[newbie-it] Sorgenti del Kernel
Ciao a tutti, ho visto che dopo aver installato Mdk 8.1 non mi compare la directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.8 quindi presumo di non aver installato i sorgenti del kernel. Visto che devo compilare i driver per la mia scheda audio ed ho bisogno dei sorgenti (per gli headers da includere nel Makefile dei drivers) ieri sera ho cercato nei cd di installazione (anche tramite software manager) ma non sono riuscito a trovarli ... forse sono un caso disperato :-( C'è qualche anima pia che può dirmi dove trovarli (o come si chiama il file rpm) e se basta installarli con il semplice rpm -Ivh nomedelfiledeisorgenti.rpm perché crei la cartella di cui ho bisogno ? Grazie Marco
Re: [newbie-it] rete
Per quanto riguarda la connessione di rete della workstation Nt, non basta solo pingare gli altri pc, devi vedere se la rete gira su tcp Ip, se esiste un DHCP che distribuisce gli indirizzi. Fai così, apri la shell di DOS e digita ipconfig /allti dovrebbero apparire i dati relativi alla tua scheda e sull'indirizzo Ip che ha. FAmmi sapere - Original Message - From: Manuela [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 6:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] rete bosva wrote: ciao a tutta la ML! ciao :-)) mdk 8.1 su un pc in rete. la rete è mista: 6 pc e 6 mac. abbiamo anche un server che utiliziamo esclusivamente come deposito dati, ogni utente ha una sua cartella e ci mette dentro tutto quello che gli piace. io non riesco a vedere nè gli altri pc nè il server (quest'ultimo con SO uindos NT 4)...ma come mai? è colpa di NT o del mio pinguino? premetto che sono un principiante, ma ho anche voglia di lasciare da parte uindos anche a lavoro (a casa l'ho già fatto, eh eh eh)...l'unica cosa che mi è venuta in mente è stato di pingare gli altri pc per vedere se la mia scheda di rete funziona sotto linux...e sono riuscito a pingarli dal primo all'ultimo...il mio intuito mi dice che ci deve essere qualcos'altro. sono anch'io una principiante, ma credo di aver capito il tuo problema: vuoi poter condividere file con windows e Mac. beh, ti tocca insegnare a Linux a parlare con gli stranieri :-)) devi montare SAMBA su Linux. SAMBA è un software che che rende possibile la comunicazione, lo scambio dei file, etc. etc. tra macchine diverse. Purtrpoppo non so esserti più utile di così!!! Prova a fare un giro sul sito: samba.org. unico indizio: quando provo a sfogliare la rete da Home, ho il seguente msg : unable to locate localhost dimenticavo tutti i pc fanno parte di un gruppo di lavoro...diciamo PIPPO...ho provato a mettere osvaldo+PIPPO nella voce localhost+workgroup che ho trovato in netconf...ma nulla... ho l'impressione di essere stato un poco confuso e dispersivo...se qualcuno avesse suggerimenti lo ringrazio in anticipo salutatemi a bilgheiz osva -- scrutare[AT]genie.it
Rif: Re: [newbie-it] rete
Da: Manuela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 29/11/2001 06:34 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] rete sono anch'io una principiante, ma credo di aver capito il tuo problema: vuoi poter condividere file con windows e Mac. beh, ti tocca insegnare a Linux a parlare con gli stranieri :-)) devi montare SAMBA su Linux. SAMBA è un software che che rende possibile la comunicazione, lo scambio dei file, etc. etc. tra macchine diverse. Purtrpoppo non so esserti più utile di così!!! Prova a fare un giro sul sito: samba.org. a dir la verità mi basterebbe riuscire a vedere la mia cartella dentro al server uindos NT... ok...adesso provo a vedere se ho installato SAMBA e mi leggo un poco di documentazione...e se ho bisogno ancora di voi (direi che sarà sicuramente così...;-) mi farò di nuovo vedere grazie mie! salutatemi a bilgheiz baci, osva
Rif: Re: [newbie-it] rete
Da: Leonardo Osti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 29/11/2001 09:40 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] rete Per quanto riguarda la connessione di rete della workstation Nt, non basta solo pingare gli altri pc, devi vedere se la rete gira su tcp Ip, se esiste un DHCP che distribuisce gli indirizzi. Fai così, apri la shell di DOS e digita ipconfig /allti dovrebbero apparire i dati relativi alla tua scheda e sull'indirizzo Ip che ha. FAmmi sapere ok...sugli indirizzi IP di tutte le macchine non ho problemi, nel senso che li ho decisi io (:-) sul DHCP...che non so cosa sia...mi risulta DHCP abilitato la nostra rete è 192.168.0.xxx con subnet mask 255.255.255.0 credo sia il più classico degli esempi di piccola rete intranet, con un gateway predefinito che è un router che prende le chiamate dalle varie postazioni e le indirizza all'esterno...e per quanto riguarda la configurazione di accesso ad internet tramite gateway non ho avuto problemi, navigo, ricevo ed invio posta. l'unico problema è che non vedo la mia cartella sul server (la cui unica funzione è deposito dati)...mi sa che devo approfondire l'argomento SAMBA...grazie mille per l'aiuto!!! salutatemi a bilgheiz baci, osva
Re: [newbie-it] installazione xine divx 4.02
--- luigi pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: La 0.9.5 l'ho scaricata ma non ho ancora provato a compilarla. Quella che sono riuscito ad installare io era la 0.9.4. Puoi provare a ri-scompattare il file: magari tar non ti ha estratto tutto quello che ti serviva... Ciao. Steo. ho provato a installare le librerie 0.9.5. operazioni compiute: tar configure make a questo punto in compilazione comincia a dare msg strani che allego alla mail. risultato le librerie non vengono installate! qualcuno ci capisce qualcosa? [...] Acc..! Ti confesso che non so proprio cosa siano quegli errori! ...Ma il ./configure finisce correttamente o ti da qualche messaggio? Steo. __ Iscriviti al Meglio della Settimana, la newsletter di Yahoo! Per saperne di più vai alla pagina: http://buongiorno.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie-it] Partizioni linux e.... modem
Emma e Gigi wrote: Salve, mi sono appena iscritto a questa ML (non so nemmeno se sto procedendo bene per spedire queste mie righe...) Ho installato Mandrake 8.0!! Non ci capisco ancora molto ma... mi piace Ho notato che la partizione che le avevo assegnato (13 Giga su 19 del mio secondo HD) è così suddivisa: 3.5 Giga per la root ed il rimanente per l'utente. Domanda: I programmi dove vengono installati? Va bene così la suddivisione o devo aumentare lo spazio dedicato alla root? Dunque, ... c'e` una omonimia pericolosa. Da un lato root=radice e` la directory base da cui si sviluppa l'albero delle directory ed e` normalmente indicata col simbolo /. Poi, l'amministratore nei primi sistemi UNIX aveva come home directory proprio la root, quindi gli e` rimasto il nome root. Adesso, di default ha home directory /root. Quindi, quando ti propone di di assegnare 3.5G alla directory root, intende / e non /root. In questa partizione andra` tutto il sistema, tranne le directory che hanno una partizione separata (nel tuo caso /home) e che vengono innestate, per continuare la metafora giardiniera ( o montate per tradurre piu` letteralmente), dal sistema come rami nel punto di innesto ( /home direttamente sulla radice, /mnt/windows come sottodir di /mnt , ...) Avendo 13G, direi che 3.5 per / vanno bene. Piuttosto, prevederei una partizione separata per /usr/local che e` utile se vuoi fare reinstallazioni radicali (es. cambiare distribuzione o file-system): salvi le partizioni /home (dati personali) e /usr/local (software aggiunti personalmente) e riformatti tranquillamente il resto. Poi lascerei un po' di spazio libero. Io, per esempio, ho una partizione su cui installo le nuove release di Mandrake, facendogli condividere /home e /usr/local. Le provo un po' e, quando sono convinto, rimpiazzo la vecchia release. Un'altra cosa: questo collegamento è tramite Windows, dato che il mio è uno stramaledetto WinModem interno della Conexant Sto per acquistarne uno esterno: sono graditi suggerimenti per un modem compatibile con Linux !!! Vai sul sicuro: un qualsiasi modem esterno seriale. Vanno tutti ugualmente bene. L'unica differenza e` la qualita` costruttiva ed affidabilita`. Se paragoniamo Linux alla patente di guida, ti permette di guidare ugualmente bene una vecchia carcassa o una fiammante RollsRoyce. Chiaro che la prima puo` rompersi piu` facilmente, ma questo non dipende dalla compatibilita` con la patente di guida. :-) ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Sorgenti del Kernel
Marco wrote: Ciao a tutti, ho visto che dopo aver installato Mdk 8.1 non mi compare la directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.8 quindi presumo di non aver installato i sorgenti del kernel. ... C'è qualche anima pia che può dirmi dove trovarli (o come si chiama il file rpm) kernel-source..rpm e se basta installarli con il semplice rpm -Ivh nomedelfiledeisorgenti.rpm perché crei la cartella di cui ho bisogno ? Si. Attento anche ad aver installato make e il compilatore C. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] MuLinux
CyberPenguin wrote: Egregi tutti, un saluto a Voi. Non so come ma ci sono riuscito! Alcune settimane fa, su consiglio di LukenShiro, ho scaricato MuLinux http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ ... qui sei un po' OT, visto che la ML e` dedicata ad una particolare distribuzione. .. Non sorridete se vi vengo a chiedere da dove posso prelevare qualcosa di assimilabile a veri e propri esercizi per cominciare a lavorare anche tramite la bash, ammesso che tali esercizi esistano. per prima cosa il man di bash che probabilmente in mulinux e` stato eliminato per problemi di spazio. Ne trovi una versione italiana a http://ildp.linux.it/man/man1/bash.1.html Poi i testo piu` articolati: http://ildp.linux.it/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/ ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it]
installato linux mandrake 8.0 avendo formattato win98, mi ritrovo a voler tornare a una partizione win e lin. ma non ho la più pallida idea di come fare. come posso creare unap artizione per win??? help.-
Re: [newbie-it]
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, [utf-8] tatiana morosetti wrote: installato linux mandrake 8.0 avendo formattato win98, mi ritrovo a voler tornare a una partizione win e lin. ma non ho la più pallida idea di come fare. come posso creare unap artizione per win??? help.- NOn ho con me il manuale ma lo scorso week-end ho dato un'occhiata alla parte che si intitola modificare una partizione gia' esistente. Forse puoi usare quella parte per creare il pezzo su cui installare windows. Creati pero' un disco di avvio perche' ho sentito dire che l'installazione di windows a volte fa fuori lilo (poitrai poi reinstallarlo dopo avere installato windows. NOn sono sicuro che tutto cio' funzioni ma tentar... Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] devfs
Il giorno 10:09, mercoledì 28 novembre 2001 hai scritto: 1) Come si possono fissare le modifiche, come proprietari e permessi, link, sui vari device? Il consiglio è di disabilitare devfs... :) Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Partizioni linux e.... modem
Il giorno 19:52, mercoledì 28 novembre 2001 hai scritto: Il fatto è che non essendo riuscito a collegarmi (Linux mi dice sempre che il modem è occupato...) ho provato ad informarmi, e mi hanno riferito che il mio modem non va bene (per la verità mi crea qualche problema anche con la connessione Wind sotto Windows). Per quanto ho potuto capire dalla pagina http://www.linux-mandrake.com/it/fhard.php3 mi risulta che la colpa sia proprio del modem o no? (Non è che sia proprio un esperto) Comunque grazie mille. Ciaooo Gigi Ciao Gigi, il mio consiglio - anche se il tuo modem fosse in grado di funzionare sotto Linux - è di sostituirlo, tasche permettendo. Magari potresti provare a rivenderlo, e poi acquistare un modem esterno. Per i modelli, andrei senz'altro su un modem esterno su porta seriale: sono quelli che vanno meglio, e danno - di solito :) - meno problemi! Daniele
Re: [newbie-it]
--- Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, [utf-8] tatiana morosetti wrote: installato linux mandrake 8.0 avendo formattato win98, mi ritrovo a voler tornare a una partizione win e lin. ma non ho la più pallida idea di come fare. come posso creare unap artizione per win??? help.- NOn ho con me il manuale ma lo scorso week-end ho dato un'occhiata alla parte che si intitola modificare una partizione gia' esistente. Forse puoi usare quella parte per creare il pezzo su cui installare windows. Creati pero' un disco di avvio perche' ho sentito dire che l'installazione di windows a volte fa fuori lilo (poitrai poi reinstallarlo dopo avere installato windows. NOn sono sicuro che tutto cio' funzioni ma tentar... Ciao Luigi Se hai ancora spazio sul tuo HD per creare una partizione puoi farlo con fdisk (man fdisk per le istruzioni) ed impostarla come partizione windows, dopodiche' ci installi sopra Windows. Tieni presente che devi avere un dischetto di boot per Linux perche' l'installazione di Windows ti ricopre il Master Boot Record dell'HD e quindi ti ricopre Lilo: senza un disco di boot non potresti piu' riaccedere a Linux. Se hai utilizzato tutto il tuo HD per Linux diventa gia' piu' difficile: non so se ci sono dei tools Linux per ridimensionare una partizione esistente. Nel caso il tuo sistema Linux abbia piu' di una partizione puoi rinunciare ad una di queste ed utilizzarla per Windows, altrimenti non saprei. In genere se vuoi installare sia Win che Linux conviene: 1 - partizionare l'HD 2 - installare Windows 3 - installare Linux In questo modo Windows si insedia sulla prima partizione, e quando Linux ti installa Lilo lo configura automaticamente in modo da poter avviare anche Windows, ed in + ti monta le partizioni Win in modo da poterle vedere anche in Linux. Ciao! Steo. __ Iscriviti al Meglio della Settimana, la newsletter di Yahoo! Per saperne di più vai alla pagina: http://buongiorno.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie-it] Satellite
I driver per la NetSystem non sono disponibbili, mentre per la scheda DVB di Hauppage puoi trovare i driver per linux e c'è anche un Howto per configurarla. Spero di esserti stato utile. Renato - Original Message - From: Matteo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 3:17 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Satellite Ciao a tutti!!! Ho una scheda PCI-dvb della netsystem, e vorrei sapere se ci sono i drivers ed il software. Oppure qualescheda si potrebbe usare al posto di quella che ho.
[newbie-it] scheda sonora e porta seriale
Ho istallato Mandrake 8.1 sul mio portatile Toshiba satellite 4010 CDS con scheda sonora Yamaha OPL3-SA2/3.Ho provato a configurare la scheda sonora con il comando SNDCONFIG ( come avevo fatto con Mandrake 7.2 senza nessun problema ) ma mi da il seguente messaggio d'errore: the following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz.init_module:no such device /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz:insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz:failed lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz:insmod sound-slot-o failed. Cosa vuol dire? Come posso fare a configurare la scheda?
[newbie-it] porte seriali
Ho installato un modem pcmcia nel mio portatile toshiba satellite 4010 che possiede un HD di 4 giga con una doppia partizione in cui ho istallato Windows 98 in una e Mandrake 8.1 nell'altra.Il modem Windows lo rileva connesso alla COM2 mentre Mandrake alla tts0.Come mai? Inoltre quando connetto un modem esterno alla porta seriale Mandrake 8.1 non rileva nessun modem. Perch'è lo stesso modem inserito nello slot 0 viene visto da Mandrake come connesso alla ttS0 ( COM1) e da Windows 98 come connesso alla porta COM2? E perch'è Mandrake 8.1 non vede la mia porta seriale? Qualcuno può darmi una risposta? Grazie Giuseppe
[newbie-it] scheda sonora
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: scheda sonora e porta seriale Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:38:20 +0100 From: giuseppe palermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ho istallato Mandrake 8.1 sul mio portatile Toshiba satellite 4010 CDS con scheda sonora Yamaha OPL3-SA2/3.Ho provato a configurare la scheda sonora con il comando SNDCONFIG ( come avevo fatto con Mandrake 7.2 senza nessun problema ) ma mi da il seguente messaggio d'errore: the following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz.init_module:no such device /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz:insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz:failed lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz:insmod sound-slot-o failed. Cosa vuol dire? Come posso fare a configurare la scheda? Grazie Giuseppe ---
Re: [newbie-it] devfs
Il giorno 19:22, giovedì 29 novembre 2001 hai scritto: Non vorrei, preferirei riuscire ad usarlo, l'idea di una gestione avanzata dei device non è male, . eliminando i problemi! Sì, l'idea non è niente male. Ma è ancora immatura. Inoltre presenta alcuni problemi di sicurezza (era stato pubblicato un apposito security advisory). La stessa MandrakeSoft, per ora, consiglia di disabilitare il devfs in attesa di tempi migliori... Trovi l'avviso all'indirizzo http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/updates/2001/MDKSA-2001-079.php3?dis=8.1 Daniele
[newbie-it] permessi
ho un probelma probilmente cretino ho una partizione windows che voglio rendere accessibilie solo da root come fare per impostare i permessi in modo che solo root vi possa accedere ? grazie Claudio
Re: [newbie-it] Satellite
Se hai già NetSystem, si devi cambiarla. Hauppage è un produttore di scede TV e DVB, personalmente ho la scheda WinTVgo di Haup., Tra l'altro con questa scheda puoi fare l'abbonamento con Hot Bird per internet via satellite con canone annuale di Lit.300.000. Tieni presente che chi mi ha venduto quella m..a di netsystem mi ha consigliato la DVB di H. se prorpio voglio internet su satellite, e chiaramente puoi vedere in canali sat che trasmettono in chiaro. Però prima di fare la scelta definitiva fammi sapere. Ciao e a presto. - Original Message - From: Matteo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Satellite Grazie Renato, ma cosè houppage? puoi spiegarmi meglio, devocambiare scheda dvb? Ciao - Original Message - From: Renato To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Satellite I driver per la NetSystem non sono disponibbili, mentre per la scheda DVB di Hauppage puoi trovare i driver per linux e c'è anche un Howto per configurarla. Spero di esserti stato utile. Renato - Original Message - From: Matteo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 3:17 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Satellite Ciao a tutti!!! Ho una scheda PCI-dvb della netsystem, e vorrei sapere se ci sono i drivers ed il software. Oppure qualescheda si potrebbe usare al posto di quella che ho.
[newbie-it] charimento su scheda sonora
A questa domanda di Giuseppe: Ho istallato Mandrake 8.1 sul mio portatile Toshiba satellite 4010 CDS con scheda sonora Yamaha OPL3-SA2/3.Ho provato a configurare la scheda sonora con il comando SNDCONFIG ( come avevo fatto con Mandrake 7.2 senza nessun problema ) ma mi da il seguente messaggio d'errore: the following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz.init_module:no such device /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz:insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz:failed lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.0.gz:insmod sound-slot-o failed. Cosa vuol dire? Come posso fare a configurare la scheda? Daniele ha risposto così: Hai provato a disabilitare DEVFS? Inserisci un bel devfs=nomount nel file di configurazione del tuo bootloader, ed il gioco è fatto... Mi interesserebbe capire quale sia l'effetto di devfs=nomount Grazie, Luca
Re: [newbie] Automounting problem
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2001 03:12 pm, Stewart Taylor wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: The 'old' supermount became incompatible with newer 2.4.x kernels. To the point (IIRC) it was completely broken by 2.4.6. So the Mandrake developers completely rewrote supermount to work with the new kernels. This process takes time and testing, and by 2.4.13 they've got it working properly again. This time round it seems to be working with a standard 8.1 installation (I had to do a reinstall, so then just did supermount -i enable and mount -a, which for some reason hadn't been working before). That's only mounting a floppy, though - other media may be problematic. If you want a more indepth understanding of this Robin, search the last few months on http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker for 'supermount'. Where can I get this update, so far I've not been able to find it. Stewart The 'update' is to install a 2.4.13 Mandrake kernel. This will most likely require an initscripts and iptables upgrade also. Newest 2.4.13's might require an lm_sensors upgrade also All these files can be d/l'd from cooker mirrors. I use the ready made kernel, but src.rpms for the others http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 Definitely needs iptables - they're mutually dependent. As I said, though, be careful - I got into an endless loop after upgrading (I expect the problem was in initscripts). I'd keep RPMs of the old ones on your hard disk, so if anything does go wrong, you can go in with a rescue disk and restore your system to its original state (OK, you can also FTP them from a rescue disk, but it's a royal pain). Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] a good help to mandrake 8.0
Marek -- The documentation that comes with Mandrake is pretty good for the beginner, IMO. For general Linux information aimed at beginners, there's http://www.linuxnewbie.com . I wrote some introductory Linux stuff a couple of years ago, but it's rather out of date (particularly the pages on window managers and applications) - it's at http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Happy linuxing! Robin Marek M wrote: Fellows! I piss on MS and i wont buy any netter, faster, more stable, cheaper system. OVER ! I WANT LINUX !!! But I'm green socan you tell me (Give) an address where i could download tutorial or getting started to Mandrake8 ? Better in Polish - if not English Remember: The MS stategy is to sell fast, much and (primo) earn as much as it is possible. Have a nice new year! (with no MS) Tego nie znajdziesz w adnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate
Yikes. I just installed tuxracer --my first attempt at 3D gaming in Linux-- and the framerate is 1 frame per second at best. It's more like watching a slide show than playing a game. This seems to be a somewhat common problem? But I haven't found any solutions. My computer should be able to handle tuxracer. My video card is just a 16MB Nvidia TNT2 M64, but even with software rendering my 1.1 ghz Athlon should be able to get, say, 5 fps? :) As far as OpenGL goes I have the mandrake Mesa-Common and Mesa rpms installed. Running the gears Mesa demo gave me 250fps, which maybe suggests a tuxracer problem and not mesa? Any ideas? I usually just play 2D games, which are fine in Linux. But I wasn't expecting performance like this. Matt _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate
Are you using the nv drivers or the nvidia drivers? check your XFconfig file ___ Robert MacLean Head of IDWS Technical Services and Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.idws.com Tel: 0860-ONLINE (0860-665469) Fax: (011) 955-5611 NOTE: Please include this message in your reply. - Original Message - From: Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:15 AM Subject: [newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate Yikes. I just installed tuxracer --my first attempt at 3D gaming in Linux-- and the framerate is 1 frame per second at best. It's more like watching a slide show than playing a game. This seems to be a somewhat common problem? But I haven't found any solutions. My computer should be able to handle tuxracer. My video card is just a 16MB Nvidia TNT2 M64, but even with software rendering my 1.1 ghz Athlon should be able to get, say, 5 fps? :) As far as OpenGL goes I have the mandrake Mesa-Common and Mesa rpms installed. Running the gears Mesa demo gave me 250fps, which maybe suggests a tuxracer problem and not mesa? Any ideas? I usually just play 2D games, which are fine in Linux. But I wasn't expecting performance like this. Matt _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution RC2 problem
There was a bug with upgrading to the newer versions in that they didn't completely exit out of the previous version. Execute this handy little tool from a command prompt: killev And then start evolution. It should work just fine. /curtis On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 08:10, Jim Dawson wrote: I finally managed to get Evolution RC2 installed on my LM 8.1 system, but now the 'Contacts' and 'Mail' portions don't work, Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Turtle beach sandta cruz
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:36:23 -0500 Robert Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a turtle beach sound card. Do any of you know where I can find linux drivers for it? Well, it's best if Harddrake (or if that doesn't work, sndconfig) can set up your card, but if that doesn't work: I know ALSA supports that card. A quote from someone: I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz using 2.4.16 and cs46xx beta9 drivers and libs. At http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/ the card is highlighted in grey though, meaning it's not sure whether the card can be supported. So, it's possible that you can only use the latest ALSA 0.9beta drivers and not the 0.5.11 ones supplied with LM8.1. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: tuxracer: FIXED
Never mind, I figured it out. Installing the nvidia drivers did wonders. I'm pretty ignorant on 3D acceleration and computer gaming in general. My gears demo framerate jumped from 250 to 800, so I guess it wasn't running very well either. Oh well, time to race! :) Matt _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do I save any html page
On Thursday 29 November 2001 3:15 am, pesarif wrote: In Konqueror: Tools - Archive Web Page. I'm using KDE 2.2. My Tools menu only has Run Command..., Open Terminal... and Find file What am I doing wrong? Please help! Go to the 'Location' menu and use 'Save as...'. Lance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] win2k
Hello all, Just got a new IBM thinkpad today. (win2k installed) does any one know how to join a linux domain. Apparently on NT you have to create machine account for w2k. My win95/98 boxes log in ok. Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 Use your own judgement then do as I say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille error messages.
On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 15:06, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I had this trouble some time ago as well (can't remember what version of Bastille, and iptables I was running). I any case, I was advised, that to get rid of that message, i can get rid of linuxconf from the list of services that Bastille audits. I don't know much about the issue, and can't find the message in the archives. But I think the point was, unless you are concerned with someone with physical access to the system making changes via linuxconf, you don't need linuxconf auditing. -Paul Rodríguez Do you think the full security configuration I chose was applied, or does Bastille abort when it strikes the 'linuxconf' trouble ? Do I need to run InteractiveBastille again ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help, XP uptime is greater than my linux
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:16:09 -0500 Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I'm tired of this computer freezeing! My XP box never freezes, my Mandrake box freezes multiple times a day. I know mandrake is better than this. I am pretty new to linux and don't know where to start checking, but somthing has to be done, I can't rely on this linux box anymore. I was thinking it was the eth1 but now I'm not sure. Here is my system info: HP Pavilion 8655c 318mb Ram Genuine Intel P3 (coppermine) 535 Mhz Intel 810 82810E Graphics Creative Labs SBLive Eth0 Linksys LNE100TX Eth1 Linksys LNE100TX Anything else? Please someone who has a clue help me get this worked out. I can near bout guarentee that the lock-ups are caused by your vid card. Couple of theings you can do. 1) If you are using auora turn it off or even better uninstall it. 2) Upgrake XFree- 4.10-21mdk is available from any of the cooker mirrors It will install and run without difficulty on 8.1 and it offers better support for the 810e Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help, XP uptime is greater than my linux
gtk themes seem to cause lockups for me. I noticed that if i use a very simple gtk theme, i have no problem. But if i use one with pixmaps and lots of cool stuff, it runs slow and freezes a lot mark On Thursday 29 November 2001 17:57, you wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:16:09 -0500 Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I'm tired of this computer freezeing! My XP box never freezes, my Mandrake box freezes multiple times a day. I know mandrake is better than this. I am pretty new to linux and don't know where to start checking, but somthing has to be done, I can't rely on this linux box anymore. I was thinking it was the eth1 but now I'm not sure. Here is my system info: HP Pavilion 8655c 318mb Ram Genuine Intel P3 (coppermine) 535 Mhz Intel 810 82810E Graphics Creative Labs SBLive Eth0 Linksys LNE100TX Eth1 Linksys LNE100TX Anything else? Please someone who has a clue help me get this worked out. I can near bout guarentee that the lock-ups are caused by your vid card. Couple of theings you can do. 1) If you are using auora turn it off or even better uninstall it. 2) Upgrake XFree- 4.10-21mdk is available from any of the cooker mirrors It will install and run without difficulty on 8.1 and it offers better support for the 810e Charles -- 3:29pm up 2 days, 12:24, 3 users, load average: 0.42, 0.21, 0.07 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] About CD burning stuff.....?
On Thursday 29 November 2001 06:12, Mick wrote: Hello list, Okay, I'm newly transposed from the Windoze world, and kinda lost but having fun here in Mandrake-Linux 8.1! I have a Plextor CD burner, Where is the software in Linux, what is it called, and how do I set it up? So far I have set up email, WWW, changed desktops, and quickly coming up to being nearly dangerous here in Linux! I just need a helpful hand with the CD burning stuff. Thanks. There are lots of options (which is one of the problems) First if all to check your CD writer is configured ok open a root terminal and type cdrecord -scanbus If it comes back and says it found yoyr writer then you can go straight on and choose your favourite burning software. If it came back with an error then you probably need to disable devfs. Refer to the mail archives for instructions. On your Mandrake disc there are a whole bunch of CD burning apps. Here is my take on them. It is purely personal others will have other opinions :- Xconcd - Nice user friendly GUI easy to understand Problem is the current version does not work. It crashes. So we must wait for the next version :-( XCDRoast - Not bad. OK for audio CD's. Not so good for data Works OK ERoaster - Cant remember too much about this one. GCombust - Not the most user friendly application, but it is the most sophisticated. It assumes you know things like what a 'Joliet extension' is. Gnome-Toaster- Possibly the most popular application. The on line manual is quite good. I find it difficult to use for data CD's, but it is easy for audio Kreatecd - This one is not on your CD. You can get it at http://www.kreatecd.de/index.php Along with xoncd it is most like the windows apps you are used to Audio support is very good, but I am having a problem with data at the momement So in typical Linux fashion. There is loads of choice but they all have downsides. Just try them out and use the one you like best. Derek Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] pwcx module kernel = wow strong tobacco (atleast for me =))
Howdy i have a little (maybe stupid question) =) Have a look at this : Installation of this module is very simple; copy the pwcx-i386.o module to /lib/modules/usb/pwcx.o, and run 'depmod -a' once. After this, it should be possible to load the module on ANY kernel where the pwc.o module has been built or loaded (well, provided it's running in an Intel processor, of course). (got that from http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam ) Those are instructions to add a module for better webcam (quickcam 3000 PRO) support im using kernel 2.4.13.xx and the module pwc is loaded nicely but i cant change the size of the picture i have to unkompress it with this new module anway thts not so important . My problem is that i dont know much about kernels =) Fact is that the is not such a dir ( /lib/modules/usb ) so where do i copy this mod? The modules in my kernel (in the dir called /lib/modules/2.4.13-11mdk/kernel/drivers/usb ) are all .o.gz files and copying it there didnt work. PLEASE ILLUMINATE ME!!! Florian -- - POWERED BY LINUX - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hi-fi mp3?
Hi I've just been re-reading the Jan/Feb 2001 issue of Maximum Linux which carried a very interesting article on mobile mp3. In it the author makes the bold claim that a player by the name of Splay sounded MUCH better than Winamp. He recommended doing a comparison. Splay was on the cover CD but I couldn't get it to work. Has anyone made this player work? Any pointers? Does it sound better? Anyone able to recommend a superior sounding mp3 player? Thanks Lance Dow Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate
MG Yikes. I just installed tuxracer --my first attempt at 3D gaming in Linux-- MG and the framerate is 1 frame per second at best. It's more like watching a MG slide show than playing a game. MG This seems to be a somewhat common problem? But I haven't found any solutions. MG My computer should be able to handle tuxracer. My video card is just a 16MB MG Nvidia TNT2 M64, but even with software rendering my 1.1 ghz Athlon should be MG able to get, say, 5 fps? :) As far as OpenGL goes I have the mandrake MG Mesa-Common and Mesa rpms installed. MG Running the gears Mesa demo gave me 250fps, which maybe suggests a tuxracer MG problem and not mesa? MG Any ideas? I usually just play 2D games, which are fine in Linux. But I MG wasn't expecting performance like this. MG Matt You did not install the nvidia drivers so your system is not using your nvidia cards hardware acceleration. Go to nvidia.com and mandrakeuser.com and follow the instructions. The fps in gears may be 250, but gears do alot less than tux racer so it is normal. Actually, it is slow. Just install the drivers. Onur Kucuk _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] graphical program to start at boot
Hi, what's the best way to get a graphical program to start at boot as user? I'd like to do this via the command line. I know that adding the program to the last line of /etc/rc.local could do it, but as root. Thanks. -Paul Rodríguez _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bastille and distributed file sharing (gnutella)
Hi, I need some help safely connecting to some file sharing networks. I use Bastille and I'd like to connect to Gnutella (using gtk-gnutella). As it stands I can connect search and download fine, but I can't seem to share my files. How can I open up a connection safely? I'm hesitant to just choose a port to leave open, is there a secure way to do this? -Paul Rodríguez _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille error messages.
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 05:27 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 15:06, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I had this trouble some time ago as well (can't remember what version of Bastille, and iptables I was running). I any case, I was advised, that to get rid of that message, i can get rid of linuxconf from the list of services that Bastille audits. I don't know much about the issue, and can't find the message in the archives. But I think the point was, unless you are concerned with someone with physical access to the system making changes via linuxconf, you don't need linuxconf auditing. -Paul Rodríguez Do you think the full security configuration I chose was applied, or does Bastille abort when it strikes the 'linuxconf' trouble ? Do I need to run InteractiveBastille again ? An easy way to confirm bastille is doing its job is to go to www.grc.com, then to the shields up section, and have it probe your ports. it doesn't test all ports, but if all the ports return as closed rather than stealth, bastille isn't up. if they don't report as stealth run as root /etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall start Although the linuxconf error does not cause bastille to abort. I get that error as well, I just ignore it. Matt _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] graphical program to start at boot
On Thursday 29 November 2001 19:02, you wrote: Hi, what's the best way to get a graphical program to start at boot as user? I'd like to do this via the command line. I know that adding the program to the last line of /etc/rc.local could do it, but as root. Have you tried placing a symlink in ~/Desktop/Autostart ? It doesn't necessarily work with all window managers, though. -- 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 f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] graphical program to start at boot
On 29 Nov 2001, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Hi, what's the best way to get a graphical program to start at boot as user? I'd like to do this via the command line. I know that adding the program to the last line of /etc/rc.local could do it, but as root. Thanks. -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com So I would assume you boot into X. I don't do this and never have but I can start a program when X starts which it shouldn't matter if I startx or it starts at boot. I have an .xinitrc file in my home dir which I can add whatever I want to start, here's an example of mine: #!/bin/bash exec /usr/bin/mozilla exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver exec /usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock exec /usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox #exec gnome-session #exec enlightenment You can add exec whatever you want to run.The means to run in the background and it seems to be needed to run things because I guess w/o it it would only run that program and not continue on to any others listed in the .xinitrc. Another thing is that it seems the programs you want to run must come before the execution of your window manager, eg. i use blackbox as you can see and for mozilla to run it has to come b4 blackbox. Of course using an .xintrc would assume that it would be read by X when it starts. I'm not familiar with how X works from boot so I don't know but I would think that it should read it or maybe there's another file to add the apps to for starting at boot like a system wide xinitrc or .xauthority -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now
Dear Luis and All, I have decided to install the new gimp-print driver that just came out. Should I , also, install the new cups driver first? How would I do this since I already have older versions installed? Also, I tried to check my cups version and it said that cups was a bad command. How do I check my cups version? Luis, did you uninstall all files related to printing first? Could you describe to me exactly what you did to uninstall and the files that you had to uninstall? Would you tell me what files, drivers, etc. you installed and exactly how? I will appreciate being led like a blind newbie because about printing I am a newbie. Things worked before without this much trouble until 8.0 and now 8.1 is not better yet for me. Thanks very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:34 pm, you wrote: snip Thank you for your suggestions. The lpq command tells me that xpp is ready and printing with an active job listed that belongs to me. Unfortunately the job is not printing. That is the problem. The strange thing is the printing worked for a couple of days although it needed tweaking for quality. Then out of the blue it stopped working. Has anyone had a similar situation that they were able to fix? Thanks for any help. Yes, I've had similar experiences. The only way that I've been able to recover was to delete all instances of my printer and reinstall the printer drivers from scratch with PrinterDrake. I gave the printer a new name and used the new name. I know there must be a better way, but when you're desparate, anything that works... good luck! Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms
I'm trying to update my kernel to the latest cooker version. I have added cooker to my sources but I keep getting this error: [root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi kernel --15:15:35-- ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake- devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm = `/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing' Connecting to ftp.sunet.se:21... connected! Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == SYST ... done.== PWD ... done. == TYPE I ... done. == CWD /pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake- devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS ... done. == PASV ... done.== LIST ... done. 0K .. .. .. .. .. 50K .. .. .. .. .. 100K .. .. .. .. .. 150K .. .. 15:16:24 (4.51 KB/s) - `/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing' saved [182754] Removed `/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing'. --15:16:24-- ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake- devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm = `/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm' == CWD not required. == PASV ... done.== RETR kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm ... installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm No such file `kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm'. error: open of /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm failed: No such file or directory Installation failed Whats going on, does anyone know how to fix this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] About CD burning stuff.....?
On Thursday 29 November 2001 08:21 am, you wrote: On your Mandrake disc there are a whole bunch of CD burning apps. Here is my take on them. It is purely personal others will have other opinions :- snip Don't forget the one that started it all, cdrecord. It's command line but I actually find it to be easier and more intuitive than most of the gui frontends. A quick crash course of mkisofs and cdrecord and you'll be up and running. gui cd burning is one thing I don't like about linux at this point. Frontends should be simpler than the backend they are covering up :) Matt _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question
Title: RE: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Newbie Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question Ok, its stupid question time. Ok, I'm no expert, but I'm not a complete newbie, but I still don't know, should I force install GCC2.95 to end my GCC3 compiler troubles? Or am I skrude until the next mandrake release? I can't seem to backgrade to some compiler without the OS bean-hatching about dependencies. Thanks Have you tried going into the software manager and uninstalling the gcc3.0 and then installing the gcc2.* ? Probably won't go so the only other solution is to reinstall not upgrade and just don't format /home. The version of gcc in 8.1 is gcc2.96 I think. so I am assuming you upgraded to the 3.0 version. Not a big help but maybe worth a try. Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question
have you tried rpm --oldpackage gcc-2.95*.rpm this should let you downgrade. an rpm --force will also do this, but I'd recommend rpm --oldpackage to check for deps first. If all else fails, rebuild from source mark On Friday 30 November 2001 01:40, you wrote: Ok, its stupid question time. Ok, I'm no expert, but I'm not a complete newbie, but I still don't know, should I force install GCC2.95 to end my GCC3 compiler troubles? Or am I skrude until the next mandrake release? I can't seem to backgrade to some compiler without the OS bean-hatching about dependencies. Thanks -- 9:14pm up 4:37, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.17, 0.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] contents of /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0
Hi all, can anyone with a working dialup connection give me the contents of the file in the subject? I have been trying to get it sussed and using one of the tools, (either linuxconf or mandrake control center) has put some stuff about wvdial in there. when I had chat -v -f ... in there it was sort of working, now that wvdial is in there I am getting: connect script failed straight away, and I am forced to dialup with my win2000 box, which I hate doing. any one help me out here??? the exact line I have here now is: connect/usr/bin/wvdial --remotename ppp0 --chat 'vianet' and it doesn't work.. god I hate pppd in linux,, works sometimes, other times it doesn't regardless of what I do... Also, on the few occasions that it has worked, if I get disconnected and try to redial, it fails,,(the modem doesn't even try to dial again..) anyone got any clues? system: mdk8.1 kernel-2.4.13-9 ppp-2.4.1-2mdk rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms
On Thursday 29 November 2001 03:26 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote: I'm trying to update my kernel to the latest cooker version. I have added cooker to my sources but I keep getting this error: [root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi kernel I really don't know, so this is only conjecture on my part as I've only experimented now an then with 'urpmi'. I suspect you shouldn't use it for the same reasons SoftwareManager or MandrakeUpdate should NEVER be used for upgrading a kernel. Try d/l'g kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm to your HDD and then installing it with 'rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm' Just betch'a it'll work flawlessly ;) -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help, XP uptime is greater than my linux
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:59:42 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so which version of mandrake are you using, and what are you doing at the time? Using mandrake 8.1 and KDE. I don't run any screensavers. I don't run Auora either. I'm going to try the XFree upgrade that Mr. Edwards recomended and see how that works. I was planing on buying a graphics card if I couldn't get it figured out, but would prefer not to get one if I don't have too. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XFree upgrade question
What packages from cooker do I need to upgrade? What is the best way to do the upgrade? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms
I heard the ability to upgrade the kernel had been temporarily removed from the GUI tools but that it would be returned someday. Does anyone have an idea on when? It kinda defeats the purpose of having automated tools if you have to manually download and upgrade something like the kernel yourself. On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 04:16 PM, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2001 03:26 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote: I'm trying to update my kernel to the latest cooker version. I have added cooker to my sources but I keep getting this error: [root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi kernel I really don't know, so this is only conjecture on my part as I've only experimented now an then with 'urpmi'. I suspect you shouldn't use it for the same reasons SoftwareManager or MandrakeUpdate should NEVER be used for upgrading a kernel. Try d/l'g kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm to your HDD and then installing it with 'rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm' Just betch'a it'll work flawlessly ;) -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:49 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Grant Fraser wrote: I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup which conflicts with bash and I cant force it. Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do that I just got bad disks and actually had to go out and pay money for an OS. I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy video, no opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset? I'm just about ready to give up on Mandrake. First time it agressively overwrote a windows dist, and this upgrade joke is even worse. For you, go RED HAT 7.2, as I have experience getting that working on a SIS board with all built-in SIS stuff. The only thing not working is accellerated video. My 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade lost half my prefs, now tries to mount a floppy twice upon bootup, and renamed all my groups from 'users' to numbers, which causes an error every time I bring up a terminal. Has *anybody* had ANY luck with this supposed upgrade? 30-35 packages failed to 'upgrade' without any explanation why, all on disk2. Yesterday I had a perfectly functioning M8.0 dist, with working Xv and Xine, today I have a crap M8.1 dist with holes, and Xine won't even run in Xv mode. I'm disgusted as well, is there a M$ mole on the upgrade team? You did backup your system before doing an OS upgrade... right?!? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel Update or install syncmal first?
Greetings group, I have a Q that kinda has me stumped...I want to install a program that is something that I loved in Windoz...AvantGo (in Linux it's called jpilot-syncmal-0.62.tgz, the app is syncmal not to be confused with malsync...). I also need to do an install of a new kernel (up to 2.4-13-something...) so I can keep uptodate with some security issues. Do I load the app first or install the kernel and then the app? TIA! Steve Weltman _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] fill in the blank.directory question...
Okay, I asked this before, but I've not been able to resolve it...if I copy/move/delete a file from any folder/directory, it leaves a file called: the name if that folder.directory I don't want this, its useless as far as I can tell, and unchecking view properties saved in directory under settings does -not- stop it.. Anyone have this same problem and any ideas what to do about it? Thanks! PS I'm using v8.1 BTW... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1
On Thursday 29 November 2001 17:17, you wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:49 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Grant Fraser wrote: I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup which conflicts with bash and I cant force it. Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do that I just got bad disks and actually had to go out and pay money for an OS. I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy video, no opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset? I'm just about ready to give up on Mandrake. First time it agressively overwrote a windows dist, and this upgrade joke is even worse. For you, go RED HAT 7.2, as I have experience getting that working on a SIS board with all built-in SIS stuff. The only thing not working is accellerated video. My 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade lost half my prefs, now tries to mount a floppy twice upon bootup, and renamed all my groups from 'users' to numbers, which causes an error every time I bring up a terminal. Has *anybody* had ANY luck with this supposed upgrade? 30-35 packages failed to 'upgrade' without any explanation why, all on disk2. Yesterday I had a perfectly functioning M8.0 dist, with working Xv and Xine, today I have a crap M8.1 dist with holes, and Xine won't even run in Xv mode. I'm disgusted as well, is there a M$ mole on the upgrade team? You did backup your system before doing an OS upgrade... right?!? It is best not to use upgrade on the installation disks when going from a lower distribution to a newer one. The best thing to do is an expert install and know before hand the partition you have on your disk as /home. i.e. /home is hda6 on my hard drive. Then when you make the change from one such as 7.2 to 8.1 use the same partitions and do not reformat /home when it indicates what partitions will be formatted. If the /home partition is yellow click on it to make it no color and then let the install format the other partitions. You then have all your old info like bookmarks and address book but a new OS on the machine. Even this is not 100% satisfactory but it is better than totally reformatting and starting from scratch. The other way is to make a seperate partition as a back up for /home and call it say /backhome and then reformat everything but backhome. You can then go into backhome and get your lbookmarks etc and place them in home and voila a whole new world. HTH -- Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now
On Thursday 29 November 2001 06:09, you wrote: Regarding Canon BJC 2100 and BJC 2000 I actually work for Canon and I use at home a BJC2100 why do you say never buy that? It works for that little printing that I do at home fine for over a year now . Christian Posratschnig My main 'problems' with the canon bjc2100 are: very heavily pixelized images (frankly the worst I've seen) and: Extremely slow -i.e. taking about 8 minutes to print an A4 page in color. and: the printer cartridges are fairly expensive and badly insulated. By that I mean that they drie out when not in use after a month or so. In comparison: I have a HP 340 portable printer for my laptop that's only used at an average of once a year. It's still printing on the cartridge I bought 4 or 5 years ago. The B/W quality of the bjc2100 is OK though. On using the GIMP's BJC 2000 printerdriver I get a good speed gain but loose a lot of color quality. Still has the same horrible raster. Shame! The bjc2100 is very cheap (cheaper than a new printerhead for the bjc 2000), it's an extreme case of: 'value for money!' You get what you pay for. IMO the bjc 2000 was the better model. (alas the 2100 power supply doesn't fit on the 2000. Wonder why they did that?) good hunting, Harm Bathoorn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PCI video card with hardware TL?
Does anyone know of such a card for Linux? Given what some people have said about nVidia drivers, I would prefer something other than a GeForce 2, but if that is all that is available, I might have to get one. :P I guess I should get a new mobo, something with an AGP slot... Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best. -- Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question
rebuild from source? compile a compiler? If I don't have a compiler that works, how can I compile? On Thursday 29 November 2001 09:15 am, you wrote: have you tried rpm --oldpackage gcc-2.95*.rpm this should let you downgrade. an rpm --force will also do this, but I'd recommend rpm --oldpackage to check for deps first. If all else fails, rebuild from source mark On Friday 30 November 2001 01:40, you wrote: Ok, its stupid question time. Ok, I'm no expert, but I'm not a complete newbie, but I still don't know, should I force install GCC2.95 to end my GCC3 compiler troubles? Or am I skrude until the next mandrake release? I can't seem to backgrade to some compiler without the OS bean-hatching about dependencies. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms
Wait I just checked the ftp site manually. The reason why it was reporting no file was because it has changed from kernel-2.4.13-11mdk to kernel-2.4.13-12mdk! So how do I get urpmi to update itself so it can see the new file? On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 04:16 PM, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2001 03:26 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote: I'm trying to update my kernel to the latest cooker version. I have added cooker to my sources but I keep getting this error: [root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi kernel I really don't know, so this is only conjecture on my part as I've only experimented now an then with 'urpmi'. I suspect you shouldn't use it for the same reasons SoftwareManager or MandrakeUpdate should NEVER be used for upgrading a kernel. Try d/l'g kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm to your HDD and then installing it with 'rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm' Just betch'a it'll work flawlessly ;) -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms
On Thursday 29 November 2001 05:36 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote: I heard the ability to upgrade the kernel had been temporarily removed from the GUI tools but that it would be returned someday. Does anyone have an idea on when? It kinda defeats the purpose of having automated tools if you have to manually download and upgrade something like the kernel yourself. I'll offer more conjecture. I don't believe 'someday' will ever come anytime soon. My basis is that package managers, CL or GUI fronts for 'em, are for installing or upgrading software, not the OS. The kernel is Linux, the OS. Everything else is just GNU (hopefully) software, and some pretend files (eg, /proc, /dev) that it interacts with and runs. Sort'a hard to keep your pickup doin 70 mph while you're changin motors ;) -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 04:16 PM, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2001 03:26 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote: I'm trying to update my kernel to the latest cooker version. I have added cooker to my sources but I keep getting this error: [root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi kernel I really don't know, so this is only conjecture on my part as I've only experimented now an then with 'urpmi'. I suspect you shouldn't use it for the same reasons SoftwareManager or MandrakeUpdate should NEVER be used for upgrading a kernel. Try d/l'g kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm to your HDD and then installing it with 'rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i586.rpm' Just betch'a it'll work flawlessly ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Logs size...
Hi group, Can I reduce the size of my logs (/var/log/-whateverlog) in any way? Is there a problem with either editing it down or deleting them altogether? Thanks!! _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound does work but xmms dont - mandrake 8.1
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, bascule wrote: len, if arst is your problem but you don't have kd then perhaps you have the wrong plugin selected in xmms? optionspreferncesoutputplugin select oss i wouldn't have thought you'd have the arts plugin if you didn't have kde but if you are trying to configure arts but don't have kde then i guess you must, sorry if i am completely missing the point of previous posts in this thread, it just looks to me like people are trying to help you solve the wrong problem! :-) sorry if tis has been mentioned before That was it My ignorance of these things is profound. Mille grazie Signore. - Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Newbie wrote: Ok, its stupid question time. Ok, I'm no expert, but I'm not a complete newbie, but I still don't know, should I force install GCC2.95 to end my GCC3 compiler troubles? Or am I skrude until the next mandrake release? I can't seem to backgrade to some compiler without the OS bean-hatching about dependencies. Thanks In mandrake you can have both installed. I would suggest the latest 2.96, it seems to work fine. In 8.1 the /usr/bin/gcc is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/gcc which is a symlink to /usr/bin/gcc-2.96 or /usr/bin/gcc-3.0. You can have both installed and just change the symlink etc/alternatives/gcc to whichever you want to use, even back and forth to each if you want. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms
And why would it not be appropriate for the front end to upgrade the kernel as well? That makes no sense. If you don't want to use a front end to upgrade the kernel you can just opt not to and install your own. Just because its the kernel does not mean it shouldn't be updated with the same tools that everything else is updated with. On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 05:36 PM, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2001 05:36 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote: I heard the ability to upgrade the kernel had been temporarily removed from the GUI tools but that it would be returned someday. Does anyone have an idea on when? It kinda defeats the purpose of having automated tools if you have to manually download and upgrade something like the kernel yourself. I'll offer more conjecture. I don't believe 'someday' will ever come anytime soon. My basis is that package managers, CL or GUI fronts for 'em, are for installing or upgrading software, not the OS. The kernel is Linux, the OS. Everything else is just GNU (hopefully) software, and some pretend files (eg, /proc, /dev) that it interacts with and runs. Sort'a hard to keep your pickup doin 70 mph while you're changin motors ;) -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logs size...
Steve If you open up webmin and look at your scheduled cron jobs you will see a daily job called logrotate. The function of this job is to archive old log files and delete old archives. You can decide which logs are managed by logrotate, the size of the files before they get archived, and how long the archives are kept. Type man logrotate for details and look at /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d BTW in my standard 8.1 install logrotate did not run properly because one log appeared twice in the config file. That caused logrotate to abort without doing any archiving. Check your syslog to see if this is happening to you. Derek On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:47, Steve Weltman wrote: Hi group, Can I reduce the size of my logs (/var/log/-whateverlog) in any way? Is there a problem with either editing it down or deleting them altogether? Thanks!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms (Success!)
Alright! urpmi was able to update my kernel after I updated the sources list. [ndptal85@Dreadnaught ndptal85]$ uname -a Linux Dreadnaught 2.4.13-12mdk #1 Fri Nov 23 18:44:14 CET 2001 i686 unknown Urpmi is useful when it works but its still very rough and unpolished. For instance why do we have to download a 12-13 meg file just when choosing a new source? Shouldn't pointing our machines at the new source be enough? Then it would be sorta like Debian's apt system where you just edit your sources to download from a different place. No huge file to download each time you choose a new source. Oh well at least it worked this time. :P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1
Thanks for the tip. No I havent backed it up. No point. I've spent so much time tinkering with the OS I haven't actually found a use for the computer. Played a few games of freeciv. Cant play tuxracer, opengl not supported. Ive upgraded the kernel, and lots of other things. I even managed to pound xfree86-4.1x into it. Cant use it though. When I go to change the display properties it still only lets me choose between xfree 3.3.6 and 4.0.3. My scanner is not supported and sound will not work. To get my computer to run well under linux I need an new video card (SiS = bad), sound card (crystal audio codec is an unknown device), Scanner (Mag = twain only) and a new monitor (VeiwSonic 15es has the wrong refresh rate ???) So far this free software has cost me $60. I'm not worried about reformating, I've already done it 5 times. Apparently Mandrake does not yet support upgrading to kde222. They have some use at your own risk info http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1418mode=threadorder=0thold=0 On November 29, 2001 03:52 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2001 17:17, you wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:49 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Grant Fraser wrote: I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup which conflicts with bash and I cant force it. Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do that I just got bad disks and actually had to go out and pay money for an OS. I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy video, no opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset? I'm just about ready to give up on Mandrake. First time it agressively overwrote a windows dist, and this upgrade joke is even worse. For you, go RED HAT 7.2, as I have experience getting that working on a SIS board with all built-in SIS stuff. The only thing not working is accellerated video. My 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade lost half my prefs, now tries to mount a floppy twice upon bootup, and renamed all my groups from 'users' to numbers, which causes an error every time I bring up a terminal. Has *anybody* had ANY luck with this supposed upgrade? 30-35 packages failed to 'upgrade' without any explanation why, all on disk2. Yesterday I had a perfectly functioning M8.0 dist, with working Xv and Xine, today I have a crap M8.1 dist with holes, and Xine won't even run in Xv mode. I'm disgusted as well, is there a M$ mole on the upgrade team? You did backup your system before doing an OS upgrade... right?!? It is best not to use upgrade on the installation disks when going from a lower distribution to a newer one. The best thing to do is an expert install and know before hand the partition you have on your disk as /home. i.e. /home is hda6 on my hard drive. Then when you make the change from one such as 7.2 to 8.1 use the same partitions and do not reformat /home when it indicates what partitions will be formatted. If the /home partition is yellow click on it to make it no color and then let the install format the other partitions. You then have all your old info like bookmarks and address book but a new OS on the machine. Even this is not 100% satisfactory but it is better than totally reformatting and starting from scratch. The other way is to make a seperate partition as a back up for /home and call it say /backhome and then reformat everything but backhome. You can then go into backhome and get your lbookmarks etc and place them in home and voila a whole new world. HTH 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://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:32:21 -0500 Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What packages from cooker do I need to upgrade? What is the best way to do the upgrade? I normally update 8 pkgs: XFree 86 XFree 86-libs XFree 86-server XFree 86-devel XFree 86-Xnest XFree 86-xfs XFree 86-100dpi fonts XFree 86-75dpi fonts I also normally use rpmdrake to download and install, you simply need add a Cooker source. You do not need all the pkgs I have. If you use rpmdrake just select the XFree 86 rpm and it will auto add the others that you Must have. Once they are installed, log-out and restart X ( you do not need to reboot.) Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 3D support for SIS 300/305 AGP 16 meg video card?
I just installed v8.1 on an older computer (older is pretty subjective nowdays though - its still a 475mhz AMD K6-III with 192 megs of Ram) that belongs to my stepson. It has a Crystal ISA soundcard, as well as a SIS 300/305 AGP 16m video card. After installation, we got: No sound No 3D-accelerated video Are the Crystal and SIS supported? I tried to look up the SIS model at Mandrakes home page, as well as at Xfree.org, but found nothing useful. I ran sndconfig as root, and it would play a sound sample (Linus's voice, right?) but when it got to the midi sample, it said there was a modprobe error at the kernel level and wouldn't save anything or go on... ;-( Can anyone help? Thanks much! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:37:35 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:32:21 -0500 Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What packages from cooker do I need to upgrade? What is the best way to do the upgrade? I normally update 8 pkgs: XFree 86 XFree 86-libs XFree 86-server XFree 86-devel XFree 86-Xnest XFree 86-xfs XFree 86-100dpi fonts XFree 86-75dpi fonts I also normally use rpmdrake to download and install, you simply need add a Cooker source. You do not need all the pkgs I have. If you use rpmdrake just select the XFree 86 rpm and it will auto add the others that you Must have. Once they are installed, log-out and restart X ( you do not need to reboot.) Charles LOL, that almost worked. It took trying all the mirrors twice before I finally didn't get the an error occured when adding this source then I figured kewl, I'm finally gonna get it, and now 6 tries later I'm getting error fetching package on all of the packages. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] eth1: initialization delayed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How or what do I need to do to fix this. I tried playing with the startup scripts to try to fix this but have been unsuccessful. eth1 can be brought up from a terminal window OK. Currently I have the following statements at the end of rc.local. insmod airo.o sh /opt/cisco/aironet_setup Ethernet 1 is a Cisco 340 wireless card. (connects to my ISP). There's another utility called bcard but it hasn't been any help either. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8BdaFjCg8oFTHzFARAufwAKCR3k+X8cQA3PthJ58R/hjZMtMNhQCePmff nMwrdsEAvwd1JBPJtHLtBx0= =jWQs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logs size...
On Thursday 29 November 2001 15:47, you wrote: Hi group, Can I reduce the size of my logs (/var/log/-whateverlog) in any way? Is there a problem with either editing it down or deleting them altogether? Thanks!! No, they can be deleted (I've done it). But, by far the better way is to edit your /etc/logrotate.conf file so that there aren't so many in the first place. With your favorite editor, open /etc/logrotate.conf and change every instance of rotate 4 to rotate 1 (so you only keep 1 week of backlogs) and every instance of monthly to weekly and every instance of weekly to daily. That should take care of it. eryl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can not get users web site to come up with Apache and LM 8.1
Hey yall, I have a clean install of LM 8.1 and I can not get my users web sites to come up. When you type the URL http://domainname.edu/~user I get an error telling me I do not have permission to access it. I have done this before and the only thing I can think of is that this time during the install I chose medium instead of low on the security setting because this box is on the net all the time with a static IP running Apache, ProFTPd and SSH. The domain web site comes up fine it is just the users sites that are a problem. I have looked in the httpd config files and it has entries that look to me like it should work but what I know about configuring Apache is just enough to mess something up. Can any of you give me a hand?
Re: [newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate
On Thursday 29 November 2001 06:26 am, you wrote: if you don't see the nvidia splash screen when X starts, then they aren't installed right. you can run an /sbin/lsmod and make sure NVdriver is loaded, if not make sure you edited your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 correctly . Under modules you need load glx, and for your driver, change nv to nvidia, save it and restart X, you should then see the splash screen. Yeah, I wondered about the splash screen as it doesn't show up for me. But my framerate in tuxracer is very good now, and the mesa demos are screaming, so the drivers do seem to be working. I read nvidia's installation guide really thoroughly, I'm pretty sure I did everything correctly. Matt _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can not get users web site to come up with Apache and LM 8.1
Well, in testing after I found it was not working with my personal login I logged in with my test account created the public_html directory, started Netscape Composer typed this is a test and saved it as index.html in my public_html directory I just made. That has always been fine in the past. Does setting the security level to medium change the default permissions to where that will not work? - Original Message - From: Keith Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Aaron Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can not get users web site to come up with Apache and LM 8.1 I think your problem may simply be permissions on the files and directories where the pages are stored. Keith Lynn Systems Administrator School of Computer and Information Sciences University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36608 Phone: (334) 460-6390 Fax: (334) 460-7274 Alternative E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/ On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Aaron Winters wrote: Hey yall, I have a clean install of LM 8.1 and I can not get my users web sites to come up. When you type the URL http://domainname.edu/~user I get an error telling me I do not have permission to access it. I have done this before and the only thing I can think of is that this time during the install I chose medium instead of low on the security setting because this box is on the net all the time with a static IP running Apache, ProFTPd and SSH. The domain web site comes up fine it is just the users sites that are a problem. I have looked in the httpd config files and it has entries that look to me like it should work but what I know about configuring Apache is just enough to mess something up. Can any of you give me a hand? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3D support for SIS 300/305 AGP 16 meg video card?
For 3D-accelerated video - SiS - not much support is available. however if you have X problems you can use framebuffer. No sound - Mostly the cause of this is very low volume of the speakers or even mute being on. Look into kmix or alsamixer. rest I am not very sure hope it helps navin On Friday 30 November 2001 02:35 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I just installed v8.1 on an older computer (older is pretty subjective nowdays though - its still a 475mhz AMD K6-III with 192 megs of Ram) that belongs to my stepson. It has a Crystal ISA soundcard, as well as a SIS 300/305 AGP 16m video card. After installation, we got: No sound No 3D-accelerated video Are the Crystal and SIS supported? I tried to look up the SIS model at Mandrakes home page, as well as at Xfree.org, but found nothing useful. I ran sndconfig as root, and it would play a sound sample (Linus's voice, right?) but when it got to the midi sample, it said there was a modprobe error at the kernel level and wouldn't save anything or go on... ;-( Can anyone help? Thanks much! ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] very very very basic question about ls
Hello people I have a problem and am trying to fix something A directories I have on my /home/navin/apps/JBoss directory has entries of files and directories. Now some of these directories do not have x in the permission. I do not know how they got stripped off or if they were not present at all. I tried changing ownership to myself, changing permissions with chmod +x to directories. It workds but not for subdirectories. It is very cumbersome to go into each subdirectory and do a chmod +x. And I do not want to do chmod -R +x * - for obvious reasons. Now I was trying to cook up a small script which would go into each directory and do a chmod for me. For that I was trying to get 'ls -Rd' working but it prints ./ only. I tried 'ls -Rd *' but it prints directories in the current directory only. It does not recurse, i guess, since I gave -d. Can anyone please solve my problem with the chmod OR with the ls. thanks a lot. regards navin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] very very very basic question about ls
Hello people I have a problem and am trying to fix something A directories I have on my /home/navin/apps/JBoss directory has entries of files and directories. Now some of these directories do not have x in the permission. So it doesn't let me change to that directory with cd. I get a Permission denied. I do not know how they got stripped off or if they were not present at all. I tried changing ownership to myself, changing permissions with chmod +x to directories. It workds but not for subdirectories. It is very cumbersome to go into each subdirectory and do a chmod +x. And I do not want to do chmod -R +x * - for obvious reasons. Now I was trying to cook up a small script which would go into each directory and do a chmod for me. For that I was trying to get 'ls -Rd' working but it prints ./ only. I tried 'ls -Rd *' but it prints directories in the current directory only. It does not recurse, i guess, since I gave -d. Can anyone please solve my problem with the chmod OR with the ls. thanks a lot. regards navin --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] setting PATH variable and reloading /etc/profile
hello. is there a gui way to set the PATH variable for all users on the system (or an individual user) besides editing /etc/profile or /home/user/.profile? just wondering if a way exist to set the PATH and other variables like on window's system control panel's environment variables... also, if one makes changes to the /etc/profile, how can those changes be made to take effect without logging out and back in? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't shutdown (locks at IPVS)
I can't get my system to shutdown completely. it started after I installed the Nvidia rpm's from Mandrakeuser.org. When I log out from KDE, I'm at a console prompt. Then I issue Shutdown now command. I get a graphic showing me all these processes being shut down. Then it stops at unloading (or clearing) IPVS . I have to an Alt-PrintScrn R-S-E-I-U to shutdown. Any suggestions on what could be going on. (I followed instructions for installing NVida drivers - everything checks out in the XF86Config-4 file) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SMTP error
I'm having a problem sending email in Mandrake 8.1. Today I tried to send an email with a file attachment (1.8 mb) and I couldn't send in either Kmail or Mozilla Messenger. When I click on send in either program it appears to be sending the data and then just aborts. Kmail gives me this error message: Sending failed: a SMTP error occured. Command: CONNECT Response: Error reading socket. The message will stay inthe 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. Note: other messages will also be blocked by this message, as long as it is in the 'outbox' folder. The following transport protocol was used: smtp://shawmail:25 Mozilla Messenger gives an error message of: sending of message failed The funny thing is I can send smaller text messages with no problems it only seems to happen when I try to attach a file. My isp has a limit of 5 mb so I'm well below that with the 1.8 mb file. Can anybody shed some light on what might be the problem and what I can do to fix it? TIA Steve M. -- ___ Linux Mandrake 8.1 (Vitamin) Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk i686 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dying Gateway and Internet Connection
Because I am using a satellite broadband connection that isn't supported in Linux I have to use another computer on my lan as a gateway to the Internet. All the settings are correct and the setup works most of the time. Unfortunately, my system seems to forget the gateway on a regular basis. The fix is to restart networking and everything is fine again. When it has forgotten the gateway I can ping anywhere on the Internet via ip address but it doesn't find the name servers. I can ping the name servers and I have connectivity, it is like the system just forgets to use them. I can use the name servers from any of the other PCs on the network - just not my Linux box, until I restart networking. Has anyone heard of a similar problem? This is a new one for me with Mandrake 8.1. I didn't have this problem with 7.2 and essentially the same network setup. Any suggestions about what might be flakey? Traci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
