Re: [expert] Upgrade from PII to Duron causes 7.2 and install CDs to fail
FYI, I also replaced my old video cards with a single GeForce 2 MX. Thanks, Mike Hello all, I recently replaced the motherboard and CPU of my Pentium II 400 system with an AMD Athlon 900 running a VIA KT133A chipset motherboard. Windows loads and detects the new drivers, and with some fiddling, works fine - so I'm quite confident the hardware itself is installed and working properly. However Linux Mandrake 7.2 just stops (no error messages) after `loading module dependencies [OK]' during bootup. I had a feeling this might have been to do with Mandrake installing a Intel Optimized kernel, so I went to use my install CDs. The install simply pauses during `Please Wait'. Again ,there's no error message provided. That the system is failing is fine, but the lack of error messages in both cases ois fairly poor in my opinion as it makes it difficult for me and anyone else on this list. Could anyone please help me? The situation is getting desperate. Thanks, Mike -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
[expert] Upgrade from PII to Duron causes 7.2 and install CDs to fail
Hello all, I recently replaced the motherboard and CPU of my Pentium II 400 system with an AMD Athlon 900 running a VIA KT133A chipset motherboard. Windows loads and detects the new drivers, and with some fiddling, works fine - so I'm quite confident the hardware itself is installed and working properly. However Linux Mandrake 7.2 just stops (no error messages) after `loading module dependencies [OK]' during bootup. I had a feeling this might have been to do with Mandrake installing a Intel Optimized kernel, so I went to use my install CDs. The install simply pauses during `Please Wait'. Again ,there's no error message provided. That the system is failing is fine, but the lack of error messages in both cases ois fairly poor in my opinion as it makes it difficult for me and anyone else on this list. Could anyone please help me? The situation is getting desperate. Thanks, Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] Upgrade from PII to Duron causes 7.2 and install CDs to fail
AMD t'bird 850 and Mandrake 7.2 from the APC pbook. Hehe. Guess who wrote that (well, half of it)? :D Buy the Advanced one when it comes out next month... "The install simply pauses during `Please Wait'. Again ,there's no error message provided." At what point of the installation? After the bootloader is run, and an install (any type) is selected. The kernel loads, and then displays an ncurses type screen with `please wait'. At that point it stops completely. Mike. Cheers Jason Houlihan RHCE CCNA -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] CD-RW - how do I get it working?
What have you missed? A single space. append=" hde=ide-scsi" Should be it. Mike On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Can you do an "lsmod" and post the results along with those from "cdrecord -scanbus". A list of your modules.conf would also be handy. CDRW is a can of worms if you install it into an already running Mandrake system! Also have you run the script from the howto to check your setup (basicly what I requested above), and checked the /dev/cdrom[ 01] link is pointing to the correct place? I recently added a Sony 140E which now works well, but it was close to being installed in a windoze machine just to get a working setup after quite a few hours of work. BillK Praedor Tempus wrote: I recently added a sony atapi cd-rw drive to my 7.2/8.0 system. I have read the howto on this subject and as a result, recompiled my kernel to support scsi emulation and then added 'append="hde=ide-scsi"' to my lilo.conf file for the new kernel. Now, I see no evidence that the CD-RW drive is being seen as "scsi" so I still am unable to burn any CDs with it. What have I missed? This CD-RW drive is the second CDROM drive on my system. I still have my original atapi cdrom, which is handled as IDE by default. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Re: [expert] Changing X resolutions fails in runlevel 5, but not 3
Thanks - I solved it on my own - same problem as sheldon - KDM seems to think me changing resolutions is the end of my session, and ends it (badly). Thanks for posting anyway. Mike On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: On March 9, 2001 11:51 pm, you wrote: It ain't a hardware thing, and the 3dfx already has a heatsink. Various 16 bit resolutions and configured and I have Q3 UT SOF etc. all working fine in runlevel 3. I recently noticed the same thing, whenever i'd start railroad tycoon X would crash, this only happened in run level 5. I changed to using gdm instead of kdm and it seemed to fix it,s o it looks like a bug with kdm. Try changing to gdm and tell me if that fixes it. (Although I'm on RH7 now. Got sick of waiting for KDE2.1 updates) Thnaks anyway, Mike On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 09 March 2001 06:01 pm, Mike MacCana wrote: I have a 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000. In runlevel 5, whenever I attempt tp change to another configured reolution, X changes to that resolution and them promptly hangs. I can't even go to another virtual terminal to kill it. In runlevel 3, all is love (ie, its AOK) Any ideas? Mike Well other than that the motherboard, it's chipsets, and the monitor, etc. down to the power supply and the oulet it's plugged into (hopefully on an UPS), and how well it's all configured from the bios on up, all have somethin to do with what you see on the screen, no ; I've got a 3 yr. old V3-2k pci on an BX motherboard oc'd 135%, with X at 1024x768x16 and a very el cheapo ($150) 17" MagView. I just tried C-A- +/- and it switched resolutions just fine. KDE2.1, XF-4.0.2, LM7.2, 2.4.2 The only thing I can think of that might help is the first thing to do with a Voodoo3 is to take one sheet metal screw and use it to attach a $2 cpu fan to it's heatsink. Other than that, I doubt the Vcard is the culprit. Prob'ly the next most important factor is to not try'an run any 3dfx card with X at any resolution more than 16bpp. -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2
All your antiased font are belong to Tobias! mm On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Tobias Marx wrote: I've compiled rpms of qt2.3 for Mandrake 7.2 from the cooker srpms. You can download them here: http://rpm.digitalprojects.com. They install fine, but the unsupported xfree4.02 rpms seem not to support antialiasing. I'm going to compile new xfree rpms from cooker tomorow. I hope this will help. Below the changelog for the packages. Name: libqt2 Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.3.0 Vendor: (none) Release : 1mdk Build Date: Sam 10 Mär 2001 02:10:44 CET Install date: (not installed) Build Host: KReML.digitalprojects.com Group : Development/KDE and QTSource RPM: qt2-2.3.0-1mdk.src.rpm Size: 10612328 License: GPL QPL URL : http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt.html Summary : Shared library for the Qt2 GUI toolkit Description : Qt is a GUI software toolkit. Qt simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI (graphical user interface) applications for X Windows System. Qt is written in C++ and is fully object-oriented. It has everything you need to create professional GUI applications. And it enables you to create them quickly. Qt is a multi-platform toolkit. When developing software with Qt, you can run it on the X Window System (Unix/X11) or Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 95/98 or framebuffer devices. Simply recompile your source code on the platform you want. This package contains the shared library needed to run Qt2 applications, as well as the README files for Qt. * Don Mär 08 2001 David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.3.0-1mdk - 2.3.0 * Die Feb 20 2001 David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.4-3mdk - Rebuild to try to remove dependancies on libmng0 (thanks to Guillaume) * Die Feb 20 2001 David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.4-2mdk - Rebuild with libmng-1.0.0 * Die Feb 06 2001 David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.4-1mdk - 2.2.4 * Sam Jan 27 2001 David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.3-9mdk - Use sources from TrollTech - Remove patch #1 - Add two patches from David FAURE * Mit Jan 17 2001 David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.3-8mdk - Enable KDE support - Use optimizations * Die Dez 26 2000 Daouda Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.3-7mdk - AA support (build with -xft) - with freetype2 + XFree-4.0.2 (see cooker) - cleanups * Fre Dez 22 2000 Daouda Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.3-6mdk - fix symlinks - cleanups * Don Dez 21 2000 Geoffrey Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.3-5mdk - add a libqt.so as quick hack for myself to build Licq. - need fix: fix bad symlinks in /usr/lib. * Die Dez 19 2000 Daouda Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.3-4mdk - links to include files in /usr/lib/qt2/include * Mon Dez 18 2000 Daouda [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.3-2mdk - provides libs in /usr/lib , some packages need this to build * Mon Dez 18 2000 Daouda Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.3-2mdk - big changes : package splitted in 4 entities - fix gcc internal error (drawback- -O2 opt :( - merge with big dadou cleanups - lib policy * Mon Dez 11 2000 David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.3-1mdk - Enable libmng support - Enable threads - Rewrite spec to make it LMDK compliant - Remove doc packages (most of doc is in devel package now) - Remove rpath - Libdification - Add longtitle to Qt Designer menu entry - Fix groups - Make rpmlint happy (at least, nearly) * Don Nov 23 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.2-2mdk - Update to 2.2.2 package on cooker. * Die Nov 21 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.2-1mdk - Update to 2.2.2 package * Mit Nov 08 2000 Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.1-5mdk - Add gcc2.96 patches from redhat. * Don Nov 02 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.1-4mdk - Added msg2qm utility back per request from Cookers - Recompile for gcc 2.96 * Die Okt 24 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.1-3mdk - Attempting to fix patch so that it builds on it's own (I can not use RCS patches that are sent to me). - Rebuild with no exceptions * Mon Okt 23 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.1-2mdk - Added patch 0 from David Faure * Fre Okt 06 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.1-1mdk - Update to 2.2.1 package * Mon Sep 25 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2-4mdk - Some KDE related patches * Fre Sep 22 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2-3mdk - Some KDE related patches * Don Sep 07 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2-2mdk - Changed liscense from QPL to GPL * Don Sep 07 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2-1mdk - Upgraded to final realease version * Fre Aug 25 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2-0.7mdk - Some KDE related patches * Mon Aug 21 2000 Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2-0.6mdk -
Re: [expert] Sendmail vs Postfix!!
Because qmail isn't Open Source, it just has source code available (much like Windows) Mike On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Larry Blodgett wrote: Dan is right about the question. Is it Qmail or Postfix? Qmail is just as secure (if not more) as Postfix and much easier to configure and manage. Mandrake now comes with sendmail and Postfix but I wish they would have included Qmail. I wonder why they left Qmail out? Just my two cents. Do you think sendmail is more secure than postfix as MTA's? Why? As Mike said... Sendmail: Wasn't written by Weitse Venema, who is God. Postfix: was. Weitse also wrote TCP wrappers. Postfix is definitely more secure and easier to administer than sendmail. Your choice should not be between sendmail vs. postfix, it should be Qmail vs. Postfix, which are both secure. Postfix does the job for me. Thanks... Dan. -- Larry Blodgett Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Linux, WinNT, MS-DOS - also known as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly ---"Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither." -B. Franklin ---"Always ask the question, never assume the answer." -Marcus Radich 1999
[expert] Changing X resolutions fails in runlevel 5, but not 3
I have a 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000. In runlevel 5, whenever I attempt tp change to another configured reolution, X changes to that resolution and them promptly hangs. I can't even go to another virtual terminal to kill it. In runlevel 3, all is love (ie, its AOK) Any ideas? Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] Changing X resolutions fails in runlevel 5, but not 3
It ain't a hardware thing, and the 3dfx already has a heatsink. Various 16 bit resolutions and configured and I have Q3 UT SOF etc. all working fine in runlevel 3. Thnaks anyway, Mike On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 09 March 2001 06:01 pm, Mike MacCana wrote: I have a 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000. In runlevel 5, whenever I attempt tp change to another configured reolution, X changes to that resolution and them promptly hangs. I can't even go to another virtual terminal to kill it. In runlevel 3, all is love (ie, its AOK) Any ideas? Mike Well other than that the motherboard, it's chipsets, and the monitor, etc. down to the power supply and the oulet it's plugged into (hopefully on an UPS), and how well it's all configured from the bios on up, all have somethin to do with what you see on the screen, no ; I've got a 3 yr. old V3-2k pci on an BX motherboard oc'd 135%, with X at 1024x768x16 and a very el cheapo ($150) 17" MagView. I just tried C-A- +/- and it switched resolutions just fine. KDE2.1, XF-4.0.2, LM7.2, 2.4.2 The only thing I can think of that might help is the first thing to do with a Voodoo3 is to take one sheet metal screw and use it to attach a $2 cpu fan to it's heatsink. Other than that, I doubt the Vcard is the culprit. Prob'ly the next most important factor is to not try'an run any 3dfx card with X at any resolution more than 16bpp. -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [expert] Postfix vs Sendmail!
"Ing. Israel Garcia Alvarez" wrote: Hi: I would like to know the opinion of you about Postfix and Sendmail as MTA. Sendmail: Is Sendmail Postfix: Is natively sendmail compatible Sendmail: Runs as root all the time when it doesn't need to Postfix: Runs as root to bind to port 25 and as other users to do its thing Sendmail: Support mbox files. When a single message is corruped, the whole mbox can die Postfix: Supports maildirs, though this works best with ReiserFS 9Ext2 runs out of inodes) Sendmail: Has legacy crap in it like UUCP Postfix: Doesn't Sendmail: Is configured though a conf file so large it is typically editeed with a macro language Postfix: Has a small and well commented configuration file Sendmail: Wasn't written by Weitse Venema, who is God. Postfix: was. Mike Mike Why?, because I have always used Sendmail and now I got a Mandrake 7.2 which has Postfix. I would like your opinion between them about how fast, how secure, how easy to configurate is. Waiting for your answers. My best regards Israel Garcia Alvarez LinuxUser #196178 Administrador-Red Capiro Villa Clara http://www.vcl.sld.cu/~israel -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] best video card for Linux?
The XFree86 team generally recommend ATIs Radeon cards. The performance is comparable to a GeForce, drivers are fully Open Source, they use the XFree86 DRI (NVIDIA use their own DRI), have xv support, and will also soon have accelerated xrender support. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a GeForce2 MX based card. It's great, plenty fast. In a pinch, any TNT2 M64 card will work. Graham Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 03/08/2001 07:46:58 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [expert] best video card for Linux? Well, any of the 3DFX Banshee "type" (ie, Banshee, Voodoo3, Voodoo4/5) work quite well too, and quite fast :) -Graham On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jeff Malka wrote: My old Matrox Millennium video card just went dead on me. Still works but the reds are gone and everything is blue (me too). I am therefore going to have to get a new video card. What are the good ones to look at for Linux? I am running Mandrake Linux 7.1 Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
RE: [expert] mandrake 8.0b and cdrw
You need a space between the double quote and the hdd append=" hdd=ide-scsi" Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I missed that in my posting. I do have append="hdd=ide-scsi" This is what makes it odd for me to understand why it doesn't show up! Brian -Original Message- From: Jason Straight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] mandrake 8.0b and cdrw On Tuesday 20 February 2001 10:02, you wrote: Ok, this is my first time with scsi and linux. I have 7.2 and now 8.0 installed on my machine which dual boots with 98. Mandrake 8.0 beta sets up the cdrw (Sony) after installation. The cdrw is found perfectly. Installation was great for 8.0 (mostly) but cdrecord --scanbus doesn't show it. My drive layout is as follows: ide0 -- Master 6.4G (all Win98) Slave zip 100 ide1 -- Master 6.4G (Mdk 7.2) Slave Sony CDRW These are addressed as hda, hdb, hdc, hdd accordingly My SCSI devices are sda 4.3G, and sdb 4.3G running off an Adaptec 2930 and one cable. cdrecord --scanbus shows scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) 'WDIGTL ' 'ENTERPRISE ' '1.91' Disk 0,6,0 6) 'WDIGTL ' 'ENTERPRISE ' '1.91' Disk 0,7,0 7) * scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' '12.A' Removable Disk 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * Question, How do I get the cdrw to join this group of scsi devices so I can burn a CD. Here is my dev listings [root /dev] ls -al hdd brw-rw1 root disk 22, 64 Jan 17 06:17 hdd [root /dev] ls -al cdrom lrwxrwxrwx1 briancdwriter4 Feb 18 21:41 cdrom - scd0 [root /dev] ls -al scd0 brw-rw1 briancdwriter 11, 0 Jan 17 06:18 scd0 lsmod (condensed) is: [root /dev] lsmod Module Size Used by sg 16064 0 (autoclean) aic7xxx 137440 2 Any help appreciated Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager) give the kernel param at boot time "hdd=ide-scsi" Here is my lilo entry image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.1 label=2.4 root=/dev/hda5 append=" ide0=autotune ide1=autotune hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" read-only You just need to add the stuff to the append= line. -- Jason Straight
Re: [expert] Wine troubleshooting: the apps is running,but without any window
The cure is to run wine with the `--managed' option. Mike Cecil Watson wrote: Try running it as another user... Good luck, Cecil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've installed codeweavers-wine-20010112-1.i386.rpm to use Lotus Notes Client with Linux. Yesterday, it worked very well and today, when I run the notes.exe file, the application is running (with wine), but without any window. I've uninstalled and reinstalled wine (windows user reflex), but it changes nothing. Has anybody any idea of what I could try to resolve this issue? Thanks and have a nice day, Pierre ** This message may contain confidential information and is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose, use, disseminate or copy this message. The information contained in this message is subject to Systemat's General Terms and Conditions. Any personal opinion expressed in this message reflects the opinion of the sender and not Systemat's opinion. ** -- This email was routed through The Twilight Zone. -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] Flash in Netscape-6.01 -- How?
Heya Ben, Netscape 6 installs (as good self compiled packages do) in /usr/local. So the place to put the plugins in /usr/local/netscape/plugins. Copy flash there, and while you`re at it, copy any files /usr/lib/netscape/plugins into /usr/local/netscape/plugins (don't copy over any files that are alreadythere). Good luck, Mike Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I installed the brand-new Netscape 6.01 in a separate directory so I now have both Netscape 4.76 and Netscape 6. My problem is with Flash. I downloaded the latest Macromedia Flash 5.0 when instructed to do so in Netscape 6. I installed it in /home/sher/.netscape/plugins as well as /usr/lib/netscape/plugins. 1) [sher@sher sher]$ cd .netscape/plugins [sher@sher plugins]$ ls ShockwaveFlash.class libflashplayer.so raclass.zip rpnp.so* [sher@sher plugins]$ 2) [sher@sher plugins]$ cd /usr/lib/netscape/plugins [sher@sher plugins]$ ls ShockwaveFlash.class* libflashplayer.so* nppdf.so* plugger.so* rpnp.so* cpPack1.jar* libnullplugin.so* nsdejavu.so@ raclass.zip [sher@sher plugins]$ The new Flash is recognized by Netscape 4.76 but NOT by Netscape 6. I tested Flash 5 at http://www.flash.com It works fine in Netscape 4.76 but not in Netscape 6. I checked in N6 by typing in the location bar: "about:plugins" (without the quotes, of course) as advised by the Readme file. The plugin list for Netscape 6 shows the java plugins and the Netscape default plugin but NOT the Flash plugin. Is this because I continue to use Netscape 4.76? If so, how can I get Netscape6 to recognize and use Flash 5? Thank you all so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] Desktop over telnet
Tarantella will handle this nicely, but that would be cracking a peanut with a sledgehammer :-). You can use xnest to do this however, but it ain't wonderfu; (doesn't support shared memeory on X, fonts can be annoying, etc) Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Ron Heron wrote: Read this: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/index.html It isn't telnet. You have to have an X server running on your client machine (the remote) and tell the server to get it's input from a specified location, using the command (#X -query 192.168.0.1 ) substitute IP for the IP of the host. Note, you will need a at least a 10Mbs session to work seamlessly. I just wonder if anybody know if it is posible to start a xwindows desktop (kde, enlightement ect.) over telnet? I'm not sure why you'd want to do this. Running network terminals is great for sharing a linux box across the LAN. My family uses Xceed to login and tinker with Linux via their windows boxes. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Possible bug report for php-4.0.4pl1-1.2mdk
Problem solved. It turns out my `development' install installed this package, but forgot to install the seperate mod_php package. Would there be a reason for this? Anyway, thanks for your patience. Mike On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Mike MacCana wrote: Hello all, I am attempting to get Apache +PHP working on Mandrake 7.2, using the default Apache and PHP binaries and any updates from Mandrake. The only library file in the php4 package from Mandrake is /usr/lib/libphp_common.so.4.0.2 AFAIK this is the same as the mod_php4.so that the documentation talks about (though its not located in the same dir as the rest of Apache's libraries). AFAIK, httpd.conf needs a .c file to go along with the .so file "If somewhere in your httpd.conf file you have a ClearModuleList line then you also need this line: AddModule mod_php4.c" I'm not experienced at all with Apache mods. Is my udnerstanding of the proceedure off, or is the binary missing files? Thanks for your time...if this is a bug I will submit it in the proper fashion, but I want to be sure first... Mike ------ Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
[expert] Possible bug report for php-4.0.4pl1-1.2mdk
Hello all, I am attempting to get Apache +PHP working on Mandrake 7.2, using the default Apache and PHP binaries and any updates from Mandrake. The only library file in the php4 package from Mandrake is /usr/lib/libphp_common.so.4.0.2 AFAIK this is the same as the mod_php4.so that the documentation talks about (though its not located in the same dir as the rest of Apache's libraries). AFAIK, httpd.conf needs a .c file to go along with the .so file "If somewhere in your httpd.conf file you have a ClearModuleList line then you also need this line: AddModule mod_php4.c" I'm not experienced at all with Apache mods. Is my udnerstanding of the proceedure off, or is the binary missing files? Thanks for your time...if this is a bug I will submit it in the proper fashion, but I want to be sure first... Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
[expert] DVD and the ISO9660 driver
DVD use the MicroUDF filesystem driver, which is part of Linux 2.2.16 and 2.4 (or later). Question: Is the MicroUDF driver part of the iso9660 driver? I know they are seperate filesystems, but I've been mounting DVDs with the iso9660 driver and they always work perfectly. I'm writing about Linux DVD support, so I need to be clear on this one. My research so far hasn't found anything concrete. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
[expert] When did modules become part of the Linux kernel?
Sorry, a simple question I'm having trouble remebering: when did loadable modules become part of the Linux kernel? Thanks, Mike
Re: [expert] Gnapster Works Again
Just to anote to all users of any distro - DON'T install Ximian GNOME. The install installer *force installs* all its packages. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: Just grabbed 1.4.2 from Ximian (formerly Helix) and all seems well again. John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. [tag] It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Re: [expert] themes ?
Actuially, KDE 2.0 and 2.01 don't have a theme interface. You have do it manually. Go to kde.themes.org and look at the isntructiosn that come with the Aqua theme there. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, s wrote: Right click on the title bar of a window for some 'decoration'. There is a little bit of adjustment in control panel LooknFeel Style and can change color in ... well colors. -s On Sunday 28 January 2001 03:21 pm, you wrote: Can anyone tell me where to change my themes in mandrake 7.2 i am using kde2.0 ?
Re: [expert] winmodems
A well written post from Civileme. Might I also add that [even] under Windows, A windmoden is still enough to turn a 400 Mhz P II with 128 Mb or RAM into a rather sluggish machine. They really are *incredibly* poor devices. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: On Friday 26 January 2001 20:44, you wrote: so many peoples have problems with winmodem in linux i wonder why they dont dont make drivers for them ? is it that hard ? It is when no information is available. It is when no developers are interested in supporting people who replace $40 worth of hardware with less than $3 worth of hardware, and charge consumers nearly the same price. Remember, this is a community based on free software. If a piece of software is to be written, _someone_ has to write it. With a HUGE job of reverse engineering and fighting upstream to avoid infringements on software that is often a) patented and b) secret, it is downright amazing that as much progress as is current has been made. If one lives in the United States, he not only has to reverse engineer the product, but he also has to hire a lawyer to defend him in case he infringes inadvertantly on the secret, patented software for which it is a license violation(and likely a felony) to disassemble, even if it is for the purpose of avoiding infringements. For all of this effort, he receives notoriety as his only pay. On top of that, the problem has to be interesting to the programmer and he wants to see the product used. If you read the page at the linmodem site, the folks there are more interested in using the devices for telephony, where they are considered appropriate devices. Read a few of the posts from the archives, search on the word "Gandia". Ramon Gandia is an ISP in Nome, Alaska, and he often explained winmodems in detail. The other thing stopping more effort on them is that many potential developers feel they are doing users a _disservice_ by providing the drivers, because they cannot compare in quality of service to dedicated hardware modems. Civileme
Re: [expert] A Proactive Solution
Thanks for the work around, but have you reported the bug to Mandrake so they can fix it? Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Aries wrote: You can share your swap partitions...with out any problems. - Original Message - From: "John Wolford" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:19 PM Subject: [expert] A Proactive Solution Hello all, Here's an experience i had recently. It may help some of you avoid a similar battle as i had to fight. I was attempting an installation 7.1 or 7.2 (whichever i could get to work first) on a system with 3 drives. There was already a stable install of 7.1 on the system (on hdc), and all i wanted to do was install again on hdb. I went though the graphical install and when it came time to choose my partitions, i would ignore all of the partitions on hdc, and create new ones on hdb. When it came time to format the new partitions it would invariably want to format the old swap partition on hdc. I always said no. If (IF) the install went through, then booting would usually result in a panic attack and fatal crash. If i somehow managed to get past that (with failsafe etc) then it would core dump when i tried to run almost any program. I was baffled. Then one day, while doing something decidedly not computer-related, i had a flash of inspiration. Maybe i should disconnect hdc for the install and then try it. All of a sudden the install went flawlessly (with 7.1 - to this date i have been unsuccessful installing 7.2 on any system). The moral of the story: When installing Mandrake, make sure that it can't see any other swap partitions during the install. (Could it use the old swap, if it wanted to? Could they share it? I don't know.) Cheers, John __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Windows media player
xine.sourceforge.net - a DVD, VCD, SVCD, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, DivX ;-), and ASF 1 player for Linux. Still in beta, but worth testing out. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello experts! Does anybody know of a media player that will handle the new windows media player codecs? Most of the streaming media I listen to uses Real Player and I've got Mozilla calling that just fine ~ now there are just a couple of places that contract with www.streamaudio.com to handle their streaming media. It comes up as mime type "application/x-mplayer2" and I can't even find the extension; I think it's .asf, not sure though. Any thoughts? Thanks, Mike
Re: [expert] telnet failure
Kyle Hargraves wrote: Unless you chose the "server" install, by default Mandrake doesn't install the telnet server. Or any servers for that matter. Actually this is not correct. True - inetd must be assigned a run level but from the above responses - OBVIOUSLY tcp (telnet) services are installed. Afterall - I can telnet OUT but some weir'ed Mandrake'ism is preventing the connection inbound The telnet daemon is a separate install in mdk... just install the rpm. Can't think of the name... .mmm weired !! I suppose we're being saved from ourselves are we ? Not weird. Entirely sensible. Telnet is a legacy protocol that should ba banned both inside and outside your network, and the client shoudl only be used for talking to other misbehaving services for HTTP, SNMP, etc. diagnosis. Distributions shouldn't install Telnet servers, and if Mandrake wanted to be even better, they should not include a Telnet server with their distro. Mike Well, no. Telnetting out is a completely different issue then telnetting in. You use telnet as client and telnetd to accept connections. yes agreed - and inetd.conf has the approprite entries; see following paragraph Did you check whether the receiving service is in fact running: yes - as I mentioned in a previous post I had to set the run level for inetd - so it would staff in rc3.d service inetd status or service xinetd status Now the follwing is weired ! [root@purcell xinetd.d]# service inetd status inetd: unrecognized service BUT [root@purcell xinetd.d]# ps aux |grep inet root 369 0.0 0.3 1100 520 ?SJan21 0:00 inetd root 5888 0.0 0.7 1940 944 ?S10:58 0:00 xinetd -reuse -pi Now, there are appropriate entries in /etc/inetd.conf for telnet but they don't seem to observed. There is nothing in xinetd.d for telnet which is probably the problem. That is, it seems that xinetd seems to have taken over. (BTW I started it from inet.d) could someone send me an /etc/xinetd.d/telnet.conf please ? Also, someone asked about the security level [root@purcell xinetd.d]# echo $SECURE_LEVEL 4 cheers, Kyle Hargraves (and thanks for the assistance to date) -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] the usefulness of telnet
Sorry if I sounded harsh earlier. But I still think Telnet is a bad idea, and that the circumstances you mentioned should be changed rather than gieven an air of legitamacy. Allowing users to know each others password encourages the use of others accounts. This a a bad things - accounts = accountability, and when someone internal does something nasrty, either maliciously or otherwise, its nice to know who was responsible for it. Mike Kyle Hargraves wrote: The telnet daemon is a separate install in mdk... just install the rpm. Can't think of the name... .mmm weired !! I suppose we're being saved from ourselves are we ? Not weird. Entirely sensible. Telnet is a legacy protocol that should ba banned both inside and outside your network, and the client shoudl only be used for talking to other misbehaving services for HTTP, SNMP, etc. diagnosis. Distributions shouldn't install Telnet servers, and if Mandrake wanted to be even better, they should not include a Telnet server with their distro. [snip] -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 well surely its the horse for the course Mike. In a secure network with a need for telnet access to a host by PCs there is an argument for telnet. Of course ssh or openssh are the only viable options for sessions over the net. However within a domestic network, having regard to the currency of password trading among (I could say) all users at all sites - i.e. its a fact of life - clear text isn't really an issue Its a bit like owing a 4wd or a firearm; it depends upon how its used I don't think there is any virtue in "banning" a useful service - acknowledging that others are better in differing environments cheers, Kyle Hargraves -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote: On Sunday 14 January 2001 22:12, you wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to get it to work on Mandrake 7.2? On a 7.2 system with XFree86-4.0.2? I have, but I can't remeber if it was vbefore I installed X 402 or not. I must say I am becoming disgusted with Loki on this. Linux will NEVER make it with the general user if it is impossible to simply install and run a freakin' game that is LINUX NATIVE, fer shit's sake. I hope that isn't the case. Remember how fast things are advancing in the Linux world compred to Windows - and they have groud to make up on us too. Either Mandrake has drifted "too far" from Redhat, which tends to be the distro most test against, That's already happened. I don't consider Mandrake to be Red Hat compatible, and that's great. Red Hat 7 pissed off a lot of people. Most test against Red Hat 6.2, comaptible with all other distributions ont he market. or Loki is not keeping up with linux. No, Loki have updates the game since its original release quite significantly. I think Loki do a brillaint job and have stacks of resources on their site for helping you out. Try downloading the update and checking before condemning Loki so much! There's stacks of Windows games that were basically unplayable on certain machines before updates came out. It would rather suck if one had to go to Redhat installs if one wants to play games. Yes it would. Another nice thing...I DID manage to play the game for a while when I got it - as root. I cannot recall if that was before or after I went from XFree86-4.0.1 to 4.0.2 or not. Anyway, Loki has an update for heretic2 which purports to fix some bugs. Upgrading your heretic2 binary, however, makes it incompatible with any saved games you might have. You lose all of them, not that it mattered much. True. Its bad, but its also not uncommon or Linux specific. Trying to start a new game either crashes the game or wrecks X, requiring a restart of the X server. Anyway, trying to run the game totally dicks up my X session. Do other OpenGL apps run? It sounds like your in software mode... Yes. Unfortunately, the readme with the games indicate that they will not work with hardware acceleration if you are using XFree86-4.0.x. I would expect them to fix this soon as it will certainly become THE X server for all quite soon. Surely it is just a recompile against the new xfree libs, etc? That's *really* unusual. The only games I know which don't run with X4 [they shouldn't need to be recompiled] are the original release of UT [before updates] and Myth II: SoulBlighter. Try the latest Unreal Tournament release. If you still have problems, check out the Linux Gamers League on IRC sydney.oz.org#lgl, and ask your questions there. Mike -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain Praedor
Re: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2
True enough, but then 6.1, 6. 2, et al are "old" and not in stores. Linux has moved on and it is bad business to expect that everyone will stay with older distros simply to play your games. Red Hat 6.2 are still more popular than 7 wil ever be, and will likely remain so. Red Hat fucked up *royally* with version seven, and the reputation of Linux as a whole is suffereing now that Red Hat have a release thats binary incompatible with ALL other distributions. Nobody has to stay with older distros apart from Red Hat users [like my Red Hat based workplace]. I would have thought that compiling monolithic binaries would go a long way towards avoiding distro differences. It is foolish to believe that everyone will stick with an old version of glibc, for instance, and thus base a software package off this false premise. Totally. Glibc isn't the problem. Veryhting works fine with newer versions of glibc. *Red Hat aren't using a new version of anything. They're using a BETA version*. That's why everyone is annoyed. If you want to avoid the problem, make it monolithic and avoid dynamic at all costs. On Sunday 14 January 2001 22:21, you wrote: Did you ask Loki what versions of linux they compiled their game for. I have been testing a commercial structural analysis program that is certified for redhat 6.1 and 6.2. It runs under 6.2 just fine and under 7.0 it does some major hiccups. Next I have to try it with Mandrake, but the purpose of this conversation is to let you know that all flavors of "linux" are not the same. Ask the vendor and make your system comply with his specs if you expect to have it run properly. Even within a revision of a given distro there are problems that you have to deal with and when you expect every distro to be perfect for your expectations, you set yourself up for a fall - you know like gnashing teeth, grumbling, frustration, snarling, smashing Tom Berkley Praedor Tempus wrote: Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to get it to work on Mandrake 7.2? On a 7.2 system with XFree86-4.0.2? [...] -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain Praedor
Re: [expert] Nautilus Preview 2 on Mdk7.2?
My personal opinion was that it wasincredibly dissappointing. it also doesn't work with latest version of bonobo [stupid hard coded dependency]. Eazel also have a really bad attitude on eazel services - they review and let you downl;oad all sorts of apps, just as long as they're nothing to do with QT/KDE. I think that's childish. GNOME people use KDE apps. KDE people use GNOME apps. I'm waiting for the release of Windows where the Start Menus is divided into: MFC Apps, VCL apps, etc. Because *REALLY USERS CARE ABOUT TOOLKITS! THEY DO!* /sarcasm Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Laurent Duperval wrote: On 15 Jan, Zeljko Vukman wrote: On Monday 15 January 2001 20:11, you wrote: Has anyone tried and had success installing Nautilus PR2 on 7.2? If so, did you use their installer or by installing the required rpms? I tried installing the installer but faile almost immediately but I can't make much sense out of its message for the failure..something like "failed installed". No shi!t. Thanks Yes, I run Nautilus PR2 on Mandrake 7.1. You have to download RPM packages provided on Eazel's site + install some Mandrake 7.2 packages required for dependencies. So how cool is it? It seems to be pretty large so I kinda hesitate to install it. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] gui interface for ipchains
Frab the source RPM for Red Hat's gnome-lokkit and recompile it on Mandrake. Red Hat also have a more advanaced [stright IP chains, no wizard] ruleset, whose name is [I think] firewallconf. I like things easy too, but I use a simple question and answer based firewall called pmfirewall [pmfirewall.com] which is easy to understand and requires no ipchains knwoledge. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Steve Young wrote: i was wondering if anyone knew of a gui interface for ipchains
Re: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2
Praedor Tempus wrote: Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to get it to work on Mandrake 7.2? On a 7.2 system with XFree86-4.0.2? I have, but I can't remeber if it was vbefore I installed X 402 or not. I must say I am becoming disgusted with Loki on this. Linux will NEVER make it with the general user if it is impossible to simply install and run a freakin' game that is LINUX NATIVE, fer shit's sake. I hope that isn't the case. Remember how fast things are advancing in the Linux world compred to Windows - and they have groud to make up on us too. Anyway, trying to run the game totally dicks up my X session. Do other OpenGL apps run? It sounds like your in software mode... Loki also released a near completely rewritten SDL version of Heretic II. I suggest you install the update, as it fixes many, many problems people were having with the game. Good luck, Mike The game doesn't run, just get to the game menu, but trying to actually start a game crashes it and this totally screws up X - resolution goes to virtual, mouse quits working, and I have to do a Ctrl-Bkspc to get it all back into working order. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain Praedor -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2
Tom Berkley wrote: Did you ask Loki what versions of linux they compiled their game for. I have been testing a commercial structural analysis program that is certified for redhat 6.1 and 6.2. It runs under 6.2 just fine and under 7.0 it does some major hiccups. Next I have to try it with Mandrake, but the purpose of this conversation is to let you know that all flavors of "linux" are not the same. That's true, but the reason your ap misbehaves on Red Hat 7 is that Red Hat 7 has a different appplication binary interface than any other distribution, due to the boneheaded move by Red Hat to use a beta version of GCC as their main compiler for 7.0 All Linux flavous aren't the same, but they should each be able to run the same bianries provided they are upgraded to the level needed byt he applciation. Mike Ask the vendor and make your system comply with his specs if you expect to have it run properly. Even within a revision of a given distro there are problems that you have to deal with and when you expect every distro to be perfect for your expectations, you set yourself up for a fall - you know like gnashing teeth, grumbling, frustration, snarling, smashing Tom Berkley Praedor Tempus wrote: Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to get it to work on Mandrake 7.2? On a 7.2 system with XFree86-4.0.2? I must say I am becoming disgusted with Loki on this. Linux will NEVER make it with the general user if it is impossible to simply install and run a freakin' game that is LINUX NATIVE, fer shit's sake. Anyway, trying to run the game totally dicks up my X session. The game doesn't run, just get to the game menu, but trying to actually start a game crashes it and this totally screws up X - resolution goes to virtual, mouse quits working, and I have to do a Ctrl-Bkspc to get it all back into working order. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain Praedor -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] Mdk, NTFS, and Win2000
Yes, Mandrake will automatically allow you to boot Win2K from either bootloader. Just select Windows from the menu. You'll then arrive at NTLDR, where you can select different options for loading Win2K. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Cecil Watson wrote: Partition Magic will do the job! I have dual boot any disto and Win2K, so I cannot help you on that end. Mark Belanger wrote: This info is probably readily available so flame me if you must. I plan on installing Mandrake 7.2 on a laptop that contains a single NTFS partition (Win2000 Pro). DiskDrake cannot resize an NTFS partition. My question is,,, If I resize the partition by other means(i.e. partition magic) will Mandrake do the "right thing" and create a master boot record capable of booting the existing Win2000 OS? TIA, -Mark -- This email was routed through The Twilight Zone.
Re: [expert] Installing KDE 2.0 themes -- How?
Either will work fine, but you need to be root to installa theme for use by other users, whereas the /home/whatever/.kde stuff allows you to install a theme for your own use only. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: The instructions for manually installing KDE 2.0 themes are quite confusing. The instructions given as part of the Aquatica theme (install in ~/.kde/share/apps/kstyle conflict with others advising installing them in /usr/share/apps/kstyle. Could someone please specify PRECISELY how and where a KDE 2.0 theme should be installed? Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] ssh instead of telnet
Openssh.org, as well as linux.com can provide you with some good guides. Mark Weaver wrote: I've been looking for info on how to get started with ssh, but I can't seem to find any anywhere. could someone give me a hand and get me started? thanks, -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds REPLY BELOW -- ---------- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] avifile
Try www.gnute.com. Cheers, Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Bill Thompson wrote: Mike MacCana wrote: I actually annoyed the avifile about qt locations and he fixed things accordingly for 0.53 :). So you prolly dson't need that anymore. Not that it will help your compile... Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Cecil Watson wrote: THanks for the suggestions. But alas, I tried it with that directive last night. It is a clean install, I've have no updates to qt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've compiled avifile 0.53 without a problem. I didn't have any errors. I only had to run configure with '--with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt2'. I remembered that 0.51 wouldn't compile without it (although configure would run without a problem). you can try that. also, did you update any qt libraries? mine are the original. good luck -- Haim I successfully compiled avifile and the xmms plugin for avifile. Can anyone tell me where I can get avi files to use for a test. The sites I tried, downloads have not been successful for one reason or another. Thanks, Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
Re: [expert] RealPlayer
Are you quite sure you were ableto obtain RealPlayer 8 for Linux? The Real site is a little hard to navbigate, but I'm quite sure the Linux version is only RealPlayer 7, no matter white the site says [check `help about' to see]. Another test is going to take5 [click the take5 link] and trying to watch the Bono video. You'll get a message about how you need `glorious RealPlayer 8' to watch it. Send an email to Real asking for a version 8 for Linux if and when you're dissappointed :-(. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Luk Vermeylen wrote: with realplayer 8.0 are delivered 2 files who make the plugins and mime work like that i've answered the quetion a few days ago look in the directory of realplayer. they are named something like rpplugin rpmime Luk Vermeylen - Original Message - From: "Brian Hartman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 2:28 AM Subject: [expert] RealPlayer I've been trying to get RealPlayer to play a link when I click on it (in either Konqueror or Netscape) with absolutely zero luck. Has anyone gotten this to work?
Re: [expert] RealPlayer
Correction: There is a player avaliable for Linux called `RealPlayer 8' from Real. I still maintain its a bad name, since [after downloading it] it can't play any RealPlayer 8 content - try doing the `Take Five' - `Bono' link again. `To see this content, you need glorious RealPlayer 8'. Grrr. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jerry Sternesky wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 07:39, you wrote: I download realplayer myself yesterday: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm About indicates: version 8.0.3.412 When I installed rp7 I had to manually add the mime types to Netscape, I had followed the same instructions that were posted in Larry's reply. So I honestly can't say if rp8 did anything or not regarding the plugin's. I usually go to a site called vidnet to test my realplayer. I have it working in netscape, as for Konqueror it doesn't work. I suspect I will have to go into configure and set the mime types. Are you quite sure you were ableto obtain RealPlayer 8 for Linux? The Real site is a little hard to navbigate, but I'm quite sure the Linux version is only RealPlayer 7, no matter white the site says [check `help about' to see]. Another test is going to take5 [click the take5 link] and trying to watch the Bono video. You'll get a message about how you need `glorious RealPlayer 8' to watch it. Send an email to Real asking for a version 8 for Linux if and when you're dissappointed :-(. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Luk Vermeylen wrote: with realplayer 8.0 are delivered 2 files who make the plugins and mime work like that i've answered the quetion a few days ago look in the directory of realplayer. they are named something like rpplugin rpmime Luk Vermeylen - Original Message - From: "Brian Hartman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 2:28 AM Subject: [expert] RealPlayer I've been trying to get RealPlayer to play a link when I click on it (in either Konqueror or Netscape) with absolutely zero luck. Has anyone gotten this to work?
Re: [expert] RealPlayer
How odd. yet Help - About RealPlayer [as well as the RPM name] reveal themselves to be RealPlayer 8, and RP7 content [the Toni Braxton lin at the top of Take 5, for example] plays okay, anything RealPlayer 8 ish [like the take 5 - U2 thing] pops up the message about how I need to download `glorious' realplayer 8. This is A Bad Thing for 2 reasons: 1) I can't see RealPlayer 8 content with a player that says its version 8 2) Bono Vox is talented, whereas Toni Braxton is not ;-) My player version is 8.0.3.412 Thanks for your help... Mike On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jerry Sternesky wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 15:31, you wrote: In netscape I went to real.com followed the take5 link Realplayer started with a series of links in it. Went to bono-fide grammy nominee It fired right up. I hope I hit the link you are refering to, but to double check everything and myself I clicked on the tomb raider link from the real.com site which states it requires RealPlayer8. That also came up with no problems. I would have to say rp8 is out there for linux and seems to be working fine. Did you try downloading the rpm again, just in case there was a problem with the one you got? I checked my netscape mime types and here are a couple of samples to see if they help you out Description: RealMedia File MimeType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia Suffixes: .rm Application: /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay %s Description: RealVideo File MimeType: video/vnd.rn-realvideo Suffixes: .rv Application: /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File 2 MimeType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra,.ram Application: /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay %s Description: MimeType: audio/x-pn-aiff Suffixes: aiff,af Application: /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay "%u" Now the /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay is actually a link to /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay and the %s is important in getting realplayer to load with the files you want to play. So first thing I would do is check and see if you have the /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 dir. If so then realplayer 8 was installed for you and it is most likely an issue of mime types and application helpers. If that is the case check out an earlier email in this thread that had the instructions for setting up the mime types. Jerry Correction: There is a player avaliable for Linux called `RealPlayer 8' from Real. I still maintain its a bad name, since [after downloading it] it can't play any RealPlayer 8 content - try doing the `Take Five' - `Bono' link again. `To see this content, you need glorious RealPlayer 8'. Grrr. Mike ------ Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jerry Sternesky wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 07:39, you wrote: I download realplayer myself yesterday: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm About indicates: version 8.0.3.412 When I installed rp7 I had to manually add the mime types to Netscape, I had followed the same instructions that were posted in Larry's reply. So I honestly can't say if rp8 did anything or not regarding the plugin's. I usually go to a site called vidnet to test my realplayer. I have it working in netscape, as for Konqueror it doesn't work. I suspect I will have to go into configure and set the mime types. Are you quite sure you were ableto obtain RealPlayer 8 for Linux? The Real site is a little hard to navbigate, but I'm quite sure the Linux version is only RealPlayer 7, no matter white the site says [check `help about' to see]. Another test is going to take5 [click the take5 link] and trying to watch the Bono video. You'll get a message about how you need `glorious RealPlayer 8' to watch it. Send an email to Real asking for a version 8 for Linux if and when you're dissappointed :-(. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Luk Vermeylen wrote: with realplayer 8.0 are delivered 2 files who make the plugins and mime work like that i've answered the quetion a few days ago look in the directory of realplayer. they are named something like rpplugin rpmime Luk Vermeylen - Original Message - From: "Brian Hartman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 2:28 AM Subject: [expert] RealPlayer I've been trying to get RealPlayer to play a link when I click on it (in either Konqueror or Netscape) with absolutely zero luck. Has anyone gotten this to work?
Re: [expert] RealPlayer
Thanks Jerry - but I don't think this is the problem. /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/ does exist. And I'm not using any web browser apart from RealPlayer itself, which has a button on it for Take 5 content. Furthermore, since RealPlayer 7 content seems to play well, and RealPlayer 8 does not, I further doubt its a mime types issue. Thanks for your trouble though - can anyone else shed some light on this? Does anyoen else get a realplayer 8 ad when they click Take 5 - U2 piece on their RealPlayer? Mike On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jerry Sternesky wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 15:31, you wrote: In netscape I went to real.com followed the take5 link Realplayer started with a series of links in it. Went to bono-fide grammy nominee It fired right up. I hope I hit the link you are refering to, but to double check everything and myself I clicked on the tomb raider link from the real.com site which states it requires RealPlayer8. That also came up with no problems. I would have to say rp8 is out there for linux and seems to be working fine. Did you try downloading the rpm again, just in case there was a problem with the one you got? I checked my netscape mime types and here are a couple of samples to see if they help you out Description: RealMedia File MimeType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia Suffixes: .rm Application: /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay %s Description: RealVideo File MimeType: video/vnd.rn-realvideo Suffixes: .rv Application: /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File 2 MimeType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra,.ram Application: /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay %s Description: MimeType: audio/x-pn-aiff Suffixes: aiff,af Application: /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay "%u" Now the /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay is actually a link to /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay and the %s is important in getting realplayer to load with the files you want to play. So first thing I would do is check and see if you have the /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 dir. If so then realplayer 8 was installed for you and it is most likely an issue of mime types and application helpers. If that is the case check out an earlier email in this thread that had the instructions for setting up the mime types. Jerry Correction: There is a player avaliable for Linux called `RealPlayer 8' from Real. I still maintain its a bad name, since [after downloading it] it can't play any RealPlayer 8 content - try doing the `Take Five' - `Bono' link again. `To see this content, you need glorious RealPlayer 8'. Grrr. Mike ------ Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jerry Sternesky wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 07:39, you wrote: I download realplayer myself yesterday: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm About indicates: version 8.0.3.412 When I installed rp7 I had to manually add the mime types to Netscape, I had followed the same instructions that were posted in Larry's reply. So I honestly can't say if rp8 did anything or not regarding the plugin's. I usually go to a site called vidnet to test my realplayer. I have it working in netscape, as for Konqueror it doesn't work. I suspect I will have to go into configure and set the mime types. Are you quite sure you were ableto obtain RealPlayer 8 for Linux? The Real site is a little hard to navbigate, but I'm quite sure the Linux version is only RealPlayer 7, no matter white the site says [check `help about' to see]. Another test is going to take5 [click the take5 link] and trying to watch the Bono video. You'll get a message about how you need `glorious RealPlayer 8' to watch it. Send an email to Real asking for a version 8 for Linux if and when you're dissappointed :-(. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Luk Vermeylen wrote: with realplayer 8.0 are delivered 2 files who make the plugins and mime work like that i've answered the quetion a few days ago look in the directory of realplayer. they are named something like rpplugin rpmime Luk Vermeylen - Original Message - From: "Brian Hartman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 2:28 AM Subject: [expert] RealPlayer I've been trying to get RealPlayer to play a link when I click on it (in either Konqueror or Netscape) with absolutely zero luck. Has anyone gotten this to work?
Re: [expert] avifile
I actually annoyed the avifile about qt locations and he fixed things accordingly for 0.53 :). So you prolly dson't need that anymore. Not that it will help your compile... Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Cecil Watson wrote: THanks for the suggestions. But alas, I tried it with that directive last night. It is a clean install, I've have no updates to qt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've compiled avifile 0.53 without a problem. I didn't have any errors. I only had to run configure with '--with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt2'. I remembered that 0.51 wouldn't compile without it (although configure would run without a problem). you can try that. also, did you update any qt libraries? mine are the original. good luck -- Haim
[expert] Advanced Packaging Tool for Linux Mandrake.
For those of you who haven't heard the news, Mandrake Cooker now has APT-GET support. APT get is a rather nifty way of installing software on a computer. Comparing the task of installing, say, the latest Gimp on your machine Regularly... * Find out what the latest Gimp is... * Try Mandrake Update, rpmfind, gimp.org, and various other sources until you've got the package * Try and install it * Apparently you need libgimp. * Try the same thing for libgimp * Apparently libgimp needs a newer gtk * Try the same thing for gtk ad nauseum, until you've acquired all the relevant dependencies * Install gimp. Or give up, and decide your day would be better spent on a more enjoyable activity, like having all your teeth pulled out with a pair of pliers. :-| APT Get * apt-get install gimp [and the rest is done for you. Apt tells you the size of the downloads necessary to install gimp on your system, and asks for your OK to start downloading] This is A Good Thing. :-) So, does anyone [especially civileme (apologies in advance for bad spelling)] have any further info about when the next major distribution from Mandrake is due to arrive, and what Mandrake's intentions re: APT will be? I'm particularly interested in the the obvious GUI frontend I imagine Mandrake would be planning... Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
RE: [expert] Read/Write permissions on a VFAT partition
You need to specify a default permission [called a umask] for it when you mount it... From my filesystem table... /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Zelck, Guy wrote: "Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA" wrote: I have a vfat partition (win98) mounted but cannot seem to get permissions to write to it. Would someone please give me a hint how to do this? The user that did the mount is the only one with write access. Not true, you can specify an option to set the mode of the dirs and files created on the vfat. I work this way. It's documented in mount I guess cause I found it on my system. So if the mode allows it, everyone can write.
RE: [expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 after install?
Seeing as any user that's telnetted in as a regular users can usually substitute user for root, and anyone on the internet can view they keystrokes they're using to type the root password, either way is as completely insecure as another. I don't even want anyone being able to Telnet is as a regular user - if the unprivilieged user has a shell, they can use another exploit to gain root... Don't install Telnet-server. Just don't. I don't mean to be rude, but Telnet is a flaming pile of poo, and installing it is a really poor move. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Tony Blackmon wrote: The feature you are referring to as twisty is not twisty at all. It is very important that you not be able to telnet in as root. The only way to make things absolutely tight on unix machines is to disallow telnet sessions for accounts that are system standard on *nix systems. As for being able to telnet in with mandrake, depending on what security option and the purpose of the machine you chose during installation, you may not be running a telnet daemon. Some of the install options dont even install telnetd. The simplest fix is the install the package telnet-server from your mandrake cd. I would recommend not doing that at all and suggest that you go with a package such as ssh. You can do everything that you can with the regular telnet daemon, but it all runs through the ssh security specs and makes things nice and tight. there are even web based java ssh telnet clients that you can use for free installed on your apache server on the machine you want to telnet too. like mine, at home i can go to http://machinename.domain.suffix/ssh and i get prompted for a login from any java capable browser. thats really slick because you dont have to install an ssh telnet client on the machine you are telnetting from. having an open telnet port just attracts undesired attention :) --fluid -Original Message- From: duane voth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 after install? Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:07:57PM +0100: I've just installed Mdk 7.2 and the telnet doesn't work. A friend explained me to check that the telnet service is enable in /etc/xinetd/telnet but this file doesn't exist. telnet-server is installed? Alexander Skwar Also, you woudn't be trying to telnet in as root would you? Some twisty security feature (that I *still* have yet to discover) disables root telnet. duane
Re: [expert] login manager background
Er, yes they were. You had to uncomment and cmment to lines in one of your startup files for files for kdm. The reason you can't change it is a bug in KDE 2.0 that is fixed in 2.01...by the comments in the file, you can actually see mandrake deliberately don't use the KDM login background. But I can't remember what the file is I just know after modifying it ages ago, and upgrading to 2.01, it works now. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Trevor Farrell wrote: This was discussed a couple of months ago. I was unable to: 1) set background 2) change font 3) change icon (except to clock) on the login screen. Several others confirmed this problem, but no-one was able to offer a solution. Looks like we will have to wait for 7.3 :( Trevor On Sunday 24 December 2000 02:59, you wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me this is a little long but bare with me (please!)... When login manager loads and presents the login screen the background behind it is configurable once you login (assuming KDE) via the control centre and then system/login manager. Now there seems to be a bug coz when I try to change the login manager background, it accepts my changes but loses them when I leave the configuration screen. So: a) has anyone else experienced this b) does anyone know where this background info is stored. Is there a config file I could vi? Thanks and Merry Christmas to you all. helpa __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 after install?
Off topic,
Actually, if you wanted any real security, I'd get rid of sudo, install
the Linux trustrees project, and get an actual Linux permission system
that doesn't suck.
Linux needs ACLs. Badly.
Mike
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Bug Hunter wrote:
The best thing to do for security is to make su only executable by root.
Then get the "sudo" package and install it, giving only a few users the
ability to run "sudo su" and thus change to root.
This makes the telnet server more acceptable, and limits your exposure.
Also, with inetd/xinetd, telnetd can be limited to serving people only
on specific networks by changing hosts.deny, hosts.allow ("man
hosts.allow") in the /etc directory.
the basic rule for hosts.deny that all systems should follow is
ALL: ALL
this denys everyone access to all services. In hosts.allow, assuming
your local network is 192.168.1.x, you could put
ALL: 192.168.1.
This overrides hosts.deny and allows all servers that use inetd to
service anyone coming in over the 192.168.1.x network.
bug
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
Never been able to figure out the logic for that! Invariably the first
thing one does when telnetting into a box to do some work as root is to
su - whats the difference? The password still goes in clear etc - just
seems anoying. Can see the sense in not installing telnetd in some
cases, but telnet is a standard unix service - one only has to look at
the number of queries to the list over the problems this causes, and the
fact that the first thing that person does is install the package, one
has to question whether this approach is worthwhile - in my opinion
would be better to install, but leave disabled, or perhaps make it an
install question that comes up with the package list "Do you want telnet
services - Warning ...".
BillK
The feature you are referring to as twisty is not twisty at all. It is very
important that you not be able to telnet in as root. The only way to make
things absolutely tight on unix machines is to disallow telnet sessions for
accounts that are system standard on *nix systems.
Re: [expert] CHMOD Question
chmod -R 0750 ./*
jean-philippe wrote:
I don't understand what you ask.
Maybe what you want is :
chmod 0750 /Directory/*/*
This will chmod all the files in every directories in /Directory/
Or you want to chmod every files without chmod'ing the directories?
= find /Directory -type f -exec chmod 0750 {} \;
HTH
Flupke
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
Yes, "chmod 0750 /directory/*" would work but...
What if there were many directories in "/directory" and you wanted to
chmod all the files in those directories at once?
Seve
Original Message
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Re: [expert] CHMOD Question:
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
From the Console: How do you chmod just the files in a directory tree
without going into each directory?
Seve
"chmod 0750 /directory/*" should work
HTH
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Re: [expert] login manager background
Thanks Sheldon, Mike Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: But I can't remember what the file is I just know after modifying it ages ago, and upgrading to 2.01, it works now. /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 And the section should look like this: if [ -x $KDEDIR/bin/kdmdesktop ];then /usr/bin/kdmdesktop # Commented above line and added next line because of kdedesktop issues # fixes background. # /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -solid "#99" else /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -solid "#99" /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail fi === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 afterinstall?
The reason should be obvious - telnet is insecure and is banned both internally and externally at most corproates these days, and should likewise not be installed on your home machine. SSH deprecates Telnet, is just as uniquitous, and makes running graphical apps remotely much easier. Mike Sevatio Octavio wrote: For some reason, installing LM7.2 does not automatically install Telnetd. So you have to get the rpm and install it yourself afterwards. Seve Original Message On 1/3/01, 3:07:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 after install?: Hello, I've just installed Mdk 7.2 and the telnet doesn't work. A friend explained me to check that the telnet service is enable in /etc/xinetd/telnet but this file doesn't exist. Someone could explain me what I've to do to active this service after the installation? And Happy New year! Pierre ** ** This message may contain confidential information and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose, use, disseminate or copy this message. The information contained in this message reflects the opinion of the sender and not Systemat's opinion. ** ** -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] Setting ALT to META?
Search www.rpmfind.net for xkeycaps, a keyboard remapping program... It doesn't seem to work under my KDE2, btw, so if you can't access the right-click menus, try another WM. Speaking of which, does anyone know how to make my Windows key activate the kbutton? Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! I've installed sawfish-0.34-3mdk and XFree86-4.0.2-1mdk on a cooker installation. Before I used a pre-7.2 cooker. After I installed everything, the left ALT key is mapped to ALT. For XEmacs I need a META key. How can I redefine ALT so, that it acts like META? Thx, Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die guenstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 22 hours 55 minutes
Re: [expert] Remote X
Yes, this is normal. X doesn't handle sound. The Enligtened Sound Daemon [or esound] does, however I don't have too much experience with it beyond knowing it works. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Jerry Sternesky wrote: Yesterday I was playing around with running X on MachineA from MachineB. From MachineA I executed X -quiet -query MachineB. It connected and gdm came up no problem. I logged in with kde as my choice. When the startup wave played the sound came from the speakers in MachineB? Is this normal, or correct? If I wanted the sound on machine A is there a way to do this? I am toying with the idea of setting one pc to act as a server not only in the traditional sense but to be an xdm server for 2 clients. What I am hoping to do is have all the programs I want to located on one machine accessable by all clients. Is this even the right route for that? Or should I be reading different how-to's? Thanks Again, Jerry
Re: [expert]fstab for 3 OS's
Hi List, And Merry Xmas to all! Thanks Mike, for the clarification on not having the ability to have more than one disk or partition mounted in the same place, this is exactly what my hesitantcy has been in editing my fstab, and inadverdantly inserting my multiple "/mnt/" points into it. Thanks for saying thanks then :). Although I am still rather new with Linux about 9 months, I have been using Unix SUN Solaris fpr a;,pst 4 years, it still feels new to me too. :) As you say "it seems a little odd that you need so many versions", but only I know what I `need', and to be a little `unconventional' suits me very WELL, one of my best facets/assets is my creative side. Okay, but I still don't understand why you need three different versions of the same OS, espeically when they are only point releases. Judging by your mounting questions, you sounded like a Linux newbie, so I thought you may have been doing it for the Also, "three Mamdrake versions is just a little unusual" and "it seems like you are doing this for fun, rather than any specific goal", tells me you are not an intuitive sort at all, now are you? I think I am. I still don't understand why anybody would want three different minor versions of Mandrake installed simultaneously, unless they were confused about something. As madonna might say, Can you FEEL, can you FEEL, can you FEEL? Erm... As far as "waiting until I know more about Linux first", there is not a chance of that! I can FEEL how you LEARN, and you could see how I learn, if you were OPEN minded to it. So you're doing this as a learning exercise? I think you'd get more benefit from installing Mandrake once, and really using it to its full potential, or playing with VMWare to install multiple OSs, running them simultaneously, and seeing how they interact. or if you wanted to take a look at the differences between versions of Linux, BSD and Unix, I'd install Mandrake, Debian, Solaris and/or OpenBSD. I didn't ask to be criticized, I don't think I criticized you. I said you don't know a lot about Linux, and your questions regarding mounting are the basis for that. There's nothing wrong with being a newbie. I asked for knowledge, but you are certainly welcome to do so at any time, by all means. I used to do that too whenever I felt inferior. I don't feel inferior to you, which is why I haven't cricized you. Sheesh! Examples, i.e., I used to `hate' Bill Gates, and criticize him ruthlessly, but I have grown to `love' him as well, perhaps someday you will `feel' the same towards me. -although this is NOT a GOAL of mine I don't dislike you. Though this email seems a little stange though. I don't mind Windows either - whatevers the best tool for the job. Windows and Linux each have advantages over the other. But that's off topic. Thanks again though! Okay, Mike Wade but you can call me, Mr.W.E.B. PS- I have successfully built 9 Linux Operating Systems each of them a Custom Server Installation, without any hitches whatsoever, and yes that includes Debian(which is every bit as easy as Mandrake, only different) Incase you are not up on your Numerology, 9 is a Master Number! ;) PSS - JOY to the WORLD! and BLISS to ALL! . SS - JOY to the WORLD! and BLISS to ALL! . __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] Supported CDRW device, but no sound with music CDs
Michael O'Henly wrote: Well, son of a gun. That worked! Is a CD audio cable for my drive/sound card (HP8100/SB128 PCI) the kind of thing I can buy or make easily? Sorry for the wait replying. Yes it is - you can but a `CDROM to soundcard audio cable' at any computer store. They're standard cables for pretty much all machines on the market, with four wires in all. Mike Thanks very much for your help. M. On Saturday 23 December 2000 17:41, you wrote: If you have another OS, can you plat music CDs in that? If you don't, try connecting your speakers into the headphone jack at the front of your CDROM drive rather than your soundcard. You might not have a CDaudio cable. Mike Michael O'Henly wrote: Hi... I'm running Linux-Mandrake 7.2. My CD device is an HP8100 CDRW (supported hardware). I have no trouble using this device as a CD-ROM drive or to burn CDs, but I cannot play music CDs. When I launch the CD Player application, I can eject, select tracks, etc., so I know that I'm able to address the drive. I have no trouble with streaming audio or playing .wav files either, so I'm not suspecting a problem with the sound card (SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Esoniq 1371 driver). I've done a Google search which tuned up LOTS of similar reports but no solutions. Is this a recognized problem -- perhaps having to do with SCSI emulation on an ATAPI/IDE CDRW? Any insights here would be most appreciated. Thanks. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
[expert] Locales and perl
I'm getting this [noncritical] error message when installing various
packages. What do I edit to make it go away? Google
didn't help much, neither did browsing /etc for soemthing that looked
relevant...
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US",
LC_TIME = "en_US",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_US",
LC_CTYPE = "en_US",
LC_MONETARY = "en_US",
LC_COLLATE = "en_US",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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Re: [expert] windows discovered me
I'm getting the same errors. I had a FAT32 partition I wrotew a reiserfs filesystem over and the reiserfs drive shows up in Windows, as a drive with lots of crap in it thta needs formatting. Basicallly, mkreiserfs didn't set the partition ttype properly. Check this out [the partition is /dev/hda5] [root@sexbomb wine]# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 2 986 7912012+ 5 Extended /dev/hda2 * 987 2854 15004710c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 2855 3619 6144862+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 3620 3649240975 82 Linux swap /dev/hda5 2 986 7911981b Win95 FAT32 [root@sexbomb wine]# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 6144640 4685620 1459020 76% / /dev/hdd1 8233232 7262304970928 88% /mnt/data /dev/hda2 14990048 13678496 1311552 91% /mnt/windows /dev/hda5 7911720 7361304550416 93% /usr/local /proc/bus/usb 1977930 1977930 0 100% /proc/bus/usb Basically, you need to use fdisk to chnage the partition ID to reiserfs [or Ext2 if you're stuck in the stone ages]. I'm gonna check and lodge a bug report when I can be bothered. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, pgeorges wrote: "Aric S. Bergren" a écrit : hey does anyone know a way to get win98 to stop seeing my linux partition as a win drive d: that just needs to be formatted? i'd much prefer windows to not see linux at all...in order to keep it from getting it's poor little unsophisticated mind all confused and stuff... Are you really sure this D drive is a linux formated partition. The normal behavior of windows is not to see partitions formatted with a non-microsoft fs.
Re: [expert] One BIG anoying Pain in the A**
Basically, the kdelibs-sound 2.0 [not .01] needs EXACTLY kdelibs 2.0 [not .01 or anything greater. RPM still lacks some brains is this area, and it's quite unfortunate. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Ok...I've followed the directions, done everything that was to be done, and still I get the same stinking, anoying, almost M$-like error. I've got ALL the KDE2.0.1 RPM's downloaded and in the same dir. And STILL there's a problem of one type or another. Theres something I'm just not getting. Anyway, heres the console message when testing the KDE RPM upgrade installation; [root@mdw1982 KDE2.0.1]# rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm error: kdebase-2.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed error: failed dependencies: kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.0-5mdk kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdk I know what it looks like on the surface, but I've grabbed everything I can possibly think of to satisfy any dependency issues and still the same message persists. What now? This is SO frustrating. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
Re: [expert] What the heck is this daily cron task?
Its the locate database updating. At any time you can type `locate [filename}' and instantly find the file. You update the databse where it stores all the files and their locations as rot by doing `updatedb'. Feel free to get rid of it if you wish. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Chris Aakre wrote: What is this task: [chris@localhost cron.daily]$ less slocate.cron #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/slocate -u -f "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usbdevfs" -e "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net" This annoying task looks around on my hard drive for half an hour, consuming 50% of my CPU time on a PII 300. Is this needed? Can I cancel it? I have no idea what it's trying to do. Thanks in advance. -- Chris Aakre
Re: [expert] Laptop recommendations
Ron Stodden wrote: Mark Belanger wrote: Can anyone recommend a laptop that will work well with Linux/Mandrake? I'd prefer a modem that works, a screen resolution greater than 1024x768. The cost is not really an issue. My understanding is that laptop screen resolution is fixed in manufacture by the number of TFT pixel elements, Yes, that's true and that the industry standard is 800 x 600 (480,000 pixels). That's not. You'll be hard pressed to find any PCs that aren't at least caoable 1024 x 768 still in use [okay, you won't but they're still massively outnumbered]. So that is all there is, sorry! Um, no. Just because 1024 x 768 is common, it doesn't mean I can't buy a monitor that can do 1600 x 1200 if I wish to pay the money. Why would it? Unlike a CRT monitor, pixels may fail in a laptop and there is no way of repairing them. That's true as well. But it still doesn't justify the above statement. Regards, Ron. [AU] I suggets purchasing one of the Dell or IBM models certified by Red Hat. They can both do 1024 x 768. The Dell can do 1600 x 1200 IIRC [its a huge 16 inch, equivalent to a desktop 17/19 inch] Mike -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] Mounting an NTFS drive
/dev/[whatever] /mnt/[whatever]ntfs user,exec,umask=0 0 0 Basically, NTFS and FAT don't have access controls [okay, NTFS does, and they're better than Linux's, but Linux doesn't recognize them]. Do you need a default permission [also called a umask] to assign to the mounted disk [and all files and folders within it]. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Brian Hartman wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to get my NTFS drive mounted so that I can enter it from my user account. So far, I've only been able to mount it so that root can get in. Does anyone know what the line in /etc/fstab has to look like to get it to work? Thanks in advance.
Re: [expert] CDwriter
Ironically, I brought the same CD drive at the same time, and used the help you gave Bill to set it up [I hadn't had time to make sense of the HOWTO earlier]. Thanks. By the way, which device am I actually burning to? its an ATAPI drive, and since I'm not experienced with SCSI [including ATAPIs SCSI emulation], I'm not quite sure. Is it /dev/scd0? Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'SONY' 'CD-RW CRX140E ' '1.0n' Removable CD-ROM Is my drive. Thanks in advance - its a good mailing list to be on... Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Its fixed. Last problem was that the append line in lilo had a mistake (emabarrasing!) Thamks Larry and Ron for responding. I will try later and get grub to recognise an append line, at leats lilo works. Thanks, billk * the chorus of "install it in my windoze machine" was getting louder, fixed just in time!
Re: [expert] To much not contiguous block
Linux actually avoids major fragmentation by writing to the disk in an intelligent manner. Say you have a five kilobyte file. Then first avaliable space on your disk is two kilobytes, the next is nineteen kilobytes. Windows [9x or NT/2k] will write the first two byes of the file to the 2KB space, and the rest to the start of the 19KB space, fragmnenting the file. Linux will skip the 2K space and write the whole 5KB file unfragmented to the 19KB space. That's a bit of an oversimplification [there's much more to consider regarding the most optimal layout of data on a disk] but basically, Linux Has Brains, Windows Does Not. :-) Linux also comes with an inbuilt defragmenter [so does Windows 9x, 2K has a cut down version, and NT doesn't]. Its run automatically [by default] every forty times you mount the disk. This value [called the `maximal mount count'] can be changed if you prefer another value. For Ext2 filesystems, use tune2fs's -c option. For ReiserFS systems - I'm not too sure. Does someone what to enlighten me? AFAIK, there's no GUI utilities to help you out with disk tuning, but its not too hard to type. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Brian Hartman wrote: On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, you wrote: Every 20 times starting linux, the system check the harddrive partition, ; this is OK. I have the linux in two partition (hda5 and hda7) and the swap partition to. When the system check the partition hda5 shows 0.2% non contiguous, but hda7 shows 2.5% non contiguous blocks and this is every time increasing. Is there any way to reduce this fragmentation? I am runing Mandrake 7.2 with kde 2.01 Thanks for your help. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Fransisco, I'm not an expert at this, but it's my understanding that some fragmentation is normal with Linux. I always have a little (2-3%) fragmentation on my drives. I don't think Linux cares much about fragmentation. I could be wrong, though.
Re: [expert] Scroll wheel
Does your mouse wheel work in your other apps? Mine does and it also wprked out of the box with Moz 0.6. However, under Edit - preferences - Advanced - Mouse wheeel you can configure how it acts. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Brian Hartman wrote: Hi, all. I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and Mozilla .6, and I'm trying to figure out how to get the mouse wheel (that scrolls the page up and down) on my trackball to work. I don't see anything under key bindingsCan anyone help me out? Thanks.
Re: [expert] KDE theme manager
They don't make it obvious, so here `tis [from the README supplied with one of the first KDE2 themes] --- To install: 1. Unpack aquatica.tar.gz. You can use archiver(ark) program from KDE. 2. Now you have Aquatica folder with two folders in it: a) Pixmaps folder and b) Themes folder. 3. Copy file aquatica.themerc from Themes folder to: /.kde/share/apps/kstyle/themes folder in you home directory. 3. In Themes folder there is another Aquatica folder with *png files. Copy this folder (whole folder) to: /.kde/share/apps/kstyle/pixmaps folder in your home directory. 4. Open Kcontrol - Look feel - Style, and choose Aquatica theme. --- --- Good luck, Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2000 20:51, you wrote: KDE 2.0 and 2.01 don't have a theme manager in their final releases. Yes, this does indeed suck. 2.1 will though. You can find instructions on installing themes in the meantime on kde.themes.org Merry christmas, Mike Mike, That sounds great, but under what heading is that info located cause I've been all over that site and wasn't able to find anything relating to that app or installing themes on KDE2 enabled machines. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
Re: [expert] Why is Netscape 6.0 so slow?
Try Galeon, -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Scott Tyson wrote: If that is true why does Nutscape 6.0 load the Java VM (again this is on the win2k version, my linux workstation is scrubbed so I cannot compare)? It might not be the renderer but some part of Nutscape is using the Java VM. I have a Win2K machine myself. Sorry, not Java VM proces shows up. Also its renderer is not even in the same ball park as NS 4.75 let alone IE. Its slow crap. The UI is slow crap. The rendering engine is insanely fast, and Galeon, AOL for Linux, the upcoming NeoPlanet Gecko preview, and KMeleon [the windows equivalent Gaelon] prove this, as well as the mozilla kpart, and a shitload of benchmarks. I'd much rather use Konquerer or IE or Opera or plane old 4.75. I would too. I'd also rather use Mozilla,, who seem to have a better reputation for quality than netscape. It renders pages far better then standard NS though but its still very buggy and very slow. Netscape 6 is buggy and slow. That's because Mozilla took the rather overambition step of trying to create a pixel for pixel perfect cross platform UI in XML, and because netscape 6 is a particularly slow version or this UI. That doesn't mean the rendering engine is slow, or that Moz per se is. It sure as hell doesn't mean the UI is in java. www.mozilla.org and read about XUL. Im sorry, but you're wrong about the UI. It ain't java, read the source code. Mike *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/24/2000 at 11:57 AM Mike MacCana scribbled: Netscape 6s rendering engine is NOT written in Java. This is complete bullshit. Its written in XUL, a DTD for XML. Yes, Netscape 6s UI is slow [its rendering is faster than IE], and requires RAM. Mozilla 0.6 seems *much* faster in the UI department. If you want fast HTML rendering with full standards support, go for Mozilla 0.6, Galeon, or the Mozill KPart announced last week. Mike Scott Tyson wrote: Netscape 6.0 rendering engine is written in Java. When you load a Java based program it must load the Java Virtual Machine which is not fast and eats about 25-32 megs of ram (at least on a win2k workstation it does). If you don't have 128+ megs of RAM Nutscrape 6.0 will be almost intolerable when it comes to speed. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/25/2000 at 10:32 PM Eduardo Mazoni Andrade Marcal Mendes scribbled: Hello I have installed Netscape 6.0 only to be convinced that it is the worse nightmare ever. I am running in P 1333 with 32 MB. Old netscape would run without a trouble but this new one it is so slow that I can go for a drink before the whole thing is loaded. What do netscape developers have in mind when releasing such a piece of software? Perhaps I am doing something so wrong and it is not netscape's fault. Please help me out! Many thanks Eduardo -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] KDE theme manager
KDE 2.0 and 2.01 don't have a theme manager in their final releases. Yes, this does indeed suck. 2.1 will though. You can find instructions on installing themes in the meantime on kde.themes.org Merry christmas, Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Tom Berkley wrote: some of the results of the command 'locate theme' (you may want to run updatedb before you use it.): ~/.kde/share/apps/kthememgr . . ~/.kde/share/config/kthememgrrc . . /usr/bin/settheme tom berkley Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I have been looking everywhere and I just can't find this app anywhere! Could someone please tell me where I can find "kthememgr"? Mark
Re: [expert] Why is Netscape 6.0 so slow?
Netscape 6s rendering engine is NOT written in Java. This is complete bullshit. Its written in XUL, a DTD for XML. Yes, Netscape 6s UI is slow [its rendering is faster than IE], and requires RAM. Mozilla 0.6 seems *much* faster in the UI department. If you want fast HTML rendering with full standards support, go for Mozilla 0.6, Galeon, or the Mozill KPart announced last week. Mike Scott Tyson wrote: Netscape 6.0 rendering engine is written in Java. When you load a Java based program it must load the Java Virtual Machine which is not fast and eats about 25-32 megs of ram (at least on a win2k workstation it does). If you don't have 128+ megs of RAM Nutscrape 6.0 will be almost intolerable when it comes to speed. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/25/2000 at 10:32 PM Eduardo Mazoni Andrade Marcal Mendes scribbled: Hello I have installed Netscape 6.0 only to be convinced that it is the worse nightmare ever. I am running in P 1333 with 32 MB. Old netscape would run without a trouble but this new one it is so slow that I can go for a drink before the whole thing is loaded. What do netscape developers have in mind when releasing such a piece of software? Perhaps I am doing something so wrong and it is not netscape's fault. Please help me out! Many thanks Eduardo -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] Why is Netscape 6.0 so slow?
worse nightmare ever. I am running in P 1333 with 32 MB. Is that 1.3 Ghz or 133Mhz? That looks like a typo. Yes, Netscape 6 won't run on a machine with those specifications. Hell, a Linux desktop system per se needs 64. This is mainly due to X. A Win2K box needs 128 bare minimum. Try Galeon, a GNOME based version of mozilla. But I'm still surprised you can run anything besides a basic window manager with on 32Mb RAM. Mike Old netscape would run without a trouble but this new one it is so slow that I can go for a drink before the whole thing is loaded. What do netscape developers have in mind when releasing such a piece of software? Perhaps I am doing something so wrong and it is not netscape's fault. Please help me out! Many thanks Eduardo -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] Supported CDRW device, but no sound with music CDs
If you have another OS, can you plat music CDs in that? If you don't, try connecting your speakers into the headphone jack at the front of your CDROM drive rather than your soundcard. You might not have a CDaudio cable. Mike Michael O'Henly wrote: Hi... I'm running Linux-Mandrake 7.2. My CD device is an HP8100 CDRW (supported hardware). I have no trouble using this device as a CD-ROM drive or to burn CDs, but I cannot play music CDs. When I launch the CD Player application, I can eject, select tracks, etc., so I know that I'm able to address the drive. I have no trouble with streaming audio or playing .wav files either, so I'm not suspecting a problem with the sound card (SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Esoniq 1371 driver). I've done a Google search which tuned up LOTS of similar reports but no solutions. Is this a recognized problem -- perhaps having to do with SCSI emulation on an ATAPI/IDE CDRW? Any insights here would be most appreciated. Thanks. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
[expert] KDM problem
I read and commented / uncommented the relevant lines in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 which Mandrake put in there to get around the bug. I'm also using KDE 2.01 for Mandrake from the KDE site. And now I get a proper KDM background. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Mark Hillary wrote: Is the version of KDE 1.99pre. If it is then update it with the rpms on the mandrake mirrors. That version has that bug in it and it has been fixed in the 2.00 release. If you do have that version then maybe you should report it as a bug at kde. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "a r" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 10:45 PM Subject: [expert] Hi! Does anyone know which file contains the details of the screen you see when the login manager loads? I want to change the background and there seems to be a bug in kcontrol that stops you from saving changes to the background eg if you want to replace the blue screen with a .png or .jpg, (you can enter them but it resets once you leave the login manager option). Thanks __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [expert] What's wrong with XFree86-4.0.2
xf86 wacam is support for wacom tablets - those stylus / surface combinations that allow you to draw with a pen like object instead of a mouse. My hunch is that there should be a configure option to get rid of this support. Alternatively there might be a wacom development package you need to acquire. Nevertheless, the make should have provided some real guidance rather than the all-too-common `file not found'. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: I downloaded the src rpm of XFree86-4.0.2 for mandrake and have tried building it for my mandrake 7.2 system. I have met all dependencies and it gets pretty far along in the process...probably very close to finishing but then it dies with: -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DSHAPE -DXINPUT -DXKB -DLBX -DXAPPGROUP -DXCSECURITY -DTOGCUP -DXF86BIGFONT -DDPMSExtension -DPIXPRIV -DPANORAMIX -DRENDER -DGCCUSESGAS -DAVOID_GLYPHBLT -DPIXPRIV -DSINGLEDEPTH -DXFreeXDGA -DXvExtension -DXFree86LOADER -DXFree86Server -DXF86VIDMODE -DSMART_SCHEDULE -DBUILDDEBUG -DX_BYTE_ORDER=X_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DNDEBUG -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DIN_MODULE -DXFree86Module -DLINUX_INPUT xf86Wacom.c xf86Wacom.c:69: linux/input.h: No such file or directory xf86Wacom.c: In function `xf86WcmReadUSBInput': xf86Wacom.c:2122: increment of pointer to unknown structure xf86Wacom.c:2122: arithmetic on pointer to an incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2123: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2125: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2126: `EV_ABS' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2126: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once xf86Wacom.c:2126: for each function it appears in.) xf86Wacom.c:2127: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2128: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2129: `ABS_X' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2130: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2133: `ABS_Y' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2134: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2137: `ABS_TILT_X' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2138: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2141: `ABS_TILT_Y' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2142: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2145: `ABS_PRESSURE' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2146: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2149: `ABS_DISTANCE' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2131: warning: unreachable code at beginning of switch statement xf86Wacom.c:2155: `EV_REL' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2156: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2157: `REL_WHEEL' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2161: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2159: warning: unreachable code at beginning of switch statement xf86Wacom.c:2166: `EV_KEY' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2167: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2168: `BTN_TOOL_PEN' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2170: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2173: `BTN_TOOL_RUBBER' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2175: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2178: `BTN_TOOL_MOUSE' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2180: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2183: `BTN_TOUCH' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2184: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2187: `BTN_STYLUS' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2188: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2191: `BTN_STYLUS2' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2192: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2195: `BTN_LEFT' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2196: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2199: `BTN_RIGHT' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2200: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2203: `BTN_MIDDLE' undeclared (first use in this function) xf86Wacom.c:2204: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type xf86Wacom.c:2169: warning: unreachable code at beginning of switch statement xf86Wacom.c:2127: warning: unreachable code at beginning of switch statement make[6]: *** [xf86Wacom.o] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/XFree86-4.0.2/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/wacom' make[5]: *** [all] Error 2 make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/XFree86-4.0.2/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input' make[4]: *** [all] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory
RE: [expert] Xine
I'll compress one and post it to the list later tonight. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Bill Piety wrote: The error you're citing is Xine trying to play a locked file. This it will not do without the dvd plugin with the decoder. And it's the decoder that I'm having trouble compiling. Has anyone posted the compiled plugin anywhere for dl? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 6:56 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] Xine Same here. I get an error of the sort: demux error 00 00 00 should be 0x01 get no audio or video. -Original Message- From: Salane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 7:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Xine I got it to compile but it doesn't seem to work On Tuesday 19 December 2000 07:25 pm, you wrote: xine itself I dl'd as an rpm it's OK - it's the DVD-decoding plugin (or module) that's not compiling. Anyone seen a 386-686 pre-compiled anywhere? I would think that if Xine itself can run 'out of the box', then ditto for a plugin? Or is this wishful thinking? Mike MacCana wrote: I've compiled Xine perfectly on my Linux Mandrake 7.2 machine. Its a PII 400 with 256Mb of RAM. The compile was very easy [standard instructions] and despite some warning about ALSO, it works fine [albeit in OSS mode]. I'm using software decoding on my PC, and performance is pretty terrible though - I guess you'd probvably need a PIII 800 or similarly grunty Athlon [I'd take the the Athlon :) ] to decode tat the standard twenty something frames per second, depending on whether you're a PAL or NTSC person. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Bill Piety wrote: Has anyone attempted to compile (and it goes without saying that this would be in the abstract only, since there are legal issues in the US) the special build of Xine 0.3.2 that enables DVD playback of commercially recorded movie-CD's? I'm running thru mentally what might occur on my Mandrake 7.1, kernel 2.2.15, x 3.3.6, nvidia, alsa system were I to attempt this. I have substantially less RAM than my system, so it's been a struggle :), or maybe :( is more appropriate. If anyone's tried something similar, I sure would like to confer. The US available Xine-0.3.2 can play non-locked files - which of course is all that I've attempted. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset="us-ascii"; name="wfromoz.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Bill Piety Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description:
Re: [expert] Xine
I've compiled Xine perfectly on my Linux Mandrake 7.2 machine. Its a PII 400 with 256Mb of RAM. The compile was very easy [standard instructions] and despite some warning about ALSO, it works fine [albeit in OSS mode]. I'm using software decoding on my PC, and performance is pretty terrible though - I guess you'd probvably need a PIII 800 or similarly grunty Athlon [I'd take the the Athlon :) ] to decode tat the standard twenty something frames per second, depending on whether you're a PAL or NTSC person. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Bill Piety wrote: Has anyone attempted to compile (and it goes without saying that this would be in the abstract only, since there are legal issues in the US) the special build of Xine 0.3.2 that enables DVD playback of commercially recorded movie-CD's? I'm running thru mentally what might occur on my Mandrake 7.1, kernel 2.2.15, x 3.3.6, nvidia, alsa system were I to attempt this. I have substantially less RAM than my system, so it's been a struggle :), or maybe :( is more appropriate. If anyone's tried something similar, I sure would like to confer. The US available Xine-0.3.2 can play non-locked files - which of course is all that I've attempted. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Mandrake in production
Hmmn. Performance is likely to be pretty much the same for both distributions. Open Source software installation is much easier on Debian [packages are downloaded and pdependencies worked out automatically]. Closed source aps [which you might have a need of] are generally more available for RPM based distributions. The TUX webserver, which recently thrashed Apache and IIS 5.0 at Mirosofts own favourite benchmark [they've used for four years to tell the world how good IIS is] was created by Red Hat, and will most likely be ported to Mandrake before Debian, if you so choose to use it. Mandrake is a billion times easier to administer than Debian, with the exception of package installation. For a webserver, you probab;ly won't be adding and removing apps all the time. Security about the same. Mandrake now hire the bastille people as part of their devel team, and have significantly imporved in recent times. Thjings like ReiserFS are alsoquite impotant for web hosting companies. The overwhelming majority of commercial web serving occurs on Red Hat. Red Hat and Mandrake aren't 100% compatible any more, but its still rare you'd run into something hich doesn't work on both [provided its for Red Hat 6, not 7] Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Scott Parks wrote: Hi all, I do not want to start a Holy War or anything of that nature. I am looking for honest success stories on using Mandrake in a production web environment for web hosting and postgres for serving the php pages. My professional experience has been with BSDI, FreeBSD, Solaris and NT for hosting. My company is moving off a certain platform now in favor of Linux. Since NT and Solaris are not options right now I have been looking at Mandrake for production environment. A guy who works for me tells me that Mandrake can not cut it when it comes to production web work and he favors, very strongly, Debian. Telling me that it is the strongest for production environments. I have been using Mandrake for several years and enjoy it as a personal development platform, connection sharing in my house, mp3 jukebox, etc. But, I have never used it for a web production environment. Anyone have some thoughts on this issue? The machines are dual P3's with 18 gig drives in arrays, 2 gigs ram each. Multiple machines behind Cisco Local Director. Mandrake installs fine on each box, Debian is a bit more bothersome to configure, but I can not simulate the load of web servers in the shop. Thanks in advance, -Scott Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Mandrake in production
If you're looking for case studies of high traffic sites, both MS Hotmail and Persian Kitty [the biggest sites in their respective categories or webmail and porn] primarily use FreeBSD. Yahoo [biggest search engine] uses FreeBSD for its front end, but is now powered by google, a clustered Linux setup based on modified Red Hat. Akamai [you kno who Akami is right?] are also pretty much entirely Linux based, with a highly customized internal distribution. I'm not sure if this was originally one distribution or another. Red Hat hads the best support, vendor certification, and certification of all the Linuxes. But Mandrake are much more innovative and pewrhaps deserve a place in your Network. Optimized software and ReiserFS, along wiht improving security make Mandrake a fairly good option. That said, my own work primarily deplaoys Red Hat at client sites [6.2, not 7] Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Pj wrote: I hate to say this but the ISP's I know in the midwestern US run FreeBSD or Unix. I've been on one provider several years; his only planned downtime is hardware upgrades. It's the best connection in four-states and he runs FreeBSD.. Pj Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Xine
VideoCDs are very much alive throughout asia as the chosen media for most cinema piracy :-( In terms of consumer accpetance, the `brief moment between VHS and DVD' was more likely filled by Laserdiscs [which looked like lrge record-size CDs]. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Al Baker wrote: VCD (video CD) was a brief moment between VHS and DVD. DVD players will play yer VCD's, CD players might play VCDs but not DVDs. --- Bill Piety [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - though I've read about VCD's I've never actually seen one. It's mpeg-2 based now, I believe, but doesn't seem to have made any inroads in my area (New Orleans). However, thru my near-total lack of info on VCD I could be missing quite a bit. Balaji Ramani wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2000 11:08, you wrote: Good morning. I downloaded installed the US 0.3.2 played a test file from a rental movie-CD. 1st time it played with sound, then later error messages re: OSS and no sound. As below, I've been using ALSA (which has started doing mysterious things, but that's another issue). Is your RPM a 586 of the 0.3.2 US or the full DVD encrypted playback as per the European version? If that's the case - you are surely the man of the hour :) 2nd, is your rpm 7.2 specific or compat with 7.1? I complied the RPM on a Celeron (so it is a 586 RPM). I have played a VCD and it was fine, the only problem being that I could not play full screen. I don't have a DVD drive, so that avoids a whole lot of problems. ;-) As for sound, I use the OSS driver and did not have any problems. Balaji Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. begin:vcard n:Piety;Bill x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fn:Bill Piety end:vcard Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Mandrake in production
It's been a good discussion. I just thought I might point out your not really using the term `commercial' correctly [many Open Source folk don't]. The opposite of Open Source is closed source. The opposite of commerical is non-commercial. Mandrake is a commercial Open Source OS - the commerce occurs in that Mandrake use their Linux distribution to gain revenue from boxed sets, consulting, customized development, andd cetification programs. DB2 is a commercial closed source database. Powerarchiver [www.powerarchiver.com] is a mostly non-commerical closed source archiving app. And many small Open Source apps are non-commerical, like gqview or similar, though this may change soon. Personally, I don't care at all whether something is commerical or otherwise [they're very hard to define anyway]. Open and closed source are important, but my primary concern is getting the best tool for the job. That just quite often happens to be the Open Source one. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Scott Parks wrote: Thank you for your thoughts and thank you to everyone who has responded. I have to look at a couple of things. First off, Debian seems to shy away from any commercial products, I have been told that is why KDE is not included, you can install it, but it is not part of it. If I were to go with a commercial db product like IBM's db2 I would be better on the RH/Mandrake side than a Debian. I also have to look at the time it takes me to set the darn thing up. Since I use Mandrake as my primary machine all the time I am comfortable with it and can have a server install up with Apache/PHP/Postgres in under 15 minutes. I also know where to go when there is a problem. Running Mandrake as a stipped down (no X, etc) box I think might be the ticket. I was just reading on Mandrakes site that some pizza place is using Mandrake as their Point Of Sale system, if a system can handle that it can handle almost anything! Thanks again, I am always welcome to comments. -Scott Hmmn. Performance is likely to be pretty much the same for both distributions. Open Source software installation is much easier on Debian [packages are downloaded and pdependencies worked out automatically]. Closed source aps [which you might have a need of] are generally more available for RPM based distributions. The TUX webserver, which recently thrashed Apache and IIS 5.0 at Mirosofts own favourite benchmark [they've used for four years to tell the world how good IIS is] was created by Red Hat, and will most likely be ported to Mandrake before Debian, if you so choose to use it. Mandrake is a billion times easier to administer than Debian, with the exception of package installation. For a webserver, you probab;ly won't be adding and removing apps all the time. Security about the same. Mandrake now hire the bastille people as part of their devel team, and have significantly imporved in recent times. Thjings like ReiserFS are alsoquite impotant for web hosting companies. The overwhelming majority of commercial web serving occurs on Red Hat. Red Hat and Mandrake aren't 100% compatible any more, but its still rare you'd run into something hich doesn't work on both [provided its for Red Hat 6, not 7] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Kernel-smp-2.4
The people that compiled the SMP kernel might not have compiled PPP in, simply because most SMP systems are servers, and very few servers communicate over PPP [though as ADSL becomes more popular, PPP over Ethernet will too]. MIke Mogens Jæger wrote: Tom Berkley wrote: did you compile ppp into the kernel? No - I just ran the rpm. I have not downloaded the source-file - is that the error? Mogens Jæger tom berkley Mogens Jæger wrote: Hey list. I am using Mandrake 7.2, on the 2.2.17 kernel. Then I saw that the 2.4 kernel were aviable, and I downloaded the 'kernel-smp-2.4.0-0.14mdk.i586.rpm'. Everything with the update went OK, but when I tried to connect to the internet, I got the message that ppp was not supported by the kernel! how come. I have removed it again and am now using the 2.2.17. But one thing has changed - these yellow small boxes, describing functions all over my system, has started to blink (flashing?) and I can't find the place to change that. Please someone help Sincerely Mogens Jæger Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- ------ Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Sound on LM7.2 and KDE2.1
This is off topic, but I have to chuckle when somebody called Ken Thompson has difficulties with a Unix like operating System! :-) Mike Ken Thompson wrote: I get a resource buisy error while trying to configure my SB-AWE64. Modules.conf shows proper configuration (i/o=220, irq=5, dma8=1, dma16=5)going by memory here so it may not be exact on dma setings but, cat /proc/interrupts always shows the durn thing on irq 7 and dmesg shows an error message about a conflict on irq7. I don't have a isapnp.conf file anywhere I can find. S, my question is, where do I set the durn thing to irq 5??? I've spen the better part of an afternoon poking about with no results. While I'm on the subject of sound, has anyone got the system sounds in KDE2+ to work with XFree4.01? I have them working fine on another nearly identical machine with XFree3.3.6. 'Bout to loose some hair over this one, it's driving me nuts. It's not important but I would like to know why they wont work. Thanks all, === Ken Thompson Electrocom Computer Services Payette, Idaho 83661 Ph. (208) 642-7101 - (888) 642-7101 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebSite: http://www.nwaa.com Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Fw: USB CD burners Win4linux
Re: Win4Lin, it works great. * Its install needs improvement, and is a little difficult * XFree86 4 users must as a line into their XF86Config file to avoid a small bug Other than that, its great - performance is top notch. Try the demo version. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Andrew F. Brown wrote: - Original Message -=20 From: Andrew F. Brown=20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20 Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 4:30 PM Subject: USB CD burners Win4linux I have two questions. 1. Do USB CD burners( in particullar Sony Spressa CRX 100 E ) work under Ma= ndrake 7.2. Somwhere in one off the programs i got a message saying that it= detected it( funny enough, as the same name CRX 120 that windows did) but = i am not sure how to get it working. Any help would be apreciated. 2. There is a product available from netraverse.com called Win4Lin 2.0. I w= ould lke to get/generate some feeedback from Mandrake users who are using t= his product and how they feel about it, does it work, how to set it up, etc= . Thank you. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] PUMP or DHCP (Client)
Pumps fine for most people, and is the default in both Red hat and Mandrake. The only reason dhcpcd became popular as an alternative is because Red Hat didn't include the man page for pump, and doing things like cable ISP connections needs this sort of documentation. They're about the same. I use pump because its in the ifup script. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Anton J Aylward, CISSP wrote: I always used PUMP under RedHat. Any suggestions as to whether to use this or the DHCP client under mandrake 7.2? Experiences and warnings? /a Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] suddenly problems with the soundcard
That's Mandrake's fault - Red Hat fixed the `conf.modules' problem [by renaming it appropriately] in Red Hat version 7, and sndconfig that ships with 7 writes t the correct file. Mandrake should either not include sndconfig if it worn't work properly with their setup or have shipped the Red Hat 7 version. Mandrake's still a better distro though, and I luv em for it. :-) Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Michael Schurr wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 07:31:53AM -0800, Anton Graham wrote: Mandrake doesn't, by default, use sndconfig for this reason. sndconfig writes to /etc/conf.modules, while Mandrake, in compliance with the PTB has deprecated the use of that file. copy the information sndconfig writes to /etc/conf.modules into your /etc/modules.conf file then remove the conf.modules. Thanks, now it works bye Michael Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] fstab for 3 OS's
Indeed. My bad. Mike On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Mike MacCana am Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:52:50AM +1100: [or vice versa, OI might have the numbers round the wrong way]. 1 is a yes, 0 is a no. No, it tells fsck WHEN to check it. First the 1's are done, then the 2's etc.pp. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die guenstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 8 days 19 hours 35 minutes Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 7.2, alsa, and yamaha DS-XG
Windows 2000 will be ahppy with wiethr Grub or Lilo. You boot procees will look like this LILO/Grub [select Window from menu] NTLDR [select Windows 2000 Professional from the Menu] They won't interfere with each other because they install to different parts of disk. LILO and Grub live in your MBR, the first 512 byes of yur hard disk. NTLDR lives in a partition boot sector, the first 512 byes of a partition [usually your first partition]. You can just install the lilo and grub packages now, set them up [using the info from /proc/partitions and /etc/fstab to work out which OSs live on which disks], and then run the appropriate command to make the changes take effect. LILO [and perhaps Grub] are flexible enough that they can also be put into a partition boot sector if you wish. The nifty thing about that is that rather than having LILO / Grub the NTLDR, you can have NTLDR with Linux listed as an option, then go to Lilo or Grub fro there. Whatever rubs your nub :-). Read the Linux + NTLDR for more info if you feel so inclined. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: I currently bought a Toshiba S301 laptop. I have win2k on one partition and 7.2 on the other. I have most everything working great with the exception of sound and modem. I figure the Xircom modem in it is a winmodem of type. I am not so worried about that as I have ordered a 3Com pcmcia modem. My problem is getting the sound to work. It is a Yamaha DS-XG, mandrake chose to use Alsa, and that is fine. However all I get for sound is a continuous noise. What do I need to look at to get this card working? I have been to a great page on linuxnewbie.org, followed all the steps and ended with this. Before this I got some module dep. fail on bootup. Also, I chose not to install a bootloader since I didn't know if win 2k and linux would be happy with grub (preference) or lilo. If anyone could tell me if it will work if I install either one of these, that would be great too! Any help greatly appreciated, Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] fstab for 3 OS's
Regarding those last two numbers in your filesystem table, 2 or 3 are not appropriate numbers. Thefirst number is used to determine whether the patition should be backed up by backup software, the second is whether the partition should be checked if your machine is shut down properly [or vice versa, OI might have the numbers round the wrong way]. 1 is a yes, 0 is a no. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, root wrote: Hi List, Here is my fstab; /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 To which I wish to add another LM partition so that I can access a Linux partition and a Windows partition on the same drive from the current Linux Mandrake partition. I would like to add the following; /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults ? ? It is these numbers I am primarily concerning myself with as to whether or not the second should be set to; 2 2 or 3 3 or something all together different, also I am booting with Grub so also information on editing its conf file to show two different linux partitions and a windows partition on the same drive. Again my wish is to have Grub start with one-Windows and two-Linux partitions on the boot screen and to be able to access an old Linux partition from a desktop link on my new one, just like I already do with Windows from Linux-Mandrake. Much thanks, and Happy Holidays! mrweb Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Bad version numbers on `KDE 2.1' RPMs
Chris Molnar's RPMs seem to be marked as 2.1 - AFAIK, there is not KDE 2.1 yet, and it makes me very worried to install them on my system, especially when thewre may be a real 2.1 soemtime in the future, and the version numbers will screw up dependencies. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: I d/l'd the new 'official unsupported' KDE2.01 rpms as announced on http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001209085323 I first ran a 'rpm -Uvh --test' on them all at once and got back a slew of messages that the packages ( Chris Molnar's ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE ) already installed were newer. Out of curiosity, and thinkin I was being none to smart, I forced an install of the Mdk 2.01 rpm's anyway. It was a big MISTAKE. The resulting KDE2.01 was a _downgrade_ from Chris' KDE2 upgrades, and introduced a few bugs as well (eg, kedit wouldn't run, I lost a lot of recent Konqueror bookmarks, etc.). needless to say I chalked my experiment up to user error, and have backed out the 2.01 rpms and reinstalled Chris' KDE2.01+ rpms. All is well again inspite of myself :) -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Bad version numbers on `KDE 2.1' RPMs
kdebase-2.1-0.20001210.2mdk.i586.rpm is what I've just downloaded from nebsllc.com. How odd. I installed them anyway and KDM, drag and drop, and the cotents of my KPanel stopped working, so I'm gonna go with the official ones anyway. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Mike MacCana wrote: Chris Molnar's RPMs seem to be marked as 2.1 - AFAIK, there is not KDE 2.1 yet, and it makes me very worried to install them on my system, especially when thewre may be a real 2.1 soemtime in the future, and the version numbers will screw up dependencies. Mike Mikethat's odd, the ones I downloaded from nebsllc.com were all designated as 2.0.1-0.1mdk -- Alan Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] IRQ stuff
You might wish to try using Sounddrake, avaliable [like everyhting else] through the DrakConf icon on you desktop, to set up your card. Its the primary supported method of setting up sound on Mandrake, and generally seems to much better than sndconfig [for my Vibra 128, anyway]. If that fails, then we will deial with the IRQ prob. BTW, you might wish to set `Plug and Play OS' in your BIOS to `no' before you continue. Linux is PnP, but works better with the info supplied by the BIOS [unlike Windows, which gets confused :) ] Mike Julio Matarranz wrote: I just moved from red hat 6.2 to mandrake 7.2... i guess for the better. Red Hat did fine, I had no problems but I wanted to try the Madrake distrbution. The problem s that after the installation i found out that both my ether and my soound card werent working any more. When I try to configure my sound card (SounBlasterPCI 128), using sndconfig I get this error msg: modprobe error The following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/es1370.o: init_module: Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/es1370.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/es1370.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/es1370.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed This sounded a bit like irq problem, so I checked the config: # lspci 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) Subsystem: Kingston Technologies: Unknown device f002 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Latency: 32 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0 Region 0: I/O ports at a400 Region 1: Memory at cf00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev 01) Subsystem: Unknown device 4942:4c4c Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow TAbort- TAbort-MAbort- SERR- PERR- Latency: 32 (3000ns min, 32000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0 Region 0: I/O ports at b000 Both interfaces had irq 0... i guess theres something wrong in here. Every other interface is ok. Lets see if the ether is working properly: # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:48:5F:BA inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask:255.255.255.0 BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Base address:0x8000 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 The interface is properly configured but is not up. Lets put it up # ifconfig eth0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable Looking over the internet this error msg it seems to be a IRQ probl... but I cant find a workaround. Physically changing the interface slot is no good Now here Im stuck! I guess the problem is to do with the irq stuff but to be honest I dont know how to solve it. Anyone has any idea? Thanks Julio -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] IRQ conflict
Basically, your BIOS can provide PnP information, as well as your OS. Pnp OS Installed is On = BIOS will not provide this info [because Windows prefers not to receive it, and might get confused because it can see more of your hardware than the BIOS can, sometimes] Pnp OS Installed is On = BIOS will provide this information. Linux prefers to use the BIOS as a basis for mush of its PnP work, so you should always turn this on, even on dual boot machines. Something nifty I learnt from doing an RHCE. Mike Ali BAYINDIR wrote: After installing linux my sndcard and my ether stopped working Doing an # lspci -v I find out both devices have irq=0. How do I know which irq are free? and how do i assign a module a specific irq? Thanks Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: I met with a similar problem on my computer. It has Asus P3V133 MBoard with Awar bios. When i enabled "PNP OS Installed" option in bios, my ethernet (Realtek 8029 PCI) doesn't work. I don't know what is the real problem but, disable this option. Regards... Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- ------ Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] linux equivalent of Partition Magic?
The unfortunate thing is that neither can resize ReiserFS, though PartEd is definitely working on it [it will be able to do NTFS soon as well]. Mike On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Tom Berkley wrote: Its gnu's parted and it works. Tom Berkley Sarang Lakare wrote: there is something called gnupart or soemthing like that.. btw, isn't disk drake enuff for u'r needs? On Saturday 02 December 2000 16:10, you wrote: Is there a linux equivalent to Partition Magic. I own a copy of PM and I know that PM is compatible with linux. But PM uses the BIOS to read the partitions. Linux will read a much larger hard drive than the bios can read in dos. Therefore linux can read and use partitions beyond what the bios can see in dos. Presently PM cannot handle the HD part beyond what the bios sees because it really runs in DOS and not really under linux. That is why I wonder if there is a similar utility that actually runs under linux to address the part of the hd beyond bios under dos. Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- -- Sarang Lakare Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Getting to the console with KDE
There's some hilarious typos there [using pine over a slow SSH connection], but you get the idea :-) Mike MacCana wrote: Use Ctrl + Alt + (n) That isn't a KDE2 thing, its an X thing, btw. By the way, there's scripts you can download for linuxgames [or a site linked from them] whjich automate the hole process of using StarCraft with a second 256 color X server, if you'd like. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: How do you get to the console while in KDE? The normal alt-F2 doesn't work. What I'm trying to do is to start a second X session for playing Starcraft under wine with "startx -- :1". Now I need to figure how to make this 640x480 at 8 bit color. -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- ---------- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] The mysterious libqt-mt.so.2
This mysterious file is part of QT 2.1 or later in many distributions, [Red Hat and Connectiva] but isn't included as part of Mandrakes packages. I'm not sure what the purpose of the library is, [perhaps, logically, it shouldn't be packaged along with QT] but it is necessary for avifile, a DivX ;-) player for Linux. Does anyone know what the file, whether it should be inside a QT package or somewhere else, etc? Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] StarOffice Mailing List?
StarOffice is now OpenOffice, so feature requests and comments, as well as bug reports should go to one of the lists at openoffice.org. I'm not sure if Sun [www.sun.com] still maintain StarOffice lists, or everythings converted into OpenOffice, butSun definitely do have a support for StarOffice 5.x section on their website. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, SoloCDM wrote: If you know of a mailing list for StarOffice, would you send me the URL? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. * Signed, SoloCDM Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] StarOffice Mailing List?
That's true [both projects contain some unique code], but StarOffice, in terms of future development, is essentially dead. So feature requests [and perhaps also bug reports] should be directed towards openoffice. Mike On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Stephen Bosch wrote: Mike MacCana wrote: StarOffice is now OpenOffice, so feature requests and comments, as well as bug reports should go to one of the lists at openoffice.org. Don't confuse StarOffice with OpenOffice. OpenOffice contains StarOffice code, but they're still different things. -Stephen- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [Re: [expert] A bit afeared of upgrading my laptop]
Of course DVD [ROM] works under Linux. Linux supports the UFS filesystem [as well as ISO9660, used on certain DVDs]. This is a seperate issue from being able to decode any VOB [video object] files that exist on the disc [in the case of DVD movies] but this is being worked on by the OMS project, who are building a DVD player for linux. Check them out at www.intervideo.org. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Vic wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2037, Viktor Lakics wrote: Your DVD works under linux?? instantly, DVD-rom was OK, Works great! Good luck; Viktor bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:11:47 -0700 From: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] A bit "afeared" of upgrading my laptop I am running 7.2 on my home system but on my laptop I still have 7.1 and kde 1.1.2. I am debating upgrading to 7.2 on my laptop but first want to know about general experiences in, first, upgrading vs dump and clean install. I bought my 7.2 from cheapbytes (and am hoping that it is 'real' rather than a partially beta version, like kde-1.95 or some other monster...haven't checked yet). Is it relatively painless to do the upgrade or should I dump and reinstall from scratch? DO NOT USE UPGRADE DO A CLEAN INSTALL Of course that will still not guarantee a "no glitch" install as each new version of LM since 6.0 has tossed a few quicks into the kettle. I have tried not on laptops mind you but on desktop systems serveral installs-versus-upgrades and each time the Installs have given 95% less trouble. In one case an upgrade took 6-8 hours on on old P-120 only to see it crap out anyway which necessitated a clean re-install. BTW Some things which worked in LM 7.1 may not perform the same or as well in LM 7.2 while others will work better. Sometimes its a dice roll but to us enthusiats and if IT IS NOT A MISSION CRITICAL MACHINE, it is well worth the aggravation. Of course I still would like to know why my generic three button mouse instantly recognized and initialized by LM 6.1 has never had the same success since !? :) Good Luck William Bouterse Talkeetna - Attachment: message.footer MIME Type: text/plain - Viktor Lakics Through the Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Accessing Voodoo board.
I has the same issue, and spent the good part of 1a 14 hour LAN party trying to fix it. It was heat. The Voodoo 3s run *exceptionally* hot, and opening up the PC, then later purchasing a PCI powered cooling device solved the problem. That doesn't mean I'm not turfing 3DFX on my next PC though :-) Mike Stefan Srdic wrote: I've have being trying to get my Voodoo 3 working under XFree86-4.0.1 with the Glide drivers. I compiled and installed Device3Dfx-2.3-5. I then removed the Glide_V3-DRI packages and installed the Glide_V3-2.60 packages. Now, when I attemp to run the test files that come with the Glide packages I get a segmentation fault . My error message looks like this: gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board gd error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTSegmentation fault I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.2. I have gotten my Voodoo 3 to work under Mandrake 7.1 with the Glide drivers and XFree86-4.0.1 before. Why cant I access the board in Mandrake 7.2? Should I compile the old Device3Dfx sources from rpmfind.net and try it again? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
