Re: [expert] How to display full 'command lines' in process table?
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 11:35:26AM -0500, osostech wrote: Hello All, Here's my predicament: I can't connect to my work ISP with pppd directly... I always time out on the LCP Config requests. I have no idea what that means. Anyhow, I've fiddled with my ppp options to no avail... However, if I use kppp, THEN I connect with no problem. If only I knew exactly how kppp was calling pppd... I've added no additional arguments, they both obviously use the same options file. I'm sure it's in the calling of pppd by kppp, but I can't see the full command in the process table because it's of course too long. So: Any way to see whole processes in the process table? Append some 'w's to the ps command... Something like ps aux should get you the entire line. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Sound configuration -- add to Install!
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:49:04PM -0400, Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 11:13 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Sound configuration -- add to Install! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other thing I am looking for and have yet to find is a TrueType font server for Mandrake+XWindows. Is on included in the 6.1 Distribution? If not, can someone point me to a URL that will help me compile one? TTF support is built into the xfs fontserver. If you can get it to work "out of the box" - I never have. Here's what I do: * Create a directory for the fonts: mkdir /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF * Copy the fonts into place: cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/. * Create the fonts.dir file: cd /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir ln -s fonts.dir fonts.scale * Tell the X Font Server about the new fonts: chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF * Restart the X Font Server: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart * Use a font browser to see if they're installed: xfontsel I've written these instructions while doing each of the steps, so I can verify that it works. At least on 6.1... :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Booting from HPT366 drive...
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:02:59AM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote: [big snip] So, I've now moved the UDMA/66 drive onto the normal cable and the install there went just fine. Booting works also, so I'll wait a bit before I screw it up again. :) I'll have info in .. installer says 9mins Will let ya know Ok i was successfull. Just tryed to isolate if it was bios boot sequence and it has zero effect. What was your ide layout, i've already moved cdrom to 2nd slave, was there still hd's on the dma33 chains? Nope, no other HD's. The only things in the system when I attempted the install/boot on the UDMA/66 interface were the Zip drive on hdc and the CDROM on hdd. ide zip drive? Yup. I can move it off this system if it's going to make a difference. I finally got the 'Li' i installed a drive onto the primary ide and reinstalled lilo, you get the warning 'hde is not the first harddrive' (note just crawled out of bed so thats posibly not exact) I had to remove the drive, boot from floppy and reinstall lilo, reinstall the drive, and she boots. Now if only i could remeber the lilo option to tell it hde is the bios boot drive we'd both be all set Was it that "bios=0x80" thing? I tried it, but might have gotten the option wrong, I think I used "bios=0x84" since it was actually hde. Maybe I'll give it another try with the drive on the UDMA/66 interface and put that bios=0x80 into LILO. The bad part is that I'm having to muck with all of this _after_ an installation, but before I can actually boot the system. To work with the system, I'm starting the installation CD routing up to the mounting the installation CD, then switching to VC 2 and mounting the hde partition onto mount, chroot /mnt /bin/bash and you've got yourself working in your newly installed system! I'll play with the thing a bit more tonight, I haven't built up enough "junk" in this install to worry about wiping it in the name of "research" :) Thanks for the help Axalon! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] mounting cdrw
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:08:41PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 08:20:16AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:36:36AM +, Ramon Gandia wrote: Larry Sword wrote: Try /dev/sdc0 My ATAPI cd burner mounts as /dev/sga Mine shows as /dev/sr0 in the boot logs, but mounts from /dev/scd0. Strange little buggers, aren't they? :) Probably /dev/scd0 is a symlink from /dev/sr0. :-) Nope, sr0 doesn't even exist! Hmm...strange Oh, well.. :-) Yup, can't say it really bothered me either. Just created the link to /dev/cdrom and off I went! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] mounting cdrw
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:36:36AM +, Ramon Gandia wrote: Larry Sword wrote: Try /dev/sdc0 My ATAPI cd burner mounts as /dev/sga Mine shows as /dev/sr0 in the boot logs, but mounts from /dev/scd0. Strange little buggers, aren't they? :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] File access problems in lpr/lpd
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:38:39PM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 03:14:52PM +, WH Bouterse wrote: I have noticed on ocassion RH posted updates but not always subsequent updates by Mandrake. This is a very "grey area" for me? As it is for alot of us. Are our asses hanging in the breeze when other distributions ship updates but we don't get an announcement from Mandrake for an update? I've seen an awful lot of things reported for Red Hat, but not a whole lot for Mandrake. No, we are not always vulnerable. This does point out a definate problem, we did just get a webmaster so Gael does not have to maintain it also. I expect the guys at the office will have this all hammered out soon, and we'll have anti bug reports, but it does get tested. Excellent news! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] 6.1 Upgrades
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:45:37PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, you wrote: I dug this out of the archives because I thought my memory might be playing tricks on me I have seen a number of errors reported here that I cannot reproduce running 6.1 from a clean install. I have begun wondering just how many of these are from people who were not aware of this advisory? In other words, have you found a 6.1 bug or an upgrade deficiency? Hmm...you know, I *thought* I remembered seeing one of the Mandrake guys say it was best to do a complete install! :-) I did a completely fresh install and that's what I'm reporting the various bugs on. As a matter of fact, I'm about to do a completely new fresh install onto a new Ultra/66 drive tonight. It looks like 6.1 supports it OOTB, so we'll see how that goes. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Booting from HPT366 drive...
I picked up an 18G Western Digital drive today that hangs off the Ultra66 interface of my BP6 board. I've taken a rather circuitous route in putting this drive into service because it doesn't appear that the 6.1 CD uses a boot kernel that recognizes the interface. I ended up booting on my old drive, mounting the new one, and copying everything over. That part went fine. In order to boot from the drive, I needed to get LILO into the MBR. No problem, edit /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab and write the new boot block, right? It looked that way. I ended up with just 'LI' on the screen. Booted with the install CD and got that fixed up (remind me sometime to post about how to use the install CD for rescueing boot problems!) I've now got a system that shows only the /dev/hde (the new drive) being mounted, yet file accesses are _really_ going to the old /dev/hda. Okay, boot with "linux root=/dev/hde3" and we're off. I edited /etc/lilo.conf and ensured that everything mentioned /dev/hde as well as ensuring that /etc/fstab was correcty. Reran LILO and rebooted the system. All I get is 01's rolling through the screen. I'm now just using "linux root=/dev/hde3" to boot my machine and use the new drive. It'll work until I can get this sorted out... I'm sure it's something incredibly stupid, but what have I missed? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Why did 6.1 install for me?
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 03:06:37PM +, WH Bouterse wrote: I recently did a Linux-Mandrake 6.1 upgrade from an ISO image on a burned CD from the LInux-Mandrake site over a MacMillan Mandrake 6.0 Could the Mandrake Folks have a quiet chat to Macmillan about their confusing labeling of Mandrake? I think it could get out of control if it keeps up. Luckily, other than changing a few .xinitrc files everything went smoothly. Oh, make no mistake, the installation went extremely smoothly here as well. It's just using the thing afterwards that seems to be causing problems. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] MDK 6.1 ISO bootable by default?
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:07:54PM -0500, Aaron W. wrote: I am going to burn the 6.1 ISO image tonight under windows with easy cd creator and need to know if the iso is bootable or if I need to make any changes? Should be bootable. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Fwd: [expert] MandrakeUpdate as normal user]
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 02:02:28AM +, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Alan: Thanks for the advice. Appreciate it. HOWEVER, there is an Update button on Mandrake's Desktop. It must be there for a purpose. Indeed, when you click on it, it opens up sends down various rpms for your select, asks you for your root password, reviews the packages and then clams shut. This is a bug, not a feature :) If you are going to have an Update button on your user's desktop, it ought to work. The update button on root's desktop works fine. It works exactly the same way as user (of course, it doesn't have to ask for a password). The difference is that it delivers the goods, fetching and installing the rpms perfectly. Now that's what I would like to see on the user's desktop, too. I've noticed this problem as well, along with the unauthorized connection errors on the console from attempting to run it. I don't know whether the original MandrakeUpdate worked correctly or not, since I think I probably ran that one as root. I can, however, verify that the MandrakeUpdate carried in /update does not work correctly as a normal user. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] BUG: 6.1 -- chkfontpath
Another one... Trying to remove fonts from the xfs fontserver using the chkfontpath utility results in a segmentation fault: Script started on Wed Oct 20 22:05:34 1999 [root@tippy fonts]# chkfontpath --list Current directories in font path: 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts 8: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi [root@tippy fonts]# chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/StarOffice [root@tippy fonts]# chkfontpath --list Current directories in font path: 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts 8: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi 10: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/StarOffice [root@tippy fonts]# chkfontpath --remove /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/StarOffice Segmentation fault (core dumped) [root@tippy fonts]# Script done on Wed Oct 20 22:06:08 1999 -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] boot up
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:40:59PM -0400, Ian Douglas wrote: to get rid of the penguin, delete the following file: /etc/issue You'd also need to comment or remove the stuff in /etc/rc.d/rc.local that recreates the penguin on each boot. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] boot up
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:17:48PM +0200, Möfödi wrote: Howdy When i boot up mdk 6.1 it always starts with a penguin and something about kernel 2.2.13. How to do so that not come up. I delete /etc/rc.d/rc.local but it dident help. I know that this is not a big prob.. but but In /etc/rc.d/rc.local, you'll find a section that reads: if [ -x /usr/bin/linux_logo ];then /usr/bin/linux_logo -c -n -f /etc/issue echo "" /etc/issue else echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)" /etc/issue fi Comment out that entire section by placing hash marks (#) in front. That will stop it from feeding the ugly penguin into /etc/issue. Next, empty /etc/issue using the command: cat /dev/null /etc/issue That'll do it! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Playing RealG2 in Console?
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 05:52:25PM +, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Is it possible to run RealPlayer in the CONSOLE, NOT In Xwindows. I just tried by typing /usr/bin/realplay and got the standard error messge about needing to specify a DISPLAY environment. I figured I better not proceed any further before checking with the experts. Nope, it's not possible to run RealPlayer from the console. If they'd made a nice command line interface and a GUI wrapper around it that would have been exceedingly cool. Since I spent long hours in the "dungeon" of the console a few days ago, I wonder if I could at least listen or watch RealPlayer while in the console. Can I use the export DISPLAY command to do that. Do computer programmers who spend most of their time in the console listen to RealPlayer from wihtin the console while they are working or do they have to use it in XWindows on another computer. I only have one Internet computer so that's an important consideration for me. The one thing you could do, given enough processor and memory, is simply leave X and RealPlayer running and switch to a text console to do your work. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] disk speed with large partition
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 05:59:52PM -0500, David van Balen wrote: I just reinstalled lm-6.1 as my primary OS with the following partitions: hda1 15mb /boot dir hda5 4.1gig vmware directory hda6 32mb swap hdb1 128mb swap hdb5 21.9gig / dir My question is. Will making / so big slow down my access time on that drive? I wanted to avoid trouble later with partitions running out of space and the speed at which that partition will be accessed never Nope, partition size will not affect access speeds. It will affect fsck times, but as long as you don't reboot often or forcibly, you'll not notice it very much. Hope that helps! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Playing RealG2 in Console?
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:32:43AM +, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Steve: That's true but if I am stuck in the console and can't get back into XWindows, then by definition I can't get back to Windows and play RealPlayer :) RealPlayer is available for X Windows. Start X, start RealPlayer, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login on the text console. Hit Ctrl-Alt-F8 to switch back to X if you need to play with RealPlayer. Thanks for the knowledgable response about the console. I see your point. Some programs just use a GUI wrapper and that's why they can be invoked in the console but RealPlayer isn't like that. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] BUG: 6.1
Two more bugs to report:
1) By default, Mandrake attempts to turn on DMA for available IDE devices.
Attempting to copy the contents of a CDROM to my hard drive, I encountered
the following errors:
hdd: timeout waiting for DMA
hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdd: DMA disabled
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: DMA disabled
and then the entire machine locked up. The keyboard was frozen and I ended
up "kicking the Big Red Button" on the machine.
I modified my BIOS settings to disable DMA support for the interfaces and
rebooted. Trying to make the copy, the same errors and lockup (and
resolution occurred).
Finally, I modified /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime to change the -d1 to
-d0 in the hdparm line and rebooted the machine.
After the reboot, I again attempted the copy only to be greeted with the
same errors followed by:
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
ATAPI device hdd:
Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred -- (asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
ide0: reset: success
The machine did not lock up this time, but I'm a bit worried by the
messages. This machine had NO PROBLEMS running Mandrake 6.0 and had no
problems running 2.3.x kernels.
Thinking that I'd simply bypass the bad judgement on Mandrake's part, I
moved to compiling my own kernel. Once again, I'm hit with a bug:
2) Inability to compile a kernel. Attempting a 'make menuconfig' yields:
gcc -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium
-mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-loops=2
-malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -DLOCALE
-I/usr/include/ncurses -DCURSES_LOC="ncurses.h" -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o
cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2'
make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
This leaves me with a couple questions:
* RPM packaging is supposed to ensure that binary packages are reliably
recreatable using the source package. If I can't even get the resulting
source to build, how did you manage to compile the thing in the first
place?
* Where the hell is the quality testing?! I've only owned this
distribution for two days and already I've tripped over three bugs that
should not happen.
TO THE MANDRAKE STAFF:
I know that the second bug has already been reported to this list. I
haven't seen a reponse from Mandrake concerning an updated package to fix
the problem. Actually, I don't think I've even seen a response from anyone
at Mandrake for any of the reported problems.
I'm not a clueless, confused, newbie user. I'm not adverse to fixing these
problems myself. However, I'd prefer the opportunity to shoot MYSELF in the
foot prior to Mandrake grabbing the gun and doing it for me.
Well? You got my money, how about giving me a workable product for it?
Consider putting that on a bulletin board somewhere. You'd do well to take
it to heart.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Configuring PINE
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 08:29:04AM -0800, Ramon Gandia wrote: E-mail it is touch to find good email programs out there, and most of what I have seen misses the mark. The absolute best has been Netscape 3.04. Alas, the browser part of Netscape is not very good. I am still working on finding a good emailer, and to date I think there are two possibles. One of them is arrow, but I am still trying to find other possibles. Give mutt a try. It's worked extremely well for me here for my console work. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.61 'stable', MOZILLA_HOME variable, plugins
Tom Berger wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Tom Berger wrote: Hi! I experienced something strange: When I set the MOZILLA_HOME variable to Netscape's installation directory, it becomes unusuable for offline use because it constantly tries to access a DNS server. Unsetting the variable removes that prob. Trouble is that without that variable Netscape doesn't seem to load plugins (npflash). So what I need is: either advice to turn off the DNS requests even if the variable is set or someone to tell me how to get that modules loaded without the variable. Anyone? Check the archive, Steve answered this one about 5-6 months ago export something_DNS_something 0 Wow, can't believe someone remembered this post! Here's what you'll want to add to ~/.bashrc to try it: export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True Then logout and log back in, start X, then start Netscape. You can still use the MOZILLA_HOME variable to do whatever things you were using it for. For more documentation, you might try the README in the /usr/doc/netscape-common-version directory. It's got some useful information in it. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, with this setting NS won't use the DNS at all... Actually, all that setting does is prevent NS from forking off a separate process to do DNS resolution. I originally used it to get rid of the stall that results from starting NS when I'm not online. This may be primarily caused by my use of caching-nameserver, but I'm not about to give that up! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Loading Modules
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 01:43:31PM -0500, Bug Hunter wrote: On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Al Smith wrote: Same problem -Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:43 02/06/99 -0400, you wrote: I am trying to load some modules by hand by doing a: insmod module name Try modprobe instead of insmod. hih nick@nexnix I have found that some modules depend upon other modules for symbols. For example, msdos.o relies upon nls.o (if it is not compiled into the kernel), and vfat.o relies upons msdos.o. so, you have to load nls, msdos, vfat in that order. Actually, modprobe _should_ be smart enough to auto-load the modules that are relied upon by your requested module. That's what /lib/modules/kernel/modules.dep is for! -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] 6.0 problems
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 11:51:45AM +0100, Steven J Mackenzie wrote: Hello, o If I start X (KDE) as a normal user, open a terminal, 'su' to root, and try to run any programs (eg linuxconf or xcdroast) they will not run. From memory, linuxconf prints a 'broken pipe' message, and xcdroast complains about not being to open 'display :0'. Even if I set DISPLAY, the programs still won't run. If I type 'xhost +' xlib prints some error messages ... If I start X as root, there are no problems. Try opening up a terminal and typing 'su -c command'. You'll be prompted for your password and the app should start. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] excellent news: vmware for *all* non-commercial users at 99$!
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 01:32:40PM +0200, Tom Berger wrote: Hi! As you might have read in Slashdot already, vmware will be avaible for no-commercial use at a price of 99$ (formerly restricted to students). Count your bucks :-) I'm countin' the days! :) -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] re How to change the font in Netscape
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 11:38:37PM +0200, Tom Berger wrote: On Don, 29 Apr 1999, you wrote: / Am Don, 29 Apr 1999 schrieben Sie: mike montgomery wrote: while running netscape click on edit then preferences then click on font. You will get a list of the fonts to choose from. You also can resize them. Well, will you believe it, when I do this, nothing significant happens ! NetScape redraws evrything, but the font is still desperately smaaal, giving www browsing on Linux/X that weird feel.. :-\ Why are the "increase/decrease " menu entries grayed out ? Very frustrating, that.. ...sorry to sneak in (NS 4.08 on RH 5.2) Bye Hm, do you are per chance run xfstt and have TrueTypes chosen? xfstt doesn't scale TrueTypes. Switch back to a default font like helvetica, make sure you have the 100-dpi-fonts installed. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config. Mine looks like this: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" [asf.] That ensures that the large fonts are loaded first. Alternatively, you could edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfstt and add a '--res 120' to the line which startx xfstt. This will cause the fonts to be rendered a bit larger by default. The 120 portion can be adjusted if you need them even larger. Just take the default point size you want (12, 14, etc), multiply it by 10 and insert it. I use that here since Netscape won't let you use anything but the default size for xfstt-served fonts. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Passwordproblem
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 06:34:14AM +0200, Michael Hammann wrote: Hello, I tried to install glib1.2.2 gtk+1.2.2 on my Redhat5.2 with Kernel 2.2.3. (I don't know why ;-)). The second was an update of 'lpr' as it was recommended on the Redhat-errata-site. Now, I cannot login as 'root' anymore! To login as a normal user goes and su with the 'root'-password goes. Then 'startx' is starting the right KDE-Desktop from user 'root'. 'Telinit 5' don't go also. What shall I do to repare my system? Please post your answers directly to my email-address. Login as a normal user, su to root, remove the password entry for root from /etc/password. Logout of all of that. Login as root (it won't ask for a password), type 'passwd' and enter a new password. Sounds like the best option to me. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Very need your help!About Install
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 11:05:15AM +0800, John l.yn wrote: Hi : We are newer to Linux Mandrake. We meet some trouble during install X-Windows of Linux Mandrake. You really should have considered using the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. That's what the list is for. The first one: We cannt find the monitor driver of MAG XJ500T for Linux Mandrake. Just tell the Xconfigurator that you have a Custom Monitor, then fill in the information it asks for. That's what I do with my monitor. The second one: We cannt find the display card driver using Intel i740 AGP chips for Linux Mandrake. They're on the CD in the apps/ directory (I think that's right). Either way, there are pointers to it on the Mandrake website. Where can we get it? How to install it? Please give more details. There are installation instructions in the directory containing the X server. We are very anxious. We are waiting for your respondence! Very thanks! You're welcome! Good luck! -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] follow-up: NT on Linux - first results (new vmware-beta)
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 08:39:46AM -0400, James J. Capone wrote: I tried to use VMware with very poor results. My system ran twice as slow, mouse wouldn't work in Linux if it was in full screen mode. Would only accept 16 color format for Video. And more problems arose as I went along. Started loosing Mouse functions in Linux and networking kept crashing. Here is my Sys Specs: Compaq 2240 AMD k62 200mhz overclockded to 265mhz 48 megs Memory 2 Mb memory for Video S3Trio64dx video card 1 6.4 gig 5400 rpm Western Digital drive 1 2.1 gig 4600 Maxtor Drive Linux Mandrake / Windows98 1 ADSL line with a Ethernet adapter 24x CD-ROM 4x CDR/RW Microsoft Keyboard Microsoft Mouse (Serial) Compaq Printer 1 USR 33600 External Voice/Data/Fax modem - For sending Faxes only. 2 USB Joy sticks I don't know why it was doing it, I followed instruction had a person helping me VIA ICQ IRC and still it ran slow. Checked my Swap space on each OS and it was fine. Don't know. It is a good program but it needs some work. No, you need more memory. You're trying to stuff Linux (and KDE and everything else ) AND Windows into 48M! For what it's worth, Tom had good luck with 128M, and I like the performance with 192M. VMware recommends (I believe) 64M for starters. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] follow-up: NT on Linux - first results (new vmware-beta)
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 05:59:04PM -0700, Dan Brown wrote: "James J. Capone" wrote: I tried to use VMware with very poor results. My system ran twice as slow, mouse wouldn't work in Linux if it was in full screen mode. Would only accept 16 color format for Video. And more problems arose as I went along. In addition to your lack of memory (VMware recommends at least 64MB; I'm happier at 192), it also sounds like you didn't install the vmware-tools in NT/95/98. The difference those made in display speed was amazing on my system. One of the things I noticed on the VMware FAQ pages was a recommendation to create a new hardware profile to allow Windows to distinguish between native booting and VMware-booting. I'd like to be able to use my native Windows partition under VMware, but with Windows being as unstable as it is, I'd hate to give it another reason to crap out and die. Anyone know how to create a hardware profile? -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] follow-up: NT on Linux - first results (new vmware-beta)
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 11:42:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 05:59:04PM -0700, Dan Brown wrote: "James J. Capone" wrote: I tried to use VMware with very poor results. My system ran twice as slow, mouse wouldn't work in Linux if it was in full screen mode. Would only accept 16 color format for Video. And more problems arose as I went along. In addition to your lack of memory (VMware recommends at least 64MB; I'm happier at 192), it also sounds like you didn't install the vmware-tools in NT/95/98. The difference those made in display speed was amazing on my system. One of the things I noticed on the VMware FAQ pages was a recommendation to create a new hardware profile to allow Windows to distinguish between native booting and VMware-booting. I'd like to be able to use my native Windows partition under VMware, but with Windows being as unstable as it is, I'd hate to give it another reason to crap out and die. Anyone know how to create a hardware profile? Hmm... bad form to reply to my own message, I know. The documentation for creating hardware profiles is available in the Documentation section of the VMware site. It's almost surprising just how good the documentation for this thing is. I printed out the 15 or so pages of stuff that looked relevant and I haven't hit anything yet it didn't answer. Almost makes me feel like I should save the money and buy the thing when it comes out of beta... :) -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Network unreachable
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 10:31:08AM +0100, Nicolas Le Gaillart wrote: I've got a very strange problem with an 3com 905B Ethernet card (Boomrang) : The network connections starts to work fine, but stop after a while. (a ping or a route tells me that the "Network is unreachable" !) Then, in order to make the network connection work again, I have to reboot the machine, which launch again the network services... The network connection is completly stoped : a ping from another machine don't reach my linux box ! Please help me ! Pleeeaase ! I'm getting mad... I've heard of troubles with those cards before. Do a websearch of "3c905B Linux" and see if you can find some updated drivers for it. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] anyone else having problems with gtk/glib-update? (Steve)
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 07:48:57PM +, Tom Berger wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:11:15 -0400, you wrote: Heh, nope! It's just me and my little 56k modem. From looking at the backups, the whole thing is around 30M of download. Not TOO bad. Of course, you probably don't need to grab ALL of them if you're not interested in running GNOME. If you just want to be able to compile glib/gtk+ programs, you could probably get away with downloading the glib-1.2, glib10, gtk+-1.2, gtk+10 and the appropriate -devel packages. Good luck! Already done that, np compiles like a charm now :-). Well, 30 MB are not that bad, it's less than MS Exploder 5... What about stability and general usuability of GNOME, is it worth dl'ing? It's MUCH better than the original 1.0 release. I haven't had a crash yet and I've been using it steady for around 2 weeks now. The nightly updates to the RPMs have stopped now, as well, so everything you grab should be steady. Give it a try, you might like it! -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Problem with booting off multiple partitions...
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 09:35:36PM -0400, Paul A. Bernicchi wrote: OK, I'm using kernel version 2.2.25 and have plugged in another hard drive and partitioned it so I can move /var, /lib, etc.. off of the main drive, giving me back some precious disk space (my Linux drive is only 500 megs). I made the boot and rescue disks "just in case," and properly mounted /var and /lib, as well as /opt, on the other drive. The problem is, I cannot boot because obviously local filesystems are not mounting yet when Linux needs access to /var. Any way to force a mount on this partition via lilo.conf? The kernel gives me an error message about "kernel panic - no arguments passed to init" or words to that effect. I'm betting that it's not /var that's screwing you up, it's probably /lib. Those libraries are needed to boot the computer... Sounds like you get to reinstall, 'cause I'm not even sure what you might do in a situation like that... -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] anyone else having problems with gtk/glib-update?
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 11:42:08PM +0200, Tom Berger wrote: Hi! Boy, what a mess... I installed/upgraded gtk 1.2.0 and glib 1.2.0. The gtk-packages (libs+devel) were vanilla Redhat rpms, glib had to be compiled because the RH lib-rpm is linked against some strange glibc version (pre-dependent libraries have a CC2 tag *shrug*, devel installed fine, though). Trouble is I don't get *anything* compiled which is linked against gtk 1.2.0. [ big snip ... sorry Tom! ] Last chance would be compiling gtk by myself, too. Duh... Is there anyone in here who got *all* the rpms installed (gtk/gtk-devel, glib/glib-devel) and has since then successfully compiled a source against them? If so, would you please tell me as exactly as possible which versions you did use? Here are the packages that I downloaded from the GNOME mirrors. I _have_ been able to compile things against these packages. Good luck! total 134 drwxrwxr-x 2 sphilp sphilp 3072 Apr 15 04:23 Base drwxrwxr-x 2 sphilp sphilp 2048 Apr 15 04:24 Devel -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp237 Apr 11 00:16 README -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 129746 Apr 18 22:29 gtk-theme-odo-1.1.tgz /mnt/backup/GNOME/Base: total 26717 -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 167911 Apr 9 02:32 GXedit-1.23-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 308434 Apr 10 18:53 ORBit-0.4.3-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 83365 Apr 9 18:41 audiofile-0.1.6-2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 581092 Apr 15 00:10 control-center-1.0.5-13.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp5158513 Apr 10 02:18 desktop-backgrounds-1.0.0-3.noarch.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 159653 Apr 9 18:47 ee-0.3.8-6.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp2870723 Apr 15 00:21 enlightenment-0.15.5-25.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 153218 Apr 9 01:41 enlightenment-conf-0.15-4.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 69488 Apr 14 03:35 esound-0.2.12-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 326000 Apr 8 21:55 fnlib-0.4-7.1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 346840 Apr 8 20:12 freetype-1.1-5.1.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 103616 Apr 15 00:22 gdm-1.0.0-12rh.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 125102 Apr 10 05:24 gedit-0.5.1-2.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 201062 Apr 13 23:59 gftp-1.13-3.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 119734 Apr 8 21:13 glib-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 26948 Apr 8 20:25 glib10-1.0.6-4.1.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp1088378 Apr 15 00:26 gmc-4.5.30-3rh.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 662337 Apr 9 01:43 gnome-audio-1.0.0-5.noarch.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp2109767 Apr 9 01:43 gnome-audio-extra-1.0.0-5.noarch.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp1273539 Apr 15 00:31 gnome-core-1.0.4-13rh.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp2155139 Apr 14 14:02 gnome-games-1.0.2-7.1.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 830581 Apr 15 00:34 gnome-libs-1.0.8-2rh.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 95195 Apr 15 00:35 gnome-linuxconf-0.22-0.1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 97225 Apr 9 01:49 gnome-media-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 201187 Apr 15 00:36 gnome-objc-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 245174 Apr 9 23:49 gnome-pim-1.0.7-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp1452423 Apr 9 18:57 gnome-users-guide-1.0.5-1.noarch.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 307182 Apr 9 02:14 gnome-utils-1.0.1-5.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 156507 Apr 13 23:59 gnorpm-0.8-0.1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 79392 Apr 9 02:50 gnotepad+-1.1.3-1.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp1486878 Apr 14 13:54 gnumeric-0.23-1.1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 90984 Apr 9 22:57 gqview-0.6.0-2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 781164 Apr 14 03:28 gtk+-1.2.1-7.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 464261 Apr 8 20:25 gtk+10-1.0.6-4.1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp1338791 Apr 9 22:56 gtk-engines-0.5-11.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 101657 Apr 9 02:30 gtop-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 142354 Apr 9 22:41 imlib-1.9.5-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 247970 Apr 9 22:41 imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.5-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 34101 Apr 8 21:59 libghttp-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 130260 Apr 14 14:03 libgtop-1.0.1-1.2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 251980 Apr 14 14:04 libgtop-examples-1.0.1-1.2.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 57443 Apr 8 23:41 libxml-1.0.0-1.1.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 396285 Apr 15 00:38 mc-4.5.30-3rh.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 17342 Apr 15 00:38 mcserv-4.5.30-3rh.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 sphilp sphilp 88422 Apr 9 02:48 xchat-0.9.4-2.i386.rpm /mnt/backup/GNOME/Devel: total 3464 -rw-r--r-- 1
