Re: [expert] Linuxconf
Any idea what happened to the GTK GUI? Paul On Monday 17 November 2003 12:15 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 11:13 am, Timothy Brown wrote: List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim It's moved to contrib, but be careful, it is really quite broken in 9.2, especially as related to Network stuff. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Laptop X/different configs
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 07:11 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 03:04, Paul Kaplan wrote: I set up 9.2 on an IBM T40, which has an ATI Radeon 7500 and in internal LCD at 1024x768. At the time I set it up, I had an external keyboard (with a built-in trackpoint AND trackpad), mouse and 1280x1024 monitor attached through a port replicator. Setup correctly detected and configured the external devices. However, when I boot the machine without being attached to the port replicator, X still presents the 1280x1024 desktop (only the upper-right 1024x768 pixels) and the internal pointing devices (a trackpoint and a trackpad) are non-responsive. how annoying. You'll need to add the extra pointing devices to XF86Config4 manually. Not sure how to do the screen size properly, but a workaround would be to do CTRL-ALT-[keypad-minus] to cycle to a lower resolution. This is not fun on a laptop keyboard (hint: numlock on, semicolon). Thanks for the suggestions. I tried the CTRL-ALT-[keypad-minus] (got it enabled), but it didn't do anything the resoultion. I had to config through control center. Is there some trick to activating this particular keyboard sequence? Paul How do I configure X (4.3) so that it autodetects whether the external monitor and pointing devices are attached and sets the video output appropriately? TIA Paul __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Laptop X/different configs
I set up 9.2 on an IBM T40, which has an ATI Radeon 7500 and in internal LCD at 1024x768. At the time I set it up, I had an external keyboard (with a built-in trackpoint AND trackpad), mouse and 1280x1024 monitor attached through a port replicator. Setup correctly detected and configured the external devices. However, when I boot the machine without being attached to the port replicator, X still presents the 1280x1024 desktop (only the upper-right 1024x768 pixels) and the internal pointing devices (a trackpoint and a trackpad) are non-responsive. How do I configure X (4.3) so that it autodetects whether the external monitor and pointing devices are attached and sets the video output appropriately? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] USB
I have a Thinkpad T40 w/ 9.2, 2.4.22.18, I have an IBM port replicator. My USB devices work correctly when plugged directly into the ports (USB2) on a T40 itself, but are flaky or totaly non-functional when plugged into the port replicator or an external, unpowered USB2 hub. The hub connections are flaky no matter whether the hub is plugged into the port replicator or the machine itself. I'm pretty sure it isn't a hardware problem since all the ports devices work under W2KSP4. Does anyone have any experience with flaky USB2 or any ideas how to fix? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Mount: error 19 / Kernel panic booting 2.4.22
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:10:01 +, Paul wrote: I get a kernel panic when I boot kernel-2.4.22. When I boot from kernel-2.4.19, everything is fine. Someone suggested switching the filesystem stype from 'auto' to 'ext3', but I'm still having the problem... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mount: error 19 / Kernel panic booting 2.4.22
I get a kernel panic when I boot kernel-2.4.22. When I boot from kernel-2.4.19, everything is fine. I've just upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2. The messages I get on the console are: Loading sd_mode.o module Mounting /proc filesystem Creating root device Mountint root filesystem mount: error 19 mounting auto flags defaults well, retrying without the option falgs mount: error 19 mounting auto well, retrying without any flag mount: error 19 mounting auto pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 ... (Any spelling mistakes are mine, as I had to type a copy of this in). All my partitions are ext3. A copy of my /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 / auto defaults 1 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /home auto defaults 1 0 /dev/hda6 /usr auto defaults 1 0 /dev/hda7 /var auto defaults 1 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda10 /mnt/hdb10 auto defaults 1 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/syjet auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 /dev/hdb3 /mnt/winxp ntfs noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /mnt/winxp2 ntfs noauto 0 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and xscreensaver
Have you really been able to get the xscreensaver modules to show up in the KDE Control Center Screensaver module? I'd love to know how it's done. The 9.2 download ISOs had an unfixed oversight that caused the KDE Screensaver modules to disappear. These have been fixed in the updates that have been on the mirrors for a few days. I tried, unsuccessfully to fix the KDE Screensaver problem using several of the methods reported on the lists, but solved it immediately with the update. Paul On Tuesday 28 October 2003 12:43 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Xscreensaver is installed on my machine: xscreensaver-4.12-1mdk, but the screen savers are not showing up in KDE Control Center/Appearance Themes/Screen Saver. And this is with a reboot of the machine (not related) and several reboots of X. Now, is there something that I am supposed to do to get it to work, or did Mandrake blow it? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Monday 20 October 2003 04:09 am, Anne Wilson graced me with: On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 10:34 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 19 October 2003 23:28, Anne Wilson wrote: That's one I hadn't thought of. Thanks Here's another one: Calypso, it has some very nice features in it including filtering on the server. And it has good looks;) The only mailer I advise to Win sufferers. That one I'd never heard of. I'll put it on the list of possibles. I can see I have a lot of reading to do, to see which one would be easiest/best for her. Thanks Anne Don't forget to look into PocoMail 3. It also doesn't use any M$ features that are prone to attack and is quite powerful, including its own very extensive scripting language. The authors guarantees that this client cannot propagate a virus as O/OE does. The downside is that it's not free. My wife uses it as she must be on a Windows machine for compatibility with her work. We haven't been hit wit a virus since making the switch several months ago. Knock on wood... Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:53 pm, L.V.Gandhi graced me with: On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 7:19 pm, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I have good luck with Thinkpad R40 and Mandrake 9.1. I did upgrade its kernel to the latest, and DRI. -turgut can you give some more info on cpu, chipset, video system? I have MDK 9.1 running on a Dell Inspiron 4000 (circa 2000), Celeron 600 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 20 Gig HD, ESS Maestro Sound, Actiontec Mini PCI 56K Modem, XGA screen. I have ReiserFS for a file system (except for /boot) and it seems to work well for me. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 and SCSI installations - what gives?
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:52, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, is this a 9.1 bug or what's going on? - (1) I installed 9.1 from the boxed pack some while ago on a PCI-IDE system with ATAPI-CDwriter, USB flat-bed scanner and SCSI 35mm film scanner. During 'expert' installation the SCSI card (standard AHA1520) was not recognised and no option to instal a SCSI host adapter module manually was offered. It's taken quite a lot of fiddling and advice from a couple of mailing lists to get the SCSI card set up to be recognised at boot-up. (By contrast, it was pretty straightforward under 9.0). (2) I've just been installing 9.1 (from the same pack) in 'expert' mode on a Sony SRX51P laptop - nothing remotely resembling SCSI anywhere around. What happens? - I get the option to install third-party modules *twice* and a query How to access SCSI? with a whole host of module choices for SCSI host adapters displayed, including the one 9.1 refused to recognise when there was *actually* a genuine SCSI card in the system. What gives, anybody? DougB No such problems in my experience. Recognises SCSI when it's there, only does what's necessary for ATAPI CD-R drives when it's not - have to admit I didn't bother using 'expert' install though. Paul M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IE6 masquerading
Can't get that to work on Mozilla 1.4 right click does nothing. However with 1.4 if I click in the body of the page I can get it to allow the edit. Now If I can just get Mozilla to start back up I'll test it out *grin* James I'll change it to reflect that in the future. It did that to me when I was testing it out, but it didn't do it every time. I'm not quite sure what the magic sequence was to get it to work as I explained it, but what you stated is a more repeatable way to do it. Revised: -Type in about:config in the address bar. -Right click just below Preference Name and choose New = String -Enter general.useragent.override as the name. -Enter Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) or Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) as the string. -Restart Mozilla and you're done. Is that any better? I found the same as James, clicked on preferences - nothing. Went onto do as you both describe and - *no* Mozilla. Paul M Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] In-Wall home networking questions. -- Follow-Up
Ok, I wanted to post a follow-up regarding the home-networking plans I mentioned earlier. Just to recap, I have cat-5 routed through my home, going from each outlet (about 18) to the basement. I was looking for the best way to have them all accessible to the internet (via dsl/cable modem). Also I want to be able to just plug in my wireless access point to any plug and have it work, and do the same with a network printer. There is a company called Leviton that sells modular home networking equipment. For about $600, I can buy some supplies through them to hook up my system in one central location in the basement. It looks pretty sweet, and consists of: 2 White Steel boxes w/access panel (one for routers, etc. and a little one for excess cable) 1 24-port ethernet/phone panel 1 4-port Internet Gateway 3 8-port Ethernet Switches and 1 little shelf for my cable/dsl modem I can also add on a surge protector and UPS. Leviton has images of all their products online, here are pictures of all the parts in order: http://www.levitonvoicedata.com/structuredmedia/smc420.asp http://www.levitonvoicedata.com/structuredmedia/smc140.asp http://www.levitonvoicedata.com/structuredmedia/24portsmp.asp http://www.levitonvoicedata.com/structuredmedia/4PortInternetGateway.asp http://www.levitonvoicedata.com/structuredmedia/ethernetswitches.asp SO, my question is, is it worth it? $600 doesn't seem so bad for all this stuff. I might be able to route my telephone and cable/satellite through here, too. (Though the jury is still out on that due to old wiring.) It seems like an elegant solution. Am I better off just getting a really big switch and use a computer as a gateway? - Paul On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 23:02, Paul Rodriguez wrote: So just a normal switch (say 20-port) connected to the cable/dsl router? What role does the router play? Is it for use as a firewire? - paul On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 22:49, Michael Noble wrote: I assume you ment RJ-45. All you need is a switch that will handle all the network lines that go into the basement. If you have cable/DSL for internet then you should get a Linksys Cable/DSL router(you might want to get a wireless which also has RJ-45. The setup would look like this: Internet | Linksys cable/dsl router | | Fast switch | | Connections to the other rooms in the house Mike On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:20, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I recently did some renovation on my house. While all of the walls were open, I had the electrician wire cat5, rj-46, and voice cable to every room in the house, and routed directly to the basement. I need some help coming up with a strategy for setting up the home networking. Should I get a large router and connect it to a server in the basement, or should I go with a prefab integrated modular networking system? I see that Leviton (http://www.leviton.com) has a system to integrate home networks. It's a box that goes in the basement and routes all cable, phone, lan, and I think can be connected to a home surge protector, server, and cable/dsl modem. But I'm not sure if it's big enough to accomodate all 18 connectors I have. I would love to use a product like this if it was affordable, because it would be a much cleaner solution. Does anybody have any experience doing this sort of thing, or with any specific products? Do you have an recommendations for me? I appreciate your help, and I appologize for cross-posting to both newbie and expert, but I figured it might cross boundaries here. -- Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] In-Wall home networking questions.
So just a normal switch (say 20-port) connected to the cable/dsl router? What role does the router play? Is it for use as a firewire? - paul On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 22:49, Michael Noble wrote: I assume you ment RJ-45. All you need is a switch that will handle all the network lines that go into the basement. If you have cable/DSL for internet then you should get a Linksys Cable/DSL router(you might want to get a wireless which also has RJ-45. The setup would look like this: Internet | Linksys cable/dsl router | | Fast switch | | Connections to the other rooms in the house Mike On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:20, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I recently did some renovation on my house. While all of the walls were open, I had the electrician wire cat5, rj-46, and voice cable to every room in the house, and routed directly to the basement. I need some help coming up with a strategy for setting up the home networking. Should I get a large router and connect it to a server in the basement, or should I go with a prefab integrated modular networking system? I see that Leviton (http://www.leviton.com) has a system to integrate home networks. It's a box that goes in the basement and routes all cable, phone, lan, and I think can be connected to a home surge protector, server, and cable/dsl modem. But I'm not sure if it's big enough to accomodate all 18 connectors I have. I would love to use a product like this if it was affordable, because it would be a much cleaner solution. Does anybody have any experience doing this sort of thing, or with any specific products? Do you have an recommendations for me? I appreciate your help, and I appologize for cross-posting to both newbie and expert, but I figured it might cross boundaries here. -- Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] In-Wall home networking questions.
I recently did some renovation on my house. While all of the walls were open, I had the electrician wire cat5, rj-46, and voice cable to every room in the house, and routed directly to the basement. I need some help coming up with a strategy for setting up the home networking. Should I get a large router and connect it to a server in the basement, or should I go with a prefab integrated modular networking system? I see that Leviton (http://www.leviton.com) has a system to integrate home networks. It's a box that goes in the basement and routes all cable, phone, lan, and I think can be connected to a home surge protector, server, and cable/dsl modem. But I'm not sure if it's big enough to accomodate all 18 connectors I have. I would love to use a product like this if it was affordable, because it would be a much cleaner solution. Does anybody have any experience doing this sort of thing, or with any specific products? Do you have an recommendations for me? I appreciate your help, and I appologize for cross-posting to both newbie and expert, but I figured it might cross boundaries here. -- Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1
When I demonstrated with a stopwatch that Mandrake was loading a full 30 seconds faster ... the stopwatch settled the question factually and unemotionally in less than 60 seconds. Less than 15 seconds. Not bad. Sorry, in the interests of lightening the thread I couldn't resist it :) Paul. PS. Of course you'll probably reply and tell me that it really was 15s, in which case I'd be very interested in hearing how you did that. PPS. Or you did both machines simultaneously of course... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Linux Active Directory
I'm looking for some detailed help on connecting a Mandrake 9.x client to an NT network at work. The network is a mix of NT volumes and Active Directory stuff (are these shares?). I have an account on the network and (obviously can connect from a W2K Pro client on the same machine). I have been led to believe that I need to use the Samba 3, which is still in alpha, but I don't need any server stuff, just the ability to read AD shares as a user. Can anyone provide some detailed instructions for configuring my client box to read AD, samba or not. Thanks, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] updates CD..
Incidently, does anyone know of a way to stop MandrakeUpdate deleting the files in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Hi, I asked this a while back and got some responses but mainly for urpmi from the command line. I looked at some of the scripts involved in MandrakeUpdate but didn't figure out how I could use the information successfully. I may have some time on my hands in the near future so it's something I might look at again. It's such an obvious thing to want to do I'm surprised it's not implemented. Paul. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PDF writer
On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:54 am, Robert Barry wrote: I'm using the pdf printer in Samba. Mandrake has a pdf printer setup already in the Samba. It works great for any windows users on our network. They just select the pdf printer and print and the pdf file is put in their home folder. Where did you get postscript drivers for your windows machines? -- Paul pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem
On Thursday 13 March 2003 12:06 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange thing. In the past, I've always gotten round this, by forcing the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network. But that trick isn't working in 9.1rc2. The workstation is running undder DHCP, and I suspect that's where the name is coming from. But I've always been able to change it before. Update dhcp-client from the cooker and it should fix it (you'll also need dhcp-common). -- Paul pgp0.pgp Description: signature Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Building from .src.rpm
Don't forget --target arch if you want to build for other than 586. P On Friday 21 February 2003 05:55 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 09:43, Ken Thompson wrote: Can someone refresh my memory? I want to build an rpm from a src.prm and have forgotten the command. rpm --rebuild [package] packages will be put into /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/[arch]/ and of course, man rpm -- it's on the second page. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Large IDE HD on Mdk 9.0?
I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk working on my Mdk 9.0 system. When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk was virginal from the store, and now that I have created a single large primary partition on it with Win2K. If I append hdh=noprobe to the boot prompt, I can boot the system, but the drive is not accessible. If I specify the geometry the kernel reports for the drive just before the partition check, like so: hdh=14946,255,63 hdh=noprobe which corresponds to an example in the kernel source Documents/ide.txt file, the kernel panics. The same thing happens if I use the geometry values given in the spec sheet for the drive on Maxtor's support web. The first line of the panic message refers to a null pointer reference at address 63, which makes me wonder whether the sectors parameter of the geometry spec is getting misinterpreted. Any hints? Any ideas? Regards, Wolf N. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TyanThunder Pro-CPU heat and hardware integrity
- Original Message - From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [expert] TyanThunder Pro-CPU heat and hardware integrity On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:26, gikoreno wrote: Hey everyone, I am not sure this is supposed to be in the expert list, but since it's more hardware related I sent it here. I just got a Tyan Thunder Pro system with two Athlon 2000+ CPUs. The power supply I was provided was an ATXGES one, and I just trusted the OEM supplier to have ensured it was the right one for the board. Little did I know. As soon as I connected it, I heard a bang, Well, that's why they called it a Thunder Pro, obviously, the only motherboard with guaranteed exploding processors. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increase of Capital?
Capital refers to cash or cash-like instruments. The message implies that M is having a problem meeting its cash requirements to keep the business operating...for example paying salaries and bills (electricity, phone service, etc.). They have essentially five options. 1. Reduce expenses (reduce the number of employees, stop buying things, or ask employees to wait a bit for the salary payments 2. Increase revenue (sell more products or services) 3. Borrow cash (from a bank or private lender) 4. Sell stock (this is usually done in large chunks, say by issuing 5-20% more shares in the company and diluting the ownership position of the existing shareholders/owners by that amount). All of these take time to organize and complete and impact the financial status. A fifth option is to be creative as M has done. In M's case by appealing to loyalists such as ourselves to contribute directly to the company coffers in return for a service (M Club) that is (presumably) low cost to operate. Feel free to contact M directly and ask how you can help. I'm sure they won't be shy in telling you how to. IMHO, I think in the end, M will use a combination of these options, re-focus on how things are done inside the company, and will likely come out of the crisis in a stronger position than going in. They certainly have a good core product. Paul On Tuesday 31 December 2002 06:36 pm, Revenant wrote: As someone who's never really looked into investment, how does this Increase of Capital thing work? Thanx. --- Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 03:01, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: All Maxtor drives I have tried in the past have failed the first day I used them, all with unrecoverable bad sectors. For what it's worth I have 3 Maxtor 5TO60H6 60GB drives all working flawlessly so far. Two for over two years now and one for a year. Paul. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems in shuttind down
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 08:56, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Just migrated to 9.0. When shutting down, the shutdown process FREEZES at a certain point with the following error: unmounting NFS filesystems: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered umount2: Device or resource busy umount: /net: device is busy At this point I have to hard-reset the computer (which implies that, on rebooting, filesystems are checked for consistency) Could someone help me in understanding this? Thanks a lot in advance. Best regards /stefano Are you actually using NFS? Do you have remote filesystems mounted at /net? I use NFS between two machines connected via a cross-over cable and sometimes I get an error which I think is the same as yours. I haven't looked into it in much detail but I think it happens in the following scenario. Machine A boots first. Machine B boots up after A has stopped checking for the remote filesystems. B's NFS shares are manually mounted on A. Machine B is powered down. Machine A is powered down - Unmount NFS error - HANG. Don't know if any of this is relevant in your case of course. Paul. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] error loading libGL.so and libMesaVoodooGL.so But it used to work three days ago
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 19:57, Roberto Armenteros wrote: Hi guys, I had quake 3 installed in my system for more than a year, but just a couple of days ago I tried to install other games and some libraries and when I try to run quake 3 now I get the error. ...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: /usr/local/games/q3demo/libGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory failed It's not clear from the error message whether it's looking in /usr/lib which I can't believe it's not doing. According to the man page for ld.so.conf /usr/lib is a default location for libraries and so is not required to be in /etc/ld.so.conf. If it's not looking there then you could put in a symlink from a directory that is in /etc/ld.so.conf (remembering to run ldconfig afterwards). ...loading libMesaVoodooGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libMesaVoodooGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: /usr/local/games/q3demo/libMesaVoodooGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I assume that this is the fall through option if it can't find libGL.so??? The deal is that libGL.so is present in /usr/lib as you can see when I do a locate libGL.so [rarmente@rarmente lib]$ locate libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.3123 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/local/games/quake2/libGL.so My own /etc/ld.so.conf has /usr/X11R6/lib present so perhaps yours does too? If so then maybe all you need is a symlink from libGL.so to libGL.so.1 in that directory. Failing all of the above then try copying the library into the current directory. HTH Paul. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate issues
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 05:23, Joseph Braddock wrote:
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 23:56, James Sparenberg wrote:
If your are using urpmi from the command line you can use the switch
--noclean and it won't erase the rpms.
I haven't tried this, but you should also be able to go into menudrake
and add the --noclean to the command for the Mandrake Update menu
choice.
Joeb
Thanks for your replies. The menudrake approach doesn't seem to work.
Presumably because /usr/sbin/MandrakeUpdate is just a symlink to rpmdrake and
not to urpmi.
Having a look at /usr/sbin/rpmdrake I see that it is a Perl script with the
following line
system('/usr/sbin/urpmi.update', map { $_-{name} } @update_medias) == 0
just after it echoes a message about contacting the mirrors. Presumably all I
have to do is to edit this and add the --noclean at this point?
Paul.
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[expert] MandrakeUpdate issues
Hi, I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and using the graphical interface MandrakeUpdate. I have two questions. 1. How do I stop MU from deleting the rpms after they are installed? (I have a second Mandrake 9.0 box that I would like to update over nfs using the same rpms.) At the moment they seem to go to /var/cache/urpmi/rpms at which point I have to quickly copy them over as they are being installed :) 2. I lost my connection ( using a modem unfortunately) during the tetex-1.0.7-61 (63952KB) download and had hoped that it would be able to resume after re-establishing the connection. This didn't seem to happen and when I quit MU and restarted it attempted to install the partially downloaded rpm, complained of a bad signature and promptly deleted what there was of the rpm. Thankfully I had the common sense to back it up first... Is there any way to resume a download? Any hints and tips appreciated. Thanks. Paul. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel 2.2
Hi there, I have now managed to resolve a problem that I originally emailed to the list about a year ago and thought, for the sake of completeness, I would give the solution. The original email is appended below and was about the failure of 2.4 series kernels to boot properly on an Asus A7M266-D motherboard. The solution is to disable MPS 1.4 Support in the BIOS. Not sure what that does but it fixes the problem. The reason I came across it is that I upgraded to Mandrake 9.0 by doing a fresh install, the only problem being that the installer hung right away. I guess it must be based on the 2.4 kernel whereas the 8.1 installer (which worked) was based on 2.2? Paul. --- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --- Hi, We're running Mandrake 8.1 on a dual Athlon 1600+ (1.4GHz) Asustek A7M266-D board. Installation seemd to go okay but when we try the enterprise (2.4.8-26) or smp kernel (2.4.8-34.1) the machine hangs at two different stages during the boot process. Sometimes it hangs at the IO-APIC test and sometimes it gets past this and hangs a few lines later after printing stuff about CPU0. The up kernel (2.4.8-26) works fine. We also have no success with the 2.4.18 smp kernel. We DO have success with the older 2.2.19-20.1 smp kernel! Does anybody have any idea what changed from 2.2 to 2.4 that would cause this sort of problem and how to fix it? Is there simply something I need to compile into or remove from the kernel? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks. Paul Fotheringham --- END ORIGINAL MESSAGE --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] It won't power off
What about: shutdown -h now ? Paul On Sunday 24 November 2002 01:27 am, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I have a Pentium4 box that used to hold XP. When XP shut down, it turned the box off. I moved XP to another box and installed Mandrake. When I execute poweroff as root, the os is stopped and the last thing the console says is Power down but the power does not go off. Since it worked under XP, I am assuming it's not hardware. Does anyone have an idea as to what rpms am I missing or what config file is mis-configed :-) Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] initrd script
I remember coming across a script that created a new initrd file, but now I don't know what it was. The documentation that describes creating an initrd file describes how to write the script, but I remember that there is a premade script somewhere. My machine needs an initrd file to run a recompiled kernel because I need to load scsi drivers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] initrd script
now why didn't I think to look for something called mkinitrd? seems so logical. that must have been what I found once before. - Original Message - From: Thierry TERRIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [expert] initrd script Hi, You can use the mkinitrd script with the following syntax: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-version.img version where version is kernel version like 2.2.19 You must have compiled and installed yours modules before (/lib/module/version) best regards Thierry I remember coming across a script that created a new initrd file, but now I don't know what it was. The documentation that describes creating an initrd file describes how to write the script, but I remember that there is a premade script somewhere. My machine needs an initrd file to run a recompiled kernel because I need to load scsi drivers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9.0 libiberty missing
I just installed Mandrake 9.0 and it seems there is no 'libiberty.a' in '/usr/lib' or '/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2'. There is, however, a '/usr/include/libiberty.h'. Did something go wrong during install or is it broken? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Set up a network from scratch
Hi all, I need some help to set my network up please. I have 2 machines, one with windows 98SE and the other with Mandrake 8.2. I have just installed a D-Link DSL-504 adsl router and can connect to the internet using both machines via lan cards. The problem is that I cannot see the windows machine from Mandrake or Mandrake from the windows machine. Both machines are set up to have ip addresses allocated at boot time from the DSL DHCP server. The windows machine is named PC1 with workgroup = HOMENET The linux machine is set as PC2.HOMENET Summary information from the router IP Address Configuration IP Address 192.168.0.1 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 MAC Address 00:50:ba:96:10:48 PPPoA Login Login User Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] Authentication chap PPP Information IP Address 212.159.109.207 Connection Status Connected PVC VPI 0 VCI 38 Connection Type Connection Type Router with PPPoA Encapsulation MethodVC mux DHCP Configuration Start IP Address192.168.0.2 End IP Address 192.168.0.33 Netmask 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway 192.168.0.1 Leased Time 72 hour Primary DNS 192.168.0.1 Domain Name HOMENET State enabled NAT Configuration NAT Functionenabled DHCP Allocation Table IndexMAC Address IP Address Computer Name Leased Time 1 00:50:ba:bb:96:5d 192.168.0.3 PC1 69 2 00:50:ba:ba:cf:de 192.168.0.2 PC2 23 Please contact me if you need other information in order to help me regards Paul Stear Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Test message - Please ignore
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[expert] Boot problem
Hi all, I have updated 8.1 to 8.2 and all seemed to go well except when I rebooted after update and selected linux from the menu I was left with an 'S' on the screen, the hard disk activity light a constant red and no response. I tried various things like nodevfs and just text lilo. I then installed from scratch thinking that may be the problem but the result is the same. However, failsafe works - is that a clue? Please help regards Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boot problem
On Friday 26 April 2002 16:54, you wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I have updated 8.1 to 8.2 and all seemed to go well except when I rebooted after update and selected linux from the menu I was left with an 'S' on the screen, the hard disk activity light a constant red and no response. I tried various things like nodevfs and just text lilo. I then installed from scratch thinking that may be the problem but the result is the same. However, failsafe works - is that a clue? Can you see at which point it fails? Does it get to the point that it's running any of the init scripts (you'll see a bunch of [OK] mssages on the screen)? If so try selectively turning off stuff like USB, sound, rawdisks, nfs, etc.. If you can't get to that point, try re-installing the kernel and re-running LILO. As you've also tried, turn off stuff like the fbconsole, devfs, hard drive optimizations, etc.. Check that your initrd is current and pointing to the correct image matching the kernel. Does the failsafe kernel point to the same image as the non-working image? Since it's *usually* the same kernel, check to make sure that both got updated correctly. Also, make sure that all the symlinks are current. Hi again, Lilo stops as soon as it starts i.e. starting linux . What is the difference when running failsafe? The image and kernel are the same, the only difference is the word Failsafe. If some kind person could enlighten me maybe it will point me in the right direction. regards Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How do I stop Apache advertising its version
On Friday, Apr 19, 2002, Chris Slater-Walker wrote: I tried the Netcraft webserver survey (www.netcraft.com/survey) to check if it could tell which software my web site is running, and it told me the exact version of Apache I am running together with some other details. Is there any way I can stop this information being handed out on request? Take a look at /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf and you will see in there: # Optionally add a line containing the server version and virtual host # name to server-generated pages (error documents, FTP directory # listings, # mod_status and mod_info output etc., but not CGI generated documents). # Set to EMail to also include a mailto: link to the ServerAdmin. # Set to one of: On | Off | EMail # ServerSignature On -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk - Uptime: 9 days 0 hours 50 minutes. msg53159/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] making nautilus not popup when mounting a CD
On Thursday, Apr 25, 2002, Vincent Danen wrote: I hate supermount, so I disable it. I don't know if this behaviour is related to it or not, but I get really aggravated with nautilus when it always opens up a new window whenever I mount a new CD. If I wanted to view the CD with nautilus, I'd open it myself. Is there any way to turn this feature off? Not sure if you can turn it off, but I do know that it doesn't do it with supermount enabled. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk - Uptime: 9 days 0 hours 59 minutes. msg53160/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [expert] Any issues with Cyber Drive CD writer?
Hi Phil, I tried a cheap Cyberdrive CD-RW (CW038D) with a Mandrake 8.1 box and had absolutely no joy whatsoever. It may not have been Linux that was the problem but I'm not convinced. Couldn't get a test CD to mount at all never mind doing any burning. Tried tweaking the BIOS and disabling DMA but to no avail. Personally I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole but as I say it may have been a motherboard problem (Asus A7M266-D) I just didn't have the expertise or the time to nail it down. Paul. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Phil Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Any issues with Cyber Drive CD writer? Hello All, At long last I have made a move to buy a CD R/W drive. A local store sells a Cyber Drive that is affordable. It is an IDE device and according to the box, and Cyber Drive's web site, it Linux compatible. I was wondering if anyone knows of any issues that I should be aware of? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Asus Mobo A7V266-E Rebooting Suddenly
If you did install it yourself then you may also want to check that there are no updates for the motherboard manual. The manual that came with our A7M266-D had the IDE activity LED wire going into the keyboard lock! Not until I looked through the updated version on the Asus website did I realise why the keyboard wasn't responding :) Paul. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J. Craig Woods Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Asus Mobo A7V266-E Rebooting Suddenly Sevatio wrote: Have any of you had a problem with an Asus A7V266-E motherboard rebooting suddenly in the middle of running apps? Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Not sure if this helps but did you install the mobo? I once built a computer using an Asus (earlier model) mobo, and it was rebooting on its own all the time. When I opened the box, and took a look at my wonderful craftsmanship, I could see that I set a toggle switch for pc133 mem, and then loaded pc100 modulules. Pretty smart, eh? The moral of the story: you might want to take a look at all your jumpers and any toggle switches on the mobo. Also look for bad memory by running a mem test... Hope this helps. -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive
On Sunday, Apr 07, 2002, sda wrote: I disagree. Read the GPL. I don't want the money that I have given to Mandrake to go towards adverstising in a big way. I believe that some of the best things come from less than fully commercial sources. Public TV and radio is an example, and I don't mind contributing to those also. Personally, I started donating money to Mandrake last year before the creation of The Club. I have since joined just to help them out finacially. Why should I re-read the GPL? What has that got to do with the points you're making? If you mean the source has to be provided, that can be accomplished quite easily without providing free and easy access to the _current_ .iso. NOT providing free and easy access to the _current_ .iso is about the biggest violation you can make to the GPL. And changing to a different license will go against everything MandrakeSoft stands for and will never happen. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdksecure - Uptime: 5 days 11 hours 4 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive
On Sunday, Apr 07, 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: The GPL does NOT say you have to put out ISOs of your product ASAP. The GPL doesn't even say you have to put ISOs on the net at all. All the GPL says is that if you have a product you can make it public and if you make it public it has to be free and you have to provide a means for the public to get the sources. Ok, ok, I stand corrected. =) But I think as long as Red Hat still provides isos, Mandrake should too. Would there be nearly as many Mandrake users right now if they never offered isos? I think not. Which also means Mandrake wouldn't be nearly as good as it is now. At least that's what I think. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdksecure - Uptime: 5 days 12 hours 59 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel 2.2
Hi, We're running Mandrake 8.1 on a dual Athlon 1600+ (1.4GHz) Asustek A7M266-D board. Installation seemd to go okay but when we try the enterprise (2.4.8-26) or smp kernel (2.4.8-34.1) the machine hangs at two different stages during the boot process. Sometimes it hangs at the IO-APIC test and sometimes it gets past this and hangs a few lines later after printing stuff about CPU0. The up kernel (2.4.8-26) works fine. We also have no success with the 2.4.18 smp kernel. We DO have success with the older 2.2.19-20.1 smp kernel! Does anybody have any idea what changed from 2.2 to 2.4 that would cause this sort of problem and how to fix it? Is there simply something I need to compile into or remove from the kernel? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks. Paul Fotheringham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Orinoco Wireless Card
Hi, I have a desktop and a laptop both running 8.1 and Orinoco Wavelan Wireless PCMCIA cards. I was able to get the wireless card working on my laptop fairly easily by downloading the driver from the OrinocoWireless.com web site, compiling it and editing the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file. No such luck on the desktop however. It is automatically detected in the 8.1 install (it is not in the 8.2 install incedentally), but even so after inputting all the parameters I needed during install I was not able to connect to the internet with it. So I then followed the steps I followed for the laptop (meaning I followed the steps in the orinoco wirless driver README to the letter). But afterwords, not only could I still not connect to the internet, but it no longer seems to be detected by my system. WHen I open DrakConf, it doesn't even show I have a network device at all (but when I first installed it did show it, I just couldn't bring it up). My log files show a variety of messages regarding this card during bootup. I've included them below. Thank you very much. - Paul Rodriguez WAVELAN init_modeule(): doing device probing (bad !) Specify base adresses while loading module to correct the problem WAVELAN init_module(): no device found later... PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:13.0. Please try using pci=biosirq [an lsdev shows 00:13.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Intruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01), which I take to be the pcmcia pci card adapter.] /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/net/wavlan.o.gz: init_module: Input/output error NET4: Appletalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0 /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/net/wavlan.o.gz:insmod eth0 failed WAVELAN init_modeule(): doing device probing (bad !) modprobe: Can't locate module eth1 Specify base adresses while loading module to correct the problem modprobe: Can't locate module eth2 WAVELAN init_module(): no device found modprobe: Can't locate module eth3 modprobe: Can't locate module eth4 modprobe: Can't locate module eth5 modprobe: Can't locate module eth6 modprobe: Can't locate module eth7 modprobe: Can't locate module eth8 modprobe: Can't locate module eth9 Cardmgr[1041] watching 1 sockets Cardmgr[1042] starting, verison 3.1.32 rc Starting pcmcia: succeeded Cardmgr[1042] executing'modprobe wavelan2_cs network_name=\[mynetname]\ key_1=\[mykey]\ enable_encryption=Y' _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Sound Server Crashes: CPU Overload
Hi, Further to my sound woes ... [Note: everything was fine a few weeks ago] The sound server (artsd) keeps crashing on me. I was fiddling with the Sound Server's Audio Buffer setting from the KDE Control Center. Even if try Reset, it still crashes. If I run top, I can see the CPU usage quickly jump to 99% before I get the error message and artsd crashes. Help!!! Thanks, Paul --- From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Weird Problems #1: Stuttering Sound Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:04:13 -0600 On Thursday 10 January 2002 07:05 pm, Paul Sue wrote: I've been experiencing intermittent sound problems. For example, I have some MP3 files on my hard disk. Most of the time when I play thm with xmms, they sound fine. However, once in awhile it sounds awful (stuttering sort of sound). I'm running LM8.1; my AX4BS MB has on-board AC97 support. I also, have AC97 onboard. Try (if you use KDE), Control Center | Sound | Sound server, and on the 'Sound IO' tab, move the 'Audio buffer' slider over to the left (higher cpu usage). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound Server Crashes: CPU Overload
Just an update. After resetting and then rebooting, artsd no longer seems to crash anymore. HOWEVER, now there is *no sound* when I play xmms. Under KDE, the controls indicate that the song is being played, while under GNOME, you don't even get that! What the @#$!@ is going on?? I was fiddling with the Sound Server settings because my sound quality was so crappy. As I said, it was fine a few weeks ago. Please help! Paul --- Hi, Further to my sound woes ... [Note: everything was fine a few weeks ago] The sound server (artsd) keeps crashing on me. I was fiddling with the Sound Server's Audio Buffer setting from the KDE Control Center. Even if try Reset, it still crashes. If I run top, I can see the CPU usage quickly jump to 99% before I get the error message and artsd crashes. Help!!! Thanks, Paul --- From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Weird Problems #1: Stuttering Sound Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:04:13 -0600 On Thursday 10 January 2002 07:05 pm, Paul Sue wrote: I've been experiencing intermittent sound problems. For example, I have some MP3 files on my hard disk. Most of the time when I play thm with xmms, they sound fine. However, once in awhile it sounds awful (stuttering sort of sound). I'm running LM8.1; my AX4BS MB has on-board AC97 support. I also, have AC97 onboard. Try (if you use KDE), Control Center | Sound | Sound server, and on the 'Sound IO' tab, move the 'Audio buffer' slider over to the left (higher cpu usage). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] SOLVED: Weird Problems #3: Copy/Cut and Paste
On 15 Jan 2002 13:50:21 -0600 Dave Sherman wrote: On the other hand (and I think this is more likely), you may be doing it wrong. For example, the standard X Window method of copying and pasting takes two steps: 1. Highlight the text you want to copy. This will automatically place the text in a clipboard buffer. 2. Place your cursor where you want to paste the text, and click the middle mouse button. Yup, that was it. The Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V convention is really a Mac/Windows thing. It is supported by some X Window software (pretty much anything using QT and/or KDE libs, and I think also GTK), but not all. I suspect this is the issue you are running into. That explains it! Thanks for your help, Paul ... feeling somewhat sheepish _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Weird Problems #3: Copy/Cut and Paste
Hi, Why doesn't copy/cut paste seem to work consistently? For example, why can't I copy from my browser to my Evolution Compose Message box? Or from my e-mail to my eterm? I've tried using the Control keys as well as well as from the menu and the clipboard icons. I think the problem seems to occur under both gnome and kde. Thanks foer any suggestions, Paul _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Weird Problems #1: Stuttering Sound
Well, I tried the suggestions by Tom and Onur, and it seems to be working better -- at least for now. Thanks! Paul --- I've been experiencing intermittent sound problems. For example, I have some MP3 files on my hard disk. Most of the time when I play thm with xmms, they sound fine. However, once in awhile it sounds awful (stuttering sort of sound). I'm running LM8.1; my AX4BS MB has on-board AC97 support. _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Weird Problems #2: Logout hangs [lm 8.1; gnome DT]
Hi, Everynow and then, in the GNOME desktop, when I logout, it hangs. Haven't had the problem in KDE so far. What sort of things might be causing this? Thanks, Paul _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Weird Problems #1: Stuttering Sound
Hi, I've been experiencing intermittent sound problems. For example, I have some MP3 files on my hard disk. Most of the time when I play thm with xmms, they sound fine. However, once in awhile it sounds awful (stuttering sort of sound). I'm running LM8.1; my AX4BS MB has on-board AC97 support. Any ideas as to what's causing the problem? Thanks, Paul _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] apache httpd.conf access.conf srm.conf
Hello, In apache there are 3 configuration files - httpd.conf - srm.conf - access.conf Since version 1.3.x apache accepts all the directives in only one file : httpd.conf. However if the files access.conf and srm.conf are not empty they are read bye apache ? In the affirmative, and if there are directives conflicts or differences between httpd.conf and srm.conf or access.conf, how it works ? JPaul ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Courrier : http://courrier.yahoo.fr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problem with external modem
On Monday 24 December 2001 02:37, you wrote: Paul Stear wrote: I am using KPPP to connect and gftp for transfers and I keep getting the modem disconnected even whilst transferring data. I have not been able to find any settings about disconnect if idle. Missed much of this discussion; but any chance you have Call Waiting on that line...? If so, there is usually a per-call code you can use to disable it... *70 or somesuch... Pierre Thanks for your reply, I do not have call waiting. The problem is strange in that in the middle of downloading mail the transfer as seen on the graph goes to zero and then I get an error message with error 16 (modem disconnected) from kppp. The same happens when transferring updates. I just do not know what to try next. regards Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problem with external modem
On Thursday 20 December 2001 21:35, you wrote: I get this error when my ISP disconnects me for no usage (just sitting there, no activity online) or when My setup decides it has been idle too long. what program do you use to connect? can you find any settings about disconnect if idle for __ length of time? On Thursday 20 December 2001 16:12, you wrote: Hi all, Happy Christmas to all, Since installing Mandrake 8.1 I have been having problems with my external modem. After a random amount of time I get pppd message saying that it has died with error 16 which I believe is the modem disconnecting. I have read the Howto's on pppd ans modems and have tried various options but I haven't made any difference. I am now at a loss as to what to do, this modem worked perfectly in version 8.0 and still works in windows. Can anyone help me please? - I won't have any hair left at this rate regards Paul Hi Ed, I am using KPPP to connect and gftp for transfers and I keep getting the modem disconnected even ehilst transfering data. I have not been able to find any settings about disconnect if idel. Thanks again regards Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Dual Boot Problem w GRUB
Hi, I installed mdk8.1 on 1st hard disk and FreeBSD 4.4 on 2nd disk. After installing FreeBSD, I went back into mandrake to add FreeBSD to /boot/grub/menu.lst: title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount quiet vga=788 title freeBSD root (hd1,a) kernel /boot/loader When I reboot, I don't see FreeBSD as one of the choices. Is there another file I have to edit or ??? Please help!! Thanks, Paul _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problem with external modem
Hi all, Happy Christmas to all, Since installing Mandrake 8.1 I have been having problems with my external modem. After a random amount of time I get pppd message saying that it has died with error 16 which I believe is the modem disconnecting. I have read the Howto's on pppd ans modems and have tried various options but I haven't made any difference. I am now at a loss as to what to do, this modem worked perfectly in version 8.0 and still works in windows. Can anyone help me please? - I won't have any hair left at this rate regards Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Botched Install; How to Reinstall MDK8.1
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 10:26 pm, John Rye wrote: Yes, I have seen brand new equipment that would not work or would work twice in five attempts. If it were software, it would not work every time. Yup, it turned out to be a bad CDROm drive indeed. Got it replaced and problem solved. Should have been obvious ... Thanks everyone, Paul _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problem with GRUB
Hi, I have installed mdk8.1 on 1st hard disk and FreeBSD 4.4 on second hard disk. After installing FreeBSD, I went back into mandrake to add FreeBSD to /boot/grub/menu.lst: title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount quiet vga=788 title freeBSD root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/loader When I reboot, I don't see FreeBSD as one of the choices. Is there another file I have to edit or ??? Thanks, Paul _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Botched Install; How to Reinstall MDK8.1
Hi, Borrowed the 3 CD Mandrake 8.1 distro. (downloaded) from a friend. Booted off CD 1, everything going OK until the install suddenly hangs when prompting me for CD #2; eventually had to cancel. The install then *skipped* a few important steps (create bootdisk, install bootloader). After restarting, it came up (albeit with a few warning messages). I wanted to do a clean re-install, so I placed CD #1 in, and rebooted. But it won't boot up from the CD. Help!! Paul _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Botched Install; How to Reinstall MDK8.1
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:50:56 -0500 Harold Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the same problem and found my cdrom was wearing out and not reading data correctly. I installed a new cdrom and it was a perfect install with no errors.. ... ... maybe you need to get another one.. I wish it was that easy ... I forgot to mention that the computer is brand new. The CDs have only been used maybe 6 times. It is a Aopen 56X IDE/ATAPI CDROM drive. However, I've been doing some playing around, and I can't seem to play any audio CDs using gcd or grip, so *perhaps* there might be something wrong with my new CDROM drive after all. Paul - On Tuesday 18 December 2001 06:16 pm, you wrote: I know this is not the help you wanted, but can you try a different CDrom reader? is this one correctly configured in BIOS? I am only guessing, but if it booted once from the CDrom, unless the CD was damaged, it should boot again? don't you think? maybe you just got a bad cd? or was downloaded bad. On Tuesday 18 December 2001 18:03, you wrote: Hi, Borrowed the 3 CD Mandrake 8.1 distro. (downloaded) from a friend. Booted off CD 1, everything going OK until the install suddenly hangs when prompting me for CD #2; eventually had to cancel. The install then *skipped* a few important steps (create bootdisk, install bootloader). After restarting, it came up (albeit with a few warning messages). I wanted to do a clean re-install, so I placed CD #1 in, and rebooted. But it won't boot up from the CD. Help!! Paul _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Home: 263-2822 Work: 482-2843 Pager: 268-1780 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.localendar.com/public/consultant4hire _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] GeForce2 Titanium Video Card Resolution Problems?
Hi, I have a NEC AccuSync 95F (recommended resolution is: 1280x1024 @ 55-89 Hz) and an nvidia card (AOpen GeForce2 MX200 Ti 64MB AGP, which has a maximum rating of 2048x1536; 32bit; 60Hz) I'm wondering why I can only seem to run my display at these settings: 1024x768, 256 colors (8 bit) ??? (Mandrake lists the card as NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)) Why can't I set them any higher?? Thanks, Paul _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] HELP: Installing Dual Boot MDK8.1 + FreeBSD 4.4
Hi, I have a computer with 2 20 GB hard disks, one each for mdk and freebsd. How do I go about doing this? For performance, would it be a good idea to use the other disk for the swap partition? i.e.: Disk 1 - Linux mdk8.1 - swap for freebsd Disk 2 - freebsd - swap for mdk8.1 I'm not sure how to get started, so step-by-step instrucitons would be appreciated. Thanks! Paul _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Please I need help
As convenient as urpmi and rpmdrake can be sometimes, I have had better experiences just using another browser (even a text one) going to mozilla.org and getting the latest version from there. After installation, it doesn't matter whether it came from Mandrake or not, and Mozilla is fairly easy to install. -Paul Rodríguez On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 11:57, Søren Neigaard wrote: Damn... I tried it all, and nothing works. The Software Manager fails during install of Mozilla. What are my options now? /Søren On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 02:45, Joseph Braddock wrote: When you reinstalled mozilla, did you use the release that was on your Mandrake CDs? If not, urpme mozilla (which should also remove galeon). Then install galeon through the software manager and let it install the the mozilla there, too. If that is what you already did, then after uninstalling and before installing, remove the hidden mozilla directories in your home directory and see if that works. Joe On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:46 pm, you wrote: Should have tried the hammer first, now nothing works :) urpme mozilla went fine, it also removed galeon (dependencies). I then used Mandrake Software Manager to install galeon which depended on mozilla so it tried to install mozilla first - it failed and now I have nothing but Lynx :( Where to go from here? /Søren On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 17:43, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2001 11:30, you wrote: Ok - how do I uninstall Mozilla? I'm pretty much a newbie at this. Fisrt, get a large hammer . . . No, that's not right. # urpme mozilla should do it Hoyt =_1006965807-31033-20 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1007084584-31033-386 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] mandrakestore
Same here. So what I've decided is that for every release I donate $20. No big deal, but I give a little back and don't have to wait for the shipment a month after release. -Paul R On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 08:06, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I ordered online as well. Trying to support Mandrake somewhat. The wait was long, service terrible. I ordered the d/l version (3cds), took about a month or so. The first order came back with a HTML page that kmail couldn't read (HA) but it stated basically the order didn't go through. So I ordered again, well now I have 2 copies of the 8.1 3CD set. I think I will go back to d/l'ing the iso and burn them at the office. Needless to say the preordering wasn't worth the wait Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Ron Marriage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 2:40 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] mandrakestore Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could give me an idea on the delivery times they are having from the Mandrake Store in the U.S. I ordered a power pack 26 days ago. I've sent two emails to their service email address and have not received an answer to either. I received a confirmation of the order and billing information on the same day I ordered online. I've sent this info with each request for a status update. How do they deliver, (UPS, Fedex ground or air)? How long is it taking? Thanks Ron _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FIXED: Upgrade to 8.1 breaks connecting to some hosts
On Wednesday, Oct 31, 2001, Jason Bodnar wrote: After much trial and error I determined the cause of this problem: TCP Explicit Congestion Notification support is built into the stock Mandrake 8.1 kernel and is not turned off at boot time. Obviously, the root of the problem is walgreens, etc. having bad routers (not sure why my print server was refusing the connection as well) but Mandrake either needs to disable this in their kernels or provide an init script that does: echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Very, very nasty problem to track down. Old message, I know, but it is disabled by default on 8.1: [paul@anne paul]$ cat /etc/sysctl.conf # Disables packet forwarding net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 # Disable ECN net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0 # Enables source route verification net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 # Disables the magic-sysrq key #kernel.sysrq = 0 [paul@anne paul]$ rpm -qf /etc/sysctl.conf initscripts-6.27-10.4mdk (10.4mdk was a security update from the delivered initscripts, but didn't change anything in sysctl.conf) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-34.1mdk - Uptime: 21 hours 17 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] libpng not working in Mozilla/Galeon
On Monday, Nov 12, 2001, Dave Sherman wrote: Call me crazy (or more likely, ignorant), but what you are saying makes no sense to me. Mozilla 0.9.5 and Galeon (both from Cooker) required the libpng3 (from Cooker) in the first place! They shouldn't need to be recompiled. And I have had no problems with other apps using the older library, since both libraries currently exist on my system. What I am thinking is that somehow Mozilla/Galeon are loading the wrong version of libpng, and thus are not able to properly render .png images. Is there any way I can confirm if this is the case, or is there something I am missing? What you should have done was download the Mozilla .src.rpm, and rebuild it. If you had libpng2-devel installed (you might have to install some other -devel .rpm's), it would then require libpng2, not libpng3. Right now the one from Cooker requires libpng3 because that's what it was built against. As you found out, forcing an update from libpng2 to libpng3 is a bad idea... Generally it is best to rebuild anything from Cooker if you want to try it out (unless you're running a scrictly Cooker system to begin with). (I know this was an old message but better late than never.) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-34.1mdk - Uptime: 21 hours 46 minutes. msg44974/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] disable dsl connect on boot [newbie]
Hi, I asked this on the newbie list, but got no response. I was hoping someone here would know how to fix this. How do I manually disable connecting to the internet on startup? I have an adsl connection that I setup in Mandrake Control Center to connect automatically on boot. I can't turn it off from the Mandrake Control Center, because my network card (Xircom Carbus 56k/10/100Mb PCMCIA) is recognized by Mandrake Control Center (although it was recognized correctly during installation). Before I can change the settings I need to choose the correct network card drive (an incorrect one will not let me continue). For some reason the program opened when I click on the Internet button supplied on the Mandrake desktop doesn't open. Where can I manually change these settings? How can I disable this from a console? Thank You. -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why do I have 2 IPs?
Actually, Windows does do this, it just isn't as evident like Linux. If you are running IIS you can actually type in http://localhost. And from any command prompt you can ping 127.0.0.1 and localhost. Paul Devisser At 01:53 PM 11/13/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hey, The first ip-address is 127.0.0.1 This is your loopback address, the loopback address is used to make connections to your own linux box without sending the IP-packet to your ethernet or dialup connection. The loopback address is also present in the /etc/hosts -file the hosts-file gives the name localhost.localdomain to your computer. You can telnet to 127.0.0.1 or telnet to localhost.localdomain... The second ip-address is that, your ISP gave you... Wim. pesarif wrote: Hi! I use 56K dialup. And in kppp/Details, I have a Local and Remote IP. By telneting into both IPs, it seems that the Local IP is actually my computer... So why do I have 2 IPs? What does it achieve? Windows doesn't do this, I think. Thanks, pesarif Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Paul Devisser, A+ CUSA MCP IT Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 72849201 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] re: telnet -sever mdk 8.1 NON COMPILING MODULES
On Sunday, Oct 28, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went back a version and installed mdk 8.0 and the telnet server dos'nt function on that either. howver the telnet server does act ok as a client, so the prblem is not a service or xinitd function.. BUT.. I 'm still absolutly screwed with this build. I 'm unable to get the NAT function of iptables to function , so the machines behind the firewall cant get out to the rest of the net. I need to build these into the kernel, but no matter what I try the modules do not compile. I'm looking at a box of SuSE 7.2 pro on the shelf, I dont like SuSE, BUT BEFORE LONG I MIGHT BE FORCED TO USE IT. How are you trying to compile them? I keep hearing about all these people having problems compiling the kernel, and yet I've never had a problem. For what it's worth, this is how I do it (from a little reminder file for myself =) : copy .config somewhere safe make clean make distclean make mrproper copy .config back from where I copied it make config (or xconfig, or menuconfig) make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install kernel will be: ./arch/i386/boot/bzImage Make initial ramdisk: mkinitrd version.img version -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-31.1mdk - Uptime: 1 day 15 hours 38 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] need to reinstall?
On Sunday, Oct 28, 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: There are still some apps and configs that won't work in 8.1. I tried to change the SCSI adapter in Harddrake to the correct model number but the change did not occur. And I can't get internet connection sharing working even though it shows enabled and the clients are getting addresses from the DHCP server. And I can ping the LAN address of the server from the client but I can't ping the gateway or the IP address of the wireless card (for my wireless Internet - not intranet) or any web addresses. The config looks the same as it did for 7.2 Anyway, I've had to go in and manually change a lot of stuff to make it work. I'd really hate to have to wipe everything out and start over with a fresh install. That's one of the reasons why I wanted to get away from Windows. As root, remove the file '/etc/sysconfig/iptables' and reboot. This has been fixed, and hopefully an update will be released soon. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-31.1mdk - Uptime: 1 day 15 hours 49 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake-Linux 8.1 installation problem
On Monday, Oct 29, 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: Installation went through without problem but the PS/2 mouse died after re-booting. It was alive at time of installation. KDE could be started after re-booting and worked normally. The mouse was found in HardDrake under the list. It is a A4 3-button wheel PS/2 mouse. But during installation I was not allowed to select another mouse, otherwise the PC would re-start automatically. During logout (Re-boot/Halt) the PC hanged with following warning ; /dev/pasux : no such device or address Try this (as root obviously =) : rm -fr /lib/dev-state/* rm -fr /dev/* (ignore any errors because of files in use) And then reboot... All your devices will come back, and hopefully the mouse link will work then (you might want to reboot a second time just to make sure everything's there). -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-31.1mdk - Uptime: 1 day 16 hours 9 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PHP/Apache on MDK 8.1
On Sunday, Oct 21, 2001, Theo Brinkman wrote: That did it. Thanks! Sweet! Glad I could help. =) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-26mdk - Uptime: 2 days 21 hours 38 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] procmail question
On Tuesday, Oct 23, 2001, Expert User wrote: When I moved from 8.0 to 8.1 my .procmailrc file is not working... This is what I have in my procmail file: -rw-r--r--1 expert bapat 24 Aug 12 18:46 /home/expert/.procmailrc 8- :0: * ^TOroot Mail/sys -8 All the mail to 'root' is forwarde to me and I want it to go straight to Mail/sys folder instead of my INBOX. This used to work in 8.0, now it doesn't work. What is the problem? I am using POSTFIX as my MTA. It's a problem with the version of Procmail shipped with 8.1 (I had the same problem). You can either download the newer version from any cooker mirror, or wait for the Procmail security update for 8.1 (fixes a few other problems), which should be anytime AFAIK. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-26mdk - Uptime: 2 days 22 hours 5 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel panic of 8.1 on Compaq Armada 1540DM
Title: kernel panic of 8.1 on Compaq Armada 1540DM I have installed Mandrake 8.1 on my Compaq Armada 1540DM fine but it looks like the kernel panics after PNP BOIS check. The screen fills with Hex numbers. I had problems getting the Xserver to test the lcd screen, so I told the system to come up in console mode. I can not get the system to boot. However Mandrake 7.1 installs and boots with out problem. Any ideas how I can grab the error before the screen fills with those hex numbers? How can I fix this? Paul Hounsell Systems Administrator NavCanada [EMAIL PROTECTED] 613 563-5963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PHP/Apache on MDK 8.1
On Monday, Oct 15, 2001, Theo Brinkman wrote: Yep. I've got those two lines. After some digging I noticed an include at the bottom of one of the httpd.conf files (common, I think) that included a file that was nothing but the two AddType lines, so I commented them back out up top thinking that might be my problem. No change. That's at the bottom of httpd.conf. That include file contains: [paul@anne paul]$ cat /etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/php.conf IfModule mod_php4.c AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .php3 .phtml AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps /IfModule That should be enough to get it working. Let's see what else... # AddType allows you to tweak mime.types without actually editing it, or to # make certain files to be certain types. # # For example, the PHP 3.x module (not part of the Apache distribution - see # http://www.php.net) will typically use: # #AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 #AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps # # And for PHP 4.x, use: # # AddType application/x-httpd-php .php # AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps You don't need these, as this is taken care of in the include, so leave them commented out. # # If you wish to use server-parsed imagemap files, use # AddHandler imap-file map AddHandler php4-script .php Now this looks suspicious. I don't have this php entry in commonhttp.conf. Try commenting that out and see what happens. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-26mdk - Uptime: 3 days 18 hours 43 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Apache directory question
On Wednesday, Oct 17, 2001, Expert wrote: No emergency or anything here, just wondering why Apache now uses /var/www/html instead of /home/httpd/html ? I change it to /home/httpd/html everytime I do an install (or upgrade) on my system, because that is the way I am used to partitioning my system, /home is on its own partition so I bring up webmin to tell Apache to use /home/httpd/html. A better way to do it (since you now know this is part of FHS), is go ahead and put your web stuff in /home/whatever, and then do a symlink from that to /var/www/html. That way you don't have to worry about problems later if you update apache or something. Just a thought. =) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-26mdk - Uptime: 3 days 18 hours 53 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Announcement only mailing list
On Wednesday, Oct 03, 2001, Ran Hooper wrote: What's my best bet for an announcement only mailing list running on Mandrake? Preferably with a Web front end for management from Windows and compatible with Postfix. Of course authentication and users able to remove themselves is a must too. I don't mind paying for it if it comes with support. It needs to work through a third party hosting the email, so I assume fetch would be needed too? Take a look at Mailman... it comes with Mdk 8.1, or you can search rpmfind.net for it (get mailman-2.0.6-1mdk.i586.rpm and make sure it's for Mandrake!), or from any of the official mirrors. If you're not running Mdk 8.1, you might want to download the .src.rpm instead and rebuild it. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-26mdk - Uptime: 7 hours 49 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] reiser partitions
If I am running 7.2 and all my partitions are formatted as reiser, can I not format some of them (/home for example) during installation of 8.1 so that I can keep the existing files without having to back them up. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the reiser format has changed during the evolution of mandrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] httpd as root
On Monday, Sep 10, 2001, Mulus wrote: has anyone had any problem with changing user directive in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to user and group root, in Mandrake 8.0 ? httpd service can not start if I change the directive to user/group root. any help would be appreciated. Why would you want to do that? That's not a very secure thing to do (which is why it won't let you). -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-12.3mdk - Uptime: 2 days 3 hours 59 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help fs fs=iso9660 not supported by kernel
On Tuesday, Aug 28, 2001, Larry Alkoff wrote: My Mandrake 8.0 system is about a month old and I seem to remember it _used_ to read cdrom's just fine. Now when I try to mount the cd I get the error message: fs fs=iso9660 not supported by kernel There is a proper entry in fstab: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom fs=iso9660,synch,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0 and a iso9660 entry in /etc/filesystems. You need to take out 'fs='... and maybe the comma after iso9660 (not sure). Here's mine: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-12.3mdk - Uptime: 8 days 20 hours 18 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] apache's relationship with hostname
On Wednesday, Aug 22, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Say you've got a machine that's been up for an extended period of time and during that period of time, you change the hostname of that machine. No worries, simple enough, but further along the line, when you make some changes to apache and restart that service, it fails. (And there's nothing in the logs explaining why, which is incredibly frustrating!) Thinking of what could've changed since the last time apache was started, if you change your hostname back to what it was back in the day and give the restart another go, it's all good. Actually, I just noticed the same thing on my workstation in relation to X. With the old hostname, X won't start (startx in runlevel 3), but as soon as I change it back to the old hostname, it's happy and X starts up. Both apache and X try to find your hostname's ip address on startup. Chances are that you need to add the new hostname to /etc/hosts. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-12.3mdk - Uptime: 1 day 14 hours 54 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?
On Monday, Aug 20, 2001, Digital Wokan wrote: I've been hoping for a while that these would show up in unsupported rebuilt from the Cooker versions or something. Anyone got some advice before I try building 8.0 versions of these from the Cooker SRPMS? Be patient... that's all I can say. =) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-8mdk - Uptime: 4 days 2 hours 3 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Ncurses-devel package is missing on LM 8.0
On Saturday, Aug 04, 2001, DM wrote: you can use ncurses from rpmfind.net. i dont think its a good idea to 'force' unless you know which files are being replaced...try this: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/updates/7.1/RPMS/ncurses-devel-5.2-12.2mdk.i586.html NO! This is from Mdk 7.1... guaranteed way to screw up your system (especially if you force it). For Mandrake 8.0, the ncurses devel files are in the package libncurses5-devel. This will require libncurses5 to be installed as well, but it should already be since you have ncurses installed. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 27 days 19 hours 58 minutes.
Re: [expert] Can you believe it?
On Friday, Jul 20, 2001, Craig Woods wrote: Still hacking away at rebuilding the bind 9 src file, I have added openssl-devel, libxml, libxml-devel, numerous updates, and a parser named byacc, and now I am closer than ever. This is what I now get at the end of a very long compile session + cd /var/tmp/bind-root/usr/share/man + tar xjf /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/bind-manpages.tar.bz2 tar: invalid option -- j Try `tar --help' for more information. Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47472 (%install) It is hard to believe but somehow, during the install phase of the rpm --rebuild process, the process is issuing a tar command with an j option. Hell, I have never seen a j switch, and neither has man tar. Is there someway to alter this command? I think it might be the last piece in what has been a veritable jigsaw puzzle.. It's been a long time since you wrote your original message, but here's a reply anyway :) The option -j is to uncompress bzip2 archives and then untar them. It's correct for the version of tar that comes with Mandrake 8.0. However on older versions, it's option -I, not -j. Why it was changed, I don't know. Of course, this is assumming you're using the GNU version of tar. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 19 days 19 hours 35 minutes.
Re: [expert] bug in gettext support of php rpm?
On Sunday, Jul 22, 2001, Jan Dittberner wrote:
I just tried to use the gettext support in php, but this seems to be
broken in the Mandrake 8.0 package. An strace of php running my test
script gave this:
lstat64(/var/www/locale, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) =
0
fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x40016000
open(/etc/services, O_RDONLY) = 4
shmat(4, 0x1, 0x1ptrace: umoven: Input/output error
) = ?
shmat(4, 0x2, 0x2ptrace: umoven: Input/output error
) = ?
Don't know if this will help any, but I recently saw a thread about
gettext in PHP on freezer-burn.org:
http://www.freezer-burn.org/stories.php?story=01/07/23/4935802
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Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 19 days 20 hours 5 minutes.
[expert] Help with AMI MG80649 IDE RAID Mandrake 8.0 installation
Hi Civilme, I am so stupid, I bought an IWill KA266-R DDR motherboard, qty2 256DDR memory, an athlon 1333 processor and qty2 40GB IBM harddisks. All went well in setting up the disks as raid0 and loading windows98se. I have partitioned the raid disks for linux swap, / , and /home as well as windows. This is my problem:- 1. Booting from cdrom, all goes well until the install process asks for any other scsi devices, I select AMI Megaraid and auto probe but it fails. 2.I checked out the option to review hardware and it appears that the chipsets were not recognised either. This is the ALi M1647 North Bridge and ALi 1535D+, CMI 8738 4.1 Sound. Please help, I need my Mandrake Linux system. Thanks Paul Stear ( This message was unfortunately sent using windows)
Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?
On Wednesday, Jul 18, 2001, David Rankin wrote: Who's Building the Samba 2.2.1a RPM for Mandrake? Samba.org and rpmfind.net still have 2.2.0. And depressingly enough, the 2.2.0 rpm is built for i686. I'm not adverse to building my own from the SRPM, but if someone is going to the trouble to build the rpm, please do so with for both i586 and i686 so we don't have to go through the discussion regarding alienating all the AMD K6-2 users all over the world -- again. I always prefer a Mandrake rpm over a Redhat rpm any day. Takes some of the guess work out of where the pieces will end up after install. 2.2.1a has been in Cooker since Jul 12... rpmfind.net found it just fine for me. Just remember that the Cooker is still 'experimental', so use at your own risk. =) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 7 days 18 hours 59 minutes.
Re: [expert] odd reboots
On Monday, Jul 02, 2001, Julia A. Case wrote: I have a production server co-located in California (I live in NY so it's not easy to get local access, I do this since my company co-locates it for free!) Sometimes it re-boots for no apprarent reason, I can't find Rolling blackouts? =) Maybe the UPS powers it down and then back up when the power is back (if it's hooked up to one). -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 2 days 21 hours 35 minutes. PGP signature
Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided
On Friday, Jun 29, 2001, mike wrote: A) Bill Gates ( Microsoft) spended lot of money for the Bush electoral campaign Here's a small hole in your theory: If I'm not mistaken Scott McNeiley(sp) (CEO Sun Microsystems and all-around M$ hater) was also a big Bush contributor. Just goes to show, can't trust those Republicans! Just wanted to point out... Bush didn't appoint any of the judges on the Federal Appeals court. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 13 hours 52 minutes.
Re: [expert] Unresolved symbols in custom muilt kernel
On Tuesday, Jun 26, 2001, Steve Kieu wrote: edit /etc/lilo.conf, choose the new kernel image; I dont use initrd. Run lilo Restart Now it spits a lot of unresolved symbols and can not insmod any modules at all. Maybe you should be using initrd? Couldn't hurt to try it... -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 3 days 9 hours 30 minutes.
Re: [expert] updating ssh
On Friday, Jun 22, 2001, Julia A. Case wrote: If I use the automated update procedure to update my ssh files it breaks... and I need to go back to v2.5.2p2 and then things work again... looks to be a conflict in the library files. Rename /etc/ssh/sshd_config to something else and then update it again, and it should work. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 5 days 15 hours 2 minutes.
Re: [expert] Problem with ifup ppp0 in LM 8.0
On Wednesday, Jun 13, 2001, CHARDON,LUIS (HP-PuertoRico,ex1) wrote: Hi, finally last night I could get it working as you said, using Mandrake Configuration Tool, but I had to erase first the connection created by Linuxconf. Oh yeah, I gorgot to mention you need to remove the one you created with Linuxconf first. Oops. =) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 12 days 14 hours 2 minutes.
[expert] spelling
Hi all, My spelling could be better and I use spelling checkers alot, however, I can only get the ammerican way of spelling words using any application in KDE. I know the differences are only minor like color and colour, neighbor and neighbour etc. Can somone point me in the right direction please -- regards Paul This message has been sent using Mandrake Linux and kmail
Re: [expert] extracting a single file from within an rpm
On Wednesday, Jun 13, 2001, Scott, Rob wrote: Hi, does anyone know how to (or even if it's possible) to extract a single file from within an rpm? rpm2cpio myrpmfile.rpm | cpio -i ...will extract all the files in the .rpm to the current directory. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 13 days 1 hour 59 minutes.
Re: [expert] NS6 and Virus
On Friday, Jun 08, 2001, Scott Taylor wrote: At 10:40 AM 06/08/01, OOzy Pal wrote: I downloaded NS6 from Netscape ftp site using WinNT workstation, while downloading VShield poped up saying that this file has a virus. Is this true? or becaus the file is Linux type and VShield is Windows type program Save yourself the grief and don't bother with that version of Netscape, it's broken. Netscape 4.77, on the other hand, is not too bad and stable for the most part. Or try Mozilla (0.8 comes with mandrake 8.0)... it's the open source rewrite of Netscape (Netscape 6 was based on a really early beta of Mozilla... mistake on AOL's part if you ask me). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 7 days 19 hours 46 minutes.
Re: [expert] DB2 problem
On Wednesday, Jun 06, 2001, Scott Taylor wrote: If I remember right, this is from the htdig cron job. If memory serves, after I setup htdig (/etc/htdig/htdig.conf) to scan what I wanted, I didn't get that message anymore. I could be wrong, though. That wasn't it either. htdig runs fine without any errors. Thanks for the suggestion. I was sure that was it... oh well, sorry I couldn't help you. I know I fixed that somehow. Have you looked at the contents of all the scripts in cron.daily? Maybe one of them mentions something about DB2? Sorry, I was wrong. I removed the su - out of that line and it runs fine, just out of curiosity I tried it with the su - in and the error occurred right away. So, why was su - in there in the first place? Oops, sorry again, let me clarify that -- removed the su - from the line in the file /etc/cron.daily/htdig-dbgen This is how mine looks on 8.0: #!/bin/bash # cron.daily script to run htdig db generation su - htdig -c /usr/sbin/rundig -a That basically says to run this one command (the '-c /usr/sbin/rundig -a' part) as user htdig (the 'su - htdig' part). It works just fine on my 8.0 system. I still say that I remember it going away on 7.2 after I configured htdig. *shrug* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 6 days 12 hours 47 minutes.
Re: [expert] What package provides libX11.a?
On Thursday, Jun 07, 2001, Hoyt wrote: What package provides libX11.a? It doesn't appear to be in the XFree86-devel package. On my Mandrake 8.0 system with XFree86 4.0.3, it's in: XFree86-static-libs-4.0.3-7mdk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 6 days 16 hours 9 minutes.
Re: [expert] DB2 problem
On Wednesday, Jun 06, 2001, Scott Taylor wrote: From: Cron Daemon root To: root Subject: Cron root run-parts /etc/cron.daily DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified Has anyone seen this, know how to get rid of it? I know it comes from /etc/cron.daily but I can't see the reference to it, an I don't remember installing any IBM database stuff. If I remember right, this is from the htdig cron job. If memory serves, after I setup htdig (/etc/htdig/htdig.conf) to scan what I wanted, I didn't get that message anymore. I could be wrong, though. That wasn't it either. htdig runs fine without any errors. Thanks for the suggestion. I was sure that was it... oh well, sorry I couldn't help you. I know I fixed that somehow. Have you looked at the contents of all the scripts in cron.daily? Maybe one of them mentions something about DB2? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 5 days 17 hours 2 minutes.
Re: [expert] DB2 problem
On Tuesday, Jun 05, 2001, Scott Taylor wrote: I'm running LM7.2 and every morning I get this annoying message from cron.daily about DB2 problem: From: Cron Daemon root To: root Subject: Cron root run-parts /etc/cron.daily DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified Has anyone seen this, know how to get rid of it? I know it comes from /etc/cron.daily but I can't see the reference to it, an I don't remember installing any IBM database stuff. If I remember right, this is from the htdig cron job. If memory serves, after I setup htdig (/etc/htdig/htdig.conf) to scan what I wanted, I didn't get that message anymore. I could be wrong, though. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 4 days 16 hours 35 minutes.
