Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:05, Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess: Try booting with acpi=off switch. Larry I have tried booting with acpi=off acpismp=force, are you suggesting that I take out the acpismp switch as well as turning off normal acpi? Traci -- Traci Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
Thank you for these suggestions. I'll be trying both later today. Just a quick question, if I use noinitrd how does the system know which img file to use? Traci On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:41, Larry Sword wrote: Traci Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:05, Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess: Try booting with acpi=off switch. Larry I have tried booting with acpi=off acpismp=force, are you suggesting that I take out the acpismp switch as well as turning off normal acpi? Traci Traci, Another suggestion would be to try the noinitrd switch. Larry -- Traci Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
Hi! I have a Mandrake 9.1 box running on an Intel Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading. When I installed Mandrake it correctly identified my hyperthreading capabilities and installed the smp version of the operating system and defaults to that version in lilo. When I permit the system to boot with that default it goes through a page or two of the loading process ultimately crashing with a kernel panic which states that it can't find the init and suggests that I boot with an init= statement. I have checked lilo.conf and verified that the initrd setting is for the smp image and that the file which is referenced is actually present on my harddrive. I have also edited the initrd setting to point directly to the mdksmp img instead of the more general img file but the system behaves in exactly the same way no matter which initrd img I specify. I would like to take advantage of the hyperthreading capabilities of my chip and I was wondering if someone knows the magic boot parameters that I need to smooth this out. I read the article in LinuxWorld Magazine and added the acpismp=force statement to my append line in lilo but that doesn't make any difference. Mandrake 9.1 has a kernel that is greater than 2.4.18 and it is supposed to support hyperthreading. I have verfied that hyperthreading is turned on in my bios. I would really appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction to find a solution. Thanks. Traci -- Traci Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 19:58, Ed Tharp wrote: Almoxt any brooktree848 based card should work good, my cheap winTV card works great for mem and does good video capture to. I believe the difference would be to have the PCI based card (as opposed to the USB). Does anyone who has a WinTV card have any secrets to share about how they cleaned up the picture? My card was recognized, and i am able to display video through it, but, the picture is distorted with line noise. The display is crawling with video worms. I can drive a TV set directly off the same coax and get a perfectly beautiful picture but when i display the signal through my WinTV card it looks really sloppy. I have tried iron torroids on the coax as well as replacing my standard coax with shielded, low noise coax, nothing seems to help. I am guessing that the WinTV card is picking up RF from inside my box but I would have thought that Hauppauge would have planned on that. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks. Traci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mandrakestore
One of my students has the same problem. He ordered a PowerPack a long time ago and he has not only not gotten the distribution but he hasn't gotten any responses to his e-mails either. He told me he is going with Redhat 7.2 because of the lack of product or a response from MandrakeStore. I hate to hear these kinds of reports about the distribution I prefer. Traci On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 12:39, Ron Marriage wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could give me an idea on the delivery times they are having from the Mandrake Store in the U.S. I ordered a power pack 26 days ago. I've sent two emails to their service email address and have not received an answer to either. I received a confirmation of the order and billing information on the same day I ordered online. I've sent this info with each request for a status update. How do they deliver, (UPS, Fedex ground or air)? How long is it taking? Thanks Ron -- Ron Marriage Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/ Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User Group http://www.seidata.com/~seilug/ Blind Links http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] realplayer
I don't know if KDE has this feature but Gnome is now handling a lot of things that used to be handled by the individual programs. The Gnome toolbox has a section for URL Handlers and URL viewing that let you pick which browser will be invoked when a program tries to invoke a browser as well as things like fonts, etc. Traci On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 17:06, Harold Hartley wrote: I'd like to see it invoke konqueror instead of netscape.. or any browser I may choose.. On Wednesday 14 November 2001 06:52 pm, you wrote: Did you mean to invoke realplayer in netscape when necessary? On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:28:01PM -0500, Harold Hartley wrote: :Has anyone figured out how or if possible to choose the browser of choice : to come up when realplayer calls for a browser.. : :Harold : : :Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? :Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: =_1005782682-1851-2515 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] There is no net phone for linux, period
Praedor Tempus wrote: You know, now I am curious as to the mechanics of this. Anyone can buy a Quicknet Linkjack or phonejack card (and download the free driver). Anyone can download the openh323 software, build it and use it. What are the "mechanics" of say ME doing this and just using the net2phone and dialpad servers? It appears that the card handles the data transactions with the servers. Does it require one to be registered with BOTH net2phone and dialpad? Or does it just do its thing, using the servers as one "uses" routers on the internet without need of registration? So, say I buy a linkjack. I already have the openh323 software. I just fire up the software and away I go? It may not be necessary to get explicit permission to use the net2phone and dialpad servers anymore than you need permission to go through routers, etc. Why don't you just ask the people at Quicknet? They have been very responsive about replying to my e-mail requests for more details about the features and operation of their products. -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] A quicknet linejack price
"Altoine B." wrote: They do have Linux drivers and discounted Linux developer prices however. If my money is going to disappear in someone's pocket it seems like a much nicer sort of pocket to put it into. That is exactly what I am talking about. That is why I want to emulate the card at best. Since, I am a great hardware (guru) I should probably invest in buying the card just so that I can "map" out the hardware chips and use "scientific" measures to "reconstruct" how the card works logically. I don't mind buying the card. It is just as soon as I saw that it was internal PC and PCI only... the implications! ...I mean ..the limitations! They have a phonejack lite card which is an ISA card. It doesn't give you an external box but it does give you some flexibility to respond to what people have in their systems. If all people want to do is talk on the phone they don't need a linejack card just one of the family of phonenet cards. The linejack cards are for setting up your own gateways. -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] A quicknet linejack price
Praedor Tempus wrote: A quicknet linejack PCI audio telephony card runs $160. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. They do have Linux drivers and discounted Linux developer prices however. If my money is going to disappear in someone's pocket it seems like a much nicer sort of pocket to put it into. -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] There is no net phone for linux, period
Praedor Tempus wrote: If I am wrong on this, then I would appreciate an explanation in correction of this. Like how me having a Quicknet linkjack on my computer here in Utah will in any way allow me to make a long distance call over the net to my parents in Colorado, without them having any of the software or gatekeeper or Linkjack there. Is there an app that allows one to take advantage of one's soundcard and internet connection (like net2phone or dialpad, for instance), rather than special hardware (which I'm not about to buy), to do this? Although you do need to buy the special hardware Quicknet appears to take advantage of both net2phone and dialpad for out outbound calls. You wouldn't need to have a linejack of your own in Colorado. -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Broken Samba Printing....
civileme wrote: Yipes I am the one who sent info on the symlinks for /var to various people on the lists back in the 6.1 days Unfortunately new things have been homed in /var and the result is that you can run /var as part of / or as a separate partition but not as a symlink At least this is the situation beginning with 7.2 -- some of the things in /var now like htmldocs or ftp like to do a ../ to go to the root directory and it doesn't work too well if they end up at /home instead. Civileme The good news is that this print server isn't yet running 7.2. If the change began with 7.2 then I am still fine. Do you happen to have any information on what the permissions should be on the various directories and files in /var under the old distributions? Especially those related to Samba and printing? I am almost 100% positive that my problem relates to ownership rights since I made the error of not forcing those to remain the same when I did my copy. Traci -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[expert] Broken Samba Printing....
Hi! I am attempting to help get a Samba server that was permitted to run out of space on its hard drive back up and running. To make some room on the / directory and to give the spool files some elbow room I copied /tmp and /var to subdirectories that were on another partition (in this case under /home), recursively deleted everything in /tmp and /var under root, and then created symbolic links to /tmp and /var in the / directory from the appropriate directories on /home. Most services have stopped crashing, the system seems pretty stable at the moment, and samba is serving files to the networked Windows workstations. I just have one problem, the print jobs from the Windows workstations aren't winding up in the appropriate samba print queues. I have tested and I can print to the printers from the Linux box itself via the print queues that the Windows boxes are supposed to have attached to. Whenever I try to print on one of the Windows boxes I get an unidentified system error and a stalled print job. I am guessing that I accidentally changed the ownership or privileges of one of the files (or perhaps many of the files) in the var or tmp directories and the samba daimon isn't able to hand off to the print queues. Has anyone ever been here, done that, and discovered what needs to be fixed? -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update link and Zope
Vincent Danen wrote: Manually log into the mirror and go into the updates/7.2/RPMS directory and download Zope* and then do rpm -ivh *.rpm to upgrade them. With Zope, you'll need to remove Zope-zserver or Zope-pcgi before doing this since you can only have one or the other installed. But that's what you would do for any package that you don't currently have installed and wanted to install. Doing the install from the CD and then using MU to update would work as well, but it's one extra step as far as I'm concerned, and one you really don't need to do. Well, the install from the CD and using MU would NOT work since that is how I got into this mess in the first place. Help me understand the zserver or pcgi issue. Are these two alternative packages that do the same thing and you would normally chose one or the other when you use the package? If so, that may be why I had a problem since I hadn't gotten around to even attempting to use it. I probably had both installed at the same time. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] tv software
Rusty Carruth wrote: Has anyone tried using VMWare to boot one of those 'other' OS's and making it so that other os could fiddle with the tv inputs and outputs? (Probably won't work, but its a thought...) VMware works with whatever installed hardware your Linux system recognizes. If Linux doesn't recognize the hardware then VMware can't virtualize it. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Disappearing Gnome
civileme wrote: Helix and the 7.1/7.2 menu structure are incompatible. There _may_ be a fix at the helix site. They prefer to support their own. Civileme Thank you for being such a helpful individual. I have noticed how often you have a solution for so many different people. Menus aren't causing me a problem but you might be able to help with the Mandrake specific information I need. Another user responded that Mandrake determines the available sessions each time the system boots by calling a couple of routines that check a master list of available window managers. Since Helix doesn't know to register with that master list all the changes it made to the current session list disappear when someone reboots. The individual who explained this to me didn't tell me the location of that master list of available environments that Mandrake checks at boot time. If you know the location of the list, or if you know someone who might know the location of the list, I could manually edit it and get back gnome as a choice in gdm. Everything else is working perfectly, if I come up at runlevel 3 and use startx and .xinitrc to get into gnome I don't have any problems. I would like to use gdm, it's just a little more convenient, so this manual fix would resolve the issue for me nicely until the Helixcode and the Mandrake people sort out the overall installation issues. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Disappearing Gnome
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: See what /usr/sbin/chksession -l says. If it does not have Gnome, some thing is broken in your install. Yes, I think we can agree on that GRIN. mdk rebuilds gui available envs each time it boots. Look at /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime It calls /usr/sbin/fndSession, which in turn calls /usr/sbin/chksession. All of them work based on some mdk specific files (eg, list of wm installed), that must be updated each time you insall a wm. So if you install an rpm from rhat or helix, perhaps it does not all the things needed to let the system knoe theres a new wm. Do you know the name and location of the file which contains the list of installed wm? As a quick and dirty fix I could manually update this file to get gnome and sawfish back since they are both present and operational on my system. It may be the Helix install which isn't updating this file. They don't officially support 7.2 yet and if the file has changed since 7.1 their automagical program may have simply goofed. There are several 7.2 users who are also Helix users so I am surprized not to have heard about this 'feature' of the combination. I guess I must just whine faster SMILE. In any event, thanks for an education on how the process works. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update link and Zope
Vincent Danen wrote: Hi Traci. Can you, from a console, give me the results of: rpm -qa|grep Zope I think you must still have a Zope package installed somewhere because there should be no conflicts (in fact, if you had everything from Zope removed from the system, it shouldn't show up in MandrakeUpdate at all). You might be missing something somewhere... please give me the results of that output, then maybe I can see what the problem is. This is the problem. Thanks. Zope is now gone from the database and also from the update. Now, on the off chance that I would like to have the updated, secure, zope, how do you download and install updates (in this case a replacement) for packages you don't have installed? I could reinstall zope and get it back on the list but that obviously isn't going to get me what I would like since I would be back with a Mandrake Update program that wasn't working. Any suggestions? Of course, the other problem might be that the mirror you're looking at hasn't cleaned out the old Zope updated packages yet... are there two different versions for each package? Ie a -1.1mdk and a -1.2mdk? If so, select only the -1.2mdk packages. The mirrors should have removed the -1.1mdk packages (old and obsolete now), but some of them haven't yet. There was only one version of each package, they had a 7.2 subdirectory so I don't think that the 1.1mdk packages would have been in the particular place. Since you know about the mirrors, could you answer a question? What is happening to the update mirrors? I haven't been able to get a list of updates from any of the American mirrors, I am always a little nervous about transatlantic updates just because I find that ftp from those distances often fails at some point during the process. Have the hosts decided not to host Mandrake updates any longer? Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Disappearing Gnome
Salane wrote: you didn't upgrade your Gnome to helix did you? I actually did it several different ways. Since I had the problem on four different fresh installs (down to the point of deleting and recreating partitions), I was able to experiment. I did upgrade Mandrake gnome to Helix at least once but I also installed Mandrake without selecting the gnome package and did a clean install of helix at least once. I had the same problem after a reboot that time as I had when I upgraded gnome to helix. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update link and Zope
Holly Henry-Pilkington wrote: If you can shift the window enough to get the top of the screen, you can maximize it which will actually resize it for your screen and you can see the error. Thanks for this trick. Someone else helped me find the problem package but I didn't know that maximize would do that. Getting to the top of the window was never a problem, just getting to the bottom. I could have maximized at any time. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update link and Zope
Adam Clater wrote: Have you considered just downloading the rpms and installing them manually? If I don't use the Mandrake updates, where are the rpms located? That will probably be necessary now that I have completely removed all the zope packages and it no longer shows up in update. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[expert] Disappearing Gnome
Hi! I have a perplexing problem with a Mandrake 7.2 installation. Everything seems to go well, I have installed both Gnome and KDE but always boot graphically to Gnome, until I have a reason to reboot. Obviously I can go some time without needing to do that GRIN. But, when I do, I have a problem. Upon reboot I have lost Gnome support. The graphical login program tells me that Gnome is no longer available on my system and asks if I would like to change my default login to KDE. When I check the list of installed graphical environments both Gnome and Sawfish are missing and they were there. This happens to me when the reboot is a completely normal shutdown and reboot so that everything gets shutdown properly and it has happened four times now so there is a certain frustrating consistency about it. This isn't a problem I have noticed anyone talking about. Has anyone discovered how to prevent the disappearance of gnome on a system reboot? The immediate fix would be some information on how to edit the configuration of the available graphical environment choices since I can get back into gnome when I come up from the command line with startx and .xinitrc. Still, the alteration of my startup configuration is so dramatic and consistent that I would like to know what is causing it as well as how to fix the symptoms. Thanks for any assistance you might have to offer. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update link and Zope
I'm hoping someone can help me resolve a problem I am having with the Mandrake Update Link. There is a security update for the entire Zope system, if I avoid updating any of my zope code everything works just fine. Unfortunately the update zope release has a conflict with the installed zope release, even after I used rpm to remove all of the existing zope packages from the rpm database. It asks me if I want to force the update and I say yes, hoping that Mandrakesoft didn't really put up a series of update packages that wouldn't work with Mandrake 7.2. What happens is I get an error message that runs off my screen, even at 1248X1024, and there is nothing I can do that will show me the bottom of the error message. I think it is waiting for me to make a decision and tell it how to proceed. Because I can't see the question or get to the bottom to make a response the update hangs at that point. I can kill it and get on with life but the zope packages keep coming up whenever I run update and with a serious security problem I would like to do the update just in case I ever want to use it. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed with the update given the extremely long error screen? Traci civileme wrote: OK, I looked it over. I had some updating to do anyway and I did a few packages from each of 4 of the 5 sites. rpmfind might be listed but doesn't have a 7.2 directory. All of the 4 sites worked. Update is sensitive to how people mirror the site If the timestamps are not mirrored properly the site can try to load things you have already updated, or just say there is nothing to update. If the permissions are wrong, the update fails and it redisplays the list of things to update. Civileme -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] FlashPath adaptor
Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I use my linux box for most of my computing needs now, especially now I have a working Blackwidow scanner. However, I am unable to transfer pictures from my digital camera using linux. In windose I use the supplied FlashPath adaptor which takes the smartmedia card and then inserted into the floppy drive. The FlashPath software then reads the smartmedia card and I just transfer the picture files onto the hard disk. Without the software installed the smartmedia card cannot be read. Has anybody solved the problem of how to get linux to read the adaptor? Can anybody point me in the right direction? I don't know if it helps, but I have written Toshiba numerous times requesting their support for Linux and the Flashpath. At least you could join me and any others who have made that request. -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Mandrake supports closed source when it suits them
Denis HAVLIK wrote: :~Anyone (preferably someone who uses :~Mandrake - aka :~a customer of theirs) feel like dropping them a line and asking :~them to :~provide the necessary information to create a sitescooper .site, :~since :~they obviously have something set up for PDA-targetted content? If I had a palm, I would know what you are talking about, but I don't. And Same holds for this AvantGo thingy... I'm the one who is responsible for forum (http://mandrakeforum.com/), and you can bet your ass that I will provide you whit whatever you need, just ask for it. clear enough? Dear Denis, Avantgo 'content' can be used by any pda but the Avantgo program will only work on a Palm Pilot. The Avantgo site is designed in such a way that those of us who use other platforms, like the Psion/Epoc platform, can't find the content without using the Avantgo program. This ties the content to the Palm Pilot when we could easily read and use the content if it was just placed in a location where it was accessible.. If a company like Mandrake provides content of interest to all Linux-PDA users in a place where it is only available to Palm Pilot users it is extremely frustrating. All we need is the url of the start page of the actual Mandrake content. We won't be able to follow the link from the Avantgo Homepage. Traci Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Real PLayer
Have you setup RealPlayer to use TCP exclusively? By default Realplayer will sometimes attempt to use UDP for connections because it does less handshaking and may therefore stream more effectively. If you have any trouble between you and the site you are connecting to the lack of handshaking can keep your connection from functioning at all. Once Real told me to try out forcing my player to always use TCP the reliability of my connections went up dramatically. Something to try if you haven't already tried it. Traci "Werner E. Niebel" wrote: James, I agree with much of your accessment. OK here is the weird thing... When I upgraded to Mandrake 7.1 this only started happenning... Yesterday I tried to connect to Dr Dean Edel and then could not .. I quick rebooted and tried in Mandrake 7.0 (since I installed them on separte partitions) and I could reboot in 7.0... It seems to either be a Mandrake 7.1 problem or Netscape or something I had in configuration that got overwritten. Im trying to troubleshoot this but it only has a problem with real time streams... I can connect to businesstalkradio fine yet other sites I cant. Incidentally if I try to get Dr Dean archives it works fine.. Its only with some real time streams... Any additional advice you or anyone has would be appreciated. Thanks Werner James Sparenberg wrote: Werner, There could be a couple of reasons that you can't connect and they aren't your fault. Since you can connect to the one site that indicates that your set up correctly (however this could be a bad assumption on my part I really doubt if it is.) 1. Rush's site is so slow or overloaded at the time you are trying to connect that it's just taking forever for RPlayer to get the data it needs and it's timing out or freezing. 2. The webmaster at rushes site made a typo on the page and as a result it can't connect correctly. 3. Since realplayer for linux is in a state of perpetual beta testing it could be unable to connect due to some weird Windoze only feature the webmaster has enacted. 4. The people at Real.com are liberals and they have added software to block Rush. :) Hope this helps. James At 10:46 AM 6/22/00, you wrote: Hi there, I had real player working and dont know what is going on in 7.1. If I go to a site like www.businesstalkradio.net and try to listen it works fine with the streaming audio...When I go to something like www.rushlimbaugh.com it doesnt work... Real player executes and says "contacting" forever yet never gets the stream...Anyone out there know what the netscape file structure and plugins well enough to help me out diagnose what is wrong... Thanks Werner -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Win TV/radio
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: This may be out of this area's scope. However, I have a WinTV/Radio card (Hauppauge) and the TV works great in Linux MDK 6.1 and KDE. I was wandering if anyone knows how to get the radio to work in linux? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) Did you just do a standard install or did you have to install anything special to make this work? I am living in Gnome but I might move over to the KDE side if I could get my WinTV working reliably under Linux. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] KDE - No DPMS?
Mark Holloway wrote: I installed Linux Mandrake then Accelerated-X 5.0 on top of that.. When I boot and select KDE as my desktop environment it says "Your X Server has no DPMS support" - any thoughts on this one? Regards, Mark I also use Accelerated-X 5.0 and was shocked to see that I lost my DPMS support when I upgraded to it from XFree86. Their tech support says that is a genuine bug and that they will be addressing it in future releases, but, for now, it doesn't work. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length
alann wrote: Lee Wilson wrote: Anyone know how long I can got with Cat-5 10BaseT cabling and not have attenuation errors or lost data, etc? We've got some runs in our building that are at least 250 Ft. They seem to work OK. I dunno what the "official" spec is on that but back in the old days, we had RS-232 runs of the same length, they worked fine also. The official spec is 100 meters including all patch cables on both ends, so about 90 meters for the horizontal cable run. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] root partition full
Sridhar G wrote: Hi, I created a 80 Mb root partition. It has slowly filled up with nothing left now. Why did the the partition fill up so slowly What files can I safely remove to free up space. Will this create any problems in future. Can I resize the partition using Partition magic. Thanks Cheers Sridhar This just happened to me and the people on this list were kind enough to tell me how to get out of the trap I had boxed myself into. The two problem subdirectories are /var and /tmp. In my case I had made /tmp into it's own partition and mounted it separately so it wasn't my problem. My problem was just /var, it can get surprizingly large over time. The suggestion which got me my space back was to move /var recursively to a partition where I had lots of empty space and replace it with a symbolic link in the / directory. That got me 30mb back and left me with plenty of empty space in /. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!
Tom Gwilt wrote: The problem with a 100M root partition is found in one of two places: /usr /var Okay, I have a separate /usr partition with several gb left over so that isn't my problem. I did follow someone else's suggestion and deleted old logs from /var and got back 6mb so that my system would at least work again. Is there that much more in /var that it could be the cause of my problem all by itself? The advice of one big partition and one small partition is, IMHO, pretty wise. Next time I start over completely I will remember that advice, in the meantime I'm hoping to free up enough space to perform the Mandrake Bugfix updates and avoid completely rebuilding everything for another month or two until there is a big enough release to justify the pain. Thanks for the suggestions. Traci My own personal preferences are (based on a 5 G Hard Drive) / - 70MB /usr - 1024MB (This gives me a lot of room for /usr/local, /usr/contrib, etc) /var - 50MB (This is merely a home machine, so this is probably overkill) /opt - 2048MB (Many installers look for this partition. I also use it for downloads) /home - 2048 MB swap - Religious wars have erupted from this one. I have 256MB of RAM and use about a 32 MB swap. YMMV, T. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!
"Ji-Haw, Foo" wrote: Oh yes I agree. For people who like multi-booting, check out also this guy's freebie s/w called Ranish's Partition. It can be found via Altavista search engine. It is a very small DOS program that does wonders...for free! Will either of these non-destructively repartition ext2 partitions? I thought that Partition Magic could delete everything and resize a partition that was ext2, am I just remembering how it used to be? -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!
I allocated 100mb to my root partition when I installed Mandrake 6.0 and I seem to have filled it up with normal operation. Are there files which could be deleted or moved to another partition to create space on a pretty normal Mandrake install? Is there anyway to resize the root partition to give it more space? I have 2.8 gig in /usr and 1.8 gig in /usr/local, so I have the mbs to give it, they just aren't in the right place. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!
Ramon Gandia wrote: This is precisely the problem with partitioning without knowing which way your partitons are going to be heading. I always advise newcomers to Linux to simply create one giant partition for everything, and another small one for swap. Once they have experience with the system, they can redo it. A wise idea in retrospect. I kind of hate the way you always have to reformat and start over whenever there is an update so I like keeping the things that are replaced by that process separate from my own configurations and datafiles. I thought I was being generous when RedHat suggested 50-80mb for / to always give myself 100mb. Obviously the world keeps changing and small partitions are part of the past. Most likely your trouble is with /var. It has probably accumulated a lot of log files. Use the du command to spot which is giving trouble. Here is a listing of my du command on my personal workstation: That was one of my problems. It did free up enough that my print queue started to work again. But I see that I only have about six mb left and I suspect that is in imminent peril of being overwhelmed. **root@amber[/root]# cd / **root@amber[/]# du -s * 5025bin 3083boot 42 dev 2201etc 563281 home 12302 lib 12 lost+found 1 misc 4 mnt 4699opt 0 proc 1554root 2756sbin 1 scsi 145 tmp 883906 usr 26845 var **root@amber[/]# Other than the old log files, what would be a good candidate for deletion or movement to somewhere else? What can I move without screwing things up completely? Any help would be appreciated and I want to thank you for the help you have already given. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!
Ken Archer wrote: Now you see why I, after two years, I only use three partitions: swap, / and /home. Swap is obvious. /home is where I store downloads and files I want to keep. Everything else goes in /. When it's time to upgrade, I only format and fresh reinstall in /. It's clean. It's efficient and I always have the right size partitions :-) That makes a certain amount of sense, so, what is the magic number in /? I was basicly trying do something similar by giving / it's own partition. I set it for 100mb because Redhat suggested 50-80mb and I wanted to be conservative. Obviously, the definition of a conservative is changing but I am curious as to how big it needs to be? -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Mandrake support!!!
ms wrote: It looks like the "100 days installation support" is nothing but an advertising gimmick at best or false advertisement at worst. Sorry, for such a long message, but I am just disgusted with this behavior. I have gotten help on a couple of questions but the responses are slow in coming. I wrote them a week ago about a problem I am having sending zero byte files to my network printer since I installed Mandrake 6.0 instead of Redhat 5.2 and they haven't even sent an acknowledgement. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Multilink / EQL ?
Ramon Gandia wrote: Multilink PPP is the Livingston/Lucent protocol. It does NOT work except with ISDN. Most of these load balancing protocols are asynchronous. Read my commenta above carefully. This is simply NOT true. The operating system that must not be named does this with it's NT and 98 versions and will even do it with 95 if you install the appropriate upgrades. A number of people may have gotten confused because they called those upgrades the ISDN upgrades but MLPPP works perfectly well with standard asynchronous modems of any speed. You can even mix modems of different speeds but the highest speed modems give you the best return on your investment in the phone lines. I have been disappointed that for a long time Linux was not supporting MLPPP, it is good to hear that this is now changing. In the meantime I got around the lack of support by purchasing a Netopia Dual Analog Router which handles MLPPP at the router so that the boxen on my net don't need to worry about it themselves. 3Com has a similar product as well. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
