[expert] Configuration of login window
Hi, One of my colleagues asked me how to bring back the @Shutdown@ button in the initial login window. Hes says he used to have it there but then a few weeks ago it disappeared and he's not sure how it happened nor how to bring it back. I must admit that I don't either... L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows 3.1: The 8MB patch. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] software recommendations
On 21 Sep, Gregor Maier wrote: 1. A decent text editor (Not XEmacs... I hate Emacs) then i should be vi / gvim ;-) but i'm not sure if gvim requires gtk Nope. For something very lightweight, there's always pico... 2. An FTP client ncftp is a really good tip Yep. 3. CD player tcd is the console app for gtcd, the gnome CD player -- oops, requires glib. There is also a cd tool called cdplay, which comes with MDK. cdp is the console version, cdplay is the non-interactive version. 4. MP3/Media Player mpg123. Da best! 5. mpeg/avi player mtvp: http://www.mpegtv.com xanim: http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Il ne sera pas dit qu'un Léonard de mon calibre baisse les bras au pied levé! -Léonard le génie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Testing mouse wheel
On 19 Sep, Alexander Poslavsky wrote: You don't have to wait to upgrade to use your wheel mouse, it doesn't depend on the distro version. You just have to configure them right, I used my wheel mouse with LM8.0 You need st like: Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer # Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Buttons 3 Option Emulate3Buttons no Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option SendCoreEventstrue EndSection in your XF86Config-4, the key-line is : Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 and then you need to configure your apps to work with a wheel, eg netscape doesn't run out of the box with the wheel, mozilla and any gtk-app do though. Thanks. I don' know who mentioned this but I'm not running imwheel so I guess that explains why it doesn't work. I'm looking thru the manpage to figure out how imwheel works. It looks like it needs to be started manually. Is that correct or am I missing something else? I don't see an imwheel script in the rc.d directory. Does X start imwheel automagically? Or do I need to specify a special module? L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't understand why people break up and then get back together. It's like going to the fridge, taking a carton of milk that has gone bad, then saying: I'll put it back and see if it's better tomorrow. -Larry Miller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Testing mouse wheel
On 17 Sep, Moses Backman III wrote: i couldn't get it to work either with LM8.0 but BETA3 of 8.1 has it and it works great Hmm. Ok, I'll have to wait until I upgrade, I guess. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Aucun gel n'est de taille à refroidir l'ardeur du bouillant Achille. -Achille Talon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Permisssions problems mounting SMB
Hi, I have this problem when mounting a SMB partition: mount /mnt/mypublic/ Password: cannot mount on /mnt/mypublic: Operation not permitted smbmnt failed: 1 My etc/fstab looks like this: //foo/lduperva$/mnt/mypublic smbfs noauto,user,username=lduperva 0 0 The permisssion in /mnt/ look like this: drwxrwxrwt2 root root 1024 Sep 12 11:47 mypublic/ I can mount if I am root. What's the problem? Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty. -Bob Marley, Rat Race Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape wish using up memory
On 6 Sep, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:59 -0400, Laurent Duperval wrote: On the other hand, if the script allocates large amounts of data to do temporary datamanipulation, then releases the handle to that data, the memory growth will be a result of the way Tcl manages memory. Until I see the script, I can't say for sure which of these situations is at work. Want me to send it to you as .bz2 (24kb)? wobo Sure but no promises until next week. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape wish using up memory
On 6 Sep, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Sep, FLYNN, Steve wrote: Exactly what is the point in that? I've never done any Tcl programming (yet) but I can't see the reasoning behind this. I don't remember what the exact design decision was. It may have been somnething to do with performance. I'll ask and give you the answer later. It's a multi-tasking OS - everything should be handed back in a friendly manner. It sounds like a deliberate design ploy on the Tcl interpreter authors, presumably for performance increases, but it appears to fail as it causes swapping itself! Have I got the wrong end of the stick? In this case, probably. I suspect the the tkppoe script keeps large amounts of data in memory and never releases it. For example, maybe it sets an array aor a list and constantly adds data to it. In that case, no matter what Tcl does with memory, it will just keep on growing and growing. On the other hand, if the script allocates large amounts of data to do temporary datamanipulation, then releases the handle to that data, the memory growth will be a result of the way Tcl manages memory. Until I see the script, I can't say for sure which of these situations is at work. L As promised, here is Jeff Hobbs' answer, which you can find on comp.lang.tcl (and I think any subsequent discussions on the memory allocation aspect of Tcl should be taken there): Yes, it is in large part for performance. Yes, it still makes a noticable difference in that latest machines, and likely always will since the concept is fairly basic. This is exactly what Tcl does: It allocates Tcl_Obj's in blocks of 100. Ask for the first one, you get 100 and it pops one off to you. The next 99 are already allocated and just popped off to you. When you free a Tcl_Obj, it goes back on to a stack of free objects which can be reused. Any memory associated with the Tcl_Obj (string, list rep, other object data) is all freed, it is just the Tcl_Obj shell that is kept on the stack for reuse. This means if you have 1001 objects in use at once, you will have allocated at least 1100 Tcl_Obj's. However, if you used 1001 objects, but never more than 50 at a time, you only ever allocated 100 Tcl_Obj (others were reused). This goes on for the lifetime of the process. Thus, the objects used high-water mark is maintained - with the philosophy that if you used it before, you may need it again. The way in which they are maintained on the stack is done in a very efficient manner (linking to each other), which unfortunately makes it impossible to deallocate. To free, you would have to have the entire block of 100 Tcl_Obj's ready to free and remember which one was the first. What the person may have been seeing is some mem leak in Tcl. There were (*were*) a few that we hard to exercise, but 8.3.2 had a fairly easy to hit one in channels (unfortunately) that was fixed in 8.3.3. So, while it is true that certain parts of Tcl don't free mem back, it is just the Tcl_Obj shell allocator, everything else gets freed (structures, dstrings, strings, ...). --- Since tkpppoe most likely uses channels, it may be exercising the bug that Jeff mentions. You could try 8.3.3 to see if your script still ill-behaves. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ne vous moquez pas maître. C'est le titillement de la recherche scientifique qui me fit sortir du lit, malgré l'aube matinale de l'après-midi! -Le disciple Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape wish using up memory
On 5 Sep, FLYNN, Steve wrote: Exactly what is the point in that? I've never done any Tcl programming (yet) but I can't see the reasoning behind this. I don't remember what the exact design decision was. It may have been somnething to do with performance. I'll ask and give you the answer later. It's a multi-tasking OS - everything should be handed back in a friendly manner. It sounds like a deliberate design ploy on the Tcl interpreter authors, presumably for performance increases, but it appears to fail as it causes swapping itself! Have I got the wrong end of the stick? In this case, probably. I suspect the the tkppoe script keeps large amounts of data in memory and never releases it. For example, maybe it sets an array aor a list and constantly adds data to it. In that case, no matter what Tcl does with memory, it will just keep on growing and growing. On the other hand, if the script allocates large amounts of data to do temporary datamanipulation, then releases the handle to that data, the memory growth will be a result of the way Tcl manages memory. Until I see the script, I can't say for sure which of these situations is at work. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] All of you are sick! All of you should be hospitalized!! -Shaul Yahalom of the Israeli parliament, responding to members who suggest King David was gay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape wish using up memory
On 14 Aug, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, Just posting this to give an example for Netscape's still unbelievable wasting of memory: I use MDK 8.0 with Netscape 4.77 as browser. My machine got 256M of physical ram and a swap partition of 300M. Now I had Netscape running for 2 days because i kept working on several translations of MandrakeForum articles. The last one was a piece by Civileme about what gets testet by Mandrake QA. I took some breaks in between and in the meantime I read and wrote some mails with Mutt and there was just one console window open and xosview running. All of this took place on KDE. At the end my harddisk startet to run frequently and xosview showed that it startet swapping out. In the end I had a memory assessment of 240M physical ram (just about 10% of it that was cache) and more than 280M of swap space was in use. Reaction of the system startet to be sluggish. Now I sent the finished translation up to the Forum and when I closed Netscape xosview showed a memory occupation of 73M of ram and 52 of swap! That means Netscape has taken more than 380M of memory! A similar thing happened when I used to work with tkpppoe, a front end for pppoe for my DSL connention. This tkpppoe works with wish and when I saw xosview showing memory useage of more than 400M (ram + swap) I looked at top and top showed wish using more than 260M of memory. As soon as I exited tkpppoe those 260M were immediately released. How come wish is taking so much memory? wobo Wish (and Tcl in general) does not release memory to the OS. Instead, when memory is released, it is maintianed in a pool to be reused by the application. Most likely, the Tcl (wish) script you are using is using up a lot of memory and never releasing it. One example is setting a new variable or an array and never unsetting it after it is no longer needed. You have to look at the code for tkpppoe to see where that happens. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bourgeois, ne niez pas: le frisson de l'envie chante au fond de votre prunelle! -Le commerçant d'Achille Talon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Where is libc.mo found?
Hi, I'm trying to run ant with optional modules and I get a segfault after it tries to load /usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo, probably because of the fact that this file doesn't exist on my machine. Where can I find it? Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vous êtes un monument d'idiotie et de maladresse! -Léonard le génie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Control key doesn't work properly
Hi, I'm using LM8.0 with X4.0.3. I'm having problems with my Ctrl key on my keyboard. There are an number or apps (mainly Java and Tk apps) which don't work correctly because my keyboard mappings seem to be messed up. For example: - With Tk apps, I can't do a Ctrl-Click on a scrollbar's arrow to go to the beginning or the end of the scrolled area. - With java apps, NetBeans in particular, certain Ctrl-Key shortcuts don't work. For example Ctrl-S to save doesn't work but a few others work correctly. The Ctrl-Click like the above doesn't work. Also, in other apps where Ctrl-clicking in a listbox-type widget should allow multiple selections, it doesn't work. I'm not sure how to figure out why this doesn't work. I've got the output of my xmodmap here: xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lockCaps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71) mod2Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4Meta_L (0x73), Meta_R (0x74) mod5Scroll_Lock (0x4e) I'm not sure what else could be wrong. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?
Re: [expert] wish core dumping...
On 16 Jul, Julia A. Case wrote: I was trying to run a TCL/TK app when I realised that wish just core dumps on my machine... I tried updating to the Cooker versions of both tcl and tk but the same thing still happens... I'd really like to run FaxMail, so could someone shed some light on this? Julia Do you have a stack trace available? To you have TCL_LIBRARY_PATH set in your environment. Tcl is pretty solid so that shouldn't happen. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Roses are red, violets are blue. If I looked like you, I'd feel sick too.
[expert] Limiting memory use by users
Hi, I have an ill-behaved application that sometimes takes all available memory and totally freezes up my machine. Is there anyway to limit user memory? I would like to keep at least 32 MB available at all time by the root user so that I can at least switch to a VC to kill the offending program. Is this at all possible? L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
Re: [expert] huge memory usage!
On 31 May, Sarang Lakare wrote: You are indeed missing something--look at the amount used for buffers and cache. This can be freed by the system when a program issues a malloc() call. It can be grabbed again from the free memory pool when the program releases it and turned to the same purpose, making your machine run faster. Yes.. agreed.. I know it.. but look at this : [root@vv17 /root]# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:899952 556784 343168 0 170032 265936 -/+ buffers/cache: 120816 779136 Swap: 1791208 1184081672800 [root@vv17 /root]# This is how I interpret it : total used = 556MB buffers = 170MB cached = 256MB Try the attached file. I thought it gave interesting information. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ce sabot pensant de Kid Ordinn a failli ruiner la réputation du Sud. Heureusement que je suis là! C'est une questiond de patriotisme! -Dog Bull analyse-x.pl
Re: [expert] gtk-- rpms
On 18 Jun, don wrote: On Monday 18 June 2001 12:44, you wrote: Hi, Where does one fing the gtk-- rpms? I looked on rpmfind.net but it isn't there. It also doesn't look like is distributed with the 8.0 distro. Thanks, L Acrually the gtk libraries are included in the GNOME RPMS and KDE RPMS These aren't the gtk libraries, they're the C++ bindings for gtk+. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ne vous moquez pas maître. C'est le titillement de la recherche scientifique qui me fit sortir du lit, malgré l'aube matinale de l'après-midi! -Le disciple
Re: [expert] gtk-- rpms
On 18 Jun, Julia A. Case wrote: Quoting Laurent Duperval ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, Where does one fing the gtk-- rpms? I looked on rpmfind.net but it isn't there. It also doesn't look like is distributed with the 8.0 distro. try http://www.gnome.org Thanks, I thought there were Mandrake-specific binaries somewhere. Guess not. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Je suis le plus fort! ... Je suis encore plus fort que tout à l'heure! ... Tiens... pour me définir, le mot fort ne l'est plus assez! -Léonard le génie
[expert] gtk-- rpms
Hi, Where does one fing the gtk-- rpms? I looked on rpmfind.net but it isn't there. It also doesn't look like is distributed with the 8.0 distro. Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] La cueillette des champignons est un art dont la subtilité n'est accessible qu'aux gastronomes les plus évolués. Dont je suis. -Lefuneste
[expert] How do you upgrade postgres from 7.0.? to 7.1.1
Hi, Mandrake 8.0 comes with postgresql 7.0. I want to upgrade it to 7.1.1 using the MDK tools. How do you do that? Yes, I could always go to rpmfind.net and download all the rpms and install them. But I'm more interested in doing it thru the Software Manager or something. For the time being, the only packages I can see with SM ore the postgres 7.0 files. How do I ask it to got on the 'net to find me versions of 7.1.x? Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On prend le bon air qui vivifie et qui se répand dans les cavités thoraciques de l'honnête homme comme du miel sur la tartine d'un affamé! -Achille Talon
Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages
On 1 May, D. R. Evans wrote: On 1 May 01, at 15:14, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: Command Line: $ whereis nslookup nslookup: /usr/bin/nslookup /usr/share/man/man8/nslookup.8.bz2 $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/nslookup bind-utils-9.1.1-1mdk Well, yes. If you happen to be looking for certain classes of files that happen to be in some more-or-less standard place. It's better than nothing, but not really much of a replacement when you can think of only a substring, which is typically the way that I use the graphical thingy. This works well if the file you're looking for is installed already. My problem is that the file isn't installed and I want to find it. In 7.2, I could do a search for the file and it would tell me what package needs to be installed in order to have that file on my system. This is no longer feasible in the Software Manager. All the other suggestions I got (thanks!) required me to load up the CD and search the manifest file (oir its equivalent) to locate my program. It's doable but not as user friendly as what was available in 7.2. I haven't tried the KDE version of the package manager so maybe I'll try that next time. I also wasn't aware that dip and host were replacements for nslookup. I'll take a look at that also. Thanks to all! L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Coulez-vous sur mes pas avec la circonspection du serpent marchant sur des oeufs! -Achille Talon
Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot
On 1 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. Laurentclick on the desktop icon labled Mandrake Control Center. When the control center has opened it's window (probably after you've supplied the root password) then expand the tree under Boot and choose the option called Boot Config. In the upper right corner of the resulting window there will be a button called Configure click on it and a sub-window will open. Choose the radio button marked LILO with text menu. Then click on the button labled Advanced. In the scrolling list for the setting, Video mode scroll to the very bottom and choose the selection Normal. Now click on the OK button and the sub-window will close. Finally click on the main window's OK button and you're done. The next time you power up or re-boot you should boot in text mode. I'd done that already and it doesn't work. The LILO screen is text but the entire boot sequence is still in graphical mode. I hear my multi-sync monitor mode-switch (it clicks) after I select linux from the LILO screen. Normally, I'm supposed to get LILO boot: when LILO starts. Now I get some gibberish: !(@*TBASD boot: where the first part is composed of smiley faces and stuff. Then, after I hit Return, the graphical stuff starts. There is a big Welcome banner at the top of the screen and at the bottom there is the normal status display that appears at boot time. This is the part I don't want. Wait a minute. What if Ok, now to reboot. Y E S HOUSTON WE HAVE LIFTOFF The video mode for the linux entry in LILO was set to 794 so setting the other value to text had no real effect. Now I've got everything back to normal, almost. The only thing I want now, is to set the default font of the consoles to a smaller font. I liked the way the text looked in mode 794. There weas a lot more information on the screen than there is at 80x25. What the best way to test new console fonts? I thought linuxconf had that in 7.2 but it doesn't look like it in 8.0. Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Coulez-vous sur mes pas avec la circonspection du serpent marchant sur des oeufs! -Achille Talon
Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot
On 2 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Laurentput the vga=794 back in your /etc/lilo.conf and uninstall the Aurora RPM from your system. Uhh... Ok... To test console fonts put vga=ask instead of vga=normal or vga=xxx in /etc/lilo.conf. vga=ask will prompt you for the console setting at boot time and provide a list from which you may choose. Oh, OK. Will it save it for the next boot? Probably not, I'll have to manually edit it, I guess. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sachez qu'un Talon ne recule jamais d'un orteil et que celui qui me marche sur les pieds peut toujours courir, mossieu! -Achille Talon
Re: [expert] 3d games very very slow
On 1 May, faisal gillani wrote: Hello i am trying to run some 3D Games that comes with Mandrake . but the movement of the games is very very slow although i have a 16MB Vodoo Banshee with 190 MB RAM a PII 350 Processor Help me out here please . Are you using acceleration correctly? L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vous vendez vos brosses comme une chiffe! -Achille Talon
[expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot
Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. I want to go back to the good old text screen we used to have in 7.2. The reason is that once I've booted into X, I can no longer acces the console. I want to remove the use of the frame buffer so I can see if the problem is my X setup or the new way 8.0 boots. Any one know how to do this? L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] D'obscures manoeuvres ont eu lieu dans l'ombre et je ferai toute la lumière sur ces ténébreux agissements! C'est du marché noir! -Achille Talon
[expert] Can't set icons in launcher buttons
Hi, Can anyone tell me why I can't set icons in my launchers buttons? I'm attaching a screen shot. As you can see, I don't have the OK button. This is Mandrake 8.0. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ne vous moquez pas maître. C'est le titillement de la recherche scientifique qui me fit sortir du lit, malgré l'aube matinale de l'après-midi! -Le disciple snapshot7.png
[expert] Searching for files in packages
Hi, It used to be (in 7.2) that you could search for a file and it would tell you what package to find it in. That functionality seems to have disappeared form the Software Manager. Is that a fact or am I not doing things properly? Specifically, I'm looking for the package which has nslookup in it. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On ne chiffrera jamais assez le prix de la honte! -Le commerçant d'Achille Talon
Re: [expert] Can't set icons in launcher buttons
On 1 May, To: Mandrake Expert List wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me why I can't set icons in my launchers buttons? I'm attaching a screen shot. As you can see, I don't have the OK button. This is Mandrake 8.0. L Turns out the problem is subtle but there is a work around. I can't set an icon by clicking the Icon button and then using the Browse button. I absolutely have to select it from the windo that shows all the icons. So the work around is to select the icon name using the Browse button, clicking Ok, then clicking a *second* time on the No Icon button. This time, all the icons from the directory of the icon you want are shown. Select the one you want and voila. I think it's a bug with GNOME. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Je sens comme un torrent créateur déferler sur la plaine aride de ma fébrilité. -Léonard le génie
[expert] xfs problems
Hi, I'm using Together J 4.0 on Mandrake 8.0. I've noticed that when I start it, it crashes the font server and a lot of applications stop working. Together J itself hangs during its start up sequence. I can figure out where the xfs erros are sent so I'm not really sure why this is happening. It also affects other apps, such as gvim. Anyone know what the problem is? L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chez nous, au moins, on se repère sur le soleil... Mais ici, ils ne l'ont pas encore inventé! -Dog Bull
Re: [expert] xfs problems
On 30 Apr, Praedor Tempus wrote: On Monday 30 April 2001 11:45, Laurent Duperval wrote: On 30 Apr, Praedor Tempus wrote: When it crashes xfs, if you have a working console app (like xterm? konsole?) start one and login as superuser. Then do /etc/xinit.d/xfs restart. If you cannot do this, try logging into a new session by doing Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in, go to superuser and do what I just wrote above...restart xfs. Ok, I had that going already. Whenever I have run into problems with xfs crashing, it has invariably been because it cannot find font: misc fixed for something along that line. This usually was associated with my using antialiased fonts. Ok, how do I fix that? [...] Hmpf. IS that the error you get? I believe it is cannot find font fixed: misc Font specified in font.properties not found [--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific] Exception occurred during event dispatching: java.lang.InternalError: java/langNullPointerException at sun.awt.motif.X11Graphics.pSetFont(Native Method) at sun.awt.motif.X11Graphics.setFont(X11Graphics.java:227) at java.awt.Component.getGraphics(Component.java:1691) at javax.swing.JComponent.getGraphics(JComponent.java:1086) more stack traces . . . That's what I get. I get a whole lot of the font.properties error then I start getting the NullPointerException's. As for fixing it...I was never able to - I ended up changing my fonts around in apps. You could try to load the font placed up for use in the expert group recently by akar 'th 'orrible: http://www.users.bigpond.com/trader2001 It is a fixed-width font that MAY fix your problem. Perhaps someone in the list can offer more specifics on fixing the problem (reording the font directories, etc). Well, I'll try it to see. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vous vendez vos brosses comme une chiffe! -Achille Talon
Re: [expert] staroffice and taskbar
On 26 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yesterday I sendt a message asking if anyone knew how to switch documents within StarOffice. What I meant is if anyone knows how to switch documents using shoortut keys. The taskbar is rather slow, cumbersome an just plain boring. For example in KDE's destop, you can use Alt+Tab to switch between open applications. and Crtl+Tab to switch between desktops. My questions is: What are the shortcut keys to switch documents within StarOffice, if any? Thank you to those who took the time to answer my query and to thos who will answer today There is a menu to configure keys, try to use that. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviter Achille Talon, c'est asseoir la réussite à sa table! -Achille Talon
Re: [expert] No Console
On 26 Apr, Rusty Carruth wrote: That IS strange. What happens if you hit either ALT-F1 or Contol-ALT-F1 (try also F2 instead of F1, for curiosity sake)? (And which one works, if only one works) What it SOUNDS like is that the display 'forgot' to switch back to the virtual console 1 (assuming you started from ALT-F1 console). But that's weird. If nobody else has this problem, I'll go install LM8 on my laptop and my main machine at home (I've got it on my soon-to-be firewall) and see if any of those 3 exhibit that behaviour... I've got something similar: I have a viewSonic screen and a Matrox Millenium G450 card. If I switch to a console, the screen says that there is no signal or something. I get a viewmeter screen saying there's an error and the drawing of the VGA port. Didn't have that with 7.2. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Si je n'étais pas aussi modeste, je pourrais aspirer à des destinées éclatantes. -Achille Talon
[expert] setxkbmap question
Hi, If someone here is also on the French list, can you send a copy of this message there for me, please? They may have a better response. I'm trying to use setxkbmap to configure my keyboard for Quebec keybindings. However, whenever I issue the command, I get the following error: Error loading new keyboard description It works fine for other keyboards such as gr and ru (or at least, I don't get an error). I've got the file /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/qc-latin1.kmap.gz but I'm not sure if that's the correct one. Any help is much appreciated. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and 8.0 final
On 24 Apr, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: Has anyone installed 8.0 with the G450 video card. If so did you need the Matrox drivers from vendor site? Yes, I did. The original install was very slow. It's much better with the vendor drivers. I haven't (yet) tried all them opengl games (like tuxracer). Mandrake folks stated once that it was supported in 8.0 beta version however I was never able to get it to work. I will hopefully be able to install 8.0 tonight and want to know what to expect. Well, if you remove the mga_drv.o in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers and replace it with the beta stuff from Matrox's site, it should work. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Problems with Tk-based apps in 8.0
Hi, I'm experiencing severe problems with Tk-based applications. I am unable to type anything remotely useable in text and entry widgets. To test, try the following: $ wish % text .t % pack .t In the widget, type something and hit the Del or the Enter key or the backspace key. I get \b and \xf and whatnot instead of the normal keystrokes. Does anyone else see this? I'm using X4, I believe. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Test
On 23 Apr, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: May be it's the reply-to but maybe it's also the growing acceptance of MandrakeForum what lets the volume of mails in this list drop. A lot of things discussed here in the past were topics that belong to a discussion forum like MandrakeForum. Right now there is a lot of discussion about the new and shiny 8.0 on the forum. This kind of discussion we used to have on the list before the forum opened up. Some people may find it a bit more of a workload, having to watch and participate in two areas, the forum and the mailinglist. Some people may switch to the forum and forget about the list at all. IMHO it may come to a point when the list contains only hard- and software related questions and answers (about the Linux-Mandrake distro) and the discussions of more intelligence and wisdom take place in the forum. But I just realize that this mail belongs to the forum not in the mailing list, so don't read it! So how does the forum work? I went to it but there's so much stuff gong on that I'm not really sure how you're s'posed to behave there. For example, how would I go about asking a question about the Tk-related problems I've mentioned earlier? L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] logrotate problem
Hi, I've noticed that whenever logrotate is run, it can take more than 2 hours to complete. It looks like it's doing something fishy. I'm on LM 7.1 and this is the ls -lt |head of /var/log: -rw-r--r--1 root root 16497976 Jan 30 13:08 debug.log drw---2 root root 5914624 Jan 30 13:08 mail/ -rw---1 root root91056 Jan 30 13:08 messages -rw-r--r--1 root root91399 Jan 30 13:08 syslog -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 467712 Jan 30 13:07 wtmp -rw---1 root root49106 Jan 30 13:01 cron -rw-r--r--1 root root 504 Jan 30 13:00 daemon.log -rw---1 root root77890 Jan 30 13:00 sudo.log -rw---1 root root0 Jan 30 12:36 secure As you can see, the *directory* size of mail' is huge! I'm trying to do a ls in that directory and it's been running for 20 minutes with no output yet. Any ideas why this is happening? L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] logrotate problem
On 30 Jan, To: Mandrake Expert List wrote: Hi, I've noticed that whenever logrotate is run, it can take more than 2 hours to complete. It looks like it's doing something fishy. I'm on LM 7.1 and this is the ls -lt |head of /var/log: -rw-r--r--1 root root 16497976 Jan 30 13:08 debug.log drw---2 root root 5914624 Jan 30 13:08 mail/ -rw---1 root root91056 Jan 30 13:08 messages -rw-r--r--1 root root91399 Jan 30 13:08 syslog -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 467712 Jan 30 13:07 wtmp -rw---1 root root49106 Jan 30 13:01 cron -rw-r--r--1 root root 504 Jan 30 13:00 daemon.log -rw---1 root root77890 Jan 30 13:00 sudo.log -rw---1 root root0 Jan 30 12:36 secure As you can see, the *directory* size of mail' is huge! I'm trying to do a ls in that directory and it's been running for 20 minutes with no output yet. Any ideas why this is happening? L I'd just like to add that I did a ls -f /var/log/mail | wc and I got a count of more than 101000 files! L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] Free programming language
On 29 Jan, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach SJN am Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:21:49AM +0800: GPL is good. In fact, I wish to know the programming language that fall under it like gcc et cetera. Hmmm, which of the programming languages comming with Mandrake do *NOT* fall under the GPL? Is there one? Tcl. It's under the BSD license meaning you can do pretty much what you want with it. Perl is under the Artistic license. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] logrotate problem
On 30 Jan, Vincent Danen wrote:
On Tue Jan 30, 2001 at 01:11:20PM -0500, Laurent Duperval wrote:
I've noticed that whenever logrotate is run, it can take more than 2 hours
to complete. It looks like it's doing something fishy. I'm on LM 7.1 and
this is the ls -lt |head of /var/log:
You haven't upgraded the logrotate rpm available in the 7.1 updates
yet, have you? Upgrade that and your logrotate problems will go away,
Ok, thanks.
but you will still need to clean out your /var/log/mail and
/var/log/news directories. Best method might be to "rm -rf {news,mail}"
from your /var/log directory and recreate the directories.
Yep, that's what I'm doing now.
L
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Re: [expert] logrotate problem
On 30 Jan, Daniel Woods wrote: You haven't upgraded the logrotate rpm available in the 7.1 updates yet, have you? Upgrade that and your logrotate problems will go away, Ok, thanks. And be sure to run MandrakeUpdate to get ALL the latest updates. Or do it manually and ftp all the rpms that have been updated since you installed LM7.1 for programs that you use. THat's what I'm doing. One thing that scares me a bit, though, is that a warning came up in Mandrake Update saying "Don't update this package using Mandrake Update" but I wasn't given an option of sckipping that particular package (a kernel, I think). Hopefully I won't crash too hard. Chances are that if you have not been doing that, you may have already had your server cracked by script kiddies... especially with the RameN Crew worm out this month. I doubt it. I'm on a laptop behind a firewall and I don't have telnet or ftp or rlogin or sshd or httpd or most of those daemons running. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] Kernel 2.4 and LM 7.1
Hi, I have 7.1 installed. I'd like to install the 2.4 kernel so that I can get proper USB support. Has anyone done this? How'd it go? L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] Disk drive monitor
Hi, Short of writing one, does anyone kno of a disk drive monitor that pops up a warning on your screen when your partition is almost full? l -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] Using a mic with a Thinkpad A20
Hi, Has anyone ever used a microphone on a Thinkad? I'm trying to get mine to work but nothing I do seems to have an effect. When I speak into the mike and I listen thru headphones at the same time, I can her my voice perfectly. But No matter what I do, I can't seem to record voice input correctly. I thought it was a problem with my microphone but I tried it under Windows and it records perfectly. Does anyone have an idea what is going on and how to fix it? Thanks, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] GNapster
On 22 Jan, Michl Alexandre Salim wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 January 2001 16:35, Laurent Duperval wrote: Lopster works for me but I can't figure out how searches occur. It seems as though results are cached and you can't do the same query twice. Real annoying. Yes, before doing the next query you have to 'clear result. An unconventional setup but works very nice actually. Resuming is excellent too... beats any other clients so far hands down. No that's not it. Sometimes I do a search and the status bar says somethin glike "5 search requests running" and stays like that. I see no results on the page. Then if I run another query I see a flash with some results appearing (maybe 1/4 of a second) then the display clears, the counter increments and I may or may not see new results. Usually, if I'm rerunning a search, I don't see the results. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] GNapster
On 20 Jan, Joan Tur wrote: Vic escribi: Do you mean that the Gnapster project is dead??? I don't. I just say that version 1.4.1a worked fine until it didn't... and i don't know why. But i'm still using gnapster. It's the best for me ;-) Good thing there is still Knapster and GTK Napster. I've tryed knapster and lopster. I still prefer gnapster... Lopster works for me but I can't figure out how searches occur. It seems as though results are cached and you can't do the same query twice. Real annoying. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] Using the microphone
Hi, By any chance, would anyone have an idea why my mic won't record? It works fine from that other OS but whenever I try it on my Linux partition, I get skanky input. Any ideas at all? Thanks, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] Server Installation
On 17 Jan, Luca Braglia wrote: Hi All, The system I have is a pentium 200 Mhz with one hard disk ( master ) and I dual boot with grub between windoze 98 and workstation MDK 7.2 . Now I have another hard disk ( slave ) wich I would like to fully dedicate to linux in a server installation. My question is: it is possible to do a server installation on the second hard disk without compromizing the actual system ( W98 and MDK 7.2 ) so that I will be able to choose to boot between windoze, MDK workstation and MDK server ? The server installation will be used for didactical purpose only and not as a real server. Thank you so much for any reply Best Regards Luca http://home.sunrise.ch/braglia It should be. I haven't tried it but just boot with your LM CD and install to the other disk. You may want to modify you LILO or grub configuration by hand to add the new boot partitions for your server. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] RealPlayer 7 or 8 -- which is better?
On 17 Jan, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: This would seem to be a no-brainer: one should certainly prefer RealPlayer 8 to RealPlayer 7. However, what puzzles me is the size of the file. The Real 7 for Linux rpm is 6.5 megs in size, while the Real 8 Linux rpm is only 4.8 megs in size. Both are for Red Hat glibc 2.1 and both were downloaded from RealPlayer. One most likely has more static libs in it. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] More on the Gnapster thing
On 17 Jan, Andrew George wrote: Downloaded lopster from freshmeat and compiled it last night...works a treat (actually seemed to work better than gnapster) Hey, thanks for the info! Just compiled and tried it and it works great! L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients
On 14 Jan, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun Jan 14, 2001 at 03:04:21PM -0500, John LeMay wrote: I was on with Gnapster last night myself, so it seems to be working here. You could try logging in a few times - Napster uses dns round robin for loab balancing, so if one of the servers was down a timeout could occur that may not happen the next time you try. Just tried connecting six times right now. It connects and then disconnects. No reason, but I can't maintain a connection. =( Hmmm... Makes me think that unless you have an "approved" client, you'll get kicked out. That would be a bummer. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients
On 15 Jan, Vincent Danen wrote: Hmmm... Makes me think that unless you have an "approved" client, you'll get kicked out. That would be a bummer. If that's the case, then they must have just implemented it because this was working about 3 weeks ago. Jerks. =( It was working Friday, for sure. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients
On 15 Jan, David E. Fox wrote: On Sunday 14 January 2001 20:39, you wrote: Just tried connecting six times right now. It connects and then disconnects. No reason, but I can't maintain a connection. =( I too am finding this happening if I tell gnapster to connect to the official server. However, if I browse OpenNap servers I can choose one at random and get in that way. (Of course, the content will be different - it's kind of like IRC that way.) Hmmm... I get "failure connecting to napster server". Maybe I'm not subscribed or something? I dunno much about this. At any rate, I sent a note to the author to make sure he was aware of this. I haven't had a reply yet. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] Nautilus Preview 2 on Mdk7.2?
On 15 Jan, Zeljko Vukman wrote: On Monday 15 January 2001 20:11, you wrote: Has anyone tried and had success installing Nautilus PR2 on 7.2? If so, did you use their installer or by installing the required rpms? I tried installing the installer but faile almost immediately but I can't make much sense out of its message for the failure..something like "failed installed". No shi!t. Thanks Yes, I run Nautilus PR2 on Mandrake 7.1. You have to download RPM packages provided on Eazel's site + install some Mandrake 7.2 packages required for dependencies. So how cool is it? It seems to be pretty large so I kinda hesitate to install it. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] More on the Gnapster thing
Hi, Just now I was trying to get gnapster to work and I got a popup saying that I have an invalid password. Seems as though my user isn't registered to the service... Hmmm... L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] mpg123 - device busy
On 10 Jan, duane voth wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Use lsof. You mean: # lsof /dev/dsp pretty cool, much easier. Shades of AIX? Dunno, I haven't used AIX in close to 10 years. I jsut know lsof is the best tool for this. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] Problem with Motorola Modem
On 9 Jan, Jack Malone wrote: I had a problem like this back when i tried to use a motorola modem, it would connect but ppp never seemed to get going. It turned out that it was a winmodem, i replaced it with an extranal supra an it started working, not sure if you have an internal modem or not. just my two cents worth. Hmmm... My modem is a winmodem also, from Lucent. It works but my errors had more to do with authentication than anything else. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] pop-up adds
On 10 Jan, chronos . wrote: Hi all, Had a question,you know all these little adds at the bottom of the screen we see anywhere we go on the internet ? Is there a way to block them ? Like for instance get the ip address and apply an ipchain rule to block that specific ip address ? Would that work or is this just pissing into the wind ? Thank you, Chronos. Yes. Got to http://www.junkbuster.com/ L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] mpg123 - device busy
On 9 Jan, Chris wrote: On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, duane voth wrote: I can't tell if this is the module load "device or resource busy" or if it is an application complaining. If it is an app conflict, was RealPlayer left running? I know that one hogs and hangs onto the sound device. xmms may do this too. Try combinations of apps to see which ones hog /dev/dsp. duane I don't think it is a module load problem since I have no other sound problems. I haven't used Realplayer recently, so no, that isn't it. How do I check if a program is hogging /dev/dsp? Aside from just checking if xmms plays or not. Use lsof. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: Re[3]: [expert] mpg123 - device busy
On 9 Jan, Rusty Carruth wrote: Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try LSOF (list open files), it might do the trick: Wow! I sent this, what, over 3.5 hours ago? Sorry I duplicated what someone else just said, but my prescience function is not working... rc ;-) I sent mine yesterday and I only saw it show up today. So not only do we get dups but we have long delays too. :-( L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] Problem with Motorola Modem
On 8 Jan, Giannis Mastrogiorgis wrote: Hi list ! I'am writing you from beautifull greece. I have a problem with my MOTOROLA MC 143450 RDK MODEM. I am calling to an ISP and i can get in i'm writing the username and password and i choose PPP protocol for my internet connection . After then i get lots of unknown words like "@#%)#^$%^$" and my connection breaks H E L P ! ! ! PS I am using Mandrake 7.0 Thank you for your time GREATING FROM GREECE ! It may be that you require pap or chap authentication, which is different from login/password authentication. There's a page on the Web that describes all this in detail for Linux. If you need more info, reply to me and I'll try to send you the URL tonight. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: Re[3]: [expert] mpg123 - device busy
On 9 Jan, Rusty Carruth wrote: Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try LSOF (list open files), it might do the trick: Wow! I sent this, what, over 3.5 hours ago? Sorry I duplicated what someone else just said, but my prescience function is not working... rc ;-) [Possible duplicate] I sent my response yesterday. So this list seems to have duplicates *and* slow delivery. :-( L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] mpg123 - device busy
On 8 Jan, Chris wrote: I have a cron wake up call set for each morning, monday to friday, using mpg123. Friday it worked just fine. Then this morning (monday), there was no wake up call. Log shows an error from mpg123 - audio: device or resource busy. I have no idea what could be the source of this problem. Xmms and record both work fine, and anyhow mpg123 worked last week. Anyone have any ideas on what could be the cause or (almost as good) any solutions? yoroshiku Possibly that you have a flash animation or realaudio running or some other type of process that uses the sound card. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] Dual monitor with Matrox G400 card and LM 7.2
Hi, My uncle is trying to get his dual monitor setup to work with LM 7.2. He's tried to do what matrox describes in its README but whenever he tries to start X, his second monitor clicks and turns itself off, as if it has no signal or is in suspended mode. Does anyone have any hints on what extra stuff needs to be taken care of to ensure that this'll work? Thanks, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] Printer woes again
Warning: unable to get official name for local machine lduperva.uforce.internal Warning: lp is down: waiting for 192.168.5.10 to come up Warning: lp queue is turned off Warning: no daemon present Hi, Why do I get the above messages from my system even if the printer works from Windows (for other people at least -- I ain't tried it for myself). Here's the printcap entry: ##PRINTTOOL3## DIRECT lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :sh:\ :pw#80:\ :pl#66:\ :px#1440:\ :mx#0:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\ :lp=:\ :rm=192.168.5.10:\ :rp=RAW:\ :lpr_bounce: L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] Mozilla and Personal Security Mangler
On 20 Dec, Pete Jordan wrote: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have reinstalled Mozilla 0.6 and am trying to make it work with secure web pages. I tried installing the PSM but am not permitted as a user to do so, so I did it as root. Has anyone actually managed to get the PSM installed and working properly? Have you been able to do so as a user or start the thing as a user? No problems here, but I build Mozilla from CVS and never install it. You might be best off picking up a new nightly distribution as PSM is now built with Mozilla so (with any luck) it will work out of the box. Uhm.. not quite. I get nightly builds once in a while. You need to get PSM separately. There's an option for this under one of the menus. I usually install it as myself so I don't have all these permission issues. I think the reason this occurs is because plugins are no longer stored in eac user's directory. So one thing you can do is, after you've installed Mozilla, use the browser that is launched to install all the plugins you need (I usually get PSM and the Java plugin). L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] Mozilla and Personal Security Mangler
On 22 Dec, Praedor Tempus wrote: How do you do that? If I try to install Mozilla as a user, I am not permitted since it wants to install to /usr/local/mozilla and in a normal, basic setup, users are not permitted to write to or alter /usr/local directories or files. It is not an option to install it into my home directory, I want the browser to be usable to any and all users and it is horrendously inefficient to require that each user install their own copy of Mozilla. As a result, I always install it as superuser. Right. After you've installed the browser using the installer (you do use the installer, right?), a mozilla browser is automatically launched. Using that browser, install all the plugins you need. Yeah, it's a pain in the rump but until the installer figures out how to upgrade without removing previously installed plugins, you're stuck with it. If I try to install the PSM as a user, it fails because it wants to place the PSM into /usr/local/mozilla/psm, a non-user-writeable directory. The only way I have been able to install the PSM is as superuser. I must then change the permissions on the /usr/local/mozilla/psm directory to be user read-writeable or PSM wont work for users (and attempting to open up the PSM as a user locks up Mozilla - so far for every version since 0.6 that I have tried UNLESS /usr/local/mozilla/psm is set world read-writeable). Hmmm... I didn't know that. Check that it's been reported as a bug in bugzilla or else it'll never get fixed. Last I checked too, the PSM is no longer downloadable. The site that I would be directed to for downloading it now says that it is built into current releases and I don't get a link for downloading. Try the Debug | Install PSM menu option. It worked for me this morning. I have more recent source for mozilla now and will try building and installing that, but I don't yet see how this will fix the problems unless the default permissions of the psm directory are auto-changed by doing this. I will be building as user but to install the binary I must be superuser (again, so I can install to /usr/local/mozilla)... Oh, you build it? Hmmm... I dunno, if the build don't work, try to get a snapshot from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] Small(?) LILO problem
Hi, I'm pretty sure I've seen this before but I'm not sure how to fix it. A colleague is trying to install a SuSE distro. When it tries to boot, the "LI" from the lilo prompt appears and the machine hangs. We're going to try it with LM7.1 but if the symptom points to another problem, please let me know so I can investigate. Thanks, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Small(?) LILO problem
On 19 Dec, Emanuele Parati wrote: I had the same problem. With ReadHat 7.0. Changing the Hard DIsk setting in the BIOS in LBA fixed this problem. Well, we installed LM7.1 and it worked, w/o touching the LBA stuff. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] 3com 3cxfe575CT network card
Hi, Using LM7.2, for some reason the above network card is not recognized. I went to the pcmcia.cs site and it says that it should be recognized by the PCMCIA module 3c575_cb. I looked at /etc/pcmcia/config and I see the following line: device "3c575_cb" class "network" module "cb_enabler", "3c575_cb" yet the device isn't recognized. It also doesn't show up in the list of devices from netconfig. Any idea what the problem is? THanks, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Mandrake in production
On 19 Dec, Scott Parks wrote: Anyone have some thoughts on this issue? The machines are dual P3's with 18 gig drives in arrays, 2 gigs ram each. Multiple machines behind Cisco Local Director. Mandrake installs fine on each box, Debian is a bit more bothersome to configure, but I can not simulate the load of web servers in the shop. Yeah I've heard that about Debian. I've also heard that FreeBSD is better than Linux for Web servers. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Thinkpad hang problems
Hi, I've had a problem show up periodically on my laptop involving suspend mode. Basically, I want to be able to shut the lid on my machine and have it go into suspend mode. THat doesn't work unless I kill the apmd process. Once that process isn't running, closing and opening the lid works as expected. My problem is that once in a while, when I open the lid, laptop (a Thinkpad A20m) doesn't recover from suspend mode. The "suspended" light remains on and no manner of pounding on the keyboard or on the screen brings it back to life. I must then turn it off and turn it back on. But even then, sometimes I can no longer turn it back on. I need to physically remove and re-insert the battery and only then will it turn back on. Anyone have any idea what could be causing this behaviour? Thanks, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] fsck'ing reiserfs
On 29 Nov, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2000 15:11, you wrote: Last week I converted one of my partitions to use reiserfs. I'm on 7.1 and it doesn't have... e... "stadard support" for reiserfs. So I'm wondering, besides changing the fstab to use reiserfs, what elle needs to be done? Specifically, how to I configure the equivalent of fsck'ing on resiser? I had crash and when I rebooted, I got a notice that my reiser partition couldn't be fsck'd. I temporarily removed the checdks in fstab but I'm pretty sure there's more to it than that. Thanks, L E rpm -q reiserfs-utils to make sure it is there Oh, it's there all right. Then for the subject partition, assuming you have backed up the data, mkfs -t reiser /dev/partition_name where partition name is something like hda7 or sdb4 or whatever your desired reiser partiton should be. As long as you have made noi changes, the chances are excellent that your ext2 data is still on the partition in ext2 filesystem format and you can still copy it off by identifying the partition as ext2 in /etc/fstab. Hmmm... maybe I didn't express myself correctly. I've done all this conversion stuff. I *have* a mountable reiserfs partition which works correctly. But this weekend, my laptop froze and I had to reboot it. When it came time to sync the reiserfs partition, for some reason the system tried to use the ext2 tools and of course, sync'ing failed. I would logically expect that in such a situation, the fsck would try to use the proper reiserfs tools but that didn't happen. I'm not sure why. There is a primer on ext2 and reiser on the archives to this list. Search on the string "don't use defrag". Thanks for the pointer. fsck of reiser is unbelievable. It is done before you get your finger off the enter key. Hmmm... Maybe that's what happened. I'll simulate another crash tonight to see what happens. Thanks. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Compile Help.....
On 30 Nov, ATL Oledog wrote: Trying to compile kernel. What could this mean? And how do i fix it? [root@trinity linux]# make bzImage make: *** No rule to make target `include/linux/autoconf.h', needed by `include/config/MARKER'. Stop. [root@trinity linux]# Looks like you didn't configure before compiline. Did you run "make" before trying "make bzImage"? L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] linux on dell
On 28 Nov, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: I have just ordered a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop, and was curious if anyone knew what problems (if any) I will run into installing Mandrake 7.1 or .2 on it. This laptop has the external floppy drive (parallel port), will that be a problem with linux? I opted not to order the network card from dell so am also wandering what card any of you would recommend. This network card will only be used on my home network which right now all machines have 10/100 cards. Any info appreciated, I used 7.0 on a 3500 and it worked fine. My network card was somem 3com 10/100 ethernet card. I don't remember ever getting sound to work, tho'. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Compiler
On 23 Nov, Maximo Monsalvo wrote:
whe I, try to compile any program the next message acurr, why??
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for a C-Compiler...
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for xlc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
Maximo Monsalvo
Guspamar S.A
Responsable Sistemas
Uhm... Because you haven't installed gcc?
L
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Re: [expert] Title bar under Gnome
On 22 Nov, Steve Vertigan wrote: Does anyone know how I can configure the title bars and minimise/maximise/close buttons in 7.2? I'm using sawmill as the window manager and I would've expected it to be in the sawmill configuration utility but I can't find it anywhere. You mean like the themes in Sawfish? L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] 7.1 Distrib bug or not?
Hi, According to the docs, using "file -i" will give back the mime type of a file. But when I use it with my 7.1 distrib, I get an error saying it can't find the magic file. The docs say that the mime file are supposed to be /usr/share/magic and /usr/share/magic.mime but the latter is name /etc/mime-magic. I believe this is a distro bug. Has it been fixed in 7.2? If not, where does this type of bug get reported? L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] $DISPLAY not set
On 19 Nov, Ken Thompson wrote: On Sunday 19 November 2000 06:14 pm, you wrote: I'm taking it that no one knows how to get my GUI back? I'd hate to reinstall I had a similar problem and corrected it by running drakxconf and setting up the vid card and monitor again.. And maybe, just maybe, you aciddentally changed the boot level? TO boot in graphical mode, you have to use level 5, I think. Maybe it was changed somehow? L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 7.1 Distrib bug or not?
On 20 Nov, Roger wrote: [roger@localhost1 Desktop]$ file cmos.wri cmos.wri: ASCII English text [roger@localhost1 Desktop]$ file -i cmos.wri cmos.wri: text/plain, English; charset=us-ascii [roger@localhost1 Desktop]$ This is in distro mdk 7.2 Ok. Maybe it's time for you to upgrade??? No need. "ln -s" is my friend. :-) ...unless you *need* dependabitlity...etc...let the bugs be ironed out in this 7.2 version (if there are any bugs in it*). You're joking, right? *joke Yup. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] $DIPLAY not set?
On 18 Nov, Brent Timmer wrote: Okay, I was playing a simple game of pingus, and tried to exit. It froze, and I had to force a log out. Then, my resolution was messed up. I went into drakconf to fix it, and it said I had to restart kdeinit. I logged out, and restarted x server, and it seemed to go into an endless loop. I restarted linux, and it won't go to the log in screen. I log in as root, type kdeinit, and it says "$DISPLAY is not set." I'm sure someone can help me on this one, please? Hmmm... Did you try sending this to the folks on the Pingus list? L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Configuring ATI 128 on thinkpad
On 16 Nov, Leopold Palomo wrote: Hi, I have updated my hardware with a ATI 128, and the mdk 7.2 recognizes it without problem. I think that the server is the XSVGA and the driver is the r128. If you want, I can send you my Xconfig to compare. Best regards, Yes, please. Does this do accelerated stuff? L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Bloody 'ls'
On 17 Nov, Jasenko Blazevic wrote: What's wrong with 'ls'? I'm not sure is this normal behaviour in Mandrake beacuse 7.2 is my first distribution. When I was using RH 'ls' worked correctly. I tried everything and still can't figure out how to sort files the way RH does. What I used to see is this: .. directories directories .. files files And all this is case sensitive What i have with this 'ls' is more like lynx style ordering. Anyone knows what's causing this strange behaviour? I'd say that Red Hat's ls had strange behaviour. Most likely, they were using a bunch of funky option combinations to get that output. Try ls --help to see if anything in there might be useful. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Printer setup woes
On 16 Nov, Till Kamppeter wrote: Which Mandrake version are you using, and when you use 7.2, which printing system (CUPS or lpr)? 7.1 and I'm using lpr. Last night I downloaded CUPS (not a cooker release because the RPM had a bunch of depencies I couldn't figure out) but I'm still trying to figure out how to add my Postscript Printer. I decided to install CUPS because I couldn't figure out how to make the lpr system work properly. But I'm still open to suggestions. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Printer setup woes
HI,
I've had less than stellar success trying to set up printers in Mandrake
7.1. Maybe someone has some ideas for me:
- First off, is it a good idea to use printtool to configure a printer? If
not, that may be the source of my problem.
- I added a SMB printer and I eventually had to go deep into the filter
scripts to find out that the filter scripts expected SAMBA 1.x installed.
I had to manually fix the call to smbprint filter to remove the
-E ${hostip:+-I} option to the smbprint command. It took me some time to
figure this one out.
- I now need to add another queue to a network printer. The printer has an
IP address and you're supposed to be able to print to it directly. Doesn't
seem to work for me and I'm not sure qhy yet. I'm hoping someone can help.
What happens is that when I print, I get no errors. But when I do an lpq,
I get:
myhost: no space on remote; waiting for queue to drain
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
0 bytes
No entries
I've no idea what this means. I tried lpr -s to keep the file spooled on my
machine, but the job just stays there and nothing happens. Eventually, lpq
starts returning:
myhost: : Warning: no daemon present
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
0 bytes
No entries
As I said before, I used printtool to add the printer because it didn't look
like Mandrake's printer setup tool supported adding a network printer (it's
stand alone and isn't connected to a print server).
I'm thinking it's a Mandrake problem because someone else here has a Red Hat
6.2 installation and he can print correctly, using printtool to set up his
prointer.
Can anyone help?
L
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[expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation
Hi, I needed to install an RPM and got an error saying I couldn't install version 4 RPMs with my RPM. So I went to download the latest RPM 4 I could find on rpmfind.net. When I tried to install it,k I got a lot of dependencies problems. So, I decided to compile and install it instead. So I got the source and started compiling. ANd in my infinite wisdom, while I was compiling I decided to remove the RPM 3 version on my system. Well, Murphy made a stop around my laptop and I was unable to compile the RPM 4 stuff (something about missing library definitions; looks like the libdb on my machine doesn't work with RPM 4). So now, I have a system with no RPM installed. I need to bootstrap an installation. But of course, in order to install an RPM, I need RPM installed already. So since I couldn't compile RPM 4 to get around this problem, how do I bootstrap an installation of RPNM 4? Anyone have an idea? Thanks, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation
On 13 Nov, Tom Berkley wrote: You should be able to boot in rescue mode and then in the files on the second rescue disk you should have a copy of rpm that you can run. And next time an rpm complains about dependencies, update the dependencies list and THEN install the package you want. "Rescue disk"? What on Earth are you talking about? :-) *Sigh* Ok, hopefully I can make one by booting off the CD. Thanks, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation
On 13 Nov, Tom Berkley wrote: There are two cd's for booting in rescue mode, the first one has the kernel on it, the second one is a ramdisk image of system files ( ls, rm, cp, mount, ... and rpm). I think that the file is in the images directory on the install cd and it is named rescue.img Thanks. I got one of those mazine-type CD's so I don't have the second CD. I'll get the image from the web site or something, to see what I can do with it. Thanks again, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation
On 13 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Nov, Tom Berkley wrote: There are two cd's for booting in rescue mode, the first one has the kernel on it, the second one is a ramdisk image of system files ( ls, rm, cp, mount, ... and rpm). I think that the file is in the images directory on the install cd and it is named rescue.img Thanks. I got one of those mazine-type CD's so I don't have the second CD. I'll get the image from the web site or something, to see what I can do with it. Never mind, I see it on the CDROM. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation
On 13 Nov, Tom Berkley wrote: Its on the first cd (inst) in the images directory, I just looked. In linux use: dd if=rescue.img of=/dev/fd0 or use the dosutil 'rawrite' if you only have an msdos boot available. Yep, so I noticed right after sending my initial reply. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Configuring ATI 128 on thinkpad
Hi, I was told that my Thinkpad A20m probably contains an accelerated ATI 128 card in it. How do I verify this for sure? And what is the accelerated X server that I should be using for it? I went to rpmfind.net and I saw XI128 but only for SuSE. Can anyone point me to the proper location? Thanks! L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] why does KDE change to user home for running apps ?
On 9 Nov, stephen wrote: please could someone tell me how to stop kde running all apps certainly xterm/xemacs for the users home dir and not from the cwd ??? it's annoying, having to cd everything to where i'm working Stephen R Parkinson Hmmm... Maybe because KDE has no idea what your cwd is? When you start KDE, it starts from your home directory, no? Unless you started it from a console, in which case all applications should start from the directory from which you launched kde. Or maybe not; I don't use kde but the concept should be the same for all processes why use system() or exec() to lauch applications. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Problem with tcsh init files
On 22 Oct, gene wrote: I'm having trouble using the tcsh shell. Specifically, the shell init files have been giving me errors. I tried playing around with them, but haven't had much luck. I'm used to these files being in csh syntax, but the ones in the Mandrake installation seem to be in bash format, and that seems to be a part of my confusion. To be more specific, I am currently getting these errors on login which come from my /etc/csh.login file: id: Command not found. id: Command not found. id: Command not found. [: Command not found. test: Command not found. Looks like you're missing the initial path on your system. At the very least, your path should contain /bin and /usr/bin. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] gcc internal error
Hi, I'm trying to compile the jikes compiler and I get an internal error when I do. Has anyone else seen this with 7.1? I'd compiled it on 7.0 with no problem. In file included from system.cpp:12: tuple.h: In method `void TupleTupleAstExpression * ::AllocateMoreSpace()': tuple.h:195: instantiated from `TupleTupleAstExpression * ::NextIndex()' tuple.h:209: instantiated from `TupleTupleAstExpression * ::Next()' semantic.h:186: instantiated from here tuple.h:95: Internal compiler error. tuple.h:95: Please submit a full bug report. tuple.h:95: See URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/faq.html#bugreport for instructions. Before I file a bug report, I'd like to know if others have seen this behaviour before. THanks, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] MDK 7.2 gcc
On 18 Oct, Buchan Milne wrote: Mandrake is not stupid enough to do that: ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandrake-linux.com/Mandrake-devel/7.2beta/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/gcc-2.95.2-12mdk.i586.rpm Ohh, -12. If I get this and the other gcc 2.95.2 rpms and install them on my 7.1 systems, what are the chances that it'll break existing stuff and what are the chances that it *might* fix my internal compile error problem? BTW, this should be in the newbie list but.. what do the -nn numbers mean? Do they imply patches or something? L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] IBM Thinkpad A20m and M7.1 questions
Hi, I just got a brand new Thinkpad A20m and I'm trying to configure it as best as possible. I've got most things working but here are a few things I'm having problems with: - Network card: I read a few dsites that say that the internal netcard is supposed to be a eepro100. When I try to modprobe that module, I get /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/eepro100.o: init_module: Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/eepro100.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/eepro100.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/eepro100.o: insmod eepro100 failed so it doesn't look like this is what I have. Anyone have an idea what netcard is in the motherboard? Has anyone had success in using the builtin card? For the time being I can get by with the PCMCIA card but I will eventually have to ditch it. - Has anyone managed to make the internal modem work? It's a winmodem. I trid to use the lucent module but when I dial and it tries to connect, I get a kernel panic. The message I saw when the panic occured what that the init process wasw killed. I tried the ltmodem program found at http://www.ltmodems.org but it says it doesn't recognise the device. It's trying to find a ISA device but it's a PCI device. This is what I get as a message. I'll also try the ltmodem list: ltmodem version 0.9.9 No ISAPNP support; Lucent ISA PnP modem can't be found. 00:03.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown device 0449 (rev 01) Mars chipset detected. Subsystem: Unknown device 1014:018c Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at f4101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Region 1: I/O ports at 1c00 Region 2: I/O ports at 1800 Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2 Initialising with ports at 1c00 and 1800, assuming portbase at 1800. # Country is set to United Kingdom Resetting modem... . Rom checksum is Returning zero, checksum failed? 0. ERROR: Unknown chipset/version.# Country is set to United Kingdom # Initializing modem... Resetting modem... . Rom checksum is Returning zero, checksum failed? 0. ERROR: Unknown chipset/version.# fail - I managed to make the audio subsytem work by using the ALSA drivers. Unfortunately, if I suspend the system, when I restart it the whole audio subsytem is gone. The modules are still loaded but I can't get any sound to work. Any one know how to fix this problem? - Another problem with the audio stuffis that sometimes when I boot, the driver for the sound card tries to get loaded and it hangs the system. I have to turn it off and try again and that usually fixes it. I'm not sure if the problem happens only when I warm reboot the system or if it also happens on a cold reboot. Anyone else see this? - Speaking of suspending the system: how do you do that? If I try to use the keyboard, I get this error: Oct 15 13:11:54 lduperva kernel: keyboard: unknown scancode e0 63 Oct 15 13:11:55 lduperva last message repeated 29 times Oct 15 13:11:55 lduperva kernel: vortex_suspend(eth0) Oct 15 13:11:55 lduperva kernel: cs: cb_disable(bus 5) Oct 15 13:11:55 lduperva kernel: cs: received extra suspend event Oct 15 13:11:55 lduperva last message repeated 18 times Oct 15 13:11:55 lduperva kernel: apm: an event queue overflowed Oct 15 13:11:56 lduperva kernel: keyboard: unknown scancode e0 63 I get similar event queue overflowed errors when I close the cover. The only way I've found to suspend the system is to KILL -HUP the apmd process. I *know* there has to be a better way. Any ideas? Well, I figure that's enough for now. Thanks, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Dell Inspiron: closing the cover doesn't work
Hi, Does anyone know why my Dell Inspiron 3500 would have stopped turning itself off when I close the cover? It used to be that when the cover was closed, it would go into sleep mode. Now when I close the cover, it goes to the first Linux console but remains on, which drains the batttery like you wouldn't believe. I'm pretty sure it's because a process died but I'm not sure which one. Any help appreciated. L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] Dell Inspiron: closing the cover doesn't work
On 23 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know why my Dell Inspiron 3500 would have stopped turning itself off when I close the cover? It used to be that when the cover was closed, it Check BIOS settings plus if you have Windows installed on it and you changed power settings on windows site it every time automaticaly changes BIOS settings when you start your notebook in Windows(very annoying). I didn't change anything. Yeah, yeah, standard answer. What happened, I think, is that I had to close it and pack it in a hurry while the disk was still spinning (my memory was being used up and I think it was swapping or paging or whatevewr). Since that time (36 hours ago), it stopped shutting down when I close the cover. I'll try your suggestion nevertheless. Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [expert] missing SSH ?
On 21 Jun, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: Yup, as long as it's open-source, we can import and export almost anything we want! Where do you think all our crypto mirrors get their stuff from by the way? Sherbrooke, Quebec ;-) If/When MandrakeSoft opens in Canada, we'll be able to do a distro with crypto in it. But right now we're only in France (crypto used to be illegal to *use* not so long ago) and USA (the paranoid country). Didn't the rules on exporting crypto change recently? Enough that now, unless you're one of the so-called "Terrorist countries" you're allowed to d/l crypto software from US sites. L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] xntpd and going offline
Hi, I want to run xntpd on my system. What happens is that I have a laptop which I take offline. When I do that, I usually close the cover and reopen it so I don't have to go thru the whole boot sequence. I've noticed, though, that when I do that, xntpd evenntually dies and I have to restart it manually. Is there a better way to do this? Ideally, I'd like xntpd to wake up whenever my system is back online. T'anks, L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] Floppy disk mounting problems
Hi, I'm using Mandrake 7.0 on a laptop. My laptop has a removable CD and a removable floppy. THe CD is in there most of the time but if I do a df, the command hangs for a long time because it's trying to stat /mnt/floppy, even though the drive isn't there. This also causes problems with gtop. Anyone have an ida how I can correct this problem? Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] Configuring sendmail
Hi, Where can I configure sendmail so that it delivers all my mail to our MX server? I don't want it to deliver anything except to root. Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
