Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! and Mandrake
It works just fine. You have to go to ftp.soundblaster.com/pub/creative/beta/ and download emu10k1-0.3b.tar.gz. For 2.2.9-19 use the module for version 2.2.5. If you upgrade to 2.2.9-27 use the module for ver. 2.2.10 Richard Katie Condon wrote: Has anybody had experience with the Creative Blaster Soundblaster Live! (Value) and the mandrake-linux kernel 2.2.9-19mdk ? Katie Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Disk problems
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: My system locked up and couldn't get any sort of response from it so I ended up hitting the shudder reset button. Now when it boots up I get a message saying: /dev/hda1 unexpected inconsistency. Run fsck manually. I have to enter the root password and it puts me at a prompt. I run fsck and it just says Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 and does nothing. fsck --help does the same thing, I type man fsck and it tells me command not found. What do I do from here? Did it dawn on you to try the following; fsck /dev/hda1 Works wonders. -Jeff -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display
As I said before, I have 15inch Gateway Vivitron 1572... I can do 1024 x 768 with true 16 bit colors w/o problem in win95. What is the "safe" setting for me if I do choose to custom set my monitor config? --- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if Linnux supports multiprocessors? I am planning on getting Dual Celeron system... Very much so. Typically, as you install it, it will automatically detect the multi-processor setup. However, if you install it BEFORE having both processors, you will have to manually install the SMP kernel afterwards. Also.. I have a Gateway Vivitron 1572 15inch monitor.. it's not listed in the Xconfig's monitor list. Will this have an effect on Xserver? I chose so many different ones (including the closest one - Gateway Vivitron 15inch) but none of them work. I tried going to gateway's site and look up refresh rates (they're all aroun 60-70 Hz but did not list horizontal/vertical refresh rates). You may have to choose a fairly "safe" set of refresh rates and experiment until you find the right settings. Other than that, you're on your own. The system I have is a "generic" 17" monitor that I swapped for a "generic" 15" monitorno X changes required. Probably because I chose some "generic" settings. John __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Disk problems
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: Try 'fsck /dev/hda1' Martin. better this way : fsck -y /dev/hda1 so that u need not to answer "YES" every time .. BTW, make sure it refer to correct hd partition (/dev/hdxx) Normaly when fsck drops you into a shell because theres a disk problem, it will say use fsck _without_ any options at all. Of course if this is a mandrake bug then it could be different. -lz __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Default kernel .config
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: Are the config files available for the kernels installed with Mandrake 6.1? I've been customizing a kernel and it is crashing, so I'd like to start from a known working config. Is it documented somewhere what features are enabled in the installed kernels? I cant answer that one but when doing a make config, just hit the ? key if you dont know what an option is for, you will be suprised what you see. Thanks for the info, Eric Solberg -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Default kernel .config
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Adams Sent: 29 September 1999 09:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Default kernel .config On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: Are the config files available for the kernels installed with Mandrake 6.1? I've been customizing a kernel and it is crashing, so I'd like to start from a known working config. Is it documented somewhere what features are enabled in the installed kernels? I cant answer that one but when doing a make config, just hit the ? key if you dont know what an option is for, you will be suprised what you see. Ahh, but what i was after was building a kernel that was IDENTICAL to the Mandrake release kernel in every way except for the option that i need to change to resolve my problem. That way if i send it to anyone else, everything else on their system should still behave correctly. I've picked what i wanted before, and while my kernel worked fine, some things (long time ago now so can't remember what) stopped working. Anyway, i have all the info that i need now, but thanks for the replies ;o) Martin.
RE: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! and Mandrake
A reply was posted giving the basics of what you needed to do. If you're still struggling, detailed instructions are at: http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/sblive.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Katie Condon Sent: 29 September 1999 05:47 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! and Mandrake Has anybody had experience with the Creative Blaster Soundblaster Live! (Value) and the mandrake-linux kernel 2.2.9-19mdk ? Katie Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
[snip] (why the blazes don't people accept that burners actually come in two flavours of electronics?) I don't much have an opinion on this one (jee's i don't know HOW the things work, i just know how to make them work!), but looking at the CDR howto gives us something along the lines of (and this isn't a quote as i'm not at my Linux box right now): scsi is the native way to talk to devices like CDRs, which makes scsi-emulation the more natural way to do it Guess it's also done more to mean that all of the CDR utilities out there (and there are quite a few) don't expressly have to be re-worked to cope with IDE burners, which did after all come along way after the scsi ones. Martin.
RE: [newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update
[snip] In that same sensible vein - it seems Mandrake could do worse than pay attention to this in their release strategy - SBLive-value is hardly rare! Making sure the kernal is available in a suitably receptive compiled state looks like a good move for them too. I know other ways exist, but this does at least make some sense in the linux-evangelist stakes. I really don't want to start knocking Mandrake at all here as i'm sure they have plenty enough to do already (!), but i have to admit IF (and only if) this simple recompile works and doesn't screw anything else up, then yes i really do agree. That said i know that nobody in Linux circles is happy with Creative at the moment on the subject of the SBLive! and lack of willingness to release technical info on it (without forking out a small. Maybe that may have an impact. Martin.
Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgradeing all packages destroys my system]]
Ty Mixon wrote: Ok - then any idea why I got the original error? ldconfig didn't get run after installing new libs. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Disk problems
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Strike, Jeff wrote: My system locked up snip I run fsck and it just says Parallelizing fsck snip -Jeff --Jeff, I'm sure this isn't what you want to hear, and hopefully there's a better solution, but when the exact same thing happened to me the only thing that fixed it was a reinstall. I did find out, however, that you can save your /home directory during a reinstall (unlike dos) so you won't loose anything. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
[newbie] Real Player G2 Expires
Has anyone else had this happen? I downloaded another one and it says its expired also? Jeanette
Re: [newbie] Star Ahhh!-fice
David, I installed Star Office 5.1 successfully from a CD-ROM yesterday, so perhaps I can help you out. I installed is as a single user installation, so if you want a network installation or something else maybe someone else will help out. First of all are you shure you downloaded the version for Linux? It could be in a zip file, but I would have expected a .tar. Here are your steps: 1. Log in as a regular user (not root) 2. Start X-Windows -- unless it starts automatically. (either the Gnome or K Desktop environments should work -- I have KDE) 3. OK, you don't need to worry about the "SETUP.BIN", you need a file simply called "setup". It's a script, as if you needed to know. If the downloaded files are like the CDROM, it will be in the /linux/office51 directory of the directory where you unzipped the archive. If you have KDE, try it this way: click the K ButtonDisk NavigatorHomeThe Directory Where you Unzippedlinuxoffice51 then press Shift while you click on "Open Folder" at the top of the menu. This will open a terminal window already in the right directory. If you don't have KDE, you'll need to use a terminal emulator and cd to this directory before proceeding. 4. Last step: type "./setup" That worked for me. Hope it helps you out. I'm a nebiew as well and didn't do this the first time. KDE locked up with my initial attempt (clicking on the "setup" file), but the installation only took about 4 minutes when I used these steps. Jeremy Kersenbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] "David P. Greenberg" wrote: --We've all heard tales of woe regarding that mess, Star Office. Well, here's my sad story. I downloaded the thing from the new Sun page. it took me 7 and 3/4 hours!!! That's at 33.6 connected at 31200. I'm NOT exagerating. After getting it, I cracked the tarball w/ kde and it unzipped. I opened the setup.zip file with karchiver and unzipped to a directory in my /home directory I ended up with 40 files in a so51 directory. At the bottom of the heap is a SETUP.BIN (exe. gear) . I have set permissions but the gear does nothing. In fact none of the files do anything. Now, before the flames roll in, let me just say this. I have succesfully installed both rpm's and tar's on this system. Also I did read the .pdf file that came with the download, and it was of absolutely no help. I also would like to point out that I have not been able to make SO work since version 4.0. I keep trying because if us Linux users didn't like challenges we'd still be using Windows. Has anybody out there gotten this thing to work? Please post a nice, dumb step by step for us newbies out there, unwilling to concede. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
OK John, thanks for the confirmation - now can you tell me please - if I want to emulate scsi (for the burner), then when I do finally make my (full) reinstall, should I say yes or no to scsi at install time - just wondering how self propelled the emulation is, and whether or not it needs to borrow bits off of the normal scsi install. Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 1:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: I really hope you get a good answer to this from someone who knows for ure - I have the same setup with an LS120 substituted for the Zip (which I gave to a friend!) but to get you started in A direction; I am guessing they will be something like: hda---Primary MasterHD hdb---Primary Slave CD hdc---SecondaryMasterCD [burner] (not sure what to do about that yet, but looks like some kind of scsi pretence is going to be called for) (why the blazes don't people accept that burners actually come in two flavours of electronics?) This is correct. You must load ide-scsi (emulation?) in order to use an IDE burner. I know it sucks, but at least you'll be able to get it to work, whereas AFAIK, there is no support (yet) for Paralell-port scanners, etc. John
Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] what are these daemons? linuxconf Potential security risk. Don't run it. Where could I read up about that? I already ran it, but will leave it out next install if it's that bad. Darn - seemed quite useful too! sigh Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
Good grief - I actually manged to help for the first time - well I'll be damned! ;-) Erm wanna share the url for that paper at the gazzette please? - mine is not quite right yet - sod's law ;-) I'm nearly there myself! Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: Thomas Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip Than You Ian. I found the paper I was looking for at "Linux Gazzet ' that gave me exactly what I needed. Every thing I had found was for Par Port and mine is Atapi. Got it up and running on all four drives Thanks again bay56 wrote: I really hope you get a good answer to this from someone who knows for ure - I have the same setup with an LS120 substituted for the Zip (which I gave to a friend!) but to get you started in A direction; I am guessing they will be something like: hda---Primary MasterHD hdb---Primary Slave CD hdc---SecondaryMasterCD [burner] (not sure what to do about that yet, but looks like some kind of scsi pretence is going to be called for) (why the blazes don't people accept that burners actually come in two flavours of electronics?) (this seems more ostritch than penguin at this point, but I doubt if the linux community started it!) hdd---SecondarySlave HD (treat it like a cd rom since it's removeable media?) You'll need a directory for each in mnt I think (certainly about to try that idea myself) Also an entry of some sort in fstab reflecting the above arrangements (will trial and error that bit till it stops objecting) Of course if someone actually knows what to do - then please don't just sit there watching me make a total bags of it! ;-) Hope it's of some value shrug Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: Thomas Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 4:42 AM Subject: [newbie] CDWR and Zip Ok I give . I am tryiong to find my CDw and IM Zip. I can see on boot up that they are being loaded. I even find them listed under block devices. But I cannot find the command string to access them. I want to set up a link to mount them on my desk top as I have for my 3.5 and CDrom. I have plenty of documentation on making the links for the floppy and Cd but nothing on how to locate the extras. My regular CD is as slave to my HD on my Primary IDE ATAPI slot of my Mother Board. My CDWR and Zip are master and slave in said order on my Secondary IDE ATAPI slot. Please give me some feed back on how to locate them. Thanks Thomas
Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 1:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup? AFAICT, it's *supposed* to scroll in Netscape, but it doesn't do that here... the ONLY thing it's good for, AFAICT, is for pasting after cutting. :-) Well it doesn't do it here, but that is because N is as bad in linux as it is on every other platform - it appears that it sucks universally! ;-) Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
Re: [newbie] cable modem
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Setting up a cable modem is pretty straight forward, might want to check the list archives. "Ralph | byte-runner |" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/28/99 07:24:55 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] cable modem Hey all, I'm getting cable modem sevice hooked up this week. Can someone plz help me with the install in Mandrake. Also I want to set up an ftp server not anon. but with user names and passwords can beroftpd do this? And how hard is it to set up? I'm usaed to warftp and servu on the nt side of the spectrum. Thanks as always, Ralph
[newbie] Soundblaster Live! issues
Someone posted the Creative ftp site where various versions of emu* are available, one of which works with the 2.2.9 kernel in Venus. Would you mind reposting? I accidentally deleted the message. Thanks. /b - Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (voice) (706)542-0059 (fax)
[newbie] smbmount
ok this is hwere im at... im running dhcp and im trying to connect to share from a win95 machine. wheni run smbmount it keeps trying to add the localhost.. 127.0.0.1, which is drawn from /etc/hosts. but im on dhcp.. can someone provide some help here
Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, bay56 wrote: - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] what are these daemons? linuxconf Potential security risk. Don't run it. Where could I read up about that? I already ran it, but will leave it out next install if it's that bad. Darn - seemed quite useful too! sigh Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ There is no security risk running the initscript for linuxconf. Access to the linuxconf, remotely is handled via inetd and linuxconf internal security measures. which default to deny. you can fully disable linuxconf network access by editing your inetd.conf and commenting out the linuxconf line at the bottom if it isn't already done.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan
[newbie] Mandrake on Fujitsu Lifebook
Hi folks: This is my first coming to the list and it is looking for help. I have installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Fujitsu Lifebook C342. It works Ok but the only problem is that I don't know the video card and monitor model or specification. So I can't run Xconfigurator succesfully. I have tested some very conservative ones bu it doesn't work. Does anybody a idea about it? -- Francisco Alonso-Sarria Area de Geografia Fisica Universidad de Murcia Campus de La Merced E-30001 MURCIA
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Let me know if you have any specific questions. Mine was pretty easy to set up. Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/29/99 09:27:35 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem From: Ronald A. Yacketta Setting up a cable modem is pretty straight forward, might want to check the list archives. "Ralph | byte-runner |" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/28/99 07:24:55 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] cable modem Hey all, I'm getting cable modem sevice hooked up this week. Can someone plz help me with the install in Mandrake. Also I want to set up an ftp server not anon. but with user names and passwords can beroftpd do this? And how hard is it to set up? I'm usaed to warftp and servu on the nt side of the spectrum. Thanks as always, Ralph
Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?
I too would also be interested as to why LinuxConf is a security risk. I don't actually intend to make a direct connection out, I'm relying on Win98 SE to make my internet connection, but if LinuxConf has other risks, I'd like to know about them. - Original Message - From: bay56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] what are these daemons? - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] what are these daemons? linuxconf Potential security risk. Don't run it. Where could I read up about that? I already ran it, but will leave it out next install if it's that bad. Darn - seemed quite useful too! sigh Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display
Specs for a Vivatron 15, CPD-15f23 are:Horz, 31.5 - 64 KHZ; Vert. 50 Hz - 120 Hz. max res. 1280 x 1024 lalala lalala wrote: As I said before, I have 15inch Gateway Vivitron 1572... I can do 1024 x 768 with true 16 bit colors w/o problem in win95. What is the "safe" setting for me if I do choose to custom set my monitor config? --- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if Linnux supports multiprocessors? I am planning on getting Dual Celeron system... Very much so. Typically, as you install it, it will automatically detect the multi-processor setup. However, if you install it BEFORE having both processors, you will have to manually install the SMP kernel afterwards. Also.. I have a Gateway Vivitron 1572 15inch monitor.. it's not listed in the Xconfig's monitor list. Will this have an effect on Xserver? I chose so many different ones (including the closest one - Gateway Vivitron 15inch) but none of them work. I tried going to gateway's site and look up refresh rates (they're all aroun 60-70 Hz but did not list horizontal/vertical refresh rates). You may have to choose a fairly "safe" set of refresh rates and experiment until you find the right settings. Other than that, you're on your own. The system I have is a "generic" 17" monitor that I swapped for a "generic" 15" monitorno X changes required. Probably because I chose some "generic" settings. John __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: All this tap dance to get QT2 installed. And I can't get anywhere with it. Have I overlooked something? Are there unforseen steps that I am missing prior to installing the QT2 rmp package? I am sure there is. The QT2 rpm package wasn't made to not be installed. QT2 is more "advanced" than most of the apps out there. Your only real option is to just install LICQ via RPM and forget about compiling your own. Again, I just don't understand why you HAVE to compile it. QT2 really isn't ready for current distros of Linux, AFAIK. As I understand it, QT2 is more for "beta" purposes in getting apps ready for KDE2.0, than for "current" versions of KDE apps.
Re: [newbie] Star Ahhh!-fice
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote:
--We've all heard tales of woe regarding that mess, Star Office. Well,
here's my sad story. I downloaded the thing from the new Sun page. it took
me 7 and 3/4 hours!!! That's at 33.6 connected at 31200. I'm NOT
exagerating. After getting it, I cracked the tarball w/ kde and it
unzipped. I opened the setup.zip file with karchiver and unzipped to a
directory in my /home directory I ended up with 40 files in a so51
directory. At the bottom of the heap is a SETUP.BIN (exe. gear) . I have
set permissions but the gear does nothing. In fact none of the files do
anything. Now, before the flames roll in, let me just say this. I have
succesfully installed both rpm's and tar's on this system. Also I did read
the .pdf file that came with the download, and it was of absolutely no
help. I also would like to point out that I have not been able to make SO
work since version 4.0. I keep trying because if us Linux users didn't
like challenges we'd still be using Windows. Has anybody out there gotten
this thing to work? Please post a nice, dumb step by step for us newbies
out there, unwilling to concede.
Hmm...are you sure you got the Linux version??? I
downloaded it (at 128k, mind) and unzipped it to a
directory and installed it just finedidn't even bother
reading the docs... :-) I just did as you did, and ran the
"setup" file. I just checked my local copy on my work
machine. There's two directories created: a /documentation
and an /office51 directory. Under the /office51 directory
are a bunch of installation files ("cab" type files)
and a "setup" executeable. That was what I ran
John
Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 ro,user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev00 "ro" for a CDRW Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of a CDRW? :-)
Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: In that case the RPM for QT2 should just install just the same. But it won't. I want to manually compile Licq. I can't get past installing QT2. This blows. The difference between installing QT2 and LICQ is that QT is a programming library, whereas LICQ is an app. Apps can be compiled with the appropriate libraries statically linked into the binary release, which negates the necessity of having the library on your system. Why do you insist on compiling it yourself anyway? What is the fascination people have for compiling everything themselves??? :-) Seriously, QT2 has, AFAIK, problems with the version that runs KDE 1.1.x. QT2 will be required for KDE2.x.x, IIRC. Just live w/o QT2 and you'll have MUCH less headaches. If you insist on having two versions of QT installed, you'll need to go to some trouble to make sure KDE knows where to find it's version.
Re: [newbie] Disk problems
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: My system locked up and couldn't get any sort of response from it so I ended up hitting the shudder reset button. Now when it boots up I get a message saying: /dev/hda1 unexpected inconsistency. Run fsck manually. I have to enter the root password and it puts me at a prompt. I run fsck and it just says Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 and does nothing. fsck --help does the same thing, I type man fsck and it tells me command not found. What do I do from here? run "e2fsck /dev/hda1" and see if that doesn't fix it.
Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: As I said before, I have 15inch Gateway Vivitron 1572... I can do 1024 x 768 with true 16 bit colors w/o problem in win95. What is the "safe" setting for me if I do choose to custom set my monitor config? Probably just going to have to play with itchoose settings in the middle of what's offered...if it doesn't like it, it will come back and tell you there's a problem and you get to try again. :-) Just don't get too high or too low in the settings offered. I'd suggest selecting a dual-synch monitor. I recall seeing an option for a SVGA monitor that does 1024x768 @ 70 HZ and 640x480 at 60 HZ or something like that. That's what I chose. From there, once you get it close to what it "likes" you can run xvidtune once you get into X-windows. John
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: You just need to be sure that the first partition is in the first 1023 cylinders for LILO to work ok. If the hardware can access the rest of the drive, then Linux should be able to as well. LILO just needs to be able to get at the system files to do its job, and as long as the first partition is in the first 1023 cylinders, all should be well, I think. As for the remaining space, I think it is up to you how you partition it. I have been reading these sort of things for an age now, and I think the penny has just dropped - when we say first partition - can I take it we mean the first Linux partition - I hope so coz then the penny really has dropped! Nope. The kernel MUST be in the first 1024 Cylinders of a hard drive. ANY hard drive. Whether that means you have to create a small Linux partition BEFORE Windows, or whether you have to put it on another hard drive entirely, then that's what it means. After that, size really is not important.
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RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: 29 September 1999 15:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 ro,user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev00 "ro" for a CDRW Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of a CDRW? :-) Not really, you can't just drag and drop files to it. You HAVE to use a utility such as cdrecord from the console or xcdroast from with X (and there are other newer ones appearing all the time). These programs don't talk to the CDR using the normal filesystem methods anyway so they won't care. If you don't put RO, you'll only get told that it's a read-only filesystem so it will be mounted RO anyway ;o) Of course they might care that it's mounted at all - not sure on that one - if they do, just make sure it's unmounted before running any burner software. Martin.
Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
QT2 is more "advanced" than most of the apps out there.
Your only real option is to just install LICQ via RPM and
forget about compiling your own. Again, I just don't
understand why you HAVE to compile it. QT2 really isn't
ready for current distros of Linux, AFAIK.
Not really.. Qt2 is absolutely stable.
The problem is that KDE 1.x doesn't work with Qt2, KDE 2.0 is too unstable
to be of any real use right now, and there aren't so many non-KDE programs
using Qt...
If you need to compile something using Qt 2.0, get the qt2 RPM from 6.1 or
cooker. It's a quick hack (renames the lib to libqt2.so and stuff) to
allow both versions of Qt to coexist.
You have to adapt the program you're compiling though:
find . -type f -exec perl -p -i -e "s/-lqt/-lqt2/" {} \;
And don't forget to specify --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt2 ...
LLaP
bero
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Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: linuxconf Potential security risk. Don't run it. Where could I read up about that? I already ran it, but will leave it out next install if it's that bad. Darn - seemed quite useful too! sigh Well, All I know is what my mentor/boss told me. He said leave it out. You can still run Linuxconf from the local console. I think that daemon may be for running it from a remote console. John
Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: OK John, thanks for the confirmation - now can you tell me please - if I want to emulate scsi (for the burner), then when I do finally make my (full) reinstall, should I say yes or no to scsi at install time - just wondering how self propelled the emulation is, and whether or not it needs to borrow bits off of the normal scsi install. I'm sorry...I'm not using anything that needs emulation. Plus my box at home has a real-live SCSI controller in it. :-) I'd say check the archives and see what they have to say... John
Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 ro,user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev00 "ro" for a CDRW Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of a CDRW? :-) No, it's not. It actualy doesn't matter what you put there rw or ro. Why you ask? because iso9660 states the format is readonly. try mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom -o rw -t iso9660 now run mount, notice it's ro.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?
linuxconf provides a web interface as well as the text and gui interface. $BROWSER http://127.0.0.1:98/ you'll have to enable access of course first in linuxconf.. On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Simon Norris wrote: I too would also be interested as to why LinuxConf is a security risk. I don't actually intend to make a direct connection out, I'm relying on Win98 SE to make my internet connection, but if LinuxConf has other risks, I'd like to know about them. - Original Message - From: bay56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] what are these daemons? - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] what are these daemons? linuxconf Potential security risk. Don't run it. Where could I read up about that? I already ran it, but will leave it out next install if it's that bad. Darn - seemed quite useful too! sigh Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: You just need to be sure that the first partition is in the first 1023 cylinders for LILO to work ok. If the hardware can access the rest of the drive, then Linux should be able to as well. LILO just needs to be able to get at the system files to do its job, and as long as the first partition is in the first 1023 cylinders, all should be well, I think. As for the remaining space, I think it is up to you how you partition it. I have been reading these sort of things for an age now, and I think the penny has just dropped - when we say first partition - can I take it we mean the first Linux partition - I hope so coz then the penny really has dropped! Nope. The kernel MUST be in the first 1024 Cylinders of a hard drive. ANY hard drive. Whether that means you have to create a small Linux partition BEFORE Windows, or whether you have to put it on another hard drive entirely, then that's what it means. After that, size really is not important. I keep trying to tell the wife that same thing but she keeps mumbling something about metric's big grin Joe
Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
Ryan Baxter wrote: When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan Do you have a laptop with one of this new pointer devices that you control moving the finger across a strange surface? I have had the same problem just this morning. At the shop they said me that is a problem with this specific kind of device (sorry). I have changed to a Fujitsu with just a single buttom that works as a joystick. It works fine but my problem now is to configure the TFT monitor in XFree86Setup. Any idea? -- Francisco Alonso-Sarria Area de Geografia Fisica Universidad de Murcia Campus de La Merced E-30001 MURCIA +34 968364357 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] what are these daemons?
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: I too would also be interested as to why LinuxConf is a security risk. I don't actually intend to make a direct connection out, I'm relying on Win98 SE to make my internet connection, but if LinuxConf has other risks, I'd like to know about them. Well, as I said earlier (our messages probably crossed in the email. G) it *probably* is a security risk because that service MAY be for running LinuxConf from remote. You can still run LinuxConf from the local console, even with that turned off. I'm just going by what my mentor/boss said and extrapolating. That's why I go into inetd.conf and comment out every service in there...I don't want to leave ANY of those services available. :-) John
RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: Not really, you can't just drag and drop files to it. You HAVE to use a utility such as cdrecord from the console or xcdroast from with X (and there are other newer ones appearing all the time). These programs don't talk to the CDR using the normal filesystem methods anyway so they won't care. If you don't put RO, you'll only get told that it's a read-only filesystem so it will be mounted RO anyway ;o) Of course they might care that it's mounted at all - not sure on that one - if they do, just make sure it's unmounted before running any burner software. Hmm...I learned something new today. :-) John
Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2?
Why don't I just install the Licq RPM? Have you tried yet? The RPM version of Licq .70.1 will not install because of module dependencies that it calls up. It wants QT2 otherwise it will not install. Any Mandrake 6.1 users out there get this thing to install with any success? Please share your secret. Postman Mandrake 6.1 user -- Original Message As Follows -- Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I install QT2? From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:08:55 -0400 On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: All this tap dance to get QT2 installed. And I can't get anywhere with it. Have I overlooked something? Are there unforseen steps that I am missing prior to installing the QT2 rmp package? I am sure there is. The QT2 rpm package wasn't made to not be installed. QT2 is more "advanced" than most of the apps out there. Your only real option is to just install LICQ via RPM and forget about compiling your own. Again, I just don't understand why you HAVE to compile it. QT2 really isn't ready for current distros of Linux, AFAIK. As I understand it, QT2 is more for "beta" purposes in getting apps ready for KDE2.0, than for "current" versions of KDE apps. --- This Message was Powered by Xcel Communications Sign up for your FREE EMAIL account today at http://www.mailroom.com Give your FAX machine an email address http://www.faxroom.com
Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! issues
You have to go to ftp.soundblaster.com/pub/creative/beta/ and download emu10k1-0.3b.tar.gz. For 2.2.9-19 use the module for version 2.2.5. If you upgrade to 2.2.9-27 use the module for ver. 2.2.10 Richard Barry Marler wrote: Someone posted the Creative ftp site where various versions of emu* are available, one of which works with the 2.2.9 kernel in Venus. Would you mind reposting? I accidentally deleted the message. Thanks. /b - Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (voice) (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [newbie] Default kernel .config
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: Are the config files available for the kernels installed with Mandrake 6.1? I've been customizing a kernel and it is crashing, so I'd like to start from a known working config. Is it documented somewhere what features are enabled in the installed kernels? I cant answer that one but when doing a make config, just hit the ? key if you dont know what an option is for, you will be suprised what you see. I did that and was very careful and deliberate in my choices. Trouble is it doesn't boot. It appears that one of the modprobe's in rc.sysinit is hanging, and for some reason executing in a loop (my screen is filled with scrolling error messages that I can't stop but if I look real close I can see a modprobe error). I could debug this but I'd really rather start from a working configuration. Eric Solberg
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--On Wednesday, September 29, 1999, 5:57 PM +0200 Stefan Van Dessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: newbie remove ..in HTML, no less ;-) /b - Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (voice) (706)542-0059 (fax)
[newbie] Listening
I've installed mSQL and PHP from the source and both are functioning fine. The problem comes in interfacing the two. I can't make a connection to the msql server from PHP. I have mSQL set up for TCP socket 1114. Do I need to set it up in some other way for internal listening? James. -- James Stewart | Britlinks | The Phantom Tollbooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.britlinks.co.uk | http://www.tollbooth.org Sixpence None The Richer UK -- http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/
Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! and Mandrake
Katie Condon wrote: Has anybody had experience with the Creative Blaster Soundblaster Live! (Value) and the mandrake-linux kernel 2.2.9-19mdk ? Katie Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes I was having a lot of problem but this page got it working: http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/sblive.html ed
Re: [newbie] More PHP woes
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Brett Jones wrote: If you install mysql from the rpms there is a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d that will do it. Run ntsysv and select mysql from the list, the next boot will bring mysql up along with other services. This is mSQL, rather than MySQL. I can't find any scripts that seem appropriate. Are all scripts placed in /etc/rc.d/init.d automatically run on start-up? James. -- James Stewart | Britlinks | The Phantom Tollbooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.britlinks.co.uk | http://www.tollbooth.org Sixpence None The Richer UK -- http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/
[newbie] HTML Editor and Graphical FTP
I need good HTML editor and Grphical FTP for Linux. What are some good ones? __ Thanks, Bob HoP 4 Life [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/9239/ ICQ: 5760810 AOLIM: bobifmd National Wrestling League (NWL) - www.nwlwrestling.com House of Pain Wrestling Federation (HoPWF) - www.nwlwrestling.com WildSamoan ProWrestling Training Center - www.WildSamoan.com Declare your PC a Microsoft-free zone
[newbie] /etc/mail/relay-domains
How do I get this to work? I want to be able to send mail from a remote site by allowing relaying either from the domain of the remote site, or preferrably by the site's firewall host (which is what smtp on my host sees). If I enter eithor of these in relay-domains it won't allow the relay. However, if I recompile the m4's with: FEATURE(relay_local_from) it works fine, but it seems this would allow others to send mail appearing to be from my domain, right? I tried FEATURE(relay_hosts_only) and it didn't seem to do the trick. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Eric Solberg
[newbie] soundcore.o for 2.2.9-19mdk
I somehow lost my soundcore.o and cannot recompile right now due to some odd complications.. could someone send me one or post it somewhere online? I need /lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc/soundcore.o thanks... -- --katie
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Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 ro,user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev00 "ro" for a CDRW Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of a CDRW? :-) No. I don't know that Linux supports the kind of drag-n-drop rewriting that Windows supports, allowing you to use the CDRW as a slow hard drive. The only time you'll typically mount the CDRW is with a CD to read, thus the read-only. You don't mount the CDRW if you're burning to it, it's just a block device. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Star Ahhh!-fice
"David P. Greenberg" wrote: --We've all heard tales of woe regarding that mess, Star Office. Well, here's my sad story. I downloaded the thing from the new Sun page. it took me 7 and 3/4 hours!!! That's at 33.6 connected at 31200. I'm NOT exagerating. After getting it, I cracked the tarball w/ kde and it unzipped. I opened the setup.zip file with karchiver and unzipped to a directory in my /home directory I ended up with 40 files in a so51 directory. At the bottom of the heap is a SETUP.BIN (exe. gear) . I have set permissions but the gear does nothing. In fact none of the files do anything. Now, before the flames roll in, let me just say this. I have succesfully installed both rpm's and tar's on this system. Also I did read the .pdf file that came with the download, and it was of absolutely no help. I also would like to point out that I have not been able to make SO work since version 4.0. I keep trying because if us Linux users didn't like challenges we'd still be using Windows. Has anybody out there gotten this thing to work? Please post a nice, dumb step by step for us newbies out there, unwilling to concede. Did you get the glibc2 version? If you're running RH or Mandrake, you need this. Also there is another dir of glibc2 stuff you need to install first. If not, it won't work. Read the install instrucs on thier website to make sure you did this. If you did, I don't have a clue. Alan === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
I did not find a way of disableing the mouse autoprobe during install.. One option that i came across was to copy the cd to hard drive and replace the mouseconfig 3.9 with the redhat mouseconfig file,(which apparantly didn't freeze). It seemed a long way around for me, so i pulled my laptop apart and physically disconnected the mouse, installed linux with no problems on mouseprobe. selected the standard os2 mouse as an install option and then reconnected everything.. worked fine.. the Xconfigurator took me some time to get right. basicly i just played with Xconfigurator in a v-console till i got it right.. Initally had to settle for 640 x 480 but fiddling is the way to do it. Sorry i cannot be of more help, but i am very new to linux. Good luck. -- From: Ryan Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 6:42 AM Francisco Alonso wrote: Ryan Baxter wrote: When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan Do you have a laptop with one of this new pointer devices that you control moving the finger across a strange surface? I have had the same problem just this morning. At the shop they said me that is a problem with this specific kind of device (sorry). I have changed to a Fujitsu with just a single buttom that works as a joystick. It works fine but my problem now is to configure the TFT monitor in XFree86Setup. Any idea? ***I have a regular desktop computer. 200 mhz and 32 meg or ram. I have encountered this problem with other linux help sites. Nothing however, that gives a fix yet. Apparently to avoid the probing of the mouse or any other device you can specify this at the boot prompt. boot: linux hdb=noprobe hdc=cdrom This was the example on the Red Hat site. I will try this and substitue mouse for cdrom and see if I can get anywhere.
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Stefan Van Dessel wrote: newbie remove Wrong address. And kill the HTML. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Christopher John Cogan wrote: newbie remove Wrong address. And kill the HTML. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor and Graphical FTP
Bob wrote: I need good HTML editor and Grphical FTP for Linux. What are some good ones? IglooFTP is nice. As for editing HTML, you might try Netscape's built-in editor (if you want WYSIWYG). -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] [OT] Looking for a card game (euchre)
did you look at freshmeat.org or linuxberg? Always check these first, they have daily updates. Brian -Original Message- From: Tony Coronado [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 2:47 PM Subject: [newbie] [OT] Looking for a card game (euchre) I've searched google/alta vista/etc but I can not find software for playing the card game *euchre* on linux (not counting java clients at games.yahoo.com et al) Any pointers will be appreciated Tony.
Re: [newbie] [OT] Looking for a card game (euchre)
Tony Coronado wrote: I've searched google/alta vista/etc but I can not find software for playing the card game *euchre* on linux (not counting java clients at games.yahoo.com et al) Any pointers will be appreciated Yes! Yes! Yes! If you find something, post it, I've been hoping for Euchre for years! -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] newbie-remove
Larry Corrales wrote: newbie-remove Wrong address. Check the MandrakeSoft website for the correct address. Isn't it about time we put a footer on the bottom of list messages that includes removal instructions? -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] eth0
Jim Howarth wrote: Can someone tell me where I can define my ne2000 network cards info for the kernel. Linuxconf is useless to me. I need a text file... I'm used to slackware.. all of this stuff was nice and easy to put in but my switch to mandrake has me near tears grin Jim You could go to a command line and do it the same way you did in Slack ware couldn't you? Can't be that much different. Guys at my LUG helped me set mine up and they know nothing about Mandrake. They are Redhat, Slack, Suse and Caldera mix. Brian
Re: [newbie] /etc/mail/relay-domains
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Eric Solberg wrote: How do I get this to work? I want to be able to send mail from a remote site by allowing relaying either from the domain of the remote site, or preferrably by the site's firewall host (which is what smtp on my host sees). If I enter eithor of these in relay-domains it won't allow the relay. However, if I recompile the m4's with: FEATURE(relay_local_from) it works fine, but it seems this would allow others to send mail appearing to be from my domain, right? I tried FEATURE(relay_hosts_only) and it didn't seem to do the trick. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Eric Solberg try adding the hosts you want to allow relay access from, into /etc/mail/relay_allow -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] newbie-remove
instructions sent. Gone. Brian -Original Message- From: Larry Corrales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 2:57 PM Subject: [newbie] newbie-remove newbie-remove
Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
try at the boot. linux expert or expert noprobe . didn't work for me, but worth a try none the less. When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan Do you have a laptop with one of this new pointer devices that you control moving the finger across a strange surface? I have had the same problem just this morning. At the shop they said me that is a problem with this specific kind of device (sorry). I have changed to a Fujitsu with just a single buttom that works as a joystick. It works fine but my problem now is to configure the TFT monitor in XFree86Setup. Any idea? ***I have a regular desktop computer. 200 mhz and 32 meg or ram. I have encountered this problem with other linux help sites. Nothing however, that gives a fix yet. Apparently to avoid the probing of the mouse or any other device you can specify this at the boot prompt. boot: linux hdb=noprobe hdc=cdrom This was the example on the Red Hat site. I will try this and substitue mouse for cdrom and see if I can get anywhere.
Re: [newbie] More PHP woes
James Stewart wrote: This is mSQL, rather than MySQL. I can't find any scripts that seem appropriate. You could read through one of the scripts in the init.d dir and build your own. I'm sure one has made at some time. Look for a msql src.rpm in the contrib directory of one of the redhat mirrors. If you can dig one, it should be super easy changing the script to work for you setup. Are all scripts placed in /etc/rc.d/init.d automatically run on start-up? No the script it self stays in this dir. It is linked into the run level dirs as needed. If you were to link rc.d/init.d/msql to rc3.d it would start the service when booted into run level 3 (the default command line boot config). ntsysv is a curses based util that does this for you, it also gives it it's boot order.
Re: [newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 11:35 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - update I really don't want to start knocking Mandrake at all here as i'm sure they have plenty enough to do already (!), but i have to admit IF (and only if) this simple recompile works and doesn't screw anything else up, then yes i really do agree. From what I have seen so far they are pretty diligent, this opportunity is unlikely to pass them by completely! That said i know that nobody in Linux circles is happy with Creative at the moment on the subject of the SBLive! and lack of willingness to release technical info on it (without forking out a small. Maybe that may have an impact. Well as long as they keep that approach up - they are vulnerable - it would only take one product that fits the bill just right, and the linux community at large to find that out, and Creative could see a lot of their own product, but second hand, hit the streets, and once that happens the perceived value of Creative stuff could fall quite badly. Double whammy - less sales less potential for them at current prices! They are for the first time in a long time vulnerable to predation from a small but alert pacific rim card maker - now that's going prove interesting! - Now if only we knew which one, we'd be forming and orderly (or otherwise) queue at their factory door! ;-) Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display
Ah, yes - you could try some hardware monitoring software - Sandra from scisoft, and an assortment from Entech should get you all the info you could wish for - just need to snoop the settings you use in Win - write em down, paste em in! Should be reasonably do-able. Try looking round the sites that support your video card (not the makers site!) there's hackers all over the place who like to twiddle with the HW and read the new figures they just wrung out of their pride and joy - those guys will be laden with diagnostic tools quite often! Just the tools you need in fact ;-) Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: lalala lalala [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display As I said before, I have 15inch Gateway Vivitron 1572... I can do 1024 x 768 with true 16 bit colors w/o problem in win95. What is the "safe" setting for me if I do choose to custom set my monitor config? --- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if Linnux supports multiprocessors? I am planning on getting Dual Celeron system... Very much so. Typically, as you install it, it will automatically detect the multi-processor setup. However, if you install it BEFORE having both processors, you will have to manually install the SMP kernel afterwards. Also.. I have a Gateway Vivitron 1572 15inch monitor.. it's not listed in the Xconfig's monitor list. Will this have an effect on Xserver? I chose so many different ones (including the closest one - Gateway Vivitron 15inch) but none of them work. I tried going to gateway's site and look up refresh rates (they're all aroun 60-70 Hz but did not list horizontal/vertical refresh rates). You may have to choose a fairly "safe" set of refresh rates and experiment until you find the right settings. Other than that, you're on your own. The system I have is a "generic" 17" monitor that I swapped for a "generic" 15" monitorno X changes required. Probably because I chose some "generic" settings. John __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?
Thanks for that reminder - I am still struggling with finding the right docs for most things at the moment - only been at it since last Friday night! I find 'em sometimes though! Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 6:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup? read the docs that come with imwheel. he gives a very simple, and detailed method for getting it to work as a three button mouse and a scroll mouse together. i have a trackman marble+ that scrolls perfectly in X and acts like a three button mouse. you need to turn OFF 3 button emulation. :P Jeanette Russo wrote: Reading both these web pages only confused me is there just a simple explanation of how to get this working? I am using a logitech firstmouse with scroll wheel and can't seem to get it to work. Three button emaulation is on and it is configured as ps2 logitech scrollwheel mouse. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:16 AM Subject: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup? "pete" == pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pete what do i need to do to get imwheel to startup whenever i pete startx? :P One way is to put imwheel -k in your .xinitrc See http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll and http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel/ -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 28 St Wenceslaus "It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands." [G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy]
Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip scsi is the native way to talk to devices like CDRs, which makes scsi-emulation the more natural way to do it I'm sure not going to pick a fight over it, but I think the words "was" , "made" "in those days", could do with being sustituted in there today! ;-) Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor and Graphical FTP
Bob wrote: I need good HTML editor and Grphical FTP for Linux. What are some good ones? __ Thanks, Bob HoP 4 Life [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/9239/ ICQ: 5760810 AOLIM: bobifmd National Wrestling League (NWL) - www.nwlwrestling.com House of Pain Wrestling Federation (HoPWF) - www.nwlwrestling.com WildSamoan ProWrestling Training Center - www.WildSamoan.com Declare your PC a Microsoft-free zone Webmaker, August, asWedit Coffee Cup are all decent HTML editors. Jeanette
[newbie] Starting httpd on boot
Okay, I'e worked a bit with the contributions I got from the list but it seems that there wasn't a satisfactory answer, as most of the solutions do not work. Okay, here's the situation. I got the SOURCE code from Apache.org, instead of the RPM from Mandrake, and built it like that. I guess I wasn't clear enough in my first message. Mr. Bloodstone's solution to run ntsysv doesn't seem to have "httpd" in its nice graphical menu, so that was an "out". Mr. Jones stated to add a shortcut link and edit the script, but when I try to run the /sbin/chkconfig --add httpd, it returns the error, "service httpd does not support chkconfig". Right now, I have a symbolic link to the "apachectl" command lying in the init.d directory. How would I pass the command line "start" (as the command to start httpd is "$ apachectl start" so it enables itself on boot? Thanks. -- /-|rcana - - * - - Pern - Araby Weyr: http://members.tripod.com/~Araby/ FF7 - Tales of Midgar: http://members.tripod.com/~ArcanaTxM/ Xenogears - DeM: http://members.tripod.com/~project_xat/ Xenogears - Guardian Angels: http://guardian.zenogias.com/
[newbie] Forcing Network card to read off of 10baseT
I have two network cards with both BNJ and RJ45 ports on it. My Cable Modem is connected to eth1 with 10baseT. My Win98 box is connected to eth0 with 10baseT. The win98 box is set to Static IP, as is eth0 on the Linux machine (I believe its 192.168.1.1 for the Linux and 192.168.1.2 for the Win98). Now, when I boot up Linux, it tells me, "Link beat not detected, media switched to 10base2". As a result, I can't ping the Linux box from my Win98 machine. Is there a a way to force the card to read from the 10baseT jack? Is there something I have to do with my Windows box to "send a link beat"? Okay, thanks. Bye for now. (Still not getting IP masquerading... but what's the point if your win box can't even connect to the Linux box?) -- /-|rcana - - * - - Pern - Araby Weyr: http://members.tripod.com/~Araby/ FF7 - Tales of Midgar: http://members.tripod.com/~ArcanaTxM/ Xenogears - DeM: http://members.tripod.com/~project_xat/ Xenogears - Guardian Angels: http://guardian.zenogias.com/
Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
Regional Webmaster wrote: I did not find a way of disableing the mouse autoprobe during install.. One option that i came across was to copy the cd to hard drive and replace the mouseconfig 3.9 with the redhat mouseconfig file,(which apparantly didn't freeze). It seemed a long way around for me, so i pulled my laptop apart and physically disconnected the mouse, installed linux with no problems on mouseprobe. selected the standard os2 mouse as an install option and then reconnected everything.. worked fine.. the Xconfigurator took me some time to get right. basicly i just played with Xconfigurator in a v-console till i got it right.. Initally had to settle for 640 x 480 but fiddling is the way to do it. Sorry i cannot be of more help, but i am very new to linux. Good luck. -- From: Ryan Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 6:42 AM Francisco Alonso wrote: Ryan Baxter wrote: When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan Do you have a laptop with one of this new pointer devices that you control moving the finger across a strange surface? I have had the same problem just this morning. At the shop they said me that is a problem with this specific kind of device (sorry). I have changed to a Fujitsu with just a single buttom that works as a joystick. It works fine but my problem now is to configure the TFT monitor in XFree86Setup. Any idea? ***I have a regular desktop computer. 200 mhz and 32 meg or ram. I have encountered this problem with other linux help sites. Nothing however, that gives a fix yet. Apparently to avoid the probing of the mouse or any other device you can specify this at the boot prompt. boot: linux hdb=noprobe hdc=cdrom This was the example on the Red Hat site. I will try this and substitue mouse for cdrom and see if I can get anywhere. I dont know about your laptop but mine has a setting in the bios to disable the touchpad . Jeanette
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
Ah, and thank you for drawing that distinction! Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition?? Nope. The kernel MUST be in the first 1024 Cylinders of a hard drive. ANY hard drive. Whether that means you have to create a small Linux partition BEFORE Windows, or whether you have to put it on another hard drive entirely, then that's what it means. After that, size really is not important.
[newbie] C Compiler
I don't have a cc installed on my sys, and for the life of me cannot find one. Is there a list that describes that packages on the mandrake cd so that i can identify which one to install, or do i have to go through them one at a time... Still I have not much of an idea of what i am doing, but the fog is slowly lifting from my brain, soon i will see clearly and be free. well almost free.
Re: [newbie] Starting httpd on boot
From: Arcana [EMAIL PROTECTED] try to run the /sbin/chkconfig --add httpd, it returns the error, "service httpd does not support chkconfig". Edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd, and add these two lines near the top--like after line 2: # chkconfig: 2345 10 90 # description: Activates/Deactivates Apache Web Server Then run /sbin/chkconfig --del httpd, then /sbin/chkconfig --add httpd.
[newbie] cant seem to get right resolution.
I can only get the X server to work at 800x600 at 8 bit colour. When i try to do *anything*, the screen is too small to show all the buttons, and a lot of times, the screen cant show Apply and OK buttons, making it very hard to change settings. I know i can TAB through them, but still this proves difficult. HOw can i get X to work in something like 1024x768? All i get is a black screen... and I cant use Xf86Setup either. when i type that in, i get a invallid command error. Thank you Jerrud
RE: [newbie] Re:
But didn't you just love that nice shade of green, for those that can read in html that is. :-) Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Barry Marler Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: --On Wednesday, September 29, 1999, 5:57 PM +0200 Stefan Van Dessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: newbie remove ..in HTML, no less ;-)
Re: [newbie] Forcing Network card to read off of 10baseT
Arcana wrote: I have two network cards with both BNJ and RJ45 ports on it. My Cable Modem is connected to eth1 with 10baseT. My Win98 box is connected to eth0 with 10baseT. The win98 box is set to Static IP, as is eth0 on the Linux machine (I believe its 192.168.1.1 for the Linux and 192.168.1.2 for the Win98). Now, when I boot up Linux, it tells me, "Link beat not detected, media switched to 10base2". As a result, I can't ping the Linux box from my Win98 machine. Is there a a way to force the card to read from the 10baseT jack? Is there something I have to do with my Windows box to "send a link beat"? Okay, thanks. Bye for now. (Still not getting IP masquerading... but what's the point if your win box can't even connect to the Linux box?) Silly question, but are you using a crossover cable between the Windows and Linux machines? You'll need one if you're not using a hub between them. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] C Compiler
Regional Webmaster wrote: I don't have a cc installed on my sys, and for the life of me cannot find one. Is there a list that describes that packages on the mandrake cd so that i can identify which one to install, or do i have to go through them one at a time... Still I have not much of an idea of what i am doing, but the fog is slowly lifting from my brain, soon i will see clearly and be free. well almost free. Run this once to create a list of packages and the files that they contain: mount /mnt/cdrom cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS for i in *.rpm; do rpm -qpil ~/RPM-list; done Once you run that, you'll have a file in your home directory called RPM-list that you can use to find out which package owns a file you're interested in. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Starting httpd on boot
Rename the link httpd. Make sure the lines you added are correct, there should be a # sign infront of each line (sorry if i forgot to tell you this). The lines added to apachectl should look just like this. Here is the how to I got this info from. The guy who wrote it has a number of other good tutorials. http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: Okay, I'e worked a bit with the contributions I got from the list but it seems that there wasn't a satisfactory answer, as most of the solutions do not work. Okay, here's the situation. I got the SOURCE code from Apache.org, instead of the RPM from Mandrake, and built it like that. I guess I wasn't clear enough in my first message. Mr. Bloodstone's solution to run ntsysv doesn't seem to have "httpd" in its nice graphical menu, so that was an "out". Mr. Jones stated to add a shortcut link and edit the script, but when I try to run the /sbin/chkconfig --add httpd, it returns the error, "service httpd does not support chkconfig". Right now, I have a symbolic link to the "apachectl" command lying in the init.d directory. How would I pass the command line "start" (as the command to start httpd is "$ apachectl start" so it enables itself on boot? Thanks. -- /-|rcana - - * - - Pern - Araby Weyr: http://members.tripod.com/~Araby/ FF7 - Tales of Midgar: http://members.tripod.com/~ArcanaTxM/ Xenogears - DeM: http://members.tripod.com/~project_xat/ Xenogears - Guardian Angels: http://guardian.zenogias.com/ -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] how do you change screen resolution?
how do i change screen resolution in kde!
Re: [newbie] cant seem to get right resolution.
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: I can only get the X server to work at 800x600 at 8 bit colour. When i try to do *anything*, the screen is too small to show all the buttons, and a lot of times, the screen cant show Apply and OK buttons, making it very hard to change settings. I know i can TAB through them, but still this proves difficult. HOw can i get X to work in something like 1024x768? All i get is a black screen... and I cant use Xf86Setup either. when i type that in, i get a invallid command error. As root type this EXACTLY (minus quotes, case included) "XF86Setup" John
[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 to Mandrake 6.1 - - - Worth the effort??
I'm running Mandrake 6.0 with all the patches. If I take the time to upgrade to 6.1 what will it give me?
Re: [newbie] how do you change screen resolution?
Jason wrote: how do i change screen resolution in kde! Ctrl-Alt-numpad+ and Ctrl-Alt-numpad- -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] CDR-RW, thanks Paul
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Paul Benjamin wrote: First you will have to login as root or at least su to root in a terminal window. Next we need to test cdrecord to make sure it is working. cdrecord is used by XCDRoast to burn the CD. At a terminal prompt type: cdrecord -scanbus This should spit back something like this: Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling scsibus1: 100) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 7200 ' '3.01' Removable 101) * 102) * 103) * 104) * 105) * 106) * 107) * If this doesn't work either cdrecord isn't in your path or you haven't gotten SCSI emulation to work for the CD-R. There are a couple of web pages out there on getting SCSI emulation to work. Mine is at: http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm If this part is working I am at a loss because XCDRoast worked great once I got my SCSI emulation to work. Just remember that you need to be the root user to use the CD-R for burning. PBen Paul thanks a heap, Your site enabled me to configure me xcdroast program. I've still got a few loose ends to tie up and may be back with questions but I want to tackle the instructions and see if I can figure it out from here. Again thanks, this list has been extremely helpful to me in learning linux. I also enjoy the banter and kidding around. You know we don't have to be serious all the time. Rick "mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 to Mandrake 6.1 - - - Worth the effort??
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Eric L. Damron wrote: I'm running Mandrake 6.0 with all the patches. If I take the time to upgrade to 6.1 what will it give me? I liked the things I've found with 6.1. It has Netscape 6.1, the latest kde which will now load gnome applications, xcdroast already installed. I think it is worth the upgrade. Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
[newbie] Config modem
Anyone got a complete idiots guide to config a modem ??
