Re: [expert] Samsung LCD monitor
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Daniel Axtell wrote: XFree86 runs OK, but when I reboot I frequently get a black screen. When I unplug the monitor for a few seconds and get a no signal message, then plug it in, everything is OK. I noticed a similar behavior on a different box when I was installing Win98 when booting from a floppy disk. After it was installed, Win98 and the monitor seem OK on that box. I see this sometimes, too (Abit AT7/MAX2, Gainward GeForce4 w/ TI4800, Dual Iiyama-TFT; from time to time, the second one stays black). If I understand it correctly, it's a problem with the _graphics card_/mainboard (power consumption peak, therefore no proper initialisation takes place); when you repeat the initialisation process, either by un-/re-plugging the monitor or invoking a graphics driver (-Windows/XFree startup), chances are that no peak is triggered. (Note that during a reboot, many devices are reset at once; if your BIOS does allow it, you may try -- at your own risk! -- to adjust voltages) ... HTH, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] programms disapearing.. (can see this, too!)
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Markus Gonaus wrote: Am Fre, den 07.11.2003 schrieb Vtucatz elPunishar um 03:48: but whats speaking against that is that if i re-install X, the XFree86 binary is still not there. well, here is what i did, perhaps someone can tell me if that was good and if it should suffice or if i have to do something else.. rpm -e XFree86 urpmi XFree86 I have exactly the same problem here: After a _clean_ reboot the day before yesterday, approximately 3600(!) files were missing, 85% of them being locales. Among them was /usr/share/vim/tutor/tutor.it, but rpm -e --nodeps vim-minimal vim-enhanced vim-common urpmi vim-minimal vim-enhanced vim-common didn't help. chkrootkit is in contrib/ You can add a contrib source with urpmi.setup I did that already, but to no avail (i.e., nothing was found). As the server in question (Sony GRX516MD laptop, running under 2.4.22-18mdk, ext3 only) seems to be pretty secure (though I will try some other intrusion detection beasts later--any suggestions?), this is what I expected. The only cause I could think of right now is some malicious rpm package (though nearly all packages came from the 9.2 isos and club) -- maybe Vtucatz elPunishar and I should exchange rpm lists? Ad astra, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] programms disapearing.. (can see this, too!)
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Vtucatz elPunishar wrote: [...] maybe Vtucatz elPunishar and I should exchange rpm lists? unfortunately, after 2 more reboots, my machine doesn't start anymore. lots of error messages during startup command not found. can i extract an rpm list if i put the affected disk into another, running system? Yes, that should be possible; man rpm reveals a general option called --dbpath (which takes the name of a directory as argument) -- this should do it. If you retrieved the list, could you gather some additional info about your system (which kind of filesystem you were using, output of lspci -v, ...) and send me a summary (better not post it here -- too big)? Thanks in advance! Ad astra, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ls all dir and subdir?
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Can ls list all directories and their subdirectories, something like DOS' dir/s command? Of course it can; option -R is your friend. (Better yet, try man ls or ls --help to get detailed help.) Ad astra, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LG CDRoms
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: And note the problem at bugs.mandrakelinux.com *grin* (duck) We really should add the common nicknames on the wiki: - TWiki Anne - Bugreport James - ... Have you protected your TWiki homepage yet, James? :() Look who's ducking now! :)) Ad astra, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I just got the Powerpack edition in after a solid week of bittorrent downloading, and I'm wondering if there is any possible reason that I might need the Download edition. I can't think of any -- in other words: you don't :) Ad astra, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and USB flash memory
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, D. R. Evans wrote: Under 9.2, when I plug in the stick, a /mnt/removable icon appears on the desktop, but when I click on that icon, a Konq window pops up and says that there are no files on the stick. I mounted the stick myself and put the following in my /etc/fstab (after that, an icon called /mnt/usbstick appeared on the desktop the next time I used it)--ignore any linebreaks: none /mnt/usbstick supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc,fs=vfat,rw,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 Of course, you'll have to enter mkdir /mnt/usbstick; chmod 666 /mnt/usbstick first. Note the trailing /disc (won't work without it here); /var/log/messages contains: = bite here = Oct 21 12:09:12 entoron kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1, assigned address 2 Oct 21 12:09:12 entoron kernel: hub.c: USB hub found Oct 21 12:09:12 entoron kernel: hub.c: 1 port detected Oct 21 12:09:13 entoron kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1.1, assigned address 3 Oct 21 12:09:13 entoron kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x67b/0x2517) is not claimed by any active driver. Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 67b/2517/1 Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 67b/2515/1 Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: Vendor: SHARKOON Model: USB2.0 Drive Rev: P1.0 Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Module setup usb-storage for USB product 67b/2517/1 Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage: Load scsimon Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage: loading ... scsimon Oct 21 12:09:18 entoron /etc/hotplug/scsi.agent: loading ... sd_mod Oct 21 12:09:18 entoron /etc/hotplug/scsi.agent: sr_mod allready loaded Oct 21 12:09:18 entoron kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Oct 21 12:09:18 entoron kernel: SCSI device sda: 2048000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1049 MB) Oct 21 12:09:18 entoron kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Oct 21 12:09:19 entoron kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 = bite here = Ad astra, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Odd message during shutdown..
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: When I do a shutdown -h now, I get the usual mesages, plus some more: Sending all processes the TERM signal.. ;2R (note the ;2R on the second line. It just waits now, i hit ENTER, and I get something like: 'bash: invalid parameter ;' or something. I actually get the $ prompt and after I type a few lines, it resumes. I understand that this is a problem with UTF-8 support on the terminal (some kind of uncatched control sequence). I had this under MDK9.1 when I selected Unicode representation; if you can live without Unicode, simply don't use it at the moment... Ad astra, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Oggs to mp3
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am going to try to NOT use ogg2mp3 as to go from one lossy to another is way too lossy for me. I am wondering if a better path would be to use oggdecode, and to pick up the wave file in mp3encode or lame. Though the latter is the path I would choose (don't know ogg2mp3), I can't see any difference -- this is lossy, too! Ad astra, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent
Hi Richard, On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Richard Bown wrote: I've installed bittorrent exactly as per the FAQ on the club pages. All the RPMS installed and bittorrent3.3.2, and the gui version. [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# btdownloadcurses.py test mytorrent-richardbown929.torrent Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/btdownloadcurses.py, line 7, in ? from BitTorrent.download import download ImportError: No module named BitTorrent.download (In another posting, you stated that you have python 2.3 installed, and this is what causes the problem) What did I miss ?? Python simply doesn't find the modules, since the default search path is /usr/lib/pythonVERSION/site-packages -- just enter the following and see if you get the same result (I bet you do): [EMAIL PROTECTED]rpm -ql bittorrent | grep download.pyc /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/BitTorrent/download.pyc So, in order to load the module, just provide the right search path: export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages This should do the trick ... Ad astra, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
