Re: [expert] a lot of kernel-bugs ? ... need help !!!
Check that your cpu (and power supply and system) fan is working OK and full of dirt or seized. I get these at the start of every summer here in OZ - lets me know its time to pull the top off and clean out the gunk! Could also be hardware errors, but in a number of cases here, its been dust related, particularly when loading the cpu up (setiathome is good for a 6C temp rise on my athlon, pushing it over the top!). BillK On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 17:38, hans privat wrote: hi list, am going confused a little bit about a lot of errormessages in /var/log/messages. here are some examples about, hope anyone can help or explain something, what's going on here. examples : Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: Code: 0f 0b d2 00 80 5e 23 c0 8b 57 04 8b 07 89 f9 89 50 04 89 02 Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:210! Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: invalid operand: Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: CPU:0 Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: EIP:0010:[rmqueue+149/672]Not tainted Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: EIP:0010:[c0134125]Not tainted Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00010002 Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: eax: 0001 ebx: c025f604 ecx: 1000 edx: 175edaf1 Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: esi: edi: c54da188 ebp: c025f5cc esp: cbaedddc Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: Process squid (pid: 2127, stackpage=cbaed000) Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: Stack: 1000 c54da188 0001 1000 0292 c025f5cc c025f5cc Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel:c025f788 0001 cbaede3c c0134564 c01329d9 c118d0c8 0001 cc4f34a0 Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel:c025f5cc c025f784 01d2 c118d0c8 cc73b0e8 0095 cff47fac Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: Call Trace:[__alloc_pages+116/608] [lru_cache_add+89/96] [page_cache_read+109/192] [read_cluster_nonblocking+60/80] [filemap_nopage+257/512] Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: Call Trace:[c0134564] [c01329d9] [c012c92d] [c012c9bc] [c012ded1] Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: [do_no_page+83/432] [do_swap_page+194/272] [handle_mm_fault+87/192] [do_page_fault+529/1397] [zap_pte_range+271/308] [rm_sig_from_queue+21/32] Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: [c012a223] [c012a072] [c012a3d7] [c0118551] [c012a92f] [c0124545] Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: [__switch_to+187/208] [schedule+502/832] [sys_wait4+289/976] [sys_time+20/80] [do_page_fault+0/1397] [error_code+52/64] Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: [c01078cb] [c0119016] [c011ec21] [c011f754] [c0118340] [c01090f4] Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: Code: 0f 0b d2 00 80 5e 23 c0 8b 57 04 8b 07 89 f9 89 50 04 89 02 Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna CROND[20927]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:210! Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: invalid operand: Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: CPU:0 Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: EIP:0010:[rmqueue+149/672]Not tainted Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: EIP:0010:[c0134125]Not tainted Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00010002 Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: eax: 0001 ebx: c025f604 ecx: 1000 edx: 175edaf1 Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: esi: edi: c54da188 ebp: c025f5cc esp: cbaede4c Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: Process crond (pid: 20927, stackpage=cbaed000) Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: Stack: cbaede68 c54da188 c01d0eaa a8d0 0292 c025f5cc c025f5cc Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel:c025f788 0001 cbaedeac c0134564 0132 c1341660 c1341708 cd22fbe0 Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel:c025f5cc c025f784 01d2 c012a223 4018d100 c1002ccc 00104025 Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: Call Trace:[sock_sendmsg+90/144] [__alloc_pages+116/608] [do_no_page+83/432] [do_wp_page+159/576] [handle_mm_fault+179/192] Oct 8 05:01:00 hanna kernel: Call Trace:[c01d0eaa] [c0134564] [c012a223] [c0129c1f] [c012a433] ## have cutted here, because have a lot more of them. what does this bug-messages say ? because I have a lot of trouble with my graphic-card. It's a ATI Rage 128 and crashes in the form, that X* freezes, cannot do anything on the computer, no logout, no reboot, sometimes it is possible to do a reboot from the remote-machine, logged in via ssh as root. but it is not always succesfully, so I have to do a hard-rest. For sure, I doesn't like it, but if nothing is possible to do, what other solution is possible ? the ONLY situation, the system NOT crashes, is NOT running X-Server. but remote-jobs get sometimes memory-access-errors anyway. hope, anyone can help here ? thanks in advance and bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to
RE: [expert] networking wackiness
sounds like the dns is not being setup correctly when running as a dialup. BillK On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 04:15, Mark Stewart wrote: Hi Pierre, Networking gurus, your knowledge is desperately needed... ssh: I've been having problems for quite some time where ssh just hangs for anywhere between 30 seconds and many minutes... I only see this problem on a dialup connection -- 4 different remote machines, modem connected to the net talking to a DSL connected host... the common denominator seems to be the sshd server -- no data queued according to netstat -- other ssh sessions between the same boxes are fine while one (or more) is hung... waiting eventually recovers the session(s). Hmm. So, you may have to do more digging to make sure which problem(s) is/are affecting you... HTH, Pierre 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] Ext3 Question
I think you get around this by using an initrd. Check out man mkinitrd. BillK On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 19:53, et wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 03:34 am, you wrote: I want to convert my filesystems from ext2 to ext3. However, currently, kernel support for ext3 is built in as module support. I'm running kernel 2.4.19 which I built from the source. My question is, does ext3 support need to be built directly into the kernel itself rather than as a module? Rick in my limited experiance, the /root and /boot and / file system should not be modules, since a corruption of the module would prevent booting and reading the files system 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] Firewall / Internet sharing with Mandrake 7.2 - how totemporarily turn off?
It was probably pmfirewall (excellent, and deservably popular at the time) - do a search and you may find it. If not, I may have a copy that I can look at and see what can be done - email me privately if so. Alternative is to just email the other office the ipchains command to open port 22 and make sure sshd is running. Billk On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 06:12, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi fellow Mandrake users, I installed Mandrake 7.2 in my old office in India. I setup a basic firewall and Internet sharing using ipchains as I recall. It was setup using a simple script that was very likely recommended on MandrakeUser at the time. Sorry but I don't recall what the script was called! :-) It was pretty cool, it basically walked you through the steps by asking questions and then set it up. Now I'm in New Zealand and I need to SSH into their box to fix some things for them. I'm suspecting I won't be able to SSH in, since I probably blocked that kind of external access with the firewall. Could someone please suggest a simple command to temporarily turn off the firewall portion of the script? Simple enough that a novice with root access there could turn it off? I guess it's OK if the Internet sharing is also down for a while, as long as they or me can start it up again! Thanks, Damon -- Damon Lynch Dev-Zone Program Officer http://www.dev-zone.org Jabber Messaging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +64 4 496 9597 Yahoo Messaging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1023401908): Part (pos=2420): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3612): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-77 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-77 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A Linux Virus on the loose.
I must make the point that whilst Linux does restrict what a virus can do, if I lose my home dir it will take me a lot of time to restore from backup and get back to where I was. Yes, you wont lose the system, but very inconvenient non the less! Mandrake is aiming at the desktop, and the less experianced user so avenues to infect using social engineering (imagine this virus set up like the Anna Korn... virus? Yes its hard to execute stuff unintentionally under Linux, but with a combination of inexperiance and misconfiguration, I am sure more than one person will mangage it ... And people VERY often will execute cute files sent to them by relatives under windows - what is to stop them doing the same under Linux. My fear is that this is a baby step down this path ... BillK On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 08:58, Joseph Braddock wrote: The difference is that Linux restricts access by default, Windows grants it. It is true, that some (many) people login as root for convenience, and they could also install everything (although Mandrake at least questions starting some services automatically, if you do select them all). But, even so, it is still much more difficult to inflict a virus on Linux than on Windows. It is a user's responsibility to install security updates and many distributions make it relatively easy and painless. Again, as contrasted with Windows, when Microsoft actually admits a security problem (usually after someone else has gone public with it), their patches create more vulnerabilities. Hardly a good example. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OpenOffice and libstdc++.so.4
do a locate libstdc++.so and see what shows up. The OO binaries (now?) come with a version of this in the program directory - but in the past I just symlinked the wanted version with latest I had installed (in /usr/lib I think) and solved the prob that way. Didnt notice any errors from doing it. BillK On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 08:06, Brian Schroeder wrote: I recently downloaded OpenOffice.org-1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm from cooker, but when trying to install it, it complains that it needs libstdc++.so.4. I have had a good look around, but haven't been able to find it. If the cooker version of OpenOffice was built with it, it must be around somewhere. Can anyone give me a pointer?Also, if I install this library, is it likely to break anything else? Brian. _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1022026386): Part (pos=2472): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3106): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-3432 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-3432 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OpenOffice and libstdc++.so.4
Forget rpm, use locate as I originally suggested: Did the symlink work? BillK On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 09:47, Brian Schroeder wrote: I have already checked on my system. There are version 2 and 3 editions. rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3.0.4 gives: libstdc++3.0-3.0.4-2mdk I couldn't find a version 4 of libstdc++. From: William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] do a locate libstdc++.so and see what shows up. The OO binaries (now?) come with a version of this in the program directory - but in the past I just symlinked the wanted version with latest I had installed (in /usr/lib I think) and solved the prob that way. Didnt notice any errors from doing it. BillK On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 08:06, Brian Schroeder wrote: I recently downloaded OpenOffice.org-1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm from cooker, but when trying to install it, it complains that it needs libstdc++.so.4. I have had a good look around, but haven't been able to find it. If the cooker version of OpenOffice was built with it, it must be around somewhere. Can anyone give me a pointer?Also, if I install this library, is it likely to break anything else? Brian. _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1022026386): Part (pos=2472): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3106): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-3432 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-3432 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1022032650): Part (pos=2481): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=4863): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-139545 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-139545 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] external USB keyboard with a laptop
I have been using an external USB keyboard with a laptop, but when I occaisionally reboot without it, HardDrake finds and reports it missing. Answering the popup dialog with any selection only works until I replug the keyboard in, and then next time I reboot after removing the keyboard, the same happens. How can I tell HardDrake to ignore the external keyboard permanently? BillK Mandrake 8.1, DELL Inspiron 8000, sun ext monitor/USB keyboard/USB mouse (Mouse is OK.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] external USB keyboard with a laptop
Thanks, this worked. I have a script I run full of chkconfig --del service commands (and the rev for when its a desktop!) for when I run it at presentations/standalone etc so added kudzu and harddrake for good measure as well. Worked a treat! BillK * for a laptop - run chkconfig --list and see what services you are running and arrange to turn them off when you are standalone. speeds bootup etc, in my case a lot! Wish the DrakConf/net/profile could be extended to such issues as a gui manager for what /etc/fstab, network, services are appropriate - it would be easier than doing it the way I am ... On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 11:52, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 10 May 2002 10:11:15 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using an external USB keyboard with a laptop, but when I occaisionally reboot without it, HardDrake finds and reports it missing. Answering the popup dialog with any selection only works until I replug the keyboard in, and then next time I reboot after removing the keyboard, the same happens. How can I tell HardDrake to ignore the external keyboard permanently? BillK Mandrake 8.1, DELL Inspiron 8000, sun ext monitor/USB keyboard/USB mouse (Mouse is OK.) You can disable kudza from running at start-up and No new hardware check will be run. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] browser nazi buster
Exactly where in the preferences? - doesnt show on my version (Galeon 1.2.1) or in the help file? At one time I changed the version string before compiling it which worked as well. BillK On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 12:38, FemmeFatale wrote: Sevatio wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Can anyone point me at a way of fooling a website that insists on IE and refuses to load if anything else is used? Supposedly this is because the site uses some javascript that doesn't work in Netscape and some other browsers, but I'd be surprised if Galeon couldn't handle it. Is there a way of having Galeon, or another linux browser tell the site that it's IE, but still behave reasonably in other ways? I'd like to avoid using the site at all of course, but unfortunately I work for these people, and this secure site is how my jobs get allocated. TIA Brian User the User Agent Option in the preferences page. It works for me :) -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1020142220): Part (pos=2656): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3657): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-14 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-14 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] nautilus only copies zero byte files from cdrom
When mounting a cdrom nautilus pops up and you can copy/dragdrop etc. However, from a cdrom you only ever get a 0 byte file - I presume this is because the file on the cdrom is read only and the copy is abit too pedantic! However, copying from r/w file on the HD works as expected. Is there a way out of this - or can nautilus be stopped from from coming up whenever anything is mounted? BillK mdk 8.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning
Have not seen a method to dynamicly grow the file, but it certainly kills performance once you fill mem, swap and then go to disk file! When 8.2 comes out I will redo the disk layout to something a bit more suited to what I need when I upgrade. With win2000 prof, swap and reiserfs partitions on the same system, its rather difficult to just adjust things! BillK On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 15:31, James wrote: On 01 Mar 2002 09:42:48 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 256 ram and 512 swap - and regularly run out of space (single user processing largish files at times), resorting to additional swap Although I haven't done it, (393 megs ram 64 shared for video and about a 2% average usage of the 256megs of swap available) You can set up a swap file in linux. It works simular to the swap file in windows and just like windows it's slower than a swap partition. It can however from what I'm told grow dynamically with your system. This might do what you are talking about. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] firewall security
How are you checking that they are not being blocked? ie, outside scanner, nmap BillK On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 08:21, Lee Roberts wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've tried tiny firewall, bastille-firewall, and one other (can't remember the name) NONE of them block access to the UDP services no matter what I do In InteractiveBastille, I don't enter anything for UDP service names or port numbers to allow on public interfaces but I entered 1:65535 for UDP services to block I've posted this message previously and some replies say they don't have this problem with bastille I'm using bastille on Mandrake 81 with iptables and kernel 248-341mdk Any suggestions other than suggesting that I learn iptables and write my own rules? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 658 for non-commercial use http://wwwpgpcom Comment: Encryption isn't just for secrets iQA/AwUBPH7JZVHWApkbcbVkEQK8hwCgoQeTp9OlHH4gqH5yOg5nSwSOz7sAnjg9 P4C/2EUGg4serS1Gd6wjcTU5 =oa4V -END PGP SIGNATURE- This message has been 'sanitized' This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed The following log describes which actions were taken Sanitizer (start=1014942564): Part (pos=2415): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamedtxt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3401): SanitizeFile (filename=messagefooter, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-4 Replaced file name with: message_footerDEFANGED-4 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 000 : Sanitizerpm $Id: Sanitizerpm,v 132 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning
I have 256 ram and 512 swap - and regularly run out of space (single user processing largish files at times), resorting to additional swap files as a temporary solution! Just upgraded to 512mram and find that files that would send the swap over top now hardly effect it - ram must be more efficient! However, next time I will go for 1g swap - if disk space is not a priority, go for the max and you dont get stuck with a system you have to reformat when real use patterns change The system still ran - sort of - when the swap filled, but its not something you want to plan on doing What is really needed is a dynamic swap file for overloads, but I have never heard of this for linux BillK On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 09:27, Brian Parish wrote: Unless you are planning on running a LOT of very memory hungry apps simultaneously, 1GB of swap would be overkill I know the 2xRAM formula still finds favor, but this isn't true as far as I can see for machines with this much RAM I am running with 512 MB RAM and I've never managed to make my machine use more than a small fraction of the 256MB swap allocated So, unless you have 10 Gimp users or something, 512MB would seem like more than enough Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[expert] SmartMedia read/write works YES
Greetings I have a SmartMedia USB device working almost out of the box in Read/Write modeIt was jaw dropping easy after the many hours reading/searches/posts in the past which often led to no success. OmniFlash 'Uno' http://www.omniflashproducts.com/ They even have a penguin along with the usual on the front of their packaging...They also make flash and media stick readers as well though I have not tested those with read/write in linux Their cdrom has a Linux section with very clear instructions on adding the last needed entries to /etc/fstab and adding a directory This is a major beakthrough and I hope Linux users support this company by buying this product. Its cheap too! (No I do not work for the company in question) But spent alot of time on mandrake-lists trouble shooting two previous useless non-supported Readers...And this thing Reads AND WRITES Perhaps Mandrake could add the appropriate config files to have it auto detected/configured in harddrake. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] virtual drive for Linux?
Copy the cd to disk as a iso - use dd or a cd record program put the following in fstab (all on one line of course, changing the iso name and mount point as required!): /home/rpm/cd/Mandrake81-cd1-inst.i586.iso /home/rpm/cd/cd1 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,auto,loop 0 0 This will automount the cd on boot or a simple mount command. You will need the loop device which should be standard. You are actually mounting the cd filesystem stored in the cd file. An added bonus is you can reburn to cd if neccessary The only advantage to the windoze programs is they often compress the iso to save space - I have not found a method of duplicating this useful feature yet! BillK On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 11:10, Brian Parish wrote: Well if you have your CD mounted, it's just another file system. /mnt/cdrom or whatever right? Therefore if you make a directory - say ~/cdrom and copy the contents of the CD to it and make everything from ~/cdrom on down read only, wouldn't that look pretty much the same? Maybe you are thinking in windoze terms. Basically the cd emulators exist to associate a drive letter with a file (usually the ISO image of the CD). But in a real operating system, where everything is already a file Or am I missing something here? HTH Brian On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 13:57, mike wrote: Hi everyone, I hope this isn't dumb, and that something isn't already installed in my system, but ... Is there software similar to virtual drive ( the cd drive emulator )? I have some cd I would like to use in linux from a virtual cd drive, so I don't have to use the cd all the time. Is this at all possible? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1014088853): Part (pos=2694): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3833): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-215670 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-215670 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] virtual drive for Linux?
Yes, the mount point looks and works the same as if the file is a physical device. There are some advantages over the copy the files from cd method such as only dealing with one file, being able to reburn to cd without having to recreate the iso. I have used both ways and whilst initially more complicated, this is the way to go for serious use. BillK On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 13:09, mike wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: Copy the cd to disk as a iso - use dd or a cd record program put the following in fstab (all on one line of course, changing the iso name and mount point as required!): /home/rpm/cd/Mandrake81-cd1-inst.i586.iso /home/rpm/cd/cd1 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,auto,loop 0 0 Bill it was much easier than all that. However what you suggest may well be needed for other cd's later so I will keep this info. One question , doing it the way you mention , does it show up as a standard directory so I can pick the executable on the disk ? Thanks Mike McNeese This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1014095849): Part (pos=2659): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3396): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-143 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-143 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cups setup problems.
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:30:12 +0100 H.McM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words: Pierre, Thanks for that - thats the proper way to fix it ;-) I read the actual cups startup script and there is a conditional statement that says if file /usr/sbin/setcupsconfig is executable, then create a default cups file. SO what I ended up doing was a chmod a-x on that file, and it fixed the problem, but your solution is much tidier. Hamster Ah once again Pierre comes through with an useful solution... Also you might consider emailing the cups maintainer directly if he has not already responded to your [EMAIL PROTECTED] It might be useful for him to see your problem and solution. I too had problems with printerdrake always looking for already existing files. Maybe 8.2 will address this issue. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cups setup problems.
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:29:03 +0100 H.McM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words: Hi All, I am trying to setup printing on my MDK8.1 machine using cups, and am having a disastrous time. The first problem is the cupsd.conf file. 1. I do a service cups stop to stop the deamon. 2. I edit cupsd.conf (to turn browsing off amongst other things). 3. I restart the daemon service cups restart Once the daemon is restarted, all my changes are lost, and the cupsd.conf file reverts to the default one you get on installation! What is causing this, and how do I stop it short of doing a chattr +i?? I get the same problem if I use any of the gui setup tools. Thanks! Hamster What kind of printer? Have you tried setting up with printerdrake ? Good info if you have not read it already at; http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups0.html William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to get CUPS to see new printer drivers?
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 00:35:20 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words: I've been having a problem with my Epson Stylus C80 printer with my Mandrake 8.1 setup. In short: Even though the KUPS and control-center Printer section could determine that I had it attached to my parallel port, and it let me pick it from it's list of drivers, the blasted thing just wouldn't actually print anything. After doing a lot of playing around with things and setting cupsomatic to debug mode (so it dumps a trace to /tmp), I saw messages saying that escp2-80 was not a known model. Doing some searching, I found that the cups-drivers-1.1-24.1mdk.rpm package from the cooker listed the driver as being there. I did a rpm -Uvh to update the cups-drivers package, and sure enough, I now find /usr/share/cups/model/gimp-print/espc2-80.ppd.gz to be a file in my system. I shutdown and restarted CUPS, then restarted the control-center and went to the Printer Manager section to add the printer. When I select the Epson Stylus C80 from the list, I'm presented with a choice of two drivers: Epson Stylus C80, Foomatic + gimp-print EPSON Stylus C80, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.0 However, no matter which one of these drivers I choose, I'm still getting nothing being printed. And I still get an error message in the trace saying that escp2-c80 is unknown model. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? How do I get CUPS to see the new drivers which were installed? Any help would be appreciated. --Dave Have you tried setting up and printing from GIMP ? Have you tried setting up your printer with; printerdrake Ocassionaly one of the other of these gets previously non-recognized drivers up and running !? The following is a gold-mine of cups info... http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups0.html Good luck... William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printer Issues.
On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:36:41 -0500 Theo Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words: I've just upgraded to 8.1, and I'm having printing issues again. The only driver I could get to work under Mandrake 8.0 for my setup (HP DeskJet 855c slung off the print server of my SMC Barricade 7004ABR) was the HP 600 driver labled as being from HP. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which package that came from, as successful printing that time was the result of a long, and tortured night of swapping back and forth between various printing systems (lprNG, CUPS, LPR, etc...). Can anybody tell me what rpm I've got to install to get the HP drivers *from* HP? - Theo I have used my HP855c with Mandrake since 6.x now on versions 8.1 and 8.2b. What cups, gimp-print, foomatic related rpms do you have installed? I found more than once the install did NOT install all the necessary rpms and I had to go back and manually add them !!?? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] prostar 2253 laptop
8.1 installs, using the pcmcia image, without problems until the X initialization, both in normal, and expert mode. It does need to boot with a boot: linux mem=120M (assuming 8 MB shared video memory on a 128MB system). the X initialization correctly identifies the video as a SiS630 - but it fails to correctly display (screen is split vertically and horizontally), and locks the system when exiting. XFree86 3.3.6, both accelerated, and normal.mode. any ideas on what to do next? Thanks Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] prostar 2253 laptop
Jason Guidry wrote: On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 20:26, William Moshier wrote: 8.1 installs, using the pcmcia image, without problems until the X initialization, both in normal, and expert mode. It does need to boot with a boot: linux mem=120M (assuming 8 MB shared video memory on a 128MB system). the X initialization correctly identifies the video as a I'm confused, do you have MDK installed or are your trying to install it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I'm trying to install it. It 'almost' works. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Good audio recording program?
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:00:11 -0700 D. R. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words: On 25 Jan 02, at 11:41, Nick Thompson wrote: Just a thought, as I never recorded through arts, have you enabled full duplex operation in the kde control center-sound-sound server-sound I/O tab? I think you need to do this to play and record at the same time in It wasn't. I experienced thirty seconds of hope when I saw this. But switching it to Yes didn't change anything. arts. I'm assuming that your artsdsp rec output.wavcommand was run while you where playing something using real player. Yes. Try something simple first, like recording a CD track. Click the red LED under the CD slider in kmix, play a CD using kscd (or whatever), then try artsdsp rec output.wav. What do you get? (I've also never used rec, so I don't know if your syntax is correct. krecord is your friend :) I get the same as before: a WAV header but no other contents. krecord might be my friend if I could get it to do anything :-) After building and installing according to the README, if I type krecord all I get is a message that says `Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0'. Note that if you have set arts to full duplex mode, it will never release /dev/dsp so you will *have* to use arts for all sound I/O. If you turn off full duplex and wait for arts to disconnect (60secs by default?) the you can try the same as above but just use rec output.wav. Now what do you get? Don't miss-spell and cause a konsole beep, since arts will reconnect for the beep and you'll have to wait 60secs again. I get a file of non-zero length (when trying to record from a CD). When I play it back with a WAV player, I get no complaints about format or anything, but all it plays back is silence. I checked it with a Windows program that displays the actual waveform, and it agrees that the file is a valid WAV file containing silence. This is all going to turn out to be some really stupid, simple configuration option FWIW, this is all a stock LM 8.1 installation. Until I started trying to record, I hadn't messed with any of the sound settings at all. They are (or at least they were) all as set out of the box. I'll take a look at your URLs over the weekend, when I've recovered a bit from all this trauma :-) Have you considered SoundStudio? http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/studio/SoundStudio-1.0.6.tar.gz It has always worked for me since LM 6.x, though I must admit I have never tried it under KDE and 'aarts' as I use other WM's It used to be inscluded in contribs though I have not seen it there in awhile. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux on compaq Proliant 2500
Thanks Alot. Bill Nash - Original Message - From: Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:06 AM Subject: Re: [expert] linux on compaq Proliant 2500 Give http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/ a try. I can no longer access this site here from work (because it's been filtered out for some reason) but last I looked at it there was a lot of info about linux on compaq servers. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Haywood wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:31, you wrote: William R. Nash wrote: Hello, I just receive a new/used computer a compaq Proliant 2500R. with this computer there was no operating system on it. I need to know if I need the smartstart software so I load Linux mandrake 8.1 pro. if I need this where can I download it or get a iso image. thanks Bill Nash. Been awhile since I set up a compaq server, especially Proliant series. If I remember right the Compaq software, smartstart, is for the RAID controller cards, yes (c,mon help us out, your message contains a dearth of info. How ya gonna git help this way)? AFAIR, the Smartstart CD will also set up drivers for the OS of choice as well. But really, this guy needs to go to both Compaq's and Mandrake's web site before coming here. -- john in sydney 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
[expert] linux on compaq Proliant 2500
Hello, I just receive a new/used computer a compaq Proliant 2500R. with this computer there was no operating system on it. I need toknow if I need the smartstart software so I load Linux mandrake 8.1 pro. if I need this where can I download it or get a iso image. thanks Bill Nash.
[expert] Fetchmail on mdk8.1
Has anyone noticed problems with fetchmail going to sleep after a week or so? Running fetchmail gives the woken up message, but no mail. Stopping and restarting it and the next poll (its on a dialup with mail queued at the ISP, but is not consistant with link avaiability) picks up a **LOT** of mail. I also suspect that prior to stopping altogether it picks up less and less mail each poll until nothing is collected. BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] upgrading rpm packages
Gave up on the mandrake and cooker rpms - in my case would not print past page 4 (just repeated page 3) or crashed when trying to load a file saved by the prev version. Downloaded the latest generic rpm's from abiword themsleves yesterday and installed. Fixed those probs - but spell and fonts need sorting still. BillK On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 10:43, James Sparenberg wrote: This doesn't always work but I've found a short way around the crash. at the command line type abiword [filename] Seems that if they start together crashes are less likely. Second don't save the doc as an abw... Don't know why but txt and rtf files work better than the native format. *sigh* James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FTP clients
gftp is nice Bill Nash - Original Message - From: Jun Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [expert] FTP clients ncftp is my favorite under linux, :) /Jun On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:35:29AM +1100, Darren King wrote: :what ftp clients are people using? I'm having trouble finding one. I :need one that can save queues as well as the normal ftp stuff. : :Darren : : :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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mail sent by apache user
try this: $mailheaders = From my domain.com \n; $mailheaders .= Reply-To: $reply-email\n\n; mail($to, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders); this is just some example you will need to change it for your system. Let me know how it work i working on the same project at my place. Bill Nash. - Original Message - From: Oscar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:01 PM Subject: [expert] mail sent by apache user Hi all, I have wrote a very simple mail list system using a web form and postfix. When a user clicks the send button, the form data is sent, using the 'mail' command, to a list defined in /etc/postfix/aliases The system works ok, but the message appears to be sent by Apache User. Not serious... :-P How can I change the sender identity?. Thanks óscar. -- .-. oo| /`'\ Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 (\_;/) http://counter.li.org/ 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] Shared (web) calendar function/program?
try http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/ Bill Nash - Original Message - From: David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 9:39 PM Subject: [expert] Shared (web) calendar function/program? Does anyone know if there's something available which will let users share a protected (password or otherwise) calendar via their web browsers? Something which plugged in to Mailman would be nice, since it would let list members share a calendar, but it doesn't have to be that - just something which would let a group of people share a calendar of upcoming events, with some kind of control as to who can get to it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key 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
[expert] World Client-Only Netscape Works !!!!
A mystery Okay this has been an interesting manifestation for two years or so. One of my web mail accounts is World Client Pro accessed through a browser Using only Linux Browsers(or M$ Netscape access from other areas) I have not tried IExploder The cgi-scripts are ONLY properly displayed by Netscape 4.x series. I have not tried 6.x series. This make using the account ONLY workable with Netscape... Konqueror, Mozilla, Opera, all fail !!! Any way to track this down ? Anyone else have access to World Client Pro to test this? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] MySQL drive website
Try www.php.net Very easy to connect to mysql. Bill Nash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ken Thompson Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] MySQL drive website Can someone direct me to an easy to digest low calorie howto for making a database driven website using MySQL? I can do a bit of html and wouldn't be opposed to btushing up and learning some new stuff too. -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fw: Fw: Yet another printing question
Have you tried; http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups0.html Cups continues to be a love/hate relationship with Mandrake users It works for me most every time since its implementation... However some have had better luck with. TurboPrint for Linux http://www.turboprint.de The free version works fine... The pay version at 20$ U.S. is still a bargain with higher resolution, extra features, etc... I must admit the most frustrating experience with new versions of any distribution is when a functioning machine/peripherals/hardware ceases to perform without problems upon installing a new version... A patience reality check I guess... ;o) On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 21:27:56 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words: Greetings once again, Well, suffice it to say, no one has chimed in with any suggestions yet. I have another clue which my eyes noticed during the boot process last night, for what it's worth. Don't know if this means anything since I had problems configuring printing during the reinstall/upgrade-type but here it is. The boot screen scrolls by the following: Quote - Loading parralel port printer modules devfs: devfs_register_(): device already registered 0 Starting CUPS printing system: lpd: warning -** cannot open: /var/log/lp-errs (): - 'permission denied' warning: -cannot start lp device: /dev/lp0: -permission denied Unquote - I've checked all the /var/log files I can find and I can detect no reason for the problem. Again, upon an attempted re-install as reported below, it didn't appear that I had a successful installation of the printer. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] evolution-0.13-3.mdk error message
I do not use evolution myself, so please bear with the inadequaciey of my understanding!!! Setting up a system for my wife on a LM8.1 install with most of the upgrades I am getting this error with evolution Application nautilus-mozilla-mozilla-content-view (process 13768) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation fault) Upon clicking okay I get this... the web page encountered an error when starting up Nautilus still manages to come up and gives a clear and functional though empty window The problem occurs when accessing anything in the help menu? Any suggestions would be great... BTW where is the setting to present multiple cc's when sending a new email? This is probably covered somewhere but is certainly not as intuative as some email clients (at least for my cluelessness) thanks -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Network-unreachable solved
I am posting this as a thank you and follow-up; With the history of the original thread. After trying it all once again I ended up swapping out an old WD card from another machine and yes IT ALL started to work!!! However swapping out the old vibra 16 sound card for an old but trusty SB 32 AWE card saw the network go unreachable again, which led me to the hint by civileme re: sound card IRQ. Lucky for me the ISA WD NIC card had configurable jumpers and a little tweak did the trick. Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] write: Could you post the output of 'ifconfig' and 'route -n'? Bill Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you installed/enabled a firewall? Check /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.conf and the Drak firewall tools . For me, running tinyfirewall (Drak tools) set up masquerading through the box, but prevented any connection to the box at all. civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What IRQ is it on? cat /etc/sysconfig/network* cat /etc/resolv.conf... then later... what else is on IRQ5? Sound Blaster perhaps? Thanks for the rapid response !!! No firewall on this unit. Being on a small home network with a firewal/server being in place I went for the welcome to crackers configuration to try and KISS but of course it fooled me ! ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:E3:39:94 inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:780 (700.0 b) loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:7700 (7.5 Kb) TX bytes:7700 (7.5 Kb) [root@home233]# route -n (The non-working client machine) Kernel IP routing table DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlags Metric RefUseIface 192.168.0.00.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.100.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 [root@home2]# route -n (The working client machine) Kernel IP routing table DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlags Metric RefUseIface 192.168.0.00.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.100.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false HOSTNAME=home2.suslositna.org DOMAINNAME=suslositna.org GATEWAY=192.168.0.10 GATEWAYDEV=eth0 (this is exactly the same as the working client machine!) /etc/resolv.conf search mtaonline.net nameserver 12.6.42.1 nameserver 12.6.42.2 (exactly the same as working client machine) Thanks again people for the help!!! -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Agony/Ecstacy Installing LM8.1
Since LM 6.0 I have been an active supporter of Mandrake, as well as trying to spread the word to any who might listen and purchasing the boxed sets for myself and others even though I may already have had a working system of the same release. Well my Mandrake Store purchase of the download edition did arrive after apx two months I didn't worry too much about that as lots had been happening in the World at large and I had a decently functioning Mandrake 8.xFreq system performing well So to cut to the chase. Testbed machine: 233mmx 96mgs 20g-maxtorHD 8mg ATI All-in Wonder-Pro SB AWE32 (a vintage configuration I admit) 1) The Install locked up into blank screen at secondstage install Luckily I had read enough Mandrake scuttlebutt to remember the second CD and was able to Install it from the 2.2 kernel... However thats a tough call for a newbie I expect... 2) relatively painless complete install at the expert almost all level I rebooted to be met by a blank screen again... Well reboot with the rescue disk and change default lilo.conf to linux non-fb hit lilo then reboot Okay now that works in non-fb mode but another tough newbie step don't you think ? 3)the /dev/fd0: unkown device message bit me as well as many others I understand. Never since first installing RH 5.0 through LM 8.0freq had anything like this happened..Another tough one for a newbie and actually a tough one for me as I still cannot mount /mnt/floppy... 4).aumixrc auto mute still happens for me no matter how many .aumixrc or /etc/aumixrc files I generate. 5)DrakConf,Harddrake from GUI or commandline takes several times as long to generate imput and will lock up every time at soundcard click on the extensions button and in GUI mode bumps me to DiskDrake for some VERY BIZARRE reason where it locks up... 6)The two button serial mouse which always was recognized and configured in three-button mode and worked fine for several LM incarnations has still to be properly configured by the basic installation tools.. Another tough newbie item... 7)Xine works out of the box and with sound for the first time for me !!! That is the Ecstasy part :) 8)Over all feel is very nice but the major Hiccups which I encountered make me wonder if I should install LM 8.0 or 7.2 on the several friends machines who wish to try out linux... All in all except for the Grey Screen of Reboot on install, the demise of /dev/fd0 and the poor behavior of a previously VERY reliable mouse, I would have been pretty excited about this version My Below Zero Thoughts -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MPlayer +addenda
On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:39:36 +0900 Nguyen H.Vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Bouterse wrote: You may wawnt to check this site out... On LM 8.1 they work for me ! http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ Thank you, Bouterse, your site is full of valuable RPMS, even sources. Velcommen, aber; Just for the record !! I recommend this site to many, but certainly can't claim the credit for the site or rpms themselves... Anyhow hope they prove as helpful to others as they have to me :) -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Memory limits in Mandrake 7.1
Daniel Woods wrote: I have a 1000 MHz PIII box running Mandrake 7.1, all stock (no kernel recompiles or other stuff), with 1024 MB of RAM 2048 MB of swap space in a swap partition. I am having problems running jobs (processes) which want to use large fractions of the RAM (perhaps over 100 %, i.e. more than 1024 MB of RAM). Is there a limit on the size of addressable memory in this version of Linux ? Is there a per-process memory limit ? If so, what are the limits ? Thanks in advance. Bill Mahaffey Check out /etc/security/limits.conf Thanks... Dan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dan: Mine's empty ! I do use the limit command under tcsh to raise memory, vmemory datasize limits to unlimited stacksize to 768432 KB (3/4 of RAM), but can't address even all of that. Thanks for any more insight. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MPlayer
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 14:52:33 +0900 Nguyen H.Vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anyone compile MPlayer with LM8.1. I ve tried but it said gcc 2.9.6 is broken You may wawnt to check this site out... On LM 8.1 they work for me ! http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Telling rpm that a package is present
I have been building a few packages from source such as evolution and its support. I would like to insert somehow into the rpm database that this has been done - specifically bonob-conf which has been built from source and is available, but rpm does not know about it. Issueing a --nodeps is a bit dangerous when there are a lot of dependencies. Should I be building ALL tar stuff (or rather cvs which is what I am building from) into a src rpm, issue a rpm -rebuild and install it from there? Is there a less messy way such as just telling rpm that this package is there, even if it has not been installed as an rpm? BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable
This could of course be strickly bad timing However ; generic ne 200 clone card has worked through LM6.x,7.x's- 8.0freq now it doesn't..Worked before install of LM8.1 card is recognized by install and even autoprobe works without having to manually configure specs. (this is a client machine on small network) ifconfig shows eth0 active with proper init address The card can be ping'd internally and localhoast too . Cannot ping outside machine. Can ping Bcast # route shouws exact Ip routing as another working machine. I have used draknet as well as manually altering the config files I have taken out this card and put it back in. Before I actually replace it I was wondering if there was something obvious I was missing here.? Thanks -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable
Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] write: Could you post the output of 'ifconfig' and 'route -n'? Bill Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you installed/enabled a firewall? Check /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.conf and the Drak firewall tools . For me, running tinyfirewall (Drak tools) set up masquerading through the box, but prevented any connection to the box at all. civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What IRQ is it on? cat /etc/sysconfig/network* cat /etc/resolv.conf Thanks for the rapid response !!! No firewall on this unit. Being on a small home network with a firewal/server being in place I went for the welcome to crackers configuration to try and KISS but of course it fooled me ! ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:E3:39:94 inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:780 (700.0 b) loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:7700 (7.5 Kb) TX bytes:7700 (7.5 Kb) [root@home233]# route -n (The non-working client machine) Kernel IP routing table DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlags Metric RefUseIface 192.168.0.00.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.100.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 [root@home2]# route -n (The working client machine) Kernel IP routing table DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlags Metric RefUseIface 192.168.0.00.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.100.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false HOSTNAME=home2.suslositna.org DOMAINNAME=suslositna.org GATEWAY=192.168.0.10 GATEWAYDEV=eth0 (this is exactly the same as the working client machine!) /etc/resolv.conf search mtaonline.net nameserver 12.6.42.1 nameserver 12.6.42.2 (exactly the same as working client machine) Looks like maybe its time for !!!??? Thanks again to Everyone On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 05:12, William Bouterse wrote: This could of course be strickly bad timing However ; generic ne 200 clone card has worked through LM6.x,7.x's- 8.0freq now it doesn't..Worked before install of LM8.1 card is recognized by install and even autoprobe works without having to manually configure specs. (this is a client machine on small network) ifconfig shows eth0 active with proper init address The card can be ping'd internally and localhoast too . Cannot ping outside machine. Can ping Bcast # route shouws exact Ip routing as another working machine. I have used draknet as well as manually altering the config files I have taken out this card and put it back in. Before I actually replace it I was wondering if there was something obvious I was missing here.? -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable-addenda
civileme wrote; What IRQ is it on? Sorry I forgot to add this to the last post. Interrupt:5 Base address:0x240 -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Nautilus
Hi, any time I mount a drive, cdrom etc, the machine grinds to a halt whilst a copy of nautilus is spawned. Is there: 1) a way to turn this off or specify a better file manager (lighter on resources for one) 2) Even better, a way to spawn another program depending on mount point - i.e.symlink /dev/music to /dev/cdrom and start xmms when /dev/music is mounted? Using gnome under mdk8.1 BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] freemed with undefined function: mysql_pconnect error
Well I see I am not the only one who has had this pop up Figuring it was my total lack of DB and PHP expertise which it could very well be but after the lengthy thread without resolution I can only wonder. I have attempted on two or three different machines with LM 8.0freq and LM8.1. Read many mans, FAQ's, and HowDieDoodies ... Has anyone gotten the latest freemed to work with Mandrake??? http://www.freemed.org/ I have noticed several MDK rpms for the older versions on SourceForge This program would be an awesome addition to the health care field if its potential gets anywhere near realized!! My error message is; undefined function: mysql_pconnect() in /etc/httpd/php/class.sql.php on line 63 which is; $this-Connection = mysql_pconnect ($host, $user, $password) or Thanks for any leads, I am about finished with this effort until new insight !!?? -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] silencing the modem
It has been sometime since I remember seeing the simple addition to the modem/ppp script which silences the modem handshaking sounds. I do not use kppp,gppp etc, so a config-file init addition would be necessary and what it is elludes me !? Have done the RTFM, mans, etc but it has slipped by me... Any enlightenment would be helpful Thanks LM 8.x with various extras -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect()
You will need to load php-mysql to connect to the mysql server with php. Sorry i read over that on the list you have php-pgsql. Bill Nash. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Schroeder Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 11:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect() Anything I have tried so far - including pccsmysqladmn, mrbs, phpgroupware, and more. Brian. From: William R. Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] What are you trying to connect to mysql. is there a config file. I would need more information to answer your question. Thanks Bill Nash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Schroeder Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect() I asked for help on this problem once before, but, unforutunately, no one felt qualified to respond. So on behalf of my hair, which doesn't want to be torn out, if anyone can enlighten me on this I would appreciate it. Any PHP-based app which wants to access a MySQL database fails at the first hurdle with this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in ...php This is in both mdk 8.0 and 8.1. My config includes: apache-1.3.20-3mdk apache-common-1.3.20-3mdk apache-modules-1.3.20-3mdk apache-mod_perl-1.3.20_1.25_01-3mdk apache-conf-1.3.20-3mdk php-mysql-4.0.6-3mdk mod_php-4.0.6-5mdk php-common-4.0.6-5mdk php-devel-4.0.6-5mdk phpgroupware-0.9.12-2mdk php-readline-4.0.6-2mdk php-dba_gdbm_db3-4.0.6-4mdk php-4.0.6-5mdk php-pgsql-4.0.6-3mdk php-gd-4.0.6-2mdk MySQL-client-3.23.41-5mdk MySQL-3.23.41-5mdk MySQL-shared-3.23.41-5mdk kernel-2.4.13-8mdk Brian. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] X Windows Wont Run
Hello I have been trying to install Linux mandrake 8.1. I'm having trouble setting up X Windows. I install lm 7.2 and xwindows works great. I even tried to upgrade from lm72 still can't get it to work with lm8.1. I'm using XFree 4.1.0. Thanks For your help. Bill Nash. This is a copy from the website from powerspec about my computer thanks. Powerspec 7806 HomeSystemsSupportCompareNewAbout Us PowerSpec MODEL NUMBER / PROCESSOR SPEED VIA VT8365 ProSavage KM133 Integrated Graphics Features High performance SMA North Bridge: Integrated VIA Apollo Pro133A and S3 Savage4 in a single chip 64-bit Advanced Memory controller supporting PC100/PC133 SDRAM AGP Expansion Interface supporting AGP 4x, 2x, or 1x external AGP graphics card upgrade Combines with VIA VT8231 PCI-LPC South Bridge for state-of-the-art power management High Performance CPU Interface Socket A (AMD Athlon and Duron). 100MHz CPU Front Side Bus (FSB) Built-in Phase Lock Loop circuitry for optimal skew control within and between clocking regions Five outstanding transactions (four In-Order Queue (IOQ) plus one output latch) Dynamic deferred transaction support Advanced High-Performance DRAM Controller DRAM interface runs synchronous (66/66, 100/100, 133/133) mode or pseudo-synchronous (66/100, 100/66, 100/133, 133/100) mode with FSB Concurrent CPU, AGP, and PCI access 64-bit data width Supports masimum 8-bank interleave (8 pages open simultaneously); banks are allocated based on LRU SDRAM X-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 back-to-back accesses Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Controller AGP Specification Rev. 2.0 compliant Supports 266MHz 4x mode for AD and SBA signaling Supports SideBand Addressing (SBA) mode (non-multiplexed address/data) Pipelined split-transaction long-burst transfers up to 1GB/sec Intelligent request reordering for maximum AGP bus utilization AGP Expansion graphics override the integrated graphics by default with no SMA frame buffer Integrated Savage4 2D/3D/Video Accelerator Optimized Shared Memory Architecture (SMA) 2 to 32MB frame buffer using system memory Floating point triangle setup engine Single cycle 128-bit 3D architecture 8M triangles/second setup engine 140M pixels/second trilinear fill rate Full AGP 4x, including sideband addressing and execute mode S3 DX7 texture compression (S3TC) Next generation, 128-bit 2D graphics engine High quality DVD video playback Flat panel monitor support 2D/3D resolutions up to 1920 x 1440 3D Rendering Features Single-pass multiple textures Anisotropic filtering 8-bit stencil buffer 32-bit true color rendering Specular lighting and diffuse shading Alpha blending modes Massive 2K x 2K textures MPEG-2 video textures Vertex and table fog 16 or 24-bit Z-buffering Sprite anti-aliasing, reflection mapping, texture morphing, shadows, procedural textures and atmospheric effects 2D Hardware Acceleration Features ROP3 Ternary Raster Operation BitBLTs 8, 16 and 32 bpp mode acceleration Motion Video Architecture High quality up/down scaler Planar to packed format conversion Motion compensation for full speed DVD playback
RE: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect()
What are you trying to connect to mysql. is there a config file. I would need more information to answer your question. Thanks Bill Nash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Schroeder Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect() I asked for help on this problem once before, but, unforutunately, no one felt qualified to respond. So on behalf of my hair, which doesn't want to be torn out, if anyone can enlighten me on this I would appreciate it. Any PHP-based app which wants to access a MySQL database fails at the first hurdle with this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in ...php This is in both mdk 8.0 and 8.1. My config includes: apache-1.3.20-3mdk apache-common-1.3.20-3mdk apache-modules-1.3.20-3mdk apache-mod_perl-1.3.20_1.25_01-3mdk apache-conf-1.3.20-3mdk php-mysql-4.0.6-3mdk mod_php-4.0.6-5mdk php-common-4.0.6-5mdk php-devel-4.0.6-5mdk phpgroupware-0.9.12-2mdk php-readline-4.0.6-2mdk php-dba_gdbm_db3-4.0.6-4mdk php-4.0.6-5mdk php-pgsql-4.0.6-3mdk php-gd-4.0.6-2mdk MySQL-client-3.23.41-5mdk MySQL-3.23.41-5mdk MySQL-shared-3.23.41-5mdk kernel-2.4.13-8mdk Brian. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi doesn't run from script
You can use the dash with kdesu as well I think. Also, do some reading man cron and I think you will find that cron actually uses a particular restricted environment, hence your errors. I have got around this in the past by putting the job in a script file that sets the environment and which is called by cron. BillK On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 08:34, bascule wrote: thanks, i sort of see what you mean, this might explian why kdesu doesn't do it, though #su password #./somescript does work without the dash, unfortunately, it's not a reason that might explain why a cron job run as root (setup with webmin) that calls the script would fail, would it? i have wondered if the problem lies with calling one script - urpmi - from another, but since my knowledge of perl is slightly less than my knowledge of bash i.e. zero i couldn't possibly investigate this! bascule p.s. is that 'defanged' thing some sort of unixy joke, or is quoting scripts in mails a genuine security risk? On Thursday 15 Nov 2001 12:05 am, you wrote: Try su - -c 'command' Normal su (and kdesu I think) inherit the current user environment, the dash tells it to spawn a new one based on root. There are differences in the default path etc when running programs in this way which can cause obscure failures. BillK This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1005784787): Part (pos=2813): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3880): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-18 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-18 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] libpng not working in Mozilla/Galeon
Doing a forced rpm install of cooker nautilus* got some of my icons back, but there are still problems. What application (or module) is actually responsible for drawing png's on the desktop so I can target that? BillK On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 07:51, John Haywood wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 02:50, you wrote: Hello everyone, Hoping someone can shed some light on this problem. I recently upgraded (from Cooker) to Mozilla 0.9.5, and the latest Galeon as well. Along the way, I als ohad to upgrade libpng from version 2 to 3. Everything seemed to go well, I was able to meet all dependencies with a minimum of hassle, and libpng upgraded just fine. BUT ... now, neither Mozilla not Galeon are able to renger .png images! If I look in /usr/lib/, I can see both libpng2 and libpng3: libpng.so.2 - libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.3 - libpng.so.3.1.2.0* libpng.so.3.1.2.0* I assume this is correct, because there are still many apps on my mostly-stock 8.1 system that require libpng2. I renamed the old libpng2 libraries, and made links with the same name to libpng3, but that did not seem to work. In fact, Galeon would not even launch! So, I named the libpng2 libraries back. At this point, I am at a loss, not knowing enough about how shared libraries work, and especially using different library versions. Any help? Dave Welcome to the world of Cooker! What you actually have to do in the case of the libpng2 - libpng3 shift (and many other major library upgrades, too), is to rebuild *all* of the libpng2-dependent apps against the new libraries. Often, this can be accomplished by simply downloading the src.rpm and issuing an rpm -bb command, but it can get a lot trickier hth -- john in syd This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1005609371): Part (pos=2771): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=4405): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-103180 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-103180 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] re: telnet -sever mdk 8.1
On 27 Oct 2001 14:32:16 +0100 richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 12:46, Onur Kucuk wrote: Among other things' But I believe, yet, that no one could ever make his MDK 8.1 serve a telnet session. There is a bug out there but no one seems to be able to solve it yet :( I know this is probably a rather duffless response to this thread but has anyone been able to run an earlier version of telnet server i.e. LM 8.0 or Freq. on their LM 8.1 which might work in this case? -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] sandisk ImageMate
To reply to my original post; First of all 'cat -f /var/log/messages' should have been, 'tail -f /var/log/messages' Secondly it was brought to my attention that I had left out my /etc/fstab /dev/hda6 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda10 /Archive ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd5 /Archive2 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-reader vfat ro,noauto,user 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda9 /root reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 #mount /mnt/usb-reader mount: /dev/sda1: unknown device I do have a scsi cdrom/rw attached as well as a scsi scanner. On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:16:13 -0800 William Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently purchased a SanDisk ImageMate for SmartMedia due to their providing drivers for the linux community. I am using; kernel 2.4.8-26mdk LM 8.0+ extries This company provided drivers which are compiled into the kernel However, after a week of reading, browsing, configuring, ...no luck Pertinent data: make menuconfig shows sddr09 compiled into the kernel /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/drivers/usb/storage/sddr09.c /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/drivers/usb/storage/sddr09.h Oct 23 22:27:30 home2 usb: Loading USB interface (usb-ohci) succeeded Oct 23 22:27:30 home2 usb: Mount USB filesystem succeeded Oct 23 22:27:31 home2 usbd: usbd v0.1 (c) 1999 by Thomas Sailer Oct 23 22:27:31 home2 usbd: Starting USB daemon succeeded #lsmod usb-storage52528 0 (unused) usb-ohci 18880 0 (unused) usbcore50752 1 [usb-storage usb-ohci] tuner 4784 1 (autoclean) tvaudio 8576 0 (autoclean) (unused) bttv 57200 0 (unused) i2c-algo-bit7328 1 [bttv] i2c-core 13600 0 [tuner tvaudio bttv i2c-algo-bit] videodev5056 2 [bttv] reiserfs 158304 4 ncr53c8xx 52500 0 (unused) sd_mod 11572 0 (unused) scsi_mod 91804 2 [usb-storage ncr53c8xx sd_mod # lspcidrake agpgart : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|530 Host unknown : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5513 [IDE] unknown : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|85C503/5513 unknown : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|ACPI usb-ohci: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|7001 USB unknown : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5591/5592 AGP ncr53c8xx : Symbios|53c825 ne2k-pci: Winbond Electronics Corp|W89C940 bttv: Brooktree Corporation|Bt878 bttv: Brooktree Corporation|Bt878 snd-card-ymfpci : Yamaha Corporation|YMF-740C [DS-1L Audio Controller] Card:SiS 620: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|6306 3D-AGP unknown : Virtual|Hub [] unknown : SanDisk|ImageMate USB SmartMedia [] /proc/bus/usb/drivers usbdevfs hub usb-storage /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB OHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=d036a000 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=55aa ProdID=a103 Rev= 1.01 S: Manufacturer=SanDisk S: Product=ImageMate USB SmartMedia S: SerialNumber=5EC52EB6C5 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=(none) E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms harddrake gives Vendor: Unknown Model: Unknown Kernel Module: Unknown Bus Type: USB Informations: This device hasn't been identified by HardDrake, please send `/proc/bus/*' files and this device ID `55aaa103' to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Three or four emails have gotten Zip response cat -f /var/log/messages unplugging and replug in gives; Oct 24 09:04:06 home2 kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 3 Oct 24 09:04:27 home2 kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 4 Oct 24 09:04:27 home2 kernel: usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod0x55aa/0xa103) is not claimed by any active driver. I created various entries in /etc/fstab and atempted to mount them but get mount: /dev/sdwhatever : unknown device I know this thing works for others ! What am I missing
Re: [expert] Hostname question
Neat, thanks BillK On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 11:54, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On windoze laptops there are a number od network profile programs that setup (some automatically I believe) the network configs when plugged into a network. Surely something similar exists for Linux. Theres also the possibility of scripting the process, i.e., once the machine has logged in to network under localhost, grab the subnet mask and set up the config based on that, then reset the network parameters/host name etc based on that. billK If you take a look under the Mandrake Control Center, 'Network Internet' and then 'Connection' on that screen on the top, there you can see 'profile' default 'New Profile' is this what you need? On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 08:04, Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 October 2001 00:22, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic: [expert] Hostname question Can someone please explain to me how to give my system a name that will stick and not cause problems for the various networks I might connect to? I have tried various hostnames and they either produce invalid name errors of some sort or they dick up my ability to connect to a given network. I need to know how to give my laptop a universal hostname that will follow it wherever I take it and regardless of the dhcp network I connect to. I have no trouble at all on my laptop. My /etc/hosts file looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 dedannshae ... I regularly move between four different networks (all DHCP), and it works like a charm. Dave -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7z24fA68l26XsZUYRAlnbAKCgsc9FTX06WuBpTmmdtEqQmT/yXACgkeL6 xjNYvO5x6P7q3glF/2EhN/g= =fmJ6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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 -- --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Thank - you for contacting the SedeComp Communications Technical Support Team. Please click 'REPLY' when discussing this matter in further detail with us. Feel free to review our section on responses to common problems real soon @: http://www.sedecomp.linux-site.net | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We use and support Linux Mandrake | http://www.linux-mandrake.com 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] Hostname question
On windoze laptops there are a number od network profile programs that setup (some automatically I believe) the network configs when plugged into a network. Surely something similar exists for Linux. Theres also the possibility of scripting the process, i.e., once the machine has logged in to network under localhost, grab the subnet mask and set up the config based on that, then reset the network parameters/host name etc based on that. billK On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 08:04, Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 October 2001 00:22, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic: [expert] Hostname question Can someone please explain to me how to give my system a name that will stick and not cause problems for the various networks I might connect to? I have tried various hostnames and they either produce invalid name errors of some sort or they dick up my ability to connect to a given network. I need to know how to give my laptop a universal hostname that will follow it wherever I take it and regardless of the dhcp network I connect to. I have no trouble at all on my laptop. My /etc/hosts file looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 dedannshae ... I regularly move between four different networks (all DHCP), and it works like a charm. Dave -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7z24fA68l26XsZUYRAlnbAKCgsc9FTX06WuBpTmmdtEqQmT/yXACgkeL6 xjNYvO5x6P7q3glF/2EhN/g= =fmJ6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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
[expert] X11 on old-style iBook (Mandrake PPC 8.0)
I'm new to this list and am having a problem getting X11 working correctly on Mandrake 8.0 for the PPC platform. I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on a Lime 466MZ iBook. X comes up, but it's wrapped half-way around the screen, vertically, with a half-inch black line running 2/3 of the way across the screen (horizontally) in the middle that marks the virtual top of the screen. I've tried modifying /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (which the X server says it's using), to various resolutions, and modified it to use fbdev rather than the ATI 128 driver, but nothing changes except my level of frustration. Does anyone have a working XF86Config-4 for an equivalent old iBook that they could send me? Thanks! Bill von Hagen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X11 on old-style iBook (Mandrake PPC 8.0)
Thanks for the reply. Ironically, I've already used been using LinuxPCC, YDL, and most recently SuSE on the PPC platform (the first two for over a year now). This really seems like a driver problem to me, but I hoped that someone might have gotten it working somehow. I'm fairly familiar with building, configuring, and using the X Window system in general as well as XFree86. I'll definitely forward any off-list responses or personal successes that I get to the list. Bill At 06:36 PM 9/14/01 -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: My feeling is there aren't many Mandrake PPC users yet. I'd post a message on an X11-related or Mac-related mailing list instead. My feeling is there are lots of debian users who've used iMacs, and lots of LinuxPPC users who know this information. BTW, I just checked, and LinuxPPC has XFree 4 packages available, so the config information they provide should also apply. Best of luck. I hope that you can just get an answer on this list. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, William von Hagen wrote: I'm new to this list and am having a problem getting X11 working correctly on Mandrake 8.0 for the PPC platform. I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on a Lime 466MZ iBook. X comes up, but it's wrapped half-way around the screen, vertically, with a half-inch black line running 2/3 of the way across the screen (horizontally) in the middle that marks the virtual top of the screen. I've tried modifying /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (which the X server says it's using), to various resolutions, and modified it to use fbdev rather than the ATI 128 driver, but nothing changes except my level of frustration. Does anyone have a working XF86Config-4 for an equivalent old iBook that they could send me? Thanks! Bill von Hagen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Linux mandrake security firewall
Hello i need some help with Linux mandrake security firewall. I'm trying to set up this firewall at home. I need to open ports tcp 1494 and udp 1604 so i can use citrix from home. i added the ports and when i use nmap it states that the ports are closed. i need to have this ports open so i can work. thanks Bill Nash. P.S. all the other ports i have open states they are open. Not sure why i can't get citrix to work with this firewall. the program work great before the firewall.
Re: [expert] Linux mandrake security firewall
Okay, I have the client on my side and my work has the server. How can i add another rule with snf from mandrake to allow citrix. thanks Bill Nash - Original Message - From: Gregor Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:41 AM Subject: RE: [expert] Linux mandrake security firewall On 06-Sep-2001 William R. Nash wrote: Hello i need some help with Linux mandrake security firewall. I'm trying to set up this firewall at home. I need to open ports tcp 1494 and udp 1604 so i can use citrix from home. i added the ports and when i use nmap it states that the ports are closed. i need to have this ports open so i can work. thanks Bill Nash. P.S. all the other ports i have open states they are open. Not sure why i can't get citrix to work with this firewall. the program work great before the firewall. If you just open the ports in the firewall you won't see anything with nmap. First you need a programm that listens on these ports. I.e. you must start the server first, then you can use nmap to check if the ports are open. If you've already done this make sure which side tries to establish the connection maybe you need to add another rule to the firewall. Gregor -- E-Mail: Gregor Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06-Sep-2001 Time: 16:38:35 -- 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
[expert] mac-binhex40
Anyone have a line on a useable viewer which works with mac-binhex40 . i.e. converting them to jpegs, etc. ? Havent had much luck in tracking one down that actually works! William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
[expert] update-menus core dumps
Any help with this would be appreciated. A 7.2 system with many updates and upgrades. [root@home2 downloads]# rpm -Uvh pine* pine## var/tmp/rpm-tmp.65247: line 2: 18227 Segmentation fault (core dumped) /usr/bin/update-menus [root@home2 downloads]# update-menus Segmentation fault (core dumped) [root@home2 downloads]# What should I do to alleviate this? I have tried the 'rpm --rebuilddb' No difference. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.
Re: [expert] Mem thief
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:40:02 +0200 Stefaans Mostert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I have a problem I run 128 meg's of ram and something is chowing it all up!! I meen I have like 3 megs left!! Any Ideas? What does "top" tell you? WH Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
Re: [expert] How to add to windowmanager drop down list?
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:42:08 -0400 "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded the xfce that came with my Mandrake 7.2 to the latest version and installed it successfully. However, since the upgrade, xfce no longer appears among the list of drop-down choices in the graphic login. It used to be there. How do I add it back to the options? Jeff I am Presently using LM 7.2 with extras. Since LM 7.1 I have had this problem as well and have asked and seen asked dozens of times both on the XFCE and the Mandrake Lists a simple straight forward solution to the problem. Many and believe me MANY people have responded to this with a multitude of methods, few have voiced success though there has been the occasional victory. However for me personally nothing has EVER worked. Perhaps Mandrakesoft could work more closely with Oliver who lives and works in France? This is a fine WindowManager and should be treated as such. Some have even thought icewm was xfce because of Mandrakes paticular style of configuration. I always end up putting an .xinitrc file for each user who uses xfce into their home directory and going the startx route. Though AutoLogin as primary user works too. Sorry this doesnt answer your question but I have spent MANY hours following up on solutions from helpful and knowledgable individuals and with several years of Linux/Mandrake/XFCE use I still can't make it work right!!! Maybe you will be one of the Lucky Ones :) Good Luck William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
[expert] kapm-idled again
Why does this process keep sucking up 50% of CPU ? Other posts have asked why this is compiled by default in the later stock Mandrake kernels and I switched from kernel-2.4.0-5mdkcrypto and have been using ; kernel-2.4.1-16mdk with no problem until recently when through some rpm upgrade it has reappeared to suck the Life out of my system and eventually kill it dead. Sure I can use a different kernel or recompile but: Any way around this without recompiling? Do I really need kapm-idled ? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
[expert] XFree86-server-4.0.3-2mdk prob?
On LM 7.2 plus extras kernel-2.4.1-16mdk From: ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586 I downladed the XFree86-4.0.3-2mdk directory and files therein. rpm -Uvh the rpm files other than cyrillic and glide module All install without complaint. However now any wimdow manager shows up black, and menus are invisible. removing just the XFree86-server-4.0.3-2.1mdk.i586.rpm and reinstalling a XFree86-server-4.0.2-4mdk.i586.rpm FIXES the problem !!! All the other XFree86-4.0.3-2 rpms seem to function okay. Any ideas? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
[expert] v3ps@mail.ru bounced mail et. al.
Could the PERSON in charge of this List take care of this before we have yet another deluge of bounced or multiple messages . - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 552 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message will exceed maximum mailbox size) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to mx3.port.ru.: 421 mx3.port.ru: Too much load; please try again later ... while talking to mx5.port.ru.: QUIT 421 mx5.port.ru: Too much load; please try again later ... while talking to mx2.port.ru.: RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 552 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message will exceed maximum mailbox size 554 5.0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Service unavailable
[expert] old abiword font issue
This was addressed someitme ago and I forgot what the solution ended up being . !? For whatever reason I am now getting the infamous "AbiWord could not load the following font or fontset from the X Window System display Server" "-Times New Roman-regular-r blah blah blah etc. Does anyone remember this? Is anyone else having this problem? It had something to do with not playing well with XFree4 and one needing to add to the XF86Config file but I figured it would be uncessary by now? LM 7.2 kernel-2.4.1-16md XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk Another user masquerading as a beta-tester who would rather just see things work right ! :) Talkeetnik
Re: [expert] i686 packages in MandrakeFreq
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:45:07 -0500 "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a friendly non-thank you to the people who decided it would be a good idea to include those i686 packages in MandrakeFreq. I'm sorry my AMD K-6/2 doesn't -- I just upgraded 7.2 with MandrakeFreq using LiveUpdate on a K6-2 450 and the i686 pkgs. caused no problems on my system. Charles (-: Did you try the rpm -Uvh --ignorearch RPM_installationfilenameEnter This works for me fairly often with i686 rpms on my K2-450 if I get an "architecture complaint" when attempting to install i686 rpms. I haven't tried the the MandrakeFreq batch but give it a try and let me know if it works? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
[expert] rpm and directory not empty messages
At one time I knew the answer to this question but not anymore. When doing a rpm -ivh or -Uvh with or without --nodeps or --force I occasionally get the ; "directory not empty, cannot remove " messages. Ususally it doesn't appear to have any effect on things and I have also tried rm -rf the complaining directory and re-installing the new rpm. Same thing, it doesn't really seem to make any difference as to the functionality of the program in question. Just would like to be reminded what is happening and if anything negative COULD happen !!! ??? Thanks William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
Re: [expert] kups - Can't connect to CUPS server.
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:45:46 -0500 "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I am re-reading and studying http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html I also went to http://www.mandrakeuser.org/cook.html It contains several cups files: cups-1.1.5-3mdk.i586.rpm cups-1.1.6-10.1mdk.i586.rpm cups-common-1.1.5-3mdk.i586.rpm cups-devel-1.1.6-10.1mdk.i586.rpm cups-drivers-1.0-19mdk.i586.rpm Which are the prms I should download and try? I would rather stick to stable versions. On my working cups machines with LM 7.2 I have cups-1.1.5-3mdk cups-drivers-1.0-19mdk xpp-1.0-4mdk qtcups-1.1-2.1mdk and whatever supporting rpms necessary if any. i tried the cups-1.1.6 series and got libcups conflicts so haven't tracked down the rpms needed for that yet maybe someone else has done it. ? I did read somewhere in the cups info pages you are looking at from the Mandrakeuser site, a reference to a "can't connect to cups server" issue but don't remember where or even if it applies. Ambiguous I realize but all my brain can come up with at the moment :) Let us know how it goes! HTH Wiliam Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.
Re: [expert] Printer problem after Sound Configuration
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:55:35 +0100 "Stefano POGLIANI" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I installed LM 7.2, my sound was not working. But I did not care too much; I wanted to set up the things that really would allow me to work. I set up my HPOfficeJet G85 using CUPS, I have been configuring XPP and also SAMBA in order to have my printer available to my other W2000 laptop. Then, I decided that it was time to set up the sound. I went to a Console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and, using SndConfig, everything was working (in console mode...). Coming back to the KDE environment I discovered that the sound do not actually work (but this is the topic of another mail...) BUT THAT I LOST MY PRINTER. Others may have a more refined and immediate solution, but if I was encountering this problem. I would first of all upgrade all my cups related rpms and read the http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html If this didn't help I would try removing the sound conf. file temporarily to see if that made any difference again. Good Luck and let us know your results. William Bouterse Talkeetna Ak
Re: [expert] Mozilla configuration crash -- Why?
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:43:55 -0600 Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing Mozilla .8 (no problem with installation itself), I go into Preferences to configure it. Every single time, it crashes and sends me right back into the terminal with the error message: "Segmentation fault". I have tried just about every Mozilla .8 version (rpm, the official version, the nightly builds, the tarballs, the bz2 and so on.) and every single one crashes when you try to configure the options in Preferences. Benjamin, I have mozilla 0.8 working fine on my machine. I used the mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.8-talkback.tar.gz and the mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.8.tar.gz versions and they both work though the machine they are on is an AMD450 The i686 rpms of other programs don't install with "wrong architectur"e message. All the preferences work fine too. Just the mail usage is too slow for practical use. I do notice the mozilla site has i386rpms available! William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
Re: [expert] kups - Can't connect to CUPS server.
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:30:00 -0700 Tom Schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run kups, I get the message: Can't connect to CUPS server. Check your options! I examined /var/log/messages and /var/log/cups/*, but found nothing out of the ordinary. I tried adding "Port 1631" to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, restarting the server, and telling kups to use port 1631, but that did not fix the problem. Fresh install of Mandrake 7.2. Default CUPS options, nothing has changed. "ps auxwww|grep cupsd" shows that the cupsd server is running. /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow exist, but they only contain comments. My security level is "Medium" (I think that means 3). I can add a printer using printerdrake. I read http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups6.html Tom, did you ever get this straightened out? I would first of all upgrade the cups rpms, drivers, xpp, kups, libcups etc that are in many of the" unsupported" mirrors for i586. Then try again. A couple of times I had to reboot to get things to work as I don't always have the expertise to make the latest changes initaize. At times I have had success with upgrade and reboot. If you did get it to work let us know ! William Bouterse Talkeetna Ak.
Re: [expert] kups - Can't connect to CUPS server.
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:14:53 -0500 "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get cups to work either, etc. Are the mirrors for the updated cups rpms on Mandrake or do you mean non mandrake sources for cups? Start here and see how it goes. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/cook.html Did you also read http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html I have read it over more than once and still forget half of what it is saying, so sometimes a review helps. !!! Tills email address is also linked somewhere in the above article and he usually will answer eventually. Be resonable as he works his ass off for the Linux cause and cant always resopond to everyone . William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
Re: [expert] scanner under $150?
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:56:13 -0500 "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, it is my understanding that none of the parallel scanners work with Linux. Frankly, I can't imagine buying one these days since USB scanners are more common. Sorry to hear that. My old system does not have USB I guess I will have to continue using my ancient scanner under windows. What a shame. Jeff have you tried researching this site. ? http://panda.mostang.com/sane/ It is a great resource for Linux/scanner related issues. You can purchase an older scsi scanner and pci scsi card and they work MUCH BETTER than the USB devices. A 39$ pci scsi card with a 149$ scsi scanner for out performs the USB variety. This is what I am using on an older system without USB. The parallel port scanners were mostly a gimmick for those M$ users afraid of scsi. Once USB 2 comes out it may be different but for the forseeable future, even low-end scsi whips USB genreally speaking according to any specs I have ever seen and from personal experience. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
[expert] VMWare XFree86 4.0.2 driver source code
I don't know if this is useful but was curious whether MandrakeSoft has any plans to include these drivers or maybe has already? To quote from the Com[pany Announcement: NOW YOU CAN USE XFREE86 4.0.2 IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE In response to customer requests, VMware has ported our XFree86 3.3.6 guest X server to XFree86 4.0.2. Additionally, we are releasing the XFree86 driver source code back to mainstream XFree86.org and publishing the programming interface. This means that publicly available distributions of Linux will eventually include VMware software's drivers, making it easier to use VMware software with guest Linux operating systems. For more information about using XFree86 4.0.2 in a virtual machine, see http://vmware1.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB3220579857X992735X53070X William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
[expert] problems mounting my compactflash cards... HELP!
Hello My linuxbox is a i686 running linux 2.2.17 ( Mandrake 7.2 ). I have a Datafab compactflash usb reader that is recognized according to the usbview program and the linux-aware device list. I have the following modules running : usb-storage, usb-uhci, usbcore usb-storage was executed by myself ( insmod usb-storage ). I already have some SCSI disks on /dev/sd[a-c][0-6] . Now, how can I mount my CF card? Regards, William Gacquer (, completely lost in the USB world! )
[expert] I like cups
There has been another round of "cups bashing" lately; I for one wanted to go on record as being impressed with all the work Till has put into cups and getting the drivers for so many different printers updated. Sure there are glitches now and then, though generally for me it is due to the fact that I did not read the detailed instructions/manual available at mandrakeuser.org concerning my paticular problem or forgot what I read. There is even a way to contact Till directly though he is VERY BUSY, and I have had paticular problems solved that way. Try mandrakeuser.org before giving up. After reading ALL the documentation and exchaging emails with Till , you still can't get cups working for you then okay; nothings perfect :) William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
Re: [expert] I like cups
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:45:23 -0800 Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Gillis wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:17:45 -0900, William Bouterse wrote: Try mandrakeuser.org before giving up. I've looked there but have not found an answer to this problem. It may not be a cups problem. Can you help? I have my HP IIP set using the WWW Cups Configuration Too. It is lp and the only printer on my single computer set up. Whenever I print, from Netscape, Gedit or any other such thing I get one page with the message "@P3L JOB NAME="CUPSMATIC" and then anther page with the information follow by yet another blank page. A waste of paper and time for me, a single user, single computer system. How can I get cups just to print the pages of data and not the two extra pages? I have read all of the docs I can think of that might apply but have not come across this situation. BTW, the install was the "recommended " one. Jack, In the cups configuration tool go to help and read the "Software Users Manual". I believe this is explained under General and Banner Options. Basically the banner options are controlled under your cups configuration file. Look in /etc/cups/printers.conf. A line such as "JobSheets none none", for none, which is how I have mine set. G'Luck Larry In addition at least for me when I print from netscape on the printer command line after clicking 'print' I enter either : 'qtcups' (without ' ') or 'xpp' (without ' ' ) to get the whole range of options for printing if needed ! William Bouterse
[expert] mozilla-0.8 and mozilla mdk.
I have been working with mozilla release 8 lately and am somewhat impressed. However I still have a problem which has plagued my systems using mozilla for a long time now. The same prob with all the mdk versions. Running 7.2 with kernel 2.4.1-16mdk at 32bpp 128mg ram on AMD450 The lag time between mouse click and activation is extremely slow. Things act like they are in slow-motion or dosed with too much Thorozine. Yet when xhosting on a local machine running 7.1 with P120, 48 mgs ram and 2 mg video the whole thing runs faster and is almost enjoable!? Is anyone else running mozilla well with 32bpp etc.? Anyhow I am puzzled by this muddy situation. Thanks William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
[expert] looking for hardware recommendations
I'm going to replace my aging linux box with somethign more modern and I was wondering if there's any problems using an AMD (t-bird or duron) for my linux server. thanks, Bill
Re: [expert] mozilla-0.8 and mozilla mdk.
Tom wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2001 01:17 pm, William Bouterse wrote: I have been working with mozilla release 8 lately and am somewhat impressed. me too, specially since it's the first non-NutScrape browser that I can connect to my banking sites with. using mozilla for a long time now. The same prob with all the versions both mdk and builds from the Mozilla site. Running 7.2 with kernel 2.4.1-16mdk at 32bpp 128mg ram on AMD450 The lag time between mouse click and activation is extremely slow. everything else operates in slow motion as well to an exasperating extent. Is anyone else running mozilla well with 32bpp etc.? A week ago I compiled at 2.4.2 kernel. As is my habit, I frequently run 'free' after a kernel upgrade. I have 256mb ram, and have never gotten into swap. Consequently I've only got a 80mb /swap. From the get go, this 2.4.2 kernel, after the system is up for several hours, will start to get 50%, sometimes even 80% into /swap. Doesn't seem to notic'bly affect performance, other than Mozilla.8 seems to be one of the bigger /swap users even when 100+ mb of physical ram is available. EG, if I do a 'swapoff' / 'swapon' to empty my /swap, with no other apps open, then run Mozilla, it still gets into /swap with 100+ mb available in buffers/cache. I know none of this answers your questions, and it's too early for me to be bringing up this 2.4.2 (2.4.1 didn't get into /swap) memory deal til I've done some more investigating. but bottomline is Mozilla is a memory hog. Could be the code isn't fully cleaned/optimized yet [?] The following comparison is interesting..: netscape 4.75-9mdk using mail client" click on message CPU--4.0% MEM 10.7% click on different mail box CPU 5.6 % MEM 10.7 % mving mouse onto window to activate it CPU 3.8% MEM 11.1 % mozilla 0.8 and its mail client: click on message CPU--36 % MEM 28.0 % click on different mail box CPU 90 % MEM 26 % mving mouse onto window to activate it CPU 26% MEM 28 % The lag times are as outrageous between the two as well ! Does anyone using the mdk version versus the binary builds notice anything different? Does someone with a quad Zeon and a gig of ram have the same problem? :) Just curious as I am trying to like mozilla but I sometimes feel like I'M using a Commodore 64 or TI-99 again !! (may they RIP) BTW thanks fo r the reply Tom William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.
[expert] Followup MUO
To followup on my comments about MUO I think it is a GREAT addition to the Mandrake Community. I have been helped many times by accessing the site. I was just disturbed that it had been down for awhile and seemed to have disappeared. Now that it is BACK I am relieved. :) Maybe its due to the recent demise of Maximum Linux Mag just after I sent in my subscription renewal check !!! I kind of liked their attitude and am sorry they got shafted by their corporate OverLords. Ah Well Anyhow to quote from the Mandrake .org site: "MandrakeUser.Org is built and maintained by LSTB on behalf of Mandrakesoft SA. Its contents are provided under the terms of the Open Content Public Licence and are copyright Mandrakesoft SA and LSTB, 1999." Keep up the Fine Work People ! William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.
Re: [expert] Switching from lpd to CUPS
Alfredo Cole wrote: Hello: Can anybody point the way to instructions as to how to switch from LPD to CUPS? Will uninstalling LPD and installing CUPS be sufficient? Thank you. I have both daemons running on my LM 7.2 setup. Whether that is necessary or not is a good question!? Read over this excellent article on cups written by the prime individual who puts together the rpms for Mandrakesoft. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html Till is a very busy but helpful person who sometimes appears on this list and then disappears for another long coding session. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.
[expert] MUO Broken
Mandrake user.org has been broken for at least a week now Since moving to a new Server it has been down. I am very disappointed in Mandrake for this unacceptably long lag time in "switching over". It is certainly not a very good example to set for those conntemplating using Mandrake's expertise in the business world. As a long-time Mandrake user; I am hoping we will eventually hear a detailed explaination of the travails of the administrators/IT personnel involved. An excellant "Real World" example of the "CF-Syndrome" perhaps!? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.
Re: [expert] CUPS Help
Theo Brinkman wrote: I'm having a bit of trouble getting my printer set up properly using CUPS. The printer in question is an HP 855c running off the parallel port attached to my server. I've used this same machine as a print server in the past with lpr, and I can currently print FROM the server, but I can't seem to print THROUGH the server, and I'm not sure what I'm missing configuration-wise. One of my printers I use with cups is an HP 855c and it was auto detected from the beginning. Both locally and remotely. What version of cups, kups, cups-drivers etc. are you using? I have been able to "make this work" using both kups or 'printerdrake' from the commandline. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.
Re: [expert] qcad broken with kde 2.1
aedor Tempus wrote: I just upgraded my Mandrake system to glibc2.2 (with the glibc2.1 compat libs too), kde-2.1 final. All built and installed fine, including qcad, but whenever I try to run it, it segfaults. The qcad version I am having problems with is qcad-1.4.1. Are you saying the "final" version of kde-2.1 is exhibiting this behavior with qcad now and not before? For me it works with with : glibc-2.1.3-16mdk and qcad-1.4.1-4mdk LM 7.2 + various add ons kernel-2.4.1-16mdk XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk I don't use KDE much mostly XFCE but do have the previous betas installed and qcad works fine. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
Re: [expert] Real Player for Mandrake 7.2, Netscape 4.76
s wrote: I think the .bin version is at tucows somewhere. -s On Saturday 03 March 2001 19:15, you wrote: Anyone know where to pick up Real Player (or better, which package to pick up)? I tried downloading the i386 RPM and rpm told me wrong architecture when I tried to load it. Try this link !? http://scopes.real.com/real/player/player.html?src=010301realhome_1,010301rpchoice_h1dc=343332 I am using the RealPlayer8 binary for Linux which installed and works fine for me. rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin To quote the site: Once you've successfully completed the download, you will be ready to install the RealPlayer. To do this, you must make the installer executable and then run it: Example: chmod u+x rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
[expert] msec,Bastille,firewalls et. al.
Perhaps the MandrakeUser.org Forum site would be better for this but; I continue to be amazed at the variety of methods to achieve certain goals with Linux and being a LM user myself I have seen, asked and been subject to, many questions Re:security . One of the prime developers of Bastille Linux is now working with Mandrake. For the last several versions Mandrake has had MSEC which can vary the security and access protocols to the point that a user can lock themselves out if they aren't careful. I kind of like the straight-forward 'custom.sh' under /usr/share/msec. IP-Chains and now with the newer kernels what is it called "ip-Filtering" or something similar. programs such as pmfirewall, portsentry and others are often recommended. Making "chown jails" is a popular term for some. These are only a few and I have "dabbled" with variations of these yet still find it difficult to sus out the realationships. For instance I recently tried a fairly clean install of LM 7.2 useing "high" but not "highest" security. running nmap showed "nada" except for an xsession port open. Installing Bastille and pmfirewall on top at different intervals actually showed more ports opening up. My usual method of portsentry with rc.firewall/masq/ip-chains seemed to show about the same. Setting up proftpd to only accept verifiable users to access helped. Of course ssh2/ssh/openssh and sftp derivations help with some access issues. I have used Tripwire on occasion. Then you get into the VPN areas which I am saving for the next Alaskan Winter, and the intricacies of the mdkcrypto-kernels I have probably spent hendreds of hours over the years messing with different settings and still find myself very murky about a lot of what is really going on. Seeing the output of my log files brings home the fact that there ARE loose cannons out there some maliciously and some innocently trying to see who's door they can open and take a look around. Every time I subscribe to a List I will get more of these but thats to be expected. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have (for the command-line-challenged) like myself; A Mr Dumb GUI interface with "point and click open and close this or that port" Then A Mr Dumb GUI examine yourself, similiar to nmap or others. Installing without X is of course a fine method to those with excellant command-line talents. Maybe it makes no sense but all I know is after several years I still cannot and probably never will; decide which combo of security protocols are THE ONES. I assume the adage "it works decently well for me" is a good one untill the next Security Alert :) Thanks to all those who might have actually read this far. I guess its the same with a house or an apartment. Some have no locks or even closed doors, while some have million dollar security systems, guards, and attack dogs. Thanks for listening to my annual discourse. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak LM 7.2+ XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk kernel-2.4.1-16mdk
[expert] kernel 2.4.x-mdk and Network packet filtering
Is Network Packet Filtering enabled by default in kernel-2.4.1-16mdk ? Howabout 2.4.0.5mdksecure? Or do they need recompiling with the CONFIG_NETFILTER option enabled? Mr Kernel Clueless, aka William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
Re: [expert] gui login panel
n Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:34:29 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 February 2001 08:02, you wrote: On Sunday 18 February 2001 10:13 pm, you wrote: 1) - In theory, at least, the gui login panel should allow one to choose the window manager, and it does provide tabs for gnome, enlightenment,etc., etc. However, when I choose one of these, I always get KDE, no matter which I have chosen. Take a look in /etc/X11/kdm. There is no such directory on Mandrake 7.2 Can someone else help with this? I would like to add a menu entry for xfce. I too have noticed this prob. A clean default install has additional entries like XFce,gnome and sawfish and they activate, However if I upgrade XFce for instance it disappears. I can add the XFce entry into ; /usr/share/config/kdmrc (under SessionTypes) but then it still doesn't activate, so; I look in /etc/X11/ and see xdm and gdm but not kdm. Yet in gdm there is XFce, gnome, sawfish but not executable so chmod +x XFce -it turns green :) But next gui login it doesn't work though you can see the entry and so forth By this time I get confused and do it with the console login !? Any ideas anyone out there? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
Re: [expert] modem on boot anyone,,, please??
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:46:41 +0800 "Franki" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:p to dial on boot.. now that I have mdk7.2 I am havin no luck at all, I can dial in using kppp and gnoppp and they work fine. but not on boot, Try editing /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-ppp0 Excerpts from mine: Not all of it but should give you the idea. DEVICE="ppp0" ONBOOT="yes" USERCTL="no" MODEMPORT="/dev/modem" LINESPEED="115200" PERSIST="yes" DEFABORT="yes" DEBUG="yes" INITSTRING="ATZ" DEFROUTE="yes" HARDFLOWCTL="yes" ESCAPECHARS="no" PPPOPTIONS="" William Bouterse Talkeetna, Dk.
Re: [expert] CUPS problem
On Thursday 15 February 2001 12:57, Pierre wrote: (much more and then near the end) rpm -qa | grep cups qtcups-1.0-14mdk cups-common-1.1.6-3.1mdk cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk cups-1.1.6-3.1mdk Just out of curiosity and, before I do the cups-common-1.1.6-3.1mdk upgrade route, my 'rpm -qa | grep cups' shows libcups1-1.1.5-3mdk libcups1-devel-1.1.5-3mdk cups-common-1.1.5-3mdk qtcups-1.1-2.1mdk libqtcups1-1.1-2.1mdk libqtcups1-devel-1.1-2.1mdk cups-1.1.5-3mdk cups-drivers-1.0-2mdk You're cups drivers are several versions old if that makes any difference? Also I don't see any libqtcups for you, though of course I don't know whether that could effect the outcome as well.!? Anyhow just wondering ? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.
[expert] linux 2.4.1
I'm currently running a stock 7.2 mandrake and was wondering if there's a list of recommended rpm's to upgrade to start using the 2.4.1 kernel. thanks, Bill
Re: [expert] linux 2.4.1
What all other rpm's did you have to update? I thought there was a few things other than the kernel you had to upgrade. Bill Sujeet Bhatt wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2001 15:24, William Schwartz declaimed unto the faithful: I'm currently running a stock 7.2 mandrake and was wondering if there's a list of recommended rpm's to upgrade to start using the 2.4.1 kernel. thanks, Bill I am running 2.4.1 on 7.2 without any problems. I used the kerenel-2.4.1 rpms from Cooker for the update. Sujeet
Re: [expert] proftpd-1.2.0rc3-1.1mdk
On Monday 12 February 2001 22:16, Vincet Danen wrote: Our proftpd package is different from that you get from the proftpd web site. Instead of having the core, inetd, and standalone package, we combined it into one. Your best bet is to backup your /etc/proftpd.conf file, uninstall your currently installed proftpd packages, and then install the package from updates (single package instead of the 2-3 you will have installed now). Then restore your backed up /etc/proftpd.conf and fire it up. You should be good to go then. Thanks that did the trick! A question as a followup however; The "standalone" versus the "inetd version" I have never been clear about. I was able to enter the appropriate line into /etc/inetd.conf to make things work right away originally and have always been unclear as to the advantages and disadvantages of both methods.? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
[expert] Color Chaos in Terminal Mode?
XFree86-4.0.1-29mdk kernel-2.2.17-21mdk On one of my Mandrake machines I have a color washout in terminal mode. By this I mean running at any resolution I now notice in the terminal consoles aterm, xterm etc that the usual color schemes now are messed-up. I.e. red rpms,etc are faded blue, the directories which usually are blue now are yellow, and so on. I have switched video cards changed resolution settings etc to no avail. Also checked monitor by using another machine with it which checked out okay. I also shutdown and let the machine cool-down and rebooted, no luck? Several attempts to alter things via DrakConf have left me in a Lock-Up requiring reboot so I prefer not to mess with that for awhile. This all started from a perfectly functioning machine, probably iniated by an install of some "guilty rpm". Any other suggestions to track this down? William Bouterse Talkeetna
[expert] Ok question
WHy am i get 3 copies of each message sent to this list?
Re: [expert] Umax 1220u scanner
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 14:18, you wrote: Does anyone here have any real experiences with the umax 1220u usb scanners? I downloaded at: www.hettich.demon.co.uk/umax/ but the readme's and (not) deliverd docs leave me in a sort of limbo; I've got the stuff, and then??? Waiting, Harm Bathoorn Have you tried this place for info? If they don't have what you need , someone on their List should. http://panda.mostang.com/sane/ THE resource for Linux and scanners William Bouterse Talkeetna
