Re: [expert] xtart and a new session
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:22 am, bascule wrote: is there a way to get xtart to start a session on another screen, a-la 'startx -- :1' bascule Edit /etc/X11/xdm/xservers change at the bottom from this: :0 local /bin/nice -n -10 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -deferglyphs 16 to this: :0 local /bin/nice -n -10 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -deferglyphs 16 :1 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8 :2 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :2 vt9 :3 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :3 vt10 :4 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :4 vt11 :5 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :5 vt12 then restart X after that there will be a menu option of Start New Session It will open a new session to switch back alt-f7 as you can see alt-f8 to f-12 can be new sessions Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] another KMail filters question...
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 03:13 pm, Artemio wrote: So, I have KMail filters working and everytime I check mail it pops up a window where I select whether I want to get the mail, keep it on server or delete from server. However, the default action is to keep the message on server, so that if I receive 50 mails - I have to switch 50 radio buttons to get them. Is there a way to make download action default? Thanks! Artemio. Please check that you have filters configured not pop filters. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:54 pm, Mark Williamson wrote: I have found the packages that can enable the actual packet writing.. They are out of the contribs, once you have added a urpmi contrib source, it's a just a matter of urpmi udftools probably later tomorrow i will be giving it a go.. it will be very nice just to drag drop files on the CD and all done.. It will be just on CDRs for me, as yet i don't have a DVD burner Now I wonder if they can be read on a M$ box, with some sort of packaet drivers enabled, Hmm it will be real nice if they compatible. Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:00, Mark Williamson wrote: Wow, I will keep the original kernel that has the packet drivers.. unless I get a LG-Cdrom, that's unlikely. Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 10:03, Thomas Backlund wrote: Mark Williamson kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 30 Lokakuu 2003 00:22): Hi, I have found the correct link.. http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-August/ 001207 .html Super I will be trying that out later, it's about time that Linux had packet writing, I can see with decent packet writing setup, the old floppy drive will no longer used, I hate floppies. (Hey so much for the LG CD readers) :) With the new Kernel that Mandrake now suppling does that support packet writing or did they pull it out? It got pulled out... no reason to take another chance for now... I'll readd the new patches to my kernels sometime in the next couple of weeks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:54 pm, Mark Williamson wrote: I have found the packages that can enable the actual packet writing.. They are out of the contribs, once you have added a urpmi contrib source, it's a just a matter of urpmi udftools probably later tomorrow i will be giving it a go.. it will be very nice just to drag drop files on the CD and all done.. It will be just on CDRs for me, as yet i don't have a DVD burner Now I wonder if they can be read on a M$ box, with some sort of packaet drivers enabled, Hmm it will be real nice if they compatible. Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:00, Mark Williamson wrote: Wow, I will keep the original kernel that has the packet drivers.. unless I get a LG-Cdrom, that's unlikely. Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 10:03, Thomas Backlund wrote: Mark Williamson kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 30 Lokakuu 2003 00:22): Hi, I have found the correct link.. http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-August/ 001207 .html Super I will be trying that out later, it's about time that Linux had packet writing, I can see with decent packet writing setup, the old floppy drive will no longer used, I hate floppies. (Hey so much for the LG CD readers) :) With the new Kernel that Mandrake now suppling does that support packet writing or did they pull it out? It got pulled out... no reason to take another chance for now... I'll readd the new patches to my kernels sometime in the next couple of weeks Well packet writing was supported until LG thing so hang on to your -10 kernels and sources. Mac will not read the UDF files correctly but will read folders perhaps the script file was the wrong format. I tested the cd on a Win but it didn't read it perhaps it needed the proper software. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
On Friday 31 October 2003 07:44 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2003 07:21 am, Michael Adams wrote: No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge, but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better anyway:) Hi Michael, Can you show me how to do that? Thanks Yes post it here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
On Friday 31 October 2003 10:42 pm, Salane KIng wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 07:44 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2003 07:21 am, Michael Adams wrote: No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge, but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better anyway:) Hi Michael, Can you show me how to do that? Thanks Yes post it here. Never mind here is a good HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] spamassassin- using spamd/spamc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 June 2003 23:41, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Im sorry for bringing this topic up again, but after hunting through the readme files, etc. for a faster way to run spamassassin it looked like using spamc and spamd instead might work. Can anyone figure out how to use these in conjunction with kmail, for example? Thanks, Just put pipe thru spamc in actions instead of spamassassin and start spamassissin as a service using drakconf. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3HqiBbBD8btltkYRAh4kAJ4y/q9ooMCn6Uzs5ZfIVxQHVEm4AACgrAn4 20ia5rC2XqXHyEDIAwUUDXo= =KcTy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Rc2 is comming!!
On Monday 03 March 2003 22:22, Damon Lynch wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 16:07, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:58, Damon Lynch wrote: Question: how come rsync is not more popular? It seems like a wonderful protocol to me, but it seems to get little publicity among non-experts. Does it need a special graphical tool to make it more popular? Damon Damon from what I've seen it needs more sites that support it. Those that do severely limit it.(ie the number of connections allowed) you are right though... great tool. That's my experience also. Why is this? Maybe CPU costs more than bandwidth for the servers? I assume they all use rsync to actually mirror their Mandrake content. I wonder if the rsync authors have a cache in mind to handle the CPU side of things. Damon Here is a great trick for rsync. update the name of the old iso files to the new name then use rsync to update it. it cuts the download time by about 50% Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert] mount -o loop mandrake 9.0
can you try modprobe loop Tuesday 08 October 2002 10:30 pm, s wrote: On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:47 pm, Lorne wrote: Is this an oversite or has someone made an executive decision to remove the ability to do a mount -l loop from the kernel? I'll admit I've had an occasion to need it until yesterday, but guess what? 9.0 on my box does NOT have /dev/loop? of any sort. If I understand correctly, this means I have to recompile the kernel. It is about as fast to install Redhat on a box as it is to recompile the kernel. It isn't that big of a deal, but if older versions have it, why doesn't 9.0? Anybody know? naw, it's possible cuz my 9.0 will do it. [root@tuxmachine]:s$ mount /mnt/hd/Mandrake82-cd2-ext.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop [root@tuxmachine]:s$ cd /mnt/loop [root@tuxmachine]:loop$ ls isolinux/ Mandrake/ [root@tuxmachine]:loop$ ls /dev/loop* -hal lr-xr-xr-x1 root root6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop0 - loop/0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop1 - loop/1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop2 - loop/2 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop3 - loop/3 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop4 - loop/4 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop5 - loop/5 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop6 - loop/6 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root6 Oct 8 21:18 /dev/loop7 - loop/7 not much help, but at least you know it's not the kernel as I'm running stock mdk kernel. :) -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] where the hell r the X conf files for users?
check if /etc/profile.d/kde3.sh exists if it does move it to another dir. or delete it. On Thursday 16 May 2002 05:19 am, Andrea Fabris wrote: Hi ppl! I have a problem. I installed the kde3 on my mdk8.2 and everything works fine under common users but under root something is worng so i want to revert root to use kde instead of kde3. Now im looking for the user configuration file that stands for the use of kde3. In the root home ther's a .wmrc, but i edidted it and nothing happened. Now, looking in startx, the script looks for .xinirc or .XSession in user home but neither are in the root home (or other users home). How can i change the default window manger for the users? Thanx Andrea Fabris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Transgaming Winex 2.0 available now
I seem to have compiled sucessfully this morning on gcc-3.1 On Friday 19 April 2002 02:28, Damian G wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:31:37 +0900 J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check winex.sf.net u can use the CVS version before you go out and buy the full verison if u like it. jG i AM using the cvs version.. i'm going to try different compilers, ( now i'm on 3.0.1 or 3.0 i think...) i'll post back with the results. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's
do cdrecord --scanbus first to determine the dev= numbers Brandon Dorman wrote: Hey guys, Finally got beta 3 cd 1 and cd 2 downloaded! Joy of joys! However, I've never burned an iso before in linux! I just now burnt both cd's only to disover now that they are still on there as, .iso and aren't bootable or anything! Bummer. (I'm assuming cd1 of even the mandrake beta would be bootable, after all I'm sure they want to test the installer as well. :-)) My cdrecord options look like this: cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=0,1,0 MandrakeLinux-8.2beta3-CD1.i586.iso How can I modify it to expand the iso onto the cd and allow me to boot from it as if I had bought it? Again, much thanks. -Brandon cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,1,0 -data mandrake_file.iso should do it... -- I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradictions to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc. I adopted instead of them I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to be so or so; or so it appears to me at present. When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing him immediately some absurdity in his proposition. In answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appeared or semed to me some difference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction. I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevailed with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right. -- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CUPS printer drivers
try printerdrake in console as root Went to install a canon printer for my computer, and found that I only had drivers for HP and Epson. Where would I find the printer driver file (database?) and how do I add drivers? Thanks in advance Ken PS - Using MDK 7.2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpmdrake
Try this command as root from terminal urpmi.addmedia --distrib name-ie-cdrom removable://where your mounted cd is here is the help urpmi.addmedia --help usage: urpmi.addmedia [options] name url [with relative_path] where url is one of file://path ftp://login:password@host/path with relative filename of hdlist ftp://host/path with relative filename of hdlist http://host/path with relative filename of hdlist removable://path and [options] are from -c - clean headers cache directory. -h - try to find and use synthesis or hdlist file. -f - force generation of hdlist files. --wget - use wget to retrieve distant files. --curl - use curl to retrieve distant files. --update - create an update medium. --distrib - automatically create all media from an installation medium. Hi, my rpmdrake is totally broken, somebody may fix some bugs. I removed all sources and tried to insert new ones. There the first bug occures. If you chose local type and insert /my/dir it will fail. If you chose /my/dir/, with a trailing slash it will proceed. If you try to use removable media with unmounted cdrom i get an error. If i first mount it i can proceed. Except that the change disk dialogs have boxes for unprintable characters. Ther is another bug in this dialog, missing documentation. What the hell is a relative path from two sources? What's it all good for? Does it need a path, a filename or maybe the location of an existing file? What about some useful defaults? With my first tries i had the CDs and cooker in my list i had a memory usage of 800MB. I left it open for some installation processes, installed some packages tried it installed others, and so on. This 800MB was with every thing else closed, i got short of swap spache. I think there is a memory hole somewhere. For me it's impossible to add any package because i can't add sources propperly. I get no error adding a new source but there are no packages displayed for installable packages. Maybe it's because i left this relative path with two sources blank. I tried the cooker version 1.4-6 no go. Is there a project which develops rpmdrake or who is responsible for rpmdrake? Haug Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] window emulator
vmware On Sunday 28 October 2001 08:32, you wrote: I have heard there are 3 windows emulators for linux. I know of wine and win4lin, but can't remember the other one. Does anyone know of the other one. thanks Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux boot!!
On Wednesday 07 February 2001 09:34 pm, Yann Ouellet wrote: Hi, I finaly made it! I installed MDK on my ATA100 drive! But here's the problem: Every time i want to boot in Linux, i need to enter this command line at the prompt of my boot disk: linux ide2=0x9400,0x9002 ide3=0x8800,0x8402. And then i can boot in linux otherwise it says that there's a Kernel panic... Anyway... Is there a way to enter the command line in some conf on my boot disk? Or even better is there a way to configure grub or lilo? Thanks! In grub edit /boot/grub/menu.lst add them to the end of the line with "vmlinuz=" in it. It may allready have something like hdc=ide-scsi or idebus=66 here is my line title linux kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz-2.4.1 root=/dev/hda8 vgabus=66 hdc=ide-scsi vga=794 -- Salane King Sent from LinuxMandrake 7.3 (cooker) ICQ# 306324
Re: [expert] Building a mandrake src rpm kernel
First thing to understand is this There is a difference between a kernel-xxx.src.rpm and kernel-source-xxx.rpm. The src rpm just lets you build a stock kernel for your computer. The kernel-source rpm installs the kernel source which you make xconfig make deps etc. I think you want the kernel-source rpm for your needs which puts in the usual place /usr/src/. I hope this helps your confusion. Salane King ICQ# 306324 On Tuesday 30 January 2001 09:26 pm, you wrote: Thank you...as I write this I am on the page but, perhaps I am blind but, like essentially every kernel-howto I have looked at, it seems to be for compiling kernel tarballs and not really addressing building a kernel src.rpm. Let me see if I am understanding this mess. I install kernel-whatever.src.rpm. Must I then go to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES and move every single bz2 to a new location in order to make the damn thing? There is a kernel-whatever.tar.bz2 there in that directory, but there is also innumberable patches and extra stuff that I do not know what to do with. If I must move everything, why does the rpm system place it all in the "wrong" place for? (Say, instead of placing kernel-whatever.tar.bz2 from the src.rpm in /usr/src/source/kernel, the patches in their correct location, etc?) On Tuesday 30 January 2001 19:02, you wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2001 04:39 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have never built a kernel from a source rpm before. I have always used tarballs. The src.rpm places patches and config files, etc, etc in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES... How does one go about building an src.rpm kernel? Is there a page that I can go to, a HOWTO? The proceedure is obviously different than with src tarballs. http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade.html
[expert] shutdown problems and kernel problems???? maybe
I have two problems First I need to know why I my box won't shut down properly. I have upgraded something wrong trying to upgrade my kernel to 2.4.0-11mdk I upgraded initscripts and modutils to cooker Yes i am running a working 7.2 with glibc-2.2 installed but something i upgraded wont let umount2 finish with /usr. Any help will be appreciated. Next problem after making and installing kernel-2.4.0-11mdk it goes thru the install just fine until the login step of init 3 and then locks up, no keyboard no mouse nothing!!! the only thing to do is hard shutdown. The stock 2.4.0 kernel works fine at least with bootup. My /usr and /home are on a reiserfs, with / on ext2. I know that there is not much to go on but can i get some help. -- Salane King ICQ# 306324
Re: [expert] hdparm permanent settings?
On Monday 22 January 2001 20:28, Tim Lee wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to make settings with the utility hdparm become permanent? I can set them in one of the init scripts but I would like my settings enabled as soon as possible in the boot process since they might affect boot performance. Regards, Add them to the end of the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local
