Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings
The first thing I can suggest is set it to LBA and leave it there, Linux doesn't like Normal or large. Leave UDMA active, although if it is UDMA 66 (I have no idea what UDMA 2 is, I've only seen UDMA 33 and UDMA 66), you may have to go back through the mailing list archives to get some more info, there was a thread some time ago, with some people having very bizarre results with it. If it's UDMA 33, leave it. My Maxtor is fine with it. I would check the partitioning info you're giving it, are you starting with a completely blank drive, or a blank area of the drive? Are you sure it's blank? I have seen a very strange occurence of Linux being installed onto a DOS extended partition, it went on, but it wouldn't come back off. We had to do a low level format to get rid of it, it even defeated Partition Magic!! Apart from that, the IDE controller and the master/slave option is entirely up to you, primary master is a good choice. And finally, have oyu used the hard drive before, do you know it is OK? Try a Windows install or something similar, just to prove it. - Original Message - From: ATL Oledog [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 5:44 AM Subject: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings Does anyone know what the particuliars are if any for hard drives and linux... I have purchased a new motherboard and have a 4.2gb Ultra DMA 2 Maxtor hard drive spec 8184cyl 16hd 63sec. I have set it up using Large, LBA, and Normal bios settings. I have it jumpered to master. and it is on the primary ide controller. i have tried disabling Ultra DMA 2 and set it pio 2. on all of the settings the following happens first it hangs during the initial boot up after installation at the part where mounts the hard drive and says" this is not a linux native" and then it says "resetting hard" and it continues to load as normal. The system will run fine but if you do a shut down and halt, after the services are halted it produces a bunch of messages speaking of kernel dumps and errors. I have also tried a 2gb hd and had the same results. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Umount
It wont unmount a drive at shutdown I have Mandrake 6.1 Kernel 2.2.13-22mdkI have a command to auto mount a drive to a win boxit is in the rc.local file and it is a basic smbmount commandIt used to unmount with no problem when I shutdown using the ctl+alt+delNow it hangs and doesn't unmount, I have to shut the system off.The only changes I made were to the chown of that directory, I changed itfrom root to my user name. I switched back the ownership after thisstarted but it still does it. If I manually unmount the drive it shuts downok. ..any ideas ???Thanks Geoff
[newbie] Unmount
It wont unmount a drive at shutdown I have Mandrake 6.1 Kernel 2.2.13-22mdkI have a command to auto mount a drive to a win boxit is in the rc.local file and it is a basic smbmount commandIt used to unmount with no problem when I shutdown using the ctl+alt+delNow it hangs and doesn't unmount, I have to shut the system off.The only changes I made were to the chown of that directory, I changed itfrom root to my user name. I switched back the ownership after thisstarted but it still does it. If I manually unmount the drive it shuts downok. ..any ideas ???Thanks Geoff
Re: [newbie] HD sizes and such
Full install is approximately 1.3GB. You can use custom install and make it something less than that figure. HTH, Matt From: Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HD sizes and such Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:05:07 -0800 Howdy all. Just joined this list, and should be installing Mandrake next week, if all goes well. I am wondering if someone could tell me how much HD space i should partition for it? I have 1.7 gigs left on my drive. Winblows and stuff takes the rest up. Would like 1.5 or something be okay?? I want to make sure i really love Linux, before nuking off WinBlows, like im sure i will =) I am not sure how big Linux installs as either, from what i could see, almost a gig for full install or something. Anyways, thanx for any help, i can get. Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Compiling Kernel Black Box
Blackbox is a gui interface just like KDE and gnome. The exception is that Blackbox is not weighted down with abunch of uneccesarry code. This make it a lean, mean, fast GUI. I run it with kde enabled so that I can run some of the important KDE stuff alongside it. Check out their Web Page at: blackbox.alug.org SA -Original Message- From: Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 5:01 PM Subject: [newbie] Re: Compiling Kernel Black Box I want to re-compile my Kernel on a default install of L-M 6.0, to make it faster, and get rid of un-nessessary MOD's and stuff. I will use the GUI Xconfig, but I would like to know what I should do B4 I start... ie: kernel backup, bootdisk, or ???. and then the correct procedure after SAVEing and then getting running again after the restart. (Unless this is ALL (read as silly NEWBIE) covered in a HOWTO) Also...what the heck is Black Box? TIA Jaguar PS: I have read alot of the HOWTO's but I am more confused now that when I started...:( Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?
Try Netscape. -Original Message- From: Chip Rose. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader? I've been using Free Agent as my NG reader in window$ for as long as I have been online. Now that I'm moving up to Linux, what do you recommend? Thanks. = Linux has nothing that even remotely matches Agent/Free Agent, or the other Windows newsreaders, *PARTICULARLY* in regard to handling binary files (pics, mp3's). Agent just downloads them and automatically and quickly opens the file in Winamp or in an photo/image viewer like VuePro. In Linux you've got to download the file and then start another helper application to open the file separately - kind of like going out in the winter cold to crank-start your car and then opening the hood to manually start it again at every traffic light/stop sign, and then once you're finished driving it. A killer-app is one that you'd be willing to change OS's for - the Agent/Vuepro combination is a killer app in my opinion. I always use SLRN for news - it is very fast and fairly efficient for TEXT, but it won't handle binaries hardly at all - at least not without the tedious manual downloading, saving to a directory and then re-opening with another application like Winamp or XV photo viewer etc.. I LOVE Linux, but it's a definite "non-player" in the Usenet world.. I'd certainly go ahead and purchase a commercial app for Linux if there were one that was anywhere near the efficiency/ability of Agent.
Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.
More than enough. Maybe you should increase the RAM size, but i suppose Mandrake 6.1 works on that configuration Pablo Monti Buenos Aires, Argentina - Original Message - From: Johan Hesselbäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 11:41 AM Subject: [newbie] A real Newbie Question. Hi all, I´m very new to linux. Well, i havn´t really used Linux at all. Thats my question. I have a old computer that i want to run linux on the specs are: Pentium 120 32MB RAM 1 gig hd is that enough to run e.g. Mandrake 6.1
Re: [newbie] X problems
What's your video card ? Pablo Monti Buenos Aires, Argentina - Original Message - From: Anderson A. eMiranda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 12:17 PM Subject: [newbie] X problems I try config X with generic VGA, with generic monitor at 640x480, 8 bits and not works. I try installing from another CD, nothing Pls help Anderson
[newbie] MPG video files - Playing them in Linux
Dear Seve: Aktion is great for Quicktime 2.1 and Avi files but handles mpeg-1 video files very poorly. You need to get MpegTV (known as MTV for short) for Linux from: http://www.mpegtv.com Two points: 1) It is NOT free. It is shareware and costs $10. It will stop working at 30 seconds if you do not buy it. But it costs only $10 (ten) for the shareware player (no need to pay more). That's very reasonable. 2) The streaming mpeg will work ONLY if you have a superfast cable connection (around 4 or 5 MEG/sec). But, if you download the "plugger 3.x" plugin for Netscape (http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/plugger.html) you'll be able to watch mpeg in your Netscape window after first downloading the file from the server. Get the plugger rpm package. Make things very easy. Plugger is also a plugin for many other file formats. Read their home page. Since mpeg-1 video files are very large, you should still have broadband to make it worthwhile. If you do, you can download a 10 or 20 meg mpeg "movie" in a minute or two, then play it on your Netscape screen using plugger. Quality is superb. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] Downgrading Apache 1.3 to Apache 1.2
Since I apparently took it in the shorts when I decided to blindly upgrade to 6.1, I would like to know if it is possible to revert back to Apache 1.2 since 1.3 makes all kinds of blanket changes that are vaguely mentioned in the docs. Can it be done? Thanks, Bryan
Re: [newbie] Unable to telnet into Mandrake box
Works like a charm !! thank you so much for the help. Next, updating Netscape.. jason On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, you wrote: My hosts file is fine. I did remove the search servername line in the resolv.conf and that fixed the ping problem. I still can't telnet in. Does the standard install of Mandrake 6.1 have both the server and client side apps for telnet? Go to ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/6.1/Mandrake/RPMS/ and get the file "telnet-server-0.12-10mdk.i586.rpm" and install that. That file will take care of your inability to telnet into the machine.
Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem
Steve Philp wrote: Robert Benson wrote: Hi My US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem runs at 49000 in windows 95, but only 37333 in Linux. What am I missing here. Is their a setting I missed. Thanks for any help. Most modems will automatically retrain to their highest transfer speeds depending on the conditions of the line during the call. It's likely that when you first dial up, the connection might be "dirty" and cause a slower speed. Do the transfer speeds reflect a constant 3.73k connection or do they get higher as you use the connection? One other thing you can check... You'll need to know the /dev/ttySX of your modem (ttyS0 = COM1, ttyS1 = COM2, etc). Try this before bringing up the connection: setserial /dev/ttySX spd_vhi Does that affect the connection speed and transfer speeds for you? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I've had great results making sure the MTU and MRU setting(s) are statically set to 1500 on both. It has worked for me and countless others. :) -- Bill Schoolcraft, Technical Support Engineer. Linuxcare Inc. 650 Townsend Street, San Francisco CA 94103 415.354.4878 x343 tel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxcare.com Linuxcare. At the center of Linux.
Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.
Is Gnome (for give spelling if incorrect), less of a memory hog than KDE? George --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If u want to run Mandrake at least alloccate 1.2 Gb of disk space for custom, server, workstation and select the option install everything. Clyde At 08:05 PM 11/14/99 -0500, you wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi all, I´m very new to linux. Well, i havn´t really used Linux at all. Thats my question. I have a old computer that i want to run linux on the specs are: Pentium 120 32MB RAM 1 gig hd is that enough to run e.g. Mandrake 6.1 Everything but the RAM is sufficient. 32 mb RAM is BARELY sufficient. I'd double that, especially if you plan on running KDE as your window manager. That's a real memory hog and it's the default window manager in Mandrake. John = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Playing MPG video files - Why so choppy and slow?
I find mpeg-tv works better for playing MPG's than aKtion. mpeg-tv plays them alot smoother. On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: My mpg files are playing really slow and choppy on the 'aKtion' player. It plays fine in windows. Is it because the Linux platform isn't fully developed for playing videos? Seve
Re: [newbie] HD sizes and such
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: Howdy all. Just joined this list, and should be installing Mandrake next week, if all goes well. I am wondering if someone could tell me how much HD space i should partition for it? I have 1.7 gigs left on my drive. Winblows and stuff takes the rest up. Would like 1.5 or something be okay?? I want to make sure i really love Linux, before nuking off WinBlows, like im sure i will =) I am not sure how big Linux installs as either, from what i could see, almost a gig for full install or something. Anyways, thanx for any help, i can get. I would strongly suggest that you consider making about a 10 - 15 meg partition right at the head of your drive (using Partition Magic or some such to make the space at the head) to ensure that you get the kernel within the first 1024 cylinders on your hard drive. After that, I think 1.5 Gig would be sufficient (depending on what all you install.) Name that first partition "/boot" when you go to install. And call the rest of the linux space "/" for your "root" partition. Also, depending on how much RAM you have, I'd make the swap space anywhere from 64 megs to 128 megs (if you've got 64 megs of ram, 64 megs of swap SHOULD be sufficient for most things 128 megs if you've got less than 64 meg RAM!) John
Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi My US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem runs at 49000 in windows 95, but only 37333 in Linux. What am I missing here. Is their a setting I missed. Thanks for any help. AFAIK, Windows isn't giving you the whole truth. Linux is reporting the "nominal" connect rate. Windows reports the "maximum" connect rate. John
Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.
From: Ronald A. Yacketta from what I have seen and looked at yes, GNOME uses much less mem want to use even less mem?? check out blackbox... "George W." [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/15/99 11:15:23 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question. Is Gnome (for give spelling if incorrect), less of a memory hog than KDE? George --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If u want to run Mandrake at least alloccate 1.2 Gb of disk space for custom, server, workstation and select the option install everything. Clyde At 08:05 PM 11/14/99 -0500, you wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi all, I?m very new to linux. Well, i havn?t really used Linux at all. Thats my question. I have a old computer that i want to run linux on the specs are: Pentium 120 32MB RAM 1 gig hd is that enough to run e.g. Mandrake 6.1 Everything but the RAM is sufficient. 32 mb RAM is BARELY sufficient. I'd double that, especially if you plan on running KDE as your window manager. That's a real memory hog and it's the default window manager in Mandrake. John = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know what the particuliars are if any for hard drives and linux... I have purchased a new motherboard and have a 4.2gb Ultra DMA 2 Maxtor hard drive spec 8184cyl 16hd 63sec. I have set it up using Large, LBA, and Normal bios settings. I have it jumpered to master. and it is on the primary ide controller. i have tried disabling Ultra DMA 2 and set it pio 2. on all of the settings the following happens first it hangs during the initial boot up after installation at the part where mounts the hard drive and says" this is not a linux native" and then it says "resetting hard" and it continues to load as normal. The system will run fine but if you do a shut down and halt, after the services are halted it produces a bunch of messages speaking of kernel dumps and errors. I have also tried a 2gb hd and had the same results. Mandrake 6.0? Go get the updated kernel and initscripts. This is a known problem and the solution has been known for sometime since Mandrake 6.0 was released. If you go to (for example) ftp.linux-mandrake.com and go to the /pub/updates/6.0/RPMS directory, you'll see the file "initscripts-4.16-31.mdk.i586.rpm. Grab that and install it with "rpm -Uvh initscripts." and also upgrade your kernel with a newer one than ships with the 6.0 version of Mandrake. John
Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: The first thing I can suggest is set it to LBA and leave it there, Linux doesn't like Normal or large. Leave UDMA active, although if it is UDMA 66 (I have no idea what UDMA 2 is, I've only seen UDMA 33 and UDMA 66), you may have to go back through the mailing list archives to get some more info, there was a thread some time ago, with some people having very bizarre results with it. If it's UDMA 33, leave it. My Maxtor is fine with it. I would check the partitioning info you're giving it, are you starting with a completely blank drive, or a blank area of the drive? Are you sure it's blank? I have seen a very strange occurence of Linux being installed onto a DOS extended partition, it went on, but it wouldn't come back off. We had to do a low level format to get rid of it, it even defeated Partition Magic!! Apart from that, the IDE controller and the master/slave option is entirely up to you, primary master is a good choice. And finally, have oyu used the hard drive before, do you know it is OK? Try a Windows install or something similar, just to prove it. Simon...this really sounds like the sort of problems that went on with a virgin install of Mandrake 6.0. I'm guessing he needs to update his "initscripts" and kernel. John
Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.
I have P160, 16MB RAM, 1G HD, with Mandrake 6.1 installed on it... Works fine... XServer loads a bit slow, but still better than I thought it would be. Peter --- Pablo Monti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More than enough. Maybe you should increase the RAM size, but i suppose Mandrake 6.1 works on that configuration Pablo Monti Buenos Aires, Argentina - Original Message - From: Johan Hesselbäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 11:41 AM Subject: [newbie] A real Newbie Question. Hi all, I´m very new to linux. Well, i havn´t really used Linux at all. Thats my question. I have a old computer that i want to run linux on the specs are: Pentium 120 32MB RAM 1 gig hd is that enough to run e.g. Mandrake 6.1 = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: John, I am currently using KDE and am rather pleased with the results. Admittedly I am still trying to get used to linux but so far I'm happy. Yes I use Netscape but with my ISDN line I don't really notice much in the way of delay, come to think of it this machine is faster than my K6-2 350 with 98Mb running NT4 and netscape (hehehe). I have a dual PII 300 with 512Mb RAM here at work and for what I do it's a dog - we're trying to get a couple of dual Zeon's with 1Gb of RAM but they're being rather stingy g. Heh. I've gotcha beat...I've got a 10 mb (firewalled) connection to the 'net here at work (I work for an ISP G) Unfortunately my box here at work is a K6-2 300-something (I forgot the exact clock speed G) but it's only got 32 megs of ram. I sometimes have a problem with running low on memory. I also don't have much swap space -- only about 50 megs of swap. :-( John
Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Is Gnome (for give spelling if incorrect), less of a memory hog than KDE? Not really. It's still very much a "pretty" GUI. For a less memory-intensive GUI, try FVWM or something like that. John
Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings
Since these are rpm files do i have to recomplile kernel after running the patches or make any changes to my lilo in order for it to work On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know what the particuliars are if any for hard drives and linux... I have purchased a new motherboard and have a 4.2gb Ultra DMA 2 Maxtor hard drive spec 8184cyl 16hd 63sec. I have set it up using Large, LBA, and Normal bios settings. I have it jumpered to master. and it is on the primary ide controller. i have tried disabling Ultra DMA 2 and set it pio 2. on all of the settings the following happens first it hangs during the initial boot up after installation at the part where mounts the hard drive and says" this is not a linux native" and then it says "resetting hard" and it continues to load as normal. The system will run fine but if you do a shut down and halt, after the services are halted it produces a bunch of messages speaking of kernel dumps and errors. I have also tried a 2gb hd and had the same results. Mandrake 6.0? Go get the updated kernel and initscripts. This is a known problem and the solution has been known for sometime since Mandrake 6.0 was released. If you go to (for example) ftp.linux-mandrake.com and go to the /pub/updates/6.0/RPMS directory, you'll see the file "initscripts-4.16-31.mdk.i586.rpm. Grab that and install it with "rpm -Uvh initscripts." and also upgrade your kernel with a newer one than ships with the 6.0 version of Mandrake. John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] No bounces???
HeyI think we may have finally solved the bouncing problem. :-) I got tired of the bouncing emails and sent a message to Mindspring's support. THEY claimed it was on the list's mail server, but since receiving the note from Mindspring (AND having posted a couple messages) I haven't seen any bounces (yet! G) To bring this back on topic (a bit) I was trying to help a gentleman who described the symptoms that were happening with fresh installs of Mandrake 6.0, but he said he'd installed 6.1. Does anyone know if 6.1 suffers from the same problem of failing to cleanly unmount? The gent said he'd seen an updated initscripts package for 6.1. John
Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.
Try Blackbox at : blackbox.alug.org This is the fastest most dependable GUI out there. SA -Original Message- From: George W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, November 15, 1999 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question. Is Gnome (for give spelling if incorrect), less of a memory hog than KDE? George --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If u want to run Mandrake at least alloccate 1.2 Gb of disk space for custom, server, workstation and select the option install everything. Clyde At 08:05 PM 11/14/99 -0500, you wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi all, I´m very new to linux. Well, i havn´t really used Linux at all. Thats my question. I have a old computer that i want to run linux on the specs are: Pentium 120 32MB RAM 1 gig hd is that enough to run e.g. Mandrake 6.1 Everything but the RAM is sufficient. 32 mb RAM is BARELY sufficient. I'd double that, especially if you plan on running KDE as your window manager. That's a real memory hog and it's the default window manager in Mandrake. John = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
[newbie] Installing on omnibook- mouseconfig hangs
I have recently tried to install mandrake 6.1 on my omnibook 2000ct. Everything went smoothly until I reached the point where it probs for a mouse after installing the packages. The response was: Probing found some type of PS/2 mouse on port psaux. The computer then fails to respond and I am unable to reboot exept to re-try the install. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I know laptop installs can be a #$!@#* but I have defeated the laptop install blues before. Thanks in advance. Neil Erickson Java Developer cavion.com
Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem
The default settings for kppp use ATZ for resetting your modem. Try changing it to ATZ4 and make sure the other setting is for hardware flow control, not software control. From: "Robert Benson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:06:22 PST Hi My US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem runs at 49000 in windows 95, but only 37333 in Linux. What am I missing here. Is their a setting I missed. Thanks for any help. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem
The default reset is ATZ. ATZ and ATZ0 are exactly the same command. ATZ4 is the appropriate reset for hardware flow control. From: Paul Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 23:59:13 -0600 I found that if I send a reset command to the modem e.g. ATZ0 my USR sportster will connect at 53k. I use Kppp so it is easy to stick the reset string in the modem tab on the Initialization string field. I don't know where you would put it outside of KPPP. Before I did this I would only connect at 38k. Mandrake was setting my modem into slow mode on boot up some how for some reason. PBen At 10:48 PM 11/14/99 -0500, you wrote: Robert Benson wrote: Hi My US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem runs at 49000 in windows 95, but only 37333 in Linux. What am I missing here. Is their a setting I missed. Thanks for any help. Most modems will automatically retrain to their highest transfer speeds depending on the conditions of the line during the call. It's likely that when you first dial up, the connection might be "dirty" and cause a slower speed. Do the transfer speeds reflect a constant 3.73k connection or do they get higher as you use the connection? One other thing you can check... You'll need to know the /dev/ttySX of your modem (ttyS0 = COM1, ttyS1 = COM2, etc). Try this before bringing up the connection: setserial /dev/ttySX spd_vhi Does that affect the connection speed and transfer speeds for you? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape mail problem
Hey Joe, Joe Marcom wrote: Good day, all; (this is a repeat...my mail returned the first one) I am trying to transition from windos$ to Linux, but having mail problems. When I open Netscape Messenger to get my mail, Messenger asks for my password, then immediately closes and returns to KDE when I enter it. Where have I gone wrong this time? I'm running L-M 6.0 with Communicator ver. 4.6. 4.6 is reported to be unstable. Upgrade to 4.61 or 4.7 I myself are using 4.61 It is stable and crashes only when I view Webpages with Java. greetings, Peter
Re: [newbie] Xman
Hi Steve Hi Joseph, Steve Philp wrote: "Joseph G. Getty" wrote: I'm having a small prob with Xman. I'm running Linux-Mandrake 6.1. Every time I use Xman to open a man page they come up in an encrypted like text. Is this a bug in LM 6.1 or what? Should I reinstall Xman?(wich I cannot find, what is the name of the RPM?) Could it be caused by the .bz2 compression on the manual pages? Try Probably bz2 compression is causing this. changing to /usr/man/man1 and 'bunzip2' one of the manual pages then try viewing that page with xman. If it works, you'll need to bunzip all of the manual pages. I had the same problem with Mandrake 6.0. After installing xman from the cooker distribution it was solved. greetings, Peter
[newbie] NIC speed configuration
Hi, I'm Gary. I was wondering if you can answer the following question for me: Is there a way in Linux to force a capable network interface card (NIC) to run at a certain speed? For example, if I have a NIC that can run at either 10 or 100Mbps, can I configure it so that it runs at the speed I want - either 10 or 100Mbps? Also, how can I tell what speed my NIC is operating in; is there some command or file that can tell me this info? Thanks folks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "One out of three hackers is a fed." -- Deicide
Re: [newbie] Font trouble
I have a similar problem. I downloaded a seven meg file from rpmfind.net, but it appears to be the wrong file. As I am a dummy, can someone let me know what I'm looking for? - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Font trouble On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: I've recently tried to install 6.1 on my HP 6357 and everything worked out except one minor detail, there were no fonts. On tbe desktop some of the icons showed up as a black shadow, others were fine, but not one letter showed up. I've had this type of problem with windows also where the fonts would be represented as square boxes, or not show up at all. I've completely erased and reformatted/partitioned my hard drive numorous times and tried every resolution type. When the graphics test screen came up during installation, there was a gray confirmation box that I hit "enter" even though it was not readable. My system has the Sis 5598 chipset with 64MB shared memory. Any help with this would be highly appreciated, otherwise I'll be forced to give the thing a drop-kick out the door. Thanks Vic Upgrade your X configuration with the latest X server. This is a known bug with the X server that ships with 6.1. You'll probably have to download it directly from xfree86.org, or you may be able to find an RPM for it from rpmfind.net John
[newbie] digital card
Hi All! Anybody has got any idea about how to install a digitalizing card It is very important. Please help me asap. FG
[newbie] remove
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Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.
Hi John Aldrich ! On 11/14/99 8:05:30 PM, you wrote: Everything but the RAM is sufficient. 32 mb RAM is BARELY sufficient. I'd double that, especially if you plan on running KDE as your window manager. That's a real memory hog and it's the default window manager in Mandrake. I'd say that to cut down memory usage: - don't use Netscape Communicator 4.61, maybe just the barebones Netscape Navigator 4.7 though. - If you're using KDE: - don't use backdrop pictures. - use only two desktops Following these two ideas I've made a P100 pretty usable with KDE, but once I get the server working right I'll probably stop it booting into X at bootup. Damien Mc Kenna, wife, four cats http://mckenna.brinet.net/ Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] Watch out, I've got a PC and I'm not afraid to use it! ICQ 17066133
[newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings
I have installed the new Mandrake 6.1 the kernel is 2.2.13. The problem only occurs with this new motherboard. I have a old p90 that was the orginal system and it didn't have support of UDMA. So it recognized the HD as PIO4. When i start it up it does not hang and when it shuts down it does not hang or leave error garbage. Are there any bios specific settings that i need to be aware of has that initscript that you are speaking of been incorporated into the 2.2.13 kernel or should i still download and install it..can or do i need to edit the lilo config. the system runs fine once it boots..please advise. Thanks Original Message Follows From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:29:13 -0500 On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know what the particuliars are if any for hard drives and linux... I have purchased a new motherboard and have a 4.2gb Ultra DMA 2 Maxtor hard drive spec 8184cyl 16hd 63sec. I have set it up using Large, LBA, and Normal bios settings. I have it jumpered to master. and it is on the primary ide controller. i have tried disabling Ultra DMA 2 and set it pio 2. on all of the settings the following happens first it hangs during the initial boot up after installation at the part where mounts the hard drive and says" this is not a linux native" and then it says "resetting hard" and it continues to load as normal. The system will run fine but if you do a shut down and halt, after the services are halted it produces a bunch of messages speaking of kernel dumps and errors. I have also tried a 2gb hd and had the same results. Mandrake 6.0? Go get the updated kernel and initscripts. This is a known problem and the solution has been known for sometime since Mandrake 6.0 was released. If you go to (for example) ftp.linux-mandrake.com and go to the /pub/updates/6.0/RPMS directory, you'll see the file "initscripts-4.16-31.mdk.i586.rpm. Grab that and install it with "rpm -Uvh initscripts." and also upgrade your kernel with a newer one than ships with the 6.0 version of Mandrake. John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] modem install
I bought US Robotics 56K PCI modem... How can I configure it under Mandrake Linux 6.1 Is there a utility that I can use??? = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] make xconfig error
Hey I get that too! I thiink it has something to do with ncurses?? Are you running Mandrake 6.1 ? J On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I want to recompile my kernel with support for my SoundBlaster CD-ROM, but when I run "make xconfig" I get the following error: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts' 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 -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.c make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts' cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2' make[1]: *** [tkparse.o] Error 1 make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 What does this mean? -- Be careful what you wish for...you might get it.
[newbie] EXT2 vs. FAT32 - - Is EXT2 faster to read/write while running Linux?
I heard some where that it was more work for linux to read/write to a FAT32 partition than it was to read/write to EXT2 partitions. Is there some truth to it? Also, is it faster for the system to not have any FAT32 partitions on the drive? Seve
Re: [newbie] Netscape mail problem
Yes, I can browse the web; as for the mail settings, I used the same ones that work in window$ (except for having to deal with an error message, "Netscape is unable to use the mail server because you have not provided a username". The current problem surfaced as soon as I got past this.
Re: [newbie] K Destop
Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello All, Every now and then the icons in the panel cease to work - I click on them, they appear to work but nothing happens. I have to restart X to get them to work again. Anyone any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks. Did you happen to dialup the Internet right before they stop working? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] No bounces???
John Aldrich wrote: HeyI think we may have finally solved the bouncing problem. :-) I got tired of the bouncing emails and sent a message to Mindspring's support. THEY claimed it was on the list's mail server, but since receiving the note from Mindspring (AND having posted a couple messages) I haven't seen any bounces (yet! G) To bring this back on topic (a bit) I was trying to help a gentleman who described the symptoms that were happening with fresh installs of Mandrake 6.0, but he said he'd installed 6.1. Does anyone know if 6.1 suffers from the same problem of failing to cleanly unmount? The gent said he'd seen an updated initscripts package for 6.1. I don't remember any problems with 6.1's shutdown sequences, and I know I didn't see any unnecessary fscks while running 6.1. The updated initscripts is probably the fixes from Red Hat for various other problems. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem
Thanks all who answered. 1. I tried ATZ0 in the Initialization string field in kppp and no change. 2. I tried ATZ4 in the Initialization string field in kppp and no change. 3. I tried "setserial /dev/ttyS1 spd_vhi" and this worked. It went from 37333 to 44333 then 45333. The only problem with this is I had to set su root to perform the command. I would like to put this in my .bashrc, but it would not work unless I am root? From: Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:07:17 -0800 Steve Philp wrote: Robert Benson wrote: Hi My US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem runs at 49000 in windows 95, but only 37333 in Linux. What am I missing here. Is their a setting I missed. Thanks for any help. Most modems will automatically retrain to their highest transfer speeds depending on the conditions of the line during the call. It's likely that when you first dial up, the connection might be "dirty" and cause a slower speed. Do the transfer speeds reflect a constant 3.73k connection or do they get higher as you use the connection? One other thing you can check... You'll need to know the /dev/ttySX of your modem (ttyS0 = COM1, ttyS1 = COM2, etc). Try this before bringing up the connection: setserial /dev/ttySX spd_vhi Does that affect the connection speed and transfer speeds for you? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I've had great results making sure the MTU and MRU setting(s) are statically set to 1500 on both. It has worked for me and countless others. :) -- Bill Schoolcraft, Technical Support Engineer. Linuxcare Inc. 650 Townsend Street, San Francisco CA 94103 415.354.4878 x343 tel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxcare.com Linuxcare. At the center of Linux. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] modem install
Check the supported hardware on linux-mandrake, but 99% of PCI modems are winmodems. - Original Message - From: Peter Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 9:17 PM Subject: [newbie] modem install I bought US Robotics 56K PCI modem... How can I configure it under Mandrake Linux 6.1 Is there a utility that I can use??? = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] No bounces???
Steve Philp wrote: John Aldrich wrote: HeyI think we may have finally solved the bouncing problem. :-) I got tired of the bouncing emails and sent a message to Mindspring's support. THEY claimed it was on the list's mail server, but since receiving the note from Mindspring (AND having posted a couple messages) I haven't seen any bounces (yet! G) To bring this back on topic (a bit) I was trying to help a gentleman who described the symptoms that were happening with fresh installs of Mandrake 6.0, but he said he'd installed 6.1. Does anyone know if 6.1 suffers from the same problem of failing to cleanly unmount? The gent said he'd seen an updated initscripts package for 6.1. I don't remember any problems with 6.1's shutdown sequences, and I know I didn't see any unnecessary fscks while running 6.1. The updated initscripts is probably the fixes from Red Hat for various other problems. Bad form to reply to my own message, I know, but just a "heads up" that the bounces are still occuring. :( -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] make xconfig error
Jeremy wrote: Hey I get that too! I thiink it has something to do with ncurses?? Are you running Mandrake 6.1 ? J On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I want to recompile my kernel with support for my SoundBlaster CD-ROM, but when I run "make xconfig" I get the following error: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts' 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 -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.c make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts' cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2' make[1]: *** [tkparse.o] Error 1 make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 What does this mean? It means Mandrake never tested their packages before they shipped them. The kernel will not rebuild as they distributed it unless you edit the Makefile. Change to the /usr/src/linux directory and use your favorite editor to edit Makefile. Search for 'preferred-stack-boundary=2' and remove it. Save the Makefile. Now do your kernel compile and all will be well. It's been a month, where's the fix Mandrake?? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem
Robert Benson wrote: Thanks all who answered. 1. I tried ATZ0 in the Initialization string field in kppp and no change. 2. I tried ATZ4 in the Initialization string field in kppp and no change. 3. I tried "setserial /dev/ttyS1 spd_vhi" and this worked. It went from 37333 to 44333 then 45333. The only problem with this is I had to set su root to perform the command. I would like to put this in my .bashrc, but it would not work unless I am root? Add it to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local so it will be run at each boot. You only need to run it once. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] modem install
WinModem !Work Sorry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Sadowski Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 11:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] modem install I bought US Robotics 56K PCI modem... How can I configure it under Mandrake Linux 6.1 Is there a utility that I can use??? = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
[newbie] You all might be interested in this article
http://www.pcworld.com/heres_how/article/0,1400,13702,00.html
[newbie] Services
Hi there. I recently recompiled my kernel. I now get the following message when I boot: "Starting amd: amd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it!" What does this mean? Also, how do I fix it? Any suggestions? Thanks, Chris.
RE: [newbie] modem install
Confirmed WinModem -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lyndon Lininger Sr. Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 11:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] modem install Check the supported hardware on linux-mandrake, but 99% of PCI modems are winmodems. - Original Message - From: Peter Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 9:17 PM Subject: [newbie] modem install I bought US Robotics 56K PCI modem... How can I configure it under Mandrake Linux 6.1 Is there a utility that I can use??? = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
[newbie] KDE Backup scheduler
Hi all, According to Linuxberg and KDE, there should be a KDE backup scheduler to be used with Kdat somewhere in the KDEAdmin package. The thing is: I can't find it. Anyone have a clue? Patrick
[newbie] Corel LINUX Out - Off Topic
Kinda of Off Topic Here - but Corel LINUX is out today. The Corel FM extension on KDE looks nice. Anyway, Just an Observation
