Re: [newbie] CRASH!
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Trevor Wilson wrote: A window wasn't responding under KDE, and I couldn't kill it, so I tried to log off and the system stopped responding. I waited a long time and then power cycled it and it managed to boot OK, except now every time it shuts down, "shutting down nfs mountd" fails, and starting up, it can't find "var/lib/nfs/xtab" or something like that, which I think was deleted when it tried to fix the drive. Is any of this a problem? More importantly, what ELSE can I DO if the system stops responding, other than cutting the power? I can't help you the first part, I'm sure others will, but in regards to how to shut down Xwindows if it locks up totally, here is an answer. Ctrl + Alt + backspace will kill the X session and drop you to the command prompt if you booted in run level 3 or back to the sign in screen if you booted in run level 5. It would probably be best to re boot at that time. John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] CRASH!
Andy Goth wrote: A window wasn't responding under KDE, and I couldn't kill it, so I tried to log off and the system stopped responding. I waited a long time and Ctrl+Alt+BkSp should kill the X server. then power cycled it and it managed to boot OK, except now every time it shuts down, "shutting down nfs mountd" fails, and starting up, it can't find "var/lib/nfs/xtab" or something like that, which I think was deleted when it tried to fix the drive. Is any of this a problem? Uh oh... I don't know how to fix this. Someone else? It means the computer was shut down with NFS still running. NFS doesn't like this and does nasty things. Since neither the questioner nor the responder know about NFS, I will assume that if you do not know what it is, you do not need it! Basically NFS is a system that allows for file sharing between computers (like computer A mounts the drive on computer B as if it was local). One of the problems with NFS has been securityit is easy to hack into a computer running NFS unless you know what you are doing. Most likely NFS got installed and started by checking "install everything" or something similar during the Mandrake install. You need to stop NFS from starting. Look for entries in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d and in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d that contain the fragments nfs, rpc and mountd and change them from S to K. Like S15nfsfs -- ../init.d/nfsfs You want to change the above to K15nfsfs etc. Next, you want to go to /etc/fstab and edit out any lines that have nfs volumes mounted. Put in a # sign on the beginning of the line, or erase it alltogether. Lastly, when you reboot the computer, do a ps -ax and see if you have any nfs components running. You WILL see something called nfsiod, this is okay (its the part of the kernel that allows nfs). ps -ax | grep nfs ps -ax | grep rpc ps -ax | grep mount if nothing bad shows up, you have eradicated the beast. Make notes in case you ever want to put humpty dumpty back together again. I am sorry if I cannot be more specific; I have zapped NFS from my system so I am going by memory and not by looking at the actual files and names. If you do not want to reboot the computer, you can change runlevels and back. Say you are in runlevel 3. Go to runlevel one and back to three. prompt# runlevel 3 means you are now in RL 3 prompt# init 1 (computer will do a lot of thrashing, and finally give you a bash# prompt) bash# init 3 (more thrashing and back to run level 3). All of this is best done in console and not in X or you may incur the wrath of Athena, the goddesd of hard rocks. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin Nook Net http://www.nook.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 == Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: [newbie] Man ? (revised edition) :)
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: Well, I personally think no mailer can outdo pine, but I know pine needs getting used to, and it's probably not what everyone will want. If you like Outlook Express, I recommend you have a look at kexpress (a KDE mailer inspired by Outlook) - it's currently beta, but last time I checked it was working. It should be somewhere at www.kde.org... I'll build an RPM. LLaP bero bero, if you do build an RPM of kexpress, I hope you can post it on the Linux-Mandrake site, I would like to try it as well. I get way too much email sent in html format and nothing in LM I have found anyway seem's to handle it right. Thanks for the info, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] CRASH!
In that situation, if you have X11 starting by default, use Ctrl-Alt-F2 and a console will open before your eyes. You could login as root, then ps aux kill (number of locked process) Or, for a simpler way, don't bother to login, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and the system will shut down and restart If you have a console coming up by default (getting to KDE after login by typing startx), you can hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to get back to a console and then use Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart the system As for fixing what you have now, if you have a separate partition for /home, move the files to it and reinstall without formatting home, then move your files back. If you have a workstation configuration, save what you want to floppy or tape and then reinstall. It is a lot better not to chance corrupted programs if you can avoid it. Civileme Trevor Wilson wrote: A window wasn't responding under KDE, and I couldn't kill it, so I tried to log off and the system stopped responding. I waited a long time and then power cycled it and it managed to boot OK, except now every time it shuts down, "shutting down nfs mountd" fails, and starting up, it can't find "var/lib/nfs/xtab" or something like that, which I think was deleted when it tried to fix the drive. Is any of this a problem? More importantly, what ELSE can I DO if the system stops responding, other than cutting the power? -- Civileme Say: "One who buys dual scan display soon gains Optometrist for best friend."
Re: [newbie] Modem
Andy Goth wrote: Perhaps someone can identify it as a Winmodem from its name. According to Windows, it's a TOSHIBA Internal Modem (V.34 33.6 Data+Fax+Voice). It's on what Windows calls "Toshiba Modem Port (COM2)" (which ought to I hope "Toshiba Modem Port" is just another Windowsy lie. At least Windows fessed up to the fact that it was COM2:. Windows sez that the driver is "comm.drv" which sounds generic. Hopefully that means that this modem has no quirks that need to be worked out by the driver. It might also mean that the generic Windows drivers can handle Winmodems. comm.drv is 5856 bytes and has a timestamp of 8/24/1996 (pretty old) at 11:11 a.m. (reminds me of World War I). The port *is* COM2:. The IRQ is 3, and the address is 2f8. Those are standard. Hmm... there is an identifier fro it: UNIMODEM3F6D9A10. Does that mean anything to anyone? I do not know the real answer to WinModem or no. But here is the rub. Programs in Win95 communicate with modems via the comm.drv driver, whether its a WinModem or not. A winmodem merely grabs the data that would be going in and out of the comm port via the driver and redirect it to the underlying WinModem driver. Thus, just becaue you have comm.drv as the driver does not mean its not a WinModem. In other words, a WinModem simulates the COM2 port to fool comm.drv into talking to it. What you can do is to see if you can communicate with this modem in MSDOS, perhaps using one of those free communications programs. Make sure its generic. Boot into DOS...not a DOS window, but actually stop the booting process with F8 and select "command prompt only". then fire up your program. If you can dial out and otherwise communicate with the modem, you should be okay for Linux. The words UNIMODEM ring a bell, but I cannot quite put my finger on it. Here is another way to test it, and this time from within windows 95/98. Fire up your HyperTerminal in Windows. For the modem type make sure your modem is selected, and check it out. You ought to be able to dial out. This verifies your modem works. Now in control panel, modems, install a "standard modem" on the same com port. Now in HyperTerm again, select standard modem instead of your modem. If it works, you have a regular modem. If not, either my procedure here is erroneous or you have a WinModem. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin Nook Net http://www.nook.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 == Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: [newbie] CRASH!
This isn't windows. To have a system stop responding totally outside of a power failure is beyond my experience. Ihad a motherboard which had an electrolytic cap in the memory power supply (5V) go intermittent, and random bits were flipping, or so Ibelieve. The system did not stop. A LOT of processes were crashing and respawning. Ihave always been able to exit gracefully, even from that. Civileme Trevor Wilson wrote: A window wasn't responding under KDE, and I couldn't kill it, so I tried to log off and the system stopped responding. I waited a long time and then power cycled it and it managed to boot OK, except now every time it shuts down, "shutting down nfs mountd" fails, and starting up, it can't find "var/lib/nfs/xtab" or something like that, which I think was deleted when it tried to fix the drive. Is any of this a problem? More importantly, what ELSE can I DO if the system stops responding, other than cutting the power? -- Civileme Say: "One who buys dual scan display soon gains Optometrist for best friend."
Re: [newbie] CRASH!
Trevor Wilson wrote: A window wasn't responding under KDE, and I couldn't kill it, so I tried to log off and the system stopped responding. I waited a long time and then power cycled it and it managed to boot OK, except now every time it shuts down, "shutting down nfs mountd" fails, and starting up, it can't find "var/lib/nfs/xtab" or something like that, which I think was deleted when it tried to fix the drive. Is any of this a problem? More importantly, what ELSE can I DO if the system stops responding, other than cutting the power? it happened to me a bit ago,and what I did was to go in and unmount the nfs mounts I had set up,then remounted them and it went away control/alt/backspace will do it kill the x session I've found out thanks to the list here,or press cntrl/alt and one of the Fkeys, log in as root,and enter "ps ax" and find out the last process that's listed with a different tty than the one that's listed with "ps ax" after it. then kill that process ie: 891 tty1 x xxx 900 tty2 x ps ax kill 891 That's how I've been doing it,so if it's wrong someone jump in here please! merc.
Re: [newbie] OSS
bert, check out the sound howto.. . It mentions something about distorted/choppy effects together with the reasons... hopes this helps u out... Bert Bullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/20/99 02:00:19 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Hamka B Hj Suleiman/SKO/PCSB/Petronas) Subject: [newbie] OSS Greetings all. I have just successfully installed the OSS Drivers for the Turtle Beach Montego cheers I tried it out with an AVI movie and some Mp3z. These both work great but when I play a wave file the audio is choppy, high-pitched, and distorted. Ideas?
[newbie] Samba Server Step-by-Step
I thought I'd posted this to the list, but I guess not. The guide is at this URL: http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] a good modem
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote: Actually I have two pieces of equipment here. The Cisco AS5200 (with Rockwell chipset Mica modems), and a Lucent Livingston PM3A with the Lucent chip digital modems. Interesting. We use an Ascend device here to answer the phones (MAX TNT) and we consistently get WORSE connection speeds with USR modems than we do with ANY other brand (typically the BEST speed for a USR X2/V.90 is about 28.8.) [clip] I am glad you seem to have better luck than I do. Some of this is Telco equipment sensitive, but I thought I would pass my ISP experiences along. By the way...other Alaskan ISP's report exactly my same results. I don't know why, but the connect speeds are MUCH better for our customers with the Non-USR/3Com equipment. For this reason we recommend non-USR equipment. I know many of the "national" ISPs have used USR for their 56k server modems, but we didn't go that route. I suppose the best advice would be to find out what the ISP the gentleman would be connecting to recommends and go with that. :-)
[newbie] Modem Tweaks
Ok, I know this has been addressed, and re-addressed, but how do I tweak my 33.6 modem? It is S L O W I'm talking only about 3kb/s being the max my kppp statistics graph ever shows. Thanks as usuall!! Ty -- Ty C. Mixon ICQ #: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Modem
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, you wrote: What you can do is to see if you can communicate with this modem in MSDOS, perhaps using one of those free communications programs. Make sure its generic. Boot into DOS...not a DOS window, but actually stop the booting process with F8 and select "command prompt only". then fire up your program. If you can dial out and otherwise communicate with the modem, you should be okay for Linux. Could also do an "echo atdt phone number com2enter" at a dos prompt (again, booting to dos mode or boot as instructed above) and that SHOULD allow you to test w/o having to have a dos-based terminal program. :-) John
Re: [newbie] a good modem
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote: Actually I have two pieces of equipment here. The Cisco AS5200 (with Rockwell chipset Mica modems), and a Lucent Livingston PM3A with the Lucent chip digital modems. Interesting. We use an Ascend device here to answer the phones (MAX TNT) and we consistently get WORSE connection speeds with USR modems than we do with ANY other brand (typically the BEST speed for a USR X2/V.90 is about 28.8.) [clip] I am glad you seem to have better luck than I do. Some of this is Telco equipment sensitive, but I thought I would pass my ISP experiences along. By the way...other Alaskan ISP's report exactly my same results. I don't know why, but the connect speeds are MUCH better for our customers with the Non-USR/3Com equipment. For this reason we recommend non-USR equipment. I know many of the "national" ISPs have used USR for their 56k server modems, but we didn't go that route. I suppose the best advice would be to find out what the ISP the gentleman would be connecting to recommends and go with that. :-) Well here in the Albequerque, NM area most of the isp's do not use USR equipment but then neither does the gentleman you have been talking with. Like him though, many isp's in this area have found that usr modem's used by the customers seem to connect to them more reliably. Not necessarily the fastest, but the most reliably and consistantly. I know that here we have some rather bad connection rates in general, alot of outdated equipment thrown together by US West in what has to be the worst communications sysstem I have ever seen. So a robust modem is needed here, one that is bullet proof more than a speed demon. Perhaps in his area it might be the same, as it is in many parts of the country. I do agree that the best source might be the person's isp, profided they have bothered to keep any records of connection rates and modem brands and chip sets. Around here, the Rockwell chips do not perform well, I have tried several for my wife and myself with terribal results. Now she has a usr v90 and does much better, and I plan on getting either a usr or a lucent chipset modem for myself. This rockwell set modem I have, a Diamond Supra, really does'nt make it in this area. So, I guess it all depends on where you are, and what the phone company is using, as much as what your isp has. John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] CRASH!
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Ramon Gandia wrote: [...nfs discussion deleted...] All of this is best done in console and not in X or you may incur the wrath of Athena, the goddesd of hard rocks. ^^^ I know, this is the *daemon* of goddesses, right? grin best wishes, richard myers
[newbie] Re:
Joseph Gardner wrote: I am in the process of setting up my first linux box and have the opportunity to select a new graphics adapter. I have an STB Lightspeed 128 available which appears to give reasonable output with the SVGA server however I am unsure about the differences between the various servers. Could someone recommend one server over another (and for that matter a graphics adapter) or do I have a decent combination already. My principle usage at this time is internet browsing but anticipate the need for higher quality graphics. Thank you, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH hello there, you should use the XF86_SVGA server. Sincerely, -- F. Grad (Technical Support Team) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Cyrix CPU's and Linux
I have it running fine on a 686 166 and a 586 120...and the 586 is on a motherboard I bought for 5 bucks -Original Message- From: Scott Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 1:56 PM Subject: [newbie] Cyrix CPU's and Linux Recently, there have been a lot of posts regarding Cyrix CPU's and Linux/Mandrake not working - however, I doubt that it is the CPU - I'm running a Cyrix 233MX perfectly - it even has a 75MHz bus speed that the TX chipset on my motherboard doesn't "support." I would suspect some other idiosyncratic problem with the motherboard. It seems odd to me that my machine is running so well, since when I built it I used the cheapest components I could possibly find. (knock on wood...) -Scott -- Home Page: http://130.111.137.201
Re: [newbie] RoadRunner Person
Kansas? Where's that? Oh, that flat piece of land in the middle of nowhere... :) I should start by saying that I got my Road Runner through Multimedia. If you're getting it through TCI (or someone else) you may have to use rrlogin; I didn't. If you're getting it through Multimedia, you shouldn't have to. First, verify that the service works in Windows. If you already have the Road Runner software installed and all your hardware works, great. If not, try this (WITHOUT installing RR software): Under "Control Panel/Network," set the properties for "TCP/IP Protocol." Choose "Obtain an IP Address automatically." The DNS and Gateway tabs should be devoid of information- although "hostname" can be whatever you like. On the WINS tab, WINS _should_ be disabled, but someone I know had to choose "DHCP for WINS resolution" before it would work. This is probably the safer choice; if WINS is unavailable, using DHCP for it won't break a thing. Leave the rest of the tabs alone. Click "OK", exit Network settings, and reboot. Once you're up, try to ping... oh, say 216.71.116.161. If you can, you don't have to use rrlogin! If not, you should use rrlogin. If you already use the Windows RR software to login, you might try to disable it (assuming that it starts up with Windows), reboot, and see if you can connect. In the end, there wasn't much that I did to get hooked up with the cable modem. In 'netconf' you can turn on DHCP, set the hostname to whatever you desire, delete gateway/DNS info, and exit. If it works on exit, congratulations! If not... What I did to get it working at this point was download dhcpcd from http://www.cps.msu.edu/~dunham/out/dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2.tar.gz and tar -zxf dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2.tar.gz cd dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2/ su -c "make; make install" After that, pump worked for me. Go figure. The only thing I can think of is that this installed an updated library or some other file that pump also calls on. If you need to use the rrlogin program, it is available here: http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/rrlogin.c Compile it using gcc -o rrlogin rrlogin.c Then, you might wish to copy the "rrlogin" executable to /sbin or /usr/local/sbin or wherever you please. Test it. Does it work? I sure hope so, because if it doesn't, I have no idea how to help. I didn't write this program, and have never used it (like I said, I don't need to with Multimedia). To start the login program on boot, there's two things you need to do: make a password file, and add the command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. A good location for the password file is /root/, and be sure to change the mode to 600 (so only user "root" can read and write it). Call it, say, /root/rr.password and it should contain two lines: username password Now add the following line to rc.local: /sbin/rrlogin /root/rr.password Please, let me know if this works. Maybe then I actually WILL write up a mini-HOWTO. References: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/DHCP.html http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/ http://usmcug.usm.maine.edu/~kpesce/rr/ -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] DHCP problems (fwd)
You might try to use the "-h" option on pump (to request a specific hostname). Make sure you have the latest version of pump (0.6.7-2mdk I believe). If so, you might want to try a different DHCP client (i.e. dhcpcd). I believe the pump commandline for the hostname thing would be pump -i eth0 -h $HOSTNAME I hear (by way of Axalon) that some DHCP servers require the client to specify a hostname. "man dhcpcd" could tell you more, but it doesn't work on my system, and the pump man page isn't very verbose on that subject (or any other). dhcpcd is available for download from: http://www.cps.msu.edu/~dunham/out/dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2.tar.gz (for 2.2 kernels) -Matt On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote: I'm having trouble getting hooked up to the network at work. We're using DHCP, but my machine doesn't seem to be getting assigned an IP address. -- On boot I see: Bringing up eth0 Delaying initialization of eth0 [FAILED] -- When I run ifconfig, I see the following for eth0: eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:86:35:95:EA UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:9 Base address:0x300 -- After wards, eth0 quietly vanishes, leaving just the 'lo' entry. - Theo
Re: [newbie] RoadRunner Person
jeesh.. no need to write a mini-HOWTO, you just did! =) Hey thanks for the info, now I just have to find a way to keep this email around till my service starts. =0 Re: Kansas, oh yeah, well our microwave towers work better here. =) -Bill On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matt Stegman wrote: Kansas? Where's that? Oh, that flat piece of land in the middle of nowhere... :) I should start by saying that I got my Road Runner through Multimedia. If you're getting it through TCI (or someone else) you may have to use rrlogin; I didn't. If you're getting it through Multimedia, you shouldn't have to. First, verify that the service works in Windows. If you already have the Road Runner software installed and all your hardware works, great. If not, try this (WITHOUT installing RR software): Under "Control Panel/Network," set the properties for "TCP/IP Protocol." Choose "Obtain an IP Address automatically." The DNS and Gateway tabs should be devoid of information- although "hostname" can be whatever you like. On the WINS tab, WINS _should_ be disabled, but someone I know had to choose "DHCP for WINS resolution" before it would work. This is probably the safer choice; if WINS is unavailable, using DHCP for it won't break a thing. Leave the rest of the tabs alone. Click "OK", exit Network settings, and reboot. Once you're up, try to ping... oh, say 216.71.116.161. If you can, you don't have to use rrlogin! If not, you should use rrlogin. If you already use the Windows RR software to login, you might try to disable it (assuming that it starts up with Windows), reboot, and see if you can connect. In the end, there wasn't much that I did to get hooked up with the cable modem. In 'netconf' you can turn on DHCP, set the hostname to whatever you desire, delete gateway/DNS info, and exit. If it works on exit, congratulations! If not... What I did to get it working at this point was download dhcpcd from http://www.cps.msu.edu/~dunham/out/dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2.tar.gz and tar -zxf dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2.tar.gz cd dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2/ su -c "make; make install" After that, pump worked for me. Go figure. The only thing I can think of is that this installed an updated library or some other file that pump also calls on. If you need to use the rrlogin program, it is available here: http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/rrlogin.c Compile it using gcc -o rrlogin rrlogin.c Then, you might wish to copy the "rrlogin" executable to /sbin or /usr/local/sbin or wherever you please. Test it. Does it work? I sure hope so, because if it doesn't, I have no idea how to help. I didn't write this program, and have never used it (like I said, I don't need to with Multimedia). To start the login program on boot, there's two things you need to do: make a password file, and add the command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. A good location for the password file is /root/, and be sure to change the mode to 600 (so only user "root" can read and write it). Call it, say, /root/rr.password and it should contain two lines: username password Now add the following line to rc.local: /sbin/rrlogin /root/rr.password Please, let me know if this works. Maybe then I actually WILL write up a mini-HOWTO. References: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/DHCP.html http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/ http://usmcug.usm.maine.edu/~kpesce/rr/ -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Cyrix CPU's and Linux
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, you wrote: I have it running fine on a 686 166 and a 586 120...and the 586 is on a motherboard I bought for 5 bucks 586 IS a pentium-class machine.
Re: [newbie] Theme problems
Well it's like this . Around the top of my windows I have the ice, glacier appearance ,and the button bars are the buttons on the window taskbar ( close , maximize , minimize , and file ), the buttons are blueish . I want them to return how I originally had them but no matter what I do they wont . - Original Message - From: darkknight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 6:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Theme problems On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Dennis Podein wrote: I wanted to try a theme , ( Arctic tar to be exact ), Anyway , Later I decided that I liked my former setup . Changing it back was no trouble , except I cant get rid of the "theme " on the button bars , or the top of the windows . I have looked everywhere for a fix , and tried almost everything without success . I cant read the help files in theme manager cannot open /usr/share/doc/HTML/default/kcontrol/kthememgr ) .The remove option in theme manager is unavailable . Can someone please help me ? Assuming that by "top of windows" you mean the title bars, that is easy to change. Open the KDE control center, then click on the Windows item, then on the Titlebar item, in the menu that appears look for a section called Appearance, there are a few choices, Shaded Horizontal, Shaded Vertical, Plain and the one that is currently checked, Pixmap. Choose one of the others like shaded horizontally or plain and the titlebars should return. To the right of that is a section for choosing the pixmap images. They are actually located in a few different places, one is for universal defaults, /usr/share/apps/kwm/pics it has a bunch of .xpm files in it two are usually for the default titlebars, active and inactive. Also there is a directory off each users home directory, in the case of root it is, /root/.kde/share/apps/kwm/pics in the case of other users it is, /home/username/.kde/share/apps/kwm/pics Also if by "button bars" you mean the KDE Panel, (that panel with icons usually at the bottom of your desktop) then there is a fix for that too. If you were on as root when this happened, the look in /root/.kde/config for a file named kpanelrc . In that file is an entry that calls for an image file to be used for the background of the panel. I believe it was something like, PixmapFile=name.xpm or something like that. I'm sorry I can't remember the exact wording used. I hope this helps, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail, modems and cgi (but not together)
Hey I can help you out , i just figured out how to do it myself im gonna do two things, im gonna tell you how to set up fetchmail and give you the url to a GREAT website with a lot of good information on how to set up almost everything ( except that damn x-windows that has me over the edge )http://www.computers.iwz.com/ as far as your PPP goes, check out http://linux.box.sk the have two good programs for setting up ppp , wvdial and quickppp if not then just run netconf and its easy :) ok you need to make a .fetchmailrc file in your dir, do this by typing pico ~/.fetchmailrc and on the editor type poll your pop 3 address proto POP3 fetchall if anything , mail me back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to work out how to set up fetchmail, sendmail and procmail on my Mandrake 6.0 installation. Whenever I type "fetchmailconf" in a terminal window I am told that that is not a valid command, but I can't find an installation option in RPM either. Also, has anyone had any experience with the 33.6 modem supplied with toshiba satellite pro 480 laptops? I haven't got as far as setting up my PPP settings but would be interested in any advice. Finally, does the standard apache setup allow cgi scripts to be run from any directory given the correct file permissions? thanks. James.
Re: [newbie] DHCP problems (fwd)
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matt Stegman wrote: You might try to use the "-h" option on pump (to request a specific hostname). Make sure you have the latest version of pump (0.6.7-2mdk I believe). If so, you might want to try a different DHCP client (i.e. dhcpcd). I believe the pump commandline for the hostname thing would be pump -i eth0 -h $HOSTNAME I hear (by way of Axalon) that some DHCP servers require the client to specify a hostname. "man dhcpcd" could tell you more, but it doesn't work on my system, and the pump man page isn't very verbose on that subject (or any other). dhcpcd is available for download from: http://www.cps.msu.edu/~dunham/out/dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2.tar.gz (for 2.2 kernels) -Matt Theres also an rpm in the cooker, http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote: I'm having trouble getting hooked up to the network at work. We're using DHCP, but my machine doesn't seem to be getting assigned an IP address. -- On boot I see: Bringing up eth0 Delaying initialization of eth0 [FAILED] -- When I run ifconfig, I see the following for eth0: eth0Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:86:35:95:EA UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:9 Base address:0x300 -- After wards, eth0 quietly vanishes, leaving just the 'lo' entry. - Theo
Re: [newbie] networking
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Civileme wrote:
There is also a patch to the system registry for 98. I will make it
available tomorrow. It enables plain text passwords. Samba requires
them and 98 is set up to encrypt (could it have been planned?)
The registry file is also available in the samba documentation
/usr/doc/samba-%{version}
Dan Brown wrote:
From: Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So where do I go from here?
That they can ping is good. Where you need to go from here is to
set up Samba, which will let your win98 box see files/printers/etc on
your Linux box, and smbclient, which will do the same for your Linux
system. There's an excellent step-by-step guide to setting up Samba;
I'll try to e-mail it when I get home from work tonight.
--
Civileme Say:
"One who buys dual scan display soon gains Optometrist for best friend."
Re: [newbie] Login Background
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: Yes. Run kdmconfig as root and there is a "Background" tab. You should be able to change the background there. How about changing the penguin logo in the text-based login? Is there a text file for the login message? How are color codes set--by ANSI? Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and /etc/issue*. yes it's ansi
Re: [newbie] install problems 13.0gig
darkknight wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, jsm wrote: Well , I've been following this thread . I also have the same problem with a 4 gig HD . But I'm still confused . If I create a /boot partition , will the Mandrake install program install the kernel and LILO it it automatically ? And this partition should be at the beginning of the drive ? Any detailed instructions that anyone can provide will be GREATLY appreciated ! Thanks for the time ! jsm If the /boot partition is created in the install program, then install will put all the files necessary in that partition. It shows up as a directory off of the root directory (which it is) but is also a seperate partition. The best way to do it is when in install and asked to set up partitions, then set up the /boot partition first. I just used 20 mb it is adequate enough. then I set up the swap partition, I just went with 127 mb probably overkill since I have 128 mb memory but better safe than sorry :) Then I set up my remaining space as a / partition (root) , I did not create any other partitions though many do. I hope this is of some use to you, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the help ! I did try that , but LILO still would not install . So as a last resort I went to my motherboard manufacture and found a flash for my bios ( what else could it be , right ? ) . After the upgrade I'm glad to report that everything works fine !!! I now can boot to Linux or Windows with LILO . I guess there was a defect in my BIOS program . Thanks !!! jsm
Re: [newbie] OSS
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: Greetings all. I have just successfully installed the OSS Drivers for the Turtle Beach Montego cheers I tried it out with an AVI movie and some Mp3z. These both work great but when I play a wave file the audio is choppy, high-pitched, and distorted. Ideas? Isn't it still beta software? Last time I checked it out (few weeks ago), it was beta and they charged a small fee for it to keep it working past the (20 minute?) cutoff code. I'll be trying it in a few more weeks, hope it is finalized by then. best wishes, richard myers
[newbie] Mandrake v6 Emacs
I just installed Mandrake 6, and everytime I try to use emacs, it errors out in the following way. 1) Wether in X or terminal, run emacs 2) type some stuff, or edit something 3) ctrl-x, crtl-s to save 4) crtl-x, crtl-c to exit .. and I get 'Fatal Error (11).' ...at the bottom of the emacs screen, and the shell freezes, not the whole box, just that shell. What gives? Also, I can't issue an 'updatedb' commandand the automated cron job that cam with the dist. fails as well. Also, I could use lynx (one wonders why someone would still want to), but removing it, then downloading a new rpm from sunsite fixed it, this trick did not work for emacs however. Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas? Nick
[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install on ASUS P5A ALi chipset
Hello everyone I'm new to Mandrake but I've been a LiNUX user since '96. I need help getting Mandrake 6.0 installed, I keep getting an abnormal termination message at various times through the install process. I'm doing an FTP install from my main server that has the ISO image mounted in /home/ftp/pub/mandrake. Stat's: AMD K6-2/300 64MB PC-100 RAM 2.1 gig Western Digital IDE SB PNP 32 ALi chipset M1541 A1 ATI All-In-Wonder PCI LinkSys ethernet card Thanks, Seth
[newbie] Fetchmail Sendmail
Ok, here is the most easy way to set up fetch send mail.. http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/916961998/ Download this perl script and it does it for you. =) -Bill
[newbie] Problem with evil theme
Can somebody tell me how can I remove the theme from outside of KDE? I was messing around with themes in KDE and now startx returns and error and kicks me back to the prompt. TIA Sean Brzozowski
[newbie] new computer means new linux questions
I'm installing mandrake 6.0 on a new PC, and the first problem I've run into is with X. Xconfigurator identifies my video card (Diamond v770), but is then unable to probe it, and when I try to manually configure it I get a prompt for my clockchip -- and I have no idea what my clockchip is. I assume that means the clock on the video card, but I'm not positive. Does anyone know what the chip is? If I don't enter a clockchip, all I can select is low-resolution x 8-bit color, which sure seems like a waste of good computing power. Otherwise, Xconfigurator errors out starting the x server. Thanks, all- -alan | note my new non-Whitman email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Bye-bye Whitman; I'll be writing from U of Arizona in August! |
Re: [newbie] Modem
What you can do is to see if you can communicate with this modem in MSDOS, perhaps using one of those free communications programs. Make sure its generic. Boot into DOS...not a DOS window, but actually stop the booting process with F8 and select "command prompt only". then fire up your program. If you can dial out and otherwise communicate with the modem, you should be okay for Linux. Could also do an "echo atdt phone number com2enter" at a dos prompt (again, booting to dos mode or boot as instructed above) and that SHOULD allow you to test w/o having to have a dos-based terminal program. :-) If I type CTTY COM2:, will I lock up my system? It would be nice if I could redirect the keyboard's output to COM2: and COM2:'s output to the screen.
Re: [newbie] Login Background
Yes. Run kdmconfig as root and there is a "Background" tab. You should be able to change the background there. How about changing the penguin logo in the text-based login? Is there a text file for the login message? How are color codes set--by ANSI? Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and /etc/issue*. yes it's ansi Thanks. I just got done doing battle with DOS. I was victorious, and I was able to overcome the fact that the DOS HELP command doesn't support saving copies of the documents to disk. Hehehe. I renamed QBASIC.HLP to QBASIC.BAK and HELP.HLP (or DOS.HLP?) to QBASIC.HLP, and then I started Qbasic and searched for hel on Config. I browsed through the links to finally wind up with ANSI.SYS/Syntax. I clipped out the part that covers colors and cursor relocation, saved it to disk, touched it up, and printed it. Now I have a nice reference! I can email it to all who ask for it. What happens if I use high-bit characters? I'd like to do a cool text mode graphic, but the standard text characters are a bit limiting. By the way, I got the reference so I could make a snazzy motd. If I want to make it truly pretty, I suppose I have to edit the login command's source code so that it does whatever I want. But that's too much work. For now.
Re: [newbie] cd-rw
Try the cdrecord homepage: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.html On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find a list of CD rewritable drives that are supported under linux?
Re: [newbie] Lost C/C++ Libraries
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Ken Wilson wrote: I am doing some C programming on my recently installed Mandrake 6.0. As far as I am aware I have the latest kernel and all the updates. However, I am having troubles compiling a small test program with pgcc(gcc) and suspect the libraries are missing or improperly linked as I can't use the log() function. log() is defined in the math library. You have to compile with gcc -lm -o something -whatever-other-flags-you-need yoursource.c ^^^ LLaP bero
[newbie] Question
So, I'm thinking of running a little BBS or MUD on my linux box how would i go to setting that up ? how do i configure it so people can telnet in and out, check local email, etc point me to a website or some tutorials, ill greatly appreciate 'em thank you btw, i ordered linux in a nutshell, im waiting, hope it helps me out :) im running console mode, all text..
[newbie] Lost C/C++ Libraries
I am doing some C programming on my recently installed Mandrake 6.0. As far as I am aware I have the latest kernel and all the updates. However, I am having troubles compiling a small test program with pgcc(gcc) and suspect the libraries are missing or improperly linked as I can't use the log() function. I have the #include math.h statement at the beginning of the program. Here is the error I am getting. "... undefined reference to 'log' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status" I have reinstalled pgcc and all the relevent library rpm's many times now. When reinstalling the pgcc rpm I get the following error when it attempts to install. "execution of script failed" The file listing is attached if anyone wishes to see if they can confirm this error on their system. If the error is not repeatable, could someone tell me what libraries I am missing or improperly linked. NOTE: The file is in UNIX ASCII format, i.e. no CR\LF at end of lines. LIMITS.C
