Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 21:29, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Tim: Good for you. And good for the guy who runs your local Home Depot. He seems to understand that every dollar spent at a competitive store is a buck that he won't get. But the root cause -- the idiot webmaster -- still remains. Now that you and the store manager are buddy-buddy, is there any chance of learning either the e-mail or snail mail address of whoever it is that has custody of the idiot? I'd be interesting in laying a few lines on him. -- cmg __ No snail-mail but here is info from their Contact Us page: Web site support 1-800-430-3376 Customer Care 1-800-553-3199 I find it interesting that it does not work for you as they are using Java and JSP. Good Luck! -- Like the dinosaur, Windows on the desktop is destined to become extinct... Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cfs-tech.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:24, Jack Coates wrote: you make the fatal assumption that IE supports the standard. It doesn't. Standard code works on IE if it's really really simple, but frequently breaks in ugly ways. Transparent PNGs. PNGs at all (color is off). Advanced CSS features, like flow. Many advanced Javascript form functions. Especially, on the CSS support. We have Java based (JSP) system we developed to create and issue insurance certificates for commercial insurance. The completed certificate is displayed in two frames. A small horizontal frame, containing nothing more that a few navigation buttons and a background, over the main window in which the completed certificate is rendered in the Adobe Acrobat reader plug-in. Recently, we started getting complaints from our users that the system was very slow and that it would take a minute or more for a certificate to be displayed. During troubleshooting we discovered that it could take up to 5 minutes to display the certificate from the time the user clicked the submit button if they used IE. However, if they used Netscape 4.78, or later, the certificate would be displayed in less than a second. In most cases it was displayed, before the user could even move their hand. Since we make this web based application available to our customers, it was imperative that we find the cause and resolve it. After several days of troubleshooting and debugging our head Java programmer found the problem. A contract programmer, who is no longer employed, had coded a 6 line Cascading Style Sheet for the top frame. We removed the CSS and recoded to the page. Now it displays in less than a second using IE as well as Netscape, Mozilla, Opera. et all.. -- Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] weird cdrom problem
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:51, James Sparenberg wrote: 3 Upgrade to 2.4.19-32mdk (the latest kernel for 9.0) it works much nicer. James Where do you find kernel updates for 9.0? When I run Mandrake Update I never see any Kernel updates... -- If it's not on fire, it's a software problem. Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cfs-tech.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] weird cdrom problem
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 15:41, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:17, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:51, James Sparenberg wrote: 3 Upgrade to 2.4.19-32mdk (the latest kernel for 9.0) it works much nicer. James Where do you find kernel updates for 9.0? When I run Mandrake Update I never see any Kernel updates... They get visually and physically excluded because they are kernels and need to be installed not upgraded. Do, urpmi --update kernel from a command line and it will properly install the kernel, it should be something like 2419-32 in your lilo.conf by name... then reboot... kernels because of their nature can only be done explicitly not passively like all the other rpms. Thanks for the info. Before I got your post I did some digging around on the Mandrake site and came across this page. http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php It said to do - urpmi kernel-2.4.19.32mdk It installed the kernel and after a reboot: uname -a indicates that it is the running kernel. Does urpmi --update kernel do anything different? -- Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xnest questions
On Monday 17 February 2003 1:07 am, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: *snip* I don't know about gdm, but with xdm and kdm change the file /etc/X11/xdm Xservers: Comment out the line ':0 local /bin/nice -n ...' and run telinit 3; telinit 5 and there will be no X server running localy, but accepts any xdmcp connections. A thats what I was looking for, thank you much! (btw, to those of you who suggested I used initdefault 3... then kdm wont load so it wont accept xdmcp.. :P) -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] More a KDE problem, I think
On Sunday 16 February 2003 5:14 am, john wrote: *snip* Anne, I think this is what you need, Control Center LookNFeel Taskbar Uncheck the Group similar tasks box Now every instance of every kde app will appear as a seperate icon I'm sure you missed the point of her post. The way I read it, she wants to group similar tasks, but doesnt think konqueror in root-mode should be grouped with normal konqueror.. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xnest questions
On Friday 14 February 2003 4:35 pm, Jack Coates wrote: *snip* http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto *snip* I read that howto before asking the question. It doesn't tell me how to disable the local X screen, only how to set up the remote one. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Xnest questions
I am playing around with Xnest, and what I am looking for is a gui app that will allow me to, connect via xdmcp to the host of my choice, in a nested window. I know I can type 'Xnest -query host :2' and it will work, but I want to know if there is a small gui app that I can click on, and it'll ask local, remote (enter ip here) or something similar... if there already is one, that is.. if not, then I might have found myself a small project :) -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xnest questions
On Friday 14 February 2003 3:16 pm, Dave Laird wrote: *snipped stuff about xnest gui* In case your findings come to you off this list, could you please forward any information you may find about this? I've begun playing with Xnest, too, and would like to have a gui tooie. 8-) Dave certainly. And here's another question I would like to pose... Let's just say I have an old box, and I want to run gdm on it, so I can xdmcp into it.. BUT! here's the kicker.. I dont want X to run on the box locally... IOW, I don't want X to take up a VT on the system, ONLY be a remote X server.. anyone have any ideas here? :) -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Fri, January 31 2003 7:54 pm, mike wrote: : Not one of the hijackers was Iraqi, 15 of the 19 were Saudi however; our : ally. This ain't about 9/11, its about 11/??/2004. : Oh boy! All the things I could do to him! And he'd never say it was me, if I sent someone else to do it! WOOT! -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- You will be successful in your work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A twist on NAT/Connection Sharing
On Wed, January 29 2003 7:16 am, civileme wrote: *snip* So anyone out there have any suggestions where to look to achieve that masquerade? Actually, civileme, that is more along the lines of a VLAN, or virtual LAN... you would need to create a virtual connection from her computer to yours, then have it use your computer as the gateway, AFAIK, there really is no way to do it without using a virtual network connection, due to the way TCP/IP operates, perhaps this would be an options with the IPv6, but I have absolutely 0 experience with that.. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. -- Jean Cocteau Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wed, January 29 2003 7:55 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *snip* BTW: What doo you think is the German way of today? From your statement I doubt that you have any clue. I think the Germans are so scared of their OWN past, that they will allow ANY country to do whatever they want to do to their OWN people, as long as the cowardly germans have to do nothing! -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- Tomorrow's computers some time next month. -- DEC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wed, January 29 2003 7:55 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Since WWII Germany has a very strong feeling against any military involvement. As we have a more democratic way of dealing with our chancellor (i.e. he has far less political power than your president) he has to bend to the peoples will. Last polls in USA show that nearly half of the American people don't want war against Iraq in any case. In Germany our chancellor wouldn't get away with doing something like that without a large majority on his side. And he'd never get that majority. The decision for war is with Saddam. According to Hans Blix, Iraq has NOT allowed U2 Flyovers, has HIDDEN documents, etc.. THEY HAVE HAD 12 YEARS to COMPLY with the UN Eunuchs.. Now.. Do you think if we give him more time, do you REALLY think he will use it? Or will he get rid of biological and chemical weapons.. by SELLING them to the highest bidder?? Like terrorists? Like Mr Blix said, if Iraq wants to disarm, then it will, if it doesnt then it won't, inspectors or not. If Iraq wanted to disarm, it would SHOW us where these weapons are hidden, instead of continuing to hide them... Iraq has had 12 years to come clean, and they have not done so, and you are a fool if you think that he will do it now. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- No one likes us. I don't know why. We may not be perfect, We give them money, But heaven knows we try.But are they grateful? But all around, No, they're spiteful, Even our old friends put us down. And they're hateful. Let's drop the big one, They don't respect us, And see what happens. So let's surprise them We'll drop the big one, And pulverize 'em. Asia's crowded, Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot, We'll save Australia. And Canada's too cold. Don't wanna hurt no kangaroos. And South America stole our nameWe'll build an All-American amusement Let's drop the big one, park there-- There'll be no one left to blame us.They got surfin', too! Boom! goes London, And Boom! Paree. More room for you, Oh, how peaceful it'll be! And more room for me, We'll set everybody free! And every city, You'll wear a Japanese kimono, babe; The whole world round, There'll be Italian shoes for me! Will just be another American town. They all hate us anyhow, So, let's drop the big one now. Let's drop the big one now! -- Randy Newman, Drop the Big One Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wed, January 29 2003 8:19 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *snip* Cowardice has nothing to do with the brain. It is downright dumb to call someone a coward who looks and thinks before he follows blindly. *snip* No, but completely disregarding the facts does have a lot to do with the brain. FACT: Iraq has had 12 years to destroy it's NCB weapons, it has not done so. FACT: Iraq was given a last chance, under UN Resolution 1441, to publicly disarm, in front of UN inspectors, and must comply FULLY, even Hans Blix states they have not done so. FACT: Saddam Hussein has used Chemical and Biological weapons against his OWN people FACT: When the UN signed Resoluion 1441, it stated certain things that must be done by a certain time, or the UN would use force. That time is here, and those things are NOT done, according to Hans Blix. FACT: Now, that the resolution has NOT been accepted, several nations are backing down from their original agreement to use force if Iraq did NOT comply fully. FACT: The French have oil contracts with Iraq. FACT: Nearly all the Iraqi weapons are of old Soviet design, where did they get these designs? Russia and her neighbors, under the old USSR Now.. You explain to me why these nations are reneging on their signed documents? Why, all of a sudden, the SAME nations who AGREED to Resolution 1441, now are saying that it shouldn't be carried out? Please, explain that to me. I am waiting. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- I'm pretending I'm pulling in a TROUT! Am I doing it correctly?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wed, January 29 2003 8:32 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *snip* Yes, I know that one and I just love it. It's a very good example of putting the words so extreme that only a very dumb person doesn't realize it's a joke with a very serious background. I see that you completely ignored my post, and focused instead on my auto-generated fortune-sig. That must have taken a total lack of guts. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- To any truly impartial person, it would be obvious that I am always right. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wed, January 29 2003 8:43 am, tarvid wrote: *snip* Bush chooses internationalism when it suits him. He scuttled Kyoto, ABM and the Biological weapons protocols and ignores the Viena and Geneva conventions. So, you think implementing a system that protects US citizens from ICMBs is a bad thing? Come down off your high horse. Also, when was the last time we broke the Geneva convention? The last war was in Desert Storm, and did we torture any of those Iraqi soldiers that surrendered without firing a shot? No, I don't think we did. We have ALWAYS treated enemy soldiers as well, or better, than the Geneva convention states, EVEN when our enemies did not, such as was the case in Vietnam, where our troops were torturted with electric shock. I had a doctor-friend, who was a medic back in the Vietnam war, who was captured, during a VC raid on a hospital compound.. They beat him so severely that, to this day, he speaks with a weak and raspy voice almost like a whisper, because his larynx was nearly destroyed, but he is still a good doctor. We never SIGNED kyoto, because it was nothing more than a ploy to LOOK GOOD to ecologists. The WORST polluting countries are the 3rd world countries with NO environmental protection agencies, and the Kyoto treaty left them alone, so, of course we didn't sign it. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- Life Sucks. Cynical, misanthropic male, 34, looking for soul mate but certain not to find her. Drop me a note. I'll call you, we'll talk and I'll ask you out to dinner where I'll probably spend more than I can afford in a feeble attempt to impress you. Then we'll realize we have absolutely nothing in common and we'll go our separate ways, more embittered and depressed than before (if such a thing is possible). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wed, January 29 2003 1:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *snip* Consider this case: A large state such as California had 1,000,000 votes cast. After counting 750,000 ballots, Bush is leading by 300,000 ballots. California, under the electoral vote system can stop counting now as those remaining 250,000 ballots will not change the result. I don't think there was a lead that large in any given state, but 50 states times 10,000 votes a state adds up. Not only that my friend, but, in states where one or the other carried EASILY, they don't even bother to count the mail-in votes, unless they need to. And there-in lies the BIG equation. Mail-in votes are mainly military overseas. And historically, military people vote republican, so I would hazard a guess to say that 80% of the mail-in vote was NOT counted, and OF those 80%, approximately 75% of them COULD have voted for Bush.. throwing off the popular vote by quite a lot. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---===--- Last yeer I kudn't spel Engineer. Now I are won. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Changing certain icons in kde kicker?
I can change all the icons for programs. BUT! I can't change the icon for the KDE Menu itself.. It must be in some hidden configuration. If a theme can do it, there MUST be a way for me to be able to do it too.. I can't change the Show Desktop icon either, and I want to... WITHOUT changing the rest of the icons I'm using... -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -- Sam Brown, The Washington Post, January 26, 1977 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lm_sensors on gigabyte ga-7zxe
On Fri, January 24 2003 5:20 pm, Simon Naish wrote: Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter temp: +0°C (min = +4°C, max = +0°C) remote_temp: +0°C (min = +0°C, max = +60°C)ALARM (N/A) eeprom-i2c-0-50 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB):256 eeprom-i2c-0-51 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB):256 You aren't loading the ISA drivers.. and you need to. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Changing certain icons in kde kicker?
On Fri, January 24 2003 6:19 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: *snip* is to change these icons: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/kmenu.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kmenu.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kmenu.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/filesystems/desktop.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/filesystems/desktop.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/filesystems/desktop.png *snip* Actually, to be more accurate, it would be to change %Path_To_Current_Theme%/%Icon_Size%/kmenu.png Thanks much.. you helped me tremendously. Now.. if I could just find a kicker-applet that would let me MOVE the trash off my desktop, and onto a kicker panel... :) -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- There's nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lm_sensors on gigabyte ga-7zxe
On Thu, January 23 2003 12:03 pm, flacycads wrote: Forgot to add that you need to shutdown and restart (not just reboot) after editing your /etc files for it to load those modules correctly. If you have any problems, email me and I'll walk you through it in more detail. Robert No ya don't, just run /etc/rc.d/init.d/sensors start as root. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- They make a desert and call it peace. -- Tacitus (55?-120?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IMAP clients very slow
On Wed, January 22 2003 2:15 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Why IMAP clients on Linux (Mozilla, Evolution especially !!!) are much slower than using IMAP clients on Windows (on the same Linux IMAP folders) ? It seems strange, but it is much quicker to work from a remote Windows machine than from a local Linux one! There is certainly something I am missing. TIA /Stefano Because most windows IMAP clients actually download all the mail to your local machine, and then you are working locally, and most linux IMAP clients are PURE IMAP clients.. NO local stuff, so it's always working over the network, hence the speed issue. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Something's rotten in the state of Denmark. -- Shakespeare Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] imap server and kmail features
On Tue, January 21 2003 9:26 am, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: *snip* You can't possibly be suggesting to add filters directly into imap, for every user... If you had a system with 1000 users, and they had 20 filters each... That's hardly practical. That is why it *IS* the job of the client to do it's filtering. If it cannot do it properly, find a client that will, there are plenty out there. *snip* That's exactly what he is saying, and it is quite feasible. If your users want their mail filtered, they can set up their personal procmail settings in their own home directory, if they dont, then they dont have to. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Involvement with people is always a very delicate thing -- it requires real maturity to become involved and not get all messed up. -- Bernard Cooke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RE: Installing MDL 8.2 on PowerPC-Mac
On Mon, January 20 2003 6:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *snip* cd:2,\\vmlinux: Unknown or corrupt filesystem *snip* Sounds to me like the CD may be a coaster. Also, I envy you for your Mac. I thoroughly enjoy using the Mac whenever I can, but they are too rich for my blood. I do have experience with the Mac, but only with the MacOS operating systems, I never had a chance to put any *nix onto a Mac. But... Here's some things you may want to try, first, be sure to zap the PRAM. (Apple+Option+P+R at boot, Hold it down until it tones a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th times, just for good measure) Also, if your CD still has problems, and you have access to a working machine, verify the disc is correct, by doing a comparison of the ISO file to the actual disc (use a byte-file-comparison program.. I know linux has one, but for the life of me, cant remember it's name right off, perhaps someone else can tell you how to do this) If the CD is correctly burned, then you possibly have a hardware problem. Run your Diagnostics CD that came with the Mac, or just try re-installing your original system software. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Coding is easy; All you do is sit staring at a terminal until the drops of blood form on your forehead. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] imap server and kmail features
On Mon, January 20 2003 7:58 pm, bascule wrote: i've been doing some reading with the intention of setting up a box to *snipped stuff about multi accounts and imap* Set up your imap server, set up fetchmail to grab mail from ALL your accounts, voila! it's done. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Having a wonderful wine, wish you were beer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] imap server and kmail features
On Mon, January 20 2003 7:58 pm, bascule wrote: *snip* isps, procmail would put it into mail folders on the server and some imap server would server them out to the lan, assuming i have this right is there a way to avoid find a client for each machine that supports the features of kmail and having to configure it seperately, *snip* Also, if you want certain mails into certain folders, use procmail to deliver it to different mailboxes. The IMAP server reads your local ~/mbox files, and anything in your ~/mail folder (assuming its mbox format) I used to have one of my boxes doing that for me, and I had procmail filtering all my mailing lists into their respective folders. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. -- Stephen Stills Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] imap server and kmail features
On Mon, January 20 2003 8:16 pm, bascule wrote: chuck, it's not about multiple accounts its about using multiple addresses depending on whom i'm writing to, for instance posts to mailing lists come from 'bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED]' mail to friends comes from ' somethingelse' but messages to both these addresses go to the same isp and are collected from the same account, kmail filters them into folders so that when i reply to you from my 'mandrake;expert' folder the correct 'from' address is filled in, i find this a very useful feature, i can set up something on the server to do the filtering i'm sure but i will still need to set each client up to associate the correct 'from' address to each folder ot acceses via imap, unless there is a solution i'm missing Read my other response. Since it was (to me anyone) two questions, I gave two answers. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Blessed are they who Go Around in Circles, for they Shall be Known as Wheels. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert] CD Burners
On Fri, January 17 2003 10:20 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote: No strong compatability, reliability, installtion issues to watch for? I've installed SCSI burners before, and they just dropped in, and worked. I guess I'm hoping for the same from and IDE. (I've always installed Yamahas in the past.. Been stable performers, never given me any trouble..). Lite-On's are good cost/performance burners. I've got one, so does my sister. We both love ours, 48x burners.. quite fast, even burning at full speed, using memorex cdr's, never had a coaster. -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Preliminary HOWTO... Zip Disks
On Fri, January 17 2003 11:16 am, stefmit wrote: If I would dare to jump in (I apologize if this is off, as I have not gotten the chance to read the original FAQ, thus to understand what's beeing suggested there) - but as far as my experience goes, you do not want to combine on the same controller high speed devices (hard drives), and lower speed ones (cd-roms, zip drives, etc.) - thus having the zip on its own controller, separated from the hard drives. HTH, Stef I've got a UDMA166 HD, and a Zip-100 on the same channel, because I have 2 IDE cd-roms (one is a liteon cd-rw, with udma-33 capabilities, and I have no problems with any of my devices.. just a FYI -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert] Re: Preliminary HOWTO... Zip Disks
On Thu, January 16 2003 11:20 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hi Stef...oh, that I understand. What I couldn't understand, and was asking about, was why the Zip would only work under Mandrake 9.0 if it was in the master position on the secondary IDE channel... :-) Probably just a preference. My zip is slave on primary, and it works just fine in Mdk9.0 -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Strange Happenings with KDE mounting of Zip
I have a zip100, if I mount the drive on the command line, it mounts just fine, no matter what filesystem I use. If I try to mount it with ANY filesystem other than VFAT, it doesnt mount, says it's not the correct filesystem. Now.. my fstab entry for this device has the filesystem set to auto. /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipauto \ codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 typing mount /mnt/zip with an ext2 formatted zip, mounts it properly, as does vfat format, etc etc.. but, under KDE, only the VFAT formatted zip mounts (using the built-in KDE device stuff from the desktop, etc) -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Strange Happenings with KDE mounting of Zip
On Fri, January 17 2003 4:44 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: I have a zip100, if I mount the drive on the command line, it mounts just fine, no matter what filesystem I use. If I try to mount it with ANY filesystem other than VFAT, it doesnt mount, says it's not the correct filesystem. Now.. my fstab entry for this device has the filesystem set to auto. /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipauto \ codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev0 0 typing mount /mnt/zip with an ext2 formatted zip, mounts it properly, as does vfat format, etc etc.. but, under KDE, only the VFAT formatted zip mounts (using the built-in KDE device stuff from the desktop, etc) Woah.. I'm wrong.. [root@neezail chuck]# mount /dev/sda4 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda4, or too many mounted file systems [root@neezail chuck]# mount -t auto /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip/ [root@neezail chuck]# [root@neezail chuck]# mount /dev/hda1 on / type jfs (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) /dev/hda8 on /home type jfs (rw) /dev/hda9 on /tmp type jfs (rw) /dev/hda6 on /usr type jfs (rw) /dev/hda7 on /var type jfs (rw) /dev/scd0 on /mnt/cdrom2 type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,user=chuck) /dev/sda4 on /mnt/zip type ext2 (rw) [root@neezail chuck]# Weird huh? -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert] Removable Media icon
On Wed, January 15 2003 1:26 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: *snip* Hey Todd. I did it by editing the /usr/bin/kdesktop-links file (per the Mandrake Experience web site). Are there advantages/disadvantages to either method? Or is this another example of the many ways to do things under Linux genre? smile See ya! I just fiddled around with it, looking in all scripts I could find that might have anything to do with kde and the desktop, and I found the file, all by myself, after the suggestion someone else gave me to just delete it, didnt work. -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert]STOP the presses!! WAS: And the fun continues (it's d ead again)
On Wed, January 15 2003 1:53 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: *snip* I agree that port 25 is dead. The question is: Why How? The line in /etc/services is fine. It's uncommented. smtp IS included in bastille-firewall.cfg postfix is running. I have no clue as to what closed that port! And I've rebooted a couple of times. So what ever is doing it, is persistant! Here's something to think about, what if the portsentry didnt get completely removed, and left some cruft.. some of which happens to be blocking port 25 -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: Re: [expert]STOP the presses!! WAS: And the fun continues (it's d ead again)
On Wed, January 15 2003 3:42 pm, Robert Goshko wrote: *snip* woman = evil Or, in the reverse.. Man = 4 Woman = 2 man + woman = 6 6 sounds a lot like something else.. that's fun -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Removable Media icon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I rid myself of that annoying Removable Media icon, that KDE insists on putting on my desktop, even tho I have added the devices to the desktop manually? Every time I delete it, it comes back when I log out and back in - -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JOqajcin0YVe4sERAgCzAKCHI7pvDpo3ckuDBnprhbC4DlZAhACeOzN/ i88N4hdj3XLAZxXSJWK0agQ= =S9k7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Nvidia Drivers + 9.1beta = excellent
After all my reported problems with 4191 NV drivers, and Mdk 9.0, under both KDE and Gnome, I can now happily report a significant 2D speed improvement, and don't need to run glxinfo continuously. KDE3.1 is super-quick using the nvidia drivers.. -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Continued login problems
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:36, 1577910929 wrote: *snip* Now... It won't allow users to log in. I *CAN* log in as root, but not a normal user. Also, e-Mail stopped working, as did the web server. *snip* Jan 11 10:30:30 server sshd[3503]: Accepted password for user from xx.xx.xx.xxx port 33509 ssh2 Jan 11 10:30:30 ibu sshd[3505]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 500 Here's a thought. force a fsck and a badblock check on the partition with /etc on it. it could be a failing drive. Also, your password-shadowing could be fudged up, and not passing the accounts back from the shadow and passwd files. -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Followup on VERY slow 2D performance with gf2 andnvidia drivers
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 08:32, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Chuck; When you first log in, pop open a terminal window, and type glxinfo. It seems to improve performance on my box (and several others). Just a test... Ric Well.. I'll be damn.. That DOES work. Now to figure out the obvious. WHY? -- Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 15:06, Steffen Barszus wrote: I know 3 people who run instantly into problems with these board I would never ever advice an ECS k7s5a. MSI kosts a buck more, but I think it is worth the money. And the k7s5a is not the cheapest board, I know of one board for 67 EUR = KT266A chipset DDR/SDRAM and so on. I don't remember the name right now, but I can ask if needed. I have done many an upgrade in a 'professional' sense (ie: I got paid for it), and I have never had any problems with the DFI boards we use. However, I've had more than a few DOA MSI boards, although MSI has always been quick to replace them, no questions asked. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Followup on VERY slow 2D performance with gf2 and nvidia drivers
I kind of discovered this by accident. I noticed that whenever ANY application is fullscreen, and I move a window over the top of it, it's nice and snappy, but when I move a window around over the root window, metacity's (the gnome WM) CPU usage skyrockets, and I believe this could be my problem. Is there anyone who has a GeForce2 with the nvidia 4191 drivers installed that could do the following for me for comparison sake? 1) Log into gnome, verify you're using metacity as the window manager ( this is the default) also with Mandrake 9.0 (NOT cooker, or any previous version) 2) Open up gnome-terminal, and drag it around for a few seconds, to see how it responds. I can drag fine for about a second or so, then it gets really choppy. 3) Open any other app, make it fullscreen.. open a child window, and drag IT around, and see if there's a noticeable difference. There is a huge difference for me. Thanks a lot.. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Program run directly on the root window?
I once noticed an option to allow programs to be run directly on the root window? I never really had a use for it until now. However, I have no clue how to go about this, and can't seem to find any HOWTO's on this subject. Does anyone have a clue they can loan me? I'll just copy it and hand it back, I swear :) Thanks, Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde/kdeinit insane load averages
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 21:51, David E. Fox wrote: Hello. *snipped stuff about KDE being a hog* Anyone else notice this? Yes, it IS a hog. Worse than any of the crap MS released (well.. WinME is worse.. barely). As far as I know, there isn't much of a way to 'fix' this problem other than just not using KDE at all. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Gnome+nVidia - slightly OT
I've got a bit of a problem here that I can't quite figure out. When I use the nVidia *nix drivers 4191(i think. downloaded em 2 days ago), it seems that every time I open a window, move a window, close a window, etc.. My system pauses for about a half-a-second. When I am moving the window this pause occurs about half a second apart as well. My CPU usage hits 100% for as long as it's frozen. Has anyone noticed this, and managed to find a solution for it? My system is by no means a dog: Pentium IV 1600mhz 576M RAM GeForce2 MX (32M DDR) SoundBlaster Live! X-Gamer USB Logitech Trackman (note.. it's USB.. is it possible that there's a slight compatibility issue with the nvidia drivers and USB? I doubt it.. but... I'll try switchin to a PS/2 mouse for testing) Thanks for any help/advice/suggestions on this -- Chuck Burns They are always saying this and that. Who is this they? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gnome+nVidia - slightly OT
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 21:06, Antoine wrote: No, GNOME works fine here. I have a GeForce4MX with the NVidia drivers. Maybe you should try to reinstall them ? I have, does the same thing. It doesnt have this problem with the nv drivers that come with X, just the nvidia provided ones. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Running apps as root from the KDE menu
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 20:45, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Try: kdesu app or xsu if you despise KDE as many do. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0 Remember Windows Positions?
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 00:45, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 01 Oct 2002 22:33:09 -0500, Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 03:54, Alastair Scott wrote: On 29 Sep 2002 17:57:02 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I give up... I've installed 9.0 and overall I'm satisfied, however there is one thing that is driving me crazy. In Gnome, every application opens in the same location, the upper left corner, no matter where I position the window, the next time I open it the application are alway in the upper left corner. Some of the apps will remember their size, but none will remember their last position. Anyone have any ideas on how to get Gnome2 to remember the size and positions of the windows?? This is one of the unfortunate side-effects of changing the window manager from sawfish (Gnome 1.4) to metacity (Gnome 2.0.x), which is much simpler but also less capable ... One _can_ change the window manager back to sawfish, but it appears to be a can of worms (try a search for 'gnome metacity sawfish' on Google). I haven't managed to get the change to stick between sessions yet. Alastair Thanks for the info. I hope the Gnome developers are aware of this unwanted feature and are planning to do something about it soon. Try adding the line export WINDOW_MANAGER=sawfish (without the quotes) to your ~/.bashrc. This works for me in Gentoo. I haven't tried it in Mandrake yet (I haven't upgraded to 9.0 yet). As far as I can tell. Sawfish is not part of the 9.0 release. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LDAP Howto
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 22:24, Vincent Danen wrote: --snip-- Personally, I would like to know how to setup an address book in LDAP that multiple people can access (one person in write mode, everyone else in read mode); something compatible with Outlook, Netscape/Mozilla, and other email clients (I believe Evolution can do LDAP lookups for addresses). I would like to setup, here, a company-wide address book that interfaces with any mail client (and would also be used in my work to build a full-featured web mail suite using a number of tools). Sadly, I didn't really see anything about that when looking around and doing research on my authentication article. Check out Rolodap. I just set it up for our four offices, I supports Outlook, Groupwise, Evolution and HP's Digital Senders and it has a great web interface. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5384 This link says it is a howto for RH but nothing on it is specific to RH. I used it to set Rolodap up on Mandrake 8.1 http://www.omaha.org/~adamh/rolodap_howto.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0 Remember Windows Positions?
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 03:54, Alastair Scott wrote: On 29 Sep 2002 17:57:02 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I give up... I've installed 9.0 and overall I'm satisfied, however there is one thing that is driving me crazy. In Gnome, every application opens in the same location, the upper left corner, no matter where I position the window, the next time I open it the application are alway in the upper left corner. Some of the apps will remember their size, but none will remember their last position. Anyone have any ideas on how to get Gnome2 to remember the size and positions of the windows?? This is one of the unfortunate side-effects of changing the window manager from sawfish (Gnome 1.4) to metacity (Gnome 2.0.x), which is much simpler but also less capable ... One _can_ change the window manager back to sawfish, but it appears to be a can of worms (try a search for 'gnome metacity sawfish' on Google). I haven't managed to get the change to stick between sessions yet. Alastair Thanks for the info. I hope the Gnome developers are aware of this unwanted feature and are planning to do something about it soon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mdk 9.0 Remember Windows Positions?
Okay, I give up... I've installed 9.0 and overall I'm satisfied, however there is one thing that is driving me crazy. In Gnome, every application opens in the same location, the upper left corner, no matter where I position the window, the next time I open it the application are alway in the upper left corner. Some of the apps will remember their size, but none will remember their last position. Anyone have any ideas on how to get Gnome2 to remember the size and positions of the windows?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ISO image md5sums Question
Hi, Forgive me if this is too simplistic for the experts, but I am in a bit of a quandry... If a particular iso filesystem image has an md5sum of X and one burns that image to a cdr on /dev/scd0, should not the output of: md5sum /dev/scd0 be also X ?? -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RPMFIND.NET - Status?
On Tuesday 27 August 2002 08:25, Albert E. Whale wrote: I cannot seem to connect to the traditional RPM Databases at rpmfind.net, speakeasy.rpmfind.net, fr.rpmfind.net Does anyone have any information about these services? Hmm... I am havint no trouble with [speakeasy.]rpmfind.net with http, ftp, nor rsync. A problem with your DNS or a routing problem, perhaps? Or, more likely, a transient problem... -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+--+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \Charles A. Shirley\ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+--+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT: Mounting individual partitions within a disk image--HOW?
I need expert help on this one... There exists a file with an image of a disk... a whole disk, with threee partitions, one primary, and two logical. If I do: # losetup /dev/loop0 disk.img # fdisk -l /dev/loop0 Disk /dev/loop0: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 32 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/loop0p1 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/loop0p2 3322409755 Extended /dev/loop0p5 315104391 83 Linux /dev/loop0p61632136521 83 Linux This is actually an image I created trying to solve the problem for another fellow. Right now I'm at wits end. How do I get at those /dev/loop0px partitions? If I want to get at the data in /dev/loop0p5, I could try offsetting the start of data using the appropriate losetup switch, but that would concatenate /dev/loop0p6 to the end of it. If I just try to mount (well, I'd have to create a FS on the partition to do that, but for the sake of arguement...) /dev/loop0p5 on a stub, the device special file doesn't exist. I could mknod it into existance, but what major and minor numbers to use? It seems like they should all be block-major 7 (for loopback devices), but what minor to use? Or, more importanly, can it even be done without having to do some kind of black-magic? Any guiding light appreciated... -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size?
On Sunday 25 August 2002 17:04, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: What I need now is a small minimalist distribution of Mandrake that would have the latest supported kernel 2.4.x and latest Xfree 4.x windowing system. My project will be connecting to the internet as well via NFS and Samba along with not needing things like KDE nor GNOME and will be installing my own window manager. The trick to this is that although I will have either an ext2 or ext3 filesystem, I need the whole distribution to be initially small, something like under about 5 - 10 Meg if possible. I will be adding other packages as they are needed. I have come across a few other distributions on the Internet that claim to be able to offer a kernel and xwindows on only 2 floppy disks but would prefer to work with Mandrake if possible. does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this task accomplished easily with Mandrake? I don't think that a stock Mandrake is up to this small of an installation. If you select expert mode during the install, then select none of the package groups, you will be asked if you are trying to install a barren system, and if you tell the installer to use the minimal package set, it still comes out right near 100 MB. (I think it was 101, or there about...) This minimal installation footprint does not include any XFree86 packages, and doesn't even include urpmi and friends! If memory serves, none of the network servers (NFS, SMB, etc) are inclused in the minimal footprint, either, so they would have to be added in during individual package selection (next). The installation proceeds to the individual package selection, where one can (de-)select additional packages, but I don't know if trimming things down to 10 MB is feasible with Mandrake. Best regards! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+--+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \Charles A. Shirley\ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+--+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2 TV questions
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 10:54, J Herzfeld wrote: My picture is pretty good, but not great. In full screen it looks a bit grainy. In am running 1200x1000 (appx) in 16bit (I cant remember exactly since I am not at my linux box now) Don't forget, TV has terrible resolution (worse than 640x480), so when scaled up to 1280x1024 (or thereabouts...) it'll look pretty terrible. And as a bonus, you'll get to see all of the artifacts that make analog transmission lose, not to mention any ghosting caused by impedence mismatching in the cable path. I run my tv card at native tv resolution, and zoom X down to 640x480 and live with the black border around the picture. It doesn't look too bad that way. The hard line is, if you want a tv picture to look really good, you're better off watching it on a TV. :^( -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xterm from mandrake to solaris box
On Thursday 15 August 2002 17:08, Oliver Thieke wrote: Hi out there at the screens, Changing to Mandrake 8.2 I'm unable to figure out how to accomplish the same task. According to one of my LX books it should be as easy as using the following command: xterm -display 66.66.66.66:0 (assuming that 66.66.66.66 is the Solaris box' IP adress) But all I get is the following error message: /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.real Xt error: can't open display: 66.66.66.66:0 (same holds true for variations of the -display option: -display 66.66.66.66:0.0, -display 66.66.66.66 etc.) Hi! I don't know if you've figured out your problem yet, but I think you have the direction wrong. your command: xterm -display 66.66.66.66:0 would open an xterminal displaying on the Solaris box, since you say that 66.66.66.66 is the ip address for the Solaris machine. You need to connect to the Solaris machine, and tell it to run an xterm on the Mandrake box: [Mandrake]$ xhost +Solaris.box Solaris.box being added to access control list [Mandrake]$ rsh Solaris.box xterm -display Mandrake.box However, it is much safer to use ssh, which will take care of access control on it's own: [Mandrake]$ ssh Solaris.box xterm Best regards, Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Preventing msec from changing file permissions
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 15:15, Aleksey Y Naumov wrote: Dear experts, I have I question/problem with msec on my 8.2 system: it keeps changing permissions on directory /home/PgDB. /var/log/auth.log has: ... Aug 13 15:01:00 ples msec: changed mode of /home/PgDB from 700 to 755 ... Trouble is, this is my data directory for PostgreSQL database, so it has to have permission 700, i.e.: drwx--6 postgres postgres 4096 Aug 13 14:56 PgDB/ It took me quite a while to figure this out myself. I haven't tried with a directory, but it works with individual files. Put the file, it's owner and group, and the permissions you want it to have in /etc/security/msec/perm.local, like so: # /etc/security/msec/perm.local # Local file permission settings to override msec. # [file][uid.gid] [perms] # /usr/bin/artswrapperroot.root 4755 (This example keeps msec from turning off suid on the artswrapper so that my artsd can run with NRT scheduling priority) Probably, the file is empty, at least it was on my system, so once I figured out the format, I created the header to keep me from having to go through all the headache again. Sadly, msec is not well documentd unless you can read perl really well! :^) -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bad Copies of 9.0Beta2
On Sunday 11 August 2002 21:49, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Chuck Shirley wrote: On to your problem No, my luck was excellent, thanks to your help. Ten or fifteen minutes to fix the file, twenty minutes to burn the cd. And I never had to leave the command line. I think I'm in unix heaven. Thanks a million, Chuck! It was a thrill seeing it all come together. That mirror also has some md5sum file called md5sums.9.0 in the same directory as the iso images, you may want to get that as well, to do the comparison before you turn your cds. Did it, it checked out. Now I know what md5sum does and how to use it. Thanks again for the help. Good to hear you got things figured out! I was doing many things yesterday, and didn't notice your first e-mail, or I would have helped out with md5sum (it took me a while to figure it out, too). Now that you have it's basics, you can start using pipes and greps and such to help automate the check proceedure... (When you do, you'll be ahead of me, 'cause I still do it the hard way! :^) -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bad Copies of 9.0Beta2
On Sunday 11 August 2002 07:31, Dale Huckeby wrote: When I try to move downloaded copies of CD2 I get input-output errors and if I try to burn a CD I get a coaster. I got good copies of the 1st and 3rd CDs (bad copies first try at a Russian mirror) when I went to a mirror in Hawaii. I've tried three times to download a copy of CD2 that works and no luck so far. Is this normal? Dale Huckeby Hi! I have a couple of suggestions. The fisrt is a mattere if nettiquite. When sending a message to a list such as this one, and it is not related to another message, please send a _New_ message, rather than _Reply_-ing or _Forward_-ing a message from the list, then changing the subject line. The resason for this is that replying to a message takes some of the header information from that message that the more featureful mail readers use for threading messages, and it effectively Breaks the thread It can be quite frustrating. On to your problem. It is a good idea to check your iso filesytem images for errors before you burn them. You can run `md5sum` on the iso image file, for example. Compare this with the md5sum that Mandrake has published for the image you are downloading. If they are not the same, your image has some problems. If you have a damaged iso image, clearly, downloading the whole thing will be a huge pain due to it's size, so I reccommend just fixing the one you have by re-synchronizing it using rsync, which will actually repair the damaged image by compareing it with a presumed-good image on a remote server using a rolling-dual-crc check of the file, and transferring only the parts that are different. The mathematics involved are quite clever, and it produces very good results. You just need to find a server that you can get a good connection to and that offers a public rsync service of the Mandrake iso images, and you'll be off to the races. :^) Something like: (sorry it's one long line...) rsync -avP --progress --stats rsync://ftp.proxad.net:873/mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0beta2-CD* /local/path/to-put-isos/ should do nicely, though you may have differnt luck... That mirror also has some md5sum file called md5sums.9.0 in the same directory as the iso images, you may want to get that as well, to do the comparison before you turn your cds. Best of luck! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Sound Is Impossible
On Sunday 11 August 2002 12:34, Daryl Johnson wrote: On Sunday 14 July 2002 02:48, you wrote: An addendum to my sound card problems of 6 weeks ago. I have sound using OSS but not ALSA, it's not uncommon to get sound server error messages when I forget and try and use a KDE sound app. Clearly artsd is missing the boat somewhere. As a rare occasion today I logged into a KDE screen as root (I know, I know but I had my reasons) and blow me down, the chord played on boot and sign off. I also used some KDE apps and got sound interaction. Clearly a permission problem somewhere but would anyone care to suggest where? Are you running the /usr/bin/artswrapper suid-root? I'm sure there are many who would frown heavily on doing this, but I run it suid (mode 4755), and have had much better sound quality as a result. If you use msec, you will have to put an entry for the change in /etc/security/msec/perm.local: # /etc/security/msec/perm.local # Local file permission settings to override msec. # [file][uid.gid] [perms] # /usr/bin/artswrapperroot.root 4755 the artswrapper is what launches the artsd sound-server at kde startup, and allows artsd to get (near) real-time-scheduling priority. -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MP-BIOS bug / Unknown brugde resource?
On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 07:09, civileme wrote: Much good stuff snipped. .The Dell Inspiron 4000 would not work at all with the 2.4 kernel in 8.0 if there were more than 192M memory in the machine because it continued to report the bridges among the various buses to be mapped just above 192M even though the mapping had been changed--for more memory than that a 2.2 kernel had to be used which did NOT read or trust the BIOS. I assume this was fixed (at least I hope it was) in 8.1 since I'm running 8.1 on a Dell Inspiron 4000 that has 256MB of memory. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card
On Thursday 08 August 2002 19:46, et wrote: do you have a cd or floppy that came with either the mother board, or the sound card? can you move the sound card to a different slot on the motherboard? On Thursday 08 August 2002 06:41 pm, you wrote: How can I set the IRQ on a pci card? I have a conflict between an on-board ethernet device and a PCI soundcard: both want IRQ 5. I have attempted to use pirq=, but no luck there. Any advice? Thanks, Hoyt What about adjusting the irq of the onboard NIC in the manboard BIOS? -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Iwill du3160: Unable to install Mandrake 8.2
On Sunday 04 August 2002 00:29, Lorne wrote: On Saturday 03 August 2002 07:36 pm, you wrote: Termination and cabling were the first things that I suspect as well, I have asked the fellow to check on those things, but he is also going to test the current RH release. I'll post back to this list as I learn more. Thanks! -Chuck Something else to try would be to throw an IDE drive in there, and try it with no hard drive connected to the SCSI card and see if it still goes nuts trying to talk to the card. ? I'm pretty sure it isn't the release of Mandrake. I've been using SCSI with Mandrake for a long time. Once in awhile there will be something broken, but they quickly fix it. I'm currently using an old 2940, but I've used Mylex and some other junk with no problems. Goodl luck. Well, the fellow has since downloaded the 9.0ß-2 first CD, and last I heard, the installer was asking him for the next CD, which he was downloading elsewhere. Perhaps it was a kernel problem? Or the insall kernel didn't have access to the correct module? I'll post back to the list when I hear that he is successful with a running 9.0ß-2 system. Many thanks! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Boot-Floppy image on a CDROM disc?
Hi Experts, I have a cooker machine, a laptop, that I want to make a fresh install on, but there is a problem, it has no floppy drive. Rather than make a set of CDs, I want to put the hd.image on a cdr, and boot that. The laptop is running a stale cooker distribution, and has a current mirror, but has nearly 500 stale packages installed. I am not a cdrecord ninja, and when I tried to make the bootable disc with xcdroast, I failed even though I told it to make a bootable cd with the hd.img boot disk image. Has anyone a clue how, or even if, this can be done? THanks! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boot-Floppy image on a CDROM disc?
On Sunday 04 August 2002 11:47, Jason Guidry wrote: On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 10:48, Chuck Shirley wrote: I have a cooker machine, a laptop... it has no floppy drive. Rather than make a set of CDs, I want to put the hd.image on a cdr, and boot that It maybe sort of a pain, but you could certainly pull the hard drive from that laptop and do an install from a desktop machine (you'll need an adapter, of course). also, a few of the cd places out there (cheapbytes.com et.al.) offer cooker disks, and I'm sure they'd be happy to burn you off a few disks of the absolute latest. or humoryou could send me $20 to the address on my website and I'll burn the disks for you/humor unless you'd acually send me $20. and that's USD, nun-a-that canadian stuff. Thanks for the offer, but I was just trying to save the hassle of burning a new set of CDs myself. (Especially with all the trouble mkcds has been having lately.) ;) So far, I have only tried using XCDRoast to make boot-floppy CDs, but have failed. I suppose I should look into doing it via command line, as I'm sure there are better options. As it stands, I have tried to burn floppy image directly to the CDR (by telling XCDRoast to use the hd.img as the disc image) but the bios wouldn't boot it. And I tried mastering a CD on-the-fly using hd.img as the boot image (I was sure this would work, but the bios still said it wasn't a bootable image... :( Back to the drawing board! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boot-Floppy image on a CDROM disc?
On Monday 05 August 2002 14:33, James Sparenberg wrote: Just tried this out and it worked. mkdir and copy hd.img to that dir. The cd to that directory. At the prompt type mkisofs -r -b hd.img -c boot.cat -o hdboot.iso . the -b means to make this the boot image the -c means create the boot catalog for this disk the -o means create an iso with this name the trailing dot is needed because it means read from right here. then at the prompt as root cdrecord -v speed=16 dev=0,0,0 -data hdboot.iso in about 2 seconds you have a cd that boots looking for the rpms etc on a hdd partition. Note that speed and dev may change for your box in the above command. James Sweet! Thanks for testing that out, James! I appreciate it. Since I just re-syncronized my mirror on the laptop, I think I'll give it a spin. I need to get with the program. I've been around computers so long that I still consider cdr/w-stuff to be new-fangled, so I never get around to learning how to do it the UNIX way. Now, give me a 9-track, 1/2 reel-to-reel tape drive over IEEE-488, and it's a whole other ball game! ;) Thanks again! Best regards! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Iwill du3160: Unable to install Mandrake 8.2
Hello Experts! I am trying to help a fellow with a Mandrake installation. He is using an Iwill du3160 Ultra-160 SCSI host adapter, and seems to be having trouble with it. He describes the problem to me thus: Specifically what i am having problems with is the scsi controller card. It recognizes the chip, qlogic, but can't seem to communicate with the card. The kernel goes through an endless loop trying to reset the bus or something along those lines. It is trying to communicate wtih the card, but just can't. I have tried both debian and mandrake distros. debian 2.2 and mandrake 8.2 the kernel can initialize the onboard and promise ide controller, but just hangs when trying to install the qlogic driver for the iwill controller card. any suggestions? as of now, i have taken out all of the other pci cards and tried with no luck, tried in both the dvd rom and cdrw drive, i have tried increasing and decreasing the pci latency for the scsi controller with no noticeable effects, still hangs at the same spot. Debian doesn't even recognize the card, only mandrake tried to install the drivers with the endless loop. Red Hat reports the adapter as being Certified Red Hat Ready or some such, and the web has many accounts of the adapter being supported by linux, but it is not specifically listed in the Mandrake Hardware database (At least not the one on the Mandrake website) I will ask him to provide some greater detail of the errors the install kernel is reporting, unless someone thinks they know the solution already. Cheers! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Iwill du3160: Unable to install Mandrake 8.2
On Saturday 03 August 2002 22:14, Lorne wrote: On Saturday 03 August 2002 05:03 pm, you wrote: Hello Experts! I am trying to help a fellow with a Mandrake installation. He is using an Iwill du3160 Ultra-160 SCSI host adapter, and seems to be having trouble with it. He describes the problem to me thus: The first thing I would suspect is the termination. Make absolutely sure that the system is terminated properly. I've seen many strange problems with a chain that isn't terminated, or terminated incorrectly. I won't bore you with the details of how this is accomplished, but I'm sure you know how. Just remind your friend to make sure both internal and external is terminated properly. Termination and cabling were the first things that I suspect as well, I have asked the fellow to check on those things, but he is also going to test the current RH release. I'll post back to this list as I learn more. Thanks! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE:(re)starting artsd gracefully: How?
On Sunday 28 July 2002 00:35, Damian G wrote: hey, instead of killing/reviving the poor arts all the time, have you tried to make your game work with artswrapper? as in [user@localhost user]$ artswrapper nameofmyveryimportantsoftware maybe it'll help. that wrapper stuff is supposed to make the app use arts without even noticing it is... or something like that. Do you mean artswrapper or soundwrapper? I use soundwrapper to run xmms, but for things where sound sycnchronization is important (games, video applications, etc.) it introduces way too much lag, even though I have artsd running with (near)realtime priority (how can it have real realtime priority without a preemptible kernel?) and have artsd configured with pretty small delay (46 milliseconds) I think that artswrapper is for starting artsd, like so: /usr/bin/artswrapper -F 8 -S 1024 -d -s 5 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE:(re)starting artsd gracefully: How?
Hi Experts, I have some important software that I use that is un-aware of the arts, (Okay, I admit, it's games, sue me... :^) )so to use it with KDE3, I have a script linked to a desktop Icon to stop the artsd if it is running, and start it if it is not running. Is there an official way to stop/start the sound server? Herewith is the script I use to do the work: (It is very stupid, but it seems to work) ---Begin--- #!/bin/bash # This script starts/stops the arts sound daemon... if [ `ps -ef | grep artsd | grep -v grep` == ]; then echo Starting artsd... 21 exec /usr/bin/artswrapper -F 8 -S 1024 -d -s 5 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f echo ...Done21 else echo Stopping artsd... 21 killall artsd echo ...Done21 fi ---End--- -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0's kernel?
On Friday 26 July 2002 22:06, nDiScReEt wrote: On Friday 26 July 2002 8:10 pm, Damian G wrote: You do realize that using this patch pretty much prevents the machine from being used as a high capacity server. It allow the kernel to be pulled away from unimportant things to take care of really important things like your desktop. Hardly an acceptable compromise on a server. *drools* hmmm deeskto... *drools* Damian I see what you mean, Damian. If they can create a kernel package for a server (kernel-secure) and a multiprocessor (kernel-smp), surely one can be created for desktop users, right? I don't see why not. I think the pre-emptable kernel would be ideal for power-challenged (uniprocessor, end user machines) like laptops. My dual cpu P3-coppermine-750 workstation is far more responsive than my 1133MHz, 512k cache P3-Tualatin laptop. I think the preemptable kernel would make a substantial perceived improvement. (Caveat: I was never able to make the 2.5 kernel branch run on the laptop, but it has been some time since I tried.) Here is a list of the kernels currently part of the cooker branch, and surely one more couldn't hurt: [chuck@goth RPMS]$ ls kernel* /mnt/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-2.4.18.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-BOOT-2.4.18.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-enterprise-2.4.18.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-headers-2.4.18-39mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-linus2.4-2.4.18-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-secure-2.4.18.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.18.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.18-21mdk.i586.rpm -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Maxtor 4G120J6 okay? (was: Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200ABharddisk - any problems?)
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 00:13, dfox wrote: As for the new IBMs, I'll try them when they take down that advisory about not running 24/7. Til then, they are welcome to their technological innovations without me. Does that advisory just recommend against leaving them on full time or are they expecting 80-90% actual use (as in head movement, drive light on) during that 24/7? I run my 30 G Destkstar 24/7 and it actually doesn't just sit idle - it does some work for news/mail and other stuff, but may be idle (i.e., just spinning) for some lengths of time. I think it meant the diskdrives die soon if they are in a power-on state for more than eight hours a day. That is what I have heard at least, and many people are having Dead GXPs, so I will stick to Maxtor for now I think. Or go SCSI... -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] noauto Filesytems being mounted at boot
This has been bothering me for some time now, but I thought it was something I misconfigued on my system. I have my optical drives (CD-RW and DVD-ROM) like so in my fstab: /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd iso9660 noaouto,ro,user 0 0 So I don't want them to auto-mount (like at boot time from rc.sysinit) and I want the user to be able to control mount/umount of these devices. But, at boot time, if there is a disc in either drive, it is mounted and I have to be superuser to umount the disc. Also, if there is no disc in any optical drive, rc.sysinit complains about no media. Can someone enlighten me here? -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dual boot: differt TYPEs of Drives
On Sunday 21 July 2002 14:22, civileme wrote: Ummm, since I don't have your system in front of me may I suggest that bringing up mandrake Control center = Boot = Boot Config and actually trying that scenario might be the best way to discover if it is better? While you are tinkering, it might alsdo be possible to give LILO a spin... There is just about zero chance that such experimentation will cause damage. Civileme And DO post the results. These mystery boots are always intriguing. Thanks, Civileme. I have passed on the suggestion, and am awaiting feedback that I will pass back to the list. (I don't have the system at my fingertips either, so I merely serve as the proxy...) -Charles -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] streamripper vs. live365 broadcasts...
Hi List! Are there any users of the streamripper utility here? According to the description in the rpm, and other documentation, it is supposed to be able to ripp live365 streams, but the docs don't let on as to how this is done. With shoutcast streams, it's a walk in the park, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to make it play nice with live365 streams. If anyone has the answer, I'd sure like to hear it! Thanks... :^) -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X over SSH
Todd, Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I get the same result: xterm Xt error: Can't open display: simplesolutions.com:10.0 From my reading, it seems this should be simple, but I am having no success at all. On Sunday 21 July 2002 04:51 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Chuck Lalli wrote on Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 07:24:02PM -0400 : this to work. I can run command line and text stuff, edited my files with vi for example over ssh but X does not work at all. ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] streamripper vs. live365 broadcasts...
On Sunday 21 July 2002 17:50, Larry Sword wrote: IAW the change log: Changes in 1.0.3 Removed live365 ripping (legal reasons) Ah! That explains it! I've sent a message to the packager to update the package description accordingly. THanks! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+-+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \ Charles A. Shirley \ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X over SSH
On Sunday 21 July 2002 06:48 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Chuck Lalli wrote on Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 06:32:44PM -0400 : Todd, Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I get the same result: xterm Xt error: Can't open display: simplesolutions.com:10.0 cat /etc/hosts Blue skies... Todd Todd, That was it, I had the wrong ip address in there. working now !! Thanks a lot for your help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel building questions
- Original Message - From: Darren King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:31 AM Subject: [expert] kernel building questions I went and picked up the cooker kernel (source rpm) and build it to try and address some major hardware problems I have. I built the kernel, and installed it (make menuconfig, make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install). I updated lilo.conf and kmod: failed to exec modprobe -s -k freereiserfs errno=2 mount: error 19 mounting reiserfs flags notail pivotroot:pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed 2 Darren, What board do you have? I just rebuilt with a MSI K3 ultra with raid and have the same ( but worse) problems. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] upgrade woes
- Original Message - From: Darren King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:42 PM Subject: [expert] upgrade woes I just upgraded my machine from a k6-2 400 with a super 7 board to a ahtlon 1700xp with a kt333 board and now my system is mucho unstable. I wish I only had an unstable system. I could not boot at all after a very similar upgrade. I installed 8.0 on an unused partition but cannot use my usb mouse. I reinstalled with the recent (06/06/02) cooker isos and cannot boot at all. I get errors about block-major-3 (ide drive) and char-major-13 (mouse I think). It suggests that I boot with kernel option init= but I don't know what that means. As you can tell, I can run my WinXP partiton. :( Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:09 am, dfox wrote: Yes...very interested. Master Jedi Dfox may be interested as well. ;) Yeah, it might prove interesting. I've heard people network to them and control them from Linux. I wouldn't be suprised to see a regular PC like drive in there. My brother recently took apart a spare Dish Network My DirecTivo came with a 3.5 in 40G Maxtor drive in it. My previous Dishplayer had a 17 G drive that is now in my kids PC. I think it is a Quantum but cannot remember for sure. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mathematical notation in konqueror
On Sunday 03 March 2002 13:25, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: bascule wrote: can someone tell me if it is possible to configure konqueror to display the following url properly: http://wwwperfdynamicscom/Papers/viewmathhtml The examples in this page use the archaic method of using special font (Symbol font in this case), but one shouldn't use this method anymore Nevertheless, out of curiosity, I ran the script that they have on the page (http://hutchinsonbelmontmaus/tth/Xfontsfix) and the test page renders more nicely than the example image, using either Konqueror, Galeon, or Netscape, but Mozilla and Dillo still fail to render the page properly -- Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [expert] [OT] Monitor tests
On Monday 25 February 2002 20:11, you wrote: I have noticed two fine lines going across the screen which I can't seem to get rid of. I have heard that these are normal for Trinitron (aperture grille) monitors. Is this true? The lines are barely noticable, so I can live with them if they are not a sign of impending failure. Assuming you don't have to have the Contrast and Brightness turned all the way up in order to get a good image, the monitor probably has many years of service left in it. I ran a 21 Trinitron for a very long time on an HP-UX machine, and I'd still be dragging it around today if it weren't for the sync-on-green (mis)feature. And, yes, those fine horizontal artifacts are normal for those monitors. The old HP monitor I had had 4 or 5 of them, if I recall correctly, so you're 2 lines is pretty nice! (Even my little 17 trinitron has 2 lines) -- Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] usage
On Monday 25 February 2002 16:47, Belkie, Dan wrote: Can anyone suggest a simple way of checking out how much data is passing through a Nic card within a 24 hr period? Thanks if you don't need to know until tomorrow, you could try: echo `grep eth0 /proc/net/dev | cut -c8-18`-`sleep 86400 ; grep eth0 /proc/net/dev | cut -c8-18` | bc (for data in) and echo `grep eth0 /proc/net/dev | cut -c19-28`-`sleep 86400 ; grep eth0 /proc/net/dev | cut -c19-28` | bc (for data out) It'll give you a negative number, but the magnatude is correct. I'm sure there is a more elegant way, and when someone sees this hack, I'm sure they'll pipe up! -- Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Only root can use dri how to fix it?
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 03:01, Steve Kieu wrote: Hi, For some reason I dont know but today when I run bzflags as normal user, things are terribly slow ; even I have to reset the computer, I guess something wrong with dri. After reboot, I try to run it as root and it is good. Some permission is wrong but I dont know how to fix it; probably the mod xxx under Load glx in Xconfig file? In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, after the Modules section, verify that: Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection is in there. Also, check /sbin/lsmod | grep agpgart to make sure the agpgart module is loaded before initializing X. If it is not, make sure that the module for your video card is *not* loaded before you start X, as it will prevent the agpgart module from loading. Make sure that agp is aliased in /etc/modules.conf: alias char-major-226 agpgart If you have an incompletely supported chipset, you may also need: options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 in modules.conf Plese post to list if none of this helps. Best luck, -- Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] logging out of Blackbox
On Monday 18 February 2002 18:43, Curtis H wrote:
Uhh... Somebody remind me of how to log out of Blackbox.
curtis@freire curtis$ rpm -q blackbox
blackbox-0.62.1-1mdk
This is cooker version I think. The menu entry is gone for some
reason. They are working on it. In the meantime, I made a new menu
entry with killall blackbox. Otherwise, [Ctrl]+[Alt}+{Backspace] will
abort the Xserver. Don't wory, blackbox doesn't mind, but make sure
all of your applications are prepared (i.e. closed)
--
Chuck
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[expert] Where is my drive space
I just noticed a problem on my 8.1/cooker install. Recently when installing a new package I ran out of space on /usr/local. DiskDrake shows my /usr/local mounted as hdg1 with 8.8 G. It is formatted as a Reiser partition and is the first 1154 cylinders of 2490 cyls (19G) on a Maxtor ATA100 drive. Does anybody have any idea what is wrong ? [root@forsimplesolutions cal]# fdisk -l /dev/hdg Disk /dev/hdg: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdg1 * 1 1155 9277506 83 Linux /dev/hdg2 1156 2491 10731388+ 5 Extended /dev/hdg5 1156 1677 4192902b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hdg6 1678 2491 6538423+ 83 Linux [root@forsimplesolutions cal]# df /usr/local Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdg1 64844808 44056 96% /usr/local [root@forsimplesolutions cal]# du -s /usr/local 810654 /usr/local Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.0 to 8.1 Upgrade
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 09:14, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: Just a shot in the dark, but try: rpm --rebuilddb It is actually a good command to run after you do a lot of rpm installs and/or uninstalls. Ciao, Enrico That was the first thing I tried. Sorry that I forgot to mention it. After seeing the 'filesystem' thing, I tried to run diskdrake and it wouldn't run either. It read: modprobe: Can't locate module floppy Segmentation fault. In /var/log/messages, I noticed 'kernel BUG at super.c:274!' and 'invalid operand: It's a pet peeve of mine to just reinstall without finding the cause. I wonder if a kernel upgrade will do it? On Sunday 11 November 2001 18:29, you wrote: I did the 'upgrade' from 8.0 to 8.1. Now, any RPM command causes a segmentation fault, usually after it says 'D: getting list of mounted filesystems'. Wine also used to work, but it also gives me the segmentation fault error. I did a Google search and found nothing. Thanks in advance, Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] 8.0 to 8.1 Upgrade
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:13, Quintin Holmberg wrote: chuck, did the kernel portion of the upgrade complete correctly. i have seen the module kind of error you mention before after a rpm kernel upgrade. what i found was that the modules did not get put into the new kernel named directory thus causing all modules to fail to load on startup. you can find out by looking in /etc/conf/modules/kernel version number and see if there are any modules there. if this is the problem, my solution was to rerun the kernel rpm. as rpm is not working for you, this is obviously not an option currently. try reverting back to the previous kernel first so the old modules will be loaded. -- Well, many of the modules for the old kernel wouldn't load, but the RPM of the new kernel worked and RPM works when booting the new kernel. Nothing bad in /var/log/messages, so it looks like I'm set. Thanks alot for the advice, you saved me a dreaded (not as dreaded as some OS's where you have to reboot 10 times) install. Now just a little work with WINE and (in)SANE, and I'll be running Windowless computers. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel-source rpm problems
On Thursday 04 October 2001 11:44 am, you wrote: saw this and since i'm thinking of upgrading to 8.1 final thought i'd ask you what version of x you chose on install (assuming there is still a choice), i've always wanted to get my nvidia card working properly and it's time to bite the bullet and tinker, is there anything i need to know since you seem to have a success story on this; my own 2 yr old is in fact 10 but she likes tux racer too! bascule Bascule, I walked through the (almost) excellent directions provided here: http://home.cinci.rr.com/salaneking/index.html The only change needed is after patching the kernel you need to make install on it and on the GLX drivers. I am using X 4.10 from 8.1. The only difficulty I encountered was in getting the kernel-source installed. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel-source rpm problems
I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.8-26 and am trying now to install the kernel-source rpm (2.4.8.26). I got the following message: ncurses-devel is needed by kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk 8.1 rc1 had installed ncurses5.2-16. the only ncurses-devel package I could find was 5.2-12 fromrpmfind.net. I tried to install that and got the following: ncurses = 5.2-12.2mdk is needed by ncurses-devel-5.2-12.2mdk I just want to install my NVIDIA drivers, I understand that I need the kernel-source for this. What can I do from here? Thanks, Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CUPS in MDK8.1b2
On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:16 am, civileme wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2001 20:28, Mitch Thompson wrote: Ok, just installed Mandrake 8.1b2. Looks good so far, let's see if CUPS works for a change...Hey, where'd all the printer drivers go? There USED to be a printer driver for the Lexmark Z51, but it's gone. Sigh. The network failed to load and execute during install--run printerdrake after you get the network up and you should be surprised. Of course the next beta will fix the network bug which had a domino effect on rprinting systems Civileme I just did an install of 8.1b2, saving my home and var partitions. I was unable to print. After running printerdrake I got the following in the terminal; along with my cdrom opening and closing on its own. [root@cal cal]# printerdrake chroot: cannot execute foomatic-configure: No such file or directory gimp-1.2.2-3mdk removable medium not selected kdebase-2.2-20mdk removable medium not selected Starting CUPS printing system: [ OK ] parport_pc: Device or resource busy rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded parport: Device or resource busy modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded chroot: cannot execute foomatic-configure: No such file or directory chroot: cannot execute foomatic-configure: No such file or directory chroot: cannot execute foomatic-configure: No such file or directory wizcancel at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 542. Can't upgrade that kind of scalar during global destruction. [root@cal cal]# Do I need to rebuild the kernel ? -- Count on nothing, expect little, hope for everything Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake Control Center broken
I am having trouble with the Mandrake Control Center, it is not affecting the changes I am making. I had to reinstall LM8.0 freq2 after a few problems. Now I am finding that I cannot set my mouse correctly, I set it to a wheel mouse in MCC and edit the XFConfig-4 file for a wheel mouse, restart KDE and it is back to where I started. I tried again, select wheel mouse in MCC, switch to something else and then go back, it is set back to generic. Also, I am running a dual boot with Win XP. It does not work with LILO but does with GRUB. I cannot switch to GRUB in MCC. It says LILO regardless of what I do. Both of these were working fine before I had to reinstall. Questions: Can I set these things manually ? Also, what can I do to fix MCC, I don't know what package it is to try a reinstall. Thanks, Chuck
[expert] Mandrake 8.0, ALSA, Sound drivers will not load....
I have tried this on two completely different installs (meaning different hardware), but I am getting the exact same problem. When issuing the command: modprobe snd-card-ymfpci (or whatever your sound card might be) I get the following error message: /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa/snd-card-ymfpci.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa/snd-card-ymfpci.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa/snd-card-ymfpci.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa/snd-card-ymfpci.o.gz: insmod snd-card-ymfpci failed This happens on both of my setups with the only difference being that the sound card name implied is differnet. So why cannot the module for the sound cards be loaded? If the default IO or IRQ is wrong, how and where do I change it. lspci will return and identifies the sound card IO. It seems to be just something simple that I am missing but I am not sure what. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
[expert] minimal installation
thought i'd ask here also since i got no responce in newbie so far: i would like to experiment with installing a minimal system on a small hard drive for use only on the internet using ppp and konqueror. i have 7.2 but dont know which rpm's i MUST install for the system to function properly. thought i'd ask for advice and suggestions here before spending hours and hours of failed installation experimentation. thanx.chuck __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] missing rpm database entry - install-info
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Praedor Tempus spewed into the bitstream: PTI recently lost my rpm install database. Running rebuilddb PTfailed as did trying initdb. Anyway, I have all the PTrequisite rpms installed from 7.1 but most of them are PTnot in the rpm database on my system. I have since been PTre-creating a database by installing 7.2beta rpms in PTupgrade. PT PTI am slowly reinstalling or upgrading just about all my rpms PTso that I will have an up-to-date system as well as a rebuilt PTdatabase. One dependency that I keep getting, but have no PTidea what rpm to install to eliminate the message, is PT"install-info". What rpm provides "/sbin/install-info"? info-install-4.0-11mdk -- Chuck Mead, CTO, LinuxMall.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Public Key Available: http://www.pgp.net/wwwkeys.html Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Mandrake 7.1 ISO IMAGE
I waited overnight! Toshiba x40 IDE (MASTER SETTING) Secondary bus. -- From: Eunice Thompson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO IMAGE I had this problem only when installing on my laptop-couldn't get the darn drive to open!! When I upgraded to 7.1 final from the beta versions I basically just walked away after indicating which additional packages i wanted, because it took so long for the package installatiion to initialize. I was surprised when I came back to it that it had asked for the 2nd CD and the drive was already open, just waiting. Maybe we have to let the 'install' open the drive? No intervention on our part, just wait and see if the drive pops out. That's what happened to me. Eunice
Re: [expert] Problem with postfix virtual domains: Mdk Problem!
Hi all, I am the other person that Jon is referring to. I'm now convinced that this is a Mandrake-only bug. Perhaps an "error" at compile time. This only happens on virtual hosts, but mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bounced (actually a 554 reject: will not relay). Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is delivered. This occurs whether /etc/postfix/vitual contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you run virtual domains, please test it yourself (easy test: /usr/sbin/postmap -q [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/postfix/virtual which should comeback to you with the mapped real address. Check it with the lowercase domain too.). I'm a subscriber on the postfix-users list (every thing you ever wanted to know about smtp and much much more!) and the only people that seem to have this problem are running Mandrake (I asked). This evening I see another post on this problem on postfix-users, unrelated to mine, who says at the end that they are running postfix-19991231-5mdk. I also run postfix on my 486 redhat 6.2 box which does The Right Thing and delivers mail for either upper or lowercase domain names. At this point, I'll probably recompile postfix from source, but I figured that people who run postfix for virtual hosts ought to at least check to see if their servers have this problem. PS. I've been very happy with Mandrake as a distro (and I currently use RH and Slackware too). I'll happily eat my words if I'm wrong. -Chuck Burkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3 May 00, at 13:31, Jon wrote: I and at least one other person are having this same problem: Let's say I have a virtual domain, called "fakefoo.com". To host this virtually using the Postfix RPM included with Mandrake 7.0: Name: postfix Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 19991231 Vendor: MandrakeSoft I point the MX record for "fakefoo.com" to the machine running Postfix, and create a file called /etc/postfix/virtual (as defined in /etc/postfix/main.cf) and it looks something like this: fakefoo.com this domain is virtually hosted [EMAIL PROTECTED] user [EMAIL PROTECTED] user2 @fakefoo.com fakefoopostmaster This works just great. As long as mail is sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" the system will happily accept and deliver the mail. However, if that same person who succesfully sent mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" sends to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" the system will refuse to accept the message, giving a relay denied error -- as if "fakefoo.com" was not hosted on the machine! This is a real problem for me, and one other using Mandrake also has the same problem. -- Chuck Burkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
