Re: [expert] TV Tuner kills system
At 05.27 07/11/2003, you wrote: Hi all. I've got a bt878 tuner (ATI TV wonder VE, also have an old STB TV PCI bt848 with the same issues), soundblaster live 5.1, and 3com cyclone ethernet card (eth0) on an Asus nforce2 board (A7N8X) with a Geforce2mx. On board sound is disabled in the bios, on board ethernet is running as eth1. If the tv tuner is not in use (i.e. I haven't started xawtv or motv) everything's fine. A few seconds after I start up motv/xawtv either the tv tuner, sound card or ethernet will stop working. The tuner's image will freeze, the sound card will start playing static or the ethernet just won't connect (I'm on broadband). I had a similar problem with a bt878 card under 9.0, but everything stopped working during boot. I tried win XP and I had the same problem, while Win 98 not. Just to let you know... Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Multimedia Resources
At 16.15 31/10/2003, you wrote: Can you hear the difference between a CD and a high-quality MP3? If not, stop here, do not pass go, and do not collect $200 :-) Just buy a couple of portable MP3 players (el cheapo flash-based that you don't care about and a nice hard-drive jukebox), buy a slimp3, use easytag to clean up all your tags and make sure your music collection is all well-ripped, then sell off the whole pile of CD's and CD players to someone who likes dead technology. Be careful, it's illegal to keep MP3s without having the originals! Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] eud2mbox.pl doesn't like spaces in filenames?
At 15.43 18/09/2003, you wrote: Not meaning to demean your efforts, but there is a set of scripts already available to convert Eudora to kmail. http://eudora2unix.sourceforge.net/ BTW this information was gleaned from the tools page of http://kmail.kde.org/ where some extremely useful info/links is available for kmail users Sorry to reply now, but I got my 10/15/03-10/08/03 mail only now! :-) Thanks for the tips! (I think that you linked the site of the updated eud2mbox.pl... version number match...) Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] compiling kernel
At 19.34 23/10/2003, you wrote: Use the Mandrake kernel-source. It does include things you wont find in the kernel.org kernel (supermount being one of them). I couldn't enumerate all the addons that Mandrake provides but it is worth it to use the official mandrake kernel-source rpms. Probably the kernel-source is the best way, but someone in this list said not too much time ago there is a cumulative patch available somewhere that, applied to the standard kernel, makes it an MDK kernel. I haven't found it but you could be more lucky (if interested). Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
At 17.47 19/10/2003, you wrote: ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/vol/1/mandrake-mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.22-10.mdk.i586.rpm is what you're looking for (IIRC this was about kernel sources wasn't it?). It's about 40Mb big which is a lot less to download than a complete iso image. But I would download the ISO image with a 10 mbps connection, while the kernel source should be downloaded with a 56k, it's different. I will make a bigger CD set with the 10mbps pc. So as you see everything's freely available to everybodyyou do need to look though! I always known the sources were available, I only complained they weren't in the standard CDs. Methinks you owe linux (and Anne) a twiki-howto;) ok, ok... someone else wants to suggests it again? :-))) Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
At 17.32 19/10/2003, you wrote: There's nothing wrong with waiting a little bit but, since you would have to have the 9.2 tree downloaded to make the isos, have you considered doing an hd install from the tree? Probably I will download the full tree (could someone tell me in advance how much big it is? I have to warn the friend that will download it...) and then make the CDs on my PC (I have linux 9.1). I don't know whether to install from HD or from those CD I will make. Probably from HD, where I will keep the tree until the HD gets filled. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
At 04.33 20/10/2003, you wrote: I did have dependency problems, but the CDs were made and boot and install. It looks like most of the dependency issues were with apache2 (which I'm not running, anyway). I need to know how to solve the dependency problems. I suppose Mandrakesoft solved them before making the ISO, so there must be a way. Probably now a tip from MDKSoft people would be the best. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD
The dependency problems is only makecd's way to inform you that those packages won't be on the cd's as you cant install them anyway... Could you explain it better? Why shouldn't he be able to install them anyway? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Crompressed disk image or doublespare like for Linux
At 10.56 22/10/2003, you wrote: Just wondering if there is a hard drive, of better still, a directory compression scheme, that can be mounted, something like the old dos double space.. I remember its nickname, double trouble. I never had troubles with it... MS-DOS 6.22 on a 386-40 MHz (AMD...) 100 MB HD and then 486-66 400 MB HD. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
At 00.02 19/10/2003, you wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2003 22:27, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Ok, but I have to wait until 9.2 will be available for everyone. Olaf It already is and has been all along..check the mirrors. It's only the 9.2 iso's that aren't available allover (yet). But I don't have an hi-speed coection to install the sys via ftp... I NEED the ISOs... I could even create my ISOs with MakeCD, but Joeb in another thread said he had dependency problems... so I wait until ISOs are available. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
At 18.08 17/10/2003, you wrote: and looking at 9.1 Prosuite Edition CDs+DVD ONLY, they came with 8CD + 1DVD... the same for 9.2 is 9 + 1DVD, so that's 700MB of extra stuff between 9.1 and 9.2 ok, ok, you are right... but if you can't download the extra stuff over your modem, you could of course go somewhere (friend / library / net-cafe), where you can download it, burn it to a CD, and take it home... and install from the cd... I think that Mandrakesoft should explain somewhere how to build a forth install CD: having the RPMs burned in a CD or having them in a CD added to the urpmi (+GUI) sources is different... And to add the CD to the sources there must be a hdlist.cz file. Now I know how to do (Steffen Barszus explained it in another post), but many people don't. Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs
Exactly. Could someone tell me how to build a 4th CD with RPMs not included in the first 3 ISOs but available on the FTP site? Once burned the ISOs I'd like to be able to install software without being connected to the internet. Download it , burn it on CD and add it with urpmi.addmedia -f or as nicer solution: d/l = save the rpms in directories that fit on one disc = go in that dir and run genhdlist . (The point is important). This will give you a hdlist.cz for that RPMs. If you want to download all that is available but not on the 3 cd set, one CD isn't enough (hint: contrib/plf/java/club/...). Thanks for your help! Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
At 12.36 18/10/2003, you wrote: Which is where the TWiki comes in. Why not write up how you did it and make it available for everyone else? But I didn't (yet): I'm not a club member and I son't have 9.2. Furthermore, Steven explained me how to do, you should have received his post as well. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??
At 06.21 14/10/2003, you wrote: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found www.bootdisk.com, now which image should I use to flash it? There is another way: someone is experimenting a patch to the kernel that should allow you to flash your BIOS from linux... Are you interested? :-)) Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
At 20.44 18/10/2003, you wrote: 2) Open Source is about sharing responsibility and labour. It is not for me to learn in depth about a problem that you are solving in order for me to write an article. I am asking you to pay back the help you receive by helping someone else. Ok, but I have to wait until 9.2 will be available for everyone. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs
I understand that not everything can fit on the three CDs, but for the basic 3 CD download set, the third CD isn't full, so it appears that there would have been room. It's really pretty poor that the kernel sources aren't included as many people need to compile things! I'm wondering if and when the ISOs are put on FTP servers if this will be fixed? If not, then a lot of people will be turned off by Mandrake. You are right... I can only assume if people order CDs from Mandrake or CheapBytes that they don't have a high speed connection. If that's the case, then setting up a 9.2 mirror as a source won't work. Exactly. Could someone tell me how to build a 4th CD with RPMs not included in the first 3 ISOs but available on the FTP site? Once burned the ISOs I'd like to be able to install software without being connected to the internet. Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
At 20.35 16/10/2003, you wrote: The reason for dropping kernel-source, was AFAIK to make room for all the kde-i18n, koffice-i18n stuff... as you know mdk supports *many* languages... i18n and similar were in other MDK distro... so they added something else, your explanation isn't an explanation. I hope the source will be back in next release, I have a 56k and, once I burned my 3 ISO downloaded somewhere else, I'd like to have the source of the kernel. If 3 ISO are not enough, release 3 ISO or remove some games, but NOT THE KERNEL SOURCE. Removing the kernel source will put off from Mandrake many potential Powerpack customers, I'm sure much more people than those that will buy Powerpack to have the sources or other extras... Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Error during installation (RC2)
At 15.25 12/10/2003, you wrote: Where is the joke in that? Sounds pretty realistic as far as my experiences with middle-aged female workerbees in office environments go. And as far as I know Mattel (I know the German branch near Frankfurt, Germany) and the attitude of the company this BarbieOS sounds really realistic as well. A friend of mine told me that it's a fake, he heard it on IRC. Do you think that a similar device would need DISK PARTITIONING??? Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] This Host Wont Die/Shutdown!!
At 22.05 10/10/2003, you wrote: Greetings, shutdown -h now, halt, reboot, shutdown -r now, kill -9 1, kill -KILL 1, init 6, system still going strong!!! Finally, pulled out power plug!! Anyway to troubleshoot this further...?? Second shutdown in 6monthssame problem. Linux is rock solid... even when not needed. :-))) Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Backups: not only for HW failures or viruses
About nine months ago I did my last backup. About three weeks ago something broke down in my PC, so I had to call the assistance to have them repair it. Three days ago the bad news: they they... THEY HAD LOST MY PC **HOW CAN SOMEONE LOSE A PC?!?!** not a portable, a miditower! WITH TWO HD INSIDE! That day I felt very bad, but this time luck helped me: they found it the day after and now I'm writing with it. Let's italian users know the brand: Olidata. From now on, backups! Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Questions for the willing (MandrakeSoft)
At 21.00 08/09/2003, you wrote: It's 2.4.22 based with selected patches from 2.4.23-pre + mandrake specific patches... (current patchset is ~520 patches) as for the 2.6 series, there is a 2.6-test4 kernel in contribs for those who want to try it out ... Could you post the exact link? I haven't found anything. I also read in another post that is possible to apply MDK patches to an already patched kernel (the question regarded OpenMosix). Which is the name of the file with the patches? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Change HD speed depending on HD temperature and system load
At 22.30 05/09/2003, you wrote:
At 23.50 04/09/2003, you wrote:
i don't have hdtemp on my system but the following should give a clue:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ echo /dev/hda: IC350L40AVER07-0: 42C|gawk '{print
$1,$3}'|sed 's/C//'
/dev/hda: 42
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$
That's perfect!
Thanks!
I'll post the script as soon I have it ready...
#!/bin/bash
TEMPmin=44
TEMPmed=47
TEMPmax=52
LOADmed=75
LOADmax=125
TEMP=$(hddtemp /dev/hda | gawk '{print $3}'|sed 's/°C//')
LOAD=$(cat /proc/loadavg | gawk '{print $2}' | sed 's/\.//')
if test $TEMP -ge $TEMPmax; then hdparm -M128 /dev/hda;
elif test $TEMP -ge $TEMPmed; then
if test $LOAD -ge $LOADmed; then hdparm -M128 /dev/hda;
else hdparm -M200 /dev/hda;
fi
else if test $LOAD -ge $LOADmax; then hdparm -M254 /dev/hda;
elif test $LOAD -ge $LOADmed; then hdparm -M200 /dev/hda;
else hdparm -M128 /dev/hda;
fi
fi
echo $(date)
echo $LOAD
echo $TEMP
Olaf
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Re: [expert] Enabling Power management under Mandrake 9.1
At 02.12 08/09/2003, you wrote: I have been told that leaving your computer on all the time would be the equivalent of keeping a 60watt bulb lit 24x7. This can't cost more than $5 a month? With today's computers, cpus drain from 15-20W (idle) to 70-80W ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]), mobo 10-15W, hd 10 W each, nic+modem 5-10W (maybe more), total (let's assume 30 for cpu) 60W, power supply + 10% 0 about 70 W (only one HD..). But tomshardware.com said differently (remember that it increased the wattage of the % the psu waste due to efficiency100% and remember that 500W psu always drain more power for itself than a 400W and so on). Unfortunately I don't have the link anymore, I mailed this infos to a friend some time ago. Anyway, I worked with a pc where the total wattage was (calculated with this table) about 300W, while the PSU was a 235W. Well, the psu gone away with the mobo, so these values shouldn't be totally wrong. I also noticed that a device powered but not used still drain power: the pc that broke down could start only if the cdrom or cd-rw were disconnected from PSU. IDE Hard Drive (RAID group) 4 112.00W Processor AMD Athlon XP 2100+, 1.75 V 89.88W RAM Module (128 MByte DDR-DIMM) 3 30.00W AGP Graphics Card (Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600) 1 29.80W Motherboard with on-board devices 1 23.50W DVD-ROM 1 19.20W CD-RW 1 15.60W IEEE 1394 1 8.00W USB Devices 2 5.00W PCI Sound 1 4.15W Floppy 1 4.00W PCI-LAN 1 3.32W System Fan 1 3.00W Processor Fan 1 3.00W PCI Modem 1 2.50W Keyboard 1 1.25W Mouse 0.25 A 1 1.25 Total Power Required 355.45 W Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Filter mail: bcc case
At 04.22 06/09/2003, you wrote: Olaf, I bcc'd this to you. Maybe if you post the source to the bcc'd message (not the [expert] one), we can find something? Here the headers: --- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Sep 7 12:25:34 2003 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by p4_nero (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF552446C for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 12:25:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from popmail.inwind.it [193.70.192.170] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.1) for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (single-drop); Sun, 07 Sep 2003 12:25:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp6.libero.it (193.70.192.59) by ims8a.libero.it (7.0.019) id 3F409365003FCB64 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 17:29:20 +0200 Received: from relay.pair.com (209.68.1.20) by smtp6.libero.it (7.0.019) id 3F58A4E8001D2425 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 17:29:20 +0200 Received: (qmail 73492 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2003 14:31:23 - Received: from 66-215-6-76.pas-eres.charterpipeline.net (HELO cuda.ehuffy.com) (66.215.6.76) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 6 Sep 2003 14:31:23 - X-pair-Authenticated: 66.215.6.76 Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 07:30:40 -0700 From: Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: chmod [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Filter mail: bcc case Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think I'll use the Received: header. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Change HD speed depending on HD temperature and system load
At 02.03 06/09/2003, you wrote:
to extract temperature:
i don't know about hddtemp output, so i use var=/dev/hda:
IC350L40AVER07-0: 42°C for this example -
$ set -- $var; echo ${!#//[^0-9]/}
to extract the 3rd field from /proc/loadavg
$ set -- $(/proc/loadavg); echo $3
Thanks, this is another way to have those values.
Yesterday I tried to run a kernel compilation to check how much the load
could increase and I noted that (as expected) the second time I compiled
the kernel [for ((i=0;i10;i++)); do make bzImage; done] the loadavg kept
increasing but nothing was read from disk.
I wonder whether there is a way to check real disk activity and not
simply system load.
Moreover, could someone confirm my guess about loadavg values? (1 minute, 5
minutes and 15 minutes).
A simple link to a page explainig those three values is enough (man top
doesn't explain anything).
[why my mails sometimes reach the list, sometimes reach the list even if I
get an error abot undeliverable mail after one day or two and sometimes
simply don't reach the list and I get an error after days, when sending
again the mail is almost useless? is this a feature? :-)))]
Thanks
Olaf
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Re: [expert] Filter mail: bcc case
At 20.28 05/09/2003, you wrote: On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:50:35 +0200 From the procmail mini howto at http://rhols66.adsl.netsonic.fi/era/procmail/mini-faq.html Q: Why can't I match on the BCC: header? A: You can't match on the BCC: header because it is not present in the message you receive. See above. This is what the Blind in Blind Carbon Copy stands for; none of the recipients are supposed to see who's been BCC:ed. (Okay, so the spec has a few more twists. This is how Sendmail does it. Some other mailers will show the BCC list to the people who are being BCC:ed.) Q: The Received: header seems to often contain something like Received: from elsewhere (...) by somewhere (...) for [EMAIL PROTECTED] even if the recipient was Bcc:ed -- can't I rely on that for part? A: No. Next question? The problem is that (a) not all MTA:s add this information, and (b) even if yours sometimes does, it might not always. E.g. Sendmail won't stamp the recipient in the Received: header if the message was sent to several recipients at your site. I know this doesn't help but at least you now know why. Cheers Nigel OK. Is there a way to have fetchmail add something I can use to recognize the mailbox I downloaded the mail from? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Change HD speed depending on HD temperature and system load
At 23.50 04/09/2003, you wrote:
i don't have hdtemp on my system but the following should give a clue:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ echo /dev/hda: IC350L40AVER07-0: 42C|gawk '{print
$1,$3}'|sed 's/C//'
/dev/hda: 42
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$
That's perfect!
Thanks!
I'll post the script as soon I have it ready...
Olaf
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[expert] Change HD speed depending on HD temperature and system load
I noticed hdparm is able to change the acoustic management value of HD (-Y flag) and my HD (IBM 60GXP 40 GB) is able to report it's temperature (I use hddtemp), so I decided it could be neat to have a script to set the HDspeed automatically, for example every 15 minutes. Unfortunately, I have never wrote scripts that deal with strings and I'm not able to extract the value of temperature and system load. hddtemp report this: /dev/hda: IC350L40AVER07-0: 42°C and /proc/loadavg: 0.005 0.02 0.01 xx. I'd like to extract the temperature (42) and the third value of system load (if I remember correctly, the first refers to the first minute, the second to 5 minutes and the third 15 minutes). I tried sed and gawk but without success. THX Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Filter mail: bcc case
I want to filter mail from different mailboxes differently, but I don't know how to determine where the mail has been sent to when my address is included in the bcc: field. Normal mails have my address in the to: or cc: field (and I use them for my filters), but what about a mail with my address in the bcc: field? it's always empty. I use fetchmail and procmail. THX Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Wacom tablets and linux
I just installed in my Palm IIIc the opensource utility palmwac that turns the Palm into a Wacom (UD series) tablet. Is there a way to have MDK 9.1 automatically recognize it and set the XF86Config-4 file? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Adobe Acrobat Reader not working
I downloaded the Reader from adobe.com and installed it but it doesn't work, it doesn't even start. Has anyone had the same problem? If so, how to cope with it? [I prefer the Reader from Adobe because it's able to follow links inside the pdf file, while KGhostview and xpdf are not able to do it, they don't even allow to scroll pages one after the another as the Reader does, not to speak about antialias] Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bootspash with linus kernel
At 12.07 27/08/2003, you wrote: From: Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which patch should I add to the linus kernel to have a bootsplash? Thanks Olaf http://www.bootsplash.org/ Thomas Thanks! Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Bootspash with linus kernel
Which patch should I add to the linus kernel to have a bootsplash? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] resolv.conf
At 12.12 21/08/2003, you wrote: As I understand it, zeroconf is sposed to be to linux what netbeui is to windoze or what appletalk is to macs. Well, zeroconf is supposed to be what RendezVous is for macs X... they are the same thing (and it was born in Apple)... A quick google search shows that is the case. http://www.zeroconf.org/ bascially, when it works, you plug a few mandrake machines into a hub, and they allocate themselves and allow networking with no config work. I don't know if i like it, but i see the reason for it. Exactly, i.e. it's useful for instant messaging inside a (not big) network and for newbies at home. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Wacom tablets and linux
I just installed in my Palm IIIc the opensource utility palmwac that turns the Palm into a Wacom (UD series) tablet. Is there a way to have MDK 9.1 automatically recognize it and set the XF86Config-4 file? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Tool to set the monitor refresh rate
At 19.37 14/08/2003, you wrote: *** Olaf Marzocchi Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:26:51 +0200 : Is there a tool to set the monitor refresh rate without manually editing the Xfree config file? It would be nice to add such section to the tool Mandrake already ships inside MDK control center. How about xvidtune? You open a xterm, su to root, start xvidtune. After adjusting everything to your liking (and the limitations of your hardware) you can CP the modeline into your XF86Config. man xvidtune Thanks. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sis 7012 audio
At 11.25 06/08/2003, you wrote: I know that i810 allows XMMS to play, even if I don't hear anything. MDK by default chose ali and I got errors at boot, i810 should be fine (it's the module recommended in the page linked by Kwan Lowe. I tried the latest MDK kernel (not cooker). Sound not working. I'll have to recompile the module i810. I'll try to recompile it without recompiling the whole kernel, correct me if I'm wrong: patch ... to merge the patch; make modules to have the module recompiled; cp the module to the module directory /lib/modules/... I hope not to break anything. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]
At 08.42 06/08/2003, you wrote: Try one of these options... First, if you only have your own machine, and are not sharing the connection with any other machines, use K--Configuration--Packaging--Remove Software to remove Shorewall from your system completely. Your connection should work fine after that... But I'd like to have a firewall... should I use guarddog? if yes, I hope someone inside MandrakeSoft will remember this bug when making 9.2. If you are sharing the connection with an other machine, you need Shorewall to enable the sharing. So Try this... Open the Mandrake Control Center, click on Security and select the Firewall entry on the Right-hand side. In the next dialog tick the top box Everything (no firewall) and click OK. (Unless you have a static IP and/or sensitive material on your machine, this is enough for you. I ALREADY have that option set, but, while enogh for the time being, I will need SSH and FTP starting from September. If you want to fine-tune_ your firewall rules and policies, I recommend installing Webmin, and using that to set up the firewall. It offers much finer control over the ruleset. Do I need Shorewall or guarddog installed or not? One of these procedures should work for you (My system... Mandrake 9.1/KDE3.1 on a Celeron 366, 384 MB, with a second machine sharing via eth0.) OT: do you use that box for production? is it slow or not? I had (have) a cel400 with sis620 and it was unusable at all (224 MB RAM, voodoo card). It wasn't even able to play divx. Thanks for your help. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]
At 12.23 08/08/2003, you wrote: The rule is routestopped IIUIC... It doesn't always work properly, as I've tried adding the IP numbers and hostnames of my two machines to that rule. Stop Shorewall, and even those hosts in the list are blocked. It is indeed a PITA to set up. I've found the Webmin interface to be the easiest and best I've used so far I'll remember Webmin next time. After configuring Intenret Connection Sharing, now I can use internet. In fact, Internet works only afetr configuring ICS, every time I have to reconfigure it to have internet working. I think I'll install guarddog. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Tool to set the monitor refresh rate
Is there a tool to set the monitor refresh rate without manually editing the Xfree config file? It would be nice to add such section to the tool Mandrake already ships inside MDK control center. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] What to do when qt2 libraries are needed (MDK 9.1)
I downloaded the nethack rpm from nethack.org but it requires qt2, while I have only qt3. Should I install it by force or something else? Anyway, how dare Mandrake remove NetHack from the distro? :-) Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]
At 20.51 05/08/2003, you wrote: On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 6:39 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Probable correct. Check the /etc/resolv.conf file to verify the entries for nameserver. That would have the nameserver for the lan, but surely he is looking for the primary and secondary dns servers from his isp? In /etc/resolv.conf I have no DNS for the local LAN (I have a 8139 eth card, but not used), so it's empty, and in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf I have the primary isp DNS (my isp has only one DNS...). Can you ping that dns used by your isp? Wow! Great idea! No, I cannot. :-(( It doesn't matter what I use to create the connection, the wizard inside MDK control center or KPPP (I use KDE), the modem establish a connection but then nothing. Not only, if I create the connection with the wizard KPP doesn't even see it! I had to create a connection with KPP anyway. Do you have a firewall installed? If so, which one? because that could be part of the problem. Since Knoppix can see it and Mandrake can't, I suspect firewall issues. I tried to stop iptables via DrakServices (inside MDK control center), it was already stopped, and shorewall (that was started), and nothing changed. Then I checked the DrakFirewall page, only FTP and SSH allowed (shorewall was stopped anyway). With shorewall started, should I enable DNS? if I understand the meaning of that page, not: I don't offer DNS services to anyone (just to be sure) Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]
At 10.57 07/08/2003, you wrote: If shorewall is shut down - it by default shuts down everything except what is meant to be open. Don't know the name of the config-module anymore The rule is routestopped IIUIC... It doesn't always work properly, as I've tried adding the IP numbers and hostnames of my two machines to that rule. Stop Shorewall, and even those hosts in the list are blocked. It is indeed a PITA to set up. I've found the Webmin interface to be the easiest and best I've used so far I'll remember Webmin next time. After configuring Intenret Connection Sharing, now I can use internet. Thanks to all Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]
At 16.09 06/08/2003, you wrote: If you have or can get an older machine with two NIC's, try IPCop http://www.ipcop.org/ or just buy a Linksys router/firewall or Dlink router/firewall. Mhhh... I use a ppp connection, analog modem. Anyway, I found a solution: I configured Internet Connection Sharing and magically Internet worked. I hope 9.2 will be better :-))) Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sis 7012 audio
At 02.31 06/08/2003, you wrote: Olaf do you know what module it would use? If you do I can check my box running 25mdk and see if it's there/available. James I know that i810 allows XMMS to play, even if I don't hear anything. MDK by default chose ali and I got errors at boot, i810 should be fine (it's the module recommended in the page linked by Kwan Lowe. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]
At 15.26 06/08/2003, you wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2003 08:42, Alex Fisher wrote: Rolf Pedersen wrote: [...] Actually, the problem is almost certainly in Shorewall. I had a similar problem, which started straight after I tried to confugute Connection Sharing. That involved the installation of Shorewall, which up till then I had not installed. Whereas previously I'd had no problems accessing the Internet, after installing Shorewall I got nothing (zero, nada, zilch...). I tracked it down eventually to the fact that Shorewall was installed but not running. If shorewall is shut down - it by default shuts down everything except what is meant to be open. Don't know the name of the config-module anymore ;) Sorry. This is the pessimistic approach - which is IMHO correct. So - to get it to work - install Shorewall correctly - and activate it - and it will work. By hand, I suppose. Is there a tool? I don't like to... work with computers FOR computers. :-) Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Languages and 9.1
Probable correct. Check the /etc/resolv.conf file to verify the entries for nameserver. That would have the nameserver for the lan, but surely he is looking for the primary and secondary dns servers from his isp? In /etc/resolv.conf I have no DNS for the local LAN (I have a 8139 eth card, but not used), so it's empty, and in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf I have the primary isp DNS (my isp has only one DNS...). It doesn't matter what I use to create the connection, the wizard inside MDK control center or KPPP (I use KDE), the modem establish a connection but then nothing. Not only, if I create the connection with the wizard KPP doesn't even see it! I had to create a connection with KPP anyway. It's pretty strange, internet should be something working out-of-the-box. I tried to connect with Knoppix (KPPP) and internet works, even if I don't write any DNS (the ISP is able to send me one anyway). Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Sis 7012 audio
The stock MDK kernel shipped with 9.1 is not able to recognize it, I get no sound. Does the latest kernel solve the problem? In that case, which file should I download from the ftp site? Thanks Olaf MSI645Ultra mobo, 256DDR, Ge2MX400-64, P4 1.8 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sis 7012 audio
At 22.43 05/08/2003, you wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:41, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: The stock MDK kernel shipped with 9.1 is not able to recognize it, I get no sound. Does the latest kernel solve the problem? In that case, which file should I download from the ftp site? I had a similar problem with the 2.4.20 kernel on a RedHat system ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91557 ). If you follow the link there's a patch to the AC97 drivers that restores sound. I had used this patch before RH shipped a working kernel. It may solve the problem for you. I'll try it. THX Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Languages and 9.1
At 17.32 04/08/2003, you wrote: Olaf, Within KDE try: Kstart - Configuration - Other - LocaleDrake and select the language you wish to use. Larry It worked, thanks! Now I'm fighting with the modem, it connects to the internet and it's able to ping an address (I had only my public IP and the PPP server IP, I tried both of them) but it's impossible to reach any site, so it must be a DNS problem. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] partly OT: Soyo + Barton + 8x : boot problem
At 19.31 21/07/2003, you wrote: i have no problem running the mobo at FSB 133 , but at FSB 166 -- which the mobo is advertised to support -- it's not at all reliable. first, it doesn't recognise the CPU in its default setting, but thinks it's a 1900+ running at 1467 MHz ; more seriously, if i try manually setting the FSB to 166 with appropriate other settings, it boots ok 1 - 3 times, then fails to talk to the AGP card: there's a long-short-short beep signalling this then Linux boots invisibly, as i can see hear from the HDD activity fr using Ctl-Alt-Del to reset. Try to check in the manual what that signal means, then ask for replacement :-) Probably it depends on the video card, the mobo could be fine. Have you tried to lower the AGP speed to 4x? (if possible, I once saw a mobo where you could force the agp to run at 2x instead of 4x). You won't notice any performace hit, agp 8x only gives troubles. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PCTEL HSP56 on LMR741/748 Mother board
At 04.42 28/07/2003, you wrote: Im done, i have hit with the wall so many times, i have tried everything, howtos, linmodems.org, and i can not work this probles around, i haven't installed the modem yet to use it with linux, i am using a very old DOS modem wit jumpers, man, it can be so slow. I would thanks a lot, if anybody can help me with this. I have a linux mandrake 9 box. I have the same mother board (748LMRT) but, despite other good reports, I was never able to have the modem work. You can try http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pctel-linux/, but remember to disable ACPI. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CPU temperature question
I'm not really worried about the temp...having read the docs from AMD, I won't worry till it hits 65C, which it has never done :) I'm not worried about the temp too, but I'm worried about the HD. If it reaches 45°C, you have to do something. In fact, I'm thinking to buy a case fan (termocontrolled, I want silence during winter) to lower the temperature: now systemp is 41°C, I won't exaggerate saying the HD is always about 4-6°C over the sys temp. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CPU temperature question
At 21.11 15/07/2003, you wrote: The Areoflows have bearingless fans which are some of the quietest in the industry, and ultimately reliable because they are, well, bearingless. It is possible to get a better thermal resistance with another HSF, but not without going to a bearing based fan, and the HSF's that outperform the Areoflow don't do it by a significant margin and plus they weigh a ton cause usually they are solid copper. That can possibly put a physical strain on the mobo if it's in a tower case. Bearingless fans more reliable than ball bearing fans? are you sure? I always heard the opposite, but I know they are quiter (initially, after one or two years they are the same as ball bearing fans or even worse). Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] aiuto!!!
mi chiamo Stefano e vi scrivo da Bologna. Tempo fa ho installato Mandrake 8.2 ma ho avuto da subito dei problemi con i dispositivi cdrom e floppy. Ogni volta che tento di accedervi compare una finestra che mi nega l'accesso. Gli how-to che ho letto in proposito docono che si tratti di un reale inconveniente. Così ho deciso di disinstallare Mandrake 8.2 e di provare a installare la versione 9.1, per vedere se cambia qualcosa. Sulla mia macchina ho 2 hard disk: uno con win98, l'altro con mandrake 8.2. Vorrei sapere come fare per disinstallare quest'ultimo per poi provare ad installare 9.1. Hai sbagliato lista, questa è la [EMAIL PROTECTED], non la [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comunque, quando stai installando la 9.1 e ti viene chiesto in quali partizioni metterla, semplicemente usa le vecchie partizioni che hai fatto per la 8.2 e formattale. Aggiungo che la 9.1 dovebbe avere meno problemi con il supermount (l'origine dei tuoi problemi). Ciao Olaf P.S. io sono spesso a Bologna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Get your burners warmed up folks
At 09.41 25/06/2003, you wrote: What I'm hoping is... 1. No new installer Will not be, it was the jump to Gtk2 what caused the new installer So it's GTK2 fault to slow down so much it? I think it's too slow to be acceptable. I also hope to see a *faster* Mandrake Control Center, it takes ages to load every module. In 9.0 it was much faster (almost no delay). Cel400. I'd also like to have multiple profiles in the network config tool). It's a great feature, really. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed
At 01.24 27/06/2003, you wrote: Does anyone know of an easy way to work out the rating of SDram (ie. 66, 100, 133)? Obviously, in cases where it isn't actually written on the stick. AFAIK, putting the module in a computer that clocks them faster than they can wont't break them, simply you'll have crashes and crashes :-)) Anyway, if they are not-so-old they should come with a SPD chip soldered on them, you should be able to read it with some app. If you aren't, there is a Mac OS X (or 9?) app that is able to read and modify the content of that chip, you could find it and ask the author. Or you can put the stick in a windows box and use SiSoft Sandra. Or you can run SiSoft Sandra inside Wine or VmWare. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Monitor refresh rates
Configure X from the console. As root XFdrake Does it asks for a refresh? I don't remember so, in fact having the proper refresh rate has always been a difficult task for me (I always had to manually edit the X config file). Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] create fat32 file system
At 14.32 22/06/2003, you wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 06:26, Thomas Gamble wrote: At 03:45 PM 6/17/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i remember correctly, fat32 has a 4gb limitation no it is not true. He may be thinking of the 4GB file size limit for fat32. That's 2GB FAT32 can handle volumes much bigger than 80 Gigs. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] clustering
At 13.13 22/06/2003, you wrote: I have a laptop 1,7ghz Celeron and 256mb ram. I also have desktop 2.2 Athlon-Xp and 512mb ram. Now I primary use this laptop for everything, and time to time little extra power wouldn't hurt :) And I was wondering could I make simple two machine cluster with my laptop and workstation? And if I could would I benefit that for example picutere editing or making binaries? And if both answers are yes, how would be a simpliest way to do that? For picture editing you will have no benefit at all, but compiling on the desktop while using the laptop is a benefit. You could ssh in your desktop and build there rpms for using on both machines. Not exactly clustering, but same as usefull as clustering ;) I have another idea: install the openmosix patch to the kernel and run it. Openmosix is about load balancing: it moves processes from a box to another node to have all the boxes equally loaded (speaking of of cpu power %). It uses differents algorithms to know whther it's useful to move the process or not (if you have a slow connection between nodes or few memory in a node it's better not to move anything). If I remember well openmosix.sourceforge.net. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] clustering
At 19.36 22/06/2003, you wrote: Thank you, this openmosix load balancing system seems intresting. I will look into it, I hope this patch is rpm? My networkcards works 100mb speed. Go to that site, you will find an rpm with the kernel precompiled. It won't have all the stuff MDK puts in its kernel, but it will work for sure. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NO MAIL TODAY?
At 05.20 19/06/2003, you wrote: Has there been little/no mail on this list today? It's like a drug, isn't it? :-) Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] strange freezing
99% likely to be a hardware problem, temperature or insufficient power. Install lm_sensors and see what it tells you. lm_sensors is good, but it has a problem (at least in my experience): it gives strange values and you have to tune them, but since it's the only app that reads temp, voltages and so on, you don't have a program to compare the results with. In windows is different: you have your mobo's software you can use to tune up apps like Motherboard Monitor. Someone in the past suggested to use the values from the BIOS, but unfortunately the processor temperature changes very much and the same for voltages (they change less :-)), so you can't have the exact value (you could guess, but you would achieve no more than 3 *C precision). Ideas? THX Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Keeping up with security updates with older systems
A friend has a box with linux MDK 8.2 and prefers not to upgrade. Since MDK stopped (or is going to stop) support for that system, how could he keep up with security upgrades? Should he abandon rpm and compile everything or should he use rpms available on the Internet? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Keeping up with security updates with older systems
At 20.34 06/06/2003, you wrote: Olaf Marzocchi wrote: A friend has a box with linux MDK 8.2 and prefers not to upgrade. Since MDK stopped (or is going to stop) support for that system, how could he keep up with security upgrades? Should he abandon rpm and compile everything or should he use rpms available on the Internet? He could use source rpm's. That way he still has the package control of RPM, and adds to it the ability to get the latest source package for an application and compile it for his system. Perfect, thanks. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 it's much slower than 9.0 and xfree freezes everything
At 23.26 05/04/2003, you wrote: Is this necessary? It takes about 30 seconds or more! there's something else wrong, it only takes about 3 seconds on my system after the first run. Could I speed it up by deleting modules I know are completely useless (now and in the future)? Unfortunately, when the login manager should have appeared, everything locked up again. I could hear the HD reading something, but I wasn't able to kill xfree because I could not access the terminals. Hard reboot AGAIN. I booted into runlevel 3 and executed XFdrake, this time trying to use a different driver for the video card. I didn't find one, but I discovered I could select xfree 4.3 wirthout 3d support or even xfree 3.3.6. I don't know why but the problem was 3D support: the Banshee card has 3d support with xfree, but who knows... Glad I saw this before trying to upgrade either of my servers -- they both have Voodoo3 AGP cards in them. Have you tried using 3.3.6? It was always pretty solid with the Voodoo. Thank you for the tip! I tried 3.3.6 but, since 4.3 worked, I chose the latest. Anyway, has 3.3.6 3d support? if not, where's the advantage? you can call 1 second response time after clicking a menu working, personally I'd call it format the disk and try again. 3.3.6 does have 3d support, I used to play Quake 3 on it all the time. Sniff. I'd play Quake 3 on my laptop now if it didn't insist on mmap'ing /dev/dsp. I decided to make anotherm attempt and ... it worked! Now I can run xfree 4.3 with 3d acceleration. I will try 3.3.6 too, I wonder whether it could speed up apps. A question: I have characters wrapped up in text consoles and I found this hint: For 2.4 kernel, you also must disable console acceleration, so arguments are (for example) 'video=tdfx:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ,noaccel). Without that the characters will all be wrapped up, making console useless (but X should be fine). Do you ever applied this hint? have you ever had such problems? I also found this hint to enable tdfx framebuffer: mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 How to know it's correct? I don't remember where I found it. Another strange thing: not only kde and gnome are slower than mdk 9.0, but even the whole system: for example, window maker or a simple ./configure executed in a separate shell outside xfree (runlevel 5). Could it depends on the kernel? I don't know, but I find this situation very strange and unacceptable (I mean: I will come back to mdk 9.0 and I'll try to upgrade manually as much as I can). X stuff being slow could be an xserver problem, but this sounds like something different... I don't know what though. /etc/sysconfig/harddisks? Was the system responsive before? The system has always been responsive ... as responsive as a cel400 with a very poor chipset can be. This time, with 9.1, it's MUCH worse. The problem should not be related to the harddisk: the ibm hd is now pio (I will change it to dma soon), but the disk works only for few seconds, while apps take many many seconds to start, after the hd has stopped working. I forgot to tell that I set the hd in quietest mode, but this affects only seek time (so it could probably slows down the depmod process), while, as already said, apps take much to start even after the hd has finished. well something is way wrong, but I don't know what it is. Anyway, I checked: even if dmesg tells hda is in pio mode, hdparm tells hda is in udma4 mode, so everything is ok. I also tried to unmask irq, but nothing changed. I get 37 MB/s from linux cache and 17-19 MB/s when reading from disk (contiguous data...), I wonder whether changing the setting to udma from 66 to 33 could speed up things. After all, now I barely saturate a pio mode! (rotten chipset! and this time is not mdk 9.1's fault). A question: why did you choose a -pre kernel? was it really necessary? I'll hazard a guess that it's ACPI -- those of us with new laptops and desktops don't get working systems without good ACPI support, and 2.4.21 is definitely a lot better. What about preemptive patch? is it already inside? Not yet, but I would expect that the 9.2 distro will have it (if it isn't a 2.6 kernel) Could kernel 2.5.66 help somewhere? or compiling 2.4.20 or 21-preX only with specific modules? I have a very special box, maybe this time recompiling will help. Thanks Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Official PCtel driver (binary)
linmodems.org says: There's a Linuxworld story about a PCTel linmodem driver. The driver has been released, but PCTel does not distribute it. You can get a copy from PCCHIPS, who puts one of PCTel's modems on their motherboard. Has anyone ever downloaded it? PCChips has a buggy support page and the url suggested doesn't work. Thank you Olaf Marzocchi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 it's much slower than 9.0 and xfree freezes everything
At 06.27 05/04/2003, you wrote: On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:22, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: [I sent this message some days ago but I did not see it in the ML. I send it again.] I downloaded two days ago the ISOs and yesterday I installed them in the following PC: Mobo PCChips 748lmrt, 128+64+32 ram, chipset sis620 (with onboard audio cmi8738, lan davicom 901a, video sis 620 agp shared memory, modem pctel AMR), celeron 400, video card 3dfx Banshee 16 mb PCI. hda IBM 60GXP 40 GB (hda1 ReiserFS 5 GB, swap 400 MB and /home about 32 GB, ReiserFS). I had a problem during X configuration: I saw Voodoo Banshee generic as video card set automatically, so I simply changed the resolution: from 1024 to 800. I then tested the configuration and ... EVERYTHING freezed. Control-Alt-Fx did not work and I had to reinstall everything from the beginning (I didn't know the x configuration was the LAST step! :-\. Hard reboot and installation from the beginning. After about one hour and half, at the same point of the previous freeze, I simply ignored the test button and I accepted the configuration. When I rebooted (with much expectations, honestly) I found linux booting without graphics (I was really suprised: I have seen the graphic boot for at least 3 MDKs!) and **really slow**, especially in the Finding modules dependencies (or similar, I'm writing from another pc because the pctel modem is not recognized, as expected: not only it's a softmodem, it's also AMR). looks like it's running depmod -a every boot now -- I've seen this too. Is this necessary? It takes about 30 seconds or more! Unfortunately, when the login manager should have appeared, everything locked up again. I could hear the HD reading something, but I wasn't able to kill xfree because I could not access the terminals. Hard reboot AGAIN. I booted into runlevel 3 and executed XFdrake, this time trying to use a different driver for the video card. I didn't find one, but I discovered I could select xfree 4.3 wirthout 3d support or even xfree 3.3.6. I don't know why but the problem was 3D support: the Banshee card has 3d support with xfree, but who knows... Glad I saw this before trying to upgrade either of my servers -- they both have Voodoo3 AGP cards in them. Have you tried using 3.3.6? It was always pretty solid with the Voodoo. Thank you for the tip! I tried 3.3.6 but, since 4.3 worked, I chose the latest. Anyway, has 3.3.6 3d support? if not, where's the advantage? Another strange thing: not only kde and gnome are slower than mdk 9.0, but even the whole system: for example, window maker or a simple ./configure executed in a separate shell outside xfree (runlevel 5). Could it depends on the kernel? I don't know, but I find this situation very strange and unacceptable (I mean: I will come back to mdk 9.0 and I'll try to upgrade manually as much as I can). X stuff being slow could be an xserver problem, but this sounds like something different... I don't know what though. /etc/sysconfig/harddisks? Was the system responsive before? The system has always been responsive ... as responsive as a cel400 with a very poor chipset can be. This time, with 9.1, it's MUCH worse. The problem should not be related to the harddisk: the ibm hd is now pio (I will change it to dma soon), but the disk works only for few seconds, while apps take many many seconds to start, after the hd has stopped working. I forgot to tell that I set the hd in quietest mode, but this affects only seek time (so it could probably slows down the depmod process), while, as already said, apps take much to start even after the hd has finished. A question: why did you choose a -pre kernel? was it really necessary? I'll hazard a guess that it's ACPI -- those of us with new laptops and desktops don't get working systems without good ACPI support, and 2.4.21 is definitely a lot better. What about preemptive patch? is it already inside? Thank you Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK 9.1 it's much slower than 9.0 and xfree freezes everything
[I sent this message some days ago but I did not see it in the ML. I send it again.] I downloaded two days ago the ISOs and yesterday I installed them in the following PC: Mobo PCChips 748lmrt, 128+64+32 ram, chipset sis620 (with onboard audio cmi8738, lan davicom 901a, video sis 620 agp shared memory, modem pctel AMR), celeron 400, video card 3dfx Banshee 16 mb PCI. hda IBM 60GXP 40 GB (hda1 ReiserFS 5 GB, swap 400 MB and /home about 32 GB, ReiserFS). I noticed the install process was noticeably slower than mdk 9.0 one, a trend started with mdk 8.1 (as far as I can remember). For example, in mdk 9.0 I click a button and I get the next page, this time when I click the Next button I have to wait from 3 to ***30*** seconds (gaussian distribution of delays: mostly 13-18 second). I also noticed that packages installation slowed only a bit, but it was much faster (same PC, obviously) with mdk 8.X or 9.0. Suggestion: you cleaned up the list with the install steps (on the left), but I think this time is too small :-( One or two more steps are welcome in the first part, before packages installation. Very good the idea of removing the Expert install, I always thought it was confusing. I had a problem during X configuration: I saw Voodoo Banshee generic as video card set automatically, so I simply changed the resolution: from 1024 to 800. I then tested the configuration and ... EVERYTHING freezed. Control-Alt-Fx did not work and I had to reinstall everything from the beginning (I didn't know the x configuration was the LAST step! :-\. Hard reboot and installation from the beginning. After about one hour and half, at the same point of the previous freeze, I simply ignored the test button and I accepted the configuration. When I rebooted (with much expectations, honestly) I found linux booting without graphics (I was really suprised: I have seen the graphic boot for at least 3 MDKs!) and **really slow**, especially in the Finding modules dependencies (or similar, I'm writing from another pc because the pctel modem is not recognized, as expected: not only it's a softmodem, it's also AMR). Unfortunately, when the login manager should have appeared, everything locked up again. I could hear the HD reading something, but I wasn't able to kill xfree because I could not access the terminals. Hard reboot AGAIN. I booted into runlevel 3 and executed XFdrake, this time trying to use a different driver for the video card. I didn't find one, but I discovered I could select xfree 4.3 wirthout 3d support or even xfree 3.3.6. I don't know why but the problem was 3D support: the Banshee card has 3d support with xfree, but who knows... Once disabled 3d support I changed runlevel to 5 and found the Mandrake login manager in english even if I selected italian as primary language (not a problem for me, but I'm not the only user of the pc). I selected kde in the First time wizard and... I had to wait more than a minute to have the desktop ready (MDK 9.0, same box: max 40 seconds) to have the desktop ready. Not only the startup sequence, but even the overall responsiveness got worse. Kde 3.0 was slower than 2.X, but still acceptable. Kde 3.1 is completely useless with my pc. Is it normal? If yes, it's useless to have a pretty interface if you have to buy a faster (about 2x) computer to achieve the same responsiveness. I found Gnome 2.2 slower than 2.0 (I always refer to MDK 9.0) but not so much: even menu navigation is unacceptable! (1 sec delays, just to let you know). The strange thing is that this time gnome it's a bit faster than kde. Another strange thing: not only kde and gnome are slower than mdk 9.0, but even the whole system: for example, window maker or a simple ./configure executed in a separate shell outside xfree (runlevel 5). Could it depends on the kernel? I don't know, but I find this situation very strange and unacceptable (I mean: I will come back to mdk 9.0 and I'll try to upgrade manually as much as I can). A question: why did you choose a -pre kernel? was it really necessary? Comments about my report and suggestions about how to speed up things are welcome, I need them! Good luck (this time it's really necessary... ;-) Olaf Marzocchi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CD Burners
I would suggest a cd burner able to write even 100 minutes cd (850 MB). LGs can do this and they can even write every type of data (I mean: in win, with cd-clone, they can copy every cd). Does exist a linux app able to do the same work of CD-Clone? I miss it. Thanks Olaf At 07.56 18/01/2003, you wrote: Hey I'm cheap I've got a (then) 89 buck Asus CDRW that has worked from 8.0 forward without so much as a burp On the High end Plextor seems to work solid as heck. James olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How to reach a box with hidden IP
In the next months I plan to put a small linux box always connected to the Net, but I have a problem: my provider hides the ip: from 3 to 5 users appear to have the same IP, so I cannot reach my box from outside (they also have a firewall). Is there a way to solve this problem? I thought that a bot always connected to IRC in an hidden channel could do the trick: I tell him a password (at the moment I don't know how to check whether I'm the only user inside the channel, bot excluded) and it executes every command I give him. I start an ssh session from inside the provider's network and I'm done. Is this idea good or is it simply an open door for crackers? Thank you all Olaf olaf.marzocchi@ inwind.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Small speed increase
At 04.15 05/01/2003, you wrote: Will I obtain a 5-8% speed improvement if I recompile kernel 2.4.20 (from kernel.org plus http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ patches) Dunno. But you might be able to use ideparm on your dvd drive and speed up its access - which may or may not be the bottleneck, and thus, the cause of the skips. You didn't mention whether your dvd was ide or scsi. Also what are you using for the viewer? mplayer is really good. I have a cd drive ide, dma on. Viewer? mplayer, of course! I will first recompile the latest mplayer (the pre I had could be slowed down, there was a bug in the audio decoder), then I will recompile it with the options suggested in the previous mail, then I will try to recompile the kernel, then xfree (I will read the docs, none suggested me whether to use srpms or source). One thing remains unclear: the patches available in the site mentioned before are all the patches MDK applies to the kernel? Some time ago Todd told me there was a file with the complete list, but I haven't found it [sorry, I'm perfectionist...] [now I need some time, I will report the results in the next weeks... Thanks Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Small speed increase
At 00.13 29/12/2002, you wrote: Fisrt thing is I still don't catch why you can overclock... I understand that someone is afraid to (I am too, so I don't until my system is well behind new market products so the increase of perfomance is desired using many programs and I break somthing is cheap to replace or can upgrade to something better ;-) Anyway, there are programs that do the overclock directly into mainboard/graphic bios so you can do them from DOS/Windows and make them permanent (dangerous, as well). I can't overclock because may mainboard cannot! I think option -O4 maybe specific to a certain compiler (egcs, for example). In the past I used djgpp (amazing gcc port to DOS) and also used a now dead fork of it for pentium specific and had up to -O6 !!! I just googled a bit and have seen it exists in egcs :-)) and there are also some proposal of -O4 optimizaion standard. Are differencs between agcs and gcc? Humm, I didn't know all the info it provided! ;-)) If you want to go on with gcc optimizations, you can try adding: -fexpensive-optimizations to Makefile and playing with: -funroll-loops -funroll-all-loops -malign* options (these will speed up things but may and probably should overfill cpu cache so effect can be positive or negative depending on each program and each cpu power/cache size ratio). I'll try them and I'll report the results... Thanks Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Small speed increase
You are right!! unfortunately, I already use an mplayer I compiled for i686 with the option -O4 (it was automatically set by the ./configure command, I don't know what -O4 is: I always heard of -O3 as best optimization level). I asked about xfree because I know the kernel shouldn't improve the speed much. I'll try -O3 even if I think that the O4 switch, not reported as error at compile time, already optimize the code well. Unfortunately, I cannot oveclock the system: read the specs below. So, are there around xfree srpms I could use? If not, is following the instructions provided in the xfree site trouble free (with mandrake, I mean)? Maybe there is another choice... linux didn't recognize my vodoo banshee pci well: mplayer cannot use it even if I enabled the appropriate options at the compile time. It seems that the 3dfx (or similar, I don't remember) device is not present. If someone tells me (in addition to the previous question) how to be sure to have the video card recognized, I can try to use that as vodeo output (I use xv now, I tried everything but it's the fastest with my system). Thank you very much Olaf At 21.15 27/12/2002, you wrote: Don't know how hard it will be, but why don't you try to recompile divx player/driver yourself? Probably you will get better improvement with this than playing with kernel if you are not short of memory or running many services at the same time. I have never played with Xfree, but it seems to me that you could get more improvement than playing with kernel in this precise case. If you want to have a look on recompiling divx stuff, you'll probably find in source files an archive called something like 'Makefile' in wich you can change the optimization levels for gcc. Most programs (including kernel) are optimized in level 2 (-O2) and compatible with any 386 or (as in Mandrake) compatible with classic Pentium. Maybe you can change this to your specific processor and change some optimizations: -O3 -- Mainly will tell gcc that it can re-order machine level instructions to minimize queues of instructions waiting to be procesed -march=athlon -- Object code will be athlon processor specific. Depending on your processor it will be i686, i586, pentium, ... See 'man gcc' for more information are there are more options, but they will probably give you less improvement. I have had up to 12% improvement on a program I did myself just by using -O3 and processor specific. Another thing is trying to overclock a bit the graphic card and/or main board/processor. Good luck!!! (and tell us about!!! ;-)) ** Configuration: Celeron 400 chipset sis620, 224 MB ram cas2, 40 GB HD IBM GXP 60, integrated audio CMI 8738, integrated ethernet davicom901A, PCI Vodoo Banshee 16MB (plus the sis 620 integrated in the chipset, actually disabled), LG 8080B CD-RW. Mandrake 9 download edition. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Small speed increase
Ok, I'll lower the res (I already have dma on). What about an xfree recompile for i686? Thanks Olaf At 18.24 26/12/2002, you wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:29:03PM +0100, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I need to improve my box speed a bit because I can't watch divx well (the skip only a bit). Will I obtain a 5-8% speed improvement if I recompile kernel 2.4.20 (from kernel.org plus http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ patches) and xfree 4.2? try first maybe to enable dma in /etc/modules.conf and to set the resolution to a minimum. would be supprised if you'd get a significant performance boost by (re-?)compiling the kernel. olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Small speed increase
I need to improve my box speed a bit because I can't watch divx well (the skip only a bit). Will I obtain a 5-8% speed improvement if I recompile kernel 2.4.20 (from kernel.org plus http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ patches) and xfree 4.2? I have a mdk9 box. If yes, which is the correct sequence to execute to compile xfree? I already know how to prepare the kernel but I never compiled and installed xfree. Thanks Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mount Rainer
I got a Mt.Rainer cd-writer and I'd like to know whether linx can handle this format or not. [Mt.Rainer allow cd-rws to be treated as floppies]. Thanks Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which Wine?
Thanks, I will download it immediately. Just to know, I heard that not every wine release is equally stable. Could someone confirm this and suggest a way to know which one is stable (compared to others: wine is in development status). Thanks again Olaf At 06.03 22/12/2002, you wrote: Olaf Marzocchi wrote: The win2k partition has just been formatted as ext2. Now I need wine to execute some apps. Should I use the mdk9 stock wine (20020810: pretty old, considering the project activity), download the latest wine (but are all the releases equally stable? I heard not), look on cooker, take a prebuilt rpm for mdk8 or use the precompiled codeweavers-wine? or whatever else? Just another question: how much faster will be a i686 compiled app compared to an i586 one? I have a celeron 400. What about a p4 against an i586? Thank you very much. Olaf Olaf, Get the CodeWeavers wine packages. They'll work quite well for you. http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/download.php Mark olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mail client
Steffen, I'm actually reading this mail with Eudora in winxp (my linux box doesn't have an internet connection) and it beautifully work. This mailbox is about 11000 mails big. Eudora has improved. However, I'm reading this thread very happily because is a sort of religion war :-) and I'll have to deal with it in the future. I WANT to have a connection to the net with my linux box! Olaf At 12.52 19/12/2002, you wrote: On Thursday 19 December 2002 12:00, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thursday 19 December 2002 02:31 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: That is very strange... Although I use Evolution, both my wife and my mother are running Kmail, my wife has to see a crash yet. My mother did have prolbems with the kmail package build by SuSE (it was the KDE 3.0.4 upgrade). The RPM's from the KDE site worked fine however. Yes. I have tried other mail clients and have always gone back to Kmail. It has never ever crashed on me or given me any problems. I have also used pine, evolution (yuck...and no way to order mail by date?), mozilla mail, and sylpheed (pretty good). Something is not right with your system or rpm build, not the software (Kmail) per se. Yes I have to second that ! I have in my opinion a really high load on Emails due to mailinglists, and I had never problems with kmail. I think I have a current Email archiv of over 20.000 messages (I don't want delete them, often some usefull informations are in old mail). I have used eudora und several other clients under win and all of them failed on such a big archive. So I am pretty surprised to hear kmail not to be stable. Greets Steffen olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mail client
I have the same feelings for IMAP ;-))), but think about this solution (I plan to implement it by the end of 2003, when I'll have an ADSL connection): you set an imap4 server in you pc and you use a combination of fetchmail, procmail (question: should I use procmail to filter mails or sendmail? it seems both are able to do so) to move all the incoming mail to your local imap server. By doing so you'll be able to mix the benefits of imap4 (you can read mail whewrever you are) and traditional mail clients (you have mails all in your desktop). Olaf Think different; Innovate At 07.12 21/12/2002, you wrote: [1] The thing I dislike about IMAP is its fundamental design and reason for existence, which is the idea that my mail should stay on the server and get copied to my client. If I want the mail to stay on the server, I'll leave it there in an mbox or maildir and access it with a local client over an encrypted tunnel. If I want it on my desktop, I want it to get here as fast as possible and be deleted from the server because it's no longer necessary there. This design problem leads to all the implementation problems of IMAP: SLOWness, lack of integration with local folder structures, and muddling of GUIs for rule-creation, mass copy or delete, etc. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Which Wine?
The win2k partition has just been formatted as ext2. Now I need wine to execute some apps. Should I use the mdk9 stock wine (20020810: pretty old, considering the project activity), download the latest wine (but are all the releases equally stable? I heard not), look on cooker, take a prebuilt rpm for mdk8 or use the precompiled codeweavers-wine? or whatever else? Just another question: how much faster will be a i686 compiled app compared to an i586 one? I have a celeron 400. What about a p4 against an i586? Thank you very much. Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mail client
Well, I simply forgot it: I never used it. Olaf At 23.59 21/12/2002, you wrote: it seems both are able to do so) to move all the incoming mail to your local imap server. how is this better than putting the mail into a local file-system hierarchy? ** Configuration: Celeron 400 chipset sis620, 224 MB ram cas2, 40 GB HD IBM GXP 60, integrated audio CMI 8738, integrated ethernet davicom901A, PCI Vodoo Banshee 16MB (plus the sis 620 integrated in the chipset, actually disabled), LG 8080B CD-RW. hda1 NTFS 8 GB W2K, Reiser for /, Reiser for /home. Mandrake 9 download edition. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] compiling kernel with acpi and w/o apic
At 06.23 18/12/2002, you wrote: the default 9.0 kernel comes with a very old version of ACPI -- you should either go from vanilla (which broke USB in my case) or download a cooker kernel with newer ACPI. I've had ok luck with 2.4.19-19, currently on 2.4.20-2 and not happy with it. Is there a way to have the complete list of patches applied? I didn't find the SPEC file with the list. Could someone post it or send it to me? Thanks. Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hdc lost interrupt
At 06.48 15/12/2002, you wrote: Hey guys, I'm having a strange problem I'm hoping someone else has run into. I'm trying to install MNF onto an AMD 350 system. One HD on the primary channel and one CDROM on the secondary. I've also tried it with the HD and CDROM both on the primary and the secondary disabled. The first way, it gets to the thank you screen (starting to install). In TTY4 I see that HDC lost interrupt over and over. When both are on the same primary channel I get HDA interrupt lost. That is it. I can't get past this. It sure seems hardware, since I was unable to install openbsd. I can't figure out what is wrong here. Help! I have the same problem with an old 486. Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0 DevFS - Long Pause Starting Up - the problem came not alone
I have the same problem: devfs take too much time. Too much because some days ago it didn't take so much. In these days I ONLY installed all the MESA related packages (I'm trying to install crackattack, a tetris-like game) and I replaced the CMOS battery, so I had to reconfigure the BIOS; I'm almost sure everything is as before (only the system bios cacheable changed from enabled to disabled, but I think linux directly acces the bios without the need of caching it). In the same period of time even mplayer slowed down: I was able to watch divx movies and now I cannot anymore. Another problem popped up along with the prevoius ones: the login prompt (I use gdm) take a lot more. I suppose this is caused by some process in the background (if I'm not wrong, the startup isn't finished when gdm comes out). I still have to check. This is all. Hope this helps (I don't have enough money to change computer and I need to watch divxs... :-) Olaf At 23.24 11/12/2002, you wrote: Jim C wrote: Felix Miata wrote: Does everyone have this problem? I have it on two different machines, one booting /dev/hda7, the other /dev/sdc7 (sym53c8xx). It seems that boot pauses at this point longer than what it takes to complete all the rest of the boot process. Boot of 9.0 takes much longer than 8.2 did. Probably not. It depends on a lot of things such as what exact order things are being done in. Likely it is easy to fix also. Probably just Brand new install, just like my other brand new 9.0 install. Both take much longer to boot than 7.1 or 8.2 did. an 'echo' command tacked on to the end of the script or perhaps just Which script? echoing an ANSI sequence or something. Also those who boot into runlevel 5 (GUI mode) by default will never really see it. Never see what? I got out my stopwatch. Running DevFs daemon displayed on the screen for 2 minutes, 19 seconds. 28 seconds later, tty1 went blank as X started and changed to tty7. IOW, the devfs startup message is gone considerably before X ever starts. OS/2 Warp 4.52 boots in 79 seconds. W2K boots in 123 seconds. 9.0 takes 205 seconds to X login manager, 220 seconds to tty1 login prompt, 270 seconds until KDE is done loading, not counting time spent typing in a password. Total 9.0 boot time, 4.5 minutes, more than half of which is devfs init. ** Configuration: Celeron 400 chipset sis620, 224 MB ram cas2, 40 GB HD IBM GXP 60, integrated audio CMI 8738, integrated ethernet davicom901A, PCI Vodoo Banshee 16MB (plus the sis 620 integrated in the chipset, actually disabled), LG 8080B CD-RW. hda1 NTFS 8 GB W2K, Reiser for /, Reiser for /home. Mandrake 9 download edition. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] System clock slower in Linux than in Win
I noticed that my systm clock is slower when I use linux, a problem I never had before (when I used windows 98 and then 2000). I thought the cause could be the operation where linux set the system clock to GMT and then revert it back to local time, so I told Mandrake Config to use the GMT time in the BIOS. It helped a bit but the problem remains. Note: I use mplayer to watch videos and I changed the RTC permissions in order to be able to use it even as normal user (but only mine). now RTC has root:rtc as owner:group and I belong to the rtc group. Permissions: rw(x)rw-r--. I don't remeber whether root can execute rtc or not (I'm writing from another box). Is there a way to fix this problem? I lose about 15 minutes per week! And I need to use the rtc because mplayer sucks less power if it's able to use it: unfortunately, that small difference in power allow me to watch divxs. Thanks Olaf Configuration: Celeron 400 chipset sis620, 224 MB ram cas2, 40 GB HD IBM GXP 60, integrated audio CMI 8738, integrated ethernet davicom901A, PCI Vodoo Banshee 16MB (and sis 620 integrated in the chipset, disabled), LG 8080B CD-RW. hda1 NTFS 8 GB W2K, Reiser for /, Reiser for /home, fat for an exchange partition. Mandrake 9 download edition. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Is it possible to speed up the boot?
I wonder whether at boot time services are started one after the other or two or three at time. If they are executed one after the other, is there a way to tell the init script to launch more at the same time? Thank you Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] System clock slower in Linux than in Win
Sorry, I forgot to tell you all my box is not connected to the Net. That's the reason I'm writing mails from another box. :-( Olaf At 18.53 07/12/2002, you wrote: Try replacing your CMOS battery. Regardless if that works or not, try synching to a time server using NNTP. You can set it to update as often as you need, usually every 24 hours or so. Chad olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CD Database
Could you suggest me a good MySQL and PHP tutorial available in the web? Thank you Olaf At 23.22 29/11/2002, you wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 08:47, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know of good database applications for cataloging CD's under ML 9.0? I've been using the cddb_get package with a MySQL database. http://armin.emx.at/cddb/CDDB_get-latest.tar.gz Works very well. Create the database with 'mysqladmin create CDs', then from the CDDB_get-2.11 directory, do 'mysql CDs DATABASE'. You now have a MySQL database called CDs with 2 tables, cds and tracks. Then do 'perl Makefile.pl' then 'make' 'make install' You'll have to edit the resulting cddb.pl with the correct login information for your MySQL server. localhost for the server, root as the user, and for the password works for a default installation. I also added the following line to cddb.pl so that the cd drawer ejects after writing to the database (on line 356): system (eject /dev/scd0); #or whatever your cd device is... So, while connected to the Internet, simply put in your cds one by one, run 'cddb.pl' and it will go off to the Internet, grab the cddb info, and populate your database. You may have to manually add any cds that don't exist in the cddb database, I suggest that you investigate phpMyAdmin for this. I'll leave that up to you :) Also, believe it or not, I wrote a couple of php pages to view my collection only yesterday... Put them under /var/www/html and view them with your browser. I hope that this solution fits the bill. Kind regards, John... olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fast user switching
I need to lock the other user from using my account and I'd like not to use 2x times the memory of a single Xfree session!. Actually I'looking at gdm. I'm trying to increase the username font size. Olaf At 23.15 21/11/2002, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olaf Marzocchi wrote on Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:30:58PM +0100 : In Windows XP I'm are able to switch between users without closing the apps. With enough ram (I have 256 MB on my p4 1800), the whole thing is fast and pretty useful: you don't have to close apps (when I surf I keep open at least 7 windows and/or tabs) and both people can work inside their environment. Since you are seemingly better at Linux than the other person, you let them login from the kdm screen. For YOU to get into X, you just press Ctrl-Alt-F2, login as your regular user, and run 'startx [ desktop ] -- :1'. This will start up a second X session with a second desktop running as your user. To get to the first user's desktop, press Ctrl-Alt-F7. To get to your desktop, press Ctrl-Alt-F8. Note that there is *** NO *** security when doing it this way. He could watch you press those keys and quite easily switch over to your desktop when you're not looking and smoke your home directory (and I'm not talking 420 either). Blue skies... Todd olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Obtain root privileges with unsecure software
Is it possible, for a user who already has an account in a linux box, to become root by compiling and starting a program known to be vulnerable? If yes, how to discover this user? Is there a way to block such exploits or not? Thank you Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Obtain root privileges with unsecure software
Please ignore this question. The answer was obvious. Olaf At 13.00 17/11/2002, you wrote: Is it possible, for a user who already has an account in a linux box, to become root by compiling and starting a program known to be vulnerable? If yes, how to discover this user? Is there a way to block such exploits or not? Thank you Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Fast user switching
In Windows XP I'm are able to switch between users without closing the apps. With enough ram (I have 256 MB on my p4 1800), the whole thing is fast and pretty useful: you don't have to close apps (when I surf I keep open at least 7 windows and/or tabs) and both people can work inside their environment. I'm planning to let use my linux bos to anyone living with me, so I'd like to know whether a similar feature exist or not. I already know I can start xfree many times, but I don't want users to be able to switch from an xfree to another one without being asked for a password. Moreover, each xfree instance requires a lot of memory. Another option is to log out every time and tell the WM to save the session, but when I come back every app has to be launched again and it takes time (remember, I'm going to share my cel400!, not the P4). Could you suggest me a solution? Thanks Olaf ** Configuration: Celeron 400 chipset sis620, 224 MB ram cas2, 40 GB HD IBM GXP 60, integrated audio CMI 8738, ethernet davicom901A, Voodoo Banshee 16 MB (plus the sis 620 integrated, now disabled), LG 8080B CD-RW. hda1 NTFS 8 GB W2K, hda5 Reiser for / 5GB, hda3 swap 392MB, hda7 ReiserFS for /home. Mandrake 9. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fast user switching
Thanks!!! Now I have kdm, to use gdm I have to change something in the runlevel 5, isn't it? Olaf At 21.46 16/11/2002, you wrote: This time Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: In Windows XP I'm are able to switch between users without closing the apps. With enough ram (I have 256 MB on my p4 1800), the whole thing is fast and pretty useful: you don't have to close apps (when I surf I keep open at least 7 windows and/or tabs) and both people can work inside their environment. I'm planning to let use my linux bos to anyone living with me, so I'd like to know whether a similar feature exist or not. I already know I can start xfree many times, but I don't want users to be able to switch from an xfree to another one without being asked for a password. Moreover, each xfree instance requires a lot of memory. Another option is to log out every time and tell the WM to save the session, but when I come back every app has to be launched again and it takes time (remember, I'm going to share my cel400!, not the P4). Could you suggest me a solution? gdm has something like this, combined with the New Login program somewhere under the Gnome menu. If you have gdm running, you can just hit that, login as the new user without login out as the previous user and that's it. When you exit the 2nd user, you'll need the password of the original user to get back into his desktop, tho. Vox olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] usernames
At 20.56 28/10/2002, you wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 11:53, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, How do I disable login names on the login screen? I think msec does it. But I don't want all there features. Is there a config file I can edit? Regads, Norman it's a gdm or kdm thing, depending on which you use. Is there a way to show users' names in the gdm login? I like it but I didn't found how to show the users. Thanks Olaf olaf kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions
I have problems with lm_sensors: my box runs pretty well (no crashes since linux install :-), but sensors gives me 128°C (more than boiling water, for those using Faranheit) as cpu temp and about 60°C inside the box. Voltages are wrong too. Any idea? Olaf At 07.13 29/10/2002, you wrote: For me it depends on what the box does. I've got a box that runs 150w (New VIA EPIA motherboard) and that meats specs for it. For a gammer 350W is the lower end. My main box runs 300w and rarely ever pushes it hard. (In fact never) James olaf kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Startup time and prebinding
I use linux almost every day and I noticed that apps provided with it take more time to load than in windows. Example: Qcad in win2k and linux mdk9; openoffice 1.0.1, mozilla (same box: cel400 192 MB ram). What about prelinking? could it improve startup times? if yes, would it impact on peformances somewhere else? Help would be appreciate Olaf olaf kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions
The chassis temp. cannot be lower than air temperature: if you get 23-24 even when outside the air is at 28, you have problems with the sensors! It's obvious. Olaf At 19.07 27/10/2002, you wrote: 40.8C. cpu temp is reasonable, but on my KT133 I've found anything over 45-46C. tends to give me random weird problems. I run about 39-41C. average. If your average cpu temps are running over 45C., I would be suspicious. Also, even though 37C. seems like it's low for sys temps, I would think you have a case air flow problem, as my KT133 never gets above 23-24C., even on hot days. The 37C. case air would add at least 10-12C. to any card or ram, which might be a concern, especially on a video card that ran hot anyway. Of course, the problems may not be heat related at all, but it does sound like a good bet, considering what you have said, and the fact that they seem random. olaf kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] You Don't Need to Burn CD's to Install
At 20.04 05/10/2002, you wrote: makes sense to me, just something I had not considered. I however keep all the old cds, for the most part I figure there might be something I will wish to recall as soon as I get rif of the old one. you won't want the powerpack if you have the broadband if you need to be that economical as far as disposing old CDs tho, since toe powerpack is every kind of program Mandrakesoft can throw on the contrib CDs, it winds up being a lot of stuff you never get the time to play with, much less get good at. the Club Membership (on the otherhand) will be handy. I still install viavoice from my 7.2 discs and use it even in 8.2, so I am glad to be able to find the cds. I planned to buy a powerpack only to support mandrakesoft, but if you say getting a club membership is better, I'll get it instead. is there a way to obtain viavoice? I read the additional software included in the one of the powerpack (the most expensive) and I dodn't find it in the list. Moreover, is viavoice english or is avaiable even in italian? Olaf olaf kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] You Don't Need to Burn CD's to Install
You are right, but I use CD-RW to burn MDK ISOs and 700 MB CD-RW are not cheap. Olaf At 21.53 04/10/2002, you wrote: Just curious.. Have you been out to buy blank CDs lately? Not meaning any offense here, but I buy 200 or so every other month, and its getting quite hard anymore to even find 74 minute blanks. And, if I do find them, the cost difference between them is negligible. Darin - olaf kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
