Re: [Re: [newbie] audio in K]
"coin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why don't u try "sndconfig" at the shell prompt... it's easy to set up and fast. Luff (x3) coin === Whenever I try "sndconfig" (as root, of course)from konsole, I get a segmentation fault error. Any ideas as to why? Mandrake 6.1 kernel 2.2.13 IBM PL 300 PII 330 64 meg RAM Crystal Audio sound card Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic
In defense of IT's (I'm not one), it's not their fault - they do what the HR or other department tell them to do. And the HR has to do it b/c if you piss off someone in IRC while logged in from a work computer that person can now sue your company. (Assuming US of course - Home of the Blame, land of the lawsuit.) Ty Original Message On 11/23/99, 2:10:35 AM, Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Definitely Off Topic: Hi! I know this is off topic, but I noticed that a lot of you guys are Network Admins or similar.. I was just wondering if the following Saga is common practice by you guys... We have just been connected in the past month to the Internet at work and the following is the Lowdown of the past 2 days here. BTW, my work machine is a Windoze98 one :-( -- Yesterday morning when I started my trusty computer, it ran an additional script during logon. Well, that's interesting I said to myself... Then I looked at a friends email and clicked on a Link to a chat room and "Lo and Behold" the following Screen appeared in my browser... " Blocked by SurfWatch " Well, what do you know, say's I to myself :-( Then I looked a little closer at the URL of the Screen. http://net-intra.netafim-magal.co.il//sw-cgi/alert.cgi?action=denymode= blockurl=http%3a%2f%2fliveuniverse.com%2fworld%3fname%3dwinter%2527s%2 bchat%2broom%26type%3dchat Upon looking at the internet settings/lan of Internet Explorer, What could this be, I never set it up to use a proxy, so I quiet merrily disabled the use proxy option, and what do you know, that annoying SurfWatch disappeared :-) Well that's That I thought to myself. BUT, someone had other ideas it seems!!! Turned on trusty computer this morning, and what do you think I saw? Another @#$#@ Script run during Logon... Bugger says I.. Had a wee look at my I/E Internet settings/Lan, and what do you think I saw??? The options to change lan settings grayed out and set to use unfriendly proxy :-((( Needless to say I was seriously unchuffed!!! What can a poor boy do? Well couldn't find anything in the Registry to explain this new "feature" generously put into my brouser by our ever-loving IT So, out comes my trusty backup of Notscape, and Praise the Lord, At least that installed OK, and without any kindly supplied "added features" from our friendly IT. You know, if the stupid bugger would just give me a call and say "We don't want you to go to porno sites or chat with your work computer" Then he wouldn't need to fartass around wasting both his time and mine, as I DON'T go to Porno Sites, and if it really get's his knickers in a knot about chatting, then OK, it is possible to accommodate him... But that would be to logical and wouldn't allow him to flex his scrawny little Nerd Muscles. Anyway, that's about the situation today And what will appear on my screen during Logon tomorrow morning? Maybe a variant on Deltree C:\progra~1\Netscape or something? Jesus if he wasn't acting like an asshole I wouldn't be wasting my time trying to foil him.. As you can see I was somewhat annoyed What do you guys out there think? Dont Crucify me to harshly Rgds: Mike Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack
RE: [newbie] Built in Soundcard....
Well, the advice seems to be that upgradeing to Mandrake6.1 should enable the sound to work correctly. Until I get the CD's from Cheapbytes I have disabled the onboard CMI chip and wacked in a legacy SB16 I found lying around which is probably a better system anyhow. When I get the Mandrake6.1 I will letya know how I go. All the best: Mike. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: coin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: ã 24 ðåáîáø 1999 3:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Built in Soundcard My motherboard has a built in Soundcard based on a CMI8330 chip. In Windoze98 it appears as follows: Dos mode mpu401 emmulator i/o 0310-0311 External midi mpu401 i/o 0300-0301 Joystick device i/o 0200-0207 SB16 audio device i/o 0220-022F IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5 Windows sound system device i/o 0530-0537 i/o 0388-038F IRQ10 DMA3 All functions work fine in Windoze. Dear friend, u are not alone, i got the same problem as u. I only can play CD, noteven wav or midi files. U sure upgrading to the next version helps Luff(x3) coin
Re: [newbie] Samba
It is was a friend of mine calls the "cancer pipeline". :-) It allows any Windows 9x or Windows NT computer to connect to your Linux PC as if it actually were a Windows NT server. Check out http://www.samba.org coin wrote: wat is exactly samba Luff (x3) coin
[newbie] Netscape not working
G'day ... a small problem with netscape! I've checked the mail archives and a few other places but still can't findout how to get Netscape to work when I log into X as a regular user or as root (I have a static IP going out through a router on our LAN). I can ping hosts outside my network through an xterm but can't get an HTML page in my browser by typing the name or by dotted IP. I presume its a permission thing? I also have a DNS entry in resolv.conf any ideas would be a great help. Thanks Darrel
[newbie] Re:
Bad manners is bad manners across the board young man. It doesn't matter how old you are. Your age does not give you permission to get away with things like that. You see, since we only have your words to look at we would never have known how old you were. Corresponding by e-mail is the great equalizer. Writing flame messages either advertises you age or immaturity. By the way, if you don't like the answers that people have been giving you, or they are not responding at all, don't go out "in a blaze of glory" by writing an angry message. You may regret it later and want to join back up. Good luck with Linux. I hope that you can find your answers. "Mike J. Kesow" wrote: At least someone has some common courtesy(Joseph S. Gardner.) For all of yinz out there, yinz should know that i'm only 14 years old, so pick on someone your own age.
RE: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic
Well I am not sure what the law says over here in Sunny Israel, though I suspect that they haven't even got around to thinking about such things. (Israel, Home of legalised torture and imprisonment without trial.) beat that one TY :-( And to all of you's thinking of flameing me, don't bother, I will go back on topic once again, I promise :-) Regards: Mike. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Ty C. Mixon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â 23 ðåáîáø 1999 12:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic In defense of IT's (I'm not one), it's not their fault - they do what the HR or other department tell them to do. And the HR has to do it b/c if you piss off someone in IRC while logged in from a work computer that person can now sue your company. (Assuming US of course - Home of the Blame, land of the lawsuit.) Ty
Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic
Mike Perry wrote: Hi! I know this is off topic, but I noticed that a lot of you guys are Network Admins or similar.. I was just wondering if the following Saga is common practice by you guys... We have just been connected in the past month to the Internet at work and the following is the Lowdown of the past 2 days here. BTW, my work machine is a Windoze98 one :-( Yes, it's completely common (on both sides of the tale). Businesses providing Internet access have a large responsibility to ensure that it doesn't provide/promote an "uncomfortable workplace" and that the facilities are not used to harass others. That goes for inside and outside the company. You know, if the stupid bugger would just give me a call and say "We don't want you to go to porno sites or chat with your work computer" Then he wouldn't need to fartass around wasting both his time and mine, as I DON'T go to Porno Sites, and if it really get's his knickers in a knot about chatting, then OK, it is possible to accommodate him... But that would be to logical and wouldn't allow him to flex his scrawny little Nerd Muscles. Ever consider that there's 200 of you little buggers running around? Heck, he MIGHT have time to actually send an email about the new situation if he weren't having to create login scripts to counteract all the changed settings and extra software being placed on the computer. And what will appear on my screen during Logon tomorrow morning? Maybe a variant on Deltree C:\progra~1\Netscape or something? Jesus if he wasn't acting like an asshole I wouldn't be wasting my time trying to foil him.. Take a hint. The filter is there for a reason. If you've got a complaint about it, take it up with HR. IS doesn't make the rules, it follows them. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic
Take a hint. The filter is there for a reason. If you've got a complaint about it, take it up with HR. IS doesn't make the rules, it follows them. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Confirmation from a third party that the poor IS guy in the trenches is the decision maker. It amazes me how many people are willing to shoot the messenger. I'm not going to say that there aren't some first class butt heads who work in IS, but I know some of those out on the plant floor and in the warehouse and in the boardroom. MB
Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic
It probably wasn't his fault. Management most likeley made him do it in keeping with that general "cop/disiplinarian" mindset so prevelent in the work-place. I've often thought to myself, just as you say, "Why don't they just call and ask me not to do whatever, rather than create some kind of overkill security system." David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" **Rock on with glowing glass** -Original Message- From: Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 4:54 AM Subject: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic Hi! I know this is off topic, but I noticed that a lot of you guys are Network Admins or similar.. I was just wondering if the following Saga is common practice by you guys... We have just been connected in the past month to the Internet at work and the following is the Lowdown of the past 2 days here. BTW, my work machine is a Windoze98 one :-( -- Yesterday morning when I started my trusty computer, it ran an additional script during logon. Well, that's interesting I said to myself... Then I looked at a friends email and clicked on a Link to a chat room and "Lo and Behold" the following Screen appeared in my browser... " Blocked by SurfWatch " Well, what do you know, say's I to myself :-( Then I looked a little closer at the URL of the Screen. http://net-intra.netafim-magal.co.il//sw-cgi/alert.cgi?action=denymode= blockurl=http%3a%2f%2fliveuniverse.com%2fworld%3fname%3dwinter%2527s%2 bchat%2broom%26type%3dchat Upon looking at the internet settings/lan of Internet Explorer, What could this be, I never set it up to use a proxy, so I quiet merrily disabled the use proxy option, and what do you know, that annoying SurfWatch disappeared :-) Well that's That I thought to myself. BUT, someone had other ideas it seems!!! Turned on trusty computer this morning, and what do you think I saw? Another @#$#@ Script run during Logon... Bugger says I.. Had a wee look at my I/E Internet settings/Lan, and what do you think I saw??? The options to change lan settings grayed out and set to use unfriendly proxy :-((( Needless to say I was seriously unchuffed!!! What can a poor boy do? Well couldn't find anything in the Registry to explain this new "feature" generously put into my brouser by our ever-loving IT So, out comes my trusty backup of Notscape, and Praise the Lord, At least that installed OK, and without any kindly supplied "added features" from our friendly IT. You know, if the stupid bugger would just give me a call and say "We don't want you to go to porno sites or chat with your work computer" Then he wouldn't need to fartass around wasting both his time and mine, as I DON'T go to Porno Sites, and if it really get's his knickers in a knot about chatting, then OK, it is possible to accommodate him... But that would be to logical and wouldn't allow him to flex his scrawny little Nerd Muscles. Anyway, that's about the situation today And what will appear on my screen during Logon tomorrow morning? Maybe a variant on Deltree C:\progra~1\Netscape or something? Jesus if he wasn't acting like an asshole I wouldn't be wasting my time trying to foil him.. As you can see I was somewhat annoyed What do you guys out there think? Dont Crucify me to harshly Rgds: Mike Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack
Re: [newbie] /home partition -- how?
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Benjamin wrote: If I could separate my /home/sher from my regular Linux installation, would that allow me in the future to install, upgrade or reinstall Mandrake and keep my /home/sher directory separate and intact? If so, could someone suggest specifically how to go about doing it. I am sure it's simple, but I want to make sure I am doing the right thing. Should I have not two (hda1 and swap file) but three partitions on hda (hda1, /home and swap)? If so, how do I do the math here. Just what do I need to do? Yep, you answered your own question... make a home partition in Disk Druid, same way you make root except give a mount point of "/home" instead of "/". (Without quotes of course.) And make it whatever size you expect to need for your home directory. :) -Tom
Re: [newbie] /home partition -- how?
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Benjamin wrote: Dear Ken: Thanks so much for your explanation. Question: if I assign 3 gig to / , how much PRECISELY do I assign to /home (being the only user on a single machine), that is, do I assign the full 1.3 gig that is left over from my 4.3 gig HD or do I need to leave 128 meg for the swap file or should I assign 1 gig to /home, 128 meg to the swap file and leave the rest unused? Do you have to leave some meg unused for Linux to use as it sees fit? Does it need some extra space beyond the 128 meg swap file? I would usually figure out how much space I'll want for /home, subtract that and 128MB from my total HD space, and put the result into root, then make the 128MB swap, then make the /home partition with the rest of the space (which will of course be around what I intended to set aside for it). In your case, just make a 3 gig root, then a 128MB swap, then put the rest in /home. Linux doesn't need any unpartitioned space to be leftover. -Tom
Re: [newbie] /home partition -- how?
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Depends on how much Mem you currently have and what you will be doing with the box. I myself am an OLD school SA/SE and still live by the old proverb of swap should be 2 times greater than you memory so I have 128mb of ram right now and my swap space is freaking huge! (256mb swap) It will not hurt to set swap to 128 and then /home to like 1gb Regards, Ron Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/23/99 02:23:27 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] /home partition -- how? Dear Ken: Thanks so much for your explanation. Question: if I assign 3 gig to / , how much PRECISELY do I assign to /home (being the only user on a single machine), that is, do I assign the full 1.3 gig that is left over from my 4.3 gig HD or do I need to leave 128 meg for the swap file or should I assign 1 gig to /home, 128 meg to the swap file and leave the rest unused? Do you have to leave some meg unused for Linux to use as it sees fit? Does it need some extra space beyond the 128 meg swap file? Thanks so very much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Re:
I agree not that I think my opinion really matters much just throwing in 2cents:) On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: "Mike J. Kesow" wrote: Steve, Steve, Steve, Why don't you keep yourself out of other peoples business? This has nothing to do with you. I never wanted part of this anyway! Take it to private mail. This is NOT appropriate for the mailing list. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't!
RE: [newbie] Apache/public_html
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:53:17 -0800, Ken Wilson wrote: Are the permissions for the directories you want people to be able to access world readable? This is necessary otherwise only the owner of the parent directory will be able to see anything in it. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') ***snip*** Hi -- This is what I thought was the problem. However, I can't find any place in either LinuxConf or the httpd.conf file where one sets the permissions or where one can change those permissions. Can you point me in that direction? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Apache/public_html
From: Ronald A. Yacketta man chmod man chown "Pete Clapham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/23/99 08:55:50 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: RE: [newbie] Apache/public_html On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:53:17 -0800, Ken Wilson wrote: Are the permissions for the directories you want people to be able to access world readable? This is necessary otherwise only the owner of the parent directory will be able to see anything in it. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') ***snip*** Hi -- This is what I thought was the problem. However, I can't find any place in either LinuxConf or the httpd.conf file where one sets the permissions or where one can change those permissions. Can you point me in that direction? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] /home partition -- how?
Dear friends: My thanks to everyone who wrote in with suggestions on how to create a /home partition. I think I am now ready to do it, as soon as I get my PowerPack tomorrow. Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Apache/public_html
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Ben wrote: check your .conf file for apache. in /httpd ( i think?). there should be a line in the file the specifies what the public directory is named. Although I think public_html is the default. Also check your folder permissions. I suspect that there is some configuration step that needs to be done in order to tell the browser that the "public_html" directory is, in fact, public. Can anybody advise me what it is? the users homedir needs chmod +x, and the ~/public_html needs +rx -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] Monitor resolution settings
Run XF86config. Lets you set the resolution with several options. For example, selecting 543 should have it try to run at 1024 X 768 first and go down in resolution if necessary. You can also st it so it won't make the screen so large you have to scroll off the edges. You should know your monitor verticle and horizontal refresh rates and the capabilities of your video card if it isn't listed on the list before running the program. From: "Gilles Lahaie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Monitor resolution settings Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 18:11:55 -0500 Help! I want to set the screen resolution of my Q-71 monitor to 1024x768. Problem is that installation of Mandrake Linux 6.1 set default resolution to something around 1280x1024. When using xConfigurator, the default resolution is about 640x480 with the screen moved to the right... and screen is larger than the monitor. What should I do??? Thanks Here is a useful link for info on editing the XF86Config file: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.5/ I had the same problem with too high a resolution and the icons being too small to read. Using Mandrake 6.1, the system would not recognize my Matrox G400 video card, so, I DL'd the XFree update (3.3.5) extracted and attempted to install it. Could not get it to work, so bought the Mandrake 6.5 (with 3.3.5 included). The install went fine except for my mistake of telling it to configure resolution at the highest thinking I could Cntrl-Alt-KP+/- to change it. That didn't work. Editing the XF86Config file is the best way to configure it (IMHO). The file defaults to the first resolution listed in the Display area for your server, and it will start up in that resolution. I edited every listing in the "Display" area (cause I wasn't sure at that point which 'server' was being used) to only list the resolutions I might possibly want, from highest to lowest, excluding the lowest of 640x480, as you found out it is too large to fit on a screen. That file is usually in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. You can use the command: vi XF86Config to edit it from a terminal. A final note: During the editing you can change the Virtual setting to 0, not using that feature, especially since it uses more memory. A final useful link: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xset.html HTH,
Re: [newbie] need help
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, hugahog wrote: -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] need help On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: To append the directly above: I copied the bootup screen messages and the relative part is as follows. Checking filesystems fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb1 (null): The super block could not be read or does not descirbe a correct ext2 file system ( and not swap or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device Try booting with a "rescue" disk and then "chroot /dev/hdxx" (drive partition where / is located.) Then, mkswap /dev/hdb1. It *should* re-format the swap space, I think. Before you do this, though, you should wait awhile to see if someone (Axalon???) can provide a better suggestion. It *sounds* as if your swap space is FUBARED! John Yeah but fubared on the hdb drive which is booting ok, why does the hdc drive care? Apparently according to the bootup messages when booting hdc from floppy or lilo all partitions check clean including hdc3 which is / but still it fails right after that. But still I agree it seemed to get hung up on the hdb1 swap partition. SoI did this booted from hdc boot disk ran mkswap on hdb1 ran mkswap on hdc2 no change in boot problems In partition magic moved hdb1 swap to end of drive no change in boot problems moved hdb1 swap back to front of drive but left as free space booted with hdc floppy and ran fdisk /dev/hdb created and formated the freespace as swap just in case it wasn't done correctly before. No change in boot problems, completely back to square one :-( Here is my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk label=linuxb root=/dev/hdb2 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk label=linux root=/dev/hdc3 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda I'm wondering if there might not be a corrupt file somewhere on hdc that is affecting the way it initializes? Everything else 'seems' OK :-) Larry Use the "partition info" tool of partition magic, and see if it's overlaped any partitions (it does this way more offten than it should for me) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Awe32
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Will Downs wrote: I just finished installing Mandrake 6.1, I'm having difficutly getting my sound card to work. I have a Soundblaster Awe 32 (IRQ 5, IO 220, DMA 1 and 5, MPU 330 under DOS) My PC is a P266, 96mb of RAM. Kernel 2.2.13-7mdk When I run the Sound Configuration Utility 0.34, I get the following error. The utility does recongnized my sound card as Creative SB32 PNP, Thats because it's numbers don't match anything They need submited to Redhat for inclusion in sndconfig. Send the /etc/isapnp.conf, and i will add it for lothar ___ The following error occurred running the isapnp program: Don't know what to do with CONFIGURE CTL0044/269315976 (LD 2 on or around line 352 /etc/isapnp.conf:352 -- Fatal - Error occurred parsing config file --- no action taken. Whats line 353 say? This will tell you what specific portion isn't initilizing (funcion 2 here is wavetable, i'd just comment it out personaly i only need basic audio) ___ I'm then forced to config the sound driver manually, I select Sound Blaster AWE32/64. Then enter the windows setting for the sound card. I then get the following error... ___ The following error occurred running the isapnp program: Don't know what to do with CONFIGURE CTL0044/269315976 (LD 2 on or around line 752 /etc/isapnp.conf:752 -- Fatal - Error occurred parsing config file --- no action taken. Um, at this point i would delete isapnp.conf and start fresh as its just appended the new onto the old(which seems fixed at this point) or edit the new stuff out. grep pnpdump.c /etc/isapnp.conf |wc -l if this says two or more it really has appended _ When the system boots I get the following error... Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (c) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: dsp reset failed YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (c) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 OPL3 not detected off. get the .conf fixed and then we can worry wether you need init it from dos first Does anybody have an Idea what the problem could be, I have read the sound-HOWTO and re-compiled the kernel with sound support. Just a lil note, if you've customized your kernel your not running "2.2.13-7mdk" your running a derivative ;) THANKS -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [RE: [newbie] eth0]
Contrary to what you may think...not all Cable modems are Dynamic, mine is STATIC, and along with just about all I personally know with cable modems, they are ALSO static. IMHO Jaguar John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: Its plugged in from my 'puter to a 4-port hub *shrug* I think the answer given yesterday was to turn OFF DHCP. I never have any problems 'cause I *always* use a static IP for my system 'course I'm using an ISDN router and not a cable modem or ADSL which requires a dynamic IP. :-) John Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] Built in Soundcard....]
ummm this leads me to ask ONE questionWhy not disable the on-board crappy CMI8330, and put in a cheap but usable Yamaha sound card for about $10.00 at your local retailer??? Jaguar "coin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My motherboard has a built in Soundcard based on a CMI8330 chip. In Windoze98 it appears as follows: Dos mode mpu401 emmulator i/o 0310-0311 External midi mpu401 i/o 0300-0301 Joystick device i/o 0200-0207 SB16 audio device i/o 0220-022F IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5 Windows sound system device i/o 0530-0537 i/o 0388-038F IRQ10 DMA3 All functions work fine in Windoze. Dear friend, u are not alone, i got the same problem as u. I only can play CD, noteven wav or midi files. U sure upgrading to the next version helps Luff(x3) coin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Awe32
I'm a newbie, but it sounds to me like your isapnp.conf file is messed up. I suggest backing up your isapnp.conf file and then deleting it from the hard drive. I think the sndconfig program will recreate this file for you. If this doesn't work, you can put the backup isapnp.conf file back onto the hard drive. I highly suggest waiting to see other opinions before trying mine. I'm sometimes known to try extremes. HTH, Matt From: Will Downs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Soundblaster Awe32 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:20:55 -0700 I just finished installing Mandrake 6.1, I'm having difficutly getting my sound card to work. I have a Soundblaster Awe 32 (IRQ 5, IO 220, DMA 1 and 5, MPU 330 under DOS) My PC is a P266, 96mb of RAM. Kernel 2.2.13-7mdk When I run the Sound Configuration Utility 0.34, I get the following error. The utility does recongnized my sound card as Creative SB32 PNP, ___ The following error occurred running the isapnp program: Don't know what to do with CONFIGURE CTL0044/269315976 (LD 2 on or around line 352 /etc/isapnp.conf:352 -- Fatal - Error occurred parsing config file --- no action taken. ___ I'm then forced to config the sound driver manually, I select Sound Blaster AWE32/64. Then enter the windows setting for the sound card. I then get the following error... ___ The following error occurred running the isapnp program: Don't know what to do with CONFIGURE CTL0044/269315976 (LD 2 on or around line 752 /etc/isapnp.conf:752 -- Fatal - Error occurred parsing config file --- no action taken. _ When the system boots I get the following error... Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (c) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: dsp reset failed YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (c) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 OPL3 not detected off. Does anybody have an Idea what the problem could be, I have read the sound-HOWTO and re-compiled the kernel with sound support. THANKS __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Mail
O.K. now the next step in the process. As most of you know, I have been setting up a network here at work using linux as my server. Samba to let the window box's talk to the server. No I would like to add internal e-mail HOW Thanks Jeff http://www.sstooling.com
[newbie] Books..
I would like to thank all of you for your input on the books to buy. I received the two books yesterday afternoon. Well I was up late reading. From all the input I chose Running Linux 3rd Edition. Matt Walsh and Linux in a Nutshell. 2nd Edition. Ellen Siever. I really link the Nutshell book, I still need to read Running Linux, which I will over the holidays. Again thanks so much for the input. Jeff http://www.sstooling.com
[newbie] Drive Space?
Being from the old school in dos and now learning the ins and outs of linux. With dos it's better to divid up a drive into smaller drives. "CDEFG" This will let things run faster and give you a tad more drive space. Does Linux work in a similar fashion? or is this a mute point in linux ?
Re: [newbie] Here's the latest info on Opera for Linux...
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: I simply CANNOT believe when reading stuff like this that Opera has become the darling browser and hope of the future among so many Linux users. Everything Steve comments on is true. There is NOTHING about Opera that contributes to the strengths of Linux. Help out at mozilla.org if you ever want a browser that even sort of jives with Linux and the OS community. Otherwise, buy Opera, which from the sounds of their development techniques (firing teams of folks, rehiring more a week later and claiming they can release this browser within 2 months...please!) it's gonna be as buggy as any Micro$soft app and probably more so. Why not just get VMWare, run IE and join the dark side without waiting for Opera's sluggish development cycle to finish? M Thompson wrote: This story was copied from: http://www.opera.com/interviews/linux.html [SNIP] DS I'm thinking before Christmas because I get a bonus! The test group is quite pleased with what we've sent out and I've gotten a lot of positive feedback. Great, we get fed crap because the guy gets a bonus for shipping before Xmas... I thought Linux was supposed to free us from the "rush it out the door" syndrome. That's the joy of open source boys and girls, it ain't done til it's done... Are you adding anyone to the test group? Can I e-mail somewhere to get on the list? DS No, I'm afraid not as the test group has already been settled. The bigger the pool of eyes, the shallower the pool of bugs. [SNIP] How will the Linux version compare to the Windows version when it comes to features? DS We don't have mail and news but we should have everything else. In a lot of cases we will have more features to make Linux users happy. 2 years and no mail or news? Double-bah. [SNIP] Which GUI toolkit will Opera for Linux be based on? DS It's based on QT right now and the window manager that we use will work under Gnome and KDE which is my first priority. We'll add support for other window managers in version 4.1. It should run under all the window managers but will lack integration. Someone mind explaining to me why a BROWSER requires it's own window manager? It's a fscking application for pete's sake! Create the top-level window and forget it. Sheesh... this thing's gonna be a pile of crap. What kind of dependency problems, if any, might a user run into installing it? DS Right now it's running on a computer with nothing but a kernel, the standard C++ libraries and X Windows. There are no other requirements as we include the libraries. What about the concept of shared libraries. Thanks, but I've already GOT Qt installed on this machine. Use it. This "ship the system libraries with the applications" is Windowsish to the core. Will Opera for Linux offer an automated install script for generic Linux or come packaged for the different flavors (rpm, deb etc...), or both? DS There will be a lot of different installation options including simple tar files for advanced users as well as advanced shell scripts for end users. How about creating a tarball, a .deb and an .rpm package and calling it a day. What system did I miss? Will Opera for Linux offer browsing from the console? DS The QT edition does not, however another version we are currently working on will be console, right now we have two different versions: console and X-Windows. Unless that's an FBDev graphical browser for the console, thanks but no thanks. Lynx and (umm, what's the name of the other one?) work just fine. Which flavors of Linux will be supported initially? DS Linux in general - anything with a 2.x kernal and X free 86 version 3.3.3.1 or better on an intel platform. Within a week after the first release we expect a public beta on Linux for Sparc. Will Opera for Linux support integration into different desktop environments, for instance "NeXTish docking", Gnome Panel integration and KDE? DS To a certain degree yes, however, the first version will be focused on browsing. This is something we'll be implementing, but in later versions; perhaps after 4.1 or 4.2. Well thank you, Darren, for taking some time out of your busy schedule to chat with us today. DS It's no problem, I don't mind at all. I think what the interviewer forgot to mention was that we might have had a browser over a year ago if these putzes weren't out trying to reinvent the wheel. We've got a variety of window managers and people are highly tied to their personal choice of manager. Forcing them to move to another one for a browser will seal the browser's fate. Step back and think hard about forking your money over to a company that clearly does not get the Linux platform. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] audio in K
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: have you run sndconfig? Ran it, found my soundcard chipset. Guessed at the settings and tried every possible combination I think. The problem is, I don't know those settings. Plus, in the same way that Xconfigurator (is that it?) failed to get video working without further manual tweaking, I kind of don't expect sndconfig to solve the issue. Any help on where I can find the answers to those setting questions in sndconfig? From somewhere in Windoze? I have dual boot, so I can get into Win and find out what it is, but have not been able to find anything useful. On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: HI, Can anyone point me to a help file on setting up sound for XWindows. I'm basically just taking a stab in the dark at those settings it asks for, but to no avail. Thanks! Gregg -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't!
[newbie] Correct color depth
Quick question: I'm running KDE at 1024x768x16 by starting it manually. When I change to init level 5, it defaults to 1024x768x8 (I think). What do I have to edit to have init level 5 running at the correct depth. TIA -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Awe32
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: [...] Send the /etc/isapnp.conf, and i will add it for lothar Correction, i need the clean pnpdump
[newbie] MSIE when?
Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard.
Re: [RE: [newbie] eth0]
On 23 Nov 1999, Jaguar wrote: Contrary to what you may think...not all Cable modems are Dynamic, mine is STATIC, and along with just about all I personally know with cable modems, they are ALSO static. IMHO Jaguar I've both, one static and two dynamic John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: Its plugged in from my 'puter to a 4-port hub *shrug* I think the answer given yesterday was to turn OFF DHCP. I never have any problems 'cause I *always* use a static IP for my system 'course I'm using an ISDN router and not a cable modem or ADSL which requires a dynamic IP. :-) John Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Mail
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, jeff wrote: O.K. now the next step in the process. As most of you know, I have been setting up a network here at work using linux as my server. Samba to let the window box's talk to the server. No I would like to add internal e-mail HOW Thanks Jeff http://www.sstooling.com If your useing sendmail, linuxconf has facilities to create pop3 accounts. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Correct color depth
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Default User wrote: Quick question: I'm running KDE at 1024x768x16 by starting it manually. When I change to init level 5, it defaults to 1024x768x8 (I think). What do I have to edit to have init level 5 running at the correct depth. TIA -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Put Depth 16 in the "screen" portion of /etc/X11/XF86Config, is the most painless way(make a backup) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [Re: [newbie] audio in K]
Most default settings on out of box sound cards are I/O: 220 IRQ: 5 DMA:1 Joystick: 330 (could be wrong on this one) HTH Jaguar Gregg Carrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: have you run sndconfig? Ran it, found my soundcard chipset. Guessed at the settings and tried every possible combination I think. The problem is, I don't know those settings. Plus, in the same way that Xconfigurator (is that it?) failed to get video working without further manual tweaking, I kind of don't expect sndconfig to solve the issue. Any help on where I can find the answers to those setting questions in sndconfig? From somewhere in Windoze? I have dual boot, so I can get into Win and find out what it is, but have not been able to find anything useful. On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: HI, Can anyone point me to a help file on setting up sound for XWindows. I'm basically just taking a stab in the dark at those settings it asks for, but to no avail. Thanks! Gregg -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't! Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] need help
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: Thanks to all for your help so far, I'm still working on it. BUT, I haven't found the rescue image on the cd , just the readme about it and the boot disk info and I already have a boot disk. Ok.well, I can't seem to find one on the 'net either! You may have to use a RedHat rescue disk...it should be enough to load Linux so you can e2fsck your other partitions and/or re-run mkswap on your swap partition. John
RE: [newbie] eth0
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have ADSL and it doesn't require a dynamic IP, my isp gave me a static IP for my nic and a seperate one for my virtual web hosting account. Just FYI. :-) Around these parts, they don't give out static IPs for ADSL. :-) At least not according to my friends who have ADSL. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi! I know this is off topic, but I noticed that a lot of you guys are Network Admins or similar.. I was just wondering if the following Saga is common practice by you guys... We have just been connected in the past month to the Internet at work and the following is the Lowdown of the past 2 days here. BTW, my work machine is a Windoze98 one :-( Install Mandrake on your work machine and tell him to stuff it! :-) He can't block you THEN! :-) (course he COULD just format and reinstall Windoze after you leave... G) John
Re: [newbie] Netscape not working
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: G'day ... a small problem with netscape! I've checked the mail archives and a few other places but still can't findout how to get Netscape to work when I log into X as a regular user or as root (I have a static IP going out through a router on our LAN). I can ping hosts outside my network through an xterm but can't get an HTML page in my browser by typing the name or by dotted IP. I presume its a permission thing? I also have a DNS entry in resolv.conf any ideas would be a great help. Do you perhaps need to tell Netscape you have a proxy server? Sounds like that MAY be the problem. John
Re: [newbie] /home partition -- how?
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: I would usually figure out how much space I'll want for /home, subtract that and 128MB from my total HD space, and put the result into root, then make the 128MB swap, then make the /home partition with the rest of the space (which will of course be around what I intended to set aside for it). In your case, just make a 3 gig root, then a 128MB swap, then put the rest in /home. Linux doesn't need any unpartitioned space to be leftover. I recently got "bitten" by not having enough space for /home. I had an old 850 meg IDE lying around so I made that /boot and /. Included in / is /home. I ran out of space after downloading too many News binaries! ;-) John
Re: [RE: [newbie] eth0]
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: Contrary to what you may think...not all Cable modems are Dynamic, mine is STATIC, and along with just about all I personally know with cable modems, they are ALSO static. IMHO Jaguar *shrug* I'm just going by what I've heard from others. :-) I work for my ISP and I use ISDN with a dynamically assigned IP address. :-) John
Re: [newbie] MSIE when?
Donny wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. Thanxs for the laugh... I doubt M$ will ever port anything they have to Linux.
Re: [newbie] Modem settings.
I had that and it turned out to be a win modem I had to take it out and look at it I do not know if yours is or not coin wrote: I try using kppp to dial my modem, and it's not able to dial at all. Error msg : Modem too busy port : ttys0 Modem : External prolink 56k V90bis wat could be the possible problem Luff(x3) coin
Re: [newbie] Drive Space?
jeff wrote: Being from the old school in dos and now learning the ins and outs of linux. With dos it's better to divid up a drive into smaller drives. "CDEFG" This will let things run faster and give you a tad more drive space. Does Linux work in a similar fashion? or is this a mute point in linux ? being from the old school as well I tend to divide up my linux as follows / /dev/hd?? /usr/dev/hd?? /var/dev/hd?? /home /dev/dh?? /root /dev/hd?? swap/dev/hd?? each of the above mount points (including swap) has its own slice of the disk I even have been known to take /home and /root on its own disk currently my fstab looks like this:/dev/hda7 / ext2defaults1 1 /dev/hdb5 /ftpext2defaults1 2 /dev/hda5 /home1 ext2defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb1 /home ext2 defaults1 2 /dev/hda8 /received ext2defaults1 2 /dev/hda6 /root ext2defaults1 2 /dev/sda5 /usrext2defaults 1 2 /dev/sda1 /varext2 defaults1 2 /dev/hda9 swap swapdefaults0 0
Re: [newbie] MSIE when?
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Donny wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. Probably won't be out until MainSoft's MainWin IDE for Linux is released, if ever. Last I heard, MainWin was scheduled for next year. Pesonally, I'm hoping for Mozilla or Konqueror to beat 'em to it. DvB
[newbie] /home partition -- revisited
Dear friends: I am still unclear about certain things having to do with creating a /home partition. 1) I will create a / directory of 3 gig, a swap file of 128 meg and a /home directory with the rest (I have a 4.3 gig drive) using DiskDruid. I will call / hda1, but what do I call my /home directory? That is, what is the basis for naming it hda4 or hda5, etc.? That is, what does the number 4 in hda4 stand for? A sector? If so, how do I decide what to name it? 2) If I create a /home directory with the remaining disk space, won't root, that is, / create a /home directory automatically WITHIN its 3 gig partition? 3) Is there a way to indicate a relative value for /home? That is, after creating hda1 (3 gig) and a 128 meg swap file, is there a way for me to indicate that I want the remaining space allocated to /home, that is without indicating a SPECIFIC value, just to say: /home (hda4 or hda5) will have the REMAINING space on hard drive hda, just as you do when select 1 and grow and then your entire HD is automatically assigned to your basic / directory? Appreciate your help and look forward to your answers. Thank you. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Mail
O.K. now the next step in the process. As most of you know, I have been setting up a network here at work using linux as my server. Samba to let the window box's talk to the server. No I would like to add internal e-mail When you go about setting things up you need to decide if you want *ONLY* internal mail, or if you'd like to allow users to send mail in and out also. Michael
Re: [newbie] Samba
Samba is a file sharing server. It allows you to share directories on your Linux server to a network of Windows PCs. Works something like NetBoui. coin wrote: wat is exactly samba Luff (x3) coin
Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Confirmation from a third party that the poor IS guy in the trenches is the decision maker. It amazes me how insert ^^NOT^^ many people are willing to shoot the messenger. I'm not going to say that there aren't some first class butt heads who work in IS, but I know some of those out on the plant floor and in the warehouse and in the boardroom. Sorry
[newbie] How do i get off this list??
How do i get off this list?? How do i get off this list??
Re: [newbie] MSIE when?
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. I don't know about ya'll, but my reason for moving to Linux was to get away from micro$oft, not use that stuff in Linux. Isn't that defeating the purpose of using an alternative OS? -- Chip Wiegand Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly Robert F. Kennedy
Re: [newbie] /home partition -- revisited
hda of course represents your Primary HD...1,2,3,etc. is its partion #. hda1 is your primary (or boot partion). when u specify (ie. hda_2 as having mount point /home) then your /home directory is specifically isolated to that portion of your HD. i reccomend allocating your / and swap partions first, then adding say /home and perhaps another mount point (ie. /data) last. (this however is merely my own personal preference and has no real grounds other than that). This however allows your /data a place for misc. files, such as homemade graphics or Mp3's. Stuff that anyone can access. Essentialy HDA_1 is / (i'm using a lil over 3 gig) HDA2 is swap 128 meg. (or 256 in my case) HDA3 /home(another 2.5gig or so) HDA4 /Data (mine is roughly 5 gig a former windows partion w/ misc. files on it) This should all be adjusted of course coresponding to your total HD space and what all u plan on using. Xian [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] /home partition -- revisited Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:54:28 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 23 15:44:17 1999 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBA04702E0075D820F3ECD847542352FF0; Tue Nov 23 15:37:25 1999 Received: (from majordomo@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA21547for newbie-list; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:51:55 -0600 Received: from mail1.mco.bellsouth.net (mail1.mco.bellsouth.net [205.152.111.13])by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA21527for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:51:52 -0600 Received: from bellsouth.net (adsl-77-232-138.msy.bellsouth.net [216.77.232.138])by mail1.mco.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id QAA22963for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:54:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Sher Publishers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13-7mdksmp i586) X-Accept-Language: ru, fr, en Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Dear friends: I am still unclear about certain things having to do with creating a /home partition. 1) I will create a / directory of 3 gig, a swap file of 128 meg and a /home directory with the rest (I have a 4.3 gig drive) using DiskDruid. I will call / hda1, but what do I call my /home directory? That is, what is the basis for naming it hda4 or hda5, etc.? That is, what does the number 4 in hda4 stand for? A sector? If so, how do I decide what to name it? 2) If I create a /home directory with the remaining disk space, won't root, that is, / create a /home directory automatically WITHIN its 3 gig partition? 3) Is there a way to indicate a relative value for /home? That is, after creating hda1 (3 gig) and a 128 meg swap file, is there a way for me to indicate that I want the remaining space allocated to /home, that is without indicating a SPECIFIC value, just to say: /home (hda4 or hda5) will have the REMAINING space on hard drive hda, just as you do when select 1 and grow and then your entire HD is automatically assigned to your basic / directory? Appreciate your help and look forward to your answers. Thank you. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] /home partition -- how?
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: I recently got "bitten" by not having enough space for /home. I had an old 850 meg IDE lying around so I made that /boot and /. Included in / is /home. I ran out of space after downloading too many News binaries! ;-) John Heheh, me too--I downloaded too many realvideo South Park episodes and had to move them over to my larger root partition.G -Tom
Re: [newbie] Netscape not working
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: G'day ... a small problem with netscape! I've checked the mail archives and a few other places but still can't findout how to get Netscape to work when I log into X as a regular user or as root (I have a static IP going out through a router on our LAN). I can ping hosts outside my network through an xterm but can't get an HTML page in my browser by typing the name or by dotted IP. I presume its a permission thing? I also have a DNS entry in resolv.conf any ideas would be a great help. Do you perhaps need to tell Netscape you have a proxy server? Sounds like that MAY be the problem. John Thanks, But I tried the proxy at the ISP but it didn't help. We don't have a proxy on our LAN. Should try a reinstall from the RPM? Cheers Darrel
Re: [newbie] /home partition -- revisited
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Benjamin wrote: Dear friends: I am still unclear about certain things having to do with creating a /home partition. 1) I will create a / directory of 3 gig, a swap file of 128 meg and a /home directory with the rest (I have a 4.3 gig drive) using DiskDruid. I will call / hda1, but what do I call my /home directory? That is, what is the basis for naming it hda4 or hda5, etc.? That is, what does the number 4 in hda4 stand for? A sector? If so, how do I decide what to name it? Unless I'm remembering incorrectly, Disk Druid assigns the numbers automatically for you when you create the partition so you shouldn't have to worry about it. As for what the numbers mean... they're simply the number of the partition on that drive. hda1 is the first partition on hda, hda2 is the second, and so on. 2) If I create a /home directory with the remaining disk space, won't root, that is, / create a /home directory automatically WITHIN its 3 gig partition? Well, look at it this way... after you install you have a /mnt/floppy directory with nothing in it, right? If you were to copy a file to that directory, then it would be on your root partition. However, if you were to put a floppy disk in your drive, and mount that disk under /mnt/floppy, then when you copy something to to /mnt/floppy it goes onto the disk instead of the root partition. Hard drive partitions work the same way. Hypothetically, let's say you create a partition called /home and Disk Druid assigns it the number hda4. What you are doing is creating partition hda4, and telling Disk Druid to put a line in your fstab (take a look at /etc/fstab to see what I mean) to automatically mount hda4 under the /home directory. So, either way scripts will automatically create a /home directory and create user directories inside that. If there is nothing mounted under /home, then anything created in there is on the root partition, just like if you copied something to /mnt/floppy with no disk mounted; if there IS a partition mounted there (hda4 for this example) then anything created in /home will be on that hda4 partition instead of root. 3) Is there a way to indicate a relative value for /home? That is, after creating hda1 (3 gig) and a 128 meg swap file, is there a way for me to indicate that I want the remaining space allocated to /home, that is without indicating a SPECIFIC value, just to say: /home (hda4 or hda5) will have the REMAINING space on hard drive hda, just as you do when select 1 and grow and then your entire HD is automatically assigned to your basic / directory? Unless I'm not remembering right, yes, you can check that 'grow to fill disk' (or whatever it's called) box for your /home partition, or any partition. So just make root, swap, and then use that option when you create /home. -Tom
Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Awe32
Sorry for the misprint ; should have read: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/AWE32 Helps quite a bit. Once I quit trying to run 'sndconfig' (it seems to never let well enough alone and always changes things, at least for me) William Bouterse
[newbie] I need to download Blue Screen of Death graphic image!
Hi all, I'm doing a marketing presentation on Linux and I want to start out with an image of the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" from Windows. Please give me a URL where I can find such an image. Any image format will do. Thanks everyone for all your help, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] kmail won't load, tool bars mangled
thanks, Ernie. and thanks John, for following this cross-list. --- Forwarded message follows --- From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] kmail won't load, tool bars mangled Date sent: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 04:27:24 -0500 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Kieth, This is a known problem with L-M 6.1 - I bet you have the kcmclock package installed. If you do, remove it with kpackage or rpm. Then re-install the kdelibs package. This fixed up my system so all works well. I think there is a conflict between something in the kcmclock package and the kdelibs one. I have not missed the kcmclock package's functionality here, so maybe you will not either. HTH, -- Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The measure of a man is in his honor ...
Re: [newbie] MSIE when?
Chip Wiegand wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. I don't know about ya'll, but my reason for moving to Linux was to get away from micro$oft, not use that stuff in Linux. Isn't that defeating the purpose of using an alternative OS? -- Chip Wiegand Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly Robert F. Kennedy not necessarily. another reason to use Linux is cause it is perceived as superior -- not just cause it isn't MS. And as much as I dislike MS business practices and their products generally, IMHO IE is superior to the alternatives. -- Keith
RE: [newbie] MSIE when?
There will never be an MS IE for Linux. Find out what whoever is telling you that is smoking. I want some. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Donny Sent: November 23, 1999 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] MSIE when? Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard.
Re: [newbie] need help
-Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] need help On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, hugahog wrote: -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] need help On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: To append the directly above: I copied the bootup screen messages and the relative part is as follows. Checking filesystems fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb1 (null): The super block could not be read or does not descirbe a correct ext2 file system ( and not swap or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device Try booting with a "rescue" disk and then "chroot /dev/hdxx" (drive partition where / is located.) Then, mkswap /dev/hdb1. It *should* re-format the swap space, I think. Before you do this, though, you should wait awhile to see if someone (Axalon???) can provide a better suggestion. It *sounds* as if your swap space is FUBARED! John Yeah but fubared on the hdb drive which is booting ok, why does the hdc drive care? Apparently according to the bootup messages when booting hdc from floppy or lilo all partitions check clean including hdc3 which is / but still it fails right after that. But still I agree it seemed to get hung up on the hdb1 swap partition. SoI did this booted from hdc boot disk ran mkswap on hdb1 ran mkswap on hdc2 no change in boot problems In partition magic moved hdb1 swap to end of drive no change in boot problems moved hdb1 swap back to front of drive but left as free space booted with hdc floppy and ran fdisk /dev/hdb created and formated the freespace as swap just in case it wasn't done correctly before. No change in boot problems, completely back to square one :-( Here is my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk label=linuxb root=/dev/hdb2 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk label=linux root=/dev/hdc3 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda I'm wondering if there might not be a corrupt file somewhere on hdc that is affecting the way it initializes? Everything else 'seems' OK :-) Larry Use the "partition info" tool of partition magic, and see if it's overlaped any partitions (it does this way more offten than it should for me) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon Axalon, I did that after your message but all was OK. I ended up wipeing hdb clean and reinstalling LM 6.1 and now both drives boot just fine. Don't know what the problems was except hdc (boot problem drive) didn't like the swap drive on hdb. I fdisked the swap partitions on both drives and that did no good either. In a case like this shouldn't linux know to keep it's attention on the drive it is booting rather than worrying about what is on another drive. Thanks for your help. Larry
RE: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic
I'm afraid I have to side with the IT guys/company owners. You're there to work, not chat. It's my machinery so to speak, if you want to chat go to a cybercafe for lunch. Too many issues about proper use of company time and equipment let alone the number of denizens looking for somebody to dns and then try to hack the system later, not to mention potential DOS attacks. Want to take those risks, my reply would be do it with your own system, not mine. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Philp Sent: November 23, 1999 3:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi! I know this is off topic, but I noticed that a lot of you guys are Network Admins or similar.. I was just wondering if the following Saga is common practice by you guys... We have just been connected in the past month to the Internet at work and the following is the Lowdown of the past 2 days here. BTW, my work machine is a Windoze98 one :-( Install Mandrake on your work machine and tell him to stuff it! :-) He can't block you THEN! :-) (course he COULD just format and reinstall Windoze after you leave... G) For our company, that would be considered destruction of company property and would be a terminable offense. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] need help
-Original Message- From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] need help On Mon, 22 Nov 1999,hugahog wrote: | -Original Message- | From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 10:00 AM | Subject: Re: [newbie] need help | | | On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: | Hi Gurus, | | I have been running LM 6.1 on my ide drive c (hdc) and have it | somewhat configured enought to get online, print, etc. | | Today I installed another copy on a clean drive which is hdb. It | boots OK but I don't have it configured as yet. | | My problem is now my original (hdc) won't boot, drops me to a | shell for maintenance :-( | | So, what happens when you fsck the drive/partitions? Does | that fix it or does it continue to drop you to a shell for | maintenance? | John | | | John, | When I fsck the partitions they all check clean except if I | fsck /swap or / . When I check / a warning note comes | up saying If I fsck a mounted file system serious damage | could occur so I backed out. | Thanks | Larry When you are dropped to the shell, do fsck -t ext2 hdc# (where # = the partition number you want to check). This way you are telling fsck which partition to check. If you use / or /swap, you may be trying to check a partition on the hdb drive which may be mounted in read - write mode. For better information you can do man fsck while in the maintenance shell. Don't know if this will help, but it looks right to me. -- Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The measure of a man is in his honor ... Ernie, Thanks for that info. I ended up fdisking and recreating the swap files on both hard drives but that did no good. As you may recall when booting hdc it stalled because it didn't like the swap partition on hdb (which was booting fine). So I ended up wiping hdb clean and reinstalling, since it was just installed there was no loss. This solved the problem, whatever the problem really was :-) Both drives are booting fine. Larry
Re: [newbie] Books..
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: I really link the Nutshell book, I still need to read Running Linux, which I will over the holidays. Dunno if yer interested in technical theory of linux, but if so, check out The Linux Kernel Book as well as The Design of the UNIX Operating System. If yer into programming, check out Linux Programming UNleashed. . .its a bit vague on somethings (Qt, OpenGL), but its pretty neat overall. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) OpenGL: Better Living Through Fast 3D Graphics
Re: [newbie] I need to download Blue Screen of Death graphic image!
M Thompson wrote: Hi all, I'm doing a marketing presentation on Linux and I want to start out with an image of the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" from Windows. Please give me a URL where I can find such an image. Any image format will do. There's probably something usable in the xscreensaver source package. The BSOD screensaver has a Blue Screen for a screensaver (along with some other OS "utoh" screens). -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] need help
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, hugahog wrote: [...] Use the "partition info" tool of partition magic, and see if it's overlaped any partitions (it does this way more offten than it should for me) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon Axalon, I did that after your message but all was OK. I ended up wipeing hdb clean and reinstalling LM 6.1 and now both drives boot just fine. Don't know what the problems was except hdc (boot problem drive) didn't like the swap drive on hdb. I fdisked the swap partitions on both drives and that did no good either. In a case like this shouldn't linux know to keep it's attention on the drive it is booting rather than worrying about what is on another drive. it does what you tell it, it was in fstab as swap so it tryed to activate it. Thanks for your help. Larry
[newbie] /home partition -- I think I got it
Dear friends: My thanks to everyone who wrote in for your expert instructions concerning the /home partition question. So, it looks like Linux (i.e. Disk Druid) will assign the proper hda partition number to /home. That's a relief. First, I'll set up / , then the swap file, then /home. I will check the number 1 and "grow" and let Disk Druid not only determine my partition number for /home but also the size of the partition, namely, what's left over after partitioning / and the swap file. Thanks so very much. I hope this sounds right. Benjamin P. S. Just a little nervous. -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Built in Soundcard....
Well, the advice seems to be that upgradeing to Mandrake6.1 should enable the sound to work correctly. Until I get the CD's from Cheapbytes I have disabled the onboard CMI chip and wacked in a legacy SB16 I found lying around which is probably a better system anyhow. When I get the Mandrake6.1 I will letya know how I go. wait, dun let me wait for too long. hiak~ take care, pal. Luff (x3) coin
Re: [newbie] MSIE when?
Ken Wilson wrote: There will never be an MS IE for Linux. Find out what whoever is telling you that is smoking. I want some. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Donny Sent: November 23, 1999 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] MSIE when? Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. it was sumone on this list who said that a while back, but i cant remember who. In many respects linux is better, but so is windows. for instance games. but once linux widens out more to consumers rather that the tech elite (which its now doing) itll give MS a better run for its money.
Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: "Michael R. Batchelor" wrote: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Confirmation from a third party that the poor IS guy in the trenches is the decision maker. It amazes me how insert ^^NOT^^ many people are willing to shoot the messenger. I'm not going to say that there aren't some first class butt heads who work in IS, but I know some of those out on the plant floor and in the warehouse and in the boardroom. Sorry For the most part, I doubt that IS people go out of their way to be asses about things. They do have jobs to do, machines and software to maintain, and new projects to finish. If there are ways for them to reduce the amount of software and machine maintenance they have to do, they'd be crazy NOT to do them. The original poster should be glad he doesn't work on our network. ALL Internet access is restricted by the firewall, outgoing connections must pass through a blocking / caching proxy server, email is logged in both directions, Windows machines are locked down to allow only certain apps to be run, etc. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's the direction my company is going. I am now looking at software that will enable us to lock down the win95 client machines from the server. As for internet access, ours isn't so strict, but when we discover someone abusing this privelage, and it is a privilege, then we take action to bring this to a stop, on an individual basis though. -- Chip Wiegand Computer Services Simrad, Inc Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly Robert F. Kennedy
[newbie] KDE Desktop
Hello List, Following advice from the list I have reinstalled Kppp twice and unchecked the script "Autoconfigure hostname from this IP" in the IP tab of Kppp setup. Still I find that if I connect using Kppp most other items on the desktop are unusable ie I cannot connect and then decide to open, say, Netscape or once I have used Kppp I can no longer use icons (including Kppp itself) after disconnect. Has anyone a cure short of full reinstall of M6.1, which I really would prefer not to do? Thanks. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
Re: [newbie] Mail
Only looking for internal mail.. Michael R. Batchelor wrote: O.K. now the next step in the process. As most of you know, I have been setting up a network here at work using linux as my server. Samba to let the window box's talk to the server. No I would like to add internal e-mail When you go about setting things up you need to decide if you want *ONLY* internal mail, or if you'd like to allow users to send mail in and out also. Michael
Re: [newbie] Blackbox
Sean Armstrong wrote: Dennis Robertson wrote: Sean Armstrong wrote: Hello Blackbox Users, I was impressed by the supporting comments for blackbox, so I installed it with KDE enabled. Here is the dumb question. I read the install and run notes but nothing tells me how to actually start it ie get it on my desktop. Has the install not worked or am I missing something obvious? Please be kind. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first. I just changed my Xclients file to read: #!/bin/bash kpanel kfm -d /usr/local/bin/blackbox Of course you don't have to add the lines kpanel and kfm -d , I added these so that the desktop icon for kde and the kpanel would appear. These are my own tastes. The blackbox binary was located in my /usr/local/bin file. Make sure that you place the bsetroot bin somewhere where the OS can access it ie. /bin . Then just save this to your Xclients file, remember to back up the original Xclients file in case something goes wrong. Then just run startx from the command line prompt and you will be on you way. left/right clicking the desktop will pull up the blackbox menu, which probably needs to be edited to work properly with your system (..very easy to do), or the iconify menu. Have fun, and spread the word. Blackbox is the fastest and easiest to modify GUI out there. SA Thanks Sean, It works and I am evaluating it. I appreciate the kpanel and kfm additions. It seems faster, but not markedly so. I find it cumbersome to shut down - is there a way of having it start (run level 5) and shutdown by default if I decide to go with it. Regards. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first. If you want to shutdown from blackbox, right click the desktop and click on exit in the menu. Don't confuse the blackbox pulldown menu with the kpanel pulldown menu. If you just want to shutdown your computer, you can exit blackbox and then shutdown, or wite a little script and give it executable permissions: #!/bin/bash shutdown now Or just type in shutdown now from any command line. I don't know how fast your computer is, but mine is 133Mhz, so I am able to notice how much of a memory hog KDE is compared to Blackbox. There may be no noticable difference on faster computers. But you can use xmemon (..I think) and visually compare the two. But, again, this may not matter to folks who are running 300 + Mhz computers. I also like the way Blackbox is so small and easily configurable. But thats me. Enjoy. SA -- When GOD endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guaratee them. Sean, Thanks. I'm running an AMD K6 200MMX with 64mb ram. I'll ask our support group to try Blackbox and report in due course. Dennis. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
[newbie] SIS vid cards
Hey, Probably been done but Have a SIS 6326 on board AGP 8MB vid card. Installed and used, happily, Mandrake 6.0. Upgraded to the boxed, shrinkwrpaaed 6.1 Powerpack and X don't like it. Tried it both ways eg fresh install and upgrade. The X section of the installer comes back with the 'there's a problem with your X configuration' stuff. Left it there and ran 'Setup' from the shell as root and the same thing occurs. Running out of ideas, short of new vid card. TIA Jim
[newbie] Connection to X server ?
Hi ! Does anybody know why Mandrake 6.1 KDE in user mode has trouble with the connect to the X server ?? Sometimes KFM disconnects from X with an error message saying "can not connect to :0 Host not allowed".. /Jocke! -- ... The free UNIX operating system :::' ... .. ::: * ::.::' ::: .:: .:.::. .:: .:: ::. :' ::: :: :: :: :: :: :::. ::: .::. .:: ::. . .:' ::. ..:::.::' ..
