Re: [expert] dual boot
What does your boot.ini look like? --On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:34 PM +0100 matt conran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > Im having problems dual booting mandrake with win2000. It can boot in > linu or 2000, but it defaults in to linux if you dont scroll down and > select windows2000. Do you klnow of a way where the boot screen can > default to windows2000. It boots into a linux gui first and then it > lists the O/S I can go into. If it booted into 2000 by default i could > just edit the boot.ini. I have tried to edit the lilo conf and i have > swithed the default to 2000 etc.. but when i restart the linux screen > pops up and it still defaults to linux. > > Any suggestions? > > > Matt Conran > Network Administrator > Servecast > 3a Prince street > Dublin 2 > > Mobile - 086 2745227 > Direct - 01 4748076 > Reception - 01 4748002 > > -- Barry Marler Center for Applied Genetics Technology University of Georgia 164 Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 (706)583-0164(office) (706)583-0160(fax) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X Startup from Console
Just create the file. --On Saturday, June 30, 2001 9:27 PM +1000 George Abdo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:18, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: >> * Stardate: 2001-06-29 18:33 >> >> * Incoming subspace signal from George Abdo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : >> > Hello All, >> > In old version of Mandrake, there used to be a .xinitrc in the home >> > directory where I can specify the WM I want to use. >> > In version 8, where would that be? >> > I want to start twm (yes the bare minimum) without having to start >> > kdm/gdm and all that goes with them. >> > Is there an alternative to the .xinitrc, and where? >> > Thanks >> > George >> >> $HOME/.Xclients > > Thanks for the response Maxim, but I don't have such a file. the only one > I have are .XAuthority. This is my system: > localhost.localdomain 2.4.3-20mdk #1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001 i686 > unknown > > Thanks > George -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia 164 Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 (706)583-0164(office) (706)583-0160(fax)
Re: [expert] cd burner shows up as both ide AND scsi device
Thanks to you both. --On Saturday, June 09, 2001 4:31 PM -0400 Francisco Alcaraz Ariza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Barry, this means that your CRX160E (BTW I have one of this model CRX160) > cand be used as both, cdrom and cdwriter. For burn cds your Mandrake 8.0 > need to emulate a scsi cdwriter so it seems that you have two, ans ide > and a scsi. So your system is runing fine. > > Francisco Alcaraz > Murcia (Spain) > > El Sáb 09 Jun 2001 09:53, escribiste: >> On a brand-new Dell OptiPlex GX150, Harddrake lists my CD-RW thusly: >> >> Unknown SONY CD-RW CRX160E >> Model: SONY CD-RW CRX160E >> Device: /dev/hdd >> Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE >> >> AND >> >> SONY CD-RW CRX160E >> Model: CD-RW CRX160E >> Device: /dev/scd0 >> Bus Type: SCSI >> >> It is an IDE device; there are no SCSI controllers or devices in the >> machine. Can anyone explain to me what's up? >> >> - >> Barry Marler >> Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory >> University of Georgia >> 164 Riverbend Research Center >> 110 Riverbend Road >> Athens, GA 30602 >> (706)583-0164(office) >> (706)583-0160(fax) - Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia 164 Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 (706)583-0164(office) (706)583-0160(fax)
[expert] cd burner shows up as both ide AND scsi device
On a brand-new Dell OptiPlex GX150, Harddrake lists my CD-RW thusly: Unknown SONY CD-RW CRX160E Model: SONY CD-RW CRX160E Device: /dev/hdd Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE AND SONY CD-RW CRX160E Model: CD-RW CRX160E Device: /dev/scd0 Bus Type: SCSI It is an IDE device; there are no SCSI controllers or devices in the machine. Can anyone explain to me what's up? - Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia 164 Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 (706)583-0164(office) (706)583-0160(fax)
Re: [expert] SBLive! sound quality
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > Did you run > > "alsamixer" > > as root on a command line? Make sure none of the channels are muted. Yes, I did, but I have since fixed the problem. Even though I set the PCM level with alsamixer, when I ran gmixer, it was set at '0'. Raising the level there got me sound. Thanks for the explicit directions. One further problem, though: [root@starbaby marler]# alsactl restore alsactl: Cannot open configuration file '/etc/asound.conf'.. Obviously, that file does not exist. Can you advise? -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Rm 158, Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 (706)583-0168 (706)583-0160(fax) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] SBLive! sound quality
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > What I **can** tell you is how I installed my SB Live! via alsa. Followed your instructions verbatim. The ALSA driver loads on bootup, but I can't get any sound when I try playing an mp3 using XMMS. -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Rm 158, Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 (706)583-0168 (706)583-0160(fax) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] SBLive! sound quality
I've been using the emu10k1 drivers since the first one appeared; currently using today's snapshot, although I've been using the version that Mandrake installed when I updated to 7.1 until today. I have a set of Cambridge SoundWorks speakers that sound fabulous when my wife listens to CDs or mp3s under Win98. Unfortunately, under Linux they sound somewhat tinny and fuzzy, sort of like very slight square wave distortion on a solid state guitar amp, if anyone knows what that sounds like.. Does anyone else see this difference, or is it just me? -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Rm 158, Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 (706)583-0168 (706)583-0160(fax) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Netscape 6
How about /usr/local/netscape/netscape at the prompt? Or just ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/bin/netscape (or whatever) so you can forego the absolute path? --on Saturday, September 16, 2000 5:12 PM -0400 Logos wrote: > > I've been looking thru documentation and using some trial and error to figure > out how to get a command in one of my bin paths in order to run Netscape 6. It > comes with its own installer and places files into usr/local/netscape/ and runs > with a script called netscape. The only way the documentation tells you to run > it is by cd'ing to usr/local/netscape and then ./netscape. I'm probably > suffering from a massive brainfart and should know how to do what I'm asking. > But as I've been working long hours lately, I've been quite blank lately. > Please help my wounded and shift-warped brain think just this much less... > /b - Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Rm 158, Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 (706)583-0168 (706)583-0160(fax) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Netscape 6
How about /usr/local/netscape/netscape at the prompt? Or just ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/bin/netscape (or whatever) so you can forego the absolute path? --on Saturday, September 16, 2000 5:12 PM -0400 Logos wrote: > > I've been looking thru documentation and using some trial and error to figure > out how to get a command in one of my bin paths in order to run Netscape 6. It > comes with its own installer and places files into usr/local/netscape/ and runs > with a script called netscape. The only way the documentation tells you to run > it is by cd'ing to usr/local/netscape and then ./netscape. I'm probably > suffering from a massive brainfart and should know how to do what I'm asking. > But as I've been working long hours lately, I've been quite blank lately. > Please help my wounded and shift-warped brain think just this much less... > /b - Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Rm 158, Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 (706)583-0168 (706)583-0160(fax) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] HTML and "netiquet"???
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Dr Michael Powell, Ph.D. wrote: > Cher Monsieur; un ecrit: est une compagnie entertainmaent française, est > que là où vous avez trouvé votre " netiquet". Son l'année 2000 si vous > ne pouvez pas manipuler le HTML, ce monsieur, est un problème personnel. > Jusque ma signature 2, j'emploie leur traînée 60 libre pour voir qui je > souhaite utiliser. In my experience, most of us who do our work on platforms running some Unix variant use email readers like Elm or Pine, which do not handle bandwidth-wasting HTML well. It's no surprise that, given the recent popularity of Linux, many users turn to the built-in email functionality of Netscape, since the browser is part of most all distributions. However, it's quite easy to turn HTML off, and I can't really see any reason not to when posting to this list. As for this particular poster, though, I've added a filter to trash any message from a user whose "From:" string contains both "Dr" and "Ph.d.". /b -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Rm 158, Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Helix-Gnome Again
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: > Well, I apparently got my helix-Gnome set up properly with one > exception. I can't for the life of me find where to allow multiple > destops. The Gnome setup program that I have crashes at certain points > and don't know if that's where it is necessary to do this. Assuming you're using Sawfish, the default Helix Gnome wm, just middle click on the desktop, choose "workspaces", then "insert workspace". By the way, to what "Gnome setup program" are you referring? Is the control center crashing? /b -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Rm 158, Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 (706)583-0168 (706)583-0160(fax)
Re: [expert] Pine in X
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, paul wrote: > I don't seem to be able to cut and paste with Pine in X. It > doesn't matter whether its an xterm, rxvt or eterm. This seems to just > afflict the Mandrake rpm. (This is not a problem with the Red Hat RPMS). > > I've enabled the "mouse in X-term" option but it makes no difference. > OK I can download the sources and compile my own Pine, but I wondered if > anyone had any answers. This is the output of Pine's help for the enable-mouse-in-xterm option: FEATURE: enable-mouse-in-xterm This feature controls whether or not an X terminal mouse can be used with Pine. If set, and the $DISPLAY variable indicates that an X terminal is being used, the left mouse button on the mouse can be used to select text or commands. Note: if this feature is set, the behavior of X terminal cut-and-paste is also modified. It is necessary to hold the shift key down while clicking left or middle mouse buttons for the normal xterm cut/paste operations. -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Rm 158, Riverbend Research Center 110 Riverbend Road Athens, GA 30602 (706)583-0168 (706)583-0160(fax)
[expert] 7.01 --> 7.1 upgrade observations
I upgraded last night with no obvious major problems. There are these issues, though: I have eth0 configured for my cable connection to my @home ISP. During bootup, ippp0 is established. I've no clue what's up with that. The control panel, accessed throughLinuxconf, has several duplicate service entries (I always check to see which superfluous daemons the Mandrake installer has activated, so I can disable them -- it never fails that there are several). Date and echo, among others, are duplicated. My ISP's mail and news servers are no longer found by Netscape, Pan or any other news or maill application. Does anyone have a clue what could have changed to cause that? Netscape sucks, but some of my users depend on it for mail. I use it for reading news. They worked perfectly before upgrading. /b ----- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] ld.so problems
--On Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:45 AM -0600 Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Logical partitions should be hda5 and up. My entire Linux system is located on logical drives within an extended partition, and I've never had a problem of any sort (of which I'm aware, at least ;)). What is the danger? /b ----- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] Where to get Helix Gnome
Try http://www.helixcode.com/desktop/download.php3. Setup and updating are automated. --On Wednesday, May 31, 2000 2:32 PM +0200 Martin Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Where can I get the latest version of Gnome, Helix I think it's called? I > want it as a RPM package. I don't want to use the go-gnome script because > I use a modem at home. Better to download the RPM file from my school... > What are the exactly names of the files I should download? > > > / Martin > > _ > > Martin Nilsson > Student at University of Karlskrona/Ronneby > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _____ /b - Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] rpmlint
>From freshmeat: rpmlint is a tool to check common errors on RPM packages. It's designed to check Linux Mandrake packages but it works with all RPM packages. --On Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:55 PM -0600 Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: Can rpmlint be used on distros other than Mandrake? If so, are > there any changes that need to be made for it? /b ----- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] A better kpanel applet
On 27 May, Denis HAVLIK wrote: > :~>> Is Helix Gnome included with Mandrake 7.0? If not, where can I find it, and is > :~>> it hard to setup? > > It is included with 7.1 > > cu > Denis It was not I who asked this question; I have been happily using Helix Gnome since the 1st beta. -- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059(fax)
Re: [expert] A better kpanel applet
On 26 May, Bruce E. Harris wrote: > Is Helix Gnome included with Mandrake 7.0? If not, where can I find it, and is > it hard to setup? > Try http://www.helixcode.com/desktop/download.php3. Setup and updating are automated. -- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059(fax)
Re: [expert] A better kpanel applet
Althought this topic is more appropriate to a KDE forum, it brings up a subject about which I have thought often. I've been a Linux user for three years (Mandrake for the last two), and have never used KDE for more than a few minutes. Window Maker was my wm of choice until recently; I was unconvinced that either of the two major desktop environments were either stable or useful enough to warrant the space they occupied and the drain on system resources. I had always liked Gnome from an aesthetic standpoint, but, whenever I tried it out, I was continuously deleting my ~/.gnome* dirs when things went haywire, and starting over. However, since the release of Helix Gnome, all that has changed. I have been using it without interruption for several months now, and couldn't be happier. Gnome has the functionality that Ernie wants, i.e., drawers on the gnome panel. I suggest that he give it a try. --On Friday, May 26, 2000 2:15 AM -0400 "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the KDE desktop environment a lot. It is relatively configurable, > and easy to master. The only thing about it that I miss from my Win9x > environment is the enhanced task bar. I am able to creat tool bars or > pop-up menus in the task bar at the bottom of the screen at will. I could > point a "tool bar" at a folder, and the contents of the folder would be > available in the tool bar. This ability allowed me to keep a much cleaner > desk top, and to organize my desk top icons into tool bars and pop up > menus. I used pop up menus for such things as a My Documents folder and a > My HTML folder as well as any specific project I may be working on at any > given time. The tool bars I use for system utilities, and applications I > find I need for all projects (my favorite goodies and toys). The task bar > could also be resized from one row high to half the screen high, and it > can auto-hide as well. > > kpanel can auto-hide, and you can select the icon size small, medium, or > large. But you can not set up two or more rows, and you can not organize > the icons into "tool bars" within the panel, although pop-up menus are > possible. I just think a panel as flexible and configurable as the Win9x > one would be a usefull tool in any desk top environment. > > Take note that I am not asking for a Win9x environment. If I wanted that, > I could be using it right now. I simply think that the panel applet could > be more flexible, and the enhanced task bar in Win9x is a good example of > the kind of flexibility I have in mind. > > To put this in a nut shell, I would like a panel applet which can have > one or more rows of tool bars or pop-up menus. I want to define the size > of the icons displayed in the tool bars and pop-up menus in terms of > pixels, not small, medium or large. I also want the tool bars and pop-up > menus to represent the contents of folders, allowing automatic update as > the contents of the represented folders change. > > I think this may be asking a lot, considering that Linux Mandrake is free > for all intents and purposes, but you asked :). > > -- > > > > > ___ > Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /b - Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] RPM locked up!
You don't have GnoRPM or kpackage (or some other graphical frontend to RPM) running at the same time you're issuing these commands from the command line, do you? --On Monday, May 22, 2000 8:01 PM -0500 Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]# rpm -e quanta > cannot get exclusive lock on database > error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm > [root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]# rpm -Uvh quanta-1.0-1mdk.i686.rpm > cannot get exclusive lock on database > error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm > [root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]# rpm -Uvh --force quanta-1.0-1mdk.i686.rpm > cannot get exclusive lock on database > error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm > [root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]# /b - Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] How do I install QuakeIII on a Linux box
Setup.exe?? --on Sunday, May 21, 2000 11:07 AM -0500 SGT_ROCK wrote: > > > How do I install Quake on a Linux box. I have the CD, but when I click > the Setup.exe nothing happens. > > Help!!! /b ----- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0142 (706)542-0059
Re: [expert] Scan your ports from the "outside".
On 29 Apr, vern wrote: > Okay I'm ready to test my firewall where do > I go to get a good port scan? The port scanner > on cybercrime at ZDTV is only for windoze clients. > I wonder why that would make a difference to the > outside world. > Vern Try http://www.grc.com -- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059(fax)
Re: [expert] HelixCode GNOME
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: > > > > Anyways, I installed and have only one problem with it right now (the > > > > desktop icons seem to be broken) > > > > > > Yeah. I've got the same problem. > > > > Yeah, that's kinda annoying, but I don't usually use the desktop icons > > anyways. But it would be nice if they did actually work... =( > > Elaborate, nothing wrong with mine.. > > Same here; my desktop icons are functioning no differently than before. Before switching over to Helix, I renamed my old .gnome dir, and let a new one be created -- maybe that had something to do with it. --- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059(fax)
Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, David BAUDENS wrote: > Barry Marler écrivit : > > > In my experience, this has not been the case. Closing any window can kill > > Netscape. I have experienced this phenomenon under 6.1 and 7.0, with > > Netscape 4.61 and 4.7. > > Hi, > > If you can reproduce this every time it's because you use a netscape > build for glibc-2.0 on a system using 2.1. You can fix it with netscape > from Air (7.0) and compat-glibc & compat-libcs. > > With theses packages, this bug disappear. > You're correct -- when I wrote the above response, I'd only recently _upgraded_ to Air. I was using a non-Mandrake version of Netscape. Problems with the upgrade led to a clean install of Air, which hosed the non-Mandrake RPM version of Netscape. Now that I've been using it for several weeks, the behavior does indeed seem to have stopped. /b Barry Marler Department of Parasitology and Medical Microbiology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Eric & Rosi & Jonathon wrote: > I'd like to add my observations on this bug of netscape. I've noticed a > pattern to this one (I believe): > The first netscape window opened is the "super-window". At any time, > closing it kills all other windows without confirm. However, you can > close any other window you want. In my experience, this has not been the case. Closing any window can kill Netscape. I have experienced this phenomenon under 6.1 and 7.0, with Netscape 4.61 and 4.7. /b Barry Marler Department of Parasitology and Medical Microbiology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > Ok lets clairify a bit and quit just generalizing the netscape problems. > > Senerio 1, > ppp line drops, and it never returns from the dns attempt > > Senerio 2, > Java > > Senerio 3, > Close one window they all close > > Senerio 4, > Exit netscape, and the process stays running > > > These seem tobe the most persistant, let me know if you think i missed > any. All of these have affected me from 6.0 on, although now, with a cable modem, Air, and Netscape Communicator 4.70, only scenarios 3 and 4 seem to rear their ugly heads. /b --- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059(fax)
Re: [expert] XFree86-3.3.6
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Robert J Bartels wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade my X server to 3.3.6.. > > When I do rpm -Uvh XFree-3.3.6.rpm it complains that > xinitrc >= 2.4.4-10mdk is needed... > > When I try to update xinitrc it tells me that XFree86 >= 3.3.5-12mdk is > needed by > xinitrc-2.4.4-10mdk... > > I've tried both rpm -Ivh and rpm -Uvh... I've also tried --force... which > BTW doesn't > force anything... > > What am I doing wrong... This is turning into a big chicken and the egg > problem... > > Bob > --nodeps /b Barry Marler Department of Parasitology and Medical Microbiology University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 (706)542-0742 (706)542-0058(fax)
Re: [expert] SBLive!, etc.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > launch, due to an "improper configuration." Replacing the > > upgrade-generated XF86Config with the backup of my old one cured the > > problem. > could you diff them please, or just send em both to Pixel Unfortunately, I overwrote the Air-generated file with my saved one. > > 4. My mouse is no konger working in the console, although gpm is running. > > Hmm i forget what info pixel needs for this :) > > Do you start runlevel 5? (XFree, maybe imwheel tweeks my mouse and i have > to restart gpm after X) > > serial ps/2 or usb? (and all that other type tuff) I boot to runlevel 3 (call me old fashioned). The mouse is a Logitech 1st mouse ps2, which every Mandrake (Venus, Helios and Air) install has recognized as "generic 3-button mouse. /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
[expert] gpm not working
No mouse in the console after upgrading from Helios to Air :-( >From /var/log/messages: Jan 22 16:23:32 starbaby gpm[14736]: Skipping a data packet (?) Jan 22 16:23:42 starbaby last message repeated 2 times Jan 22 16:23:42 starbaby gpm[14736]: Error in protocol Jan 22 16:23:42 starbaby last message repeated 8 times Jan 22 16:23:42 starbaby gpm[14736]: Skipping a data packet (?) Jan 22 16:23:42 starbaby last message repeated 3 times Jan 22 16:23:42 starbaby gpm[14736]: Error in protocol Jan 22 16:23:43 starbaby last message repeated 34 times Any suggestions as to how to get my mouse back? Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
[expert] SBLive!, etc.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > You shouldn't have to touch anything, do a fresh install > on the first bootup kudzu will add the sound alias to conf.modules > theres nothing to configure it's either there or it isn't. If on the off > chance you don't see the "alias sound emu10k1" in your conf.modules on > the first boot contact me so i can find out what went wrong please. Actually, I did an upgrade from Helios to Air this morning; my SBLive! worked, as you predicted, automatically. There were a couple of other anomalies, though: 1. The graphical config of X Window was flaky. It kept telling me my configuration was wrong (I have an Optiquest V95 and a Creative GraphicsBlaster RIVA TNT w/ 16 mb memory). Somehow, I finally got it to accept settings that were much more modest than what my monitor & card are capable of. But, when I booted, my X server kept crashing before it could launch, due to an "improper configuration." Replacing the upgrade-generated XF86Config with the backup of my old one cured the problem. I'm now running at 1280x1024 @ 32bpp, just like I have since my original Venus install, although the Air graphical install said my system was incapable of such a resolution (interestingly, when the X server crashed after my 1st boot of the upgrade, it told me that my system was incapable of 24 bpp, which is the depth the installer forced me to choose, i.e., no greater depth would be accepted). 2. In /var/log/messages, the following message repeats ad infinitum: starbaby kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy) sector 0 I assume this is due to Supermount. I can use the floppy. It's lioght stays on all the time, so I unmounted it. 3. Although I use Gnome/sawmill, root and my wife use KDE. KFM crashes _alot_ now, although it never did before. 4. My mouse is no konger working in the console, although gpm is running. I'm wondering if upgrading, as opposed to a fresh install, led to these problems. /b - Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
[expert] SBLive! support in 7.0
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Air kernel would support the card. Was I dreaming? Just wondering -- it's easy enough to install the Creative driver again. /b Barry Marler Department of Parasitology and Medical Microbiology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] Need to stop X from starting at boot.
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, james.fogg wrote: > I screwed up my x-windows configuration and now when X boots it locks up > (video driver experiments.. ooops). > > My problem now is that I cannot change my settings from X (cause it wont > run) and yet it runs X on boot. I see the penguin and a command line login > for about 2 seconds then X server starts. > > How can I stop X from starting when I see the login? > Go here: http://linux.com/tuneup/database.phtml/Misc/000775.html /b Barry Marler Department of Parasitology and Medical Microbiology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7 RPM
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Stephen K Clingerman wrote: > OK, I give up. Where can I find Oxygen RPMs? A logical starting place would be: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/oxygenbeta.php3 /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (voice) (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7 RPM
The compat libs on the Helios CD work for the version of the browser that is included on that CD, oddly enough :>. You can get what you want from the Oxygen RPMs. Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax) On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Stephen Clingerman wrote: > I have Mandrake 6.1 and the installed 4.61 of Netscape. I tried to use the > Updates feature to upgrade to 4.7, but it complains about a dependency > probeloem while RMPing the common code: compat libs. I re-RPM'd the > compatibility libs from the distribution disk, but it still didn't work. Any > ideas? > > Steve Clingerman >
Re: [expert] Netscape issue, redux
Opera is quite obviously pre-alpha -- a promise delivered and little else. I've downgraded to Netscape 4.51, and so far, I've not had the problem. Of course, it's only been a few minutes ;-). -- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax) On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: > No the beta version of Opera is awful. The last stable version > of Netscape seems to be 4.08 IMHO > > > > Yes, I've seen that problem too. I've read that Netscape > 4.51 -> 4.61 > > introduced more bugs than it fixed. You might try going back > to 4.51 and > > see if it still occurs. Also the beta version of opera is > out -- if the > > html is fairly simple, it might work better.
[expert] Netscape issue, redux
Has anyone come with a solution to the problem of Netscape often exiting altogether when one of its windows are closed? It's been often discussed in this list, but, in scouring the archives, I have found nothing other than that it is likely rooted in libc/glibc2/glibc2.1 incompatibilities. It's a real pain for me because my students' grade database is online, and editing requires having multiple pages open. I thought the problem went away when I updated netscape and netscape-common from cooker just before it became oxygen, but apparently it just randomly stopped for a while. This has been going on since I installed Venus (don't remember what netscape version is on the CD), and continues through netscape-communicator-4.70-4mdk. /b -------- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] SRPM installation?
>From the rpm man page: rpm --rebuild + When invoked this way, rpm installs the named source package, and does a prep, compile and install. In addition, --rebuild builds a new binary package. When the build has completed, the build directory is removed (as in --clean) and the the sources and spec file for the package are removed. /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax) On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > At 12:07 AM 12/19/99 +0100, Davor Cengija wrote: > >On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > > > > > > >Is there a trick to installing source RPMs? I > > >downloaded samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm from one of the > > rpm --rebuild .src.rpm > > > > this will compile .i586.rpm in > > /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 and then you need to install those > > binary files. > > > > man rpm is pretty useful. > Well, no it wasn't, or I wouldn't have asked. Believe me, I spent an hour > reading through the man page, and it said squat about source rpms :(
Re: [expert] 16 or 32mb Video Cards for Linux
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Orlando Lewis wrote: > does any one know of a 16 or 32mb video card that works well with Red Hat > 6.1 Linux. Creative Logic Graphic Blaster TNT /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] Epplets-0.5-1mdk
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > Again another one for the cooker list, > but yeah the files definatly shouldn't be installed in > /home/rpmbuilder/RPM/buildroot/Epplets-0.5-buildroot/usr/share/enlightenment, > > ;) Right, but most won't function when moved to the proper location. /b -------- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
[expert] Epplets-0.5-1mdk
A while back, I installed some Enlightenment epplets from the Eterm site via tarball. They show up in the menu, and run, within their somewhat anemic capabilities. However, most epplets installed by the Epplets-0.5-1mdk rpm from cooker don't show up in the menu. My first thought was that, since they were installed by root, my $EBIN and $EROOT variables may have fallen by the wayside, with the executables being installed in some directory other than $EBIN. That apparently was the case -- only the binaries were correctly installed. But, after moving the icons to the proper directory in $EROOT, only a few of them show up. I know this question might be better suited to an E forum, but, since this rpm is from cooker, I wondered if anyone might shed some light. /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
[expert] can't locate module binfmt-464c
After establishing a ppp connection with my ISP, /var/log/messages reports the following: Nov 28 00:28:09 starbaby pppd[3850]: local IP address 208.30.14.38 Nov 28 00:28:09 starbaby pppd[3850]: remote IP address 206.61.0.81 Nov 28 00:28:10 starbaby modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-464c Nov 28 00:28:10 starbaby modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-464c This is brand new behavior; I've never seen it before. I'm running Helios with the stock kernel. Does anyone recognize this module? /b -------- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
[expert] Problem compiling GTK-dependent programs
After installing Helios, I seem to be unable to compile GTK programs. I didn't have this problem with Venus, nor with SuSE 6.2, which I ran for a few days between the two Mandrake versions. I have installed just about every development file off the CD (I had planned to include the output of "rpm -qa | grep devel", but it's too long). As for GTK, I get this: [marler@starbaby marler]$ rpm -qa | grep gtk gtk+10-1.0.6-6mdk gtk-engines-0.5-16mdk rep-gtk-0.5-1 gtk+-1.2.3-15mdk gtk+-devel-1.2.3-15mdk pygtk-0.6.2-5mdk gtkglarea-1.2-2mdk pygtk-libglade-0.6.2-5mdk This is part of the error message I got when running the configure script of gperiodic: checking for gtk-config... (cached) /usr/bin/gtk-config checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.1... no *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log *** for the exact error that occured. This usually means GTK was *** incorrectly installed or that you have moved GTK since it was *** installed. In the latter case,you may want to edit the gtk-config *** script: /usr/bin/gtk-config configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? My path of course, includes /usr/bin; gtk-config is there. I can't find anything meaningful in config.log, likely due to my own shortcomings. I've scoured the list archives, but have been unable to resolve the problem. I'd appreciate any guidance. /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
Same here. Because PM 4 won't allow moving/resizing a swap partition, I had to create another, destroy the original, then resize my other Linux partitions. Because of that, the new swap partition became misnumbered, which took about 5 seconds to fix by editing /etc/fstab. /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax) On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > At 02:37 AM 10/25/99 +, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use > >> Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. > > > >Don't do this to a linux partition though. > > What, specifically, happened? I've done this a number of times, and I > haven't had any problems.
Re: [Fwd: [expert] MandrakeUpdate as normal user]
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: > What does xhost + localhost reall mean? XHOST(1) XHOST(1) NAME xhost - server access control program for X SYNOPSIS xhost [[+-]name ...] DESCRIPTION The xhost program is used to add and delete host names or user names to the list allowed to make connections to the X server. In the case of hosts, this provides a rudimentary form of privacy control and security. It is only sufficient for a workstation (single user) environment, although it does limit the worst abuses. Environments which require more sophisticated measures should implement the user-based mechanism or use the hooks in the protocol for passing other authentication data to the server. > Could you or someone please spell this command out precisely. > Do you have to enter this as a command in xterm or what? You can just issue the command from a terminal window. I invoke a variation from my ~/.xinitrc, as I don't use KDE. I guess you could put it in the KDE autostart folder. In your text editor of choice, type the following: #!/bin/sh xhost +localhost and save it. Then, chmod +x whatever.the..you.called.it. Put it said folder,restart KDE, and root should be able to function in X while you're logged in. /b ---- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] Configuring PINE
man fetchmail /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax) On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > Jose Sanchez was very kind to explain to me that PINE uses mail very > differently from Netscape, that is, that Netscape gets its mail directly > from Sendmail while Pine has to have a a mail handler set up outside of > pine so that mail will be dropped into my ~.mail directory, where PINE > will find inbound messages upon startup. > > I am a non-techie but, after my experience last night (when I was stuck > in the console for hours), I would very much like to use PINE so that I > could always communicate with the list and with the outside world in > case I am again, for any reason, unable to get into XWindows. I know how > to navigate in PINE and can send mail but cannot receive it. How do I > configure my Pop3 so that I can receive mail in PINE? > > Any of you use PINE? If so, could you please suggest how I could go > about solving this problem? > > Thank you so much. > > Benjamin > -- > Benjamin and Anna Sher > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sher's Russian Web > http://www.websher.net >
Re: [expert] kdesu broken?
--On Friday, October 08, 1999, 9:52 AM -0400 Alex ZIJDENBOS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've finally found what the problem with kdesu is. Or at least, what > the cause is: kdesu doesn't work when root uses tcsh. Doesn't work for me in bash. /b ----- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (voice) (706)542-0059 (fax)
