[newbie] Network card locking up system on boot
I've tried 2 different network cards now, and in both instances, the system slows down to a crawl on: Bringing up interface eth0 insmod: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep I tried a 3com 905b, and a INtel Pro/100 card, both PCI. When i put the intel in after having the above problem, the plug and play detected the new intel, and had me remove the 3com. But, I get the same result. The system just goes SO slow, prints 1 character out at a time. Any ideas? Jonathan Sider Network Administrator (214) 265-7714 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Menu update command?
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi again Tom, When I was sure that I had all the changes done that I wanted to make I ran that menu update, however nothing changed. All the menus in Afterstep are the same as they were out of the box. I looked at some other menu files that already existed before I made the new ones and called the programs exactly as they appear in the original files, but the new choices don't appear in the menu. I checked the Afterstep HOWTO about editing the menus and followed it to the letter and yet nothing seems to be happening. Is there something I'm missing? -- Mark Did you make all the changes from root's desktop? I've found that su'ing to root as user and running kmenuedit doesn't work. Worked with 7.0, but not 7.1 and the new menu system. I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi list, I wonder if someone could refresh my memory. I can't seem to remember what the command is to update the menus. thanks, Mark jogged my memory Mark, thank you I believe it's 'update-menus' there's both a man and info page for it. I believe it's also the fix for the 'Corel screw up'. I think it's the basis for the new menu system in Mdk 7.1 also -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Menu update command?
Good heavens! I wasn't using Kmenuedit. Iw as doing it manually using mc and vi. I'll try it with Kmenuedit as root and see what happens. Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi again Tom, When I was sure that I had all the changes done that I wanted to make I ran that menu update, however nothing changed. All the menus in Afterstep are the same as they were out of the box. I looked at some other menu files that already existed before I made the new ones and called the programs exactly as they appear in the original files, but the new choices don't appear in the menu. I checked the Afterstep HOWTO about editing the menus and followed it to the letter and yet nothing seems to be happening. Is there something I'm missing? -- Mark Did you make all the changes from root's desktop? I've found that su'ing to root as user and running kmenuedit doesn't work. Worked with 7.0, but not 7.1 and the new menu system. I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi list, I wonder if someone could refresh my memory. I can't seem to remember what the command is to update the menus. thanks, Mark jogged my memory Mark, thank you I believe it's 'update-menus' there's both a man and info page for it. I believe it's also the fix for the 'Corel screw up'. I think it's the basis for the new menu system in Mdk 7.1 also -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
[newbie] can't recognize UMAX-VistaS6 on AHA1520b
My Mandrake 7.02 can't recognize my Umax Vista-S6 scanner wich is hosted by a Adaptec aha1520b scsi card. This card works well and is recognized trough its bios (My CD-burner is found) - sg driver (generic scsi driver) is installed V.2136 - My scanner is in ready mode when the sytem boots - scsi chain : terminator (by scsi card' bios) -cd-burner - computer - scanner terminator (by scsi card's bios) -cat /proc/scsi/scsi: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW6416S Rev: 1.0c Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 - cat /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 14 sound 21 sg 36 netlink 128 ptm 136 pts 162 raw Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 11 sr 22 ide1 - dmesg Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000 [...] scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. [...] aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s) aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=11, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok. scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.7 $ scsi : 1 host. Vendor: YAMAHAModel: CRW6416S Rev: 1.0c Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray - find-scanner find-scanner: searching for scanners: find-scanner: checking /dev/scanner... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sg0... open ok find-scanner: found CD-drive "YAMAHA CRW6416S 1.0c" at device /dev/sg0 find-scanner: checking /dev/sg1... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sg2... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sg3... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sg4... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sg5... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sg6... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sg7... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sg8... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sg9... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sga... open ok find-scanner: found CD-drive "YAMAHA CRW6416S 1.0c" at device /dev/sga find-scanner: checking /dev/sgb... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgc... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgd... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sge... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgf... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgg... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgh... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgi... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgj... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgk... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgl... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgm... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgn... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgo... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgp... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgq... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgr... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgs... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgt... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgu... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgv... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgw... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgx... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgy... failed to open find-scanner: checking /dev/sgz... failed to open find-scanner: done Thanks for any help Didier __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement)
[newbie] traceroute information needed
I'm looking for a good tutorial on traceroute. Specifically, I'm looking for a discussion of the different responses you can get, especially "network unreachable". I recently saw an excellent discussion of this, I thought in a Linux tutorial/manpage. But now I don't remember where I saw it. Anybody know where I can find such a thing? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Network Card: Kudzu recognizes, Linux Fails
Hi -- I recently inserted an SMC 9432TX network card in my machine. As Linux was booting, Kudzu was called and recgonized the card. As expected, it called for the EPIC-100 network driver, as can be verified in DrakConf. However, as linux boots, insertion of eth0 fails (and is delayed), and one cannot ping anything. Can anybody advise me if I need to turn something else on? Thanks pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] How to load Zip Module
I decided to use my old ppa zip instead of buying a new one Trouble is I cant find instructions or howto's on how to load the proper driver does anyone remember how its done? This is a 250MEG drive if that makes a difference.. I have tried modprobe
Re: [newbie] Second window partition no longer available bug
OK please help me because I am confused. Here is my data. The HD I wish to install Mandrake on is an 8 GB HD. It is presently partitioned as follows: One extended partition of 7.4 G Within it I have 7 logical fat partitions: H: 930 MB I: 1000 MB J: 482 MB K: 103 MB L: 310 MB M:1000MB N: 1000 MB The rest of the extended partition is available to Mandrake. I can of course shrink the extended FAT partition (I have PM 5) thus leaving the rest as blank space if that is safer. Please advise. The reason I have so many FAT partitions is complicated but largely because I am using several OSs on this HD. I would like to install Mandrake in several partitions instead of only one plus swap. I was thinking of (which is how I presently have TurboLinux installed but I want to replace it by Mandrake 7.1): /boot 10 MB /opt516 MB /usr1000 MB /home 1000 MB / 66 MB /var66MB swap is 100MB on another drive. Is this appropriate and are the sizes sufficient for a standard Mandrake install? Thank you very much for taking the time to help. I really appreciate it. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Second window partition no longer available bug Jeff What I am afraid of is if you install Mandrake within an extended DOS partition that it will chage that extended partition to Type 85 regardless of which install Mode you use. Unless you were creating more than 4 logical DOS partition you did not need to create the extended partition you could have set all of them as active and then would have had no problem with the Mandrake installation regardless of Mode. Charles - Original Message - From: "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Second window partition no longer available bug Are you sure? I ask because I presently have TurboLinux which I installed within that extended partition. I used PM to move all my FAT partitions to the beginning of the extended partition and to create the logical partitions for Linux. I then installed turbolinux and used Linux to format and "fill" them. Will that not work with Mandrake? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Second window partition no longer available bug Jeff First thing. If you are planning to install Linux Within the DOS extended partition: It won't work You need to use PM to resize your extended partition leaving an area of free space to which you will install Linux. I, myself, was not aware of the installation bug until yesterday. The problem occurs only if you install in Automatic Mode. You should be perfectly safe if you install in Expert Mode. Charles - Original Message - From: "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 6:03 AM Subject: [newbie] Second window partition no longer available bug I am planning to install Mandrake 7.1 on my PC on my second 8 GB HD. My second HD only contains one 8 GB DOS extended partition which already contains several logical DOS partitions. Using Partition Magic I have moved them all to the beginning of the extended partition leaving enough room for Linux at the end of the partition. I am worried because of the messages I have seen and the reported install bug listed in http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3 as "Second window partition no longer available". I do not quite understand if this will apply to my setup described above (that is that I will not be able to access my FAT logical partitions in that extended partitions) or if I am safe. Could someone tell me? Someone else said they tried the "script" and it did not work for them. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] can't find a CDROM
I have a Mitsumi X2 speed CDROM driver. when I boot with mandrake bootdisk. it couldn't find my CDROM driver. but mitsumi is in the CDROM driver option. can anybody know how fix this problem.
Re: [newbie] Sound in Windowmaker
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Clif Caldwell wrote: I've looked around and I still am not sure how to get all the bells and whistles going in Windowmaker. Any help would be appreciated. Clif Caldwell Does windowmaker have sound support? I think I have tried it out and did not get sounds going either... Paul -- We are the victims and instruments of cosmogenic love. -C.G. Jung )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Sound in Enlightenment
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Justin Johnson wrote: also, is anyone else getting flaky sound running enlightenment? the sounds seem to be a little scratchy now and then. i can use the same sounds in I have not had sound running in E. yet. In KDE it goes all well, in another one there was no problem either (but what the was that one!) Paul -- We are the victims and instruments of cosmogenic love. -C.G. Jung )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Menu update command?
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Did you make all the changes from root's desktop? I've found that su'ing to root as user and running kmenuedit doesn't work. Worked with 7.0, but not 7.1 and the new menu system. It doesn't??? I wonder what's different between your system and mine, a few days ago I noticed something missing from the menu, did 'su' to root, ran kmenuedit and everything went smoothly... Paul -- We are the victims and instruments of cosmogenic love. -C.G. Jung )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
RE: [newbie] How to load Zip Module
Hugh, I used modprobe imm and my old Zip 100 was recognized... but I can't get it to mount.. :( Good Luck, AJ -Original Message- From: Hugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 1:51 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] How to load Zip Module I decided to use my old ppa zip instead of buying a new one Trouble is I cant find instructions or howto's on how to load the proper driver does anyone remember how its done? This is a 250MEG drive if that makes a difference.. I have tried modprobe
[newbie] Firewall
There is a really easy to use firewall available for free download in either tar .gz format or rpm for Mandrake 7.1 (rpm not tested on other versions) It is easy to install that even I could do it, in less than 5 minutes as well ! So for everybody like me who trembles at the mention of ipchains and wants a firewall that is both easy and effective I suggest you try :- http://www.simonzone.com
[newbie] Mutt and sendmail
Hi all I am new to this list (used to have SuSE). I'm trying to configure mutt to send mail immediately, but it seems to fail :-( I have sendmail installed, and have it set up with the use of install-sendmail. Sendmail is running. In my .muttrc I have this: set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -oem" But still, I cant send any mail with mutt, it just stays in the queue !! When i enter sendmail -q the mails are send, but I want to send it immediately when pressing y! What has to be set ?? /niller
Re: [newbie] Sound in Enlightenment
I cant get sound in enlightenment to work at all when it works everywhere else, and its instaled in my kernel and works fine with xmms and such... its a soundblaster 128 dave On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Justin Johnson wrote: also, is anyone else getting flaky sound running enlightenment? the sounds seem to be a little scratchy now and then. i can use the same sounds in I have not had sound running in E. yet. In KDE it goes all well, in another one there was no problem either (but what the was that one!) Paul -- We are the victims and instruments of cosmogenic love. -C.G. Jung )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registration #182490 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LINUX - Why? Cause I dont do windows or ovens! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: [newbie] can't find a CDROM
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Young Kim wrote: I have a Mitsumi X2 speed CDROM driver. when I boot with mandrake bootdisk. it couldn't find my CDROM driver. but mitsumi is in the CDROM driver option. can anybody know how fix this problem. Is it one of these old Mitsumi drives that have a separate interface card? I have heard from someone who tried to get that working that it takes some kind of magic (and a good driver). Most people don't believe in magic anymore, and the driver proves to be non-existent so far. At least, to my knowledge... Paul -- We are the victims and instruments of cosmogenic love. -C.G. Jung )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Second window partition no longer available bug
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: /boot 10 MB /opt516 MB /usr1000 MB /home 1000 MB / 66 MB /var66MB swap is 100MB on another drive. Is this appropriate and are the sizes sufficient for a standard Mandrake install? Yep, this looks adequate for a decent install. Good luck! Paul -- We are the victims and instruments of cosmogenic love. -C.G. Jung )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] How to load Zip Module
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Hugh wrote: I decided to use my old ppa zip instead of buying a new one Trouble is I cant find instructions or howto's on how to load the proper driver does anyone remember how its done? This is a 250MEG drive if that makes a difference.. I have tried modprobe On mandrakeuser.org there are many instructions on getting a ZIP drive to work. You need to create a /dev/entry (if I remember well), then use modprobe ppa (or another one) to kick the drive to life. And then mounting it as a scsi device. Assuming your ZIP drive is /dev/sca then you need to mount /dev/sca4 if you have a DOS formatted disk in there, and /dev/sca1 if it is an EXT2 formatted disk. Good luck, and do visit that site. Paul -- We are the victims and instruments of cosmogenic love. -C.G. Jung )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
RE: [newbie] Network card locking up system on boot
I'd start with the error message itself if I were you. Why is this occuring? Have you recompiled the kernel? What happens when you run... "depmod -a" Does this fix the error message upon reboot? -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Jon Sider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 10:47 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Network card locking up system on boot | | |I've tried 2 different network cards now, and in both instances, the system |slows down to a crawl on: | |Bringing up interface eth0 insmod: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent |than /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep | |I tried a 3com 905b, and a INtel Pro/100 card, both PCI. When i put the |intel in after having the above problem, the plug and play detected the new |intel, and had me remove the 3com. But, I get the same result. The system |just goes SO slow, prints 1 character out at a time. Any ideas? | |Jonathan Sider |Network Administrator |(214) 265-7714 |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
[newbie] Lost root password
Hello Somehow I lost root password. Is thre any way to login as root again? Thanks a lot. Eduardo
Re: [newbie] Menu update command?
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Did you make all the changes from root's desktop? I've found that su'ing to root as user and running kmenuedit doesn't work. Worked with 7.0, but not 7.1 and the new menu system. It doesn't??? I wonder what's different between your system and mine, a few days ago I noticed something missing from the menu, did 'su' to root, ran kmenuedit and everything went smoothly... Paul There's just beginning a discussion among the developers on the cooker list that menu editing needs some fixing. It's prob'ly less a hardware difference, than how and how much of 7.1 you installed (just my guess). I don't know how long you've been running since you made menu changes, or how often you reboot to Linux (I dual boot). My experience with su'ing from user to root and make menu changes was that sooner or later they'd be lost. Sometimes just by restarting X. Only since I began logging into root's desktop and making menu changes from there have they become more or less 'permanent'. I've also got a feeling that this is all gonna be academic when KDE2, and XFree-4 become the norm this fall, eg Mandrake 7.2? -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Upgrade
hey i finally got 7.1 !! Now the question. As I have 7.0 installed if I do an upgrade (choose the upgrade option) is there a risk that I will loose all my serttings and saved files?? -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux
Re: [newbie] Lost root password
at the lilo prompt, try linux s or linux single on some systems this will boot the machine to a single user mode with no need to login, then you can run (if memory serves) 'passwd root' at the prompt and change the password for root some people think this is a security flaw in linux but i have read that this behaviour can be turned off and i believe is done so if mandrake is installed with 'high' security mode but i'm not sure about that, maybe someone can confirm or deny? hope this helps bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Somehow I lost root password. Is thre any way to login as root again? Thanks a lot. Eduardo
[newbie] test
just checking the lists health before leaving for a vacation .-) -- - 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://forum.mandrakesoft.com
Re: [newbie] Lost root password
AMHA, An other way, or if single no more exist (Sorry Bascule, I doubt it can be done in this mode): Start with the boot and rescue disk (cd inserted). After the intro message (if message is), type exit. Mount a root partition on the HD, utilize fdisk -l to see the existing partitions. After mount it as /mnt/rootpart edit the file with the command: vi /mnt/rootpart/etc/passwd the first line will be: root:F.h5fh/fj4:0:0/root:/bin/bash With the x key delete all the chars between roo: and :0:0 Must be: root::root:/root:/bin/bash Save with ZZ (vi command) Verify with cat /mnt/rootpart/etc/passwd Then unmount as umount /mnt/rootpart Type exit and Ctrl+Alt+Del Now after boot you are connected as root but without password. Simply type passwd to set a new password for root. Hope I didn't forget somewhat.eh Eric bascule wrote: at the lilo prompt, try linux s or linux single on some systems this will boot the machine to a single user mode with no need to login, then you can run (if memory serves) 'passwd root' at the prompt and change the password for root some people think this is a security flaw in linux but i have read that this behaviour can be turned off and i believe is done so if mandrake is installed with 'high' security mode but i'm not sure about that, maybe someone can confirm or deny? hope this helps bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Somehow I lost root password. Is thre any way to login as root again? Thanks a lot. Eduardo
Re: [newbie] test
Damn, you told it you were leaving KRRSSSHH! On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Denis Havlik wrote: just checking the lists health before leaving for a vacation .-)
[newbie] CD RW compatibility
not sure if first message went through... anyone know of any CD RW drive that are for sure compatible with Mandrake 7.1? I would like one that mandrake allready has the drivers to... Im looking for an external SCSI. Is USB supported with Mandrake... I thought It was only with the kernel that hasnt been released yet. Ben
Re: [newbie] test
YOU ARE NOW DEFENCELESS, THIS LIST WILL BE ASSIMILATED, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE basculus of borg Christopher Molnar wrote: Damn, you told it you were leaving KRRSSSHH! On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Denis Havlik wrote: just checking the lists health before leaving for a vacation .-)
[newbie] C Libraries - Where are they?
Hi, all -- I reloaded Mandrake 7.0 after running satisfactorily with 6.1, and there's a problem with the C libraries. They worked fine under 6.1, but gcc can't find them with 7.0 using a Make file. Does one need to treat gcc differently with 7.0 than with 6.1? Does anybody have any ideas as to how to compile a program? Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] CD RW compatibility
benjamin michael mcclelland wrote: not sure if first message went through... anyone know of any CD RW drive that are for sure compatible with Mandrake 7.1? I would like one that mandrake allready has the drivers to... Im looking for an external SCSI. Is USB supported with Mandrake... I thought It was only with the kernel that hasnt been released yet. Ben Read HOWTO-Hardware Eric
Re: [newbie] CD RW compatibility
did that... was looking for experiences... If there were any that were especially easy to setup. I want to get one and have it working, not laying around like a lot of people that I have seen. Ben On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Eric MC.D wrote: benjamin michael mcclelland wrote: not sure if first message went through... anyone know of any CD RW drive that are for sure compatible with Mandrake 7.1? I would like one that mandrake allready has the drivers to... Im looking for an external SCSI. Is USB supported with Mandrake... I thought It was only with the kernel that hasnt been released yet. Ben Read HOWTO-Hardware Eric
Re: [newbie] Menu update command?
I used to dual-boot, but run primarily, (99% of the time) Linux. The other partition is Win98. About the only thing I use it for anymore is two graphics programs and an HTML editor that I just love. HomeSite 4.5. Other than that I live and breath Linux anymore. I love the stability, power, diversity it offers. My wife was non too happy until I found a very close facsimily of Win98 desktop in KDE for her to use. Now she's happy and we leave the Penguin run all the time. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Did you make all the changes from root's desktop? I've found that su'ing to root as user and running kmenuedit doesn't work. Worked with 7.0, but not 7.1 and the new menu system. It doesn't??? I wonder what's different between your system and mine, a few days ago I noticed something missing from the menu, did 'su' to root, ran kmenuedit and everything went smoothly... Paul There's just beginning a discussion among the developers on the cooker list that menu editing needs some fixing. It's prob'ly less a hardware difference, than how and how much of 7.1 you installed (just my guess). I don't know how long you've been running since you made menu changes, or how often you reboot to Linux (I dual boot). My experience with su'ing from user to root and make menu changes was that sooner or later they'd be lost. Sometimes just by restarting X. Only since I began logging into root's desktop and making menu changes from there have they become more or less 'permanent'. I've also got a feeling that this is all gonna be academic when KDE2, and XFree-4 become the norm this fall, eg Mandrake 7.2? -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Seeking Tutorial on compiling Kernel
Thanks Mark, The first time is always the scariest. Roman Mark Weaver wrote: Roman, There are probably 1-2 ways that I've seen to do this. I've found the best and easiest ways are documented in the Kernel-HOWTO and the Firewall-HOWTO...or was that the IP-chains-HOWTO...at any rate, check out for sure the kernel HOWTO and take a look in both of the other two. One of the other two give some great build commands for doing a kernel. I don't mean to be confusing but I'm fairly certain it was the... Sorry about that. I just checked to make sure and you'll find the info you need to do a kernel in the Kernel-HOWTO and the Firewall HOWTO. In the firewall howto the section that you want to check out is section 6.1 "Compiling a kernel" Good luck and may the force be with you! :) -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote: Hi Mark, Sorry, I just caught the end of the thread on compiling a new kernel. I was hoping to integrate the NVIDIA graphics cards along with 3COM905c series Etherlink drivers but I have to compile the kernel in order for them to be incorporated. What were the 'make' commands for compiling a new kernel. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Mark Weaver wrote: I know what you mean. The real fun part is when something goes wrong and you have to figure out what it is and how to fix it. I've done that serveral times. One time I had the kernel about where you're descibing and I was going after that last 1%. Well, :) , When I rebooted after "thinking" I had gotten that last bit I got a kernel panic and things went south real fast from there. It took me about two hours to get it un-hosed from there, but I got it. That's when I learned about how you can over-lay an installation of Linux over top of the older one. As long as they're the same version "usually" only the system files get over-written. It worked quite nicely for me and saved my bacon! I'm much more careful these days when I do anything with the kernel. I make sure I back things up like the old kernel and it's support files and what-nots. That makes installing the "old" kernel much less painless if the need arises. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, excalibur wrote: Hello, Thanks Mark, I took a shot at it and did fairly well, actually. I used the online documentation. My results were 99% perfect, I'd say. Gotta go back for that remaining 1%. I was impressed with the process enough that I thnk I'll stick with this and take it further. I used to say of that other OS, "##@?!! If I could only get into the guts of this I would" Well, here it is. An Os where I can do that. Mark Weaver wrote: Have you looked at the HOWTO's that are located in "/usr/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/index.html" There is a kernel HOWTO located there that pretty much explains how it's done and what all you'll need to do it. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, excalibur wrote: Hello, I've been using Linux Mandrake for about a month and a half and it's great, though I've much to learn of it. Does anyone know of a website with a good how-to on compiling the kernel or even a good book that would cover the topic? I'd greatly appreciate it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:#179293;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:Roman - Register Linux User #179293 fn:Roman - Register Linux User #179293 end:vcard
[newbie] Acrobat Reader
Hi all, I have an ongoing problem with Acrobat Reader. I have d/l'd both tar and rpm. I have installed both, and put an Icon on the KDE desktop. But I'll be darned if I can get the thing to run. The icon won't connect. I can bring up the readme file and so forth, but when I go to the icon or bring up a pdf file I can't get it to show up in acrobat. The downloaded files are; bin, browsers, reader, and resource, with mulitple files within those folders. Can somebody give me a clue as to what I am missing in order to use the e-books that came with my distro. Thanks,-- Dennis-Registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] test
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Re: [newbie] Seeking Tutorial on compiling Kernel
Don't I know it! -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote: Thanks Mark, The first time is always the scariest. Roman Mark Weaver wrote: Roman, There are probably 1-2 ways that I've seen to do this. I've found the best and easiest ways are documented in the Kernel-HOWTO and the Firewall-HOWTO...or was that the IP-chains-HOWTO...at any rate, check out for sure the kernel HOWTO and take a look in both of the other two. One of the other two give some great build commands for doing a kernel. I don't mean to be confusing but I'm fairly certain it was the... Sorry about that. I just checked to make sure and you'll find the info you need to do a kernel in the Kernel-HOWTO and the Firewall HOWTO. In the firewall howto the section that you want to check out is section 6.1 "Compiling a kernel" Good luck and may the force be with you! :) -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote: Hi Mark, Sorry, I just caught the end of the thread on compiling a new kernel. I was hoping to integrate the NVIDIA graphics cards along with 3COM905c series Etherlink drivers but I have to compile the kernel in order for them to be incorporated. What were the 'make' commands for compiling a new kernel. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Mark Weaver wrote: I know what you mean. The real fun part is when something goes wrong and you have to figure out what it is and how to fix it. I've done that serveral times. One time I had the kernel about where you're descibing and I was going after that last 1%. Well, :) , When I rebooted after "thinking" I had gotten that last bit I got a kernel panic and things went south real fast from there. It took me about two hours to get it un-hosed from there, but I got it. That's when I learned about how you can over-lay an installation of Linux over top of the older one. As long as they're the same version "usually" only the system files get over-written. It worked quite nicely for me and saved my bacon! I'm much more careful these days when I do anything with the kernel. I make sure I back things up like the old kernel and it's support files and what-nots. That makes installing the "old" kernel much less painless if the need arises. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, excalibur wrote: Hello, Thanks Mark, I took a shot at it and did fairly well, actually. I used the online documentation. My results were 99% perfect, I'd say. Gotta go back for that remaining 1%. I was impressed with the process enough that I thnk I'll stick with this and take it further. I used to say of that other OS, "##@?!! If I could only get into the guts of this I would" Well, here it is. An Os where I can do that. Mark Weaver wrote: Have you looked at the HOWTO's that are located in "/usr/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/index.html" There is a kernel HOWTO located there that pretty much explains how it's done and what all you'll need to do it. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, excalibur wrote: Hello, I've been using Linux Mandrake for about a month and a half and it's great, though I've much to learn of it. Does anyone know of a website with a good how-to on compiling the kernel or even a good book that would cover the topic? I'd greatly appreciate it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] mouse driver and CD-ROM problems
Roman, You never told me until now that it was a RW CD ROM. In the future before you ask for help, especially when its a long email - please type it in point form. I had used up 4 days of searching for help for you. Then, I find out that you are using a completely different CD. Roman Roman Korcek wrote: To Dacia: Thanx, I will try it. To Paul: read further (and authorize me on ICQ...). To Roman: Hey Romanator, Wow. It looks like a nice mouse... Off topic but thanx ;-) Try replacing the Generic Mouse PS/2 with a Generic Serial Mouse first. In two earlier mails I mentioned that I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE MOUSE DRIVER. I was asking this all the time... Sorry if this sounded upset. I know that I should be happy that someone is trying to help (thanx), but please, if you want to help, read what I write. Fortunately, yesterday a friend told me I should use "mouseconfig". So I tried it out and tried to change the mouse driver. However, I don't know if it REALLY changed the driver, because my mouse behaved weird with every driver I selected and everytime I started mouseconfig to try another driver, it always started with Generic Mouse PS/2 selected. BTW: I found a file /etc/sysconfig/mouse - is it just a file to read or does it help to edit it ? And concerning what you wrote - replacing the PS/2 driver with a serial driver - how would that work ? I have my mouse on PS/2, so what would it help ? If that does not work, replace it with the MS Intellimouse serial. Again, why selecting Serial if I have PS/2 ? Of course, if everything else fails I can use the adapter for the mouse and use it as COM, but I would have to change it in Windows. But I can try to see if it changes anything. I will tell you tomorrow. Have you checked to see if it is a serial mouse or USB? It is PS/2, don't worry, I know the difference ;-) I have a fairly good book on Upgrading and Repairing PCs - Linux Version. I will access as much information as possible to get your mouse working. Thank you. Next we will work on the CDROM and floppy. Could you provide me with some extra information: Before you read further, there is a mail from Dacia and AzureRose saying: Is it a cd r/w? If it is you have to configure it as a scsi device. Follow the CD R/W instructions on this page: http://mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov3.html I tried supermount once.it never worked so I go the old fashonde way now. So yes, it is a CD-RW drive, I will try the instructions on the page. I didn't think it made a difference. But I still have some questions about partitions and LILO and /boot which I would ask, so I'll answer your questions and then ask you. 1. How do you have your hard drive drive configured? Primary Master, 20GB, split into 2GB (let's call it c:), 16GB (d:), 2GB(e:). The first C: drive is the bootable one with Windows on it. The D: I use for my progs and stuff under Windows. The E: was split into Ext2 and Swap by Mandrake installation. Under Linux I have it as / and the C: partition is my /boot dir. 2. Are you using more that one drive? One hard disk - Primary Master, one CD-RW - Secondary Master. 5. Is you CDROM daisy chained? Sorry, I don't know what "daisy chained" means. My questions: At install time, I selected C: as my /boot dir and E: as the / dir. But LILO did not install saying something about cylinder numbers being higher than 1024. Well here I have heard that it is fixed in GRUB, so my question is - what should I do if I want to install GRUB, so that I don't have to use a boot disk anymore ? (Please, answer 'Newbie style') Second question: How can I create another bootdisk, just in case the old one gets bad sectors or something ? Third: What is actually the /boot partition and are there any rules where it has to point to ? By the way, when you get any message, error message i.e. selecting the CDROM, can you please write down the exact message. OK, though the proposed solution by Dacia might solve it, I'll include what Linux says. First, I changed the fstab as Paul told me to, now it is: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 After typing cd /mnt/cdrom it says: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error This would be a great idea to consider ICUII video for Linux. This way, I could see the inside of you computer. What is that ICUII thing ? Thanx for helping, Roman begin:vcard n:#179293;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:Roman - Register Linux User #179293 fn:Roman - Register Linux User #179293 end:vcard
Re: [newbie] mouse driver and CD-ROM problems
Roman, By the way ICUII is video camera utility and application that you can use with your computer. Roman Korcek wrote: To Dacia: Thanx, I will try it. To Paul: read further (and authorize me on ICQ...). To Roman: Hey Romanator, Wow. It looks like a nice mouse... Off topic but thanx ;-) Try replacing the Generic Mouse PS/2 with a Generic Serial Mouse first. In two earlier mails I mentioned that I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE MOUSE DRIVER. I was asking this all the time... Sorry if this sounded upset. I know that I should be happy that someone is trying to help (thanx), but please, if you want to help, read what I write. Fortunately, yesterday a friend told me I should use "mouseconfig". So I tried it out and tried to change the mouse driver. However, I don't know if it REALLY changed the driver, because my mouse behaved weird with every driver I selected and everytime I started mouseconfig to try another driver, it always started with Generic Mouse PS/2 selected. BTW: I found a file /etc/sysconfig/mouse - is it just a file to read or does it help to edit it ? And concerning what you wrote - replacing the PS/2 driver with a serial driver - how would that work ? I have my mouse on PS/2, so what would it help ? If that does not work, replace it with the MS Intellimouse serial. Again, why selecting Serial if I have PS/2 ? Of course, if everything else fails I can use the adapter for the mouse and use it as COM, but I would have to change it in Windows. But I can try to see if it changes anything. I will tell you tomorrow. Have you checked to see if it is a serial mouse or USB? It is PS/2, don't worry, I know the difference ;-) I have a fairly good book on Upgrading and Repairing PCs - Linux Version. I will access as much information as possible to get your mouse working. Thank you. Next we will work on the CDROM and floppy. Could you provide me with some extra information: Before you read further, there is a mail from Dacia and AzureRose saying: Is it a cd r/w? If it is you have to configure it as a scsi device. Follow the CD R/W instructions on this page: http://mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov3.html I tried supermount once.it never worked so I go the old fashonde way now. So yes, it is a CD-RW drive, I will try the instructions on the page. I didn't think it made a difference. But I still have some questions about partitions and LILO and /boot which I would ask, so I'll answer your questions and then ask you. 1. How do you have your hard drive drive configured? Primary Master, 20GB, split into 2GB (let's call it c:), 16GB (d:), 2GB(e:). The first C: drive is the bootable one with Windows on it. The D: I use for my progs and stuff under Windows. The E: was split into Ext2 and Swap by Mandrake installation. Under Linux I have it as / and the C: partition is my /boot dir. 2. Are you using more that one drive? One hard disk - Primary Master, one CD-RW - Secondary Master. 5. Is you CDROM daisy chained? Sorry, I don't know what "daisy chained" means. My questions: At install time, I selected C: as my /boot dir and E: as the / dir. But LILO did not install saying something about cylinder numbers being higher than 1024. Well here I have heard that it is fixed in GRUB, so my question is - what should I do if I want to install GRUB, so that I don't have to use a boot disk anymore ? (Please, answer 'Newbie style') Second question: How can I create another bootdisk, just in case the old one gets bad sectors or something ? Third: What is actually the /boot partition and are there any rules where it has to point to ? By the way, when you get any message, error message i.e. selecting the CDROM, can you please write down the exact message. OK, though the proposed solution by Dacia might solve it, I'll include what Linux says. First, I changed the fstab as Paul told me to, now it is: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 After typing cd /mnt/cdrom it says: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error This would be a great idea to consider ICUII video for Linux. This way, I could see the inside of you computer. What is that ICUII thing ? Thanx for helping, Roman begin:vcard n:#179293;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:Roman - Register Linux User #179293 fn:Roman - Register Linux User #179293 end:vcard
Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader
Hi. If you have the cd with the e-books you do not have to download anything. The Acrobat Reader is in a file called linux-ar-40.tar.gz. Copy that file to /tmp then do # tar xzvf linux-ar-40.tar.gz ... then go to the directory it creates and run (as root) # ./INSTALL The principle should be the same even if you downloaded the tar file. Then when you want to read a pdf file you use the command "acroread" followed by the name of the file. (That is: open an xterm and type on the command line "acroread thisfile.pdf") Phil On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: » Hi all, I have an ongoing problem with Acrobat Reader. I have d/l'd both » tar and rpm. I have installed both, and put an Icon on the KDE desktop. » But I'll be darned if I can get the thing to run. The icon won't » connect. I can bring up the readme file and so forth, but when I go to » the icon or bring up a pdf file I can't get it to show up in acrobat. » The downloaded files are; bin, browsers, reader, and resource, with » mulitple files within those folders. Can somebody give me a clue as to » what I am missing in order to use the e-books that came with my » distro. Thanks,-- » Dennis-Registered Linux User #180842 » » -- The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions. -- Marquis D.A.F. de Sade
[newbie] Please be specific about your help inquiry
Roman, You never told me until now that it was a RW CD ROM. In the future before you ask for help, especially when its a long email - please type it in point form. I had used up 3 - 4 days of searching for help for you. Then, I find out that you are using a completely different CD and no information about your computer configuration. Roman Roman Korcek wrote: To Dacia: Thanx, I will try it. To Paul: read further (and authorize me on ICQ...). To Roman: Hey Romanator, Wow. It looks like a nice mouse... Off topic but thanx ;-) Try replacing the Generic Mouse PS/2 with a Generic Serial Mouse first. In two earlier mails I mentioned that I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE MOUSE DRIVER. I was asking this all the time... Sorry if this sounded upset. I know that I should be happy that someone is trying to help (thanx), but please, if you want to help, read what I write. Fortunately, yesterday a friend told me I should use "mouseconfig". So I tried it out and tried to change the mouse driver. However, I don't know if it REALLY changed the driver, because my mouse behaved weird with every driver I selected and everytime I started mouseconfig to try another driver, it always started with Generic Mouse PS/2 selected. BTW: I found a file /etc/sysconfig/mouse - is it just a file to read or does it help to edit it ? And concerning what you wrote - replacing the PS/2 driver with a serial driver - how would that work ? I have my mouse on PS/2, so what would it help ? If that does not work, replace it with the MS Intellimouse serial. Again, why selecting Serial if I have PS/2 ? Of course, if everything else fails I can use the adapter for the mouse and use it as COM, but I would have to change it in Windows. But I can try to see if it changes anything. I will tell you tomorrow. Have you checked to see if it is a serial mouse or USB? It is PS/2, don't worry, I know the difference ;-) I have a fairly good book on Upgrading and Repairing PCs - Linux Version. I will access as much information as possible to get your mouse working. Thank you. Next we will work on the CDROM and floppy. Could you provide me with some extra information: Before you read further, there is a mail from Dacia and AzureRose saying: Is it a cd r/w? If it is you have to configure it as a scsi device. Follow the CD R/W instructions on this page: http://mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov3.html I tried supermount once.it never worked so I go the old fashonde way now. So yes, it is a CD-RW drive, I will try the instructions on the page. I didn't think it made a difference. But I still have some questions about partitions and LILO and /boot which I would ask, so I'll answer your questions and then ask you. 1. How do you have your hard drive drive configured? Primary Master, 20GB, split into 2GB (let's call it c:), 16GB (d:), 2GB(e:). The first C: drive is the bootable one with Windows on it. The D: I use for my progs and stuff under Windows. The E: was split into Ext2 and Swap by Mandrake installation. Under Linux I have it as / and the C: partition is my /boot dir. 2. Are you using more that one drive? One hard disk - Primary Master, one CD-RW - Secondary Master. 5. Is you CDROM daisy chained? Sorry, I don't know what "daisy chained" means. My questions: At install time, I selected C: as my /boot dir and E: as the / dir. But LILO did not install saying something about cylinder numbers being higher than 1024. Well here I have heard that it is fixed in GRUB, so my question is - what should I do if I want to install GRUB, so that I don't have to use a boot disk anymore ? (Please, answer 'Newbie style') Second question: How can I create another bootdisk, just in case the old one gets bad sectors or something ? Third: What is actually the /boot partition and are there any rules where it has to point to ? By the way, when you get any message, error message i.e. selecting the CDROM, can you please write down the exact message. OK, though the proposed solution by Dacia might solve it, I'll include what Linux says. First, I changed the fstab as Paul told me to, now it is: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 After typing cd /mnt/cdrom it says: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error This would be a great idea to consider ICUII video for Linux. This way, I could see the inside of you computer. What is that ICUII thing ? Thanx for helping, Roman begin:vcard n:#179293;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:Roman - Register Linux User #179293 fn:Roman - Register Linux User #179293 end:vcard
[newbie] ICUII for Linux
Roman, By the way ICUII is video camera utility and application that you can use with your computer. It will allow you to see the other user. There is Linux version available for this application. Roman begin:vcard n:#179293;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:Roman - Register Linux User #179293 fn:Roman - Register Linux User #179293 end:vcard
[newbie] XFree86 4.0.1
Hi! Has anyone tried using XFree86 4.0.1 yet? Are there RPM's for them and what files should I get to run on my mandrake 7.1? Any links would be very helpful. =) Thanks! John -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=- John M Catral ICQ# 7113128 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://i.am/JohnCatral Registered Linux User #183190 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-
Re: [newbie] test
HAHA, schurken!;- I got you - before I leave, I will ban both of you from all the lists to prevent your subversive actions while I am away ,- Beg on your knies and I will let you come back one day. Maybe. Big brother is watching you Denis - On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, bascule wrote: :~YOU ARE NOW DEFENCELESS, THIS LIST WILL BE ASSIMILATED, RESISTANCE IS :~FUTILE :~ :~basculus of borg :~ :~Christopher Molnar wrote: :~ :~ Damn, you told it you were leaving KRRSSSHH! :~ :~ On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Denis Havlik wrote: :~ :~ just checking the lists health before leaving for a vacation .-) :~ :~ -- - 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://forum.mandrakesoft.com
Re: [newbie] Sound in Enlightenment
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:15:40 +0100 (BST),Paul wrote: I have not had sound running in E. yet. In KDE it goes all well, in another one there was no problem either (but what the was that one!) Paul === Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:19:49 It must be Afterstep Paul grin Olly P Biloxi Mississippi
Re: [newbie] Seeking Tutorial on compiling Kernel
My own experience witrh (re)compiling the kernel is very positive. It has taught me the most about my system and about Linux. Take your time. Read lots and read the HOWTOs from Linus and all as you go. If you don't understand something as you work your way through it, hop on the Net and find out. we are all terrified at first that we are gonna break the kernel. Bear in mind that the kernel that is running the system you are working from is not the same as the one you are compiling. So, If you break the one you are compiling you still have your working system. Take your time. Allow several hours to work through it. When you are done you will have the satisfaction of having built a totally customized operating system just for your machine and for your needs. -- Keith On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: Thanks Mark, The first time is always the scariest. Roman Mark Weaver wrote: Roman, There are probably 1-2 ways that I've seen to do this. I've found the best and easiest ways are documented in the Kernel-HOWTO and the Firewall-HOWTO...or was that the IP-chains-HOWTO...at any rate, check out for sure the kernel HOWTO and take a look in both of the other two. One of the other two give some great build commands for doing a kernel. I don't mean to be confusing but I'm fairly certain it was the... Sorry about that. I just checked to make sure and you'll find the info you need to do a kernel in the Kernel-HOWTO and the Firewall HOWTO. In the firewall howto the section that you want to check out is section 6.1 "Compiling a kernel" Good luck and may the force be with you! :) -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote: Hi Mark, Sorry, I just caught the end of the thread on compiling a new kernel. I was hoping to integrate the NVIDIA graphics cards along with 3COM905c series Etherlink drivers but I have to compile the kernel in order for them to be incorporated. What were the 'make' commands for compiling a new kernel. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Mark Weaver wrote: I know what you mean. The real fun part is when something goes wrong and you have to figure out what it is and how to fix it. I've done that serveral times. One time I had the kernel about where you're descibing and I was going after that last 1%. Well, :) , When I rebooted after "thinking" I had gotten that last bit I got a kernel panic and things went south real fast from there. It took me about two hours to get it un-hosed from there, but I got it. That's when I learned about how you can over-lay an installation of Linux over top of the older one. As long as they're the same version "usually" only the system files get over-written. It worked quite nicely for me and saved my bacon! I'm much more careful these days when I do anything with the kernel. I make sure I back things up like the old kernel and it's support files and what-nots. That makes installing the "old" kernel much less painless if the need arises. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, excalibur wrote: Hello, Thanks Mark, I took a shot at it and did fairly well, actually. I used the online documentation. My results were 99% perfect, I'd say. Gotta go back for that remaining 1%. I was impressed with the process enough that I thnk I'll stick with this and take it further. I used to say of that other OS, "##@?!! If I could only get into the guts of this I would" Well, here it is. An Os where I can do that. Mark Weaver wrote: Have you looked at the HOWTO's that are located in "/usr/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/index.html" There is a kernel HOWTO located there that pretty much explains how it's done and what all you'll need to do it. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, excalibur wrote: Hello, I've been using Linux Mandrake for about a month and a half and it's great, though I've much to learn of it. Does anyone know of a website with a good how-to on compiling the kernel or even a good book that would cover the topic? I'd greatly appreciate it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/x-vcard; name="bysh.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Romanator
Re: [newbie] Seeking Tutorial on compiling Kernel
Oh, and may the *source* be with you. -- Keith On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: Don't I know it! -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote: Thanks Mark, The first time is always the scariest. Roman Mark Weaver wrote: Roman, There are probably 1-2 ways that I've seen to do this. I've found the best and easiest ways are documented in the Kernel-HOWTO and the Firewall-HOWTO...or was that the IP-chains-HOWTO...at any rate, check out for sure the kernel HOWTO and take a look in both of the other two. One of the other two give some great build commands for doing a kernel. I don't mean to be confusing but I'm fairly certain it was the... Sorry about that. I just checked to make sure and you'll find the info you need to do a kernel in the Kernel-HOWTO and the Firewall HOWTO. In the firewall howto the section that you want to check out is section 6.1 "Compiling a kernel" Good luck and may the force be with you! :) -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote: Hi Mark, Sorry, I just caught the end of the thread on compiling a new kernel. I was hoping to integrate the NVIDIA graphics cards along with 3COM905c series Etherlink drivers but I have to compile the kernel in order for them to be incorporated. What were the 'make' commands for compiling a new kernel. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Mark Weaver wrote: I know what you mean. The real fun part is when something goes wrong and you have to figure out what it is and how to fix it. I've done that serveral times. One time I had the kernel about where you're descibing and I was going after that last 1%. Well, :) , When I rebooted after "thinking" I had gotten that last bit I got a kernel panic and things went south real fast from there. It took me about two hours to get it un-hosed from there, but I got it. That's when I learned about how you can over-lay an installation of Linux over top of the older one. As long as they're the same version "usually" only the system files get over-written. It worked quite nicely for me and saved my bacon! I'm much more careful these days when I do anything with the kernel. I make sure I back things up like the old kernel and it's support files and what-nots. That makes installing the "old" kernel much less painless if the need arises. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, excalibur wrote: Hello, Thanks Mark, I took a shot at it and did fairly well, actually. I used the online documentation. My results were 99% perfect, I'd say. Gotta go back for that remaining 1%. I was impressed with the process enough that I thnk I'll stick with this and take it further. I used to say of that other OS, "##@?!! If I could only get into the guts of this I would" Well, here it is. An Os where I can do that. Mark Weaver wrote: Have you looked at the HOWTO's that are located in "/usr/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/index.html" There is a kernel HOWTO located there that pretty much explains how it's done and what all you'll need to do it. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, excalibur wrote: Hello, I've been using Linux Mandrake for about a month and a half and it's great, though I've much to learn of it. Does anyone know of a website with a good how-to on compiling the kernel or even a good book that would cover the topic? I'd greatly appreciate it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader
Phil Burton wrote: Hi. If you have the cd with the e-books you do not have to download anything. The Acrobat Reader is in a file called linux-ar-40.tar.gz. Copy that file to /tmp then do # tar xzvf linux-ar-40.tar.gz ... then go to the directory it creates and run (as root) # ./INSTALL The principle should be the same even if you downloaded the tar file. Then when you want to read a pdf file you use the command "acroread" followed by the name of the file. (That is: open an xterm and type on the command line "acroread thisfile.pdf") Phil On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: » Hi all, I have an ongoing problem with Acrobat Reader. I have d/l'd both » tar and rpm. I have installed both, and put an Icon on the KDE desktop. » But I'll be darned if I can get the thing to run. The icon won't » connect. I can bring up the readme file and so forth, but when I go to » the icon or bring up a pdf file I can't get it to show up in acrobat. » The downloaded files are; bin, browsers, reader, and resource, with » mulitple files within those folders. Can somebody give me a clue as to » what I am missing in order to use the e-books that came with my » distro. Thanks,-- » Dennis-Registered Linux User #180842 » » -- The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions. -- Marquis D.A.F. de Sade Oh, the reply on the acroread is also " command not found " or something like that. -- Dennis-Registered Linux User #180842
[newbie] Install partitions help
I just received my 7.1 CDs and installed Mandrake 7.1 with no apparent problems! However that was no feat because I just used the "recommended" install. That installed everything together and I would prefer to have separate partitions for various mounting points. Prior to goinf the "recommended" install root I tried a custom install with the following partitions: /boot 10 MB /opt516 MB /usr1000 MB /home 1000 MB / 66 MB /var66MB but the install told me that did not give it enough space to install all the packages. Can someone tell me how large I need to make the various partitions to install a standard, normal install (not development, etc.)? Since this is a brand new install, I do not mind re-installing into separate partitions if I only knew what sizes to make them. Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] Upgrade
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: hey i finally got 7.1 !! Now the question. As I have 7.0 installed if I do an upgrade (choose the upgrade option) is there a risk that I will loose all my serttings and saved files?? The risk is always there, but you need not worry. From my own experience, all upgrading goes well. I upgraded Redhat 6.0 to MDK6.1, to MDK 7.0 and then to MDK 7.1. Have not lost a bit yet. Paul -- Categories do not perform their functions unless they are kept distinct. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Menu update command?
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: It doesn't??? I wonder what's different between your system and mine, a few days ago I noticed something missing from the menu, did 'su' to root, ran kmenuedit and everything went smoothly... There's just beginning a discussion among the developers on the cooker list that menu editing needs some fixing. It's prob'ly less a hardware difference, than how and how much of 7.1 you installed (just my guess). I installed just about everything, except for Mathplot, or so. I don't have any use for it. I don't know how long you've been running since you made menu changes, or how often you reboot to Linux (I dual boot). My I usually run Linux, it gets started everyday on power-up. Sometimes I need to reboot to Winhoze. And the menu is still intact, after little over a week. X. Only since I began logging into root's desktop and making menu changes from there have they become more or less 'permanent'. Hmmm. Interesting. Since I loaded 7.1 I have not seen root's desktop yet. I just hack away at the keyboard from a text prompt. I've also got a feeling that this is all gonna be academic when KDE2, and XFree-4 become the norm this fall, eg Mandrake 7.2? Let's hope so then! Paul -- Categories do not perform their functions unless they are kept distinct. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Sound in Enlightenment
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: I have not had sound running in E. yet. In KDE it goes all well, in another one there was no problem either (but what the was that one!) Paul === Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:19:49 It must be Afterstep Paul grin Olly P that's it! Thank you, my dear backup memory! Paul -- Categories do not perform their functions unless they are kept distinct. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Cron fails
Hi everyone, I have changed the times on crontab this evening and restarted cron (all as root of course, but "su"d in a window. Had to, since my computer is not on at night when the cron-entries usually are run. This is what I get when the hourly check runs: -- Forwarded message -- Date: 12 Jul 2000 20:26:00 - From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron root@internet root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly /bin/bash: root: command not found --- My crontab looks like this (I just changed the times to start things:) SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] HOME=/ # run-parts 26 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 9 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 9 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 9 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly # Mandrake-Security:if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. 0 9 * * *root/usr/share/msec/security.sh I had thought that this might be a problem because the system had not reloaded crontab on boot, but this morning, just now, the very same thing happened. Any clues anyone? Paul -- We are the victims and instruments of cosmogenic love. -C.G. Jung )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
