Re: [expert] DIRECT DELIVERY and Postfix!
Have you set your mail client to use sendmail for sending, or to send mail via localhost? On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 13:02, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Jan Lentfer wrote: Tks Jan! but... The relayhost option did not work... I've tried all alternatives on /etc/Postfix/main.cf What changes when using my smtp instead 'direct delivery' is that on the header you can read that msg has passed through the ISP, that's all! I'm still receiving message like: We do not accept direct delivery use your isp instead! Any idea? Ricardo On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 03:12:10 -0300 (BRT) Put relayhost = your.isp-smtp-server.org in main.cf hth, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ejecting the tape
Isn't it just 'eject /dev/st0'? On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 13:54, daRcmaTTeR wrote: I don't know how to tell /dev/st0 to spit out the tape when everything is finished. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT: gpg 1.0.6 trust probability
I have search high and low for an answer to this, but to no avail: I am using Evolution as my mail tool and am trying to encrypt a mail using a key that somebody sent me, which this header -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: PGP 7.1.1 The key looks like after importing to gpg: pub 1024D/A55C22FA 1999-11-23 Xx Xxxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] sub 2048g/29622D17 1999-11-23 (The name and address are changed to protect the innocent) gpg says: # gpg --verbose --no-secmem-warning --no-greeting --yes --batch --armor -r . --encrypt file gpg: using secondary key 29622D17 instead of primary key A55C22FA gpg: 29622D17: no info to calculate a trust probability gpg: no valid addressees gpg: file: encryption failed: no such user id I have signed the key. If I use gpg interactively I can force the encryption, but Evolution only uses gpg in batch mode. Any idea how I can get enough info into this key to make it work? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] need to have a bash script run as a different user automatically
What about: su - user -c other_script However, unless the first script is running as root, this will stop to ask you for a password. Nick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2002, Kevin Fonner wrote: I have a bash script that get's called from another bash script. How can I get the second bash script to run as a different user? You'll have to use a utility such as sudo or else create a c wrapper script that you can set suid. Doing a chmod +s on a script will not work. It's politely ignored because of the security problems. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Finding files in MDK 8.2
slocate (the s is for secure) Terry Tremaine wrote: 1) Is there a reasonable substitute for locate other than find? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Writing DVD-R
Can I write DVD-R disks with mdk? does CD-record do this or do I need some other tool? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Adding screen savers in KDE
I have installed the xscreensaver and GL savers and would like to add them to my kde configuration. I got them going once before by running kappfinder, but this also changed my K-menu in a way that clashes with the default mdk layout. Can I add the screensavers without messing up the K-menu? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE3
In the end, LM8.2 did NOT ship with KDE3 in any form. Jump over to www.mandrake.com and KDE3 is mentioned in the news section on the front page. This links to installation instructions and rpms for 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 Krist van Besien wrote: Hi all, According to the Mandrake Website the Mandrake 8.2 distro comes with KDE3(beta). Where is it to be found on the installation media (I have the DVD + the 8 CD set)? Where can I download KDE3 (final) rpms that will work without to much trouble? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE3.0 install on LM8.2
I installed the KDE3.0 packages last night, just to take a look. They failed to install properly. As instructed (by the Mandrake web page) I downloaded all the rpms and then ran 'urpmi *' in the download directory. It failed on kdesdk and asked me if I wanted to try without dependancy checking. I said yes and it failed again, compaining about a cpio error in kdesdk. It asked if I wanted to --force it, I said yes an it installed, without kdesdk. I logged out, but KDE3 was not available from KDM. So I rebooted and there is was. I logged in, made a few changes as mentioned in the known problems sections of the install instructions and everything appears to work fine (well, kstars crashes as it starts up). I had a look around and was impressed. I eventually logged out and my other half logged in to check her e-mail. She did not select KDE3, but got it anyway. Logging out and reselecting plain KDE (i.e. not the KDE3 selection) from kdm also resulted in getting KDE3. I didn't want to force the upgrade on other users yet. Is it possible to still run KDE2 from kdm while the KDE3 install is present? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Any monospaced sans serif fonts?
www.microsoft.com/typography Mark Williamson wrote: I guess you need Andale Mono (TrueType) font - it's available from Win98 of from MS Typography site. What's the Web address of the MS Typography site. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] adding new users causes X to restart on login - mdk8.2
When a login fails, then its usually worth a look in /home/user/.xsession-errors. This is where all the console output ends up. Otherwise you could do a failsafe login (starts X and a terminal only) and run startkde (I assume your using KDE?). All the output from KDE will then appear in the terminal. Hopefully, one of these will show you a meaningful error message... Nick. Earle Jason wrote: Hello all, I have a problem adding new users to my Mandrake 8.2 box. I have tried using adduserdrake and userdrake, but to no avail. Every time I add a user, whenever they log in for the first time, it runs through the Windows Manager setup stuff, but when it tries to log them in for the first time, X restarts, and I'm back to the graphical login prompt. I'm in runlevel 5, and the new users are members of group xgrp (and wheel, but that shouldn't matter...) Is this an msec thing? When I first set up the box, I chose the security level just below paranoid. Am I paying the price for that choice now? Anyone who can recommend some troubleshooting steps will get 2 big thumbs up in my book. Aces! Thanks for the help... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK
Well, I did get Word to run on wine once, though it had a number of problems which ment it was not 100% useful, but thats for the future, CrossOver is now. I didn't mean to imply that this would give Word access to the kernel, I was only asking the question, is all my user stuff is now at risk? Obviously the scope of corruption would be limited to my /home and maybe some /tmp stuff, but this is enough to bring my session down and make it unusable. Worse, a macro virus could infect my other Word docs in a uncontrolled way (no virus protection) and all my collegues will start to hate me for sending them on. I don't even have a way to disinfect myself after the fact. civileme wrote: Nick Thompson wrote: So lets say that I get M$ Word running under wine, or I spash out on CodeWeavers Crossover Office. If Word is running correctly, I assume my pristine MDK installation has suddenly become vunerable to Word Macro viruses. The Linux kernel doesn't have windows anti-virus protection to save me from this, so is there anything I can do to protect myself? I could backup each time I want to run it I suppose ;-) Or maybe I've got it all wrong... Any ideas? VERY wrong... First of all, you won't get word to run on WINE because WINE handles only standard APIs, not the secret ones that Microsoft uses, which gives word and its macro facility DIRECT access to the Windows kernel. Crossover only emulates the access, certainly gives no access to the linux-kernel because it has only the privileges of the user running it... And unless you are running as root, you CAN'T WRITE TO /bin /usr/bin or anything else sitting in your executable path except perhaps your home directory. You might get a virus but it couldn't propagate. EVEN IF you were able to run as root (and deal with the poison red screen), and you were running Word, and you had a macro virus, it couldn't do very much because it isn't the windows kernel. The most likely result would be a segfault/kernel oops or a message about privilege violation. True, the linux kernel has no anti-virus features. They aren't needed. viruses are theoretically possible, and a few have been written, but they can't propagate, so they remain academic curiosities. Worms are theoretically possible, and a few have been written and they have played nasty games with systems that didn't stay updated (Yes, you can update easily without rebooting), but usually those exploits come out about 6 months after the fix is available. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK
So lets say that I get M$ Word running under wine, or I spash out on CodeWeavers Crossover Office. If Word is running correctly, I assume my pristine MDK installation has suddenly become vunerable to Word Macro viruses. The Linux kernel doesn't have windows anti-virus protection to save me from this, so is there anything I can do to protect myself? I could backup each time I want to run it I suppose ;-) Or maybe I've got it all wrong... Any ideas? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82
Uni-Processor, i.e.only one processor - not SMP. Brian Parish wrote: What does UP mean (apart from a familiar direction) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Default user paths in LM8.2
If I want to change the default path for all users, what file should I be editing? I have installed the xscreensaver rpms on LM8.2 but they are installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver (?) which is not on the path, so nobody can use them. Of course users could add this into .profile in their home dir, but I'd like to add it globally. At this stage I'm assuming all users are using bash. Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the file system
For my money I would use XFS every time. Its fast an recovers quickly from resets (damn that gnomemeeting junk ;) Its a problem with floppy boot disks though as the drivers are on the large size. But bootable CDs are fine for rescues. Dave Sherman wrote: On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 21:19, Mark Williamson wrote: Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the file system? any issues with NFS when using either of the file system? We are running here with ext3, but nothing is being said which would be a better choice.. I don't know if there are outstanding NFS issues with ReiserFS, but I can tell you from personal experience, Reiser is quite a bit faster than Ext3 on the systems I have tried. The only reason I would use Ext3 is if I already had the system on Ext2 and wanted to convert it without doing a backup/restore of the partition. Starting with a fresh install or new partition, I would use Reiser. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM8.2 Alcatel Speedtouch USB
I have captured the specific errors in the hope that I can prove I have a real problem and am not trying to subvert the list ;-) Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed dev 2 ep 0x85 len 512 ret -110 Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 192 rq 18 len 8 ret -110 Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 192 rq 18 len 8 ret -110 Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 192 rq 18 len 8 ret -110 Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: HDLC line discipline: version $Revision: 3.3 $, maxframe=4096 Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: N_HDLC line discipline registered. Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Mar 26 07:39:45 localhost kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.1 ... Mar 26 07:39:02 localhost network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Mar 26 07:39:02 localhost network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded Mar 26 07:39:02 localhost net_cnx_up: SIOCDELRT: No such process -*is this the problem?* Mar 26 07:39:03 localhost net_cnx_up: Starting ADSL connection: Mar 26 07:39:24 localhost pppd[1098]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Mar 26 07:39:24 localhost pppoa3[1101]: PPPoA3 version 1_0 started by root (uid 0) Mar 26 07:39:24 localhost pppoa3[1107]: ppp(d) -- pppoa3 -- modem stream ready Mar 26 07:39:24 localhost pppd[1098]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/pts/0 Mar 26 07:39:24 localhost pppoa3[1108]: CRC error in an AAL5 frame Mar 26 07:39:24 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is already up Mar 26 07:39:42 localhost pppd[1098]: remote IP address 217.32.66.200 Mar 26 07:39:42 localhost pppd[1098]: secondary DNS address 158.43.240.3 Mar 26 07:39:44 localhost net_cnx_up: ^[[65G[^[[1;31m Mar 26 07:39:44 localhost net_cnx_up: Mar 26 07:39:44 localhost internet: Checking internet connections to start at boot failed Thanks, Nick. Nick Thompson wrote: I have installed LM8.2 over the weekend and so far everything works great. Well I think so, but the logs are not so sure... During bootup my ADSL link is brought up (takes ~30seconds though, but this is the same time as under 8.1) but the boot output says Checking internet connections to start at boot [FAILED] or something close. The link seems to work fine though. Looking in /var/log/messages shows the link coming up successfully, but with a the same failure result. Any ideas how I could clean this up? Its not a big deal, but it looks a bit odd. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM8.2 Alcatel Speedtouch USB
I have installed LM8.2 over the weekend and so far everything works great. Well I think so, but the logs are not so sure... During bootup my ADSL link is brought up (takes ~30seconds though, but this is the same time as under 8.1) but the boot output says Checking internet connections to start at boot [FAILED] or something close. The link seems to work fine though. Looking in /var/log/messages shows the link coming up successfully, but with a the same failure result. Any ideas how I could clean this up? Its not a big deal, but it looks a bit odd. Trying to bring the link up manually in MCC always says that it has failed after about 5-10 seconds, but the connection does usually some up after 25-30seconds. I thought one plus point for ADSL was the quick connection time. Does anybody else see connection times as long as a 56K modem? I'm using Pipex over BT in the UK. The only other problem I had is that my VIA82cxxx sound would not work, so I put my trusty PCI16 soundblaster back in, which is way better anyway. 8.2 looks the best yet. Well done Mandrake! Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown
Well, I heard a funny story once. A couple of workers from a big nameless company where woking on (WindBlows) laptops on an American Airlines flight. Started out fine, but after a few hours things started to go wrong and eventually both PCs came down in a heap and wouldn't reboot. It turned out that there where magnets in the tray tables, designed to stop them rattling during flight. As the disks whirred round, they where slowly erasing themselves. Unless your have a chassis speaker close to your drives, I doubt that this is your problem, but who knows... Nick. Ken Thompson wrote: On Monday 18 March 2002 03:36 am, you wrote: Hi everyone, I got a tremendous problem here. I shut down my MDK8.1 perfectly, but when I restarted it, it says I have a corrupted filesystem that needs to be checked. Sometimes the checking doesn't pass and I have to do fsck in maintenance. This time the rc.d files are corrupted and I can't start at all anymore. Well, I know I could just install again from scratch, but the trick is, this happened on MDK8.0, then on MDK8.1. I thought the HD was getting old, so I installed it on a totally new one. After a couple weeks, there I am again. I've had nearly the same problem and have found no solution yet. AMD Athalon 1.2GHZ 512 RAM Epox 8KTA3+ Matrox millineum 450 LinkSys NIC Onboard sound USR Hardware modem V.92 I've had the mainboard warranteed and have changed out memory, HDD, Video and NIC cards. I still get a slow data corruption and end up having to re-install to clean it up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Check for zlib via rpm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Mar 2002, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi, is it possible to use rpm to get a list of files/packages from the rpm database that were built using zlib? I have a lot built from src.rpm and would like to check ... It could be a start to help find packages. However, many packages may link statically against the library and will be vulnerable even if you upgrade zlib. To fix these you'll need to download the src rpm and rebuild against the fixed library. That is what Bill was asking I think. I don't think rpm can help you find out which packges use zlib statically as there is no external dependancy or provide that marks this. If executables are not stripped, then you might be able to dump symbol information from them using 'find' to track them down, see which ones have zlib symbols in and then use rpm to track those executables back to packages, but even this won't work if some or all of your executables (and libs) are stripped. Having said that you only need to worry about packages that are using untrusted zlib compressed data (e.g. ppp). You only need to prevent yourself from an exploit. Trusted data can be fixed, if and when you find a problem. Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bastille firewall setup
That works better, thanks. With the extra output, I see that the third rule only relates to the 'lo' loopback interface, which makes sense. Kind of a flaw that iptables -L did not tell me this crucial bit of info. Thanks, Nick. Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: Nick Thompson wrote: Hello, With LM8.1 I am trying to shore up my machine using Bastille - I don't need anything complex. Setup went fine, but now I'm tring to understand what it has done. iptables -L says: Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination DROP tcp -- anywhere 127.0.0.0/8 ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere DROP all -- BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST.NET/4 anywhere PUB_IN all -- anywhere anywhere PUB_IN all -- anywhere anywhere PUB_IN all -- anywhere anywhere ...snip the rest which seems fine. Rule 3 4 in the input chain confuse me. Rule 3 looks like it will accept anything what so ever, so none of the following rules will be used. Have I misunderstood? I was confused by this as well. Try #service bastille-firewall status it lists additional criteria that are not shown by iptables -L. It looks fine then (I think). Perhaps there's some option for more verbose output. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Bastille firewall setup
Hello, With LM8.1 I am trying to shore up my machine using Bastille - I don't need anything complex. Setup went fine, but now I'm tring to understand what it has done. iptables -L says: Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination DROP tcp -- anywhere 127.0.0.0/8 ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere DROP all -- BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST.NET/4 anywhere PUB_IN all -- anywhere anywhere PUB_IN all -- anywhere anywhere PUB_IN all -- anywhere anywhere ...snip the rest which seems fine. Rule 3 4 in the input chain confuse me. Rule 3 looks like it will accept anything what so ever, so none of the following rules will be used. Have I misunderstood? Rule 4 looks okay, I'm just not sure what its there for. Also since Bastille is run at boot, do connections brought up later get protected or do I need to re-run something? Thanks for any help, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] /dev/dsp ownership
On LM8.1 (with devfs) it seem that the first person to login and use the audio device /dev/dsp gets ownership of it with crw-- permissions, which seem correct to me. However, on logout, the ownership is retained and the next person to login can't use the audio device - even if they are in the audio group. I assume this is related to devfs. Is there a workaround for this (I'd like to retain devfs if possible)? More importantly, has it been fixed for LM8.2? I can live with it for a while if it has. Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning
One thing that almost all machines do, that often gets over-looked, is upgrade from time-to-time. Installing a new version of the OS or a different OS is always best done from scratch and of course you will backup before doing this, but you might be able to save some time if your own data in /home, /var/some/apps/stroage/path, /usr/local and /opt is kept in different partitions to the system stuff in /usr and /etc for example. If all goes well you won't need to format these partitions and restore this data - some applications in /opt and /usr/local may no longer be compatible, but they might be okay. You might choose only one of /opt and /usr/local; I have my own rules which mean I end up with both (smallish stuff in /usr/local, big applications in /opt/appname Nick. On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:52:26 + Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Dont know of a cookbook but think about what you need machine to do. Like if its going to have lots of users you need more /home if it a DB server then where to the DB files go ? /var ? Then need lots of /var, etc If its just your home PC then it dont hurt to make one '/' root partition and just let it all live it there. As for swap I used to use a rule of 2xphysical Ram which I still think is a pretty good rule but these days my machines have plenty ram so dont really get to use much swap. That said disk space is cheap so unless you got small disk give em 2xphsyram or more. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mirror / backup
'dd' is probably you best bet for OEM situations. Here (in a corporation) we use KickStart to install Linux. This basically allows you to boot from a floppy and then load Linux over the network using the standard install program. You can even store machine configs on the network so that individual parameters (like IP address) for each machine can be automatically set up. (unfortunately our RedHat load still wants us to confirm the Video settings, but thats all) We just brought 3 2.2GHz Dells and using an already available KickStart image, we installed each one up in 3 minutes dead (100Mbit Ethernet). Thats fully configured ready to go, with networking, printing, etc. It took longer to cable them up than install and configure the software! Nick. Rob wrote: Anyone got any ideas about making a disk image suitable for then putting onto new machines, a bit like norton Ghost, I thining of OEM linux or corprate situations here where you might have a lot of machines and dont want to install the same software on each. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Good audio recording program?
Just a thought, as I never recorded through arts, have you enabled full duplex operation in the kde control center-sound-sound server-sound I/O tab? I think you need to do this to play and record at the same time in arts. I'm assuming that your artsdsp rec output.wavcommand was run while you where playing something using real player. Try something simple first, like recording a CD track. Click the red LED under the CD slider in kmix, play a CD using kscd (or whatever), then try artsdsp rec output.wav. What do you get? (I've also never used rec, so I don't know if your syntax is correct. krecord is your friend :) Note that if you have set arts to full duplex mode, it will never release /dev/dsp so you will *have* to use arts for all sound I/O. If you turn off full duplex and wait for arts to disconnect (60secs by default?) the you can try the same as above but just use rec output.wav. Now what do you get? Don't miss-spell and cause a konsole beep, since arts will reconnect for the beep and you'll have to wait 60secs again. Nick. D. R. Evans wrote: I remember way back in LM 7.0 getting sound to work using sox without any trouble. But things are obviously more complicated these days. artsdsp rec output.wav produces a file with a WAV header, but nothing else. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Good audio recording program?
kmix only controls the mixer and as such allows you to select the source to record from (red LEDs at the bottom). You need something else to do the actual recording. Want a GUI? Try KRecord (apps.kde.com) which does a very good job and will display VU and FFT info to help you get the levels right. I like it 'cus it allows both record to RAM and record to disk. Long (1hour, 500-600MB) high quality recordings are possible to disk. But a GUI is no good if you won't be there to kick it off. I like streamer for this (part of LM8.1). mainly 'cus it can be kicked off from cron and has a recording length parameter to get it to stop again. I record some radio programs this way. However, I only record from audio in and I'm not sure how easy it will be for you to share the /dev/dsp device with both real player and one of the above. Maybe you can get it to work by using something like 'artsdsp rplayer...' to wrap the applications in arts 'shells'. Nick. Oscar wrote: Try bcast El jue, 24-01-2002 a las 00:12, D. R. Evans escribió: What program do people recommend for recording audio? Specifically, if I am playing a RealAudio file through RealPlayer, I would like to record the audio in a format that I can later play back. None of the programs that is installed by default in MDK 8.1 seems to perform this function. (I thought that kmix did; but there's no Save As... to allow me to tell it where to put any recorded audio; the help talks about recording, but doesn't give any clue as to how to actually perform the function.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2 bad K7T266 mobos?
Franki and others, Have you got AGP to work with KT266A? With that chipset my install is using the AGP card as if its a PCI card. This works, but is only 33MHz instead of AGP x4. In /var/log/messages agp startup says that the chipset is unsupported and I might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1 or something similar. No idea where I would but that though. Stock LM8.1 kernel install. Thanks, Nick. Franki wrote: Strange, I have had a MSI KT266A board with an AthlonXP 1800 running on it for ages now... not a problem, other then getting linux to use it, and once I got that sorted, all was well.. keep persevering.. MSI make good boards... I have had several of them,, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2 bad K7T266 mobos?
Lee, What /exactly/ do you mean by boot? Does the BIOS at least get started (hear any beeps?) and the video show something, or do you mean that LM will not boot once you have seen LILO? I don't have this mobo, but I have a KT266A based board and it took me several hours to work out how to get the BIOS going (CPU clock multiple config). BTW try pressing and holding the power switch for ~4 seconds. Nick. Lee Roberts wrote: I recently bought a K7T266 with an Athlon 1.3GHZ CPU and 512 MB of DDR RAM. The first board wouldn't boot. MSI tech support said it was a bad mobo. So, I got another mobo. It won't boot either. Installing this mobo was a straightforward process so why won't they boot? Bad CPU? It isn't a problem with the case, power supply, drives, or cards since everything works with the Asus P5A-B. I'm going to contact MSI tech support tomorrow after work. Another strange problem with both boards is that I can turn on the computer but can't turn it off with the power switch. What gives? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2 bad K7T266 mobos?
That is like I had with my board (Jetway 866ASU + 1GHz Athlon, upgraded last weekend). In my case I had the CPU clock multiplier wrong. The manual listed all the settings for the jumpers and I tried the lowest (x5.0) and it failed. I took all the jumpers off (not even listed) and now it works fine. Does your board have anything similar? I guess tech support would have talked you through this though. A lack of beeps just means the BIOS isn't running, which could be jumper configuration, bad CPU, bad RAM, bad BIOS or a bad mobo. Nick. Lee Roberts wrote: Nope. No beeps whatsover. No video display. Nothing. The CPU fan runs though and I hear some noise from the drives as I normally do. The D-panel diagnostic lights are all red. The manual says that combo of colors indicates a bad CPU but when I talked to MSI tech support last week the tech said if I don't hear any beeps it's a bad mobo. But, 2 in a row? If so, I think I'll return the board and go with some other vendor. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Jetway 866AS Ultra mobo
Hmm, reply to self :-( I brought the bits below and it works a treat, LM8.1 detected and configured everything on it, though I'm not sure the on-board sound is too good (AC97). I'll play with that later. Otherwise it seems to be a good value (from £71 inc vat in UK) high performance board (Via KT266A chipset). I think I have whiplash from the speed that KDE starts up now :-) Oh, and the documentation sucks. No idea why, but don't set a CPU clock multiple !? Is there anyway I can get the board added to the supported H/W list on MDKs web site? Nick. I wrote: Has anybody tried this mobo with LM8.1? Does it work okay? Looking to get this, 256MB PC2100 and 1.0GHz Athlon this weekend. Comments welcome! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Jetway 866AS Ultra mobo
Has anybody tried this mobo with LM8.1? Does it work okay? Looking to get this, 256MB PC2100 and 1.0GHz Athlon this weekend. Comments welcome! Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] which gcc for kde3
What is the recommended version of gcc compiler for building KDE3? I seem to remember that one aim of KDE3 was to build with gcc3.0.x, but is it actually recommended? Also, do we know yet which version of gcc/g++ will be addressing the slow runtime library linking issues in C++? (I see gcc3.1 is due Apr 15th) Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] recording audio from sound card at specified time
Hi, I generally use the impressive krecord program to capture audio from my sound card. It works great, but as a GUI it is geared to user interaction. What I need to do is capture some audio at a set time (as a cron job, or at task) for a specified period. I can handle putting a script together to start and stop a task at specified times, but how can I capture the audio samples into a file? I'm guessing something like 'cat /dev/dsp filename' might work (or /dev/audio?), but is there more to it - e.g. sample rate? Or maybe somebody knows of a tool to do this. (I need to capture to file as I will be capturing around an hours worth) Sorry this is not strictly a Mandrake question, but it is LM8.1 I want to do this on :-) . Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] recording audio from sound card at specified time
I've only ever used it on kde2. Search on apps.kde.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you been able to get krecord to work through KDE2? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable
Me too :-) In the MDK control centre- services. Deselect alsa on boot option. Reconfigure the card with sndconfig and reboot. Nick. Harold Hartley wrote: the sound mixer doesn't work properly until you do a modprobe of the sound card.. and I have been running a sound card thats been linux compatible for years. (es1371) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Nvidia issues
I get this too. Screen updates stop and the keyboard is dead, but curiously, the mouse pointer can still be moved around (the pointer shape does not change as it moves over icons and screen borders though). All other machine activity continues normally but the logs, including the XFree log give no clues. I have tried 1541 and 2314(?) with no luck. I have an ASUS P5A (1006) and have changed my BIOS settings as per the nVidia docs. I suppose I should try upgrading the BIOS sometime. It seems strange though that the mouse pointer can still be moved, while no other screen updates can occur. Ring any bells? Nick. Johnc wrote: I have an Nvidia geforce 2 mx PCI card that has been causing full Xwindows lock ups to the point of having to do a hard shutdown. I removed the GLX and Nvidia module lines form my XF86Config-4 file and seem to have no problems. I know the drivers are closed source and there not a lot that can be done in that respect. Driver ver. is 1.0-2313 has anyone experienced similar problems with these drivers? I used the tarballs to install them on the default 8.1 kernel 2.4.8-26. I am curious if maybe there is a utility to check the card to see if maybe it is failing as i never had these issues until recently and I experience similar problems in windows. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ldconfig and /usr/loca/lib
I guess you didn't run ldconfig first? 'ldconfig -v'? Nick. Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List, I've done it many times but now I don't know why it's not working. I use MDK 8.0. I've installed fftw and some libs went to /usr/local/lib. So I add this folder to /etc/ld.so.conf, as follow: /usr/X11R6/lib/wine /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib /usr/local/lib However, xmgrace, f.exe., a libfftw dependent give me: xmgrace: error while loading shared libraries: libfftw.so.2: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory So, please, can someone tell me what I'm missing? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] StarOffice
I think you are right. Although during my day job (Solaris) we use /opt, at home (MDK) I use /usr/local, which had nothing in it apart from top level directories after a fresh install. Most addon packages for Solaris install into /usr/local too. So I really wish we didn't use /opt at work. However sometime a /opt is useful (on both Solaris MDK) since some packages insist upon it. In this case I find a link between /opt and /usr/local useful. (The real story on Solaris is much more complicated - but I won't bore you with that ;) Nick. Thomas Sourmail wrote: Everything I install *out* of my distribution I install on /opt. It's better for 'management'. Am I wrong or I remember that RH (and therfore Mandrake ?) are not touching /usr/local/, in which case you are just as sure everything which is there is out of your distribution ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problem with linux
How so? My laptop dual boots between Win98 and LM8.1. It has the same hostname in each boot and uses DHCP to get its networking details in both cases. If I hadn't told our IT department, I'm not sure they'd have even realised I'd done it. Nick. Mark Weaver wrote: The reason that companies don't install dual-boot Windows/SomeOtherOS is because Microsoft have hidden license agreements that preclude such things. not to mention the fact that that situation would be a network admins nightmare from hell! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] remote display
I might be wrong but I think there was a special version of VNC that connected to an already running X server for remote display. I haven't heard of any way to do this using only X. Nick. Oscar wrote: Hi all, When I conect with ssh to a linux server, I can launch X apps and these apps are displayed in my local computer. But... There are any way to see a X program running in the remote server (not launched from my local computer)? (I have root privileges if neccesary). Thanks, óscar. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!
In my experiance 8.1 is much better than 7.x. BUT, never upgrade your OS as this always seems to break stuff (my cd always fails to work again). Do a good back up and plan for a fresh install every time. It a shame the upgrade procedure doesn't work well, but a fresh install is quicker than and upgrade, which leaves you with some spare time to use the excellent tools to reconfigure a few things. Nick. João Henrique da Silva Nunes Jales Ribeiro wrote: If you've seen a neat icon on your desktop refering to something called mandrake control center you should have already clicked on it. It has a strange feature that allows to QUICKLY share your internet connection. Maybe you've made your share on 7.2 the hard way, i've also done it on 7.1, but it seems to be easier on 8.1, you should check it up. On Wednesday 28 November 2001 22:14, you wrote: In regard to my problems, my internet connection sharing quit working after an upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1. And I had to do a fresh install of 8.1 in order to get the CDRW to work. 8.1 seems to break stuff. These problems probably can be fixed but an upgrade should never break stuff that's already working on an earlier version. At 12:53 PM 11/28/2001 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? I installed 8.1 on an old IBM Thinkpad 760XL w/o incident. Perhaps a little more detail might be more constructive... -- Chris Haidinyak -Original Message- From: Ken Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Just to vent: Had a perfectly functioning 7.2 on my laptop. That was easier than any other OS (windows or linux) I tried. Total plug play. Then I decided to try 8.1 for all the updates and extras...what a piece of SH!T! I know a lot of people worked long and hard on this, and I have been a Mandrake supporter since V.7.x I tell people how easy the install is, how they don't need to be a linux guru to get busy doing stuff. Robust, stable, versatile. Now I have to turn around and say to those people, whatever you doDON'T upgrade to MDK8. I am not a guru, but neither am I a novice; I pissed a whole day away trying to have desktops that didn't go flakey, and Multi-Media that worked..No such luck. Now I am going to rollback to 7.2 If Mandrake is still trying to target the average desktop PC user, they will have to totally rethink the installation process for 8. Version 8 is a step BACKWARD as far as ease of installation and use go. Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Digital Camera: Nikon Coolpix 775
Armin, I have a Nikon 990, and it is not detected as a mass storage USB device. I think the id it returns has not been registered as a user of usb-storage, though my guess is that if it were registered it would work, but I have no idea who to pass the id to. Anyway, I still get along okay with LM8.1, as gphoto2 (included) supports most Nikons (check at www.gphoto.org, but be sure to check gphoto2 not 0.4x), this along with the gtKam GUI gives me adequate access to my camera. gtKam is not that good, but I can get my photos off the camera, which is all you need, right? ;-) As an aside, with CUPS using gimp print and an Epson 870, I get stunning photo output that is at least as good as from windows and looks as good as a real photo. I use the Corel photo paint, which works well and is free too :-) Nick. Armin Roehrl wrote: Hi, did anybody get the Nikon Coolpix 775 to work with Mandrake 8.1? It is not in the support database. Thanks, Armin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla Java
And it *has* to be a sim-link as well. I initially copied it and then spent a whole day working out why it didn't work :-( I don't think it actuall matters where you install java, the link is used to work out the path. Nick. skidley wrote: One thing I had to do was make a symlink: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so - java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so* -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] partitions
/usr stores much of the ditribution supplied stuff so will be over written when you upgrade. However /usr/local (and /opt if you have it) should be seperate partitions. Anything you install which is not part of the distribution should end up in one of these. Along with /home these might be worth saving. Also they may not - since executables in there may become useless if the libraries they use are changed in the upgrade. Nick. Luke Vandervort wrote: I have been running linux for a bout a year now and was just wondering about my partitioning. I am running mdk 8.1 and I have / /swap /home Partitions. Is there any adavantage to repartitioning and putting /usr in its own partition? I am wondering if for example I could switch to anonther version of linux without reinstalling all my progs if I leave the /usr and /home as is on the new install without formatting them?? Or am I missing something? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Heads up... Netscape 4.79
And I though 4.78 was flakey. I'm trying to use mozilla now, but its sooo slw :-( . Does anybody know when Moz 0.9.6 is due - I thought it was supposed to be last friday. Konqy is pretty good and fast, but it still chokes on too many pages and java never seems to work for me. Maybe I'll have to give Opera a spin. This won't help me for e-mail though. Nick. Pierre Fortin wrote: I've being *trying* to use NS4.79; but have just reverted back to 4.78. NS4.79 is the worst release I've seen to date... it crashes constantly. It messes up your mail *.summary files and if bad enough, any attempt to run NS4.79 will crash before displaying the first window; the only way to find the problem is to strace it and correct/delete the file it's croaking on... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] X lockup with audio CDs
Hi, In LM8.1 w/standard KDE2.2.1: If I play an audio CD in my CD-RW drive with the KDE cd player (not tried other players), then I get a few messages in /var/log/messages saying something like /dev/sr0 not ready please insert a disk (?). After about three of these messages X locks up - the keyboard stops working and screen updates stop. The mouse still moves, but the cursor doesn't change when passing over window edges, etc. There is nothing else of interest in messages. The PC is still doing stuff. Slocate fires up not long after I login and keeps going happily AFAIK. My only recourse seems to be the Big Red Botton (TM). Removing the CD from the drive during the reboot fixes the problem, but is not a very good fix for me. BTW I am using the latest (1541?) Nvidia drivers for X. Any ideas what I should be looking for or at? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cups again
www.linuxprinting.org is always a good place to look. This link should take directly to the a cupsomatic PPD file for the bjc620: http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-o-matic.cgi?driver=bjc600printer=62080.submit=Generate+CUPS+PPD You must also install the cupsomatic program also available from linuxprinting. Nick Bill Kenworthy wrote: It appears that Mandrake 8.1 doesnt support my canon bjc620 printer. The drivers I have tried either dont work, or print 4 lines of ascii on a separate page as well as the page I want to print. I cannot find any of the Foomatic drivers used on Mandrake 7.2 in the software manager so I am stuck at the moment. I did see a page on Mandrake user.org a while ago about installing a particular revision of foomatic from Mandrake 7.2 which might fix the problem, however I cannot find the page now. Can someone point me in the right direction? BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- _ ___ __ __ / \/ / / __\/ // /\ Nick Thompson | Agere Systems Ltd // / /__/ _ / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Microelectronics House /_/\_/_//_/\\_\/ Tel: +44 1344 865951 | Kingswood, Kings Ride \_\/\\_\\_\/ \_\ Fax: +44 1344 865959 | Ascot, Berkshire SL5 8AD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux?
I finally got around to installing the nvidia drivers this weekend. I thought it might be difficult, but I just grabbed the two src.rpms and did an 'rpm --rebuild' followed by an 'rpm -ivh' for each and a vi on the X config file (as per the nvidia instructions) and it worked without a single hitch. on my LM8.1 K6-2 (400MHz) GeForce2 MX 32MB (£40), glxgears is up from 30fps, in its default window, to 875fps (up from 7 to 126fps full screen). Tuxracer is up from 1 frame every 5-10 seconds to what looks like full speed video with no jurking at all. Very smooth - I was very impressed. I think my GPU must outpower my CPU ;-) Install those drivers and I think you'll be very happy too. Nick. -Original Message- From: Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; George Jones (IT); '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux? Hi, When you say that it 'runs well' does it mean smooth? I mean, enough frames per second? I guess you need to install the NVidia drivers, don't you? I ask this becuase I have the same Nvidia chip and I may try to install and configure all the stuff if you say its worth. You know, I am a bit freaked out by the 3 frames per second on the tuxracer (on the same machine allowing me to run Collin Mrae full speed at 1024x768x16k, on windows 98 , and a bit slower but still ok on w2000). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux?
Agreed, but what is your point? Installing from the rpms is easy (on rpm based systems) and the nvidia drivers provide much better 3D performance than the nv driver. Sure, you can use tar balls, but what is the advantage? The rpm install takes care of backing up the old mesa libs so that the nvidia rpms can be removed easily. George Jones (IT) wrote: Just to let you guys know - installing the nvidia drivers from an rpm isn't totally necessary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SoundBlaster 128PCI - IRQ conflict
Usually, you will have to resort to trying the card in different PCI slots, until it uses the interrupt you want it to. Does your motherboard manual tell you which PCI slot uses which interrupt? I think IRQ10 on mine (P5A) is one of the two slots next to the AGP slot (IRQ11). YMMV. Nick. Oscar wrote: Accord to /proc/interrupts the IRQ 10 is not used by any device. How can I force the module es1371 tu use the IRQ 10? There are another solution? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] re :telnet-server mdk 8.1 + other non working bits
Have you tried 'eject /dev/...'? it a PIa to have to start the cd player just to get the cdrom to eject, as it ignores umount.. Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Serious bug in linux (I think)
This is just a Unix thing. Since you own the directory the file is in, you can change the permissions on the file (which are stored in the directory entry, not in the file). No sensible admin would put a file that must be write only by root, in a users home directory. That space doesn't belong to root, so they have no business there. Nick. Arnold Troeger wrote: What are the permissions on the /home/user? I'm reasonable certain that all unixes behave as below. At least SunOS, Solaris, Linux, IRIX, and AIX all do. Michael Osten wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:19:25 -0700 Julia A. Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've not tried this on non-Mandrake boxes, but I think it may be a problem with linux in general not just Mandrake. As root touch /home/user/test1;chmod 600 /home/user/test1 touch /home/user/test2;chmod 600 /home/user/test2 As user mv test1 test3 mv test2 test3 Both succeed with no trouble (the 2nd one will ask if you want to override the mode 600). mv basically does a cp and a rm doesn't it (I didn't look at the source, just guessing) and you shouldn't be able to rm a file you don't have permission to write on. You can mv the files anywhere in your home dir you have write permissions, but you can't seem to move to say /tmp It would seem that if an admin put a specific file in your home dir that they didn't want you to modify, you could either move it or even replace it with this setup. I'll admit this would be a little odd, but still a bug. Since I'm not sure who to report this too, someone please let me know. Julia I've confirmed this is the case on both redhat and mandrake (anyone want to try on Solaris to make sure this isn't just a unix thing?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kmix problems
Hmm, LM8.1 and very basic SoundBlaster16 PCI In the services module alsa was 'run on boot' but also 'stopped'. strange. I deselcted its run on boot and rebooted, but kmix still doesn't work. I reconfigured with harddrake and it still doesn't work. Only reconfiguring with sndconfig seems to do the trick. I will try uninstalling alsa completely to see if that helps, but does anybody have any other ideas? BTW kmix does have the correct mixer tab set up for my card (when the mixer is working, after sndconfig, it works just fine), but it says 'invalid mixer' again after a reboot. Thanks, Nick. Sevatio wrote: You must be using LM8.1. Chances are, ALSA is set to start at reboot. That's the root of your problem because ALSA is interfering with your sound driver (OSS). You need to prevent ALSA from starting up. Do this by running Mandrake Control Center - System - Services. Then look for ALSA and uncheck it. Then reboot and the problem should be fixed. If Kmix still does not show your soundcard, then run HardDrake to re-recognize your soundcard. It's very fast and you'll hear a confirmation message that will indicate its completion. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kmix problems
From looking at the archives it seems, like me, many people are having problems with kmix. One suggestion I saw said to use sndconfig to reconfigure sound. I did this in a virtual console before logging in at KDM and once logged in kmix worked like a charm. One reboot later though and it's broken again (claims an invalid mixer). Is this something to do with DevFS? Other than this sound works fine, although occasionally the audio devs seem to end up being owned by a previously logged in user, without an intermediate reboot - DevFS again? What is the best way to fix these problems? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] IDE CDROM problems again :(
Hi, In LM-Freq2, I can only mount the first CD I choose. If I eject this one and insert another, I can only get I/O errors when I 'cd' back into /mnt/cdrom. This a really annoying if I tried to add packages from the install CDs which require rpms from both disks. The first one works fine, then putting the second in for the remainer of the install, it can't read the drive and aborts the installation. I'am using supermount with a default setup for a CD-RW (with SCSI emulation). Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks, Nick.
Re: [expert] FONTS im getting tired of this
Konqueror will use the fonts specified in the web page or its associated style sheet (CSS). You will need to find a solution that overrides this. Maybe you could set up your own style sheet, or possible use the accessability stylesheet, which allows you to set base font sizes, etc. Look in kcontrol-Web Browsing-Style Sheets. I guess there are other solutions, like aliasing bad looking fonts for good looking ones in xftconfig or else where. Nick. Kernell32 wrote: Hi i have fixed the fonts as suggested on muo and other pages yep my fonts in kde look very nice everywhere in kde, in the kde control panel i have them almost default most are helvetica and they look good on the desktop toolbars etc. really nice! Also in kmail and other kde apps nothing to complain . Only konqueror messes them up i dont understand that, i followed all instructions to fix that and in konqueror webbrowser i use the same font as anywhere else helvetica and minimum font size 12 and as soon as i go to a webpage ie: http://neworder.box.sk the fonts look messed up almost anarectik. how is that possible if i have all fonts set to the same as in all other apps? (it looks like they are not even helvetica even though i set them ALL to be helvetica)
Re: [expert] X over SSH.
Take a look a www.cygwin.com. XFree86 has been ported to this setup and works on win9x and NT. Nick. Thomas Sourmail wrote: By the way, if there are some free X servers for W9x/Nt, I'd be happy to know !
[expert] Auto power down
Hi, Until I upgraded to LM-Freq2 from LM8.0, my PC always used to turn itselfs off at the end of a shutdown. Now it just says Power down and leaves it to me to switch off. How can I reenable that feature. I have ATX everything BTW. Thanks, Nick.
Re: [expert] kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media.
Hi, This happened to me when I tried to upgrade from 7.2-8.0. I got no answers that worked here, but a complete reinstall fixed it. I have just upgraded to Freq and its happened again, so I can see another reinstall coming on. Interestingly, if I'm persistant enough, it does finally seem to mount. Nick. Oscar wrote: Hi. I recently upgrade to MandrakeFreq, kernel 2.4.5-5mdk I have a problem with cdrom units. I can read from cdrom, but when I change cdrom, I can't read the new (or the same) cdrom. It says Input/output error, and I can see in /var/log/messages: kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media. I can't remount the mountpoint (ad ex: mount /mnt/cdrom) but I can mount the device (mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom), so may be it's a problem with supermount? Anybody can help? Thanks Salu2, Oscar.
[expert] missing fonts
Hi, I just upgraded to LM8.0+Freq last night and was please to see that AA is now supported by the ATI driver (Rage II 3D) in XFree4.1.0. Strangely the default config mean fonts 8 and 14 are not AAed, but I fixed this in XftConfig and, wow, looks great! Anyway, in the KDE font manager I can't see many of my installed fonts. After running drakfont and asking it to reinstall my windows fonts, all the fonts reappeared. Well at least until I logged out and back in; then they where gone again. KDEs default font is Helvetica I think. This is one that is missing. The font Xfs (?) replaces it with though actually looks really nice (no idea what it is, but its italic), but I'm still a bit perturbed by Linux not working as I'd expect. Any idea what's going on? Thanks, Nick.
[expert] Info on iptables?
Can anybody point me to a good source of info on setting up iptables? Thanks, Nick.
[expert] P4?
Hi, Does LM 8.0 work on Pentium 4? I guess it does, but I thought I'd check before spending all that cash... Thanks, Nick.
Re: [expert] Mdk 8.0: problems in running c++ execs.
Shouldn't that be:
#include iostream
int main ()
{
cout Hallo world endl;
return 0;
}
I think your prompt is overwritting your output...
Could be wrong,
Nick.
Fabio Spreafico wrote:
I'm getting problems, that never happened under Mandrake 7.2, in running
compiled c++ programs. Let's have an example: the Hallo world!.
#include iostream
int main ()
{
cout Hallo world\n;
return 0;
}
Re: [expert] Script question...
Look at man date, which will show you how to cutomize the output of date to get
something of the right form.
Then use something like:
mydate=`date +%b%d`
filename=backup_${mydate}.tgz
Note: the single quotes around the date command are those you get by pressing the
button to the left of '1' (at
least on my keyboard).
Hope that helps,
Nick
Thierry De Corte wrote:
I want to backup some files using tar in a script... How can I use the current date
to create the file name?
In other words, I want to script the command:
#!/bin/sh
tar -zcvf backup_jun18.tgz /some_dir/*
with the date part automatic (the date can be any formats)...
Thanks
Re: [expert] CDRW Drive Addition
cdrecord checks access permissions against the users login before giving access to files, not relying solely on the OS to do this. It is therefore okay to make it SUID root. Once you do that you don't need root access to burn CDs. The GUIs do work of course, but it maybe true that some are better than others. I use kisocd (kisocdII for kde2). It doesn't look so cool or slick, but it does the job okay. Its best feature is that it supports mkisofs features that allow you to pick files/dirs to write and allows you to pre-organize them into a new dir structure that will be written to CD. Most GUIs will only let you write a pre-existing dir structure. This feature works really well when selecting a bunch of carefully chosen dirs for backup. Other GUIs really NEED this feature. After kisocd, koncd looks like a reasonable bet. Goto http://apps.kde.com/ and do a search for CD to find others a reviews. Nick. Ron Stodden wrote: Caleb Newville wrote: Ok, so I have the SCSI emulation working, and HardDrake confirms that. I would now like to know a good piece of burn software (KDE prefered). cdrecord is in Mandrake 8.0 and is very easy to use from the command line (always use -v). You must be root. Run cdrecord -scanbus to verify your scsi emulation is working. This will aslo give you the parameters you will need for the dev parameter of cdrecord. Read: man cdrecord man mkisofs PS. My experience is than NONE of the GUI base cdwriting packages work.
Re: [expert] How do I remove KNewsTicker?
Right click on the patch of texture just to the left of the news ticker and select the remove option. Nick. Hoyt wrote: I added it to he panel, but now I don't see any way to remove it.
Re: [expert] I'm confused... - no space lefdt on device?
Mark, I'm a Solaris man (as well as mandrake in my spare time), but AFAIK, df reports actual disk space used (allocated blocks) and du reports the total of the files sizes in a tree. Since disk space is allocated in fix sized blocks, there will always be a degree of wasted space 'cus the files don't exactly fit the final block allocated to each file. The discrepancy between the two measures is particularly high with larger disk blocks sizes and/or more and more small files (~= block the block size). Nick. Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, I've got a problem here that isn't making any sense to me. This morning one of the leg messages reported that there wasn't any more space left on /var. that's ok cause it wasn't any big deal to fix that. what I did have a problem with is the difference free space that is being reported by two different programs on the system. df reports it this way: /dev/hdc6 787M 757M 30M 96% /var -- the critical reading - ...and du reports it this way: 469M/var -- the critical reading
Re: [expert] CD-RW doesn't work as CD-ROM
Larry Sword wrote: Nick Thompson wrote: Hi, I have A Ricoh 7060A CD-RW which worked fine under 7.2. I upgraded to 8.0 using this drive to read the CDs. cdrecord --scanbus sees the drive and HardDrake says it has two devices (ide: /dev/hdc - with unknown vendor [Vendor does appear on the device line], and SCSI: /dev/scd0 - with Ricoh as vendor). If I cd to /mnt/cdrom, I get an IO error message (with no useful details). This mount point is set up to use supermount. I umount-ed /mnt/cdrom and created a /tmp_mnt point and did a 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /tmp_mnt' and I get a message saying unknown device. I tried this with /dev/hdc as well, but this just tells me that I should use the scsi device. I'm assuming you have only the one drive, Ricoh 7060A. Yes, just the one CD drive I had a similar problem with my drives. Here's what I did to get both drives to mount and read correctly. In /dev insure that the syslinks are set as follows: #@cdrom - /dev/hdc #@cdrom1 -/dev/scd0 I think I just have /dev/cdrom - /dev/scd0, but I'll check. What is the '#@' - is that part of the device filename? Should I have both these links for one drive (you make it sound like I need only one below)? Make sure this is the same device setup in your fstab for supermount. ** Note if you have only one cdrom then you could just have the one syslink in your /dev and one device in the fstab file. That is the cdrom - scd0 # /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Without the #, this is exactly what I have. # lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Apr 29 16:12 /dev/cdrom - scd0 I'll try fiddling around with the symlinks along these lines. Thanks, Nick.
[expert] CD-RW doesn't work as CD-ROM
Hi, I have A Ricoh 7060A CD-RW which worked fine under 7.2. I upgraded to 8.0 using this drive to read the CDs. cdrecord --scanbus sees the drive and HardDrake says it has two devices (ide: /dev/hdc - with unknown vendor [Vendor does appear on the device line], and SCSI: /dev/scd0 - with Ricoh as vendor). If I cd to /mnt/cdrom, I get an IO error message (with no useful details). This mount point is set up to use supermount. I umount-ed /mnt/cdrom and created a /tmp_mnt point and did a 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /tmp_mnt' and I get a message saying unknown device. I tried this with /dev/hdc as well, but this just tells me that I should use the scsi device. The drive is detected, but (the driver?) doesn't work :-(. How could that be? The Ricoh is just a standard MMC/ATAPI CD device. I haven't check if cdrecord can write to the drive. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Nick.
[expert] X restarts 'lose' keyboard and mouse
Hi, When X restarts (on logouts and if I ask from KDM) it occasionally 'loses' its connection with my mouse and keyboard. Now I can't login, switch to a console or shutdown. My only option seems to be a system reset (thank the developers for ReiserFS :) Any Ideas why that might be? Maybe related: occasionally when X starts I get a 1280x1024 display, but I only have 1152x864 (?) defined in the X configs (this is usually why I restart X from kdm and end up with a locked keyboard) Versions: LM7.2 (with default X install), ASUS P5A, ATI RageII PCI w/2MB RAM (Mach64), Cordless Logitech wheel mouse. Thanks, Nick
Re: [expert] Guarddog RPM problems
I don't think this is a problem with that specific RPM as I oftern seem to get the same problem when using rpm or Mandrake Update. rpm seems to get stuck at about 99.9% CPU basically for ever - I waited 30mins before resetting my box. Each time I retry I get the same result. Eventually I figured out that an 'rpm --rebuilddb' fixed the problem for that one time, but it keeps reoccuring. Why would that happen? On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Joseph Markham wrote: Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:45:31 +0100 From: Joseph Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Guarddog RPM problems After installing the Guarddog RPM using the KDE RPM Manager on my LM7.2, my HDD went into a frenzy virtually locking up my PC. I waited for 15 minutes then did a reset as I could not get out of the process. Anybody has any ideas?
[expert] MandrakeUpdate problem
Many times that I use MandrakeUpdate, it starts downloading a rpm update and part way though it says that the has been an error in the download. If I'm downloading multiple updates it moves on to the next one and fails on that too. The most revealing case is when I update only one rpm. The download fails and so the install fails, so I quit MandrakeUpdate to try downloading/installing manually. At this point I find that my download is really slow... because the original MandrakeUpdate download is still in progress! Whats going on? It used to work well (and I was impressed) but now I have to do all my updates manually :-( Nick.
[expert] Sound on a DELL laptop
I have Mandrake 7.2 on my DELL Latitude CP (233MHz) and it works well apart from the sound. Windows seems to sugest it is a Crystal PnP Audio System. Is there a driver available for this in Mandrake? Thanks, Nick.
