Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:37:57PM -0500, Hoyt wrote: Sure. i have it, but it's -- 7.0 -- But to be honest, most of the really impressive advances that have happened since 7.0 have been in KDE/GNOME/other graphical interfaces and stuff like that. Most of the stuff that a 486 doesn't have the power to use effectively anyway. IMHO (emphasis on the H) 7.0 would probably work well, and then couldn't you upgrade from there using SRPMS? Have there been many kernel advances since 7.0 that would make it worthwhile on a 486 (by that I mean, not just driver advances for new equipment that a 486 won't have anyway)? Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] need help connection refused ftp server
Be reasonable, you must know that a problem like connection refused could be caused my all manner of problems. It could be a problem with the server, a problem with the client, the firewall (if any), with the network, with IP masquerading... etc. A simple message like connection refused, unnacceptable is not going to work here. You need to help us in order for us to help you, explain in more detail what you are trying to do, what your setup is and what you've already tried as a fix. The reason you got bitchy responses to your question was not because everyone here is antagonistic, it's because no-one *could* help you with so little information to go on. How could someone take a connection refused message with no other information whatsoever (not even a VERSION for Pro FTPd) and magically divine what the problem is? On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:57:00PM -0600, Expert wrote: Oh gee THAT was helpful, NOT! Look if you don't know the answer to the question, DON'T ANSWER!! Its ok to not know something, that is why you ask it. Because you want HELP does that mean anything to you? HELP? I came here for help, and do you help? Hell no, you spew out useless information!!! I bet you don't even know the answer, you are just spewing crap. If I wanted this rubbish from you I would have gone into a newsgroup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: [Cooker] I cannot believe!!! Is it Windows or Linux?
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:33:09PM +0100, andre wrote: 1. Did unix exist in 1970? The name maybe. but the os. NO well give or take a year :-) 1st edition of the Unix Time-Sharing System was released on Nov 3, 1971. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:17:25PM -0800, Michael Holt wrote: 6:04pm... Expert ran for the door shrieking: FLAMED BY YOU NAZI FROG COCKSUCKERS eh? Nazi frog ___ ?? Dude, do frogs even *have* ..? :-P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PCI GeForce2 cards
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:58:07PM +0200, Onur Kucuk wrote: TE I have an intel SR440bx motherboard which came with an nVidia Riva TNT TE chipset on-board. TE Recently I've decided it's just too out-dated for me and was thinking of TE buying a GeForce2mx PCI card (as I don't have an AGP slot). TE Has anyone used on of these in Linux? does it work ok with the nVidia TE drivers from the website? TE I already have the nVidia drivers working for my current chipset, so I'm TE hoping I can drop this card in with a minimum of fuss. TE Any thoughts, recomendations? TE Thanks, TE Tom It should work, I believe, hoping that you can disable your onboard vga. If not, and if nvidia drivers uses your onboard as default, you will be able to fix it by adding a line PCI 2:0:0 or something like that to your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and you will force it to use the pci card, correcting the problems. Cool thanks, the card is on it's way, so I'll keep the list informed on how everything goes when it arrives. Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PCI GeForce2 cards
I have an intel SR440bx motherboard which came with an nVidia Riva TNT chipset on-board. Recently I've decided it's just too out-dated for me and was thinking of buying a GeForce2mx PCI card (as I don't have an AGP slot). Has anyone used on of these in Linux? does it work ok with the nVidia drivers from the website? I already have the nVidia drivers working for my current chipset, so I'm hoping I can drop this card in with a minimum of fuss. Any thoughts, recomendations? Thanks, Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problem with linux
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:31:19PM -0500, Leif Madsen wrote: I'm pretty sure he is talking about recording from a mixing board and recording into seperate tracks (such as Cakewalk, Pro Tools etc...) This is my problem as well.. as soon as Linux has an equivalent to Cool Edit Professional I won't need windows any more :-) Oops I lie... I still need windows for games. WineX has a long way to go before it can cut it for me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problem with linux
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:35:30PM -0500, George Jones (IT) wrote: I'd rather stab myself in the eyes with a blunt, rusty screwdriver than use MacOS. I have 2 macs at home. The powermac, my 3 year old uses and the 040 (840av) has BSD on it, but currently resides in a closet in my basement. I never liked Mac OS. Here's an interesting thought (although I realise this is drifting OT for the mailing list.. it's still interesting)... Macs are particularily popular because they have a basically flat learning curve. You can more or less work out how to use them from the moment you turn one on. So what do people think of Mac OS X? It's based on a *nix (BSD?) core. Contains a lot of stuff that has a Unix flavour to it, man pages, a compiler and so forth. And it runs on a GUI that has made Macs famous for a long time among people new to computers. I can't stand Macs myself.. for the first and foremost reason that if my mouse doesn't have at least 5 buttons and a wheel I won't use it :-) Who here has some experience with Mac OS X and can share what it's like as a unix-style newbies computer? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS
Mandrake 8.1 has been out for a while now.. and I'm curious... I've used ReiserFS for about a year and loved it, when 8.1 came out I was too chicken to try XFS even though it looked like it was better in a lot of ways. Can anyone tell me what their experiences have been with XFS, now that people have had some time to play with it with Mdk 8.1? Has anyone switched from ReiserFS to XFS and never looked back? What's it like? :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Licq and the new ICQ protocol
Ever since the new ICQ version came out with its new protocol licq has gone totally unreliable and flaky. Does anyone know of an ICQ clone that is compatible with the new protocol? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cooker?
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:32:41PM -0600, Timothy R.Butler wrote: I know I can do this via FTP, although it appears that Mandrake Package Manager can connect to Cooker for me too. However, when I attempt this by selecting a cooker mirror in the source selection, it chugs along downloading something (the list of files?) for a bit, and then says that an error occurred adding this source. This seems to happen on every cooker mirror I try. Any ideas? I have this same issue, rpmdrake calls wget and downloads a 12 megabyte file, which I assume is a package list of some sort, but as soon as it finishes the download I get an error. This has happened for every mirror I've tried, it's starting to get frustrating. Anyone have any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Licq and the new ICQ protocol - WORKAROUND!
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:59:37PM -0200, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: In LICQ choose to send your messges trough the server. I only don't remember if it is a global choice or if you have to do this for each name in your ICQ list. Sadly this won't work, since the 12th (the release of ICQ 2001b) they've in fact changed the *server* protocol. Direct connections are the ONLY way of actually getting messages to others. But add to this the fact that ICQ has now denied direct connections to older versions of ICQ (including licq) by default (this can be turned off, though) and you start to see the dillema. Because so many of my friends live behind various firewalls and DSL routers and such it means I have to resort to *email* or cringe! actually *visiting* them now!! lol I just subscribed to all the Licq developement lists, in order to keep track of whats going on with the developement, ICQ is hard to live without!!! :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How is Linux doing on the desktop?
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:58:37PM -0600, SleepyFolkz wrote: I have 2 computers I run currently, one is running Mandrake Linux 8.1 and has all the guts. Another is running MS Windows 2000. The bare windows 2000 machine is only in existance because they don't make CakeWalk Pro Audio 9 for Linux and I need it for recording my music. Oops forgot to mention, I posted just a second ago that I only use windows for games. But windows is also where my copy of Cool Edit Pro lives, I couldn't live without it, and I don't know of anything even *approaching* its sophistication in the open source world. I wish I did! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How is Linux doing on the desktop?
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:55:22PM -0800, ltiu wrote: How many people in this email list are actually using Linux exclusively for their desktop computing needs? I need windows for some hardware. My scanner HP5300c needs windows. I use Nero in windows for CD-writing mainly because I haven't yet gotten around to working out cdrecord. Although I *can* burn cd's in linux. I need windows for all my games. Other then that I use linux for basically everything I do. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Standard kernel options...
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 03:31:49PM +0800, Franki wrote: Where can I get a list of what is selected in the standard kernel?? Good question... I'd love to know this as well... In mandrake 7.2 it was stored in /usr/doc/kernel[something-or-other]. But in 8.0 I can't find it! Any idea's anyone?
[expert] REALLY weird stuff with nVidia 1.0 drivers
This is really odd... I hope someone can help me! I got the nVidia drivers working... but OpenGL applications die or segfault whenever I try to run then *when I'm in runlevel 5*!! that is, if I go to runlevel 3 and type in startx to get to X, I can run whatever openGL I want without any problems, but if I do it through the login screen (kdm) they go nuts, and generally take the entire X-server with them!! Anyone have any idea's? It's not too horrible coz I can just quit to console mode then re-load X whenever I want to do something with GL... but that's going to get really tedious REALLY fast. Thanks for any help! Tom
Re: [expert] REALLY weird stuff with nVidia 1.0 drivers
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:57:10PM -0700, John W wrote: I have also heard that if you create a file called desktop in /etc/sysconfig and put the line DESKTOP=GNOME that this will enable gdm assuming have Gnome installed. Then you can run OpenGL apps from there without issue from runlevel 5. So I've heard. Thanks... that did indeed fix the problem, I just switched from KDM to GDM and so far (after a thorough 2 minutes of testing) it seems to be working. I agree the nVidia drivers are an absolute nightmare. About once every two or three days my computer will completely lock up thanks to nvidia. I don't think this will ever go away, and it's quite depressing. I use ReiserFS, which seems to lessen the impact of all the hot-reboots. When it happens I can't even ssh or telnet into my computer to kill it... it's a total system lock... rather depressing when your working on an assignment or something! Thanks for your help... good luck with your own personal nightmare! Tom
[expert] Can't set background in KDM
I'm sorry... I know that this problem has been discussed before in this list, but I can't remember if a solution was posted, and I don't know where to find the archives for the mailing list. Problem: Whenever I set the background for kdm it is overrided by a boring yukky blue background. How do I make it use the background I want it to? And, as an aside.. where ARE the archives for this mailing list.. are there any? Thanks for your help Tom
[expert] Wget as a mirroring utility
Hi there all, I'm currently using wget to mirror the Mandrake cooker ftp, but I was wondering... Wget has a lot of functions of a mirroring program, eg time-stamping and stuff, however, what it DOESN'T seem to do, is delete a local file that no longer exists on the mirrored ftp server, is there a way of telling it to do this? Or should I use one of the other mirroring tools... like mirror? :-) Does anyone have an already-set-up mirror config file for the cooker? Thanks for your help. Tom
[expert] Source RPMS for Cooker?
I can't find a place where I can download source RPMS for the cooker stuff... do they exist? I want to compile licq version 1.0 from an RPM source instead of the Tarball if I can. Where can I find it? Can I at all? Thanks Tom
[expert] Recursive symlinks in /usr/bin?
[tom@celleste bin]$ ls -ld /usr/bin/mh lrwxrwxrwx1 root root1 Dec 29 2000 /usr/bin/mh - ./ Why is there a symlink in /usr/bin called mh which points straight back to /usr/bin??? Is this kind of recursive symlink a bad thing? or can I just ignore it?
[expert] Moving my hard drive
I need to re-arrange my hard drives in my computer. Essentially my Linux hard drive hdd will become hda. How can I do this without losing my system? How many places in linux will I have to tell that the hard drive is now in a different place?
[expert] NTFS support
I'm about to install Windows 2000 on my computer, I know that linux could read Windows NT NTFS partitions just fine, but can it read Windows 2000 NTFS? Thanks Tom Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] PPPD account?
I would like to set up a user account with no password on my computer such that: The login screen would come up, the user would click on the account named "Dialup" with no password and then, rather then logging in, all that would happen would be the computer would connect to the internet and return to the login screen. How would I go about this? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Users allowed to shutdown?
In my previous 7.1 install if I typed "halt" or "reboot" when I was a user it would ask me for my password and then run the command, that is, I could shutdown my computer when logged in as a user, and not just from the X login screen. In 7.2 I can't. Where is this little feature anabled/disabled? I would like to have it back. What would be REALLY cool is if anyone who was logged into my computer from the computer itself had the ability to shut it down.. while anyone who was logged in remotely couldn't. Is this hard? Or, like SO MANY other cool things that linux does, has someone thought of it already and set it up? How can I enable it? Thanks, Tom Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?
On Thursday 23 November 2000 21:55, you wrote: We're running 1 machine as a server with reiserFS. Our power point has some problems, and on occasion switching a monitor on will reboot the machine (ok, I know we need a ups). We have had absolutely no problems, and the machine is back up as if nothing happened in just over 1 minute. It's been running in this configuration since June (running mdk 7.1). Now if ReiserFS only supported quotas ... It doesn't? Yay!!! SOMETHING bad about ReiserFS FINALLY! 8-) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?
This is known as "read starvation", and it occurs when you have a large number of multiple writes scheduled all at once. Reiser says there is a patch evolving, and that the later your rev level, the better it works. Hi there, On the subject of ReiserFS, this is the only thing that has me worried what happens when a new version is released? Will it be possible to upgrade? Or... am I likely to lose my entire Linux system because of incompatible Reiser versions? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?
This is interesting... I've been playing with Mandrake 7.2 for about 2 weeks now, and I'm running pure ReiserFS just coz it sounded like a fun thing to do... In fact, ext2 has been downgraded to a module in my kernel! hehehe. ReiserFS is to be used with caution to be sure... but not only have i not had ANY problems so far (and I've already had to turn my system off a couple times without shutting down), but I haven't yeat even HEARD of anyone having any problems! Can someone tell me some horror stories about ReiserFS destroying their system? I've heard/experienced NOTHING but good things about it so far. I want to hear the other side!! 8-) On Wednesday 22 November 2000 21:35, you wrote: Well I am running Reiser commercial for more then a year now. And I have tested it in crisis situations. :-) I love pusing the powerbutton on a full running system with gigs of databases. And so far less problems then with ext2 where I got breakdowns in my file structures. Mike Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Mandrake Auto-Install replication
I don't know if this is any help... but I have NEVER gotten lilo to work on my computer... ever. It ALWAYS dies at LI just as you've descibed. On the other hand... where LILO has never succeeded... GRUB has NEVER failed. 8-) Before grub came along I was always booting linux using "loadlin" now finally I don't have to go to Linux through windows! 8-) On Thursday 23 November 2000 09:31, you wrote: All, I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.2 from the auto-install floppy for replication. It is actually the same machine that initially installed from, and I reboot and attempt the automated install. The auto-install appears to run through smoothly. When I reboot is when the problem appears. The lilo prompt is just "LI". I refered to the LILO docs and their explanation of this error is as follows: "The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. The can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer." The geometry mismatch doesn't seem to fit, because it is the exact same machine with the exact same partitions. The second sounds more reasonable in that perhaps the Mandrake installation application is forgetting to run the map installer or is not installing the /boot/boot.b file. Any recommendations as to how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] How to enable telnet in 7.2?
Sorry, I hate having to ask stupid simple questions but I can't seem to work it out! How do I allow people to telnet to my computer? This is what is in my inetd.conf file: # # These are standard services. # ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd # telnet is uncommented... so why doesn't it work? There must be something simple I'm missing... anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Tom Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] USB dying unexpectedly (was: I give up on linux)
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 07:39, you wrote: I noticed that usb cuts out from time to time for no apparent reason, but I thought it might just be my machine. Hi there... I have this problem as well.. If I leave my computer untouched for a period of time (long enough for the monitor to turn itself off) my USB mouse stops completely. It's an Intelli-Eye, and the light actually goes out completey! Any ideas? I'm thinking it's a power management thing... but where are the settings kept for that? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] How to enable telnet in 7.2?
Thank you!! I knew it had to be something stupid... installed the server package and it came straight up! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Partition-in-a-file? ReiserFS?
Hi there, I've just finished downloading the .iso files for Mandrake 7.2 but I have a few questions I want to ask about before I install it. First of all.. I want to backup a lot of stuff from my current linux system. I thought a cool way to do this would be to set up a linux-partition-in-a-file the same way that Linux4Windows does. This would be especially convenient for me to use in future since I have FAR more fat32 hard drive space on my computer then ext2 hard drive space (30GB and 6GB respectively). I want to be able to create a large file on FAT32, then mount the FILE as a file-system and be able to do stuff with it. Can anyone talk me through the process? Or point me to a website/FAQ/HOWTO that explains it? Next Question: I'm interested in ReiserFS. But know almost nothing about it... I like the idea of a super-stable-robust file system. But is ReiserFS better? Is it stable? what are the risks if I install Mandrake on a completely ReiserFS file-system? what are the advantages? Again, if someone knows of a site or FAQ that can tell me all of this, just point me to it. Thanks alot Tom Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] aic7xxx module problems.. How can I turn it off?
Hello everybody. I have an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card with a hard drive plugged into it. My problem is that, when booting linux, the SCSI card goes into an infinite reset loop about half the time and I can't boot. What is *weird* about this is if my computer has been turned off for a while and I turn it on, it always fails to boot, whereas if I've been running windows for about half an hour already, it will generally work perfectly. Last time I had Mandrake installed, it didn't try to load the aic7xxx.o module unless I told it to, that way it would always boot and I would only risk crashing the computer with "insmod aic7xxx" if I needed to get something off of that hard drive. But now it always tries to load the module at boot time.. How can I tell it not to? Or, even better, if someone could tell me what might be causing the card to not work unless it's been in windows for a while, I could fix the problem once and for all. It would be a major step towards reducing my dependence on windows... I can't think of a more noble cause!!! Thanks for your help, Tom P.S. If anyone has some knowledge of this sort of thing and wants additional information I'll be happy to provide it. 8-) Thanks again! ----- Tom Eastman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:13660569 Cellphone: +64 21 44 93 44 PGP Key ID: 0xA138D6AE http://vacantsound.iwarp.com "Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intellegent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
