[newbie-it] xmms 8.0
Ciao, ho un problema con la 8.0 Manfdrake. L'xmms non si avvia, sembra ci sia un probema con la libreria gtk+ se ho capito bene. Pensavo che fosse un problema del cd che stavo usando ma usando un altro cd ho lo stesso problema e allora ... volevo sapere se qualcuno aveva avuto un problema del genere. Per il resto sembra funzionare tutto ok, scheda audio e modem configurati perfettamente al primo avvio e non mi capitava da molto !?!? Grazie Maurilio
Re: [newbie-it] KDE non parte piu'
Il 19:00, mercoledì 31 dicembre 1969, hai scritto: [CUT] le domande sarebbero 2: 1) come posso fare per ripristinare KDE senza reinstallare mdk 8.0? Ciao, cerchiamo di capire la portata del danno... Hai provato a verificare se KDE funziona entrando con un altro account utente (se hai più utenti configurati) o come root? Se così fosse, il guaio risiede probabilmente in qualche file di configurazione nella cartella home dell'utente. Verifica se root riesce ad avviare KDE... 2) gli aggiornamenti e' meglio se me li scarico singolarmente senza usare l'update di mdk? Se sei un purista di Linux, probabilmente sì. Io uso il pinguino solo da alcuni mesi, e quindi ho ancora qualche problemino con la sintassi dei comandi da console... così, quando posso, uso i programmi inclusi nella MDK per eseguire gli stessi lavori. Devo dire che con la MDK 8.0 hanno fatto un ottimo lavoro, ho aggiornato tutto l'aggiornabile (o quasi), sempre usando il Mandrake Update. Mai nessun problema. come sempre grazie dell'attenzionee cordialmente vi saluto! ;) by Spider Ciao e, come sempre, buon Linux! Daniele
[newbie-it] Mdk 8.0 e porte seriali
Salve, ho provato ad installare la nuova mdk 8 su un pc pentium 133 con 48 mb di ramsenza riscontrare grossi problemi. Poi ho scoperto che non mi funzionano le periferiche attaccate alle seriali (mouse sotto x e modem (usr sportser message) in pratica il problema dovrebbe essere il seguente: kudzu mi trova sia un mouse che un modem e dice di configurarli. Il problema è che quando mi propone le porte su cui configurarli, posso scegliere tra ttyS0 e ttyS1qual'è il problema, direte voi? il problema è che in fase di boot, mi vede le seriali come ttyS00 e ttyS01 e cosi ole configura...ho provato con setserial a creare due nuove porte con quel nome e passandogli i parametri di irq e i/o delle porte regolari (e sono giusti) ma mi risponde sempre bad ioctl... A questo punto, le mie conoscenze non mi permettono di fare altro, mi potete aiutare? Grazie GIno
[newbie-it] informazioni
salve sono un utente inesperto di mandrake 8.0 ho installato alcuni programmi trovati su riviste i programmi vengono installati regolarmente da rpm ma non riesco ad aprirli o visualizzarli nel menu programmi di kde o gnome potreste aiutarmi? Grazie franco __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
[newbie-it] informazioni
salve sono un utente inesperto di mandrake 8.0 ho installato alcuni programmi trovati su riviste i programmi vengono installati regolarmente da rpm ma non riesco ad aprirli o visualizzarli nel menu programmi di kde o gnome potreste aiutarmi? Grazie franco __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
[newbie-it] Nvidia
Siccoma l'NVIDIA non distribuisce i suoi driver con licenza GPL la Mandrake non fornisce più i Driver per il 3D. Gli ho scaricati dal sito ho seguito la procedura d'installazione e sembra tutto perfetto, all'avvio il MDK 8.0 visualizza il logo NVIDIA. Il problema sta nei giochi tuxrace non parte, proprio come se non riuscisse ad usare il 3D, avete un'idea di come far funzionare la mia TNT 2 M64 con il 3D? Grazie. Ruben
Re: [newbie-it] KDE non parte piu'
- Original Message - 1) come posso fare per ripristinare KDE senza reinstallare mdk 8.0? Ciao, cerchiamo di capire la portata del danno... Hai provato a verificare se KDE funziona entrando con un altro account utente (se hai più utenti configurati) o come root? Se così fosse, il guaio risiede probabilmente in qualche file di configurazione nella cartella home dell'utente. Verifica se root riesce ad avviare KDE... ciao Daniele e grazie :) allora la risposta e' si ..root riesce ad entrare e non mi da nessun problema...mentre se entro come utente si blocca!!ora come posso fare? ovviamente se non chiedo troppo :P grazie!!!
Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8.0 e porte seriali
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:39:50 +0200 Gino Pelliccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve, ho provato ad installare la nuova mdk 8 su un pc pentium 133 con 48 mb di ramsenza riscontrare grossi problemi. Poi ho scoperto che non mi funzionano le periferiche attaccate alle seriali (mouse sotto x e modem (usr sportser message) in pratica il problema dovrebbe essere il seguente: kudzu mi trova sia un mouse che un modem e dice di configurarli. Il problema è che quando mi propone le porte su cui configurarli, posso scegliere tra ttyS0 e ttyS1qual'è il problema, direte voi? il problema è che in fase di boot, mi vede le seriali come ttyS00 e ttyS01 e cosi ole configura...ho provato con setserial a creare due nuove porte con quel nome e passandogli i parametri di irq e i/o delle porte regolari (e sono giusti) ma mi risponde sempre bad ioctl... A questo punto, le mie conoscenze non mi permettono di fare altro, mi potete aiutare? Setserial non puo' creare nuove porte ma solo settare quelle esistenti. Il tuo problema e' un po' strano, controlla che nella dir /dev ci siano i files ttyS0 e ttyS1, se ci sono rimuovi ttyS00 e ttyS01 in modo che il sistema usi quelli originali. -- Sebastiano Cordiano
Re: [newbie-it] Domanda
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 00:06:42 -0400 bellotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scusate forse è una domanda gia fatta , ma non la riesco a trovare in archivio . Vorrei sapere come fare per emulare lo scsi con il cdrom come avviene con il masterizzatore , in xcdroast mi vede solo il masterizzatore e non il cdrom . Comè la sintassi per aggiungere anche il cdrom come periferica scsi? In attesa di una risposta ringrazio. Ciao Lele. Ammesso che il tuo masterizzatore sia hdc ed il cdrom hdd, devi aggiungere la riga hdd=ide-scsi nel Lilo o nel Grub e cambiare il link /dev/cdrom(2) per farlo puntare a /dev/scd1. Se le posizioni non sono quelle cambia opportunamente le lettere dei dispositivi. Ciao -- Sebastiano Cordiano
[newbie-it] Problema con modem isdn w6692
Salve a tutti. Ho un problema con il modem isdn w6692 della winbond.Uso mdk 8.0.Però c'è una cosa strana perché nella configurazione di connessione draknet lo riconosce come periferica però non si connette? Che devo fare,(non è un problema di driver?) Grazie
[newbie-it] Vedere filmati
Sono utente mandrake 8 e non riesco a vedere filmati internet, qualcuno può gentilmente spiegarmi come poterlo fare. Il mio problema penso sia la configurazione della applicazioni di netscape o l'associazione file di Konquerror. Potete darmi una mano. Grazie mille. Enrico
Re: [newbie-it] xmms 8.0
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:01:22 +0200 Maurilio Pannella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao, ho un problema con la 8.0 Manfdrake. L'xmms non si avvia, sembra ci sia un probema con la libreria gtk+ se ho capito bene. Pensavo che fosse un problema del cd che stavo usando ma usando un altro cd ho lo stesso problema e allora ... volevo sapere se qualcuno aveva avuto un problema del genere. Per il resto sembra funzionare tutto ok, scheda audio e modem configurati perfettamente al primo avvio e non mi capitava da molto !?!? In realta' e' solo un problema di traduzione: cancella il file /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/xmms.mo e dovrebbe tornare tutto a posto. Ciao -- Sebastiano Cordiano
[newbie-it] Cambiare i permessi
Esiste un sistema rapido per modificare i permessi (user e group) di tutti i file contenuti in una directory? Grazie! Corrado
[newbie-it] Problema con modem isdn w6692
Salve a tutti.Ho un problema con il modem isdn w6692 della winbond.Uso mdk 8.0.Però c'è una cosa strana perché nella configurazione di connessione draknet lo riconosce come periferica però non si connette? Che devo fare,(non è un problema di driver?) Grazie
Re: [newbie] No X Server, now what? (Head is dropping!)
On Friday 08 June 2001 01:56, Mick wrote: Hello again, I am getting very frustrated. Here's the background. New Asus A7A266 m/b AMD T/Bird 1ghz Proc, 512mb mem. ATI Expert 2000 AGP (Rage 128 Chip) Have loaded LM 8.0, goes all the way to Xserver, then reverts to prompt, despite asking it to load gui login during install. Logged in as root. From prompt I typed XFdrake.(is that right?) I pick all the hardware I know I have, but it returns with an error has occurred. If I try 'startx' from the prompt, a screen load of data scrolls by ending up at Fatal Server Error', No device detected among a lot of other stuff. It states it has a log file in /var/log/xfree86.log. Should I be looking at that file? If so, with what? (We're talking really green newbie here folks!) I even successfully (after advice from the list staff) updated the bios, but still I get a 'clock timer config lost error' 'restoring chip config'. Now in an effort to utilise a process of elimination, I took out the video card and ran it successfully on a Windows machine. I even replaced it with an older S3 virge Diamond Stealth PCI card. That worked fine in the new Linux box! Here are my questions: Why won't the ATI card work in my Linux box? How do I start to find the trouble, ie what do I type at the prompt to try to start X windows manually in LM 8.0? Is XFdrake out of date? There's also a bigger picture here. My computer buddies think I am crazy to try to run Linux on a new machine. Just go ahead and load Windows and stop with all the bother! they say. It's a lot to learn, but I see so much promise in LM, I am trying my best to make them eat their words! I could do with some major help here. Any input would be really great. Thanks in advance. Mick (on the front lines!) Well, try attaching that file /var/log/xfree86.log to an email to me. The card manufacturers all write drivers for windows and rarely give us enough info to write drivers (protect their IP, they say). By us I mean the linux community. Mandrake includes the best free software drivers we can find, mostly from xfree.org, but not all cards are compliant enough with generic drivers for their chipsets to work out of the box. With this particular phenomenon, I am prompted to ask what is sitting NEXT to the video card. The ACP slot shares an interrupt with the PCI slot next to it. I can remember some systems that would lose their video minds because an Intel EEpro ethernet card was next to them Moving the ehternet card or using a different video card both solved the problem. If that is the case, the card in question is out of spec for PCI/AGP, but manufacturers often get away with that becase few software systems really stress the hardware to the limits of specs. It takes a linux compiled for 586-class processors to start showing some of the problems. Some 686 compiled systems have been known to fry data in out-of-spec situations. Civileme QA/Software Testing
Re: [newbie] mutt
Hello John, All a mailbox is, is just a file. This can be created using the following command (making sure that you are root user) cd /var/spool/mail cat john You dont have to worry about changing the file permissons. HTH, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:11 AM Subject: [newbie] mutt I'm trying to setup mutt. The problem is that when I go to send messege it says /var/spool/mail/john is not a mailbox. How do I make it my mail box or can I? Also were do I put my settings for pop mail in mutt? Any help would be appreciated. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender. If you have any complaints about this message please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Purbeck School E-Mail server running: users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
[newbie] gdm-2.2.2 rebuild errors on MDK 7.2
Hi I have MDK 7.2 with some updates and Helix Gnome1.2, and i am trying to build gdm-2.2.2-1.src.rpm, but it says Could not find gdkpixbuf /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXdmcp I have Installed gdk-pixbuf-0.9.0-2mdk - gdk-pixbuf-xlibb-0.9.0-2mdk gdk-pixbuf-loaders-0.9.0-2mdk - gdk-pixbuf-gnomecanvas-0.9.0-2mdk gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.9.0-2mdk errors /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXdmcp /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXinerama re config.log configure: failed program was: #line 3028 configure #include confdefs.h /* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */ /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2 builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */ char XpmFreeXpmImage(); configure: failed program was: #line 5396 configure #include confdefs.h /* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */ /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2 builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */ char XineramaQueryScreens(); From the terminal ... checking for XpmFreeXpmImage in -lXpm... no checking for libglade-config... no checking for libglade... no ... checking for XineramaQueryScreens in -lXinerama... no ... GDM2 configuration summary: === CFLAGS : -g -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -s -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations LDFLAGS : TCP Wrappers support : NO Xinerama support : NO Console helper: YES Authentication scheme : verify-pam ... It also says ... xdmcp.c: In function `gdm_xdmcp_decode_packet': xdmcp.c:308: warning: passing arg 3 of `XdmcpFill' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c: In function `gdm_xdmcp_handle_forward_query': xdmcp.c:461: warning: passing arg 1 of `XdmcpDisposeARRAYofARRAY8' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c:468: warning: passing arg 1 of `XdmcpDisposeARRAYofARRAY8' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c:469: warning: passing arg 1 of `XdmcpDisposeARRAYofARRAY8' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c:476: warning: passing arg 1 of `XdmcpDisposeARRAYofARRAY8' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c:477: warning: passing arg 1 of `XdmcpDisposeARRAYofARRAY8' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c:523: warning: passing arg 1 of `XdmcpDisposeARRAYofARRAY8' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c:524: warning: passing arg 1 of `XdmcpDisposeARRAYofARRAY8' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c: In function `gdm_xdmcp_send_willing': xdmcp.c:548: warning: passing arg 3 of `XdmcpFlush' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c: In function `gdm_xdmcp_send_unwilling': xdmcp.c:571: warning: passing arg 3 of `XdmcpFlush' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c: In function `gdm_xdmcp_send_accept': xdmcp.c:725: warning: passing arg 3 of `XdmcpFlush' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c: In function `gdm_xdmcp_send_decline': xdmcp.c:763: warning: passing arg 3 of `XdmcpFlush' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c: In function `gdm_xdmcp_send_refuse': xdmcp.c:863: warning: passing arg 3 of `XdmcpFlush' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c: In function `gdm_xdmcp_send_failed': xdmcp.c:885: warning: passing arg 3 of `XdmcpFlush' from incompatible pointer type xdmcp.c: In function `gdm_xdmcp_send_alive': xdmcp.c:935: warning: passing arg 3 of `XdmcpFlush' from incompatible pointer type ... First, can i use gdm2.2.2 on MD7.2 What rpm has lXdmcp - lXinerama gdkpixbuf is in /usr/lib/rep/i586-mandrake-linux/ Have a happy day all Thankx Trevor
Re: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry
On June 8, 2001 08:55 am, you wrote: Question, in the machines mentioned below did you use the 80wire connection cables on your hard drives or the old standard 40 wire cables? From what I have read on the net this can become an issue with CDROM drives and via chipsets if the 40wire cables are used. SNIP Excellent point Dennis. You are absolutely correct - standard IDE cables are a problem when used w/ VIA based Socket A motherboards. The systems I detailed earlier are my own personal equipment, and run high speed IDE cables on all controllers. My experience w/ SA/VIA boards goes beyond this though, as I own a small OEM and ship approx. 30 to 40 SA/VIA systems per month. We first started noticing problems late last summer - regardless of O/S - when running burners on the secondary master w/ standard cables. As soon as we switched to high speed IDE cables read/write errors disappeared. So, without a question I would recommend only using high speed IDE cables on SA/VIA based systems. Regards, SpeedMan
Re: [newbie] network sharing
--- * Karel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bind-utils-9.1.1-1mdk. Have you tried the connection sharing that is offered in The Mandrake Control Center? Control Center? I think it's a graphical linux program but I have very small hard drive (540MB) and not installed X at all. Ok well you can always just get masquerading going pretty quickly. http://netfilter.samba.org/unreliable-guides/ has a 2.4 kernel packet filtering howto. Theres a quick section somewhere in the beginning of the howto that just gets masquerading going for you. I would have linked directly to it but the web server is giving me accesss denied to the howto for some reason. Good Luck. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry
On Friday 08 June 2001 09:38, SpeedMan wrote: On June 8, 2001 08:55 am, you wrote: Question, in the machines mentioned below did you use the 80wire connection cables on your hard drives or the old standard 40 wire cables? From what I have read on the net this can become an issue with CDROM drives and via chipsets if the 40wire cables are used. SNIP Excellent point Dennis. You are absolutely correct - standard IDE cables are a problem when used w/ VIA based Socket A motherboards. The systems I detailed earlier are my own personal equipment, and run high speed IDE cables on all controllers. My experience w/ SA/VIA boards goes beyond this though, as I own a small OEM and ship approx. 30 to 40 SA/VIA systems per month. We first started noticing problems late last summer - regardless of O/S - when running burners on the secondary master w/ standard cables. As soon as we switched to high speed IDE cables read/write errors disappeared. So, without a question I would recommend only using high speed IDE cables on SA/VIA based systems. Regards, SpeedMan OK--do this Put two disk drives on different channels on a 686B southbridge board Activate DMA . Our kernel won't, so load kernel-linus2.4 or use another 2.4 distro or even win2K. copy a partition of at least 100 Mb between them. Try a diff. This error seems VERY reproducible. If it is reproducible here, it makes one wonder about other problems. (I have experienced several myself, and I used to swear by VIA). http://www.au-ja.de/review-kt133a-1-en.html But also, now a bug in the KT133A Northbridge has been confirmed. Information on the bugs and the _fixes_ are at that site. The good news is that there are fixes. The bad news is that I will have a difficult time trusting again, and so will many others. Even those who have had clean records may have just been dodging a hidden bullet. http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/index.php?fn=view_threadt=3394 Was VIA's official statement. The original testers did state the problem was _exacerbated_ by the presence of a Creative Sound Card, but also were able to show the bug without it. http://www.au-ja.de/review-kt133a-2-en.html They show a do-it-yourself patch for systems without creative soundcards. They also say that the problem can occur with ANY PCI cards that generate DMA traffic and may even occur without it. Well I have watched Seagate ST34xxxA and ST38421A drives freeze solid on boot with RH and Caldera and Mandrake 6.0 on a VIA MVP3. I have watched warm reboots fail on FIC boards using KT133 with a nice Duron (I have two dead KT133 boards in my collection, they simply stopped powering up though the memory and all the cards and the processor were fine on other systems), so my experience with VIA has been clouded with failures. The same could be said for some others, like older PCChips boards, and the newer ASUS boards (when did they start soldering in the BIOS--is someone new in ownership who decided to cash in on the excellent ASUS reputation?). The fact is, you can't tell much any more by brand name. You pays your money and you takes your chances. When has it ever been different? Probably VIA Chipsets will be better designed and less underpriced than in the past, because of this huge scare. Still those who lost their work will probably harbor bitterness for a long time, even though people repeat often that Data Not Backed Up is Data Lost. Civileme
[newbie] xdm not working on LM 8.0
Hi, Anybody run into xdm not working. It seems to register the pid but do little else. -- Regards, Paul Hardiman InterMedia, Inc Technology Solutions 303-581-0606, Fax 581-0506, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:36, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Paul wrote: It was Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:30:26 -0400 when Romanator wrote: For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the default GUI session during start up? For some reason the Gnome desktop is kicking in. I want KDE. It is ~/.xinitrc Paul -- If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. -Mary Kay Ash http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** Is this ~/.xinitrc in my home directory? My home directory doesn't have this file. Should I log in as root? How did you look at your home directory's contents? If you used a graphical file manager (e.g. GMC, Nautilus, Konqueror), make sure it is set to show hidden files (filenames beginning with a . are automatically hidden). If you used a terminal screen, make sure you use the command ls -a instead of just a plain ls. This will show all files, so you should be able to see ~/.xinitrc. -- 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] Where are the archives, and Modem list?
expert is: http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/ i figure substitute 'newbie' for 'expert' for that archive also go: www.linmodems.org and: http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html for info regarding linux and modems bascule On Wednesday 06 June 2001 6:33 am, you wrote: Hello, I know I have seen these sites listed before, I know I should have grabbed them before also, but please, can someone re-list the site where the list archives are stored, and also the current modem compatability list. Thank you very much. Mick
Re: [newbie] USb mice?
Mandrake sees the mouse as a PS/2 mouse. It doesn't matter if you have a PS/2 mouse and you connected it to your machine via a serial adapter, it's how it actually connects to the machine that it cares about. So if the PS/2 connection is how it gets to your machine, that's what kind of mouse it is. There's a possiblity that your machine doesn't support USB in it's current configuration, or you have USB disabled via the Motherboard BIOS. One way you can check is to check these files. [timh@r2d2 bin]$ cat /etc/modules.conf pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias eth0 3c59x alias sound-slot-0 es1371 [timh@r2d2 bin]$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 36280078 XT-PIC timer 1: 37744 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3:1807191 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, eth0 4: 85287 XT-PIC es1371 10: 19361068 XT-PIC ide2 12: 377566 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14:476 XT-PIC ide0 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 The lines you'd be looking for are: alias usb-interface usb-uhci And: 3:1807191 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, eth0 If you see something in those that mentions USB, then it's recognized and should work. If it's disabled, then I don't believe it will even send power down the USB cable to the device. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | I have a logitech wheel mouse that works good as the | PS 2 mode, but it has a USB plug on it originally, I have | a usb to PS2 adaptor, so is this mosue really a real USB mouse? | | m-bd58 | | is the model number I think. | | I tried to get mdk 8 to turn it on, maybe my motherboard | connector is puked up or something. | | I can't get the red lite ro come on when I plug it into usb | --
Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:
Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error the floppy is probably not mounted permissions for /mnt/floppy: drwxrwxrwx 1 root root from fstab: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 I get the same results with /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 Does your floppy in fact have the vfat filesystem, otherwise supermount will not mount i, and then the cd will fail. Especially if yo use ext2 on your floppy... I checked the ardware and it works fine booting - I just can't access it from the linux desktop or a console before loading x Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Chair of Science Concordia University College of Alberta http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow
Re: [newbie] How to write a bash login script?
Thanks to everyone for the help. I'm just starting to learn scripting. I'm also going to get the O'Reilly book on Expect. Someone else suggested that as a good place to start. Nico, you may want to look at the IBM support site for the driver for your modem. I just did a quick search and apparently there is a driver listed for the 570E. When I downloaded the driver I'm using, it only listed the 600E, not the 600 as being supported, but it worked anyway. Thanks, Michael On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Nico Krzebek wrote: Lucky you! I didn't get the softmodem on my TP570 (lucent modem) into a working state. Since your script needs to be run just once after system boot, you could for instance append the line /path_to_script/acpsetup to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, so it gets automatically executed when your box switches to runlevel 2, 3 or 5. If you want it to be run only in certain runlevels (e.g. 5) make a link named S99z_acpsetup in /etc/rc5.d/, i.e. you type ln -s /path_to_script/acpsetup /etc/rc5.d/S99z_acpsetup This way you don't have to su or anything like that. Good luck, Nico On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:49, you wrote: I have an IBM 600 laptop running 7.2 and it has an internal ACP (Win Modem). I downloaded a driver from the IBM website and installed it fine and the modem works well. It's just that after start-up and rebooting, I have to su in and give root password and issue the following commands. #!/bin/bash cd /usr/mwave/mw* insmod mwavedd setserial ttyS1 autoconfig ./mwavem I wrote a script to do this portion called acpsetup. How do I write the script to have it login as su and supply the password and issue the commands. I'd like to get it down to one simple ./acpsetup command to handle everything. Thanks, Michael
[newbie] LM 8.0 install disks
I tried to to a clean install of LM 8.0 powerpak (from BestBuy). CD-1 is read and the install proceeds. Then it asks for CD-2 which I insert and click ok. But it keeps asking for CD-2 whenever I click ok. When I click cancel, it then asks for CD-3, CD-4 with the same results. I took the package back to BestBuy and exhanged it for another package, with the same results. I don't think the CD-ROM drive is bad because it boots from CD-1 and installs whatever is on CD-1. Also, after the installation, I have two CD-ROM icons, two floppy icons, etc on the KDE desktop. I am installing the Recommended version onto it's own hard drive (no dual boot). Thanks Jerry Greene
Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:
At 08:24 AM 6/8/2001 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error the floppy is probably not mounted If the floppy were not mounted, would the light go on when I attempt to access it? Does your floppy in fact have the vfat filesystem, otherwise supermount will not mount i, and then the cd will fail. Especially if yo use ext2 on your floppy... It doesn't matter what file system is in the flopyy, I get the same result. I have tried accessing the boot disk made during install of LM8 and a Win98 boot disk... Is there a way to mount it so one can access it no matter the file system or do you need to mount additional devices? Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:
Hi, Please read my comments, beginning with [Thomas]. -- Original Message -- From: Andreas J. Guelzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 08:24:05 -0700 Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error the floppy is probably not mounted [Thomas]: That's not quite true. An I/O error usually indicates that there is a fault with the disk itself. permissions for /mnt/floppy: drwxrwxrwx 1 root root from fstab: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 I get the same results with /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 Does your floppy in fact have the vfat filesystem, otherwise supermount will not mount i, and then the cd will fail. Especially if yo use ext2 on your floppy... [Thomas]: What are your major/minor numbers, for the /dev/fd0 file?? This can be found, by typing in the following: ls -l /dev/fd0 You'll find the last two numbers in the list are the ones you want. You can try swapping those for the 0 0 at the end of the line in /etc/fstab. Then save the fstab file, and issue the command (making sure the floppy disk is in the drive: mount -a Does that work??? Let me know how you get on!! Kind Regards, Thomas Adam I checked the ardware and it works fine booting - I just can't access it from the linux desktop or a console before loading x Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Chair of Science Concordia University College of Alberta http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender. If you have any complaints about this message please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Purbeck School E-Mail server running: users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
[newbie] diskdrake in LM 8
Hello, List. Please forgive this newbie 's question :) I installed LM 8.0 Standard edition, but I just can't find diskdrake which let you modify partitions. I wonder if the manual misprint something or it only apply to the complete edition. Thanks for reading. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Sane
Andreas et al., Thanks for helping me out with my earlier automounting problem, BTW. Works fine now. I wonder if you or someone on the list could point me in the right direction on hooking in a scanner on my linux box. Just some basic info on context would be an enormous help. One of the problems with being a linux newbie is that you often can't even figure out what part of the forest a particular tree is in! I have SANE and xscanimage installed (LM 8.0). I have an HP 500 PSC all-in-one (scanner, printer, copier) hooked in on the parallel port. Printing works fine. xscanimage will run but is not communicating with the printer/scanner. Do I need to get a driver from HP? Is SANE only for SCSI hookups? In short what kind of steps do I need to take to grab an image from the scanner? TIA. Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: Leland L Waters wrote: I installed Sane with frontends and backends (from MDK 8.0 install disk) on my desktop computer running MDK 8.0. I can can access my scanner from GIMP, but only get a communication error. I am running an ABIT BP6 motherboard with a pair of Celeron 366's (at 550 Mbps) and 384K PC133 ram. The scanner is a HP 4C flatbed connected to channel 1 of a TEKRAM DC-390U3W SCSI 160 controller. Where do I find a SANE configuration utility? There is a bug in SANE 1.0.3/1.0.4 that causes this problem if you are using a 2.4 kernel. THere is a very simple fix for that but I haven't gotten around to compiling a repaired RPM. See: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-10/0413.html If you should encounter a fixed mandrake rpm, please let me know Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Chair of Science Concordia University College of Alberta [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow
Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:28, Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:36, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Paul wrote: It was Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:30:26 -0400 when Romanator wrote: For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the default GUI session during start up? For some reason the Gnome desktop is kicking in. I want KDE. It is ~/.xinitrc Paul Is this ~/.xinitrc in my home directory? My home directory doesn't have this file. Should I log in as root? How did you look at your home directory's contents? If you used a graphical file manager (e.g. GMC, Nautilus, Konqueror), make sure it is set to show hidden files (filenames beginning with a . are automatically hidden). If you used a terminal screen, make sure you use the command ls -a instead of just a plain ls. This will show all files, so you should be able to see ~/.xinitrc. Sridhar, Long time-no-hear. I have checked it out and it appears unless I start up another GUI i.e. Enlightenment, this file will not appear. The interesting thing is that I had a .xinitswap file of which I renamed .xinitbak and it disabled it. Any thoughts? I have no idea what the .xinitswap file does - I have no such file on my system. What I *did* notice, however, was that in my home directory I have a file called .Xclients-default, which does the same job as .xinitrc. This file should be set to be executable. Inside, it should have only one active line (lines beginning with a # are merely comments, so they don't count). This line should say exec x (without quotes), where x is the environment to run. Since you want KDE, the line should be exec startkde. After making your adjustments, you should be able to activate KDE by typing startx at a terminal. All this, of course, assumes that X is not loaded automatically at startup and that you load X manually from a terminal. If X is automatically loaded at startup (i.e. you get a graphical login screen), then the solution to your problem is somewhat different. Just give me a buzz if that's the case. -- 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
[newbie] Nvidia Driver Set 1.0.1: FSAA Undocumented
After having problems with the Nvida driver installation I could not get fullscreen antialiasing (FSAA) to work with the new drivers. After doing quite a few tweaks and checking and re-checking my installation and configuration I e-mailed Nvidia and got the following responce: There was a change in the FSAA with the 1251 drivers that didnt get updated with the documentation. The __GL_FSAA_QUALITY variable is no longer correct. It is now __GL_FSAA_MODE. Setting it to 3 will enable 1.5x1.5, and setting it to 4 with enable 2x2. Any other value for your card will not provide FSAA. This is an undocumented change in the drivers and may interest those who have upgraded and then lost some functionality. My system specs are below for those interested: AMD 1.333GHz 266 A7M266 Geforce2 GTS 64MB Mandrake Linux 7.2 Kernel 2.2.17-21mdk XFree86 Version 4.0.3 FSAA is great feature of these drivers and makes onscreen 3D modeling look incredible. Albion Albion E. Baucom http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~baucom
Re: [newbie] Current IP Address
Try and grep out the information you need from the command /sbin/ifconfig. If you're root, all you need is ifconfig, since it's in your path name, however any other user, ifconfig is not. But that command will give you a lot of info, one of which is the IP address. Something like the following command should give you the IP address. /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d -f 1 Since it sounds like you're using a dial-up account, you'll substitue eth0 for ppp0. (I think that's what it's called, been a long time since I've dialed in. Just run the ifconfig command when your dialed in to see what it looks like.) But that command will weed out just the IP Address and print it out for you. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | Hi, | I'm trying to write a bash script which needs the current IP address that I | have been assigned by my ISp at any particular moment. How can I do this? | | TIA, | | Jord | --
Re: [newbie] Current IP Address
Well you should be using some sort of connection software. I used kppp personally, and had no real problems with it. When connected it will tell you that it's done so. But you can set kppp to not disconnect when you log out. As long as the machine is booted, it will stay connected, of course having an IP address. Personally, I always ran the /sbin/ifconfig when I wanted to know when I was connected. It told me my IP address and some other info, and that's how I knew. I'm sure there are applets or something that could tell you. I think gkrellm has a built in applet to tell you your connect speeds, or tell you that traffic's going across. It may be able to tell you that you're connected as well, but I'm not sure. (Gkrellm is on one of the Mandrake 8 CDs as I recall.) Other then that, I don't konw what to suggest. Yes you can ping another machine, but you may ping a machine behind a firewall, or one that's down for the moment then you start to trouble shoot something that's not actually broke. If you have an external modem, which I think everybody should, but I won't get into that debate, the lights on the front will let you know. You'll start to know what the lights mean and what lights should be there. tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | Hi, | Me again ;-) | How can I check to see if my computer is currently dialled out or not? | | TIA, | | Jord | | On Friday 08 June 2001 13:43, you wrote: | Try and grep out the information you need from the command /sbin/ifconfig. | | If you're root, all you need is ifconfig, since it's in your path name, | however any other user, ifconfig is not. But that command will give you a | lot of info, one of which is the IP address. | | Something like the following command should give you the IP address. | | /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d -f 1 | | Since it sounds like you're using a dial-up account, you'll substitue eth0 | for ppp0. (I think that's what it's called, been a long time since I've | dialed in. Just run the ifconfig command when your dialed in to see what | it looks like.) | | But that command will weed out just the IP Address and print it out for | you. tdh | | -- | T. Holmes | - | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - | Real Men Us Vi! | | | Hi, | | I'm trying to write a bash script which needs the current IP address that | | I have been assigned by my ISp at any particular moment. How can I do | | this? | | | | TIA, | | | | Jord | |-- | --
RE: [newbie] LM 8.0 install disks
Title: RE: [newbie] LM 8.0 install disks Jerry, try installation in expert mode. It will ask for partitions maybe and other stuff that should not be a problem if you have used LM 7.2 or others, otherwise you can just accept most of the stuff as default. You will have to pick the packages, but you can click on anything you want and let it go from there. Anyway, (I ramble sometimes) the expert install will usually work on a first time disk installation. One other thing you might want to check that I have recently stumbled on is the the cable used to hook up your hd and cdrom. If you have a motherboard with a via chipset on the southbridge you should use the 80 wire or high speed cable as there are problems with cdroms not working correctly on an ordinary 40 wire cable. Just a thought. Hope the above helps. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jerry Greene Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] LM 8.0 install disks I tried to to a clean install of LM 8.0 powerpak (from BestBuy). CD-1 is read and the install proceeds. Then it asks for CD-2 which I insert and click ok. But it keeps asking for CD-2 whenever I click ok. When I click cancel, it then asks for CD-3, CD-4 with the same results. I took the package back to BestBuy and exhanged it for another package, with the same results. I don't think the CD-ROM drive is bad because it boots from CD-1 and installs whatever is on CD-1. Also, after the installation, I have two CD-ROM icons, two floppy icons, etc on the KDE desktop. I am installing the Recommended version onto it's own hard drive (no dual boot). Thanks Jerry Greene
Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:
At 22:25 07.06.01 -0700, you wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error permissions for /mnt/floppy: drwxrwxrwx 1 root root from fstab: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 make sure you try this with a fat filesystem formatted floppy. that's what confused me in the beginning when i tried with a linux floppy. -martin
Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:
Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error permissions for /mnt/floppy: drwxrwxrwx 1 root root from fstab: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 I get the same results with /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 I checked the ardware and it works fine booting - I just can't access it from the linux desktop or a console before loading x Thanks in advance if anyone can shed some light on this for me... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) Edboth of your /etc/fstab lines have errors in them. Pardon me if they're just typos: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 should be (leading / missing in dev=) /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 and this one is not a supermount fstab line unless it's exactly like the one above, so I've fixed it to disable supermount as an example. /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 should be /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat defaults 0 0 -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry
The chipset to avoid is VIA with the 686B Southbridge. This means most modern KT133As and Apollo Pros. That is a large portion of the Motherboard Market That's nice to read, I recently bought Abit a KT7A. :~( I should have known this before... What disadvantages did I get, Civileme? My LG 8120B DVD-drive is installed as a normal CD-rom drive, has it something to do with that? Can someone tell me how to change it to a DVD-drive as it is supposed to be? Or a direct link where to find info about how to do this? The DVD playing HOWTO was not very helpful yet. I will copy a piece of my /etc/fstab down here. /mnt/cdrom is my LG DVD, and /mnt/cdrom2 is my ide burner /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 Gerard
Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error permissions for /mnt/floppy: drwxrwxrwx 1 root root from fstab: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 I get the same results with /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 I checked the ardware and it works fine booting - I just can't access it from the linux desktop or a console before loading x Thanks in advance if anyone can shed some light on this for me... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) Edboth of your /etc/fstab lines have errors in them. Pardon me if they're just typos: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 should be (leading / missing in dev=) /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 and this one is not a supermount fstab line unless it's exactly like the one above, so I've fixed it to disable supermount as an example. /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 should be /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat defaults 0 0 EdI forgot to mention that any time you make a change to a supermounted device in the /etc/fstab file, supermount needs a reboot to recognise it. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Two printing problems...
First, when I try to print envelopes in StarOffice 5.2, nothing happens, not even an error message. Printing letter (8.5 x 11) sized documents works fine. Does printing envelopes work in the Windows version of Star Office? I'd check that, just to make sure that it's not a SO or Samba problem. I have also tried to print envelopes in SO a few times without much success. I have a Canon BJC 250 printer with a manual (envelope) feeder in the back of the unit. I tried printing an envelope just now and what results is a clean envelope going through the mechanism and one sheet being printed separately with my return address in the top part of the 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. I tried setting the properties for the printer to both Portrait and Env10 (guessing that means a #10 envelope, not sure), with the same result both times. I'm using 7.2 with CUPS, staroffice (5.2) is set to do generic postscript through lpr. No issues apart from not being able to print envelopes - and even that might be a mechanical problem rather than a software one. Incidentally, I played a bit with Wordperfect but that was on a different installation (Red Hat) and envelopes worked there OK, but not on StarOffice. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] RPM Install
Thanks for the help on this. I've now got Webmin up and running. The next problem is installing MySQL server. I've downloaded the .RPM file and attempted to install it as I did with Webmin and all goes very well until near the end when it's unpacking the archive at 79% unpacked I get the message 'cpio: bad magic'. What on earth does that mean? I thought it might be a corrupted archive but I've downloaded it twice from different mirrors and got the same message. The archive file is called MySQL-3.23.38-1.i386.rpm and I am running Mandrake 7.0 on a Cyrix 686 p200 with 32Mg RAM. Any ideas? Mark - Original Message - From: Mark Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: [newbie] RPM Install I want to install Webmin (following some comments about it on this list). I've downloaded the .rpm file but I can't work out how to install it (I am a long time Windows user and new to Linux). When I try to run 'rpm --install filename ' I get error messages about being unable to get exclusive access to certain directories. I am logged in as root. Can anyone offer any help? Thanks, Mark
[newbie] repartitioning
Hi, I accidentally only have 1 linux partition, /dev/hde1 For some reason DiskDrake didn't allow me to rearrange that partition during the install, I chose expert install and the Auto Allocate option in DiskDrake just gave me an error message [forgot what it was] . And now I'd like to introduce /swap and /home partitions. Can you provide me with any help on that? Can diskdrake do it now after the install or would I have to use fdisk (!!!) or buy PartitionMagic? Thanks, Narfi. For the record: I have 2 hard drives, /dev/hda and /dev/hde and fdisk -l gives: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1650 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1535 12329856c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 1536 1650923737+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1536 1650923706b Win95 FAT32 Disk /dev/hde: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 77545 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 38790 19550128+ 83 Linux /dev/hde2 38791 77543 19531260f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 7, 63) should be (1023, 15, 63) /dev/hde5 38791 77543 19531228+ b Win95 FAT32
FW: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards
-Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 5:08 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards Does anyone have a recommendation for a video that will work in Linux that is not Nvidia based. I have a geforce 2 mx 32MB right now that likely will be going back to Best Buy as I cannot get it to work in LM8.0. I would like to get something that can offer close to the performance of the geforce 2 mx with roughly the same $100 price tag! Thanks for any suggestions, John W The geforce 2 should work in 8.0 unless you have some other problem is your system. But if you are determined to return it go with an ATI. You should be able to get either the Expert2000 or the RadeonVE for around $100 or less. At the moment the Expert2000 (Rage 128 chipset) is the best supported of the two, 3d hardware accel is fully functional where as it is still experimental with the Radeon. Charles (-:
Re: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards
The geforce 2 should work in 8.0 unless you have some other problem is your system. But if you are determined to return it go with an ATI. You should be able to get either the Expert2000 or the RadeonVE for around $100 or less. At the moment the Expert2000 (Rage 128 chipset) is the best supported of the two, 3d hardware accel is fully functional where as it is still experimental with the Radeon. Charles (-: Thanks Charles I have considered the ATI or Matrox cards as an alternative to the Nvidia. I have tried every suggestion and how-to available and cannot get the card to work with quake, tuxracer or anything that may require opengl or acceleration. Truly disappointing as the geforce 2 mx is an excellent card! John
[newbie] there's more than that
Dear guys: I think I already said everything I wanted to say. You may keep misunderstanding my words, but I don't really care much about that. I think I am not an OS-defender any more. And probably it is useless to try to convince you, as it used to happen with me earlier. PS.- This is an only-text message. -- Pablo Garcia-Duran
Re: [newbie] diskdrake in LM 8
On Friday 08 June 2001 12:20, you wrote: Hello, List. Please forgive this newbie 's question :) I installed LM 8.0 Standard edition, but I just can't find diskdrake which let you modify partitions. I wonder if the manual misprint something or it only apply to the complete edition. Thanks for reading. It's in Mandrake Control Centre and it's called Harddrake not disk drake - open control centre, select hardware -- Poogle Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated by it)
Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:28, Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:36, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Paul wrote: It was Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:30:26 -0400 when Romanator wrote: For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the default GUI session during start up? For some reason the Gnome desktop is kicking in. I want KDE. It is ~/.xinitrc Paul Is this ~/.xinitrc in my home directory? My home directory doesn't have this file. Should I log in as root? How did you look at your home directory's contents? If you used a graphical file manager (e.g. GMC, Nautilus, Konqueror), make sure it is set to show hidden files (filenames beginning with a . are automatically hidden). If you used a terminal screen, make sure you use the command ls -a instead of just a plain ls. This will show all files, so you should be able to see ~/.xinitrc. Sridhar, Long time-no-hear. I have checked it out and it appears unless I start up another GUI i.e. Enlightenment, this file will not appear. The interesting thing is that I had a .xinitswap file of which I renamed .xinitbak and it disabled it. Any thoughts? I have no idea what the .xinitswap file does - I have no such file on my system. What I *did* notice, however, was that in my home directory I have a file called .Xclients-default, which does the same job as .xinitrc. This file should be set to be executable. Inside, it should have only one active line (lines beginning with a # are merely comments, so they don't count). This line should say exec x (without quotes), where x is the environment to run. Since you want KDE, the line should be exec startkde. After making your adjustments, you should be able to activate KDE by typing startx at a terminal. All this, of course, assumes that X is not loaded automatically at startup and that you load X manually from a terminal. If X is automatically loaded at startup (i.e. you get a graphical login screen), then the solution to your problem is somewhat different. Just give me a buzz if that's the case. -- 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 I'll give it a try. The last time I was able to access this was when I was in Enlightenment. Afterwhich, an .Xclients file was created. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility
Re: [newbie] Multiuser install of Star Office.
Richard: I am quite confused by what is happening. You write: 1. I logged out and logged back in as katrina, clicked on the setup icon I do not use any icon but run it from the command line. See my original instructions at step 2. So, I would suggest to nuke everything and restart over: 1. su - root 2. rm -rf /opt/office52 3. exit 4. as each user: rm -rf ./office52 ( backup any files in your SO working directory before doing this! ) 5. reinstall as root: ./setup -net 6. as each user: /opt/office52/program/setup and follow the instructions. Do not use any icons. Start first from the command line for each user. Then you can create a desktop icon for your users. If you do it exactly like this and you still have problems make sure you have a valid installation file from Sun Corp. Ciao, Eric Indiogine On Friday 08 June 2001 15:17, you wrote: On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:42, Richard wrote: Following your advice with slight modifications I have done the following. My copy of star office was supplied as something like so-5_2-en.bin this is a huge executable that you run to install it. I obviously haven't got it quite right but I am getting there. Thank you for you help with this. 1. as root do ./setup -net ( first cd to the directory where the SO5.2 setup script is ) 2. as _each_ user do /opt/office52/program/setup ( or wherever it is ) 3. choose the default installation, the one that says something like 16 Mbytes in home directory. As root changed to the CD and ran s0-5_2-en.bin /net This installed to the hard drive and didn't bother to prompt me for who I was or any of the other set information it normally asks for I installed it in /home/office52 I logged out and logged back in as katrina, clicked on the setup icon and it set up Star Office in /home/katrina/office52 putting 1.6 meg of files in there. It worked but not properly as the normal icons on the Star Office desktop wouldn't load and files couldn't be saved. su root chmod -R 777 /home/office52 sorted that. I then did the same for mike but for reasons unknown when attempting to close down this one it gives error in opening configuration file no problem with katrina just mike very weird. Work is saved in /home/office52/user/work or something like that. It doesn't matter if I change the default directory for katrina or mike it automatically changes it for both of them I have no idea why it would do this as I would have thought it should have stored in their home directories and not the network one at all. That is as far as I have got so far. It is at least possible but there are configuation files that need working on before it works properly. I have a second install of Star Office in my own home directory that I use for business but will be deleting that if I can ever get the network install to behave properly.
Re: [newbie] Mysql! How do I set the root password from a base install?
On Thursday, Jun 07, 2001, h3rb wrote: I am gonna reply to you with a Quote from my first message: I can't add any database's or anything cause it tells me that root@localhost is denied access. Emphasize on the anything part! Did you even try what I suggested? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 7 days 19 hours 54 minutes.
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia is totally unfounded
That's the one thing that Linux users have is a lot of faith in their OS. We also have a very large contingent of individuals all over the world devoting all of their time and effort to produce a great OS. Linux is always evolving and has a bright future. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility Dan LaBine wrote: I'm not sure what this guy is talking about, but whatever it is, he makes no sense. First, he sounds like he purposely became a skeptic about O/S evangelism. What exactly is that?? Is he saying that we've elevated the mighty Tux to the level of a diety? Secondly, for someone who is a skeptic, he sounds awfully evangelical about Mac's. Either that or he's very insecure about his preferred O/S ! Next, why did he start this thread in the first place! Obviously, common sense is not a big contributor to his life! Every type of PC (Mac or Otherwise) was created because the inventor(s) thought there was a niche in the market for that type of PC. In some cases, the inventor was way off, while others were ahead of their time. Mac's have established a market niche, which many other systems (O/Ses included) have a way to go before they can compete equally. Not that Linux isn't worthy, but it still has a way to develop before it can go head to head with a Mac for Graphics. But that aside, Mac's have only got that one niche in which they are currently secure. The biggest problem that Apple has, is the lack of development resources to stay ahead, when compared to the enormous number of Linux app developers around the world. Sooner or later, Mac's will fall from their lofty perch, and I'm pretty sure that Linux will be there to pick up the slack. Now, about the Registered Linux numbers. One thing that Mac's have never been able to compete with is the way that Linux has evolved. Linus started it, and gave everyone the ability to develop it. Linux and all the programs, apps, etc, that have followed, were developed by individuals and groups whose primary contact was/is the Internet. This has allowed for the natural creation of a Linux Community. This community has a given Linux users a sense of belonging, participation, commitment, and cooperation that companies have been unable to duplicate. It's this same community that has Microsoft freaking out and lashing out at the Open Source community. They have fallen back on standard FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) tactics to scare people into staying with Microsoft. I firmly beleive that the whole concept behind these user numbers is that Linux users want to declare that I belong to a great global community, and nothing else. No evangelism, NaDa. Just an appreciation for the hard work of thousands of programmers, and contributors. Period. So whatever prescriptions your doctor may have given you, I strongly suggest you add a huge dose of Happy Pills, or up the dosage on whatever you're on now! It's too easy to become a skeptic or cynic. It's much harder to have a little faith, but the one constant I've seen on this list is a huge dose of it. Everyone, that is, except or skeptic friend here. And by the way, Linux isn't the threat you should be concerned about. Microsoft's Windows XP is intended to be the O/S that will be Mac's undoing. I suggest that you concentrate your attitude on them, and don't waste our time. Dan LaBine Registered Linux User #190712
Re: [newbie] diskdrake in LM 8
On Friday 08 June 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote: On Friday 08 June 2001 12:20, you wrote: Hello, List. Please forgive this newbie 's question :) I installed LM 8.0 Standard edition, but I just can't find diskdrake which let you modify partitions. I wonder if the manual misprint something or it only apply to the complete edition. Thanks for reading. It's in Mandrake Control Centre and it's called Harddrake not disk drake - open control centre, select hardware Nooo, diskdrake does exist and is not harddrake. Call up a konsole, console or however you spell it and at the prompt just type diskdrake without the quotes as usual, and it should pop up and show you a tab with hda and another with hdb or what ever and if , you have a second hard drive. Note the warning to back up precious files. You are in territory capable of eating data and swallowing hole. Back up! But there you are, it is at your fingertips. Enjoy, -- Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
[newbie] NFS Question.
I recently networked my laptop and desktop together and after juggling some adapters around, got them up and running. In O'Reilley's Running Linux, they said that you could set-up a NFS file sharing system, without having to set up a NFS file server. I just have a simple network with the two machines and once I figure out how to network my wifes Windoze box in, will have three total. I'm not using any of the machines for a gateway. I've downloaded a NFS tutorial, but that relates to setting up a NFS file server and a client. I just want to be able to share files on my two machines, and not have to worry about setting up a flie server. Can anyone suggest a goos tutorial on this? I know that O'Reilly has a NFS and NIS book on the subject, but I've spent several hundred in books so far and was hoping to find a free alternative. Thanks, Michael
Re: [newbie] Singel Network Firewall (SNF)
Still trying it out , seems pretty good though!!! Julio If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 10:01 AM Subject: [newbie] Singel Network Firewall (SNF) hi beginig of this month, mandrake announced release of Singel Network Firewall. has anyone on list installed it? what has your first impression been? regards /Zeynal __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Fwd: [newbie] NFS Question.
I recently networked my laptop and desktop together and after juggling some adapters around, got them up and running. In O'Reilley's Running Linux, they said that you could set-up a NFS file sharing system, without having to set up a NFS file server. I just have a simple network with the two machines and once I figure out how to network my wifes Windoze box in, will have three total. I'm not using any of the machines for a gateway. I've downloaded a NFS tutorial, but that relates to setting up a NFS file server and a client. I just want to be able to share files on my two machines, and not have to worry about setting up a flie server. Can anyone suggest a goos tutorial on this? I know that O'Reilly has a NFS and NIS book on the subject, but I've spent several hundred in books so far and was hoping to find a free alternative. Thanks, Michael ---
[newbie] Opti Card Problem
Hello friends, PLEASE DON'T MIND IF THE MAIL IS TOO LONG. PLEASE HELP ME TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM My OPTi sound card is not properly supported on Mandrake. Every time I boot I have to run sndconfig to configure the card. While the configuration is being done the first sound sample where Linux prounces Linux is not also completly heard. I can just hear HELLO and nothing else. After it configures when I take a look at the /etc/modules.conf it would have taken wrong values for dma16 and also for mpu_irq but still I can get the sound. Sometimes the configuration fails and prompts for manual configuration. In manual configuraton even though I give correct values for the parameters it fails to configure the card. And if the configuration is done successfully and if I reboot the machine it gives an error during Loding sound module saying that mad16.o.gz cannot be loaded and the reson for that may be incorrect values of irq or dma. If I see the message that the kernel has generated using dmesg it says irq=5 not found which is detected by sndconfig. I had this problem of unsuccessful loading of module even in Mandrake 7.2 but eventhough it did not load the module I was getting the sound. Going through harddrake also did not help but insted the machine got hung. Please help me Thanks in advance Suresh.R _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] RAID controller support in LM8?
Hello all, I am thinking of purchasing the Abit KT7A motherboard with the integrated Highpoint RAID controller. However I can't find any RAID section in the supported hardware page on the site. Is it safe to assume that I won't have any problems running Mandrake 8 off a harddisk attached to the controller? Thanks in advance.
Re: [newbie] Newbie questions
Thanks for this! I'll give it a try. Not Command Center (not correct name) or Control Center. If you are using KDE then you click on the Kpanel icon and on the pop up list click on networking remote accessinternet dialer Kppp . All of your connection settings should be configurable from the settings button and tabs there in. Your ISP should show up on the first tab, highlight that name and then modify or edit and you should be able to navigate to the phone number screen to add it. This is from memory so I may be off a step or two, but if you look around in the settings or setup section you will find the place to add the #. Come on back if you don't get where you need to be. Oh, also set the timeout to at least 90 seconds. Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] Newbie questions
When I click on Networking, I get the following submenu, with their submenus: File Transfer Lftp Instant Messenger Gaim Mail Netscape Messenger News Netscape Collabra WWW Bookmark Editor Konqueror Web Browser Links Lynx Netscape Communicator Netscape Composer I don't get anything about remote access, and nothing I click on gives me this or the internet dialer option. Is this all really more trouble than it's worth? Thanks for your help. Not Command Center (not correct name) or Control Center. If you are using KDE then you click on the Kpanel icon and on the pop up list click on networking remote accessinternet dialer Kppp . All of your connection settings should be configurable from the settings button and tabs there in. Your ISP should show up on the first tab, highlight that name and then modify or edit and you should be able to navigate to the phone number screen to add it. This is from memory so I may be off a step or two, but if you look around in the settings or setup section you will find the place to add the #. Come on back if you don't get where you need to be. Oh, also set the timeout to at least 90 seconds. Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry
On Friday 08 June 2001 12:18 pm, Mark Stewart wrote: The chipset to avoid is VIA with the 686B Southbridge. This means most modern KT133As and Apollo Pros. That is a large portion of the Motherboard Market Really? I bought a Tyan Trinity 400 S1854 specifically to run Mandrake. The spec sheets lists the chipset as VIA Apollo Pro 133A (VT82C694X VT82C596A). I'm guesssing the latter two identifiers are the north and southbridge. If so am I safe? It's been running Mandrake 7.2 quite reliably so far... I have the same motherboard; I've successfully run Manrake 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and now 8.0 on it, as well as a few other distributions. Also Windows 98 and 98SE with no motherboard-related problems AFAIK, although Windows has enough problems of its own that a mobo-related bug could easily go unnoticed. In this vein, it would be really great if Mandrake were to start listing motherboards along with the rest of the hardware compatible lists. The comments people have made to the effect of VIA is well known for having problems are somewhat exasperating to folks like myself who researched their purchases heavily yet still apparently made the wrong choices because they didn't also read the kernel dev mailing list. I like this idea! It may be that some motherboards with the problematic VIA chipsets somehow avoid those problems, which would suggest that the problems occur only when the chipsets are combined with other components in a particular manner. IOW, it may be the overall design of the motherboard that's the culprit, and not necessarily the particular chipset. -- Walter Luffman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Medina, TN USA Supercharged with extra glucose! (Type 2 diabetic 5/99, d/e/m) Sage, purple 1998 Honda VT1100C Shadow Spirit
RE: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry
Warning: this is off topic for the list. Speedman wrote On top of that even w/ only loading the drivers I have seen a number of machines stop booting until the Creative card was removed. I have a Compaq 7471 that I have done a lot of hardware upgrading to. About 2 weeks ago I attempted to reinstall the Compaq software and Win98 CDs that accompany my computer. Well, I had so many problems trying to get it to install, after I opened up my box and set up the hardware to mimic the factory condition it came as. Eventually the install program wouldn't even attempt to run. So I figured what the heck and bought the standard WinME so I could stop opening up my system and just install the friggin Windows OS. Well it installed fine, I did have to disconnect my second hard drive, but not a biggie for me. Well every so often when first installing the major software components (Voodoo 5500 software, SB Live! Platinum, Adaptec Easy CD 4) WinME wouldn't boot up. It would stop at the WinME logo just before it. So I'd reinstall, and reinstall, and reinstall everything. I narrowed it down to my Creative SB Live hardware. Win98 never gave me problems with it and my oboard audio. After about a week of reinstalling various software, including WinME, I found out I had to make my onboard soundcard disabled in the profile as well as keep it from existing in any hardware profiles before it would work. No, this answer was not posted on creative's site, but a different problem posted gave me the idea. During the past two weeks for at least three times a day I thought to myself, Linux works just fine, Linux doesn't do that. The moral of the story, so long as the hardware is supported, Linux works just fine, Linux doesn't do that :^) Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N.
RE: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards
Hi I have had the same problem with the Nvidia drivers, it took about 10 attempts before it worked, but once it did, it was amazing... I think I ended up getting the src and rebuilding it... there is some info on the mandrakeforum page about getting the driver working in LM8, you might want to check that out... There is nothing on the market yet that works as well as the Geoforce2 you can get good 3d with the ATI or Matrox, but neither will have the same framerates as the geoforce2 at the high end... thats basically why nvidia is leading the graphics chipset race, and has been for a while now... (no flames from ATI or Matrox please, I am only quoting various tests ) :-) anyway, I wouldn't give up if I was you, its worth the effort. regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Sent: Saturday, 9 June 2001 5:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards The geforce 2 should work in 8.0 unless you have some other problem is your system. But if you are determined to return it go with an ATI. You should be able to get either the Expert2000 or the RadeonVE for around $100 or less. At the moment the Expert2000 (Rage 128 chipset) is the best supported of the two, 3d hardware accel is fully functional where as it is still experimental with the Radeon. Charles (-: Thanks Charles I have considered the ATI or Matrox cards as an alternative to the Nvidia. I have tried every suggestion and how-to available and cannot get the card to work with quake, tuxracer or anything that may require opengl or acceleration. Truly disappointing as the geforce 2 mx is an excellent card! John
[newbie] C++ in 21 days for linux?
Does SAMS make such a book as Learn C++ in 21 days for linux ?
Re: [newbie] C++ in 21 days for linux?
Yes http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067232072X/o/qid=992066308/sr=8-1/002-0714472-4397661 --- Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does SAMS make such a book as Learn C++ in 21 days for linux ? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Newbie questions
Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842 Ok, then Kppp must not be installed. you can check that with software manager by doing a find kppp and if it is not installable then you should have it somewhere. I am guessing that it didn't install. So if you have a software manager icon on the desktop click on it , give your root password and then type kppp in the blank for find or search. Once kppp is installed you can follow the above to get it configured. Yes, it is worth it. The learning curve is steep, but the satisfaction gained by learning and the flat stability of the OS are worth the efffort. Once you have everything the way you want it and all is running, you will not be disappointed. Hang in there, help is out there just like the truth. : ) -- Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842 Thanks much, I shall try it1
[newbie] SSL doesn't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1.2)
For some reason, I have not been able to use SSL in Konqueror since the early betas of KDE 2.1 (installed on LM 7.2), and I have been forced to use another browser. For example, when I try to log into Sourceforge.net (which requires SSL), the message I get is The process for the https://sourceforge.net protocol died unexpectedly. The message is the same for other SSL sites, only with the URL changed. Apparently Konqueror uses OpenSSL to implement SSL. I currently have MandrakeSoft's official KDE 2.1.2 and OpenSSL RPM updates for Mandrake 8.0 installed (and yes, I am now using LM 8.0 proper, not a hacked 7.x). The new version of kdelibs (2.1.2) was supposed to fix a problem that was very similar to the one that I'm experiencing (but apparently this fix is for HTTP, not HTTPS/SSL), but it appears as if nothing has changed at all. Anyone have a clue about this? -- 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
[newbie] Current IP Address
Hi, I'm trying to write a bash script which needs the current IP address that I have been assigned by my ISp at any particular moment. How can I do this? TIA, Jord
RE: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry
The chipset to avoid is VIA with the 686B Southbridge. This means most modern KT133As and Apollo Pros. That is a large portion of the Motherboard Market Really? I bought a Tyan Trinity 400 S1854 specifically to run Mandrake. The spec sheets lists the chipset as VIA Apollo Pro 133A (VT82C694X VT82C596A). I'm guesssing the latter two identifiers are the north and southbridge. If so am I safe? It's been running Mandrake 7.2 quite reliably so far... In this vein, it would be really great if Mandrake were to start listing motherboards along with the rest of the hardware compatible lists. The comments people have made to the effect of VIA is well known for having problems are somewhat exasperating to folks like myself who researched their purchases heavily yet still apparently made the wrong choices because they didn't also read the kernel dev mailing list. ::mark
[newbie] RE: [expert] Icons on Desktop in Xfce
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 12:14 PM To: Mandrake Listserv Subject: [expert] Icons on Desktop in Xfce Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone knew about Xfce and how to add icons to the desktop. I like the clean interface (and it's a little more compatible with Gnome apps than KDE) but I'd like to add just a couple of icons to the desktop to make it perfect for me. Brian If you add the Gnome panel and then lauch GMC. GMC will create icons just as it does in Gnome. You can then delete those you do not want and drag and drop other you wish to add from the apps menus. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
[newbie] Singel Network Firewall (SNF)
hi beginig of this month, mandrake announced release of Singel Network Firewall. has anyone on list installed it? what has your first impression been? regards /Zeynal __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie] Two printing problems...
I have two printing problems: First, when I try to print envelopes in StarOffice 5.2, nothing happens, not even an error message. Printing letter (8.5 x 11) sized documents works fine. Second, I have a Win98 computer printing to my Linux box using SAMBA. Printing on the Linux box works fine (except for the above problem) but it takes about several minutes for documents printed from the Win98 box to start printing. I am running Mandrake 7.2 'Frequency' release, printing to an Epson Stylus Color 860 via USB. Samba is configured to print 'raw' rather than processing via GhostScript. Any ideas? Thanks in advance
Re: [newbie] RAID controller support in LM8?
On Friday 08 June 2001 20:29, Sam wrote: Hello all, I am thinking of purchasing the Abit KT7A motherboard with the integrated Highpoint RAID controller. However I can't find any RAID section in the supported hardware page on the site. Is it safe to assume that I won't have any problems running Mandrake 8 off a harddisk attached to the controller? Thanks in advance. The highpoint RAID controller is a winRAID controller. It will control RAIDs in Windows only (software based, in ROM). However, with the RAID turned off, it works satisfactorily in linux. The benefit of using it in linux, as a standard controller, is that linux has a software RAID which is superior anyway to the firmware from CMD and Promise and HighPoint. For example, it does not need identical sized disks, and can assemble a RAID0 volume from pieces of several drives, with a similar performance boost. If you can get the same board without the RAID, just with standard IDE channels, that will work the same in Linux. The Highpoint can work either way, so you are free to choose. Civileme QA Team
Re: [newbie] More USB stuff
On Friday 08 June 2001 03:11, Chubby Vic wrote: Hi again Is there a way to test my USB port other than a mouse? I was trying to get it to recognise a USB mouse but no go. Anyone have a good idea of a USB-driven device I could connect up just to see how well it works? What other USB devices do you have available? -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
Re: [newbie] more security
Are you running portsentry? Look in it's history and blocked files and see if those machines are in there. If so, delete them and put them in the allow and alway_allow files. Check your /etc/hosts.allow file and see if they are in there - they should be, as well as /etc/hosts.deny - they shouldn't be. That's all I can think of right now... -s On Friday 08 June 2001 06:44 pm, you wrote: is there any security measure (script/device) that may prevent computers in my home network to communicate with each other? I used to have a working network, but something happen that terminated the communication betwwenthe 2. I think it happened after installing linx-bastille. i think i removed bastille, however, i am unable to tell if when i removed bastile it reset all files taht it changed. My windows and linux machines have all appropriate settings and the nic cards appear to work, but when i try to ping the other machine it doesn't get anything back Both, windows and linix, can ping themselves, the localhost, and external networks such yahoo or mandrake, but they can't ping one another. I tried everything, from changing setting and all of that. Again, the setting in both machines are correct according to all documentation i've loooked at (mandrake's tutorials, MUO's how-to, and the 5 linux books i have.). all setting are correct. So i have to assume the there is some sort of security issue inplace preventing thse machine from talking to one another I'd like to know if anyone can suggest which security files to look at and change to see if that is what is preventing these machines from pining each other Thanks in advance for your assistance
Re: [newbie] How to write a bash login script?
Lucky you! I didn't get the softmodem on my TP570 (lucent modem) into a working state. Since your script needs to be run just once after system boot, you could for instance append the line /path_to_script/acpsetup to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, so it gets automatically executed when your box switches to runlevel 2, 3 or 5. If you want it to be run only in certain runlevels (e.g. 5) make a link named S99z_acpsetup in /etc/rc5.d/, i.e. you type ln -s /path_to_script/acpsetup /etc/rc5.d/S99z_acpsetup This way you don't have to su or anything like that. Good luck, Nico On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:49, you wrote: I have an IBM 600 laptop running 7.2 and it has an internal ACP (Win Modem). I downloaded a driver from the IBM website and installed it fine and the modem works well. It's just that after start-up and rebooting, I have to su in and give root password and issue the following commands. #!/bin/bash cd /usr/mwave/mw* insmod mwavedd setserial ttyS1 autoconfig ./mwavem I wrote a script to do this portion called acpsetup. How do I write the script to have it login as su and supply the password and issue the commands. I'd like to get it down to one simple ./acpsetup command to handle everything. Thanks, Michael
RE: [newbie] RPM Install
Please send the instructions you got on installing Webmin -Original Message- From: Mark Lucas [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 4:14 PM To: Linux Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM Install Thanks for the help on this. I've now got Webmin up and running. The next problem is installing MySQL server. I've downloaded the .RPM file and attempted to install it as I did with Webmin and all goes very well until near the end when it's unpacking the archive at 79% unpacked I get the message 'cpio: bad magic'. What on earth does that mean? I thought it might be a corrupted archive but I've downloaded it twice from different mirrors and got the same message. The archive file is called MySQL-3.23.38-1.i386.rpm and I am running Mandrake 7.0 on a Cyrix 686 p200 with 32Mg RAM. Any ideas? Mark - Original Message - From: Mark Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: [newbie] RPM Install I want to install Webmin (following some comments about it on this list). I've downloaded the .rpm file but I can't work out how to install it (I am a long time Windows user and new to Linux). When I try to run 'rpm --install filename ' I get error messages about being unable to get exclusive access to certain directories. I am logged in as root. Can anyone offer any help? Thanks, Mark
Re: [newbie] Multiuser install of Star Office.
On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:42, Richard wrote: Following your advice with slight modifications I have done the following. My copy of star office was supplied as something like so-5_2-en.bin this is a huge executable that you run to install it. I obviously haven't got it quite right but I am getting there. Thank you for you help with this. 1. as root do ./setup -net ( first cd to the directory where the SO5.2 setup script is ) 2. as _each_ user do /opt/office52/program/setup ( or wherever it is ) 3. choose the default installation, the one that says something like 16 Mbytes in home directory. As root changed to the CD and ran s0-5_2-en.bin /net This installed to the hard drive and didn't bother to prompt me for who I was or any of the other set information it normally asks for I installed it in /home/office52 I logged out and logged back in as katrina, clicked on the setup icon and it set up Star Office in /home/katrina/office52 putting 1.6 meg of files in there. It worked but not properly as the normal icons on the Star Office desktop wouldn't load and files couldn't be saved. su root chmod -R 777 /home/office52 sorted that. I then did the same for mike but for reasons unknown when attempting to close down this one it gives error in opening configuration file no problem with katrina just mike very weird. Work is saved in /home/office52/user/work or something like that. It doesn't matter if I change the default directory for katrina or mike it automatically changes it for both of them I have no idea why it would do this as I would have thought it should have stored in their home directories and not the network one at all. That is as far as I have got so far. It is at least possible but there are configuation files that need working on before it works properly. I have a second install of Star Office in my own home directory that I use for business but will be deleting that if I can ever get the network install to behave properly. -- Regards Richard - There is hardly anything that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. Ruskin
Re: [newbie] NFS Question.
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:30:24PM +, Michael Lewis wrote: I recently networked my laptop and desktop together and after juggling some adapters around, got them up and running. In O'Reilley's Running Linux, they said that you could set-up a NFS file sharing system, without having to set up a NFS file server. I just have a simple network with the two machines and once I figure out how to network my wifes Windoze box in, will have three total. I'm not using any of the machines for a gateway. I've downloaded a NFS tutorial, but that relates to setting up a NFS file server and a client. I just want to be able to share files on my two machines, and not have to worry about setting up a flie server. Since you want to integrate your wife's Windoze box, you'll probably be learning more about Samba. Although you've said you don't want to worry about having to set up a file server, you can share files between Linux boxes via Samba too. You also avoid the NFS security issues (may not be a problem for you). Steve
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia is totally unfounded
Dan LaBine wrote: I'm not sure what this guy is talking about, but whatever it is, he makes no sense. First, he sounds like he purposely became a skeptic about O/S evangelism. What exactly is that?? Is he saying that we've elevated the mighty Tux to the level of a diety? . I am Christian. I worship Jesus Christ. I do a Bible study mailing list for a prison ministry. I keep a database for a ministry to the homeless and keep in touch with my partners in ministry through email. It just so happens that I can do these things much more effectively on Linux than I can on Windows. I have never used Mac, so I can't say whether or not it is better or worse than Linux, but the sharing of knowledge and even products that we see in the Linux community, is much closer to Biblical priciples than the rampant capitalism we see in Apple and Microsoft. I don't bow down to Tux as an idol, but I do salute Linus for his gift to the world and the whole concept of open source. I just downloaded the Bible Reader, a very good Bible program by David White, which rivals some very expensive commercial software. He also personally responded to a question I posted on this list and his response corrected the problem I was having. IHaven't gotten that kind of support anywhere else, even for a fee. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Bible Study Teacher Registered Linux user #217118 in Tux we type, but in God we trust Yah Veh Nissi, is our banner! Yah Shua Messiach, is Sovreign Shalom!
Re: [newbie] Current IP Address
Hi, Me again ;-) How can I check to see if my computer is currently dialled out or not? TIA, Jord On Friday 08 June 2001 13:43, you wrote: Try and grep out the information you need from the command /sbin/ifconfig. If you're root, all you need is ifconfig, since it's in your path name, however any other user, ifconfig is not. But that command will give you a lot of info, one of which is the IP address. Something like the following command should give you the IP address. /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d -f 1 Since it sounds like you're using a dial-up account, you'll substitue eth0 for ppp0. (I think that's what it's called, been a long time since I've dialed in. Just run the ifconfig command when your dialed in to see what it looks like.) But that command will weed out just the IP Address and print it out for you. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | Hi, | I'm trying to write a bash script which needs the current IP address that | I have been assigned by my ISp at any particular moment. How can I do | this? | | TIA, | | Jord --
Re: [newbie] Current IP Address
It was Fri, 8 Jun 2001 18:57:15 -0400 when Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Me again ;-) How can I check to see if my computer is currently dialled out or not? You can simply ping www.yahoo.com If it responds, you're online. (Unless you work there ;-) Paul -- You never learn anything by doing it right. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] RPM Install
Are you doing this as root? If you do that as root, try rpm -ivh FILE.RPM. That may do the trick, but it sounds like you're not running this as root. At least from what I gathered from the email. tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | I want to install Webmin (following some comments about it on this list). | I've downloaded the .rpm file but I can't work out how to install it (I am a | long time Windows user and new to Linux). When I try to run 'rpm --install | filename ' I get error messages about being unable to get exclusive access | to certain directories. I am logged in as root. Can anyone offer any help? | | Thanks, | | Mark | | --
