[expert] Removing read modules

2001-08-22 Thread Nima S. Panahi

Hi,
The CPIA module dies on me on occations and I need to remove and reload it
for it to work again. Most times, I can do this, but sometimes it refuses
to remove the modules because it is budy. Obviously, I have tried the
rmmod -r cpia or rmmod cpia and all related modules. I have removed all
other modules that rely on cpia and so it should be removed.
Upto this point I can only fix this by just restarting the computer, but
that seems dramatic and a little too much like windoze. (Hey, I wanna brag
about how long my box has been up!) TIA.





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[expert] Removing dead modules

2001-08-22 Thread Nima S. Panahi

Hi,
The CPIA module dies on me on occations and I need to remove and reload it
for it to work again. Most times, I can do this, but sometimes it refuses
to remove the modules because it is busy. Obviously, I have tried the
rmmod -r cpia or rmmod cpia and all related modules. I have removed all
other modules that rely on cpia and so it should be removed.
Upto this point I can only fix this by just restarting the computer, but
that seems dramatic and a little too much like windoze. (Hey, I wanna brag
about how long my box has been up!) TIA.





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Re: [expert] CD Writing and the Via 686b southbridge

2001-07-31 Thread Nima S. Panahi

Well, I have actually bin hit quite a bit of times with the bug. I
treid many things and could not get the corruption to stop. I
finally gave up when it became clear it was a chipset thing. However,
no problems with CDRW, only when I am doing large transfers between these
two drives. So , it is not that rare for people like me that use it quite
a bit. To avoide the corruption, I just use one IDE drive now and do small
transfers to the second.


 On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote:

 On Monday 30 July 2001 07:41 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
  Do I remember properly that because of the bug in this chip,
  that the LM80 2.4 kernel SRPMs have DMA disabled on IDE CDRs and
  CDRWs?  And that that means that creating CDR* disks from IDE
  CDR* devices is impossible on motherboards that have the 686b?

I believe this business of the VIA-IDE bug is greatly overblown. It
 only rarely supposedly affects large transfers across IDE channels
 (100mb).  I have a VIA chipset board (Soyo k7vta pro) and have never
 experienced this bug. I just burned backup copies of Mandrake Freq2
 last night.  I have 2 IBM HDDs on ide0, and a CDrom and CD-RW on ide1.
 Both LM 8.0 (various 2.4.x kernels) and Freq2 (2.4.5-5) have set up all
 the drives using 32bit and DMA during install. No problems, either
 burning CD's or while testing moving a 700mb file across ide.

 In researching this bug before I bought the VIA board I came across
 three elements that are said to provoke the bug. Older VIA chipsets
 (there's been bascially 3 steppings since the chip was introduced). SB
 sound cards, particularly SB Live! PCI, and then mostly with Abit
 motherboards. Newer Western Digital HDD's. I have none of the above,
 and since my research was done on the Net, take it with a grain of salt.
 I have had some correspondence with a friend who has all the above, 2
 new WD HDDs, a pci SB Live!, on a Abit KT7a, yet he's never experienced
 the bug or had problems burning CD's either.






[expert] USB-uhci/ webcam STRANGE problems

2001-07-26 Thread Nima S. Panahi

Hi,
My old motherboard's IDE died, so I replaced it with a new AOPEN AK73
PRO(A). On the old motherboard, I used a ZoomCam USB cam with no problems.
I just loaded the modules and everything worked. The uhci always used IRQ
3 on my old system. Now, basically everything but the motherboard is the
same and when I load usb-uhci (modprobe usb-uhci), I get

PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:07.2
IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:07.2
IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:07.3
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:07.3
IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:07.2
IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:07.3
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports

the devices 00:07.2 and .3 are the following (cat /proc/pci
  Bus  0, device   7, function  2:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 22).
  IRQ 11.
  Master Capable.  Latency=32.
  I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  3:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2) (rev 22).
  IRQ 11.
  Master Capable.  Latency=32.
  I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f].

and usb-uhci adds itself for IRQ 11 (cat /proc/interrupts)

  0:6062202  XT-PIC  timer
  1:  23933  XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:  0  XT-PIC  cascade
  7:160  XT-PIC  via82cxxx
 10:1050611  XT-PIC  eth0
 11:  2  XT-PIC  usb-uhci, usb-uhci
 12:  34724  XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 14: 179587  XT-PIC  ide0
 15:  4  XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:  0
ERR:  0


Well, when I modprobe cpia, my webcam modules, I get this :

usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110)
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110)

I would really appreciate ANY help on this, as I am completely lost. I
have tried many things, especially changing a lot of BOIS settings .TIA





Re: [expert] USB-uhci/ webcam STRANGE problems

2001-07-26 Thread Nima S. Panahi


On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, etharp wrote:

 have you tried (as root, in a text console) running (typing) kudzu? and what
 did it say and do? since you changed the MOBO
The strange thing is that it DID NOT recognize and add the USB hub ports
until later on. Not that I did not have the USB enable, it was enabled
the whole time. But I changed something in the BOIS (I was at the point of
almost randomly changing options) and during boot it recognized and asked
me to add them. I did and since then it has not mentioned them again. I
wish I would remeber exactly what I changed.


 On Thursday 26 July 2001 20:50, Nima S. Panahi wrote:
  Hi,
  My old motherboard's IDE died, so I replaced it with a new AOPEN AK73
  PRO(A). On the old motherboard, I used a ZoomCam USB cam with no problems.
  I just loaded the modules and everything worked. The uhci always used IRQ
  3 on my old system. Now, basically everything but the motherboard is the
  same and when I load usb-uhci (modprobe usb-uhci), I get
 
  PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:07.2
  IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:07.2
  IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:07.3
  usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
  PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:07.3
  IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:07.2
  IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:07.3
  usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
 
  the devices 00:07.2 and .3 are the following (cat /proc/pci
Bus  0, device   7, function  2:
  USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 22).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable.  Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f].
Bus  0, device   7, function  3:
  USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2) (rev 22).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable.  Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f].
 
  and usb-uhci adds itself for IRQ 11 (cat /proc/interrupts)
 
0:6062202  XT-PIC  timer
1:  23933  XT-PIC  keyboard
2:  0  XT-PIC  cascade
7:160  XT-PIC  via82cxxx
   10:1050611  XT-PIC  eth0
   11:  2  XT-PIC  usb-uhci, usb-uhci
   12:  34724  XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
   14: 179587  XT-PIC  ide0
   15:  4  XT-PIC  ide1
  NMI:  0
  ERR:  0
 
 
  Well, when I modprobe cpia, my webcam modules, I get this :
 
  usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
  usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110)
  usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
  usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110)
 
  I would really appreciate ANY help on this, as I am completely lost. I
  have tried many things, especially changing a lot of BOIS settings .TIA






[expert] Email attack?

2001-07-19 Thread Nima S. Panahi

I recieved this email at my server for panahi.com. It was sent by server
outside of panahi.com, but labeled as if it was from our domain to our
domain. It seems to be an attack but I cannot figure out an attack on
what. Should I be worried , should I check other logs..? Please help if
you know. I am running 8.0 Beta 2 with most of the packages upgraded to
8.0 final. TIA

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:03:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hello:
=AB=DC=A9=EA=BAp=A5=B4=C2Z=B1z! 
=B8=B2=B5=E5=A4=FD=B8=B2=B2=B3=A5=F8=B7~=A5=CD=AA=AB=AC=EC=A7=DE=B0=B7=B1d=C1=BF=AEy=A1A=A1A=A6b=B7|=AD=FB=A5N=B8=B9=AA=BA=A6a=A4=E8=BD=D0=BF=E9=A4J
 AA2 
=A4~=AF=E0=ACd=B8=DF=A9=D2=A6=B3=A4=BA=AEe=C1=DC=A1I=A5=CD=AA=AB=AC=EC=A7=DE=AA=BA=B5o=AEi=B4N=ACO=B1z=AA=BA=B3=CC=A8=CE=BE=F7=B7|=A1A=A4=A3=ADn=A7=D1=B0O=A8=D3=B3}=B3}=A1I=A1I=C1=D9=A5i=A5H=A5=D3=BD=D0=A7K=B6O=A5[=A4J=A6=A8=AC=B0=AD=D1=BC=D6=B3=A1=B7|=AD=FB=A1A=A5i=A5H=BE=D6=A6=B3=AB=DC=A6h=BA=D6=A7Q=A1A=A6=A8=A5\=AA=BA=A4H=A7=E2=B4=A4=BE=F7=B7|=A1A=A6=B8=B5=A5=AA=BA=A4H=B5=A5=AB=DD=BE=F7=B7|=A1I=A1I=A1I








Re: [expert] buggy mouse/keyboard

2001-05-01 Thread Nima S. Panahi

Well ,the keyboard is a new dell keybaord I got from a dell computer (the
server is not Dell.) It was working great there, but I guess I can try it
again. The mouse I have tried with one another computer, a laptop.
However, the laptop's ps/2 ports are quarky and act wierd, so maybe to bad
things combined made it work. Can a bad mouse screw up and cause the
problem with the keybaord? Also, unless the PS/2 ports on the motherboard
have gone bad , they were working too. I bet it is something simple I am
overlooking, but I have overlooked it a hundred timeAH!

 On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote:

 Nima S. Panahi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I have had this problem with my mouse and keyboard that I have tried
  everything with it and still have problems. ...

 Can you try the offending hardware on another box?  My
 first guess is that the mouse and/or the keyboard are/is
 failing.

 Otherwise I'm stumped (just call me Clue Challenged, its ok ;-)

 rc


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[expert] buggy mouse/keyboard

2001-04-29 Thread Nima S. Panahi

I have had this problem with my mouse and keyboard that I have tried
everything with it and still have problems. The mouse is configured
correctly, as it is a ps/2 microsoft (no wheel) old school mouse and I
have X and the console setup for it. However, many times it acts erratic,
jumps around and acts like I push the buttons. It looks VERY much like a
miss configuration, but I am sure I have set it up right.
The strange thing, however, is the ps/2 keyboard. The keyboard works
great, expect for a couple of points. Randomply it goes crazy and types
single characters for me, or puts everything in caps, or maps the keys to
some wierd set of symbols. The non-random part I can reproduce is if I use
the repeat feature or hold some buttons. Then the problems are not random
but happen on queue. 90% of the time I can reset the keyboard to act
normal, but holding down two bottons, like the shift and ctrl, or things
like at for a few seconds. The first linux installed on the machine was
8.0 beta 2 and it has had it even with 8.0 final. It has never had any
other OS on it, but it is a server and I mostly ssh into it anyway.
However, it would be nice to fix the problem. TIA.





Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 GLX (Nvidia)

2001-04-24 Thread Nima S. Panahi

I have always used the src.rpm files (kernel and GLX) and they work great!
From my experience, it works with 8.0b2, 8.0b3, 8.0RC1, and the 8.0 final.
Tars work great too and are just as fast as the src.rpm. But I like RPM
and stick with it.

 
 Look closely,  he said he downloaded the tar files from the nvidia
 webpage.  They are not, I repeat, not rpm's.  They need to be uncompressed
 and then compiled.  This insures that you can use them on any distribution,
 although I could not get them to compile on LM8 RC1, maybe after I install
 the final release they will work.

 Adam







Re: [expert] VMware 2.0 and Mandrake 8.0.

2001-04-23 Thread Nima S. Panahi

Um, I am sorry, I miss read the question. My problem is still the same
though, I cannot install any linux guests under linux host. It hangs at
lilo.

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Nima S. Panahi wrote:

 I am have same problem. I cannot, for the life of me, install a new vmware
 machine because of the lilo problem. I have not tried grub or to see what
 exactly the problem is, since I just kept using the old ones. Oh yeh, the
 problem started when I got 8.0beta2 and was there for beta3. Now, with 8.0
 final, vmware segments and does not run anyways. This 8.0 final release is
 not as half as stable as Mandrake's other final releases. It feels like a
 beta or maybe even an alpha.

  On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Lars
 Roland Kristiansen wrote:

  Hi i am trying to make win2k to run inside VMware in mdk8.0 - i have an 13
  gb ibm drive with wintendo on the first 4gb (/dev/hda1) and mandrake on
  the rest. When i try starting VMware it all goes fine, but when coming to
  the lilo point it just hangs (i think it may be the grafical lilo-thing
  that is messing it up)
 
  Please help
 
  ___
  Mvh./Yours sincerely
 
  Lars
 
  
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  Stud. Scient. Mathematics   | TLF(home):39699914 - 116
  Copenhagen University - | Home address: Bispebjerg parkalle
  Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 22 - 2400 københavn NV - room 116.
  Url: www.math.ku.dk |
  
 
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RE: [expert] VMware 2.0 and Mandrake 8.0.

2001-04-23 Thread Nima S. Panahi

I am using 2.0.3 and the newest release (799).

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Andrew Judge wrote:

 take a look at the version of VMware you are running.  There are issues with
 some Unix guest OS that were not resolved in 2.0.2 that supposedly are in
 2.0.3 and 2.0.2 comes with 7.2.  There are also problems with XFree86 4 and
 it is not yet supported but works as long as you don't full screen it.

 I believe that 2.4 support is only just coming out

 Currently, Red Hat 7.1 and other distributions that use the 2.4.x kernel
 are not supported as host operating systems for VMware Workstation 2.0.3 for
 Linux. Our engineering team is working on this compatibility issue and we
 will release an update to fix it as soon as possible. --quote VMware

 Andy Judge

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lars Roland
 Kristiansen
 Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 9:15 PM
 To: Mandrake-expert
 Subject: [expert] VMware 2.0 and Mandrake 8.0.


 Hi i am trying to make win2k to run inside VMware in mdk8.0 - i have an 13
 gb ibm drive with wintendo on the first 4gb (/dev/hda1) and mandrake on
 the rest. When i try starting VMware it all goes fine, but when coming to
 the lilo point it just hangs (i think it may be the grafical lilo-thing
 that is messing it up)

 Please help

 ___
 Mvh./Yours sincerely

 Lars

 
 Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Stud. Scient. Mathematics   | TLF(home):39699914 - 116
 Copenhagen University - | Home address: Bispebjerg parkalle
 Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 22 - 2400 københavn NV - room 116.
 Url: www.math.ku.dk |
 

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 - Albert Einstein










Re: [expert] VMware 2.0 and Mandrake 8.0.

2001-04-23 Thread Nima S. Panahi

I was suspecting that. There is something up with my install? I mean, I
can't even install vmware anymore, the program vmware either hangs or
segments. I have tried many fresh installs to no avail. Other apps that
ran before also segment, even after recompiling , even with kgcc. I just
can't figure it out and it is driving me crazy!

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Doug Byfield wrote:

 On Monday 23 April 2001 07:10, Chris Spencer wrote:

  If you went to the VMware site you'd see that 2.4.x kernels are not
  supported. Its a VMware problem, not Mandrake

 Funny, I have used VMware 2.0.3 on Mandrake 7.2 with 2.4x kernel,
 Mandrake 8.0 with 2.4.3 kernel and Debian 2.2 with 2.4.2 kernel.  NT4
 runs fine in all these situations. (Don't know about Redhat 7.1)

 When a company says that a distribution is not supported it doesn't
 always mean that it won't work, just means that they haven't checked it
 out to the point where they would officially endorse its use.

 I guess this is a case of YMMV (your mileage may vary)







Re: [expert] VMware 2.0 and Mandrake 8.0.

2001-04-23 Thread Nima S. Panahi

I realize this. However, my point is that it was working fine with 2.4.2
before me messing with 8.0. Now, vmware will segment out with 2.4.2 AND
2.4.3 with the 8.0 final. I know it is a VMware problem, but I just want
to know what is going on. If I wanted just push the button and have
things work w/o knowing why, I would use windows (chills as I say it).


 If you went to the VMware site you'd see that 2.4.x kernels are not
 supported. Its a VMware problem, not Mandrake

 -Chris







Re: [expert] VMware 2.0 and Mandrake 8.0.

2001-04-23 Thread Nima S. Panahi

I tried both. But to not matter! I believe I have found the problem (at
least a big part of it). Among the many reinstalls I did, I did a bare
install with X and KDE and the such. It seemed to actually work then ( I
did not install anything from the second CD except for the kernel source,
at this was suggested on the list before). On of these fresh installs
allowed both VMware gsx and VMware workstation to work! Even thought it
was extremely slow, I started adding packaged one by one as needed. Well,
I was recompiling a software, and it needed libsafe. As soon as I
installed libsafe, vmware did the exact same crashing and hanging. Infact,
many other programs, such as cksfv, also segmented! I feel SO much better
now that I can run VMware and have  applications not segment on me!

 You mentioned that you installed vmware many times. Did you just
 install over the existing vmware, or did you use the uninstall script?






Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications

2001-04-23 Thread Nima S. Panahi

Well, from what I have learned upto this point , you will be just fine as
long as you only install exactly what you need, the least amount from CD
2, as the problem packages seem to be coming from there. Especially,
libsafe WILL mess your system up. Other than that, it should be fine.
Hopefully mandrake people will be able to find out what exactly is going
on. Other than that, 8.0 ROCKS! Nice job Mandrake!

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Neal Lippman wrote:

 So, from reading all the posts here, it seems clear that I should NOT d/l MDK
 8.0...maybe the 8.1 release will work right.

 So my question is: I am thinking of shifting from KDE 2.1 over to the latest
 Gnome - although I need to keep both installed because I actually have an app
 or two that requires the KDE libraries. But, I want to try evolution and
 maybe nautilus, esp evolution as I am really in need to an Outlook
 replacement on a Linux system.

 How are people finding the latest Helix d/l - working, or not?

 Neal






Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list)

2001-04-23 Thread Nima S. Panahi

I believe I have a handle on the problem now. I did a complete fresh and
minimal install, without using anything from the second CD except for
kernel source. I then went about recompiling programs and they worked!
infact, I did not have to use kgcc as before and the previously compiled
versions worked also! So  relieved, I started to track down what I thought
was a naughty library somewhere. It was VERY slow, but I slowly kept
adding rpm's, especially lib's. As soon as I hit libsafe, all HELL broke
loose and I was getting the exact same thing again! It seems like libsafe
is at least a big player in all this. Anyone know why? Any suggested
fixes, especially since I have a program that needs libsafe to compile.





[expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications

2001-04-22 Thread Nima S. Panahi

Its driving me crazy! Everysince upgrading from 8.0 final from 8.0 beta3,
many applications segmet out where before worked. Its seems that almost
all programs that did not come with 8.0 final segment fault. I have tried
recompiling the ones that I could with kgcc, kg++ and the such. However, I
still get most of them crashing. The binary only packages, such as vmware
(workstation or gsx) are hopeless.
My system is a AMD T-bird 1.2 GHz. I basically installed 99% of 8.0 final.
PLEASE HELP!! Its driving me crazy... TIA





Re: [expert] VMware 2.0 and Mandrake 8.0.

2001-04-22 Thread Nima S. Panahi

I am have same problem. I cannot, for the life of me, install a new vmware
machine because of the lilo problem. I have not tried grub or to see what
exactly the problem is, since I just kept using the old ones. Oh yeh, the
problem started when I got 8.0beta2 and was there for beta3. Now, with 8.0
final, vmware segments and does not run anyways. This 8.0 final release is
not as half as stable as Mandrake's other final releases. It feels like a
beta or maybe even an alpha.

 On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Lars
Roland Kristiansen wrote:

 Hi i am trying to make win2k to run inside VMware in mdk8.0 - i have an 13
 gb ibm drive with wintendo on the first 4gb (/dev/hda1) and mandrake on
 the rest. When i try starting VMware it all goes fine, but when coming to
 the lilo point it just hangs (i think it may be the grafical lilo-thing
 that is messing it up)

 Please help

 ___
 Mvh./Yours sincerely

 Lars

 
 Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Stud. Scient. Mathematics   | TLF(home):39699914 - 116
 Copenhagen University - | Home address: Bispebjerg parkalle
 Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 22 - 2400 københavn NV - room 116.
 Url: www.math.ku.dk |
 

Politics is for the moment, equations are forever
 - Albert Einstein








[expert] login based smtp/ ssmtp

2001-03-26 Thread Nima S. Panahi

Hi,
I run a webmail and email system. The only access I want to give is secure
SSL type. I have already setup a SSL based imap, pop3, and webmail system.
However, for the simap and pop3s users, they need smtp . My users are all
over the world and I cannot select access based on network, therefore I
want to  have an SMTP server that allows usage if people login. I also
want this  smtp server to be ssmtp (over SSL). I am using Postfix on the
system, any  help or direction pointing will be great. Thanks!





Re: [expert] best video card for Linux?

2001-03-08 Thread Nima S. Panahi

My Geforce 2 DDR 32MB works bad when combined with a VIA K133 (or K133A) chipset
and possibly more chipsets. With the newer kernel 2.4, it will work better with
the agp port driver and not hang as much. However, there is the bad image
quality at resolutions above 1024x768 and any decent refresh rate. From what I
hear, many people have the same blurry images problem with this chipset and AMD,
so I would stay away from it.

Quoting Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 On Wednesday 07 March 2001 02:00 pm, 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
 
  You got 2 choices to make which card and which drivers.  Some cards
 
 like the Voodoo3 ($55 up) have open source drivers and are very Linux 
 compatible, fully supported.  Then there's the Nvidia cards (GeForce,
 $80 
 up) that are newer better hardware, but you'll need to get their closed
 
 source, binary only drivers from the manufacturer as distros like
 Mandrake 
 will never furnish/support closed source hardware.  It'd be a good idea
 to 
 research the driver issuses before you buy anything.
 -- 
 Dale Earnhardt,  the greatest stock car driver ever, 
  he's won his 8th and  His Greatest Championship
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RE: [expert] NEC Laptop Problems

2001-03-04 Thread Nima S. Panahi

It could be that you selected too many packages and you are running out of 
space. I had a similar problem with my old laptop.

Quoting Ben Keed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 come to think of it, it was towards the end of the install, and i was
 prompt
 a few times because it couldn't install some features. I'll give it
 another
 go tommorrow and see what happens
 
 cheers
 
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andre LABBE
 Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 8:16 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re:[expert] NEC Laptop Problems
 
 
 Hi
 You don't say which type and model. The time to install varies a lot
 according the speed of the laptop. I have an Umax Actionbook 340T (Time
 laptop and some other are the same) and LM 72 works fine with it, I use
 the kernel 2.4.2, every thing is supported. But I recall that the
 install
 took a couple of hour to install and I didn't have all the options
 selected.
 Another problem that I have found with the 2 CD Distribution is the
 install always moans that some files cannot be installed ( at least
 with
 my CDs), luckily enough they are not system files. But the real problem
 is if you miss the box to click continue the box vanishes or goes
 'under'
 the install progress bar and you're stack because you cannot continue
 the
 install, and that always happen near the end of the install.
 Andre
 
 
 



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