[expert] Konqueror shortcuts with mozilla?
Does anyone know if it's possible to use konqueror's internet shortcuts with mozilla? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Transgaming Winex 2.0 available now
Unfortunately Civ3 doesn't work yet. As a transgaming subscriber, I vote for it every time, though... -- Stephen On Friday 19 April 2002 05:49 pm, Robert Fargher wrote: 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
[expert] KDE 3.0 issues
Problems with KDE3.0 (KDE rpms; not from cooker): kcontrol works for me, but not for my wife's user account. It comes up, but is mostly blank. A permissions problem? Also, I can't add icons to her taskbar. Are most people using the cooker rpms? Any word on a mandrake-packaged kde3? Any help appreciated. -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Use of special characters
If you change your keyboard to us-international, you can use modifier keys to make special characters like you'd use in french or german. You can change your keyboard settings by running drakconf - hardware - keyboard. -- Stephen On Wednesday 03 April 2002 06:09 am, Alexander Arzberger wrote: Hi all, I need to use some special characters, for ex. ã to use in Staroffice. There is a way to insert these mannualy (insert symbol) and there appears an ASCII code. How can I type such symbols, using ASCII code? Alt-n does not type anything. Thanks Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE 3.0 issues
Problems with KDE3.0 (KDE rpms; not from cooker): kcontrol works for me, but not for my wife's user account. It comes up, but is mostly blank. A permissions problem? Also, I can't add icons to her taskbar. Are most people using the cooker rpms? Any word on a mandrake-packaged kde3? Any help appreciated. -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE 3.0
I'm surprised no one has talked about the kde 3.0 rpms the kde project has realeased. Did anyone install them? Experiences? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Open Off ice and anti-aliased fonts
The fonts in Open Office's Calc spreadsheed aren't anti-aliased, and really don't look good. Anyone manage to get nice, anti-aliased fonts for Open Office? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Open Off ice and anti-aliased fonts
Hmm. I imported them from Windows, and now they look nice ... thanks for the tip. -- Stephen On Thursday 28 March 2002 04:42 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 12:41, Randy Kramer wrote: Dave Sherman wrote: They work fine for me. I use both Times New Roman and Arial, and both are perfectly anti-aliased. I am running OpenOffice build 641C. Dave, Are these fonts native Linux fonts, from OpenOffice, or perhaps Microsoft TrueType? They were imported from Windows, thus MS TrueType fonts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No sound after 8.2 install
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 05:31 am, David wrote: Is your card supported under alsa? Look in/lib/modules/%kernel version/alsa for a .gz file that is named after your sound card. There might be more than one that _may_ apply. Yes, it's there under alsa. One thing I see is that in my boot.log file, there's the entry: aumix: aumix: error opening mixer Also, # ls /dev/dsp ls: /dev/dsp: No such file or directory Anyone know what could be causing the two above? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] devfs and hdparm
How do I execute the command: hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc with the devfs? I need to pass this to the cdwriter otherwise it has lots of trouble reading CDs. -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] No sound after 8.2 install
Sound worked fine with my SBLive! card and LM 8.1. With 8.2, no sound. An lsmod showed a surprisingly large number of sound modules loaded, mostly alsa related. Have others had trouble with sound and 8.2? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No sound after 8.2 install
Does this list look excessive? There is everything but the kitchen sink in here: # clear;lsmod | grep snd | sort snd34272 1 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-emux-mem snd-pcm snd-timer snd-seq-device] snd-ac97-codec 24896 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-card-emu10k12400 0 snd-emu10k122912 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-card-emu10k1] snd-emux-mem1424 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-emu10k1] snd-mixer 24328 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec] snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-pcm31616 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-emu10k1] snd-pcm-oss18816 0 snd-pcm-plugin 16080 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-rawmidi10112 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1] snd-seq40880 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-seq-device 3948 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-synth-emux snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd-seq-midi3424 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-midi-emul 4848 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] snd-seq-midi-event 3184 0 [snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq-oss25600 0 (unused) snd-seq-virmidi 8320 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] snd-synth-emu10k1 4384 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-synth-emux 25344 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emu10k1] snd-timer 8576 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] soundcore 4068 9 [snd] On Monday 25 March 2002 04:31 pm, you wrote: Stephen Sound worked fine with my SBLive! card and LM 8.1. With 8.2, no sound. Stephen An lsmod showed a surprisingly large number of sound modules loaded, Stephen mostly alsa related. Stephen Have others had trouble with sound and 8.2? No, mine just worked, but I was running alsa on 8.1, too. Maybe it doesn't know how to upgrade to alsa from OSS? I haven't done more than run timidity, and the get the sound working on pysol (which I had to fiddle with because 8.2 ships with a version that doesn't work with python 2.2. I'm surprised that didn't get better testing.) Here's my lsmod: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MandrakeUpdate fails and empty rpm files
I just ran MandrakeUpdate. Looking at /var/cache/urpmi: [root@mozart rpms]# ls -l * -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 30 06:17 at-3.1.8-4.1mdk.i586.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 30 06:17 bind-utils-9.2.0-0.rc3.2mdk.i586.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 30 06:17 enscript-1.6.1-22.1mdk.i586.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 30 06:17 rsync-2.4.6-3.1mdk.i586.rpm The file sizes are all zero! Anyone know what's happening? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Network printer under attack
Jobs are being sent to my printer (HP LaserJet 2100TN with built-in ethernet), which keeps printing until all the paper is gone. At the head of the sheet that gets repeatedly printed is: POST / HTTP/1.1. Here is a tail from my /var/log/cups: 192.168.1.1 - - [20/Jan/2002:23:09:49 -0600] GET /ppd/laser.ppd HTTP/1.1 200 22901 127.0.0.1 - - [20/Jan/2002:23:09:51 -0600] POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1 200 77 127.0.0.1 - - [20/Jan/2002:23:09:51 -0600] POST /classes/ HTTP/1.1 200 77 127.0.0.1 - - [20/Jan/2002:23:09:51 -0600] POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1 200 77 127.0.0.1 - - [20/Jan/2002:23:09:51 -0600] POST /jobs/ HTTP/1.1 200 114 127.0.0.1 - - [20/Jan/2002:23:09:51 -0600] POST / HTTP/1.1 200 202 192.168.1.1 - - [20/Jan/2002:23:09:51 -0600] GET /ppd/laser.ppd HTTP/1.1 200 22901 It looks like my box is expecting something from the printer and sending it requests. Anyone know what's going on? Thanks. -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tuxracer, continued problems
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 08:05 pm, you wrote: Ok, this is starting to irritate me. :) I'm running a fresh re-install of 8.1 Tuxracer doesn't run as a regular user, only as root. When I try to start it, as a regular user, it gets through the selection menus. But when you select race, it dies, and returns you to X, but in 300x200 resolution mode. I have to exit out of my session to get it to reset. You can type control-alt-+ (the plus that's on the numeric keypad) to switch resolutions. -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cups and a network printer
Do you need the cups daemon if you have a network printer with its own IP (HP Laserjet 2100 TN), or just the cups client? My laserjet shows the following ports open under nmap. I'm having trouble setting the printer up. Port State Service 23/tcp opentelnet 80/tcp openhttp 280/tcpopenhttp-mgmt 515/tcpopenprinter 631/tcpopenunknown 9100/tcp openjetdirect -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Fwd: Re: lilo doesn't boot into windows98
,--- Forwarded message (begin) Subject: Re: lilo doesn't boot into windows98 From: Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:54:35 -0600 Stephen, You could either use one of the Linux disk administration tools. Alternatively you could actually boot into Windows 98 outside VMWare and use FDISK. As for transferring the system files, this was covered in my previous message. Dave Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:9rhmr2$esd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Dave Walker wrote: Stephen, This is probably because the disk geometry reported under VMWare is different to that reported when not running under VMWare. This tends to upset lilo. Looking at what you say about your configuration, a different possibility is to set partition hdb1 as active, and make sure that it contains a Win98 bootstrap. Thanks for the reply. How do you set the hdb1 partition as active and make sure it contains a win98 bootstrap? -- Stephen Then under VMWare define the hdb disk as IDE0:0 and do not bother to define the hda disk at all. The hdb active partition would not be used when running natively as hda would be used in preference, but if it is the only disk defined under VMWare it would get used.Note that if necessary you can set the relevant system files by creating a Win98 boot floppy, booting off it and then doing a SYS C: command to transfer the relevant system files. Dave Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:9rhis1$c2f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I'm set up for raw disk access to hda and hdb. I get lilo from hda up, and it points to hdb1 and hdb5 for my windows C and D partitions. When I choose windows under lilo, I get Loading windows, but it stays there. yone know why this could be? I did unmount the windows drives first. -- Stephen Using 3.0.0 build-1447 under Mandrake 8.1 (XFree 4.1). -- Stephen `--- Forwarded message (end) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PATH=$PATH:/foo in .bashrc or .bash_profile?
I want to append to my PATH. Should this go in my .bashrc or .bash_profile? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH Question
Why don't you connect as a user, then do a su - to become root? On Friday 19 October 2001 07:46 am, you wrote: Hi, I have ssh on all my host. And I connet ones from another, and are case that i forget if are in my laptop or are in my host and give a reboot command, with a reboot not need over my server. Hero goes the question? How can do that root access througth ssh don't reboot my remote server ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 8.1/NVidia permission woes
After updating to Mandrake 8.1 and NVidia-1.0-1541, I'm having trouble running accelerated 3D as a regular user. The error is: $ bounce Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions are too resticitive. Please see the TROUBLESHOOTING section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps to corect. The steps in the readme say to delete the line beginning with dri: if your system has the file /etc/security/console.perms then you want to edit the file and remove the line that starts with dri. Trouble is, I can't log in after doing this as a regular user. Any help? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1/NVidia permission woes -- Solved
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I modified the /etc/security/console.perms file like so: console 0660 dri0660 root.games xconsole 0660 /dev/console 0660 root.wheel xconsole 0660 dri0660 root.games Notice the entry for dri under console without the x. Before I did this, for some reason, the group permission wasn't getting set (I was getting 0600 even though I wrote 0660). You need to add yourself to the games group, of course. -- Stephen On Thursday 18 October 2001 07:23 pm, you wrote: I'm not sure this is connected but what security level did you choose when you installed mandrake 8.1? I never really searched how it works but mandrake have some scripts that when you login to your computer on X as a regular user, it changes the owner of some devices to your user. so if I run now: $ls -l /dev/nvidiactl I get: crw---1 haim root 195, 255 Sep 29 14:48 /dev/nvidiactl and my '/etc/security/console.perms' have the dri line. try running 'msec 2' (just for the test) to see if that helps, if it does you can run 'msec custom' to set the security level so it will match your needs. Bye Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] devfs -- where's /dev/hdc?
Thanks! Works great now. -- Stephen On Thursday 18 October 2001 02:45 pm, you wrote: Stephen Boulet wrote: No /dev/hdc: # ls -l /dev/hdc* ls: /dev/hdc*: No such file or directory It is described as /dev/scd0 in my fstab, though. Maybe I can use the hdparm command for scd0 even if its scsi emulation? no you can't. it will give you an error message. if you haven't got any removable devices like zip-drives, i wouldn't use devfs at all. it intodruced much too many new problems. it was _really_ a false decission to include it in 8.1! i've heared _many_ people who went back to redhat, etc., as mandrake 8.1 was such a dissapointment for them. to dissable devfs, simply edit your /etc/lilo.conf and change devfs=mount to devfs=nomount and run /sbin/lilo -v. you'll have your /dev/hdc back after the next reboot. bye, Tobias Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disabling apache for port 443
Hi Dianne, thanks for the advice. It turned out that 'listen 443' statement is actually in: /etc/httpd/conf/ssl/mod_ssl.conf The reason I want to free up 443 is because, from work, our firewall only lets users use the http protocol on ports 80 and 443. Now with 443 freed up from apache, I can use webmin there, including the ssh java applet that would give me a terminal on my home computer. -- Stephen On Wednesday 29 August 2001 02:07 pm, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: hi stephen port 443 is normally the SSL https port. im curious why you want to use 443 for webmin. webmin is already 'https' mode at port 1. anyways, i havent used the apache that came with MDK. i always use the source. in the httpd.conf file there is something like 'Listen 443' you can disable that by putting a comment before it. if you also have 'NameVirtualHost ip_address:443', you have to disable that too. dianne --- Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to use port 443 for webmin, but apache has it now. Anyone know how to configure apache to only use port 80? I can't find the config file anywhere... -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Disabling apache for port 443
I would like to use port 443 for webmin, but apache has it now. Anyone know how to configure apache to only use port 80? I can't find the config file anywhere... -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where oh where is libgr-devel?
Thanks, but it must be there for Mandrake somewhere, since you need it for libungif, and you need libungif for qt2, and I'm pretty sure Mandrake ships with qt2. ;) -- Stephen Boulet On Monday 27 August 2001 06:46 am, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: On Sunday 26 August 2001 10:38 pm, you wrote: libgr-devel . The closest match I can find is: libgr-devel-2.0.13-23.i386.html Development tools for programs which will use the libgr library. RedHat-6.2 for i386 libgr-devel-2.0.13-23.i386.rpm and from ASP-Linux libgr-devel-2.0.13-23.i386.html Development tools for programs which will use the libgr library. ASPLinux libgr-devel-2.0.13-23.i386.rpm sk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Secure java applets
How do I get secure java applets to run in konqueror? (like the ssh terminal applet available in webmin?) When I run it under konqueror and blackdown, I get the error in the java panel: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: https It doesn't work with kaffe either. Thanks. -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Where oh where is libgr-devel?
Trying to rebuild libungif from source rpms for cooker finds this dependency: libgr-devel . But it doesn't appear on cooker's srpm list. Can anyone tell me what package supplies it? Thanks. --- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GCC 2.96
Thanks for answering one question for me: why the current python source rpm from cooker wouldn't compile on Mandrake 7.2's gcc. I compiled gcc-2.96 source rpm on LM7.2, then recompiled it using 2.96, and now will hopefully be able to compile the latest python on that platform as well. -- Stephen On Friday 24 August 2001 07:00 pm, civileme wrote: I don't know what kgcc is, but I know most people have had trouble building our kernels with it. In fact, someone flamed us on this list because he had to do a make mrproper and because kgcc (which we never issued) built a kernel with an endbase address too big. He asked what EDBA was and I gave him a reference to the authority on it (a LILO manual) and he accused me of sending him on a treasure hunt. Basically no headers are included by default, and there are some other strictnesses, but the number of internal compiler error messages we have had are tiny. I believe three, all from packages we never saw. How we are expected to diagnose without seeing the input to the compiler is beyond me, but folks report the bug that way. Anyway, I hope this answers your question. This is basically a unique compiler and we will return to the mainstream compilers as soon as we have one that does as well. Civileme Thanks Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mouse questions
Look at the imwheel site: http://jonatkins.org/imwheel/ You should be able to find something there. -- Stephen On Friday 24 August 2001 09:34 am, Daniel Axtell wrote: Hello, I'm using an MS IntelliMouse Explorer, the one with the buttons on the side. I have it plugged into the PS/2 port, not the USB port, and am using xfree 4.1.0, with the pointer protocal set to IMPS/2, ZAxisMapping set to 4 5 and Buttons set to 7. The wheel works OK, but the two side buttons are ignored (for back/forward in the browser). Does anyone know how to set them up so they work with Konqueror and/or Mozilla? Thanks, Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] nslookup is where?
Is there an nslookup command? Anyone know where to find it? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lilo problem?
I'm wondering if you might have to do some drive mapping. My windows install is on hdb, so to get it to boot, I do: other=/dev/hdb1 label=windows table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 This is just a guess, but maybe you can do: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=ic-linux map-drive=0x84 to=0x80 root=/dev/hde6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=hdc=ide-scsi ide0=noautotune ide1=noautotune ide2=noautotune It might have to do with restrictions on booting from hde, but I could very well be wrong. :( -- Stephen On Monday 13 August 2001 08:31 am, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Hello All, How are you doing today? Good I hope. I have an interesting problem with my Lilo that I hope someone might have a solution for. I have Mandrake 7.2 booting from my /dev/sda SCSI drive and also have an UltraDMA 66 drive installed and is accessible as well. Currently my Mandrake 7.2 runs just fine and I have made a clean partition on my /dev/hde6 to install a test copy of Mandrake 8.0 to run the 2.4.x kernel. The install had gone just fine onto the /dev/hde6 partition for the Mandrake 8.0, and I then added the entries to my lilo.conf on my Mandrake 7.2. The problem is that when I try to boot the IC (Mandrake 8.0) entry from lilo, it appears that my old 2.2.17 kernel is booted (even though there is NONE in the /dev/hde6 partition) and then it tries to use the files located on the /dev/hde6 partition from which the kernel cannot locate the required 2.2.17 kernel modules. My confusion is that when I boot IC, lilo hould be trying to boot the 2.4.x kernel from /dev/hde6 and NOT the kernel 2.2.17 from the /dev/sda5 partition. I have included a copy of the LILO.CONF from my Mnadrake 7.2 so that you can take a look at, ok. lilo.conf --- boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/sda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdc=ide-scsi ide0=noautotune ide1=noautotune ide2=noautotune ide3=noautotune mem=128M read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/sda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdc=ide-scsi failsafe read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=ic-linux root=/dev/hde6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=hdc=ide-scsi ide0=noautotune ide1=noautotune ide2=noautotune ide3=noautotune read-only - does anyone have any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ip_masq in 8.0 ?
No joke. I installed the kernel-2.4.6-5mdk kernel from cooker, and my iptables script wouldn't work. Then I installed the iptables rpm and it did. There is both an iptables and an ipchains rpm. -- Stephen On Tuesday 31 July 2001 02:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 30 Jul at 22:53:27 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: Why don't you just install the ipchains rpm? Sorry, but just through email, I can't tell if this was a joke or not. -Charlie On Monday 30 July 2001 04:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That reminds me, I've been meaning to mention how big of a pain in the ass it is (well, not really, but I just think it could have been done better) that iptables is built in to the RPM-ised kernel by default which eliminates having ipchains built as a loadable kernel module. IMHO, it'd be much more simple to build them both in as modules and just have the user do an insmod on whichever they plan on using if and when they need them. Just my $0.02... Cheers, -Charlie
Re: [expert] ip_masq in 8.0 ?
Why don't you just install the ipchains rpm? -- Stephen On Monday 30 July 2001 04:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That reminds me, I've been meaning to mention how big of a pain in the ass it is (well, not really, but I just think it could have been done better) that iptables is built in to the RPM-ised kernel by default which eliminates having ipchains built as a loadable kernel module. IMHO, it'd be much more simple to build them both in as modules and just have the user do an insmod on whichever they plan on using if and when they need them. Just my $0.02... Cheers, -Charlie
[expert] What's that make install-to-RPM tool?
I'm not sure whether I heard of it on this list, but there is a program that takes the part of the 'make install' command, and puts the files to be installed in the RPM database (this would help to ease removing them later, etc.). Anyone know what the name of this program is? -- Stephen
Re: [expert] Accessing French German ASCII Characters? How? -- Answer
On Monday 16 July 2001 05:24 am, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: * Stardate: 2001-07-15 17:59 * Incoming subspace signal from Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] : It's easy. You select the US keyboard (international) in the Mandrake control center - hardware - keyboard. Then you can make use of deadkeys to type characters like ä (single quote deadkeys ? What is that ? It means that if you type in the ' - single quote character with the deadkeys enabled once, you get nothing. To actually get a single quote you must type in a single quote two times, or a single quote followed by a space key. The single quote key has been overloaded to act as a function key for some vowels. This is set up in the US keyboard (international). Other dead keys are shift 6 and the backtick key. Tschüß, Stephen followed by a), è (backquote followed by e), é (single quote followed by e), ç (second alt, equals sign, c -- took me a little while to find this one), and ê (shift 6 followed by e). Download xkeycaps if you want to explore it in more detail. -- Stephen
Re: [expert] Accessing French German ASCII Characters? How?
On Monday 16 July 2001 12:51 pm, Laurent Duperval wrote: 2. Is there a way to sacrifice a different key? (Instead, can we assign the back-slash key to be the 'dead' key?) Yes. To do that, you can use xmodmap. Read the xmodmap page or take a look at the example xmodmap's in the source code for gnome-applets. L And xkeycaps can generate your xmodmap file for you if you want to do it that way. -- stephen
Re: [expert] Accessing French German ASCII Characters? How? -- Answer
It's easy. You select the US keyboard (international) in the Mandrake control center - hardware - keyboard. Then you can make use of deadkeys to type characters like ä (single quote followed by a), è (backquote followed by e), é (single quote followed by e), ç (second alt, equals sign, c -- took me a little while to find this one), and ê (shift 6 followed by e). Download xkeycaps if you want to explore it in more detail. -- Stephen On Saturday 14 July 2001 11:51 pm, Sevatio wrote: I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally available in the English alphabet? -TIA Sevatio
Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???
The mailing list software should really not pass on to the list messages that begin with out of office. It just needs to be configured that way. -- Stephen On Sunday 01 July 2001 01:47 am, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: What gives is that someone on the list (Wehling, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]) is out of office and let an automatic answer in his mailbox...
Re: [expert] iptables support
Did you install the iptables rpm ? -- Stephen On Saturday 30 June 2001 03:47 pm, Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote: Hi, I am using LM 8, trying to configure firewall thro Linuxconf. I get an error kernel doses not support firewallling, something to that effect. Does the stock kernel with LM 8 come with firewall support. I think linuconf is using iptables. Also it cannot find ip_masq, ip_ftp modules. Sridhar
Re: [expert] How do change the default WM in MDK8?
Uninstall gdm or kdm, change your runlevel to 3 (i.e. change your /etc/inittab file for runlevel 3), and create a .xinitrc file with exec twm in it. -- Stephen On Saturday 30 June 2001 04:13 am, George Abdo wrote: Hello all, In Mandrake 7, I edited my own .xinitrc to start twm (yes, the bare minimum). However, in MDK 8, I don't know where to do it. Does anyone know where I can find the config file? I want to start X usig startx not using kdm/gdm. Thanks George
Re: [expert] URL for moina
Sorry about that post. My kmail bookmarks for my home address and the expert mailing list are side-by-side... On Tuesday 26 June 2001 11:32 pm, Stephen Boulet wrote: http://www.santafefish.com
Re: [expert] Bad fonts after updating to MandrakeFreq
I reinstalled 8.0 just to get the anti-aliased fonts in KDE back. None of the suggestions really worked well. Maybe installing mandrakefreq instead of upgrading was my mistake. Anyway, with separate home and usr/local partitions, reinstalling isn't that painful... -- Stephen On Wednesday 27 June 2001 04:01 am, Oscar wrote: Try this: - Uninstall abisuite if you don't use it - edit /etc/X11/fs/config and change the line: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 to: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1:unscaled In my system it's the only fix that works. Salu2. Oscar. (if neccesary, turn off anti-aliasing). Stephen Boulet wrote: Has anyone gotten bad fonts after upgrading to MandrakeFreq for LM8? How can you fix this. I have anti-aliasing turned on, and am using NVidia's drivers for the geforce2. -- Stephen
Re: [expert] How (or can) I
What if you boot into X directly (runlevel 5)? Will the command in rc.local work then? Maybe not. I wonder how to script a login session. Maybe then you could run startx and then run your program. -- Stephen On Wednesday 27 June 2001 04:11 pm, Mike Rambo wrote: David Joham wrote: You can always put in custom startup information in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Would that solve your problem? David I've tried everything along that line that I can think of. I can't find anything that will work. Basically, an X session has to be started and logged in to accept connections as the correct user to start the Wine/Faircom combination. Only then will Wine actually start. I can get Wine to start automatically when I manually log into the GUI but I cannot start the X session (already logged in) automatically. -Original Message- From: Mike Rambo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] How (or can) I make Wine start at boot time. I need to run a database server we normally run as an NT service. This database server (Faircom - required for some library automation software) runs as an NT service but will also work pretty well running under Wine on a Linux server. I'd like to have this start automagically at boot time so user intervention is not required. The closest I've gotten so far is to use Xvnc but I haven't been able to get it to work without some kind of intervention (when I check the app from another machine using vncviewer it is always waiting for me to click the mouse to place the app on the virtual screen). Is there a way around this behavior? As an alternative, how does Mandrake 8 accomplish automatic logins as a specific user and can the same be accomplished with Mdk 7.1 (which is what this server runs)? If I could get the machine to log in automatically as the user needed to run the database server I could have the screensaver kick in a minute later with password protection enabled. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] how to burn an ISO
This is how I burned my MandrakeFreq iso: cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 MandrakeFreq-20010619-ext.i586.iso I'm thinking that the -data option you're using is the problem. -- Stephen On Monday 25 June 2001 07:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greeting Folks, First off an apology if this comes through in HTML, I think I have it off. Second, I am having a devil of a time burning the 8.0 ISO's. The command I am using is: cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data Mandrake80-inst.iso and what end up with on the cd is unbootable garbage. The burner works fine using kioscd. Any hints, tips, sugestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jerry Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: [expert] Audio CDROM is invisable
I didn't think it was possible to look at audio cd's with konqueror in mandrake 8. Isn't that a more recently added feature of koqueror? You should be able to play the CDs though. -- Stephen On Monday 25 June 2001 06:12 pm, Andy Weir wrote: Hi for the final time (for now), When I try to access an audio cdrom in Konqueror, I'm locked out (data cdrom's automount fine). I have two cd players (cdrom, and cdrw, on ide0 s, and ide 1 m respectively), and I can only play the cd's with the cdplayer on the first cdrom. Do I need to check some boxes, or tinker with some configuration files or something (a shove in the right direction is probably all I need). Thanks (for the final time tonight/this morning) Andy Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Bad fonts after updating to MandrakeFreq
Has anyone gotten bad fonts after upgrading to MandrakeFreq for LM8? How can you fix this. I have anti-aliasing turned on, and am using NVidia's drivers for the geforce2. -- Stephen
[expert] URL for moina
http://www.santafefish.com
[expert] After MandrakeUpdate upgraded imap, I have 2 imaps
Now after the security upgrade, I have versions 2000c-4.4mdk and 2000-6mdk. Anyone else notice this? Are both necessary? -- Stephen
Re: [expert] php displays as text files
Yes: $ rpm -qa | grep php mod_php-4.0.4pl1-6mdk php-common-4.0.4pl1-6mdk php-4.0.4pl1-6mdk On Sunday 10 June 2001 12:04 am, Digital Wokan wrote: Does that include installing mod_php? Stephen Boulet wrote: I installed the apache and php rpms for LM8, but php scripts display as text files. At the very end of my httpd.conf file, I added the following line and restarted httpd, but it didn't help: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 Anyone know what I should do? -- Stephen
Re: [expert] .bashrc, .bash_profile don't DO anything
May be a dumb question, but does:
$ echo $SHELL
report /bin/bash?
I have this in my .bash_profile, and ~/bin is the first thing in my path.
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
PATH=~/bin:${PATH}
fi
-- Stephen
On Sunday 10 June 2001 12:57 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote:
I am running M8.0. I have added $HOME/bin to my path and I changed my
umask to 077 in my .bashrc and, when that didn't work, I put umask 077 in
my .bash_profile.
In no case have my changes taken. My home bin/ directory is still not in
my path and my umask is still the 022 set in /etc/profile. It appears that
bash is not using user-specific .bash* files for anything, at least on my
system. I haven't done anything unusual to my system, it is what was
installed. I have had to change umask to umask 077 in /etc/profile so
that this change would take place.
What's up with the user config files? Anyone else running into this
situation?
[expert] php displays as text files
I installed the apache and php rpms for LM8, but php scripts display as text files. At the very end of my httpd.conf file, I added the following line and restarted httpd, but it didn't help: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 Anyone know what I should do? -- Stephen
[expert] IPtables question
I'm wondering about the functioning of IPTables on my LM8 install. I have two ethernet cards: eth0 is external and eth1 is internal. Using nmap, I get: [root@mozart root]# nmap -sT my external IP: 6000/tcp openX11 among other entries. When I do: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 6000 -i eth0 -j DROP the command is accepted, but nmap still shows port 6000 as being open. Any idea what's going on?
Re: [expert] ssh setup help needed
There is an excellent intro to ssh on mandrakeuser.org. -- Stephen On Sunday 03 June 2001 02:08 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Are there any ssh gurus out there? I'm trying to set up a new server on MDK 8.0, and ssh(d) is giving me fits. Could someone that understands this beast drop me a note, and lend me a quick hand getting it running? I've been staring at the man pages until I'm going blind, and I can't get it to work. I quess I need a step by step. Much appreciated! Ric
Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux
On Saturday 02 June 2001 01:24 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote: Hello I know that it isn't a good idea to give normal users root access, but I need to set up a couple of Mandrake boxes (they will only be in text mode, as these will be remote terminals to a Unix network) so that a normal user can shut down without having to login as root. The process needs to be as simple as possible, to prevent the user from messing it up Thank you Darcy Brodie You can make the shutdown command part of a group (say the shutdown group). You can make 'shutdown' be an alias for shutdown -h now or so if you want. -- Stephen
Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux
I find it goofy when changes in permissions take effect. You might have to start a fresh konsole/xterm or logout before it works. On Saturday 02 June 2001 02:17 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote: Stephen Boulet wrote: On Saturday 02 June 2001 01:24 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote: Hello I know that it isn't a good idea to give normal users root access, but I need to set up a couple of Mandrake boxes (they will only be in text mode, as these will be remote terminals to a Unix network) so that a normal user can shut down without having to login as root. The process needs to be as simple as possible, to prevent the user from messing it up Thank you Darcy Brodie You can make the shutdown command part of a group (say the shutdown group). You can make 'shutdown' be an alias for shutdown -h now or so if you want. -- Stephen Thanks for the suggestion. I located both the shutdown and the halt commands in the /sbin directory, changed their groups to shutdown (after I created the group), and added the user to that group. However, when I attempt to run the shutdown command, I get an error saying shutdown: must be root So then I tried the halt. Again, I get the following error halt: must be superuser Both of these commands I have manually entered at the command line to ensure they were working before I attempted to create any aliases Here is the output from ls -l for both the shutdown and halt commands -rwxr-xr-x1rootshutdown15452Mar 802:37shutdown* -rwxr-xr-x1rootshutdown 7848Mar 802:37halt* Darcy
Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux
You did add your users to the group shutdown, right? --stephen On Saturday 02 June 2001 02:39 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote: Stephen Boulet wrote: I find it goofy when changes in permissions take effect. You might have to start a fresh konsole/xterm or logout before it works. On Saturday 02 June 2001 02:17 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote: Stephen Boulet wrote: On Saturday 02 June 2001 01:24 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote: Hello I know that it isn't a good idea to give normal users root access, but I need to set up a couple of Mandrake boxes (they will only be in text mode, as these will be remote terminals to a Unix network) so that a normal user can shut down without having to login as root. The process needs to be as simple as possible, to prevent the user from messing it up Thank you Darcy Brodie You can make the shutdown command part of a group (say the shutdown group). You can make 'shutdown' be an alias for shutdown -h now or so if you want. -- Stephen Thanks for the suggestion. I located both the shutdown and the halt commands in the /sbin directory, changed their groups to shutdown (after I created the group), and added the user to that group. However, when I attempt to run the shutdown command, I get an error saying shutdown: must be root So then I tried the halt. Again, I get the following error halt: must be superuser Both of these commands I have manually entered at the command line to ensure they were working before I attempted to create any aliases Here is the output from ls -l for both the shutdown and halt commands -rwxr-xr-x1rootshutdown15452Mar 802:37 shutdown* -rwxr-xr-x1rootshutdown 7848Mar 8 02:37halt* Darcy That is understandable, I guess. However, since I made the changes, I have not only logged out, but also rebooted Linux completely. Still not working Darcy
Re: [expert] Noatun crashes on launch
On Friday 01 June 2001 07:20 am, Civileme wrote: On Friday 01 June 2001 07:42, Stephen Boulet wrote: Anyone experience noatun crashing on launch? -- Stephen Everyone who does should be reporting it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems never to have worked properly and the kde-core-developers mailing list has had a debate about fix or dump. Civileme Done. -- Stephen
Re: [expert] NVidia drivers crashing with OpenGL
On Friday 01 June 2001 07:26 am, Civileme wrote: Interesting. I think I'm going to switch to runlevel 5. Anyone else notice how fonts look bigger (= better, I think), with the 1.x driver than with the 0.9x driver? -- Stephen Which NVIDIA drivers? The 1.0 version seem to segfault if you come up in runlevel 5 but work fine from a startx. The older version seems to work well either way. Civileme
Re: Fwd: [expert] Accenting in aterm with Mandrake 8.0
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 05:26 pm, IH8Spammers wrote: I could but I do not want to :-) First of all it's the OS that must adapt itself to my tastes and not the reverse. And neither konsole nor xterm allows for transparency. OK, it's not a very technical reason to abandon a distro but I don't like the behaviour. I've been using RedHat for some years and Conectiva (a brazilian distro) and neither had such a behaviour. I was using them with X 3.3.6 though. BTW which language did you try to set up? All my best. Em Qua 30 Mai 2001 09:52, you wrote: Actually, you can have a transparent konsole. For the konsole, do: Settings-Schema-Transparent Konsole I'm using the US-international keyboard setting, which works well quand on a envie d'écrire en français ou wenn man lust hat, Deutsch zu schreiben. Tschüß, Stephen
[expert] Noatun crashes on launch
Anyone experience noatun crashing on launch? -- Stephen
Re: [expert] Quick Help locating a file
crontabs-1.7-11mdk -- Stephen On Thursday 31 May 2001 03:56 pm, Mitch Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Could someone please take a moment and tell me which rpm provides the program 'run-parts'? I seem to have deleted it. Thanks in advance. - -- Mitch Thompson, San Antonio TX Redhat Certified Engineer #80609957760032 http://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/certification/index.html Key fingerprint = BBDA 3A2A 4483 BD0D 7CED B8A9 D183 C8F6 B0AF 66AE - -- Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iQIXAwUBOxawC9GDyPawr2auFAOIbwf/Qj5KW1FpwOn+FWirXnmi4rWzPoKrnKrY F0CQ/6Qu1WMTom5+HLvhFlVKFA9KSjK6ck4zl3fN1U12B1UP7eISmcqbcTQ/8y/Z 8z6iCPq2AG7rO/kEyubpeuj25tWCwLh7qGFupP5yGZ/TI+sV/fobUBYrrxG6sWiZ TBDqE+73dWJEC0azdzLr3zjqsZ41c1NcasfNKLizEeEKbyfOsVmtiZTw0cfmblWv 0brGZp+Fq7TTapqIB5pUGMqRzeflAK1F3W3n/fdtBrditQ+Scw/hZnM7eqvTOZc7 aH9tDlnt+WUNvRu2uZvmCPyyu9vkOksC7KnO2SZeDccstcak3FWiJwf9FISAQYji LOdlHMvVP6Hp4esqaY1G8cLLGjvbH6Yh8Xqmyf/mK1ei9hRrMw5sM0tptR4fNP5D ReC/H4/7DOypNyc7ybo610w7y8GSpBsocCPNQF8G/UQ6fuv1fhFJoCV52CgogLd0 k36IHU35LUYdPm0aiPpvEaruWyzFu2szhlN3NSSq/+oyh8Vwbyll474HMg3RmxF+ h3DWDSE+t5K+t14jelkADDA0xUcE9YCPBbX4boIF1+/5W89LPNP0vcjQf2iRXvew oHQ3zZlo0gsEHx12/eeFx3fR4W/HEhCQHsMX0r3If8sV8N+tkQeSPO3I5Fof0XRU kDjqCvY39Xfy0w== =NDm4 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Fwd: [expert] Accenting in aterm with Mandrake 8.0
I was able to reproduce it, but I have no idea why it happens. Can't you just use a terminal that it works in? -- Stephen On Wednesday 30 May 2001 05:50 am, IH8Spammers wrote: Doesn't anybody know? I am almost giving up Mandrake because of that annoying behaviour :-( -- Mensagem repassada -- Subject: [expert] Accenting in aterm with Mandrake 8.0 Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:06:03 -0300 From: IH8Spammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. Has anybody been able to get spanish, french, portuguese or whatever language accents in aterm with MDK 8.0? I am trying to configure portuguese accenting in it but haven't succeeded. Whereas accenting works perfectly in konsole and xterm, there've been no way to do the same with either aterm or rxvt. I am using us-international keyboard layout with deadkeys. I would appreciate directions on which configuration files to change to make it work. Thank you in advance.
[expert] Bastille-netfilter issues
A few problems with Bastille-netfilter:
a) it is not started a boot up, even though it is selected under
bastille-firewall in the services subsection of the system section of the
Mandrake Control Center.
b) trying to start it in the control center by pressing the start button
gives the message:
Usage: /sbin/bastille-netfilter {start|stop|status}
c) I ran the script to allow http, https, and ssh. Doing an nmap tcp scan, I
get:
Port State Service
22/tcp openssh
80/tcp openhttp
443/tcpopenhttps
631/tcpopenunknown
901/tcpopensamba-swat
6000/tcp openX11
32770/tcp opensometimes-rpc3
I'm wondering why ports 631, 901, 6000 (!), and 32770 are reported as being
open...
-- Stephen
Re: [expert] Reiserfs stability (was: Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly')
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 09:44 pm, Civileme wrote: To make it happen you install a / only system with lotsa unused space. The / can be reiser--that's automatically a notail mount. But, if I understand it correctly, you can have a root reiser partition mounted without the notail option if you have a separate partition for /boot. I have a separate, small /boot partition, and made it an ext2 partition, since there is no advantage to making it reiserfs. -- Stephen
[expert] Starting up with the bash shell
How do I make it so that all of the users on my box start up with the bash shell? What happened to the user configuration that was part of the Control Center? -- STephen
Re: [expert] cdrom/cdr problems
I've seen something similar to this before. It happened when I didn't use the -J option on mkisofs. Usually when I want to burn a cd of a directory, I just do: mkisofs -r -J /path/to/where/data/is | cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=4 - -- Stephen On Sunday 27 May 2001 10:24 am, rob wrote: More info: The disks burned with LM8 are unable to read in windows also, but i am able to burn and read disks in windows, as well as read the disks burned in windows in LM. Sounds like a problem burning the disks in LM, as opposed to a hardware problem. The burning software (gcombust, eroaster) gives error messages. On 26 May 2001 12:09:00 -0500, rob wrote: I am having a problem accessing cdrs that i have burned in LM8. I have used gcombust which worked fine in 7.2. A disk burned with with gcombust on 7.2 works fine. Burning with gcombust seems to be working fine with the burbs completeing without error messgaes. The problem happens when I attempt to access the burned cd. the message I get when attempting to access the disk in konqueror is to access file:mnt/cdrom/. You do not have access rights Same message when I attempt to access it as root. The disk was burned as root. I would to know what the file permissions should be on /dev/cdrom , /dev/cdrom2/ (the cr burner in scsi em). Any other suggestions would be great thank rob
Re: [expert] getting time right
I really like using webmin for this. There is a nice module to synchronize your system time and hardware time with a time server. -- Stephen On Thursday 24 May 2001 07:30 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: On 25 May 01, at 0:47, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach D. R. Evans am Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:28:29PM -0600: This causes date to respond correctly, and the clock on the screen to display the correct time, but date -u gives the wrong time. Define 'wrong' time. My system clock is running on UTC and I live in CEST zone (GMT/UTC +0200): [askwar@teich pear]$ date Fre Mai 25 00:47:16 CEST 2001 [askwar@teich pear]$ date -u Don Mai 24 22:47:18 UTC 2001 Everything's fine. Fine. Now please tell me how you did it :-) I told you what I did (following the documentation in Linux Installation, Configuration and Use for Red Hat systems), and that gives me the wrong UTC time. Here, being a perverse sort of chap, I define wrong as not right :-) [n7dr@localhost n7dr]$ date Thu May 24 18:29:18 /etc/localtime 2001 [n7dr@localhost n7dr]$ date -u Thu May 24 18:29:21 UTC 2001 Doc Evans
Re: [expert] Tuxracer
On Thursday 24 May 2001 03:05 pm, Randy Donohoe wrote: I was going to let my girls play Tuxracer on a new install of Mandrake 8.0 and it wouldn't start. I tried from the console Just to make sure I understand, you are starting tuxracer in X and not in the console, right? -- Stephen
Re: [expert] Mandrake going under
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 05:52 pm, Civileme wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2001 06:10, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: Hi Just read some wired things about mandrake at newsforge and slashdot is this true ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Rumors of our impending doom have yet to prove themselves .-) The production staff is intact. Civileme I for one am relieved after reading Gaël Duval's interview, and hope the transition back to the basics will be as little painful as possible. Linux is what you guys have always done better than anyone else. The e-learning strategy seemed bone-headed. If I can offer some humble advice, it would be to follow your own instincts, and not those of some more corporate management team... -- Stephen
Re: [expert] Stability Concerns
On Thursday 17 May 2001 11:02 am, you wrote: How is everybody finding the stability of their Mandrake 8 boxes? I've been having some problems No problems here with my via chipset and overclocked asus motherboard with PIII, SBLIve!, and Geforce2: $ uptime 6:52pm up 8 days, 5:09, 3 users, load average: 1.12, 0.56, 0.22 -- Stephen
Re: [expert] imwheel
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 03:49 am, you wrote: I'm still searching for a solution for my XMMS and other multimedia programs problem (sound comes only from rear speakers). But now I have another problem. I have a Microsoft IntelliMouse (I only love keyboards and mice of Microsoft :) ). I'm using its wheel in KDE and some other applications without any problems. But I cannot use it in Netscape 4.77. Then I've tried to load imwheel and it worked. But when imwheel is loaded the other applications, which do not need imwheel, cannot work with wheel properly. For example, after I've loaded imwheel, KMail can only scroll mail view. But without imwheel, it can scroll also the folders tree, etc. [snip] This is just a me-too post. I don't think it's a problem that only mandrake has; I think I had the same problem with my debian install. Maybe write the author of imwheel a message? -- Stephen
Re: [expert] Adding users to groups takes effect when?
Yes. I logged out and back in again, and the changes seem to have taken effect. Too bad that there's not a command you can issue; but at least you don't have to reboot. --- Stephen On Monday 14 May 2001 03:08 am, you wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2001 06:39, you wrote: Under LM8, /usr/src belongs to the group adm under medium security. I added myself to the group adm (via webmin) but still get permission denied when trying to do a ls /usr/src. How do I make adding myself to a new group take effect? -- Stephen Usually it takes until your next login
Re: [expert] REBUILT RPM Bermuda Triangle Mystery -- Where is it?
It's usually in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/. -- Stephen I just rebuild a Red Hat source rpm on LM 8.0. What I find curious is that a) I am not sure it was a success and b) if it was a success, where is the new rebuilt Mandrake RPM file? Here is the data: 1) RPM --REBUILD BK2SITE.XXX.SRC.RPM. Does the data show this rebuilding to be a success? If so, please see section 2 below. I know that rebuilt rpms should be in /usr/src/... (See data for that below). Well, they are nowhere in sight. I would appreciate if you could take a look below and help me interpret the data. Actually, interpret it. As an ordinary user, I can't tell if it is a success. I rebuilt a program called bk2site: [root@sher07 sher]# rpm --rebuild bk2site-1.1.6-1.src.rpm Installing bk2site-1.1.6-1.src.rpm Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.27751 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + rm -rf bk2site-1.1.6 + /bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/bk2site-1.1.6.tar.gz + tar -xvvf - drwxrwxrwx 0/0 0 2000-12-20 07:42:26 bk2site-1.1.6/ -rw-rw-r-- 0/0 16559 2000-12-20 07:42:26 bk2site-1.1.6/Makefile.in === message truncated === __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] Adding users to groups takes effect when?
Under LM8, /usr/src belongs to the group adm under medium security. I added myself to the group adm (via webmin) but still get permission denied when trying to do a ls /usr/src. How do I make adding myself to a new group take effect? -- Stephen
[expert] Changing user's icon
Does anyone know how to change the user icon shown in the kdm screen (the one that comes up by default if you boot directly into X)? -- Stephen
Re: [expert] Reiser and building a kernel
I found out how to do this. Compiling reiserfs into the kernel won't work; what you have to do is use "mkinitrd" to make a ram disk with the reiserfs module in it, and then link that in "lilo.conf". -- Stephen Stephen Boulet wrote: I downloaded the source to the 2.2.17 kernel, applied the patch for the reiserfs, and built it in to the kernel. But I still get a kernel panic when I try to boot my LM 7.2. Any one know how to fix this? -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit You have to compile the ReiserFS in the kernel, not module. I think that is right. Juan Carlos Encinar. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Nvidia GLX? How do i get it t owork?
Do a search for Geforce at mandrakeuser.org -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Kernel-linux won't mount reiser volumes
I installed the kernel-linus, only to have it panic on boot up since it couldn't mount the root partition, which is reiserfs. Anyone know how to solve this? Thanks! -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Starting X at 640x480
I got some help from another list. For those interested in doing this, a second X session can be start from the console in a different resolution by using an alternate config file: startx -- :1 -bpp 8 -xf86config /etc/X11/X-starcraft where /etc/X11/X-starcraft is a copy of XF86Config-4 that only has the 640x480 resolution. -- Stephen On Saturday 09 December 2000 19:23, you wrote: I'd like to start a second X session at 640x480. If I start it like this: startx -- :1 -bpp 8 I get the bit depth I need but not the resolution. Thanks. -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Starting X at 640x480
I'd like to start a second X session at 640x480. If I start it like this: startx -- :1 -bpp 8 I get the bit depth I need but not the resolution. Thanks. -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Getting to the console with KDE
How do you get to the console while in KDE? The normal alt-F2 doesn't work. What I'm trying to do is to start a second X session for playing Starcraft under wine with "startx -- :1". Now I need to figure how to make this 640x480 at 8 bit color. -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Reiser and building a kernel
I downloaded the source to the 2.2.17 kernel, applied the patch for the reiserfs, and built it in to the kernel. But I still get a kernel panic when I try to boot my LM 7.2. Any one know how to fix this? -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
I just subscribed to the joystick list (http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/) If I get some answers there, I'll post them to the list. -- Stephen On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: No. :( Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? Spence I just spent a few minutes going over the Mandrake site and couldn't find any mention of a joystick under the "Features" section. A search of Mandrake Forum for the keyword "joystick" didn't turn up anything either. I think I've been coming from the wrong direction here: I'd thought that Mandrake supported joysticks but I was just having problems getting them working, but now I'm begining to wonder if they're officially supported hardware in the Mandrake distribution. Well, anyway, I'm experimenting with the 2.4 kernel to see if I can get joysticks (and some USB support I need) to work with it. Flightgear just doesn't feel right under mouse control... - Jeff Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
Very interesting. The module "emu10k1-joy" is not included in a stock LM7.2, as far as I can tell. I wonder if a kernel compile is really necessary... I guess it's time to do some compiling. -- Stephen On Monday 04 December 2000 18:29, you wrote: Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? Spence Yes! I have Micro$oft sidewinder force feedback pro joystick working under LM7.2. But force feedback does not work. I can use all the buttons. I have a SoundBlaster Live!. Here is what I did to get it working. 1. Recompiled the kernel (stock 2.2.17 + patches) to load the joystick and sidewinder modules. Enabled sound support. 2. Downloaded the emu10k1 snapshot drivers and compiled them. 3. Added the following lines in /etc/modules.conf alias char-major-15 joy-sidewinder alias sound emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 options emu10k1-joy io=0x200 pre-install joy-sidewinder modprobe -k emu10k1-joy 4. Tested the joystick with the command jstest /dev/js0 Balaji Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Live!
I just downloaded the emu10k1 source too and got the same result. I would appreciate it if anyone could say what's going on with this. -- Stephen Hello Everyone. After running Mandrake 7.2 for weeks i decided i wanted to try some of the newer SBlive drivers on the opensource.creative.com ftp. I downloaded the latest snapshot from the creative ftp, extracted them, then i typed the make clean, make depend, make commands. But on the make command i recieved this error. gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-rame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loop=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -includ /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h -I2.2/ -c -o audio.o audio.c In file included from hwaccess.h:40, from audio.c:45: 2.2/emu_wrapper.h:74: warning: `pci_resource_len' redefined /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/pcisyms.ver:48: warning: this is the locaton of the previous definition In file included from hwaccess.h:40, from audio.c:45: 2.2/emu_wrapper.h:19: redefinition of `wait_queue_head_t' /usr/src/linux/include/linux/wait.h:19: `wait_queue_head_t' previously declaredhere 2.2/emu_wrapper.h:26: redefinition of `list_add_tail' /usr/src/linux/include/linux/list.h:57: `list_add_tail' previously defined here2.2/emu_wrapper.h:30: redefinition of `dma_addr_t' /usr/src/linux/include/asm/types.h:44: `dma_addr_t' previously declared here make: *** [audio.o] Error 1 On mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 i could compile any snapshot on the ftp but now it seems i cannot compile anything for my sound blaster and i would really like to have the updated drivers. Does anyone know how to fix this or have any advice on how to get the code to compile? Thanks In advance. h3x Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Joysticks
No. :( Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? Spence Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Logitech extreme digital 3D joystick and SBLive card
I'm having trouble getting my joystick to work. I have a Logitech wingman extreme digital 3D and a soundblaster live card. When I try to load the logitech module, I get: [root@mozart /root]# insmod joy-logitech Using /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/joy-logitech.o /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/joy-logitech.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters Anyone know how I should fix this? -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] pilot-link errors
I get this error when trying to execute jpilot or binaries like "addresses" that comes with the pilot-link RPM: pi_bind Permission denied /dev/pilot and /dev/ttyS0 are owned by the group tty, of which I'm a member. Anyone know why I get this error? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag
On Saturday 18 November 2000 18:57, you wrote: On Saturday 18 November 2000 02:30 pm, Brent Timmer wrote: stupid question, but what is gears? It's prob'ly on your menus as 'Mesa gears', but a better way to run it is from a term. just type 'gears' That way you'll see the frames per second (fps) that your system is capable of in the term as gears spin in a window. It's sort'a kind'a a benchmark and/or an indication if 3d acceleration is setup/workin. It's about as good a BM as bogomips, but it will let you know if 3d is workin ;) I get 120 fps with a old pci Voodoo3, I've heard newer Nvidia and ATI cards get 1000 fps :) I just tried that out with a geforce2, LM 7.2, and PIII overclocked to 910, and I got 2455.000 FPS. ;) -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] SOF and mandrake 7.2
SOF has been ported by Loki (lokigames.com). I understand that Halflife works really well under WINE. There is a Halflife linux server, but no client. -- Stephen On Tuesday 14 November 2000 14:20, you wrote: Um, how can we play SOF or Halflife under Linux? Thanks, -turgut Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] switchdesk
Is the switchdesk program available anymore? Which RPM is it in? -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2
On Mon, 13 November 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Stephen Boulet am Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:03:41PM -0600: I'm still doing modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 modprobe NVdriver Is alias char-major-195 NVdriver in /etc/modules.conf? If not, add it, and NVdriver will be loaded automatically. And if you must use that option for agpgart, add options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 to /etc/modules.conf Thanks. I thought it was a requirement for the driver to work. Are you saying it works without it? -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2
I've been having some trouble with Mandrake 7.2 and the geforce 2. It seems like some things have changed from 7.1 to 7.2. For example, the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions is not there anymore (most FAQs tell you to rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGL.* ). My first two attempts have ended in disaster. Are there any special tricks needed to get the NVidia drivers running on this installation? -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2
On Sun, 12 November 2000, pgeorges wrote: stephen boulet a écrit : I've been having some trouble with Mandrake 7.2 and the geforce 2. It seems like some things have changed from 7.1 to 7.2. For example, the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions is not there anymore (most FAQs tell you to rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGL.* ). Dir /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions is there for me. Hmmm. I'm wondering if you did an upgrade rather than an install. If you upgraded and the directory was there before, I'd guess it wouldn't be deleted. -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Strange problem
On Sun, 12 November 2000, Anthony Russello wrote: Well, I'm got a bizarre little problem that kind of bugs me, Currently my system is configured as follows; hda - 5.1GB - / and swap hdb - 2.1GB - /home sda - 4.3GB - /home/data sdb - 4.3GB - /backup hdc - Memorex CRW-1622 2x2x6 CD-R/RW The weird thing is that in 7.1 I used to have a second CD-ROM drive, but in 7.2, it would never see that drive. I eventually removed it and said the heck with it, but I would kind of like to get that drive back in there since it's just collecting dust. Anyone have any ideas? Can you mount it manually? Like, say, if you have an empty directory /mnt/cd2: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cd2 -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Strange problem
In that case, other than to suggest trying a different cable, I'm stumped. -- Stephen On Sun, 12 November 2000, Anthony Russello wrote: No, the problem is that Linux no longer sees it at all, not even during the bootup. The BIOS listed both CD-ROM drives when booting during POST, but Linux just doesn't see the second. Other then that one problem, I have never been happier with a Linux distribution then I am with mdk 7.2. Can you mount it manually? Like, say, if you have an empty directory /mnt/cd2: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cd2 -- Stephen There are plenty of semi colons to go around Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2
Ok. I did a reinstall of LM 7.2 as expert, and it was there. I was then able to follow the NVidia FAQ and get things going. It didn't work at first, but then I remembered to add /usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and then run ldconfig. I'm still doing modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 modprobe NVdriver to get things up. Thanks to everyone for their help. It's an expert install for me from now on. One thing I noticed is that, just after quitting UT, there were some artifacts on some of the windows I had open (kmail and a konsole). I've never seen that before. They did go away when I moved them around. -- Stephen I did not get this directory unless I did an expert install and chose Xfree86 4.01. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/12/2000 at 12:46 PM stephen boulet scribbled: On Sun, 12 November 2000, pgeorges wrote: stephen boulet a écrit : I've been having some trouble with Mandrake 7.2 and the geforce 2. It seems like some things have changed from 7.1 to 7.2. For example, the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions is not there anymore (most FAQs tell you to rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGL.* ). Dir /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions is there for me. Hmmm. I'm wondering if you did an upgrade rather than an install. If you upgraded and the directory was there before, I'd guess it wouldn't be deleted. -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Computer Freezes with Mandrake 7.2 SMP Kernel
Which bios version do you have? Are you overclocking? -- Stephen On Sat, 11 November 2000, Tom Berkley wrote: Using the smp installed kernel on Mandrake 7.2 on my dual Celeron BP6, after running for 1 to 10 minutes, the computer just stops functioning. The display freezes, the mouse cursor will not respond to the mouse movements, the keyboard gets no response and a ping from across the network gets no response. Using the up kernel, there are no problems except the lack of speed. Lilo has vga=788 for the smp kernel. When I set vga=normal or extended with the stock smp kernel, The computer freezes immediately on login. I tried to compile a custom kernel using the 7.2 source code, but the ipchains section has a bug and would not compile, so I took that out and with the resultant kernel the problem continued. Since my rh6.2 installed 2.2.17 smp kernel works fine, I compiled the 2.2.17 kernel from kernel.org and it works ok except the usb port does not work. I will try the 2.4.0-test10 tomorrow, in the meantime does anyone have any thoughts (constructive thoughts you perverts)? Thanks. Tom Berkley Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] More smp
One quick tip for comiling: Do a "make -j 4" instead of just make; this will start 4 threads going. Works great for kernel compiles (but just don't do it for "make dep" or "make install". Someone benchmarked it and found that 4 or 5 threads were about optimum. -- Stephen On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, you wrote: Try this; there's a few nice links in it as well: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMP-HOWTO.html Enjoy. On Nov 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very happily running a dual Celeron machine. Were can I get info on smp ( basic and otherwise )- how to get the most out of it ...etc. Not having any problems. Just want a better understanding of what is going on. Thanks Pat Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] 7.2 doesn't boot after install on Abit BP6
I have the dual celeron motherboard from Abit, the BP6, with a matrox millinium II 4MB graphic card. I burned 7.2 disks 1 and 2 and checked the md5sums. I elected to erase my current hard drive entirely, and have the recommended install. The install works fine. But after it's finished and I try to boot, I can see the left column on the new boot screen, but everything to the right of that is blacked out, and the boot sequence doesn't go any farther. Anyone know what's going on? -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
