Re: [newbie-it] A chi utilizza MDK 8 : chiederei un piccolo piacere
Se si utilizzano prodotti sco e come nel mio caso sviluppo per alcune aziende software in cobol non ho la compatibilità e quindi non riesco ad utilizzarli. Con questo modulo che ora è sparito non avevo alcun problema. Ciao e grazie Pier Antonio - Original Message - From: Di Matteo G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] A chi utilizza MDK 8 : chiederei un piccolo piacere Questo modulo non esiste nella versione di MDK 8.0, posso sapere a cosa serve. - Original Message - From: Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] A chi utilizza MDK 8 : chiederei un piccolo piacere Il 11:47, mercoledì 27 giugno 2001, hai scritto: Chiederei quindi un piacere a chi utilizza MDK 8 ovvero di controllare se esiste questo modulo. Per farlo non dovreste fare altro che dare il seguente comando : insmod iBCS [root@kishas marco]# insmod iBCS insmod: iBCS: no module by that name found [root@kishas marco]# Mi dispiace Un saluto Marco
[newbie-it] Modem non funzionante
Ciao a tutti e viva linux. Il mio unico problema, con Mandrake 7.2, è che non riesco a configurare la connessione Internet con un modem chippato Rockwell installato su COM1. La configurazione non trova il modem su nessuna porta; devo fare qualcosa di particolare ?
[newbie-it] Esportare impostazioni
Ciao! Vorrei esportare le impostazioni di Netscape (impostazioni posta, bookmarks, addresbook) da un utente a un altro; ho incontrarto alcune difficoltà; cosa dovrei fare, esattamente? Corrado
[newbie] Eject Cdrom
Hiya, If i put a cdrom in the drive that the computer can read from, ie a scratched or dirty disk, the computer just keeps trying to read and will not let me take the cd out of the drive. I cant unmount it or eject it using the 'eject' command. Any other way to get the bugger out? Also, why would the computer suddenly stop automounting floppy's and cdroms? I have the autofs service started on bootup. Cheers me dears.. Cheers -- Jamie _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
[newbie] Mozilla spell checker
Hi I have just downloaded Mandrake Freq 20010619 and installed mozilla 0.9.1 from these CD's. (Uninstalled 0.8.x first) Now the spell checker in message composition is missing. I messed around with aspell/pspell to try and get spelling to work in Evolution, so if mozilla uses that the spelling might not work. If it doesn't use pspell where is the spell checker? Thanks Francois
Re: [newbie] Linux Gaming
Hi Jamie, No!! We are not fed of you. Afterall, isn't a mailinglist here for you to ask questions?? To answer your problem, what colour depth are you running Tuxracer from?? Here at school, (I have finished my A-levels and have some spare time :-)) I am having to run tuxracer in 16bit, because 8bit colour produced the symptoms you have already described. Let me know how you get on, Regards, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: Adams, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 4:06 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux Gaming Hiya, You guys must be sick of getting mails from me by now :) When i attempt to play Tuxracer or GLTron, the display dosnt render on my screen properly, the display splits into three/four vertical bars, each displaying the same portion of the screen (left hand side i think). Could anyone shed any light on this? Im running in a resolution of 800x600 (i cant go any higher than this on my lappy) on an S3 Virge MX, which only has 2 meg of memory on board, but i could play half-life on it when i had windows. Cheers -- Jamie _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. 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
Re: [newbie] curious ....
As far as market share goes, I think you'd have to take FreeBSD out of that list. FreeBSD is the ISP UNIX. It's a downsized UNIX, but still a step above Linux. I don't know of anybody personally that's using FreeBSD as a desktop/workstation (Meanwhile I do have a FreeBSD server at home.) and I've heard of only a few that really do. I've never seen a boxed set of FreeBSD in any store, and I don't spend much time at the webpage to see if they even sell the CDs for the OS. But as a server it's amazing. Daily security reports, I love it's use of the /usr/ports making new software installs very nice and very simple. As it's starting to look more and more, Macs are for the fanatical. For those that have always been HUGE Mac fans. I don't see people who are about to purchase their first machine looking at Macs. It's the people who have always had them, and insist on them. Even with the introduction of the pretty iMac, I still didn't know of people that were saying, I'll switch to a Mac, or I don't have a computer so I'll buy a Mac. But there are those hordes of Mac uses out there that give Apple a chunk of the market share. There's BeOS, but it gets no publicity, it's pretty, but most people argue over it's functionality and/or where to get software for it. I don't know of any games that can be installed on it, but the same thing was true before I dove into Linux. They may have something like our www.freshmeat.com/ or they may not. I've really only seen it installed once, and that was 2 years ago. Currently Linux appears to be the only other fighter in the OS battle. And even more so as of late since Micro$HAFT has been giving it all this free publicity for Linux with it's press conferences about Linux and OpenSource. But people don't know enough about Linux so they are then curious and check it out. Thus far I've known/heard of 3 people who through all the bad media attention M$ is giving Linux, have switched over to Linux. Two of which have already gotten rid of Windows all together, the 3rd still has a dual boot machine. But I honestly think Microsoft will still be split up, or some drastic things will be done to it once the next trial come to pass. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime: 8:06AM up 8 days, 21:59, 11 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00 | There seems to be a lot of talk about Windows (even before the | Appeals Court decision) being a competitor of / annoyance to | the Linux OS | | I'm wondering about FreeBSD or MAC OS X any | potential competition there? ... any way to combat the OS | monopolistic intent of M$? | | | __ | Do You Yahoo!? | Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail | http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ | --
Re: [newbie] Use of Linux
I am interested to know, how many of you, actually use a non-root account to get work done. Since there is so many risks of constantly using a root account, how in the world are you supposed to get work done without being logged in as root?? I think that this depends a lot on the work that one does on a linux machine. I program (C), write reports (Abiword), create webpages (Quanta and vi), work with spreadsheets (Gnumeric), play a bit with graphics (Gimp), etc. I also write plenty of scripts, but none of them have given me trouble so far. Perhaps you could tell us an example that bothers you? Paul
Re: [newbie] Use of Linux
I agree with Paul. It all depends on what you do with your Linux box. Myself, I'm an admin amongst many other things. I write scripts, I test software, as well as fixing other things that don't require root access, or another kind of access. Even when I'm doing something that does require root access, I may edit the file as another user, then as root go in and paste in my edits, or quickly su to root, do what I have to do and then log off as root. But I'm the kind of person that does 80% or more of his work via the console. I'm just not a GUI kinda man! (lol) I use Enlightenment as my windows manager, and I have currently ahve 108 desktops that use. On of which has about 8 xterms sitting there waiting for me to log back in as root and do something. When I'm done I log out (For security issues) and then go back to what else I was doing. I do play some basic games like tetris and lbreakout, but other then that it's mainly work in xterms all over the place. But I don't find it a problem with su'ing to root to then finish something or do some work. Then again I type very fast and it's just another short command for me to rattle off with no problem, and even less amount of time. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime: 8:31AM up 8 days, 22:24, 11 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00 | I am interested to know, how many of you, actually use a non-root account to | get work done. Since there is so many risks of constantly using a root | account, how in the world are you supposed to get work done without being | logged in as root?? | | I think that this depends a lot on the work that one does on a linux machine. | I program (C), write reports (Abiword), create webpages (Quanta and vi), | work with spreadsheets (Gnumeric), play a bit with graphics (Gimp), etc. | I also write plenty of scripts, but none of them have given me trouble so | far. | Perhaps you could tell us an example that bothers you? | Paul | | --
Re: [newbie] Use of Linux
Tim wrote: Even when I'm doing something that does require root access, I may edit the file as another user, then as root go in and paste in my edits, or quickly su to root, do what I have to do and then log off as root. That latter is how I manage my box also. There's a bunch of xterms open on each virtual desktop, so I can always quickly su, do the root thing, and exit out of there. But I'm the kind of person that does 80% or more of his work via the console. I'm just not a GUI kinda man! (lol) My GUI needs are also very basic. I am lost without a prompt ;) I even start things like quanta and gimp from xterms... Much faster than all the mouse action. Paul
Re: [newbie] curious ....
At this time I see no objective reason for splitting up Microsoft ... what purpose will it serve? And why is Bill Gates so dead-set against it? What's the threat? Is it just a comfort-level thing? A nuisance change that he's concerned about? Or is it a huge threat to their monopoly? In fact, the remedy is seen as tepid by some people who are not M$ fans. Perhaps the latest suit is not a strong one are there ones that are? But litigation is such a slow and contentious process, I just think M$ is able to play that game better than anyone else (sounds painfully familiar). Has anyone really figured out a market that hasn't been tapped yet, within the industry, that Microsoft hasn't and will not be able to steal? Maybe better innovation is the answer, not litigation. Just wondering. The only real desktop option out there is the Mac thinking of kids, adults, etc and it seems that there needs to be more of an effort by others to become more user-friendly. There just doesn't seem to be a huge market out there for power users or even curious users who are willing to struggle through what seems like techie, hard-to-understand-on-a-higher-level-than it says so in the manual attempts to solve *many wierd techie problems. It's a shame about the IMAC not cutting it for people beyond the fanatical ... what are you basing that opinion on, besides what you see personally? I would *love to see a product that will give a lot of people a highly usable alternative to M$, because I dislike their tactics. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Install From Hard Disk
Hello, Perhaps I can join in the conversation?? Before I switched enitrely over to Linux, I installed Linux from my windows partition, using the dos based program Ranish Partition Manager. http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Then I created two partitions, one was the Native Linux format (ext2fs) of about 6GB, and a 128MB swap file (fs: swap). Then I saved the information to the MBR, loaded the Mandrake Installer (via a floppy), and when it came to the Partitioning section, Linux-Mandrake had already seen my file system, and so all I had to do, was set the mount point, as / on the native Linux. Perhaps you should try it that way?? Let me know how you get on, Regards, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: Skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Install From Hard Disk Thanks Jamie. I found a few web sites explaining how to install from a FAT32 partition, but unfortunately the install exited abnormally :-( received signal 15 whatever that means. I just tried your method of creating a native linux partition which got further than before but came up with an error message: An error occurred missing rate for !-- Beginning of: /www/htdocs/images/HEADER/dirheader.html -- So I am presently searching the net for an answer to this problem. My CD autoboots but I downloaded all the files. I was going to burn them to CD but I can't get the RPMS to stay in uppercase when burning to CD, and figured that since Linux is case sensitive that it wouldn't work. Jeez, I wish I wasn't so impatient and ordered the CDs instead! Talk about a pain! Nevertheless, I'll give it a go and see if I can't get it installed from the hard drive. Thanks for your help. Cheers Skinky - Original Message - From: Adams, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Skinky' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:41 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Install From Hard Disk I managed to do my install from harddisk, i created a native linux partition and then used the bootdisk, which gave me the option of which drive/directory i wanted to install to. Does your CD not autoboot? Cheers -- Jamie -- From: Skinky[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: Skinky Sent: 03 April 2001 00:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Install From Hard Disk Hello all, Does anyone know of a tutorial on how to install Linux Mandrake 8.0 from hard disk? I put all the files in a separate partition and made a boot floppy with the hd.img file. All goes well until it looks for the files to install. It can't find the files. The partition is Primary DOS FAT32. Should it be a linux type? If anyone knows of a tutorial or help page, I'd be very grateful. Thanks. Skinky PS. This is my first attempt at trying Linux and I'm really looking forward to it ;-) 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
Re: [newbie] Installing nVidia Drivers For TNT2 M64
Under the Section 'Modules', type: Load glx then under the Section 'Device', change nv to nvidia Then go to http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/?S=A and download the nv_check.sh file. Run it in a terminal (by typing: sh nv_check.sh) to help identify those mesa files you should delete (rm) or rename (mv). -s On Thursday 28 June 2001 11:59 pm, you wrote: I just installed the kernel and the GLX and this is what happened, I got the following message, what I'm wondering is if I should be concerned about this, as well, I'm wondering what I should change in my XF86Config-4 file, but that I'll paste below, first off this is the message I got when I installed ther kernel and GLX, it is as follows: TIA Curtis
Re: [newbie] Re: [SLE] Use of Linux
Dear List, Thank you all for your replies. I must admit, that I was not very clear with my question. I knew all about the command su and groups and all, but I just wanted to know, a quick way of getting around the permissions. I think this would mean either: everyone is root or install Winders
Re: [newbie] Opera (was Netscape 6)
At 09.11 29/06/01, you wrote: (Of course I must say that for the record, konqueror is still my fav a You have got to try Opera. That is the creme-de-la-crop web browser for Linux. Opera is very good indeed. I use it as my default browser. But I do have to resort to Netscape for webmail on my ISP's system, Opera makes one mess of that. I also can do Internet Banking only with Netscape. Have not tried Galeon or Mozilla for that though. But it is so, Opera 5.0 is dang good! Paul Always remember to report bugs: it is the only way to have a better browser in future! Olaf
[newbie] any burner/DVD RPM?
I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on a laptop which has a CD-RW/DVD drive. Does 8.0 have any rpms already in it or do I have to install them separately? What is the name of the rpm? Thanks Ravi __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Use of Linux
I try really, really hard to do things under my account but inevitably I have su'd to root within 3 to 5 minutes... I think it's just a problem with me not knowing how to setup my access properly. -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 7:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Use of Linux I am interested to know, how many of you, actually use a non-root account to get work done. Since there is so many risks of constantly using a root account, how in the world are you supposed to get work done without being logged in as root?? I think that this depends a lot on the work that one does on a linux machine. I program (C), write reports (Abiword), create webpages (Quanta and vi), work with spreadsheets (Gnumeric), play a bit with graphics (Gimp), etc. I also write plenty of scripts, but none of them have given me trouble so far. Perhaps you could tell us an example that bothers you? Paul
[newbie] Resetting Gnome
Hello! I'd like to restore Gnome to its original settings after intallation; haow can I do it? Thanks, Corrado
[newbie] Exporting Netscape settings
I tried to export all Netscape settings (mail, bookmarks, address book, etc.) to another user, consequently changing directories proprietary; that worked for Licq and X-Chat, but something's gone wrong with Netscape; any suggestion on how can I do it? Corrado
Re: [newbie] Resetting Gnome
In a message dated 6/29/2001 9:57:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Start Gnome holding down the Ctrl Shift keys simultaneously...that's it! Mike Hello! I'd like to restore Gnome to its original settings after intallation; haow can I do it? Thanks, Corrado
[newbie] How come the mouse wigs out during install
Have y'all ever noticed that when you are setting up the wheel mouse during the install and disappears off the screen for about 60 seconds, during which time you have to kind move the mouse around till it shows back up?
RE: [newbie] Use of Linux
I try really, really hard to do things under my account but inevitably I have su'd to root within 3 to 5 minutes... I think it's just a problem with me not knowing how to setup my access properly. What are all these pressing things then, that you constantly need root access for? If I have to run su more than 5 times a day I feel that I have done something wrong... Paul
Re: [newbie] any burner/DVD RPM?
I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on a laptop which has a CD-RW/DVD drive. Does 8.0 have any rpms already in it or do I have to install them separately? What is the name of the rpm? Depending on your install, Xcdroast, Gcombust, GToaster or one of these should already be installed. If you can't find any of them, use urpmi /pathtocdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/Xcdroast... to install it. urpmi will find all the necessary extra RPMS for you and install those too. (do check the proper writing of the Xcdroast rpm!) Paul
RE: [newbie] Use of Linux
I'm spending most of my time installing the system, installing RPMs, and configuring files I can't figure out how to install an RPM as myself, is that possible? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Use of Linux I try really, really hard to do things under my account but inevitably I have su'd to root within 3 to 5 minutes... I think it's just a problem with me not knowing how to setup my access properly. What are all these pressing things then, that you constantly need root access for? If I have to run su more than 5 times a day I feel that I have done something wrong... Paul
Re: [newbie] How come the mouse wigs out during install
On Friday 29 June 2001 10:05, Mark Johnson wrote: Have y'all ever noticed that when you are setting up the wheel mouse during the install and disappears off the screen for about 60 seconds, during which time you have to kind move the mouse around till it shows back up? /me thinks you're configuring a generic PS/2 mouse? it's ok. it did that to me too. and now, even after a little paranoia myself, my mousie works fine. i had to twitch mine during the install too. but everything seems to be 100%. p.s. if your mouse doesn't scroll with netscape, invoke the imwheel daemon. it works pretty good. good luck! -- +-- + Jeff Reed + Linux System Administrator + Metro West Boston Linux User Group + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + (508) 792-6070 +-- Check out Linux! It's good for you. http://www.linuxbusca.com http://www.linuxdoc.org http://www.linuxnewbie.org
Re: [newbie] How come the mouse wigs out during install
It was Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:05:47 -0500 when Mark Johnson wrote: Have y'all ever noticed that when you are setting up the wheel mouse during the install and disappears off the screen for about 60 seconds, during which time you have to kind move the mouse around till it shows back up? Yup. As long as it only does so during install, I am content though ;) Paul -- It's in process: So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] Use of Linux
It was Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:38:39 -0500 when Mark Johnson wrote: I'm spending most of my time installing the system, installing RPMs, and configuring files I can't figure out how to install an RPM as myself, is that possible? This is also security related. Root is the only one on a system allowed to write to the RPM database etc. But take heart, as soon as most of the system is set up and running, you should not be needing that anymore. Unless you like playing around with things... Paul -- It's in process: So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] Re: CDRW won't burn- FIXED
Must be a bug in the cdrecord version on the Mandrake 8.0 cds. I went to rpmfind.net and downloaded the latest version of cdrecord (1.10-1), uninstalled the original version and installed the new version. Now my cdburner works fine! 8 On Thursday 28 June 2001 05:04 pm, you wrote: I have tried all the steps in the CD-Writing HOWTO to get my cdrom burner to burn but no luck. I have created the image using mkisofs; I have tested the CD-image by mounting it using the loop0 device and inspected the data; I have issued the cdrecord -scanbus and gotten:cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW 8X4X32 ' '5.DZ' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * [geoffs@lancelot geoffs]$ I have run cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data /tmp/cd_image where /tmp/cd_image is the file created by mkisofs. All messages from the cdrecord run look perfect (no errors at all) and the red write light on the cdrw blinked on/off many times and the command completed without any errors. Nothing seems to be written on the cdrom! I also have used gcombust and gtoaster and get the same results...seems to burn but nothing gets written on the cdrom. I know the cdrw works because I can burn cdroms using the M$ dual boot side of the machine. Any ideas on why it seems to work but does not burn anything?
Re: [newbie] Installing nVidia Drivers For TNT2 M64
On Thursday 28 June 2001 11:59 pm, you wrote: I just installed the kernel and the GLX and this is what happened, I got the following message, what I'm wondering is if I should be concerned about this, as well, I'm wondering what I should change in my XF86Config-4 file, but that I'll paste below, first off this is the message I got when I installed ther kernel and GLX, it is as follows: [root@localhost Downloads]# rpm -ivh NVIDIA_GLX*.rpm var/tmp/rpm-tmp.43995: cd: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions: No such file or directory --- WARNING!! libGL.so.1.2 --- Above file(s) possibly belong to a conflicting MESA rpm. --- They have been renamed to xxx.originalFile.RPMSAVE to --- avoid conflicting with the files contained within this --- package. --- Please check http://www.nvidia.com/drivers/xfree86_40.html --- for details, under section 5.2 NVIDIA_GLX ## [root@localhost Downloads]# Now here is the XF86Config-4 file: # ** # Graphics device section # ** Section Device Identifier Generic VGA Driver vga EndSection Section Device Identifier RIVA TNT2 VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown Driver nv-Here, change to nvidia #VideoRam4096 # Clock lines # Uncomment following option if you see a big white block # instead of the cursor! #Option sw_cursor Option DPMS EndSection Now if someone could tell me what I should change/edit to my file so that I can get the drivers working, I'd appreciate it. TIA Curtis _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] Couldn't log on tty1-6/ kdm crashes/ gdm crashes/ X crashes
Hi, and sorry for the long email. Let me start with a summary: 1) I've had the computer reboot into console without any error messages and then I couldn't log on!!! I tried as root and as a user on tty1, tty2, tty4, tty6 and then I gave up, resorted to the sysrq sequence and I had no problems on the next reboot. 2) I've had the computer boot into X directly and the login manager fails (kdm/gdm) and the computer goes down into runlevel 3, or the login manager doesn't fail, but is extremely slow, KDE takes 15 min. to start. In the second case, I also couldn't login on tty1-6 to kill X. 3) I've had the computer boot into X directly and have been able to log on and work without any problems and then suddenly X dies on me and I get the login manager again. I have no idea whether this is one or many problems with hardware or software. I'm up to date on security patches up to and including kdelibs from June 27. These are fairly serious problems which make an otherwise wonderful version of Mandrake difficult for me to use. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks, Narfi. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps. I've been using Mandrake for 4 weeks now and I love it! Too bad it keeps crashing on me without telling me why. Details: Hardware: Celeron 466 MHz, Intel QS440BX, Award BIOS 2.09, Primary Master: IBM drive, boot drive, Windoze only + lilo Primary Slave: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Secondary Master: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1212 Secondary Slave: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100 Controller card: SIIG Ultra ATA 66 On that card is: WD 400BB, set to DMA 33 both on the card and on the drive. This drive is linux only. Graphics card: ATI Xpert 2000. Network card: Linksys LNE 100TX Sound: Yamaha YMF-724 Addonics SV550 TV card: Win-TV GO. Monitor: Viewsonic E771 Printer: HP Deskjet 832C connected through USB. and a PS-2 scroll mouse and a 102-keyboard When I emailed the list about problem 3) I got the suggestion to make sure the graphics card had its own interrupt so I moved the network card to avoid having the two cards share an irq. The problems still persist. Software: The 2 GPL Mandrake 8.0 CDs. The MD5 sum was ok, the install was without problems. I use KDE, and I've tried both kdm and gdm as the login managers, but I've experienced the X crash with both of them. I have jserver/wnn, the tiny firewall, postfix + the standard services such as usb, xfs etc. Logs say: Nothing that I can see to be relevant. I'll break this down by the problem: 1) Then I can't log in to tty1-6, i.e. I type in my or root's user name and password and the only thing that happens is that after approx. 1 min. the login prompt reappears. None of the following contain any record of an attempted login: /var/logs/messages, /var/logs/auth.log, /var/logs/login 2) Then kdm or gdm don't start properly on boot. I couldn't find anything in the logs, that may or may not be due to my record keeping. 3) If X crashes, /var/log/messages contains lines such as: Jun 25 23:46:02 nic-41-c68-180 kdm[1388]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1 Jun 25 23:46:03 nic-41-c68-180 kde(pam_unix)[3263]: session closed for user narfi Jun 28 01:43:59 nic-41-c68-180 gdm(pam_unix)[1394]: session closed for user narfi Jun 29 10:10:09 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[3019]: session closed for user narfi Finally, dmesg after a successful reboot: Linux version 2.4.3-20mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs -1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.0)) #1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 17ff (usable) BIOS-e820: 17ff - 17ff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 17ff3000 - 1800 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 98288 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 94192 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. hm, page 0100 reserved twice. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=2101 hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-floppy quiet ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdb=ide-floppy Initializing CPU#0 Detected 467.735 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 933.88 BogoMIPS Memory: 383872k/393152k available (976k kernel code, 8892k reserved, 287k data, 696k init, 0k highme m) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff , vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 128K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU:
[newbie] VMWare configuration
I have my machine set up to dual boot NT and Linux Mandrake 8.0 (2 seperate hard drives). While trying to configure my eval version of VMWare, I saw you could access your NT drive (hda) for the guest OS. What configuration choices do I want to use? My choices listed are below, with the option of setting each to No Access, Read Only, and Read/Write. Which should I use for each? (With all of them selected as read only, VMware starts to boot, and gives me a single line that says LILO 21.7). (The following is the NT drive) hda0 (mbr) hda1 (Win95 Extended) hda2 (Dos 16 bit=32M) hda5 (Dos 16 bit=32M) NOTE: The NT drive is 20 gig, with drive C: using FAT, and Drive D: using NTFS) (The following is the Linux drive) hdb0 (mbr) hdb1 (Linux native) hdb2 (Linux extended) hdb5 (Linux swap) hdb6 (Linux native) NOTE: The Linux drive is 40 gig) Anyone able to assist? Harry G. ___ Talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.flux.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
[newbie] eth0 insists on being default route, disabling PPP connection
Hello, I connect to the internet using a modem, and I also connect to our local network via ethernet. When I was installing LM-8 I did not want to set up the modem at the time, so I let the installer set up my ethernet card as internet connection. Later after the install was compleat, and I got around to setting up my modem I was able to dial-up my ISP and ping the host at the other end of the PPP link, but I could not reach any other sites on the net. When I checked the routing table I discovered that eth0 was set as the default route instead of ppp0. I assume this happened because I foolishly told the installer that I connect to the internet via eth0. I saw another post that explained that this problem could be corrected by opening Mandrake Control Center -- Network Internet then clicking on expert mode and removing the the modem and ethernet entries then re-creating the modem entry first under Internet Connection and then second add the ethernet card under LAN. This made sense, but I can not get it to work. First when I open Mandrake Control Center -- Network Internet the panel does not load, and I get an error message: The panel did not load in 15 seconds. Make sure it is installed. I found that the panel will load if I go into NetConfig and disable eth0 before I open Mandrake Control. Non the less I can not seem to remove the config for eth0, and no matter what I do eth0 always wants to be the default route. Note: I can get online by using the route command to delete the default route before I attempt to open a ppp connection. Also the ethernet card is working fine. I can ping addresses on the local network. Any idea how I can get this machine to forget my past mistakes? At this point I would like the computer to forget my ethernet card ever existed so I can just start over from scratch. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Have a great day. David Nelson -- Who's off to hit the trails on his MTB, and forget about eth0 for awhile.
Re: [newbie] Installing nVidia Drivers For TNT2 M64
Dan, If your computer has one processor, then you want the uni processor RPM. Only if you have a dual-processor will you want the SMP. Miark - Original Message - From: Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing nVidia Drivers For TNT2 M64 Im getting ready to try to install these drivers as well on MDK 8.0 the card is the Geforce 2 16 meg. My question is i have seen two sets of drivers on there website, one is for Mandrake 8.0 one cpu, uni processor kernel and the other is for Mandrake 8.0 SMP kernel. I think i want the first one, is this correct? Thanks in advance. On June 29, 2001 02:04 am, you wrote: Curtis, Nope, don't worry about it. Just make the changes to your XF86Config-4 as instructed, and you'll be good to go. -- Regards, Dan Gordon Powerd by KMail Registerd Linux user #217868
Re: [newbie] curious ....
I found your post very interesting. Here is my 2 cents if you don't mind an outside opinion. First, I never gave a second look at a Mac. First off at that time APPLE was on the bottom and looking like it wanted a bullet to put it out of its misery. My first PC was a HP7170 Pavilion. I was amazed on its features, of course it had only a 133Mhz Intel, 2GB harddrive but for a first timer I was impressed. It had Windows95 which I had heard about but never really gave a look since at that time the PCs were still too expensive. That Pavilion also ran HP's own interface or Operating System. Needless, to say it was a joke and I uninstalled it since I didn't see any point in keeping something I didn't want. Then came Windows98, 98SE, and currently Millenium Edition. I am not imressed but I hae enjoyed software so much that I could care less of the comments MS haters have to say about Windows, and every variation of the name. Two years ago I heard about Linux for a consumer easy to use version. I went and bought the Corel Linux as at that time I heard it was the easiest to use. I have since then learn that every loyalist of a Linux flavor believes their favorite is the easiest and best. Needless to say it wasn't easy and I never could get past the splash window. Then came Linux Mandrake's Linux for Windows. I have heard the remarks from many of you about how inferior or a bad choice. Frankly, it is not and gives a raw newbie and idea of what Linux Mandrake can offer and is all about. I agree it is not for replacing or migrating away from Windows but it is an easy taste by comparison of all Linux distros. I went the way of Linux 7.2 full distribution and partition my drive to house both Millenium Edition and Mandrake. I am happy with both and really wish there was a way to have all three OS on one machine(Windows, Linux, Macintosh) and switch through with ease. There are software but far too much complication at this time. I enjoy Linux and I have spent hours learning and playing with it, but frankly and with all due respect to others in this forum and lovers of Linux, you just can't really get any work done with it. I am either having to install patches or make adjustments every time I need to do something or want to do something. Thats the real flaw with Linux not support or application choice but you just don't boot up click click and get something to work tha easily and quickly. Many of you have provided so much help to us newbies but your past experience and with some of you with a formal UNIX education go through command lines as if they were just plain englsih(or perspective native language). Personally, I don't get excited and find command lines boring and unnecessary. With a GUI it is point and click and so on. It is not lazy or an aide to the stupid. Frankly, not everyone who has a car wants a manual transmission or work on it to make the adjustment so that car runs the way the owner wants it to. The future for Linux is in Limbo, personal opinion, and it has nothing to do with Microsoft or the ignorant comments on Linux and the Open Source. There is no standard and most hardcore users like that but there is such chaos over such a system. Sometimes hearing hardcore Linux users is like listening to the hippies of the Hasbury, if I spelled that correctly, days talk about the movement of love and peace and taking down the system and powers that be. Most are probably drivng BMW's and hold stock options with a large corporation about now. I know for the most part Linux for the the average consumer is still so so very young. The Open Source community has done wonders and have worked to bring Linux to the common user who is not interested in getting under the hood of their OS. I guess that is the point. Why does Microsoft have the largest share of the market, aside from the monopoly? The vast majority don't care. They just want point, click and go. I have read Linux newbies who have given Linux Mandrake a shot and have decided to go back to Windows and maybe Mac if I recall correctly. The first comment I hear is let the Windoze baby go back to their mindless. Its a choice and at least there is a choice now. I love Linux but I can honestly say as unbias observer Linux is not for the common person. So far all the usrs I have encountered are techies, wanna be techies, hackers(as in enjoyers of software and not a cracker) and those with a formal UNIX education. As Linux moves to become easier I think it is losing that thing that has given the rise and recognition. Still though evolution has a funny way of throwing a monkey wrench into the mix now and then. I am curious to see what the future holds for all OS. Again just my two cents I invite others opinion but not insults. Thank you
RE: [newbie] curious ....
In short, I agreee. -Original Message- From: PENA FAMILY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] curious I enjoy Linux and I have spent hours learning and playing with it, but frankly and with all due respect to others in this forum and lovers of Linux, you just can't really get any work done with it. I am either having to install patches or make adjustments every time I need to do something or want to do something. Thats the real flaw with Linux not support or application choice but you just don't boot up click click and get something to work tha easily and quickly. Many of you have provided so much help to us newbies but your past experience and with some of you with a formal UNIX education go through command lines as if they were just plain englsih(or perspective native language). Personally, I don't get excited and find command lines boring and unnecessary. With a GUI it is point and click and so on. It is not lazy or an aide to the stupid. Frankly, not everyone who has a car wants a manual transmission or work on it to make the adjustment so that car runs the way the owner wants it to. Yup, this same car argument has been made again and again, and I agree with you. As a developer that writes both unix backend systems and window front-ends, it's far easier to build the command line tool than the GUI. I do not believe GUIs are for the lazy or the idiot user. There is a certain art in designing a usable GUI and it's quite a challenge. A bad GUI can make the command line tool a godsend but that is a problem with the specifc GUI not GUIs in general. I will always prefer using a good GUI to a command tool if it's available. Linux has quite a share of bad GUIs (pet peeve, pop up windows that place themselves arbitrary around your desktop instead of being front and center). But it takes a lot of effort to front end an application. Most developers are more interested in writing code than writing human-computer interfaces. I love Linux but I can honestly say as unbias observer Linux is not for the common person. So far all the usrs I have encountered are techies, wanna be techies, hackers(as in enjoyers of software and not a cracker) and those with a formal UNIX education. As Linux moves to become easier I think it is losing that thing that has given the rise and recognition. Still though evolution has a funny way of throwing a monkey wrench into the mix now and then. I am curious to see what the future holds for all OS. Again just my two cents I invite others opinion but not insults. The hard part about critizing linux and linux software is that it's all done by volunteers. So how do you critize something that no one is forcing you to use or pay for to use. It's a place to be in. There is a delicate line that one must tread so that an issue doesn't sound like a complaint but instead a suggestion. There are lot's of people working really really hard to make the linux experience a nice one. And there a lot's of other people who don't really care about this aspect of the linux culture. Try not to get caught up in those arguments. cheers!
Re: [newbie] curious ....
I agree comletely, Linux is still very young and developing. My twist on the car analogy is like this Windows is the average car which the vast majority drives and get from point A to point B. There are lemons depending on everything from quality and price but they get the larger slice of the consumer pie. Macintosh is the BMW and Mercedes...etc. You pay for the high quality and since everything is included your less likely to have problems again barring any X factors like quality control and bad management. Linux and other althernative OS, whichever term you want to use, is the kit car. The old Chevy or Ford you want to tweak to run and look like you want it to. You can remove the air conditioner to boost engine performance. Get rid of manufacturer settings again to get that boost you want. Doing whatever you want to make it run, look, and feel just the way you want and to reflect your individual personality. The only problem this is a small market there are problems with making those tweaks. You can problems but the point is to make the changes you want. Macintosh and Windows don't and may never do that, personally they won't since their user base is so much different than Linux. I do a lot of home video editing. Windows sucks for this even with Windows2000. Apple is excellent for this but has a history and the experience that has given it this result, but the price is ridiculous and just out of my means. Personally, most of the Apple designed machines I find ugly especially the Flower Power iMac which I would find humilating to be seen using.lol Linux has stability and is pretty much a clean slate for developing. I do not hold any OS as my religion. I just can't see it as such but I like the open source and I like Linux. Heck, I crash Linux 3 times more than I do with Windows since I am constantly looking through and fiddling with. I don't trust Linux, Windows, or Mac but I do have hope for Linux compared to the other two. I wonder do those who prefer command line will ever move to a GUI or do they just stay in a command line enviroment within a UNIX platform since thats all they want?
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] CDRW through USB]
Travel GZ wrote: Hi, Now that I see it is possible to burn CDs using Mandrake, is it possible with version 8 to burn using a USB burner? Hi, check out this site: http://www.linux-usb.org/ -Frans
Re: [newbie] curious ....
It was Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:58:00 -0700 when PENA FAMILY wrote: I wonder do those who prefer command line will ever move to a GUI or do they just stay in a command line enviroment within a UNIX platform since thats all they want? Oh, I run a GUI. It's called XFCE. But when you're used to, for example, moving files around from a prompt (mv -f a b) then it is usually much faster than going through the motions with a mouse, dragging, dropping, confirming that you want this'n'that indeed to happen etc. Or in editting a file, having to rely on mouse movements each time you want something done, instead of the fast things you can do in vi. I often operate unix machines in a production environment. And for me, the prompt is the fastest tool. Why? Because I learnt to use computers when they were still dinosaurs, with punched tape, 11 pinfeed paper and keyboards, without display screens. Before the existance of IBM compatible PC's. Once I helped someone get his winders up again, and I had to edit an INI file (yes, Winders 3.11). So I opened a command.com. This guy got a shock: WHAT'S THAT??? The command line got me out of trouble just as often as the GUI got me into them. That's why the command line is important to me. Paul -- It's in process: So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] curious ....
X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit i _am_ jealous of your new machine 1.4gig. i can hear more than one Tim Taylor grunt right now! sounds sweet! moose. On Saturday 30 June 2001 03:48, you wrote: Rita: I would *love to see a product that will give a lot of people a highly usable alternative to M$, because I dislike their tactics. I rebuilt my system this morning. It was a Pentium III-450 oc'd to 600. Now with a different motherboard, cpu and sound chip, it's an AMD Athlon 1.4gig. I booted it for the first time into Mandrake 8.0 (+cooker), overclocked to 1470, on the drive that was runnin Mandrake in the old system. Not even a burp. Only thing I had to do was run harddrake to config the new integrated sound chip. Found that I could reliably run 'mprime's torture test at 1.55 gig without raisin the default voltages and stay below 50C under heavy load with the cpu. WinSUX, OTOH, wouldn't boot into anything but failsafe (even at the default 1.4g). It kept search'n for new hardware, install it, ask to be rebooted, over an over well this went on for more than a dozen times till it finally got it halfway right enough to boot to a normal desktop. I was on the fence of even putting winBLOWS on this new system, now I'm sorry I did. I'm gonna miss Flight Sim 2000, but I'm fixin to just delete Windoze off that drive altogether and make some more room for the Penguin. BTW, still no sound in WinSUX, and there's still much to reconfigure If I bother. Who cares if Billy gets split? People who're savvy enough to realize Windoze SUX? or the vast masses that'll support Winblows jus 'cause they don't know any thing better? Whether Billy had won or lost yesterday wouldn'a made any diference with his flock. I believe they get what they deserve. Everyday, many people get the kind'a winblows experience I gave above. Most don't know or care that Winblows is the culprit, they'll use it anyhow.
Re: [newbie] Advice
Daho, There are quite a few reasons to choose some type of *nix box over windows 2000. #1. Less of a cost involved for software, including the operating system. #2. The ability to not have to buy per-user licensing to cover database connections (since mysql / postgresql are both essentially free). #3. Hardware is less of a concern -- depending on what you plan to do with the web server, you can run it on a P133. #4. *nix is typically much more stable -- I don't think I've ever seen a windows 2000 server up for longer than a few months, if that. #5. Unix+Apache+PHP+MySQL / Postgresql is probably one of the most solid server combinations I have ever seen. As kind of a followup to #3, I founded a group called Web Spinners at the University of West Florida -- the very first server we had was a P75, 32 MB RAM, 3.2 GB hard drive running Slackware 2.x (which we later upgraded to Slackware 3.0) The next server was a P133 w/ 128 MB ram, and 3.6 GB total hard drive space running Redhat 5.1 (later 5.2). After the P133 was taken back by the generous member that had loaned it to us, the server was on a 486/100, 96 MB RAM, 3.6 GB total drive space, which stayed as our main server for several years going from RH 5.2, then to 6.0, and finally 6.1. Of course, you can't run a win NT / 2000 server off of a 486/100. The latest server, which was put together from parts, has cost us a grand total of $850 (including upgrades) and of course, has not cost a single cent on the software side. It is a Celeron 400, 128 MB RAM, with 14.4 GB of drive space spread over 3 hard drives (1 6.4 GB drive, and 2 4 GB drives which are mirrors of each other (replacements for the 2 20 GB drives we had in there)). On our heaviest traffic day (which was about 200,000 hits per hour for 4 straight hours), our server never went below 70% CPU idle. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:27 PM 06/13/2001 -0400, daho Med wrote: I'm planning to set up a new web server, and I'm still finding out which platform better for me to choose (win2000 or Unix) so any one can advice me, Thank you
[newbie] Konqueror in mdk 8
I really love Konqueror, stable, fast enough, but how do I get the java to work? I can't seem to figure out where to tell it to find java, although I have /usr/bin/java on my system, it does not seem to want to load and run any java apps. Should I install another kind of Java somewhere on here? -- Linux is cool
[newbie] Logitech Mouse
I currently am running LM8 with a PS2 mouse. Everything works fine this way. I have a Logitech optical wheel mouse I use when I'm in my Other OS. Has anyone had any luck with getting this logitech to work. Thanks Will
[newbie] missing rate... dirheader.html Error Message
Hello again everyone I amSTILL trying to install from hard drive. After creating a native linux partition and booting with a boot disk (hd.img), I selected install to own partition (linux native partition). All goes well for a while and then an error message comes up: Error An error occurredmissing rate for "!-- Beginning of:/www/htdocs/images/HEADER/dirheader.html --"Can anyone tell me what this means? I went back into Windows and searched thru the entire "Linux" directory of files that I downloaded for a file named htdocs or dirheader.html but found nothing. I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do. I've search thru the net for clues but again found nothing. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. Skinky
Re: [newbie] Logitech Mouse
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, William Hughes wrote: :)I currently am running LM8 with a PS2 mouse. Everything works fine this way. :)I have a Logitech optical wheel mouse I use when I'm in my Other OS. Has :)anyone had any luck with getting this logitech to work. Thanks :) :) :)Will :) I just installed MDK 8.0 a couple of days ago. When I setup X I chose mouse option 1 ( Logiteck/Wheelmouse, I don't remember exactly) and it works perfectly. I have the Logitech cordless optical mouse on my PS/2 port. -=[cwa]=- Mandrake 8.0
Re: [newbie] Konqueror in mdk 8
On Friday 29 June 2001 20:57, you wrote: I really love Konqueror, stable, fast enough, but how do I get the java to work? I can't seem to figure out where to tell it to find java, although I have /usr/bin/java on my system, it does not seem to want to load and run any java apps. Should I install another kind of Java somewhere on here? I downloaded the IBM jre java but I think that that was not needed. Locate java in the settingsconfigure konquerorjavabrowse and then go to /usr/bin/java/java . set that in the box for java location and see if your java does not start working. If not http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/download-linux.html and down load the linux java runtime environment to your /home/username directory and it will always be there if you do a new install but don't format /home. Once it is in that directory and you untar it you can then point konqueror to that file in /home/username (whatever username is yours) and it should then run like a champ. Let me know if you have any problems understanding my lousy writing, and if any of the above works for you. -- Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] /mnt/windows problem
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:57, tazmun wrote: Hi Romanator, I did download the new version of drakfont,however,i could not install any windows fonts (i have win2k on NTFS).How can i mount an NTFS partion ?. Yes how do we mount an NTFS partition since I had the same problem. I tried to mount it on install but it kept saying there was some sort of error and the only solution it provided was to erase the entire drive! Needless to say, I was not amused. Tazmun Kernel support for NTFS in read/write mode is not yet complete, and is considered to be experimental. I would advise against doing that. However, mounting an NTFS partition in read-only mode is safe, and can be done with the following command: $ mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs Replace /dev/hda1 with your NTFS partitin location and /mnt/ntfs with your chosen mount point. The ro denotes a read-only mount. You can mount your drive at startup via your /etc/fstab file. The Mandrake installer (Drakx) only recognises NTFS versions 4 (as used in NT4) or below. Versions 5 (as used in Win2K) and up are not supported by Drakx, but may be mounted after the installation. -- 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] Archiving old mail under Kmail.
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 06:03, Michael D. Viron wrote: 6) Tar -cvf monthly.backup.tar /home/user/Mail Just a thought -- you might want to do tar -czvf monthly.backup.tar.gz, as it'll have better compression. In fact, tar doesn't compress at all -- it merely archives and concatenates. That is the reason why it is almost always used in conjunction with gzip or bzip2. bzip2 compresses better than gz, so tar -czvf monthly.backup.tar.bz2 would be best. Will it work and is there an easier way? I don't see any reason why not, but I've never used Kmail, so I'm not sure. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida -- 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] lost kmail settings
Are there any files in your ~/Mail directory? If so, try deleting all files that end in .index and restart Kmail. On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:47, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Just woke up this morning and went to retrieve the newbie mail, as well as my personal and work mail. When I clicked on the 'Check Mail' button it that I had to configure some accounts first. All 3 of my accounts' information were gone. The only thing I can think of is that I set up KNode yesterday for my newsreader.regardless this shouldn't happen. BTW, this is in Mandrake 8. Anyone have any ideas where my account info has gone? Is this a bug? Many thanks, Bill W. -- 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] Linux Fragmentation -- Is the Unthinkable already here?
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:37, Benjamin Sher wrote: If Microsoft were to cook up a plan to cause Linux to disappear in a virtual Tower of Babel it could scarcely be more effective than that which has been adopted by distributions on their own, voluntarily. This reminds me of the double-page advertisements M$ used to run in German magazines about a year ago. It depicted a lineup of penguins, each with a different mutated head. M$'s point here is that GNU/Linux is prone to mutation, and so people should stick with an 'established standard', i.e. Windows. -- 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] fonts in StarOffice
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:45, kp _ wrote: Hi, I have Mandrake 8.0 on a PII 350Mhz So do I -- it works brilliantly here! Everything was fine during install, my big problem is that fonts are UGLY in Star Office I've tried things I found on mandrake forum( :unscaled in a 'config' file, uninstall AbiWord...) but this is still ugly... So what is the solution to have nice letters ? Thanks. In short... no. Staroffice is a monolithic application that only supports certain Postscript fonts. I know there are tools out there that can convert TrueType (as used in Windows) to Postscript fonts -- perhaps you should do a search for those. Otherwise you should use an alternative, like Abiword, Kword or OpenOffice (the successor to StarOffice). -- 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] Make it stay?
I had the same problem with Konqueror (I'll assume that's what you're talking about). The trick is to associate a file type with an entry that is in your Mandrake menu. If a menu item does not exist for your programme, use menudrake to make one. On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:37, Mandrake wrote: I can't get the filetype to stay, like for mp3 files I want xmms to play them by default, but my Mandrake 8.0 cannot seem to remember this. What can I do to make it stay how I put the prefs? Thank you -- 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] mouse in X
Have you tried mousedrake? On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:10, Willy Sutrisno wrote: hi, im using mandrake 8.0 and XFCE is my window manager. I'd like to know what is the command you put in the kdm, to load XFCE. I have tried xfce, but it cant work. oh ya, by the way im using xfce 3.8.3 because i cant load my xfce from kdm, so im force to load it from the command prompt. but there is a problem with mouse, everytime i load xfce using the startx command, the mouse will go crazy. i mean, when i move the mouse the pointer will not follow my hand movement. what i do is, i shut down the x server, and load the xfce again. and the mouse will working just fine. this thing only happen once, when i first boot the pc and load the x for the first time. anyone can help me? thanks in advance, willy -- 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] Logitech Mouse
I use MDK 8.0, the mouse was chosen durring setup and works great. On Friday 29 June 2001 21:07, William Hughes wrote: I currently am running LM8 with a PS2 mouse. Everything works fine this way. I have a Logitech optical wheel mouse I use when I'm in my Other OS. Has anyone had any luck with getting this logitech to work. Thanks Will
RE: [newbie] Which Version Should I use?
Thanks very much for the help. I think I am now going to download the ISO image and burn some CD's! Aaron -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:30 AM To: Aaron; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Which Version Should I use? 8.0/i586 most definitely. 8.0/i586 is optimised for i586 (Pentium-class) processors, which you obviously have (in fact, you have an i686 SMP). 8.0/i486 is optimised for i486 processors. Corporate Server is designed for corporations to use, and so prizes stability above usability. As a result, it is always several steps behind the main Mandrake distro. On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:49, Aaron wrote: I am looking at installing Linux Mandrake and would like to know which if the following versions would best suit my needs. I will be using this machine as for web development if that makes a difference. 8.0/i586 8.0/i486 Corporate Server The box this is going on contains: Tyan S1832DL Tiger 100 Motherboard 2x Intel PII 750MHz CPUs 2 SCSI 9GB Drives and 1 12GB IDE Drive 384MB Ram Matrox Millennium G400 32MB thanks, Aaron -- 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] How come the mouse wigs out during install
On Friday 29 June 2001 17:35, Mandrake wrote: what is the command for the imwheel daemon? imwheel and imwheeld just don't do a dangbusted thing, no such file or directory Be sure it's installed. I've had systems before where it simply was not installed. Once it's installed, imwheel will run it in the background. I have found it to be very helpful. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [newbie] curious
On Friday 29 June 2001 17:32, Mandrake wrote: But winblows crashes And don't forget this ridiculous plan they have for Windows XP to lock it to one particular computer. This one should have people switching to Linux in droves. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [newbie] curious ....
First, I never gave a second look at a Mac. First off at that time APPLE was Neither did I. My sum total experience using Macs is about 2 hours, back in the 1980's on a microscopic Mac with a black white screen the size of a postcard. That was enough for me. Plus the proprietary, overpriced hardware and single-button mouse, and lack of decent CAD software, and the general dumbing-down effect of the whole Mac experience. Many of you have provided so much help to us newbies but your past experience and with some of you with a formal UNIX education go through command lines as if they were just plain englsih(or perspective native language). Personally, I don't get excited and find command lines boring and unnecessary. With a GUI it is point and click and so on. It is not lazy or an aide to the stupid. Frankly, not everyone who has a car wants a manual transmission or work on it to make the adjustment so that car runs the way the owner wants it to. My formal computer training consists of one semester of punch-card computer math back in the 1970's. I didn't use a computer again, except for data entry, until 1989, when I started using DOS (command line) and a little bit of Windows 2.0 (utterly useless). From that point I used every version of DOS and Windows up to 98SE. I had never used Unix until about a year ago, but I started programming in every computer language I was able to find time to teach myself starting in 1990. I love the command line, but I also love the windowing environment. That is one problem I have with Windows - sure, you can open a DOS window, but it's clunky. In Linux the terminal windows feel more integrated; I always have at least one open. Often it is just more efficient to work from the command line than to mouse all over the place - click, hold, drag, drop, oops, dropped it in the wrong place, undo, try again ... damn, it copied instead of moving (or vice versa) ... but the windowing environment does have great advantages as well. It's a matter of finding a balance that works for you., and Linux gives me that freedom. I still use Windows, just not very often. I love Linux but I can honestly say as unbias observer Linux is not for the common person. So far all the usrs I have encountered are techies, wanna be techies, hackers(as in enjoyers of software and not a cracker) and those with a formal UNIX education. As Linux moves to become easier I think it is losing that thing that has given the rise and recognition. Still though evolution has a funny way of throwing a monkey wrench into the mix now and then. I am curious to see what the future holds for all OS. I have to agree there, as a self-described techie and geek. For many years I tried to hide my geekiness; grew my hair, was a stoner, and did the blue-collar thing, but I couldn't hide forever. I cut my hair, sobered up, and went techie (not in that order) and am now a happy geeky tech-dude. I even own golf shirts and khakis now, though a lot of the golf shirts have penguins on them rather than alligators ;) Oh, by the way, I prefer manual shift cars ... but I haven't driven in years. I ride a bicycle. It adds to the eccentric aura I like to project. And it's more respectable than the bloodshot eyes and ponytail down to my a** that I used to wear. Jay aka The Insane Multitasker
[newbie] TV Card
Anybody ever get a ATI TV wonder to work on Mandrake? I looked at some of the tv programs some people have listed in the past and none of them specified the ATI TV Card. Thanks, Kevin
Fw: [newbie] curious ....
As far as market share goes, I think you'd have to take FreeBSD out of that list. FreeBSD is the ISP UNIX. It's a downsized UNIX, but still a step above Linux. I don't know of anybody personally that's using FreeBSD as a desktop/workstation (Meanwhile I do have a FreeBSD server at home.) and I've heard of only a few that really do. I've never seen a boxed set of FreeBSD in any store, and I don't spend much time at the webpage to see if they even sell the CDs for the OS. But as a server it's amazing. Daily security reports, I love it's use of the /usr/ports making new software installs very nice and very simple. Actually a friend of mine deposted a copy of 4.4 FreeBSD Lite on my desk the other day including the approxiamately 800 page manual. I've seen boxed sets for sale at our local Staples office supply store. I threw the first cd in let it boot and took a quicky peek and it appeared to be a major pain for the unaccomplished here. MD at least from the 7.1 (first version MD I ever ran) version totally stomps this program on installation at least it appeared so to me. So I got scared and ran away and the disks still sitlonely and unused...lol. Tazmun
[newbie] loud login routine
Hi, A small annoyance (aside from my inability to fix it) is that when I boot up my laptop and log in as a user, the boot 'tune' in KDE is very loud. Is there any way I can set the volume so that it will not wake my neighbours when I log in? Thanks, Bill W.
Re: [newbie] Opera segmentation fault
What version of QT do you have running? The latest is 2.3.1 -- I suggest you get that from a Cooker mirror near you (don't worry, if anything it should be even more stable and usable than the one you have now). Also, try the static version of Opera. On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 14:05, Siro Belza wrote: Hi, I have downloaded and installed the package opera-dynamic-rh71-5.0-3.i386.rpm from Opera's website. When I try to run opera, the program aborts with a segmentation fault error. Has someone had the same problem? Does someone know what the problem is? Sirocco -- 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] curious ....
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:48, Tom Brinkman wrote: Rita: I would *love to see a product that will give a lot of people a highly usable alternative to M$, because I dislike their tactics. I rebuilt my system this morning. It was a Pentium III-450 oc'd to 600. Now with a different motherboard, cpu and sound chip, it's an AMD Athlon 1.4gig. I booted it for the first time into Mandrake 8.0 (+cooker), overclocked to 1470, on the drive that was runnin Mandrake in the old system. Not even a burp. Only thing I had to do was run harddrake to config the new integrated sound chip. Found that I could reliably run 'mprime's torture test at 1.55 gig without raisin the default voltages and stay below 50C under heavy load with the cpu. WinSUX, OTOH, wouldn't boot into anything but failsafe (even at the default 1.4g). It kept search'n for new hardware, install it, ask to be rebooted, over an over well this went on for more than a dozen times till it finally got it halfway right enough to boot to a normal desktop. I was on the fence of even putting winBLOWS on this new system, now I'm sorry I did. I'm gonna miss Flight Sim 2000, but I'm fixin to just delete Windoze off that drive altogether and make some more room for the Penguin. BTW, still no sound in WinSUX, and there's still much to reconfigure If I bother. Who cares if Billy gets split? People who're savvy enough to realize Windoze SUX? or the vast masses that'll support Winblows jus 'cause they don't know any thing better? Whether Billy had won or lost yesterday wouldn'a made any diference with his flock. I believe they get what they deserve. Everyday, many people get the kind'a winblows experience I gave above. Most don't know or care that Winblows is the culprit, they'll use it anyhow. Unlike other WinDOS competitors, GNU/Linux will never die. This is thanks to its GPL underpinnings. M$ can't use its code (legally), and they sure as hell can't buy it out. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. I didn't get rich by writing lots of cheques. -- Bill Gates, in 'The Simpsons'
Re: [newbie] Use of Linux
Mandrake has urpmi and urpme. If you add your user to the urpmi group you will be able to (un)install RPMs without logging in as root. There is also sudo, which can be configures to allow a user to access any root task you wish. I personaly see these as a bit of a security risk, so I just su for a short moment to (un)install my RPM. On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:38, Mark Johnson wrote: I'm spending most of my time installing the system, installing RPMs, and configuring files I can't figure out how to install an RPM as myself, is that possible? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Use of Linux I try really, really hard to do things under my account but inevitably I have su'd to root within 3 to 5 minutes... I think it's just a problem with me not knowing how to setup my access properly. What are all these pressing things then, that you constantly need root access for? If I have to run su more than 5 times a day I feel that I have done something wrong... Paul -- 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] VMWare configuration
Assuming you are running NT as a guest OS within a GNU/Linux host, it should be safe to access all the Windows partitions in read/write mode. As a precaution, I would access the GNU/Linux partitions in read-only mode, but it shouldn't be any problem if you use read/write mode for them as well (since Windows can't see non-Windows partitions). On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 03:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have my machine set up to dual boot NT and Linux Mandrake 8.0 (2 seperate hard drives). While trying to configure my eval version of VMWare, I saw you could access your NT drive (hda) for the guest OS. What configuration choices do I want to use? My choices listed are below, with the option of setting each to No Access, Read Only, and Read/Write. Which should I use for each? (With all of them selected as read only, VMware starts to boot, and gives me a single line that says LILO 21.7). (The following is the NT drive) hda0 (mbr) hda1 (Win95 Extended) hda2 (Dos 16 bit=32M) hda5 (Dos 16 bit=32M) NOTE: The NT drive is 20 gig, with drive C: using FAT, and Drive D: using NTFS) (The following is the Linux drive) hdb0 (mbr) hdb1 (Linux native) hdb2 (Linux extended) hdb5 (Linux swap) hdb6 (Linux native) NOTE: The Linux drive is 40 gig) Anyone able to assist? Harry G. -- 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] loud login routine
Bill, Check out the Control Center, Look 'n Feel, System Notifications. Then in the right pane, go to KDE System Notifications, KDE is Starting Up. Uncheck the Play Sound box. Miark - Original Message - From: Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 7:08 PM Subject: [newbie] loud login routine Hi, A small annoyance (aside from my inability to fix it) is that when I boot up my laptop and log in as a user, the boot 'tune' in KDE is very loud. Is there any way I can set the volume so that it will not wake my neighbours when I log in? Thanks, Bill W.
Re: [newbie] curious ....
Unlike other WinDOS competitors, GNU/Linux will never die... M$ can't use its code (legally), and they sure as hell can't buy it out. The richest man in the world, representing the most powerful software force in the history of the planet can't touch Linux. sigh Brings a tear of joy to these ol' eyes :-) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. I didn't get rich by writing lots of cheques. -- Bill Gates, in 'The Simpsons' Of course, the real Billy Gates would spell it, checks. Miark
[newbie] How to configure GRUB menu?
Hi All, I would like to configure GRUB's bootup menu so that it will pause more than 3 sec before Linux is loaded. In Mandrake 7.2, I could easily do that by fiddling with menu.lst file in the /boot/grub directory. HOWEVER, I am currently running Mandrake 8.0 and menu.lst is NOT in /boot/grub directory. Is there an easy way to change the GRUB bootup menu? Better still, how can I get the menu.lst file back? Thank you. -- Cheers, Viboon
[newbie] problem with /sbin/ifup ppp0, modem dials then hangs up (error 17)
I rearranged my home office today to please my better half who is always complaining about it being cluttered and saying things like This room would look so much better if only.. This reordering involved moving my LM8.0 computer. I did a shutdown -h now as root from an xterm and everything shutdown fine. Moved my desk and plugged my computer back in and tried to connect to the internet with /sbin/ifup ppp0 as root like i have always done and the modem picked up the phone line and dialed the number then almost before the first ring it hung up and linux responded with a somewhat cryptic Failed to connect (error 17). I cant find anything that describes exactly what error 17 is supposed to mean but all the settings have stayed exactly the same. I just shutdown the computer and moved it about 2.5 feet then plugged the power cable back up and turned the power on. Then only two cables i had to disconnect were the monitor and the power cable. Never touched the phone line. Also i can boot the workstation up into winblows and the modem works just fine. My hardware: HP Vectra 5 P120 External USR 56k modem Mandrkae 8.0 (dont think the rest is really relevant to this problem) This one has me really puzzled. Thanks in advance, Ian K. Harrell Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installing nVidia Drivers For TNT2 M64
Im getting ready to try to install these drivers as well on MDK 8.0 the card is the Geforce 2 16 meg. My question is i have seen two sets of drivers on there website, one is for Mandrake 8.0 one cpu, uni processor kernel and the other is for Mandrake 8.0 SMP kernel. I think i want the first one, is this correct? Thanks in advance. On June 29, 2001 02:04 am, you wrote: Curtis, Nope, don't worry about it. Just make the changes to your XF86Config-4 as instructed, and you'll be good to go. -- Regards, Dan Gordon Powerd by KMail Registerd Linux user #217868
Re: [newbie] Logrotation /THomas (was Use of Linux)
It was Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:14:20 +0100 when n6tadam wrote: The pressing things, are just maintanace scripts that I have written, but I am having to change the permissions on the logfiles each time. And before you say it :-), Cron is insufficient to do my logrotation. Instead, I use a perl script that I wrote. Hi Thomas, Could it then be an option to run that perl script in the system cron? Although I guess you already tinkered with that idea. Can't you keep a su'd xterm open for this? Minimized/hidden, for your use only? Paul -- It's in process: So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] Problem with supermount on MDK8
Title: Message Hi, Some help needed , after instalation of latest mdk freq which based on on mdk8 i have th following problem: each of my cdrom and floppy can be used only once after each rebooting, another time when I try to read any media from these devices I receive warning that I doen't have permisions to read from these devices or mount points, even if logged as root any help very appreciated regards Andris
Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers
Ahh. I took a look at it ealier and didn't see any resize buttons. Then I pressed unmount. Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Disk Drake is included with Mandrake (at least 7.2, I would assume 8.0 as well). On Friday 29 June 2001 18:47, thus spake Kevin Fonner: Are their any partition resizers that are made to run on Linux? Kevin - Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: - - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7PRqWOiMJhTaLf3MRAkz6AJ91Q/mGBMVB+jBfRK+pafLw2dTb/QCfVigQ 7U6+gy7Qbo1WREpRw7AximI= =niR0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Couldn't log on tty1-6/ kdm crashes/ gdm crashes/ X crashes
I hope I am not beating a dead horse, but do you have plug and pray aware OS turned to OFF in bios? and your graphics card really will need to be in the pci slot shared with the agp slot. you may also want to run the network card setup (it is probly a DOS program on the diskette that came with the card) and see if you can set it's interrupt to something else if you have a free one?) I would also recommend that when you install the PCI cards you might want to read the book from the motherboard to see which slots are bus master the Video and controller card will want to be in bus-master slots. now the disclaimer. I have no right to have a computer, and I have no need to have all these computers running here in my house. but i like it that way. On Friday 29 June 2001 13:20, you wrote: Hi, and sorry for the long email. Let me start with a summary: 1) I've had the computer reboot into console without any error messages and then I couldn't log on!!! I tried as root and as a user on tty1, tty2, tty4, tty6 and then I gave up, resorted to the sysrq sequence and I had no problems on the next reboot. 2) I've had the computer boot into X directly and the login manager fails (kdm/gdm) and the computer goes down into runlevel 3, or the login manager doesn't fail, but is extremely slow, KDE takes 15 min. to start. In the second case, I also couldn't login on tty1-6 to kill X. 3) I've had the computer boot into X directly and have been able to log on and work without any problems and then suddenly X dies on me and I get the login manager again. I have no idea whether this is one or many problems with hardware or software. I'm up to date on security patches up to and including kdelibs from June 27. These are fairly serious problems which make an otherwise wonderful version of Mandrake difficult for me to use. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks, Narfi. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps. I've been using Mandrake for 4 weeks now and I love it! Too bad it keeps crashing on me without telling me why. Details: Hardware: Celeron 466 MHz, Intel QS440BX, Award BIOS 2.09, Primary Master: IBM drive, boot drive, Windoze only + lilo Primary Slave: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Secondary Master: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1212 Secondary Slave: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100 Controller card: SIIG Ultra ATA 66 On that card is: WD 400BB, set to DMA 33 both on the card and on the drive. This drive is linux only. Graphics card: ATI Xpert 2000. Network card: Linksys LNE 100TX Sound: Yamaha YMF-724 Addonics SV550 TV card: Win-TV GO. Monitor: Viewsonic E771 Printer: HP Deskjet 832C connected through USB. and a PS-2 scroll mouse and a 102-keyboard When I emailed the list about problem 3) I got the suggestion to make sure the graphics card had its own interrupt so I moved the network card to avoid having the two cards share an irq. The problems still persist. Software: The 2 GPL Mandrake 8.0 CDs. The MD5 sum was ok, the install was without problems. I use KDE, and I've tried both kdm and gdm as the login managers, but I've experienced the X crash with both of them. I have jserver/wnn, the tiny firewall, postfix + the standard services such as usb, xfs etc. Logs say: Nothing that I can see to be relevant. I'll break this down by the problem: 1) Then I can't log in to tty1-6, i.e. I type in my or root's user name and password and the only thing that happens is that after approx. 1 min. the login prompt reappears. None of the following contain any record of an attempted login: /var/logs/messages, /var/logs/auth.log, /var/logs/login 2) Then kdm or gdm don't start properly on boot. I couldn't find anything in the logs, that may or may not be due to my record keeping. 3) If X crashes, /var/log/messages contains lines such as: Jun 25 23:46:02 nic-41-c68-180 kdm[1388]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1 Jun 25 23:46:03 nic-41-c68-180 kde(pam_unix)[3263]: session closed for user narfi Jun 28 01:43:59 nic-41-c68-180 gdm(pam_unix)[1394]: session closed for user narfi Jun 29 10:10:09 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[3019]: session closed for user narfi Finally, dmesg after a successful reboot: Linux version 2.4.3-20mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs -1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.0)) #1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 17ff (usable) BIOS-e820: 17ff - 17ff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 17ff3000 - 1800 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 98288 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 94192 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. hm, page 0100 reserved twice. Kernel command line:
Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers
I can't seem to move or resize my / drive. Will I have to create some special boot disk to do this or something or is their a way to do it? Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Disk Drake is included with Mandrake (at least 7.2, I would assume 8.0 as well). On Friday 29 June 2001 18:47, thus spake Kevin Fonner: Are their any partition resizers that are made to run on Linux? Kevin - Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: - - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7PRqWOiMJhTaLf3MRAkz6AJ91Q/mGBMVB+jBfRK+pafLw2dTb/QCfVigQ 7U6+gy7Qbo1WREpRw7AximI= =niR0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Re: [SLE] Use of Linux
Either way you do it, getting around those permission is going to be a security risk. You could provide the passwd in the script but all soembody needs to do is stumble across teh script and now they have root access. Or you could change the permissions in the correct places to allow certain writes to be allowed by a basic user and now somebody doesn't even need root access to your box. But, if you write your script, as they would need to be done as the root user, then log into the root and execute the command, you can go on from there. Or have a scrip that will prompt you for the root passwd while it's running. That's what I've done for a few of my scripts. It does everything it needs to do, but in the middle of script it asks me for the root passwd. So that's a suggestion. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime: 9:53AM up 8 days, 23:46, 9 users, load averages: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00 | Dear List, | | Thank you all for your replies. I must admit, that I was not very clear with | my question. I knew all about the command su and groups and all, but I | just wanted to know, a quick way of getting around the permissions. | | Anyhow, thankyou all again. | | Regards, | | Thomas Adam | | | 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 | | --
Re: [newbie] Konqueror in mdk 8
Thank you thank you thank you thank you It works nice! At least on a chat applet I tried. I'm off to test it on other stuffage. Thanks again. On Friday 29 June 2001 07:43 pm, so spoke Dennis M.: http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/download-linux.html and down load the linux java runtime environment to your /home/username directory and it will always be there if you do a new install but don't format /home. Once it is in that directory and you untar it you can then point konqueror to that file in /home/username (whatever username is yours) and it should then run like a champ. Let me know if you have any problems understanding my lousy writing, and if any of the above works for you. -- Linux is cool
