Re: [newbie] ZIP Mandrake 6.1. help
Hi, I have had some problems configuring a zip drive in Mandrake 6.1 and I d like to ask you something. It used to work really well in Mandrake 6.0 (and in Mandrake 5.2) with the following fstab but now I have done a new installation (Mandrake 6.1) and it is not working anymore. It is an IDE Iomega zip drive 100 internal. Its is working fine in windows. I have my box partioned (hda1=windows). During the installation Mandrake no longer recognizes my zip drive as it did before during the installation of Mandrake 5.2. So, when I booted for the first time I added a new line in fstab: /dev/hdb /mnt/zipauto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 After this when I try to mount it, the light blinks and it tells me:"bad superblok; wrong fs type". I have kept the fstab just as it was (and as it is now): /dev/hda1/ ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda2swapswap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3swapswap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 /dev/hdb /mnt/zipauto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 none/procproc defaults 0 0 none/dev/pts devpts mode=06220 0 Would you know what is going on? Why this fstab that worked fine in previous versions is no longer working? Best regards, Rodrigo Freire Oliveira -- Rodrigo Freire Oliveira Mestrando em Psicobiologia Departamento de Psicologia e Educação Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto Universidade de São Paulo, Campus de Ribeirão Preto 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brasil Tel: +55 (0)16 6023768 (lab.) Tel: +55 (0)16 6206083 (home) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [[newbie] desktop size 640*480]
"Martijn Van Der Horst" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed linux but my desktop size is now 640*480 how can I make my desktop size 1024*768 === Assuming there is no limitation on the functioning of your video card, try using XF86Setup (as root). Your display can be adjusted easily there. HTH, Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Respawning too fast
I got this same error about a year ago while running Caldera. If I remember correctly, it happened after I put an entry in rc.local to "force" my modem into a ready state on boot-up. Hope this helps. Bryan "Ryan Baxter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/19/99 08:12:57 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: [newbie] Respawning too fast When I first boot up I get a respawning error. Saying that it will be disabled for 5 minutes. I just ignore and login without problems. What is this? Anybody seen it? -thanks ryan __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:03:57PM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two more bugs to report: 1) By default, Mandrake attempts to turn on DMA for available IDE devices. Attempting to copy the contents of a CDROM to my hard drive, I encountered the following errors: Um, no 6.1 shiped without the ide patch What does that mean?? My boot logs show "DMA" turned on for the hard drive and CDROM. /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime DOES seem to affect whether DMA is turned on at the end of the boot. [SNIP] Finally, I modified /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime to change the -d1 to -d0 in the hdparm line and rebooted the machine. This only gets used if opti is specified on the cmdline, "opti" is not specified on the cmdline. As above, mandrake_everytime DOES seem to have an effect on whether DMA is enabled or not at the end of the boot. After the reboot, I again attempted the copy only to be greeted with the same errors followed by: [SNIP] Thinking that I'd simply bypass the bad judgement on Mandrake's part, I moved to compiling my own kernel. Once again, I'm hit with a bug: 2) Inability to compile a kernel. Attempting a 'make menuconfig' yields: [SNIP] * RPM packaging is supposed to ensure that binary packages are reliably recreatable using the source package. If I can't even get the resulting source to build, how did you manage to compile the thing in the first place? The cflags get put there by rpm, (there was a non fuctional %post to check gcc --version for 2.95+, actualy it functions but only if gcc is installed at the time) Have a gander at the src.rpm Fine, so how did it end up in the distribution if the only gcc package you ship is gcc-fr? How did it NOT get caught during testing? Surely SOMEONE must have tried to build a kernel! It's not like it's slightly broke, it just plain doesn't work. Blatantly! * Where the hell is the quality testing?! I've only owned this distribution for two days and already I've tripped over three bugs that should not happen. [SNIP] the problem. Actually, I don't think I've even seen a response from anyone at Mandrake for any of the reported problems. You guys really want to download 30+ megs to not have to manual edit a CFLAGS= ? You guys want to keep hearing the complaints? It's broke. Fix it. Is that really so difficult to comprehend? Sheesh, you'd think Mandrake would want to get that one fixed for sheer "brown paper bag" value. I'm not a clueless, confused, newbie user. I'm not adverse to fixing these problems myself. However, I'd prefer the opportunity to shoot MYSELF in the foot prior to Mandrake grabbing the gun and doing it for me. Well? You got my money, how about giving me a workable product for it? Consider putting that on a bulletin board somewhere. You'd do well to take it to heart. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Items of interest
Today I tried to register from NT and when the form came up it was missing some important spaces like the country blank, so not sure what the problem is but it is on Redhat's end. Couldn't find anyway to contact them other than the support email link. Jeanette On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Sam wrote: Don't know why, I registered with no problem, you may want to let the red hat webmaster know what's going on if he has a link on the site Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ditto. Bryan Sam No matter what I do to try to join this it gives me an error message or says the name is already in use. I tried like 20 names and weird names so I know thats not the case. Jeanette
Re: [newbie] StarOffice mailing list?
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Anybody know if there is a StarOffice mailing list (or newsgroup)? Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net I think you will find it here http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/newsgroups.html hope it helps Jeanette
Re: [newbie]OT Items of interest
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ty Mixon wrote: Same here. Generally what I have found is that if it errors out on such things, then tells you the name is taken you DID join, but there was some funky error that prevented you from getting the message. So you and i have several memberships now. :) snip --Well, when all those CD's come, then, I'll be selling them! G BTW, I too have suffered the sign up error syndrome. Remember back when we all considered things like black and white TV or power windows to be the height of technology. Look how far we've come. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.**
Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two more bugs to report:
1) By default, Mandrake attempts to turn on DMA for available IDE devices.
Attempting to copy the contents of a CDROM to my hard drive, I encountered
the following errors:
hdd: timeout waiting for DMA
hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdd: DMA disabled
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: DMA disabled
and then the entire machine locked up. The keyboard was frozen and I ended
up "kicking the Big Red Button" on the machine.
I modified my BIOS settings to disable DMA support for the interfaces and
rebooted. Trying to make the copy, the same errors and lockup (and
resolution occurred).
Finally, I modified /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime to change the -d1 to
-d0 in the hdparm line and rebooted the machine.
After the reboot, I again attempted the copy only to be greeted with the
same errors followed by:
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
ATAPI device hdd:
Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred -- (asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
ide0: reset: success
The machine did not lock up this time, but I'm a bit worried by the
messages. This machine had NO PROBLEMS running Mandrake 6.0 and had no
problems running 2.3.x kernels.
Thinking that I'd simply bypass the bad judgement on Mandrake's part, I
moved to compiling my own kernel. Once again, I'm hit with a bug:
2) Inability to compile a kernel. Attempting a 'make menuconfig' yields:
gcc -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium
-mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-loops=2
-malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -DLOCALE
-I/usr/include/ncurses -DCURSES_LOC="ncurses.h" -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o
cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2'
make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
This leaves me with a couple questions:
* RPM packaging is supposed to ensure that binary packages are reliably
recreatable using the source package. If I can't even get the resulting
source to build, how did you manage to compile the thing in the first
place?
* Where the hell is the quality testing?! I've only owned this
distribution for two days and already I've tripped over three bugs that
should not happen.
TO THE MANDRAKE STAFF:
I know that the second bug has already been reported to this list. I
haven't seen a reponse from Mandrake concerning an updated package to fix
the problem. Actually, I don't think I've even seen a response from anyone
at Mandrake for any of the reported problems.
I'm not a clueless, confused, newbie user. I'm not adverse to fixing these
problems myself. However, I'd prefer the opportunity to shoot MYSELF in the
foot prior to Mandrake grabbing the gun and doing it for me.
Well? You got my money, how about giving me a workable product for it?
Consider putting that on a bulletin board somewhere. You'd do well to take
it to heart.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [newbie]OT Items of interest
Doh, I hope I get at least one, haven't got a confirmation or anything? Jeanette
Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1
In regards to the CD glitch you had:
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
ATAPI device hdd:
Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred
--
(asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {
DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
ide0: reset: success
I got that error when I used an unsuccessfully burned
copy of Mandrake (Adaptec choked on the CD-R during
the table of contents writing phase, I've since been
thru 3 CD-R's in trying to copy). So you might wanna
check the CD surface for any kind of scratches or
particles...
Just a thought..
`Kumba
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two more bugs to report:
1) By default, Mandrake attempts to turn on DMA for
available IDE devices.
Attempting to copy the contents of a CDROM to my
hard drive, I encountered
the following errors:
hdd: timeout waiting for DMA
hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdd: DMA disabled
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: DMA disabled
and then the entire machine locked up. The keyboard
was frozen and I ended
up "kicking the Big Red Button" on the machine.
I modified my BIOS settings to disable DMA support
for the interfaces and
rebooted. Trying to make the copy, the same errors
and lockup (and
resolution occurred).
Finally, I modified
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime to change the
-d1 to
-d0 in the hdparm line and rebooted the machine.
After the reboot, I again attempted the copy only to
be greeted with the
same errors followed by:
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
ATAPI device hdd:
Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred --
(asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
ide0: reset: success
The machine did not lock up this time, but I'm a bit
worried by the
messages. This machine had NO PROBLEMS running
Mandrake 6.0 and had no
problems running 2.3.x kernels.
Thinking that I'd simply bypass the bad judgement on
Mandrake's part, I
moved to compiling my own kernel. Once again, I'm
hit with a bug:
2) Inability to compile a kernel. Attempting a
'make menuconfig' yields:
gcc -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions
-fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -mcpu=pentium
-march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations
-malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -DLOCALE
-I/usr/include/ncurses -DCURSES_LOC="ncurses.h"
-c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o
cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2'
make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
This leaves me with a couple questions:
* RPM packaging is supposed to ensure that binary
packages are reliably
recreatable using the source package. If I can't
even get the resulting
source to build, how did you manage to compile the
thing in the first
place?
* Where the hell is the quality testing?! I've only
owned this
distribution for two days and already I've tripped
over three bugs that
should not happen.
TO THE MANDRAKE STAFF:
I know that the second bug has already been reported
to this list. I
haven't seen a reponse from Mandrake concerning an
updated package to fix
the problem. Actually, I don't think I've even seen
a response from anyone
at Mandrake for any of the reported problems.
I'm not a clueless, confused, newbie user. I'm not
adverse to fixing these
problems myself. However, I'd prefer the
opportunity to shoot MYSELF in the
foot prior to Mandrake grabbing the gun and doing it
for me.
Well? You got my money, how about giving me a
workable product for it?
Consider putting that on a bulletin board somewhere.
You'd do well to take
it to heart.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [newbie] Fw: mandrake 6.1 and xf86 bugged?
I have the same problem with you. Please share with me the solution if you get one. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Ken Davis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:50 AM Subject: mandrake 6.1 and xf86 bugged? Hi, I have a problem getting my #9 Imagine 128 series 2 4mb video card to work with Mandrake 6.1. I am also using a Hitachi superscan elite 751 (hitachi cm751 choice in setup). The problem is that during setup, the screen flashes several times, and it comes back saying it cannot set any display modes. I have used this setup in rh5.2, rh6.0 and mandrake 5.2 previously with no problems. If I goto the command prompt and run Xconfigurator I get the same type of errors during setup. During setup probe, it does detect my #9 pci card correctly. If I run startx, I get the error, a configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved. It is also running the I128 server which is the correct server for the card. I checked the xf86 faq and it says this card is completly compatible and does not require any settings, ie ramdac and clock settings. SuperProbe also seems to correctly identify the video card. I have also deleted and re-installed several times and removed all other cards from the system except for a pci network card (which also does not work, but thats another thread), and an sb awe32. Also, during the startx screen, it shows several lines of deleting needs hsync freq .xxx deleted for various resolutions, it shows a line (--) I128:I128-II revision (0) (--)I128: card type: pci (**)I128: vidram: 4096k I128: ibm526 ramdac not found Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks
Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1
Okay, two quickies: Mandrake 6.1 is pretty much 99% Compatible with RedHat 6.1 right? does it use GCC or is it included or has it be abadoned in favor of pgcc? and what version of libc does it have? 6.0? SInger
Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:03:57PM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two more bugs to report: 1) By default, Mandrake attempts to turn on DMA for available IDE devices. Attempting to copy the contents of a CDROM to my hard drive, I encountered the following errors: Um, no 6.1 shiped without the ide patch What does that mean?? My boot logs show "DMA" turned on for the hard drive and CDROM. /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime DOES seem to affect whether DMA is turned on at the end of the boot. It means that it didn't ship with DMA on by default.. (plz take note i didn't personaly package the kernel, but i did just double check) " kernel-2.2-i586.config:# CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO is not set " so the kernel is not the culpret. verifying /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime, is not so hard to test. comment out the actual "hdparm -q -d1 blah blah" and replace it with a touch /axalon.sux (for the extra paranoid it checks also for "nohdparm", opti will do other things also further along) I am curious as to what MB and HD controler your useing. [SNIP] Finally, I modified /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime to change the -d1 to -d0 in the hdparm line and rebooted the machine. This only gets used if opti is specified on the cmdline, "opti" is not specified on the cmdline. As above, mandrake_everytime DOES seem to have an effect on whether DMA is enabled or not at the end of the boot. Damn.. i typed this above (forgot it was down here but knew it was here) After the reboot, I again attempted the copy only to be greeted with the same errors followed by: [SNIP] Thinking that I'd simply bypass the bad judgement on Mandrake's part, I moved to compiling my own kernel. Once again, I'm hit with a bug: 2) Inability to compile a kernel. Attempting a 'make menuconfig' yields: [SNIP] * RPM packaging is supposed to ensure that binary packages are reliably recreatable using the source package. If I can't even get the resulting source to build, how did you manage to compile the thing in the first place? The cflags get put there by rpm, (there was a non fuctional %post to check gcc --version for 2.95+, actualy it functions but only if gcc is installed at the time) Have a gander at the src.rpm Fine, so how did it end up in the distribution if the only gcc package you ship is gcc-fr? How did it NOT get caught during testing? Surely SOMEONE must have tried to build a kernel! It's not like it's slightly broke, it just plain doesn't work. Blatantly! pgcc, gcc, and egcs, all provide a link gcc. this is whats being tested, not specificly what compiler package is installed. (again not my package, but) kernel is one of the exceptions that is not compiled with pgcc, think it was egcs (chmouel,bero ?). I remeber it was something to do with io ports Seems it will happen only on a clean install also doesn't seem the gcc check was ever applyed to the cooker .spec * Where the hell is the quality testing?! I've only owned this distribution for two days and already I've tripped over three bugs that should not happen. [SNIP] the problem. Actually, I don't think I've even seen a response from anyone at Mandrake for any of the reported problems. You guys really want to download 30+ megs to not have to manual edit a CFLAGS= ? You guys want to keep hearing the complaints? It's broke. Fix it. Is that really so difficult to comprehend? Sheesh, you'd think Mandrake would want to get that one fixed for sheer "brown paper bag" value. I'm not a clueless, confused, newbie user. I'm not adverse to fixing these problems myself. However, I'd prefer the opportunity to shoot MYSELF in the foot prior to Mandrake grabbing the gun and doing it for me. Well? You got my money, how about giving me a workable product for it? Consider putting that on a bulletin board somewhere. You'd do well to take it to heart. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] StareOffice 5.1 install
Hi I have Mandrake 6.0 installed and installed StareOffice 5.1 from the CD #3. I followed the read me instructions. rpm -i --nodeps StarOffice-5.1_01_516L-1.i386.rpm This installed StarOffice into /opt/Office51 Next I went from root to my user account and typed /opt/Office51/bin/setup This ran and looked like a windows install, but came back with the message. No Java Virtual Machine found. (paraphrased) I continued and it seemed to finish ok. There was no KDE menu item found even when I rebooted. Questions: 1. Why did it not find a Java-vm? What do I do? 2. Why no item to select for StareOffice on KDE menu? Any help appriciated? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1
also, what version of GCC? On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: Okay, two quickies: Mandrake 6.1 is pretty much 99% Compatible with RedHat 6.1 right? does it use GCC or is it included or has it be abadoned in favor of pgcc? and what version of libc does it have? 6.0? SInger
Re: [[newbie] desktop size 640*480]
Hi everybody. Before readjust using XF86Setup you must try using Control-Alt-[+/-] combination, this perhaps change your screen resolution, if doesn't try using Xconfigurator (I hope this utility can find your graphic card) and you provide information about the monitor. If sucessfull you may change the resolution with Control-Alt-[+/-]. Miguel (Venezuela). On 20 Oct 1999, Michael Scottaline wrote: "Martijn Van Der Horst" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed linux but my desktop size is now 640*480 how can I make my desktop size 1024*768 === Assuming there is no limitation on the functioning of your video card, try using XF86Setup (as root). Your display can be adjusted easily there. HTH, Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] the GPL effect ?
Yes, I agree. The US has gone too far approving patents (be it biological material, ideas, software, whatever). A few days ago, I read about several US based e-mail softw. companies who would argue on whether the "Sorry, you dont have any new mail" phrase would be patented/trademarked or I dont know what ... this was amazing, indeed. However, although we all like the GPL ... code may well be intellectual property. It should be an injustice to expect programmers to go hungry and work for free. I see all of the programmers who work under the GPL as a kind of "knowledge-Robin-Hoods", altruistic guys some of which go hungry ... it may be a paradox but if the GPL became too successful, it would be a kind of "dictatorship". Cheers, APS At 17:46 18/10/99 +, you wrote: ... the United States of America is the only country where a mathematical fact can be patented. FISH-ECOLOGY: the largest worldwide e-conference on fish research. Strictly academic. Reach 2400 scientists in over 65 countries. Info/queries feed-back to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Aldo P. Solari [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fish Res Gr,U of Las Palmas Home page, http://www.ccbb.ulpgc.es/fish-ecology/solaris/
[newbie] Promise Ultra66 kernel patch
In the UltraDMA Mini HowTo,it says there is a patch for the 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernelsfor a Promise Ultra66 card. The website included in the HowTo is http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/, but I can't get it to load. Does anybody else know where I can get the patch? Also, the HowTo says support for the Promise Ultra66 card is included in the 2.3.x development kernel. Has anyone tried this out? How does it work? How stable is the kernel? Thanks, Collin J. Davidson
[newbie] .Xauthority error msg
I'm getting the following error message when I startx as a normal user: "xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/scott/.Xauthority" I've tried removing and replacing the .Xauthority file in my home directory and it makes no difference. I have not been able to find any reference to .Xauthority in the man pages or in "Running Linux", third ed. Can someone please tell me how to fix this? TIA Scott Miller
[newbie] Where's stdio.h
I'm racking my brains out trying to install my para zip drive. When I type make xconfig, I get an error message saying can't find stsio.h. I think this is a c library. What rpm would I need to install ? Thank you all in advance!! Art in New Jersey!
[newbie] Sparc station 2 mandrake
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Does Mandrake support the sparc platform like RH does? if so, where could one DL the sparc version of mandrake?
Re: [newbie] StareOffice 5.1 install
I'm having the exact same problem. I unistalled the rpm and tried again and I finally got the icon on the kde panel, but not in the menu system. When I re-login as a regular user, the icon is gone. Do I have to run the setup for each user? Is this a matter of group rights? TZ - Original Message - From: Robert Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 9:48 AM Subject: [newbie] StareOffice 5.1 install Hi I have Mandrake 6.0 installed and installed StareOffice 5.1 from the CD #3. I followed the read me instructions. rpm -i --nodeps StarOffice-5.1_01_516L-1.i386.rpm This installed StarOffice into /opt/Office51 Next I went from root to my user account and typed /opt/Office51/bin/setup This ran and looked like a windows install, but came back with the message. No Java Virtual Machine found. (paraphrased) I continued and it seemed to finish ok. There was no KDE menu item found even when I rebooted. Questions: 1. Why did it not find a Java-vm? What do I do? 2. Why no item to select for StareOffice on KDE menu? Any help appriciated? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Where's stdio.h
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Art wrote: I'm racking my brains out trying to install my para zip drive. When I type make xconfig, I get an error message saying can't find stsio.h. I think this is a c library. What rpm would I need to install ? glibc-devel LLaP bero
Re: [newbie] Respawning too fast
I got this same error about a year ago while running Caldera. If I remember correctly, it happened after I put an entry in rc.local to "force" my modem into a ready state on boot-up. Hope this helps. Bryan "Ryan Baxter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/19/99 08:12:57 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: [newbie] Respawning too fast When I first boot up I get a respawning error. Saying that it will be disabled for 5 minutes. I just ignore and login without problems. What is this? Anybody seen it? -thanks ryan __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] how??
How can I quit my "membereship in newbie@linux-mandrake? MArkus
Re: [newbie] ZIP Mandrake 6.1. help
El Wed, 20 Oct 1999, escribiste: Hi, I have had some problems configuring a zip drive in Mandrake 6.1 and I d like to ask you something. It used to work really well in Mandrake 6.0 (and in Mandrake 5.2) with the following fstab but now I have done a new installation (Mandrake 6.1) and it is not working anymore. It is an IDE Iomega zip drive 100 internal. Its is working fine in windows. I have my box partioned (hda1=windows). During the installation Mandrake no longer recognizes my zip drive as it did before during the installation of Mandrake 5.2. So, when I booted for the first time I added a new line in fstab: /dev/hdb /mnt/zipauto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 After this when I try to mount it, the light blinks and it tells me:"bad superblok; wrong fs type". I have kept the fstab just as it was (and as it is now): /dev/hda1/ ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda2swapswap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3swapswap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 /dev/hdb /mnt/zipauto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 none/procproc defaults 0 0 none/dev/pts devpts mode=06220 0 Would you know what is going on? Why this fstab that worked fine in previous versions is no longer working? Best regards, Rodrigo Freire Oliveira -- Rodrigo Freire Oliveira Mestrando em Psicobiologia Departamento de Psicologia e Educação Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto Universidade de São Paulo, Campus de Ribeirão Preto 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brasil Tel: +55 (0)16 6023768 (lab.) Tel: +55 (0)16 6206083 (home) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hi. Your problem isn't fstab configuration On boot time your system doesn't recognize the IDE zip and doesn't create what is need for working with it . Perhaps you need to give Lilo some parameters about ubication of the zip .. Miguel (Venezuela)
Re: [newbie] Sparc station 2 mandrake
El Wed, 20 Oct 1999, escribiste: From: Ronald A. Yacketta Does Mandrake support the sparc platform like RH does? if so, where could one DL the sparc version of mandrake? -- There is no Mandrake support for Sparc architecture. Mandrake is (right now) only a pentium optimized Distribution. If you want to get a really rock-solid Linux distribution for Sparc I suggest you to try Debian. Miguel (Venezuela)
Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:22:54AM -0400, Singer XJ Wang wrote: also, what version of GCC? Doesn't ship with gcc, it uses pgcc-1.1.3 instead. On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: Okay, two quickies: Mandrake 6.1 is pretty much 99% Compatible with RedHat 6.1 right? Supposed to be. I haven't used RH6.1. Yet. does it use GCC or is it included or has it be abadoned in favor of pgcc? and what version of libc does it have? 6.0? It has apparently been abandoned for pgcc. glibc is 2.1.1 -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] StareOffice 5.1 install
Thanks for answering Did you get the message that Java Virtual Machine was not present even though it is. Did you run StareOffice and did it work. The other answer is you have to install it for each user if you choose the option of a local install. [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Tony Zocolillo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] StareOffice 5.1 install Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:18:08 -0400 I'm having the exact same problem. I unistalled the rpm and tried again and I finally got the icon on the kde panel, but not in the menu system. When I re-login as a regular user, the icon is gone. Do I have to run the setup for each user? Is this a matter of group rights? TZ - Original Message - From: Robert Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 9:48 AM Subject: [newbie] StareOffice 5.1 install Hi I have Mandrake 6.0 installed and installed StareOffice 5.1 from the CD #3. I followed the read me instructions. rpm -i --nodeps StarOffice-5.1_01_516L-1.i386.rpm This installed StarOffice into /opt/Office51 Next I went from root to my user account and typed /opt/Office51/bin/setup This ran and looked like a windows install, but came back with the message. No Java Virtual Machine found. (paraphrased) I continued and it seemed to finish ok. There was no KDE menu item found even when I rebooted. Questions: 1. Why did it not find a Java-vm? What do I do? 2. Why no item to select for StareOffice on KDE menu? Any help appriciated? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] how??
1. go to the Mandrake website. 2. I think the list section tells how. --- Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I quit my "membereship in newbie@linux-mandrake? MArkus = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 07:40:36AM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) By default, Mandrake attempts to turn on DMA for available IDE devices. Attempting to copy the contents of a CDROM to my hard drive, I encountered the following errors: Um, no 6.1 shiped without the ide patch What does that mean?? My boot logs show "DMA" turned on for the hard drive and CDROM. /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime DOES seem to affect whether DMA is turned on at the end of the boot. It means that it didn't ship with DMA on by default.. (plz take note i didn't personaly package the kernel, but i did just double check) " kernel-2.2-i586.config:# CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO is not set " so the kernel is not the culpret. verifying /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime, is not so hard to test. comment out the actual "hdparm -q -d1 blah blah" and replace it with a touch /axalon.sux (for the extra paranoid it checks also for "nohdparm", opti will do other things also further along) I am curious as to what MB and HD controler your useing. I'm using a Asus BP6 board with their onboard PIIX4. I am not using the Ultra66 interface for any of the devices. I have stocked the machine with 2 Celeron 400's (not overclocked), 128M of RAM, and linux-compatible hardware. Here's what /proc/pci says about the IDE interface: IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xf000 [0xf001]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: The drives are a Quantum Bigfoot 6.4G hard drive and a Ricoh MP7040A CDRW. I have verified that the mandrake_everytime script does not affect the issue one way or the other. It must have been fsck-rage that made me think it did. One gets a little testy after three fsck's (including one that dropped me to the root prompt) within a 10 minute period. I reset the BIOS to show UltraDMA being activated "Auto" and booted the machine. DMA was on for both the hard drive (/dev/hda) and the cdrom (/dev/hdd). The hard lockup occurred while copying from CDROM-HD. I rebooted the machine and reset the BIOS to "disable" UltraDMA for both interfaces and started Linux. The error messages still appear in /var/log/messages when attempting to copy from CDROM-HD. dmesg shows the following: hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY6480A, 6204MB w/67kB Cache, CHS=13446/15/63, DMA hdd: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA So, the kernel believes that the drives are still DMA-capable at boottime despite the BIOS switch. hdparm reports: /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 13446/15/63, sectors = 12706470, start = 0 which seems to verify that somewhere along the way, DMA got enabled on the drives. /usr/doc/Documentation/Configure.help says that DMA is disabled by default unless the CONFIG_BLK_IDEDMA_AUTO is turned on. I have verifed that the option is not enabled in the default kernel-2.2-i586-smp.config (got more errors while installing the source package, good thing the machine didn't lock up). Here are the relevant installed kernel packages: kernel-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-headers-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-smp-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-source-2.2.13-4mdk 2) Inability to compile a kernel. Attempting a 'make menuconfig' yields: The cflags get put there by rpm, (there was a non fuctional %post to check gcc --version for 2.95+, actualy it functions but only if gcc is installed at the time) Have a gander at the src.rpm Fine, so how did it end up in the distribution if the only gcc package you ship is gcc-fr? How did it NOT get caught during testing? Surely SOMEONE must have tried to build a kernel! It's not like it's slightly broke, it just plain doesn't work. Blatantly! pgcc, gcc, and egcs, all provide a link gcc. this is whats being tested, not specificly what compiler package is installed. Certainly a 'gcc --version' would have made more sense rather than the simple existence of a file that's going to exist no matter what, wouldn't you agree? (again not my package, but) kernel is one of the exceptions that is not compiled with pgcc, think it was egcs (chmouel,bero ?). I remeber it was something to do with io ports So in order to compile the kernel, what package do I need? Why wasn't that package included in the distribution? Did you expect people NOT to compile their own kernels? Seems it will happen only on a clean install also doesn't seem the gcc check was ever applyed to the cooker .spec Considering that Mandrake has been pretty vocal about "install don't upgrade", one would expect that someone at Mandrake had actually tried USING the resulting system. It's time for Mandrake to
Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 05:48:39AM -0700, Kumba wrote:
In regards to the CD glitch you had:
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
ATAPI device hdd:
Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred
--
(asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {
DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
ide0: reset: success
I got that error when I used an unsuccessfully burned
copy of Mandrake (Adaptec choked on the CD-R during
the table of contents writing phase, I've since been
thru 3 CD-R's in trying to copy). So you might wanna
check the CD surface for any kind of scratches or
particles...
Nah, this is a brand new, outta the box CD. I checked the CD for scratches
and dust, but found nothing.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Gnome upgrade!
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:53:43AM -0400, Miguel Rodriguez wrote: Hi everybody. Iam very glad cause very cool things are happening in the Desktop arena. Recently we saw the Octuber Gnome and Enlightenment 0.16 releases. My question is why Mandrake users can't enjoy them? I was looking for them in Mandrake website and found plenty good things but in the cooker section (no /updates). Second question: why Mandrake doesn't put the gnome and enlightenment releases on updates? Because /updates should be for security and usability updates only. By all rights, the new enlightenment should be packaged up properly and released as an update to fix the 6.1 crash. Last question: Can I use cooker's files to upgrade gnome and enlightenment in 6.1? Good question! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] blank screen after log out from X
Hi I have just installed my first linux install. Most things are OK for now except if I use the 'logout' option from KDE/Xwindows I get a blank screen (black) and no login/shut down options. Only way out is a power down (not good). Any idea's how I debug this or what the problem might be ? Hardware - Toshiba 700 ct (p60 48meg TFT screen, bios 5.6, 1Gbyte HD, CD x6 both EEide, ES688 sound card) OS- linux Mandrake 6.0 - Kernel is 2.2.9 ( disk installed from maximum Linux Magazine) Workstation default install plus Applix, and sound card configured.
Re: [newbie] How to market Linux?
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:45:48PM +, M Thompson wrote: Hi All, I have been a member of this list (Mandrake Newbie) for a short while now and know that there are a ton of knowledgeable participants on it...I am taking a Marketing class as part of my MBA curriculum. For my Marketing project, I chose Linux. I have to develop a plan to Market my product choice (Linux). You might do well to look up the S-1 filing from Red Hat's recent IPO for some of their ideas about marketing Linux. The EDGAR website (sorry, no URL) should carry it. I have already collected an extensive list of internal strengths and weaknesses. I now need to develop a list of "external" threats and opportunities. Specifically, I want to find some political-legal threats and opportunities, cultural threats and opportunities, economic threats and opportunities, and demographic threats and opportunities. Political-Legal threat: Intellectual property claims from commercial developers Cultural threat: A loss of the "linux development is cool" mentality A big flamefest among senior kernel developers (Linus can't do this all by himself anymore) Economic threat: Commercial distributions could be hurt by cheaper competitors (cheapbytes, etc) Demographic threat: See cultural above, if the "linux is cool" aura around Linux is lost, we lose new users. Specifically: BeOS, *BSD, etc. If possible, please steer me toward a website that lists some of the external threats and opportunities facing Linux. If possible, feel free to give me your personal insights. You might do best at the Linux Internation site, as they're primarily interested in marketing Linux to the suits. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Virtual Network Interfaces
How does one successfully get Mandrake 6.1 to activate a virtual network interface ( e.g. eth0:1 192.168.1.4) on bootup? I can use Webmin to successfully set this up on a machine running RedHat 6 but it will not work on a machine running Mandrake 6.1. I _think_ it did work on Mandrake 6 before I upgraded but I am not sure. I tried also checking linuxconfig but nothing I did seemed to make a setting that would stick on the next bootup. Help? Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] How to market Linux?
M Thompson wrote: If possible, please steer me toward a website that lists some of the external threats and opportunities facing Linux. If possible, feel free to give me your personal insights. hmmm. you sure you're not from microsoft?? ;) ;)
[newbie] DVI to win converter
Hi guys. Is there any app out there that will convert a DVI or postscript doc to eitehr an MS word format or RTF Maxwell seems to be good at running RTF I know, but I've been using Lyx a lot, and I was wondering if there was a way of converting it's formatted output to something my unrepentant windows-using freinds could read
Re: [newbie] StarOffice mailing list?
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Anybody know if there is a StarOffice mailing list (or newsgroup)? Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net I think you will find it here http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/newsgroups.html hope it helps Jeanette Those are the official newsgroups run by stardivision (now sun). I have an UNofficial mailing list on onelist. go to http://www.onelist.com/community/SO-L for more info... -- Alex
[newbie] Still SMP troubles...
I tried the "fix" that Axalon (MandrakeSoft) suggested, but the VMware modules still won't compile, they complain that the header files are a little different than my currently running kernel version, and it quits the compiler. So, I can't get VMware to install. I hate to say it, but I *need* VMware and if I can't get it to install, then I am switching to SuSE, where I know it works. Axalon if you are reading this, I don't know what you mean by, "There are also provided modversions*.h for the different kernel-* packages for those who only want kernel-headers installed." What does that mean? Is there anyway I can get kernel headers for my currently running kernel (2.2.13-7mdksmp)? -- Axalon's Reply -- "Nope means somebody doesn't know what they are talking about much less doing... Edit /usr/src/linux/Makefile add the smp onto EXTRAVERSION, make clean make dep".
Re: [newbie] How to market Linux?
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, you wrote: If possible, please steer me toward a website that lists some of the external threats and opportunities facing Linux. If possible, feel free to give me your personal insights. http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp This is a page with MS's take on linux. I think this would make a valid source simply because if you are trying to take it to the mainstream, these are questions that many of the mainstream market would probably have, and seeing as how it's microsoft that's answering them, we. . .those questions would probably need to be refuted by something a bit less partial. As it is, the mainstream tends to be swayed by the Evil Empire quite a bit so. . .ok i dont know where im going with that, well i do but im too tried to figure it out right now(:-D! Enjoy! -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) To paraphrase my friend stephen: "life can be like that great ifs xscreensaver. . .random garbage goes in and sometimes, beautiful things come out."
[newbie] StarOffice mailing list -- You see what I mean!
Dear friends: I hate to tell you all "I told you so" but there it is: Poor instructions result in, well, poor results. Now what to do? Benjamin Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: The original message was received at Wed, 20 Oct 1999 21:48:21 -0400 (EDT) from adsl-77-232-60.msy.bellsouth.net [216.77.232.60] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Transcript of session follows - 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Host unknown (Name server: onelist.co: host not found) Reporting-MTA: dns; mail0.mco.bellsouth.net Received-From-MTA: DNS; adsl-77-232-60.msy.bellsouth.net Arrival-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 21:48:21 -0400 (EDT) Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.1.2 Remote-MTA: DNS; onelist.co Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 21:48:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: subscribe Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 01:47:04 + From: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Sher Publishers To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] MS Intellimouse, X Windows, and problems...
I have a Diamond Viper V770 TNT 2 video card that I successfully installed the drivers for, which I am very proud of, since it was my first mod of linux. However, now that I have 1280x1024x32bpp resolution in X, I don't have a mouse that is working properly. What it is doing is as you move the mouse around, it is getting button press signals all over the place and popping all over the upper-left corner of the screen. I have played around with the settings in XF86Config to point the mouse device as /dev/mouse and /dev/psaux. I have also used the "Intellimouse" and "PS/2" mouse types. What is interesting about this problem is that when I had a more typical video card and the install figured out exactly what to set, the mouse worked great in X. Could it be an interrupt conflict? Has anyone else seen this problem...? Thanks, Dave
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: xmms-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1]
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 07:45:05PM -0600, Sam wrote: Ryan Weaver wrote: xmms-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1.i386.rpm517611 xmms-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1.src.rpm 745487 xmms-devel-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1.i386.rpm 14847 xmms-esd-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1.i386.rpm 12955 xmms-gnome-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1.i386.rpm 16101 xmms-mesa-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1.i386.rpm11576 xmms-mikmod-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1.i386.rpm 37802 Download locations and build machine information listed below. RPMs are built with rpm version 3.0.2. Required programs listed are either updates or are not in the default RedHat 5.2 installation. I don't mean to be an wet blanket, but why is this being forwarded to the Mandrake newbie list? The announcement mentions that the packages are built against Red Hat 5.2 -- it doesn't even use the same libraries as Mandrake's current distribution! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Still SMP troubles...
hold on a sec i had the same prob with mandrake 6.0 myself. What i did was download the kernel source and did it that way worked for me. I think what it is is it can't understand the mdksmp part right it freaks it somehow? hope this helps ralph - Original Message - From: "John May" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 8:38 PM Subject: [newbie] Still SMP troubles... I tried the "fix" that Axalon (MandrakeSoft) suggested, but the VMware modules still won't compile, they complain that the header files are a little different than my currently running kernel version, and it quits the compiler. So, I can't get VMware to install. I hate to say it, but I *need* VMware and if I can't get it to install, then I am switching to SuSE, where I know it works. Axalon if you are reading this, I don't know what you mean by, "There are also provided modversions*.h for the different kernel-* packages for those who only want kernel-headers installed." What does that mean? Is there anyway I can get kernel headers for my currently running kernel (2.2.13-7mdksmp)? -- Axalon's Reply -- "Nope means somebody doesn't know what they are talking about much less doing... Edit /usr/src/linux/Makefile add the smp onto EXTRAVERSION, make clean make dep".
[newbie] mail aliases and redirects
I just did an install from a cd that was in a magazine -- I am trying to get the mail to my users -- at present it all comes to me, root. My users want their own mail. I want to let them get mail from virtual domains that I host too. With Linuxconf from redhat 6.0, I could set email aliases and/or redirects -- but those options are not there with the ?older? version of linuxconf included with Mandrake 6.0. Can anyone direct me as to what files I must edit to configure this. Thanks, Ted
Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am curious as to what MB and HD controler your useing. I'm using a Asus BP6 board with their onboard PIIX4. I am not using the Ultra66 interface for any of the devices. I have stocked the machine with 2 Celeron 400's (not overclocked), 128M of RAM, and linux-compatible hardware. Same board, same senerio, i can't get the first drive out of DMA mode either Here's what /proc/pci says about the IDE interface: IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xf000 [0xf001]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: The drives are a Quantum Bigfoot 6.4G hard drive and a Ricoh MP7040A CDRW. I have verified that the mandrake_everytime script does not affect the issue one way or the other. It must have been fsck-rage that made me think it did. One gets a little testy after three fsck's (including one that dropped me to the root prompt) within a 10 minute period. Oh yeah also it's pretty apparent when it is in use, it prints one of those "loading blah blah[ok]" messages (and i'm just now remebering :) ) I reset the BIOS to show UltraDMA being activated "Auto" and booted the machine. DMA was on for both the hard drive (/dev/hda) and the cdrom (/dev/hdd). The hard lockup occurred while copying from CDROM-HD. I rebooted the machine and reset the BIOS to "disable" UltraDMA for both interfaces and started Linux. The error messages still appear in /var/log/messages when attempting to copy from CDROM-HD. dmesg shows the following: hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY6480A, 6204MB w/67kB Cache, CHS=13446/15/63, DMA hdd: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA So, the kernel believes that the drives are still DMA-capable at boottime despite the BIOS switch. hdparm reports: /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 13446/15/63, sectors = 12706470, start = 0 which seems to verify that somewhere along the way, DMA got enabled on the drives. /usr/doc/Documentation/Configure.help says that DMA is disabled by default unless the CONFIG_BLK_IDEDMA_AUTO is turned on. I have verifed that the option is not enabled in the default kernel-2.2-i586-smp.config (got more errors while installing the source package, good thing the machine didn't lock up). Here are the relevant installed kernel packages: kernel-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-headers-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-smp-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-source-2.2.13-4mdk I'm not sure howlong till the next ide patch is out for 2.2.13 hopefully it'll fix this. also which error are you getting again 'hdX: lost interupt' or the DMA timeout 2) Inability to compile a kernel. Attempting a 'make menuconfig' yields: The cflags get put there by rpm, (there was a non fuctional %post to check gcc --version for 2.95+, actualy it functions but only if gcc is installed at the time) Have a gander at the src.rpm Fine, so how did it end up in the distribution if the only gcc package you ship is gcc-fr? How did it NOT get caught during testing? Surely SOMEONE must have tried to build a kernel! It's not like it's slightly broke, it just plain doesn't work. Blatantly! pgcc, gcc, and egcs, all provide a link gcc. this is whats being tested, not specificly what compiler package is installed. Certainly a 'gcc --version' would have made more sense rather than the simple existence of a file that's going to exist no matter what, wouldn't you agree? Well actualy thats exactly what it does, problem is it doesn't test if gcc is there first, and its probably arse backwards I'd expect it to add the flag if needed not remove it. (again not my package, but) kernel is one of the exceptions that is not compiled with pgcc, think it was egcs (chmouel,bero ?). I remeber it was something to do with io ports So in order to compile the kernel, what package do I need? Why wasn't that package included in the distribution? Did you expect people NOT to compile their own kernels? It's not like this is all that new of a problem (pgcc produceing flaky code). use egcs if you want exactly like was distributed use pgcc if you don't care if the parallel ports work (could be other problems also i quit testing at that point) use gcc if your useing kernel-source from cooker, and want the fastest posible code Seems it will happen only on a clean install also doesn't seem the gcc check was ever applyed to the cooker .spec Considering that Mandrake has been pretty vocal about "install don't upgrade", one would expect that someone at Mandrake had actually tried USING the resulting system. I was useing it 18 hours a day for several
Re: [newbie] How to market Linux?
I have been thinking about this lately also. Marketing of small computers is an interesting and complex task. Here is some stuff I came across: http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JohnZedlewski/JohnZedlewski4.html http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JohnZedlewski/JohnZedlewski1.html In fact I would go through the old pages in OSOpinion there are some good thoughts in there amongst the dross. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_10/bezroukov/index.html http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue46/al-mohssen.html http://www.businessweek.com/cgi-bin/bwdaily_full?right=dnflash/apr1999/nf90427b.htm The major threats are, internal politics, splits or people just leaving because of arguments. Software patents or trade secrets from a developers day job wind up in the kernel. A large company could just ignore GPL and grind up the volunteers with a long lawsuit. How many depositions would you want to set through before you gave up and stopped coding for Linux? It would be a very dirty campaign but dying companies will do desperate things. Microsoft Linux or MS-BSD with all sorts of non-GPL add-ons. Evil thoughts I should stop here. PBen
Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: [snip steve] hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY6480A, 6204MB w/67kB Cache, CHS=13446/15/63, DMA hdd: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA So, the kernel believes that the drives are still DMA-capable at boottime despite the BIOS switch. Sorry steve for refrence.. my cdrom doesn't go into DMA mode ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: Maxtor 92048U8, ATA DISK drive hdc: CD-R CDU928E, ATAPI CDROM drive hdparm of hda is same, i did just notice your cd is on hdd. why for? hdparm reports: /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 13446/15/63, sectors = 12706470, start = 0 which seems to verify that somewhere along the way, DMA got enabled on the drives. /usr/doc/Documentation/Configure.help says that DMA is disabled by default unless the CONFIG_BLK_IDEDMA_AUTO is turned on. I have verifed that the option is not enabled in the default kernel-2.2-i586-smp.config (got more errors while installing the source package, good thing the machine didn't lock up). Here are the relevant installed kernel packages: kernel-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-headers-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-smp-2.2.13-4mdk kernel-source-2.2.13-4mdk I'm not sure howlong till the next ide patch is out for 2.2.13 hopefully it'll fix this. also which error are you getting again 'hdX: lost interupt' or the DMA timeout
Re: [newbie] Procmail
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:50:38PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman said: I gave that a try and it didn't work, all my mail was tossed into /var/spool/mail/hawk3 instead of being filtered by my .procmailrc. Did you alter any of sendmail's settings so that it would use .procmailrc without needing .forward? how do you download your emails? i use fetchmail (i see you're using XFmail and if i were you i will filtering my mails with it). i didn't make any changes to my sendmail except the smart_relay_host part in sendmail.cf so i can use another smtp address (thats for sending). procmail+sendmail without .forward file working for me since i use Redhat 5.2, and fetchmail for mail-downloader. did you check the .mailog? Hmm, I'm using Mandrake 6.1 as well with the same procmail and sendmail packages, and postfix is not installed, but for me sendmail seems to ignore .procmailrc if there's no .forward. Sendmail wont ignore your procmail (if theres any) check your /etc/sendmail.cf and make sure this line Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=10/30, R=20/40, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u see thats why you dont need .forward file just for using procmail :) if you use XFmail for download your email, maybe it past through the procmail because mail client like XFmail doesn't need MTA for sender and receiver (CMIIW). but if you use fetchmail (or fetchpop) and still not working, then give postfix a try (its simple than sendmail to configure). # ntsysv (uncheck sendmail) # /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop # rpm -e --nodeps sendmail # rpm -ivh postfix.*.rpm # /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start do some test, send mail to your self (ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) then check your spool/mail dir, and check your procmail-log file. -- Rib
[newbie] MS Internet Explorer
Hello! Is it possible to use MS Internet Explorer in Mandrake instead of ugly Netscape? I don't want offence any Netscape lover, but the page full of Java and other modern things gets opened in about 2 min in MSIE and about 5 min in Netscape. Thanx in advance. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Still SMP troubles...
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Ralph | byte-runner | wrote: hold on a sec i had the same prob with mandrake 6.0 myself. What i did was download the kernel source and did it that way worked for me. I think what it is is it can't understand the mdksmp part right it freaks it somehow? hope this helps ralph Yes pretty much sums it up. I'll have some information about it in the morning
[newbie] How to market Linux?
Hi All, I have been a member of this list (Mandrake Newbie) for a short while now and know that there are a ton of knowledgeable participants on it...I am taking a Marketing class as part of my MBA curriculum. For my Marketing project, I chose Linux. I have to develop a plan to Market my product choice (Linux). I have already collected an extensive list of internal strengths and weaknesses. I now need to develop a list of "external" threats and opportunities. Specifically, I want to find some political-legal threats and opportunities, cultural threats and opportunities, economic threats and opportunities, and demographic threats and opportunities. If possible, please steer me toward a website that lists some of the external threats and opportunities facing Linux. If possible, feel free to give me your personal insights. **For members of the "Mandrake Expert" list, please send a carbon-copy of your response to my personal E-mail address since I am not a member of the Mandrake Expert list. Many thanks, Matt E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] PCMCIA IDE/ATA HDD - what a mouthful
Hi, I have the above and when I insert the card, it is detected as hdlx, with the x as partitions on the HDD. I looked in my /dev dir and it only goes to hdhx. Someone told be to use insmod, but I lost the plot when I was asked to input major and minor numbers for the block device. What numbers do I chose? It's a waste of 2Gb of HD if I can't get it going in Linux. It works fine in M$. Any help appreciated, but please go slow. Running KDE1.1.1, MDK 6.0. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] BUG: 6.1 -- portmap
Continuing the bug parade... I was cleaning up my system tonight, removing unnecessary packages. I removed the portmap package, but noticed that it showed up again in the output of 'rpm -qa'. Here's a transcript of the activity: Script started on Wed Oct 20 21:37:50 1999 [root@tippy /root]# rpm -qa | grep portmap portmap-4.0-6mdk [root@tippy /root]# rpm -e portmap error reading information on service portmap: No such file or directory execution of script failed error reading information on service portmap: No such file or directory execution of script failed [root@tippy /root]# rpm -qa | grep portmap portmap-4.0-6mdk [root@tippy /root]# rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/portmap-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm [A[root@tippy /root]# rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/portmap-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm package portmap-4.0-6mdk is already installed [root@tippy /root]# exit Script done on Wed Oct 20 21:38:19 1999 Why doesn't the portmap package remove itself from the installed packages database? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] BUG: 6.1 -- chkfontpath
Another one... Trying to remove fonts from the xfs fontserver using the chkfontpath utility results in a segmentation fault: Script started on Wed Oct 20 22:05:34 1999 [root@tippy fonts]# chkfontpath --list Current directories in font path: 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts 8: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi [root@tippy fonts]# chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/StarOffice [root@tippy fonts]# chkfontpath --list Current directories in font path: 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts 8: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi 10: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/StarOffice [root@tippy fonts]# chkfontpath --remove /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/StarOffice Segmentation fault (core dumped) [root@tippy fonts]# Script done on Wed Oct 20 22:06:08 1999 -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
