Re: [newbie-it] Adsl modem Speedstream 4060
Salve, ho un modem adsl speedstream 4060 della Efficient network, casa che a quanto pare non fornisce drivers per sistemi operativi non windows Ho installato linux mandrake 8.0 sullo stesso hard disk dove c'e' windows 98 che continuo ad utilizzare per potermi connettere =(( c'e' un modo per poter utilizzare il suddetto modem? Grazie. Guarda io ho installato sul secondo pc che ho (LAN) mandrake 8.0 e se l'è configurato da solo tramite la scheda di rete poi come abbia fatto o come si debba fare questo non lo so proprio saluti
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[newbie] disk information
Looking in the detailed system information part of the GNOME system information monitoring software, I see some things under disk information that I don't completely understand. Here's a rundown of all the info: 1. Mount point: / /dev/hdc1 type ext2 3,189 MB, 2,564 free (2,726 superuser) 415,168 inodes, 390,113 free - okay, I know that's my root partition from when I ran diskdrake way back when. my questions here are: what's the significance of the superuser distinction in the memory sizes? what are inodes? i kept up with the ext2 vs reiser debate and i think i'd like to switch to reiser, how do i do that? 2. Mount point: /proc device none type proc no information for this filesystem - what's up? im clueless. what's proc and why is it its own filesystem type? why is there no information? 3. Moint poing: /dev/pts device none type devpts no information - same questions as #2, just substitute devpts for proc in the question. 4. Mount point: /home /dev/hdc7 ext2 10,828 MB, 10,196 free (10,747 superuser) 1,409.024 inodes, 1,401,348 free - is it just me or is this a MASSIVE waste of space? shouldnt this thing be shrunk way down? i wont ask the superuser question or inode questions again, just left the numbers in there in case they would matter for someone who actually knows what theyre talking about. oh, and why is the superuser free number bigger than the regular free one? 5. Mount point: /mnt/windows /dev/hdd1 (i've gotten in the habit of calling this one h diddy, as in, hey mom make sure to boot to 'h diddy' because ive got to write down a website from my ie favorites) vfat 29,299 MB, 19,780 free (19,780 superuser) 0 inodes, 0 free - what does superuser mean in a windows context? and hey, dude, wheres my inodes? 6. Mount point: /usr /dev/hdc6 ext2 4,921 MB, 1,885 free (2,135 superuser) 640,000 inodes, 486,348 free - dammit why'd i make this so small... this should be way bigger right? i'm planning a repartitioning party, see my next email for details. quick question on this one: why are these out of order? why werent they displayed hdc1, 6, 7, hdd, etc...? im listing them as they appear top to bottom in the gnome system information tool. 7. Mount point: /proc/bus/usb device /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs 1,054,278 MB, 0 free (0 superuser) 1,078,982,051 nodes, 0 free - i know this is my usb device, but how does my usb port have memory? is usbdevfs (or the other filesystems cited in #s 2, 3, 8, and 9 for that matter) a filesystem type? how are they different from other disk filesystem types? 8. Mount point: /miscdevice automount(pid464) type autofs no information on this filesystem - clueless again, please explain. i know automount is for cds and stuff, but whats the /misc? autofs? pid464? 9. Mount poing: /net device automount(pid480) type autofs no information on this filesystem - ok, why 480 instead of 464? whats the difference between /misc and /net automounts? Looks like I'm done for now. Thank you to those who took the time to read this because I know the printout is pretty overwhelming. Peace, Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fsck
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 02:22, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 15 August 2001 10:02 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Good question. You've gotten me wondering about that too. If you wanted to do it manually I would assume that you would have to boot from (or chroot to) another filesystem (like a CD or floppy). How do fscks work on boot? When an fsck is needed at bootup, it is run _before_ the partiton is mounted. I believe the answer might be fsck is run on mounted partitions. They're just mounted read only. BUT I don't really know, and I haven't used ext2 or need e2fsck on any partitions for a long time. Still it's a good question and sure made me curious. Come to think of it, I think this may be the answer. This would be the reason why you should set your bootloader to mount the partition with /boot (i.e. with the kernel) as read-only. If you view your kernel messages at boot, it will initially say that it is mounting read-only. After the kernel is loaded and the fscks (if any) done, the partitions are mounted read-write (if specified in /etc/fstab). -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fsck
I was referring to the partition that the kernel is on. The kernel can't be read without its partition being mounted in some kind of way. As Tom suggested, I think the partition is mounted read-only at first and then mounted read-write after the kernel is loaded and fscks (if any) are done. On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:51, etharp wrote: ehh,,, the kernel is read into memory, then the disk unmounted? On Wednesday 15 August 2001 11:02, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Good question. You've gotten me wondering about that too. If you wanted to do it manually I would assume that you would have to boot from (or chroot to) another filesystem (like a CD or floppy). How do fscks work on boot? When an fsck is needed at bootup, it is run _before_ the partiton is mounted. This brings up another question. How is the kernel loaded when the filesystem it is on hasn't been mounted yet? I assume that the principle would be the same as with the fsck situation above. This question doesn't only apply to Linux, but to all kernels. Hmmm... On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:50, Paul wrote: It was Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:07:56 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: One small question then: how would you go about fsck-ing the partition that has the fsck binary on it? You can't run it when it is not mounted, and you can't run it when it's mounted. Would cp-ing the program be the solution? Paul The procedure I gave, and for which I believe the question conserned, was to be used during boot when the auto fsck is unable to complete and the sysetm request that a manual fsck be run. If run at this time no partition has has yet been mounted so using an unmount command would be pointless and unnecessary. Very true. I just thought I should add that disclaimer just in case someone wanted to fsck a mounted filesystem :-) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: eth0 timing out
If I press ctrl-f12 and I read there, it says that my network card has timed out. I can't see the network either. What do you think is the problem Thanks Ray Booysen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 timing out
I don't know, could you give us a hint? -s On Thursday 16 August 2001 01:55 am, you wrote: If I press ctrl-f12 and I read there, it says that my network card has timed out. I can't see the network either. What do you think is the problem Thanks Ray Booysen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 timing out
Have you checked your network settings and your eth0 configuration? Go to a terminal and enter: root@localhost /root# netstat -rn root@localhost /root# ifconfig eth0 What are the printouts from each of those commands? - Isaac ps - every time i reply directly to one of these emails i get an error and the mail is returned to me by mandrake because they say footer type and mime are unknown users. just in case anyones wondering why i always resend things to the list... Quoting Ray Booysen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I press ctrl-f12 and I read there, it says that my network card has timed out. I can't see the network either. What do you think is the problem Thanks Ray Booysen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] APM problem fixxed.
Hi All I just thought I let every one know that I fixed my APM problem (ie my machine turned under win2k fine by iteself, but not under M8). All I had to do was enable APM in my Bios and it works (I feel like saying duh, but I feel too stupid). Robert MacLean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OpenGL getting there
Hello I got some new results. I played around with the glx.conf, mesa.conf and XF86Config-4.conf files . And I also played around in my Bios. There is a setting in the Bios labelled Pipe something I disabled it and also Video Bios Cacheable. No I can run OpenGL, sort of. There is still a problem, that being apps that full screen. Only sort of do. They make the whole screen black, the screen resolution stays at my desktop resolution (1280x1024) and the app runs at it's own resolution. e.g. TuxRacer run at 640x480.In other words I have a screen that is 1280x1024 with a small 640x480 window in the middle, and black all around. (I put up a screen shot http://pascal.idws.com/shot1.jpg to illustrate it). I tried using Cntl++ and Cntrl+- to resize the desktop, to match the game (i.e. 640x480), but when I do that I get the old segmentation fault error again. I think there is some problem with it equalling the desktop size, i.e. going full screen. Then it appears the only way to get any OpenGl anything to run is to restart the machine (could it be some temp file, since I have setup the /tmp gets cleaned on start up?) But atleast I can play something now :) Robert MacLean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Mozilla/Java symbolic link
(I ended up deciding to send this to the whole list because it's helpful for anyone downloading non-rpm versions of Mozilla... I had to do it on Debian) Dear Ola, Once you've done what they told you already you need to go to your mozilla directory (hopefully /usr/local/mozilla) and go into the plugins folder. Here you want to make a link to a plugin in your java folder. The name might be slightly different depending on what your java folder is named, mine looks like this: /usr/jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so That file, the libjavaplugin_oji.so in /plugin/i386/ns600 of your java directory is the one you need to have a link to in the mozilla plugins directory to enable java for mozilla. The way to do this without having to use command line is by opening the home directory, navigating to your /mozilla/plugins folder and right-clicking the background, choosing create new and application. Under the general tab name it libjavaplugin_oji.so and under execute put the full location of that file in the java folder (like the line I wrote out above). If I've explained anything poorly just yell at me. Also yell at me if it doesn't work. In Solidarity, Isaac Ok It was me who asked about java in Mozilla. I have some difficulties in writing in english but I try. I believe I have done the right thing with the symlink??? But it dont work. By the way, e-mail trouble. As I wrote have I been using Mozilla since milestone4, first in Windows and now in both windows and linux. I get all my e-mail in linux and most of the web browsing to. I do download the Mozilla nightly builds sometimes so i get new wersions of Mozilla often. Because of that I have stoped to use Mozilla as my mailprogram, I use K-mail. Maybe K-mail is not the best mailprogram there are but I have not loosed any mail. It would be nice to get java working in mozilla so I can cotinue with downloading and trying nightly builds. Ola -- Ola Lidén Övarpsvägen 125 291 95 Färlöv Telefon 044-74136 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] winbind with samba 2.0.7
Hi there, I am trying to install winbind (samba-appliance-0.5-1.i386.rpm) on a Mandrake 8.0 (kernel 2.4.3) with Samba 2.0.7. I got the following error : error: failed dependencies:libreadline.so.3 is needed by samba-appliance-0.5-1 How can I resolve this ? Do I have to install something else ??? Thanks for your help !! Orazio Sgalbiero ADMIN - DI/3 Tel. +3222955954 Fax +3222994830 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting floppies with supermount
My /etc/fstab contained the following re floppy mounting:- = == /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 = == This was ok for win98 floppies but would not recognise ext2 floppies, so I changed the vfat to ext2 and now can read ext2 floppies but not those from win98. In Caldera I used to use a filesystem designator of auto in my /etc/fstab which would read all floppies (ext2 and win98 anyway). but this does not se em to work with supermount. Strange, since with me this works... A workaround could be to use /mnt/fddos and /mnt/fdext2 and add lines for each to fstab. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SMTP Server advice / help
I have heard these dynamic dns services, but cannot remember any, could someone give me some good ones, please. Jamie From: Kevin Fonner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SMTP Server advice / help Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:06:25 -0400 I am planning on setting up my own mail server for my home as well. I did use mail deamon when I was in the windows world to grab all my mail out of a single pop mailbox for the domain. I would imagine some linux mail servers would have this feature as well. I have been so busy I haven't had the chance to look yet. Let me know if you find anything. You can then access the mail server via imap anywhere in the house. To access it from the internet use a dynamic dns service. This service allows your computer to update a dns server on the internet with it's current static ip address. Kevin Jamie Kerwick wrote: Basically i want to use my home PC as a mail server. Now there are 2 problems i have, my PC is only on a dial-up connection and as such doesn't have a stable IP or a proper domain name registered for it. now the main thing is that i want to be able to use it no matter what internet connection i am using. I don't plan on having an open relay i want to make it neccessary to log into the smtp server, how would i go about doing that?? any adivce would be great thanks Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Joing a domain
How do i get my linux box at work to join a domain. The box will be our intranet server, and i want it to join our NT domain. any help, sites etc. welcome thanks Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 2.2 report and a Koffice query
Installed the new KDE 2.2 final last night. It took me seven hours to get the rpm's from sourceforge, but once I had them things went quickly. No major problems, I just had to hunt down a few oddball dependencies from the mandrake 8 cds and one from the cooker. Kdegraphics now insists on an installation of sane, libsane and sane-backend even if you have no scanner attached - weird! KDE 2.1.x worked fine without them. Other things that it needed were apm and libpcre. It's probably too early to give a final opinion, but everything in the new KDE seems a little ... slow. I know that's subjective, no benchmarks, but I seem to be waiting a couple of seconds for apps like kamail, which used to flash onto the screen instantly. Hopefully there will be optimisations in subsequent revisions. Apart from that, at first things seemed odd, but after restarting X, everything worked fine. If you like KDE and/or KDE apps, it's more of the same. If you detest KDE and everything it stands for, well, it's more of the same ... I installed it mainly for the apps, I use xfce as my wm. Tip: If you're on a modem and you're not interested in compiling KDE apps, don't worry about d/ling the devel packages. I installed fine without any of them. And you can always go get them later when the /. effect on sourceforge has subsided. On a different note, a few days ago all koffice components mysteriously stopped working. Here's the error msg: michel 11:54:49 ~ Command? kword Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in kword's desktop file. Check your installation ! Check my installation for what, you dumb machine? Everything I can think of to check is there. I even uninstalled and reinstalled koffice. koshell comes up, but without any components (Kword, Killustrator etc) in it. Will this automagically be fixed when the latest koffice is released in a few weeks time, or should I do something else? Slaughter a goat in sacrifice to the great god Mimetype, maybe? TIA Michel -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC double-blind experiment, n: An experiment in which the chief researcher believes he is fooling both the subject and the lab assistant. Often accompanied by a strong belief in the tooth fairy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mounting floppies with supermount
My /etc/fstab contained the following re floppy mounting:- === /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 === This was ok for win98 floppies but would not recognise ext2 floppies, so I changed the vfat to ext2 and now can read ext2 floppies but not those from win98. In Caldera I used to use a filesystem designator of auto in my /etc/fstab which would read all floppies (ext2 and win98 anyway). but this does not seem to work with supermount. Any ideas how can I read both types of floppy please? regards -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re: ppp thread
On mine, i usually connect at 52000 and get average download times of between 4k and 5k per second. I do know that this can vary a lot depending on your modem and how close you are to the exchange. -- Jamie -- From: skinky[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 August 2001 09:20 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: ppp thread File: message.txt On Wednesday 15 August 2001 16:04, you wrote: quoting skinky: I slow my connection right down to 19200 bps (it connects at the higher speeds but is much slower) Could someone explain that to me? How can I tell what my optimum connection speed is? I get 37333 and 38666 90% of the time, 40K 10%, and from looking at my Zoom External I can see it's logged on using 42K and 56K respectively. When I view kppp statistics I see a max generally of about 9.0 Kb/sec, but when I watch it as I load pages, make downloads, etc., it's either holding steady at about 3/4 (ftp page loading) or going nuts up and down (like with Limewire). Am I operating at my best connection speed? Should I slow it down? If so, why? If it matters, I know DSL is available in my area, which I know reflects on the quality of the lines somewhat. Thanks again, Isaac Sorry Isaac, I don't know anything about that because I just don't have any choice on speed. What I should have said was: If I connect at higher speeds, my transfer speed is **VERY** slow. In fact the transfer activity is extremely sporadic - activity for 2 seconds about every 15 seconds and even then usually results in a disconnection. My download speed is pitiful at 1.0-2.2 KB/sec. I do recall reading a bullitin board some months ago where people were comparing their download speeds on 56K modems and they were much the same as yours. You will most likely find the answer to your question at www.56k.com. Cheers skinky PS. I don't think anyone would hate you for *supposedly* messing up a thread ;-) _ 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. _ 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. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 timing out
I bet the problem would be a missconfigured network card, or the network modules not being compiled into the kernel. kinda like this e-mail, not a whole lot of info available to the system. what type (PCI, ISA) of network card, what type of network (internet, home lan, huge corp. lan? novell, winders, all linux) how have you tried to set up the network? (install, linuxconfig, drakconfig) the more correct info supplied, the more likely things are to work. On Thursday 16 August 2001 02:55, Ray Booysen wrote: If I press ctrl-f12 and I read there, it says that my network card has timed out. I can't see the network either. What do you think is the problem Thanks Ray Booysen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio CD's...I can't open them.
On Thursday 16 August 2001 17:53, you wrote: No..it's not that I can't hear it. When I put the cd in the drive. It 1.) will not auto-mount it. 2.) if I try to mount it myself it tell's me that the media is invalid. And this happens with ANY audio cd. If I put in a factory audio cd..it gives the same results. It's that mandrake will not see the cd at all. h3rb What program are you using to play the audios CDs? skinky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re: eth0 timing out
If your network has been working you might want to also check your cable. I have one machine where the cable has a loose connector and if I move the machine or if the cable is pulled the connection is lost. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of etharp Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 6:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ray Booysen; Linux Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 timing out I bet the problem would be a missconfigured network card, or the network modules not being compiled into the kernel. kinda like this e-mail, not a whole lot of info available to the system. what type (PCI, ISA) of network card, what type of network (internet, home lan, huge corp. lan? novell, winders, all linux) how have you tried to set up the network? (install, linuxconfig, drakconfig) the more correct info supplied, the more likely things are to work. On Thursday 16 August 2001 02:55, Ray Booysen wrote: If I press ctrl-f12 and I read there, it says that my network card has timed out. I can't see the network either. What do you think is the problem Thanks Ray Booysen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio CD's...I can't open them.
Audio CDs are handled differently from Data CDs. What app are you trying to read the audio CD with? Try loading a dedicated audio CD player, like the GNOME CD Player (type gtcd in a terminal). On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:53, h3rb wrote: No..it's not that I can't hear it. When I put the cd in the drive. It 1.) will not auto-mount it. 2.) if I try to mount it myself it tell's me that the media is invalid. And this happens with ANY audio cd. If I put in a factory audio cd..it gives the same results. It's that mandrake will not see the cd at all. h3rb On Thursday 16 August 2001 06:49, Paul wrote: It was Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:06:05 -0400 when h3rb wrote: I have 2 drives in my machine. A DVD and a Burner. I can burn with the burner and watch dvd's with my dvd drive. I can even burn an Audio cd from the burner with MP3's and when I go to listen to it. I can't. Is there something special that needs to be setup to read audio cd's? Do you have both the DVD and the burner hooked up to the sound card? If the burner is not on a sound card, then audio will indeed be a problem... 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ix86 architectures
i386 = intel 80386. i486 = intel 80486. i586 = anything built on intel Pentium technology, including Pentium MMX. i686 = anything built on intel Pentium Pro technology, including Pentium II/III and Celeron. The Pentium 4 is an entirely new chip, and for the moment has no specific compilers. Since x86 chips are backwards-compatible, you can use i686 packages. AMD Athlons and Durons have their own architecture (and even their own compilation options in gcc), but are also compatible with i686. The AMD K6 series is Pentium-class, and so is 1586 compatible. On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since someone just brought it up, could one of the smart people please explain the different kinds of architectures, what they mean, and why they matter? I know (from running the GNOME system info program in the monitoring menu) that I have an i686, what's that mean? Thanks, Isaac (i have a few more questions but both are completely different topics so I'll put them in other emails to try and help keep things threaded) -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] disk information
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking in the detailed system information part of the GNOME system information monitoring software, I see some things under disk information that I don't completely understand. Here's a rundown of all the info: 1. Mount point: / /dev/hdc1 type ext2 3,189 MB, 2,564 free (2,726 superuser) 415,168 inodes, 390,113 free - okay, I know that's my root partition from when I ran diskdrake way back when. my questions here are: what's the significance of the superuser distinction in the memory sizes? what are inodes? i kept up with the ext2 vs reiser debate and i think i'd like to switch to reiser, how do i do that? Imagine this scenario: a user fills up a system's hard drive. How is the superuser (i.e. root) meant to work on this system when the drive is full? The solution is to set aside a bit of extra space for the superuser to use in case of an emergency. That is why the superuser has more free space than ordinary users. Ext2 reserves 5% of space for superuser use. If you look at your above stats you will see that this is the case for your system: 2726 - 2564 = 162 MB 162 / 3189 x 100 = 5% Switching to ReiserFS requires making a backup of all your data, reformatting the partition and restoring your data. I suggest that you do a fresh install of Mandrake (Freq 3 was just released so now is a good time), using the installer to format your partition as ReiserFS. You can even modify your partitioning structure if you so desire. The Filesystems HOWTO (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Filesystems-HOWTO.html) unfortunately has this marked as (todo). In short, an inode is the volume data structure used by some filesystems to implement the abstraction of a file. Ext2 is an example of an inode-based filesystem. ReiserFS does not have inodes. I am not sure about JFS and XFS. 2. Mount point: /proc device none type proc no information for this filesystem - what's up? im clueless. what's proc and why is it its own filesystem type? why is there no information? 3. Moint poing: /dev/pts device none type devpts no information - same questions as #2, just substitute devpts for proc in the question. /dev had /proc are virtual filesystems. UNIX and Linux try to treat everything as a file, so virtual filesystems are created to provide an interface to system functions as if they were files. 4. Mount point: /home /dev/hdc7 ext2 10,828 MB, 10,196 free (10,747 superuser) 1,409.024 inodes, 1,401,348 free - is it just me or is this a MASSIVE waste of space? shouldnt this thing be shrunk way down? i wont ask the superuser question or inode questions again, just left the numbers in there in case they would matter for someone who actually knows what theyre talking about. oh, and why is the superuser free number bigger than the regular free one? /home is where all user data (including the superuser's) is stored. This includes all your user configuration files, all your documents and other non-system files. Usually when you are allocating hard drive space to partitions, you should allocate a reasonable amount to all the other directories (like /, /boot, /usr, /var and /tmp), and leave all the rest to /home. 5. Mount point: /mnt/windows /dev/hdd1 (i've gotten in the habit of calling this one h diddy, as in, hey mom make sure to boot to 'h diddy' because ive got to write down a website from my ie favorites) vfat 29,299 MB, 19,780 free (19,780 superuser) 0 inodes, 0 free - what does superuser mean in a windows context? and hey, dude, wheres my inodes? VFAT (FAT16, FAT32, etc.) is an ancient filesystem that is used by the Windos 9x series, and by DOS before that. It has no support for user permissions, and so reserves no space for the superuser (DOS and Windos are single-user OSs, after all). Unlike Ext2, its structure does not feature inodes. 6. Mount point: /usr /dev/hdc6 ext2 4,921 MB, 1,885 free (2,135 superuser) 640,000 inodes, 486,348 free - dammit why'd i make this so small... this should be way bigger right? I would say that this partition is fine the way it is. 4.8GB should be enough for most uses. If you don't frequently install new packages, then /usr won't grow by much. i'm planning a repartitioning party, see my next email for details. quick question on this one: why are these out of order? why werent they displayed hdc1, 6, 7, hdd, etc...? im listing them as they appear top to bottom in the gnome system information tool. They are listed in a directory order. On my system, / is listed first, followed by /proc and /dev/pts -- just like on your system. 7. Mount point: /proc/bus/usb device /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs 1,054,278 MB, 0 free (0 superuser) 1,078,982,051 nodes, 0 free - i know this is my usb device, but how does my usb port have memory? is usbdevfs (or the other filesystems cited in #s 2, 3, 8, and 9 for
Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?!
The web site for this book (http://www.hackerethic.org/) has both the Preface (http://www.hackerethic.org/preface.html) and Chapter 1 (http://www.hackerethic.org/chapter01.html) available for free. Also of interest is the Writings section (http://www.hackerethic.org/writings/). One of these writings is intended to be somewhat of a sequel to Eric S. Raymond's famous work "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/). This piece is credited for persuading Netscape to open up its code, the first such instance of a major commercial company embracing open source. This, in turn, set the path for companies like IBM to accept open source development. On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 03:44, Charles Punch wrote: It seems we agree on at least one point, that is, that the names of various shells, progs, processes etc. are probably puns or double meanings done in a light vein. However the concepts in the GPL have roots in most religions or at least in spirituality. You know, don't be ruled by greed etc. By the way Linus Torvalds wrote the preface for the book I mentioned. In case you didn't catch it the first time , it's "The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age" by Pekka Himanen. The preface by Linus is "Prologue: what makes hackers Tick? a.k.a. Linus's Law, by Linus Torvalds." One more thing and then I'll hold my peace, (true) Christianity should not be confused with religion. I did not for one minute mean anything like that. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GIF software
Thanks civilme, I'm not going to use this .gif thing for my daily use. It's just an assignment from school about producing a gif animated banner. I know this is an easy piece if I did it in windogs, but since I love my mandrake/linux box, I was just wondering if mandrake/linux provides such software. I looked at GIMP help directory and found that this software could make a .gif animation. does anyone know where I can get any help or manual for GIMP specifically chapter about .gif animation? Thanks for the answer regards, Andrew On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:35, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 15 August 2001 13:18, Andrew wrote: what is the best software for creating a GIF animated banner? Thanks for the help. regards, Andrew Anything that works with .mng Don't use .gif. You will be assisting the continuance of a legalized protection racket from software patents and licensing fees charged and paid to prevent litigation in the event that sites you host use unlicensed programs to form .gifs (Yes, they hold up your ISPs aand make the web more expensive for you.) Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- The power of Knowledge-open source community. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X Font server problems after install
I have just install LM8.0 on an office machine, everything in the install seemed to go OK. The Xfree86 test worked fine. Now when i come to boot up i cannot get an X Windows session, it just stalls at `Current state: X Windowing System, Starting X Font Server:' its been like this for the duration of my lunch break. The harddisk starts really thrashing when this message first comes up, then slows down to the point where now it might `turn over' once every 60 seconds or so. I have tried using Xfree86 v 4 3.3.6 neither working, they freeze at exactly the same point. The graphics chip is an Ati mach64 built into the mobo. any ideas? TIA Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba client front end
I was looking for Samba client KDE front end, I get Komba and Kwmount but I cann't get compiled, basically I think is because both are for older KDE. Someone knows a good front end for smbclient?
Re: [newbie] Joing a domain
OK, thanks a lot. Jamie From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Joing a domain Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:22:17 -0500 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 August 2001 05:23, thus spake Jamie Kerwick: How do i get my linux box at work to join a domain. The box will be our intranet server, and i want it to join our NT domain. any help, sites etc. welcome You will need Samba set up on your PC. Make sure that it's workgroup matches the NT domain you are using, etc. Check the Samba howto (it will be on your system, in the Documentation Howtos section) for info on setting it up -- it's pretty easy. Dave - -- 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 iD8DBQE7e8kKA68l26XsZUYRAv9WAKDlOwSSuZtjL4eOqfEMHzD/jkU/nQCcCma5 FGkysdu3q5+6Tz8hKIySYXM= =JtgN -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ix86 architectures
it has to do with the CPU chip in-out architecture, i refers to intel, 86 refers to the structure intel has used since the days of 8086 processors, if you follow the progression of intel processors, 8086, (includes 8088) (80)286[all really 8 bit i/o], (80 or just an i) 386[ 16 bit i/o, and includes 486] i586= pentium [32bit i/o], i686 = P2+celery err,, celerons+P3+Pent4, , dec or alpha is the Digital Equipment Corp 64 bit chip On Thursday 16 August 2001 02:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since someone just brought it up, could one of the smart people please explain the different kinds of architectures, what they mean, and why they matter? I know (from running the GNOME system info program in the monitoring menu) that I have an i686, what's that mean? Thanks, Isaac (i have a few more questions but both are completely different topics so I'll put them in other emails to try and help keep things threaded) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] upgrading to kde 2.2
I have mdk 8.0 installed (1 week old) and have downloaded the kde 2.2 rpm's from sourceforge. I followed the directions in README: used urpmi.addmedia to add the kde 2.2 rpm source, then I called urpmi --auto-select. This was all done in console mode logged in as root. urpmi started up, churned a bit, then told me that 251 MB of files were required to complete the upgrade. When I told it to go ahead, it apparently tried to copy files from ftp2.sourceforge.net (which I had configured in Software Manager as a source for Security Updates). I cancelled. Then, I tried logging in as root (loading KDE 2.1), removing the ftp2.sourceforge.net source from Software Manager, and trying urpmi again. urpmi announced that it could not find various lib* files. I tried several other combinations, none with any luck. So I'm wondering what is the best way to upgrade to kde2.2? Can Software Manager perform the update while kde 2.1 is running? Must this be done in console mode or single-user mode? Thanks for any help. - david Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] New OS in LILO/GRUB menu
Let's say you have Mandrake 8.0 whose LILO and GRUB boot perfectly. Then, you decide to add another OS that doesn't include a boot loader Will the new OS automatically be added to MDK8.0's LILO/GRUB boot menu and if not, how do you get it onto the menu? I'm guessing that something has to be edited into MDK8.0's /etc/lilo.conf, but what? Does GRUB use the same boot file as LILO or does it have its own? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Oracle
Greetings: I have installed Oracle 8.1.7 on MDK 8.0. No major problems. If you have done Oracle on UNIX and know Linux you can figure out most of the problems. I have also installed Oracle Forms and Reports 6.0.5. Again same comments as above. The port of Oracle 8.1.7 to Linux is more polished than the port of Oracle FR. Why don't you try and then post any problems you encounter. Alex Flinsch and I should be able to help you. Ciao, Eric Indiogine On Wednesday 15 August 2001 18:07, Miark wrote: Hi all, A friend of mine asked me to recommend a Linux distribution that would best work with an Oracle database. I normally recommend Mandrake for anything and everything, but I don't know squat about databases, and I figured he deserves a more thoughtful answer. His question, specifically, was whether RedHat-based or SuSE would be better. SuSE advertises Oracle support on their web site, but I can't find any mention of Oracle at Mandrake's site. What say y'all? Miark Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ATI TV tuner compatibility
hi all Is Mandrake capable of running ATI tv tuner cards? Could I be able to find the application anywhere? Thanks Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Windows
FAT is only of any use if you have Windos lying around. If you don't you can afford to reformat it with a _decent_ filesystem, like Ext2 or (better yet) ReiserFS. Also, without Windos you won't be able to defrag or check the filesystem for errors. On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:52, James S Bear wrote: But if you do this, Jesse, you're going to have that free space using up space with nothing on it that Windows had before. Why not just delete everything off it and have a cute little fat partition? Quoting Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED]: removing the partition is the best way to make sure windows is dead. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Jesse Hepburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:22 PM Subject: [newbie] Uninstalling Windows Does anyone know how I would go about uninstalling windows? Can I just delete the partition and remove the mount point and lilo entry, or is it more complicated? Cheers, Jesse -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New OS in LILO/GRUB menu
It was Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:16:34 -0400 when alex wrote: Let's say you have Mandrake 8.0 whose LILO and GRUB boot perfectly. Then, you decide to add another OS that doesn't include a boot loader Will the new OS automatically be added to MDK8.0's LILO/GRUB boot menu and if not, how do you get it onto the menu? I'm guessing that something has to be edited into MDK8.0's /etc/lilo.conf, but what? another OS would probably not recognize Lilo or Grub. You have to edit the files by hand. /etc/lilo.conf can be done with an editor, then run lilo to activate the changes. The requirements of the other os dictate the entries in there. OS/2 has different specs than Winders or Beos. Does GRUB use the same boot file as LILO or does it have its own? Grub has /boot/grub/menu.lst. Ehmmm: in Mdk 7.x it USED to have that. How to edit things now... I guess that would be from DrakConf. -- We will either find a way, or make one. -Hannibal http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.3 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Open Source gains terrain
As read in the PCM I got today: - The american department of Defense replaced MS-Office with 25,000 copies of StarOffice 5.2 (but we already knew that). Reasons: low price, high reliability, stability and performance. - A number of governmental offices have inquired with Linux distributors to investigate how Linux can be implemented as an OS for them. - The German dept. of finance considers moveing to StarOffice and Sun's Webtop-system to replace MS-Office. - A french scientific organisation (unknown which one) is also considering a similar step. These steps are good for Sun, that is active in Open Source, and promotes Webtop as a much cheaper alternative than MS's .Net options. Paul -- We will either find a way, or make one. -Hannibal http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.3 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Post install problem( mandrake linux 8.0)
Thank you Civileme ! I did get my machine to boot Linux...not from the HDD but after booting it from the Linux bootdisk and typing Linux at the prompt. This then loads the Linux OS from the hard disk. But, I am still unable to boot directly from the HDD , what might be reason ? Also why cant I get an option to boot either from my earlier OS (Win ME) or Linux. Any suggestions. Thank you and regards, Amit Datar At 09:53 PM 8/15/2001 -0400, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 15 August 2001 15:23, Amit Datar wrote: Hi, I recently installed Mandrake-Linux 8.0 on my Windows ME machine. I have 2 Hard disks. Both were formatted by Win ME. I installed Linux on the 2nd hard disk using the boot floppy and CD. I used recommended setup option to do this. After finishing installation it asked me to reboot my machine and when I did that, the screen was filled with streaming 01 01 01 endlessly. I cant even go back to my windows now. I tried changing the boot seq from setup (during reboot) , but somehow it still puts out the endless string of 010101. I dont know how to salvage my machine. I at least would like to get my C drive with Win ME to boot and then I can reinstall Linux 8.0. If I cant get my C drive, then I will loose all my data. Pls, any help/pointers is appreciated. Thank you all in advance. -regards, Amit Take it easy. your BIOS and the system disagree about disk geometry. Let's try this first. Boot from the install CD, no floppy hit F1 and type expert (without the quotes) and then hit the enter key Proceed with normal install. Let linux resize the ME partition on the second drive and select auto-allocate for the partition space you open up After install completes you should have a normal dual-boot system. We were unable to test all the permutations of Lnx4Win with windows ME before release last time, and it appears some of them don't work. If this recommended course does not work, get a Win98 (not ME) boot floppy and boot to the a:\ prompt then type fdisk /mbr without the quotes and your windows will again be accessible. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] installed xine, weird occurence
hi all. i have just installed xine 0.5.0 from tar gz files. i have followed the usual procedure, tar xvzf xine-*.tar.gz configure make install and that went fine, compiled for 5 minutes, but now i am unable to find the file that launches the app. sometimes things like that really make you doubt of ur IQ. i have tried the howtos, but it appears that it should be straight forward, i should be able to launch it from console ($xine) but it then replies that the file or command doesn't exist. any idea? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New OS in LILO/GRUB menu
Unsure about what LILO uses, but if you have GRUB, there's a folder /boot/grub , which contains the output messages, and the menu itself. In fact, you can edit the files by hand, but it's not recommended to. Solver - Original Message - From: alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:16 PM Subject: [newbie] New OS in LILO/GRUB menu Let's say you have Mandrake 8.0 whose LILO and GRUB boot perfectly. Then, you decide to add another OS that doesn't include a boot loader Will the new OS automatically be added to MDK8.0's LILO/GRUB boot menu and if not, how do you get it onto the menu? I'm guessing that something has to be edited into MDK8.0's /etc/lilo.conf, but what? Does GRUB use the same boot file as LILO or does it have its own? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
Can someone help me with this error? It seems like every installation of linux is unique. I've got 4 machines with MySQL and each one has it's own special MySQL problems all machines were installed from the Mandrake 8.0 cd arrrgh [mjohnson@ripley mjohnson]$ su Password: [root@ripley mjohnson]# mysql -u root mysql -p Enter password: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) [root@ripley mjohnson]# ps: I wish you could save your configuration settings to floppy during the initial install and then use the floopy to install setup the other machines without having to do it all by hand again... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio CD's...I can't open them.
h3rb wrote: No..it's not that I can't hear it. When I put the cd in the drive. It 1.) will not auto-mount it. 2.) if I try to mount it myself it tell's me that the media is invalid. And this happens with ANY audio cd. If I put in a factory audio cd..it gives the same results. It's that mandrake will not see the cd at all. Well, audio CD's have no filesystem on them so you can't mount them. Most CD player software works like this: commands are send to the drive to start playing a particular song. The CD starts spinning and an internal digital/analog converter sends an analog signal to the audio out connector, which should be connected to the CD in of your soundcard. On my CD-ROM I can plug in a headphone and use the play/next button to listen to an audio CD, all the computer does is provide power! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/ var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
Duh... sorry brain fried, the daemon wasn't runnning. FYI, if you are looking through the newbie archives you can start the daemon by doing: /usr/share/mysql/mysql.server start And check here for more info: http://www.mysql.com/doc/manual.php?search_query=ERROR+2002depth=0 and http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/u/Automatic_start.html cheers! -Original Message- From: Mark Johnson Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:12 PM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/ var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) Can someone help me with this error? It seems like every installation of linux is unique. I've got 4 machines with MySQL and each one has it's own special MySQL problems all machines were installed from the Mandrake 8.0 cd arrrgh [mjohnson@ripley mjohnson]$ su Password: [root@ripley mjohnson]# mysql -u root mysql -p Enter password: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) [root@ripley mjohnson]# ps: I wish you could save your configuration settings to floppy during the initial install and then use the floopy to install setup the other machines without having to do it all by hand again... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Timidity,Kmid and Jazz
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I am planning to set up my linux box for MIDI in the near future. Has anyone here on the list worked with Kmid, timidity, or jazz? Has anyone used Linux for MIDI and with certain instruments? If anyone has done this or is doing this could you let me know how you have set this up? Thank you very much. Hi, see this URL: http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/Linux_Audio_Users_Guide/ I have used in the past jazz (a MIDI sequencer) with Timidity but not very seriously. -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installed xine, weird occurence
Title: RE: [newbie] installed xine, weird occurence you need to be in the same folder as the file that starts the app. Usually the sequence ./configure make make install will list out all of the files and the first one on the list will be what you want to get to. example first file on the list is xine-0.5.0 so you type at the command prompt cd xine-0.5.0 and then it will jump to that folder. then you can type xine without the quotes of course. Best thing to do is open the readme file for Install and it should give you the full info and the command line for opening the file. The above usually will do it though. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of antoine rivoire Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installed xine, weird occurence hi all. i have just installed xine 0.5.0 from tar gz files. i have followed the usual procedure, tar xvzf xine-*.tar.gz configure make install and that went fine, compiled for 5 minutes, but now i am unable to find the file that launches the app. sometimes things like that really make you doubt of ur IQ. i have tried the howtos, but it appears that it should be straight forward, i should be able to launch it from console ($xine) but it then replies that the file or command doesn't exist. any idea?
Re: [newbie] Audio CD's...I can't open them.
Both drives are less then 6 months old. The DVD player is a pioneer 115 16x drive. And the burner is an HP 9100+ Both drives work flawlessly with every other application. I can do everything they are supposed to do..except listen to audio cd's. h3rb On Thursday 16 August 2001 09:31, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How old is the drive? Is it IDE? Does it work in another OS (like Windows) for both data and audio? Is it mounted in GNU/Linux? Does it work for data in GNU/Linux? On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 22:18, h3rb wrote: I have tried xxms, gtcd, kscd. Nothing works. h3rb On Thursday 16 August 2001 04:05, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Audio CDs are handled differently from Data CDs. What app are you trying to read the audio CD with? Try loading a dedicated audio CD player, like the GNOME CD Player (type gtcd in a terminal). On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:53, h3rb wrote: No..it's not that I can't hear it. When I put the cd in the drive. It 1.) will not auto-mount it. 2.) if I try to mount it myself it tell's me that the media is invalid. And this happens with ANY audio cd. If I put in a factory audio cd..it gives the same results. It's that mandrake will not see the cd at all. h3rb On Thursday 16 August 2001 06:49, Paul wrote: It was Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:06:05 -0400 when h3rb wrote: I have 2 drives in my machine. A DVD and a Burner. I can burn with the burner and watch dvd's with my dvd drive. I can even burn an Audio cd from the burner with MP3's and when I go to listen to it. I can't. Is there something special that needs to be setup to read audio cd's? Do you have both the DVD and the burner hooked up to the sound card? If the burner is not on a sound card, then audio will indeed be a problem... Paul Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fonts are jagged with Staroffice 5.2 and Mandrake 8.0
How can I get less jagged fonts with the above combo? I installed Staroffice 5.2 from the so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin file downloaded from Sun. Running Gnome and Sawfish. ===Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install
Hi everyone! I've been having a repeating issue on dual boot winME + MDK machines, and I was wondering if anyone could help to shed some light on the subject, or ideally point me toward a solution. Machine A: AMD Athlon 700 Mhz DMA 20gig drive 376 MB ram machine B: HP 5340 Notebook Amd Duron 800 Mhz 18 Gig drive 256 MB ram On both of the machines, when WinME is installed ALONE, it screams, all games are really fast, and launching apps is nearly instant. Once Mandrake (and Grub) are installed, the machines slow down significantly. I would say they run at 10-20 percent of the speed they were at. This includes opening new windows, launching apps, and 3d performance. Does WinME require some special boot options? Or Some type of special configuration to allow dual boot? It seems like once it notices that another OS is on the disc that it /voluntarily/ slows itself. Can it be tricked somehow? I even tried the real mode DOS patch on one of the boxes, and that only slowed it down more... =( Normally I wouldn't care, and just run linux all the time. But gaming is the only thing that windows can do that linux can't and the speed needs to be there for that. Any ideas? TIA! -ed- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: Usability in linux (was RE: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to
I just had this problem here at work. I was running a program written by one to the developers here. When I went to run it, it just said Got an error and died. I searched through configuration files tried to figure out what the problem was could not for the life of me figure it out. Man-o-man, am I EVER with you on this! The marginal effort required to craft a sensible error message is minimal; not to do so is IMO just sloppy. My other peeve: inadequate commenting. Oh, and using KR style or any of its variants (whenever I pick up anyone else's code the FIRST thing I do is column up all the curlies and remove all the tabs). Not to start any holy wars or anything Mark Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install
I have ME and mdk 8 on two Dells, one notebook and one desktop, both run fine, with no appreciable speed difference for ME. Both have Intel processors on mine, about the only diff. Barbara Ed Colmar wrote: Hi everyone! I've been having a repeating issue on dual boot winME + MDK machines, and I was wondering if anyone could help to shed some light on the subject, or ideally point me toward a solution. Machine A: AMD Athlon 700 Mhz DMA 20gig drive 376 MB ram machine B: HP 5340 Notebook Amd Duron 800 Mhz 18 Gig drive 256 MB ram On both of the machines, when WinME is installed ALONE, it screams, all games are really fast, and launching apps is nearly instant. Once Mandrake (and Grub) are installed, the machines slow down significantly. I would say they run at 10-20 percent of the speed they were at. This includes opening new windows, launching apps, and 3d performance. Does WinME require some special boot options? Or Some type of special configuration to allow dual boot? It seems like once it notices that another OS is on the disc that it /voluntarily/ slows itself. Can it be tricked somehow? I even tried the real mode DOS patch on one of the boxes, and that only slowed it down more... =( Normally I wouldn't care, and just run linux all the time. But gaming is the only thing that windows can do that linux can't and the speed needs to be there for that. Any ideas? TIA! -ed- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Other screens than :0?
It was Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:44:25 -0500 when emammendes wrote: Hello I tried what you said but the same error came out. I have attached the log file in case you want to have a look. Many thanks Eduardo I had a look, but I am not that much an expert on the technicalities... I hope someone else can get you out of this problem. Paul -- We will either find a way, or make one. -Hannibal http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.3 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Source gains terrain
On Thursday 16 August 2001 23:17, you wrote: As read in the PCM I got today: - The american department of Defense replaced MS-Office with 25,000 copies of StarOffice 5.2 (but we already knew that). Reasons: low price, high reliability, stability and performance. - A number of governmental offices have inquired with Linux distributors to investigate how Linux can be implemented as an OS for them. - The German dept. of finance considers moveing to StarOffice and Sun's Webtop-system to replace MS-Office. - A french scientific organisation (unknown which one) is also considering a similar step. there is about 2 or 3 ministeries already equiped there i think, us french don't only like frogs, we like penguins too These steps are good for Sun, that is active in Open Source, and promotes Webtop as a much cheaper alternative than MS's .Net options. Paul -- We will either find a way, or make one. -Hannibal http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.3 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installed xine, weird occurence
Mine got loaded at: /usr/local/share/xine Geof ** On Thursday 16 August 2001 10:02 am, you wrote: hi all. i have just installed xine 0.5.0 from tar gz files. i have followed the usual procedure, tar xvzf xine-*.tar.gz configure make install and that went fine, compiled for 5 minutes, but now i am unable to find the file that launches the app. sometimes things like that really make you doubt of ur IQ. i have tried the howtos, but it appears that it should be straight forward, i should be able to launch it from console ($xine) but it then replies that the file or command doesn't exist. any idea? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 2.2-2tex
Solid and quick and slick ; The claims of 30 to 50 % faster are well warranted. Some apps load twice as fast, many running apps are also a bit quicker. I've been using Texstar's optimized KDE 2.2 final for several hours last night, and now for about 6 hours today. No problems at all, even the upgrade was quick and painless. See: KDE 2.2 Texstar's objprelink version now available http://pclinuxonline.com/ I d/l'd all of the rpms (54) to their own dir (/home/tom/kde22). I cd'd to /kde22 and su'd to root. I then ran ' rpm -Fvh * ' which upgraded only the correspondingly related rpms I already had installed (kde2.2 alpha2). Pleasantly surprised to see that this also removed the obsolete kdesupport. I then ran ' rpm --rebuilddb ' and checked upgraded rpms against those in /kde22. Only the qt2---rpms hadn't been installed, so I used ' rpm -Uvh qt2* ' to install those. I then ran ' rpm --rebuilddb ' again, followed with ' update-menus -v ', and ' ldconfig -v '. Re-started KDE several times, re-did just a few user settings that were lost, and all was well ; This was all done on a 8.0 Freq2 laced with cooker upgrades system while in X/KDE2. Big ol' Texas THANKS to Texstar. Just another one of his great efforts. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LICQ Console
Hey all I am trying to set up the licq console. I can get in and login to my account but every time I type /help for the list of commands, they come to quickly and it does not fit on the screen, I cant scroll up and use the |less or |more command so I can scroll Can anyone copy and past the /help screen so I have a copy of all the commands. Thanks Nadin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RE: Linux to Netware File Server box connectivity problems.
Hi all. I am new to this list and have a nagging question. Please help. I am running Linux Mandrake 8.0 Freq2 kernel 2.4.5-5mdk on a Pentium 200 64meg machine with 8gig HD Trident video card hooked to a vga monitor. Here is what ails my Linux machine. At work, we have a Netware 5.0 FS. I want to be able to mount a folder/directory on my Linux box from my Netware File Server because I have several folders on the File Server that I use throughout my day to day activities. I would like to save files from my Linux box to and from my home folder on the Netware box. So, I went out and installed ncpfs and ipxutils from the 2 cd set. Read the complicated HOWTO. I also made sure to first go out on the web and search on rpmfind (I think) the dependencies needed before I could run these packages. So, I installed those dependencies (one really - I had the rest) before installing the two other packages. Once the packages were installed, I went into Linuxconf and chose to make IPX enabled with auto configure on everything cause I am lazy. :) Then I went to my prompt and typed slist and got Server (0x8847) not found in ncp_open. So, then I typed ipx_configure --auto off (I forgot those two commands at the moment but maybe that is because of my frustration at this point :) Then I typed ipx_interface delall and then ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 Same thing/error happened when I typed slist. I thought maybe I need to put the IPX HEX network address of the Netware File Server after 802.2 and when I do I get unrecognizable network address error (something like this). I have also tried the internal network address to no avail also. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG! UGH! I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the ipxutils and the ncpfs packages to no avail. I have gone into Linuxconf and switched everything back to the way it was before I started this whole adventure. I have done an ipxdump and I see something on my monitor - not legible but packet traffic is occurring and 802.2 is identified. So, I have tried and tried and tried and now I am turning to you all for help. I have installed ipxutils 2.2.0.18.a-3mdk and ncpfs of the same version. Should I maybe try an older version of these packs? Is my kernel too recent? I searched on Google.com and a lot of people have been complaining about this issue but I do not see solutions. Is there any? Is Mandrake doing anything to respond to this problem? My Netware box is configured with one physical NIC but has two protocols...IPX/SPX and TCP/IP TCP/IP is on EtherII and IPX/SPX is on 802.2 the internal network is currently mapped to the ETHERII device Your help is much appreciated and I am thankful for it. I hope this was not too long but, I wanted to give as much info as I know because I really need to get this done. Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nadin Merali Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] LICQ Console Hey all I am trying to set up the licq console. I can get in and login to my account but every time I type /help for the list of commands, they come to quickly and it does not fit on the screen, I cant scroll up and use the |less or |more command so I can scroll Can anyone copy and past the /help screen so I have a copy of all the commands. Thanks Nadin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install
Ed wrote: On both of the machines, when WinME is installed ALONE, it screams, all games are really fast, and launching apps is nearly instant. Once Mandrake (and Grub) are installed, the machines slow down significantly. I would say they run at 10-20 percent of the speed they were at. This includes opening new windows, launching apps, and 3d performance. I run a AMD K6-2 533 MHz with 256 Meg SDRAM, WinME and Mandrake 7.2 on separate hdds and everything works fine. WinME was fine even when I had Mandrake 8.0 Standard installed. Hans N. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux personal checks?
I getting ready to buy more personal bank checks, does anyone know if there are any linux themed personal checks? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Post install problem( mandrake linux 8.0)
On Friday 17 August 2001 04:47, you wrote: Thank you Civileme ! I did get my machine to boot Linux...not from the HDD but after booting it from the Linux bootdisk and typing Linux at the prompt. This then loads the Linux OS from the hard disk. But, I am still unable to boot directly from the HDD , what might be reason ? Also why cant I get an option to boot either from my earlier OS (Win ME) or Linux. Any suggestions. Thank you and regards, Amit Datar Hi Amit Did you by any chance use a boot/partition manager (other than lilo/grub during installation) before you installed linux? If so, boot/partition managers write their own EMBR which overrides Linux or Windows boot sectors. IF you have used a boot/partition manager you need to boot with its boot floppy and manually remove the EMBR. Sorry if this does not apply to you, its just that I had the same problem and that was the fix. Cheers skinky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install
Are you saying that it may be bacause the two OSs are on the same HD? Unfortunately with the laptop installing them on seperate HDs is not an option. -e- Ed wrote: On both of the machines, when WinME is installed ALONE, it screams, all games are really fast, and launching apps is nearly instant. Once Mandrake (and Grub) are installed, the machines slow down significantly. I would say they run at 10-20 percent of the speed they were at. This includes opening new windows, launching apps, and 3d performance. I run a AMD K6-2 533 MHz with 256 Meg SDRAM, WinME and Mandrake 7.2 on separate hdds and everything works fine. WinME was fine even when I had Mandrake 8.0 Standard installed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install
On Thursday 16 August 2001 17:13, you wrote: Are you saying that it may be bacause the two OSs are on the same HD? Unfortunately with the laptop installing them on seperate HDs is not an option. -e- Ed wrote: On both of the machines, when WinME is installed ALONE, it screams, all games are really fast, and launching apps is nearly instant. Once Mandrake (and Grub) are installed, the machines slow down significantly. I would say they run at 10-20 percent of the speed they were at. This includes opening new windows, launching apps, and 3d performance. I run a AMD K6-2 533 MHz with 256 Meg SDRAM, WinME and Mandrake 7.2 on separate hdds and everything works fine. WinME was fine even when I had Mandrake 8.0 Standard installed. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Excuse my jumping in here, but, did you load LM 8.0 and do you have the infamous via 686b southbridge chipsets on the computers. I am no expert but would LM 8 disabling DMA carryover to the windows boot? That may be what slowed down the system. This is just speculation on my part, cause I'm no expert. Maybe Tom Brinkman or one of the other hardware gurus knows for sure. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] almost got it!
i can now finally add VirtualHosts and it works fine with no reported errors in my log. However, i still cannot get my scripts working right. I get two error msg's in my log. 1 is cannot find file or directory. 2 is premature end of script headers. my .conf file has the AddHandler and ScriptAlias commands in it. I did manage to get perldiver.cgi to work in the /perl/ directory by renaming it to a .pl file. but no matter what i try, i cannot get anything in /cgi-bin/ to work. 1 script just shows the code in the web page. i'm sure its because it cant find the file and directory. any suggestions? I'm using LM 8.0. My defaults are /var/www/cgi-bin/ and /var/www/perl/ my users directories are: /home/www/*/public_html /home/www/*/public_html/cgi-bin all these paths are listed in my .conf file, so im pretty confused as to why the files cannot be found. I added a ScriptAlias to each VirtualHost also. I also tried changing permissions, and tried changing user/group to root/root, root/apache, apache/apache, ect.. Thanks for any help, Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] re: disk information now mdk 8 cd version?
the list said Switching to ReiserFS requires making a backup of all your data, reformatting the partition and restoring your data. I suggest that you do a fresh install of Mandrake (Freq 3 was just released so now is a good time), using the installer to format your partition as ReiserFS. You can even modify your partitioning structure if you so desire. i bought my mdk 8 cds at a computer fair... any idea of how to tell exactly which version of 8 they are? like the freq# or is it likely they are just the basic release of 8? i have 8 installed at the mo and am about to reinstall over the weekend and change all the partition sizes.. but id like to get the latest updated stable version.. without having d/l it as i cant do that due to still waiting for the adsl geezer to come do my install. thanks mike ...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!- Trent Double Down (Vince Vaughn) -- www.pherell.com TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help: Passwords don't work anymore.
Somehow I have lost password control on my formerly functioning system which is Mandrake 8.0 with recent hardware I believe to be reliable. The system has been up about a month. When I try to login either as root or user the console window hangs up on the password and returns 30 seconds later with Login incorrect. The permissions seem correct on the critical files: /etc/passwd644 /etc/shadow400 /bin/su rwsx-rx-r I can boot with a floppy into linux single but it doesn't give me much control and I can't get into user mode so can't use X. Do you think my shadow or passwd file has gotten corrupted? They look ok on inspection with less. Could I delete the shadow file? Should I? If that doesn't work delete the passwd file? I'm way out of my depth here - please help! Larry Alkoff Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is swap being used?
The general response to complaints that MDK 8.0 is slow seems to be to install more ram. I realize that ram is inherently faster than swap and swap is only supposed to supplement existing ram. If adding more ram increases the speed but just using a larger swap provides no benefit, is it possible that swap isn't being used at all? How can swap be checked to determine if it is doing what it is supposed to do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] re: disk information now mdk 8 cd version?
On Thursday 16 August 2001 19:43, you wrote: the list said Switching to ReiserFS requires making a backup of all your data, reformatting the partition and restoring your data. I suggest that you do a fresh install of Mandrake (Freq 3 was just released so now is a good time), using the installer to format your partition as ReiserFS. You can even modify your partitioning structure if you so desire. i bought my mdk 8 cds at a computer fair... any idea of how to tell exactly which version of 8 they are? like the freq# or is it likely they are just the basic release of 8? i have 8 installed at the mo and am about to reinstall over the weekend and change all the partition sizes.. but id like to get the latest updated stable version.. without having d/l it as i cant do that due to still waiting for the adsl geezer to come do my install. thanks mike ...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!- Trent Double Down (Vince Vaughn) -- www.pherell.com TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Mike, if you are using KDE just click on the K panel and then control panel. The panel that pops up will have the version and kernel. Otherwise the console command eludes me so someone else needs to jump in here. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Swap Space
i just checked my stats for memory usage, and i have 288mg ram and a 250mg swap space. however, my swap is using 0% and my memory is listed at using 90%. how do i tell LM 8.0 to use more swap space than ram? thanks, Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] d-link dfe-570tx
Hi All! I was just wondering If somebody here in this list has ever successful installing D-Link DFE-570TX Quad Channel Server NIC on Linux Mandrake 8.0? Jhun Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Swap Space
i just checked my stats for memory usage, and i have 288mg ram and a 250mg swap space. however, my swap is using 0% and my memory is listed at using 90%. how do i tell LM 8.0 to use more swap space than ram? That 90% is also used for disk buffers and virtual memory cache as well as actual ram used for programs and data. Ordinarily, with that much RAM, you shouldn't use any swap, save for a few little-used programs that get part of their memory space paged out from time to time. I have 256 megs of RAM and normally have about 15-20megs in swap, unless I launch some really big programs that make other processes swap parts of themselves out. You don't want to favor swap (although some recent kernels tended to do this) because swap is much slower than RAM. But swap is also useful when you want to run large processes, since the kernel can swap out some sleeping processes (or parts of them) to disk, which frees up more RAM for the processes that need it. In general, Linux does the right thing when managing RAM and swap resources. thanks, Dave David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: Usability in linux (was RE: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to
Why can't programmers put informational error messages in there code. For example, this mysql problem, why couldn't they have made the error something like: Grab the source and change the error messages :). Or write the programmer(s) suggesting that the text be clarified if it could potentially cause confusion. Many developers' first language is not English; bear that in mind too. (BTW, a long time ago I suggested to Linus he change the text of the irq 16 error reporting -- boot time messages for boxes that at the time had math coprocessors. At the time, the older text seemed to be a point of confusion. Linus agreed :). I just had this problem here at work. I was running a program written by one to the developers here. When I went to run it, it just said Got an error The old TRS-80 model I had WHAT, HOW and one other error message - that was it :). ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) Well, if the error message was less verbose, then the people who really knew what a socket was, where /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock was and what to do about the message might not have enough information to fix the problem. One has to be able to balance between too much 'programmer-speak' and not enough. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install
On Thursday 16 August 2001 05:43 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Excuse my jumping in here, but, did you load LM 8.0 and do you have the infamous via 686b southbridge chipsets on the computers. I am no expert but would LM 8 disabling DMA carryover to the windows boot? That may be what slowed down the system. This is just speculation on my part, cause I'm no expert. Maybe Tom Brinkman or one of the other hardware gurus knows for sure. Never used a laptop. I have a VIA chipset, and dma has always been enabled during various 8.0 or better installs for all drives. That infamous VIA bug, (much ado about nothin IMO) only possibly maybe rarely affects huge cross ide file transfers. So it couldn't possibly be involved here with one HDD. I also doubt that Mandrake in any way is responsible for the WinME problems. WinME is it's own problem. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Swap Space
This has me curious. If I don't need much swap, should I not make much swap? Or is there no upper limit? If it's the more the marrier, why not always just make, say, 500MB? I personally have a PIII 866 with 256MB of RAM. What should my swap size be? On a sidenote, why does it show up when it boots (BIOS not Linux) as 262,XXX kB? Just curious... Peace, Isaac Upgrade your brain matter, cuz one day it may matter... - Del tha Funky Homosapien, of the Deltron 3030 project http://www.hieroglyphics.com/features/deltron_3030/ Quoting David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i just checked my stats for memory usage, and i have 288mg ram and a 250mg swap space. however, my swap is using 0% and my memory is listed at using 90%. how do i tell LM 8.0 to use more swap space than ram? That 90% is also used for disk buffers and virtual memory cache as well as actual ram used for programs and data. Ordinarily, with that much RAM, you shouldn't use any swap, save for a few little-used programs that get part of their memory space paged out from time to time. I have 256 megs of RAM and normally have about 15-20megs in swap, unless I launch some really big programs that make other processes swap parts of themselves out. You don't want to favor swap (although some recent kernels tended to do this) because swap is much slower than RAM. But swap is also useful when you want to run large processes, since the kernel can swap out some sleeping processes (or parts of them) to disk, which frees up more RAM for the processes that need it. In general, Linux does the right thing when managing RAM and swap resources. thanks, Dave David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Swap Space
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has me curious. If I don't need much swap, should I not make much swap? Or is there no upper limit? If it's the more the marrier, why not always just make, say, 500MB? The point of swap space is to allow you to have more programs `running' than you can actually fit in your physical memory. If you have swap, when you exaust all of your physical memory the OS can swap to disk those bits of memory that are not actually being accesses. In this way the fact that they are not in physical memory and are on slow disk doesn't matter because that bit of memory is not being accessed. When it does need to be accessed it gets swapped back in and seomething else is swapped out. Determining th right amount of swap space is really black magic. It should be the case that swap + phyical + (some margin of a few %) = the total amount of memory used by all applications you might wish to have running at the one time. If you've already got a linux box then just try opening up everything you might ever want opened at once, check the momory consumption, add a few % to this number, and that should be about your total swap + physical memory number. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] AA fonts
Anybody else loose aa fonts with freq3 or XFree 4.1.0? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install
On Thursday 16 August 2001 18:43, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 16 August 2001 17:13, you wrote: Are you saying that it may be bacause the two OSs are on the same HD? Unfortunately with the laptop installing them on seperate HDs is not an option. -e- Ed wrote: On both of the machines, when WinME is installed ALONE, it screams, all games are really fast, and launching apps is nearly instant. Once Mandrake (and Grub) are installed, the machines slow down significantly. I would say they run at 10-20 percent of the speed they were at. This includes opening new windows, launching apps, and 3d performance. I run a AMD K6-2 533 MHz with 256 Meg SDRAM, WinME and Mandrake 7.2 on separate hdds and everything works fine. WinME was fine even when I had Mandrake 8.0 Standard installed. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Excuse my jumping in here, but, did you load LM 8.0 and do you have the infamous via 686b southbridge chipsets on the computers. I am no expert but would LM 8 disabling DMA carryover to the windows boot? That may be what slowed down the system. This is just speculation on my part, cause I'm no expert. Maybe Tom Brinkman or one of the other hardware gurus knows for sure. Dennis has a good point. Earlier I worked with one SONY model where hardware changes made by linux were not reset by a warm boot, so a reboot to windows was impossible because the processor (which comes up in 80286 compatibility mode) could not be talked out of 386 protected mode and would not allow 286 instructions to try to manipulate A20 and higher address lines. Try a reboot with a power down and a direct boot to windows. The PIO disk mode settings might be carrying over. We should have out a kernel that fixes this problem in a matter of days. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
