[newbie] The supermount problem thread
Hi all, If you have a problem with the supermount option: perhaps you can check what mount says about your mounted devices after boot-up. Just do a "mount" on a prompt and see what that gives. Part of my 'mount' output: /dev/hda3 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda12 on /usr type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda13 on /home type ext2 (rw) /mnt/floppy on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) /mnt/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type supermount (rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom) No garantuees, just another idea. Perhaps the supermount option does not even appear there. That might shed some light. Pau )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Don W. Jenkins wrote: Bluefish is a good one, too, with fewer bells and whistles than Coffecup, but it does use Weblint to check your HTML for you. Another possibility is AsWedit, although I would chose Bluefish over that as far as the free editors. I have heard someone once mention a program called WebMaker. Seems to be a pretty good program, from Russia. Not sure how it is, I will stick with Bluefish. Just thought I'd mention it, for the ones that are looking. Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] USB - port
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Mogens wrote: Hej there Hei Mogens! Hva er du? (I know, this is norwegian, and all I master *grin*) I am new to this list, and I dont know how to search for diffrent issues, that allready have been discussed - please tell me. I have two problems. 1. I am about to buy me another printer - I have an 'good-old' HP-laser, that I want to keep, and then have a Photo (Epson) printer, to work under Gimp. But how to connect them at the same time? then I thought of the USB-connection. - does it work on the 7.0 Mandrake? or do I have to upgrade the kernel? I am not into USB. A second printer port, or a printer switch would work for me in this. Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] difficulty getting 2nd cd working
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Todd Wells wrote: How can I get this to happen automatically during boot? Well, at least the insmod part? Hi Todd, put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local Then it will do it's thing without using hands! Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Moved /usr and /home!
Hi all, Thanks for the great advice on my question, I have just moved /usr and /home to the new partitions, and it all went without a problem. Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Problems with my aha 1505
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, [iso-8859-1] Stéphane Tran-Ngoc wrote: I just install Mandrake 7 on my system. I know that linux don't have module for my aha 1505, but i have a rather old pc (P150) and no more free PCI slot. So I try to load the module for aha 152x on the command line (modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140 , 11 , 7 , 0 , 1 , 1 , 100 , 0) and all is ok. But, to use the command line every time i boot my pc, is not a very 'elegant' way to load my scsi card. So my question is : what the way to automate this procedure at boot time ? Log in as root, go to cd /etc/rc.d and edit (using vi, emacs, kedit, anything) rc.local. Add the line at the bottom of the file, save it, and next time you boot the system, all the typing will be done for you! :) Sorry to have a so stupid question, but i discover linux for less than 2 weeks now. I know pretty well the m$ os (98 and nt) but it don't help much. We all began asking those questions. And it is only stupid NOT to ask them and stay stupid! We're all learning from each other here. I am glad you "saw the light". Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 knows its name not
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Anthony Huereca wrote: "And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced 'Mozilla.'" --"famous" quote from Netscape documentations And in there lies your answer, type "mozilla" to start it. And make sure your in the directory that you installed N6 in when you type mozilla, otherwise you'll get an error. You can also create a symbolic link from /usr/bin to the wanted program. Or make an alias in ~/.bashrc :) Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
RE: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display
Have you visited http://www..cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop - I found a lot of useful info there. On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: Dear Ian, I have a similar problem with another computer. I am not sure yet what the problem is (videocard ?) but maybe if you use the settings in last settings in the framebuffer section in the install guide manual with the Linux Mandrake 7.0 box to get it up and running. If you get an answer before that I am going to try the above standing as well, please let me also know. Thank you, Martin J. Hellema -Original Message- From: Ian Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 April 2000 19:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display Hello, I am reasonably new to Linux and I am having problems with the install. All seems to be well until I try and find a monitor in the last step. My machine is a Compaq Presario 1200xl109 Laptop and the documentation I got with it isn't very comprehensive. I have found that the driver is for a 'Trident CyberBlade i7 (47)' which is listed in the first part of the setup but then I cannot choose the correct monitor for the install to complete. I have tried all the Compaq ones to no avail and I really would like to use the GUI in Linux-Mandrake. Hope you can be of help. Ian Carmichael Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] fetchmail and pine
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Jeff wrote: thanks alot Paul! i like getmail and it wa very very easy to configure. i noticed Don was looking for something as an alternative to fetchmail so heres the url for anyone else... http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail/ i was going to give qmail a shot but sendmail is working well for me but i might try it out later.. Cool, glad that it works!! And on sendmail/qmail: use what works for you. An old chinese programmer's saying is: if it ain't bloke, don't fix it!! Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Text Mode Screen resolution
I prefer 80X25 when in command-line mode (sometimes, there just isn't any reason to start X :) most of the time. However, there are times when more lines would be useful when using emacs to modify longer text files. I know the resolution can be changed in lilo for startup (in /etc/lilo.conf or type "linux vga=ask" on startup when lilo asks for which OS), then on startup press enter to see available options and choose one. However, I don't want to reboot each time I want to switch VGA modes. Is there a way to do this 'on the fly'? Again, this is NOT it X, this is purely while doing command-line stuff without ever starting X.
Re: [newbie] Install Problems
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Matthew Clegg wrote: I'm completely new to Linux and am having difficulties with the Mandrake install program. When it gets to the point where it is supposed to test X no window appears and the install program does not go back to the previous step after a period of time as the manual says it will. I have tried several different resolutions all with the same result so I don't think that is the problem. I am running a Mitsubishi 15fs monitor and a S3 Trio32/64 PCI, and would appreciate any help or links to sites that may help. Sometimes it is better NOT to let the system probe the graphics card. I know that the S3 trio is supported. Try it again, don't let the probing happen. That should work (no warranty though, other things can be messing things up) Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Keyboard Problem in X
Ok, I have a problem with X-Windows How can I write the $, ] and } in X? When I try I only get a 4, a 9 and a 0. I'm writing this in the console, and as you can see it works fine there. I just can't get it to work in X (Using KDE). I've already tries to change the usual rows in the XFConfig file, but that obvioustly didn't help. I'm from Sweden, so I'm using the swedish keyboard layout, only if I change to english layout nothing happens either. Help wanted! Anders
[newbie] Problem withy my DVD rom
Hi All, I recently installed linux-mandrake 6.5 on my Sony VAIO pc, the installation went fine for most of the part. But for some reason the linux is not recognizing the DVD drive, where as I used the same drive to install linux. When the os comes up, it comes up with set of junk characters followed by ATAPI drive not recognized. Any help...? = Venkateshbabu J Sriramulu NJ USA __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Screen resolution
hi, this is worring me, i use netscape4.72 with antivirus software set to turn all that gubbins off so i guess i shoudn't worry to much about activex controls -though i could be speaking rearwards, but i did notice harddrive activity when reading the opening message so any one who can reassure me gets a vote of thanks! bascule Mad Marty wrote: At 28/04/00 11:11:00, you wrote: Hi there, Ok, I know about using the Ctrl+Alt+(+) keys to change the screen resolutions, but where/or if can I configure it so that I can use the key combination to switch from 800 to 640 and back again. Thanks in advance, Evan Holt What the hell does the ActiveX control do in your messages?! Mad Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mail me for my PGP key! [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Direct to my mobile phone! http://www.madmarty.co.uk
Re: [newbie] Problems with my aha 1505
Whats this rubbish about ctrl A? when the zipdrive is initialised? I tried that and it does Nothing. On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you wrote: On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, [iso-8859-1] Stéphane Tran-Ngoc wrote: I just install Mandrake 7 on my system. I know that linux don't have module for my aha 1505, but i have a rather old pc (P150) and no more free PCI slot. So I try to load the module for aha 152x on the command line (modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140 , 11 , 7 , 0 , 1 , 1 , 100 , 0) and all is ok. But, to use the command line every time i boot my pc, is not a very 'elegant' way to load my scsi card. So my question is : what the way to automate this procedure at boot time ? Log in as root, go to cd /etc/rc.d and edit (using vi, emacs, kedit, anything) rc.local. Add the line at the bottom of the file, save it, and next time you boot the system, all the typing will be done for you! :) Sorry to have a so stupid question, but i discover linux for less than 2 weeks now. I know pretty well the m$ os (98 and nt) but it don't help much. We all began asking those questions. And it is only stupid NOT to ask them and stay stupid! We're all learning from each other here. I am glad you "saw the light". Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- ** Signature: Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
RE: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display
Dear Ian, I've had the same problem on a compaq armada 1590 dx and finally i solved it by choosing high frequency generic monitor 1024x768 in 800x600 mode. In fact, during installation Mandrake 7.0 marqued this monitor and after testing some other monitors i decided that the installation programe choosed the best. However the link below may be usefull for your problem. www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Regards. Sedat Ozkanli From: "Pastor Martin J. Hellema" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:44:22 +0100 Dear Ian, I have a similar problem with another computer. I am not sure yet what the problem is (videocard ?) but maybe if you use the settings in last settings in the framebuffer section in the install guide manual with the Linux Mandrake 7.0 box to get it up and running. If you get an answer before that I am going to try the above standing as well, please let me also know. Thank you, Martin J. Hellema -Original Message- From: Ian Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 April 2000 19:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display Hello, I am reasonably new to Linux and I am having problems with the install. All seems to be well until I try and find a monitor in the last step. My machine is a Compaq Presario 1200xl109 Laptop and the documentation I got with it isn't very comprehensive. I have found that the driver is for a 'Trident CyberBlade i7 (47)' which is listed in the first part of the setup but then I cannot choose the correct monitor for the install to complete. I have tried all the Compaq ones to no avail and I really would like to use the GUI in Linux-Mandrake. Hope you can be of help. Ian Carmichael Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display
That URL has too many dots between www cs Don john wrote: Have you visited http://www..cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop - I found a lot of useful info there. On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: Dear Ian, I have a similar problem with another computer. I am not sure yet what the problem is (videocard ?) but maybe if you use the settings in last settings in the framebuffer section in the install guide manual with the Linux Mandrake 7.0 box to get it up and running. If you get an answer before that I am going to try the above standing as well, please let me also know. Thank you, Martin J. Hellema -Original Message- From: Ian Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 April 2000 19:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display Hello, I am reasonably new to Linux and I am having problems with the install. All seems to be well until I try and find a monitor in the last step. My machine is a Compaq Presario 1200xl109 Laptop and the documentation I got with it isn't very comprehensive. I have found that the driver is for a 'Trident CyberBlade i7 (47)' which is listed in the first part of the setup but then I cannot choose the correct monitor for the install to complete. I have tried all the Compaq ones to no avail and I really would like to use the GUI in Linux-Mandrake. Hope you can be of help. Ian Carmichael Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Screen resolution
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, bascule wrote: hi, this is worring me, i use netscape4.72 with antivirus software set to turn all that gubbins off so i guess i shoudn't worry to much about activex controls -though i could be speaking rearwards, but i did notice harddrive activity when reading the opening message so any one who can reassure me gets a vote of thanks! bascule Hi Bascule, I'd suggest you make sure that your viral scanning software has the latest of signature files and run a clean sweep over your system. I hate virusses, and the criminals that create them. Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: RE:[newbie] Active X on Evan Messages
Hey dude is there a way to make certain web pages (or the browser) stop grumbling at you when you don't have an active x plug-in? For that, I have no idea : ( Maybe something I can put in my plugger config file? By the way, I "swiped" comic sans ms font and now have it as one of the defaults on my linux machine, hehehe. Cool! : )
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: I use to use bluefish but now I use Quanta. It has all the features of Download from: http://quantaplus.spedia.net Hmm, blank page...oh one of those membership only javascript script sites, anyone have the crack/password?
Re: FWD: FW: [newbie] difficulty getting 2nd cd working
Okay, now how can I make it so that I just have to type "mount /mnt/cdrom2" rather than "mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0/mnt/cdrom2"? -Original Message- From: Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 1:47 AM To: newbie Subject:Re: [newbie] difficulty getting 2nd cd working On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Todd Wells wrote: How can I get this to happen automatically during boot? Well, at least the insmod part? Hi Todd, put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local Then it will do it's thing without using hands! Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor
I use Quanta+. you can download it from linuxberg On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Dave Lers wrote: On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: I use to use bluefish but now I use Quanta. It has all the features of Download from: http://quantaplus.spedia.net Hmm, blank page...oh one of those membership only javascript script sites, anyone have the crack/password? -- Hendrik Martin www.uilspieel.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor
??? I just went there - no problem. Mike - Original Message - From: "Dave Lers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 8:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HTML Editor On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: I use to use bluefish but now I use Quanta. It has all the features of Download from: http://quantaplus.spedia.net Hmm, blank page...oh one of those membership only javascript script sites, anyone have the crack/password?
Re: [newbie] kernel recompile
Daniel Anderson escribió: Hi, I recompiled the kernel on a Mandrake 6.5 system and forgot to run depmod before rebooting,now it hangs at checking module dependencies.Is there a way to rescue the system without reinstalling? Thanks, Dan If you did a boot disk when you instaled the Linux, first of all , try to run the system with it. Have a look to your lilo.conf at /etc, you could see a line as: image=/boot/vmlinuz Look for a file , maybe at /boot directory called vmlinuz.old or something like that at the same directory, sometimes when you recompile the kernel if you select the option that modify the lilo.conf , the old image is changed but not lossed. you'll have got the new image of the kernel. Change the name of the new kernel's image (i.e. mv vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.new) an do the same with the old image (ie. mv vmlinuz.old /boot/vmlinuz). Restart the system, this time without the disk, It could works. If you didn't a boot disk when you installed your system , I'm afraid you'll have to install again your system. Maybe someone can give you another solution. Good luck. Fernando García.
Re: [newbie] sound card config
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, gerald green wrote: help, i have a soundblaster pci 128 that will not work for me, my install of mandrake 7.0 was not as bad as i thought it was going to be. Have you tryed with sndconfig from shell's prompt. It's a Red Hat's SW but I think it's installed in Mandrake 7.0. I've got this sound card and I'd got this problem with RH 6.1 , but the messages said thas was a problem because the IRQ was busy. I've changed to Mandrake 7.0 and the sound card works perfect.
Re: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display
Take one out ? On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you wrote: That URL has too many dots between www cs Don john wrote: Have you visited http://www..cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop - I found a lot of useful info there. On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: Dear Ian, I have a similar problem with another computer. I am not sure yet what the problem is (videocard ?) but maybe if you use the settings in last settings in the framebuffer section in the install guide manual with the Linux Mandrake 7.0 box to get it up and running. If you get an answer before that I am going to try the above standing as well, please let me also know. Thank you, Martin J. Hellema -Original Message- From: Ian Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 April 2000 19:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display Hello, I am reasonably new to Linux and I am having problems with the install. All seems to be well until I try and find a monitor in the last step. My machine is a Compaq Presario 1200xl109 Laptop and the documentation I got with it isn't very comprehensive. I have found that the driver is for a 'Trident CyberBlade i7 (47)' which is listed in the first part of the setup but then I cannot choose the correct monitor for the install to complete. I have tried all the Compaq ones to no avail and I really would like to use the GUI in Linux-Mandrake. Hope you can be of help. Ian Carmichael Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you wrote: Take one out ? and make it http:www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you wrote: That URL has too many dots between www cs Don john wrote: Have you visited http://www..cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop - I found a lot of useful info there. On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: Dear Ian, I have a similar problem with another computer. I am not sure yet what the problem is (videocard ?) but maybe if you use the settings in last settings in the framebuffer section in the install guide manual with the Linux Mandrake 7.0 box to get it up and running. If you get an answer before that I am going to try the above standing as well, please let me also know. Thank you, Martin J. Hellema -Original Message- From: Ian Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 April 2000 19:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display Hello, I am reasonably new to Linux and I am having problems with the install. All seems to be well until I try and find a monitor in the last step. My machine is a Compaq Presario 1200xl109 Laptop and the documentation I got with it isn't very comprehensive. I have found that the driver is for a 'Trident CyberBlade i7 (47)' which is listed in the first part of the setup but then I cannot choose the correct monitor for the install to complete. I have tried all the Compaq ones to no avail and I really would like to use the GUI in Linux-Mandrake. Hope you can be of help. Ian Carmichael Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] How do I get my scanner to work in other then root?
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Hugh Semmler wrote: I did get my scsi card to work under Mandrake 7. But I can only scan when Logged in as root. How can I allow all users to use the scanner. I should know this, But for some reason I cant get it to work. I've noticed that in linuxconf I can add users to user groups and that I, as a user, was automatically? added to cdrom (it would be intersting to know how and when this was done). It doesn't sound like just what you want but I wonder if the scsi card/scanner shows up in 'user groups' and if you could add a user there.
[newbie] Quanta download page
For who is looking to try it: http://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?group_id=4113 Paul )0(---)0( A gentleman is someone who remembers his wifes birthday but not her age. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor/Quantaplus
Thats all I have Paul and it works for me I can get there with plain Netscape 4.7 nothing special... Paul )0(---)0( A gentleman is someone who remembers his wifes birthday but not her age. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- scotchpie
[newbie] Now I've done it -- broken X?
Hi- Why I thought this was a good idea to tinker with the week before finals I'll never know. I tried upgrading XFree86 4.0 so I could use the newly-released Nvidia drivers, but I must have missed a step or misconfigured something, because now X won't run at all. When I initially tried the upgrade (using RPMs) a couple of nights ago, I was able to run startx and get Xwindows running, no problem -- but without the accellerated drivers. I couldn't get them to install properly, nor could I get the previous nvidia drivers to work (they at least had a modicum of accelleration in them), once I had made the upgrades. xf86config wouldn't make a workable XF86Config file, but Xconfigurator could (which strikes me as very odd). Yesterday, however, when I booted up, I wasn't able to load X at all. I'm getting the error: execve failed on /etc/X11/X (errno 2). /etc/X11/X is linked to XF86_SVGA, a file which seems to be nowhere to be found -- and despite re-installing XFree86-SVGA, is still missing. I can also no longer run Xconfigurator; it dies after probing for my video card. Am I missing something serious (like bolts in my head for even trying this) or do you think this might be a config problem? (Or both -- certainly possible.) Any ideas how I can at least get X up and running again? Thanks- - alan
[newbie] Modem Insatallation - Help -
Hi !! I just installed Mandrake 7.0. (This is my very first Linux installation). I have an internal modem: US Robotics 56K, ISA, COM3, IRQ 5 . When I try to connect with my ISP (using KPPP) I receive the messages: Modem Ready Sorry, the modem doesn't respond Can somebody give me some tips.. Thanks. Regards, Miguel
Re: [newbie] Problems with my aha 1505
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: Whats this rubbish about ctrl A? when the zipdrive is initialised? I tried that and it does Nothing. Thank you for this wealth of info. Where did you see ctrl-a? Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 712C
Try using the DrakConf icon on the KDE desktop. Enter the root password when prompted. A GUI should pop-up showing a load of packages that can be used to configure your system. Select the printer configuration button. Another window called "Local Printer Options" should appear. The queue name should be lp and the spool directory should be /var/spool/lpd/lp. Press OK. Another window will appear. Select the local printer button. Another window will appear called "Local Printer Device". If your printer is on LPT1: then the printer device is /dev/lp0. Press OK. A window will then appear showing all the various printer drivers. I use the "HP DeskJet 550C/560C/6XXC series" driver for my HP Desket 850C and it works fine, even in colour. The "HP DeskJet/DeskJet Plus" driver also works but only in black and white. I suggest you try one of these drivers. Press OK. A window will appear requesting more info eg. paper size = A4, eject page after job = selected, fix stair = selected, color depth option = 32. Press OK. At the next window you can print some test pages in ASCII and PostScript to see if your printer works. If the printer works then accept the settings and exit. If the above doesn't help you then maybe the info is useful to other people trying to setup HP DeskJet 850C printers. Cheers, Dean. _lee _kinkade wrote: During setup, I could not get my printer to respond. It is a HP Deskjet 712C. Any suggestions? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
Re: [newbie] Tape Backup Problems
I think I had to make sure mt-st was installed (maybe taper too, can't remember). Michelle On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Michelle, thank you for your e-mail. I'd appreciate it if you could advise me as to how you went about invoking those commands. I tried using them under the bash shell, but only received error messages saying those commands could not be found. John On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote: I was having similar problems. I needed to do the following: insmod ftape insmod zftape in that order before anything would work Michelle On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi there, I have set up my PC (a Gateway G6-233) as a dual boot systen. I am able to boot into Windows 95 and Linux Mandrake 7.0 without any problems. I have a Seagate tape drive which works perfectly well under Windows. When I boot into Linux the operating system seems to recognise its presence and call it hdd. However, when I attempt to run the tape backup software I keep getting the message "Tape not in drive". What do I need to do to resolve this? Thanking you in advance for your assistance. Yours faithfully, John Wallis ---
[newbie] FTP
How do i configure FTP access. I want to be able to send web pages to /home/httpd/html. When i run the ftp command it connects ok, then i never get a logon prompt. eventually it times out. It comes back with connection closed by remote host. any help would be appreciated--
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor/Quantaplus
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Dave Lers wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Download from: http://quantaplus.spedia.net Yah, I hear its pretty easy to get in if you have/use the right browser/settings. I can get there with plain Netscape 4.7 nothing special... Try it from kfm.
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, you wrote: Does Mandrake 7 include a default HTML editor (not including Netsape)? then, has anyone had any luck installing CoffeeCup (http://www.coffeecup.com) on Mandrake? Cheers Word Perfect for Linux inludes an HTML editor. I have the download version, and it works pretty well. -- Michelle
Re: [newbie] Modem Insatallation - Help -
Hi Miguel Firstly I'm no guru but have you checked if it is a winmodem (most internal modems are)? If so it would be doubtfull if you could use it. If not click on setup in the kppp window followed by the device tag at the top. My settings for Modem device can either be /dev/ttyS0 or/dev/cuao Try these and see. I left the others as they were, changing only the conection speed to match my modem (57600). hope it all works, it did for me. -- Scotchpie On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi !! I just installed Mandrake 7.0. (This is my very first Linux installation). I have an internal modem: US Robotics 56K, ISA, COM3, IRQ 5 . When I try to connect with my ISP (using KPPP) I receive the messages: Modem Ready Sorry, the modem doesn't respond Can somebody give me some tips.. Thanks. Regards, Miguel
Re: [newbie] Tape Backup Problems
you went about invoking those commands. I tried using them under the bash shell, but only received error messages saying those commands could not be found. As root? Just checking, that message can be misleading
Re: [newbie] FTP
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, City of Warren IS Department wrote: How do i configure FTP access. I want to be able to send web pages to /home/httpd/html. When i run the ftp command it connects ok, then i never get a logon prompt. eventually it times out. It comes back with connection closed by remote host. What program do you use? Plain old FTP? Axy_FTP? Paul )0(---)0( A gentleman is someone who remembers his wifes birthday but not her age. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Lost my kde icons
I reinstalled Mandrake 7.02 yesterday. An indicaation of insufficant memory created an uncontrolable desire to delete large files. :) Not something I will take lightly in the future. Would someone tell me which file I should to reinstall the DrakConf/icons file. Thanks in advance. Bob Root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Mandrake installation, comments on 7.1
I'd like to try a clean install of Mandrake 7.1, but would like to try the installation via FTP or HTTP. Has anyone had luck with a network installation? I know Red Hat 6.x can be easily installed, using a boot disk, via FTP and HTTP, but what about Mandrake? 7.0 only supported installation via FTP. Does 7.1 support installation via HTTP? Also, for those of you brave enough to try the new version, what do you think of it? Regards, Nathan Hopper
Re: [newbie] Tape Backup Problems
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Michelle Schneider wrote: I think I had to make sure mt-st was installed (maybe taper too, can't remember). Michelle insmod ftape insmod zftape I have set up my PC (a Gateway G6-233) as a dual boot systen. I am able to boot into Windows 95 and Linux Mandrake 7.0 without any problems. I have a Seagate tape drive which works perfectly well under Windows. When I boot into Linux the operating system seems to recognise its presence and call it hdd. However, when I attempt to run the tape backup software I keep getting the message "Tape not in drive". What do I need to do to resolve this? After trying to make something sensible out of this, I see that you own an IDE tape drive, seagate. Do not access it as /dev/hdd, that won't work. It's device name is /dev/ht0 (h t zero) I have not been able to run it with "kdat", I think that is meant for SCSI Dat drives. I backup with tar. Syntax: tar -c -v -f /dev/ht0 dir dir dir -c means: create new backup volume from start of tape -v: be verbose (you can leave it off once you know things work ok) -f /dev/ht0: backup to the IDE tapedrive dir: a list of directories you want backed up Good luck! Paul )0(---)0( A gentleman is someone who remembers his wifes birthday but not her age. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] tar command
Try tar -cvfM /dev/fd0 /home/user/[location of files]. The "f" has to be there to work. Michelle On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm trying to create a multiple volume backup onto floppy discs. Using konsole, when in root I change to the directory that contains the files I want to archive (I'd read you had to run tar from the directory where the files are). I then type in the following command: tar -cMv /dev/fd0 /home/user/[location of files] Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Is there another way/program to create multiple floppy archives? Any help would be appreciated. John
Re: [newbie] Install Problems
Paul wrote: On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Matthew Clegg wrote: I'm completely new to Linux and am having difficulties with the Mandrake install program. When it gets to the point where it is supposed to test X no window appears and the install program does not go back to the previous step after a period of time as the manual says it will. I have tried several different resolutions all with the same result so I don't think that is the problem. I am running a Mitsubishi 15fs monitor and a S3 Trio32/64 PCI, and would appreciate any help or links to sites that may help. Sometimes it is better NOT to let the system probe the graphics card. I know that the S3 trio is supported. Try it again, don't let the probing happen. That should work (no warranty though, other things can be messing things up) Paul Right, skip the probe !! I had the same problem with my S3 Trio. Because I installed in TEXT mode, there you can skip it. Eric
Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem in X
Anders Linden wrote: Ok, I have a problem with X-Windows How can I write the $, ] and } in X? When I try I only get a 4, a 9 and a 0. I'm writing this in the console, and as you can see it works fine there. I just can't get it to work in X (Using KDE). I've already tries to change the usual rows in the XFConfig file, but that obvioustly didn't help. I'm from Sweden, so I'm using the swedish keyboard layout, only if I change to english layout nothing happens either. Help wanted! Anders I had the same trouble and resolved it as follows: In console type X /var/log/x.out 21 ( nothing will be happen so type CTRL-C) Then read this file with your tex editor. Probably there is a message : .. no access to /var/ Because you logged in as user and have no access writing to this. So, set the permissions to the dirs as owner and group.(not to root) Let me now if it worked. Eric
Re: [newbie] Lost my kde icons
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Bob Root wrote: I reinstalled Mandrake 7.02 yesterday. An indicaation of insufficant memory created an uncontrolable desire to delete large files. :) Not something I will take lightly in the future. Would someone tell me which file I should to reinstall the DrakConf/icons file. Thanks in advance. When I look on the CD, in mandrake/rpms, there is a DrakConf-0.34-13mdk.i586.rpm Try that one. ;-) Paul )0(---)0( A gentleman is someone who remembers his wifes birthday but not her age. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] kuduz on boot
during bootup linux mandrake 7.0 (air) ...Checking for new hardware /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/so5kudzu 145 segmentation fault line 46 /usr/sbin/kudzu -t 30 the above error message appears during boot would like to resolve this issue. shamuu
[newbie] compaq vsc 56k (lucent)
using kppp compaq vsc 56k modem (lucent) worked fine with redhat 5.1 .. installed mandrake 7.0p (air) ttyS0 using kppp modem query gives ati sequence with no responses ttyS1 gives sorry, modem busy using setserial command both ttyS0 and ttyS1 show correct configuration. in windows modem is set to com 2 irq 3 same as ttyS1 with mandrake but modem doesn't respond to kppp query or to init on connect. any ideas on how to properly setup the modem. its not a winmodem, and it did work with rh linux 5.1 thanks shamuu
[newbie] Problems with harddriveinstalling: died at usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 202
When I start installing Mandrake 7.0 from a harddrive I get this message after beginning second stage install: "In second stage install died at usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 202 install exited abnormally sending termination signals... done" My computer is a Pentium 75MHz, 40MB RAM, HD's 808MB + 3.2GB, IDE CD-ROM drive. With CirrusLogic PCI, 1MB graphic card. What can I do? what is the problem? Egil
[newbie] XFishTank :-)
Hello! Does anyone know of other programs with the concept like XFishTank - i.e. to make the desktop background animated? The 'Fly through space' would be great! :-) Thanks, -- Koly
Re: [newbie] FTP
How do i configure FTP access. I want to be able to send web pages to /home/httpd/html. When i run the ftp command it connects ok, then i never get a logon prompt. eventually it times out. It comes back with connection closed by remote host. any help would be appreciated-- I use gftp and it works very well...
Re: [newbie] Now I've done it -- broken X?
i'm a newbie so take this for what it is worth but i have read that X...4 only uses one server and not one of the selection available before and that as a result the symbolic link that was probably made during your previous install needs to be undone -before installing the new version i think- if you have run a configuration routine you have probably allowed it to set a symlimk that it shouldn't, possibly it was a previous version of the config program, i'm fairly certain that there is a newer version with the new version of XFree86, yep i've just checked the files i downloaded (not actually tried it yet) and there is a file: Xconfigurator-4.2.10-6mdk.i586.rpm, i guess you need this or something similar (this is from the download from mandrake) from your description i think this could be your problem, others are free to put me right if i'm steering you wrong. bascule Alan Schussman wrote: Hi- Why I thought this was a good idea to tinker with the week before finals I'll never know. I tried upgrading XFree86 4.0 so I could use the newly-released Nvidia drivers, but I must have missed a step or misconfigured something, because now X won't run at all. When I initially tried the upgrade (using RPMs) a couple of nights ago, I was able to run startx and get Xwindows running, no problem -- but without the accellerated drivers. I couldn't get them to install properly, nor could I get the previous nvidia drivers to work (they at least had a modicum of accelleration in them), once I had made the upgrades. xf86config wouldn't make a workable XF86Config file, but Xconfigurator could (which strikes me as very odd). Yesterday, however, when I booted up, I wasn't able to load X at all. I'm getting the error: execve failed on /etc/X11/X (errno 2). /etc/X11/X is linked to XF86_SVGA, a file which seems to be nowhere to be found -- and despite re-installing XFree86-SVGA, is still missing. I can also no longer run Xconfigurator; it dies after probing for my video card. Am I missing something serious (like bolts in my head for even trying this) or do you think this might be a config problem? (Or both -- certainly possible.) Any ideas how I can at least get X up and running again? Thanks- - alan
[newbie] LILO: The 1024-cylinder limit has been removed by a patch
Greetings! Can anyone advise, now with this patch, how to install a fresh version of Linux on a computer beyond the 1024th cylinder? How do we go about this? Many thanks SM Foo
[newbie] Upgrading packages
I'm having a bit off a problem upgrading/installing some rpm files. Gnapster stopped working for me for some odd reason, so I was trying to get some other Linux ports for Napster. I found Gnome-Napster but it said I needed gnome-libs 1.0.53 and I have 1.0.14. So I went over to rpmfind.net to get the updated version. But when I tried to install that, it said that "gnome-libs = 1.0.14 is needed by gnome-libs-devel-1.0.14-1mdk" so I can't upgrade. And then trying to upgrade gnome-libs-devel says "gnome-libs = 1.0.58 is needed by gnome-libs-devel-1.0.58-1mdk". So i can't upgrade gnome-libs-devel until I upgrade gnome-libs. And I can't upgrade gnome-libs because my old version of gnome-libs-devel needs the old version of gnome-libs. So I'm in a Catch 22. How do I upgrade both gnome-libs and gnome-libs-devel? -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode
basculethe active partition flag tells dos/windows what dos/windows partition to boot. There can be only one active partition per drive and it needs to have a bootable dos/windows operating system on it. Making a linux native partition active is incorrect. Why, if you're using win98, do you have all those fa16 partitions? What is hda7 for and why is it in a dos/windows extended partition along with 2 fat16 partitions? Can I see your /etc/fstab file? I still think you need to try booting from the ide drive, either with BootMagic as I previously suggested, or with lilo. Possibly we could make a /boot partition on hda and store the linux kernal there, I'll bet that would fix it. :-) Alan bascule wrote: hi alan, here are the results of fdisk: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 523 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 316 523 16707605 Extended /dev/hda2 * 1 260 2088418+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda3 261 315441787+ 83 Linux /dev/hda5 316 419835348+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda6 420 483514048+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda7 484 523321268+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 393 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 122979933+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 245 393 1196842+ 5 Extended /dev/sda3 123 134 96390 82 Linux swap /dev/sda4 135 2448835756 FAT16 /dev/sda5 245 270208813+ 6 FAT16 /dev/sda6 271 3939879666 FAT16 notice there is no asterix in the /sda list, i had a hunch and figured this referred to an active partition and using pqmagic in win98 set sda1 to active, rebooted linux, ran lilo but i still get instant reboot with scsi set as first boot drive in cmos, what if i installed lilo to sda1 instead of sda it might not work-okay , but could it mess things up? bascule p.s. i have lots of questions about other things in linux, should i start a new thread, put them here, wait till i get this sorted (it may never be resolved!); this is the first mailing list i've bothered to get involved in so i don't know if there is an etiquette to this sort of thing? Alan Shoemaker wrote: basculethe image of your /etc/lilo.conf is fine. Sure I can tell you what the p command is, print the partition table, but the m command (help) will tell you the same thing as well as all the other available commands. Don't worry about executing fdisk because it doesn't change anything till you do a w command (write table to disk and exit). So if you want to run the program to see something about the partition table then you simply exit with a q command (quit without saving changes). Alan bascule wrote:
Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode
basculeyou haven't yet tried the linear boot mode? I thought you'd done that days ago and I just assumed it hadn't worked. Let me know. Alan bascule wrote: thankyou, your point is well made, true a sizable proportion of 'my stuff' comprises stuff hoarded over the years that i could actually live without, nevertheless i would be annoyed to lose it. i have in fact used floppies to back up correspondence, finance records etc. the rest is now going to have to do what i'm about to do -live on the edge- as i'm going to try this linear option thing - damp squib anyone? bascule "Chuck or Judy Bradley (maybe both)" wrote: I'm following this list hoping for a lead about a totally different problem. I followed the topic of "scsi boot linear mode" because it blended into the closest topic I could find. Anyway, this response is because of if i don't get any advice not to try i will go ahead and try using this option but i'd welcome advice from anyone who knows about it as i have important stuff on other partitions on this scsi drive and currently my backup tape drive is dead. Put it on floppies! Back up the stuff that is important. Put it on multipe media even if it has not changed. You can get an OS back in a few hours; you can get dozens of applications back in a weekend. But you can not recover your great American (or somewhere) novel, or your 50 sonnets on virtues, or your picture of a dead grandchild or grandparent, or the passwords to your on-line brokerage accounts, or your 175 best recipes ever, or, you get the idea. For most of us, everything we create in our life, that can be saved conveniently as bytes, can be saved conveniently as bytes on a single floppy. For most of us, a single floppy holds all we want to leave on a computer to most of the world. You artistic types get more space, if you remember to BACK UP THE IMPORTANT STUFF. Pictures or sound take more space than text. If you do not think it is worth backing up, then you do not think it is worth saving. Anyway, BACK UP THE IMPORTANT STUFF and do not worry about the trivia of the moment. With backups, anyone can be brave. Best wishes for a successful installaion and successful use of Linux. ceb
RE: [newbie] HP Deskjet 712C
You're unlucky. That printer wont work in linux, it is one of those called WinPrinters. You can't even print text. Anyway, it looks like you don't have parrallel port support in the kernel. You should compile your kernel with support for parrallel port, and maybe parport too. However, as I told you before, that printer is not going to work. -Mensaje original- De: _lee _kinkade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Sábado, 29 de Abril de 2000 02:55 p.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [newbie] HP Deskjet 712C During setup, I could not get my printer to respond. It is a HP Deskjet 712C. Any suggestions? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
Re: [newbie] Upgrading packages
On 29 Apr 2000, Anthony Huereca wrote: I'm having a bit off a problem upgrading/installing some rpm files. Gnapster stopped working for me for some odd reason, so I was trying to get some other Linux ports for Napster. im not sure about the libs thing but i had the same thing happen with gnapster (and every other napster clone for linux) just the other day. in gnapster i happened to click connect to development server on accident and it worked. so i just used that one. maybe this can work for you and save some grief. I found Gnome-Napster but it said I needed gnome-libs 1.0.53 and I have 1.0.14. So I went over to rpmfind.net to get the updated version. But when I tried to install that, it said that "gnome-libs = 1.0.14 is needed by gnome-libs-devel-1.0.14-1mdk" so I can't upgrade. And then trying to upgrade gnome-libs-devel says "gnome-libs = 1.0.58 is needed by gnome-libs-devel-1.0.58-1mdk". So i can't upgrade gnome-libs-devel until I upgrade gnome-libs. And I can't upgrade gnome-libs because my old version of gnome-libs-devel needs the old version of gnome-libs. So I'm in a Catch 22. How do I upgrade both gnome-libs and gnome-libs-devel?
[newbie] VCD Player
Anyone know of a good FREE vcd player for linux? I am trying to use an unregistered MTV at the moment but the audio cuts out until it is registered. THanks, Wayne
[newbie] Re: [expert] VCD Player
You can use "mtvp" instead of "mtv". It comes with mtv, but it's the command-line version, and doesn't cut the audio. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 09:38:00 +1000 From: Wayne Petherick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] VCD Player Anyone know of a good FREE vcd player for linux? I am trying to use an unregistered MTV at the moment but the audio cuts out until it is registered. THanks, Wayne
[newbie] Many questions (with apologies).
Ok, here goes, gang . . . I'm a 42 y/o (male) RN on my 5th or 6th computer, now. (So much for knowing computer programming, etc.) I have done Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, and some version of Mac once, on one "Macintosh" I had (at home), and Windows NT at work. I understand basic options, with Windows, for management, scandisk, defrag, Norton's Utilities, etc. The other day, I gave up on Windows 98, and installed Linux-Mandrake 6.5, and let me say, first, that I LOVE it. It is SO much more stable! That said, onward . . . (1) I've no sound, except rare beeps from the main computer when I click on something I'm not supposed to click on. I can't hear anything at all from the speakers; (2) How to get "out" of KDE into basic text=driven Linux to run command lines; (3) Gnome runs, but the keyboard dies in Gnome; (4) how to decompress *.gz files, and install, because I wanted to upgrade my Netscape to a 128 bit encryption, and I don't know how; (5) how to work with WINE - I got WINE in a RPM format, ran it (via "root"), and it said it installed, but I couldn't find anything to click on, and never knew how to access it; (6) I tried to install gnucash and xaccount, and the OS called for libXm.so.1, libjpeg.so.6, and libXXm.so.2, which, upon research, I found out to be "Motif" files, not that I know what that is, of course (I don't); (7) I searched "Motif" and got a page about it that totally confused me, and by then I was bummed out big time; (8) how to access emulators, install DOS programs and run them via same, etc. Where are the DOS emulators? What are they called? I can't find them. Thank you. Robert, South Carolina, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How do I get my scanner to work in other then root?
flupke wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Hugh Semmler wrote: I did get my scsi card to work under Mandrake 7. But I can only scan when Logged in as root. How can I allow all users to use the scanner. I should know this, But for some reason I cant get it to work. I don't know anything about scanner under linux (under windows neither...) but it looks like a permission problem on scanner device file. HTH Flupke Any advice welcome Thanks Hugh Hey Yes - you have to use: chmod 777 /dev/sg? The whole matter of using a scanner under Linux (=GIMP) is pretty well described inthe Gimp user's manual Mogens Jæger Denmark
Re: [newbie] compaq vsc 56k (lucent)
I had same problem with a modem that worked fine with an earlier installation but not with a 2nd one (same modem and same version of Mandrake). Here's an older post that helped me get things working again: For all you with pnp modem problems, this is how I got my usr 56k internal ISA modem to work pnp: 1. Type /sbin/pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf ##this loads info on your ISA PnP board(s) into the appropriate .conf file. 2. Type /sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf ##this makes your existing ISA PnP configuration active. 3. open your isapnp.conf file. You will have to remove the comment line from a couple of the resources listed, depending on how you want to set it up. Half way down the file you'll see a comment that says multiple choice time. You have to choose what IRQ and com you want to use. Com1=0x3f8, Com2=0x2f8, Com3=0x3e8, Com4=0x2e8. Here is an example of what I uncommented: # Start dependent functions: priority preferred # Fixed IO base address 0x02f8 # Number of IO addresses required: 8 (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x02f8)) # IRQ 3. # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) (INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE +E))) This put me on Com2 IRQ 3. After you know what com port and irq you set it to, you can go onto the next step 3. Type setserial /dev/ttySx port y irq z spd_vhi autoconfig ##notation is as follows: x is your COMport, with 0=COM1, 1=COM2, 2=COM3, 3=COM4; y is the standard (or defined) address of that port, e.g. 0x3e8; z is the interrupt used by that port, usually 4 or 3; thus, if your modem is on COM1 with a standard address IRQ, the line would read setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x3f8 irq 4 spd_vhi autoconfig . Oh, yes:spd_vhi is optional, I'd advise using it with a 56k modem, mine runs faster with it, but you could leave it off without a problem. 4. Type rm /dev/modem ##you may get a not found message, which is fine; if a /dev/modem is found, you'll be asked to confirm this removal, type y to proceed. 5. Type ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/modem ##this establishes the linkage needed for your modem, not essential, but conventional; again, x here is the same as x in item 3 above. 6. With a text editor, open your /rc.local file, add the setserial command defined in item 3 above at the end of the file, save the file and exit the editor. ##For example, if your editor is xemacs, you'd type xemacs /etc/rc.d/rc.local, then add the setserial command line. 7. Exit, logout, and reboot (not just restart Xserver). You should see a line for ISA PnP devices as you boot up. That should do it :) Thanks to Alan for help via his previous message - Original Message - From: Ron Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 5:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem jumper settings At 01:38 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote: Is there a way to get linux to detect my USR internal 56k modem when the cards jumpers are set to PnP? Right now I have to set the jumpers to PnP to work with windows and set the jumpers to com2 to get it to work with Linux. Hi, Could you let me know if you get any answers to your PNP problem? I'm having the exact same problem. Thanks, Ron Sinclair AKA NipponDSM __ ICN 3765104 http://members.tripod.com/~WIGGLIT/page2.html http://www.dsm.org At 06:16 PM 04/29/2000 -0400, you wrote: using kppp compaq vsc 56k modem (lucent) worked fine with redhat 5.1 .. installed mandrake 7.0p (air) ttyS0 using kppp modem query gives ati sequence with no responses ttyS1 gives sorry, modem busy using setserial command both ttyS0 and ttyS1 show correct configuration. in windows modem is set to com 2 irq 3 same as ttyS1 with mandrake but modem doesn't respond to kppp query or to init on connect. any ideas on how to properly setup the modem. its not a winmodem, and it did work with rh linux 5.1 thanks shamuu
[newbie] Pretty Park virus (Micro$oft)
I Hate to rehash the Micro$oft virus topic, but when checking for the ActiveX virus that found it's way on the list recently, my anti-virus program found a virus executable in my attachments folder. Kind of like a viral spore I guess because it could only do it's thing and reproduce itself if it was clicked on. Otherwise it's harmless. It's called Pretty Park.exe. It was 60K and the time stamp was 3/1/2000. I don't know for sure where it came from, but most of the mail I've gotten in the past 2 months has come from this list so I thought I'd let you know so that you can check your Windows partitions for it (if you still have one). Otherwise it's only wasting your HD space. It'll stand out if you have it - it has a SouthPark cartoon icon. It's a pretty nasty virus but can only infect your computer if you click on it. So if you find it, delete it immediately! You can find out about it at: http://global-positioning.com/pretty_park/. Also look for a file called Files32.vxd which this virus creates and depends upon. From what I understand, sometimes this file is missing and then the virus sends a message through Windows, saying that Windows can't find Files32.vxd. So then some victims go out on the internet in search of this file, not knowing that by finding and installing it, they are only going to cause themselves major, major problems! Anyway, just thought I'd pass that on so you can check, since I didn't see it mentioned yet. By the way, why do some people attach miscellaneous junk files to their email messages? I had over 6 MB of that stuff in my attachments folder! Lots of interesting stuff to delete! :-)
Re: [newbie] Many questions (with apologies).
The other day, I gave up on Windows 98, and installed Linux-Mandrake 6.5, and let me say, first, that I LOVE it. It is SO much more stable! Glad you like it. Also, while the box says 6.5, it's acutally Mandrake 6.1. That said, onward . . . (1) I've no sound, except rare beeps from the main computer when I click on something I'm not supposed to click on. I can't hear anything at all from the speakers; Mandrake 6.1 doesn't configure sound during installation, so you'll have to configure yourself. However it's really easy. Open up a console, and type "su" to get to root. Then type "setup". You'll see an option for sound configuration, so run that. Now you can have sound. (2) How to get "out" of KDE into basic text=driven Linux to run command lines; On the taskbar there should be a button somewhere that runs xterm, a Linux terminal. Just click on all of them until something that looks like a DOS prompt comes up. You can also hit Alt+Ctrl+F2 to change to a full text-console. Hit Alt+Ctrl+F7 to get back to the GUI. (3) Gnome runs, but the keyboard dies in Gnome; No idea what's wrong. (4) how to decompress *.gz files, and install, because I wanted to upgrade my Netscape to a 128 bit encryption, and I don't know how; gunzip uncompresses it. So "gunzip the_file.gz". I'm pretty sure that's it. Also if i'ts a *.tar.gz file then its "tar -xvzf the_file.tar.gz" to uncompress and expand it. (5) how to work with WINE - I got WINE in a RPM format, ran it (via "root"), and it said it installed, but I couldn't find anything to click on, and never knew how to access it; (6) I tried to install gnucash and xaccount, and the OS called for libXm.so.1, libjpeg.so.6, and libXXm.so.2, which, upon research, I found out to be "Motif" files, not that I know what that is, of course (I don't); (7) I searched "Motif" and got a page about it that totally confused me, and by then I was bummed out big time; (8) how to access emulators, install DOS programs and run them via same, etc. Where are the DOS emulators? What are they called? I can't find them. Everything else I don't know. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 712C
Cesar Octavio Delgado wrote: You're unlucky. That printer wont work in linux, it is one of those called WinPrinters. You can't even print text. Anyway, it looks like you don't have parrallel port support in the kernel. You should compile your kernel with support for parrallel port, and maybe parport too. However, as I told you before, that printer is not going to work. Actually some people HAVE gotten it to work HP DeskJet 712C Color Ink Jet 600x600 Works Mostly Proprietary pbm2ppa However others work better MarkP
Re: [newbie] compaq vsc 56k (lucent)
I had same problem with a modem that worked fine with an earlier installation but not with a 2nd one (same modem and same version of Mandrake). Here's an older post that helped me get things working again: For all you with pnp modem problems, this is how I got my usr 56k internal ISA modem to work pnp: 1. Type /sbin/pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf ##this loads info on your ISA PnP board(s) into the appropriate .conf file. 2. Type /sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf ##this makes your existing ISA PnP configuration active. 3. open your isapnp.conf file. You will have to remove the comment line from a couple of the resources listed, depending on how you want to set it up. Half way down the file you'll see a comment that says multiple choice time. You have to choose what IRQ and com you want to use. Com1=0x3f8, Com2=0x2f8, Com3=0x3e8, Com4=0x2e8. Here is an example of what I uncommented: # Start dependent functions: priority preferred # Fixed IO base address 0x02f8 # Number of IO addresses required: 8 (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x02f8)) # IRQ 3. # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) (INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE +E))) This put me on Com2 IRQ 3. After you know what com port and irq you set it to, you can go onto the next step 3. Type setserial /dev/ttySx port y irq z spd_vhi autoconfig ##notation is as follows: x is your COMport, with 0=COM1, 1=COM2, 2=COM3, 3=COM4; y is the standard (or defined) address of that port, e.g. 0x3e8; z is the interrupt used by that port, usually 4 or 3; thus, if your modem is on COM1 with a standard address IRQ, the line would read setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x3f8 irq 4 spd_vhi autoconfig . Oh, yes:spd_vhi is optional, I'd advise using it with a 56k modem, mine runs faster with it, but you could leave it off without a problem. 4. Type rm /dev/modem ##you may get a not found message, which is fine; if a /dev/modem is found, you'll be asked to confirm this removal, type y to proceed. 5. Type ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/modem ##this establishes the linkage needed for your modem, not essential, but conventional; again, x here is the same as x in item 3 above. 6. With a text editor, open your /rc.local file, add the setserial command defined in item 3 above at the end of the file, save the file and exit the editor. ##For example, if your editor is xemacs, you'd type xemacs /etc/rc.d/rc.local, then add the setserial command line. 7. Exit, logout, and reboot (not just restart Xserver). You should see a line for ISA PnP devices as you boot up. That should do it :) Thanks to Alan for help via his previous message - Original Message - From: Ron Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 5:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem jumper settings At 01:38 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote: Is there a way to get linux to detect my USR internal 56k modem when the cards jumpers are set to PnP? Right now I have to set the jumpers to PnP to work with windows and set the jumpers to com2 to get it to work with Linux. Hi, Could you let me know if you get any answers to your PNP problem? I'm having the exact same problem. Thanks, Ron Sinclair AKA NipponDSM __ ICN 3765104 http://members.tripod.com/~WIGGLIT/page2.html http://www.dsm.org At 06:16 PM 04/29/2000 -0400, you wrote: using kppp compaq vsc 56k modem (lucent) worked fine with redhat 5.1 .. installed mandrake 7.0p (air) ttyS0 using kppp modem query gives ati sequence with no responses ttyS1 gives sorry, modem busy using setserial command both ttyS0 and ttyS1 show correct configuration. in windows modem is set to com 2 irq 3 same as ttyS1 with mandrake but modem doesn't respond to kppp query or to init on connect. any ideas on how to properly setup the modem. its not a winmodem, and it did work with rh linux 5.1 thanks shamuu
Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode
i have tried the linear mode, i waited to see if anyone had any comment about possible data loss, in the end it didn't make any difference, i did try something that should have occured to me before and that was to disable ide and try to boot from scsi; an odd thing - instead of an instant reboot, i had the first l of lilo fillowed by a continuous screenful of '01's filling my screen! i got out of that pretty quick! it didn't look healthy but i can't seem to find anything wrong, i'm beginning to feel that i have some odd hardware thing that doesn't let me boot from scsi properly even though i could swear that it did it with win98 (when it first came out and i played with it while still keeping win95) if this is the case then this could be a horse well and truly flogged as for the number of partitions, history i guess, a combination of migrating from original win95 with fat16 and keeping cluster size down, having data that i wanted to backup all on seperate partitions, messing with NT and deciding that there just HAD to be a better way!, creating space in the extended partition when i wanted to install linux, keeping some back because you never know and plain old being irrational! from the fdisk p results i posted i see what you meant about partitions having creationdate info on, i can see the history of my partition manouevres matches the results now, i take your point about booting from ide but to explain an earlier comment, the last time i installed lilo to ide i than had a problem i'm not sure what but i lost all partition info for that drive and i had an effectively empty hard drive, a few screams and weeks later, the worlds smallest win95 istallation on the other drive(it was full, and now i remember how i know scsi boots win9x) major net searching and i had a few tools to try and recover my data, which i did, but it wasn't pretty, and to be honest until i've got my linux the way i want it i'm loathe to risk this scenario again ( i guess i was born an old man) besides there has always been a part of me that thinks 'if it should work, then i want to know why it doesn't' i think my grandfather was part terrier. /etc/fstab/ is here: /dev/hda2 /mnt/drivec vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/drivee vfat user,exec,conv=auto,umask=000 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/drivef vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/drived vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/sda5 /mnt/driveg vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/sda6 /mnt/driveh vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto,sync,unhide 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 bascule p.s. made D drive on scsi active, hid it, unhid it -no active partition on scsi drive -voila!
Re: [[newbie] Many questions (with apologies).]
RDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here goes, gang . . . I'm a 42 y/o (male) RN on my 5th or 6th computer, now. (So much for knowing computer programming, etc.) I have done Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, and some version of Mac once, on one "Macintosh" I had (at home), and Windows NT at work. I understand basic options, with Windows, for management, scandisk, defrag, Norton's Utilities, etc. The other day, I gave up on Windows 98, and installed Linux-Mandrake 6.5, and let me say, first, that I LOVE it. It is SO much more stable! That said, onward . . . (1) I've no sound, except rare beeps from the main computer when I click on something I'm not supposed to click on. I can't hear anything at all from the speakers; Tried sndconfig ?? That can usually get sound going. From a command line, type it in as root. (2) How to get "out" of KDE into basic text=driven Linux to run command lines; You might try logging in with "linux 3" (w/o quotes, of course). That should boot you into a CLI. (3) Gnome runs, but the keyboard dies in Gnome; (4) how to decompress *.gz files, and install, because I wanted to upgrade my Netscape to a 128 bit encryption, and I don't know how; (5) how to work with WINE - I got WINE in a RPM format, ran it (via "root"), and it said it installed, but I couldn't find anything to click on, and never knew how to access it; (6) I tried to install gnucash and xaccount, and the OS called for libXm.so.1, libjpeg.so.6, and libXXm.so.2, which, upon research, I found out to be "Motif" files, not that I know what that is, of course (I don't); (7) I searched "Motif" and got a page about it that totally confused me, and by then I was bummed out big time; (8) how to access emulators, install DOS programs and run them via same, etc. Where are the DOS emulators? What are they called? I can't find them. Thank you. Robert, South Carolina, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Robert, I suggest checking the appropriate documentation. I also suggest picking up or borrowing a good solid Linux book, such as, Linux for Dummies by Jon maddog Hall, or Running Linux by Walsh, et. al., published by O'Reilly. You'll find the answers to these and many more questions in the documentation and these books. Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] monitor brightnes
does any one know of a program to set the monitor brightnes higher my problem is a simple one i have a voodoo 3 3000 on my pc and got it to work, the thing is that when i run games (unreal tournament) the picture looks way too dark, ive seen UT run on other linux machines and it looked really good with a voodoo 3 card any suggestions? thanks in advance
Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode
Would not hurt to check it out!!! don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:50:34 -0700 Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: donthere is no relationship like that between a scsi and an ide drive. He can either have the bios try scsi first or ide first. He has already attempted to have the scsi drive boot Linux and has been unsuccessful (caused an instant reboot). Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I may jump in here and say, why don't you change your installed HD's around so the SCSI is the boot drive (C:\ or sda1 for linux what ever) and do your install of Linux to the first drive and then the second drive will have WINDOWS on it for you and all will be good to go. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 02:28:54 +0100 bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi again, i've just sent off a reply to your other post on my odd partition scheme, it's nice to feel that people are willing to spend time helping others make their lives simpler! yes, win98 boots fine off the ide drive, i understand fdisk/mbr, it's saved me on quite a few occasions, but after losing all partition info on my ide disk once through some still unknown circumstance (lilo from a friends redhat installation cd was involved) i'm loathe to touch the mbr unless i really have to or i'm ready to consider my linux installation a true replacement for win98 i.e. it does everything except run homeworld and outcast-my favourite games and the only reason i'll keep win98 in the long run! bascule YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Hate Netscape! ... or is it me?...
My $1.03 worth, The only time I had a problem was when I first installed Win98 on my new system and had never done that before. Now I know what was not done correctly and everythingy is working just great. I use the 128bit encryption NetScape Navigator 4.08, very stable and not so big and bloated as the Communicator. I had gone to that site recommended by someone on this mailing list that checks the security on your system, and it is tightern' a gnats whatchamacallit. Also that trouble with the viruses in the wild is why I use Juno mail, I do not accept attachments. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 20:30:21 -0400 Daniel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I downloaded and installed the 128 bit version of Netscape 4.72 on both a Mandrake 7.0 machine and a COL 2.3 machine and haven't had any problems. I previosly used the 128 bit version of Netscape 4.61 with the same results. Guess I'm just lucky. Just my 2 cents worth. Dan Nick Davina wrote: Download Netscape 6. I have the same problems as you do. But Netscape 6 is really great ;-) So download it - Original Message - From: "Sevatio Octavio" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:48 Subject: Re: [newbie] Hate Netscape! ... or is it me?... what version Mandrake are you using? seve -Original Message- From: Nickolay Belostotsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 11:35 PM Subject: [newbie] Hate Netscape! ... or is it me?... Hello! Somehow, for some unknown to me reason, Netscape randomly closes /all/ its windows. For example, when I close one of six open windows (+Messenger), Netscape is gone altogether. The same *randomly* happens when Messenger ask me to enter me e-mail server password... Is there any way to amend it? What other browsers are there capable of JAVA, frames etc Thanks! Get your FREE personal .com domain name and NAMEzero Personal Portal at: http://www.namezero.com. For customer service, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode
i just spotted it, i've been helping a friend access his college email, i forgot to put all the details back into netscapeeditpreferences, sorry for any confusion bascule
Re: [newbie] Install Problems
If you are in Mandrake 7, you can get out of this by ctr-alt-backspace. I have similar problem using Mandrake 6.5 and RedHat 6.0. It was also with a Mitsubushi Monitor. You really have to known the full specification of your monitor really well. Refer to the documentation that came with your monitor. Po Sydney, Australia -- From: Matthew Clegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Install Problems Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:25:47 +1000 I'm completely new to Linux and am having difficulties with the Mandrake install program. When it gets to the point where it is supposed to test X no window appears and the install program does not go back to the previous step after a period of time as the manual says it will. I have tried several different resolutions all with the same result so I don't think that is the problem. I am running a Mitsubishi 15fs monitor and a S3 Trio32/64 PCI, and would appreciate any help or links to sites that may help.
[newbie] Error while checking LILO
The following message occured after activation changes to lilo setup. Check LILO Executing: /sbin/lilo Added linux * *open hda: No such file or directory * return 1 I noticed since the second installation attempt, that the hda file/directory was not available. How can I correct the problem? One other problem, I have lost DrakConf from my disk top. Has to be a simple solution. Thank you Bob Root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Now I've done it -- broken X?
reinstall your previous version of X i heard somewhere that x114 really isnt stable kenny - Original Message - From: "Alan Schussman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 1:31 PM Subject: [newbie] Now I've done it -- broken X? Hi- Why I thought this was a good idea to tinker with the week before finals I'll never know. I tried upgrading XFree86 4.0 so I could use the newly-released Nvidia drivers, but I must have missed a step or misconfigured something, because now X won't run at all. When I initially tried the upgrade (using RPMs) a couple of nights ago, I was able to run startx and get Xwindows running, no problem -- but without the accellerated drivers. I couldn't get them to install properly, nor could I get the previous nvidia drivers to work (they at least had a modicum of accelleration in them), once I had made the upgrades. xf86config wouldn't make a workable XF86Config file, but Xconfigurator could (which strikes me as very odd). Yesterday, however, when I booted up, I wasn't able to load X at all. I'm getting the error: execve failed on /etc/X11/X (errno 2). /etc/X11/X is linked to XF86_SVGA, a file which seems to be nowhere to be found -- and despite re-installing XFree86-SVGA, is still missing. I can also no longer run Xconfigurator; it dies after probing for my video card. Am I missing something serious (like bolts in my head for even trying this) or do you think this might be a config problem? (Or both -- certainly possible.) Any ideas how I can at least get X up and running again? Thanks- - alan _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode
basculeok, now please see if all of the needed boot files are actually there in the boot directory and if they're actual files. /boot/map /boot/boot.b /boot/uk.klt /boot/message /boot/vmlinuz /boot/initrd.img But I still think the best chance is to dual boot drom the IDE drive. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have tried the linear mode, i waited to see if anyone had any comment about possible data loss, in the end it didn't make any difference, i did try something that should have occured to me before and that was to disable ide and try to boot from scsi; an odd thing - instead of an instant reboot, i had the first l of lilo fillowed by a continuous screenful of '01's filling my screen! i got out of that pretty quick! it didn't look healthy but i can't seem to find anything wrong, i'm beginning to feel that i have some odd hardware thing that doesn't let me boot from scsi properly even though i could swear that it did it with win98 (when it first came out and i played with it while still keeping win95) if this is the case then this could be a horse well and truly flogged as for the number of partitions, history i guess, a combination of migrating from original win95 with fat16 and keeping cluster size down, having data that i wanted to backup all on seperate partitions, messing with NT and deciding that there just HAD to be a better way!, creating space in the extended partition when i wanted to install linux, keeping some back because you never know and plain old being irrational! from the fdisk p results i posted i see what you meant about partitions having creationdate info on, i can see the history of my partition manouevres matches the results now, i take your point about booting from ide but to explain an earlier comment, the last time i installed lilo to ide i than had a problem i'm not sure what but i lost all partition info for that drive and i had an effectively empty hard drive, a few screams and weeks later, the worlds smallest win95 istallation on the other drive(it was full, and now i remember how i know scsi boots win9x) major net searching and i had a few tools to try and recover my data, which i did, but it wasn't pretty, and to be honest until i've got my linux the way i want it i'm loathe to risk this scenario again ( i guess i was born an old man) besides there has always been a part of me that thinks 'if it should work, then i want to know why it doesn't' i think my grandfather was part terrier. /etc/fstab/ is here: /dev/hda2 /mnt/drivec vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/drivee vfat user,exec,conv=auto,umask=000 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/drivef vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/drived vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/sda5 /mnt/driveg vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/sda6 /mnt/driveh vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto,sync,unhide 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 bascule p.s. made D drive on scsi active, hid it, unhid it -no active partition on scsi drive -voila!
RE: [newbie] Screen resolution
hi, Such is the coolness of activeX that everyone running MS OS's has to disable or otherwise suffer the slings and arrows...Indeed such is the nature of corperate,nevermind the kiddie hackers of the world,shanagins even this will not save you. Only last week I read on the web that MS,and I doubt if they are the only ones who do likewise,have their own 'backdoor' to circumvent any security options that you turn on. Their ActiveX's don't need permission to do whatever,and the whatever can be very nasty,they want. Sure you can do real cool things with ActiveX's but their will be tears at bedtime when the kiddies open the door and want to play. -Original Message- From: bascule [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Screen resolution hi, this is worring me, i use netscape4.72 with antivirus software set to turn all that gubbins off so i guess i shoudn't worry to much about activex controls -though i could be speaking rearwards, but i did notice harddrive activity when reading the opening message so any one who can reassure me gets a vote of thanks! bascule Mad Marty wrote: At 28/04/00 11:11:00, you wrote: Hi there, Ok, I know about using the Ctrl+Alt+(+) keys to change the screen resolutions, but where/or if can I configure it so that I can use the key combination to switch from 800 to 640 and back again. Thanks in advance, Evan Holt What the hell does the ActiveX control do in your messages?! Mad Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mail me for my PGP key! [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Direct to my mobile phone! http://www.madmarty.co.uk
Re: [newbie] Moved /usr and /home!
I haven't been following this thread closely, but I have been having what must be similar problems with space, as my / partition is full, and I must do something or I won't be able to save or create new docs or print or stuff like that. I have two hard drives involved. On one, I have a /boot partition of 18,000k, and a swap partition of 131,000k, and lastly a / partition of 1.5 gigs, which contains everything except /home. The / partition is full. On a second hard drive, sharing space with a FAT32 partition, I have an EXT2 partition that contains /home, and that has about 1.2 gigs free. I have attempted to simply copy my /usr directory to /home and link it up with a symlink, and that worked for a lot of things, but I discovered that things got dropped on the way, so odd stuff would happen, like no backspace on the keyboard. I also tried the whole process of creating new mount points and remounting directories, but that caused even worse side effects. So, HDA1 is Windows HDA3 is /home with 1.2 gigs free. mounts at /mnt/DOS_hda3 HDC1 is /boot HDC2 is swap HDC3 is /(everything else) I need to move whole file systems around and still have things work. I would appreciate feedback as to the surest way to accomplish this without destroying my system. Thanks! Don J. On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 09:52:11 +0200 (CEST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Moved /usr and /home! Hi all, Thanks for the great advice on my question, I have just moved /usr and /home to the new partitions, and it all went without a problem. Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z And isn't as greasey. Do Good Stuff! 8^)
Re: [newbie] Active X on Evan Messages
The way to STOP Flames is put it out to pasture. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 18:42:31 -0700 "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way I think you're preaching to the wrong congregation, when you start this kind of thread here. Beside that, it's liable to lead to a long drawn-out off-topic flame fest (though I hope not). Alan Point taken, I'm done. =) Mike YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
