the "sndconfig rpm" but I don't think that is what you ment. I've got the full set (all 6 CD's) searched them all, please this "blind newbie"! Vern Mage Grimau wrote: That's the same card I just got - I found the drivers that came with Mandrake 7.0 work best. I tried others with little luck, then copied the Mandrake ones from the CD, ran sndconfig, and everything works fine. Next time I need drivers, I'm checking the CD *first*. --- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I finally sprang for a new audio card, a brand new Sound Blaster PCI 512. This must be new one as it was the only affordable PCI Sound Blaster card Staples had. So I did all the research on available drivers for Linux and found same at ALSA so attempting my first source code compile I got it to make the object code module and installed it per "readme" instructions. My CD plays music fine but I can't get any of the system sounds to play. I've been through all the mixers and such in both KDE and GNOME with no success. Any help would be most appreciated! After working with this for 2 days I think I've tried all the combinations possible. HELP! Vern -- -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] XMMS
Left click on the wave symbol on the upper-left of the xmms window. Choose "Play Location", enter "/mnt/cdrom" (or whatever your cd player is mounted as). --- Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to ask such a silly question, but how can I get XMMS to play CDs? In Windows, you drag-n-drop E:\Track05.cda to the window, and it starts playing, but there's no Linux/UNIX equivalent. I right-clicked everwhere, but I must have something wrong. Thanks so much in advance. Sincerely, Asheesh Laroia. -- YOW!! Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL! = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Help!
The version I got from the XMMS home page only has CD Audio Player 0.9 and
the configure option is just a place to select CD drive point and which sound
driver to use. Where would I get the right version of the plugin?
--- Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mage Grimau wrote:
I use Xmms for cd mp3 stuff. It would be perfect if it had support for
cddb, but I can live without that.
It has been a part of xmms since version 0.9.5.1 Cheek under preferences,
Audio
I/O Plugins, CD Audio Player 1.0.1 and configure.
--- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay I finally got things functional, I got the latest
sndconfig from Mandrake and it recognized the PCI512
card as a SB Live! card and had a bunch of errors. I
didn't think it worked but all the little click pops
and bangs are now working. It will play MP3's in the
Midnight commander mode but KMP3 won't load the .mp3
files. So I'm going to try and get another GUI MP3
player.
Thanks for all your help!
Vern
Mage Grimau wrote:
The driver is emu10k1. It's on the iso image from Mandrakesoft - I
never
bought the set. Probably CD1 from any of the sets.
I'm not sure if there's an easy way to copy it over - I just did a
fake
upgrade and it worked fine. :)
I'm on the expert list to hear from the experts, I'm not one myself
--- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Mage,
I have to confess, I can't find the drivers on the CD!
How's that for dense?? What are they called? I tried
the "sndconfig rpm" but I don't think that is what you
ment. I've got the full set (all 6 CD's) searched them
all, please this "blind newbie"!
Vern
Mage Grimau wrote:
That's the same card I just got - I found the drivers that came
with
Mandrake
7.0 work best. I tried others with little luck, then copied the
Mandrake
ones
from the CD, ran sndconfig, and everything works fine. Next time
I
need
drivers, I'm checking the CD *first*.
--- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well I finally sprang for a new audio card, a brand new
Sound Blaster PCI 512. This must be new one as it was
the only affordable PCI Sound Blaster card Staples had.
So I did all the research on available drivers for Linux
and found same at ALSA so attempting my first source code
compile I got it to make the object code module and installed
it per "readme" instructions. My CD plays music fine but I
can't get any of the system sounds to play. I've been through
all the mixers and such in both KDE and GNOME with no success.
Any help would be most appreciated! After working with this
for
2 days I think I've tried all the combinations possible.
HELP!
Vern
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Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Help!
Oops - forgot to add: The SB-PCI512 is *not* an SB-PCIxxx card. It's an SBLive! card. --- Mage Grimau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the same card I just got - I found the drivers that came with Mandrake 7.0 work best. I tried others with little luck, then copied the Mandrake ones from the CD, ran sndconfig, and everything works fine. Next time I need drivers, I'm checking the CD *first*. --- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I finally sprang for a new audio card, a brand new Sound Blaster PCI 512. This must be new one as it was the only affordable PCI Sound Blaster card Staples had. So I did all the research on available drivers for Linux and found same at ALSA so attempting my first source code compile I got it to make the object code module and installed it per "readme" instructions. My CD plays music fine but I can't get any of the system sounds to play. I've been through all the mixers and such in both KDE and GNOME with no success. Any help would be most appreciated! After working with this for 2 days I think I've tried all the combinations possible. HELP! Vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Have you hugged your penguin today? *** ===== Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] OT: CERT virus alert
Don't really need to post those alerts here - 90+ % of viruses are written for windows and don't affect linux at all. The Loveletter virus is one - it depends on the Windows Scripting Host (otherwise known as the Windows Security Hole). --- Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#loveletter Pj = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Help!
That's the same card I just got - I found the drivers that came with Mandrake 7.0 work best. I tried others with little luck, then copied the Mandrake ones from the CD, ran sndconfig, and everything works fine. Next time I need drivers, I'm checking the CD *first*. --- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I finally sprang for a new audio card, a brand new Sound Blaster PCI 512. This must be new one as it was the only affordable PCI Sound Blaster card Staples had. So I did all the research on available drivers for Linux and found same at ALSA so attempting my first source code compile I got it to make the object code module and installed it per "readme" instructions. My CD plays music fine but I can't get any of the system sounds to play. I've been through all the mixers and such in both KDE and GNOME with no success. Any help would be most appreciated! After working with this for 2 days I think I've tried all the combinations possible. HELP! Vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Have you hugged your penguin today? *** = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Sorry to beat a dead horse (SBLive!), but...
I got the same thing when I replaced my Ensoniq with PCI512 (SBLive without the Live! update feature). Had to get the driver from the CD. Unlike Windows, it looks like only drivers you actually use are copied onto your drive by install. --- Kevin Talley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a definitive "howto" or anything about getting a SBLive to work under 7.0.2? I apologize for asking this -- I'm sure it's been answered a hundred times (but I can't find anything specific in my list archives). Mine did NOT auto-detect -- however, when I run sndconfig it appears to find the SBLive but then tells me that driver emu10k1 is not in the module path. That's as far as I've gotten. I'm hoping for a SIMPLE solution (aren't we all??? g). Thanks in advance Kevin Talley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] 7.0-2 on a 6X86 MX (dual boot NT)
NT uses the MBR the way MS always has - just a pointer to the actual boot code. When you install LILO in the MBR, it sets its own pointer to NT's boot code, so when lilo comes up you can select "dos" (or whatever you named it, it was "dos" by default on my machine) and lilo will jump to NT's boot loader. --- Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trevor, if NT is not using MBR, then my question is how does the machine know how to go to NT loader when you do a single boot, without Linux, to your NT OS? And if you install Lilo to MBR, how are you getting back to boot into NT? Your thoughts on that would be very interesting.. Craig Trevor Farrell wrote: Funny, but I have never had this problem with NT/Linux dual booting on my machine at work. AFAIK, NT doesn't use the MBR, as I have lilo in the MBR and NT still boots as usual. If this is correct, then a fdisk/mbr is all you need to do to correct your NT problem, but you still need to fix your linux system, and without a boot disk... Trevor (formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: Get your NT installation cd. If it is NT 4, on another machine create the three boot floppies for NT. Then boot from those floppies, with NT in the cdrom drive. It will ask you if you want to repair a previous NT installation. That is what you want to do. i've never done this. Good luck. wade On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Joseph S Gardner wrote: Ok, after banging head on keyboard I've decided to ask for help. I tried installing 7.0-2 on a 6x85 MX 200 that already had NT on it. I added a 3rd HD and dedicated it entirely to linux leaving the first 2 alone (silly me) hoping to dual boot. Well all was going well until I went to configure X and when I selected my monitor (Magnvox 17" with a Diamond Stealth ll S200) it dumped bytes all over my lap forcing me to use the big red help switch. The boot floppy that was created has some type of error on it and it won't complete the boot and somehow or another the MBR on the NT disk's are amuck now and I can't even reboot into that. I need to get the MBR back on the NT disks and at this point my brain is fried and don't know where to look. Any pointers? If memory serves my I need to run fdisk MBR but am unsure if this works with NT (with NTFS) and don't want to screw things up any further than I already have. -- Lee Trevor Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:Woods;Craig x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Celtic Pride, Inc.;Client/Server Technology adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:IT Consultant x-mozilla-cpt:;-29408 fn:Craig Woods end:vcard = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] USB NIC?
From the Linksys page on the USB100TX: "The 10/100 USB Network Adapter features an(sic) maximum of 12Mbps throughput (the maximum throughput supported by USB)" Seems rather pointless, to me. Why drag down your LAN with this device? --- Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "John D. Kim" wrote: The kernel has some USB support, but it is very outdated. You can download a backport of usb from kernel 2.3.50 to 2.2.14. I got myself a Linksys 100TX for my iopener. Haven't had a chance to play with it yet, though... The backport can be downloaded from...lets see if I can find it... Just a minute, please ... "100TX" seems to apply to a 100Mbit NIC, no ??? Isn't USB limited to 12 Mbit anyway ??? (until USB 2.0 which is not yet implemented on current motherboards AFAIK). -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] reconfiguring disk
I have PM 4 that complains that my partition table is corrupt when I've installed either Linux (Mandrake) or Win98. It's quite happy with NT4 and Win95. PM5 has no problems with my Linux/98/NT4 setup, but I find I don't need it any more. Installing 98 then NT then linux made em all happy. --- Mike Corbeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mage Grimau wrote: Which version of partition magic? 4 doesn't work right for 98 OR linux. 4 should work, because 3.0 did. Actually, I don't know if it worked for win98, but it did work for win95 and linux (ext2), as well as many other operating systems. However, I spoke with a computer store clerk last december who said that althought 98 didn't exist when pm 3.0 came out, 3.0 worked for his 98 system. 3.0 also worked for nt. I don't think you should have any problems using 4 for 98 and I'ld even use 3.0 for 98. Fire it up and read the documentation for 4. Are you considering purchasing pm 4 or borrowing it, because 4 is not the current release, which is at least 5.0; unless that's been backed out. You can also check PM's web site. The company is or was named PowerQuest, but if it's changed, then do a search on "partition magic". Should be easy to find. mike --- lorne schachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an interesting problem. 1 have a 2-disk system, 12G and 4G split as follows: cdrive - 8G Windows98 and 4G Linux ddrive - 3G Windows98 and 1G Linux. I boot Windows directly and Linux from a floppy (because I'm past the 1024 sector boundary?). What I want to do is to shrink the Windows partition (I'm only using about 2G of it) and use the rest as more Linux partition. I'm trying to run Partiton Magic to do this, but it keeps telling me that my partition table is bad. It might be, but that's the only place where there's a problem since the two OS's run fine on their own. The partition table is as follows (for the first drive) partition 1 0 - 0 - 0 thru 1023-255-63 partition 2 1023 - 0 - 0 thru 1023-255-63 Clearly, this information is bad, but it won't let me change it to more reasonable values. Any one have any ideas - my next step is to get ahold of the Power Quest folks for their help. Thanks, Lorne -- Lorne Schachter (732) 819-0460, (732)819-0460 (FAX) http://www.intact.com/~lorne ===== Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] PNG Plugin for Netscape - In Search Of
4.72 does PNG files just fine for me --- George Czerw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Reply to message from Charles Curley [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:24:14 -0600 - I would like to be able to view .png images on netscape. Would any of you know where I can get the plug-in? You don't need a plugin, at least for Netscape v 4.61+. Check out http://burnallgifs.org/images/burnallgifs.png as a test sample. Perhaps they do load in 4.61, but using 4.72, I get an "unknown or unsupported image type" error, whenever I attempt to load a *.png. file. So if anyone has any ideas, or would like to forward whatever 4.61 is using to decihper these files, I guess that we'd both appreciateit! George = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] reconfiguring disk
Which version of partition magic? 4 doesn't work right for 98 OR linux. --- lorne schachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an interesting problem. 1 have a 2-disk system, 12G and 4G split as follows: cdrive - 8G Windows98 and 4G Linux ddrive - 3G Windows98 and 1G Linux. I boot Windows directly and Linux from a floppy (because I'm past the 1024 sector boundary?). What I want to do is to shrink the Windows partition (I'm only using about 2G of it) and use the rest as more Linux partition. I'm trying to run Partiton Magic to do this, but it keeps telling me that my partition table is bad. It might be, but that's the only place where there's a problem since the two OS's run fine on their own. The partition table is as follows (for the first drive) partition 1 0 - 0 - 0 thru 1023-255-63 partition 2 1023 - 0 - 0 thru 1023-255-63 Clearly, this information is bad, but it won't let me change it to more reasonable values. Any one have any ideas - my next step is to get ahold of the Power Quest folks for their help. Thanks, Lorne -- Lorne Schachter (732) 819-0460, (732)819-0460 (FAX) http://www.intact.com/~lorne = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] CD-Rom in VMWare/Linux
Install a minimal DOS under VMWare first? --- Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Stephen and friends: Thanks so very much for trying to help and for your advice. This seems to be the chicken and the egg question. How do I install the Mitsumi driver in Dos/Windows if Win98 is not even installed? I need to install Win98 first, but I can't without the Mitsumi driver, which needs to be installed in Dos/Windows. It's a vicious circle, isn't it. Obviously, I am missing somthing. Please enlighten me on this. Looking forward (very much) Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Troubles With Partitions
NT4 can only make a 2G FAT partition, but it sometimes pretends otherwise. If you need more than 2G for NT you need to make it NTFS. The FAT partition created by NT4 won't format correctly with Linux, so format it with NT then install linux and tell it NOT to format the NT partition. NT will happily coexist with Mandrake, but it wants to format its own space. (Unlike 98, which wants to screw up EVERYones space). What I did to get all three on one HD is make a 7M /boot partition, then a 2G FAT, then linux / partition, then another 2G FAT. NT and 98 boot off the first 2G FAT, but NT actually lives on the second one. After I got 98 and NT installed I did Mandrakes install and it happily fixed up the MBR and added the two FAT partitions to its list. Now I can run linux or walk either of the two windows. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Last week i bought a box with w98 preloaded. Without thinking about it, i took my mdk 6.1 cd (i didn't burned a 7.0 cd yet) and i repartitioned the HD to install linux in the PC. Obviously i deleted the old w98 installation. i was trying to install wnt4.0 in a separate partition. i had NO any problems running linux. But whatever i do, i can't even format correctly the fat partition. i know that lilo can't boot partitions beggining in cylinder greater that 1024. i made booteable the partition, i also tried hda1 to be the fat partition. but when i format such partition (with dos) it recognizes it as if its size would be 2Gb, althought it is 5Gb. After reboot, dos does not find c: unit. many thanks. - Claudio J. Tessone E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departamento de Fisica- Fac. de Cs. Exactas Calle 47 y 115. 1900- La Plata. Bs. As. Argentina - = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Netscape from KDE
Because the working directory is the default location for downloads from Netscape - saves having to select the directory each time. --- Icebreaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong (which I am frequently ;) ) The system call from perl should execute the command from your current directory. Thus, it shouldn't need to reset the working directory (unless I've misunderstood you). Btw, why does it need to reset the working directory, just curious. I know perl, but your script isn't equivalent; it doesn't reset the working directory, which is the whole point of the script. While I write lots of things in perl (I even wrote a maze-generation program in perl!), I don't actually know how to get it to change the working directory in-line for the perl code. Do you? #! /bin/csh -f cd /home/bts/xfer /usr/bin/netscape $* = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Netscape from KDE
Hmmm. I thought his reason was to set the default location for downloads, but I just found where you can set that without messing with the working directory. In case I was right - choose Edit Preferences Navigator Applications Fill in the edit box. --- Icebreaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong (which I am frequently ;) ) The system call from perl should execute the command from your current directory. Thus, it shouldn't need to reset the working directory (unless I've misunderstood you). Btw, why does it need to reset the working directory, just curious. I know perl, but your script isn't equivalent; it doesn't reset the working directory, which is the whole point of the script. While I write lots of things in perl (I even wrote a maze-generation program in perl!), I don't actually know how to get it to change the working directory in-line for the perl code. Do you? #! /bin/csh -f cd /home/bts/xfer /usr/bin/netscape $* = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Need someone to point DNS-Correction
IP = Internet Protocol - as in TCP/IP ISP = Internet Service Provider --- Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen, Mea Culpa! I plead total ignorance to geek terminology. My ISP frequently uses the term IP to mean internet provider. If perchance IP refers to a different technolory then I would of course be interested to know what it does mean. Pj = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator
Not as badly. A lot of Windows apps crash when they call system services, not from their own bugs. --- Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows programs to run on Linux. I think it's a great idea, but I have one question. Will Windows software be just as unpredictable and crash-prone when run under Linux? Pj ibi@#greencis.net = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
Ctrl-Alt-F7 returns me to X, but none of the buttons or icons work. I can move windows around, but I can't do anything in them. --- Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ctrl-Alt-F7 (works here on two different boxes) Tom Ron Johnson wrote: Civileme wrote: [snip] use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely to break X. Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1, how do I get back to X ? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
However, if I use Ctrl-Alt-F2 instead of F1, when I return everything works right. --- Mage Grimau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ctrl-Alt-F7 returns me to X, but none of the buttons or icons work. I can move windows around, but I can't do anything in them. --- Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ctrl-Alt-F7 (works here on two different boxes) Tom Ron Johnson wrote: Civileme wrote: [snip] use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely to break X. Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1, how do I get back to X ? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Trident Video Cards
Oops, I forgot to mention- I also just used the generic driver supplied by Mandrake. The alpha driver from Trident was worse than useless - couldn't get ANY modes to work. --- Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any luck setting up Trident video cards in Mandrake? (Currently using 6.1) We've attempted to load the Blade 3D with the alpha driver from Trident and also tried to load the Trident 3dImage985 (using suggested XF86_SVGA driver) and have had no success. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Trident Video Cards
I've got a Blade3D working. It was a pain in the butt. Every time I ran Xconfigurator it would lock up the whole machine when testing video modes. So did every other X tool for setting modes. My final (and successful) trick in Xconfigurator: get the monitor docs, find ONE preset mode that I liked. choose "unlisted" as the monitor type set H to be docspecified H - 5 to docspecified H + 1 set V to be docspecified V - 10 to docspecified V + 10 finish Xconfigurator normally but DON'T test. save changes and exit. restart PC but DON'T go into X manually edit XF86Config to remove modelines the monitor is incapable of (shouldn't be necessary, but it was) save file startx The resulting videomode worked, and then I was able to play around with various tools and the XF86Config file to get support for all the resolutions I wanted. But if I run Xconfigurator, it screws it all up again. Fortunately, I saved the working XF86Config. --- Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any luck setting up Trident video cards in Mandrake? (Currently using 6.1) We've attempted to load the Blade 3D with the alpha driver from Trident and also tried to load the Trident 3dImage985 (using suggested XF86_SVGA driver) and have had no success. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] time/date
Actually, USNO is the source for NIST's time. The master time clock at USNO is the official time for the US. --- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote: Civileme said: "rdate -s (yourfavoritetimeserver); hwclock --systohc" (without What is a good choice for "yourfavoritetimeserver"? Please give the full URL or whatever goes in the linuxconf field. Two that I use regularly are time.nist.gov (Nat'l Institute of Standards. If THEY don't know what time it is, who does? G) and tock.usno.navy.mil... the military has a need to know EXACT time as well, so I guess THEY should know the time. And, they agree with NIST on the time (that is, as close as they can one right after the other -- a couple seconds difference in the amount of time it takes to change the URL G) John = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] invalid major or minor... on mount of FAT32 partition
I had a similar problem with Win98 - the only way I could fix it was to run the linux fdisk and force it to write to the partition table (by changing my boot partition size by 1M [down - NOT up!]). Until then, it refused to load LILO into the MBR. Since my boot partition is nothing but /boot, it didn't cause any loss of data. I reinstalled Win98, NT, and Mandrake on here several times and Win98 did the same thing every time, whether I used FAT16 or FAT32. (NT was well-behaved - never overwrote the linux at all.) Now that they all work right, I'm waiting to get a second HD before any more playing around with installs. --- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saw your post, Tim. I'm still trying to reproduce the error. Perhaps you could post output of # dmesg # cat /etc/fstab Civileme Tim Hammerquist wrote: Did I post to the wrong list? Did I miss an obvious FAQ? My problem seems to be Mandrake 7-specific, and v7 FAQ isn't incomplete. Maybe my question's just too puerile, but if someone could at least point me in the right direction? thanks, -Tim Tim Hammerquist wrote: First, I apologize if this mail reaches the wrong box. The welcome message for the list ended abruptly without giving info on submitting... =) Here's my scenario: Running Win98SE on bottom 10GB of 20GB hard drive. Installed Mandrake 6.1 on upper 10GB last December. Worked beautifully. =) Bought Mandrake 7 Complete and formatted and installed over 6.1 (didn't upgrade). Mandrake 7 will not mount the DOS/FAT32 partition (at boot or otherwise). It gives the error "/dev/hda1 has invalid major or minor...". Everything listed in /dev under hda lists major number as 3 and minor number corresponding to partition. Kernel is located on /dev/hda3, FAT32 (LBA) on /dev/hda1. I normally boot from my config.sys using loadlin.exe, but /dev/hda1 can't be mounted even if I use the boot disk. Now when I went back to install 6.1 which worked fine before, it crashes during formatting /dev/hda3 as ext2. Has anyone had this problem? Is there a fix/patch/easy explanation, or do I have to backup my hd and reformat all partitions from scratch? BTW: Win98 on /dev/hda1 still works; no problems. TIA, -Tim -- Remember that if it is done on networks, it may occur on your host which is a network unto itself. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] The ongoing Trash Linux Debate - OT response
--- John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been lurking here for several months nw - just watching!!! And last of all for all you males out there - Would someone please explain A:What's a differential? A type of equation. B.How's it work? The same way algebra does, but with a lot of assumptions built-in. C.Why do we need it?? To simplify calculations that would be horrendous if we just used algebra. Cheers Or were you referring to the part of a car? If so - I dunno. All I know about cars is that my driver needs one to get me to where I need to go and they are WAY overpriced. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
It won't. You need "mx init 3". Without the init, you just gave lilo a random number, which it cheerfully ignored. --- Lane Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Entering "mx 3" does not prevent X from autostarting. Here is the lilo.conf stanza: image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk label = mx vga = normal append = "mem=124M" root = /dev/hdb8 read-only -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go... = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98
--- Trevor Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mage Grimau wrote: I ended up with a 7M /boot partition, 2 - 2G FAT16 partitions (Win98 NT tend to screw up each other's "Program Files" directories when on the same partition) and a 16G / partition. So far, they're all happy (except Win98 seems to like corrupting its own space frequently, but I already knew that). Thanks for all the help, folks. I'm Mandraked! Another M$ feature - Win 9x can use FAT16 or FAT32, Win NT can use FAT16 or NTFS, so if you want to run both, you need to use FAT16 at least on a common partition, BUT FAT16 is so damn inefficient on large drives ~500Mb. I would suggest using 3 partitions: FAT32 for Win9x, NTFS for NT, and a 500Mb FAT16 partition for storing common fiiles or transferring files. This means that neither OS can see the other's files, and therefore can't trash them! But, then, do you really need both NT and Win9x on the same box??? We have an NT domain at work, but I use my Win95 box to administer it from home - most functions work OK. As we also have terminal server setup on one of the NT servers, I can use it for those times when I need to use NT, or the modem is to slow. We also use VNC, for which there is a Linux version, so soon, perhaps, I will be able to do all the NT admin from my Linux box - one step closer to a M$-free household! Win98 for games that won't run under anything else, NT for work, and Linux for fun. Notice Linux is 4/5 of my drive. :) = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Mini How-To's
I think it's a great idea - I'm new to this linux stuff and sometinmes I just want a quickie "get started" answer. All the online help I can find takes a long time to find and has a bit of "as you know" stuff in it that I "don't" know. --- Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been mentioned that there should be a mini how-to site with information such as what Brian S. provides to the list. I agree and will create a web site for this purpose if anyone is interested. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[expert] No tone control
Why don't tone controls appear on the mixer panels? I have tried an Ensonique AudioPCI (es1371 driver) SB PCI512 (emu10k1 driver) SB Live! (emu10k1 driver) They work fine for everything, but I'm old and need to boost the treble a bit for music to sound right to me. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)
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Re: [expert] kppp and Mindspring
Thanks. They wouldn't tell me the DNS over the phone, but I was able to find it on their tech support pages. --- Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, unfortunately most isp's are like that, but they should at least be able to give you a dns number to use. Second, go to this page: http://help.jps.net/unsupported/mandrake and follow the directions EXPLICITLY (even has pictures!), you shouldn't have any problems from there. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Mage Grimau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 2:38 PM Subject: [expert] kppp and Mindspring Anyone know how to configure kppp to work with Mindspring? I can get connected, but I can't see their nameserver (it's supposed to be set dynamically, like the IP is). Also - is there a way to get it to automatically log in? I can only get it to work if I manually login. Tech support was useless - they just kept saying "we only support windows and mac" and wouldn't answer any questions. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98
--- Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, Windows (any version) will overwrite the MBR on install, you just install Windows first or reinstall lilo after installing another OS and problem will be solved. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Trevor Farrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 2:40 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98 Mage Grimau wrote: I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to reload LILO, but it says "/dev/hda1 has no boot record" and quits without doing anything useful. /dev/hda1 is the 7M partition I mount as /boot. I assume I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what (besides adding Win98, that is). = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com I could be wrong, but I believe that Windows writes its boot loader to the first active partition (usually c: or hda1). In your case, this is also the linux boot partition, hence your problem. If the other suggestions don't work, I suggest you let Windows have the first partition, even if it means having 2 fat32 partitions, with the /boot partition between them. I've done plenty of dual boot installs and never had a problem, but I've always had M$ os's on the first partition, and linux further up the disk, or on a second disk. Trevor Running LILO worked. Oddly enough, after I got Win98 and Mandrake both running, I added NT and it behaved properly - it didn't screw up the linux boot, so I now have linux, Win98, and NT all happily sharing the same 20G HD. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98
I ended up with a 7M /boot partition, 2 - 2G FAT16 partitions (Win98 NT tend to screw up each other's "Program Files" directories when on the same partition) and a 16G / partition. So far, they're all happy (except Win98 seems to like corrupting its own space frequently, but I already knew that). Thanks for all the help, folks. I'm Mandraked! --- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote: One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a partition (~100 MB) and name it's mount point "/boot". Umm... Ok. I'll bite. Why so large? It's only going to hold the kernel and system map, etc. That's a grand total of under a meg. Even using FDISK, I couldn't make a partition smaller than about 15-20 megs, which is MUCH more than I need, and I've got about 4 different kernels and system maps, etc in there. :-) John = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Best audio/video cards for Linux??
--- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok Chris, Blasters it is! Thanks for the info, I have to add these to the list! Just "normal" audio/video needed at a reasonable cost. So these cards are very approperate! Vern On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote: Vern, For a good price/performance you may want to look into the Creative Labs Blaster Banshee (PCI). I believe they can be had for 60$ US and the 2D and 3D support in Linux is quite good. As far as sound cards go, I have a SB Live! X-gamer, and, using the drivers from http://opensource.creative.com, I am quite pleased with the sound quality. This card is a bit pricey (~$70 US) but the SB PCI 128 should also work nicely and is cheaper (~$30 US). Hope this is helpful, Chris Content-Type: text/x-vcard; name="quale.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Christopher Quale If you just need "normal" audio, the SoundBlaster PCI512 is the same as SoundBlaster Live! without the extra cost of "live" upgradability, and it costs a LOT less. Uses the same drivers as SoundBlaster Live! = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98
I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to reload LILO, but it says "/dev/hda1 has no boot record" and quits without doing anything useful. /dev/hda1 is the 7M partition I mount as /boot. I assume I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what (besides adding Win98, that is). = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] system commander
Actually, a 7M partition works great for /boot. I can't get fdisk to make a smaller one or I'd try it, since /boot only seems to be using about 2M. --- M Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to create a 20Mb partition that resides below the 1024th cylinder. When installing Linux, mount this small partition as /boot. HTH, Matt From: Lorne Schachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] system commander Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:56:11 -0500 text1.html __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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[expert] Supermount
After failing to get PartitionMagic to properly resize my partitions, I gave up and reinstalled Mandrake 7, rebuilding the partition table during setup. Now, during initialization, it says "fs type supermount not recognized by kernel" and my cdrom and floppy drives require manual mount/umount. How can I get supermount to work? Since I work from inside KDE and BlackBox, it's a pain to have to keep typing mount/umount every time I change a floppy or CD. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[expert] partitioning
I installed 6.1 a couple of weeks ago and liked it so much I made it my default OS. unfortunately, a friend had suggested making the partition only 2G, saying I wouldn't need more than that. Oops. He was wrong. Is there a utility (like the commercial product PartitionMagic) that will allow me to resize the partition without having to reinstall? I've still got 6G left to play with but already have 4 primary partitions, so I can't make a new one. Thanks = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[expert] wheel mouse
Following directions I got from mandrakeuser.org, I am able to get my wheel mouse to work correctly under X excEPT i have to open konsole and type "imwheel -k" at the start of every session. The instructions I got said adding that line to .xinitrc would do it automatically, but it doesn't. .xinitrc doesn't even seem to do anything - I have 5 users set up and only root even HAS an .xinitrc - and when I delete it, it has no effect - I reboots and everything starts and runs exactly as it did before. (the only thing in it was "exec path to kde"). So - where SHOULD I put the imwheel -k line to make it run automagically? err - .xsessionrc doesn't work either. Same reasons. Thanks = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] wheel mouse
--- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote: Following directions I got from mandrakeuser.org, I am able to get my wheel mouse to work correctly under X excEPT i have to open konsole and type "imwheel -k" at the start of every session. The instructions I got said adding that line to .xinitrc would do it automatically, but it doesn't. .xinitrc doesn't even seem to do anything - I have 5 uusers set up and only root even HAS an .xinitrc - and when I delete it, it has no effect - I reboots and everything starts and runs exactly as it did before. (the only thing in it was "exec path to kde"). So - where SHOULD I put the imwheel -k line to make it run automagically? err - .xsessionrc doesn't work either. Same reasons. Have you tried putting it in the "Autostart" folder on your desktop? John That will work for KDE, but I was hoping for a "one size fits all" solution. I still haven't figured out which window manager I like best. = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
