Re: [expert] Gnome and a dialer app?
that's right... it conflicts with initscripts and ppp it wouldn't install - I have no idea how to resolve these issues so just gave it away. Cheers anton Anton. Don't use dialup ATT myself but I think the rpm you need is called gpppwrap just do urpmi gpppwrap and try it out. James Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't generally use gnome (and haven't tried it for at least 6 months or more). Last evening, in trying to locate where the problem resided with regards to my desktop and sound (or lack thereof) I started up Gnome 2.4 for the first time. Pretty nice actually. I was pleasantly suprised. What I didn't find, however, was a dialer app like kppp. I would swear that I installed all the gnome stuff when I installed 9.2 but perhaps I missed something? Is there not a dedicated gnome dialer? What's its name? praedor - -- "Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way." - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uQphaKr9sJYeTxgRAkdZAJ4n1Bc8vNLugfnt/If37abQ+Ye3swCfWfIF tCzIb0mjlNh+2bgDewBXGtA= =S0h3 -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 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] Gnome and a dialer app?
I'm using kppp in Gnome. It takes an age to start, and won't minimise into the bottom panel (or if it can then I'd like to know how...), but can't see anything else even remotely as good. I think my experiment with gnome will probably end quite soon... Anton Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't generally use gnome (and haven't tried it for at least 6 months or more). Last evening, in trying to locate where the problem resided with regards to my desktop and sound (or lack thereof) I started up Gnome 2.4 for the first time. Pretty nice actually. I was pleasantly suprised. What I didn't find, however, was a dialer app like kppp. I would swear that I installed all the gnome stuff when I installed 9.2 but perhaps I missed something? Is there not a dedicated gnome dialer? What's its name? praedor - -- "Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way." - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uQphaKr9sJYeTxgRAkdZAJ4n1Bc8vNLugfnt/If37abQ+Ye3swCfWfIF tCzIb0mjlNh+2bgDewBXGtA= =S0h3 -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
Re: [expert] test - do not read.
So you mean it was this that I wasn't supposed to read, or one of the
previous two?
A :-{)
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Re: [expert] No one answering on newbie :-(
hi Thanks for the advice. I now no longer have to change the default route in the gateway (linux) routing table. Unfortunately, after trying everything I could possibly think of, there is still nothing that makes the ME machine able to connect to the net unless I run drakgw. I did pretty much everything you said (Jack) but to no avail... I didn't set a GATEWAY in /etc/sysconfig/network because the ip that my dialup connects to switches between 202.0.46.81 and 83 and it seemed happier with policy: masqnetACCEPT locnetACCEPT fwnetACCEPT netallDROPinfo allallREJECTinfo #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE than policy: #SOURCE DESTPOLICY LOG LEVEL LIMIT:BURST masqnet ACCEPT fw masqACCEPT fw net ACCEPT net all DROPinfo all all REJECT info The thing is thatit still connects fine after I run drakgw. I tried to have a look at the log messages and see what drakgw was doing that I was not - I'm just not that clued up yet - sorry. Also, manually starting and stopping dhcpd doesn't seem to work sometimes, particularly when I disable drakgw. It takes quite a lot of fiddling to get it on at all and then it doesn't do anything. Sorry if I sound a little fresh, but I'm still learning about all this stuff! Below is most of the last part of my log messages. Directly before this is just a whole screed of modprobe entries. Can't really work out what do try next. I would hazard a guess that there is some service that drakgw is starting that is not started automatically on startup. DHCPD is not started on startup either. It is set to (in drakXServices) but doesn't. No idea why - there seem to be quite a few services checked to be started which aren't running... still lost Cheers Anton Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr0 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr1 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr2 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr3 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi0 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi1 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi2 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi3 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine drakgw[3199]: [drakgw] Have network card: eth0 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine drakgw[3199]: [drakgw] Available network cards: eth0 Oct 6 23:13:06 machine drakgw[3199]: Choosing network device: eth0 Oct 6 23:13:09 machine drakgw[3199]: Using LAN address <192.168.0> Oct 6 23:13:09 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: modprobe iptable_nat Oct 6 23:13:10 machine drakgw[3199]: Reconfiguring network parameters of eth0 Oct 6 23:13:10 machine drakgw[3199]: running: chkconfig --add shorewall Oct 6 23:13:10 machine drakgw[3199]: running: service > /dev/null shorewall restart Oct 6 23:13:11 machine logger: Shorewall Restarted Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: Configuring a DHCP server on 192.168.0.0 Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /usr/sbin/update_dhcp.pl Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: Updating CUPS configuration accordingly Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: Starting daemons Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups status >/dev/null Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd status >/dev/null Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd stop Oct 6 23:13:11 machine dhcpd: dhcpd shutdown succeeded Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/named status >/dev/null 2>/dev/null Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1878]: shutting down Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1878]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953 Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1878]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53 Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1870]: exiting Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named: named shutdown succeeded Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_down >/dev/null Oct 6 23:13:12 machine network: Shutting down interface eth0: succeeded Oct 6 23:13:12 machine network: Shutting down interface ppp0: succeeded Oct 6 23:13:12 machine ifplugd[836]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 down'. Oct 6 23:13:12 machine ifplugd[836]: Program executed successfully. Oct 6 23:13:12 machine ifplugd[836]: Exit. Oct 6 23:13:12 machine network: Shutting down loopback interface: succeeded Oct 6 23:13:12 machine network: Disab
[expert] No one answering on newbie :-(
Sorry but there is a stony silence on newbie... there seems to be a lot of political traffic though... if this is not the place to be asking the sorts of questions I'm asking could someone please direct me to the right place? Thanks Anton Hi, I am trying to set up my mandrake 9.1 box to be the gateway to my recently created network with a single windoze ME machine on the private subnet. I have finally managed to get the ME machine able to reach the outside world but to be honest I can't really work out how! I tried pretty much everything and nothing worked... and then it just started working. My general process was to just keep running drakgw until the damn thing worked - finally it did. (i tried knetfilter, and everything else I could get my hands on, but I'm still a newbie...). The problem is this. EVERY time I want the ME machine to work I have to rerun drakgw. Not only that, however, but I have to go in and manually reset the default to the dialup address, as running drakgw always seems to put the default back to my home net interface (ethernet). What is going on here? Also simply booting up the ME machine resets the default route to the address of the local subnet interface! (even though it be on the dialup after connecting to the net) Another issue is that the dhcp doesn't seem to be working. I originally set up a network with XP (which I also have on the mdk9.1 box) and used a disk created by the xp wizard to get it going. Somehow ME always manages to set the IP address to 192.168.0.163, and the gateway to 192.168.0.1 - what it originally had for the xp network. Mdk9.1 seems to want to have a subnet starting with 192.168.1.1 but ME isn't listening to the dhcp (which I guess should be running, as it seems as if that is what it says it is doing) and just sets itself to 192.168.0.163. If I set the mdk9.1 to statically come out with 192.168.0.1 then, as long as I rerun the config tool, keeping the IP addresses the same for dns and others then after I reset the default I can access the net with both machines. This is an enormous amount of hassle and I'm sure there is something silly I'm not doing. Any suggestions? Cheers Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Read/Write permissions on a VFAT partition
Submitted 03-Jan-01 by duane voth: > Woah, hold on, do you mean to say that umask now also controls > the permissions of mounted filesystems?! (and I *presume* that > umask must be set *prior* to running mount) On filesystems like vfat which do not have support for permissions. And the umask is a mount option set in /etc/fstab or as part of a -o parameter to mount > Why arn't world read/write permissions command line options for mount?? > (where they belong!) see above -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..." -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: [expert] CUPS printing...
Submitted 01-Jan-01 by Mark Weaver: > I just had an epiphany. CUPS PRINTING SUCKS!!@#Q#$%#!#@! I agree, which is why I don't use it. May I suggest that you remove all printer queues, deinstall cups, install lpr and rhsprintfilters (and anything else you may need). Then configure using "/usr/sbin/printerdrake --lpr". This undocumented option (and I have complained about the lack of documentation before) forces it to configure the old fashioned way :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. -- David Bowie
Re: [expert] Which file to change between gdm & kdm login?
Submitted 30-Dec-00 by EagleIce: > Which file is it I use to change the default login page from gdm to kdm in > Mandrake 7.2? /etc/sysconfig/desktop Contents of the file should be only one word, KDE, GNOME, or AfterStep (capitaliation is important). These correspond to kdm, gdm, and xdm respectively. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Do not meddle in the affairs of the undead, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] 2.4 and ReiserFS
Submitted 23-Dec-00 by Reggie Burnett: > How do I install the 2.4 RPM on a Reiser system and have it work? When I > boot, I get a kernel panic trying to mount / You don't... ReiserFS is conflicting with something in current 2.4 kernels. Chmoel is working on it. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Death comes on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower; Each season has its own disease, Its peril -- every hour. -- Reginald Heber
Re: [expert] Unmount supermount without reboot
Submitted 22-Dec-00 by Viktor Lakics: > Does anyone know how to unmount (suspend supermounting) a supermounted > removable disk without editing out the corresponding entry in fstab and > reboot? Eg. to use ext2fsck on a zip disk? umount /mnt/zip -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..." -- Hunter S. Thompson
[expert] PUMP or DHCP (Client)
I always used PUMP under RedHat. Any suggestions as to whether to use this or the DHCP client under mandrake 7.2? Experiences and warnings? /a Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] script to change upper to lower case
Submitted 16-Dec-00 by Praedor Tempus: > Thank you. A starting point, at any rate. I am not wanting to change a > single file from uppercase to lowercase, but actually want to change all the > filenames in a directory from uppercase to their corresponding lowercase > version (a directory full of fonts - PFBs and AFMs that need to be lowercase > names). for i in *[A-Z]*; do mv -v $i $( echo $i | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' ); done Should work for sh, bash, and zsh. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Chinese fonts in Netscape?
I'm studying Chinese and in the course of my studies I am occasionally required to visit chinese wbsites that do not use Pinyin (Romanized spellings). I have installed the various chinese font packages, but Netscape shows only hollow squares in the place of characters. I have read the Chinese howto, fiddled with netscape settings, etc; but cannot seem to find the source of the problem. Any insights would be appreciated. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] script to change upper to lower case
Submitted 15-Dec-00 by Praedor Tempus:
> Someone once posted a simple script for changing upper case letters to lower
> case, I believe, in this list. I didn't keep the message but I now have need
> of this script. Could someone please post such a script?
I use the following function to accomplish it:
function tolower {
tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'
}
and then just echo or cat the text and pipe it through the function (i.e.
cat file.txt | tolower > filenew.txt )
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Re: [expert] suddenly problems with the soundcard
Submitted 14-Dec-00 by Michael Schurr: > I've been using Mandrake 7.1 for several weeks without any problems. > Suddenly the soundcard, an Ensoniq|ES1371 [AudioPCI-97], stopped working. I > didn't changed anything at the system. So I started "sndconfig" again, the > soundcard was detected, but before the sound expample is played, the > following message apears: Mandrake doesn't, by default, use sndconfig for this reason. sndconfig writes to /etc/conf.modules, while Mandrake, in compliance with the PTB has deprecated the use of that file. copy the information sndconfig writes to /etc/conf.modules into your /etc/modules.conf file then remove the conf.modules. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Postfix - YIKES!
Submitted 12-Dec-00 by Chris Spencer: > This really sucks because at the moment I have a fetchmail > job running every five minutes to get my mail from the local ISP mail server. Why not run fetchmail as a daemon instead of from a cron job? > How can I stop cron from sending email? Thanks... Redirect all output from the job to /dev/null and cron won't have anything to mail. cron assumes that any output from the job is important and mails it. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. -- Rebecca West Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 7.2, alsa, and yamaha DS-XG
Submitted 11-Dec-00 by Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS: > My problem is getting the sound to work. > It is a Yamaha DS-XG, mandrake chose to use Alsa, and that is fine. However all I get > for sound is a continuous noise. What do I need to look at to get this card working? from my /etc/modules.conf: ## ALSA Sound Driver ## ## Genaral ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 ## Support for Yamaha Card alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ymfpci options snd-card-ymfpci snd_index=0 snd_id="YMFPCI" ## OSS/Free compatibility portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ## Ensure the OSS compatibility portion gets loaded post-install snd-card-ymfpci modprobe snd-pcm-oss -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] RPM Error: Wrong Architecture in LM 7.1
Submitted 08-Dec-00 by Bob Puff@NLE: > This is pretty much a stock install from a 7.1 disk (on a 486 system). And that's the problem. Mandrake packages are built for i586, a newer architecture. While certainly some packages will run fine on your 486, it's a game of russian roulette as you will get segfaults caused by illegal instructions whenever an app issues a 586 instruction. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox [Douglas Adams, "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy"] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Supermount
Submitted 06-Dec-00 by Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]: >> Supermount in and of itself doesn't need to be a module, however your >> initscripts assume it will be and disable it at boot time if they can't >> find the module. (I sent in a patch before the 7.2 beta cycle but it >> wasn't included). > So, how do I re-enable it? First, comment out the portion of /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime that disables it. Then /usr/sbin/supermount --enable. After that, check your fstab to ensure that it is correct. Finally, mount -o remount -a. That should fix you right up. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Supermount
Submitted 05-Dec-00 by Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]: > It HAS to be a module? I just built it in the kernel... Can't find anywhere > in the README that it HAS to be a module.. :) Supermount in and of itself doesn't need to be a module, however your initscripts assume it will be and disable it at boot time if they can't find the module. (I sent in a patch before the 7.2 beta cycle but it wasn't included). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. -- Muad'dib [Frank Herbert, "Dune"] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Need rsh capability in Mandrake 7.2
Submitted 04-Dec-00 by David C. Hoos, Sr.: > Hi, > I looked for rsh, but didn't find it. Is it in some rpm? > Thanks a lot for the quick reply. (%:~)- rpm -qf $(which rsh) rsh-0.17-4mdk -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Who Is List Maintainer?(time for Sympa retirement?)
Submitted 30-Nov-00 by Ron Stodden: > Huh? This will plainly break the threading of replies to the message > you dropped! You cannot presume anything about which of the > duplicate messages a respondent will choose to reply to. Not true. Each of the duplicates has an identical Message-Id header, and this recipe simply kills messages with identical msgid's. Because the duplicates are in fact duplicates (identical in every respect) it doesn't matter which copy of it is replied to, as the In-Reply-To: and References: headers (generated by better mailers for threading purposes) will use the message ID. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Aurora Instalation
Submitted 28-Nov-00 by Hector Facundo Arena: > Mmm no. nothing happens... the same old-style bootup mode... > Am I missing something? > Hector Facundo Arena. Have you set a frambuffered video mode? Please refer to the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/ for a listing of modes. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request There is nothing wrong with writing ... as long as it is done in private and you wash your hands afterward. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ppp-on-demand
Submitted 22-Nov-00 by Dovydas Kulvinskas: > Another problem which is tricking me, that it calls ISP every 3 min, I > think that i'm doing nothing, no requests to internet. Could you look through > the info before, maybe i somewhere made a mistake and it loop's? Nothing I can see there. I did read somewhere recently that some service (CUPS?) was open to the outside and keeping on-demand lines open. If I'm correct there should be an update available via MandrakeUpdate for it. > Finally where to put line M0L0 to shut up my modem speaker? I put such things in the script in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 after the modem init string and before dialing. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry!" Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Glibc_2.2
Submitted 21-Nov-00 by Ryan La Mothe: > I have a question...What is the deal with EVERY SINGLE RPM needing > Glibc_2.2? What is exactly is the reason and how do I acquire Glibc_2.2 > without seriously messing everything up on Linux? Sounds like you've run into the problem that many of us are wrestling with. Mandrake development has moved on to glibc 2.2 and gcc 2.96, and as such anything being currently packaged specifically for Mandrake will require glibc 2.2. The solution for me has been to download .src.rpms and rpm --rebuild them on my box. While this does entail compiling, it will also keep your box all RPM as you stated was your desire. glibc 2.2 is available on the Cooker mirrors, but it is in a state of flux atm, and I wouldn't suggest upgrading it for at least a week. I believe there is also a compat RPM that contains the glibc 2.1 libraries. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. -- Flaubert Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ppp-on-demand
Submitted 22-Nov-00 by Dovydas Kulvinskas: > 6. ppp0 starts on-boot, and ppp0 is default route. Starting ppp0 it > hangs & exits with error mesage: "Bringing up interface ppp0: Failed to > activate ppp0, retrying in the background" This is an *old* bug. if you bring up a ppp on demand connection during boot it will always report failed, but will actually be up. This seems to be because the ifup scripts don't get run until you actually activate the interface. What I did when using an on demand connection was configure it normally (not at boot) and then added "/sbin/ifup ppp0 &" to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local > 7. i start my "/etc/ppp/masq start" > 8. i start "pppd :10.0.0.2"(And here it hangs and doesn't gives > me back prompt, is it ok?) More than likely. Try accessing the 'net afterward. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Death comes on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower; Each season has its own disease, Its peril -- every hour. -- Reginald Heber Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.2
Submitted 20-Nov-00 by Gary DeMontigny: > Python. When I try to upgrade to the lastest cooker version of these > application they require the latest glibc, libstdc++. If I try to > install these libraries I have serious compatibility problems with other > libraries and other applications. Is there a work around for this. Cooker is the development version of LM and generally unstable. It is particularly so at present with the libraries being in flux and the current use of gcc 2.96. That said, if you don't want to run into compatibility problems you should download the source RPMS and recompile locally as much of contrib and most of cooker have now been built with libraries and a compiler that are not part of your 7.x distribution and any c++ binaries generated by gcc 2.96 are not binary compatible with 2.95. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken -- there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude. -- Maxwell Bodenheim Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 3Dfx OpenGL acceleration breaks after changing resolutions, and doesn't come back.
Submitted 19-Nov-00 by Sean, Sharon & Kyle Harbour: > Oh yeah, if I set the resolution to 32bit, 1280x1024, the way I like it, > during the install, OpenGL 3dfx's accelleration only works at 16 bpp under any OS. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request If you think the pen is mightier than the sword, the next time someone pulls out a sword I'd like to see you get up there with your Bic. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Accelleration for Voodoo3-2K PCI
I seem to be unable to get the tdfx module to load properly and am thus unable to get any accelleration. From looking at the XF86 (v.4.0.1) output (attached), it appears that it is attempting to load agpgart first, which reports device or resource busy. Does anybody out there have a PCI Voodoo card with working accelleration? And if so, could you clue me in to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks :) Attachments: xmsgs, XF86Config-4 -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs XFree86 Version 4.0.1 / X Window System XFree86 Version 4.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 1 July 2000 Release Date: 1 July 2000 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.2.17-21mdksmp i686 [ELF] Operating System: Linux 2.2.17-21mdksmp i686 [ELF] Module Loader present Module Loader present (==) (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sat Nov 18 18:06:35 2000 Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sat Nov 18 18:06:35 2000 (==) (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown. (==) (==) ServerLayout "layout1" ServerLayout "layout1" (**) (**) |-->Screen "screen1" (0) |-->Screen "screen1" (0) (**) (**) | |-->Monitor "IBM|IBM 6553 P50" | |-->Monitor "IBM|IBM 6553 P50" (**) (**) | |-->Device "Voodoo 3" | |-->Device "Voodoo 3" (**) (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1" |-->Input Device "Mouse1" (**) (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1" |-->Input Device "Keyboard1" (**) (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) (**) XKB: model: "pc105" XKB: model: "pc105" (**) (**) XKB: layout: "us" XKB: layout: "us" (**) (**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath set to "unix/:-1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" (**) (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (--) (--) using VT number 7 using VT number 7 (II) (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0compiled for 4.0.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 , module version = 1.0.0 (II) (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0compiled for 4.0.1.1, module version = 0.1.0 , module version = 0.1.0 (II) (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) (II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project" Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0compiled for 4.0.1.1, module version = 0.1.0 , module version = 0.1.0 (II) (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (--) (--) PCI:*(0:7:0) PCI:*(0:7:0) 3Dfx Interactive 3Dfx Interactive Voodoo3 Voodoo3 rev 1rev 1, Mem @ , Mem @ 0x4200/250x4200/25, , 0x4400/250x4400/25, I/O @ , I/O @ 0x1400/80x1400/8 (--) (--) PCI: (0:10:0) PCI: (0:10:0) Cirrus Logic Cirrus Logic GD5446 GD5446 rev 0rev 0 (II) (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) (II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0compiled for 4.0.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 , module version = 1.0.0 (II) (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/mod
Re: [expert] fonts
Submitted 14-Nov-00 by Tzafrir Cohen: > Now why would you go that far? > Go to your near-by mandrake mirror, and grab the mozilla-fonts pakage, and > install it. Basically this should be it, as it runs 'chkfontpath --add' in > its post-install script. I have to agree here, as I put together the RPM's both linked from Skunk's page and on your Mandrake mirror/cd. It's 100% painless. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. -- Rebecca West Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] CP command
Submitted 14-Nov-00 by Ronnie Whipp: > cp works just fine for that; Yes, if you want to copy real files (not symlinks) and don't care about the permissions, then backing up/copying to a FAT file system is fine. But the additional information required for links and permissions is not present in a FAT file system. > I also have my ISP primarily installed in W98, > but I access the mail directories and address book from linux via soft > links. Right, but the symlinks are not on the FAT partition, they only refence files on the FAT partition. > Didn't work properly under LM7.0, as all the directories in the dos > partition had 0755 permissions, but with 7.1 they're 0777. Matter of mounting options. > I installed using 'Welcome to Crackers'security and added passwds later, if > that makes any difference. That's why your options defaulted to giving you wide open access to the FAT partitions. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] CP command
Submitted 14-Nov-00 by Maximo Monsalvo: > I try to copy a copy of my linux from the disck (ext2) to partition fat16 > mounted in my linux > but i can't copy ( link synbolik no created) This is because the FAT-16 (and -32) file systems have no ability to support symbolic links. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation." -- Nietzche, "The Will to Power" Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 7.2 is full of bugs!
Submitted 11-Nov-00 by David Mihm: > It's not in the iso from any of the mirrors - along with alot of > other -devel rpms. There are two ISO's, and most of the devel stuff is on the second. Since I don't use ISO's, I can't tell you exactly what's on which disc, but it wouldn't surprise me to discover that things like WindowMaker, AfterStep, and blackbox were also second CD packages. Part of the goal of the first disc is being able to handle base installs for the majority of new desktop users. These new users know nothing of these lower resource window managers and want something more Windows-like such as KDE/GNOME. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry!" Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 7.2 is full of bugs!
Submitted 11-Nov-00 by David Mihm: > It's also a shame that AfterStep wasn't included. :) In my local mirror of the 7.2 tree: (%:~)- ls /mnt/mirror/Mandrake/RPMS/AfterStep-* /mnt/mirror/Mandrake/RPMS/AfterStep-1.8.0.3-6mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/mirror/Mandrake/RPMS/AfterStep-APPS-2000309-5mdk.i586.rpm -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Now Trying Gnome
Submitted 10-Nov-00 by Ivan: > Hello. Hiya :) > How do I turn off this desire to have > the host authenticate its self? Add noauth to the ppp options > And if you don't mind another question, what is a good mail client similar to > kmail, that will work with out making our magically inclined friends mad? I've heard good things about balsa. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox [Douglas Adams, "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy"] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Expert
Submitted 10-Nov-00 by Lou Baccari:
> Hi,
> I'm having problem with 'less', if I type 'man less' I recieve the
> following errors:
> sh-2.04# man less
> There is no -= option ("less --help" for help)
Let me guess, you run 7.1 and have (t)csh as your primary shell. Even
though you are running sh in your sample, it inheritted the parent
environment. The original scripts that shipped had a bug in
/etc/profile.d/inputrc.csh where a bash user had put an = sign in a variable
assignment, causing the error you see above. There is an update availavle
via mandrakeupdate or you can simply remove the = yourself.
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Re: [expert] Has Mandrake removed xfce in ver 7.2?
Submitted 10-Nov-00 by Jeff Malka: > The new Mandrake 7.2 appears to no longer include an xfce installation or > files. At least I cannot find any in my custom installation. Does anyone > know if this was a conscious decision? On my local mirror of the 7.2 tree: (%:/mnt/mirror/Mandrake/RPMS)- ls xfce* xfce-3.5.2-1mdk.i586.rpm -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation." -- Nietzche, "The Will to Power" Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 7.2 update issue: problem with binary names
Submitted 07-Nov-00 by gene: > It turned out that emacs was installed as /usr/bin/emacs-20.7 and > gcc as /usr/bin/gcc-2.95.2 . I had to make symbolic links for > /usr/bin/emacs and /usr/bin/gcc . That should have been taken care of by "alternatives," which is part of RPM: (%:~/tf-dir)- ls -l /usr/bin/emacs lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 23 Sep 14 01:48 /usr/bin/emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 19 Oct 21 04:10 /etc/alternatives/emacs -> /usr/bin/emacs-20.7* The idea is that it's scored based on what you have installed. If you only have the emacs-nox, then that is run instead. gcc ends up linked to colorgcc if installed, otherwise to gcc-2.95.2. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. -- David Bowie Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 7.2 and nfs
Submitted 07-Nov-00 by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > /sbin/modprobe nfs > cannot locate the nfs module. > The object file is in /lib/modules/fs/nfs.o? That is indeed the module. > I added it to /lib/modules/fs/modules.dep just for the hell of it and then > did a modprobe nfs and I got a bunch of unresolved symbol errors? try depmod -a and see if it rebuilds its dependancies (and module database) correctly. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 7.2 and nfs
Submitted 07-Nov-00 by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Am I hallucinating or does the pre-built kernel shipped with 7.2 not have > nfs file type turned on? It's built as a module (like virtually everything else). > When I mount an nfs drive I get the error, "fs > type nfs not supported by kernel". Did you try "modprobe nfs"? Maybe adding it to /etc/modules so that it gets loaded at every boot? > How can Mandrake ship a kernel without > nfs turned on? See above. Since a rather large number of users have little or no use for nfs, it would be patently ridiculous to build it into the kernel. > On top of that, they do not supply the configuration file > they used to build the pre-built kernel!! And the .config file (for the umpteen-millionth time) *is* provided. Look in the /usr/share/doc/kernel- directory. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Postfix filing up my /VAR!!!
Submitted 06-Nov-00 by Bob Puff@NLE: > Hello, > My question #1: Why are these here, when I have my mail log as: > /VAR/LOG/MAIL.LOG? That has been working fine. Why is there a second > location that seems to be keeping log files forever? The culprit is not postfix, it's logrotate. The config file as shipped with 7.1 was screwy and confinually rotated the already rotated logs, eventually filling the drive. There is an update available. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." -- Francis Bacon, Of Death Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Helix Gnome doesn't work in 7.2
Submitted 31-Oct-00 by Tyler Longren: > Hi list, > I just installed Mandrake 7.2. First, I upgraded a 7.1 box, then Helix > GNOME no longer worked (there was no GNOME session option in GDM). I > figured I'd completely re-install Mandrake 7.2, a fresh install. I did > that, and again, downloaded Helix GNOME, once Helix was installed, I > used GDM for a login, and there wasn't a GNOME session option > (again)...this started happening AFTER I installed Helix. Anybody else > had problems with this? My guess would be that Helix is not compliant with the new system for defining sessions. Likely they have placed a GNOME entry in /etc/X11/window-managers which is no longer used in 7.2. Try adding the following file as /etc/X11/wmsession.d/2gnome: NAME=Gnome ICON=gnome-logo-icon-transparent.xpm DESC=Gnome Environment EXEC=/usr/bin/gnome-session SCRIPT: exec gnome-session -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind. -- Thomas Macaulay Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user
Submitted 21-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus: > Reboot? Can you not simply unmount the volume and then mount > it again? I thought that when you remount in this way, the fstab > is read again and that would be that. Indeed you can :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. -- Rebecca West Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user
Submitted 21-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus: > I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the > drive as writeable to all, but I keep getting "operation not > permitted" messages. Excuse me? As root I can do anything I > want. You can't change permissions on individual files/directories on a file system that doesn't support permissions. There's no place to store the information. > messages but I am not permitted to change one lousy mount, or > portions thereof, to be world-writeable? You need to mount it with appropriate permissions. Specifically a umask. What I did on a dual boot machine was added all users I wanted to have write access to the partition to a new group called "fatusers" (group number 527 here) then editted the /etc/fstab entry for the partition to include gid=527,umask=007. What this does is gives full read/write privileges to root and members of that group, and nobody else can even cd into the mount point. > What do I have to do AS ROOT to do this? I cannot do "chmod 777" > on it, let alone ANY other variation of chmod on /mnt/DOS_hdb6 > OR any subdirectory on it. Why not? See above. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..." -- Hunter S. Thompson Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)
Submitted 19-Oct-00 by Austin L. Denyer: > I've not tried the latest releases, but upgrading 6.5 to 7.0 didn't work - I > had to totally re-install. 6.5 wasn't really Mandrake; it was MacMillan's repackaging of Mandrake 6.1. They broke a lot of thing in it, which caused no end of headaches for many users. I was able to easily upgrade a 6.0 box to 6.1, then 7.0 and 7.1 as they came out. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." -- Francis Bacon, Of Death Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Well, well...building the NEW XFree86-4.0.1-26mdk.src.rpm
Submitted 15-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus:
> required for the build process to build glide_drv.o. No go, there is no
> glide_drv.o produced ("file not found" and I have looked for it during
> and
> after the build process to see if it is misplaced or really IS made but
> then skipped over). The module requires XFree86-server = 4.0.1-26mdk,
As I suspected, one missing file :(. Now you need to sift through the build
output for where that module is supposed to be built to find out why it
isn't (headache city).
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Re: [expert] Some more on inability to build XFree86-4.0.1
Submitted 09-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus: > I have been totally unable to build XFree86-4.0.1-23 or -24mdk.src.rpm. > It almost completes, getting to the point of doing all the "finding > rpm-requires" and "finding rpm provides" messages that usually go > hand-in-hand with binary rpm writing. Instead, it gets to a point > and just...stops. No error messages: I suspect the error message is higher up than what you show here. Could you try the build in an xterm and scroll up? I have seen this when a file in the %files section is missing from one subpackage. It processes all of the packages but generates no rpms. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] /usr/bin unuseable in msec level 4
Submitted 28-Sep-00 by Marco Fioretti: > 1) How could this happen? Security is wonderful, > but obtaining it by making commands unuseable > makes the system itself unuseable to everyone. > As far as I can remember, I selected level 4 during > custom installation and did not touch anything else > afterwards. High and Paranoid (level 4 and 5) security is not meant to be used on systems that will be used by regular users without specific knowledge. These security levels lock things down to deter their use, but don't make it impossible. > 2) If /usr/bin is unreachable, how can bash use it > and tcsh not? Is bash setuid root or something? (I > forgot to check this at home..). If so, it's bad, > isn't it? Bash is /bin/bash not /usr/bin/bash. Furthermore if you dislike the exclusion of the /usr/bin directory from the default path, you can always add it to the relevent configuration files. Also, try using an explicit path to reach /usr/bin/tcsh (and why is it in /usr/bin? It installs by default as /bin/tcsh) (%:~)- which tcsh /bin/tcsh (%:~)- rpm -qf $(which tcsh) tcsh-6.08.00-9mdk -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] kernel patch problems
Submitted 23-Sep-00 by Bruce LaZerte: > ** Reply to message from Bruce LaZerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 22 Sep 2000 > 12:21:24 -0400 > Well I went ahead and did it anyway and the results are not to bad. :) > 1) supermount is missing. Anybody know where I can get a supermount patch? One place is http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/8144/supermount.html > 2) USB interface modprobe error message during boot. Since I don't use USB I > didn't include any of the relevant code. Maybe I should put it back in the base > code? Whichever module it's trying to load, you could add to modules.conf aliased to off. > 3) CD-RW is not detected during boot up and I get a menu asking me whether to > keep trying to find it at next boot, or not. Could this be a supermount problem > as well? Or perhaps because I stripped out all the SCSI code? It's an ATAPI > CD-RW but aren't these translated into pseudo-scsi devices somewhere? You do need SCSI support for it. From memory, in addition to the ide-scsi module, you need the sg and sr_mod modules (or build them into the kernel). The sg module is used for burning and other lowlevel access, and sr_mod is needed for accessing SCSI CD-ROMs which is what the kernel is told to treat it as when you pass hdx=ide-scsi as a boot option. (replace hdx with your device, of course) > By the way, I've been told in a newsgroup that both Slackware and Debian > distributions use only plain vanilla kernels and official ftp.kernel.org > patches. As far as I can tell, only Slackware provides KDE (& Gnome). So if > you need to be at the bleeding edge and apply patches, maybe one of those > two distributions would be a better choice than Mandrake. I haven't used slack, but the vanilla kernel and no KDE is part of the Debian philosophy. The problem really is that all patches assume that they are the only patch that will be applied. Once you get more than a few, you frequently start running into conflicts. Patching something as complicated as the kernel, it is a safe bet that you will have to tinker with the patch to make it apply, especially if it wasn't written specifically for the patch level you are using. That said, I have had times that a patch applied cleanly and compiled fine, clean applications and failed compiles, and instances in which I spent days going through .rej files (and the corresponding original files) to put together a patch for the patch. That last is certainly time consuming, but it is really the only way to get some patches to apply. For example, the most recent supermount patch for 2.2 kernels is for 2.2.16, expect problems applying it to 2.2.17 or 2.2.18pre? -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Do not meddle in the affairs of the undead, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] kernel patch problems
Submitted 22-Sep-00 by Buchan Milne: > > According to Mandrake, they only patch for udma66, reiser and security > (they don't say what security, but it's not the openwall patches). There are many patches that are part of a "normal" Mandrake kernel, such as supermount, firewire, and raid patches (170 in all). A list of patches is attached (I include only the obvious ones). This list is taken from rpm -qpl kernel-2.2.17-11mdk.src.rpm -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. -- James Dean ide.2.2.17pre15.all.2722.chmou.patch.bz2 ipvs-0.9.14-2.2.16.patch.bz2 kernel-2.2.15-alpha-delay.patch.bz2 kernel-2.2.15-asm-reg-fix.patch.bz2 kernel-2.2.15-dbri.patch.bz2 kernel-2.2.15-ipmasqlock.patch.bz2 kernel-2.2.15-shmgetsparcfix.patch.bz2 kernel-2.2.16-dmfe-back-for-alpha.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.10-ibmtr.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.10-nfs-inode.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.10-rl100.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.10-shrink_all_cache.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.11-kupdate-sigstop.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-PIII-xor.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-PIII.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-SMP-scheduler.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-acertm5-apm.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-alpha-delay-fix-jay.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-alpha-objstrip-include.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-ide-dpt.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-lfs-fix.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-lfs.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-limit.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-serial_sysrq.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.14-sparc-fixes-lfs.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.15-udf.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.15-uglypatch-supermount.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-3c90x.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-aacraid-1.0.3-paths.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-aacraid-1.0.3.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-aacraid-1.0.4.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-aacraid-1.0.5.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-aacraid-1.0.6.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-acenic-0.45.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-agpdep.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-agpgart-2.4-compat.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-agpgart-i815.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-agphjlfixes.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-agpviasuper.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-alphamsnd.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-arpfilter.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-atalkports.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-bigmessage-with-vmalloc.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-cciss-0.9.9.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-ccisscleanup.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-cipe.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-cpqfcts.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-dc390-20e2.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-dc399-127.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-drm.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-e100.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-e1000.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-extradevs.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-fb-modules.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-gcc296.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-gdth.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-i2c.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-ibcs-locking.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-ibcs-rh.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-ieee1394-2616.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-iobuffix.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-ip-masq-vpn.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-irda-update.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-isdn-update.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-kaweth.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-ksym-version.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-lfs-bigmem.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-lfs-headers.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-linuxlogo.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-lm_sensors.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-loop-F1.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-loop.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-megaraid-1b08b.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-multilun.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-newagpdist.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-nobfddep.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-pci-fix.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-pcmcia-3com.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-pcmcia-config.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-pcmcia-script.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-pcmcia-xircom.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-ppSCSI-0.91.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-qlc.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-raid-B2.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-raw-fixup.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-raw-fixup2.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-rawio.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-reiserfs-3.5.25.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-reiserfs-force.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-reiserfs-formatbanner.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-resourcelen.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-sard.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-scsi-mod-unregister.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-scsi-offline.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-scsi-reservation.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-server-tuning.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-sigio.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-skfp.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-slab.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-sparc-gcc296.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-sparc-nfs.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-sparc-sysreq.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-sunpartshaddap.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-unicon_1.1.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-usb2.4.0-test2-pre2.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.16-useio.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-8139too-0.9.9.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-IO-wait.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-agp_include_fix.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-alpha-emu.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-alpha-shmmax.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-arch-ppc-rtc-config-fixup.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-bigmem-large-shm.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-bigmem.chmou.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-buf-flushing.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-buf-run-task-queue.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-buz.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-chmouvm.patch.bz2 linux-2.2.17-compile-with-libgcc-forppc.chmou.patch.bz2 lin
Re: [expert] How does LM 7.1 setup my CD-burner?
Submitted 22-Sep-00 by Viktor Lakics: > Soon I found out, that my CD-drive moved back to /dev/hdc, obviously > because of the new kernel. If I select the old kernel from lilo, I > have a CD-burner, but I do not have win4lin since the kernel > extensions are missing. > Does anyone know an easy config step (I meant loading a module, or > making adjustments) to set up my CD-burner and have the new kernel as > well? the Win4Lin installation program probably forgot to add hdc=ide-scsi to the kernel boot options. How you add this depends on if you use LILO or GRUB, but you should see the corresponding line in your setup for the original kernel. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] permissions on swap partitions
Submitted 20-Sep-00 by Ron Johnson, Jr.: > These messages appear in syslog at boot time: > swapon: warning: /dev/hda2 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested > swapon: warning: /dev/hdc1 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested > swapon: warning: /dev/hdc2 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested > Should I change column 4 to "defaults,mode=0600"? No, you need change the permissions on the devices themselves (i.e. in the /dev/ directory). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken -- there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude. -- Maxwell Bodenheim Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Public Keys in Signatures (was: Ulysses beta 2)
Submitted 18-Sep-00 by Charles A Edwards: >Charles were you aware that if anyone uses Outlook Express to read their > mail then all your post appear as attachments. There has been some discussion about this recently on the mutt mailing list, and what it actually boils down to is a broken feature in OE. It is incapable of properly handling "Content-Disposition: inline" headers and subsequently breaks the message into attachments in violation of said header. If you ever receive a PGP/MIME encoded message from a Eudora user, you will discover that OE handles that similarly: the message is transformed into an attachment to a blank body. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] RPM problem
Submitted 18-Sep-00 by tommiy: > The problem is with the comand %make world <.> in the spec file. > According to a nice 'man bash' this command attempts to bring to the > foreground a running process with make as a name. That *would* be true if the spec file were run strictly as a script. It isnt. %make is a new RPM macro that automates division of jobs in the compilation process based on number of CPUs. > Just remove the % from the %make line and everything should be much > better. Don't do this :) Upgrade RPM. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "I got everybody to pay up front...then I blew up their planet." "Now why didn't I think of that?" -- Post Bros. Comics Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] RPM problem
Submitted 18-Sep-00 by tommiy: > Just racking up the stats for what appears to be another mandrake config > problem. It's not a "mandrake config problem" it's an "I'm using the wrong version of rpm problem." The 4.0.1 SRPMS were designed to work with *current* versions of RPM (i.e. the version in cooker, not the version that was released with 7.1). The version that is undoubtedly installed on your system is missing many of the new macros necessary to building the packages. > I have just reinstalled 7.1 from scratch and I get the same error ;( Of course you are. See above. > RH is looking better all the time! To each his own :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate
Submitted 12-Sep-00 by Muzza: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote: >> not removed from the list of available updates. I would recommend upgrading >> to a newer version. > How much newer can you get then MandrakeUpdate-7.1-9mdk?? > (Obtained via MandrakeUpdate) ~> rpm -q MandrakeUpdate MandrakeUpdate-7.1-23mdk -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. -- Somerset Maugham Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate
Submitted 12-Sep-00 by BillK: > are there any documents about how MandrakeUpate works? It does not appear so. Like a great deal of Mandrake's in-house development, it seems to be under documented. > I upgraded a few days ago to the -17 versions of glibc, but after changing > mirrors to rpmfind.net, the screen showed that an upgrade to the -15 > (backwards!) was required. The version of MandrakeUpdate that shipped with 7.1 seems to be broken, in that installed updates (and releases older than that which is installed) are not removed from the list of available updates. I would recommend upgrading to a newer version. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. -- Christopher Hampton Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Internal Modem
Submitted 11-Sep-00 by Alan Blundell: > I've never understood why the default IRQs for serial ports 3 and 4 are as > they are, set to the same IRQ as ports 1 and 2. In the early days of PC's serial and parallel ports were the only things attached to your machine that the designers felt you might need more than one of. The parallel port was designed to be capable of being run without an IRQ, but serial ports (an older standard) were not. With the limit of 16 IRQ's, and several of those taken up by sytem resources (drive controllers, clock, numeric coprocessor, etc.), it was decided that by default, on machines that have more than two serial ports, ports 3 and 1 share IRQ 4 and 2 and 4 share IRQ 3. The idea being that early PC designs didn't expect that you would need to access more than two serial devices simultaneously and that you would space them so that so as to avoid IRQ conflicts when using them. If you have ever run out of IRQ's trying to configure a machine, you can see why this was an essential mechanism. As an aside, there have been similar problems encountered with the onboard BIOS's of varios cards. For example, the default BIOS address of some Promise EIDE cards (ISA) conflicts with most VGA cards. Trying to boot without reconfiguring the card results in a scrambled display and no disk activity. We have moved beyond the point that the architecture is insufficient to the demands placed on it. Certainly some of this is alleviated by PCI cards capable of sharing interrupts and some newer drive controllers being able to do the same. Even serial boards have made tremendous advances in this regard, but the architecture is limited by its roots. As the ISA bus get phased out this will become less of an issue. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..." -- Hunter S. Thompson Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing
Submitted 09-Sep-00 by Stephen Bosch: > 2.2.17 isn't an official kernel patch (i.e., it's a Mandrake patch I'm afraid you are mistaken. 2.2.17 *is* official. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation." -- Nietzche, "The Will to Power" Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing
Submitted 08-Sep-00 by Brent Hawkins: > Also, despite selecting "automount", it still won't handle supermount. Am > I missing a step somewhere or is this kernel have those problems? Where did you get your kernel sources? Supermount is *not* part of the "official" kernel available at kernel.org and its mirrors, but a patch. Also, unless you have hacked your initscripts, building supermount into the kernel (as opposed to building as a module) kills supermount at boot time. I run a 2.2.17 pre kernel and haven't seen the config problems you describe. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. -- Christopher Hampton Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Maximum file size
Submitted 08-Sep-00 by Mark Weaver: > It's not missing 1 bit. It starts numbering at '0' as opposed to > starting with the number '1'. While you are correct that the *numbering* begins at zero, we are talking about an absolute number of bits here (as denoted by the mathematical notation 2^31). 2 GB represents a 31 bit number :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." -- Francis Bacon, Of Death Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?
Submitted 08-Sep-00 by Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **: > Yes, if I do a dmesg, it shows /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. I had the modem > working great under RH 6.2 on /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5, but now "modem > busy". It's got me baffled, I've tried what seems like everything. Okay. Took a closer look at your devices and that may be where the problem lies: 5: 12 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci IRQ 5 is in fact in use by the above mentioned devices (your Apollo USB controllers), thus "Device or resource busy." Can you reconfigure the card to IRQ 9? I've had to do that with an internal modem when 5 wasn't available (jumperless soundcard took it). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request There is nothing wrong with writing ... as long as it is done in private and you wash your hands afterward.
Re: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?
Do you have other serial ports in the machine and might another of them be /dev/ttyS0? What does "dmesg | grep ttyS" show? -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." -- Francis Bacon, Of Death
Re: [expert] ALSA, SB card and conf.modules
Submitted 07-Sep-00 by D. R. Evans: > > There is nothing that tells me what to call the card (not in the > distribution that I have anyway). The driver is certainly snd-ens-1371, but > in the conf.modules I am supposed to have a line that says: > alias snd-card-0 > and nothing I have gives me a clue as to what value should take. Ignore the snd-ens-1371 bit. ALSA depends on card definitions not driver definitions. Assuming you have all the correct aliases set up to get things running for OSS compatibility and such, try: alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 options snd-card-ens1371 snd_index=0 snd_id="ENS1371" If you need the correct definitions for the rest, look at an earlier post of mine on the subject of ESS 18xx cards. > Ignoring these problems for a moment I read that in order to record audio, > once I have ALSA correctly installed, I need to issue the following: > > cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p > wherever > > But in my installation there is no card subdirectory in /proc/asound. > There is a file called /proc/asound/cards. When I cat that it simply says > "no sound cards installed". Which is very odd, because I can certainly hear > audio from the card. That directory is part of the proc filesystem and generated dynamically based on the ALSA driver(s) loaded. You won't have card directories until ALSA is running. > So I restate my plea: if someone actually has ALSA working with a Sound > Blaster AudioPCI 128 card or an Ensoniq 1371, could they please send me a > copy of their conf.modules file? Actually I don't use either card in any machine, but ALSA configuration is the same for most cards. Similar configs (with only different card definitions) work on an SB-16, ESS 1868, YMF-724D, and an ESS Solo. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf PGP signature
Re: [expert] Maximum file size
Submitted 07-Sep-00 by Ellick Chan: > 32-bit OS's typically have a 2 gb file size limit(2^31 why is it missing > 1 bit?), ext2 has that as well as Reiserfs currently. Because it's a signed long. Setting the 32nd bit would make it a negative number. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." -- Francis Bacon, Of Death
Re: [expert] multiple logons
Submitted 07-Sep-00 by Ron Johnson, Jr.:
> Would it be easier, if not foolproof, to enforce single-login
> on dumb serial terminals?
Certainly. You restrict all users to using a common shell (we'll use bash,
for this example) and source a watchdog script from the global login
configuration file (/etc/profile). The watchdog script could be similar to
the following one liner:
[ $(who | grep ${USER} | awk '{print $1}' | wc -l | sed -e 's/ //g') != 1 ] && exit
Essentially, it immediately logs out any login attempts beyond the first.
A slightly prettier version ( from the user's perspective) would be:
MaxLogs=1
Logins=$(who | grep ${USER} | awk '{print $1}' | wc -l | sed -e 's/ //g')
[ ${Logins} != ${MaxLogs} ] && {
echo This is login ${Logins} of ${MaxLogs} permitted.
exit
}
Note that this *will* detect Eterm, gnome-terminal, and rxvt as discrete
users (the terminal is opened as /dev/pts/?). xterm and konsole apparently
do not handle things in a sufficiently similar manner for this to catch them
(no pty).
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Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake
Submitted 06-Sep-00 by BillK:
> The "clearly superior" grub as someone put it is both harder to use/modify
> than lilo,
Not in my experience. Once you understand the different syntax, you
discover that it is no more obfuscated than LILO
> and documentation is less readable too (had to ask for help in how to
> reinstall after using lilo),
The documentation could stand an overhaul :)
> its only advantages seem to be overcoming the 1024 limit and a prettier
> menu!
You missed a couple:
1) Not requiring a reinstall evertime you change the kernel, initrd, or
move a file. Once it's installed, it looks at it's configuration
files (/boot/grub/{menu.lst,message}) at boot time, so you never run
into the "I *bleep* forgot to run lilo before I rebooted" mess.
2) Completely editable boot options. If you need to boot a kernel you
forgot to configure or a patition that you normally don't want available,
you can enter the appropriate parameters at boot time. For example, I
moved a DOS partition from hda2 to hdb1 and forgot to update my menu. I
entered the configuration for remapping the drive and resetting the device
(for that boot only) without having to boot linux, edit a config file,
reinstall the loader, then reboot again just so I could play a game of
Tomb Raider :)
(OT: If dosemu were 32-bit clean, I might even be able to try playing my old
games in Linux :)
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Re: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors
Submitted 04-Sep-00 by Asheesh Laroia: > What about the latest NVidia chip? Reviews I've read > (www.tomshardware.com) say they're faster. Until they stop providing binary-only drivers, no Nvidia chip is going to see the inside of a box I build. Linux support for both the Voodoo series and for SB-Live! is phenominal. The reason for this is the open source drivers. The original driver from Creative sucked. Might as well have not had sound. Within a month of it being open sourced, quality was up to the standards people expected of the card. A binary only driver locks you into a particular kernel version as well. OSS gets around this by recompiling everything everytime there is a new kernel release (2.2 series). But look at the poor souls who had Aureal sound cards and depended on binary only drivers for them when Aureal went out of business. I'm not suggesting that NVidia is in danger of bankrupcy. I am suggesting that you're going to be screwed if they decide to stop updating the drivers. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "First things first -- but not necessarily in that order" -- The Doctor, "Doctor Who"
Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly
Submitted 04-Sep-00 by D. R. Evans: > > No. It accepts the script based login just fine. It then changes gears to > PAP. Most bizaare. > (Maybe this whole thing has something to do with the takeover, since they > are now QWest. ^ That being the case, it may be time to shop for a new ISP. Not only is their tech support clueless, even when dealing with OSes they officially support, but they are know for giving people instructions that only make their problems worse. They also seem to have this annoying lack of communication internally. The end result being conflicting instructions from various tech support reps. That said, I finally convinced my wife (a Windows user) last week that her internet connectivity problems were Qwest related. For one thing, Qwest shares too many POPs with other networks (the local POP is shared by Juno and Concentric). A change to Earthlink (on an old Mindspring POP) sent her troubles away. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever depths they were once able to plumb. -- Stanley Kaufman PGP signature
Re: [expert] Auto-menu editor
Submitted 04-Sep-00 by Leopold Palomo:
> someone knows some graphical app to edit the menu?
MenuDrake (from cooker)
> or
> how to do it?
Umm.. It's fairly well documented in /usr/doc/menu-{version}, or even just
look at some of the entries in /usr/lib/menu to see how it works.
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Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly
Submitted 04-Sep-00 by D. R. Evans: > The geniuses at USWest added PAP authentication after the ordinary logon > script. In other words, you have to go through the old logon sequence and > then do a PAP dance that was never necessary before. > > Now why couldn't they have told me that instead of simply saying that Linux > isn't supported > > One also wonders what is the point of bothering with PAP, since I've > already sent exactly the same information via the terminal script. Because it's (apparently) throwing out the script based login. You never saw this under Windows because the DUN client automagically detects the authentication protocol in use. But at least you now know why they were hanging up on you :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message. PGP signature
Re: [expert] Internal Modem
Submitted 31-Aug-00 by Charles A Edwards: > To make this perm. you will need to edit your rc.local file which is located > in the /etc/rc.d directory. Add the 2 setserial lines to the end of this > file Save the changes and reboot your system. Actually, those lines should go into the file /etc/rc.d/rc.serial (which is sourced from rc.sysinit). rc.local is not run if the system boots into runlevel 1, and runs at each runlevel change when talking about levles 2-5. By putting the lines in rc.serial, the modem is configured to work even when you boot into single user mode, and is a valid device when kudzu does it's little detection thing when levels 2-5 start. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message.
Re: [expert] Internal Modem
Submitted 01-Sep-00 by Yosuda: > said Linux and BSD havent support for internal Modem...is that true > ???.. Absolutely not. More than 90% of ISA internal modems and a small but growing percentage of PCI modems are "real" modems and are fully supported under both Linux and *BSD. As far as detection goes, most internal modems that are supported do not use the irq's that linux automatically assigns to them (3 and 4). As a result, you need to determine this information, and put it into your configuration file. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
Re: [expert] How to see IP address?
Submitted 01-Sep-00 by Sarang Lakare:
> Whats the command to get IP address of u're machine? The only way I know of
> is thru kppp when using modem... I am talking of dynamic IP addresses
> here.. I want something which i can put in a script!
Assuming that you have only one network connection, i.e. a dialup without a
lan, you can do:
/sbin/ifconfig | grep addr | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{print $2'}' | awk -F: '{print
$2}'
(That should be all one line.)
HTH
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Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93
Submitted 31-Aug-00 by Jesper Holmberg:
> Well, what would be the difference between running init 3/5 and a soft
> reboot? In my opinion, it's the same thing. Both ways, init is the
> first process to start. Not rereading bios settings is the only difference I
> can think of. Init is in effect a reboot.
Umm just changing runlevel with init also means no processing of all the
instructions in /etc/rc.d/rc.{sysinit,serial,firewall} which define the
basic operation conditions for the system. These include mounting
partitions and swap, setting the clock and hostname. initiating devfs,
isapnp detection, loading of modules from /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, starting
RAID devices, and execution of the mandrake_everytime script. So yes, there
is quite a lot of difference between the two ideas.
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Re: [expert] Converting Partition Types
Submitted 30-Aug-00 by Benjamin Reed: >> Is it possible to change a Type 85 (Linux Extended) partition to Type F >> (Windows 95 Extended)? The reason why I ask is because I like to use Ghost > to >> backup my Linux partitions. However, Ghost does not like Type 85 > partitions. > Are linux Extended partitions binary-compatible with DOS extended > partitions? Otherwise it would screw things up to change it... For all practical purposes, yes. The type 85 usage was introduced because Windows/DOS Fdisk cannot see type 82 and 83 partitions inside a DOS extended partition. As a result, people who chose to abandon linux ran into difficulty removing the linux partitions from Windows (fdisk knew the extended wasn't empty and wouldn't allow removal, but couldn't see the partition in it to remove them). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry!"
Re: [expert] Mounting cdroms and floppies in LM7.1
Submitted 30-Aug-00 by Dennis Robertson: > script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime which disables supermount > on boot (I wonder why this is built in - does Mandrake want to use > supermount or not?). This script only activates if you built supermount into the kernel. With semi-stock mandrake boxes, always build it as a module to avoid the problem. If you read that portion of the script carefully, you will realize that it is a safety device. If your fstab has supermount entries in it and the module is unavailable, then it disables it, because it assumes that it can't use supermount. I have submitted a patch for it, but even if it goes in, it requires a variable be set in /etc/sysconfig/system which is written at install time. > If I disable this script, run /usr/sbin/supermount -i enable and reboot I > am still unable to mount from the desktop In my experience, supermont -i enable frequently generates invalid fstab entries. > Supermount or other fstab entries would be appreciated. # Removeable media (Supermount) /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation." -- Nietzche, "The Will to Power"
Re: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?
Submitted 30-Aug-00 by Fergal Daly: > About 150, whereas there should be more like 1000, eg there are no XFree86 > packages there and also the wine rpm is missing. Actually there should be quite a bit less than 1,000. Many SRPMS build several packages. For example, the kernel src.rpm builds all of the alsa RPMS as well as all of the kernel RPMS and the reiserfs-utils and MandrakeUpdate also builds urpmi and grpmi. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Authors are easy to get on with -- if you're fond of children. -- Michael Joseph, "Observer"
Re: [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly
Submitted 28-Aug-00 by Stephen Bosch: > And again -- that SIGHUP is damn peculiar -- who is sending it? I suspect that that is modem generated. Every modem i have ever owned generates a SIGHUP when the other end hangs up on it. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read.
Re: [expert] Copying data to another HD
Submitted 28-Aug-00 by Bob Puff@NLE: > me do this, as my destination is smaller than my source. Corect, cloning software requires an identical drive. > Since I only have 350 megs total (a little in /boot, 64 megs of /swap, and > 300 megs of /), I know this should be possible. It's easy, if fact :) > I hooked up my 500 meg drive on the unused secondary IDE port, and used the > cfdisk program to set up the partitions. Somehow, I managed to mount it > (probably the wrong way), and copied all data to it. When I tried booting > it, LILO was messed, so I booted from Floppy. It failed in a kernel panic > - can't mount root. Your root partition is in a different physical location now, and the boot floppy was built for the old one. Pass root=/dev/hd?? (replace the question marks with the correct device info) at the lilo prompt. > What is the easiest way to copy the data from a linux hd to another hd, > when the destination is a different size than the original? It has been my experience that cpio works wonderfully: find / -print | cpio -p --preserve-modification-time --make-directories --dot \ /mnt/newdisk -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Familiarity breeds contempt. -- Publius Syrus (42 B.C.), Maxim 640
Re: [expert] Supermount_Put_Write_Access --- Problem!!!
Submitted 27-Aug-00 by Admin: > My system starts up and runs great but will not unmount cleanly. Each > time I shutdown, the shutdown gets stuck at the message "Supermount_Put > Write_Access: file system not write accessed" This particular supermount caused kernel panic is usually caused by trying to unmount media that has been supermounted and shouldn't have been. A common example is putting a 1743K floppy in fd0 with supermount set to expect 1440k disks. > 400M User partition. Does anyone have any idea why my system will not > shutdown/unmount cleanly? Post a copy of /etc/fstab. There may be a partition being supermounted or something equally silly. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. -- Christopher Hampton
Re: [expert] Can Not connect DHCPCD failed Mandrake 7.1
Submitted 27-Aug-00 by Steve Howes: > This IS [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe the point was that the original message was sent to BOTH addresses for the list, and posting to both doubles the bandwidth cost and annoys list participants. (I may have a filter to destroy duplicate messages, but I still have to download them.) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry!"
Re: [expert] Mandrake + Xfree 4.01 Problem!!!
Submitted 27-Aug-00 by TriOptimum: > I would like to install the xfree 4.01 i download on my Linux Mandrake 7.1. > . my question is.. is it easy to install it over the xfree4.0??? Yes. It's is pretty straightforward _if_ you are using Mandrake RPMS. > And what i have to backup to be sure that if something goes wrong i can > replace the old xfree without problems? Just keep a copy of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and your old XF4 rpms. > And last question because Linux Mandrake has some different named dirs > than default Linux.. Should i change or rename something before trying to > install the xfree 4.01.. have anyone tried it yet? Any advice for me? L-M does _not_ have non-standard dirs. What you will discover, however, is that upgrading to new cooker RPMS at this point can cause complications. The reasoning is simple. All documentation is moving from /usr to /usr/share per FHS (the Filesystem Heirarchy Standard). Because of this, man and info pages installed by new cooker RPMS will be inaccessible with the man and info packages shipped with L-M 7.1 and earlier. Therefore it is important to upgrade those packages as well. As for whether you need to rename anything, absolutely not if you are doing an RPM based install. If you are working from the tarballs available from xfree.org, I would first caution you to not use that version of XF 4.01. Upgrading anything in an RPM based distribution from a tarball is a Bad Idea (tm), because dependancies for installing RPMS are satisfied only by checking the RPM database. If you have XF 4.01 and RPM thinks you have XF 4, then you won't be able to install packages that specifically require XF 4.01. Yes, I have tried it, I have been running XF 4.01 practically since it became available. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. -- Flaubert
Re: [expert] Auto-Menu's in Mandrake
the label for changing the width is greyed out. This is because it is automatically determining the width. Turn off the automatic width and then you can select it yourself. > everytime i use rpm to install a package, my system goes into a coma. > the swap-buffer fills up completely and then the system crashes, > shutting down the x-window, and then returning to graphical login > screen. This is probably because /var is so full. > when i return to gnome, most of the time everything is back to > normal. however, once this morning the system didn't completely go > through the loop that i discribed to you. it simply came back to the > desktop, however there were no panels present. It killed the panel applet. One of the things that happens when you start running out of memory+swap is that the kernel starts deciding what has to die in order to keep the system running. Because you run with so many desktops and use several resource hungry applets, you are already eating a huge chunk of memory. > now the strange thing that has been happening since i talked to you > lastnight, is that when i do get an rpm to load, the info and package > list is missing. the other thing is that if i tell the system to > replace the existing package, it creates a duplicate entry; i have about > six of them. i have not been able to rpm --rebuilddb for sometime now. > there simply isn't enough room on my /var partition to do so. Okay. if you have the space available in another partition, you can duplicate /ver to that partition, unmount it, then symlink /var to the temporary location. Then you issue the rpm --rebuilddb, remove the symlink, and remount the partition. Finally, you mirror the temporary /var back to the real /var. (You will discover that after the db rebuild the rpm database frequently shrinks significantly) > i realize that most of this is probably due to my having merged > dissimilar systems in one environment. believe, if i knew that linux > was and is not as truly cohesive as it claims to be, i would not not > have done this. however this is due entirely to the fact that i was > lured into thinking that i was using a truly open operating system; > which i only later found out after talking to you, is not, It *is* truly open, and that is the reason for the following. > and does not mean, a truly standardized environment. so much for the > deceptive lure of hopeful thinking. What you are running into is the problem of trying to integrate two different ways of thinking about the same thing. Linux is Linux no matter how you slice it. But Linux itself is just the kernel. Everything else that works together to make it a useable operating system gets put together by a team that has a predetermined idea of what the next generation of their distribution should look like. These visions all comply with what standards exist, and get modified by new standards as they emerge. Those grey areas for which there is no standard create many of the problems you have experienced. > there should be someway that someone could write a program which would > code, Actually even that (x86 assembler) would not be portable enough. Such a program still would not work on a PPC, Amiga, Atari ST, Alpha, or Sparc (all of which have Linux ports available). > and run in the same way that my Western Digital disk check program does. > you reboot the system with the floppy-disk in the drive, specify which > partition table you currently use, and which partition table you want to > convert it to, hit enter and walk away. That is workable for what it does, as long as you have the thing hooked to a PC. But, Linux has grown beyond its original x86 roots, and we have to code for portability. Writing portable code for low-level device access is a virtual impossibility. It is the reason why it takes so long to port the kernel to a new platform. > you know, all for one and one for all! if you know of such a thing, let me > know; quickly! Sorry :p -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read.
Re: [expert] ESS 1868 sound card
Submitted 26-Aug-00 by Jim Hodgers: >>Can you send me all the related configuration files for setting this up >>please? That is, /etc/isapnp.conf (if anything is in it) and >>/etc/conf.modules; maybe other necessary config files. I'd like to give >>ALSA a whirl, but since it's not my machine, I'd like to have a relatively >>simple install process. >> > Put it somewhere were I can find it too, I have the same card and problem This is my modules.conf (conf.modules for most of you) that sets it all up, I have no /etc/isapnp.conf, the isapnp.o module from ALSA handles that for me: alias block-major-11 sr_mod pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc post-nstall lp echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq post-install supermount modprobe scsi_hostadapter # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=2 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es18xx options snd-card-es18xx snd_index=0 snd_id="ES18XX" # OSS/Free compatibility portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias sound snd-card-0 -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. -- Rebecca West
Re: [expert] ESS 1868 sound card
Submitted 25-Aug-00 by Asheesh Laroia: > Has anyone configured an ESS 1868 sound card using Mandrake? I can't get > it to work. I used Harddrake, and selected sound card, then ESS 1868, and > it seemed to give it a reasonable configuration set (IRQ 5, I/O 220), but > the "modprobe sb" afterwards gives me a "device busy" error. If I'm not > mistaken, the configuration set it gives the card is the same config as a > true SoundBlaster 16. I have yet to see sounddrake _not_ choke on an ESS 18xx card. Yes, for kernel sound modules, the config is 100% identical to an SB. The questions are: 1) is the card set up plug and pray? 2) If so, have you considered using ALSA drivers (which support plug and pray) for it? 3) if it isn't PnP and/or ALSA isn't an option, are you sure that that it is set to those defualts? I use ALSA on an 1868 with a very simple config. In addition to the generic ALSA options for OSS compatibility and such: alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es18xx options snd-card-es18xx snd_index=0 snd_id="ES18XX" This allows for a consistent config across several machines which have the card cofigured differently (typically differences in IRQ). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "First things first -- but not necessarily in that order" -- The Doctor, "Doctor Who"
Re: [expert] supermount not working for floppy
Submitted 24-Aug-00 by David G. Thiessen:
> Here is the line from my /etc/fstab
> /mnt/floopy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
There's part of the problem. Supermount doesn't properly understand fs=auto.
You have to use either vfat ot ext2 (it chokes on minix, too). Also, for
security reasons, you should have the options nosuid,nodev added after the
dev= part
> The line for the cdrom is similar
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
ditto about options.
> when i try to mount using the console i get:
> mount: can't find /dev/fd0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Right. That's because it really isn't in fstab. Supermount entries are of
a different format than "real" fstab entries which define the device first.
You have to be more specific to mount in that case:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> i have tried replacing the fs=auto with fs=ext2 and fs=vfat and i still
> get the same problem.
Remember also that when you specify a specific file system it will fail when
there is a disk with the other in the drive.
Another important consideration (and a big reason *not* to use supermount on
floppies) is that supermount does not gracefully handle incorrect device
access. For example, many rescue disks/micro distributions come on extended
format dloppies (like 1743 or 1840 K on a disk). These use the special
block devices /dev/fd0u{1743,1840}. If you try to access them using
/dev/fd0, you will generate several warning/error messages because the
device is incompatible with the disk format. And, if you're using
supermount on that device, those errors will be followed by a kernel panic.
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Re: [expert] Auto-Menu's in Mandrake
Submitted 24-Aug-00 by Henry Stanaland: > Does someone know how to turn off those #$@* auto-menu's in Mandrake? > I am surprised nobody else ever mentions this. But whenever I install an RPM > it returns my system KDE menu to some default. rpm -e menu -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request I remember Ulysses well... Left one day for the post office to mail a letter, met a blonde named Circe on the streetcar, and didn't come back for 20 years.
Re: [expert] Desktop Icons In Gnome
Submitted 24-Aug-00 by Harry Flaxman: > One thing I've noticed since starting using Gnome is that the icons are > plain flat grey , almost generic looking. I've tried ot change the icon > within each icon, but they revert back to the plain old flat ones. Is > there a fix to have this change to multi-color icons? Known (and frequent) problem. delete the file ~/.gnome/metadata.db and restart gnome. It will regenerate a useable version. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind. -- Thomas Macaulay
Re: [expert] Fw: Startx - (was Configuring X in LM 7.1)
Submitted 24-Aug-00 by Dennis Robertson: > Ellick and Stephen, > Thank you both - that got KDE to run, but only from startx in the > console. Getting there, though. If I boot to runlevel 5 I still get > the "cannot execute "/etc/X11/prefdm"" I presume you have checked the permissions on the file? If not, simply do: chmod -v 0755 /etc/X11/prefdm > and respawning too fast messages. Any further thoughts on how to achieve a > normal boot to KDE? If that doesn't work (and assuming that you only use KDE), you can replace the script with a new one that reads: #!/bin/sh exec $(which kdm) $* Remeber to set it executable as above. > I am beginning to think a fresh install is the only way to unscramble the > mess 7.1 made of my X config. This actually has nothing to do with X config. There is a specific sequence of scripts that get run when you boot the machine and it is one of those that is broken is some way. You aren't getting far enough for it to be an X problem :p -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Authors are easy to get on with -- if you're fond of children. -- Michael Joseph, "Observer"
Re: [expert] g++ can't find !
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Peter M Aarestad: > Now, this is weird. I'm trying to compile a program (yudit, in > particular) that has > #include > in one of its header files. Pretty normal header file for C++, right? > Well, g++ chokes back that it can't find it! I tried a simple "hello > world" program using iostream.h in the same way, and it wouldn't compile > that, either. Now, mind you, it compiles other programs just fine, like > code using , but I think it's having problems finding the ANSI > C++ files. What gives? Is there an easier solution than making symlinks > to each and every header file in the /usr/include root directory? > -peter I've seen this before, sometimes libstdc++-devel doesn't get installed even though it should have. Ensure that /usr/include/g++-3/ actually exists and has the headers. Assuming that they are there, adding -I/usr/include/g++-3 to the g++ command line should work. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. -- Flaubert
Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Chmouel Boudjnah: > and i'm sure Chris would never want to violate the FHS (and if he > don't care i'm sure some others mdksoft developers care about this > ;). Well I wasn't going to mention that part :p -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request There is nothing wrong with writing ... as long as it is done in private and you wash your hands afterward.
Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Alan N: > Upon install ( in proper order ) I get upon installing kde-base I > believe, the rpm requires kde-qt addon. > But this is SUPPOSED to be supplied by kde-support ( which rpm uvh'ed OK > ).. Know problem. Chris has said to use --force on it. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request I remember Ulysses well... Left one day for the post office to mail a letter, met a blonde named Circe on the streetcar, and didn't come back for 20 years.
Re: [expert] kde2 rpm's
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Sheldon: > Does anyone know if the kde2 rpms in cooker can be redirected > to /opt/kde2 instead of /usr? Can it be done? yes. Will they work there? Maybe, but probably not "out of the box". Certain things may be out of whack, like menu entries that point to /usr/bin instead of /opt/kde2/bin, so it would require some tweaking and perseverance on your part. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox [Douglas Adams, "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy"]
Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Asheesh Laroia:
>> Mandrake builds what are widely considered to be the best KDE2 rpms around.
>> You have to look in the cooker (development) mirrors to find them:
> Yes, but these RPMS were compiled with
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
Actually, it's %configure these days. Or, if that is broken for the
particular RPM, ./configure --prefix=%{_prefix}. Standardization :p
> and that's bad ;-(.
They were compiled that way, because cooker no longer contains kde1 (and
neither will mdk 7.2). We do have kde1 compatibility packages for those
non-kde2 compliant apps.
> I say it's bad because I want my KDE2 stuff in /opt/kde2, so I can have
> both KDEs installed at the same time.
I understand where you're coming from. KDE2 *is* beta, and lots of pieces
of it crash fairly regularly (kcontrol is segfaulting at startup right now).
> Ah well. Maybe I'll see some more /opt RPMS sometime soon.
You may be able to convince Chris to package some that way, but he's been
very busy lately just keeping on top of the CVS snapshots.
>> kdetoys-1.92-15mdk.i586.rpm
> AAAHH!! Old games? Please? That's the most important package in the
> KDE2 distribution!!
lol. He probably had problems building the latest kdetoys. It's better to
not release it than release it in an unusable state.
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Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Asheesh Laroia: > What is a poor little Mandrake user to do? Should I just wait > () for Mandrake to get the source and compile it with 586 > optimizations? Should I grab from CVS? Can anyone else (please..?) make > some packages for it? Mandrake builds what are widely considered to be the best KDE2 rpms around. You have to look in the cooker (development) mirrors to find them: ncftp ...r/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS > ls kde[a-z]* kdeaddutils-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-devel-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeaddutils-devel-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeadmin-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-devel-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-1.93-3mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-devel-1.93-3mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-devel-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegames-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdepim-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesdk-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-devel-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-1.93-2mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-devel-1.93-2mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-devel-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-1.92-15mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." -- Robert Orben
Re: [expert] wishing for a second machine
Submitted 21-Aug-00 by Gary: > Can someone come up with a good procmail recipe for these bozos? > Thanks, :0 ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null for that specific one, or a more generalized solution (without using any real addresses here) PITAs="bozo@clown\\.org|flamer@hell\\.net|naughty@spammer\\.com" :0 ^From:.*($PITAs) /dev/null -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
Re: [expert] modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-00
Submitted 22-Aug-00 by BillK: > Tony McGee wrote: > Thanks Tony, I have found a binfmt-aout, misc and java in the modules/fs > directories. Do you have any more info or pointers to info that may > help me understand what these modules do and which I actually need? binfmt_aout is for executing old style a.out type binaries. Many older programs that were based on libc5 use this format. binfmt_java is depecated (i.e. do not use it). It's functionality is now included in binfmt_misc. Finally, binfmt_misc is support for miscellaneous binaries. Essentially, you register the "magic-cookie" of the binary type with the kernel (for example, a DOS file's .com extension, a java .class, or even the MZ that is the first two characters of a dos/win .exe file) and define what wrapper program is used to execute them. With this mechanism, it is possible to automagically launch dosemu to run dos programs, WINE to run Windows binaries, or a Java VM to run java applications. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Death comes on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower; Each season has its own disease, Its peril -- every hour. -- Reginald Heber
Re: [expert] Memory above 1GB
Submitted 20-Aug-00 by Sarang Lakare: > I shldn't say solved.. it was there but i couldnt' see it.. when i did > top, i saw 1.5GB on the machine.. but when i boot, the initial text screen > shows only 958MB and so i thought it saw only that much.. Mandrake guys > shld rectify this problem.. the initial screen dosn't show the right amount > detected! That number comes from the linux_logo program. Please contact the author of said program ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to see about a fix. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox [Douglas Adams, "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy"]
Re: [expert] Memory above 1GB
Submitted 20-Aug-00 by Sarang Lakare: > Is it that the default kernel dosn't support more than 1GB? what do I have > to get it to recognize more than 1GB in that case? Bingo! You need to compile custom kernels to go above 1 GB. There is an option under Processor Type and Features to toggle 1 or 2 GB max physical memory. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request If you think the pen is mightier than the sword, the next time someone pulls out a sword I'd like to see you get up there with your Bic.
