Re: [newbie-it] Piccola indagine di mercatato..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mi chiedevo.. ci sarebbero degli interessati a partecipare ad un corso on-line per amministratori di sistema? si interessato se la cosa va' avanti segnalamelo anche in forma privata. grazie anticipatamente -- Mario Vittorio Guenzi Zincometal S.p.A. c.so Europa Str.prov 34 20010-Inveruno (MI) tel: 02-979661 fax: 02-97966351 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zincometal.com Si vis pacem, para bellum
Re: [newbie-it] modem usb + linux = :(
Vai sul sito di Mandrake e cerca il modem alla voce HARDWARE RICONOSCIUTO . Troverai le istruzioni per lo scarico delle risorse che cerchi. Salve a tutti, Io invece ho il modem Alcatel ADSL Speed touch USB (sul sito mandrake risulta supportato) e una versione Mandrake 8.0 da due CD, e al moment o dell'installazione tale modem non risultava nella lista. Sapreste spiegarmi come si procede su Linux a ricercare un driver scaricarselo da rete (a questo punto dovrei farlo da Windows) e poi passarmelo sulla partizione Linux e farglielo digerire; qual'è il post o dove sono i driver ? e poi come si dice al proprio Linux di cercarsi il dri ver sull'Hard disc anziche sul CD di installazione ? La manovra è analoga a quella che avevo imparato su windows o è differ ente ? grazie Marco Fortini - Original Message - From: Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] modem usb + linux = :( Hai scritto salve, allora io ho un modem adsl ericsson hm120dp usb (grazie telecom) vorrei sapere come riuscire a farlo vedere a linux (ho mandrake 8.1) grazie in anticipo ... facendotelo cambiare dalla telecom con un manta usb alcatel (da quanto ne so io quel modello dell'ericsson non è ancora supportato) Ciao Marco
Re: [newbie-it] installazione xine
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:32:54 -0800 (PST) luigi pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ho provato ad installare tutto bene... quando l'ho fatto partire prima non trovava le librerie libdvdread ma ho risolto installando l'rpm presente nel sito, e ho lanciato. l'errore non c'era pi_ in compenso attivava una sessione telnet: perch_ per lanciare un programma di lettura di dvd (vls)devo necessariamente connettermi? invio la copia dei messaggi dalla console Perche' hai installato il server? Se vuoi solo vedere i dvd ti basta il client (vlc) e se scarichi il file dei sorgenti (tar.gz) non dovresti aver bisogno d' altro. Ciao -- Sebastiano
Re: [newbie] no 'control center' after InteractiveBastille
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 01:56, you wrote: What feedback do you get from the console when you try to run su? Open up a console window and type su+enter followed by the root passwprd. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 21:38, ai4a wrote: Hi, After I ran InteractiveBastille I can not get into 'control center' (the one on the desktop with an icon - not the one under k-menu?). A window comes up asking for the root password. I enter the password, press enter, 'control center' just disappears. Any help would be appreciated. TNA Charles =_1009938918-11608-2836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com In setting up Bastille you must have selected the option to disable suid or usrctl, I can't remember which it is, but in so doing, the access to a root console through su is halted. I would reconfigure and be very careful to not answer yes when it asks questions something like may we disable this process or that process? Also do not select file size limitations as yes because that will also stop access to su console. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Colorado Jumbo 350 on 8.1
Hi list I just bought a Colorado Jumbo 350 tape drive to recover some old old files left over from another life. It came with the old MS 95 drivers, but I want it on my ML8.1 box. Anyone have experience with this dinosaur? TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] VI Question and Building Pine
Hello All, I have a couple of questionshopefully you will be able to answer them ;-) 1) When I use VI on Unix, in order to get the system command, I hit Shift-Q, then I can write, quit, etc. However, when I do this, I don't get the system command. Also, when I ssh into my server from a Windows ssh terminal and use VI, I get garbage on the screen, regardless of the file. Any idea? 2) I downloaded Pine from the University of Washington so I can do mail from a ssh. The instructions say to type build lnx in order to get it to work. However, when I type in this command, it says it can't find the command build. I look in the directory and I see a find a file called build* I see that asterisk in many files. What does that mean and how do I access the build file? Thanks for everyone's help. Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CVS and SSH
I am trying to set up a CVS server using SSH as defined by http://www.wincvs.org/ssh.html and I use the version of SSH as described by the instructions. Now, I set up my ssh keys as described by using name@server, etc. Now, when I finalize the instructions and try to log on without a password, I still get an error. I check the logs and it says the server is refusing the keys. Anyone know anything about this problem? Do I need to configure my server a certain way? Because I am going to do only local uploads / downloads to this server, I have the following key sequencing: ssh-keygen -C paulz@athena -f ./.ssh/identity Is this valid? Paul Zargon -- __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Another new problem.. :(
Hey All, Well I got my box backup and working. Now here is my other problem. I have only 7.9 megs left on /dev/hda1 which is my root my /home has over 300 megs. I have a several hundred meg hard drive sitting here that I want to install and run the programs off that. What would be easier? Taking my entire /home and moving it to the new hard drive and re-partitioning my box or what? Any tips? Ideas? Etc? Thanks a ton! Eric
Re: [newbie] no 'control center' after InteractiveBastille
Paul Rodríguez wrote: What feedback do you get from the console when you try to run su? Open up a console window and type su+enter followed by the root passwprd. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 21:38, ai4a wrote: Hi, After I ran InteractiveBastille I can not get into 'control center' (the one on the desktop with an icon - not the one under k-menu?). A window comes up asking for the root password. I enter the password, press enter, 'control center' just disappears. Any help would be appreciated. TNA Charles =_1009938918-11608-2836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ 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 At first I got 'File size something or other' error. I found the fix for that. Now 'su' works fine. Tks Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Reading UDF on CDRW problem
Hi All People, CDRW mounting and reading UDF problem. /dev/cdrom and /mn/cdrom CRWriter /dev/cdrom1 and /mnt/cdrom1 CDRom /etc/fstab table as follows: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults1 1 none/dev/ptsdevpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none/proc proc defaults0 0 none/dev/shmtmpfsdefaults0 0 /dev/hda7 swapswap defaults0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660,udf noauto,owner,kudzu,rw 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 auto noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 - Could mount CDRW from CDRom desktop icon but could read its content. - Could mount on Console Window and read CDRW with following command; mount /dev/cdrom -t udf /mnt/cdrom or mount /dev/cdrom1 -t udf /mnt/cdrom mounting CDRW on CDWriter desktop icon only reading following 2 files; - autorun.inf - udrinst.exe Any suggestion on modifying /etc/fstab for remedy. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ScanJet 4c
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:35 am, you wrote: Being that I am coming from a limited FreeBSD back ground, I am haveing some trouble with another device. I now have a ScanJet 4c with the SCSI card that came with it from HP. I am running LM 8.1. LM does not find the card. All I did was actually reinstall LM. It still did not see it. Should I get another SCSI card, if so, what kind should I get. I really like this scanner, and would like to get it working with LM8.1, any help would me great. Bob My 4c uses an ISA SCSI card that came with it. The module I use is the sym53c416. Is yours the same? Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Euphoria
I've played around with it in the past. I have a somewhat outdated page on it www.bejay.com/euphoria.htm. It's an interesting little language. Barbara At 09:33 PM 1/1/2002, you wrote: Dear All, Has anyone used Euphoria? Is it worthwhile? Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia 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] cron message
I think that the job is trying to display and recevive info from the screen and it can't as you are running the job as a script. This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1009904480-11608-2751 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have set up a cron job and this is the message i have received Your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen or position the cursor. how vcan i solve this prob? thanks in advance =_1009904480-11608-2751 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1009904480-11608-2751-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no 'control center' after InteractiveBastille
ai4a wrote: Paul Rodríguez wrote: What feedback do you get from the console when you try to run su? Open up a console window and type su+enter followed by the root passwprd. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 21:38, ai4a wrote: Hi, After I ran InteractiveBastille I can not get into 'control center' (the one on the desktop with an icon - not the one under k-menu?). A window comes up asking for the root password. I enter the password, press enter, 'control center' just disappears. Any help would be appreciated. TNA Charles =_1009938918-11608-2836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ 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 At first I got 'File size something or other' error. I found the fix for that. Now 'su' works fine. Tks Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi, I can now run 'control center'. In /etc/bastille-no-login I commented out the single entry 'root'. I have changed so much, so I am going to reinstall MD 8.1. InteractiveBastille has been a great learning experience!!! Next time I try it I will know much more about it (I hope). Thanks to all Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no 'control center' after InteractiveBastille
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 07:31, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 02 January 2002 01:56, you wrote: What feedback do you get from the console when you try to run su? Open up a console window and type su+enter followed by the root passwprd. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 21:38, ai4a wrote: Hi, After I ran InteractiveBastille I can not get into 'control center' (the one on the desktop with an icon - not the one under k-menu?). A window comes up asking for the root password. I enter the password, press enter, 'control center' just disappears. Any help would be appreciated. TNA Charles =_1009938918-11608-2836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com In setting up Bastille you must have selected the option to disable suid or usrctl, I can't remember which it is, but in so doing, the access to a root console through su is halted. I would reconfigure and be very careful to not answer yes when it asks questions something like may we disable this process or that process? Also do not select file size limitations as yes because that will also stop access to su console. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi Dennis, No, I did not disable suid. I looked in /etc/Bastille.config just to make sure. This morning I tried to log into KDE as ROOT. No success. I will try flushing the iptables rules see if that helps anything. I will also redo InteractiveBastille and make everything the safest way I can. Is there any way to just undo InteractiveBastille Tks Charles Hi Charles, I have never just undone Bastille, I just rerun the InteractiveBastille and it should reset the iptables. I have used urpme to delete it from my system and then reinstalled from scratch, but don't think that changes the iptables, you would have to remove them also. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no permission to mount cdrom
Julian, It must be related to what security setting you use. On both a Mandrake 7.2 and an 8.1 box, I have a cdrom group listed. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:47 PM 01/01/2002 -0600, you wrote: Well I don't even have a cdrom group, and I assure you I can access the device perfectly well as a regular user. julian. == At 07:24 PM 1/1/02 -0600, you wrote: Gerald, This is actually further restricted, because user(s) mounting / umounting the CDROM must be in the 'cdrom' group. This also applies to the floppy. In order to mount / umount the floppy drive, you must be in the floppy group. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 01:58 PM 01/01/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2002 01:34 pm, Julian Opificius wrote: If I understand that what you're asking for is for multiple users to be able to mount and unmount CD-ROMS, then you must change user to users in fstab. See man mount. using users will allow any user to umount the filesystem using user allows any user to mount the filesystem but only the user that mounted the filesystem to umount it. Which sounds like a good idea! Gerald 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 == Julian A. Opificius. 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 == 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] RE: Zip Drive and fstab
Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I am using Mandrake 8.1. I can access my floppy and my cdrom but not the Zip disk. It is an internal Atapi drive. My fstab entry looks like this: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,icharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 when I try to mount with the icon I get the following message: mount special device /dev/hdd4 does not exist I know it is probably something really simple, but I just can't figure it out. Your help is greatly appreciated. Maureen Do a dmesg dmesg.txt Read it. Go to the section with your drives in it. Make sure that your Zip drive really is hdd4. If it is, then right click on your Zip icon, pick properties and make sure its pointing to what your Zip drive really is (not /mnt/zip). Other than that...dunno. Hope this helps though! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Colorado Jumbo 350 on 8.1
Lee, Mandrake-group: I had one of those for a zillion ... no, wait, 2 zillion years ago :-) There ARE linux drivers for that beast. I didnt know they still existed. Have a look in the drivers data base ... where was it ... I dont remember ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Ø©Eªnº - þªT®iª - NØsT®ª] Wednesday, January 02, 2002, 11:15:44 [Islas Canarias, GMT]. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió [2/01/2002, 9:21]: L I just bought a Colorado Jumbo 350 tape drive to recover some L old old files left over from another life. It came with the L old MS 95 drivers, but I want it on my ML8.1 box. Anyone have L experience with this dinosaur? end of file Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RE: Zip Drive and fstab
tester wrote: In this case you need to create the device mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 69 Civileme Hi Civileme...can I butt in here? Please further my 'Nix education. grin Why does he have to mknod here? I've seen this kind of reply before to/from other users and I'm afraid I just don't understand it. I'm using v8.1 and supermount (of course) is off. My Zip icon under KDE wouldn't work either, but it was a matter of right-clicking on the Zip icon, choosing properties, and pointing it to /dev/hdd4 instead of /mnt/zip. Can't he just do the same thing? If not, whats different under his setup as compared to mine? I've got an Atapi Zip drive as well. Thanks for imparting your worldly sage advice upon this blundering fool, O enlightened one! lol -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Update problem in 8.0
I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake Update, and setup a security update site. As soon as I do that (and I've reinstalled Mandrake just to check it) it starts filling the trees and when it gets to the security site, it stops at 26% (every time) and freezes. I have to kill the program. So now, basically, I can't update my computer except by getting rpms and using kpackage. Anyone else had this problem and any suggestions on how to fix it? And no, I can't get Mandrake 8.1 to work on this computer, so don't suggest that. Thanks! Barbara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command
Hi Michael, Happy New Year !!! Further to my email of 12/31/2001 rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom1/Tetex/tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: dialog is needed by tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk libintl.so.1 is needed by tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk rpmdb: Item 118 on page 547 hashes incorrectly error: db3 error(-30985) from db-verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed I located dialog-0.6-16.386 in following site http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/partners/ibm/ibm_netfinity.html but it was not there any more. Nor I could locate libintl.so.1.rpm Kindly advise where I can find them. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen At 12:57 PM 12/31/2001 +0800, you wrote: Thanks Michael B.R. Stephen At 10:41 PM 12/30/2001 -0600, you wrote: Install tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk.i586.rpm from the updates section of the ftp site. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:27 PM 12/31/2001 +0800, you wrote: Hi Tom, Further to my late posting Sorry, I made a mistake adding '~$' to the command line Tried at root / # which tex /usr/bin/tex /usr/bin/which: no tex in (/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bi n:/root/bin)... what I have been missing ? B.R. Stephen At 09:05 AM 12/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:26 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi All People, When I rebuild src.rpm it prompted Make : tex : can't find command What is this command ? ~ $ which tex /usr/bin/tex ~ $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/tex tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk Note: the -31.1mdk means this was probly a security update -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update problem in 8.0
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 11:58, you wrote: Try urpmi.removemedia ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu without the quotes of course and fill in the ftp where you where ftp. take care, Eric L. McClure I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake Update, and setup a security update site. As soon as I do that (and I've reinstalled Mandrake just to check it) it starts filling the trees and when it gets to the security site, it stops at 26% (every time) and freezes. I have to kill the program. So now, basically, I can't update my computer except by getting rpms and using kpackage. Anyone else had this problem and any suggestions on how to fix it? And no, I can't get Mandrake 8.1 to work on this computer, so don't suggest that. Thanks! Barbara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command
My question now is what version of Mandrake are you using? If you are using 8.1, the dependencies are a lot different than 7.x (ie, a 7.x rpm won't work properly on 8.x, and a 8.x rpm will give off all kinds of errors on a 7.x box) Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 01:01 AM 01/03/2002 +0800, you wrote: Hi Michael, Happy New Year !!! Further to my email of 12/31/2001 rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom1/Tetex/tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: dialog is needed by tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk libintl.so.1 is needed by tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk rpmdb: Item 118 on page 547 hashes incorrectly error: db3 error(-30985) from db-verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed I located dialog-0.6-16.386 in following site http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/partners/ibm/ibm_netfinity.html but it was not there any more. Nor I could locate libintl.so.1.rpm Kindly advise where I can find them. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen At 12:57 PM 12/31/2001 +0800, you wrote: Thanks Michael B.R. Stephen At 10:41 PM 12/30/2001 -0600, you wrote: Install tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk.i586.rpm from the updates section of the ftp site. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:27 PM 12/31/2001 +0800, you wrote: Hi Tom, Further to my late posting Sorry, I made a mistake adding '~$' to the command line Tried at root / # which tex /usr/bin/tex /usr/bin/which: no tex in (/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bi n:/root/bin)... what I have been missing ? B.R. Stephen At 09:05 AM 12/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:26 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi All People, When I rebuild src.rpm it prompted Make : tex : can't find command What is this command ? ~ $ which tex /usr/bin/tex ~ $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/tex tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk Note: the -31.1mdk means this was probly a security update -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, 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
[newbie] TV card suggestions?
Hi all My TV was hit by a lightning surge and has entered TV-heaven :-( If it is beyond fixing I may consider getting a TV card for my 'puter rather than a new TV. I don't really care about frame-grabbing etc: I just want to watch the occasional program, and I don't care if it is fullscreen only. Can anyone suggest a hardware/software combo that works well, easily and cheaply (pick any two) with Mandrake? We use the PAL TV setup where I live, if that matters. Oh, yes, and my system started out as mdk 8.0, but is by now best described as a Cooker special ... 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 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
[newbie] icons in KDE 2.2.2
Hi guys I just tried to upgrade my KDE from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 downloading it from a cooker ftp. I downloaded what I thought was enough to make it work finebut when I restarted my boxpuff...almost all the icons gone!!! which of the packages did I miss??? or which dependency did I screw up? Thanks in advance to you all and a happy new MS-free year!! Bye Maurizio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Colorado Jumbo 350 on 8.1
The FTape HOWTO might be what you need. http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Ftape-HOWTO.html -Original Message- From: [ © ª N ª ® i º JØË ]¹ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:20:54 + Subject: [newbie] Re: Colorado Jumbo 350 on 8.1 Lee, Mandrake-group: I had one of those for a zillion ... no, wait, 2 zillion years ago :-) There ARE linux drivers for that beast. I didnt know they still existed. Have a look in the drivers data base ... where was it ... I dont remember ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Ø©Eªnº - þªT®iª - NØsT®ª] Wednesday, January 02, 2002, 11:15:44 [Islas Canarias, GMT]. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió [2/01/2002, 9:21]: L I just bought a Colorado Jumbo 350 tape drive to recover some L old old files left over from another life. It came with the L old MS 95 drivers, but I want it on my ML8.1 box. Anyone have L experience with this dinosaur? end of file Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RE: Zip Drive and fstab
tester wrote: Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I am using Mandrake 8.1. I can access my floppy and my cdrom but not the Zip disk. It is an internal Atapi drive. My fstab entry looks like this: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,icharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 when I try to mount with the icon I get the following message: mount special device /dev/hdd4 does not exist I know it is probably something really simple, but I just can't figure it out. Your help is greatly appreciated. Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com In this case you need to create the device mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 69 Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ack Typo mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 68 is what it should be major 22 is ide channel secondary minor 64+partition number is slave drive and partition number combined. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB Smart Media Card Readers/Was RE: Zip Drive and fstab
I've been thinking that MKNOD is what I should be doing, rather than MAKEDEV. MODPROBE doesn't give me an SDA1, but I do have an SDA. I'm curious: how do you determine those major and minor numbers? Is this something to be found in the UsbView output? Or is this limited to IDE and not USB? Also, am I fighting a losing battle - will Linux work with just card readers that do not have more than one 'slot'? That is, is a card reader that can accomodate both CF and SM doomed to failure? tester wrote: tester wrote: Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I am using Mandrake 8.1. I can access my floppy and my cdrom but not the Zip disk. It is an internal Atapi drive. My fstab entry looks like this: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,icharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 when I try to mount with the icon I get the following message: mount special device /dev/hdd4 does not exist I know it is probably something really simple, but I just can't figure it out. Your help is greatly appreciated. Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com In this case you need to create the device mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 69 Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ack Typo mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 68 is what it should be major 22 is ide channel secondary minor 64+partition number is slave drive and partition number combined. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] can not read acrobat files
When I click a pdf it starts up something called PS and PFD Viewer, in wich I can see the page numbers in the left of the window. The problem is that all the pages appear blank. I tried a number of different pdfs and every single one does the same. do I have to somehow configure this program? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can not read acrobat files
That application is kghostview I assume it needs ghostview installed to work so it is worth checking that Ghostview is present. It is also worth checking how your documents look in Ghostview. You should be able to view your documents with Ghostview if you right click on them in konqueror file manager. It should offer you a choice of several viewers. If it does not then just select 'Open with' and then type gv in the application select window. You could also go to the adobe site and install Acrobat reader. However personally I find Ghostview much nicer to use. For example the Adobe Acrobat reader cannot even rotate the page. Sometimes you do find some pdf files that cannot be read in one or other of the viewers so it is useful to have more than one available. If you want to use a different application as the default vewer then just open KDE control CentreFile BrowsingFile Associations and then either add/delete applications or change their precedence order. HTH derek On Wednesday 02 January 2002 18:21, Stojs wrote: When I click a pdf it starts up something called PS and PFD Viewer, in wich I can see the page numbers in the left of the window. The problem is that all the pages appear blank. I tried a number of different pdfs and every single one does the same. do I have to somehow configure this program? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update problem in 8.0
A lot of people are having that problem as Texstar remarks here http://66.69.180.165:8080/article.php?sid=1055mode=threadorder=0thold=0 It seems to be related to the servers rather than your computer so updating to 8.1 would not help. To remove your current non functioning mirror use urpmi.removemedia If it is any consolation my own updates are working perfectly. I am using the sunite.se server. Maybe it would work for you too? HTH derek On Wednesday 02 January 2002 16:58, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake Update, and setup a security update site. As soon as I do that (and I've reinstalled Mandrake just to check it) it starts filling the trees and when it gets to the security site, it stops at 26% (every time) and freezes. I have to kill the program. So now, basically, I can't update my computer except by getting rpms and using kpackage. Anyone else had this problem and any suggestions on how to fix it? And no, I can't get Mandrake 8.1 to work on this computer, so don't suggest that. Thanks! Barbara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another new problem.. :(
Eric Budinger wrote: Hey All, Well I got my box backup and working. Now here is my other problem. I have only 7.9 megs left on /dev/hda1 which is my root... my /home has over 300 megs. I have a several hundred meg hard drive sitting here that I want to install and run the programs off that. What would be easier? Taking my entire /home and moving it to the new hard drive and re-partitioning my box or what? Any tips? Ideas?Etc? Thanks a ton! Eric Well surgery on / is very difficult, because you cannot unmount it from a running system. You have several options... Method A: If /usr is a subdirectory of / instead of a separately mounted partition, you can move that to the second disk if there is room--Here's how: 1. Put in your second disk 2. boot 3. when you get to the GUI run Mandrake Control Center=Hardware=MountPoints 4. When diskdrake comes up, save your partition table to floppy and make a partition on the second disk called /spusr ,,, When you exit, make sure you answer the save changes to /etc/fstab with a yes, and also make sure you format and mount the partition. 5. after exiting diskdrake, bring up a terminal and $ su password(your root password) # cp -a /usr/* /spusr # kedit /etc/fstab change the line where /spusr is defined to /usr save and exit # mkdir /oldusr # mv /usr /oldusr # umount /spusr # mount /usr Almost done--now recover the space # rm -r /oldusr -f And now you should have much roon in / Method B: It may be that there isn't sufficient room on the new drive or that /usr is already separated. Either... 1. Make room for / by moving those things right after it (by Method A) 2. Install the rpm ext2resize from your distribution disks using Software Manager 3. In a terminal as root run the command ext2end / +(blocks to add) (this can be done while it is live and mounted) OR separate /var from / which will also create space (method A) Almost any other moves will require a reinstallation. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can not read acrobat files
i have more consistent success with 'xpdf', in kde you can configure the filetype by right clicking on a pdf file so it opens with this instead (you may have to install it of course!) my guess is that some later version of acrobat makes pdfs that can't be read by the kde viewer since some pdfs work and others don't, but that is just a guess bascule On Wednesday 02 January 2002 6:21 pm, you wrote: When I click a pdf it starts up something called PS and PFD Viewer, in wich I can see the page numbers in the left of the window. The problem is that all the pages appear blank. I tried a number of different pdfs and every single one does the same. do I have to somehow configure this program? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update problem in 8.0
Barbara Pfieffer wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake Update, and setup a security update site. As soon as I do that (and I've reinstalled Mandrake just to check it) it starts filling the trees and when it gets to the security site, it stops at 26% (every time) and freezes. I have to kill the program. So now, basically, I can't update my computer except by getting rpms and using kpackage. Anyone else had this problem and any suggestions on how to fix it? And no, I can't get Mandrake 8.1 to work on this computer, so don't suggest that. Thanks! Barbara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com do a urpmi.removemedia (ftp.nameofbadsite.com/directorystuff) then try a different mirror. Not all mirrors are managed carefully as they are all volunteered space, and incorrect permissions would cause exactly what you are seeing. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE Startup Sound
Sound has never worked as it should on my 8.1 with SB Live Value, but it's worked well enough to do what I want (for instance, using mpg123 or ogg132 instead of xmms, etc.). Things are still fine, but I'm regularly expiencing something strange that I thought I ask about. When startx into KDE, I hear no startup sound. But if, later in the session, I play a song, like with mpg123, the KDE startup sound plays all of the sudden. It doesn't affect the music playing at all. It's just weird. Any ideas? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another new problem.. :(
Well surgery on / is very difficult, because you cannot unmount it from a running system. You have several options... Method A: If /usr is a subdirectory of / instead of a separately mounted partition, you can move that to the second disk if there is room--Here's how: 1. Put in your second disk 2. boot 3. when you get to the GUI run Mandrake Control Center=Hardware=MountPoints 4. When diskdrake comes up, save your partition table to floppy and make a partition on the second disk called /spusr ,,, When you exit, make sure you answer the save changes to /etc/fstab with a yes, and also make sure you format and mount the partition. 5. after exiting diskdrake, bring up a terminal and $ su password(your root password) # cp -a /usr/* /spusr # kedit /etc/fstab change the line where /spusr is defined to /usr save and exit # mkdir /oldusr # mv /usr /oldusr # umount /spusr # mount /usr If it isn't on a separate partition, you can skip 'mkdir /oldusr' as 'mv /usr /oldusr' will complain that the directory exists. Almost done--now recover the space # rm -r /oldusr -f And now you should have much roon in / Method B: It may be that there isn't sufficient room on the new drive or that /usr is already separated. Either... 1. Make room for / by moving those things right after it (by Method A) 2. Install the rpm ext2resize from your distribution disks using Software Manager 3. In a terminal as root run the command ext2end / +(blocks to add) (this can be done while it is live and mounted) OR separate /var from / which will also create space (method A) Almost any other moves will require a reinstallation. Civileme 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] can not read acrobat files
Stojs wrote: When I click a pdf it starts up something called PS and PFD Viewer, in wich I can see the page numbers in the left of the window. The problem is that all the pages appear blank. I tried a number of different pdfs and every single one does the same. do I have to somehow configure this program? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well right click on the pdf file and select Open with and type in xpdf in the blank and tick Remember association and from then on pdf files will offer you xpdf and PS files wil be opened by the viewer. In 8.1 the viewer finally works right on ps and pdf files, but xpdf is a great program, too, and it can print the files for you. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Conflict between Printing Sound in LM8.1
Dear All, I have been having a long struggle getting my ethernet, sound, and printing all working at the same time. I have studied all relevant files, how-to's, and asked many questions but so far no answer that has worked. I do have a clue now. My sound module is not loaded when I start up. It worked fine in 7, 7.2 and 8 but now in 8.1 it only works when I put sb into the /etc/modules file. After I do that then my printer does not work. My printer and ethernet work just fine without sound but the printer and sound will not work together so far. This tells me there must be a conflict somewhere however I cannot tell where it is. I have checked the /proc/ioports, interrupts, and dma files as well as all others that could be relevant yet cannot find the conflict. This has been so baffling. I have the ESS1868 sound card which works well with the sb sound module. My printer is a brand new HP Deskject 940c which works great as long as I do not install the sound. The same thing was happening with my old Epson Stylus Color before I got this new one. Does anyone have any ideas here? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem correctly detecting cdrom
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 13:41, mr_tortoise wrote: | I'm have problems mounting my cdrom. I assume that supermount was | installed on the system. I have tried mounting the cdrom drive at the | command line and using konqueror with no success. I have two cdroms | installed - a TEAC CDRW and a generic cdrom that did not work in | windows, so I am only concerned with with getting the TEAC to work. It | was working OK with a default install of Mandrake 8.0. When I run | HardDrake 3 cdrom devices are detected: [snip] | Seems that HardDrake is detecting the TEAC drive twice. Also, the TEAC | drive is not a SCSI drive (I think I would have remembered installing a | SCSI card and a big chunk of change leaving my bank account!) [snip] | Near the end of the log I found this: | | SCSI cdrom error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 2800 | Info fld=0x10, ILI Current sd0b:00: sense key Illegal Request | Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for this track |I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64 | isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=0b:00, iso_blknum=16, block=16 | SCSI cdrom error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 2800 | Info fld=0x10, ILI Current sd0b:00: sense key Illegal Requestheck that /etc/lilo.conf has: append= hdc=ide-scsi which will load the scsi emulation at boot. | | Actually, the lines Additional sense... to Info fld=0x10... is | repeated five or six times. Also, when I do a ls hd* in /dev hdc is | not there but when I look for SCSI devices I find scd0. | | Any ideas on what I need to do to get the CDrom working? I know this | is a lengthy message but I wanted to include all the information that | someone who really knows hardware and Mandrake would need. | | TIA, | mr_tortoise Firstly, scsi emulation is necessary for cd writing, thats why your cdrw is listed twice (once with scsi emulation on /dev/scd0). It should have been the same when you were using ML8.0. Check that /etc/lilo.conf (make a backup copy before editing) has: append= hdc=ide-scsi (assuming your cdrw is hdc) which will load the scsi emulation at boot. You can also add your cdrom drive there as well, which will allow cd burning apps to read from your cdrom drive and write to your cdrw drive (eg. when copying cds): append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi (assuming your cdrom is hdd) You will need to run lilo for the change to take effect: /sbin/lilo Secondly, if you're using the standard kernel with ML8.1 (2.4.8-26mdk), supermount is broken in that kernel. But you can TRY to mount it with supermount as I think others had some success (not me tho) - in a terminal as root supermount -i enable without the quotes. If supermount doesn't work for you, then again in a terminal as root supermount -i disable without the quotes. Then try mounting your cdrom as root in a terminal with mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom (without the quotes). You can change your /etc/fstab file as well from supermount to auto (again, make a backup copy before editing). I don't know about the error in your boot log so if you're still having problems perhaps someone else can help you. [Note: Supermount is fixed in the newer kernels, so I suppose you could install a newer kernel. Be warned: do NOT update your kernel but INSTALL it with rpm -ivh kernel-package_name.i586.rpm - see the archives] skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Conflict between Printing Sound in LM8.1
Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have been having a long struggle getting my ethernet, sound, and printing all working at the same time. I have studied all relevant files, how-to's, and asked many questions but so far no answer that has worked. I do have a clue now. My sound module is not loaded when I start up. It worked fine in 7, 7.2 and 8 but now in 8.1 it only works when I put sb into the /etc/modules file. After I do that then my printer does not work. My printer and ethernet work just fine without sound but the printer and sound will not work together so far. This tells me there must be a conflict somewhere however I cannot tell where it is. I have checked the /proc/ioports, interrupts, and dma files as well as all others that could be relevant yet cannot find the conflict. This has been so baffling. I have the ESS1868 sound card which works well with the sb sound module. My printer is a brand new HP Deskject 940c which works great as long as I do not install the sound. The same thing was happening with my old Epson Stylus Color before I got this new one. Does anyone have any ideas here? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Get into your BIOS find Power Management where it says ACPI-aware OS, make sure it is set to NO It sounds like ACPI is stacking all your interrupts in one place. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] huge fonts!
Sounds like a good excuse to me to buy a bigger monitor ;-) But admittedly, there may be another solution. Is it just a problem with fonts, or is everything big? Perhaps the screen resolution got reset. If it's just with fonts, try using the Control Center to change the font sizes. Miark - Original Message - From: Tom Picot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 6:16 PM Subject: [newbie] huge fonts! Hi, I run mandrake 8. I changed X to the 4.x version using mandrakes setup program (can't rem the name, but, it let's you change the version running. So, I changed from 3.x to 4.x and now X has HUGE fonts. Everythings giant. What should I do?! Thanks for any help. Tom. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TV card suggestions?
i Have an ATI TV wonder ve card. autodetected in 8.1 and works fine rob On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:26:29 +0200 Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all My TV was hit by a lightning surge and has entered TV-heaven :-( If it is beyond fixing I may consider getting a TV card for my 'puter rather than a new TV. I don't really care about frame-grabbing etc: I just want to watch the occasional program, and I don't care if it is fullscreen only. Can anyone suggest a hardware/software combo that works well, easily and cheaply (pick any two) with Mandrake? We use the PAL TV setup where I live, if that matters. Oh, yes, and my system started out as mdk 8.0, but is by now best described as a Cooker special ... 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 f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn msg85856/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Update problem in 8.0
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 14:29, you wrote: Barbara Pfieffer wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake Update, and setup a security update site. As soon as I do that (and I've reinstalled Mandrake just to check it) it starts filling the trees and when it gets to the security site, it stops at 26% (every time) and freezes. I have to kill the program. So now, basically, I can't update my computer except by getting rpms and using kpackage. Anyone else had this problem and any suggestions on how to fix it? And no, I can't get Mandrake 8.1 to work on this computer, so don't suggest that. Thanks! Barbara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com do a urpmi.removemedia (ftp.nameofbadsite.com/directorystuff) then try a different mirror. Not all mirrors are managed carefully as they are all volunteered space, and incorrect permissions would cause exactly what you are seeing. Civileme Hi Barbara and Civileme, I've had the same problem, and I've tried two sites: ciril.fr, and when I tried to download the list of mirrors, stealth.net. Boith gave me the same problem. I've deleted the list another way delete in var/lib/urpmi -- will that cause problems? If you could suggest a good site, one that works, it would be appreciated since I think I'm overdue for updating (July '01 was my last succesful attempt!) Regards, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember, in your prayers, the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly with His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Capturing audio
grecord came with md 8.1 and should already be on your system. Nev -- John Rye wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a usable program for capturing audio from my soundcard. I've hunted all over Freshmeat and Google but don't seem to be abble to find anything which compiles let alone works!! If it's of any help I'm running Mandrake 8.1, kernel 2.4.16. Biggest problem is locating the device file, everything seems to be looking for /dev/dsp but doesn't find it :-((( Any suggestions most welcome Cheers John 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
[newbie] Modules
I am trying to figure out how to get my HP Scan Jet 4c up and working. It has the SCSI card that came wth it from the factory. I was told the I need to use the module Sym53c416. I went to figure out how to load it, so I did, modprobe Sym53c416, I get this: [root@booga bob]# modprobe sym53c416 /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c416.o.gz: init_module: Operation not permitted Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c416.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c416.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c416.o.gz: insmod sym53c416 failed [root@booga bob]# What did I do wrong? Am I missing a step? Any help would be great. Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem shutting down
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 06:42, Paul Rodríguez wrote: | On my 8.1 system I have recently encountered a problem shutting down | the computer. I'm not sure what could be causing the problem since I | rarely need to power down, but when I choose 'halt', the system powers | down and then right up again. This didn't used to happen. | | Booting into Windows98 (something that's only been done a few times on | this box) shuts down without a problem (of course sometimes it crashes | while running). So it's not a hardware issue. What could be causing | this? I have the same problem in 8.1 with both 2.4.16.3mdk-1-1mdkenterprise and 2.4.8-26mdkenterprise kernels. I also didn't have this problem with 8.0 and Win98 still shuts down OK. I've tried halt, halt -p and shutdown -h now but they all have the same effect: after terminating all processes the computer makes the power down sound but keeps running. Your post prompted me to look in BIOS so I disabled ACPI but that didn't help either. Its got me stumped. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update problem in 8.0
On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:29:35 -0900, tester wrote: Barbara Pfieffer wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake Update, and setup a security update site. As soon as I do that (and I've reinstalled Mandrake just to check it) it starts filling the trees and when it gets to the security site, it stops at 26% (every time) and freezes. I have to kill the program. So now, basically, I can't update my computer except by getting rpms and using kpackage. Anyone else had this problem and any suggestions on how to fix it? And no, I can't get Mandrake 8.1 to work on this computer, so don't suggest that. Thanks! Barbara do a urpmi.removemedia (ftp.nameofbadsite.com/directorystuff) then try a different mirror. Not all mirrors are managed carefully as they are all volunteered space, and incorrect permissions would cause exactly what you are seeing. Civileme Well Barbara, here's another method. I prefer it, 'cause I'm no great hand at all this command-line wizardry. Unfortunately, I can't give you the exact information, 'cause I'm sitting at an OS/2 computer right now (my wife is using my linux-box !), but you will get the general idea : Somewhere in your /root directory ( you have to be root ) you'll find a file called something like urpmirc. It does only contain two lines. The first line is denoted with a #-sign and tells something about removing the second line. Do it. Save the file. Then restart Mandrake Update and you'll be offered the opportunity to reload the list of mirrors. Then change or delete your current mirror and choose another one. Personally I prefer ftp.sunsite.se, but maybe that's because I live in Denmark. I did it it this way, 'cause I had the same trouble with my preconfigured mirror (ftp.stealth.net). Try a mirror close to you. Good luck. Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Startup Sound
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:14:44 -0700, Miark wrote: Sound has never worked as it should on my 8.1 with SB Live Value, but it's worked well enough to do what I want (for instance, using mpg123 or ogg132 instead of xmms, etc.). Things are still fine, but I'm regularly expiencing something strange that I thought I ask about. When startx into KDE, I hear no startup sound. But if, later in the session, I play a song, like with mpg123, the KDE startup sound plays all of the sudden. It doesn't affect the music playing at all. It's just weird. Any ideas? Miark Same problem here, - it's no big deal though. Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 11:01 am, you wrote: error: failed dependencies: dialog is needed by tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk libintl.so.1 is needed by tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk rpmdb: Item 118 on page 547 hashes incorrectly error: db3 error(-30985) from db-verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed Nor I could locate libintl.so.1.rpm try rpm --rebuilddb http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=%20libintl http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=%20dialog rpmfind is your friend! :-) -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TV card suggestions?
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 11:26 am, you wrote: Hi all Can anyone suggest a hardware/software combo that works well, TIA Michel Hauppauge WinTV xawtv. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Conflict between Printing Sound in LM8.1
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:54 pm, you wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have been having a long struggle getting my ethernet, sound, and printing all working at the same time. I have studied all relevant files, how-to's, and asked many questions but so far no answer that has worked. I do have a clue now. My sound module is not loaded when I start up. It worked fine in 7, 7.2 and 8 but now in 8.1 it only works when I put sb into the /etc/modules file. After I do that then my printer does not work. My printer and ethernet work just fine without sound but the printer and sound will not work together so far. This tells me there must be a conflict somewhere however I cannot tell where it is. I have checked the /proc/ioports, interrupts, and dma files as well as all others that could be relevant yet cannot find the conflict. This has been so baffling. I have the ESS1868 sound card which works well with the sb sound module. My printer is a brand new HP Deskject 940c which works great as long as I do not install the sound. The same thing was happening with my old Epson Stylus Color before I got this new one. Does anyone have any ideas here? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Get into your BIOS find Power Management where it says ACPI-aware OS, make sure it is set to NO It sounds like ACPI is stacking all your interrupts in one place. Civileme Dear Civileme, I went into my Phoenix Award Bios , went to Power Mgmt. and could not find anything that said ACPI-aware OS. The selections were - Power Mgmt.:Disable PM Control by APM:yes Video Off Method V/H SYNC-Blank Modem Use Irq:3 Suspend Mode:Disable Hdd Power Drive:Disable The above was on the left side and on the right was a listing of all of the IRQ's and their assignment numbers which I did not send to you yet since there were so many. If ACPI is stacking all of my interrupts in one place is there another way to fix this? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] net appliance, or diskless terminal?
Hi, I'm building a computer to be used as an internet appliance basically. An old computer (PII 266) I'm connecting to the network for someone to browse the internet and write email. I have all the parts inclusing a new hard drive (5400rpm), but it occured to me that perhaps it might be beneficial to run this as a diskless terminal. What are the benefits/drawbacks of this? There will already be a server/gateway running. Would it run slower or faster as a diskless terminal than as a full machine connected to the network? Will it be easier or harder to maintain? Thanks for the help. -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] TV card suggestions?
s wrote: On Wednesday 02 January 2002 11:26 am, you wrote: Hi all Can anyone suggest a hardware/software combo that works well, TIA Michel Hauppauge WinTV xawtv. -s Add kwintv to that. 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] huge fonts!
Hi, I run mandrake 8. I changed X to the 4.x version using mandrakes setup program (can't rem the name, but, it let's you change the version running. So, I changed from 3.x to 4.x and now X has HUGE fonts. Everythings giant. What should I do?! Thanks for any help. Tom. Do you run by any chance a Virtual desktop sized rather big (Virtual setting in XF86Config-4)? Then this is typical. But why panic, just change the font sizes in kcontrol to sth. small. I run X with the following settings and I had to reduce font sizes to 6 and this looks perfect: Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 1920 1440 #Virtual2048 1536 EndSubsection Guy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[FYI] Re: [newbie] Conflict between Printing Sound in LM8.1
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:40:51 -0500 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I have been having a long struggle getting my ethernet, sound, and printing all working at the same time. I have studied all relevant files, how-to's, and asked many questions but so far no answer that has worked. I do have a clue now. My sound module is not loaded when I start up. It worked fine in 7, 7.2 and 8 but now in 8.1 it only works when I put sb into the /etc/modules file. After I do that then my printer does not work. My printer and ethernet work just fine without sound but the printer and sound will not work together so far. This tells me there must be a conflict somewhere however I cannot tell where it is. I have checked the /proc/ioports, interrupts, and dma files as well as all others that could be relevant yet cannot find the conflict. This has been so baffling. I have the ESS1868 sound card which works well with the sb sound module. My printer is a brand new HP Deskject 940c which works great as long as I do not install the sound. The same thing was happening with my old Epson Stylus Color before I got this new one. Does anyone have any ideas here? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia From the kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk package, file /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/alsa-driver-0.5.11/INSTALL : Module snd-card-es18xx.o Module for ESS AudioDrive ES-18xx soundcards. So the ALSA drivers may be an alternative. Good luck :) Btw, does your card show up with 'cat /proc/isapnp' ? -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SecurityUpdates and Kernel 2.4.8-31.2mdk
Well, I finally got SoftwareUpdate to work again. Browsing through the updates I notice the new kernel 2.4.8-31.2mdk. Now, I vaguely recall Civileme or someone else warning against updating the kernel through Update. I'm of the school If it ain't broke, don't fix it! -- is this update really necessary? I mean everything except AC97 sound recording works very well. Would you advise that I skip this update? Is it necessary? I'm a bit confused by the additional kernel stuff that's included with the update, i.e.: Kernel-source, kernel-linus 2.4, kernel 2.2 -- Do I upgrade all, or only the 2.4 items? Presently I'm running the stock LM8.0 kernel 2.4.3-20mdk. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to mess up my system that's working great for something that isn't necessary. Tia, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember, in your prayers, the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly with His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable
NTFS is compiled in the kernel but I'm unable to mount the drive I get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems If it is a bad superblock how do I check and correct the problem and just how many mounts are too many? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Zip file system not recognized
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 08:30 pm, you wrote: I thought everything was OK when mounting my zip, until I put a disk in it. I have the type set to auto, which works fine for floppy and cds, but when I insert a zip disk, I get an error message that it can't recognize the file system, and none is specified. I'm using an IBM/windows disk, I shouldn't have to reformat the disk, should I? TIA, Todd What happens if you change auto to vfat? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Zip file system not recognized
Todd Slater wrote: I thought everything was OK when mounting my zip, until I put a disk in it. I have the type set to auto, which works fine for floppy and cds, but when I insert a zip disk, I get an error message that it can't recognize the file system, and none is specified. I'm using an IBM/windows disk, I shouldn't have to reformat the disk, should I? TIA, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ZIP disks are preformatted to be partition 4, so if you have an internal IDE zip on hdd it will be /dev/hdd4 If a SCSI it is sda4 and so on. devfs may not make the device, so you have to do so manually, once, using mknod. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [FYI] Re: [newbie] Conflict between Printing Sound in LM8.1
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 05:59 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:40:51 -0500 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I have been having a long struggle getting my ethernet, sound, and printing all working at the same time. I have studied all relevant files, how-to's, and asked many questions but so far no answer that has worked. I do have a clue now. My sound module is not loaded when I start up. It worked fine in 7, 7.2 and 8 but now in 8.1 it only works when I put sb into the /etc/modules file. After I do that then my printer does not work. My printer and ethernet work just fine without sound but the printer and sound will not work together so far. This tells me there must be a conflict somewhere however I cannot tell where it is. I have checked the /proc/ioports, interrupts, and dma files as well as all others that could be relevant yet cannot find the conflict. This has been so baffling. I have the ESS1868 sound card which works well with the sb sound module. My printer is a brand new HP Deskject 940c which works great as long as I do not install the sound. The same thing was happening with my old Epson Stylus Color before I got this new one. Does anyone have any ideas here? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia From the kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk package, file /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/alsa-driver-0.5.11/INSTALL : Module snd-card-es18xx.o Module for ESS AudioDrive ES-18xx soundcards. So the ALSA drivers may be an alternative. Good luck :) Btw, does your card show up with 'cat /proc/isapnp' ? -Frans Dear Frans, I may try this although I do not think the driver is the problem. Yes, my soundcard does show up in /proc/isapnp. I also discovered that when I place sb in /etc/modules I get sound but my zip drive will not open and I get no printing. When I take sb out then zip works and my printing works again. Civileme thinks it is a bios problem and I am waiting upon some more help from him about this. Thanks for the suggestion. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Where is StarOffice?
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:44:06 -0500, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forwarded for the lists discusion and input. I personally don't get a chance to use Open Office much of late but how about some of you who do. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Where is StarOffice? Date: 02 Jan 2002 20:29:55 -0500 From: Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just checked the Sun site. Apparently they are no longer making Star Office 6.0 Beta available (as of Jan 1). The Chinese version is the only one still OK for download. As we speak/type I'm downloading Open Office build 641C. Anyone have anything good or bad to report on this variant? Sun pulled the SO beta because they had collected all the feedback they felt they needed on it. The beta is based on an earlier build of OpenOffice.org (incorrectly AKA simply OpenOffice). The newer OpenOffice.org builds are faster and more stable than the SO beta, but they are missing a few (mostly unimportant) SO-only features. Give it a go; it has worked very well for me. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan And do you not realize that features never get dropped: they just end up increasing the binary size and icache pressure forever? -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:36:23 +0100 (CET) Jody Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK Does hotmail really support pop3 ? Accessible tru kmail etc If OK so what is the POP3 adress ? ... OK Sure does. I forget what the POP3 is, but is on the site. I have never really tried it in Kmail. So i will not make any promises. But I do know I have alot of users on my network that do it through Outlook. i still have no experience with it as i dumped hotmail a long time ago in favor of softhome.net. the keyword there is 'Outlook'. from what i heard is that hotmail uses pseudo-POP3 protocol which makes it accessible only from outlook. if this is wrong then i will stand corrected. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how can I connect Linux-Mandrake 8.1 to a Windows/Netware LAN?
i followed the sparse instructions included with LISa but still no luck. komba2 works just fine as you can mount whatever shares you want. not much of a solution to what you want but it works nonetheless so it might be of some use to you. ciao! On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:48:50 -0800 Matthew James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hicnew to Linux (and UNIX) so please forgive ignorance. I have configured the network parameters on Netconf, and when I try to open the local network tree I get an error ecould not connect to host localhostf. I read this: You need to set up the lisa / reslisa daemon in order to be able to browse the network. on some linux distros (e.g. suse 7.2) you can use the system configuration tools to start lisa automatically, otherwise setup the reslisa daemon in kcontrol. Konqueror connects to that daemon (on localhost) to browse the local network. After starting reslisa you should be able to browse the network using the url rlan:/ So I autoconfigured the lisa and reslisa daemons as root, rebooted, but still the same error. Any help please? Are there other steps I need to take? Thanks, Matthew -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] like to get source code, rpm -bp gcc.spec
Dear linux programers: at /usr/src/RPM/SPECS I have gcc.spec then I tried rpm -bp gcc.spec it not work just show how rpm 's option also in my /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES I had gcc-2.95.2-2.95.3.diff.bz2* is it matter? I also did, rpm -bp goo-2.95.spec same thing, not work-I check my SOURCE and BUILD directory no .c or .h files. need help to get source code out eric, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what to use for hostname
Thanks, I signed up with dydns.org. It seems to be working. On Tuesday 01 January 2002 08:01 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 21:43, ajax wrote: Hi, I'm was looking at trying to set up postfix on my gateway/router. The mandrake-user doc say that I need a fully qualified domain name. I'm a little confused at what to use. My internet access is by cable with a dynamic ip address. I noticed that windows(before I set up a gateway) thinks my domain name is name.vc.shawcable.net where name is the name I gave the computer. Is this ok to use? Anyone on vc.shawcable.net could have chosen the same name. Thanks There are several possible solutions for you. The main thing you need to do is make sure you have a valid domain name like myserver.mydomain.org, where myserver is the actual hostname, mydomain.org is the domain name, and myserver.mydomain.org is the fully qualified domain name. The reason for this is that many mail servers refuse to relay or even receive mail from servers for which they con't do a dns lookup. A dns lookup requires having your server registered with a domain, thus the need for a sully qualified domain name. name.vc.shawcable.net might work, as long as your ISP maintains a dns entry for that host name. To test this, have someone out on the Internet try to ping or traceroute to your system. If they can resolve the domain name into an IP address and find you, then everything is ok. Otherwise, you will need to register a domain, either a permanent domain name, or a subdomain of a public domain name provider like dyndns.org. I use dyndns.org, and they work fine. They allow you to have either a dynamic or static IP address, and give you a host name of myserver.dyndns.org. My server is sildara.dyndns.org, and you should be able to point your web browser to my server and see a boring web page. There are other things to be aware of, like the possibility that your ISP will block certain ports (especially port 80, because of the Code Red worm from a few months back). Also, depending on how your cable modem works, you might need to do some special configuration to allow your server to be visible to the Internet. Do some more reading of the docs, and if you have more questions, just post them. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MandrakeUpdate - where to get a list or sources
Really dumb question folks. Where can I get a list of ftp/http sites to pass into MandrakeUpdate. I am non-adventurous user in that I am primarily interested only in security updates. I looked on the Mandrake site but didn't find anything obvious. Course if it was obvious then I guess I wouldn't be sending this mail now Prior to Mandrake 8.1 spent a lot of time with Debian - which it were that easy with RPM!! Thanks, /Pen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Configure Internet Access (DHCP)
In Mandrake Control Center for LM 8.1 there is a section to configure Internet access when in expert mode. The DHCP Client box pull down menu has 3 choices, dhcpcd, dhcpxd, and dhcp-client. What is the difference between them? Is there any advantage/cons to using one over the others? Thanks Steve M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] using a dvd-ram drive on linux/mandrake?
happy new year to everyone! :) is it possible to use an external dvd-ram drive (specifically panasonic lf-d200 4.7gb/side drive), connected via a pci scsi2 card, on linux/mandrake? if so, any pointers to info on how to do this would be greatly appreciated. thanks. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no permission to mount cdrom
Michael, Actually it's more than that ... When I looked at the behavior of CD-ROM access my system, it didn't occur to me until after I'd sent the email that I had my Red Hat 7.2 installation up ! Sorry about that :-) j. = At 10:13 AM 1/2/02 -0600, you wrote: Julian, It must be related to what security setting you use. On both a Mandrake 7.2 and an 8.1 box, I have a cdrom group listed. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:47 PM 01/01/2002 -0600, you wrote: Well I don't even have a cdrom group, and I assure you I can access the device perfectly well as a regular user. julian. == At 07:24 PM 1/1/02 -0600, you wrote: Gerald, This is actually further restricted, because user(s) mounting / umounting the CDROM must be in the 'cdrom' group. This also applies to the floppy. In order to mount / umount the floppy drive, you must be in the floppy group. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 01:58 PM 01/01/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2002 01:34 pm, Julian Opificius wrote: If I understand that what you're asking for is for multiple users to be able to mount and unmount CD-ROMS, then you must change user to users in fstab. See man mount. using users will allow any user to umount the filesystem using user allows any user to mount the filesystem but only the user that mounted the filesystem to umount it. Which sounds like a good idea! Gerald 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 == Julian A. Opificius. 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 == 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 == Julian A. Opificius. 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable
On 02 Jan 2002 21:45:56 -0500, Noah Swint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NTFS is compiled in the kernel but I'm unable to mount the drive I get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems If it is a bad superblock how do I check and correct the problem and just how many mounts are too many? What version of NTFS do you have? I don't think the Mandrake kernels support anything over NTFS 4.0 (from NT4). NTFS 5.0 (from Win2K) _may_ work, but 5.1 (from XP) won't work at all. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected -- The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Setting up Winmodem/Linmodem under Mandake 8.1
HI, First time posting to the support list. I have installed Mandrake 8.1 successfully, but can not get it to connect to the internet. My internal modem is a Lucient which has been correctly identified. I have checked this Harddrak. The system complains of no configuration for the modem. I have tried to locate a config script or program. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks David C Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up Winmodem/Linmodem under Mandake 8.1
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 22:53, you wrote: HI, First time posting to the support list. I have installed Mandrake 8.1 successfully, but can not get it to connect to the internet. My internal modem is a Lucient which has been correctly identified. I have checked this Harddrak. The system complains of no configuration for the modem. I have tried to locate a config script or program. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks David C Are you using KDE desktop? If so then click on the internet Connection icon and the pop up box is fairly straight forward. This will configure your modem and get you on the internet. Linux detects the modem but does not know what your ISP addresses are or what type of servers it is to deal with. Come back to the list if you need more help. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] HP Scanjet 4300C
Dear All, Is it possible to get a USB/parallel HPScanjet 4300c scanner to work in LM 8.1? If so , how would I do this? Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up Winmodem/Linmodem under Mandake 8.1
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 10:53 pm, you wrote: HI, First time posting to the support list. I have installed Mandrake 8.1 successfully, but can not get it to connect to the internet. My internal modem is a Lucient which has been correctly identified. I have checked this Harddrak. The system complains of no configuration for the modem. I have tried to locate a config script or program. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks David C David: Try www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html. You'll find information on installing Lucent modems about halfway down the first page. Elsewhere on the page, there are links to other useful sites (linmodems.org is excellent), as well as other docs and Howto's that will help you understand what you are doing and why you are doing it. (The good news is that at least you have an alternative way of getting access to the web.) HTH, Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How do I get a Wine app to run from icon?
Running Mandrake 8.0, KDE 2.1.1, wine 20010305 Gray haired grandfather ( so be gentle:-) started with Apple //e, DOS experience back to 3.3, WIN to 3.1, new to really using Linux, though I installed it all the way back to Slackware and Yggdrasil from floppies (kernel 0.9something as I recall) Wow, what progress!! My current problem: I can open Agent from a terminal (Konsole) with the command line /mnt/windows/program\ files/agent/agent.exe I tried that as a script (never wrote a script before). did chmod -e agent did chmod a -e agent added #! to beginning of line and other items from various books I have lying around. I am shown as the owner. User, group, and all have read and execute permissions. User also has write permission set. Tried checking needs terminal to run. Terminal ends up with error message Gdk-Warning **: locale not supported by C library I came to the conclusion that command won't work alone because I must have a terminal session open to execute the command line from. As Run in DOS Window (Don't be shy about correcting that assumption, because I think I already addressed that above) So I tried Plan B. Create new link to application on desktop. Set permissions as above. Command line as above returns Couldn't launch /mnt/windows/program\ files/agent/agent.exe Command line Konsole -e /m-e /mnt/windows/program\ files/agent/agent.exe flashes an open window and closes it. Task bar shows Agent, changes to Konsole, and disappears. Command line xterm -e /mnt/windows/program\ files/agent/agent.exe returns Can't execvp /mnt/windows/program\: No such file or directory Interesting that the window stays open, the error appears to be quite different, and the error appears to occur at the \, which here is a release for the following space in the command line and seems handled with aplomb with the other approaches.. So I am becoming tired, confused, frustrated. Hints greatly appreciated. Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CPU and mobo monitoring
Thanks to you I've now got 3 temp and 3 fan sensors running as well as a bunch of voltage sensors. Very nice. Terry Smith On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 21:17, s wrote: On Wednesday 02 January 2002 07:55 pm, you wrote: Do we have anything in this wonderful world of Mandrake 8.1 (I have the Powerpack) that can provide real time monitoring of these feeds? I fooled with gkrellm a bit but its not seeing the sensors. Terry Smith Hatchville, MA well, you have to load the modules first. You need to install lm_utils (or lm_sensors liblm_sensors1 on newer versions). Then do a locate lm_sensors and cd to it (/usr/share/doc/lm_sensors-2.6.2/doc/ on mine) and run sensors-detect. It will guide you from there. then reboot and run gkrellm and set them up in it's config. -s =_1010025643-11608-3029 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] HP Scanjet 4300C
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Is it possible to get a USB/parallel HPScanjet 4300c scanner to work in LM 8.1? If so , how would I do this? Thanks, Marcia Well, according to http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html it isn't supported. I feel your pain tho. I had to give away a 4200c and buy an epson when I escaped the evil empire. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] simple c++ compiler error, need help
Dear gcc-help programers:
I had simple c++ program
[root@localhost c_program]# cat hello.cpp
#include iostream.h
int main() {
int i=0;
char message[] = {'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', '\0'};
for ( ; i5; i++)
{
cout *(message+i);
}
cout endl;
return 0;
}
I should work(it work before), but now g++ compiler show it is error by
[root@localhost c_program]# g++ hello.cpp
Can't exec /usr/bin/g++-2.96: No such file or directory at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/IPC/Open3.pm line 217.
open3: exec of /usr/bin/g++-2.96 hello.cpp failed at /usr/bin/g++ line
211
please help
sincere, and thanks in advance
eric, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable
Which version of Windows is it from? If it is from Windows 2000 / XP, it won't mount because it uses a newer NTFS than is supported by the current kernel release (I think they support up to NTFS 4 read, and (very experimental) write). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:45 PM 01/02/2002 -0500, you wrote: NTFS is compiled in the kernel but I'm unable to mount the drive I get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems If it is a bad superblock how do I check and correct the problem and just how many mounts are too many? 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
[newbie] Zip and parallel printer
Looking at my mountpoints, I see: /dev/sda /mnt/zip /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2 With the zip2 I access the zip drive, no problems. Problem is, I have a printer plugged in to the back of the zip drive. It seems the zip is SCSI and the printer is parallel. Is it possible for both of these to work in 8.1? I thought I had the printer working when I printed a test page (though I'm out of ink so I couldn't see the output), now after some fiddling I can't get anything out of the printer. (I'm pretty sure this is because I mounted the zip incorrectly before.) I may try disconnecting the zip to see if the printer will work without it tomorrow when I can think straight. Todd -- Todd Slater mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.toddslater.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SecurityUpdates and Kernel 2.4.8-31.2mdk
At 09:44 PM 01/02/2002 -0500, Andre Dubuc wrote: Well, I finally got SoftwareUpdate to work again. Browsing through the updates I notice the new kernel 2.4.8-31.2mdk. Now, I vaguely recall Civileme or someone else warning against updating the kernel through Update. I'm of the school If it ain't broke, don't fix it! -- is this update really necessary? I mean everything except AC97 sound recording works very well. Would you advise that I skip this update? Is it necessary? I'm a bit confused by the additional kernel stuff that's included with the update, i.e.: Kernel-source, kernel-linus 2.4, kernel 2.2 -- Do I upgrade all, or only the 2.4 items? -- These you do not have to install, since they only apply to kernel 2.2.x -- kernel22-2.2.19-20.1mdk.i586.rpm - main copy of the 2.2.19 kernel kernel22-secure-2.2.19-20.1mdk.i586.rpm - secured version of the 2.2.19 kernel kernel22-smp-2.2.19-20.1mdk.i586.rpm - multiprocessor 2.2.19 kernel kernel22-source-2.2.19-20.1mdk.i586.rpm - source for 2.2.19 kernel -- End Do Not Need to Install -- kernel-2.4.8-31.2mdk.i586.rpm - main (base) kernel 2.4.8 kernel-doc-2.4.8-31.2mdk.i586.rpm - kernel documents for 2.4.8 kernel-enterprise-2.4.8-31.2mdk.i586.rpm - kernel supporting over 1 GB memory kernel-headers-2.4.8-31.2mdk.i586.rpm - kernel headers kernel-linus2.2-2.2.20-1.1mdk.i586.rpm - 2.2.20 kernel, linus style (ie, no mandrake patches) kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.4.8-31.2mdk.i586.rpm - 2.4.8 kernel module(s) for laptops kernel-smp-2.4.8-31.2mdk.i586.rpm - multiprocessor 2.4.8 kernel kernel-source-2.4.8-31.2mdk.i586.rpm - kernel source for 2.4.8 HTH, Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable
XP... NTFS 5.1 I went to the http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ site and downloaded the rpm but it still doesn't work. On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 00:55, Michael Viron wrote: Which version of Windows is it from? If it is from Windows 2000 / XP, it won't mount because it uses a newer NTFS than is supported by the current kernel release (I think they support up to NTFS 4 read, and (very experimental) write). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:45 PM 01/02/2002 -0500, you wrote: NTFS is compiled in the kernel but I'm unable to mount the drive I get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems If it is a bad superblock how do I check and correct the problem and just how many mounts are too many? 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 -- http://ld.net/?nswint Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable
Try http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/. On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:55:05 -0600, Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which version of Windows is it from? If it is from Windows 2000 / XP, it won't mount because it uses a newer NTFS than is supported by the current kernel release (I think they support up to NTFS 4 read, and (very experimental) write). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:45 PM 01/02/2002 -0500, you wrote: NTFS is compiled in the kernel but I'm unable to mount the drive I get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems If it is a bad superblock how do I check and correct the problem and just how many mounts are too many? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I feel that open, competitive markets, free thought and democracy all flourish only when we defend the medium itself as being independent. That may mean constraints that carriers cannot also supply software, that suppliers of generic software should be constrained from competing in markets which that software gives access to. -- Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: simple c++ compiler error, need help
Ryan T. Sammartino wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:48:07PM -0500, eric wrote: [root@localhost c_program]# g++ hello.cpp Can't exec /usr/bin/g++-2.96: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/IPC/Open3.pm line 217. open3: exec of /usr/bin/g++-2.96 hello.cpp failed at /usr/bin/g++ line 211 Double check that gcc-c++-2.96 is installed properly: [r@penthouse r]$ rpm -q gcc-c++-2.96 gcc-c++-2.96-0.66mdk [r@penthouse r]$ rpm --verify gcc-c++-2.96 [r@penthouse r]$ -- Ryan T. Sammartino http://members.shaw.ca/ryants/ Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. thanks your concern, I reinstall by force, it was be solved. the main reason I download newer gcc or c++ related package(rpm or tgz) is because my first try hello.c can not print (printf(hello world); it let me worry about bug in c compiler or c++ passing 4 or 5 days intense discussion it is not compiler's error, it can print on csh-but our default is bash , which is the problem. Some friend point me out there is a mailing discuss about it at last year's April cooker, mandrakesoft know this issue but I did not find their website' errta have 8.0 to fix it. if any one know how to get dispatch bash's source code so we can further discuss how can modify it, please contact me-I ever tried to dispatch gcc 's source code but not success-in some of my email list to newbie or expert by rpm -bp gcc.spec. sincere eric, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200: What am I missing?
This may not be much of an answer, but I have had success downloading the source rpm's instead of the pre-compiled ones. If your files are already editted, maybe it's worth a shot? -Paul Rodríguez On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 19:12, Terry Smith wrote: Hi gang, My new computer is up and running (it's been periodically dead but that's another story...and a bit long...when it's all sorted out I'll do a post mortem for y'all:-). I don't know whether my NVIDIA card is working correctly. I have a NVIDIA GeForce2 MX200 w/32 mb RAM installed in the AGP slot. Mandrake 8.1 installed the generic NVIDIA drivers. I went through the material on Mandrake User and went to the NVIDIA site and grabbed and installed NVIDIA_GLX* and NVIDIA_kernel-1.02313...(revision 20, using the version for Mandrake 8.1 with the 2.4.8 kernel). Installation seemed to go OK but I did get some warnings that the drivers were conflicting with some already installed MESA drivers (which I know nothing about). The msgs told me that those (Mesa) drivers were being renamed so as to not conflict. Then, per Mandrake's and NVIDIA's instructions, I modified the XF86Config-4 file to change driver 'nv' to 'nvidia' and to include a line to Load 'glx' When I reboot the X-server I get the NVIDIA splash screen, and, to my unpracticed eye, the performance seems a little 'snappier'. Tuxracer won't load, however. Here's the message I get from the console: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. *** tuxracer error: Couldn't initialize video: Couldn't find matching GLX visual (Success) I have also tried installing some KDE screensavers, specifically Morph 3D (GL) assuming that they use 3D graphics. That particular screensaver does not seem to be available to me. Have I missed a step? Left something out? Configured things incorrectly? I've run through the full NVIDIA documentation and seem to have the files it says I should have. TIA. Terry Smith Hatchville =_1010016746-11608-3010 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ 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
