Re: [newbie] video conferencing software for Linux
On Sunday 04 February 2001 02:03, Kris Kanyon wrote: > I was wondering if there is any video conferencing software available for > Linux?? Something similar to Net meeting, or icuii??? Someone told me > about a program called SANE??? Thanks for you help. > > Alan. I second this, if anyone knows of anything please let me know as well. Something like CUCME open source would be nice. It must be GPL to go into the distribution. -Chris
Re: [newbie] HP612A/lp0 not working
Can you post the contents of your /etc/modules.conf here? (If you have anything top sevret remove it)/. -Chris On Sunday 04 February 2001 00:52, Bill Barto wrote: > OK, I've sent in some info b$ on this and nothing works. Let me try it > again. > After numerous tries at setting up this printer nothing happens. Have > tried > PrinterDrake and linuxconf from root. > > The most constant error message I receive is regarding lp0. Trying to > run tunelp > "tunelp lp0 -s" gives me "no such file or directory". > > Trying to print from a program I get "unable to open parallel port > device file: no > such device" > > Checking thru dmesg I do not find any reference to lp0/lp1 etc., a > printer or the > parallel port. > > I figured after disabling Plug&Play in my Bios and receiving a previous > reply to > also reset my BIOS to ECP I did that using the AUTO option as well. HP > also says > that it recommends setting this printer up on ECP. Still nothing. > > Why isn't lp0 recognized or setup. Where can I find the setup files. > Maybe I can > manually load it?
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.2 update problems
On Sunday 04 February 2001 01:03, Richard Bozzato wrote: > I've just updated KDE to 2.0.1 using Drake update, which has resulted in > the following problems: > > >* I can start Kmix only from root. Starting from other accounts > generates the message "C-Media PCI" (my sound card is a C-Media > PCI) is invalid" or words to that effect. As I can start Kmix in > root I assume this is a file privalege issue, but which files?. > Also attempting to add this devise to Kmix from an account other > than root also causes the error; and >* >* desktop sounds in Gnome have defaulted to none for all users. > Further I cannot change this using the control centre. After I > change settings, they revert to no sound both for "sounds" and > "Sawfish - sounds" > > Any ideas? Yup! There are some additional files. Mandrake Update does not install new packages that have been added. Here, do me a favor and drop to a command line and do: rpm -qa|grep kde rpm -qa|grep koffice rpm -qa|grep qt2 and post the results. This will help us figure it out. Please post to the list as I am traveling and someone else may be able to spot it first. -Chris
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1beta2 Install
On Sunday 04 February 2001 20:32, Dennis Myers wrote: > I am trying to update my desktop to the 2.1beta and using Chris M.s > instructions, I get a conflict of kdelibs for the new 2.1 with the old > KDE1.99. how do you put the --nodeps flag in the command line? Does it go > in after the rpm, or after the -Uvh, or after the folder names, like "art* > libart* kdelib* kdesupport* --nodeps" ? I floundering here cause the > conflict message was unexpected. TIA for the help. Please tell me you are doing a rpm -Uvh *.rpm on all the files at once? There was a conflict that I can not resolve as both are betas. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready
On Saturday 03 February 2001 17:57, Richard T. Waters wrote: > Whenever a new release comes out I have always been in the habit of doing a > full install, rather than an upgrade. A person after my own heart! Of course doing a backup first of all your data is a good idea! > Of course this entails some backing up and restoring of information. Yup! > > I have seen some discussions regarding how many partitions is best for an > install, and I notice there are (as usual) > varying opinions. > > Is there a general guideline I can follow. Do I basically want to set up > /; /boot and /usr? What should be a good > rule of thumb for allocating space for the various partitions? I teach some classes for new Linux users. Here is what I tell them for a 5 Gig drive. (OK, I know I am about to be corrected, flamed, etc for this but I can handle it [sniff] - just remember this is a general suggestion and is not written in stone). Do NOT let the installer auto-partition. I have a different opinion about putting /var onto it's own partition. Don't. These are in order on how I recommend creating on a 5 gig drive: /boot = 64 meg Swap = 2 times the amount of physical memory in your machine. More if a server (probably 4 times). / = 3.5 Gig /home = remainder of all drive space. This seems to let them do a full development install and it works. (OK, let me have it!). Anyways, forgive me mailing list Gods, but if you are near New Haven, CT USA check out the Mandrake Campus courses at: http://www.innovationsw.com/training. -Chris > > Christopher Molnar wrote: > > 7.3 NO, No, no. > > > > 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! > > > > Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. > > And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, > > but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you can watch the progress. > > > > -Chris > > > > > >
[newbie] video conferencing software for Linux
I was wondering if there is any video conferencing software available for Linux?? Something similar to Net meeting, or icuii??? Someone told me about a program called SANE??? Thanks for you help. Alan.
[newbie] Setting up NIC under 7.2
Hardware: AT Motherboard / 80MB ./ Cyrix 8x96 chip @ 233Mhz D-Link DFE-530 TX+ Brand new installation went great except for graphics, which tested fine, but on the reboot the screen was black. Booted as single and fixed that. Now, how do I configure the DFE 530 TX+ for eth0? I've tried using DrakConf/"Network and Internet Configuration". I picked the Via Rhine, which this card uses. It says that it found one, and then goes away. Actually it says it finds whatever NIC entry I click on for that matter. I would like to get this up and running as eth0 using DHCP. Any ideas welcome! Thanks, -rick winmail.dat
[newbie] Apache 1.3.14 help
I had to completely re-install 7.2 download version...due to buying a new 20 gig HD I installed a complete workstation unit...but now I want to install the apache RPM's I tried installing the 3 files. Apache 1.3.14 Apache-common 1.3.14 Apache-suexec 1.3.14 but for some reason...it says this: "execution of apache-common-1.3.14-2mdk script failed,exit status 1" after using kpackage...why is this...and how do i install it..
[newbie] HP612A/lp0 not working
OK, I've sent in some info b$ on this and nothing works. Let me try it again. After numerous tries at setting up this printer nothing happens. Have tried PrinterDrake and linuxconf from root. The most constant error message I receive is regarding lp0. Trying to run tunelp "tunelp lp0 -s" gives me "no such file or directory". Trying to print from a program I get "unable to open parallel port device file: no such device" Checking thru dmesg I do not find any reference to lp0/lp1 etc., a printer or the parallel port. I figured after disabling Plug&Play in my Bios and receiving a previous reply to also reset my BIOS to ECP I did that using the AUTO option as well. HP also says that it recommends setting this printer up on ECP. Still nothing. Why isn't lp0 recognized or setup. Where can I find the setup files. Maybe I can manually load it?
[newbie] KDE 2.1.2 update problems
I've just updated KDE to 2.0.1 using Drake update, which has resulted in the following problems: * I can start Kmix only from root. Starting from other accounts generates the message "C-Media PCI" (my sound card is a C-Media PCI) is invalid" or words to that effect. As I can start Kmix in root I assume this is a file privalege issue, but which files?. Also attempting to add this devise to Kmix from an account other than root also causes the error; and * * desktop sounds in Gnome have defaulted to none for all users. Further I cannot change this using the control centre. After I change settings, they revert to no sound both for "sounds" and "Sawfish - sounds" Any ideas?
[newbie] Re: egcs
Since I was sent the following question by someone with an address of localhost.localdomain I am posting the answer here: On Wednesday 31 January 2001 19:36, you wrote: > What did you mean with: > 9. get egcs from unsupported mirror directory > > Why I have to get that? If you do not install kdevelop, you do not need it. > -Chris
RE: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus
I did a quick check of Linux Hardware Database http://lhd.zdnet.com/. Went to the Motherboard reference. Only saw two BCMs listed there the QS750 K7 and the QS754 K7. Doesn't mean that Linux can't e made to work on the I810, but it would seem to be a strike against it going into the game. -rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don W. Jenkins Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 7:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus My 2cents-I have been trying to get 7.2 to install on a BCM I810P, but it doesn't seem compatible with Linux. KDE, Gnome, and X have problems with it. Don W. Jenkins www.jinxinker.com www.maxfarce.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Acroread 4 is juts plain ugly
I've noticed that some Linux programmes (both console and X) have problems opening files that have spaces or capital letters in their path (including the filename itself). This includes Xpdf and KGhostView. The simple solution is to rename the file and move it to a directory path where it will have no spaces. On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:08, John David Molina wrote: > El Domingo 28 Enero 2001 22:57, escribiste: > > I mean I do not know why Xpdf cannot read a number of pdf files. Does > > anyone know what could be the reason? > > > > Zaldi > > Yep!, that's a problem. I have many pdf files that neither the Xpdf nor the > KGosthview can open, and I just need those files. > Other problem that I have is that I can't print some pdf files (even with > Acrobat). The print engine reports a problem with the postcript sintax. But > if I generate an ps file with Acrobat in my old Conectiva Linux PC, and > then print it in my Mandrake Linux 7.2 PC, it works. Why? I don't know why > the Mandrake version has that problems. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Enabling Aurora
Anthony wrote: > > http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001108042008 might help you. > > > Hi all, > > > > Just trying to get Aurora to start up during boot up and shut down but > > it's not happening. > > I'm running mdk7.2 development. > > -- > Anthony > http://binaryfusion.net > Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. Thank Anthony Roman
RE: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus
My 2cents-I have been trying to get 7.2 to install on a BCM I810P, but it doesn't seem compatible with Linux. KDE, Gnome, and X have problems with it. Don W. Jenkins www.jinxinker.com www.maxfarce.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus On Thursday 01 February 2001 08:15 am, Mark Johnson wrote: > I checked the mandrake site for MB compatibility but couldn't find > any information. I was planning on getting an Asus ATX Super7 5/2 > [P5A] does anyone anticipate problems. no problem, Asus makes a very good board, so does Gigabyte mostly > I had a gigabyte board and > linux refused to install with the CDROM I got for it. what cdrom?, some are almost useless, Sony comes to mind It installed > fine when I tried the same CDROM on my dell PC so I just assume the > gigabyte board was the problem I'd rank anything Dell first. Dell only uses the absolute lowest cost, limited, often substandard, proprietary stuff they can arm-twist thru volume buying hardware. > > Does anyone think I'll have problems with this Asus board? nope, other than it won't be compatible with a Dell case/power supply. The cure is to get rid of Dell junk as much as possible -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
RE: RE: Re: [newbie] Is there anyone run linux on Intel 810?
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Re: [newbie] More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem)
When I refer to database managers, I am referring to mysql, postresql, ODBC, and the
like.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> --
> >
> > At this point, I just want to get rid of the DB2 message! Thanks a lot
> > to anyone who can point to a solution.
> >
> > Jacqueline Michell
> >
>
> Jacqueline,
>
> Let us start with your slocate problem first. Did you upgrade it to a version
> beyond 2.2-6mdk? I did and had the same problems. But if it isn't that, let
> us look at your /etc/updatedb.conf which is basically what your mail is
> spitting out to you about:
>
> slocate: this is not a valid slocate database:
> /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
> --
> slocate.db is a list of *.dll (obviously Windows files)Why?
> Another file (/usr/bin/slocate.cron) is as follows:
> "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usvdevfs" -e
> "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
> --
> The following files (/var/spool/cron/ directory) consist of numbers that
> don't seem to follow the date and time format:
> cron.daily -- 20010131
> cron.weekly -- 20010127
> cron.monthly -- 20010127
> --
>
> Let us break this message down into three parts, first.
>
> slocate: this is not a valid slocate database:
> /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
> --
>
> I have the same configuration and location as you but when I tried to access
> an updated slocate rpm off of Mandrake-devel (slocate-2.4-1) I received the
> same errors. Second part:
>
> slocate.db is a list of *.dll (obviously Windows files)Why?
> Why? Because it is accessing your windows partition as well as any other
> partition filetype that is not being excluded like these: ("*" will wrap
> the filetypes I am referring)
> Another file (/usr/bin/slocate.cron) is as follows:
> "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usvdevfs" -e
> "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
>
> The second line are the directories that your slocate database is ignoring as
> well. You wouldn't want to bloat your database with temp files would you? In
> other words, that file is good. Next:
>
> The following files (/var/spool/cron/ directory) consist of numbers that
> don't seem to follow the date and time format:
> cron.daily -- 20010131
> cron.weekly -- 20010127
> cron.monthly -- 20010127
> --
>
> I have a link for you:
>
> http://mandrakeuser.org/admin/acron2.html
>
> that should teach you how to properly include and configure jobs for your
> anacron.
>
> Your last problem, DB2, is not really a problem unless...
> This is simply saying that you have one, some or all of the following
> database managers installed on your computer and you have not created any
> database tables or anything for your database manager. If you don't plan on
> using these database managers, I recommend that you remove them from your
> system with the following command:
>
> rpm -e [database manager name here]
>
> If you do plan on using any of them but you have not "got around to it", turn
> it off. It is okay, because the database manager(s) are still there. They're
> just not included in your cron jobs. So then you won't receive unnecessarily
> redundant messages from anacron in your mail que. It is a problem on the
> other hand if you have put one together and installed it into a database
> manager and you have only one running at starttime and that is the one you
> have put your database tables. (unlikely, because you would have more error
> messages other than just a missing DB key)
>
> Cheers,
> -- Al
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[newbie] KDE 2.1beta2 Install
I am trying to update my desktop to the 2.1beta and using Chris M.s instructions, I get a conflict of kdelibs for the new 2.1 with the old KDE1.99. how do you put the --nodeps flag in the command line? Does it go in after the rpm, or after the -Uvh, or after the folder names, like "art* libart* kdelib* kdesupport* --nodeps" ? I floundering here cause the conflict message was unexpected. TIA for the help. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] Enabling Aurora
http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001108042008 might help you. > Hi all, > > Just trying to get Aurora to start up during boot up and shut down but > it's not happening. > I'm running mdk7.2 development. -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved
> I'm into KDE 2.1 now, but I really appreciate your input as I > have been wanting to play with Pine for some time now. I just > found the user friendliness of Kmail setup appealing. Pine > seemed to be a bit more esoteric. Do you know of a good howto > on it? Hmm. Not really. But there's extensive help included with it -- most anything, such as in the setup, only needs to be highlighted & you hit ? to get more info. Go ahead & open it up, keep an eye on the status lines at the bottom for different commands to enter, go to Setup, choose Config (at the opening menu, do s then c & enter some info. You may want to take a look at a page on one of my sites which is mostly about setting up pine & fetchmail: http://Aeon-AL.Com/LinuxHelp.html There's all sorts of other stuff I've put there so I don't easily lose it, & it should get you up & running. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt->' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved
On Friday 02 February 2001 05:26 pm, regarding Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved, you said: >Hey, > > > I've never seen 'em change by anything or anybody but the USER ;> > > > > > BTW what happened to my fonts? when i opened this post i am > > > all of a sudden getting those giant dotted letters? but only > > > in the kmail body, not any of the headers. > >While I can't address your bios thing, this bit is something > I'd dealt with often in kmail. A little history: For years, > when using shell accounts I'd got to know pine pretty well & > liked it. When I'd had done with Windows as any more than a > gaming platform & installed RedHat 6.0 (I'd been using RH 5.0 for > a while on two boxes as a secondary OS), I used pine. But RedHat > does some odd things sometimes & I suddenly couldn't get pine to > read the mail headers any longer (pine takes mail in whatever > folder & reformats the headers for its own purposes -- except it > was no longer able to do that no matter what I'd done). > >In any case, I'd turned to kmail, as I have more than one mail > account on more than one mail server. Well, the kmail which is > with kde 1.0 (or is that 1.1?) really had some problems -- fonts > only one of them. I'd even upgraded to kde 1.2 & tried kmail > there. Everything was going OK but occasionally would wind up > with huge fonts. I finally got fed up with the little problems > when any e-mail with pgp signatures would lock up X. > >I've not bothered since installing lm7.2 trying kmail since > pine is doing fine. But I really have no desire to deal with it > any longer anyway. > >Meph I'm into KDE 2.1 now, but I really appreciate your input as I have been wanting to play with Pine for some time now. I just found the user friendliness of Kmail setup appealing. Pine seemed to be a bit more esoteric. Do you know of a good howto on it? -- -michael-
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready
I'm with you on that, Richard. But then, I don't have a "production" system. My current setup is to have a /, a /backup, and a swap partition. Everything that's truly important gets copied to /backup regularly so I don't have to reset everything if I do a reinstall at the next Mandrake release. (Or if I go brain dead and try another distro instead.) "Richard T. Waters" wrote: > Whenever a new release comes out I have always been in the habit of doing a full > install, rather than an upgrade. > Of course this entails some backing up and restoring of information. > I have seen some discussions regarding how many partitions is best for an > install, and I notice there are (as usual) > varying opinions. > Is there a general guideline I can follow. Do I basically want to set up /; > /boot and /usr? What should be a good > rule of thumb for allocating space for the various partitions? -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
[newbie] Re: More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem)
Hey Jacqueline et al, > Thanks to Meph and others who replied to my original question. > I've looked a little further and can give some more details, so > I am going to send this again. Does anyone know what DB2 > refers to? All I want to do is _get rid_ of the following > daily message: > From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anacron) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' > DB2 problem...: Missing or empty key value specified > slocate: this is not a valid slocate database: > /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db Let me throw in a little more here. I may not have anything really useful to add, but my confusing statements may clarify something for someone (maybe even me). Let's start here: We're looking at an anacron job. Looking at /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily tells us only: 20010203 & that isn't the least bit helpful. Then /etc/cron.daily/0anacron says: anacron -u cron.daily Nothing helpful here either. Can't just delete it though -- it may be important. > -- > slocate.db is a list of *.dll (obviously Windows files)Why? > Another file (/usr/bin/slocate.cron) is as follows: > "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usvdevfs" -e > "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net" Odd that your slocate.db would, if I understand you correctly, only list the dll files in your Windows partition. This database is supposed to list all the files on all filesystems on your system. Mine does this. We know that db2 is either ~the~ slocate database or is related to it. We had to manually install slocate, so we have a use for the locate command (one I use often). We ~could~ just remove the software & delete the anacron job & be done with it, but, again, we have a need for locate. I should think that maybe if we could tell slocate to only do ext2 instead of vfat partitons, we'd be set. Trouble is, as you show above, there is nothing about any vfat or related fs -- only smb, & I don't even have samba installed. What's more, mine appears to be a little different than yours: /usr/bin/slocate -u -f "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usbdevfs" Do you run samba, Jacqueline? And what are udf, ncp? I assume file systems, but I'm not familiar with them, though only the udf (of these two) are common in both ours. > -- > The following files (/var/spool/cron/ directory) consist of numbers that > don't seem to follow the date and time format: > cron.daily -- 20010131 > cron.weekly -- 20010127 > cron.monthly -- 20010127 Again, this isn't helping. No offense to you Jacqeline -- I'm attacking the coders (as I often do;-). > At this point, I just want to get rid of the DB2 message! Heh. If only coders used their own wares, we'd all be happy:-). I don't find it at all odd that root, etc have no crontabs...though I remember in RedHat they had after first boot. Mandrakesoft had evidently decided to put those jobs elsewhere & I guess no user -- including root -- has a crontab till they create one. Good or bad, I can't say, but I agree -- I want that message to go away too. You've done a lot of research here, but I'm not so sure it's going to do us any good short of making you more aquainted with how lm handles cron jobs (which I find more confusing that when I'd fist started looking at cron docs to set up my first fetchmail job back in RedHat). Well, short of knowing that slocate runs daily & at any bootup & that we have a need, the material we have available to us just isn't helping us figure out how to fix it (though I know this either wouldn't happen in other distros or that it'd be easier to fix if it did). No complaints in this respect to Mandrakesoft, as I've said before, I perfer this to RH, but what's the deal? These cron entries aren't like anything I've seen before. Maybe if we concentrate on how we get slocate to ignore our Windows partitions...? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt->' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem)
--
>
> At this point, I just want to get rid of the DB2 message! Thanks a lot
> to anyone who can point to a solution.
>
> Jacqueline Michell
>
Jacqueline,
Let us start with your slocate problem first. Did you upgrade it to a version beyond
2.2-6mdk? I did and had the same problems. But if it isn't that, let us look at your
/etc/updatedb.conf which is basically what your mail is spitting out to you about:
slocate: this is not a valid slocate database:
/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
--
slocate.db is a list of *.dll (obviously Windows files)Why?
Another file (/usr/bin/slocate.cron) is as follows:
"udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usvdevfs" -e
"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
--
The following files (/var/spool/cron/ directory) consist of numbers that
don't seem to follow the date and time format:
cron.daily -- 20010131
cron.weekly -- 20010127
cron.monthly -- 20010127
--
Let us break this message down into three parts, first.
slocate: this is not a valid slocate database:
/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
--
I have the same configuration and location as you but when I tried to access an
updated slocate rpm off of Mandrake-devel (slocate-2.4-1) I received the same errors.
Second part:
slocate.db is a list of *.dll (obviously Windows files)Why?
Why? Because it is accessing your windows partition as well as any other partition
filetype that is not being excluded like these: ("*" will wrap the filetypes I am
referring)
Another file (/usr/bin/slocate.cron) is as follows:
"udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usvdevfs" -e
"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
The second line are the directories that your slocate database is ignoring as well.
You wouldn't want to bloat your database with temp files would you? In other words,
that file is good. Next:
The following files (/var/spool/cron/ directory) consist of numbers that
don't seem to follow the date and time format:
cron.daily -- 20010131
cron.weekly -- 20010127
cron.monthly -- 20010127
--
I have a link for you:
http://mandrakeuser.org/admin/acron2.html
that should teach you how to properly include and configure jobs for your anacron.
Your last problem, DB2, is not really a problem unless...
This is simply saying that you have one, some or all of the following database
managers installed on your computer and you have not created any database tables or
anything for your database manager. If you don't plan on using these database
managers, I recommend that you remove them from your system with the following command:
rpm -e [database manager name here]
If you do plan on using any of them but you have not "got around to it", turn it off.
It is okay, because the database manager(s) are still there. They're just not included
in your cron jobs. So then you won't receive unnecessarily redundant messages from
anacron in your mail que. It is a problem on the other hand if you have put one
together and installed it into a database manager and you have only one running at
starttime and that is the one you have put your database tables. (unlikely, because
you would have more error messages other than just a missing DB key)
Cheers,
-- Al
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Re: [newbie] Installation of .bin files
There should be one "." (dot) and one "/" (slash) infront of the executable (binary. we call them binaries in *nix environments). The other way that you can try is: sh binary.bin If you still get a permission error that is because you have a program on your computer that will not allow you to write to certain partitions as anyone, even root! To write to them, you would have to reboot and hop into single user mode and then log in as root but that is getting ahead of our self.If that doesn't help you, I have one question to ask. What level of security are you playing with anyway, by the way? Cheers, -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I get a permission denied error when I follow the instructions below. I'm > logged in as root if that helps. > On Saturday 03 February 2001 14:14, you wrote: > > Those can be run approximately two ways. > > > > In either a text or virtual terminal you can type > > > > ../executablefile.bin > > > > where executablefile.bin means the file name of the binary > > executable. > > > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > Vic > > > > On Saturday 03 February 2001 03:06 pm, so spoke BamBam: > > > I'm new to Linux and I've figured out how to install software using > > > kpackage and gzip, but I can't figure out how to install software that > > > comes in the form of a .bin file. Any help on this will be greatly > > > appreciated. > > __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready
Whenever a new release comes out I have always been in the habit of doing a full install, rather than an upgrade. Of course this entails some backing up and restoring of information. I have seen some discussions regarding how many partitions is best for an install, and I notice there are (as usual) varying opinions. Is there a general guideline I can follow. Do I basically want to set up /; /boot and /usr? What should be a good rule of thumb for allocating space for the various partitions? Christopher Molnar wrote: > 7.3 NO, No, no. > > 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! > > Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. And > give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, but if you > find the list Cooker Changelog you can watch the progress. > > -Chris > > >
Re: [newbie] Installation of .bin files
I get a permission denied error when I follow the instructions below. I'm logged in as root if that helps. On Saturday 03 February 2001 14:14, you wrote: > Those can be run approximately two ways. > > In either a text or virtual terminal you can type > > ../executablefile.bin > > where executablefile.bin means the file name of the binary > executable. > > > Hope this helps. > > Vic > > On Saturday 03 February 2001 03:06 pm, so spoke BamBam: > > I'm new to Linux and I've figured out how to install software using > > kpackage and gzip, but I can't figure out how to install software that > > comes in the form of a .bin file. Any help on this will be greatly > > appreciated.
RE: Re: [newbie] Is there anyone run linux on Intel 810?
Hi, Here you have the information. Greetings. Fabian. > 1)less /proc/pci > 2)less /etc/modules.conf > 3)lsmod > 4)ls -al /dev/dsp > 5)ls -al /dev/audio > 6)ls -al /dev/mixer --- /proc/pci - PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82810 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 2). Fast devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Intel 82810 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 2). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable. No bursts. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf800 [0xf808]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffa8 [0xffa8]. Bus 0, device 30, function 0: PCI bridge: Intel Unknown device (rev 2). Vendor id=8086. Device id=2418. Fast devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=2. Bus 0, device 31, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel 82810AA LPC bridge (rev 2). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 31, function 1: IDE interface: Intel 82810AA IDE (rev 2). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffa1]. Bus 0, device 31, function 2: USB Controller: Intel 82810AA USB (rev 2). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable. No bursts. I/O at 0xef80 [0xef81]. Bus 0, device 31, function 3: SM Bus: Intel 82810AA SMB (rev 2). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. I/O at 0xefa0 [0xefa1]. Bus 1, device 7, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 6). Slow devsel. IRQ 3. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128. I/O at 0xdf00 [0xdf01]. Bus 1, device 9, function 0: Communication controller: Lucent (ex-AT&T) Microelectronics L56xMF (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=252.Max Lat=14. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff6ffc00 [0xff6ffc00]. I/O at 0xdff0 [0xdff1]. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801]. Bus 1, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf6aff000 [0xf6aff008]. I/O at 0xdf80 [0xdf81]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff80 [0xff80]. -- /etc/modules.conf -- alias net-pf-4 ipx pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias sound-slot-0 es1371 post-install snd-card-ens1371 modprobe snd-pcm-oss pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq alias eth0 eepro100 --- lsmod -- Module Size Used by i810 72112 2 agpgart19728 5 [i810] vmnet 16192 3 vmppuser5520 0 (unused) parport_pc 7568 0 [vmppuser] parport 7744 0 [vmppuser parport_pc] vmmon 17792 0 lockd 32208 1 (autoclean) sunrpc 54640 1 (autoclean) [lockd] autofs 9456 2 (autoclean) usb-uhci 19184 0 (unused) usbcore43632 1 [usb-uhci] eepro100 16144 1 (autoclean) es1371 24656 0 soundcore 2800 4 [es1371] nls_cp437 3952 4 (autoclean) vfat9408 2 (autoclean) fat30432 2 (autoclean) [vfat] supermount 14224 2 (autoclean) --- ls -al /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 sep 27 10:31 /dev/dsp - ls -al /dev/audio lrwxrwxrwx1 root audio 6 ene 7 16:59 /dev/audio -> audio0 - ls -al /dev/mixer -- crw-rw1 root audio 14, 0 sep 27 10:31 /dev/mixer --
Re: [newbie] 45G HS only formats to 7.7 G?
El Sábado 27 Enero 2001 12:27, Goldenpi escribió: > My 20gig is only showing up as 8gig. I know that is the bios. Its some > weird costom-made chip by hewlett-packard and my motherboard wont take an > upgrade. So I need a new motherboard. Until then, linux is dead. The drive > is currently storeing some cd images and files of mine under windows in my > other machine. > I have a 20 GB HD that in Windows (because of my old BIOS) is recognized as a 8 GB one, but Linux recognizes it as the 20 GB it is and works without problems. Maybe I don't have any problems because it is my 2nd. HD, and my boot partition is on the first disk (my root and other stuff is on the 2nd. one). It seems that the Linux boot loader uses the BIOS in the booting process, but after that Linux just ignores the BIOS and uses its own FS routines. -- John David Molina
Re: [newbie] Acroread 4 is juts plain ugly
El Domingo 28 Enero 2001 22:57, escribiste: > I mean I do not know why Xpdf cannot read a number of pdf files. Does > anyone know what could be the reason? > > Zaldi Yep!, that's a problem. I have many pdf files that neither the Xpdf nor the KGosthview can open, and I just need those files. Other problem that I have is that I can't print some pdf files (even with Acrobat). The print engine reports a problem with the postcript sintax. But if I generate an ps file with Acrobat in my old Conectiva Linux PC, and then print it in my Mandrake Linux 7.2 PC, it works. Why? I don't know why the Mandrake version has that problems. -- John David Molina
Re: [newbie] Installation of .bin files
Those can be run approximately two ways. In either a text or virtual terminal you can type ./executablefile.bin where executablefile.bin means the file name of the binary executable. Hope this helps. Vic On Saturday 03 February 2001 03:06 pm, so spoke BamBam: > I'm new to Linux and I've figured out how to install software using > kpackage and gzip, but I can't figure out how to install software that > comes in the form of a .bin file. Any help on this will be greatly > appreciated.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3
On Saturday 03 February 2001 12:29 pm, regarding Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3, you said: > why? is 7.2 broken? it's been my experience that upgrade-itis is hazerdous > to your computer's health. 7.2 isn't exactly *broken* on my box, but I am having relatively frequent experiences of video problems (technocolor static appearing in frames, around borders and sometimes only the dot,box and x -like are in the upper right hand corner of kmail- appearing to let me know I have opened another program). Besides, if what the KDE crew has done with Konq' and the rest is any indication of what the Mandrake folks are up to, then the next release of Mandrake is *well worth waiting for then acquiring*! -- -michael-
[newbie] More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem)
Thanks to Meph and others who replied to my original question. I've looked a little further and can give some more details, so I am going to send this again. Does anyone know what DB2 refers to? All I want to do is _get rid_ of the following daily message: From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anacron) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' DB2 problem...: Missing or empty key value specified slocate: this is not a valid slocate database: /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db -- slocate.db is a list of *.dll (obviously Windows files)Why? Another file (/usr/bin/slocate.cron) is as follows: "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usvdevfs" -e "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net" -- The following files (/var/spool/cron/ directory) consist of numbers that don't seem to follow the date and time format: cron.daily -- 20010131 cron.weekly -- 20010127 cron.monthly -- 20010127 -- I have also found, via the kcron utility (/usr/bin/kcron), that I have no crontab files for root, bin, daemon, adm, lp, sync, shutdown, halt, mail, news, uucp, operator, games, named,sympa, gopher, ftp, nobody, xfs, htdig, postfix, gdm, and my two non-root users. Kcron looks like the way to make/edit these files after I find documentation. -- /var/log/cron/info shows that my cron jobs are mostly logging the start/stop of the process, updating the time-stamps, and the command: /sbin/rmmod -as. -- At this point, I just want to get rid of the DB2 message! Thanks a lot to anyone who can point to a solution. Jacqueline Michell Shop online without a credit card http://www.rocketcash.com RocketCash, a NetZero subsidiary
[newbie] dns quit working
For reasons I don't understand, DNS abruptly quit working on my Mandrake 7.2 box. It was working earlier today, then I was trying to configure Samba and it seemed to quit sometime around then. I don't believe I did anything related to DNS, but it quit working. I can ping by IP address all day, but if I attempt to ping by name it fails unless static resolution is specified in my /etc/hosts. I'm reasonably certain that the DNS servers are fine (both of them) because my windows machines resolve just fine using the same DNS servers. I looked in ummm, Drakconf I think it's called and under the name resolution section it confirmed I was usings "hosts, dns". Reboots haven't seemed to help. I don't know where to start with this, any help is appreciated! Needless to say, I'm kind of stuck until I get it working (in fact, I'm writing this email from Windows :-( )
Re: [newbie] missing swap file
yes...including an operating system that works! -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Goldenpi wrote: > Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 08:40:14 - > From: Goldenpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] missing swap file > > Swap partition must be set up in /etc/fstab. If you set it up during install > the installer should have done it. > > Windows doesn't come with partitioning tools. 95 and 98 come with fdisk > which doesn't work on ext2 or swap partitions and millenium doesn't come > with anything. > > - Original Message - > From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 4:36 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] missing swap file > > > > On Wednesday 31 January 2001 09:01 pm, The Conways wrote: > > > When I use the KDE control center and look at some of the memory > > > properties, it shows 0 swap memory available. > > > >what does (run from a terminal) 'free' say ? How much physical ram? > > ..and how big a swap? FWIW I use 256 hard/ 80 swap, -0- of which is > > used. > > > > Before I installed > > > Mandrake 7.2, I used a 3rd party disk partitioning utility. > > > > Prob'ly not a good idea, both Windoze and Linux come with all the > > partitioning tools needed, and it's much better to use them. 3rd party > > tools including the often touted 'Partition Magic' are just 'sell 'em > > to masses kludges', as are IMNSO most all 3rd party tools. > > > > I created > > > a swap partition, so I know it is there. Why would it not be > > > recognized? Is it possible to choose the partition that LM 7.2 uses > > > for the swap file? Or is the memory really there and the mistake is > > > being made by KDE? > > > Maybe this problem is related to my video problems! > > > > doubt it. > > > > -- > > Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay > > > > >
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3
why? is 7.2 broken? it's been my experience that upgrade-itis is hazerdous to your computer's health. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Romanator wrote: > Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 22:49:18 -0500 > From: Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3 > > It's better to wait than update in small increments. Say yes to 8.0!! > > Christopher Molnar wrote: > > > > 7.3 NO, No, no. > > > > 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! > > > > Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. And > > give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, but if you > > find the list Cooker Changelog you can watch the progress. > > > > -Chris > > > > On Thursday 01 February 2001 02:52, Skye Louey wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > Does anyone know when Mandrake 7.3 is due to be released? I cannot find > > > any information on it but going by release trends one is due quite soon. > > > Thanks =) > > > > > > > > > SkYE > > > > > > ? ?? ? > > > "Zankoku na tenshi no youni." > > > > > > > > > Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > > Content-Description: > > > >
[newbie] Installation of .bin files
I'm new to Linux and I've figured out how to install software using kpackage and gzip, but I can't figure out how to install software that comes in the form of a .bin file. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
[newbie] OK. Let's try this....
Hey, Guess no one could make out what I was on about with the tape drive, so lemme try another angle: What is the lm7.2 way to install new hardware -- particularly hardware with it's own scsi card? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt->' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
RE: [newbie] Dell laptop
Dell is posting some XF86Config files on their support website. I downloaded one for my inspiron 8000 and made a change and it works fine. (ok for now) Also, browse thru the linux-dell-laptops yahoogroups (egroups). Have fun! Regards, Elan Original Message Follows From: "Myers, Dennis R NWO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [newbie] Dell laptop Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:48:06 -0800 What color resolution? If your running it at 4billion colors or 16million etc. try going up one step on resolution to 800x640 and dropping down one step in colors. The problem is overdriving the monitor in one of those areas it sounds like. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeff Filapose Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Dell laptop I really need some help getting X to run on my new dell 4000 laptop. It's an ATI rage mobility video card. I can get video to run at 640X480 but looks really bad. Any other setting I try just give me a blob of color. Do i need XFree 4.0.2? If so were can I get it at? Thanks Jeff Filapose _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] The new Hearts game
What you're looking at are the programs' "sources". This means that you'll have to compile it on your system. Usually this isn't a big deal, even if you don't understand what's actually happening while you do it. I'm not familiar with the package you mentioned, but here are the general steps: First, you unpack it. From the filename we know that it's been archived with tar and then compressed with gzip (i.e., filename.tar.gz). (Tar takes a group of files and folders and archives them into a single file. Gzip makes that single file smaller.) Make a temporary folder. Copy hearts-1.2pre1.tar.gz into that folder. Give the following comand at the command line: tar -zxvf hearts-1.2pre1.tar.gz This will unpack the archive and recreate the original "sources", probably in a folder of their won. In the top level of that new folder should see some text files with names like README or INSTALL. Read them. There may also be a file called "configure". Give the following command at the command line: ./configure Configure looks at your system and figures out what you have. If it finds you're lacking things this program needs, it will tell you. Assuming configure finds no problems, give the following command at the command line: make This actually compiles the program. You'll see a lot of text scrolling by and depending on the size of the program it may take a few minutes to complete. Assuming it finishes with no fatal errors, become the root user (i.e., "su", then your root password), and then give the following command at the command line: make install This puts copies of the compiled program and its supporting files in various places on your machine. After you've done this, become your normal user again (i.e., "exit") and you should be able to run the program from the command line: hearts [or whatever the correct name is] If you find it works properly, you can run it in future by hitting Alt-F2 and entering the name, creating a menu item, or with a desktop shortcut... Cheers. M. On Saturday 03 February 2001 05:30, you wrote: > Dear Anyone, Have any of you downloaded and installed the new > hearts-1.2pre1.tar.gz? > > This is for KDE2. I have LM 7.2 with KDE2 and I would like to install > this however I am a tar newbie. > > I have read and studied everything about tar and I still do not get it. > > What would be the exact steps to install this new game? The directions > seem so complicated to me. If someone can help with this I will > appreciate. > > I know that many of you have kindly given me instructions however I was > told to follow the instructions of the tar file itself and that is where > I am absolutely lost. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. > Marcia -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
RE: [newbie] Swap file on two hard drives?
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Myers > Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 2:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Swap file on two hard drives? > > > Hi all, after two days of shear frustration I am back on > line. So after a > major problem with the WD hard drive, not wanting to take an > upgrade and > files corrupted etcetc I discovered that the silly > thing will take a > complete format and reinstall of 7.2 In the process it saw > an old version on > the hdc and formatted the swap on that disk. so it sees swap > as hda5 and > hdc5. My question is, if I do an install of 7.2 on the hdc > drive and reformat > the whole thing will that mess up the linux installation on > the hda drive > since it may not be able to see the swap in the same place on > the hdc drive? > I want to do this because the hdc install will be my test bed > to try things > while hda will be my hopefully stable version for security > and connection to > internet etc. Any help will be appreciated. > -- Dennis When you create your new partitions on hdc if the your swap is numerically in the same position, i.e. hdc2 before and hdc2 after, 7.2 on hda will have no problems finding it. BTW you can run 7.2 without a swap partition. How well it runs will depend on the amount of phyical Ram you system has. I ended up running Mandrake several weeks in this manner and saw no detriment in performance. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
[newbie] double messages
have just signed up to the newbie mailing lists when the mails come down, I'm getting 2 of each and ideas DragonLord
[newbie] Swap file on two hard drives?
Hi all, after two days of shear frustration I am back on line. So after a major problem with the WD hard drive, not wanting to take an upgrade and files corrupted etcetc I discovered that the silly thing will take a complete format and reinstall of 7.2 In the process it saw an old version on the hdc and formatted the swap on that disk. so it sees swap as hda5 and hdc5. My question is, if I do an install of 7.2 on the hdc drive and reformat the whole thing will that mess up the linux installation on the hda drive since it may not be able to see the swap in the same place on the hdc drive? I want to do this because the hdc install will be my test bed to try things while hda will be my hopefully stable version for security and connection to internet etc. Any help will be appreciated. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned toCD?
Can you go back to the d/l site and get the gpg keys? If so they are also a file on the first install disk. If the keys match I think you should have all the files. Somebody jump in here and correct me if I'm wrong. On Sat, 03 Feb 2001, you wrote: > Thanks so much for the replies, but I already have the ISO's burned on disc > I was asking the number of bytes so as to check the data integrity of my > install disks. I am having a problem with installing it on a second PC and > thought maybe since I never checked the MD5 sums and it took me like 2 > weeks to DL them. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 --
[newbie] backing up under mount point / how?
Hi, I have 4 mount points /dev/hda5 / /dev/hda7 /usr /dev/hda8 /var /dev/had9 /home I wish to backup everything on /dev/hda5 so I can reformat it, then copy it back. However since this happens to be the / partition I know there are a lot of special entries and files there like /dev /mnt etc...and I'm not sure that a simple cp -pR is going to suffice... Can someone hopefully tell me what command I can use to successfully copy everything on /dev/hda5, then restore it after I format it? thank you!! __ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] The new Hearts game
Dear Anyone, Have any of you downloaded and installed the new hearts-1.2pre1.tar.gz? This is for KDE2. I have LM 7.2 with KDE2 and I would like to install this however I am a tar newbie. I have read and studied everything about tar and I still do not get it. What would be the exact steps to install this new game? The directions seem so complicated to me. If someone can help with this I will appreciate. I know that many of you have kindly given me instructions however I was told to follow the instructions of the tar file itself and that is where I am absolutely lost. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia
[newbie] Enabling Aurora
Hi all, Just trying to get Aurora to start up during boot up and shut down but it's not happening. I'm running mdk7.2 development. Thanks, Roman
Re: [newbie] The Lists
I don't know - I'm hoping someone else does Poogle On Saturday 03 February 2001 01:31, you wrote: > Aren't the forums and the newbie/expert lists separate things? For one > thing, you have to go to the forum, whereas the lists show up in your > mail box. (Some 300 last weekend). > -- cmg > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Having read another message about being newbie & expert lists not > > existing and having followed this link, > > (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20010202002656) > > it does appear that newbie & expert lists are being replaced by something > > rather different, am I wrong (please !!) can somebody shed some light ?
Re: [newbie] mandrake with GF2mx
Todd, Thanks for your suggestion and yes i think im going to GF2 GTS Tanggal 02 Feb 2001, Todd Flinders nulis, > Likely, your GeForce2 MX will work fine for 2D. > However, setting up GLX (the 3D driver) for my > GeForce2 has been extremely troublesome for me. The > instructions are easy enough to follow, but I can't > get a clean load of this thing. > > I am told that it may be because I am using an Intel > 815 chipset. Others have installed these drivers > without any problem, but they use a different chipset. > If you have an i810 or i815 you may be in for some > pain. Otherwise, you will likely find an easy > install. > > I am going to try upgrading to kernel 2.4 to see if > that helps. > > Finally, why are you going to by the MX? Bah.. The MX > is the very WORST of the Geforce2 line. It's not that > great of a chip. If you're going to fork down that > kind of cash for a video card, save a few more weeks > and buy the Geforce2 GTS. It will be MUCH better. MX > is basically like the celeron of videochips. It's > better than nothing, but its junk with a Geforce name. > You really want the Geforce2 ultra. That will use > the DDR ram to its potential and will give you > excellent graphics for QUITE some time. The MX will > do the graphics, but it won't be nearly as fast. > > If you've got the money, get the Ultra. If money is > tight, save the extra $100 and get the GTS. You can > send me a thank you card later. > > Going cheap for video cards does NOT pay if you are at > all even half-way serious about enjoying your 3D > graphics. > > You can read about GLX installation here: > http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html > > P.S. Mandrake support will not support the GLX > installation. I've already tried. And no response > yet from Nvidia. -- Ribbo "That toy ain't no BFG." -- Doom , Quake 3 Arena
[newbie] problems printing through samba with cups and HP722c
Trying to set up a box running LM7.2 as a print server for a couple of win98 machines. Currently i have samba set up correctly as far as i can tell. All the machines can see each other and talk to each other fine. On the windows machines i can open up network neighborhood and see the linux box. Open up the linux box and i can see the shared files and read and write to them perfectly. Now the problem... I see two printers, one named "lp" and the other named "printers" but there is only one printer attached to the linux box. A HP DeskJet 722c. Under LM7.1 without CUPS i only saw one printer and just set up the windows machines to print to it and all was good in the world. Now i have tried to print to both of the printers that samba is showing and havent been able to get anything to come out of the printer but i am fairly certain that the print jobs are being sent to the linux box. Reasons i think this are that all the network lights blink like they did when a print job was being sent under 7.1 and tcpdump is showing that the linux box is receiving packets from the win98 box that is sending the job. So i am fairly certain that windows is sending out the print job and that the linux box is receiving it but nothing is getting printed. Any one have any ideas about what i need to do to solve this one? Thanks in advance, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS -- Here is my smb.conf file just in case it helps. I didnt configure it manually but used swat to generate it. # Samba config file created using SWAT # from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2001/02/03 02:23:33 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MYGROUP netbios name = HP1 server string = Samba Server %v interfaces = eth0 encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = lpstat dns proxy = No printing = cups print command = /usr/bin/lp -d%p -oraw %s; rm %s lpq command = /usr/bin/lpstat -o%p lprm command = /usr/bin/cancel %p-%j queuepause command = /usr/bin/disable %p queueresume command = /usr/bin/enable %p [homes] comment = Home Directories writeable = Yes browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p %s # using cups own drivers (use generic PostScript on clients). lpq command = lpstat -o %p lprm command = cancel %p-%j [lp] path = /var/spool/samba writeable = Yes create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p %s # using cups own drivers (use generic PostScript on clients). lpq command = lpstat -o %p lprm command = cancel %p-%j printer = lp oplocks = No share modes = No
Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned toCD?
It took me a hour and a half to do it by DSL. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > BIG. > > usually between 600 and 650 meg. It took me weeks to get it over my modem. > > - Original Message - > From: Sevatio Octavio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 5:57 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned > toCD? > > > > Aren't those around 600MB? > > > > >> Original Message << > > > > On 2/2/01, 9:28:33 AM, "Matt Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > regarding [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned to > > CD?: > > > > > > > Can anyone tell me the byte size on a downloaded ISO burned to CD? > > > > > How about the extras disc as well? > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] Mozilla question
type netstat -a or netstat -a -n this should list all connections. Established and listening. You are right, I don't see any difference at all. But I bet if you go to securityportal.com or securityfocus.com and do a scan of your computer, you will find that what you see in your netstat listening will be all that is open. Cheers, -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Nope on the printer port I guess. Supposed to be local. I told pmfirewall > to leave nothing open. Netstat -l after inserting ALL : ALL. Doesn't seem > any different. (Can that prevent me from rsyncing, telneting, and > minicoming to my Agenda hand held device?) > > Active Internet connections (only servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State > tcp0 0 *:32768 *:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 *:printer *:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 *:631 *:* LISTEN > udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* > udp0 0 *:631 *:* > Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers) > Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6957 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6429 /dev/printer > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7245 /tmp/.ICE-unix/748 > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 8469 > /tmp/ksocket-s/kdesud_:0 > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6627 /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1 > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7008 > /tmp/ksocket-s/kdeinit-:0 > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7015 /tmp/.ICE-unix/668 > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7133 > /tmp/mcop-s/localhost_localdomain-02d2-3a7af0eb > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7030 > /tmp/ksocket-s/klauncherPfMg8b.slave-socket > > > Any suggestions at this point? > > TIA, > -s > > __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] disk partitions
At 08:42 03.02.2001 +, you wrote: >did you change the partition in /etc/fstab? yes i did...the new user partition is correctly mounted..but its too small...anyway... >- Original Message - >From: Quaylar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:24 PM >Subject: [newbie] disk partitions > > > > hi all... > > > > short question regarding disk partitions. > > as my original 500 MB /usr partition was too small i decided to use a 1GB > > scsi disk for my new /usr. > > i made a 1:1 copy of my /usr partition using norton ghost, extending the > > partition on the scsi disk to 1GB. > > now i mounted the partition on the scsi disk as /usr expecting it to be 1 > > GB, i issued a df and got: > > > >1k-blocks used > > available use% mounted on > > > > /dev/sdb1524292 509100 > >0 100 /usr > > > > (skipping the /dev/hda1) > > > > when i do a fdisk /dev/sdb i get : > > > > /dev/sdb1 1-1017 1054598+83 >Linux > > > > > > so it seems that i have indeed a 1 GB partition on my 1 GB scsi > > disk--but df says that its only 500 MB ..how is this possible >? > > > > thx for any advice. > > > > --quay > > > > > > -- > > -Quaylar- > > Icq# 30932448 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >
Re: [newbie] Mozilla question
Ok, I went in to startup services and turned some more stuff off, whatda' think: Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 *:32768 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:631 *:* LISTEN udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* udp0 0 *:631 *:* Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6966 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7017 /tmp/ksocket-s/kdeinit-:0 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7024 /tmp/.ICE-unix/654 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7142 /tmp/mcop-s/localhost_localdomain-02c4-3a7b7f56 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7039 /tmp/ksocket-s/klauncherPfMg8b.slave-socket unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6642 /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7254 /tmp/.ICE-unix/734 Anything else here that you find unnecessary? -s On Saturday 03 February 2001 03:43 am, you wrote: > Nope on the printer port I guess. Supposed to be local. I told pmfirewall > to leave nothing open. Netstat -l after inserting ALL : ALL. Doesn't > seem any different. (Can that prevent me from rsyncing, telneting, and > minicoming to my Agenda hand held device?) > > Active Internet connections (only servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State > tcp0 0 *:32768 *:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 *:printer *:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 *:631 *:* LISTEN > udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* > udp0 0 *:631 *:* > Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers) > Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6957 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6429 /dev/printer > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7245 /tmp/.ICE-unix/748 > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 8469 > /tmp/ksocket-s/kdesud_:0 > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6627 > /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7008 > /tmp/ksocket-s/kdeinit-:0 > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7015 /tmp/.ICE-unix/668 > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7133 > /tmp/mcop-s/localhost_localdomain-02d2-3a7af0eb > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7030 > /tmp/ksocket-s/klauncherPfMg8b.slave-socket > > > Any suggestions at this point? > > TIA, > -s
[newbie] server install of 7.2
If I do a work staiton install, then there's no smb server etc, and if if I do a server install then for some reason there is no RPMDrake, MandrakeUpdate etc... :-( It is, one assumes, because people setting up servers know more and don't want RPMDRake... but without it, \I can't find the depenmdencies to install RPMdrake itself... (gmessage and gsomething else...) RGds Martin Martin Cleaver MCTranslations/Spot Software phone: +31 20 6162224 fax: +31 20 884 1230 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cleaver.nl www.spotsoftware.nl - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 February 2001 09:42 Subject: Re: [newbie] disk partitions > did you change the partition in /etc/fstab? > > - Original Message - > From: Quaylar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:24 PM > Subject: [newbie] disk partitions > > > > hi all... > > > > short question regarding disk partitions. > > as my original 500 MB /usr partition was too small i decided to use a 1GB > > scsi disk for my new /usr. > > i made a 1:1 copy of my /usr partition using norton ghost, extending the > > partition on the scsi disk to 1GB. > > now i mounted the partition on the scsi disk as /usr expecting it to be 1 > > GB, i issued a df and got: > > > >1k-blocks used > > available use% mounted on > > > > /dev/sdb1524292 509100 > >0 100 /usr > > > > (skipping the /dev/hda1) > > > > when i do a fdisk /dev/sdb i get : > > > > /dev/sdb1 1-1017 1054598+83 > Linux > > > > > > so it seems that i have indeed a 1 GB partition on my 1 GB scsi > > disk--but df says that its only 500 MB ..how is this possible > ? > > > > thx for any advice. > > > > --quay > > > > > > -- > > -Quaylar- > > Icq# 30932448 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >
Re: [newbie] Mozilla question
Nope on the printer port I guess. Supposed to be local. I told pmfirewall to leave nothing open. Netstat -l after inserting ALL : ALL. Doesn't seem any different. (Can that prevent me from rsyncing, telneting, and minicoming to my Agenda hand held device?) Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 *:32768 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:printer *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:631 *:* LISTEN udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* udp0 0 *:631 *:* Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6957 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6429 /dev/printer unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7245 /tmp/.ICE-unix/748 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 8469 /tmp/ksocket-s/kdesud_:0 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6627 /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7008 /tmp/ksocket-s/kdeinit-:0 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7015 /tmp/.ICE-unix/668 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7133 /tmp/mcop-s/localhost_localdomain-02d2-3a7af0eb unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7030 /tmp/ksocket-s/klauncherPfMg8b.slave-socket Any suggestions at this point? TIA, -s
Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned toCD?
BIG. usually between 600 and 650 meg. It took me weeks to get it over my modem. - Original Message - From: Sevatio Octavio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 5:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned toCD? > Aren't those around 600MB? > > >> Original Message << > > On 2/2/01, 9:28:33 AM, "Matt Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > regarding [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned to > CD?: > > > > Can anyone tell me the byte size on a downloaded ISO burned to CD? > > > How about the extras disc as well? > > > Thanks! >
Re: [newbie] disk partitions
did you change the partition in /etc/fstab? - Original Message - From: Quaylar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:24 PM Subject: [newbie] disk partitions > hi all... > > short question regarding disk partitions. > as my original 500 MB /usr partition was too small i decided to use a 1GB > scsi disk for my new /usr. > i made a 1:1 copy of my /usr partition using norton ghost, extending the > partition on the scsi disk to 1GB. > now i mounted the partition on the scsi disk as /usr expecting it to be 1 > GB, i issued a df and got: > >1k-blocks used > available use% mounted on > > /dev/sdb1524292 509100 >0 100 /usr > > (skipping the /dev/hda1) > > when i do a fdisk /dev/sdb i get : > > /dev/sdb1 1-1017 1054598+83 Linux > > > so it seems that i have indeed a 1 GB partition on my 1 GB scsi > disk--but df says that its only 500 MB ..how is this possible ? > > thx for any advice. > > --quay > > > -- > -Quaylar- > Icq# 30932448 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
Re: [newbie] missing swap file
Swap partition must be set up in /etc/fstab. If you set it up during install the installer should have done it. Windows doesn't come with partitioning tools. 95 and 98 come with fdisk which doesn't work on ext2 or swap partitions and millenium doesn't come with anything. - Original Message - From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 4:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] missing swap file > On Wednesday 31 January 2001 09:01 pm, The Conways wrote: > > When I use the KDE control center and look at some of the memory > > properties, it shows 0 swap memory available. > >what does (run from a terminal) 'free' say ? How much physical ram? > ..and how big a swap? FWIW I use 256 hard/ 80 swap, -0- of which is > used. > > Before I installed > > Mandrake 7.2, I used a 3rd party disk partitioning utility. > > Prob'ly not a good idea, both Windoze and Linux come with all the > partitioning tools needed, and it's much better to use them. 3rd party > tools including the often touted 'Partition Magic' are just 'sell 'em > to masses kludges', as are IMNSO most all 3rd party tools. > > I created > > a swap partition, so I know it is there. Why would it not be > > recognized? Is it possible to choose the partition that LM 7.2 uses > > for the swap file? Or is the memory really there and the mistake is > > being made by KDE? > > Maybe this problem is related to my video problems! > > doubt it. > > -- > Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay >
