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Re: [newbie-it] Wine
Bè, da quel poco, anzi pochissimo che ne so io, da quel che mi sembra di aver letto del tuo messaggio, mi sembra che forse dovresti controllare (nel caso non l'avessi già fatto) che la partizione del tuo disco, in cui sia presente il sistema operativo proprietario Windows 95/98, sia "montata" o "vista" (non so se questo sia il modo corretto di esprimersi) proprio come "/mnt/windows" (come cioè mi sembra che sia sul mio computer, e come ho cercato di scrivere nel mio file ".winerc" che ti (vi) ho spedito), e magari anche che quanto scritto nella sezione "[wine]" del mio file ".winerc" (ovvero quella parte del file ".winerc" che comincia con "[wine]", dalla 25-esima riga fino alla 30-esima) corrisponda proprio alla realtà del tuo computer: se cioè la directory ms-dos in cui siano presenti i file di Windows 95/98 sia proprio "C:\WINDOWS", se la directory di sistema (non so se si dica così, nè cosa sia) sia proprio "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM", se quella in cui le varie applicazioni di Windows 95/98 possono archiviare i loro file temporanei (non so se si dica così, ne cosa significhi: l'ho solo letto dalla pagina man di wine.conf) sia proprio "C:\WINDOWS\TEMP". :) Ah, nel caso poi non lo sapessi già, Wine funziona così (se non ho letto male): $ wine nome_file_programma_eseguibile_da_emulare (per esempio "$ wine /mnt/windows/windows/calc.exe"). :) Scusandomi se non avrò risposto esaurientemente alla tua richiesta, ti saluto, augurandoti un buon inizio di settimana. :) Ciao :) Marco Casa wrote: mi permetto di riportarti qui di seguito il mio file ".winerc" che ho fatto: anche se dovrai probabilmente adattarlo un po' alla configurazione del tuo computer, soprattutto (credo) nella parte iniziale del file, quella cioè dove sono specificati i nomi e relativi percorsi dei vari drive (hd,cdrom,etc.), ho pensato che forse ti sarebbe potuto essere utile. :) Come no? non solo a lui : Ah, nel caso non l'avessi già letto e/o saputo, non mi sembra che sia necessario avere il file "wine.conf" all'interno della directory "/etc/": basta infatti (se non erro) che tu abbia il file ".winerc" all'interno della tua home directory (ah, dimenticavo..., se hai, come me, installato la Mandrake 7.1, nel caso non lo sapessi già, probabilmente Wine è già installato: dovresti quindi solo creare e/o editare il file ".winerc"). :) Uhmm.. leggendo il tuo messaggio mi e' venuta voglia di provare wine, ma in quanto alla posizione /etc/wine.conf ho qualche dubbio. Io uso proprio la mandrake 7.1 e ho copiato il tuo winerc (grazie per averlo postato) ma il risultato e' questo: [nicola@doppioproc nicola]$ wine Warning: could not find wine.conf [Drive x] entry for current working directory /home/nicola; starting in windows directory. Invalid path 'C:\WINDOWS' for windows directory Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file. This is either /etc/wine.conf or $HOME/.winerc or it is determined by the -config option or from the WINE_INI environment variable. Wine has used /home/nicola/.winerc as configuration file. Ehmm posso chiederti qualche suggerimento? Grazie, Nicola.
Re: [newbie-it] richiesta distro mandrake 7.2
- Original Message - From: "Mauro Scacco" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 2:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] richiesta distro mandrake 7.2 At 01.57 19/11/2000 +0100, you wrote: Salve ! scrivo da Roma. Qualcuno puo' essere cosi' gentile da masterizzarmi ed inviarmi la distribuzione Linux mandrake 7.2 (a pagamento si intende) se si inviatemi un messaggio a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Grazie Tante Ciao! Ti posto il catalogo delle distro : Ho disponibili al costo di 4.000 a cd +(minime)spese postali le nuove: : -- KDE2 Finale per Debian-Redhat-Caldera-Suse (1 cd) -- MANDRAKE 7.2 Final Release (2cd) - ---RED Hat 7 (5 cd compresi Powertool e SRMS iso e DOC ) - SUSE 7 (5cd -esclusi i commerciali) FREE Bsd 4.1.1 Turbolinux 6.1 --- Powertools Red Hat 6.2 --- GENTUS Linux E anche le classiche: Debian " 2.2 compresi i NON U.S. (4 cd) Debian 2.2 pacchetti Non Free(Netscape etc etc -1cd)-- ---Debian 2.2 Proposed Updates (1 cd)+ KDE2 per Debian - Slackware 7.1 (2cd) ottimo col nuovo Gnome! ---Corel 1.2 da provare Debian-based -Caldera eDesktop 2.4 (istallazione immediata !) - Caldera Beta Technologies (nuovo kde2 ) ma scusate ,linux non è gratis? cos'è che fate pagare?cd vergine a parte? lobax richieste in email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Io sono di Anzio -Roma- ma posso spedire ovunque con garanzia Ciao! Mauro
[newbie-it] voglio programmare ma...
Ciao a tutti qualcuno sa spiegarmi come faccio a scrivere e compilare un programma in c++?
R: [newbie-it] voglio programmare ma...
- Original Message - From: Asgro To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 2:51 PM Subject: [newbie-it] voglio programmare ma... Ciao a tutti qualcuno sa spiegarmi come faccio a scrivere e compilare un programma in c++? Innanzitutto devi avere installato il compilatore g++ (nella Mandrake 7.1 dovrebbe essere nella directory (di RPMDrake) Development/C++. Inoltre devi avere i file include che trovi sempre nella stessa directory (te li dovrebbe richiedere come dipendenza non soddisfatta durante l'installazione di g++). Poi scrivi il tuo programma con un qualsiasi editor di testi (vi, emacs, kedit) e salvi il file con un'estensione .cpp. Poi dalla shell digiti il comando g++ -f nome-eseguibile nome-file-sorgente Se il programma ha degli errori (include di librerie inesistenti etc...), l'operazione non andrà a termine e ti apparirà un messaggio di errore. Se sono stato poco chiaro, richiedi pure ulteriori spiegazioni.
R: [newbie-it] voglio programmare ma...
Fin troppo - Original Message - From: Simone Deponti To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 4:59 PM Subject: R: [newbie-it] voglio programmare ma... - Original Message - From: Asgro To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 2:51 PM Subject: [newbie-it] voglio programmare ma... Ciao a tutti qualcuno sa spiegarmi come faccio a scrivere e compilare un programma in c++? Innanzitutto devi avere installato il compilatore g++ (nella Mandrake 7.1 dovrebbe essere nella directory (di RPMDrake) Development/C++. Inoltre devi avere i file include che trovi sempre nella stessa directory (te li dovrebbe richiedere come dipendenza non soddisfatta durante l'installazione di g++). Poi scrivi il tuo programma con un qualsiasi editor di testi (vi, emacs, kedit) e salvi il file con un'estensione .cpp. Poi dalla shell digiti il comando g++ -f nome-eseguibile nome-file-sorgente Se il programma ha degli errori (include di librerie inesistenti etc...), l'operazione non andrà a termine e ti apparirà un messaggio di errore. Se sono stato poco chiaro, richiedi pure ulteriori spiegazioni.
Re: [newbie-it] aggiornamenti
Il sab, 18 nov 2000, hai scritto: Salve, ho installato sul mio pc la distribuzione linux Mandrake 7.1,della quale sono abbastanza soddisfatto, tuttavia ho notato che quando mi collego ad internet, per aggiornare il sistema con la funzione update, il programma si collega si al server mostrandomi la lista degli aggionamenti disponibili, però tutto si ferma alla schermata che visualizza il procedere del download che tuttavia di fatto non avviene costringendomi ad attese inutili e dispendiose. A qualcuno di voi è successa qualcosa di analogo? Un saluto a tutti, Alessandro 46 -- salve a tutti, confermo, stessa casistica. Saluti Cosma Scaramella
[newbie-it] problemi col disco fisso EIDE (non riconosciuto)
Ciao a tutti!
Sono un (abbastanza) nuovo utente linux! Il
problema è che non riesco a installare nessuna nuova distribuzione perchè il
disco che ho appena montato (Samsung SV0322A EIDE UltraDMA 33 da 3,2 Gb) non
viene riconosciuto da linux!!!
O, per meglio dire, viene sì riconosciuto, ma
quando il kernel cerca di fare un'operazione I/O su di essa (in fase di booting)
salta fuori un bell'errore che recita così:
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
Il kernel poi continua ma è impossibile fare
alcunchè su tale disco.
Sul disco in questione ho installato Win98 SE che
funziona senza dare problemi (o meglio, con dei problemi che fanno però parte
dell'amministrazione ordinaria (Win 98 è indecente, anche paragonato a Win 95),
come errori di pagina non valida di Explorer etc...) e inoltre ho anche provato
a installare QNX (un'altro *nix) e neanche lui dava problemi. Il problema è che
così non posso installare nessuna distribuzione linux su quel disco e se ne
installo una sull'altro dopo non posso avviarla poichè il lilo non viene
installato (sempre lo stesso problema con il disco, che è il
master).
Un grazie anticipato a
tutti!
[newbie-it] New entry
Un saluto a tutti voi della ML. Devo premettere che son un newbie di questo SO. Ho infatti installato la settimana scorsa Mandrake 7.1 e lo trovo molto carino. Ho cominciato a leggervi da circa una settimana per vedere di trovare risposta ai miei (immagino per voi soliti) perchè. Dopodichè mi sono deciso a srivere. Allora, tutto funziona a prima botta e già questo mi ha messo di buon umore, ma ad un esame più attento ho notato quanto segue: a) problema relativo alla scheda audio; utilizzo una scheda audio Yamaha S-YXG50, ma non suona (bene invece sotto w98); b) stampante Lexmark 3200; ho letto in qualche sito Internet che dovrebbe essere supportata e invece non funziona; c) non posso collegarmi alla rete con Linux perche' il modem interno (un Conexant SoftK 56 con chip Rockwell) non viene riconosciuto; Inoltre ho installato StarOffice 5.2 sul pc di casa e funziona bene (mentre in ufficio è di una lentezza esasperante) e, sempre sul pc di casa, ho provato a installare la demo di Soldier of Fortune che invece viaggia a circa un frame all'ora... Vi ragguaglio naturalmente sul mio sistema casalingo: PC DEX (computer discount) con K7 550 con 128 Mb di Ram (di cui soli 64 visti da Mandrake) su mb AMD; due HD (13 e 19 Gb) ultra ata33; Matrox G400 dh 32 Mb; DVD + masterizzatore; se volete sapere altro non avete che da chiedere. Ah, dimenticavo: in ufficio un Pentium 200 non mmx con 32 Mb Ram sempre con la Mandrake 7.1. Scusate la prolissità ma così almeno ... mi sono liberato! A presto e buon linux a tutti!
Re: [newbie-it] Wine
Il dom, 19 nov 2000, hai scritto: Bè, da quel poco, anzi pochissimo che ne so io, da quel che mi sembra di aver letto del tuo messaggio, mi sembra che forse dovresti controllare (nel caso non l'avessi già fatto) che la partizione del tuo disco, in cui sia presente il sistema operativo proprietario Windows 95/98, sia "montata" o "vista" (non so se questo sia il modo corretto di esprimersi) proprio come "/mnt/windows" (come cioè mi sembra che sia sul mio computer, e come ho cercato di scrivere nel mio file ".winerc" che ti (vi) ho spedito), e magari anche che quanto scritto nella sezione "[wine]" del mio file ".winerc" (ovvero quella parte del file ".winerc" che comincia con "[wine]", dalla 25-esima riga fino alla 30-esima) corrisponda proprio alla realtà del tuo computer: se cioè la directory ms-dos in cui siano presenti i file di Windows 95/98 sia proprio "C:\WINDOWS", se la directory di sistema (non so se si dica così, nè cosa sia) sia proprio "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM", se quella in cui le varie applicazioni di Windows 95/98 possono archiviare i loro file temporanei (non so se si dica così, ne cosa significhi: l'ho solo letto dalla pagina man di wine.conf) sia proprio "C:\WINDOWS\TEMP". :) Ah, nel caso poi non lo sapessi già, Wine funziona così (se non ho letto male): $ wine nome_file_programma_eseguibile_da_emulare (per esempio "$ wine /mnt/windows/windows/calc.exe"). :) Scusandomi se non avrò risposto esaurientemente alla tua richiesta, ti saluto, augurandoti un buon inizio di settimana. :) No, no, mi scuso io: ho verificato .winerc e nel copiarlo ho innavertitamente spostato la path di windows appunto che era finita altrove. Rimessa a posto ora e' partito. Certo adesso me lo devo configurare ;-) Grazie mille, Nicola.
Re: [newbie] Printing with STAR OFFICE
Did you read also the text version of the Mandrakeuser.org document? The web pages are still not complete and only treat the installation/configuration of CUPS. An important point is, that you do not use the printer drivers of Star Office. Use the "Generic printer". This makes Star Office outputting PostScript and CUPS translates it to the printer-specific protocol. Set up the options for your print job in qtcups or xpp, but check whether Star Office uses the correct paper format. Till Ed Santiago wrote: The printer works great in those, however in StarOffice it doesnt print. I have changed the "connect" to qtcups and to xpp, when I try to print the qtcups interface comes up but it doesnt print. It says print job:x, (x being a number depending on how many times I try) and yet nothing happens. I have been reading through alot of past mail and the Mandrake user stuff but cant find anything that applies to this. I am not on a network and the printer is hooked up to lp0 parrell port on my computer.
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I just downloaded mandrake 7.2 and it says i can install it without partitioning my HD.. well ummm can i intsall outside of windows.. like how u normally install linux?? or do i have to do it in wndows
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Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network
Philip Trauring wrote: BTW, why isn't this the same interface as when I click to configure a printer from DrakConfig? I figured it was the same an ran it a bunch of times before I realized it was not. In DrakConf you get printerdrake, the thing which searches the network for printers is kups. Here's a problem - It automatically scans the subnet for my external NIC, but the printer is connected to the internal NIC which I have set up to serve IPs using DHCP. I haven't configured the printer with a specific IP address since the rest of my network are Macs and they connect to the printer using appletalk and don't need an IP address. First you must give an IP address to your printer. See the printer's manual how to do so, Linux does TCP/IP networking and therefore it needs IP addresses for all network devixes which it wants to access. The port on which the printer listens is 9100 by default. Leave it on this value. Make sure that the printer allows Socket or AppSocket access. To let kups scan the other NIC do the sma as you have already done, but in the window where you can scan the network, click on "Settings" and change the IP address range to the internal network, then scan again. Or type the address and the port of the printer directly into the fields on the right. Any suggestions? How do I get it to scan my second NIC? Do I need to assign it an IP address first? How can I make sure the IP address doesn't change? As I told the IP address has to be configured in the printer, it stores it in a non-volatile memory and so it is conserved even if you turn off the printer. Till
[newbie] Ayuda
Necesito una ayuda: tengo el linux red hat 6.1, necesito configurar un tape backup hewlett packard scsi referencia dat8, para esto tengo una controladora scsi Adaptec AHA 2920, y tengo una controladora multipuerto digiboard, con que comandos instalo estos dispositivos? de donde puedo bajar los drivers?, por favor necesito ayuda respecto a este problema pues soy principiante en linux y me urge configurar estos dispositivos gracias
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 X problems
Hello, does anyone have a clue as to could be causing this problem ? I am able to get to the other window managers from a graphical login, but I prefer to use init 3, and I still have the problem of X crahing when I hit the CTRL-ALT-F2 sequence. Thanks again Eunice Thompson wrote: Hi all. I've installed Mandrake 7.2 on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite Pro, P166MHz;80MB Ram; 6 GB hard drive). I'm having a few 'minor' problems ( Which did not occur with 7.1, on the same system). 1. The only window managers that I'm able to start are KDE2.o and XFCE. The others (Ice, Blackbox, Gnome...) are installed, but when I type startgnome, startice, startfvvm, ... etc., I get an error messae stating " Unable to open display ...". 2. When in X, if I want to switch to a console , I hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 (-F6) and it switches to the text based login prompt, and then X crashes with a message of " X server aboterd, code 11). If I'm not in X, then I 'm able to switch between the virtual consoles without any problem using, Alt-F2 (-F6). I did not have this problem when using XFree 3.3.6in LM7.1. I'm currently using X-4.01. Does anyone have any clues or hints? Thanks -- Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. -- Nero Wolfe --- Eunice Thompson -- Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. -- Nero Wolfe --- Eunice Thompson
[newbie] realplayer7 's high noise concern with device driver?
my VIA 97 or vg82cxxx_audio.o with downloaded realplayer7 basic can not make me listen sound of live audio clear , I am using mandrake 7.2 from mailing list I know some one with sound card sound blast 16 can using it with 7.2 to listen live audio of realplayer7 with additional driver i.e. open sound com, they told me if I buy their software driver , I can listen realplayer's audio sound no problem. I ever download their driver when I still not upgrade to 7.2, in 7.1, it indeed can let me listen realplayer 's audio file well, i.e. cnn.com's news another thing is , in mandrake 7.2 linux2.2.17, if I using netscape to navigate to web, sometimes, it generate many page, then my os is freeze(or almost), I waited ever one hour before decided hard reboot.(can not do ctrl-alt-f1, f2, ), do I have a way to get arround it simply or it's kernel 's problem, that have to solved by group of people? best regard and hope to see someof you reply Eric Lin
[newbie] upgrade or install kde base error, need help
when I using MandrakeUpgrade, as 7.2 choose normal upgrade, after fetch at install, on kde base 2.0 , it pop a dialog window said error some problem occur. do any one know what may cause this upgrade or install error? also I download netscape6 intall.sh run it , after that I click its icon on gnome, it still shown 4.75 from help dropdown menu. How can I really install success netscape6? hope to some one's help best regard Eric Lin
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] group psychologist onepatrick i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ? GAPrichard I have this friend ah, i see. please ask your friend to see me :) Ed Liear. LIER, Lier we all Know NO-ONE named PAtrick would have ANY friends (just a joke) Ed rolling on the floor He won't come in, he's afraid. He's been having these nightmares. This Blue Screen (of Death) comes out of the monitor and engulfs him. What can we do to help him? (sorry if in my rearranging i didn't get this in the right equence. -Gary-) Buy him a pair of Blue Blocker sunglasses. He hasn't had nightmares about a GREEN sreen of death, has he? :o)
Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
I was looking for a solution to this earlier and came across the following : http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg30698.html http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg30762.html and http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/en/numlockx/ But, if you are (like me now) using Mandrake 7.1, it is turn on when you start xwindow. HTH
[newbie] Changing MAC address
Hi all, I wonder how to change the MAC address (hardware address) of the network card. I have read something about that in the man pages of "ifconfig" command. Thanks in advance Mazen __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
[newbie] Changing MAC address
Hi all, I wonder how to change the MAC address (hardware address) of the network card. I have read something about that in the man pages of "ifconfig" command. Thanks in advance Mazen __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] ISDN Internet connection problem
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ian Aldcroft wrote: Hi Ian, You should take a look at www.wurtel.demon.nl That is the site that I run to when there is an ISDN problem in my Linux box. Good luck! Paul When installation was complete, I clicked on the internet connection icon on the desktop and got a message that pppd needed installing. The installation routine for this wants to use a modem - a ISDN card doesn't seem to be an option. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get my system connected? -- There's no place like ~/. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Charles wrote: I have been looking through the DOCs but haven't discoverd how to have NUMBER LOCK active when starting KDE. Suggestions? TIA - Cmo When you are running 7.1, a program called numlock should be installed. Add a kdelnk to your autostart for that. Are you running 7.2, then you need to link to /usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock Paul -- There's no place like ~/. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
[newbie] LS-120 problems
Dear Friends, LM 7.2 thinks that my LS-120 is a scsi device, which it is not since it's an IDE device. I've had a look at madrakeforum.com, and civileme mentioned the problem in LM7.1. Does anybody know how to get the damn thing working? My configuration is : P3 500 on a BX mainboard Pri Master: EIDE HDD Pri Slave: Zip drive EIDE Sec Master: LS-120 EIDE Sec Slave : CD-RW EIDE Many thanks to whoever knows how - I've installed LM 7.2 at least 10 times to try and get around the problem to no avail.
Re: [Re: [newbie] Start KDE]
"Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Page, Jennifer" wrote: Just installed Mandrake 7.0, how do I start kde? Hi Jennifer! Just do a "startx" from a command line... -- /\ DarkLord \/ == And, may I add, IF (big IF) you'd like to enter a graphical login automagically at boot time, you can edit your /etc/inittab file. Look for the line that has: id:3:initdefault and change the 3 to a 5. You must do this as root. HTH, Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 18 November 2000 10:13 pm, pablito wrote: Interesting. "info hdparm" is a terminal command? yes. (su to root) 'hdparm -i /dev/hd*' will read the information from your harddrive's (HDD) firmware (bios). Much of this information is useful in guessing at which hdparm options will best optimize your HDD. Once you've determined the best options by running 'hdparm -tT /dev/hd*', that hdparm line can be added to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file to optimize your HDD on every boot. EG (I have this line at the tail of rc.local for my old ata/33 linux HDD), hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -d1 -k1 -a128 /dev/hdb In marginal hardware situations, choosing "hardrive optimization" during LM install can result in boot failure or data corruption, which is why that install option comes with a warning. BUT, the same is true for optimizing your drives 'manually' with hdparm from the CL, so proceed with caution. Most of the time if you have a decent motherboard and aren't (mis)using ata/66 there'll be no problem. Hi Tom I am just wondering about the -a128 setting, mine is at 8 automatically I have a Western Digital AC313000R my MB has a maximum of udma mode 2 but my drive can support udma3(ata/66). I am thinking about setting up these options hdparm -m16 -c1 -d1 -X66(It says for ultraDMA its the mode(2) +64) but I am wondering about the -a option, maybe I should leave it at 8? also the -u option. It says in man it could be dangerous, some drive/controller combinations can't tolerate the increeased I/O latencies. Just wondering what you think about the settings and to get some feedback before i do anything that may corrupt my filesystem. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749
Re: [newbie] LS-120 problems
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Joseph Markham wrote: Dear Friends, LM 7.2 thinks that my LS-120 is a scsi device, which it is not since it's an IDE device. I've had a look at madrakeforum.com, and civileme mentioned the problem in LM7.1. Does anybody know how to get the damn thing working? My configuration is : P3 500 on a BX mainboard Pri Master: EIDE HDD Pri Slave: Zip drive EIDE Sec Master: LS-120 EIDE Sec Slave : CD-RW EIDE Many thanks to whoever knows how - I've installed LM 7.2 at least 10 times to try and get around the problem to no avail. Maybe this option is passed to the kernel by lilo or grub(whatever you use): append=" hdc=ide-scsi" Check your lilo.conf. also do a ls -l /dev/cd* and see what you get. If /dev/cdrom is using scsi emulation you will get something like /dev/cdrom - scd0 (cdrom being a symlink to the secondary master scsi device). I have both my IDE drives, my cdrom and burner scsi emulated and they work quite well and it's better for burning on the fly i'm told and mine burns on the fly flawlessly. One solution if your Cdrom is scsi emulated (/dev/cdrom - scd0) is to run modprobe ide-scsi. If ya don't want the drive to be scsi emulated but it is(hence /dev/cdrom - scd0) do the following as root: cd /dev, then rm -f cdrom, then ln -s hdc cdrom(makes cdrom a symlink to hdc(secondary master ide). then make any necessary changes to /etc/fstab= make sure ya have /mnt/cdrom and its /dev/cdrom and get rid of the append=" hdc=ide-scsi"line in /etc/lilo.conf or/boot/grub/menu.lst. That should cover what you need to do. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749
Re: [newbie] Network Card Woes
have you tried disabling Plug and pray aware OS in BIOS? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 2:36 PM Subject: [newbie] Network Card Woes Hi list, I have been running two boxes for a while, one Mandrake and one Windows. I use the Mandrake box for www, mail, gateway, etc. and the Windows one for work stuff. I use Samba, port forwarding, with no difficulties at all. I recently added a new harddrive to my Windows machine, and turned it into a dual boot so I could have a "test" platform for Linux. Unfortunately, I can't get my network card running. I also can't get the sound card to work. Is it possible they are in conflict? (I don't really care about the sound...) I have tried a static assignment (ie. 192.168.0.1, dhcpcd, and pump), but it seems that the error is more basic. Heres a sample of boot messages, can anyone suggest what to do? (I never had this problem on the other box!) I am running a Celeron @ 450, on a 440Bx motherboard, network card is a generic, SoundCard EssSolo, Mandrake 7.2. Sample below. TIA Bill --snip Nov 18 10:13:17 Bill1 init: Entering runlevel: 5 Nov 18 10:13:18 Bill1 harddrake: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 kudzu: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o: Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: init_module: Device or resource busy Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o failed Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o: insmod snd-card-es1938 failed Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 sound: Loading sound module (snd-card-es1938) failed Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/ne2k-pci.o: invalid parameter parm_irq Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization. Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 portmap: portmap startup succeeded --snip
Re: [newbie] me mandrake 7.2
I made the same mistake of trying to update 7.1 to 7.2. I had the same problems. I had to resort to a format and a fresh install. It is a pain to reconfigure, but I'm sure it will take a lot less time than trying to fix everything. Works nice after a fresh install. You might also want to run "sndconfig" after the install to make sound work. Neil On Sat, 18 November 2000, "Dan" wrote: Ah yes, I have made the mistake of upgrading Mandrake again. I downloaded the iso images for 7.2 then performed the upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 Here are the problems I have been unable to solve so far (4 days trying g) 1. The boot process hangs after finding the module dependencies. It just sits there and does nothing. Normally I think it is supposed to mount the filesystems, but as I said, NOTHING happens. 2. When it goes to install the sound support, it comes up with some goofy weird ISA PNP error talking about conflicting with IRQ 11. Only problem is that the sound card is set to IRQ 5 and the Network card is set to IRQ 11. 3. KDE 2 seems to be missing all of its icons. I have reinstalled KDE2 but The K menu is missing, the icons for the users in KDM are missing and some other pix maps are missing. Mandrake_Desk is the package that has the icons it is installed, but still nothing shows. Any help is appreciated. Dan -- NeoMail - Webmail that doesn't suck... as much. http://neomail.sourceforge.net ___ Free Unlimited Internet Access! Try it now! http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/altavista/index.html ___
Re: [newbie] LS-120 problems
I have the LS-120 in my Mandrake 7.2 box as well and it didn't have a beef with that at all. Looking at what you have below, I see that you don't have any SCSI devices, but in the install, when it asked you if you did have any SCSI devices did you click no? I did that and it didn't try and find any at all. Not sure that sheds any light on the subject but I had no problems with it at all. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." * Joseph Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001119 06:24]: Dear Friends, LM 7.2 thinks that my LS-120 is a scsi device, which it is not since it's an IDE device. I've had a look at madrakeforum.com, and civileme mentioned the problem in LM7.1. Does anybody know how to get the damn thing working? My configuration is : P3 500 on a BX mainboard Pri Master: EIDE HDD Pri Slave: Zip drive EIDE Sec Master: LS-120 EIDE Sec Slave : CD-RW EIDE Many thanks to whoever knows how - I've installed LM 7.2 at least 10 times to try and get around the problem to no avail.
Re: [newbie] Network Card Woes
Run sndconfig as root in a terminal window. I bet LM put the soundcard on the wrong IRQ. Don't even bother trying changing the settings in DRAK. Neil On Sat, 18 November 2000, "Ed Tharp" wrote: have you tried disabling Plug and pray aware OS in BIOS? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 2:36 PM Subject: [newbie] Network Card Woes Hi list, I have been running two boxes for a while, one Mandrake and one Windows. I use the Mandrake box for www, mail, gateway, etc. and the Windows one for work stuff. I use Samba, port forwarding, with no difficulties at all. I recently added a new harddrive to my Windows machine, and turned it into a dual boot so I could have a "test" platform for Linux. Unfortunately, I can't get my network card running. I also can't get the sound card to work. Is it possible they are in conflict? (I don't really care about the sound...) I have tried a static assignment (ie. 192.168.0.1, dhcpcd, and pump), but it seems that the error is more basic. Heres a sample of boot messages, can anyone suggest what to do? (I never had this problem on the other box!) I am running a Celeron @ 450, on a 440Bx motherboard, network card is a generic, SoundCard EssSolo, Mandrake 7.2. Sample below. TIA Bill --snip Nov 18 10:13:17 Bill1 init: Entering runlevel: 5 Nov 18 10:13:18 Bill1 harddrake: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 kudzu: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o: Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: init_module: Device or resource busy Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o failed Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o: insmod snd-card-es1938 failed Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 sound: Loading sound module (snd-card-es1938) failed Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/ne2k-pci.o: invalid parameter parm_irq Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization. Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 portmap: portmap startup succeeded --snip ___ Free Unlimited Internet Access! Try it now! http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/altavista/index.html ___
Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option
On Sunday 19 November 2000 06:29 am, skidley wrote: I am just wondering about the -a128 setting, mine is at 8 automatically I have a Western Digital AC313000R my MB has a maximum of udma mode 2 but my drive can support udma3(ata/66). I am thinking about setting up these options hdparm -m16 -c1 -d1 -X66(It says for ultraDMA its the mode(2) +64) Don't use '-X66'. Your motherboard needs to support ata/66 (or have a /66 controller card), you need to use a special 80 wire ata/66 cable, and you can't have non-ata/66 drives on the same ide, in order to use X66. but I am wondering about the -a option, maybe I should leave it at 8? You just have to experiment. Somone with exactly the same HDD as you, configured the same (eg, ide*, slave/master), might get better results from hdparm settings that differ from yours. also the -u option. It says in man it could be dangerous, some drive/controller combinations can't tolerate the increeased I/O latencies. That example line was for my WD AC38400L. If you're not comfortable with using -a or -u, then don't. Just wondering what you think about the settings and to get some feedback before i do anything that may corrupt my filesystem. Start with -c1 -d1, turns on 32 bit and DMA. That's where you'll prob'ly see the biggest performance increase. You can't use -X66, so the next settings to play with would be -a and -m. 'Course like anything that needs to be done as root, you're responsible for the result. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] rc.sysinit problems
Hello all Mandrake users! I am new to the Mandrake system but an experienced Linux user, I made two successful installations of Mandrake 7.2 and it worked perfectly. But now when I try to make a new installation the installation itself seems to work perfectly but on reboot everything just stops ans the system hangs when trying to initiate with the /etc/re.sysinit file all it's calls get the reply 'Permission Denied' and then everything stops. I have tryed 4-5 different installations with the same results, a friend of mine has had the same problem, he gave up Mandrake. I really liked the 7.2 Mandrake and would love to have it back. Can someone please help me with this? Cheer's, ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux KDE ~~@
Re: [newbie] Network Card Woes
Thanks for the replies. I got a little extreme last night and pulled everything out of the machine except the Network and Video cards, and then re-installed LM from scratch. Still no dice! I'm starting to think it has to be a hardware issue. Do any of you have an ASUS P3BF (440BX chipset)?? I know the network card is ok because I have the same card running in my other box, and this card runs fine in windows. TIA Bill. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 1:36 PM Subject: [newbie] Network Card Woes Hi list, I have been running two boxes for a while, one Mandrake and one Windows. I use the Mandrake box for www, mail, gateway, etc. and the Windows one for work stuff. I use Samba, port forwarding, with no difficulties at all. I recently added a new harddrive to my Windows machine, and turned it into a dual boot so I could have a "test" platform for Linux. Unfortunately, I can't get my network card running. I also can't get the sound card to work. Is it possible they are in conflict? (I don't really care about the sound...) I have tried a static assignment (ie. 192.168.0.1, dhcpcd, and pump), but it seems that the error is more basic. Heres a sample of boot messages, can anyone suggest what to do? (I never had this problem on the other box!) I am running a Celeron @ 450, on a 440Bx motherboard, network card is a generic, SoundCard EssSolo, Mandrake 7.2. Sample below. TIA Bill --snip Nov 18 10:13:17 Bill1 init: Entering runlevel: 5 Nov 18 10:13:18 Bill1 harddrake: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 kudzu: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o: Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: init_module: Device or resource busy Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o failed Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o: insmod snd-card-es1938 failed Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 sound: Loading sound module (snd-card-es1938) failed Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/ne2k-pci.o: invalid parameter parm_irq Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization. Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 portmap: portmap startup succeeded --snip
Re: [newbie] serial port problems
"Brian P. Trotter" wrote: I am full of questions tonight. I am trying to get my modem working. I connected an external 3com 56k modem to the COM1 port on the back of the PC. In Mandrake, I type the following command: setserial -g /dev/ttys* and it returns the following results: /dev/ttys0: Input/output error /dev/ttys1: Input/output error /dev/ttys2: Input/output error /dev/ttys3: Input/output error /dev/ttys4: Input/output error /dev/ttys5: Input/output error /dev/ttys6: Input/output error /dev/ttys7: Input/output error /dev/ttys8: Input/output error /dev/ttys9: Input/output error /dev/ttysa: Input/output error /dev/ttysb: Input/output error /dev/ttysc: Input/output error /dev/ttysd: Input/output error /dev/ttyse: Input/output error /dev/ttysf: Input/output error When I try to get it to dial, it does nothing. I see no lights flashing on the modem, so I get the feeling that it can not see the serial port correctly. When I first installed Linux, I was using a serial mouse, whereas now I am using a PS/2 mouse. I saw a lot of archives saying to use KPPP, but I cant find it installed anywhere. I also did this, with the following results: [root@mandrake btrotter]# cd /proc/tty/driver [root@mandrake driver]# more serial serinfo:1.0 driver:4.27 0: uart:16550A port:3F8 irq:4 tx:0 rx:0 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Brian, Remember that regardless of mousetype, it may still be linked to /dev/ttyS0 (com 1 under Windows). I suggest you try your modem on the second serial port, /dev/ttyS1 (com 2 under windows.) Cheers -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Aurora
Marcia You first :-) Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 7:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Aurora Alan Shoemaker wrote: [snip][snip] That's it. :-) Marcia/Jeffoops! Forgot to say to activate your changes in /etc/lilo.conf (as root) type: lilo -v or to activate your changes in /boot/grub/menu.lst navigate to the /boot/grub/ directory (as root) and type: sh install.sh Now that's really all there is. ;-) -- Alan
Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
Tom Brinkman wrote: What version ?? If it's 7.2, a lot of people are reporting the same. The only work-around I've heard (in NG's) is to install the numlock package from 7.1 I believe cooker is workin on a fix. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Ah yes, Tom, I did omit that. Been seeing so much of 7.2 here I took it for granite. Thank you for asking: 7.2/ KDE 2(final). You know the package to use? I hope it's an RPM as I haven't learned where to put an un-tarred package where it should go. -Cmo
[newbie] Hardware help
I apologise for an off-topic post but I need some help please and I know that a lot of you are experts in the hardware field. A colleague asked me to look at her PC (P75, 24mb) which, when powered up appeared to give no output to the monitor, a change of monitors had made no difference. I powered it up and it the monitor remained blank. Suspecting the graphics card (PCI) I swapped it for an old ISA card to see what happened and re-booted. POST completed with a checksum error message, (no sign of a CMOS button battery) I pressed F1 and continued, Windows (I know !) booted after running scandisk and programs loaded succesfully. Just to see what happened I put the original PCI card back in and re-booted, no problems. Thinking that it was perhaps just dirt on contacts and that the problem was solved I left it running for 30 mins or so, went back to it and it had hung - no response from mouse or keyboard, powered down and re-booted and was back to square 1 - monitor power light came on for a few seconds, then a black screen. Swapped the cards again but nothing changed. No error messages, either text or beeps to give me a clue. Has anybody got any ideas please ? BTW both fans are working, very little dust present.
Re: [newbie] Aurora
Marcia, Alan is absolutely right. With great trepidation, I changed my "vga=normal" entry to "vga=791" (for me) and ran lilo -v and when I rebooted, aurora was in effect. So go ahead. I was afraid that I might get in a situation where I would not be able to reboot into linux, but that did not happen. Thanks Alan. That's it. :-) Marcia/Jeffoops! Forgot to say to activate your changes in /etc/lilo.conf (as root) type: lilo -v or to activate your changes in /boot/grub/menu.lst navigate to the /boot/grub/ directory (as root) and type: sh install.sh Now that's really all there is. ;-) -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
[newbie] sound card
I have just installed Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.0 (not final) and I can't get any sound. My sound card is a Creative AWE64 16-bit Audio and it is recognized as such by HardDrake (The MOBO also has a soundbalster as integrated sound, but I have disabled it in the BIOS). The only thing that HardDrake gets wrong is the IRQ and IO Range settings (those are correctly set in LinuxConf) which I set manually. I still can't get any sound though. What can I do to get my soundcard to work? thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
On Sunday 19 November 2000 10:49 am, Charles wrote: Ah yes, Tom, I did omit that. Been seeing so much of 7.2 here I took it for granite. Thank you for asking: 7.2/ KDE 2(final). You know the package to use? I hope it's an RPM as I haven't learned where to put an un-tarred package where it should go. -Cmo Well, i've upgraded KDE2 to CVS 20001117 using Chris Molnar's rpms and numlock still doesn't start on boot. I don't believe it's a KDE2 problem. It hasn't been important enough to me to get it going. I've seen some posts (ML's and NG's) that either say it's a minor conf file change, to it's completely broken, use the 7.1 rpm. I gave my 7.1 CD's away, so I'm not sure, but I believe you'll find a 'numlockrpm' on 7.1 CD's or from a 7.1 mirror. The one I'm currently using is 'numlock-1.0-10mdk' -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] sound card
Open a terminal window as root. Run "sndconfig" It should recognize the sound card and automatically setup your IRQs and DMAs. It will automatically run WAV and MIDI tests. I hope this helps Neil On Sun, 19 November 2000, n a wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.0 (not final) and I can't get any sound. My sound card is a Creative AWE64 16-bit Audio and it is recognized as such by HardDrake (The MOBO also has a soundbalster as integrated sound, but I have disabled it in the BIOS). The only thing that HardDrake gets wrong is the IRQ and IO Range settings (those are correctly set in LinuxConf) which I set manually. I still can't get any sound though. What can I do to get my soundcard to work? thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ ___ Free Unlimited Internet Access! Try it now! http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/altavista/index.html ___
[newbie] remove partitions
Hi heres my Question how do I remove the linux partitions on my HD without having to format the whole HD. I used partition magic to make the partitions on my HD and then I used diskdrake to shrink them to have /hda5,/homehda7,swaphda6,/usrhda8 and hdawindows for a dual-bootbox.I've done this before with partition magic and just deleted the partition and reinstalled but I cant delete it this time I think it's cause I used diskdrake to shrink them. Any advice will be helpful I'am running mdk 7.2 thanks Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
[newbie] Making a leap
Hey, I've been using RH 6.0 for about a year a half now (had used RH 5.0 on a dual-boot box at a job I'd had when the 5.0 was released too) will be switching to LM 7.2 (the Complete's on back-order right now from CheapBytes). Though I'd found that my hardware all seems to be supported, I wonder about some files. This box is a Dell with a P-III 500 (which had come pre-installed with RH 6.0), the most important part here concerns the video card. Since RH 6.0 didn't support the Diamond Viper 770, they'd rewitten the XF86Config file to do so. They'd copied the file to four different places on the hard drive had numerous docs (on paper as well) warning that this file has to be copied to disk if the system is reinstalled copied back after boot or, naturally, no gui. Would I want to keep a copy of the XF86Config? Would it work properly with the newer version of XF86 in LM 7.2? Also, I should think that my home config files should work. I'm thinking of like .bash_profile .bashrc -- maybe even /etc/bashrc -- dir_colors, colorsrc, etc. Any advice on this stuff? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Please respond! disk KERNEL Error
I am curious, I did a -i option and got this reading:
[root@kittypuss /root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, FwRev=A35.0700, SerialNo=882006262361
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63,
TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=3(DualPortCache),
BuffSize=1900kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast),
DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast) CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes,
LBAsects=20066251
WARNING 3552187 ORPHANED SECTORS :: KERNEL REPORTING ERROR Look!
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2 IORDY=on/off,
tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4 UDMA modes: mode0 mode1
*mode2 mode3 mode4 Drive Supports : Reserved : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5
[root@kittypuss /root]#
Is this something I should be concerned about?(where I typed the
"Look" arrow above). If so, what should I do?
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Saturday 18 November 2000 10:13 pm, pablito wrote:
Interesting. "info hdparm" is a terminal command?
yes. (su to root) 'hdparm -i /dev/hd*' will read the information
from your harddrive's (HDD) firmware (bios). Much of this information
is useful in guessing at which hdparm options will best optimize your
HDD.
Once you've determined the best options by running 'hdparm -tT
/dev/hd*', that hdparm line can be added to the end of your
/etc/rc.d/rc.local file to optimize your HDD on every boot.
EG (I have this line at the tail of rc.local for my old ata/33 linux
HDD), hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -d1 -k1 -a128 /dev/hdb
snip
Re: [newbie] Aurora
On Sunday 19 November 2000 11:14 am, Jeff Malka wrote: Marcia, Alan is absolutely right. With great trepidation, I changed my "vga=normal" entry to "vga=791" (for me) and ran lilo -v and when I rebooted, aurora was in effect. So go ahead. I was afraid that I might get in a situation where I would not be able to reboot into linux, but that did not happen. That works if the video card supports frame buffer. There's no tellin what'll happen if you edit lilo.conf or menu.lst and then the card fails (?) That's why I advocated using the install CD and choosing 'recommended' and 'rescue' (upgrade). It checks the video card to see if it supports FB. Also, in lilo.conf for example, the correct place to change/add 'vga=xxx' is under 'image=/boot/vmlinuz' boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal = don't change it here default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 compact prompt timeout=80 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" hdd=ide-scsi" vga=788= change it here read-only | | BTW, I changed Aurora to higher res, but changed it back to 800x600 (788). Text was too small at higher res, looks better (to me) at 800x600 -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] remove partitions
On 19 Nov 2000, ed wrote: Hi heres my Question how do I remove the linux partitions on my HD without having to format the whole HD. I used partition magic to make the partitions on my HD and then I used diskdrake to shrink them to have /hda5,/homehda7,swaphda6,/usrhda8 and hdawindows for a dual-bootbox.I've done this before with partition magic and just deleted the partition and reinstalled but I cant delete it this time I think it's cause I used diskdrake to shrink them. Any advice will be helpful I'am running mdk 7.2 thanks I think you could do this - boot into Windows, run Partition Magic, using PM delete the linux partition, then expand the Windows partition. You will prolly have to use an old MBR to reboot into Windows. Not 100% on that, but I think it'll work -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719
[newbie] Fetchmail
Can anyone tell me how to set up Fetchmail so that it runs as a daemon in the background? In fetchmailconf, for cycles to skip between polls, I put 300, as I wanted it to check every 5 minutes. But, if I type fetchmail at the command prompt, it just runs once, and details everything its doing (checking messages, how many messages, flushing messages) in the terminal. I clicked Invisible mode in fetchmailconf, but then I hit the Run Fetchmail button, and it brings up the fetchmail run window...and it still only seems to check once. I'm using 7.2, and fetchmailconf 1.28, if that makes a difference. Thanks! -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719
Re: [newbie] Please respond! disk KERNEL Error
On Sunday 19 November 2000 12:18 pm, Vic wrote:
I am curious, I did a -i option and got this reading:
[root@kittypuss /root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
WARNING 3552187 ORPHANED SECTORS :: KERNEL REPORTING ERROR
Look! tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1
mword2 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3
mode4 UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2 mode3 mode4 Drive Supports :
Reserved : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 [root@kittypuss /root]#
Is this something I should be concerned about?(where I typed the
"Look" arrow above). If so, what should I do?
What does 'dmesg' say? Any CRC errors? The drive is runnin at
ata/33 (ie, *mode2), but is ata/66 capable. How did you set it up? What
does 'hdparm -v' say? What fs (ie, ext2, rieserFS, ) are you using?
Hardware problems like this are almost impossible to
diagnose/correct 'over the phone'. There's many reasons why you could
have this problem, eg, motherboard, controller, cable, power supply,
heat, bios/jumper config, and on and on.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] remove partitions
Roger is right, you should be able to delete the ext2 partitions with Partition Magic (at least if PM can read them) and expand the Win partition afterwards (or make an extra Win partition or whatever!). If this is absolutely impossible then I would try Windows fdisk. You can fix the MBR with fdisk too; fdisk/mbr or fdisk\mbr. ei On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Roger Sherman wrote: On 19 Nov 2000, ed wrote: Hi heres my Question how do I remove the linux partitions on my HD without having to format the whole HD. I used partition magic to make the partitions on my HD and then I used diskdrake to shrink them to have /hda5,/homehda7,swaphda6,/usrhda8 and hdawindows for a dual-bootbox.I've done this before with partition magic and just deleted the partition and reinstalled but I cant delete it this time I think it's cause I used diskdrake to shrink them. Any advice will be helpful I'am running mdk 7.2 thanks I think you could do this - boot into Windows, run Partition Magic, using PM delete the linux partition, then expand the Windows partition. You will prolly have to use an old MBR to reboot into Windows. Not 100% on that, but I think it'll work -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux KDE ~~@
[newbie] Cant connect to internet Plezz help
Ok I have installed Mandrake-Linux with no problems on my system, 5 times now. I am installing the lnx4win version. In windoz I got the DHCP, Default Gateway, my IP, my subnetmast, which is 255.255.252.0, notice the 252 there?, and my DNS. I have used the ifconfig -a function and my card is being reconized. BTW I have Road Runner cable connection . I have tried most every variant I can to get the internet connection up. I am a true newb to Linux but frow what i understand the DHCP should configure my system for me. I have before set up a NetMax server but when I did that it used a static ip. Is there a function of sometype that i can run to set up my connection? Im lost here. Thx for anyhelp
[newbie] fstab
Ok my fstab ended up majorly screwed somehow and i don't know why. I had to enable supermount again, but the options for the cdrom drive and burner are screwed up, i have like nosuid, noexec, noauto, etc. It worked excellent before on the standard way it was setup after install. Please help me get my settings back to normal. I know there was rw in both now they are ro, also the floppy is screwed too. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749
Re: [newbie] Cant connect to internet Plezz help
Albert Davis wrote: Ok I have installed Mandrake-Linux with no problems on my system, 5 times now. I am installing the lnx4win version. In windoz I got the DHCP, Default Gateway, my IP, my subnetmast, which is 255.255.252.0, notice the 252 there?, and my DNS. I have used the ifconfig -a function and my card is being reconized. BTW I have Road Runner cable connection . I have tried most every variant I can to get the internet connection up. I am a true newb to Linux but frow what i understand the DHCP should configure my system for me. I have before set up a NetMax server but when I did that it used a static ip. Is there a function of sometype that i can run to set up my connection? Im lost here. Thx for anyhelp Albert, I had the same problem, but I can only tell you what to do as far as a real linux install. But it may remain the same for the fat version. Under linuxconf in the network section. Set it for dhcp set your hostname, alias, and put in your IP address, make sure that the 24.1x.2x.xx 1x and 2x are uniform with any other box on that roadrunner network. Then make sure you have the right kernel module installed. And save you settings and exit, it should reload the network, and you should be good to go. Regards, Peter Marks
[newbie] (...) 7.2 nightmare setup (partitions)
my problem is this: after I boot with the disk7 to the 7.2 instalatio I get this really cool screen with the options F1 or Enter. After choosing "Enter" he detects the cdrom, initializes it and enters the setup process (another cool screen). he asks the language, the expert/costum thing and then detects the keyboard, the mouse, etc. then asks me to choose what type of partition do I want: if I want to delet windows, if I want to use the free space in the windows partition, or the expert. I choose "use free space" and then I does this: "Computing windows file system bounds"he wait here a while and then a window appears saying some like "it's advisable to run scandisk and scanreg (opt) before entering this stage. press OK when ready"and there are 2 buttons: "OK" and "Cancel". But when I try to click on any of them it doest work! the mouse works but it's not possible to click on any button! even in the "screen change" buttons... crtl+alt+del doesn't work to... I already tried to make a scandisk, a scanreg, the 2 types of scandisk, in DOS, in windows... and it keeps crashing in the same stage... can U help me? I tried to make the partitions in the "expert" mode but if I try to make any other he deletes the windows one... help...? thx
Re: [newbie] remove partitions
ed wrote: Hi heres my Question how do I remove the linux partitions on my HD without having to format the whole HD. I used partition magic to make the partitions on my HD and then I used diskdrake to shrink them to have /hda5,/homehda7,swaphda6,/usrhda8 and hdawindows for a dual-bootbox.I've done this before with partition magic and just deleted the partition and reinstalled but I cant delete it this time I think it's cause I used diskdrake to shrink them. Any advice will be helpful I'am running mdk 7.2 thanks EdPM can't read what's inside a type 85 extended partition and that'd what diskdrake makes in 7.2. You need to use linux fdisk as root: fdisk /dev/hda go slowly, refer to the 'm'[enu] command a lot and you'll do fine. Oh, as an alternative, you don't really need to pre-delete the partions, you can do it during the installation. And as another alternative you can run harddrake from the K(menu) - configuration - hardware menu and execute diskdrake from there and use it instead of fdisk. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] (...) 7.2 nightmare setup (partitions)
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Krulo wrote: my problem is this: after I boot with the disk7 to the 7.2 instalatio I get this really cool screen with the options F1 or Enter. After choosing "Enter" he detects the cdrom, initializes it and enters the setup process (another cool screen). he asks the language, the expert/costum thing and then detects the keyboard, the mouse, etc. then asks me to choose what type of partition do I want: if I want to delet windows, if I want to use the free space in the windows partition, or the expert. I choose "use free space" and then I does this: "Computing windows file system bounds" he wait here a while and then a window appears saying some like "it's advisable to run scandisk and scanreg (opt) before entering this stage. press OK when ready" and there are 2 buttons: "OK" and "Cancel". But when I try to click on any of them it doest work! the mouse works but it's not possible to click on any button! even in the "screen change" buttons... crtl+alt+del doesn't work to... I already tried to make a scandisk, a scanreg, the 2 types of scandisk, in DOS, in windows... and it keeps crashing in the same stage... can U help me? I tried to make the partitions in the "expert" mode but if I try to make any other he deletes the windows one... help...? thx Can you give a little more info? HD size, how many other partitions, etcIn my case, when I get to the part that asks me if I want to use the free space, blah blah, I click the Expert button, and since I have a HD thats plenty big enough (17 gig) for me to shrink Winbitesmyass down considerably (since I use Linux as my primary OS anyways), I then click on the Windows partition (because clicking on expert brought me to DiskDrake, which allows you to resize and partition your HD), make it smaller (about 5 gig), then I click on the remaining free space (about 11 left over, of course), and then I click auto-allocate. DiskDrake then sets up the Linux partitioning, and away I go. Maybe that will work for you...either way, click expert and just take a look without actually doing anything - youre safe just looking things over, getting your bearings. -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719
RE: [newbie] Cant connect to internet Plezz help
I need this same help too but for sdsl... somebody help it doesnt seem that it is using dhcp correctly and manual addition for the entries doesnt help but it recognizes my card and has teh driver the ethernet on my dsl modem is also on... please someone give help I had sent a message about something similar earlier ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] Cant connect to internet Plezz help ** Original Sender: "Albert Davis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Original Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:15:16 -0600 ** Original Message follows... Ok I have installed Mandrake-Linux with no problems on my system, 5 times now. I am installing the lnx4win version. In windoz I got the DHCP, Default Gateway, my IP, my subnetmast, which is 255.255.252.0, notice the 252 there?, and my DNS. I have used the ifconfig -a function and my card is being reconized. BTW I have Road Runner cable connection I have tried most every variant I can to get the internet connection up. I am a true newb to Linux but frow what i understand the DHCP should configure my system for me. I have before set up a NetMax server but when I did that it used a static ip. Is there a function of sometype that i can run to set up my connection? Im lost here. Thx for anyhelp ** - End Original Message --- ** animalTK
Re: [newbie] LS-120 drive
Joseph Markham wrote: I've installed LM 7.2 on my system, EVERYTHING WORKS except LS-120 identified twice, once as a Floppy (/dev/hdc) then as a scsci device ( /dev/sda). I am unable to mount it [snip] Josephas root create a new directory called /mnt/ls-120. Then still as root edit your /etc/fstab file and remove or comment out any lines referring to the ls-120 except the following line (add it if you have to): /dev/hdc /mnt/ls-120 vfat usr,noauto,exec,umask=0 0 0 Then save the /etc/fstab file. Next right-click your desktop and choose 'create new' - 'floppy device'. On the 'general' tab rename it from Floppy Device to LS-120. On the 'device' tab choose '/dev/hdc' as 'Device:' (from the pull down choice list) and the applet will autochoose '/mnt/ls-120' as 'Mount Point' for you. Click on the OK button at the bottom of the applet and you are done. You will now be able to mount either a dos/windows formatted floppy or an ls-120 factory-formatted 120 meg cartridge by clicking on the desktop icon after inserting a disc ito the drive. Before attempting to remove the disc from the drive you need to unmount the insterted media by right-clicking the icon and choosing 'unmount'. That's it! :-) -- Alan
Re: [newbie] This bites (further cable woes)
I've had great luck with 3com905tx and netegar fa310tx. They use 3c9X.0 and tulip.o respectively. Both worked fine with cable, uselessworst DSL and speakeasy DSL. Bob Currey wrote: By hardware adapter, he means ethernet card. Be very careful which you pick. I have many "supported" ones that didn't work with my cable modem setup on 7.1 and 7.2. I'd suggest an NE2000 PCI clone or 3Com 3C905tx after all I've been through. Intel boards (2) are hopeless, Netgear (2) are hopeless, SMC (1) are hopeless. I ended up buying 4 boards for $5 each after going thru the name brand stuff to no avail. Same boards in same machine worked under Windoze, tried to use same settings under Linux. Don't get me wrong, I'm just trying to help you not go buy the same mistakes I have a shelf of. BobC - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] This bites (further cable woes) Hardware Adapter??? Mark jack dugas wrote: get the hardware adapter that is supported by linux and you will have no problem. then reinstall the OS and there you will have it . On the internet - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Newbie List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Roger Sherman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] This bites (further cable woes) Roger, when you setup eth0 in linuxconf did you check for manual config of your IP, or is it set to dhcp? the default setting is manual. This needs to be set to dhcp. if you're not sure open drakeconf --Network configuration --Basic Host information --Adaptor 1 (tab). 1) make sure "Enable" is ckecked 2) if it is not check Dhcp 3) make sure the correct "primary name + domain" field is filled correctly 4) alias is optional 5) fill in your ip address 6) choose the correct netmask - most likely 255.255.255.0 7) choose the correct type of "Net device" (eth0) 8) click the "accept" button From here close the Network configuration interface and reboot your machine to set everything in motion. O yeah...one more thing. let us know how you make out. -- Mark ...Wisdom begins when the mouth is closed and the palms are turned upward. On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 Roger Sherman had this to say! So, when I installed 7.2 a few days ago, I was thrilled to see it configured my cable modem for me. Yesterday, I decided it was time to install a firewall, which I attempted. It went poorly, so I decided to put it on the shelf til I could talk to someone who knew a bit about it. My roommate wanted to use the PC, and go into WIndows, which he did. Later I booted back into Linux, and saw as it was initializing everything, that eth0 failed to initialize. The reason given was Initializing eth0 - Determining IP information via dhcpcd - failed I figured it was because of my botched firewall attempt, so I uninstalled it, and still nothing. So, since Id just installed everything, and nothing was really tweaked to my liking, I just reinstalled the whole thing. Problem solved, and I was back online. Until I rebooted again - this time with no firewall to muck things up. Same result though, same message. Can anyone tell me how to get back online? I typed in ifconfig, and it didnt tell me anything except that I was offline, I tried to reconfigure my cable setup through DrakeConf - Network and Internet Configuration; it told me it was starting eth0 again, then a minute later it said it was already configured. In a terminal, as su, I typed dhcpcd, but it didnt do anything. Thats it for me, Im a newbie, I have no tricks up my sleeve. So is it possible to dual boot and still be able to initialize eth0 upon booting? Id really hate to think I might have to reinstall Linux a couple times a week if I want to be online, but at the same time, I want nothing to do with Windows anymore, and am considering making this PC strictly a Linux box. Problem being, if I get knocked offline like that, then I have to reinstall Windows to get help. Help!!! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= **
Re: [newbie] Hardware help
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds a bit like a syncing problem between chips on the mainboard and something on the videocard. Something to do with heat, changing specs. I suspect a faulty chip on the videocard. Paul I apologise for an off-topic post but I need some help please and I know that a lot of you are experts in the hardware field. A colleague asked me to look at her PC (P75, 24mb) which, when powered up appeared to give no output to the monitor, a change of monitors had made no difference. I powered it up and it the monitor remained blank. Suspecting the graphics card (PCI) I swapped it for an old ISA card to see what happened and re-booted. POST completed with a checksum error message, (no sign of a CMOS button battery) I pressed F1 and continued, Windows (I know !) booted after running scandisk and programs loaded succesfully. Just to see what happened I put the original PCI card back in and re-booted, no problems. Thinking that it was perhaps just dirt on contacts and that the problem was solved I left it running for 30 mins or so, went back to it and it had hung - no response from mouse or keyboard, powered down and re-booted and was back to square 1 - monitor power light came on for a few seconds, then a black screen. Swapped the cards again but nothing changed. No error messages, either text or beeps to give me a clue. Has anybody got any ideas please ? BTW both fans are working, very little dust present. -- Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. And "no" is the answer. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Roger Sherman wrote: Can anyone tell me how to set up Fetchmail so that it runs as a daemon in the background? In fetchmailconf, for cycles to skip between polls, I put 300, as I wanted it to check every 5 minutes. But, if I type fetchmail at the command prompt, it just runs once, and details everything its doing (checking messages, how many messages, flushing messages) in the terminal. I clicked Invisible mode in fetchmailconf, but then I hit the Run Fetchmail button, and it brings up the fetchmail run window...and it still only seems to check once. I'm using 7.2, and fetchmailconf 1.28, if that makes a difference. Thanks! You don't need fetchmailconf :-) fetchmailconf will make a .fetchmailrc file in your home directory. So you set up your username, password, mail server, and mail server protocol with fetchmailconf. Then at the command line type fetchmail -d interval -s -f That will set the -d tells fetchmail to fork into the background the interval is how often you want it to check -s will make it silent -f will flush messages off of the server. Assuming you have a POP e-mail account of course :-) --keep will keep messages on the server. If you type nohup fetchmail -d interval -s -f then fetchmail will continue to run even when you log out of Linux or close the terminal window you are running it in. Dan
Re: [newbie] Web server problem
Here is an example of what I mean, go to www.bluesnews.com/quake3 it willAUTOMATICALLY add the / to the end and not give a not found error. How do Iget this to work on my server?- Original Message -From: "Shawn Daniel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 7:33 AMSubject: RE: [newbie] Web server problem Without the trailing "/", the web server is looking for a webpage named test.htm or test.html. You need the / to tell it that it is a directory, not a file. Shawn A. Daniel Linux Registered User #194953 -Original Message- From: Leo Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 9:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Web server problem I am running Apache 1.3.14 web server on my MDK 7.2 machine, andeverything seems to be working fine except for one small problem. Let's say a user is trying to access a site under the subdirectory test. My servers ip is 65.1.243.92, so he would enter 65.1.243.92/test however unless he puts a / on the end it wont go there. So he would actually have to enter 65.1.243.92/test/ to get there. Is there any way to get it to work without the / on the end? I have noticed that if a particular directory ispassword protected the login/pw box will pop up even if there is no / on the end,but after you enter the correct login info it will still be unable to load unless you manually add a / to the end of the URL. Any help is appreciated, -Leo Fox
Re: [newbie] Aurora OOPS
OOPs. I changed it in the vga=normal. It seemed to work. But I will correct that by changing it in the location you indicate. Why the difference? Alan is absolutely right. With great trepidation, I changed my "vga=normal" entry to "vga=791" (for me) and ran lilo -v and when I rebooted, aurora was in effect. So go ahead. I was afraid that I might get in a situation where I would not be able to reboot into linux, but that did not happen. card to see if it supports FB. Also, in lilo.conf for example, the correct place to change/add 'vga=xxx' is under 'image=/boot/vmlinuz' boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal = don't change it here default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 compact prompt timeout=80 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" hdd=ide-scsi" vga=788= change it here read-only -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: [newbie] Cant connect to internet Plezz help-Bo
Jae, I have but one box, I used the winipcfg and got all my information. My DHCP and DNS are the same 24.95.227.33 and x.x.x.32 is another dns. When you say rounter I have a default gateway 65.33.112 When i installed it i chose custome and selected for every pack to be installed, as i have 55 gigs, so im not worried about space. Can you help me by telling me under the drake config or the internet config what do i have to set up? I know that kind of general but iv been working on this for 2 days and getting a little fustrated, ack. Also does it matter what i chose for my domain name as i chose bodavis.cfl.rr.com. - Original Message - From: "jae you" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cant connect to internet Plezz help From: "Albert Davis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Cant connect to internet Plezz help Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:10:25 -0500 Ok I have installed Mandrake-Linux with no problems on my system, 5 times now. I am installing the lnx4win version. In windoz I got the DHCP, Default Gateway, my IP, my subnetmast, which is 255.255.252.0, notice the 252 there?, and my DNS. I have used the ifconfig -a function and my card is being reconized. BTW I have Road Runner cable connection I have tried most every variant I can to get the internet connection up. I am a true newb to Linux but frow what i understand the DHCP should configure my system for me. I have before set up a NetMax server but when I did that it used a static ip. Is there a function of sometype that i can run to set up my connection? Im lost here. Thx for anyhelp 1. do u have a cable/ dsl router? (the router is the DHCP server. if you don't have a router, you don't have a DHCP server. if you don't, then you have to get your internet provider's DNSs addresses (Linux will ask you those info. during installation)) 2. which install mode did you pick? expert automatic custom (pick custom) I used server installation,a nd it worked fine. If you have a router, you shoud put the router's address. U don't need any of DNSs and stuff because those are supposed to be in your router already. I believe Roadrunner does not offer static IP. so don't go there good luck
[newbie] MD 7.2 Problems
I am a newbie and need help. I have installed MD 7.2 powerpack deluxe on my machine, a Gateway 550LS with a pentium3 Xeon, 256 Mg memory, 34Gb disk storage in a dual boot environment. Each operating system resides on a separate disk. The dish controller is Adaptec 2940U2 with a 4.5 Gb for windows Me, 9.2 Gb for Linux and 18.2 Gb for scratch. Problem 1 - On a cold boot, with KDE 2.0 enabled (auto user login enabled), I can Logout and perform a Shutdown; however after using the system for awhile if you logout the Login window never comes up, you are returned to the KDE desktop. The only way to get out is to power down. Not a good practice. Problem 2 - After using RPMDrake a few times, it now when accessed starts to display its screen and then quits, no hang up, just quits. I cannot get it to load. Any suggestions? --- Kenneth Brown --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.
Re: [newbie] Web server problem
Leo, Not sure if you've checked this yet, but my httpd.conf has the following in it (see below): I think these are the lines which tell Apache to check for an index.html when just the bare URL is requested. Maybe your index style is not listed?? HTH Bill. --snip-- # DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML # directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces. DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm index.shtml index.cgi Default.htm default.htm index.php3 # FancyIndexing is whether you want fancy directory indexing or standard FancyIndexing on # server-generated indexes. # directory indexes. # IndexIgnore is a set of filenames which directory indexing should ignore # Format: IndexIgnore name1 name2... IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks # This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes", Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks Options Indexes FollowSymLinks --snip-- - Original Message - From: "Leo Fox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Web server problem Here is an example of what I mean, go to www.bluesnews.com/quake3 it will AUTOMATICALLY add the / to the end and not give a not found error. How do I get this to work on my server? - Original Message - From: "Shawn Daniel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 7:33 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Web server problem Without the trailing "/", the web server is looking for a webpage named test.htm or test.html. You need the / to tell it that it is a directory, not a file. Shawn A. Daniel Linux Registered User #194953 -Original Message- From: Leo Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 9:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Web server problem I am running Apache 1.3.14 web server on my MDK 7.2 machine, and everything seems to be working fine except for one small problem. Let's say a user is trying to access a site under the subdirectory test. My servers ip is 65.1.243.92, so he would enter 65.1.243.92/test however unless he puts a / on the end it wont go there. So he would actually have to enter 65.1.243.92/test/ to get there. Is there any way to get it to work without the / on the end? I have noticed that if a particular directory is password protected the login/pw box will pop up even if there is no / on the end, but after you enter the correct login info it will still be unable to load unless you manually add a / to the end of the URL. Any help is appreciated, -Leo Fox
[newbie] Iso files
How do I use the available iso9660 files to upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2? Thanks in advance GT
Re: [newbie] Aurora
I realize this may sound like a dumb question, but I've searched the man's and have watched it scroll by during boot up and I still don't know. What is Aurora and what does it do? Barry :-) Jeff Malka wrote: Marcia, Alan is absolutely right. With great trepidation, I changed my "vga=normal" entry to "vga=791" (for me) and ran lilo -v and when I rebooted, aurora was in effect. So go ahead. I was afraid that I might get in a situation where I would not be able to reboot into linux, but that did not happen. Thanks Alan. That's it. :-) Marcia/Jeffoops! Forgot to say to activate your changes in /etc/lilo.conf (as root) type: lilo -v or to activate your changes in /boot/grub/menu.lst navigate to the /boot/grub/ directory (as root) and type: sh install.sh Now that's really all there is. ;-) -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
[newbie] Changing lilo settings on boot-diskette
Hi there, I boot my linux partition form a boot-diskette. How can I change the settings with which lilo boots from this diskette? If lilo would have been installed locally, I only would have to change lilo.conf and run lilo. But how do I change lilo on the boot-floppy? I have edited the /mountpoint/etc/lilo.conf file on the diskette. But with which parameters do I run lilo so that it changes the loader on the boot-diskette? Regards, Iwan
Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 11:30:47 -0600, Tom Brinkman said: I can turn NumLock on/of in DrakConf Startup Services "click the little square" beside Numlock. But I DID tell L-M 7.2, during install, to turn NumLock on in the screen that was about supermount/disk optimization. On Sunday 19 November 2000 10:49 am, Charles wrote: Ah yes, Tom, I did omit that. Been seeing so much of 7.2 here I took it for granite. Thank you for asking: 7.2/ KDE 2(final). You know the package to use? I hope it's an RPM as I haven't learned where to put an un-tarred package where it should go. -Cmo Well, i've upgraded KDE2 to CVS 20001117 using Chris Molnar's rpms and numlock still doesn't start on boot. I don't believe it's a KDE2 problem. It hasn't been important enough to me to get it going. I've seen some posts (ML's and NG's) that either say it's a minor conf file change, to it's completely broken, use the 7.1 rpm. I gave my 7.1 CD's away, so I'm not sure, but I believe you'll find a 'numlockrpm' on 7.1 CD's or from a 7.1 mirror. The one I'm currently using is 'numlock-1.0-10mdk' -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay -- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Web server problem
On Sunday 19 November 2000 16:34, Leo Fox wrote: Here is an example of what I mean, go to www.bluesnews.com/quake3 it will AUTOMATICALLY add the / to the end and not give a not found error. How do I get this to work on my server? To all: To remedy your problem with the trailing / on your web server. Open up your http.conf file and find the option UseCononicalNames turn this option off and it will append the / automatically. EX. UseCanonicalNames off Hope this helps you.
[newbie] How Do I get off this list
Does anyone know how I could get off this list??
Re: [newbie] Aurora OOPS
On Sunday 19 November 2000 03:46 pm, Jeff Malka wrote: OOPs. I changed it in the vga=normal. It seemed to work. But I will correct that by changing it in the location you indicate. Why the difference? Local or global variable. Changing it before the boot label would (should) make vga=xxx apply to all labels instead of just image=/boot/vmlinuz. Notice that it doesn't appear in the non-fb section of your lilo.conf, consequently selecting non-fb gives you a normal boot (no Aurora). -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Alan is absolutely right. With great trepidation, I changed my "vga=normal" entry to "vga=791" (for me) and ran lilo -v and when I rebooted, aurora was in effect. So go ahead. I was afraid that I might get in a situation where I would not be able to reboot into linux, but that did not happen. card to see if it supports FB. Also, in lilo.conf for example, the correct place to change/add 'vga=xxx' is under 'image=/boot/vmlinuz' boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal = don't change it here default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 compact prompt timeout=80 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" hdd=ide-scsi" vga=788= change it here read-only
Re: [newbie] Aurora OOPS
Jeff Malka wrote: OOPs. I changed it in the vga=normal. It seemed to work. But I will correct that by changing it in the location you indicate. Why the difference? Jeffif it's there then you can have another choice of Linux boot with a different resolution or with no frame buffer bootup at all. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] LINUX
Put the CD in the cdrom, reboot your machine. That should boot off the CD for you, so you can have a regular Mandrake install. Tyler On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, JStalker wrote: Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:57:18 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "JStalker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] LINUX I just downloaded mandrake 7.2 and it says i can install it without partitioning my HD.. well ummm can i intsall outside of windows.. like how u normally install linux?? or do i have to do it in wndows
Re: [newbie] LINUX
JStalker wrote: I just downloaded mandrake 7.2 and it says i can install it without partitioning my HD.. well ummm can i intsall outside of windows.. like how u normally install linux?? or do i have to do it in wndows JStalkerno, it is better to install it outside of windows which requires re-partitioning and possibly re-sizing of the current windows partition. To allow for a viable useful Linux system you need to recover from windows a minimum of 2 gigs and windows should be left with at least (depends on how much extra stuff is ialready installed in windows) 2 gigs as well. MandrakeSoft makes available for download, the documentation that comes with the retail boxed sets here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3 Below is an important excerpt from the install guide, but it'd be better if you'd download and read it all before beginning your installation. -- Alan excerpt below- Chapter 3. WARNING - README This manual covers the installation in Automated mode, either using Lnx4Win or a classical install. In case you decide for a classical install and have never installed Linux before, DrakX will have to resize your Windows partition. This operation can be harmful to your data, therefore you MUST ensure of the following before proceeding: you must have previously run scandisk on your Windows partition; the resizing program can detect some obvious errors, but scandisk is more suited for this task; for maximum security, you should also run defrag on your partition, which reduces further the risk of failure; this is not compulsory but is highly recommended, and will make resizing much faster and easier; the ultimate insurance against problems: back up your data! If neither scandisk nor defrag are installed within Windows, please refer to the Windows documentation for installing them.
[newbie] blank screen
When I return from lunch - instead of the screesaver I selected to run under xlock, I have a blank screen. I have tried "xset -s off" from a command line and added thad command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (as suggested by a RedHat user). I am running Mandrake 7.2 and Windowmaker 0.62. If I run MS Windows from another partition on the same computer, the screen will not go blank (so I don't think it's a BIOS setting). How can I make this stop happening - or - can I create a log file that will let me know what is causing the screen to go blank ? Thanks -- Jon Dowd
Re: [newbie] Please respond! disk KERNEL Error
The only thing of relative I could
find in /var/log/dmesg was
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64)
Other than that nothing else in dmesg,
however Ihave a cdrom on the primary slave
so that might be what that is.
hdparm -v said:
[root@kittypuss ntr]# hdparm -v /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount= 0 (off)
I/O support = 3 (32-bit w/sync)
unmaskirq= 1 (on)
using_dma= 1 (on)
keepsettings = 1 (on)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead= 8 (on)
geometry = 1249/255/63, sectors = 20066251, start = 0
[root@kittypuss ntr]#
And hdparm -i said:
root@kittypuss ntr]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, FwRev=A35.0700, SerialNo=882006262361
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=1900kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast)
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=20066251
WARNING 3552187 ORPHANED SECTORS :: KERNEL REPORTING ERROR
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2 mode3 mode4
Drive Supports : Reserved : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5
[root@kittypuss ntr]#
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote:
snip
WARNING 3552187 ORPHANED SECTORS :: KERNEL REPORTING ERROR
Look! tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1
mword2 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3
mode4 UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2 mode3 mode4 Drive Supports :
Reserved : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 [root@kittypuss /root]#
Is this something I should be concerned about?(where I typed the
"Look" arrow above). If so, what should I do?
What does 'dmesg' say? Any CRC errors? The drive is runnin at
ata/33 (ie, *mode2), but is ata/66 capable. How did you set it up? What
does 'hdparm -v' say? What fs (ie, ext2, rieserFS, ) are you using?
snip
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail
Try this command below fetchmail -d 300 Regards, SKLIM - Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-Mandrake newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 2:38 AM Subject: [newbie] Fetchmail Can anyone tell me how to set up Fetchmail so that it runs as a daemon in the background? In fetchmailconf, for cycles to skip between polls, I put 300, as I wanted it to check every 5 minutes. But, if I type fetchmail at the command prompt, it just runs once, and details everything its doing (checking messages, how many messages, flushing messages) in the terminal. I clicked Invisible mode in fetchmailconf, but then I hit the Run Fetchmail button, and it brings up the fetchmail run window...and it still only seems to check once. I'm using 7.2, and fetchmailconf 1.28, if that makes a difference. Thanks! -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719
Re: [newbie] blank screen
Jon Dowd wrote: When I return from lunch - instead of the screesaver I selected to run under xlock, I have a blank screen. I have tried "xset -s off" from a command line and added thad command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (as suggested by a RedHat user). I am running Mandrake 7.2 and Windowmaker 0.62. If I run MS Windows from another partition on the same computer, the screen will not go blank (so I don't think it's a BIOS setting). How can I make this stop happening - or - can I create a log file that will let me know what is causing the screen to go blank ? Thanks -- Jon Dowd JonI'll bet it's either in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file or your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, depending on which release of XFree86 you're using. Find and comment out or remove the below lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 respectively and your unwanted screen-blanking behavior should stop. Option "power_saver" Option "DPMS" -- Alan
[newbie] Finding host based on MAC address
HI, I need to find hosts in my local network that uses a certain MAC address. I've heard about a program called "arpping" that can "ping" a host using the MAC address instead of IP address. Do you know where to get this program or something similar? Thanks Mazen __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] Finding host based on MAC address
Why not go to a terminal window (assuming you are using Linux) and type arp -a? BTW if you are successful at re-addressing your NIC, let me know! -michael- On Sunday 19 November 2000 20:04, you wrote: HI, I need to find hosts in my local network that uses a certain MAC address. I've heard about a program called "arpping" that can "ping" a host using the MAC address instead of IP address. Do you know where to get this program or something similar? Thanks Mazen __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup -- ;-) -michael-
Re: [newbie] printing
John, Try a right mouse click on the title bar at the top of the frame. You will find a menu item called 'Decoration'. If you open this up, it will display a list of optional styles. I haven't changed mine as yet. If I can't retrain my mouse to go left instead of right, I'll look at the alternatives. Barry John Kintree wrote: Thanks to Till, Barry, Marcia, and other friends, Running the web administration tool for CUPS finally solved my problems. I have an Epson Stylus Color 400, and was getting the faint, poorly calibrated output, also. For some reason, changing the settings within kups did not work for me; the settings kept returning to the default of 180x180. The changes I made with the web adminstration tool "stuck." There are other changes I've had difficulty getting to stick, such as background color and look n' feel style. When I use the Control Panel to make these changes, the changes do not apply. I'm still looking at a periwinkle color background and the 'x' to close button in the top left corner. I would really like to get the 'x' to close button in the top right corner. John
[newbie] applications
Though perhaps a bit off subject, I'm hopeful that someone will be able to point me in the right direction. I've been playing with Linux for a while (several different builds of Mandrake and RedHat), and am pretty happy with my new Mandrake 7.2 system. What I am missing from from my Windows box is something similar to Outlook. I think all the Kapps (mail, word, calendar, etc) are nice, but I'd like to have an all in one PIM/Email client. I'm looking for suggestions if anyone's got any. (I'm very familiar with Netscape and have given it a pretty fair shot, it just doesn't do it for me, ya know?) Anyway, thanks in advance. Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] fstab
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, skidley wrote: Ok my fstab ended up majorly screwed somehow and i don't know why. I had to enable supermount again, but the options for the cdrom drive and burner are screwed up, i have like nosuid, noexec, noauto, etc. It worked excellent before on the standard way it was setup after install. Please help me get my settings back to normal. I know there was rw in both now they are ro, also the floppy is screwed too. My fstab: /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/plextor /mnt/plextor supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /big ext2 defaults 1 2 Hope this helps Paul -- A stranger is a friend we do not know yet. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
[newbie] Problems while inatalling 7.2 version.
Hello everybody: I just downloaded the Linux Mandrake 7.2 image files and tried to install it. But the option I picked up seems not to work correctly and would like to know if any of you have choosen the same option as me. The installation language I choosed was SPANISH and the type of installation was that of a WORKSTATION. When I tried to install Linux in the same Windows partition, the the installation program stopped and warned that the partition was not defragmented enough despite I had just defragmented it. So I decided to create a new partition only for Linux. When the time came to pick up the packages to install, the installation program repeatedly warned that the size of all the packages choosen was too big for free space avaliable in the partition, but I just had included a few of them all. I went through that step several times and the program never recognized the correct size of them. Finally the program installed whatever it wanted to. Once finished, I logged as a normal user using the ICE windows manager, but was not even able to open a shell window; it didn't have the appropiate button!! Have any of you happened to have the same problems as me? Thanks in advace. Fabián Peña.
Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
Thanks to all ! I didn't have the option at install nor within DrakConf Startup Services , but I found it on disk 1 of 7.1 and that did the trick. I also found that after installing an RPM to uncheck Restore settings option for Root and User before rebooting. I had a messed up Taskbar when failing to do so. It restored after another boot following the unchecking stage. After things quieted down on the second boot I then choose the option to Restore settings. -Cmo Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] I gave my 7.1 CD's away, so I'm not sure, but I believe you'll find a 'numlockrpm' on 7.1 CD's or from a 7.1 mirror. The one I'm currently using is 'numlock-1.0-10mdk' -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Webmin
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, you wrote: I'm trying to access webmin but when I try I get an error on Netscape or Konqueror: Connection to host is broken Any ideas? I presume that you use Mandrake 7.2 (you mention Konqueror). With this distribution, Webmin is configured by default for a secure connection through SSL. You need to specify this by changing the 'http' prefix of the URL to 'https'. So you'll have to use https://localhost:1
Re: [newbie] applications
What I am missing from from my Windows box is something similar to Outlook. There are two Open Source projects which promiss to deliver a kind of "Outlook on KDE", but you'll have to wait for quite some time before both are stable enough as to be usable. The first is Magellan, which has been hyped a lot over the last 1 1/2 years, but it still considered to be alpha software (you must be suicidal to use it in a production environment :-). http://zamolxe.csis.ul.ie/Magellan/ The second option is Aethera, which was supposed to be released in beta in November. http://www.thekompany.com/projects/aethera/ Regards, Iwan
Re: [newbie] nfs lock delay boot time
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 01:54, eric wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:15, eric wrote: so to connect to internet I need to manual dhcpcd -h C111-A eth0 Put this line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it will execute at boot. Dear Sridhar or any 7.2 user: I did what you suggest , add that to the last line of /etc/rc.d/rc.local and reboot it still stick at nfs lockd nfs cardmgr + ip lookup + dhcpcd failed input/output error hope to see help again best regard Eric Lin Do you need nfs? I don't really have much experience with it so I cannot tell you how to really fix the problem but I can tell you how to turn off nfs entirely. To do this open drakconf and click on startup services. You should see that netfs has been enabled. If so, disable it by unchecking the box next to it. Click OK and reboot to see if it works. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler
