Re: [newbie-it] antialiasing dei font
Il 21:09, luned 09 aprile 2001, scrivesti: Guardate che mdk 7.2 e' una distro delle + facili da upgradare al 2.4 perche' e' quasi pronta: basta aggiornare solamente le modutils e compilare! Ovviamente puoi mantenere anche il vecchio 2.2.17, deve aggiungere una riga nel grub (o lilo) per il nuovo kernel. I benefici del passaggio al 2.4 ci sono eccome, soprattutto in termini di velocita'. Basta solo provare:-) Un'altra cosa in realt necessaria, per evitare guai. Create una directory (per esempio in /var), pi o meno cos: /var/shm e in /etc/fstab mettete none/var/shmshm defaults0 0 (server per la gestione della shared memory) -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
Re: [newbie-it] antialiasing dei font
At 21.09 09/04/2001 +0200, you wrote: Guardate che mdk 7.2 e' una distro delle + facili da upgradare al 2.4 perche' e' quasi pronta: basta aggiornare solamente le modutils e compilare! Bisogna anche aggiornare il pppd. Comunque non e' cosi' facile. Certo, la compilazione funziona, ma il risultato puo' non essere quello sperato. Sta tutto nel conoscere bene tutte le opzioni del menuconfig. Io ci ho provato una volta, e il kernel che ne e' venuto fuori era un colabrodo. Ovviamente puoi mantenere anche il vecchio 2.2.17, deve aggiungere una riga nel grub (o lilo) per il nuovo kernel. Per fortuna, altrimenti se si sbaglia sono dolori ^_^ I benefici del passaggio al 2.4 ci sono eccome, soprattutto in termini di velocita'. Basta solo provare:-) Ciao Ho provato e mi e' andata male :( Ora preferisco attendere l'uscita di LM 8.0 definitivo. Ciao Alessandro Amadori Real Life and IRC nick: Sgama Mu* and PBIRC nick: Luxor IHGGER #78
Re: [newbie-it] antialiasing dei font
At 09.36 10/04/2001 +0200, you wrote: Guardate che mdk 7.2 e' una distro delle + facili da upgradare al 2.4 perche' e' quasi pronta: basta aggiornare solamente le modutils e compilare! Ovviamente puoi mantenere anche il vecchio 2.2.17, deve aggiungere una riga nel grub (o lilo) per il nuovo kernel. I benefici del passaggio al 2.4 ci sono eccome, soprattutto in termini di velocita'. Basta solo provare:-) Un'altra cosa in realt necessaria, per evitare guai. Create una directory (per esempio in /var), pi o meno cos: /var/shm e in /etc/fstab mettete none/var/shmshm defaults0 0 (server per la gestione della shared memory) Hmmm, che sia per questo che dopo un po' mi e andato in kerlnel panic e ho addirittura dovuto riavviare? Ciao Alessandro Amadori Real Life and IRC nick: Sgama Mu* and PBIRC nick: Luxor IHGGER #78
[newbie-it] Rete Linux - Window
Cari colleghi di lista ho un problema : dovrei collegare in rete il mio portatile (Compaq Armada PII 366) con Linux Mandrake 7.2 (funzionante), dotato di PCMCIIA Intel Cardlan Ethernet + PRO 100 (modem + Lan), riconosciuta dal Disk Drake con il computer fisso (Pentium II 300 Mhz). Attualmente i due computer sono in rete fra di loro con cavo "cross", senza problemi tra win 98 (presente nell'altra partizione). Come poso fare per far vedere al portatile il computer fisso e soprattutto utilizzarne la stampante? Samba fa al caso mio? Se c'è qualcuno che ha risolto, gli chiedo gentilmente una mano, tenendo presente che sono poco pratico di Linux (meno che poco...). Grazie Giancarlo Sessa
Re: [newbie-it] antialiasing dei font
Il 13:40, marted 10 aprile 2001, scrivesti: e in /etc/fstab mettete none/var/shmshm defaults0 0 (server per la gestione della shared memory) Hmmm, che sia per questo che dopo un po' mi e andato in kerlnel panic e ho addirittura dovuto riavviare? Non credo. la shm serve per i programmi, tale filesystem una sorta di interfaccia che permette ai programmi utente di cipollare con tale memoria. Il kernel non ha bisogno di tale interfaccia. Io me ne sono accorto solo quando ho cercato di compilare cdrecord, se ben ricordo. -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
[newbie-it] Lopster: una domanda facile
Scusate, forse sarà un domanda molto stupida ma non riesco a venirne fuori! Ho installato Lopster e lo uso regolarmente ma non sono riuscito a cambiargli lo stile grafico. Sul mio KDE2.1 ho impostato uno specifico tema e tutta la grafica delle varie finestre rispetta tale tema. Lopster invece no e presenta dei colori poco leggibili (testo bianco su fondo grigio chiaro) che non sono riuscito assolutamente a cambiare. Dove devo mettere le mani? Grazie e scusate ancora per la domanda 'stupida' ma veramente non so + cosa provare. Forse esistono dei temi per lopster? ciao Fab
[newbie] Upgrade from 7.2 to traktopel
Is this easily done?
[newbie] Moziilla 0.8.1 --NEW -- RH6 RPMS!
Dear friends: The RH6 RPMS for Mozilla 0.8.1 have just been released. I just installed them. they are for the i386 build, NOT the i586 build, but they installed PERFECTLY, without any error messages, and Mozilla 0.8.1 is so far working very, very well. So, for us LM72 users, at least until LM 8.0 comes out, this version of Mozilla may be the best and safest. The Texstar i586 rpms (based on the Cooker i586 version) yield the infamous "runtime mismatch, so leaking context" error message, which, as it turned out, was no laughing matter. At least, from my experience, the Texstar i586 Mozilla kept crashing and freezing until I had to get rid of it. OK, here is the URL for the spanking new RH6 i386 rpms for Mozilla 0.8.1 http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/software/RH6/RPMS/i386/ mozilla-0.8.1-2.i386.. 09-Apr-2001 19:09 6.8M mozilla-chat-0.8.1-2.. 09-Apr-2001 19:0981k mozilla-devel-0.8.1-.. 09-Apr-2001 19:06 2.3M mozilla-mail-0.8.1-2.. 09-Apr-2001 19:09 1.3M mozilla-psm-0.8.1-2... 09-Apr-2001 19:09 599k Yours, Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Upgrade from 7.2 to traktopel
Very easy if you have both CD's I think there is a bug when it comes to choosing what type of network do you wanna use. I chose modem tty1 and all went well until I had to validate my setting. It didn't want to go to the next stage. Anyway everything works just fine know. Good luck -Message d'origine- De: Mattias Segerdahl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 10 avril 2001 08:21 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet:[newbie] Upgrade from 7.2 to traktopel Is this easily done?
[newbie] how to triple-boot? i.e. with 2 Mandrakes?
At present, I have 2 harddisk: primary master (hda) and primary slave (hdb). hda contains Mandrake 7.2 while hdb contains Windows. I'd like to try out Mandrake 8 RC1 by installing it in a 2nd (blank) partition I've created on hdb. How do I insert an entry in GRUB or Lilo such that I'd have the option to boot from either Mandrake installation? Thank you!
[newbie] Installation Problem
I recently purchased a new PC (Athlon 1GHz on ASUS A7V133, WD 30Gb ATA100 HDD) and wish to install LM7.2. After booting with the CD inserted I specify a language and keyboard, then the installation program searches for a SCSI drive before displaying the message: An error has occured. No valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem. I have partitioned the HDD four ways using fdisk and am running WinMe on the C drive. I had mentally allocated E and F for Linux and the swap partition respectively. Is the fact that the HDD is running off the onboard ATA100 controller the reason it can't be located? If so is there a remedy? If not etc. etc... Hopefully yours, Tim (the Ultranewbie)
RE: [newbie] file server
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 09:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Well, For a fileserver you don't need that much cpu or ram, but ofcourse hard drives... You would probably be best of reading about samba in this case, samba is a "netbui" fileserver which U beg pardon? Netbeui? Well, makes a change from TCP/IP ;o) Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates
Re: [newbie] file server
Did you notice the "'s ? - Original Message - From: "Daryl Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] file server -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 09:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Well, For a fileserver you don't need that much cpu or ram, but ofcourse hard drives... You would probably be best of reading about samba in this case, samba is a "netbui" fileserver which U beg pardon? Netbeui? Well, makes a change from TCP/IP ;o) Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates
RE: [newbie] Installation Problem
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of T.P. Smith Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 7:09 AM To: Linux Mandrake Help Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem I recently purchased a new PC (Athlon 1GHz on ASUS A7V133, WD 30Gb ATA100 HDD) and wish to install LM7.2. After booting with the CD inserted I specify a language and keyboard, then the installation program searches for a SCSI drive before displaying the message: An error has occured. No valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem. I have partitioned the HDD four ways using fdisk and am running WinMe on the C drive. I had mentally allocated E and F for Linux and the swap partition respectively. Is the fact that the HDD is running off the onboard ATA100 controller the reason it can't be located? If so is there a remedy? If not etc. etc... As you have found there is a problem with the installer and an onboard Promise controller. Here is what will work on some systems, At the installation splash screen press F1 and at the boot prompt (it will be at the bottom of the screen) enter the following: lspci -vv | less use the space bar to scroll down until you find your Promise controller. You will see 5 heximal number strings showing the I/Os for the controller, write down the first 4 sets (call them a,b,c,and d). Reboot your system. At the installation splash screen press F1 and at the boot prompt enter: linux ide2=0x8400, 0x8002 ide3=0x7800, 0x74002 These are from my system you will need to enter yours. The formula to use is ide2=a, (b+2) ide3=c (d+2). If there are no other problems the installation should then run. As I said this will work on most systems but not all, mine because of the hardware config. is one on which it did not work. Should the same be for yours do not dismay Mandrake 8.0 will install on your system. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
[newbie] bootloader install question
Hi, I plan to install version 7.2 on a 3 gig partition on my secondary harddrive. I think the partition will be /dev/hdb2. Anyway, my question is whether it's possible to avoid installing GRUB if I do a custom installation? I want to use BootMagic instead of GRUB. The installation manual suggests that GRUB will be installed automatically unless the installer is unsure what to do. I want to be prompted so I can say no. Does this mean I have to do an Expect install? Thanks.
[newbie] Conflicts caused trying to install libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 re updating LyX
Hello, I would be very grateful if anyone can enlighten me. I am trying to update LyX. The update requires the above libstd... file (?), but when I try to install that I get a load of warnings about it conflicting with a previous version(?)/others already installed, and that a lot of other apps depend on what is already installed. It's looking like updating LyX isn't worth the bother, or even possible without virtually updating everything else as well! Any hints, instructions please. Compared to a year ago I'm having a much better time with Linux, but I'm still pretty ignorant about this kind of thing. Regards, Alisdair.
Re: [newbie] Telnet vs SSH
Yeah, that I know. Once you have access to the machine and you have super-user rights you can log on as root then shut down the machine. But I was talking about how SSH allows you to log on, run the command and then leave. So you can perform tasks like: ssh -l root hostmachine shutdown -r now After you give your passwd, it will execute that command and then log you off. I don't *think* you can do that with telnet. First of all you can't telnet -l root hostname. The server won't allow you to log on as the super-user since telnet sends clear text passwd. But I don't think you could do a: telnet -l userID hostname uptime Then it logs on and issues that command to then log out. As I look at the telnet man pages, and attempt the above command, telnet thinks that anything following the hostname is a port. And there's no uptime port on a machine that I know of! lol [tdh@krypton ~]$telnet -l timh 152.160.8.96 uptime uptime: bad port number But there's nothing in there about being able to just log on, run a command and then leave. You have to log on, accept your envirnment, run your command, and then manually log off. As I mentioned with SSH you can run a command like I did above: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ ssh -l timh yoda uptime timh@yoda's password: 8:36am up 55 days, 8:41, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 As you can see the machine's been up for 55 days, I didn't want to reboot it! So that's what I was referring to. But you are correct. If you log onto the machine, then su to root, you can then issue the shutdown command. But as always, I give way too much information! :0) tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Nadin Merali [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010409 21:29]: | you can shutdown with telnet | | log in as a user, su to root and then | shutdown -r now
RE: [newbie] file server
If you meant the one after the 'let' then I did but I made allowances that English is probably not your first language. If I have completely misinterpreted your post then I apologise. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 12:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Did you notice the "'s ? - Original Message - From: "Daryl Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] file server -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 09:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Well, For a fileserver you don't need that much cpu or ram, but ofcourse hard drives... You would probably be best of reading about samba in this case, samba is a "netbui" fileserver which U beg pardon? Netbeui? Well, makes a change from TCP/IP ;o) Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates
[newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside
hi there Im looking for documentation for linux for an idiot. Iv checked a bunch of sites but they all seem to be different. How to configure the kernel A to Z. In that matter everything from A-Z Iv been to www.Mandrakecampus.com Iv been everywhere. If anybody knows where I can download a book or something like that please help out.
[newbie] The system freezes after 2-minutes
I have installed linux mandrake 7.2 on the logical partition hdc5, with swap on hdc6. The system runs OK at the first 2-minute. But when the mouse or the keyboard are left untouched, the system freezes and I have to hardware reset the system. I tried to install linux multiple times but the problem persists. Does anybody can help with that? Tamer
Re: [newbie] Why is my login pass to my ISP not encrypted?
Having worked at an ISP previously, those sort of userID and passwds aren't seen as something to important to hid to them. However most ISPs do use PAP which is more secure, but can still be hacked by somebody with the knowledge. Another reason why ISPs encourage passwd changes, especially for dial up users on a regular basis. Some use CHAP, but very few use passwd encryption. You being an ADSL user, I wouldn't even worry honestly. You send your passwd across so fast, a user would have to have some serious hardware to really pluck that passwd out of transmission. For dial in users, it's more of an issue, but real crackers just hack the /etc/passwd and passwd files on the auth server, so it doesn't matter what you send your passwd as. :0) tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010402 20:29]: | I was looking at etc/sysconfig/draknet.adsl_pppoe and my username and pass to | login to my ISP account was in plain text, viewable by anyone..Is this | normal?
Re: [newbie] file server
English might not be my native language, though, I don't see what it has to do with this. I thought this list was called Linux Mandrake Newbie, iow, a list for people that arn't that good at linux. When talking to people that are new to linux, it's easier to use "microsoft" terms for them to understand. // Mattias - Original Message - From: "Daryl Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] file server If you meant the one after the 'let' then I did but I made allowances that English is probably not your first language. If I have completely misinterpreted your post then I apologise. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 12:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Did you notice the "'s ? - Original Message - From: "Daryl Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] file server -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 09:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Well, For a fileserver you don't need that much cpu or ram, but ofcourse hard drives... You would probably be best of reading about samba in this case, samba is a "netbui" fileserver which U beg pardon? Netbeui? Well, makes a change from TCP/IP ;o) Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates
Re: [newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic
I'm finding it difficult to believe nobody has an opinion on this -- heck, nobody's even flamed me for a clueless newbie :) I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that already had a single Windows Me partition on a 60G IBM hard drive. Although I'd already purchased a copy of PartitionMagic (v. 6.0) I wanted to put Mandrake through its paces, so I used DiskDrake to reduce the size of the FAT32 partition and to create my new Gnu/Linux partitions (1 swap, 3 ext2). After installing PartitionMagic I used it to split up my Windows partition (going from a single FAT32 partition to four FAT32 parti- tions). This worked fine. PartitionMagic doesn't see the Gnu/Linux partitions, however. It displays them as one big contiguous "Type 85" partition. Naturally I haven't tried doing anything with this via PM. Other than this, everything's working fine. Both the Me and Gnu/ Linux sides are booting (using Grub) and running properly -- but I *would* like to be able to manage my Gnu/Linux partitions with PM. I should point out that all of the Gnu/Linux stuff is at the end of the partition map, well beyond the 1024-cylinder frontier. Anyone know what might be going on? Thanks Mark Shaw
RE: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside
There are all sorts of manuals and books that will claim to take you to the state of being a linux guru. In my experience there is no one source. The first purchase I made after going the unix route (NetBSD) was Essential System Administration by Aileen Frisch. It's pretty good. I also got hold of the BSD 4.4 User's Reference manual and System Administrator's manual. The FAQs are also worth reading for linux as well as the packages that you may install. (/usr/share/doc ;o) ) I found the FAQs that came with various Amiga distributions both informative as well as non-machine specific. The point is I think you will have to attempt several different sources - also, hopefully, have access to someone who knows the subject sigh sounds hard doesn't it? It's rewarding though and does start to make sense after a while. Good luck Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mcintosh, Duncan Sent: 10 April 2001 14:14 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside hi there Im looking for documentation for linux for an idiot. Iv checked a bunch of sites but they all seem to be different. How to configure the kernel A to Z. In that matter everything from A-Z Iv been to www.Mandrakecampus.com Iv been everywhere. If anybody knows where I can download a book or something like that please help out.
Re: [newbie] how to triple-boot? i.e. with 2 Mandrakes?
Syamsul Anwar wrote: How do I insert an entry in GRUB or Lilo such that I'd have the option to boot from either Mandrake installation? Grub makes things very easy. I'm not a grub expert, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. What I've written below is a hack that I did for lilo to boot FreeBSD, Debian, and RedHat all on someone's laptop. First, look at it from a system-wide point of view? Which distro is liable to stay the same for a while and which is likely to change? If you're installing Mandrake Betas on hdb, then hda is probably going to be the one that will be most stable. With that in mind, think of Mandrake 7.2 on hda as your "base" for control. I assume that you have a seperate /boot partition for Mandrake Beta. Simply mount it as /boot2 or something like that in Mandrake 7.2. Then modify lilo.conf by adding an entry for the Beta kernel image (which is now mounted on /boot2). Save it and run lilo to record the changes. If it reports no errors, reboot and try it. From this point on, any changes you want to make to the boot structure can be made from the Mandrake 7.2 system. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside
"Mcintosh, Duncan" wrote: Im looking for documentation for linux for an idiot. Iv checked a bunch of sites but they all seem to be different. How to configure the kernel A to Z. There is a help key in many of the screens when you do "make menuconfig". Do you need more information than what's provided? Are you looking for theory? I don't know that there is one concise document or series of documents that go into that detail. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Space
Well I can make a suggestion, but never having done this, I don't know if it will work. But personally I'd suggest reinstalling. You can add another harddrive, with out reinstalling. IT should detect the harddrive, however you may have to format it manually. Then move /var and or /usr to the new drive. You'd probably have to back it up to an external source then transfer the information to the new drive. From there you can delete the /usr and /var from your / partition. That would give you, most likely, plenty of room on your / after you do that. But I'd suggest that you reinstall. Add another drive, give that to / so you have a few GB for / for your /root and others. Just don't reformat the /home directory when you reinstall. That will allow you to keep all your config files in your $HOME directories. You should however format your / and /boot. But that's just a simple suggestion. Hope that idea does help though. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Michael Falzon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010407 03:13]: | Hi All need more space how can i do this with out reinstall | | O's Mandrake 6.1 | | FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on | /dev/hda7 1.9G 1.7G 144M 92% / | /dev/hda1 23M 786k 21M 4% /boot | /dev/hda5 5.6G 3.0G 2.2G 58% /home | /dev/hdc 612M 612M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom | /dev/hdd 631M 631M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom1 | | Michael Falzon | Last Of The BBs Sysop | Mozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBs | http://mozysswamp.yi.org | Registered Linux user #204397
[newbie] Config SendMail
Greetings He/she wanted they helped me to solve a problem. As configuring sendmail so that another user apart from the root can send email. With the current configuration the following error is generated. [Mail not sent: .0.0 Can't create transcript file./xff38Mkvd01313: Permission
RE: [newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic
I have PM 3 which is old and I see everything. Are you sure you using it correctly? Yeah. And I was able to manage my Windows partitions just fine. + you got 60G's isn't that enough for 2 OS's Heck, that's enough for several more. I'd just like to be able to manage the Gnu/Linux partitions with PM as well. -Message d'origine- I'm finding it difficult to believe nobody has an opinion on this -- heck, nobody's even flamed me for a clueless newbie :) I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that already had a single Windows Me partition on a 60G IBM hard drive. Although I'd already purchased a copy of PartitionMagic (v. 6.0) I wanted to put Mandrake through its paces, so I used DiskDrake to reduce the size of the FAT32 partition and to create my new Gnu/Linux partitions (1 swap, 3 ext2). After installing PartitionMagic I used it to split up my Windows partition (going from a single FAT32 partition to four FAT32 parti- tions). This worked fine. PartitionMagic doesn't see the Gnu/Linux partitions, however. It displays them as one big contiguous "Type 85" partition. Naturally I haven't tried doing anything with this via PM. Other than this, everything's working fine. Both the Me and Gnu/ Linux sides are booting (using Grub) and running properly -- but I *would* like to be able to manage my Gnu/Linux partitions with PM. I should point out that all of the Gnu/Linux stuff is at the end of the partition map, well beyond the 1024-cylinder frontier. Anyone know what might be going on? Thanks Mark Shaw
[newbie] Can't configure and run xWin
I recently purchased a copy of Mandrake 7.2 with the intent of installing it on my laptop. Unfortunately, as with previous attempts (Mandrake 7.1, SUSE, Red Hat), I was unable to do so. It would appear that the problem is something to do with my monitor, but it could be the graphics card. I have tried the following two monitor types:- Generic LCD 1024*768 High Resolution SVGA Laptop spec:- Hewlett Packard Omnibook XE2 DB Graphics Card ? Silicon Motion LynxE (2mb RAM) Purchased in Oct 99 After installing Mandrake xWin doesn't start. When I Type 'startx' from the command promt I get the following error message?. (ee) VGA (0) : Given depth (16) is not supported by this driver (ee) Screen(s) found but none have a usable configuration Fatal Server error no screens found. HELP - I SO BADLY WANT TO START USING LINUX
RE: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside
Thanks todd. Yeah I'v been through all that. I'm looking for something like support books or docs online. Something like the study guides for WINDOZE MCSE. Cheers Mac -Message d'origine- De: CB [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 10 avril 2001 16:31 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet:Re: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside "Mcintosh, Duncan" wrote: Im looking for documentation for linux for an idiot. Iv checked a bunch of sites but they all seem to be different. How to configure the kernel A to Z. There is a help key in many of the screens when you do "make menuconfig". Do you need more information than what's provided? Are you looking for theory? I don't know that there is one concise document or series of documents that go into that detail. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
RE: [newbie] file server
Yeah I agree with you Matties Gee at the moment I'm getting more than 50 or so mail a day and I'v been reading most of them but to me it sound like a place for the experts and not the idiots. For those who do read this no harm as I'm sure when I begin to understand more linux it will all make sense. -Message d'origine- De: Mattias Segerdahl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 10 avril 2001 15:46 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet:Re: [newbie] file server English might not be my native language, though, I don't see what it has to do with this. I thought this list was called Linux Mandrake Newbie, iow, a list for people that arn't that good at linux. When talking to people that are new to linux, it's easier to use "microsoft" terms for them to understand. // Mattias - Original Message - From: "Daryl Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] file server If you meant the one after the 'let' then I did but I made allowances that English is probably not your first language. If I have completely misinterpreted your post then I apologise. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 12:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Did you notice the "'s ? - Original Message - From: "Daryl Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] file server -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 09:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Well, For a fileserver you don't need that much cpu or ram, but ofcourse hard drives... You would probably be best of reading about samba in this case, samba is a "netbui" fileserver which U beg pardon? Netbeui? Well, makes a change from TCP/IP ;o) Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates
[newbie] Ping doesn't respond
II installed PMFirewall and then tried to ping ATT but it stalled? PING www.att.com (192.20.3.54): 56 octets data and it just sits there. I can access the internet but I can't ping. I didn't change any of the settings in LinxConf because this is a standalone pc. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
[newbie] Accessing CDROM
Hi all, I am not able check the contents of CD in Linux. My system is dual bootable on Windows ME and Linux Mandrake 7.2 I am able to access Floppy drive and other windows drives through Linux , but not CD drive. I tried to mount the CD-ROM with Mount /mnt/cdrom. but is says cdrom is already mounted. Can any one help? I am having CDRW. Thanks Gnana Prakash
Re: [newbie] file server (NetBEUI vs TCP/IP)
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 06:36, you wrote: Yeah I agree with you Matties Gee at the moment I'm getting more than 50 or so mail a day and I'v been reading most of them but to me it sound like a place for the experts and not the idiots. For those who do read this no harm as I'm sure when I begin to understand more linux it will all make sense. -Message d'origine- De: Mattias Segerdahl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 10 avril 2001 15:46 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: [newbie] file server English might not be my native language, though, I don't see what it has to do with this. I thought this list was called Linux Mandrake Newbie, iow, a list for people that arn't that good at linux. When talking to people that are new to linux, it's easier to use "microsoft" terms for them to understand. // Mattias - Original Message - From: "Daryl Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] file server If you meant the one after the 'let' then I did but I made allowances that English is probably not your first language. If I have completely misinterpreted your post then I apologise. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 12:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Did you notice the "'s ? - Original Message - From: "Daryl Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] file server -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 09:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Well, For a fileserver you don't need that much cpu or ram, but ofcourse hard drives... You would probably be best of reading about samba in this case, samba is a "netbui" fileserver which U beg pardon? Netbeui? Well, makes a change from TCP/IP ;o) Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates "NetBEUI is shipped with all versions of Microsoft's operating systems today and is generally considered to have a lot of overhead. NetBEUI also has no networking layer and therefore no routing capability, which means it is only suitable for small networks; you cannot build internetworks with NetBEUI, and so it is often replaced with TCP/IP." (Network + Study Guide, SYBEX 1999, p.151). -- -m-
RE: [newbie] Ping doesn't respond
Your firewall is preventing access to the Ping command to get to the internet. I don't know allot about PMFirewall so, you will have to wait for others to respond for that info. Moose -Original Message- From: g [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Ping doesn't respond II installed PMFirewall and then tried to ping ATT but it stalled? PING www.att.com (192.20.3.54): 56 octets data and it just sits there. I can access the internet but I can't ping. I didn't change any of the settings in LinxConf because this is a standalone pc. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
RE: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside
Thanks Daryl Thats what I'm doing at the moment. Lots of howto, mini howto's, and scratching head. Yes and I'm lucky as a friend who is a UNIX engineer introduced me to the real world of computing. However there is no challenge if he show me how everything works. Know of any good books for newbies? Cheers Mac -Message d'origine- De: Daryl Johnson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 10 avril 2001 16:15 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet:RE: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside There are all sorts of manuals and books that will claim to take you to the state of being a linux guru. In my experience there is no one source. The first purchase I made after going the unix route (NetBSD) was Essential System Administration by Aileen Frisch. It's pretty good. I also got hold of the BSD 4.4 User's Reference manual and System Administrator's manual. The FAQs are also worth reading for linux as well as the packages that you may install. (/usr/share/doc ;o) ) I found the FAQs that came with various Amiga distributions both informative as well as non-machine specific. The point is I think you will have to attempt several different sources - also, hopefully, have access to someone who knows the subject sigh sounds hard doesn't it? It's rewarding though and does start to make sense after a while. Good luck Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mcintosh, Duncan Sent: 10 April 2001 14:14 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside hi there Im looking for documentation for linux for an idiot. Iv checked a bunch of sites but they all seem to be different. How to configure the kernel A to Z. In that matter everything from A-Z Iv been to www.Mandrakecampus.com Iv been everywhere. If anybody knows where I can download a book or something like that please help out.
[newbie] boot disk with grub
Hi everyone, Windows is not able to boot, I was going to reintall it, so I tested my linux floppy boot disk (the one created while linux was installed). The disk is booting with LILO instead of grub and it doesn't complete a succesfull boot. How can I create a grub boot disk? Thanks in advance!! Hugo
RE: [newbie] Can't configure and run xWin
No, I haven't tried ver 7.0. I got a little further with 7.1 - managed to run KDE etc. BUT after a while that locked up whilst running xWin and even when I restarted it, failed to run correctly. AutoDetect didn't work either. I did a custom install and when configuring xWin all the install programme asked for was to confirm the monitor type. It defaulted to High Resolution SVGA. This didn't work. "Mcintosh, Duncan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 10/04/2001 16:23:17 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: RE: [newbie] Can't configure and run xWin Have you tried Mandrake 7.0? Doesn't autodetect work? -Message d'origine- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 10 avril 2001 16:38 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: [newbie] Can't configure and run xWin I recently purchased a copy of Mandrake 7.2 with the intent of installing it on my laptop. Unfortunately, as with previous attempts (Mandrake 7.1, SUSE, Red Hat), I was unable to do so. It would appear that the problem is something to do with my monitor, but it could be the graphics card. I have tried the following two monitor types:- Generic LCD 1024*768 High Resolution SVGA Laptop spec:- Hewlett Packard Omnibook XE2 DB Graphics Card ? Silicon Motion LynxE (2mb RAM) Purchased in Oct 99 After installing Mandrake xWin doesn't start. When I Type 'startx' from the command promt I get the following error message?. (ee) VGA (0) : Given depth (16) is not supported by this driver (ee) Screen(s) found but none have a usable configuration Fatal Server error no screens found. HELP - I SO BADLY WANT TO START USING LINUX
[newbie] Rebuilding an src.rpm file
Dear Mark and friends: Forgot to mention: [After you have rebuilt your rpms from your src.rpm, just use them as you would any RPMS. You might wish to uninstall any other rpms that are built for a different category and then install your new, customized RPMS. -- Benjamin] Rebuilding an src.rpm package is the easiest thing in the world. Download the src.rpm package, then, as root , type in xterm: #rpm --rebuild mozilla-0.8.1.src.rpm (or whatever the name of the file). Make sure the file ends in "src.rpm", not "rpm." You can also add the target build for your system: rpm --rebuild mozilla-0.8.1.src.rpm --target=i586 You should replace "i586" by whatever your system demands. Remember that AMD K6 systems are really i586, NOT i686 as they claim. You can try it first without the target setting and, if necessary, try it again with the target setting. There is NOTHING else to be done. Just wait. It could take an hour or two or three or many more depending on what you are rebuilding, on how big the files is. If all goes well, your rebuilding will end with a return to the prompt and with NO error messages. You then go to /usr/src/ to find your RPM file, that is, the rpm file you just built for your own system. All such rebuilt rpms are auotomatically stored in: [sher@sher07 sher]$ cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS [sher@sher07 RPMS]$ ls i386/ i486/ i586/ i686/ k6/ noarch/ [sher@sher07 RPMS]$ Go into any of these builds and look for your files. It should be stored in whatever your system build category is. But, if not, try them all to be sure. They should be in one of these categories. Benjamin
Re: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside
I've found that O'Reilly is a HUGE source help as well. I'd suggested to most anyone the "Linux in a Nutshell" book. I believe it's in it's 3rd edition right now. It goes through and covers a lot of the commands and then gives examples for them. Which I know a lot of people find helpful. Also, look for Linux User Groups, (LUG) in your area. I know the one here does Install Fests. Where you can bring in a machine, and people provide Linux distros, as well as help you install Linux on your machine. LUG's also have mailing lists like this one. Where you can email people in your area and possibly set up meetings with some of them to help you out. I know quite a few people that truly benefit from the LUG's in their area. I know most universities have one of their own. There are 2 universities and one community college in my area, all 3 have LUGs and hold monthly meetings about various topics. That's a HUGE source of learning right there. As for online, start with www.mandrakesoft.com/ From there they have links to tons of other Mandrake sites like www.mandrakeuser.org and others. Most providing searchable documentation, mailing lists, and articles about various Linux topics. I've found them very helpful and they have helped me start the transition from being a newbie to an "psuedo-expert." :0) You could also find books on CD that might be more helpful and you can search the CD for information. Hope that helps! tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Mcintosh, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010410 09:13]: | hi there | | Im looking for documentation for linux for an idiot. Iv checked a bunch of | sites but they all seem to be different. | How to configure the kernel A to Z. | In that matter everything from A-Z | Iv been to www.Mandrakecampus.com | Iv been everywhere. | If anybody knows where I can download a book or something like that please | help out.
RE: [newbie] file server
Look Mattias I might just as well ask didn't you see the smiley on my comment? I have offered you a public apology but if you do not wish to accept it then we can carry on the argument via e-mail as it is clearly something that does not belong on the list. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates
FW: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside
or do a seach for APCmag linux pocketbook, In australia its sold in newsagencies, but you can but it at APCmags web site.. Its a great little book, very simple and it even comes with MDK7.2 I have been buying them when they were using RH5,,, they are very good beginers guides. Frank Hauptle / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ Gshop Network Payment Solutions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Holmes Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2001 12:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside I've found that O'Reilly is a HUGE source help as well. I'd suggested to most anyone the "Linux in a Nutshell" book. I believe it's in it's 3rd edition right now. It goes through and covers a lot of the commands and then gives examples for them. Which I know a lot of people find helpful. Also, look for Linux User Groups, (LUG) in your area. I know the one here does Install Fests. Where you can bring in a machine, and people provide Linux distros, as well as help you install Linux on your machine. LUG's also have mailing lists like this one. Where you can email people in your area and possibly set up meetings with some of them to help you out. I know quite a few people that truly benefit from the LUG's in their area. I know most universities have one of their own. There are 2 universities and one community college in my area, all 3 have LUGs and hold monthly meetings about various topics. That's a HUGE source of learning right there. As for online, start with www.mandrakesoft.com/ From there they have links to tons of other Mandrake sites like www.mandrakeuser.org and others. Most providing searchable documentation, mailing lists, and articles about various Linux topics. I've found them very helpful and they have helped me start the transition from being a newbie to an "psuedo-expert." :0) You could also find books on CD that might be more helpful and you can search the CD for information. Hope that helps! tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Mcintosh, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010410 09:13]: | hi there | | Im looking for documentation for linux for an idiot. Iv checked a bunch of | sites but they all seem to be different. | How to configure the kernel A to Z. | In that matter everything from A-Z | Iv been to www.Mandrakecampus.com | Iv been everywhere. | If anybody knows where I can download a book or something like that please | help out.
Re: [newbie] Dual processor MB ?
On Monday 09 April 2001 17:32, you wrote: Hallo! I'm thinking about upgrading my CPU (K6-3-400) and, as i'm using linux 95% of my time i suppose it's better a dual processor architecture, isn't it?? If so... what MB should you suggest? And what processor/speed ?? Processor is upto your $ etc. but if its any help i used an A_Bit MB for my dual P3 866Mhz works fine Thanks ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
[newbie] [Newbie]XPDF
Any suggestions where to get XPDF , thanks in advance phil
Re: [newbie] [Newbie]XPDF
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ -Original Message- From:phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:00:41 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] [Newbie]XPDF Any suggestions where to get XPDF , thanks in advance phil ___ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot.
Re: [newbie] Beta 3 Install Experience
I really just wanted to comment on the USB Module issue that you mentioned. I have a USB Trackball on one of my machines at home. It runs amazingly! I mean it's so smooth, and really fast. BUT!! Sometimes, in the event of a reboot, it doesn't like to load the USB interface. It actually hangs there and won't continue. I reset the machine, it then starts to boot again. After it scans the partitions and goes through boot, this time it gets to the USB interface and loads it just fine. Is this what you're experiencing? Once I get that machine booted, I have no problem and it's smooth and stable. But if I reboot it, sometimes eth0 doesn't come up. Normally it freezes there. Or it will come up with eth0 and then give me an error with eth1, but freeze at USB interface. Normally a reset and then try and boot clears that up. Are you having that problem? I'm not sure why it happens, I just know it's happened to me a few times and I've actually gone through and got the machine booted. I'm not sure if this part of the beta either. I installed Beta two and had no problem installing or booting on the machine with the USB trackball. But I wanted to tell you that story. You may just need to reset and start the boot all over to get that USB mouse to pop up. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Neville Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010410 04:33]: | Generally speaking everything is shaping up rather nicely however I | experienced the following problems. | | | Internet Screen on Install | Setting up a network connection behaved the same as it did in beta 1 in | that it allowed me to enter all the internet data but when I selected | OKthe input form remained on the scren and I had to cancel back out - | but all the data transfered and I was able to get a connection. | | USB Module | Could not load the usb modules. During install the program automatically | identified my USB wheel mouse but when it rebooted after install the USB | modules weren't loaded so I had to put a PS2 mouse back when the | configue screen poped up. It is an AMD USB module. Do I have to ecompile | the kernel in order for it to work. | | Mozilla | Mozilla problem. When I 1st installed I only installed the browser and | it worked. On the second install I installed the mail part and it would | not run from the menu. I then selected /usr/lib/mozilla-bin and it came | up, converted all my netscape data and then it would also work from the | menu icon after that. | | Logon Screen | I noticed the font on the logon screen differs depending on whether you | installed Xfree 3 or 4. The font in xfree 4 seems larger and almost bold | in appearance compared to Xfree 3. | | Express Install | When I installed using this mode everything seemed to go well until I | booted and found the default screen color set at 256. When I tried to | change it using Drakconf the system froze when the pop-up appeared to | enter root password.Had to reinstall. | | Hardware | CPU AMD Athlon 800 | 256Mb RAM | Diamond Viper 770 Video | | Nev
[newbie] network printing
Can anyone help set up remote printing on a LM 7.2 machine running KDE 2.1.1 to be able to print to a networked printer in a windows 2000 environment? Printing Services for Unix is installed on the print server, but I cannot successfully attach any printer queues located on this server. I have been able to connect to a printer directly by IP address, but this is undesirable, as the printers don't have static addresses. Any suggestions? Thanks! Terry Sheltra __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Copy and paste from the shell?
Hi guys! Isn't possible to copy and paste output from the terminal? TIA
Re: [newbie] locked cd roms
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Randall F Banner wrote: recognize the drive at all, and in addition I can't mount the floppy or zip drives either. I get an "input/output error" when trying. This happens even when I stop vmWare. (Funny thing, I can still boot DOS from the floppy, and I can even boot he mdk cd from thr cd-rom drive, I just can't mount either one from inside Linux) I'm not absolutely sure that vmWare is the problem, but the similarity between your story and mine sure makes it look suspicious. Hopefully someone else on the list will have some words of wisdom... VERY interesting, I have the exact same thing and thought that it was me misconfiguring something somewhere! I also get a lot of input/output error (on my CDRW) AND have vmware running. I never got it until I got vmware. However, It is about the same time I got an new system and upgraded to 7.2. Sometimes, nothing ever helps and just reboot. I can still burn CD's in it, in fact sometimes the problems SEEMS to go away right after I fix a cd with cdrecord. However, more often than not, it does not help and could be just random. Sometimes unmounting the CDRW so that supermount is not controlling and then mounting again with supermount helps, but again that is rare. Most of the time, when the input/output errors start nothing helps.
[newbie] packages how to open?
how do you open after i download on windows I reboot to Linux and then go to /mount/windowsand then transfer the file to Linux then cannot open the package Is there something similar to .exe in windowz?
Re: [newbie] file server
Mattias Segerdahl wrote: Well, For a fileserver you don't need that much cpu or ram, but ofcourse hard drives... You would probably be best of reading about samba in this case, Agreed, but one addition. Get SCSI hard drives. You will not be impressed with the speed of IDE drives. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
RE: [newbie] Can't configure and run xWin
Have you tried Mandrake 7.0? Doesn't autodetect work? -Message d'origine- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 10 avril 2001 16:38 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet:[newbie] Can't configure and run xWin I recently purchased a copy of Mandrake 7.2 with the intent of installing it on my laptop. Unfortunately, as with previous attempts (Mandrake 7.1, SUSE, Red Hat), I was unable to do so. It would appear that the problem is something to do with my monitor, but it could be the graphics card. I have tried the following two monitor types:- Generic LCD 1024*768 High Resolution SVGA Laptop spec:- Hewlett Packard Omnibook XE2 DB Graphics Card ? Silicon Motion LynxE (2mb RAM) Purchased in Oct 99 After installing Mandrake xWin doesn't start. When I Type 'startx' from the command promt I get the following error message?. (ee) VGA (0) : Given depth (16) is not supported by this driver (ee) Screen(s) found but none have a usable configuration Fatal Server error no screens found. HELP - I SO BADLY WANT TO START USING LINUX
Re: [newbie] The system freezes after 2-minutes
On 10 Apr 01, at 9:36, Tamer Mostafa Abu Elfadl wrote: I have installed linux mandrake 7.2 on the logical partition hdc5, with swap on hdc6. The system runs OK at the first 2-minute. But when the mouse or the keyboard are left untouched, the system freezes and I have to hardware reset the system. I tried to install linux multiple times but the problem persists. Does anybody can help with that? Tamer I had a similar problem, the system "freezed up" within 10 min. When i removed a CDRom and a floppy from the drive the problem was over... (Haven't figured it out yet , but it still works.. Groeten, Daan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RE: [newbie] Config SendMail
That is a bug in the sendmail that came with 7.2,,, I loaded on the one from the cooker site, and once I got the dependencies sorted, it has worked fine ever since... you need to download and install updated sendmail rpm's good luck Frank Hauptle / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ Gshop Network Payment Solutions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of De geografia Congreso de Estudiantes Sent: Tuesday, 10 April 2001 10:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Config SendMail Greetings He/she wanted they helped me to solve a problem. As configuring sendmail so that another user apart from the root can send email. With the current configuration the following error is generated. [Mail not sent: .0.0 Can't create transcript file./xff38Mkvd01313: Permission
Re: [newbie]Linux Isp
Are you just looking for support of your Linux box connection? It shouldn't prove to be to difficult to set up a dialer such as kppp and connect to ANY ISP that uses PAP. I've connected with several. Including, but not exclusive to, EarthLink, local ISPs, employee RAS dial in, and a dial in that is nothing but UNIX. What sort of support or connection problems have you run into? The beauty of UNIX/Linux users to an ISP is they're normally very knowlegedable. When I worked for a local ISP we "supported" UNIX/Linux, but not on the OS level. We just helped run tests to find out where the problem is in them connecting. (i.e. Watching logs as they dialed.) Most cable connections are going with the trend of using MAC addresses to assign DHCP address. I know the RoadRunner service offered through MediaOne/Comcast does this. You have the option of giving them your MAC address, they set up the modem etc; and you're on your own. At which point you should only need to plug in the ethernet and run an /etc/init.d/network restart to get a DHCP address. Every ISP that I've known, save AOL, but I won't voice my opinion for them, doesn't give a rat's $*%^@ what OS you're running. They give you dial in numbers, userID and passwd, mail server, news server, and possible proxy information then you're on your way. At least that's the experience I've had, and the one I've dealt with having worked in the support department of an ISP. I honestly wish I had the knowledge I have now, then! To help Linux users, as well as more UNIX/Linux knowledge. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Jennifer Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010403 07:20]: | I doubt you wil find any and it's sad as most of the techs at ISPs run | Linux on their home systems. | | | Jenn | (ex ISP tech who was not allowed to support linux users despite the | simplicity of the questions) | | | | Jennifer Davis | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, phil wrote: | | Anyone know of any Linux friendly ISP?I get the Impression My ISP | is not. | Cable access Roadrunner Time warner!
Re: [newbie] pppd problem (any help desperately needed)
i had the same problem with my external hardware modem!! so if you get an answer let me know!! dan '(Wales is) a ghastly place, huge gangs of tough, sinewy men roaming the valleys terrifying people with their close-harmony singing. You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the place names. Never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick - you'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.' -- Blackadder, Amy And Amiability - Original Message - From: "s" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] pppd problem (any help desperately needed) If increasing the timeout doesn't help (I hope it does): What is the error? Go into /var/log and look in your syslog and messages and see what it says. It will usually tell you what the problem(s) is. Could be a lock file/dir/dev, could be permissions, could be any of your pppd scripts, the list goes on and on. Come back with your errors. -s On Sunday 08 April 2001 08:05 am, you wrote: i have an lt winmodem on linux mandrake 7.2 (the wal-mart version). i downloaded a script and module .zip from the internet (linmodems.com) and my modem works! (i guess its a linmodem now), but when i start pppd to connect it dials and establishes a connection, but as soon as it says "logging on to network" i get an error like "pppd died unexpectedly, check man page for errorcodes.." or something very similar. can anyone PLEASE help?ill even tell you the url of the script thing i got... rabius, on a p200MMX, 32mb ram, 1.2gb,516mb hdds, 2mb video ram, LM7.2, SB AWE32/64, lt winmodem (56k).
[newbie] ATI TV Wonder VE Fixed
Ok I posted this question to the list a few days ago with no reply but I was able to find a way to get this card up and running. I looked through the news archives (http://groups.google.com) and found quite a few threads that got me going. The howto is way to outdated for use with Mandrake Freq. Any way all I did was edit /etc/modules.conf the folowing was the needed lines: alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv options tuner type=5 options bttv card=10 post-remove bttvmodprobe -r msp3400; modprobe -r tuner pre-install bttvmodprobe -k msp3400; modprobe -k tuner I'm not 100% sure on what all those things mean but have a general idea (downloaded the bttv tarball just for the readme's). Next I need to get it working well in X (fullscreen) it keeps moving the res and I read somewhere that X needs some tweaking.. Any Ideas? I have XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk right now with a Voodoo3. I have a feeling X is only working through sheer miracle though because my Voodoo card is pci and Mandrake detected an on board chip i810 during install so I had to change that with xf86cfg and drakconf. So I dont think I have 3d excel or anything. Anyone give me a hand getting the tv full screen with my vid card? I can right now but only 640x480 wich I dont want I want 1024x768. TIA Jeff __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] [Newbie] Linux for Windows??
Anyone have any suggestions about this version?Its mandrake 7.2 but it is a folder in windows.seems to work well but i cannot get on-line. Have a HP 600mhz celeron Network card trying to get on-line thru Road Runner cable modem. phil
Re: [newbie] boot disk with grub
In your kmenu boot and init drakfloppy. -s On Tuesday 10 April 2001 11:07 am, you wrote: Hi everyone, Windows is not able to boot, I was going to reintall it, so I tested my linux floppy boot disk (the one created while linux was installed). The disk is booting with LILO instead of grub and it doesn't complete a succesfull boot. How can I create a grub boot disk? Thanks in advance!! Hugo
Re: [newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic
I can confirm your observations. I too have just installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a dual partition (win98-15GB active, ntfs-15GB blank,10GB unused) 40 GB IBM drive. The installation went without a hitch. I now have Linux partitions at the end of the drive(past 30GB mark and using the remaining 10GB) booting via grub. I would like to reduce the size of the Linux partition but with PM v6.0, I see one FULL 'type 85' partition. No free space. Of course, this is not accurate. Do I assume that grub is operating from the MBR thus making the 1024 cyl. limit meaningless in this case? - Original Message - From: "Mark Shaw" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:48 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic I have PM 3 which is old and I see everything. Are you sure you using it correctly? Yeah. And I was able to manage my Windows partitions just fine. + you got 60G's isn't that enough for 2 OS's Heck, that's enough for several more. I'd just like to be able to manage the Gnu/Linux partitions with PM as well. -Message d'origine- I'm finding it difficult to believe nobody has an opinion on this -- heck, nobody's even flamed me for a clueless newbie :) I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that already had a single Windows Me partition on a 60G IBM hard drive. Although I'd already purchased a copy of PartitionMagic (v. 6.0) I wanted to put Mandrake through its paces, so I used DiskDrake to reduce the size of the FAT32 partition and to create my new Gnu/Linux partitions (1 swap, 3 ext2). After installing PartitionMagic I used it to split up my Windows partition (going from a single FAT32 partition to four FAT32 parti- tions). This worked fine. PartitionMagic doesn't see the Gnu/Linux partitions, however. It displays them as one big contiguous "Type 85" partition. Naturally I haven't tried doing anything with this via PM. Other than this, everything's working fine. Both the Me and Gnu/ Linux sides are booting (using Grub) and running properly -- but I *would* like to be able to manage my Gnu/Linux partitions with PM. I should point out that all of the Gnu/Linux stuff is at the end of the partition map, well beyond the 1024-cylinder frontier. Anyone know what might be going on? Thanks Mark Shaw
