[expert] Problem downloading 7.1 ISO file
Hi, I tried to download the iso file of the 7.1 LM from the download sites listed in their website. The download always became stalled after 7%. I tried many sites but found the same problem. Has anybody out there seen the same problem? Is there a site which has so such problem? Thanks a lot, Chunnuan
Re: [expert] Samba Printing
By default (i.e., you don't choose any filter for the samba printer), printtool will use /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/smbprint, which uses smbclient to connect to the remote samba printer. You may need to debug this file a little bit to see if it does communicate well with the windows printer. Moreover, if you want to print ps file to the windows printer (which usually cannot print ps files), you also need to add some gs command before you send the file to the samba printer. On the other hand, if you choose your own filter, you need to add the smbclient command to the filter file (usually, ps-to-printer.fpi). For example, following is the modification I made to my ps-to-printer.fpi ( under /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/) file in order to print to my Epson Stylus 860 attached to Windown NT: . elif [ "$GSDEVICE" = "uniprint" ]; then echo "enter upp"/tmp/print.log # Set default *.upp driver (your default printer upp driver here) if [ "$COLOR" = "" ]; then COLOR="stcany" echo "No filename for parameters given. Assume $COLOR." fi # the smbclient command is what I added to print to my windows NT printer eval "$mpage_cmd | gs -q @$COLOR.upp -r$RESOLUTION \ -sPAPERSIZE=$PAPERSIZE \ $EXTRA_GS_OPTIONS \ -sOutputFile=- - |/usr/bin/smbclient chep26\\epson -U yourusername%yourpasswd -c \ 'printmode graphics;print -' /tmp/print.log; echo "done"/tmp/print.log ... Hope this can help. Chunnuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Progress!! This worked for a text file - it did not eject the page, but hey, no big deal. Fix that later. So, now what? Still won't print from programs if I tell it to use lp0 (what printtool calls the printer. Ty I'm sure there is a general HowTo on this but I use a similar configuration both at work and at home. First make sure that the Windows Networking is working correctly. From the command line, run "smbclient //host/printer_share -P" - this should give a ftp like connection where you can give a command to print a local UNIX file. E.g. smbclient //ela/HP693C -P Password: xx smb: print /etc/hosts smb: quit This will halve the problem - whether it is on the UNIX or Windows side. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 7:38 PM Subject: [expert] Samba Printing I'm having a problem with samba/smb printing. Namely that I can't. I have an Epson 740 connected via usb to a windows machine. Windows prints great. I have it set to share as epson on machine magnolia. I have a password on the printer. In printtool I've told it that it's on file://magnolia/epson. I've got the right filter installed for it (prints fine when directly connected to linux box via lp0). I have the password in. I told it the ip of the windows box. It DOES send some info via the network when I tell it to print. But windows doesn't even appear to blink. I've been working on this for about 4 days, looking all over the net and nothing seems to get it to work. Any ideas? Thankee! Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713 Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
I don't know if someone has suggested this, if so, please skip it. Can you dump the relevant lines for the startup of your system from /var/log/messages? Usually these lines show (in order) what processes get started when you boot your machine. We may be able to find some useful info from the lines before and after the telinit 5 line. Make sure you reproduce the case to show the telinit 5 line. Chunnuan Lane Lester wrote: Civileme said: Deleting the line changes the X behavior--basically breaking it. Evidently not irreparably, since startx starts X. I finally reproduced the problem. High security user login su'ed in a Konsole Set /etc/inittab line to id:3:initdefault: logged out and rebooted--finding myself in X cat /var/run/runlevel.dir /etc/rc.d/rc5.d kudzu looks at /etc/inittab and boots to RL5 if it sees 5 linuxconf is called by a symlink called /sbin/askrunlevel and looks in /var/run/runlevel.dir Apparently su-ing in High security level enables the permission to edit a file but not to make linuxconf do its thing. So they are out of sync and runlevel 5 is a logical OR of their individual directives. It appears the remedy is to use linuxconf to set your runlevel--under Misc Servives on the opening screen. Wow, what a combination of factors to duplicate the problem. I did my original install with medium security and automatic X start. I haven't changed the security. During my attempts to stop X autostart, I have been logging on as root... but of course, X was starting before the system knew that. I had either used linuxconf to switch to 3 or when I ran linuxconf it was already set to 3... and X was still autostarting. My impression is that the auto X continued whether or not kudzu was executed. I turned kudzu off because it slows the boot, and I know I don't have any new hardware. I have it on right now, because I was recently trying to get my IDE cd-writer to work (another long story). -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
[expert] StarOffice and Java
Hi, Following up with your answer to my question regarding configuring JRE for Netscape browser, how did exactly configure the 1.2.2 JRE for Netscape? Did you mean adding it as a plugin? I checked with my collegue here at Netscape and was told that the Netscape browser uses it's own built-in JVM which is still 1.15 for 4.72 browser. The only way to view the Java 2 features (such as swing) is to have java plugins (like those from blackdown). I would be pleased to know another way to replace Netscape's default JVM. Thanks, Chunnuan Netscape comes with an older, less stable JVM. The Java 1.2.2 JRE claims to be an implementation of Java version 2, although the versioning system is more obtuse than any I've seen before. :-) The configuration was just running a self-extracting archive. It did the whole configure/install setup all by itself. Check out Sun's java page for the full info. On 15 Mar, chunnuan chen wrote: How did you configure JRE 1.2.2 for Netscape? I thought Nescape came with its own JVM. Chunnuan Gary Bunker wrote: I've downloaded and installed the JRE 1.2.2 setup from Sun, and it works great in Netscape. When I tried to set up StarOffice to use Java, it recognized that the environment existed, even pulled up the class library titles, but when I load a webpage that actually contains Java, the program says there is no Java Environment available. --- Nil Carborundum Illegitimi http://andysocial.com
Re: [expert] Graphical Login for LM 7.02?
Set UserView =true in /usr/share/config/kdmrc. Andrew Vogel wrote: When I first installed L-M 7.02 over my existing LM install, the new graphical login was different -- it had a listing of users a the top of the login box, and I could click on the name and then just enter the user's password. Now that I've reinstalled it fresh, that's gone. And I'd like it back! Can someone tell me the name of the RPM to install? --- === Andrew Vogel: Program Manager at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. http://pharmacy.uc.edu/default.html (513)-558-3784 ===
Re: [expert] Window Managers
You need to back up and restore those files under /etc/X11/xdm because those files seem not to be installed by XFee86-4.0 but needed by kdm for different window managers. Chunnuan Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello List, As a consequence of installing XFree86 4.0 I have lost the link from the window manager selections on the login screen to the various window managers. Perhaps I shouldn't have answered yes to all the overwrite questions during the install of 4.0. No matter what I select I get KDE. KDE is the only entry in a new file /etc/sysconfig/desktop. (This file doesn't appear in 3.3.6.) Can anyone tell me how to repair the login screen, please? TIA.
[expert] Configure your own JRE for Netscape?
Hi, I remember someone claimed that he successfully configured a Sun's JRE for Netscape browser. Can you tell me how you did it? I hate to see the browser hang every time I go to the Standing page on the NBA.com site, which is probably a Java-related. Thanks, Chunnuan
[expert] Cannot login as normal user through GUI
Hi, I backed up the files under /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6/ in order to install the new XFree86 4.0. After failing to configure the new x server to support the neomagic video card in my labtop, I copied the files back to /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6. Now I cannot login as regular through the GUI, even though I can do so through the console. Only root can login through GUI. What are the files related to the GUI login process? Thanks, Chunnuan
[expert] Benefits obtained by intalling XFree86 4.0
Hi, I finally installed the XFree86 4.0 on my Dell Laptop with Neomagic video card. Following are the benefits I got from this installation: 1. The problem I previouly reported (see below) was gone; 2. The color menus for Netscape are back at 24 bits, which I would like to see verification from folks like you. Chunnuan Chunnuan Chen wrote: Hi, I backed up the files under /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6/ in order to install the new XFree86 4.0. After failing to configure the new x server to support the neomagic video card in my labtop, I copied the files back to /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6. Now I cannot login as regular through the GUI, even though I can do so through the console. Only root can login through GUI. What are the files related to the GUI login process? Thanks, Chunnuan
Re: [expert] printing non-ascii in mandrake 7 broken
I found exactly the same problem. The gs command in the /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ps-to-printer.fpi did/could not write anything to the tmpfile. If I do cat tiger.ps|/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ps-to-printer.fpi , it works, and the tmpfile is written. I guess there must be something that prevents ps-to-printer.fpi writing to the tmpfile. The permission for the tmpfile is as follows -rw--- 1 lp lp 0 Mar 2 10:03 printtmp.yh9LK5 Chunnuan Sascha Kiedrowski wrote: Back again well I found out that the tmpfile is writeable and the commands issued by the script are like the following: cat - | sed "s/[(]%%.*%%[)].*flush//g" | gs -q -sDEVICE=bjc600 -r360x360 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sOutputFile=/tmp/printtmp.2qRNaU -dBitsPerPixel=8 - /dev/null 21 ; cat /tmp/printtmp.2qRNaU ; rm /tmp/printtmp.2qRNaU If I try to issue the command gs -q -sDEVICE=bjc600 -r360x360 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sOutputFile=my file -dBitsPerPixel=8 everything works fine. My problem is, I don't understand the "cat - | ..." part from the first script. I think it sort of "feeds" the file into gs, but I don't know. (I can't figure out any other part of the script where the file-to-print get's into the script. On Sam, 18 Mär 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: [...] Second, this is just a stab in the dark, but when the tempfile remains do you have proper permissions to write to it? Finally, since you found the script everything, I'd take a gander at the actual ghostcript input and output. You see that "eval" command at the end? Well, there is presumably where the problem is. Add some lines to the script, like this: echo mpage_cmd: $mpage_cmd echo gs command: gs -q -sDEVICE=$GSDEVICE \ -r$RESOLUTION \ -sPAPERSIZE=$PAPERSIZE \ -dNOPAUSE \ -dSAFER \ -sOutputFile=$TMPFILE \ $COLOR \ $EXTRA_GS_OPTIONS - This will tell you what the spooler is actually trying to *do* to print the text. Then you can try the commands yourself and see if you get some coherent error messages and go from there. On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Hello around there, | | I recently set up a mandrake 7 box and it seems it is impossible to print | anything but plain ascii. | I used printtool to set up my canon bjc-4000 (using the suggested driver). I am | not able to print the ps-testpage (or any other ps-file), but ascii works fine. | After tracking down the bug I ended up in | '/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ps-to-printer.fpi' . It seems it creates a | tmpfile (mktemp-command from line 45), which never gets any input. (I deleted | the command 'rm $TMPFILE' from line 131 and the file which remained had size 0 | bytes.) | | So, any idea out there? | | THXIA Sascha Kiedrowski -- I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger). I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I support http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org . I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html . -- *** Oberdorfstraße 54 69124 Heidelberg Tel.: 06221/789853 Mobil: 0171/540 24 84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [expert] COmpressed files
Try unzip. Payne Stanifer wrote: I was wondering what program I need to open .zip files. I have tried the archiver that comes with redhat 6.0, but it doesn't seem to work. Anyone know what program or patch I need? Thanks. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] StarOffice and Java
How did you configure JRE 1.2.2 for Netscape? I thought Nescape came with its own JVM. Chunnuan Gary Bunker wrote: I've downloaded and installed the JRE 1.2.2 setup from Sun, and it works great in Netscape. When I tried to set up StarOffice to use Java, it recognized that the environment existed, even pulled up the class library titles, but when I load a webpage that actually contains Java, the program says there is no Java Environment available. Anyone else seen this, and know of a fix? Not a terribly important thing, but still. -- --- Nil Carborundum Illegitimi http://andysocial.com
[expert] keyboard mapping and login problems.
I installed LM 7.02 with the highest security in my Dell Latitude laptop. Now I have two problems: 1. When run at leve 5, only the root account can login even though I can su to other regular users after I login as root. 2. When run at level 3, some keys in the right half of my keybord are messed up, for example, when you press 'i', you will see '4' or something like that. So I cannot do anything with the login prompt. Has someone met some problems of this kind? What are the possible reasons? Thanks, Chunnuan
[expert] printing with Ghostscript 6.0
I downloaded and installed ghostscipt 6.0 wiht ML7.02 and tried to set up my Epson Stylus 860 color printer. I checked the printer database by G. Taylor and found both stc2 and stc2_h are working for this printer. I did make the printer print postscript files by using PDQ (and xpdq). However, I couldn't o make it print the same files through lpd. I checked the ps-to-printer.fpi. It seems to me that the gs command did not write anything to the tmp file. But when took the same command out of ps-to-printer.fpi and ran it as shell command or script, it could convert the ps file and write it to the tmp file. Is there any file-writing permission involved here or the ps-to-printer.fpi needs to be modified? Thanks.
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.72 -- which one for Mandrake 7.0
I installed Netscape 4.72. It still hangs when hitting some fancy pages (probably those that have some java applets). I hope this problem will go away when the next release or Mozilla comes out. Chunnuan "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: Mandrake is a glibc-based distribution. But while we're on it . . . Netscape crashes left and right on me under Mandrake 7.0, though it's not Mandrake-specific; it started crashing all the time when I upgraded my RedHat 6.1 distribution to X 3.3.6. Are other people running into this? Is it fixed in Netscape 4.72? Anybody have a clue? On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Chunnuan Chen wrote: | Sam wrote: | | I see that the new Netscape 4.72 is out. My question is, which version | do I want for Mandrake 7.0 | | under Unix | Linux 2.0 | Linux 2.0(glibc) | | unsupported Unix | Linux | | TIA, | Sam | | I downloaded and unpacked the | | unsupported Unix | Linux | | Chunnuan -- I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger). I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.babbleon.org . I support http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org . I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
Re: [expert] Problems with gv in Mandrake Linux 7.0
Thanks for your assistance. I found out that Mandrake left out many useful packages even if I chose to install all the packages in the downloaded ISO. As for the ghostscript, I just installed 6.0 and now gv is working.-- Chunnuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chunnuan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vinay Gupta wrote: Chunnuan Chen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chunnuan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am using Mandrake 7.0-2. I was trying to use gv to open a .ps or .pdf file and got an error message like "unknow device: x11alpha", and the Can you check which version of ghostscript-XXX you have, you should see ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both, else install one of them and remove the previous one which may be ghostscript-SVGALIB or ghostscript-PrintOnly. file was not displayed. Can someone tell me what this means and how to correct this? Thanks. Chunnunan François. Thanks. I only got something like ghostscript-5.10-17mdk. How to see something like ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both? Chunnuan Try this: run gs from the shell you'll get a gs prompt type the following at the prompt devicenames == look for any x11 stuff you should find atleast x11 if not x11alpha Thereafter: Try changing your ghostscript options in gv from state-ghostscript options-antialias device to the one you found earlier ( if none was found or if this does not work remove the device in the antialias device. you'll atleast be able to read your ps's if not too clearly :-( hope this helps vinay __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com I used ghostscript -? and got: GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1997-11-23) Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...] Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =) -dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer messages -gwidthxheight page size in pixels | -rres pixels/inch resolution -sDEVICE=devname select device | -dBATCH exit after last file -sOutputFile=file select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe, embed %d or %ld for page # Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF Available devices: imagen iwhi iwlo iwlq lbp8 lips3 m8510 necp6 oki182 ln03 ap3250 appledmp epson epsonc eps9mid eps9high la50 la70 la75 la75plus deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus ljet2p ljet3 ljet4 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300 uniprint cp50 declj250 dnj650c ljet3d lj4dith lj250 bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 cdj500 jetp3852 st800 xes faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 r4081 sj48 t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pcxcmyk pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc tiff24nc psmono psgray bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m jpeg jpeggray pdfwrite pswrite epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor nullpage After I erased the antialias device, the error was gone. However, although I can see the page numbers on the left side and acutally can print out the file, I can't see the context (the gv scree is blank). So, is something worng with the display? Absolutely not, you have installed ghostscript-PrintOnly, for changing try after inserting CD1 and mounting it: rpm -e ghostscript-PrintOnly --nodeps rpm -U /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/ghostscript-X-* And you should get additionnal drivers for X11, try again "gs --help" and you should see "x11alpha x11..." in the list of available devices. François. By the way, I am talking about an LM-7.02 on a DELL Latitute laptop.
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.72 -- which one for Mandrake 7.0
Sam wrote: I see that the new Netscape 4.72 is out. My question is, which version do I want for Mandrake 7.0 under Unix Linux 2.0 Linux 2.0(glibc) unsupported Unix Linux TIA, Sam I downloaded and unpacked the unsupported Unix Linux Chunnuan
Re: [expert] Problems with gv in Mandrake Linux 7.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chunnuan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am using Mandrake 7.0-2. I was trying to use gv to open a .ps or .pdf file and got an error message like "unknow device: x11alpha", and the Can you check which version of ghostscript-XXX you have, you should see ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both, else install one of them and remove the previous one which may be ghostscript-SVGALIB or ghostscript-PrintOnly. file was not displayed. Can someone tell me what this means and how to correct this? Thanks. Chunnunan François. Thanks. I only got something like ghostscript-5.10-17mdk. How to see something like ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both? Chunnuan
Re: [expert] Problems with gv in Mandrake Linux 7.0
Vinay Gupta wrote: Chunnuan Chen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chunnuan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am using Mandrake 7.0-2. I was trying to use gv to open a .ps or .pdf file and got an error message like "unknow device: x11alpha", and the Can you check which version of ghostscript-XXX you have, you should see ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both, else install one of them and remove the previous one which may be ghostscript-SVGALIB or ghostscript-PrintOnly. file was not displayed. Can someone tell me what this means and how to correct this? Thanks. Chunnunan François. Thanks. I only got something like ghostscript-5.10-17mdk. How to see something like ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both? Chunnuan Try this: run gs from the shell you'll get a gs prompt type the following at the prompt devicenames == look for any x11 stuff you should find atleast x11 if not x11alpha Thereafter: Try changing your ghostscript options in gv from state-ghostscript options-antialias device to the one you found earlier ( if none was found or if this does not work remove the device in the antialias device. you'll atleast be able to read your ps's if not too clearly :-( hope this helps vinay __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com I used ghostscript -? and got: GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1997-11-23) Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...] Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =) -dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer messages -gwidthxheight page size in pixels | -rres pixels/inch resolution -sDEVICE=devname select device | -dBATCH exit after last file -sOutputFile=file select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe, embed %d or %ld for page # Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF Available devices: imagen iwhi iwlo iwlq lbp8 lips3 m8510 necp6 oki182 ln03 ap3250 appledmp epson epsonc eps9mid eps9high la50 la70 la75 la75plus deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus ljet2p ljet3 ljet4 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300 uniprint cp50 declj250 dnj650c ljet3d lj4dith lj250 bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 cdj500 jetp3852 st800 xes faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 r4081 sj48 t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pcxcmyk pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc tiff24nc psmono psgray bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m jpeg jpeggray pdfwrite pswrite epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor nullpage After I erased the antialias device, the error was gone. However, although I can see the page numbers on the left side and acutally can print out the file, I can't see the context (the gv scree is blank). So, is something worng with the display? By the way, I am talking about an LM-7.02 on a DELL Latitute laptop.
[expert] Problems with gv in Mandrake Linux 7.0
Hi, I am using Mandrake 7.0-2. I was trying to use gv to open a .ps or .pdf file and got an error message like "unknow device: x11alpha", and the file was not displayed. Can someone tell me what this means and how to correct this? Thanks. Chunnunan
[expert] laptop hangs on calibrating delay loop
Hi, I just built a new Mandrake linuz 7.0 kernel. I reconfigured the lilo.conf and ran lilo command. After rebooting the system, the labtop got stuck when it came to the line "calibrating delay loop...". Can someone help me out of this? Thanks, Chunnuan
