Re: [expert] Notebook Sans M$ Tax
On Saturday 15 February 2003 2:33 am, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know who sells notebook PC's without the windoze tax included in the price? Wal Mart Tiger Direct only seem to sell ordinary PC's that way. Have a look at the ECS notebooks on http://www.portablez.com. I'm seriously considering getting the G732 for LAN party gaming. -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
On June 18, 2002 12:33 am, civileme wrote: I don't know about you, but 98% of the time my computer has a problem, the problem has its hands on my keyboard, That is a well known and ubiquitous phenomenon. Formally, it is called a PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair). g -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Transgaming Winex 2.0 available now
On April 21, 2002 03:47 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The damn rpg's are always taking a hit, too. I've been voting for better BG2 support for ages now, and the last vote that was cast it lost by 1 vote. I'm waiting to see if that will change, or if the rpg's are going to always get dumped on. But Baldur's Gate II is rated as being very well supported, given a 4/5 rating. And Diablo II is stated as working perfectly (well :-), receiving a 5/5 rating. -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Transgaming Winex 2.0 available now
Well, so far with WineX 2, none of Civ 3 or either Serious Sams run. They all install OK but won't run. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82
On April 9, 2002 08:09 pm, J. Grant wrote: anyone got a mandrake box with more than 2 cpus then? I have a dual machine here, but aint seen any triple cpu motherboards ever for x86 Nor will you. 3 is not a power of two. :-) -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] adaptec ava 1502-a
On Monday 25 February 2002 06:06, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, After adding the alias to modules.conf and running modprobe, I get the error ,can't locate module aha152x.The module does exist,so I guess the card is not being seen.You mentioned using a different card,is there a better one that will work with this scanner,same connectors and everything? modprobe aha152x alias aha152x io=0x140,irq=10,id=7 (or) aha152x=0x240,10,7 etc... or in lilo.conf append=aha152x=0x140,11,7 or ... I've just gone through a similar situation with an AVA-1505 card. It uses ioport 0x340 and irq 10 (or 11, can't remember just now). Try this at the command line, as root: modprobe aha152x io=0x340 irq=10 (try 11 if 10 doesn't work). On my AVA-1505 card, the above works and lsmod shows that the module is loaded. If I then do a modprobe sr_mod, I get to use my SCSI cdrom. I automate the loading of the kernel modules, by putting the two modprobe lines as the last two lines in /etc/rc.local. That is the only way I've managed to get them to work; specifically, they won't work from an initrd. But I'm going to try the append=aha152x=. route next and see what happens. This SCSI card was not picked up by the installer for Mandrake 8.2 beta 2, nor did the installer allow me to manually configure the card. A post-install manual configuration is the only way that works. -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XP and linux: is diskdrake enought?
On Sunday 17 February 2002 00:09, Brian Parish wrote: That's true - DiskDrake cannot shrink a NTFS partition. Someone on this list or maybe the newbie list mentioned Partition Star as a free alternative to partition magic. It may be worth searching for this on Google - might do the job. Make backups first though!!! I had not heard of Partition Star before you mentioned it, so I went and had a look at it (http://www.partitionstar.com). From what I saw, it seems to be an OS independent replacement for fdisk, running from the boot loader. AFAICT, it doesn't do non-destructive resizing of existing partitions/file systems. Also, it is shareware, not freeware. -- Cheers, Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DHCP - how to avoid the hostname to be changed
On Thursday 14 February 2002 06:04, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: I use roadrunner as my ISP. During login the hostname is changed from localhost to computer. Besides that, aline on /etc/hosts chamges from 192.168.1791.1 to 127.0.01. This wrecks my internal network. Any/all help would be appreciated. If you are using the ext2 (or, I presume, ext3) there are certain file attributes that you can toggle with the chattr command. One of those atttributes is the immutable flag, making the file unchangeable, even if the write permission bit is set. chattr +i filename will do it for you. Unfortunately, the reiserfs doesn't do immutable files which is a reason why I'm thinking of going to the ext3fs. I do not know if JFS or XFS honor the immutable flag or not. -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Weird sound problem
Hi folks, I have a head scratcher. My fiance's machine will not play sounds in Mandrake 8.x. Sound works fine in Windows. Sound worked fine in Mandrake 7.2, same hardware. If I install Mandrake 8.x (tried the beta of 8.2 this past weekend), the install goes fine. It'll boot into her account but throw an error screen saying that /dev/dsp does not exist. I log in as root and find that /dev/dsp does indeed exist. As root, if I try to play a sound file (eg. play /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav), I get you do not have permission. The sound drivers are loading and I hear a tick from the speakers during booting as the init script loads the sound system. But I cannot get any further sound whatsoever in Linux. The card is a Gallant SC-70, which uses the CS4237 chip. This specific card does work in Linux, as Jaroslav Kysela produced ALSA support for this card at my request. There is no sound from Linux whether the kernel drivers or ALSA drivers are used. The motherboard is an Asus CUV4X with a Celeron 500. My fiance would really like to run Linux but has reverted to Windows due to my inability to get sound working in Linux on her machine. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get around this? -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kvm switch
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 10:46, James wrote: Ditto here. I can't get my ediMax to work with the mouse on linux or winderz so I'm stuck with a KV switch instead of KVM (the only problem is grabbing the wrong mouse and wondering where my pointer went.) Really seems to be a hardware conflict rather than a software conflict. If anyone has gotten a 3 button or wheel mouse to work please tell me how you did it. I have a 4 port Vastech PS/2 electronic KVM switch I picked up from Onsale.com the other year. Works great with my Logictech FirstMouse excepting that I lose the wheel in Mandrake when I switch to another port; using the wheel then brings up all kinds of menus, etc., instead of scrolling as normal. However, I installed XFree86 4.2 and KDE 2.2.2 in FreeBSD 4.4 today and the wheel continues to work in FreeBSD, even after switching ports. So there is hope. I wonder if XFree86 4.2 in Mandrake will permit continuity in mouse wheel usage with an electronic KVM? fingers crossed -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Strange problem with the POP server
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:38, you wrote:
Since xinetd tries to check ident for a pop connection, I would suspect
that it the problem, and with the linksys blocking wan requests it would
drop the packet for the ident request, and xinetd would wait for it to time
out.
So the other option is to change what xinetd tries to log for pop requests.
Thank you very much, George, disabling the Block Wan Request has solved the
problem for one user. I have yet to find out if the others are using a
Linksys DSL/Cable gateway.
I would recommend finding out what the problem really is rather than open
the local network to the world as a fix...
And I do agree with that. But right now, I'm more interested in a quick
fix that makes the problem go away and takes the pressure off. The client
was asking me to disable the Bastille firewall on the server, it was that
important to him. I'd *much* rather do that at the user end than at the
server end. Fortunately, I'd already done a test and found that Bastille
wasn't the cause of the problem.
I'll explain the issues to the individual users involved and let them make
the choice between security on their end with the concommittant delay in
collecting mail and the convenience of collecting mail quickly. I'm not
overly concerned about the security aspect as the Linksys is doing NAT/IP
masquerading afterall and that's a darn good firewall in and of itself.
In /etc/xinet.d/ipop3, it says:
service pop3
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/ipop3d
log_on_success += USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
}
I presume is that the log_on statements are causing the delay when Block WAN
Request is enabled and that if I remove them, the problem will be resolved at
the expense of logging connections.
--
Cheers,
Rob
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[expert] Strange problem with the POP server
Hi folks, I've got a head scratcher here and I'd really like your help, please. The problem arose when we replaced a RedHat 6.2 server with a Mandrake 8.1 server. On the new Mandrake server, a few clients (out of about 400 or so) are now having difficultly POP'ing their mail where they didn't have before. What happens is that they are experiencing an extended connection time, up to 60 seconds before the mail transfer starts after starting a mail run via pop. In some cases, this is causing the client to time-out and report the server is unreachable. If I monitor /var/log/secure and /var/log/syslog while one of these users does a mail run, I see the POP3 connection made almost instantly in /var/log/secure (so it's not a net latency). However, the pop service init login doesn't show up (in /var/log/syslog) until quite a while later; when it does, the user gets his mail. Thus the delay is occurring between the pop connection and the pop login. I was at one client's machine this weekend, trying to figure out what is going on. He has one of those 4 port Linksys home router/NAT firewall units. If I bypass the Linksys router and connect the cable modem directly to his machine, the POP latency disappears and mail transfers are fast. Put the Linksys router in the path and the long latency re-appears; the log entries in /var/log/secure and /var/log/syslog are almost simultaneous. (I do not know whether all the clients having problems have such a router/NAT firewall or not). So far, I've not found out what happens on a POP connection after the initial connection via xinetd and I have no idea what can be causing this delay. Does anyone have anything to suggest? Thanks! -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Using ulimit to limit resource usage by Apache.
We're running a web server, hosting several hundred virtualhosts, most of whom use PHP. Since there is so much use of PHP, I've compiled it into Apache, rather than as a loadable module. Rather frequently, it seems that a httpd process (we've tracked it happening) will go rogue and consume all memory on the server (1 gig RAM, 2 gigs swap) which brings the server to its knees and make it utterly unresponsive. Since it's co-located, it's an utter pain to have to go in and manually reboot the machine. In /etc/profile, I added ulimit -v 25, intending that any process should have no more than a rather generous 250 MB of memory available to it, intending the prevention of a rogue httpd process from devouring all the resources. But it seems that the machine was knocked over again this evening, shortly after a reboot (remotely) to test httpd. I was wondering if putting the ulimit -v command in /etc/profile was appropriate for a daemon process. Ulimit is an internal bash command and daemons don't necessarily run from the shell. The httpd server is run from the initscript, which is a shell script; this script will have the ulimit constraints imposed upon it and, I presume, so will the parent httpd process started from this script. But what about the child servers launched by the parent httpd process? I would presume that the shell isn't involved in their invocation by the parent httpd process. Will they inherit the same ulimit constraints that applied to the original shell script? Also, from what I understand, the default action of ulimit is to impose soft limits. Would ulimit -Hv 25 in /etc/profile better prevent a rogue process incapacitating the machine? Does anyone have a suggestion how I might better handle this situation? Is there a method within Apache itself for constraining the system resource usage by any virtual host? Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Ports to keep open
On November 20, 2001 08:06 am, LeTortorec, Jean-Louis wrote: Do you think that will work ok? that box is a web server only, with proftp/ssh session for updating pages. Are you running a name server? If so, you'll want to keep port 53 open as well. -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
