Re: [newbie] printing pdf
Ty Mixon wrote: There is an acrobat reader on the Mandrake cd's in the 'Complete' set. If not, try the adobe website. -- Huh? try xpdf ( in a terminal ) Alan -- === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
[newbie] Getting Mesa to use my Voodoo2
I've just got a voodoo2 card tonight, and i'm trying to get Mesa to use my card. Games like GLQuake and Q3test use it fine, as they have their own pre-compiled libraries. I've downloaded the Mesa 3.0 source, but compilation fails when I try 'make linux-glide' or 'make linu-386-opt-V2-glide'. The installation of the Device-3DFX rpm went ok (it didn't on another machine), but Mesa doesn't compile. Can anyone help? -- *===* | Andrew Mitchell | | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Home Page http://members.tripod.com/Ajmitchell/ | | ICQ 11392490 (ajmitch)| *===*
Re: [newbie] bash scripts
Store the process id of the ghostview. You can send signal to the process for termination using kill. But this kills the process abruptly and many of cleanup operation by the process would not be done. -Original Message- From: Michael Lim Shek Sia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12 August 1999 03:30 Subject: [newbie] bash scripts If I write a BASH script file which initiates a program, say ghostview. And I want to read a number of files in sequence, so ideally I would like to close the ghostview within the Script file. How do I control a program within the script file ? michael lim
Re: [newbie] Recommendation needed for Dual PentiumII/III board with Mandrake
Anything by ASUS, I use their MOBOs religiously. In fact, their ThermalSensors saved my Pentium Duel system when the fans died. They make good MOBOs On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Lionel Siau wrote: Hi everyone, I need a quote/recommendation for the above which should be rock solid and very problem free with Linux(running Mandrake of course). It is to be used as a fileserver, database/mining server and my future Q3 machine. Don't recommend me the dual celeron BH6. ATA-66 interfaces would be very nice even if kernel doesn't have drivers for it yet. Overclocking is not important but reliablity is. Lionel
Re: [newbie] Recommendation needed for Dual PentiumII/III board withMandrake
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: On the Tyan that I spoke about the audio is by Creative Labs - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 7:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Recommendation needed for Dual PentiumII/III board withMandrake Depends largely upon the manufacturer of the audio chips Who makes the on-board sound? John Actually, my comments were to ripcrd6, who was having problems with his Alton M570) mobo w/ built-in 3-d sound. :-) Now, HE didn't specify who made the sound chips for his motherboard (I suppose I could have looked it up, but he's the one asking the question, sooo... G) John
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: Greetings: I am new to this list and new to Linux. I have installed Linux-Mandrake on my PC but am currently looking for easy directions to have Linux recognize my modem and dial in. I have seen some "simple" explanations that leave me a bit uncertain. Any suggestions on some easy (or less technical) step by step instructions? Thanks Is this a PCI 56k internal modem? If so, chances are it won't work. Give us some details on your system, especially modem brand, model, etc and maybe someone here can help. From what I've read, you should disable PNP and set the comm port, I/O address and IRQ with jumpers, if such are available for your modem. IIRC, after that, you'll need to run "setserial" and see what comes up for that modem. BTW, ttys0=com1, ttys1=com2, etc.
[newbie] gateways
Can anybody tell me how to get a gateway set up on my linux workstation? I've already got a server running and want the linux machine to connect through that server to access the net but can't seem to get it working. My ethernet card is set up properly and I can access all the other machines on my LAN.
Re: [newbie] ppp gradual slowdown
I've been having the same problem, i had a zoltrix modem at first then i switched to a usr 56k int pnp... the usr worked fine for about a week and then the same thing started happening... i reinstalled mandrake and the modem worked fine up until a couple of days ago... i guess i'll try reinstalling again. sinx wrote: I just installed Mandrake, and setup my modem, etc, and after being connected for about 5-10 minutes, my connection seems to slow down to 500 bytes/sec, etc. I know it's not my isp or modem because it works fine in windows. Anyone have any tips or what is wrong? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
There is ONE known good PCI modem. The actiontech(sp?) one. I saw it at best buy - about us$100 and it was in a dark colored box with 'Call Waiting Modem' in big letters. -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 8/12/99, 6:07:57 AM, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem: On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: Greetings: I am new to this list and new to Linux. I have installed Linux-Mandrake on my PC but am currently looking for easy directions to have Linux recognize my modem and dial in. I have seen some "simple" explanations that leave me a bit uncertain. Any suggestions on some easy (or less technical) step by step instructions? Thanks Is this a PCI 56k internal modem? If so, chances are it won't work. Give us some details on your system, especially modem brand, model, etc and maybe someone here can help. From what I've read, you should disable PNP and set the comm port, I/O address and IRQ with jumpers, if such are available for your modem. IIRC, after that, you'll need to run "setserial" and see what comes up for that modem. BTW, ttys0=com1, ttys1=com2, etc.
Re: [newbie] gateways
Just a quick update. I'm able to ping IP's outside my LAN now, but my nameserver isn't working. any suggestions? At 09:19 AM 8/12/99 -0400, you wrote: Can anybody tell me how to get a gateway set up on my linux workstation? I've already got a server running and want the linux machine to connect through that server to access the net but can't seem to get it working. My ethernet card is set up properly and I can access all the other machines on my LAN.
[newbie] root kppp problems and begining programer help
A couple more problems/questions: 1) As a normal user I can use kppp just fine. However, as root it doesn't work. It will dial the modem, I hear it connect, but then it pops up 'No Carrier'. And if I query the modem I get all blanks rather than the info I get as a normal user. Any ideas? 2) This isn't really a Mandrake question, but most of y'all are helpful so . . . I'm taking Computer Science I this semester and will finally begin learning C++. Should have picked up a book long ago, but never did. Anyhow, what I want to know is how do I compile programs under Linux? I think I have everything installed gcc and gcc++ and the libs and (hopefully) the header files. So, supposing I wanted to compile the obligatory beginning program that prints the "Hello world" line, how would I? Thanks!! -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713
Re: [newbie] Recommendation needed for Dual PentiumII/III board withMandrake
It's a Crystal Audio 3-D sound. I don't know the number on the chip off the top of my head. Will have to lift the hood. Brian -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends largely upon the manufacturer of the audio chips Who makes the on-board sound? John From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you have any trouble setting up the on-board sound or ethernet. I have heard of those built-in devices not being recognized. I have a Socket 7 (Alton M570) mobo w/ built-in 3-d sound and I wonder how it will be. Have seen comments in Mandrake newsgroup about the sound quality being poor or not recognized. Would appreciate any comments. I will be installing soon. Brian
Re: [newbie] Modem problems. Looks like a bug in Mandrake 6.0
You may try the new knetwork upgrade kdenetwork-1.1.1final-7mdk.i586.rpm . It is on the Mandrake Updates site. Brian Yes, I was able to dial out at will mutiple times. Even after rebooting. The modem is PNP (no jumpers). I am assuming this is a bug because I notice other folks reporting similar problems on linux related news groups. Looks like a trend to me. So what do you think?
Re: [newbie] that penguin at the login prompt
There is another Penguin graphic in the files somewhere. A guy at my LUG rattled off the command for me to type in and we got it to appear on my PC. Now I can't remember what it was, but it had Tux sitting beside the Linux logo where the i is in red and the rest is in blue I think. It looked like the logo from linux.org. Anybody know the name of the file so that he could switch them. Its a better picture. For more ANSI graphics visit www.ice.org Brian -Original Message- From: Art Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gary coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] that penguin at the login prompt Andy Goth wrote: just wondering, how do i get rid of that ansi penguin at the login prompt? it really doesn't appeal to me. Give me an F---ing break!!! This list is for people with real linux problems, not real people with decorating problems. - No. Give him a break. I asked a very similar question not too long ago, and I learned A LOT about Linux, shell scripting, ANSI, and the need to back stuff up from looking into issue and rc.issue. No one yelled at me. On the contrary, many people were just happy to help. -- I would like to change the rather poor graphic and appreciate that someone took time to answer the question. I learned a little more about how Linux works. Art
Re: [newbie] Recommendation needed for Dual PentiumII/III board withMandrake
Well, Kind of off topic here (but not really) but does anyone have any old dual Pent Pro motherboards they would like to get rid of? .bill On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Ripcrd6 wrote: It's a Crystal Audio 3-D sound. I don't know the number on the chip off the top of my head. Will have to lift the hood. Brian -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends largely upon the manufacturer of the audio chips Who makes the on-board sound? John From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you have any trouble setting up the on-board sound or ethernet. I have heard of those built-in devices not being recognized. I have a Socket 7 (Alton M570) mobo w/ built-in 3-d sound and I wonder how it will be. Have seen comments in Mandrake newsgroup about the sound quality being poor or not recognized. Would appreciate any comments. I will be installing soon. Brian
RE: [newbie] MANDRAKE WINS 2 LINUXWORLD AWARDS!
Congratulations! You and the team of Linux-Mandrake deserve it! Bill Moshier -Original Message- From: Gael Duval [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 5:32 PM Subject: [newbie] MANDRAKE WINS 2 LINUXWORLD AWARDS! Hello everybody, this is a great day! We are very pleased to announce that we have won: * the "Product of the Year" Award with Linux-Mandrake 6.0 * the "Distribution/Server" Awards with Linux-Mandrake 6.0 we are also in second position for the "Distribution/Client" Award! Details from Nicholas Petreley on: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-08/lw-08-penguin_1.html MandrakeSoft is not the only winner: you - users and contributors - have won those prices with us! :) Greets, Gaël. -- Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 6.0 on http://www.linux-mandrake.com
Re: [newbie] Recommendation needed for Dual PentiumII/III board withMandrake
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: It's a Crystal Audio 3-D sound. I don't know the number on the chip off the top of my head. Will have to lift the hood. Brian That's enough. I've heard of people having some REAL headaches trying to get Crystal sound to work. IIRC, OSS will have to be installed, as Linux doesn't support Crystal sound with the default drivers. Personally, I'd see if you can disable the on-board sound and just get a good Sound Blaster card (awe series is SUPPOSED to work fairly well... at least there's support built-into linux for Creative Labs' SB series of cards!) John
[newbie] Switching GUI environments.
Not sure how to switch the environments without having to logout and change the Xclients. On Redhat 5.2, I was able to do it from a pull down menu that had a switch to. I wanted to be able to switch between KDE and Gnome. Any help would be appreciated.
Re: [newbie] jdk
On 12-Aug-99 alann wrote: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: has anyone had any luck installing the jdk package from miribalis that is required to run java icq? documentation is pretty scarce and i'm not really sure what some of the environmental variables are for. ICQ4Java sucks... Try using licq. It's contained in cooker if you don't want to compile it yourself. OK, I'll bite.. I've seen cookers before. Can you ( or anyone ) explain what a cooker is? learning_mode_on_now Alan Cooker is just the name for the version of Linux Mandrake that's currently in development. Take a look at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker -Tom
RE: [newbie] root kppp problems and begining programer help
On 12-Aug-99 Ty Mixon wrote: 2) This isn't really a Mandrake question, but most of y'all are helpful so . . . I'm taking Computer Science I this semester and will finally begin learning C++. Should have picked up a book long ago, but never did. Anyhow, what I want to know is how do I compile programs under Linux? I think I have everything installed gcc and gcc++ and the libs and (hopefully) the header files. So, supposing I wanted to compile the obligatory beginning program that prints the "Hello world" line, how would I? For a small, simple program in one source code file, you could just type: gcc filename -- for a C program, or g++ filename -- for a C++ program Assuming it compiles with no errors, that produces a binary file called a.out. You should take a look at the documentation for gcc and maybe documentation for make as well. -Tom
Re: [newbie] jdk
Thanks, I'm well aware of where to get licq though (I've been using it for a while), and any other downloadable Linux program; I was just confused since I had twice seen Bero refer to licq being included in Cooker and as far as I could tell it wasn't. :) And I'm glad I asked now since apparently it hadn't been uploaded properly. On 12-Aug-99 Ty Mixon wrote: Www.linuxberg.com has it, and klicq if you use kde. -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 26147713 Original Message On 8/11/99, 11:48:45 AM, "Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] jdk: On 11-Aug-99 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: has anyone had any luck installing the jdk package from miribalis that is required to run java icq? documentation is pretty scarce and i'm not really sure what some of the environmental variables are for. ICQ4Java sucks... Try using licq. It's contained in cooker if you don't want to compile it yourself. I really hate having to ask this, but what package is licq in? I'm mirroring cooker and do not have any licq packages. I've also checked the Mandrake/RPMS and contrib/RPMS directories of two cooker mirror sites and neither had a package with 'licq' anywhere in the name. -Tom
[newbie] Man problems
When I try to get a man entry I get a blank page and when I quit it gives: [Ty@localhost Ty]$ man gcc Formatting page, please wait... sh: /usr/bin/groff: No such file or directory sh: /usr/bin/gtbl: No such file or directory [Ty@localhost Ty]$ Thanks, -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713
Re: [newbie] File operations and Zip archives
Original Message On 8/12/99, 3:42:09 AM, James Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] File operations and Zip archives: A colleague using a windows machine has e-mailed me some graphics in a zip file. Is there a good linux unzipper? gzip (man gzip for the info) Also, what are the commands to rename, copy and move files? I've tried saying ln and then removing the previous file, but this hasn't worked. Copy = cp Move = mv And I think cp and mv can be used to rename. Such as cp file1 file2 will create a new copy of file1, but named file2. I think mv will do the same, but move it (read the man page to be sure, I'm a newbie myself). -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 James. -- James Stewart ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Britlinks ... http://www.britlinks.co.uk - web site, web design and more The Phantom Tollbooth ... http://www.tollbooth.org
Re: [newbie] Recommendation needed for Dual PentiumII/III board withMandrake
I actually just got the sound working under windows. I had the AT form card plugged in backwards on the mobo. Turned it around and the music came blasting out. Wooohooo. I digress. I think that if I unplug the form card again that it will be disabled, but there is no specific jumper to do so. I think PnP will be where I will run into problems detecting the secondary card. Brian -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: It's a Crystal Audio 3-D sound. I don't know the number on the chip off the top of my head. Will have to lift the hood. Brian That's enough. I've heard of people having some REAL headaches trying to get Crystal sound to work. IIRC, OSS will have to be installed, as Linux doesn't support Crystal sound with the default drivers. Personally, I'd see if you can disable the on-board sound and just get a good Sound Blaster card (awe series is SUPPOSED to work fairly well... at least there's support built-into linux for Creative Labs' SB series of cards!) John
RE: [newbie] File operations and Zip archives
Hi James zip, and unzip work for zip files. also gzip, gunzip for .gz files see: man zip or man gzip as far as copy/and move files, use cp mv (of course, you can us the 'man cp' to get info) Bill -Original Message- From: James Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 3:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] File operations and Zip archives A colleague using a windows machine has e-mailed me some graphics in a zip file. Is there a good linux unzipper? Also, what are the commands to rename, copy and move files? I've tried saying ln and then removing the previous file, but this hasn't worked. James. -- James Stewart ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Britlinks ... http://www.britlinks.co.uk - web site, web design and more The Phantom Tollbooth ... http://www.tollbooth.org
FW: [newbie] Off-Brand 15 1024x768 Monitor
Brett, Thanks for your reply - is lite-on a brand name? I don't remember seeing it in the xconfigurator. Also, I screwed up my install, made my old, small HD the master rather than the newer, fasterm, larger HD. I don't mind reinstalling everything, but I think I'll tell hinm not to start KDE automatically. I can always modify that later, right? Also, should Linux be THAT slow on a P-60? I know it's old-tech, but really - it's not like I'm using 386sx or something... Carlos -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brett Jones Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 8:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Off-Brand 15" 1024x768 Monitor I've had the best luck using the lite-on monitor when setting up a linux box with an unknown monitor. That and a supported 4 meg vid card has always given me 800x600 at 16bit color. At that point I had a workable X to research/test the monitor for higher res. Good luck. By the way I used Xconfigurator from the CLI to set up X. On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: Hi, I installed M-RH6.0 last night, and even though I have the monitor above, and an ATI 4MB card, the only display settings that seemed to work are 640x480, in 8-bit. Anyone have similar experiances, or recommendations to fix? Thanks, Carlos -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] File operations and Zip archives
James Stewart wrote: Also, what are the commands to rename, copy and move files? I've tried saying ln and then removing the previous file, but this hasn't worked. To rename and to move, use mv old file new file. To copy, use cp file[s] new location. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Switching GUI environments.
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Bret Craw wrote: Not sure how to switch the environments without having to logout and change the Xclients. On Redhat 5.2, I was able to do it from a pull down menu that had a switch to. I wanted to be able to switch between KDE and Gnome. Any help would be appreciated. Under the "K" | system | desktop switching tool. This will give you the option of which desktop manager to use. There will be a "kde apps" button under the Gnome menu which has the same menu as the "K" under KDE. Just follow the instructions above once you've reached the "kde apps" menu.
Re: [newbie] File operations and Zip archives
Let me take a stab at this... I used to be able to use unzip Try this unzip your zip file.zip For Rename(Move), use mv source destination, but BE CAREFUL!!! Read the man page or you could wipe out a file. For Copy, use cp source destination Again, Read the man page if you are unsure James Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/12/99 06:42:09 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: [newbie] File operations and Zip archives A colleague using a windows machine has e-mailed me some graphics in a zip file. Is there a good linux unzipper? Also, what are the commands to rename, copy and move files? I've tried saying ln and then removing the previous file, but this hasn't worked. James. -- James Stewart ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Britlinks ... http://www.britlinks.co.uk - web site, web design and more The Phantom Tollbooth ... http://www.tollbooth.org
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
Hi: My modem is a built in LT Winmodem (56K v90). Is this useless? It has yet to be found by my Mandrake. Toby Ty Mixon wrote: There is ONE known good PCI modem. The actiontech(sp?) one. I saw it at best buy - about us$100 and it was in a dark colored box with 'Call Waiting Modem' in big letters. -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 8/12/99, 6:07:57 AM, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem: On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: Greetings: I am new to this list and new to Linux. I have installed Linux-Mandrake on my PC but am currently looking for easy directions to have Linux recognize my modem and dial in. I have seen some "simple" explanations that leave me a bit uncertain. Any suggestions on some easy (or less technical) step by step instructions? Thanks Is this a PCI 56k internal modem? If so, chances are it won't work. Give us some details on your system, especially modem brand, model, etc and maybe someone here can help. From what I've read, you should disable PNP and set the comm port, I/O address and IRQ with jumpers, if such are available for your modem. IIRC, after that, you'll need to run "setserial" and see what comes up for that modem. BTW, ttys0=com1, ttys1=com2, etc.
Re: [newbie] File operations and Zip archives
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: A colleague using a windows machine has e-mailed me some graphics in a zip file. Is there a good linux unzipper? unzip filename Also, what are the commands to rename, mv filename1 filename2 copy cp filename1 path/to/filename2 (ie cp root/filename1 /home/james/filename2) and move files? I've tried see rename and combine with cp. Basically, if you want to move to a different directory, type "mv filename path/to/filename" This should work just fine. saying ln and then removing he previous file, but this hasn't worked. And it won't. :-) mv works for BOTH "rename" and "move" (if you want, you can put in an alias in your .bashrc for "ren" to "mv" and that would allow you to use the old "dos" command "ren" G) John
Re: [newbie] Recommendation needed for Dual PentiumII/III board withMandrake
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: I actually just got the sound working under windows. I had the AT form card plugged in backwards on the mobo. Turned it around and the music came blasting out. Wooohooo. I digress. I think that if I unplug the form card again that it will be disabled, but there is no specific jumper to do so. I think PnP will be where I will run into problems detecting the secondary card. Brian Whether WINDOWS supports it or not, is not the question. The Question is, will LINUX support it? The answer is, not without special drivers from OSS. Crystal Audio is a PAIN to work with. We've got an old HP here that has Crystal Sound on-board and it kept giving us GPFs all the time trying to use it
Re: FW: [newbie] Off-Brand 15 1024x768 Monitor
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: Also, should Linux be THAT slow on a P-60? I know it's old-tech, but really - it's not like I'm using 386sx or something... Well, how much RAM and drive space do you have? How much SWAP do you have? If you're starting KDE and you have less than 32 megs of RAM, you're going to be hitting that SWAP drive HARD, no matter WHAT processor you have! John
RE: [newbie] Linux and the modem
Right now, its useless If you need to buy one, diamond was having a clearance on an external modem, which came up and worked without a hitch. (about $50) http://www.diamondmm.com/products/current/clearance.cfm Bill -Original Message- From: Toby Sheets [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 1:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem Hi: My modem is a built in LT Winmodem (56K v90). Is this useless? It has yet to be found by my Mandrake. Toby Ty Mixon wrote: There is ONE known good PCI modem. The actiontech(sp?) one. I saw it at best buy - about us$100 and it was in a dark colored box with 'Call Waiting Modem' in big letters. -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 8/12/99, 6:07:57 AM, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem: On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: Greetings: I am new to this list and new to Linux. I have installed Linux-Mandrake on my PC but am currently looking for easy directions to have Linux recognize my modem and dial in. I have seen some "simple" explanations that leave me a bit uncertain. Any suggestions on some easy (or less technical) step by step instructions? Thanks Is this a PCI 56k internal modem? If so, chances are it won't work. Give us some details on your system, especially modem brand, model, etc and maybe someone here can help. From what I've read, you should disable PNP and set the comm port, I/O address and IRQ with jumpers, if such are available for your modem. IIRC, after that, you'll need to run "setserial" and see what comes up for that modem. BTW, ttys0=com1, ttys1=com2, etc.
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: Hi: My modem is a built in LT Winmodem (56K v90). Is this useless? It has yet to be found by my Mandrake. WinModem = Windows ONLY! So, the answer is, YES, it's useless.
RE: FW: [newbie] Off-Brand 15 1024x768 Monitor
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: Also, should Linux be THAT slow on a P-60? I know it's old-tech, but really - it's not like I'm using 386sx or something... Well, how much RAM and drive space do you have? How much SWAP do you have? If you're starting KDE and you have less than 32 megs of RAM, you're going to be hitting that SWAP drive HARD, no matter WHAT processor you have! John Good point - 56MB RAM (I don't remember how I got that :-) ), and 64MB Swap space - Since I'm reinstalling, I could make it 128MB swap--is it worth it? Carlos
RE: FW: [newbie] Off-Brand 15 1024x768 Monitor
You should be okay just making the swap partition the same size as your RAM configuration, keeping in mind the 128MB limit on individual swap partions. Unless you're running a lot of servers for people the 64MB should be plenty. There are a number of monitoring tools in the KDE if you want to watch your swap usage. If you find it's gettin heavily used you can make a bigger partion at a later date. Either way, doing it now or doing it later will require repartition your harddrive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carlos Rubinstein Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Carlos Rubinstein Subject: RE: FW: [newbie] Off-Brand 15" 1024x768 Monitor On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: Also, should Linux be THAT slow on a P-60? I know it's old-tech, but really - it's not like I'm using 386sx or something... Well, how much RAM and drive space do you have? How much SWAP do you have? If you're starting KDE and you have less than 32 megs of RAM, you're going to be hitting that SWAP drive HARD, no matter WHAT processor you have! John Good point - 56MB RAM (I don't remember how I got that :-) ), and 64MB Swap space - Since I'm reinstalling, I could make it 128MB swap--is it worth it? Carlos
[newbie] Re: your mail
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Joel Doucet wrote: I keep trying to contact someone from linuxmandrake but nobody wants to responce to my e-mails, You apparently didn't write to the right address ([EMAIL PROTECTED])? When i configure X windows,i have to select my monitor, and since my monitor isn`t in the list i chose custom, Custom configuration of monitors is a bit tricky; you might be better off just choosing a monitor similar to your own. If in doubt, choose Highscreen LE1024, which is an old 14" screen; its settings won't be optimal, but you don't run into the risk of damaging anything. If that doesn't fix it, we'll need much more information, such as what graphics card you're trying to use. LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
the official word is fall of 99. linus is calling for a halt to all new development on the kernel this month so they can get going on the new version. John Aldrich wrote: - Original Message - From: Bert Bullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem you might want to hang on to it for a while and just get a cheap one for now. kernel 2.4 is going to have winmodem support. Yes, but how long is it going to take to get kernel 2.4? I know Linus is calling for it by the end of the year, but do you SERIOUSLY think it'll come that fast? Also included in 2.4 is supposed to be the new file system (which will basically "break" all our current systems, no? G) John
[newbie] Re:
Joel Doucet wrote: hello, I keep trying to contact someone from linuxmandrake but nobody wants to responce to my e-mails, i hope a human can read this message and tell me what to do. I just purshased "The Complete Linux operating system" and i am having trouble with it. When i configure X windows,i have to select my monitor, and since my monitor isn`t in the list i chose custom, and with redhat 5.1, everything worked fine but when it says it will run the x server, it doesn`t work, i don`t know if its my monitor of my video card but it says there is a problem with the configuration and it gives me the option of quiting of changing my configuration, did i just get ripped of or can i do something about it? Hi, Joel, Are you configuring X within the installation? Try configuring X after you've installed Linux with 'xf86config' from the shell prompt. Good luck, Hidong
Re: [newbie] Tape Backup
Try BRU for backups, it's a nice utility with a gui if you need it. Not open source, but they've supported linux since the early days. On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: What is a good tape backup solution for Linux? I'm looking for something cheap that can backup 10-20 GB at a time. I would like to use the backup software that comes with Linux too. Thanks for your input. Jason Peterson -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
What about a Motorola Voice Surfer.. Its an ISA modem and I am 99% sure its hardware.. but I cant get Linux to use it right. It will detect there is SOMETHING on Comm3 but it wont use it right. HELP??? James
Re: [newbie] Tape Backup
Tekram 390u2w is a nice card with good support. I'm running it along with a IBM u2w 4.5 gig drive and a Seagate 4/8 travan tape. The card costs around $200, the drive $210, and the tape unit $275 with one tape. On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: A nice DAT drive (4mm or 8mm) would do quite well. Finding one at a reasonable price is another question. Also, it'll require that you have a SCSI card of some sort. Right now, the leader in SCSI cards as far as Linux is concerned is Advansys. However, I've heard some problems with their cards (SCSI bus resets, etc.) so I'd consider paying more for an Adaptec, especially since Adaptec is starting to support Linux now. Just my 2¢ worth! :-) John - Original Message - From: Petey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 5:23 PM Subject: [newbie] Tape Backup What is a good tape backup solution for Linux? I'm looking for something cheap that can backup 10-20 GB at a time. I would like to use the backup software that comes with Linux too. Thanks for your input. Jason Peterson -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
Not at this time. I do have suggestion: Everyone with a Winmodem should send polite snail-mail or e-mail to the modem chipset manufacturer asking for them to provide a linux driver or at least release the specs so a driver can be developed. Lucent Rockwell are two of the largest controller-less modem chipset manufacturers scott On 13-Aug-99 Toby Sheets wrote: There's no workaround for this? John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: Hi: My modem is a built in LT Winmodem (56K v90). Is this useless? It has yet to be found by my Mandrake. WinModem = Windows ONLY! So, the answer is, YES, it's useless. -- E-Mail: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-Aug-99 Time: 19:20:52 This message was sent by XFMail --
[newbie] Re:
Can you give us some details on your hardware? For example, what kind of video card do you have, what brand monitor (since you say it's not listed, what are the EXACT maximum h v resolutions?) How much video ram, etc? john - Original Message - From: Joel Doucet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 7:06 PM hello, I keep trying to contact someone from linuxmandrake but nobody wants to responce to my e-mails, i hope a human can read this message and tell me what to do. I just purshased "The Complete Linux operating system" and i am having trouble with it. When i configure X windows,i have to select my monitor, and since my monitor isn`t in the list i chose custom, and with redhat 5.1, everything worked fine but when it says it will run the x server, it doesn`t work, i don`t know if its my monitor of my video card but it says there is a problem with the configuration and it gives me the option of quiting of changing my configuration, did i just get ripped of or can i do something about it?
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Does anyone know how to setup Creative's Sound Blaster Live in Mandrake 6.0? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
Like I said...considering how long it took to go from the previous version to the current version (1.x.x to 2.x.x???) I'm just cynical. I know Linus would LIKE to have it done by the end of the year, but the question is whether it will really happen. Also, just how well will the new kernel support WinModems??? And, what will be broken in the process of supporting 'em and adding other new features (such as XFS) John - Original Message - From: Bert Bullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem the official word is fall of 99. linus is calling for a halt to all new development on the kernel this month so they can get going on the new version. John Aldrich wrote: - Original Message - From: Bert Bullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem you might want to hang on to it for a while and just get a cheap one for now. kernel 2.4 is going to have winmodem support. Yes, but how long is it going to take to get kernel 2.4? I know Linus is calling for it by the end of the year, but do you SERIOUSLY think it'll come that fast? Also included in 2.4 is supposed to be the new file system (which will basically "break" all our current systems, no? G) John
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Have you downloaded Creative's drivers for it? If not, you might want to do so...it's on their "developer" site (sorry can't give the exact URL.) john - Original Message - From: sinx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live Does anyone know how to setup Creative's Sound Blaster Live in Mandrake 6.0? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
And when is that supposed to come out? Bert Bullough wrote: you might want to hang on to it for a while and just get a cheap one for now. kernel 2.4 is going to have winmodem support.
[newbie] Re:
You did not get ripped. Installing the graphical part of Linux (X) is the most tricky part. You need to know quite a lot about your hardware. Especially about the graphics card. Please be more specific if you report a problem. What kind of graphics card do you have? Which is the chipset? What kind of monitor do you have? I don't say I'll be able to help you, as I'm a newbie just like yourself. But with that info other people stand a better chance at helping you, Jo Joel Doucet wrote: hello, I keep trying to contact someone from linuxmandrake but nobody wants to responce to my e-mails, i hope a human can read this message and tell me what to do. I just purshased "The Complete Linux operating system" and i am having trouble with it. When i configure X windows,i have to select my monitor, and since my monitor isn`t in the list i chose custom, and with redhat 5.1, everything worked fine but when it says it will run the x server, it doesn`t work, i don`t know if its my monitor of my video card but it says there is a problem with the configuration and it gives me the option of quiting of changing my configuration, did i just get ripped of or can i do something about it?
[newbie] 4 persistent problems
Ok, in the last 2 days I've reinstalled about 4 times to try and sort out various bugs. Please be patient with me (this *is* a newbie group after all). Here are my problems: 1) SCSI. My system is using Adaptec 152x SCSI Host Adapter. When I do the install and try to have Linux probe the card it says it can't find one on my system. If I try to do the install manually it asks me for a module. What goes here so that I can try a manual install? 2) Sound. Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio. Where/how do I configure audio?? 3) Hard Drive. I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It is setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to save files on it and if so what format? 4) CD-Rom. It must have found it during the install because it had no problems loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them? I wanted to add, if there are any Mandrake employees reading, that the install documentation I received with the Deluxe Linux is pretty anemic. The install did not happen in the same order as it appeared in the install guide and some options which I ended up needing were not even covered. The user guide is about as helpful. It almost seems to assume some prior knowledge of working with in the Linux environment. Thank God Mandrake chose to include 3 other books on CD-Rom. Unfortunately, the user guide is so useless I can't get my CDRom to mount so I have to read the contents in Windows, memorize, then go to Linux and try what I read. I've been sitting at my computer for close to 8 hours today and I'm still right where I started.
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
Several months at the earliest. John - Original Message - From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 10:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem And when is that supposed to come out? Bert Bullough wrote: you might want to hang on to it for a while and just get a cheap one for now. kernel 2.4 is going to have winmodem support.
RE: [newbie] Tape Backup
On 12-Aug-99 Petey wrote: What is a good tape backup solution for Linux? I'm looking for something cheap that can backup 10-20 GB at a time. I would like to use the backup software that comes with Linux too. Thanks for your input. Jason Peterson I use BRU, a commercial solution. It's not too expensive and they have a 60 day return policy if you don't like it. It works great for me and spending a few bucks to have something reliable is worth every cent. You could also try TAPER, which is free. The newest version is 6.9a. The most serious bugs seem to be gone, so it's worth a look. --- Jonathan Dlouhy Principal Oboe, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Re: [Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem]
Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And when is that supposed to come out? Bert Bullough wrote: you might want to hang on to it for a while and just get a cheap one for now. kernel 2.4 is going to have winmodem support. == I suggest a good quality EXTERNAL modem. I use a US Robotics 56K faxmodem (v.90 x2 compatible) There are several others as good (or better). You'll pay about $20 more than for an internal, but it's easier to monitor (or "cut-off" if necessary) :-)
Re: [newbie] ppp gradual slowdown
If you are using kppp to dial in, add 'novj' in the extra arguments section. This fixed it for me Bert Bullough wrote: I've been having the same problem, i had a zoltrix modem at first then i switched to a usr 56k int pnp... the usr worked fine for about a week and then the same thing started happening... i reinstalled mandrake and the modem worked fine up until a couple of days ago... i guess i'll try reinstalling again.
Re: [newbie] Tape Backup
What kind of hardware do you have? I've arranged to purchase an Exabyte tape drive, but it's only about a 2-gig drive, and, like the other gentleman, I need something that'll do about 10 gigs+. The only DAT drives I've seen which can do that, are over $500 for the drive alone! I would prefer something relatively fast, so I dont have to spend all day and all night just backing up one system! Thanks... John - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 9:08 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Tape Backup On 12-Aug-99 Petey wrote: What is a good tape backup solution for Linux? I'm looking for something cheap that can backup 10-20 GB at a time. I would like to use the backup software that comes with Linux too. Thanks for your input. Jason Peterson I use BRU, a commercial solution. It's not too expensive and they have a 60 day return policy if you don't like it. It works great for me and spending a few bucks to have something reliable is worth every cent. You could also try TAPER, which is free. The newest version is 6.9a. The most serious bugs seem to be gone, so it's worth a look. --- Jonathan Dlouhy Principal Oboe, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
John Aldrich wrote: Not at this time. There's supposed to be support for WinModems in kernel 2.4...if you want to wait that long. - Original Message - From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem There's no workaround for this? John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: Hi: My modem is a built in LT Winmodem (56K v90). Is this useless? It has yet to be found by my Mandrake. WinModem = Windows ONLY! So, the answer is, YES, it's useless. Toby, I have a Practical Peripheral 28,800 ext modem if you want it. It's not fast but it works with Linux. I used it for a couple of months before I could afford to buy a new USR 5686-03. it's yours if you want it, no strings attached! If interested email me your address and I'll put it the mail to you. John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
go to lib | modules | kernel | scsi There you should see aha152x.o This is the module you need to insert. - Original Message - From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 11:08 PM Subject: [newbie] 4 persistent problems Ok, in the last 2 days I've reinstalled about 4 times to try and sort out various bugs. Please be patient with me (this *is* a newbie group after all). Here are my problems: 1) SCSI. My system is using Adaptec 152x SCSI Host Adapter. When I do the install and try to have Linux probe the card it says it can't find one on my system. If I try to do the install manually it asks me for a module. What goes here so that I can try a manual install? 2) Sound. Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio. Where/how do I configure audio?? run sndconfig as "root" from the prompt. 3) Hard Drive. I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It is setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to save files on it and if so what format? You need to create a dos partition there. Probably a dos extended partition. Just because you didn't give it to Linux doesn't mean you've given it to Windows. You have to partition and format it before you can use it. 4) CD-Rom. It must have found it during the install because it had no problems loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them? Assuming your CDRom is an IDE mounted as master on the secondary controller, it's probably mapped in as /dev/cdrom already. However, on the off chance tat it's not, you can manually mount it as follows: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom and it should then be accessible on /mnt/cdrom.
Re: [newbie] Zip Drive Support
use modprob instead of insmod if you are using 6.0. - Original Message - From: Brian Leas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 9:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Zip Drive Support Hi All: I am trying to get my 100MB Parallel Port Zip Drive to install. I read the HOW-TO and it said to insmod ppa. I did that and this is the output I got: /lib/modules/2.2.9-27/mdk/scsi/ppa.o:unresolved symbol parport_release_Rcdfb4dl9 /lib/modules/2.2.9-27/mdk/scsi/ppa.o:unresolved symbol parport_unregister_device_R528dbb47 /lib/modules/2.2.9-27/mdk/scsi/ppa.o:unresolved symbol parport_register_device R2clb9ll6 /lib/modules/2.2.9-27/mdk/scsi/ppa.o:unresolved symbol parport_claim_R4664blb5 /lib/modules/2.2.9-27/mdk/scsi/ppa.o:unresolved symbol parport_enumerate_R5298leea Does anyone have any idea what this output means? Brian /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_release_Rcdfb4d19 /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_unregister_device_R528dbb47 /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_register_device_R2c1b9116 /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_claim_R4664b1b5 /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_enumerate_R52981eea
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
www.creativelabs.com John Aldrich wrote: Have you downloaded Creative's drivers for it? If not, you might want to do so...it's on their "developer" site (sorry can't give the exact URL.) john - Original Message - From: sinx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live Does anyone know how to setup Creative's Sound Blaster Live in Mandrake 6.0? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
At 07:25 PM 8/12/99 -0500, sinx wrote: Does anyone know how to setup Creative's Sound Blaster Live in Mandrake 6.0? Thanks. Which begs the question: how does somebody access the archives for this mailing list? This topic was covered in great depth less than a week ago. --- Ian W. Douglas, Wild Web Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 506679
[newbie] Trouble ftp'ing Mandrake 6.0
Howdy all, I was just trying to download the latest Mandrake (6.0) from one of the FTP mirrors (500+ Meggers, but I figure I might as well put my new DSL to work). Everything's great, except my FTP programs seem to be choking on some directories. There are a whole bunch of directories in the /Mandrake/instimage/lib directory (and possibly elsewhere), that my FTP programs (both WS_FTP and CuteFTP) are failing to open, giving "Not a Directory" errors. The directories have names like ld-linux.so.2, libc.so.6, and so forth. The only thing I can think is that the multiple dots in the file names are confusing my FTP programs, but I can't really see whay that would happen. I imagine I'me just doing (or overlooking) something stupid, but what? (Besides stubbornly refusing to get the CDs, that is). Thanks a lot, Chris
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Well, I just got those drivers, and I ran the install, and it says I have to have kernel 2.2.5 - 15 I have kernel 2.9, any idea what it gives me the error? Toby Sheets wrote: www.creativelabs.com John Aldrich wrote: Have you downloaded Creative's drivers for it? If not, you might want to do so...it's on their "developer" site (sorry can't give the exact URL.) john - Original Message - From: sinx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live Does anyone know how to setup Creative's Sound Blaster Live in Mandrake 6.0? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] New Guy here. Where do I start?
I agree with that guy. 250% is a pointless figure. It really various by your uses and the amount of real memmory you have. By that figure, I should have a 1.25 Gig SWAP Partition?. My advice is same as RAM up till 128MB for workstation, then 128MB. Double for SERVER and cut off server at 512MB for 512MB too. The number came out of a book that came with Red Hat 5.0. It also never mentioned anyone with very much RAM (16MB was the most it seemed to talk about). I guess 250% is good then. It seems a little strange to me, actually. I expect that with more physical RAM there should be a smaller swap size... Andy Goth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://zap.to/andygoth/ ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose." -- Bill Gates, on why IBM is going down (as seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley) ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Down with big brother!" -- George Orwell
Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
Toby Sheets wrote: Ok, in the last 2 days I've reinstalled about 4 times to try and sort out various bugs. Please be patient with me (this *is* a newbie group after all). Here are my problems: 1) SCSI. My system is using Adaptec 152x SCSI Host Adapter. When I do the install and try to have Linux probe the card it says it can't find one on my system. If I try to do the install manually it asks me for a module. What goes here so that I can try a manual install? 2) Sound. Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio. Where/how do I configure audio?? 3) Hard Drive. I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It is setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to save files on it and if so what format? 4) CD-Rom. It must have found it during the install because it had no problems loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them? I wanted to add, if there are any Mandrake employees reading, that the install documentation I received with the Deluxe Linux is pretty anemic. The install did not happen in the same order as it appeared in the install guide and some options which I ended up needing were not even covered. The user guide is about as helpful. It almost seems to assume some prior knowledge of working with in the Linux environment. Thank God Mandrake chose to include 3 other books on CD-Rom. Unfortunately, the user guide is so useless I can't get my CDRom to mount so I have to read the contents in Windows, memorize, then go to Linux and try what I read. I've been sitting at my computer for close to 8 hours today and I'm still right where I started. Hi, Toby, My attempts to answer your questions: scsi - That's strange that your scsi adapter wasn't detected. It sounds like you have an official Mandrake release. Have you tried to recompile the kernel with scsi support? sound - If you can boot up and get into X, run 'sndconfig' from the shel prompt. hard dive - Did you format the 14+ gb portion of your hard drive? It's been a while since I dual booted with Windows, but I think if you don't format the hard drive, Windows won't recognize it. Does Windows recognize any of your Linux partitions? cd-rom - To mount your cd-rom, do 'mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom' as root user. If you don't have the directory /mnt/cdrom, create it with 'mkdir /mnt/cdrom'. To unmount the cd-rom and eject the disc, do 'umount /mnt/cdrom'. The directory /mnt/cdrom cannot be busy when issuing the umount command, so you cannot issue this command from /mnt/cdrom or any of its subdirectories. To save yourself some keystrokes, put this line into your /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro0 0 Then, as any user, you can mount the cd-rom with 'mount /mnt/cdrom'. Unmount the cd-rom with 'umount /mnt/cdrom' Good luck, Hidong
Re: [newbie] Man problems
When I try to get a man entry I get a blank page and when I quit it gives: [Ty@localhost Ty]$ man gcc Formatting page, please wait... sh: /usr/bin/groff: No such file or directory sh: /usr/bin/gtbl: No such file or directory [Ty@localhost Ty]$ Install groff and gtbl. You should have (or can obtain) some rpms for them. Andy Goth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://zap.to/andygoth/ ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose." -- Bill Gates, on why IBM is going down (as seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley) ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Down with big brother!" -- George Orwell
Re: [newbie] File operations and Zip archives
And it won't. :-) mv works for BOTH "rename" and "move" (if you want, you can put in an alias in your .bashrc for "ren" to "mv" and that would allow you to use the old "dos" command "ren" G) Watch it. While in DOS you can rename all .txt files to .doc with REN *.TXT *.DOC, Linux won't handle mv *.txt *.doc the same way. I haven't tried it yet, but I imagine it will simply not work. If you want to do things like that, you can make a tricky shell script called ren or rename. Andy Goth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://zap.to/andygoth/ ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose." -- Bill Gates, on why IBM is going down (as seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley) ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Down with big brother!" -- George Orwell
RE: [newbie] Linux and the modem
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 7:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem - Original Message - From: Bert Bullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem you might want to hang on to it for a while and just get a cheap one for now. kernel 2.4 is going to have winmodem support. Yes, but how long is it going to take to get kernel 2.4? I know Linus is calling for it by the end of the year, but do you SERIOUSLY think it'll come that fast? Also included in 2.4 is supposed to be the new file system (which will basically "break" all our current systems, no? G) John Kernal 2.4.x series will support WinModems. Linux has already called for a Feature Freeze for 2.4.x in a week. Remeber. the upgrade from 2.2 to 2.4 ain't as big as 2.0 to 2.2 so it will not take as long. I expect it by end of fall, maybe November at latest. The new file system XFS from SGI Inc. will probably not be intergrated till 3.x [read /.], XFS is a journaling file system. Personally, I have IRIX on a machine of mine at work. EXT2FS vs XFS, I take XFS anyday. Man, that thing rules. Once LINUX gets it, it will be able to compete more with NT better. Journaling File System is the way to go.
[newbie] Re:
- Original Message - From: Joel Doucet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 7:06 PM hello, I keep trying to contact someone from linuxmandrake but nobody wants to responce to my e-mails, i hope a human can read this message and tell me what to do. I just purshased "The Complete Linux operating system" and i am having trouble with it. When i configure X windows,i have to select my monitor, and since my monitor isn`t in the list i chose custom, and with redhat 5.1, everything worked fine but when it says it will run the x server, it doesn`t work, i don`t know if its my monitor of my video card but it says there is a problem with the configuration and it gives me the option of quiting of changing my configuration, did i just get ripped of or can i do something about it? You need to know what error is occurring. Look in the RedHat User's FAQ (find it on the web) at the section that deals with X11 and IIRC it tells you how to start X and generate an error text file. Then look at that file. "It doesn't work" is not very helpful in trying to solve a problem, which is why you aren't getting any responses. Have you read the FAQ, searched Deja News, looked through the mail list archives? If you had, you might have already found the answer. You aren't the first one to have this problem. I have found that most of the kinds of errors you are having are caused by the mouse not being configured properly. Run mouseconfig and make sure your mouse works first. Hoyt
[newbie] Modem slowdown.
Someone posted a command, I forgot what it was, that was an extra arugument in kppp, I had to format, and I forgot the command, if you could please post it again. Thanks.
Re: [newbie] partitions...
From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a very serious problem. I am trying to delete my partitions, and am unable to. I can delete the partition for dos, but I cannot delete the Option 1: use the Linux fdisk (or disk druid) program. Option 2: use Partition Magic 4.0 (3.0 might also work).
[newbie] more about partition trouble
I tried to load Linux from my boot disk, but I am not able to, If I am unable to start the setup program to use a linux disk, how will I be able to use disk druid or fdisk for linux??? Thanks in advance! Nighthawk
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
From: Singer XJ Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernal 2.4.x series will support WinModems. Linux has already called for a Feature Freeze for 2.4.x in a week. Remeber. the upgrade from 2.2 to 2.4 OK, we're freezing features in a week for 2.4, and there's currently (even in 2.3.11) no support for Winmodems--not even a hint of it, but it's going to be there for 2.4? Somehow I don't think so. Maybe over the course of 2.4.x (that is, before we get to 2.6.x) it may be integrated, but I doubt even that. Considering that each Winmodem is potentially a completely different device, I really don't think we're going to see this any time soon--nor do I think the developers should waste their time on it. XFS, OTOH, sounds seriously cool.
[newbie] Firewall Sendmail
I'm Sorry for sending this question second time. My Mail Server (based on NT) was crash and I unable to retrieve my previous mail. How to make a Firewall using Mandrake 5.3 or 6.0? a firewall with this features : 1. Intrusion Detection 2. User Authentication 3. Access Control 4. Mail Gateway 5. Address Restriction How to upgrade sendmail to 8.9.3? And how to configure that? Regards.
[newbie] How do i know if i have a winmodem?
I MAY have a winmodem or i'm screwing up when i try to set it up in linux. Any way i can find out if my modem is a winmodem on a wintel box?
RE: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
On 13-Aug-99 Toby Sheets wrote: 2) Sound. Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio. Where/how do I configure audio?? Run sndconfig after you install. 3) Hard Drive. I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It is setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to save files on it and if so what format? You have to give it a DOS/Windows partition: Create the partition with Windows' fdisk, and then format it. 4) CD-Rom. It must have found it during the install because it had no problems loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them? mount -t auto /dev/hdX /mnt/cdrom Change the X to the correct letter for your CD-ROM drive. (hdb is it's slave on primary IDE port, hdc if master on secondary port, hdd if slave on secondary). Type 'man mount' for more info on the mount command. -Tom
Re: [newbie] Curious fsck and changing login screens
There is a bug that has been found regarding bad unmounting. Go to the Mandrake Updates page and find the update. I believe it was initscripts or something like that. -Original Message- From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 12:23 AM Subject: [newbie] Curious fsck and changing login screens I have used Linux for about 8 months (RedHat 5.2) and have recently started using Mandrake 6.0. I have been generally extremely impressed with Mandrake, however I have noticed a few strange occurences. 1) I have always operated in runlevel 5 and used the Mandrake logon screen to shutdown or reboot my machine. Now I have rarely rebooted, however on the two occasions I have used the Mandrake Shutdown button to reboot, the startup process informs me that hda1(hda6) was not cleanly unmounted and proceeds to run fsck. Not a problem in itself, but I hate it when something doesn't work as it is supposed to and I don't know why. This same problem also occurred the single time I tries shutdown -r now. 2) On some occassions this same problem has occurred when merely booting up the machine. I know fsck is supposed to run after a certain number of mounts, however this problem has been occurring at irregular intervals sometimes as close as three boots apart. I stress that I always shut down properly, using either the Mandrake Shutdown button, or occasionally shutdown -h now. 3) This fsck has never caused me much trouble until last night when the fsck indicated a large number of errors including a reference to /usr/share/config/kdmrc (I may have this path and file name slightly incorrect. I apologise I am writing from work 12 hours later). It also made reference to a saved Civilisation - Call to Power game. When the fsck was complete the boot up process, which always indicates everything OK, came up with a FAILED message. I believe it said (again it was a while ago) that it was unable to read /usr/share/config/kdmrc. The next indication of something amiss was when X flashed up with the standard KDE login screen instead of the Mandrake screen. Using the Kpackage program I found the package that is responsible for the /usr/share/config/kdmrc file. It came up with a cross instead of a tick. Thinking I was clever I reinstalled the package and rebooted. Alas no change, the boot up process still indicated a failed read of /usr/share/config/kdmrc and I still received the KDE login screen. Further investigation revealed that /usr/../kdmrc was a file of size 0. Also, I think the saved Civ CTP game has disappeared. My question then is - how do I get my beloved Mandrake login screen back? Win9x friends laughed when I had to su root etc to shutdown and now I have got my own back I don't want that Shutdown button disappearing. Also what is causing these random fsck's? I have heard that there are some file system problems with 2.2.9. Is this the cause? Will the Mandrake kernel update solve the problem? The file names I have stated MAY BE INCORRECT. I aplogise for this, however I am hoping that the description of my problem will be enough to give you an idea of its likely cause. Thankyou PS As a quick query - why, whenever I add any new users to my system does KDE give me double icons for everything, one in upper case, one in lower (CDROM cdrom, PRINTER printer) ? It never happened for root, nor the non-privilleged user created during install.
[newbie] First time linux user in DIRE need of help!
Hi all. I just recently order a copy of Mandrake from Linux Mall, and when I attempted to intall it I ran into hordes of errors. I browsed the site for help and found the mailing list and thought that you fine folks might assist me in getting my computer straightened out. It might give you a better idea of my problems to first describe my system. I have the basic Dell Dimension XPS R450 system configuration with the 16mb STB nVidia video card and a 17 inch Dell Trinitron monitor. Ok, now on to the errors. I successfully created 2 partitions as needed for the installation with partition magic with a 2 gig ext2 partition and a 133.3mb swap partition (partition magic wouldn't let me do over 133.3mb for some reason). After that I went into BIOS and made my computer boot from the CD-ROM. So far so good. I continued installation until I got to LILO. I was trying to install LILO onto the master boot of my win98 partition but got an error for some reason, so I created a boot disk and continued installation. Its when I got to the configuration questions things started getting messed up. Now, I could of sworn my mouse was serial, but upon further investigation I found out it was PS/2. I accidentally selected Microsoft IntelliMouse (serial) instead of Microsoft IntelliMouse (PS/2). I had no problems with video card selection (I don't think!). The monitor is the big problem. I browsed the list through and through and couldn't find my monitor listed, nor find the frequencies in any of my manuals. I have the Dell Trinitron 17 inch monitor and selected the Dell VS17 as it was the closest on the list and I thought it might work. I continued installation and everything seemed fine. I selected passwords for root and user then finished the installation and was greeted by a black screen with a monitor error "Scan out of range". I pressed enter and was transfered to a finished install screen and shutdown the computer. Now, every time I try to boot Linux from the bootdisk it takes 5 minutes to load from the disk and I get a black screen with a scan out of range message! Fortunately I can still access windows98 to write you this message. What should I do?? -Will
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
Sorry for posting that to the group. I meant to send it personally. T Toby Sheets wrote: John, If you're serious and it will work and get me online temporarily I would be glad to take you up on that. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to have to close Linux, open Windows, check my email, get an answer, close Windows, open Linux, test the answer, find out it doesn't work, close Linux, open Windows, etc etc. My snail address: 4902 DON DRIVE DALLAS TX 75247 You are the greatest!! Toby John Connell wrote: I have a Practical Peripheral 28,800 ext modem if you want it. It's not fast but it works with Linux. I used it for a couple of months before I could afford to buy a new USR 5686-03. it's yours if you want it, no strings attached! If interested email me your address and I'll put it the mail to you. John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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hello, I keep trying to contact someone from linuxmandrake but nobody wants to responce to my e-mails, i hope a human can read this message and tell me what to do. I just purshased "The Complete Linux operating system" and i am having trouble with it. When i configure X windows,i have to select my monitor, and since my monitor isn`t in the list i chose custom, and with redhat 5.1, everything worked fine but when it says it will run the x server, it doesn`t work, i don`t know if its my monitor of my video card but it says there is a problem with the configuration and it gives me the option of quiting of changing my configuration, did i just get ripped of or can i do something about it?
