Re: [newbie-it] Memoria a 128
Marco Gattei wrote: Ciao a tutti ! ho installato Linux-Mandrake 7 sul mio nuovo PIII a 128 mega di RAM, ma al boot (e anche in seguito) il kernel di linux mi segnala solo 64M :-((( anche durante l'installazione ne erano stati individuati solo 64, ma io avevo corretto il valore manualmente a 128 Rifai la correzione a mano: - leggi man lilo e man lilo.conf e poi editi il file /etc/lilo.conf a cui devi aggiungere la riga append="mem=128M" - poi lanci il comando "lilo" per rendere effettiva la modifica Credo che si possa fare anche con qualche giochetto di drakxconfig pero` cosi` e` piu` sicuro. :-) puo' essere che partizionedi swap non sia sufficientemente grande da gestire i 128 mega di RAM ??? No! In genere e` consigliato avere la swap uguale ad un multiplo intero della RAM, in modo che quando la ram si satura viene riversata pari pari in swap. Con ram piccole era richiesto che il multiplo fosse almeno 2, con ram come la tua, se non fai cose pesantissime puoi avere tranquillamente una swap piu` piccola della Ram. ho sbagliato qualcosa nell'installazione ? Non credo. Succede spesso. Credo che sia un qualche problema minore a livello di BIOS. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Cercando gli rpm
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Ciao A tutti! Premetto che sono nuovissimo al mondo linux. Detto questo avrei la necessita di reperire i seguenti pacchetti in formato .rpm (non sono ancora in grado di buttarmi nelle conpilazione): 1) isdn4linux utils e base (credo si chiamino isdn4k.rpm e isdn4k-utils.rpm) Saro incapace, ma sul sito www.isdn4linux.de ho trovato solo i sorgenti potete aiutarmi? grazie Senza andare troppo lontano credo che potresti trovarli sul cd d'installazione sotto ./Mandrake/RPMS Ciao ** Sebastiano Cordiano --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[newbie-it] Processi
Salve a tutti una domanda proprio terra terra.. Processore AMDK6 II 400 Mhz su Asus P5A con 128M di ram Scheda Video Trident 4mega Lavoro principalmente con interfaccia grafica Tutto funziona perfettamente, Mandrake 7.0 configura tutto e non ritengo di avere problemi di incompatibilita' hardware ( tranne che per uno scanner su parallela e masterizzatore eide che utilizzo saltuariamente su una partizione minima che ho lasciato a Win) ma ho il dubbio di avere, all' avvio, molti processi in esecuzione che mi riducono le prestazioni della macchina. Utilizzo interfaccia grafica KDE senza sfondi, temi,screensaver e troppe icone ma la macchina dopo ore di utilizzo mi rallenta drasticamente. La Ram in utilizzo appena avviata la macchina e' all' 80%, mi sembra esagerato. Utilizzo il PC con programmi di Navigazione, Posta, Elaborazione Testi e con connessione ad Internet non permanente, utilizzo di base anche Gimp e programmi Audio da poche risorse, ma per assurdo con Winzozz98 sento la macchina molto piu' snella e lubrificata. :-) per rendere l' idea In rete poi quando visito pagine con Java o va in blocco o si auto-killa spesso e volentieri Netscape 4.72 Tramite Kpm vedo un mucchio di memoria, sprecata immagino, su processi che non conosco a sufficienza per intervenire Qualcuno mi sa dare una traccia per migliorare le performance di sistema? Possibile che anche la scheda video, utilizzando una risoluzione 1024x768 32bit possa contribuire a rallentare il sistema? Grazie anticipatamente Ettore Novara
[newbie-it] Cercando gli rpm
Il lun, 12 giu 2000, hai scritto: Ciao A tutti! Premetto che sono nuovissimo al mondo linux. Detto questo avrei la necessita di reperire i seguenti pacchetti in formato .rpm (non sono ancora in grado di buttarmi nelle conpilazione): 1) isdn4linux utils e base (credo si chiamino isdn4k.rpm e isdn4k-utils.rpm) Saro incapace, ma sul sito www.isdn4linux.de ho trovato solo i sorgenti potete aiutarmi? grazie ti posso consigliare questo sito http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/index.html qui' trovi tutti gli RPM disponibili Buon lavoro Ettore
Re: [newbie-it] Cercando gli rpm
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, a day in the life, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) isdn4linux utils e base (credo si chiamino isdn4k.rpm e isdn4k-utils.rpm) Saro incapace, ma sul sito www.isdn4linux.de ho trovato solo i sorgenti sono pure sul cd della mandrake se ce l'hai. comunque per tutti gli rpm del mondo: http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/ bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia www.acidlife.com/aciderror/freefred Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://i.am/freefred ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] Cercando gli rpm
Per cercare file di qualsiasi tipo il posto migliore e` http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/?form=medium Ha un'indicizzazione completa e aggiornatissime di tutti i principali server ftp. Gli metti "isdn4linux.*.rpm", setti regular expression, magari gli dici che vuoi solo server italiani e giapponesi, e che ci sia mandrake nel path, ... Per pacchetti "mandrake" cerca su ftp://galileo.fis.uniroma2.it/pub/mandrake/ tra i contrib e i devel. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] SoftModem Sidin
Ciao! hai provato a forzare l'inserimento del modulo con insmod -f ./ltmodem.o come descritto sulla pagina http://www.kc.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html ? si', ottengo sempre quello stranissimo messaggio di errore: /home/luca/modem/ltmodem.o: init_module: Device or resource busy da cosa potra' essere determinato? Grazie
[newbie-it] conferma messaggi?
scusate qualcuno sa perche' mi arrivano messaggi come questi quando scrivo in lista? [...] In order to broadcast the following message into list newbie-it, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] : confirm 5bc52d1e75b25442808e267206fb395f eccetera bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia www.acidlife.com/aciderror/freefred Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://i.am/freefred ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Oh, I know exactly what you mean! ;-) I dunnoleave it to me to come up with a weird one...LOL Jim
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
nie tryjust made it worse.had to wait forever for it to tell me it didn't like that at all...LOL Jim - Original Message - From: "Jim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner at this point I am willing to try just about anything...LOL I'll give it a whirl and see what it does that waythanks Jim - Original Message - From: "Bruce Hilliker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 12:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner Jim, I've had similar problems with mine. What I found is that if you use the cd player to eject your music cd, then; the cd works fine or if it doesn't; just keep the cd player on screen and us it to eject the cd's. I know it's weird, BUT; it worked for me. Sorry, can't help you on the remainder. Hope it helps. Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] Doom question...
Fran Parker wrote: I looked at the .lxdoom in home/fran directory it is an empty file huh? Maybe that is the problem, huh? What is supposed to be there? boom.cfg and tranmap.dat I don't think it ever got far enough to write anything. (also yes, the wad file is in the /usr/share/games/doom directory and I did rename it to doom.wad I will rename it DOOM.WAD ... Linux is very case sensitive. Bambi Yep, sure is! Mine is named doom1.wad... Good luck!
Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...
Dennis Myers wrote: Followup to this thread, I figured out how to edit (hooray!!!) and went in to the above listed /etc/ files and deleted the -p and voila! the error message is gone when I "halt" the sys. I think that I am beginning to get the hang of some of this and am falling in love with "linux". You can actually fix things if you want to take the time to learn. Exactly! It worked for me as well. I think the biggest thing is: 1) Take your time 2) *really* read the manuals 3) Listen (hard) to advice from "vets" 4) Repeat steps 1 - 3 as necessary! smile
Re: [newbie] I am still here...I just switched e-mail addresses
Jim
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Jim wrote: I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it seems worse I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light comes on and after a few minutes I get an error message that the contents of the directory /mnt/cdrom can not be displayednow the weirdI can't eject the cd and the light stays on. If I don't Hi Jim. I can't help with your main problem, but let me tell you what I've had happen a couple of times since its similiar. Occasionally, I can't get my generic Atapi CD-ROM to eject either. When this happens, I can click on its icon, go to file, then click close. After that, it will eject. I also have an AMD CPU and Gigabyte motherboard. Might save you from having to reboot... ;-)
Re: [RE: [newbie] worthless software innd]
type "NNTP" into any search engine...it should give you a HUGE list of news servers.most are pay servers...but there are quite a few that are free Also why not use your ISP's news server?? HTH Jaguar Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm so basically I am toast, I can't have a news server unless I bogart a news feed from somewhere. What are the server names of the news feeds, maybe I can just bogart a news feed, or like you said, make buddies with someone wth a news feed On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: In order to set up a news server, you need to obtain a NEWS feed. This is far different than setting up a NEWS reader (which I'll bet is what you probably want.). Most news feeds will COST you big $$$ unless you have a friend who works in a feeder site... You can use programs such as SUCK to pull down a group or groups from a nntp site however. Think carefully before you do this though. You might want to just use PAN to grab all the new messages in a specific group. Even then, expect your hard drive to fill after a few days. If you -REALLY- want to set up a news server and have obtained a feed, then given that you've spent this much, you might want to invest in one of the O'Reilly books on News and NNTP. -JMS -Original Message- From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 12:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] worthless software innd I wonder why innd does not work, I installed it and I can't get one, not even ONE group on my news group server, totally useless, can't find jack on mandrakeuser.org can't find jack ina yany faq anwwyawhere The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote:
I have mine set up as a cron job. Create a .fetchmailrc in your normal user's
home directory that will fetch mail from all your accounts, then set up a cron
job to run as that user at a specifed interval. I get lots of mail so my
interval is 4 minutes. Works great...
I use this script that runs as root, to grab all users mail
*** start ***
#!/bin/bash
run=0
# echo Starting mail download for all users
for i in `cat /etc/passwd |
awk -F : '{ print $1 " " $6}'`; do
if [ $run -eq 0 ]
then
name=$i
run=1
else
home=$i
run=0
if [ -r $home/.fetchmailrc ]
then
echo getting mail for $name
su -l -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -s -t 500" $name
fi
fi
done
end
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
[newbie] Swapping keys - success!
Okay, per Paul's suggestion, I looked up the man pages for xmodmap, the keymapping utility and was successfully able to swap my caps and control (left) keys. This is the steps it took: From a terminal, create the file .xmodmaprc, touch .xmodmaprc Then, you can use vi, emacs, or in my case, I just opened a window on my /home dir and dropped it on kedit. Enter these lines: ! ! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L ! remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L Save it, then add this line to your /home/username/.bash_profile file: xmodmap .xmodmaprc Save it, and you're ready to rock! ;-) The Linux Cool Keyboard that I purchased from tigerdirect.com already has the caps and control (L) keys included with it for swapping out...nice. PS Don't forget you have to do this for both your root and "regular" user account.
[newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions.
first here's the problem.. squid keeps saying that FATAL: Unknown cache_dir type 'var/spool/squid' and then has Page faults with physical i/o: 197 i don't even have a clue where to start with this one. question 1. where can i find some documentation on hot to mount a windows share on linux. do i just put a the correct info in fstab dozy\\share /mnt/dozyshare smbfs etc. question 2: is there a network browser/automounter that works correctly with samba 2.0.6 and other nfs's??? thanks in advance
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
Thanks Chris. That sounds like a plan. Mark Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket. Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants don't have any pockets in them. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Necrotica wrote: Yes. You can set up fetchmail to run as a cron job, which will fetch your mail at a specified interval (which is nice if you telnet into your machine from a remote location to check your mail). If you just want to check in when you're logged in locally under X there are numerous ways to do it. KDE has an applet, but I forget what its called (I use Gnome). Gnome has a mail check applet that you can add to your taskbar. You can also run gkrellm (a very nice system monitor) to fetch it for you too. I have mine set up as a cron job. Create a .fetchmailrc in your normal user's home directory that will fetch mail from all your accounts, then set up a cron job to run as that user at a specifed interval. I get lots of mail so my interval is 4 minutes. Works great... -Chris On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote: I'm curious about something. Is it possible to get fetchmail to automatically check your pop3 server and fetch the mail on the server when one boots up and Xwindows starts? I'm finding that programs like Pine and fetchmail are so much faster and efficient than the GUI based programs at taking care of most e-mail. Mark Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket. Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants don't have any pockets in them. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Everett wrote: To those who helped THANKS! I found the problem. When I installed mandrake 7.0 it did not install procmail. I installed procmail and all is fine. - Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/ - Original Message - From: Everette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:40 PM Subject: [newbie] About to give up. Hello again I'm going to try this one last time before I give up. A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine. A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake 7.0 I did a complete install doing away with every thing I setup in 6.1 includeing qpopper. Well it looked like every thing setup OK so I reinstalled qpopper but it want work now in fact I tried some other mail server software and can't get any of thm to work. When I use telnet it logs onto the mail server fine and tells me I have 0 massages, my mail client software logs in fine but tell's me I have no new massages this afther I have sent about 20 or 30 test mail to it. Please if any one has any idea what's going on please let me know I am about to give up. Thanks
RE: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions.
See below... |-Original Message- |From: Oliver Stieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:13 AM |To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' |Subject: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions. | | |first here's the problem.. | |squid keeps saying that | FATAL: Unknown cache_dir type 'var/spool/squid' |and then has | Page faults with physical i/o: 197 | |i don't even have a clue where to start with this one. | Like with anything else, it really pays to read the docs first. Squid needs to be initialized before you use it. This sets up it's directory structure... /usr/sbin/squid -z will do the trick. | |question 1. | where can i find some documentation on hot to mount a windows share |on linux. | do i just put a the correct info in fstab dozy\\share |/mnt/dozyshare smbfs etc. | Nope you have to set up Samba first. You can do this from within Linuxconf (start with an empty /etc/smb.conf if you choose to do it this way!) or by directly editing /etc/smb.conf. There is quite a lot of documentation available... |question 2: | is there a network browser/automounter that works correctly with |samba 2.0.6 and other nfs's??? | Supermount (part of the distro) will handle this, but you first need to correctly configure NFS at both ends, and/or Samba itself. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |thanks in advance |
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Unless I'm missunderstanding you can't display normal CD's with a CDRW because they won't/can't read regular CD format. I'm still having a bit a problem telling the difference between a CD writer and a CD RE-Writer. The reason you can't eject after all this is because as far as the hardware is concerned it's still busy and isn't going to allow and ejection when it's still performing a task. You've asked it to access and read files from a dir ... even though it can't it's trying and therefore won't process the eject command. Hope this is some help. Mark Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket. Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants don't have any pockets in them. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jim wrote: I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it seems worse I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light comes on and after a few minutes I get an error message that the contents of the directory /mnt/cdrom can not be displayednow the weirdI can't eject the cd and the light stays on. If I don't completely power down the machine the cdrom isn't recognized by the bios on the reboot. If I completely shut down the power for the recomended 15 seconds and turn it back on my cdrom is back in the boot list again. Can anyone help me with all this weirdness? I am running an AMD K6-3 450, 128 mb ram, on a gigabyte MB, with the Ali Aladdin V AGPset rev 5. I have had problems with the cd-rw in linux from the begining and haven't gotten it fixed, but it never removed it from the bios before...what gives here? Jim
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Install problems ThinkPad 760EL
Ryan, Try this. If you've got a Windows 95 CDROM setup disk lying around copy the entire contents to the HDD including the hidden system files. It won't work without them. The CDROM setup floppy has CDROM drivers on it that will load when the files are accessed and the machine boots. This will allow your machine to boot. You may have to edit the autoexec.bat file a bit, but I feel certain you can handle this. Load your install disk into the CDROM drive and boot your machine. If you've prepared correctly the machine will boot, load the CDROM drivers, which it will promprt you for the specific kind you want to load, and you're on your way. If you don't have this disk you can e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will send you the files you need to make a CDROM setup floppy. There are a few older laptops we have at work and that's how we have to do them to reload them on occassion. Mark Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket. Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants don't have any pockets in them. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, R. D. McCallion wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my ThinkPad 760EL. The CD and floppy drives are swappable and can not both be installed at the same time. As a result I am unable to perform the standard CD install using a boot floppy. I have tried several other methods, without any success: 1. HDD install - After partioning and xcopying all the files to the HDD, the installer gives 'Error reading second stage RAM disk' and hangs. 2. Running the autoboot.bat from DOS - Installer gets to 'Initializing CDROM', then hangs. I have tried variations on the above using different disk images for a HDD install (pcmcia.img and text_boot.img), in both cases the same Error occurred. The system is a P133 with 48 megs of RAM, a 2.1 GB IDE HDD, video is a Trident TG9660 with 1 meg of memory. I'd sure love to get this OS up and running, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ryan
RE: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions.
-Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 June 2000 11:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions. See below... |-Original Message- |From: Oliver Stieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:13 AM |To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' |Subject: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions. | | |first here's the problem.. | |squid keeps saying that | FATAL: Unknown cache_dir type 'var/spool/squid' |and then has | Page faults with physical i/o: 197 | |i don't even have a clue where to start with this one. | Like with anything else, it really pays to read the docs first. Squid needs to be initialized before you use it. This sets up it's directory structure... /usr/sbin/squid -z will do the trick. i think i've done that already, yep it still causes the same problem. | |question 1. | where can i find some documentation on hot to mount a windows share |on linux. | do i just put a the correct info in fstab dozy\\share |/mnt/dozyshare smbfs etc. | Nope you have to set up Samba first. You can do this from within Linuxconf (start with an empty /etc/smb.conf if you choose to do it this way!) or by directly editing /etc/smb.conf. There is quite a lot of documentation available... i already have samba configured, and a load of linux shares available to the rest of the network, i've gone through most of the documentation ican find on samba, and havn't found anything that tells me how to mount windows shares, the man pages mention this but i cant get teh example or anything like it to do anymore that cause a shell error. |question 2: | is there a network browser/automounter that works correctly with |samba 2.0.6 and other nfs's??? | Supermount (part of the distro) will handle this, but you first need to correctly configure NFS at both ends, and/or Samba itself. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] ok it's more of an autobrowser i'm after, so that i don't have to setup all the mount points i'm interested in. i want to be able to interagate the network for all available mount points on all machines nad mount them on the fly. a bit like doing a smbcli -L machiname and then mounting a file from the list without the extra reading/typing. | |thanks in advance |
Re: [newbie] please help
whine whine whine whine :) - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] please help I changed ISP's a week ago... the other ISP...only took about ten minutes to come back to me Paul wrote: On Mon, 29 May 2000, KompuKit wrote: it still doesn't work right...there is still about a 7 hour delay attached is an email from my ISP about the problem: Only 7 hours? Sometimes with me it happens that it takes more than a day before I get something back that I post. And I know it is not a problem with my ISP, that is fast enough. I would not worry too much Paul )0(---)0( Friendship: lying awake over someone else's problems )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
[newbie] POP3 trouble under linux-mandrake 7.0
Hello A few months ago I installed mandrake 6.1 and I've been playing around with it. I installed a pop3 server software called qpopper and it worked great. Well I just installed mandrake 7.0 a compleate install overwrighting 6.1. Then I reinstalled qpopper but now it want work. qpopper seems to be working I can log onto it but it just says no new messages on server. So I tryed a few other pop3 server software and get the thing. Can someone please tell me what to do? Thanks
[newbie] news server
my default i guess the news server is active, is there any way to shut it off because i keep getting errors that it can't be access or something, i dont' really care i just don't need it and want to disable the news server -- Juvenal (Morpheus233)
[newbie] [Fwd: Extra Cds for 7.1]
Does anyone have any idea what and/or where the CD's labeled 3 and 4 are. During the installation of 7.1 they are listed, and also using Kpackage or RPMdrake to add additional packages they ask for one or the other CD. Thanks Eunice
Re: [newbie] Mouse Not Detected
Leobardoassuming you are logged in as a user, open Konsole, type su -, type the root password, type mouseconfig. The rest is self-prompting. Alan "Leobardo López" wrote: I Need Help. Mandrake is Not Detecting My Mouse, What Can I Do to Configure It By Myself. Thanx. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Vanishing Video Memory
I have just finished installing LM 7.1 on my Dell Dimension with Intel i810 video chip. Installation went smoothly (thank God!) but I still have a "minor problem". Even though my video card has 4M of memory on it, LM 7.1 is reporting and using just 1M. Consequently I cannot use 1024x768 with anything higher than 256 colors. How can I reclaim my memory any force LM 7.1 to use all 4M instead of 1M? Thanks in advance. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] ..it happens and now it happened to me:)
Mark When you say that Xconfigure dumped you out and shut down linux did that occur when it was probing your vid card or when setting your screen res. Charles It did the same thing to me. It occured when I was setting the Resolution. So I just shutdown and rebooted using my boot disk that I made then typed startx. Then I ran Drakconf and went to change the Resolution and it started trying to hit my cdrom. I was enstranged at first but figured I'd pop in the mandrake inst cd and see what happened. Well it was cool cause it restarted the configure x where it was left off and let me finish without crashing. Just to let you know my card is an ATI Rage Pro Turbo (I use the ATI Mach 64 CT"something" AKA 3d Rage) driver for it and it works well. I also have a 15'' CTX generic kinda monitor that I run at 800 x 600.
[newbie] Install did not load Linuxconf (desktop icon)
Greetings, group...I have a question about the recent install that I completed... My PC is a TP600, 300MHz, 96MB, 6.4GB, xircom cardbus (tulip_cb) 100+56k, and Linux Mandrake 7.02. Running pretty well, except the icon for the Linuxconf on the desktop is dead...Can't excecute it, nor does it show a process running when I attempt to run it (by clicking on it or executing it by command). I looked in the RPM list and it is loaded. I unloaded it and reloaded it with the CDROM, no change. I even tried upgrading (and restarting) from the web. I have access to the text version, and I am pretty comfortable with it, but I really like the graphical one. If anyone has a suggestion (other than be happy that it works!! ;) ), please let me know. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration, Steve Weltman
Re: [newbie] Madrake 7.0 configuration help
At the command line try typing: kudzu If kudzu fails to autodetect your voodoo3 here are your relevant resources: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/index.html http://linux.3dfx.com I too run a voodoo3, 7.0 autodetected it beautifully, 7.1 crapped all over it. This bug was reported to cooker during beta 2, but never fixed. -David Talbot At 08:30 PM 6/14/00 -0600, you wrote: Hilos. I am a newbie to Mandrake- indeed, linux as a whole. I need to get my second monitor working. I am running a celeron 500 with 128 mb ram, a voodoo3 card as my main video card, and a matrox as my secondary. what I need is to basically be told where to find the settings and /or be told how to set it up- I can learn from there. :) Thanks!
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for checking in fetchmail itself. Necrotica wrote: Yes. You can set up fetchmail to run as a cron job, which will fetch your mail at a specified interval (which is nice if you telnet into your machine from a remote location to check your mail). If you just want to check in when you're logged in locally under X there are numerous ways to do it. KDE has an applet, but I forget what its called (I use Gnome). Gnome has a mail check applet that you can add to your taskbar. You can also run gkrellm (a very nice system monitor) to fetch it for you too. I have mine set up as a cron job. Create a .fetchmailrc in your normal user's home directory that will fetch mail from all your accounts, then set up a cron job to run as that user at a specifed interval. I get lots of mail so my interval is 4 minutes. Works great... -Chris On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote: I'm curious about something. Is it possible to get fetchmail to automatically check your pop3 server and fetch the mail on the server when one boots up and Xwindows starts? I'm finding that programs like Pine and fetchmail are so much faster and efficient than the GUI based programs at taking care of most e-mail. Mark Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket. Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants don't have any pockets in them. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Everett wrote: To those who helped THANKS! I found the problem. When I installed mandrake 7.0 it did not install procmail. I installed procmail and all is fine. - Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/ - Original Message - From: Everette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:40 PM Subject: [newbie] About to give up. Hello again I'm going to try this one last time before I give up. A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine. A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake 7.0 I did a complete install doing away with every thing I setup in 6.1 includeing qpopper. Well it looked like every thing setup OK so I reinstalled qpopper but it want work now in fact I tried some other mail server software and can't get any of thm to work. When I use telnet it logs onto the mail server fine and tells me I have 0 massages, my mail client software logs in fine but tell's me I have no new massages this afther I have sent about 20 or 30 test mail to it. Please if any one has any idea what's going on please let me know I am about to give up. Thanks -- Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy All Things French.. Mandrake and XFCE Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org Need a Real Texas Radio Fix?http://www.texasrebelradio.com
Re: [newbie] Qt2 - 2.1.1 rpm
Hi Ot, I got mine from here...built for Mandrake. Used the netscrappy browser. ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ (be sure to go down the page below the links...that's were the files are) Have fun, lots there, Bambi Ot Ratsaphong wrote: Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of the qt2 V2.1.1 library in rpm format I remember seeing some discussion on this a few days ago. TIA Ot 8^)
Re: [newbie] how do i install mandrake over itself?
I wish I had reinstalled from scratch. I set my box up yesterday at 5:00pm to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1. It is 9:00am and it is still at it. It is text based, and it shows 50%now. Next time I wipe and go from scratch. hehe TRBishop wrote: Registered Linux User #79449 -- Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy All Things French.. Mandrake and XFCE Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org Need a Real Texas Radio Fix?http://www.texasrebelradio.com
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
...if you run it as a daemon. I, however, don't want the overhead of YADR (yet another daemon running). -Chris On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Michael H. Collins wrote: My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for checking in fetchmail itself. Necrotica wrote: Yes. You can set up fetchmail to run as a cron job, which will fetch your mail at a specified interval (which is nice if you telnet into your machine from a remote location to check your mail). If you just want to check in when you're logged in locally under X there are numerous ways to do it. KDE has an applet, but I forget what its called (I use Gnome). Gnome has a mail check applet that you can add to your taskbar. You can also run gkrellm (a very nice system monitor) to fetch it for you too. I have mine set up as a cron job. Create a .fetchmailrc in your normal user's home directory that will fetch mail from all your accounts, then set up a cron job to run as that user at a specifed interval. I get lots of mail so my interval is 4 minutes. Works great... -Chris On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote: I'm curious about something. Is it possible to get fetchmail to automatically check your pop3 server and fetch the mail on the server when one boots up and Xwindows starts? I'm finding that programs like Pine and fetchmail are so much faster and efficient than the GUI based programs at taking care of most e-mail. Mark Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket. Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants don't have any pockets in them. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Everett wrote: To those who helped THANKS! I found the problem. When I installed mandrake 7.0 it did not install procmail. I installed procmail and all is fine. - Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/ - Original Message - From: Everette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:40 PM Subject: [newbie] About to give up. Hello again I'm going to try this one last time before I give up. A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine. A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake 7.0 I did a complete install doing away with every thing I setup in 6.1 includeing qpopper. Well it looked like every thing setup OK so I reinstalled qpopper but it want work now in fact I tried some other mail server software and can't get any of thm to work. When I use telnet it logs onto the mail server fine and tells me I have 0 massages, my mail client software logs in fine but tell's me I have no new massages this afther I have sent about 20 or 30 test mail to it. Please if any one has any idea what's going on please let me know I am about to give up. Thanks
[newbie] SAMBA
Hi, all -- I have, for some time, been trying to figure out how to use my Linux box to access files and printers on my NT and Warp Server networks. The obvious answer is SAMBA. As one who does not like to bother my colleagues on this list, I wanted to go to www.samba.org first to see how to configure SAMBA, but navigating the site is next to impossible. Questions: 1.I assume that the SAMBA Server goes on the Linux box that is trying to access NETBIOS resources. Is this correct? 2.How do I configure the SAMBA Server so that it can access the NETBIOS resources? I've tried various combinations of TCP/IP and NETBIOS names and numbers, but none seem to work. Has anybody actually done this, so that you can either tell me how to do it or where to go to find out? Thanks. pete PeteClapham DepartmentofBiological,Geological,andEnvironmentalSciences ClevelandStateUniversity Cleveland,Ohio,44115 Voice:[216]687-4820 Fax:[216]523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Fortran Compiler
Hi, all -- Do any of you know where I can get a Fortran compiler for Linux? (Yes, I know C is more flexible -- and Mandrake already includes gcc, but I need to compile some fortran programs that some others created). Thanks, pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Qt2 - 2.1.1 rpm
Christopher, Thanks for the GREAT work you are doing with the rpms. I'd like to one contribute rpms of my own once I become familiar with the rpm documentation. I got the Qt2 2.1.1 rpms thanks. BTW what's a good development IDE for Qt. I'm thinking of exploring QtArchitect. any thoughts? Cheers, Ot 8^) -Original Message- From: Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, 15 June 2000 3:27 Subject: Re: [newbie] Qt2 - 2.1.1 rpm You can find it on any of the cooker mirrors. I updated it just after it was released. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: rpmfind.net -DavidTalbot At 01:30 AM 6/15/00 +1000, you wrote: Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of the qt2 V2.1.1 library in rpm format I remember seeing some discussion on this a few days ago. TIA Ot 8^)
[newbie] Lost partition/DOS formatting
When installing LM7.1 I had it format several FAT32 partitions at the sametime. But one of the partitions can't be found under DOS, even though LM indentifies it as a DOS partition (is shown on desktop) Also, how can Mandrake format a partition in the DOS filesystem? Is it non-MS, even though it's FAT32? And will Windows98 install in a Mandrake formatted FAT32 partition? Thanks. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO IMAGE
Ok...so I downloaded it. Everything installs correctlytill I try to open the drive and insert the "EXT" disc. A No go! Drive door will not release the disc. I an force to cancel what the "EXT" disc has to offer. Any ideas? ALSO! - Anyone know how to get a TOUCH SCREEN from "Microtouch" to work like a mouse? I have a PS/2 interface for the touchscreen. Working with Windows95 and DOS.just not any form of LINUX. Chuck
[newbie] LM can't read Ext2 floppies -
Why is it I can easily mount a FAT12 floppy no problem, but an Ext2 can't be read by LM 7.1? What's point of being able to format one if you can't access it? Except for LM bootdisks, there doesn't seem much point in formatting Ext2 floppies anyway, since LM reads FAT12 floppies just fine. But I'd like to know why. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] ReiserFS? how?
Anyone know how to setup the Reiser Filesystem in 7.1? The LM website says to use Diskdrake, but how do I start it? And do you recommed it? someone said it's not stable enough yet. Yet I would think it would be safer than Ext2 which is more susceptable to FS corruption. Thanks. 19! Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Automatic Email?
Is there an email client for LM that will automatically dial out to pickup email at set intervals, then logoff? I have same question about FTP program - one like GoZilla or Filedog (Windows applications). Thanks. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] SAMBA
Check out the man pages for smbmount and smbmnt. This pair should do what you want. I have, for some time, been trying to figure out how to use my Linux box to access files and printers on my NT and Warp Server networks. The obvious answer is SAMBA.
RE: [newbie] SAMBA
excurse the poor gwammer co samba sits on a linux box (or other any othe os it has been ported to) it can access netbios resources on other machines and also provide resources to other machines. (2.0.6 dosn't seem to work with windows 2000 though, i'm just getting 2.0.7 down to see if that fixes things). the basic configuration is fairly simple. after installing samba go-into drakconf. then network config. servertasks then samba. select defs. the help on this tool is quite good, heres my configuration if its any help SMB acc mang. ACCT passwords Sync Linux from smb passwords checked. serverdiscription oliverthered work group =brimpton (our NT workgroup) netbios name and aliases are the same as the server description. passwords. it's well worth reading the help to sort this section out. i'm using a pdc for nt passwords so i have server checked and a password server of my pdc for the access section. i have my local subnet in allow hosts 10.10.1.0/255.255.255.0 for networking (i dont want to scare nt too much so) os level = 67 and remote anounce to the pdc. i have also put in the ip for the wins server. (even though it's shot). the howto's describe setting up of shares quite well as does www.mandrakeuser.org under connectivity. you can use nmblookup to serach the network and smbclient to browse. i havn't yet worked out howto get a windows share on my linux box, (i'm wating for an answer to 1proble, two questions). -Original Message-From: Pete Clapham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 15 June 2000 15:11To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] SAMBAHi, all --I have, for some time, been trying to figure out how to use my Linux box to access files and printers on my NT and Warp Server networks. The obvious answer is SAMBA. As one who does not like to bother my colleagues on this list, I wanted to go to www.samba.org first to see how to configure SAMBA, but navigating the site is next to impossible.Questions:1. I assume that the SAMBA Server goes on the Linux box that is trying to access NETBIOS resources. Is this correct?2. How do I configure the SAMBA Server so that it can access the NETBIOS resources? I've tried various combinations of TCP/IP and NETBIOS names and numbers, but none seem to work. Has anybody actually done this, so that you can either tell me how to do it or where to go to find out?Thanks.petePete ClaphamDepartment of Biological, Geological, and Environmental SciencesCleveland State UniversityCleveland, Ohio, 44115Voice: [216] 687-4820Fax:[216]523-7200[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Install did not load Linuxconf (desktop icon)
You could just type "linuxconf" in a terminal and let it pop-up for you. You also might want to check the icon's properties (right click on it and select properties or something like that) and make sure it's executing Linuxconf. Also you might want to try running as root when you click on it. Greetings, group...I have a question about the recent install that I completed... My PC is a TP600, 300MHz, 96MB, 6.4GB, xircom cardbus (tulip_cb) 100+56k, and Linux Mandrake 7.02. Running pretty well, except the icon for the Linuxconf on the desktop is dead...Can't excecute it, nor does it show a process running when I attempt to run it (by clicking on it or executing it by command). I looked in the RPM list and it is loaded. I unloaded it and reloaded it with the CDROM, no change. I even tried upgrading (and restarting) from the web. I have access to the text version, and I am pretty comfortable with it, but I really like the graphical one. If anyone has a suggestion (other than be happy that it works!! ;) ), please let me know. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration, Steve Weltman -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Lost partition/DOS formatting
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: When installing LM7.1 I had it format several FAT32 partitions at the sametime. But one of the partitions can't be found under DOS, even though LM indentifies it as a DOS partition (is shown on desktop) Also, how can Mandrake format a partition in the DOS filesystem? Is it non-MS, even though it's FAT32? And will Windows98 install in a Mandrake formatted FAT32 partition? Thanks. I've found that it's best to use the utility that goes with the OS. IOW's, use dos fdisk for fat16/32, and linux fdisk for ext2. I believe if you boot windoze, but stop a dos prompt (not DosMode) and use dos' fdisk to re-do that partition, then winblows will see it. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Fortran Compiler
:~Hi, all -- :~ :~Do any of you know where I can get a Fortran compiler for Linux? (Yes, I know C is :more flexible -- and Mandrake already :~includes gcc, but I need to compile some fortran programs that some others created). included with the distro (g77). If you need later version of fortran than fortran77, you will have to buy it, I am afraid :-( -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO IMAGE
I had the same problem while trying three different times to install disk 1 and 2 of Mandrake 7.1. I couldn't open the cd drive door and it didn't have a hole to open in manually. The third time, I used another cd driveand manually opned the drawer. However, all three times the installation hung up at that point. I managed to get a complete install by using the "text" upgrade auto install. I don't remember it asking for the second disk, so sometime, I'll explore how to get some of those packages off the extension disk. Art - Original Message - From: "Chuck Zenkus" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 7:33 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO IMAGE Ok...so I downloaded it. Everything installs correctlytill I try to open the drive and insert the "EXT" disc. A No go! Drive door will not release the disc. I an force to cancel what the "EXT" disc has to offer. Any ideas? ALSO! - Anyone know how to get a TOUCH SCREEN from "Microtouch" to work like a mouse? I have a PS/2 interface for the touchscreen. Working with Windows95 and DOS.just not any form of LINUX. Chuck
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
"Michael H. Collins" wrote: My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for checking in fetchmail itself. How does one accomplish this? -- Mark I love my Linux box... My Linux Box ROCKS!
Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...
Hi Ronald ... did you do a find on your computer for these files...maybe it just isn't finding them because it doesn't know where they are. Bambi - Original Message - From: "Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake/Linux Newbie Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 12:13 PM Subject: [newbie] GL Heretic... I'm also trying to get GL Heretic running on my setup (Voodoo 3 3000). I tried to install the RPM but get an error about needing 2 files. I went to RPMnet, freshmeat, and a couple of other places but could not find them. Anyone have any ideas where to get: libasound.so.0 libSDL-1.1.so.0 Thanks!
Re: [newbie] SAMBA
It should be running on all linux/unix boxes. Is your basic network working? Mandrake should have set it up, all you needed to do was put the ip numbers in. -- Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy All Things French.. Mandrake and XFCE Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org Need a Real Texas Radio Fix?http://www.texasrebelradio.com
Re: [newbie] Automatic Email?
On 15 Jun, Tom Wang wrote: Is there an email client for LM that will automatically dial out to pickup email at set intervals, then logoff? I have same question about FTP program - one like GoZilla or Filedog (Windows applications). Thanks. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com fetchmail does that. Although I don't think it does the dialout part. A little script will help. L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[newbie] SANE
I want to test my SCSI scanner with linux mandrake 7.1 but I'm in doubt on what to do. I see sane is installed via the rpm included into the iso image I used, when reading the manual it talks about "saned" but no saned is into the rpm package nor in the filesystem. Must I compile the SANE pachage after installing it via rpm ? Also the "saned" call is needed, as I understand, to be added to inetd.conf file but, indeed, I have no saned at all. I apologize for my misunderstanding about the question. P.S. the scanner itself is an Acer prisa 620st which, I see, must work whith the sanpscan backend. Thanks. Massimo Corinaldesi
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
On 15 Jun, Mark Weaver wrote: "Michael H. Collins" wrote: My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for checking in fetchmail itself. How does one accomplish this? fetchmail -d fetchmail -help is also useful. L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [newbie] Mandrake v7.1 with a Voodoo 3 3000?
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: I've read a couple of different places so far that say v7.1 does NOT find Voodoo video cards correctly... So...being a Linux newbie, should I go ahead with the install (because otherwise, I've seen nothing but good reviews!), or wait for a version that does correctly find my video card? Or is there something I can to to setup correctly even though it does not find my card? Thanks in advance! ;-) I've been using every version of Mdk since 6.0 with a pci Voodoo3-2000. In 7.0, and with 7.1, I tried XFree86-4 with some problems, so I'm stick'n with the tried and true 3.3.x 7.1 finds your V3 jus' fine. As a matter of fact it's prob'ly the best all-a-round card to have with Mandrake 7.x. Go for it. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
From "man fetchmail": DAEMON MODE The --daemon or -d option runs fetchmail in daemon mode. You must specify a numeric argument which is a polling interval in seconds. In daemon mode, fetchmail puts itself in background and runs forever, query ing each specified host and then sleeping for the given polling interval. Simply invoking fetchmail -d 900 will, therefore, poll all the hosts described in your ~/.fetchmailrc file (except those explicitly excluded with the `skip' verb) once every fifteen minutes. It is possible to set a polling interval in your ~/.fetchmailrc file by say ing `set daemon interval', where interval is an integer number of sec onds. If you do this, fetchmail will always start in daemon mode unless you override it with the command-line option --daemon 0 or -d0. Mark Weaver wrote: "Michael H. Collins" wrote: My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for checking in fetchmail itself. How does one accomplish this? -- Mark I love my Linux box... My Linux Box ROCKS! -- Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy All Things French.. Mandrake and XFCE Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org Need a Real Texas Radio Fix?http://www.texasrebelradio.com
Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, lilbambi wrote: I'm also trying to get GL Heretic running on my setup (Voodoo 3 3000). I tried to install the RPM but get an error about needing 2 files. I went to RPMnet, freshmeat, and a couple of other places but could not find them. Anyone have any ideas where to get: libasound.so.0 libSDL-1.1.so.0 libasound is provided by alsa-lib-0.5.7 libSDL comes from SDL both packages are on the mandrake CD. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Well Mark you are close therebut the drive performs perfectly in the OTHER OS...reads, writesjust like it was designed to dobut the only function it has in Linux is music...plays fine...the problem is when I put in any of the data cd's I got when I purchased the MD 7.0 package Jim - Original Message - From: "~-=Mark=-~" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner Unless I'm missunderstanding you can't display normal CD's with a CDRW because they won't/can't read regular CD format. I'm still having a bit a problem telling the difference between a CD writer and a CD RE-Writer. The reason you can't eject after all this is because as far as the hardware is concerned it's still busy and isn't going to allow and ejection when it's still performing a task. You've asked it to access and read files from a dir ... even though it can't it's trying and therefore won't process the eject command. Hope this is some help. Mark Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket. Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants don't have any pockets in them. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jim wrote: I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it seems worse I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light comes on and after a few minutes I get an error message that the contents of the directory /mnt/cdrom can not be displayednow the weirdI can't eject the cd and the light stays on. If I don't completely power down the machine the cdrom isn't recognized by the bios on the reboot. If I completely shut down the power for the recomended 15 seconds and turn it back on my cdrom is back in the boot list again. Can anyone help me with all this weirdness? I am running an AMD K6-3 450, 128 mb ram, on a gigabyte MB, with the Ali Aladdin V AGPset rev 5. I have had problems with the cd-rw in linux from the begining and haven't gotten it fixed, but it never removed it from the bios before...what gives here? Jim
Re: [newbie] SANE
Type in xscanimage and hit enter. Should work. mc wrote: I want to test my SCSI scanner with linux mandrake 7.1 but I'm in doubt on what to do. I see sane is installed via the rpm included into the iso image I used, when reading the manual it talks about "saned" but no saned is into the rpm package nor in the filesystem. Must I compile the SANE pachage after installing it via rpm ? Also the "saned" call is needed, as I understand, to be added to inetd.conf file but, indeed, I have no saned at all. I apologize for my misunderstanding about the question. P.S. the scanner itself is an Acer prisa 620st which, I see, must work whith the sanpscan backend. Thanks. Massimo Corinaldesi -- Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy All Things French.. Mandrake and XFCE Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org Need a Real Texas Radio Fix?http://www.texasrebelradio.com
Re: [newbie] Automatic Email?
Fetchmail with diald would work. I think there is another kind of demand dialing too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jun, Tom Wang wrote: Is there an email client for LM that will automatically dial out to pickup email at set intervals, then logoff? I have same question about FTP program - one like GoZilla or Filedog (Windows applications). Thanks. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com fetchmail does that. Although I don't think it does the dialout part. A little script will help. L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! -- Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy All Things French.. Mandrake and XFCE Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org Need a Real Texas Radio Fix?http://www.texasrebelradio.com
Re: [newbie] sendmail
Luc, how are you trying to collect the mail from your ISP? Do you get any messages when you try to poll the ISP? Are you, as your subject line suggests, using sendmail? A little more information might be useful in tracking the problem. Glyn M. On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:25:43AM -0700, thus spake Luc Marts: Hi I have installed madrake a while ago everything works BUT i create a account for email then i go on another pc and set that account up i use that account to send email to say a hotmail account well on the hotmail account i receive the email then i reply to it then i go back to the created account but i never receive the email back i am currently using my IP as the address thanks for the help everyone (using mandrake 7.0 full install) Luc __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
[newbie] automatic start of process
Does anyone know how I can have my Mandrake 7.0 box start a process automatically? I'm running Squid and would like squid to start when the machine boots. Thanks, Craig
Re: [newbie] ReiserFS? how?
One drawback to it is that there aren't any tools for Windows to access it. I used to use Ghost 6.0 to backup my Linux partitions and unfortunately it doesn't see the reiserFS. Explore-ext2 doesn't work either, obviously. You mean you can view ext2 partitions from Windows using those programs? I had always head it was impossible. Where can I download them at? -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Tar and .Gz
hi all: well I tried installing a software that has been proven by many scientists to work w/ a PC windows, Linux and Unix systems. I finished unzipping them and untarring them and gave the command './configure and so forth' and guess what message i got my gcc and C compiler is not working (?). any suggestions would be helpful, I have LM 7.0 version. I had this same problem and it took me FOREVER to find out how to fix it What I did was make sure that all the development libraries and kernel headres were installed. They should all be on your Mandrake CD. If you don't know what to look for, have no fear; the RPM's on the CD have VERY descriptive names. The ones with devel- in them should be development tools/libraries and the kernel headers should have the words 'Kernel-header' or something to this effect in their filenames. Hope This helped!! adam eubank
[newbie] Fvwm2 dependencies
Hi. I'm trying to install the latest version of fvwm2 on my system which runs Mandrake 7.0. One of the unsatisfied dependencies which prevents me installing is the need for a file /usr/sbin/install-menu I can't track this down! Can anyone tell me which rpm I'm looking for? TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] Automatic Email?
You can set fetchmail up as previously noted, and then either run it in daemon mode, where it automatically polls your ISP every so many seconds i.e. 'fetchmail -d 300' tells it to check every 300 seconds, or 5 minutes. Alternately, you can set it up to run from a cron script, I think the advantage of this is if you want to get fancy, you could make one script to just go ahead and poll the ISP, and thus bring up the ISP, say maybe 2 times a day. Another script, could check the status of your dial-out interface every 5 minutes, and if it is 'up', go ahead and poll for email. Both Netscape Messenger and kmail will do interval mail checking. If you have them configured to directly check your pop account, I'm not sure if they would bring up your dial-up link. As far as the cron scripts, I've seen them around, and might be able to find them again, but I haven't done them myself yet. I am getting to that point, though. As far as the other diad-on-demand option, the recent versions of pppd have a 'demand' feature that works pretty well. The real advantage of diald is that you can set up filters to control how long the link stays up, what time of day it can come up at all, what types of traffic it wil come up for, and if using an internal network, which hosts traffic will cause it to come up, if you want. The tradeoff? It can be a PITA to set up. Monte --- "Michael H. Collins" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fetchmail with diald would work. I think there is another kind of demand dialing too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jun, Tom Wang wrote: Is there an email client for LM that will automatically dial out to pickup email at set intervals, then logoff? I have same question about FTP program - one like GoZilla or Filedog (Windows applications). Thanks. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com fetchmail does that. Although I don't think it does the dialout part. A little script will help. L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! -- Michael H. Collinshttp://www.linuxlink.com Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy All Things French.. Mandrake and XFCE Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org Need a Real Texas Radio Fix? http://www.texasrebelradio.com = "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBPPP!!!...much snicker" What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Jim wrote: Well Mark you are close therebut the drive performs perfectly in the OTHER OS...reads, writesjust like it was designed to dobut the only function it has in Linux is music...plays fine...the problem is when I put in any of the data cd's I got when I purchased the MD 7.0 package Jim - Original Message - From: "~-=Mark=-~" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner Unless I'm missunderstanding you can't display normal CD's with a CDRW because they won't/can't read regular CD format. I'm still having a bit a problem telling the difference between a CD writer and a CD RE-Writer. The reason you can't eject after all this is because as far as the hardware is concerned it's still busy and isn't going to allow and ejection when it's still performing a task. You've asked it to access and read files from a dir ... even though it can't it's trying and therefore won't process the eject command. Hope this is some help. Mark Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket. Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants don't have any pockets in them. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jim wrote: I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it seems worse I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light comes on and after a few minutes I get an error message that the contents of the directory /mnt/cdrom can not be displayednow the weirdI can't eject the cd and the light stays on. If I don't completely power down the machine the cdrom isn't recognized by the bios on the reboot. If I completely shut down the power for the recomended 15 seconds and turn it back on my cdrom is back in the boot list again. Can anyone help me with all this weirdness? I am running an AMD K6-3 450, 128 mb ram, on a gigabyte MB, with the Ali Aladdin V AGPset rev 5. I have had problems with the cd-rw in linux from the begining and haven't gotten it fixed, but it never removed it from the bios before...what gives here? Jim If it's a RE-writable CDROM then you won't be able to read normal data CD's in it. That's my understanding. Only CD's that have been written using that peice of hardware can be read in it. regular data CD's format = ISO9660 -- Mark I love my Linux box... My Linux Box ROCKS!
Re: [newbie] ReiserFS? how?
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: One drawback to it is that there aren't any tools for Windows to access it. I used to use Ghost 6.0 to backup my Linux partitions and unfortunately it doesn't see the reiserFS. Explore-ext2 doesn't work either, obviously. You mean you can view ext2 partitions from Windows using those programs? I had always head it was impossible. Where can I download them at? http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/05/08/957772775.html -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] automatic start of process
You can add your commands in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. This script i executed at the end of the boot process. Or you can see if it is the services proposed by the "setup" program. You could also see if there is a way to include its starting/stopping in the runlevels with tksysv. HTH Flupke On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Craig Fels wrote: Does anyone know how I can have my Mandrake 7.0 box start a process automatically? I'm running Squid and would like squid to start when the machine boots. Thanks, Craig -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Fvwm2 dependencies
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: Hi. I'm trying to install the latest version of fvwm2 on my system which runs Mandrake 7.0. One of the unsatisfied dependencies which prevents me installing is the need for a file /usr/sbin/install-menu I can't track this down! Can anyone tell me which rpm I'm looking for? You can find this by yourself. Mount your mandrake cdrom and type : for i in /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/*.rpm ; do rpm -qpl $i |grep -q '/usr/sbin/install-menu' echo $i done and it should tell you which package you have to install. For more info , man bash and man rpm HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...
SDL 1.0.something comes on 7.0, to play GL Heretic it want's you to have 1.1.*. http://www.libsdl.org/ I can't remember what version of alsa it wants, but you can play it without sound... -david talbot At 08:40 PM 6/15/00 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, lilbambi wrote: I'm also trying to get GL Heretic running on my setup (Voodoo 3 3000). I tried to install the RPM but get an error about needing 2 files. I went to RPMnet, freshmeat, and a couple of other places but could not find them. Anyone have any ideas where to get: libasound.so.0 libSDL-1.1.so.0 libasound is provided by alsa-lib-0.5.7 libSDL comes from SDL both packages are on the mandrake CD. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Tar and .Gz
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, spooky wrote: hi all: well I tried installing a software that has been proven by many scientists to work w/ a PC windows, Linux and Unix systems. I finished unzipping them and untarring them and gave the command './configure and so forth' and guess what message i got my gcc and C compiler is not working (?). any suggestions would be helpful, I have LM 7.0 version. I had this same problem and it took me FOREVER to find out how to fix it What I did was make sure that all the development libraries and kernel headres were installed. They should all be on your Mandrake CD. If you don't know what to look for, have no fear; the RPM's on the CD have VERY descriptive names. RPMS dir on the CD 'rpm -qpil *.rpm 'whater dir you want the txt file in /RPMS.txt example:'cd' to the /RPMS dir on the CD then (I) type 'rpm -qpil *.rpm /home/tom/RPMS.txt ' *caution* this will create a 5 to 7 mb .txt file (takes a minute or 2), but it will include all the info and more that you see in Kpackage for every rpm on the CD. and you can use a txt editor to search ;) It will tho, show every one of 'em uninstalled ... 'cause they're RO on the CD ;) The ones with devel- in them should be development tools/libraries and the kernel headers should have the words 'Kernel-header' or something to this effect in their filenames. at MOU, http://www.mandrakeuser.org/basics/bsource.html " Here comes a list of developement libraries which are most often used and should be installed on every workstation: " gives a list of all the packages you'll ever need to compile 99.9% of everything including kernels These packages are included in every Mdk version's CD's, ie, they _are_ on your CD I depend on always choosing the 'development' option during install. you'll get all the above and more ;-) -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Mark, it reads everything fine in windoze. I am not attempting to read cdrw disks in Linux I am attempting to read professionally produced cdroms produced by ManDrake Linux that were provided by them in my 7.0 release...the Creative cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to (and does in windoze) act as a normal cdrom as well as a cd burner...it isn't the equipment...it is the OS and the way it is attempting to address the hardware. it has improved in release 7.1 , in 7.0 it wouldn't even attempt to look at it...now at least it accesses it but doesn't read and in fact locks up the drive...so now when I am working in linux I put in another drive so I can access those disks, I re-install (physically) the burner when I need to burn cd's in windozenow since the cdrom/cdburner works perfectly in windoze I am assuming there isn't a problem with the hardware. Jim If it's a RE-writable CDROM then you won't be able to read normal data CD's in it. That's my understanding. Only CD's that have been written using that peice of hardware can be read in it. regular data CD's format = ISO9660 -- Mark I love my Linux box... My Linux Box ROCKS!
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: Mark, ...the Creative cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to (and does in windoze) act as a normal cdrom as well as a cd burner...it isn't the equipment...it is the OS and the way it is attempting to address the hardware. you might be better served if you also wondered: ' it isn't the OS...it is the equipment and the way it is attempting to address the OS. ' ?? (I suspect bios/motherboard/etc is in this mix too) BTW, how good is Creative at providing Linux developers with spec's for all the hardware they re-badge ?? or encouraging the manufacturer that really made that CD-RW to do the same ? -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] sendmail
I aint retreiving from my isp at all i am trying to use my own server here goes again i set up server (i will call it myserver) and i have one windows workstation well i set up myserver with madrake 7 i created a account called viperws then i went onto the workstation and using netscape i set up the account user name viperws pop3 server incomming i used myserver's ip addy for outgoing server i used myserver's ip addy so my email was [EMAIL PROTECTED] well i sent a email to my yahoo email addy then i went on my yahoo email adn checked and i received the email so i replied to it then i went back on my workstation and checked my server's account no emails i checked for several days amd never reveived it so my outgoing server works but incomming does not. Luc --- Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luc, how are you trying to collect the mail from your ISP? Do you get any messages when you try to poll the ISP? Are you, as your subject line suggests, using sendmail? A little more information might be useful in tracking the problem. Glyn M. On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:25:43AM -0700, thus spake Luc Marts: Hi I have installed madrake a while ago everything works BUT i create a account for email then i go on another pc and set that account up i use that account to send email to say a hotmail account well on the hotmail account i receive the email then i reply to it then i go back to the created account but i never receive the email back i am currently using my IP as the address thanks for the help everyone (using mandrake 7.0 full install) Luc __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder * ** __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
[newbie] Screen saver
Hello list, How do I permit my users to change their screen saver settings in KDE? I don't know which file grants these permissions? -- Darryl Gibson Linux Neophyte (tm)
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Most interesting part of the whole mix...I used the Creative cdrw 4224 to both burn and install the OS...LOL as far as the other hardware I am running an AMD K6-3 450 on a Gigabyte GA-5AX mainboard...Ali Aladdin Bios with the most recent update provided by Gigabyte with 128 megs of ram...Nvidia TNT2 video card and everything performs well except the Creative cdrw 4224 drive...my zip drive is ok as well as both hard drivessure would like to get this little problem worked thruI am getting tired of manually changing cd drives to access a cdrom in linux Jim - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: Mark, ...the Creative cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to (and does in windoze) act as a normal cdrom as well as a cd burner...it isn't the equipment...it is the OS and the way it is attempting to address the hardware. you might be better served if you also wondered: ' it isn't the OS...it is the equipment and the way it is attempting to address the OS. ' ?? (I suspect bios/motherboard/etc is in this mix too) BTW, how good is Creative at providing Linux developers with spec's for all the hardware they re-badge ?? or encouraging the manufacturer that really made that CD-RW to do the same ? -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Jim Is your 4224 shown in the device listings as a CDRW? I am guessing that , if your Zip is like mine, that you had to set it as Master and your CDRW is set as slave. Just to humor someone you don't know, and since you have tried everything else that you can think of, dissconnect your Zip drive and set the CDRW as Master then boot back into Linux and I bet the drive will work properly. I have a Creative 8432CDRW and it works well in Linux but I can set it is master because the Zip drive on this system is USB. Between motherboard, BIOS, and OSs you sometimes have to play around with the settings and hook-ups for the hardware to be seen and used as what it is. Charles - Original Message - From: "Jim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner Most interesting part of the whole mix...I used the Creative cdrw 4224 to both burn and install the OS...LOL as far as the other hardware I am running an AMD K6-3 450 on a Gigabyte GA-5AX mainboard...Ali Aladdin Bios with the most recent update provided by Gigabyte with 128 megs of ram...Nvidia TNT2 video card and everything performs well except the Creative cdrw 4224 drive...my zip drive is ok as well as both hard drivessure would like to get this little problem worked thruI am getting tired of manually changing cd drives to access a cdrom in linux Jim - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: Mark, ...the Creative cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to (and does in windoze) act as a normal cdrom as well as a cd burner...it isn't the equipment...it is the OS and the way it is attempting to address the hardware. you might be better served if you also wondered: ' it isn't the OS...it is the equipment and the way it is attempting to address the OS. ' ?? (I suspect bios/motherboard/etc is in this mix too) BTW, how good is Creative at providing Linux developers with spec's for all the hardware they re-badge ?? or encouraging the manufacturer that really made that CD-RW to do the same ? -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Hi Charles, Actually the Creative CDRW is set as master and always has been.hmmm...wonder if I make it a slave? might force the system to re-install and re-evaluate what the heck it's dealing with? I dunnoI am totally lost on this one...I have sent 3 requests to Mandrakes support, and asked on the expert list. Still no feasable repair for the problemlots of suggestions tho and for those I am gratefulsomeone just may hit on the magical solution think I should try swapping it to being a slave and see what it says? Jim Jim Is your 4224 shown in the device listings as a CDRW? I am guessing that , if your Zip is like mine, that you had to set it as Master and your CDRW is set as slave. Just to humor someone you don't know, and since you have tried everything else that you can think of, dissconnect your Zip drive and set the CDRW as Master then boot back into Linux and I bet the drive will work properly. I have a Creative 8432CDRW and it works well in Linux but I can set it is master because the Zip drive on this system is USB. Between motherboard, BIOS, and OSs you sometimes have to play around with the settings and hook-ups for the hardware to be seen and used as what it is. Charles - Original Message - From: "Jim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner Most interesting part of the whole mix...I used the Creative cdrw 4224 to both burn and install the OS...LOL as far as the other hardware I am running an AMD K6-3 450 on a Gigabyte GA-5AX mainboard...Ali Aladdin Bios with the most recent update provided by Gigabyte with 128 megs of ram...Nvidia TNT2 video card and everything performs well except the Creative cdrw 4224 drive...my zip drive is ok as well as both hard drivessure would like to get this little problem worked thruI am getting tired of manually changing cd drives to access a cdrom in linux Jim - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: Mark, ...the Creative cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to (and does in windoze) act as a normal cdrom as well as a cd burner...it isn't the equipment...it is the OS and the way it is attempting to address the hardware. you might be better served if you also wondered: ' it isn't the OS...it is the equipment and the way it is attempting to address the OS. ' ?? (I suspect bios/motherboard/etc is in this mix too) BTW, how good is Creative at providing Linux developers with spec's for all the hardware they re-badge ?? or encouraging the manufacturer that really made that CD-RW to do the same ? -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO IMAGE
I had this problem only when installing on my laptop-couldn't get the darn drive to open!! When I upgraded to 7.1 final from the beta versions I basically just walked away after indicating which additional packages i wanted, because it took so long for the package installatiion to initialize. I was surprised when I came back to it that it had asked for the 2nd CD and the drive was already open, just waiting. Maybe we have to let the 'install' open the drive? No intervention on our part, just wait and see if the drive pops out. That's what happened to me. Eunice
Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...
lilbambi wrote: Hi Ronald ... did you do a find on your computer for these files...maybe it just isn't finding them because it doesn't know where they are. Bambi Hi. Just tried that, and it could not find them, so... ;-) Thanks for the excellant suggestion though! ;-)
Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...
flupke wrote: libasound is provided by alsa-lib-0.5.7 libSDL comes from SDL both packages are on the mandrake CD. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ ! Okay, thanks. I'll look for them under those names (thats what confused me!) ;-)
Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...
David Talbot wrote: SDL 1.0.something comes on 7.0, to play GL Heretic it want's you to have 1.1.*. http://www.libsdl.org/ I can't remember what version of alsa it wants, but you can play it without sound... -david talbot Thanks for the info, I'll go there! ;-)
Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...
Thanks Ronald, I have run into that before where something was there but not where the program was looking for them. Sorry it wasn't that simple. Bambi "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: lilbambi wrote: Hi Ronald ... did you do a find on your computer for these files...maybe it just isn't finding them because it doesn't know where they are. Bambi Hi. Just tried that, and it could not find them, so... ;-) Thanks for the excellant suggestion though! ;-)
[newbie] 7.1 install problem
I have a problem with the install of 7.1 I downloaded and burned the 2 disks. I created the cdrom.img bootdisk on a floppy. During boot up if I tried to use my scsi CD-Rom drive with the install CD, the install failed with a warning that the CD rom could not be initialized. Also the scan of the SCSI controllers failed for the parallel port zip drive. When I rebooted and put the install CD in my IDE CD-RW the install worked fine. Rather than upgrade from 7.0 I did a full install (including reformatting my drive). CDrecord (scanbus) shows the two CD drives. XCDRoast finds them (it shows the IDE drive under the scsi devices and the IDE devices. I assume this is due to scsi emulation.) However when I click on the icons on the KDE desktop for CDrom or CDrom2, I get KFM errors. I tried ls and got the following: ls -l /dev/cdrom2 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Jun 10 17:28 /dev/cdrom2 - scd0 ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Jun 10 17:28 /dev/cdrom - scd0 I think the install got confused by the two drives and did some bad linking. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
[newbie] Install problem with Mandrake 7.1
Hello, Just installed 7.1 on dual boot 2 hard drive system. I am getting the following message after the reboot: Stage 1 Hard Disk Error. Any suggestions? Tim
[newbie] NT and Linux
How can I have Linux and NT 4.0 Server on the same machine and have Linux show up on the NT start menu instead of using the Linux boot manager? Can it be done? I am getting ready to do a clean install of both operating systems. Fred
[newbie] Applications Disc 2
I downloaded and burned both 7.1 ISO images, but during the install it asks for the first applocations disk, then the extensions, and finally a second applications disk. Unfortunately, there isn't one(I think). When it asks should I re-insert the first disk? The install finished without the second applications disk, but now I am wondering what exactly I am missing as a result. Any suggestions? Victor
Re: [newbie] 7.1, Win2000 and VIA Chip Set
- Original Message -
From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 7:59 PM
Subject: [newbie] 7.1, Win2000 and VIA Chip Set
Hi to All
I have been running Mandrake, first 7.0 and now 7.1, quite happily on a
modified Quantex 450 PII.
Since there have been recent post from users having problems with 7.0
and
Win2000, and also post regarding VIA chip sets I decided to install 7.1
on
my second home system which contains both.
I built the system myself and the specs. for it are:
Processor..Althon 650MHz
Motherboard.FIC SD11 / VIA 686A chip
Memory192MB (3 64MB 168pin DIMMs)
VideoCreative Blaster NVIDIA TNT/ 16MB
Sound...Creative SBLive Value
CD-ROM.Creative Blaster 48x
Removable ...NEC 100MB ZIP drive
Hard Drives..2-12.5 IBM Deskstar UDMA66 7200rpm
Monitor19in ADI MicroScan 6P
I had installed on the system Win98 and Win2000, both on the first hd
and
I was using the Win2000 bootloader.
To install Mandrake 7.1 I chose the Automated mode. There were several
reasons for this. It's easy, all my recognised hardware would be auto
configured / mounted, I wanted Grub to auto install, and if I used
another
mode and had to choose pkgs. I would not know what even half of them were.
I let the installation auto-allocate and use all the 2nd hd the
remainder of the installation process was as smooth as silk and took about
35 min.The process completed and the system was ready to be restarted. One
moment of truth had arrived. Would Grub and the Win2000 bootloader be able
to co-exist?
With a click of the OK button Linux shuts down and the system reboots.
The Welcome to Grub interface appears and I am offered 4 boot options;
1) linux
2) safe mode
3) windows
4) floppy
I let linux remain the default OS and it loads cleanly, OKs all down the
line. The KDE login screen appears and I do so. And again with Mandrake I
am tickled pink, everything from the the amount of system RAM to the
smallest partition on my hd has been configured/mounted and with a click
of
the mouse are ready for use.
I logout and choose re-start and watch to see if the VIA 686A chip
causes
any shutdown problem. Everything unmounts as it should all in their own
order. Restarting and shuting down several times I experience only clean
mounts and unmounts.
When the Grub screen next apears I choose to boot windows. The Win2000
bootloader appears offering me the choice of Win2000 or Win98. I choose
Win2000 and it to boots as it should.
Two conclusion which before I thought to be true, I now hold to be
true;
1) Problems with Mandrake/linux and VIA chips do not occur with the 686A
chip
2) Any problem Mandrake 7.0 and Win2000 have is caused by Lilo. Win2000's
MBR/bootloader is a different animal than that of Win98 or WinNT and when
Lilo is installed instead of replacing or overwriting the MBR, Lilo causes
it to become corrupted and Win2000 to be inaccessable. This problem does
not
exist in 7.1 when Grub is used as the bootloader.
For someone who is not asking a question or giving an answer, I agree
that this is a long email, but if you will bear with me, I need to stand
on
the soap box for just a momment.
I am a [newbie] and I will always be a [newbie]. There will always be
much more that I do not know or understand about Linux than I will ever
have
the time to learn. When I run an installation and it offers choices for
Custom and Expert with a disclaimer that unless I really know what I am
doing or really am an expert I should not install in this mode. I believe
it. If more people would only select the Recomended (in 7.0} or Automated
{in 7.1} installation method there would fewer people needing to post
problems to this list and many more people like me. A very happy Linux
Mandrake user.
Thanks for letting me take up your time.
Charles
:-):-):-):-):-):-) I'm all smiles
Re: [newbie] Applications Disc 2
Victorthere's a place earlier in the installatin where you were supposed to tell the installation just which CD's you have and don't have. Nobody has applications CD's 1 or 2 yet because thay are part of the boxed set and the boxed sets are not available yet. Alan Victor Richardson wrote: I downloaded and burned both 7.1 ISO images, but during the install it asks for the first applocations disk, then the extensions, and finally a second applications disk. Unfortunately, there isn't one(I think). When it asks should I re-insert the first disk? The install finished without the second applications disk, but now I am wondering what exactly I am missing as a result. Any suggestions? Victor
[newbie] Trouble booting 7.0 from 2nd drive with System Commander
Apparently I have done something wrong here. In used System Commander 2000 to partition my 2nd Hard drive as follows: 1st partition: /boot100 MB 2nd Partition /10 GB 3rd partion: swap128 MB I then installed linux mandrake using Drakx. When it asked me about Lilo, I told it to put it in the /boot. It did not ask me about whether to place it in the MBR or not. Everything seemed to go ok, but when I rebooted and System Commander came up, I interrupted it and added linux, telling it to boot from the first partition. When I tried to boot from it, System Commander told me that the boot record was bad and would not boot it. Can someone give me an idea as to what I may have done wrong? Thanks, Wendell Gragg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Sorry!
Sorry everyone. The message I just sent about not being able to boot with System Commander was in HTML format. I had recently replaced the hard drive and did a complete reinstall and forgot to change the setting. It's corrected now. Wendell
Re: [newbie] Applications Disc 2
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: I downloaded and burned both 7.1 ISO images, but during the install it asks for the first applocations disk, then the extensions, and finally a second applications disk. Unfortunately, there isn't one(I think). When it asks should I re-insert the first disk? The install finished without the second applications disk, but now I am wondering what exactly I am missing as a result. Any suggestions? Victor This same item has been a constant question on the 'cooker' mailing list. If you only have one CD, you have all of 7.1, minus some 'extra' stuff (see rpm list below my sig). Many report that install asks for a 3rd CD ?? I've yet to see a definitive answer on this one, but here's my experience. I installed 7.1, 2 days ago from lland.com (2) CD's ($6.85 + shipping). I chose 'expert' (to try XF-4 yet again ;) and 'development' (so everything for compiling would be there). I also opted for the 'whole enchilada' (2.6 gigs). Install took ~20 mins on the 1st CD, another 15 or so on the 2nd and then asked me for a 3rd. I was sort'a ready for this from lurking on 'cooker', so I just left the 2nd CD in and clicked OK. Then the install said 'it couldn't find files, did I want to go online to get them? ' (or somethin like that) I said OK, and it asked me to choose a mirror from the list. I did and install said it was going to d/l 26 mb. I only have a 28,8 connection, but I said what'a heck.. OK. It started to d/l Nutscrape 4.73 128 bit version... Communicator (yuck !!) IMNSHO, the only way Nutscrape has a chance of working worth a damn is to NOT use it for mail/news (ie, NO communicator, just install navigator common) 4.73 'regular' NS is on the CD's and I surely didn't want Communicator, so I aborted the d/l. I suspect it was also going for 'common-128' and some other 'crypto' stuff that isn't legal to distribute globally. Install didn't even burp, just went on to finnish. 7.1 works just fine with out the '3rd CD ' stuff, most everybody won't miss the 2nd CD either. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2nd CD 'ext' iso --- AfterStep-APPS-2000309-4mdk.i586.rpm C++2LaTeX-1.1-4mdk.i586.rpm Device3Dfx-2.3.4-5mdk.i586.rpm DrakeLogo-1.0-13mdk.i586.rpm FreeWnn-devel-1.1.1-0.a017.2mdk.i586.rpm Glide_V3-devel-2.60.15-3mdk.i586.rpm ImageMagick-devel-5.1.1-9mdk.i586.rpm Mesa-common-devel-3.1-14mdk.i586.rpm Mesa-devel-3.1-14mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-bench-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-client-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-devel-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-shared-libs-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm ORBit-devel-0.5.1-2mdk.i586.rpm SDL-devel-1.0.8-3mdk.i586.rpm SDL_image-devel-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm SDL_mixer-devel-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm SDL_net-devel-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm SDL_ttf-devel-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm SVGATextMode-1.9-6mdk.i586.rpm SmallEiffel-1.23.1-3mdk.i586.rpm TiMidity++-2.9.0-3mdk.i586.rpm WMRack-1.0b5-8mdk.i586.rpm WindowMaker-devel-0.62.1-12mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-doc-3.3.6-14mdk.i586.rpm XaoS-aalib-3.1pre1-7mdk.i586.rpm XaoS-svgalib-3.1pre1-7mdk.i586.rpm Xaw3d-devel-1.5-5mdk.i586.rpm Zope-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-components-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-core-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-pcgi-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-services-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-zpublisher-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-zserver-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-ztemplates-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm aalib-devel-1.2-6mdk.i586.rpm adns-devel-0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm alsa-lib-devel-0.5.7-4mdk.i586.rpm alsa-source-0.5.7-4mdk.i586.rpm apache-devel-1.3.12-12mdk.i586.rpm apmd-devel-3.0final-5mdk.i586.rpm as-themes-1.0-1mdk.noarch.rpm audiofile-devel-0.1.9-3mdk.i586.rpm autoirpm-0.3-5mdk.i586.rpm bb-themes-1.0-1mdk.noarch.rpm bind-devel-8.2.2P5-5mdk.i586.rpm blt-2.4i-9mdk.i586.rpm bonnie-1.0-6mdk.i586.rpm bonobo-0.9-1mdk.i586.rpm bonobo-devel-0.9-1mdk.i586.rpm bug-buddy-0.9-2mdk.i586.rpm cdecl-2.5-12mdk.i586.rpm cdparanoia-devel-IIIa9.7-2mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-devel-1.8.1-2mdk.i586.rpm cervisia-0.6.0-1mdk.i586.rpm cfengine-1.5.4-1mdk.i586.rpm control-center-devel-1.0.53-4mdk.i586.rpm cooledit-3.14.0-3mdk.i586.rpm cracklib-devel-2.7-10mdk.i586.rpm cvsweb-1.80-2mdk.noarch.rpm cxhextris-1.0-23mdk.i586.rpm detect-devel-0.9.29-7mdk.i586.rpm dia-0.84-5mdk.i586.rpm dosemu-1.0.0-5mdk.i586.rpm dosemu-freedos-1.0.0-5mdk.i586.rpm dpsftp-0.6.1-2mdk.i586.rpm dpsftplib-0.1.6-2mdk.i586.rpm dpsftplib-devel-0.1.6-2mdk.i586.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.18-5mdk.i586.rpm egcs-c++-1.1.2-28mdk.i586.rpm eog-0.3-4mdk.i586.rpm esound-devel-0.2.17-2mdk.i586.rpm faces-devel-1.6.1-10mdk.i586.rpm fnlib-devel-0.4-14mdk.i586.rpm freetype-devel-1.3.1-1mdk.i586.rpm fribidi-0.1.9-1mdk.i586.rpm fribidi-devel-0.1.9-1mdk.i586.rpm gatos-0.0.6-0.2303mdk.i586.rpm gawk-doc-3.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm gcc-chill-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm gd-devel-1.8.1-1mdk.i586.rpm gdbm-devel-1.8.0-4mdk.i586.rpm gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.7.0-1mdk.i586.rpm gentoo-0.11.13-2mdk.i586.rpm gettext-devel-0.10.35-13mdk.i586.rpm ghc-4.06-3mdk.i586.rpm gimp-devel-1.0.4-14mdk.i586.rpm
[newbie] upgrading
Hey, if you have version 7.0 (first version) and you want to upgrade to version 7.02 what would be the best way...and not lose anything... -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
[newbie] Simplicity? Interactive example
Hi all. I have read nhf's and downloaded files. both rpms and tarballs. However, I have reinstalled 7.02 several times, and have lost ssome. So here's what's up. I didn't get a copy of doom or quake on my 3 cd linux complete 7.0 os. I would like to be able to experience either/both of them with as little pain as possible. Can someone provide a minimal set of instructions for obtaining, installing and configuring ither of these on an AMD k62 500 128 mb sb live value diamond stealth 3 s55o? I'm not an idiot (though like paul some parts are missing...) but am a definite newbie. TIA, -michael-
Re: [newbie] partition magic
Low level formatting is virtually never needed. A (Windows) format /u , yes. Why were you advised to low level your HDD? -Gary-
Re: [newbie] Applications Disc 2
I think the other CDs that the install ask for are those that will be included with the 7.1 PowerPack. I installed in automated mode and when disk 2 finished it asked if I had disk 3 and 4. Charles - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Applications Disc 2 On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: I downloaded and burned both 7.1 ISO images, but during the install it asks for the first applocations disk, then the extensions, and finally a second applications disk. Unfortunately, there isn't one(I think). When it asks should I re-insert the first disk? The install finished without the second applications disk, but now I am wondering what exactly I am missing as a result. Any suggestions? Victor This same item has been a constant question on the 'cooker' mailing list. If you only have one CD, you have all of 7.1, minus some 'extra' stuff (see rpm list below my sig). Many report that install asks for a 3rd CD ?? I've yet to see a definitive answer on this one, but here's my experience. I installed 7.1, 2 days ago from lland.com (2) CD's ($6.85 + shipping). I chose 'expert' (to try XF-4 yet again ;) and 'development' (so everything for compiling would be there). I also opted for the 'whole enchilada' (2.6 gigs). Install took ~20 mins on the 1st CD, another 15 or so on the 2nd and then asked me for a 3rd. I was sort'a ready for this from lurking on 'cooker', so I just left the 2nd CD in and clicked OK. Then the install said 'it couldn't find files, did I want to go online to get them? ' (or somethin like that) I said OK, and it asked me to choose a mirror from the list. I did and install said it was going to d/l 26 mb. I only have a 28,8 connection, but I said what'a heck.. OK. It started to d/l Nutscrape 4.73 128 bit version... Communicator (yuck !!) IMNSHO, the only way Nutscrape has a chance of working worth a damn is to NOT use it for mail/news (ie, NO communicator, just install navigator common) 4.73 'regular' NS is on the CD's and I surely didn't want Communicator, so I aborted the d/l. I suspect it was also going for 'common-128' and some other 'crypto' stuff that isn't legal to distribute globally. Install didn't even burp, just went on to finnish. 7.1 works just fine with out the '3rd CD ' stuff, most everybody won't miss the 2nd CD either. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2nd CD 'ext' iso --- AfterStep-APPS-2000309-4mdk.i586.rpm C++2LaTeX-1.1-4mdk.i586.rpm Device3Dfx-2.3.4-5mdk.i586.rpm DrakeLogo-1.0-13mdk.i586.rpm FreeWnn-devel-1.1.1-0.a017.2mdk.i586.rpm Glide_V3-devel-2.60.15-3mdk.i586.rpm ImageMagick-devel-5.1.1-9mdk.i586.rpm Mesa-common-devel-3.1-14mdk.i586.rpm Mesa-devel-3.1-14mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-bench-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-client-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-devel-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-shared-libs-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm ORBit-devel-0.5.1-2mdk.i586.rpm SDL-devel-1.0.8-3mdk.i586.rpm SDL_image-devel-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm SDL_mixer-devel-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm SDL_net-devel-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm SDL_ttf-devel-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm SVGATextMode-1.9-6mdk.i586.rpm SmallEiffel-1.23.1-3mdk.i586.rpm TiMidity++-2.9.0-3mdk.i586.rpm WMRack-1.0b5-8mdk.i586.rpm WindowMaker-devel-0.62.1-12mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-doc-3.3.6-14mdk.i586.rpm XaoS-aalib-3.1pre1-7mdk.i586.rpm XaoS-svgalib-3.1pre1-7mdk.i586.rpm Xaw3d-devel-1.5-5mdk.i586.rpm Zope-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-components-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-core-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-pcgi-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-services-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-zpublisher-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-zserver-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Zope-ztemplates-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm aalib-devel-1.2-6mdk.i586.rpm adns-devel-0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm alsa-lib-devel-0.5.7-4mdk.i586.rpm alsa-source-0.5.7-4mdk.i586.rpm apache-devel-1.3.12-12mdk.i586.rpm apmd-devel-3.0final-5mdk.i586.rpm as-themes-1.0-1mdk.noarch.rpm audiofile-devel-0.1.9-3mdk.i586.rpm autoirpm-0.3-5mdk.i586.rpm bb-themes-1.0-1mdk.noarch.rpm bind-devel-8.2.2P5-5mdk.i586.rpm blt-2.4i-9mdk.i586.rpm bonnie-1.0-6mdk.i586.rpm bonobo-0.9-1mdk.i586.rpm bonobo-devel-0.9-1mdk.i586.rpm bug-buddy-0.9-2mdk.i586.rpm cdecl-2.5-12mdk.i586.rpm cdparanoia-devel-IIIa9.7-2mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-devel-1.8.1-2mdk.i586.rpm cervisia-0.6.0-1mdk.i586.rpm cfengine-1.5.4-1mdk.i586.rpm control-center-devel-1.0.53-4mdk.i586.rpm cooledit-3.14.0-3mdk.i586.rpm cracklib-devel-2.7-10mdk.i586.rpm cvsweb-1.80-2mdk.noarch.rpm cxhextris-1.0-23mdk.i586.rpm detect-devel-0.9.29-7mdk.i586.rpm dia-0.84-5mdk.i586.rpm dosemu-1.0.0-5mdk.i586.rpm dosemu-freedos-1.0.0-5mdk.i586.rpm dpsftp-0.6.1-2mdk.i586.rpm dpsftplib-0.1.6-2mdk.i586.rpm dpsftplib-devel-0.1.6-2mdk.i586.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.18-5mdk.i586.rpm egcs-c++-1.1.2-28mdk.i586.rpm eog-0.3-4mdk.i586.rpm
