[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] 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
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
[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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
[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] 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
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.
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
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
[expert] proftpd-1.2.0rc3-1.1mdk
I recently attempted to install the new security patched proftpd-mdk rpm from a 7.2 update mirror. proftpd-1.2.0rc3-1.1mdk My home server had the earlier i386 packages proftpd-inetd and proftpd-core packages installed and working fine. I get conflicts upon an attempted -Uvh proftpd-1.2.0rc3-1.1mdk with both the previous packages. So my question is; was the security update for the proftpd-standalone rpm which I did NOT have installed or should I just force/uninstall etc? My system works fine now and I would prefer not to find myself having to tweak the various settings again !? Or is this a non-issue? Thanks for any insights on this. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.
[expert] kapm-idled Still Eating Memory
Can anyone shed some light on this. My system mentioned earlier in another post still finds itself the victim of 55-85% CPU usage from 'kapm-idled' . What is this? Why is this happening? Never have seen this in 5 years of LM use. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaskasu
Re: [expert] kapm-idled Still Eating Memory
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Angus Beath wrote: According to this from rpmfind : Advanced Power Management dock applet for the K Desktop Environment. I don't understand why a power management system uses up so much CPU time when the object of the exersize is to preserve power. Any ideas on how to get rid of it? a "locate" kapm, kapmd, kapm-idle etc. finds no mention of kapm? Then Safrax wrote: This would be a powersaving (correct me if im wrong please) and heat reducing feature. It sends a command to turn your cpu off when its not doing something and this command shows a false usage. Think of the 55-85% as 55% of your cpu is off 45% is on doing something. I like this description yet high CPU state with kapm-idle involved always results in an eventuall XFS crapout. Also today it even shutdown the machine and reboot involved manually fsck'ing due to multiple inode/node errors. william bouterse wrote: Can anyone shed some light on this. My system mentioned earlier in another post still finds itself the victim of 55-85% CPU usage from 'kapm-idled' . What is this? Why is this happening? So either the cpu is getting too hot, or kapm is giving faulty info. This was not happening before installation of : kde2.1 beta2 Xfree4.0.2-4 kernel 2.4.0-5crypto I guess tracking down the culprit could prove interesting. Help with where to find and disable kapm might be nice. Thanks for the help so far people! William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
Re: [[expert] Xfree86 4.0.2] NG
Try these. They installed fine on my LM 7.2 with rpm -Uvh over the 4.0.1 , and run fine except for some bizzarre behavior when left up and running for more than a few hours. Probably a video/memory prob on my part? ftp://ftp.mandrakeuser.org/pub/MUO/unsupported/RPMS/X/ BtW the mandrakuser.org site is well worth bookmarking and visiting regularly. William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska
[expert] kapm-idle Memory Leak
On a machine with ; XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk 2.4.0-5mdkcrypto kernel kdebase-2.1-0.20010122.5mdk series being installed recently . This happens no matter which WM I use; even low resource ones like XFCE,BB,IceWm, all end up dissolving as kapm begins to suck the system dry. kapm-idle begins using 75-85% of an AMD450 122mgR which I now imagine has been the culprit which has been causing nightly crashes which I discover in the morning. I can kill -9 the pid and it will go back to its "killed" pid but now be at a nice 0.0% (What gives here?) Then at some point which I have yet to discover it gets hungry again !!! Is this a big memory leak or my leaky brain missing the obvious? :) William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
[expert] Re: Umax Scanner ISA SCSI Card - Workable?
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I have a Umax 1200S and a Umax scsi (ISA) card that came with it. Have any of you had success in getting that card recognized and functioning? Try the SANE site and if it doesn't offer an answer their Mail List group is very helpful. http://www.mostang.com/sane/ William Bouterse Talkeetna
Re: [expert] Stop Auto_login
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, dany allard wrote: I can't figure out how to stop mandrake 7.2 from automatically logging me in? Dany Allard /etc/sysconfig/autologin AUTOLOGIN=yes EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/startx USER=whomever Change the yes to a no That should do it! Otherwise ; rpm -e autologin-1.0.0-3mdk (or pertinent rpm) William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
[expert] rp8.bin works for me
rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin works fine for me on a LM7.2 system. I just had to change the appropriate settings in netscape to point to the new binary instead of pluggers rp7 and it comes up fine with verson rp8 as well ! the "weird" rpm did NOT work for me with the same "error" message as everyone else. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
Re: [expert] Autologin question
This is in reply to the question about disengaging the Auto-login option. Look in /etc/sysconfig/autologin AUTOLOGIN=yes EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/startx USER=bill Change things around ! i.e. AUTOLOGIN=no As far as the gdm and kdm prob I have had difficulty adding new windowmanagers to the list of choices. for instance in; /usr/share/config/kdmrc I add window managers to the list but they don't execute. What am I missing there!? William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Re: [expert] To mail list experts re this list
I nominate Listar In 5 years of other Lists never saw a problem with it. I too value and support the Mandrakesoft movement and their employees. I have personally corresponded with Denis and others even having lunch at a Greek Restaurant with one of them. However as much as I hate to say it the Mandrake-Lists have had more "trouble" with day to day functioning than any other List I have ever been associated with in 5 plus years of Linux "listing". Heck even a couple years ago they were still getting porno-spam on the cooker-list. Ah well I still use their product and value the expertise of this group. Its just dang aggravating :) William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska (a staunch advocate of Linux-Mandrake)
Re: [expert] 7.2 and sane
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:49:05 Jim Gallagher wrote: Anyone have sane working with 7.2? I'm trying to use the following packages: sane-1.0.3-2mdk xsane-0.60-1mdk Unable to scan from xsane or from gimp 1.1. I had it working prior to installing 7.2 I am using sane-1.0.3-2mdk xsane-0.64-1mdk Works fine with my LM 7.2 ? Both xsane and gimp play nicely together. Actually the combo of xsane, sane and gimp has worked for me since LM 6.0 days. One of the times each upgrade has NOT fouled up a previously working system !? Sorry to hear it isnt the same in your case. Good Luck! William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
[expert] Why Sympa?
For the last couple of years I have seen mandrake-lists, cooker,newbie and expert struggled with the machinations of Sympa. Is there a paticular reason MandrakeSoft continues to use this List Manager Software Package? I have not seen it used in years on the dozen or so Lists I have subscribed to from time to time. Someone must REALLY like it! I have seen List Managers come and go on many Linux related Lists and I can only find Sympa being used by MandrakeSoft.!? Just curious? (and often wrong) :) William Bouterse Talkeetna
Re: [expert] Xfce
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 02:11:05 rob wrote: I have recently been using Xfce as my window manager and am very happy with its zip and economy of resource usage. However, I am starting to become quite irritated with a recurring appearance of a box that pops up entitled: Subprocess Diagnostic If anyone has a clue as to what the above is all about and how to prevent what is happening, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Rob Rob! I have been using xfce for several years as my main WM. Click on the "pallette looking icon on the main-panel above the "quit" button. Click the XFce tab Unclick the "Show subprocess diagnostic dialog" Click "Apply" then "okay" That "should" take care of it. William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska
[expert] Bt 878, bcast2000 et al
WinTV-Go model 190 Harddrake identifies it as Bt 878 LM7.2 -- kernel-2.2.17-21mdk video yes sound no I have video working I Cannot get a squeak from sound. xawtv gives static, bcast2000 give silence. I do have the little audio patch cord in place between tv card audio out and sound audio in. Sound card works great for everything else! Any help would be appreciated William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska
[expert] pppd becoming unstable
My ppp connection has become very haphazard. At times I will have to kill, restart, dozens of times before it takes. It will work fine but when it dies for whatever reason it now becomes a major chore to get it back up again. ps ax shows it running and external modem lights are all on but no connection to the outside world. Lm 7.2 with various updates but no cooker stuff this time ! kernel-2.2.17-21mdk ppp-2.4.0-3mdk My isp hasnt changed anything as far as I can tell. Any help to track this down would be appreciated to lessen the need for a clean install. This all worked fine for several months. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
[expert] evil spawn of httpd and ssl
I have had no luck restoring my secure web-server. If I have to reinstall I will. However since first rpm -Uvh the openssl-0.9.6-4mdk I have had problems. I removed that one and reinstalled the openssl-0.9.5a-8mdk Still no luck and now on reboot I am getting multiple httpd starts /var/log/messages shows httpd: [Wed Jan 10 11:56:55 2001] [warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence. I dont see anything unusual in /etc/httpd/conf/ssl/mod_ssl.conf https://localhost gives network error broken-pipe apache rpms from the LM72 upgrade i.e. apache-1.3.14-2mdk etc. with mod_ssl-2.7.1-2mdk This was all working nicely with certificate, autentication etc. See previous posts re: openssl-0.9.6-4md Any thoughts? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
[expert] non-glibc2.2 cups-1.1.5-5.mdk
Mogens Jger spake; I have tried to upgrade to the CUPS-1.1.5, but then I have to upgrade the glibc to 2.2 first, Greetings! I am not using glibc 2.2 ! I am using cups-1.1.5-3mdk et. al. from the "unsupported list" which is supported very well by Till, Chris and others. Try an ftp at atik.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586 William Bouterse Talkeetna
Re: [expert] Re: Epson or HP Printers
On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:29:31 Jim Dawson wrote: The Epson Color Stylus 900 (about $400 the last time I priced one) is pretty nice, My father-in-law has one (albeit for Windows use) and is very pleased with it. I have an Epson C.S. 860 (about $150-200) and it works quite well under both Windows and Linux. Would some one please reco either an Epson or HP printer in the US$500 range for use with Mandrake 7.2 and up. TIA I recently acquired a Epson 900 from CompUSA for the steal of a price of 179$ !!! This was an amazingly excellant buy! I have also used several HP's sucessfully however I recommend to anyone considering buying a new printer for Linux to read through the very informative pages at http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups.html#buyprinter Through them I decided to buy the Epson and it is VERY NICE!!! A caveat for all color-inkjets is of course the coast of the print cartridges. The bw and color for the Epson set me back nearly 70$ for both and the HPs are not much better. William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska
Re: [expert] openssl-0.9.6-4mdk causes error
On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:57:49 Rusty Carruth wrote: William Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installing this rpm disabled my previously successful ssl setup with error message on bootup: httpd: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/httpd/conf/ssl/mod_ssl.conf: Jan 8 15:25:34 home httpd: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libssl.so into server: /usr/lib/apache/libssl.so: undefined symbol: sk_X509_NAME_value Jan 8 15:25:34 home AESctl: httpd startup failed I've not used that one, I'm using: [root@fw /root]# rpm -q openssl openssl-0.9.5a-3 , I'll take a stab or two in the dark: 1. what does 'ls -l /usr/lib/apache/libssl*' say? 2. what does 'locate libssl.so' say? [root@home bill]# ls -l /usr/lib/apache/libssl* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 152440 Oct 24 15:30 /usr/lib/apache/libssl.so* [root@home bill]# locate libssl.so /usr/lib/libssl.so.0 /usr/lib/apache/libssl.so /usr/lib/libssl.so /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6 The only difference in the above and a working version is it used to have usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.5 /etc/httpd/conf/ssl/mod_ssl.conf files are the same Any more ideas anyone? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
[expert] openssl-0.9.6-4mdk causes bootup error
Installing this rpm disabled my previously successful ssl setup with error message on bootup: httpd: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/httpd/conf/ssl/mod_ssl.conf: Jan 8 15:25:34 home httpd: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libssl.so into server: /usr/lib/apache/libssl.so: undefined symbol: sk_X509_NAME_value Jan 8 15:25:34 home AESctl: httpd startup failed LM 7.2 Any suggestions? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
[expert] kppp dies and doesnt restart
Do these messages give any hints to my problem. It has never happened until recently. LM 7.2 with odds and ends. [root@home bill]# kppp Couldn't find interface ppp0: (null) Kernel supports ppp alright. Couldn't find interface ppp0: (null) ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! DCOPServer : slotTerminate() - sending terminateKDE signal. kdeinit::LAUNCHER_TERMINATE_KDE - terminateKDE The ppp0 'not found' has always been there but kppp still worked until recently. 'ps ax' shows kppp still active and I have to kill the pid I have kppp options set to redial after connection timeout. Any thoughts? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
[expert] ATI-tv-video-software for Linux
To add to a previous email For those who haven't already found it The latest devels and software, info etc. for ATI ALL in Wonder Cards can be found at http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ Good Luck William Bouterse Talkeetna
Re: [expert] tv software
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:33:21AM -0800, Tom Berkley wrote: win98se or win2k using the ati drivers. tom berkley ps sorry, just couldn't resist. I use an ati pci tv card in my win2k box primarily because linux does not have any support for that card yet. Steve Young wrote: i have an all in wonder 128 pro and i was wondering if anyone knew of software that would make the tv inputs and output work gatos is installed on LM 7.2 my version is gatos-0.0.6-0.2303.5mdk With the proper connections pluged in user# gatos see if anything happens Go to http://www.freshmeat.net search for gatos You nay-sayers may be surprised My All-in-Wonder PCI works I know of others working fine as well! Being in the nature of things, sometimes its "plug it in and fire it up" other times you pound your fist on the keyboard and sell out to the "Dark Side" :) William Bouterse Talkeetna
Re: [expert] X problems at X-mas
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:57:37PM +0100, EagleIce wrote: Hi all! One day when I wanted to boot into Mandrake 7.2 as user on my homebox, I couldn't get into KDE2 or HelixGnome or anything else at the login page. As root it was OK, so I changed /etc/inittab into runlevel 3, boot again and tryed to log into X using 'kde' as command, but it didn't work. Only 'startx' works and then I get into Enlightenment, to my great relief I can change windowmanager to Icewm from there. But I want to use KDE2 and HelixGnome! Is there someone out there who can inform me about what I can do about this? Thank's in advance, ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux KDE ~~@ There are many ways to do this but the way I usually do it is: create .xinitrc file at userwhomever# vi .xinitrc (or whichever editor you prefer) startkde or gnome-session or whichever window manager you want then save the file. So user SillyWilli has an .xinitrc file with only the preferred WM this way you can eperiment with different or the same user and Window Managers I rarely use runlevel 5 and often instead have half a dozen different WM running at the same time. Just my eccentric habit :) William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska
[expert] Re: Multiple Messages
Apologies for the multiple messages sent by mistake However I am receiving many multiples from various individuals to this list. Is anyone else getting repeat messages? William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Re: WP 8 still won't print to CUPS
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:32:03 William Bouterse wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:33:23 Till Kamppeter wrote: First, start the CUPS-LPD mini daemon, so that CUPS emulates an LPD daemon on the same machine with the same LPD queue names as there CUPS queues are named. See on http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups4.html#lpdcl how to set up the CUPS-LPD mini-daemon. Second, make sure that WordPerfect outputs PostScript, because CUPS translates the PostScript to the printer's native language. Do not use the printer-specific drivers of WordPerfect, choose something as "Generic PostScript Printer". Till I am using WP 8 the boxed set from a year or two ago. It had worked flawlessly before even with your very thorough instructions I have yet to get my HP 855c working properly. The closest to "generic postscript" I could find was "pass-through postscript printer" That worked for black/white greyscale. However no color combos with or without postscript seemed to work for me. I would be glad to burn a copy of this cd for you if it would help debugging.? Till, I will gladly send you my original WP8 "Boxed Set" CD if thats what it might take to have other WP 8 users have printing working for them .. and for me!!! I still have had no luck even with your helpful directions on mandrakeuser.org.!? Any more ideas? Perhaps another WP? (But WP 8 works nicely for basic stuff and The templates can be useful) !!! Anyhow Ive tried most of them and can always revert but would like to track down this mystery. It is probably something obvious I am still missing !? William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] WordPerfect won't print to CUPS
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:33:23 Till Kamppeter wrote: "Ronald L. Chichester" wrote: Has anyone figured out how to get WordPerfect to print to a local printer designated under CUPS. WordPerfect only seems to want the old lpr. I have designated my local printer as lp, and have set up WordPerfect to print to lp. I know that CUPS sees the printer because the test page prints correctly. However, WordPerfect doesn't seem to catch on. First, start the CUPS-LPD mini daemon, so that CUPS emulates an LPD daemon on the same machine with the same LPD queue names as there CUPS queues are named. See on http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups4.html#lpdcl how to set up the CUPS-LPD mini-daemon. Second, make sure that WordPerfect outputs PostScript, because CUPS translates the PostScript to the printer's native language. Do not use the printer-specific drivers of WordPerfect, choose something as "Generic PostScript Printer". Till Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Mandrake 6.1.and Mysql errors
On my 6.1 upgrade I get the following errors in log files erors occured while rotating /var/lib/mysql/mysql.log ^Gmysqladmin:Unkown command: 'flush-logs' error running postrotate script This Mysql install is the default setup from initial Mandrake install Am I missing something really obvious? Thanks
[expert] Re:was:removable media.The Orb anyone?
Anyone heard of Linux using "The Orb", ? Its a 2.2 gig removable media at $199 plus 30$ a 2.2 gig disk, definitely the best buy on the market. Been out less than a year. Scsi, Parallel, or internal IDE I would like one myself. If anyone else has any experience with these please let us know !!!
