Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?
I yield. deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:53:26 -0400, Bryan Phinney wrote: > Actually, he is quite correct. /mnt/cdrom is a directory located off > of /mnt which in turn is located off of /. I believe you are confusing how a directory tree is set up to interface with you as a user in order to help you find your files with the actual devices where files are being stored. Check your /etc/fstab. That defines your file system table and says where the directories in your directory tree are really located. > Experiment: As root, with no cd mounted, cp a file to /mnt/cdrom and > you will note that the file is copied and then exists in /mnt/cdrom. It actually exists in memory. I don't want to get into a fruitless debate about this. I know it is a difficult concept. I'm only responding because I believe you are asking for problems if you treat all the places on the directory tree/interface as if they are actually all places on your hard drive. deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:38:57 -0700, KevinO wrote: > /mnt/cdrom is a real directory, until you mount something there. Since > the /mnt directory is part of the / filesystem (not on a separate > partition), its' size is limited to the free space available on / . > After something is mounted there, its' size will be that of whatever > you mounted there. I believe you are incorrect. This has nothing to do with whether something is on the same partition or not. / is /dev/hda or whatever. /mnt/cdrom is /dev/cdrom. They are completely different devices. Each gets a spot on the directory tree so you can view what's on it. Turgut is correct -- /mnt/cdrom is on the CD drive which is not the same device as / is on. On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:03:39 -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Well, consider it though, when its *not* mounted - then it can only > hold data up to the size of where its located. So here, where / is 1.1 > gigs, that means that /mnt/cdrom is 1.1 gigs. Does that make sense? It makes no sense whatsoever to me. What are you doing to come up with the 1.1 gigs? It sounds to me that you are concluding that the free space on /dev/hda1 or whatever it is on your system is somehow the available space on /dev/cdrom. I would suggest you use something like kwikdisk. It shows available space on each device as defined by your /etc/fstab. When /dev/cdrom has nothing mounted on it, it should show nothing at all except the name of the device on the directory tree (i.e., /mnt/cdrom). It will likely show zero Kb available when something is mounted since most CDs when closed show zero space available. > Next time I install (9.2 soon) I'll remember to make / big enough to > accomodate these occasional odd WineX requirements. It won't make a bit of difference because the /dev/cdrom will still be a different device than /dev/hda1 or whatever / is on your system. > What I did was to move /mnt/cdrom to /usr, and symlink it back to / > and that worked. I was able to copy around 2 gigs to it, no problem. What you did is copy the contents of your CD to a directory on another hard disk partition, e.g., /dev/hda2, then symlink it back to to the / directory on /dev/hda1, which appears from your comments to contain only one directory, /. Since the physical files are really on a partition with more space, it doesn't matter that they won't actually fit on /. But, you are forcing your game to travel a circuitous route to get to the real files. What it's doing is going first to / and finding the symlinks, then traveling to /usr/whatever to find the actual files. If you can get WineX to find the symlinks on /, you should be able to get it to find the actual files on /usr/whatever and let your game run without a bunch of extra steps. > Games running anyways so :-) That's the important thing :^). deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?
On 10/22/2003 3:58:16 PM EDT, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > I've got a game, Jedi Academy that works under WineX but you have to > copy both CD's to /mnt/cdrom since it won't release the drive to > change CDs. When I try to copy the 2nd CDs' contents into /mnt/cdrom > though, I get a "disk full" error - and no - its not full. Or rather - > it is, its showing up as 1.1 gigs when empty. > > Is there any to increase its size? I've got an 80 gig HD with plenty > of room - not crowded anywhere (example: /usr has about 8 gigs free, > /home has over 10 gigs, etc, etc). > > Thanks guys. > > PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? /mnt/cdrom is just a spot on your directory tree to view the contents of the CD drive. It has no independent size as such. It is supposed to be the size of the mounted CD, when a CD is mounted. The same is true for your other removable media. The mountpoints are provided so you can have a place on the directory tree for viewing the contents of your removable media when mounted. None of them should have a "size" independent of the mounted media. You probably should copy both game CDs to your hard drive to be able to have access to them at the same time. Then, set WineX to access the game there. deedee Registered Linux User #327485How to? Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] wine
On 16 Oct 2003 23:42:52 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: > So its try wine, the version I have is wine-20030115-4mdk, but I cant > find the config file. > Looks like it did'nt install. > Where is the normal place for wine.conf in MDK ? and should it have > installed the conf file when the rpm was loaded ?. > Also any hints on getting wine properly configured would be very > helpful. To begin with, you need a later release of wine. The official wine rpms for mandrake linux are on sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241 All binaries are tested before release. It is critical to remove your previous release of wine before installing a new one -- that's "rpm -e wine", I believe, or use mcc to remove the wine package. Be sure to install winesetuptk as well as wine. Once installed, winesetuptk doesn't have to be uninstalled when installing later wine releases (which come out about once a month because wine is still alpha software). After your new wine is installed, run "winesetuptk" from the command line. It will then take you through the steps of setting up and configuring wine for your particular windows setup. That is, it will give you the choice of using a real windows partition if you have one, or set up a fake_windows if you don't have windows installed on your system somewhere. If you have windows but it's formatted NTFS, you should set up a fake_windows and not use the real windows partition. Windows apps need to be able to write on their partitions and writing to an NTFS formatted partition from Linux is still experimental, and therefore risky. In any event, your wine stuff should all end up in $HOME/.wine -- the configuration file is $HOME/.wine/config and you should also find three windows registry files in there as well -- user.reg, userdef.reg, and system.reg. If you don't find them, run "regedit winedefault.reg" from the command line to install a windows registry for wine's use. deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Adding a header to KMail
On 9/11/2003 6:18:12 AM EDT, A V Flinsch wrote: >On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:12 pm, deedee wrote: >> I'd like to add an "Approved: " header to messages approving bounced >> posts to a mailing list that is managed with Majordomo. >> >> Is that possible with KMail? Anyone know how to do it? >> >From the KMail menu >Settings -> Configure Kmail > >Select Composer on the left, then the Headers tab Thanks for your reply, Alex. I saw that, but I have no idea what I need to enter. Will just putting in "Approved" work? I read the Help, but it didn't really explain much. I've never fiddled with headers on e-mail and am not clear about what I should input. I assume under "Name" I should put "Approved", but what goes in value? Is it asking me for the actual value, or is it asking me to define how the value will look, as in a string or integer? The password changes depending on which mailing list the post bounced from. Also, I'm not interested in having the header for all my mail, just when I need it for mailing list approvals. I found the following in your headers. Did you add that (or did your ISP) :^)? X-Test-xxx: I Told you so! If you did it, what did you put under name (did you put in the colon or did KMail add it)? I assume the "I Told you so!" was what you put under value, is that correct? For it to work with Majordomo, I need the header to read as follows: Approved: password Thanks, deedee -- Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Adding a header to KMail
I'd like to add an "Approved: " header to messages approving bounced posts to a mailing list that is managed with Majordomo. Is that possible with KMail? Anyone know how to do it? Thanks, deedee -- Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:18:54 -0700 From: Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Possibly it's looking for a "/dev/modem" in which case try making a link to the /dev/usb/acm/0 device. In the kernel doc sections see: file:/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.21/usb/ acm.txt I followed your suggestions, Larry, and created the /dev/modem directory and put in a link to /dev/usb/acm/-0. I checked through acm.txt (a very helpful file, thank you for pointing it out to me). There were some problems in /proc/bus/usb/devices -- mostly that everything for the modem pointed to "hub" instead of "acm" or "comm" or "data". I decided to reboot just to be sure my changes had propagated throughout the system. When I looked again, they had and /proc/bus/usb/devices read correctly (for all three usb devices, as a matter of fact -- it found my scanner that time as well as the external floppy disk drive and modem). Since I'm not familiar with minicom, I tried drakconnect to see if I could get any further than the last time I tried to set up a connection with it. I did. It actually found both the usb modem and the winmodem and proceeded to install and configure KPPP. However, when testing the configuration, it failed to open the modem. There were only two choices for modem in the setup -- /dev/modem and /dev/ttyACM0. It had tried /dev/modem, which failed, so I changed to /dev/ttyACM0. That also failed. I returned to my ms-win partition to write this and found Charlie's message. Date: 8/15/2003 8:38:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 03:47 am, deedee wrote: > hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-2, assigned address 5 > usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x803/0x9700) is not claimed by any active > driver. > usb.c: registered new driver acm > ttyACM0: USB ACM device > acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN > adapters It appears that there is a driver acm for this? Probably a module? Try KDE, do you use that? I can use KDE, but I'm mostly in Gnome because there are a couple of Gnome applets that I like a lot that only work in Gnome, whereas all the KDE utilities that I like will work in Gnome also. KPPP works in Gnome. KPPP/Setup/Device/Modem dev/usb/ttyACMO Note the "usb" I didn't see a way to add /dev/usb/ttyACM0 to the KPPP/Setup/Device/Modem list, and I almost was going to respond and say that immediately. Why I decided to return to Linux and try the two modems listed again, I can't tell you. However, when I returned to Linux, the list of modems had grown to include all kinds of devices that I'm sure are not there. There still was no /dev/usb/ttyACM0, but a device I knew was physically on the system had now shown up -- /dev/usb/acm/-0 -- and I connected. There were still a few more problems, but they were trivial once I got the system to talk to the modem and dial out. Thank you both for your responses, and especially you, Larry, for your patience in working with me on this. deedee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem
I installed minicom. It tells me that it can't find /dev/tty1 -- which is correct because there is no /dev/tty1. The device should be ttyACM0, but AFAIK the system doesn't recognize that the USB modem should be driven with the acm module. Harddrake or whatever it's called lists it under unknown devices, and for its module, harddrake has "unknown". The portable computer does have a Conexant winmodem built-in, but I don't use it and harddrake doesn't see it at all. There are no serial or PCI ports. Just the USB ports. The Zoom Telephonics 2986L Faxmodem was quite literally the only hardmodem that I could find for a USB port. insmod says /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/acm.o.gz is installed. When I look under /dev, there is /dev/usb/acm -- but it only contains a single file "-0" with a major number of 166 and a minor number of 0. Is there some way to tell minicom about the device? I saw stuff in the configuration file for a serial port, but as I mention above, there are no serial or PCI ports on this computer. Thanks, deedee Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:08:22 -0700 From: Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem deedee wrote: Thanks for responding, Larry. When I type "modprobe acm" it returns me immediately to the prompt without any messages. When I tried "insmod acm", it told me acm was already there. What kind of program is mincom? I couldn't find it on my CDs, but maybe I have something similar. A spelling error, should be minicom. Have you tried loading the module by: "modprobe acm" then using mincom or such program to see if you can talk to the modem? Larry deedee wrote: I have a USB Zoom V90 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0 (that's a zero not a capital o). How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. The Wizard for setting up the Internet connection does not see it at all, and there appears to be no place for me to give it the correct device name using the Wizard. When I was trying to identify all my USB devices (I had trouble at that time getting Mandrake to recognize my USB external floppy drive, which I solved), I got back the following information: hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-2, assigned address 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x803/0x9700) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver acm ttyACM0: USB ACM device acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem
Thanks for responding, Larry. When I type "modprobe acm" it returns me immediately to the prompt without any messages. When I tried "insmod acm", it told me acm was already there. What kind of program is mincom? I couldn't find it on my CDs, but maybe I have something similar. Thanks, deedee Have you tried loading the module by: "modprobe acm" then using mincom or such program to see if you can talk to the modem? Larry deedee wrote: I have a USB Zoom V90 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0 (that's a zero not a capital o). How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. The Wizard for setting up the Internet connection does not see it at all, and there appears to be no place for me to give it the correct device name using the Wizard. When I was trying to identify all my USB devices (I had trouble at that time getting Mandrake to recognize my USB external floppy drive, which I solved), I got back the following information: hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-2, assigned address 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x803/0x9700) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver acm ttyACM0: USB ACM device acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters Am I providing you the correct information? If not, what do you need? Is there another utility -- GUI or CLI -- that will allow me to set up an Internet connection with this modem? I have the ML 9.1 PowerPack. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem
I have a USB Zoom V90 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0 (that's a zero not a capital o). How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. The Wizard for setting up the Internet connection does not see it at all, and there appears to be no place for me to give it the correct device name using the Wizard. When I was trying to identify all my USB devices (I had trouble at that time getting Mandrake to recognize my USB external floppy drive, which I solved), I got back the following information: hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-2, assigned address 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x803/0x9700) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver acm ttyACM0: USB ACM device acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters Am I providing you the correct information? If not, what do you need? Is there another utility -- GUI or CLI -- that will allow me to set up an Internet connection with this modem? I have the ML 9.1 PowerPack. Thanks, deedee __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Font question -- Helvetica not accessible
I tried sending this to the newbie list, but there were no takers. I'm hoping someone here can help me. For some reason, I'm getting the following messages as xsession errors: The font "-*-helvetica-boldoblique-r-narrow-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US" (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") The font "-*-helvetica-bold-r-narrow-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US" (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") The font "-*-helvetica-boldoblique-o-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US" (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") Helvetica including the iso8859-1 character set appears to be on my system, which is ML 9.1 (I have the PowerPack). I've updated the kernel to 2.4.21-25 and used drakfont to capture some of my truetype fonts from the VFAT partition, none of which were helvetica. I notice that the Help for SO6 is now messed up, as well as gnumeric and the dialog boxes for xine. What happened? How can I get that character set accessed again? I've tried rpm -U --force with the 100dpi and 75dpi font sets, but that didn't solve the problem. I've reinstalled, and just like the first time, everything was fine. Then, at some point, after using drakfont to capture truetype fonts from my VFAT partition, the problem appears. Is there a bug in drakfont that causes this? Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks, deedee __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
