[newbie-it] info
Desidereri sapere come cancellarsi dalla lista della ml. Ho guardato gli header, ho usato qurgli indirizzi, ma purtroppo,una volta spedita l'e-mail, mi ritorno una e-mail che mi dice che c'è stato un errore. Mi dice qc. tipo il comando non è stato trovato o non è stato accettato. GRAZIE A CHIUNQUE MI VOGLIA AIUTARE
[newbie-it] compilazione kernel
Ciao a tutti. Mi sono cimentato nella compilazione ed aggiornamento del kernel sulla mia mdk8.1, dal 2.4.8 al 2.4.16. Ho dato prima il make dep, poi il make clean, senza riscontrare messaggi di errore. Al momento però di dare make bzdisk ho ricevuto il messaggio che il mio nuovo kernel di 956k era troppo grande per essere bootato da dischetto. Visto che in teoria il floppy dovrebbe tenere 1,44M, come è possibile tutto questo? Inutile dire poi che al momento di far partire il nuovo kernel, il tutto ha fatto cilecca...senza danni, comunque. C'è qualcuno in grado di illuminarmi? Grazie Fabio
[newbie-it] Real One
Salve alla lista. Qualcuno sa dove procurarsi il nuovo Real One (aka Real Player9+RealJukeBox), ancora in alpha version, per Linux? Grazie e ciao.
Re: [newbie-it] info
Il giorno 10:24, sabato 19 gennaio 2002 hai scritto: Desidereri sapere come cancellarsi dalla lista della ml. Ho guardato gli header, ho usato qurgli indirizzi, ma purtroppo,una volta spedita l'e-mail, mi ritorno una e-mail che mi dice che c'è stato un errore. Mi dice qc. tipo il comando non è stato trovato o non è stato accettato. GRAZIE A CHIUNQUE MI VOGLIA AIUTARE Puoi tornare sulla pagina da cui ti sei iscritto, e cancellarti da lì. Ciao... Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] compilazione kernel
Il 16:10, sabato 19 gennaio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] compilazione kernel, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Ciao a tutti. Mi sono cimentato nella compilazione ed aggiornamento del kernel sulla mia mdk8.1, dal 2.4.8 al 2.4.16. Ho dato prima il make dep, poi il make clean, senza riscontrare messaggi di errore. Al momento però di dare make bzdisk ho ricevuto il messaggio che il mio nuovo kernel di 956k era troppo grande per essere bootato da dischetto. Visto che in teoria il floppy dovrebbe tenere 1,44M, come è possibile tutto questo? Inutile dire poi che al momento di far partire il nuovo kernel, il tutto ha fatto cilecca...senza danni, comunque. C'è qualcuno in grado di illuminarmi? Grazie Fabio regola n.1 non fare cross posting! n.2 crea un kernel con make bzImage e aggiorna il LILO quindi dai un make modules e make modules_install il kernel su floppy non ti funzia se modularizzi -- bye miKe Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.16-pk @ hp Xe3 R.U.# 219755 - S.R.U.# 705 - R.M.# 110932
Re: [newbie] Log size in Linux
Yes there is.
It should be set up already by default, but in my system a misconfiguration
was preventing it working. Maybe you have a similar issue.
The application that checks all the log files daily is called logrotate
It is called up as a cron job
If you look in /etc/cron/daily you should see a script called logrotate
The actions of logrotate are controlled by the files in /etc/logrotate.d
There will be a file for each logfile being managed by logrotate.
If you open up the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog file a section of mine looks like
this.
/var/log/auth.log {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
/var/log/syslog {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
There is a stanza for each log file and the parameters indicate how many back
up archives will be kept, how often they should be made, and the maximum size
of the log file before a new back up is made. Consult 'man logrotate' for a
full breakdown of the parameters.
The problem I had is that there were two stanzas for the same file in this
list, and that stopped logrotate in its tracks, and it did not rotate logs at
all.
Hope that helps.
derek
On Saturday 19 January 2002 09:05, Daniel Chen wrote:
I have a question about the log file.
I have run my Mandrake Linux for 2 weeks and I found the syslog and
other log files have become larger and larger.
Is there any way I can limit the size of these log files and make it
automatically cut the beginning part when it over the size limit?
Thank you!
Daniel
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[newbie] Re: [expert] Control Center Error
Have you removed the kdebase-nsplugins RPM? You get that message if you have loaded the nsplugin RPM and then later removed it. derek On Saturday 19 January 2002 01:50, Noah Swint wrote: Whenever I attempt to change the settings for konqueror through the browswer or through the control panel I get this error when I click on the netscape plugins. Error: There was an error loading this module. The diagnostic is: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Anyone using an Xfree86 4.01 with a Voodoo 4?
Hmm - it's quite obvious now that I'm not using any acceleration. Observe (any typo's are mine - my machine is not net connection so I'm typing this onto my laptop): $ glxinfo Loading Required GL Library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 gd error (glide): gd error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTgd Error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTSegment fault (core dumped) Not exactly what I'd call a good error message! I'll go and have a dig through my log files... -Original Message- From: Michael Spivak [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 11:48 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: [newbie] Anyone using an Xfree86 4.01 with a Voodoo 4? If you are using the MDK 8.0, then just try 'glxinfo' and see if your direct rendering enabled. If it isn't try to read '/var/lox/XFree86.0.log' and look for some errors. Anyway, if the DRI is enabled , try the 'gears' You should see 2 gears spinning in 3d and in the command prompt where you've run the command you should see the rate. Michael Spivak -Original Message- From: FLYNN, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 2:35 PM To: Newbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] Anyone using an Xfree86 4.01 with a Voodoo 4? I see many people using V3's, but rarely anyone using a V4 (mine's a V4, 4500, AGP). What I'd like to know is do I have my XF86Config-4 files set up correctly to use the V4's acceleration facilities! I saw people talking about Chromium, which I'd forgotten all about. Installed it, fired it up and watched the attract screen with the spinning chromium logo render at the almighty speed of 8 frames in 10 seconds (yes, I timed it). I suspect my Voodoo card is doing nowt but display the screen and all my rendering is done by software, but I'm not really sure what to check. BZFlag is the same. I run at 1280*1024, 16 bpp. Running the gears demo I get 100+ fps at the standard size the window opens at. Full screen sees about 9 fps. Is assume this is crappy, but never having seen anyone else's set-up I don't know what to expect (this is all on a Dual Celeron SMP machine, 500 MHz). Any Xfree experts out there who can help me out? Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst Tel: 01603 687386 ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System Aliases
Here's one I'm trying to solve: Where are the system aliases located for when I start terminal? In other words, where do I find aliases for gcc, etc? __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] etc/resolv.conf is overwritten during start
Hello people. I have a little problem with my network configuration file. I have access to the Internet trough a router. In order to configure this, I need to alter the resolv.conf file in the etc folder. I don't have trouble with the configuration it self. Any time the file is edited I get my network and Internet connection up and running. But, when I (re) start or reboot my system, the resolv.conf file is overwritten meaning that I have to alter it again. I suspect that somewhere in the dungeons of Mandrake a script, launched during the Linux start sequence, is responsible for this. I have tried to find it but without result. Do any of you have an idea which process/script can be responsible for this? Many thanks. Evertb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] etc/resolv.conf is overwritten during start
EvdB Hello people. EvdB I have a little problem with my network configuration file. I have access to EvdB the Internet trough a router. In order to configure this, I need to alter EvdB the resolv.conf file in the etc folder. I don't have trouble with the EvdB configuration it self. Any time the file is edited I get my network and EvdB Internet connection up and running. But, when I (re) start or reboot my EvdB system, the resolv.conf file is overwritten meaning that I have to alter it EvdB again. I suspect that somewhere in the dungeons of Mandrake a script, EvdB launched during the Linux start sequence, is responsible for this. I have EvdB tried to find it but without result. Do any of you have an idea which EvdB process/script can be responsible for this? Many thanks. Evertb If you are using dhcp, this is it. (The dhcpcd, the client) Instead of changing the default scripts, I suggest you add something like rm -f /etc/resolv.conf cp /var/resolv.conf.ofmine /etc/resolv.conf to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Motherboard Replacement
I want to upgrade my MoBo/Processor to something more powerful, currently I use a Cyrix MII 300. Does a MoBo replacement necessitate a reinstall of Mandrake or will all work fine with the new board/Processor? I am probably looking at a Duron 1GHz board. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] boot disk doesn't work
On Friday 18 January 2002 06:05 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: mkinitrd /boot/[initrd image] [new kernel version] mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.8-26mdk.img 2.4.8-26mdk Thank, Tom -- Charles already set me straight, but it's appreciated. Robin M. Weare Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] partitions
You're right about a messy defrag with this option on. What I do is run Defrag in Safe Mode and leave the checks in place. But, before defragging, I run Scan Disk and then right after defragging, I run Scan Disk again. (the old BELT and SUSPENDERS philosophy). Then, I use Partition Manager to set the partitions. It seems that not many people have heard of Partition Manager but it's a super super partitioner and has gotten me out of trouble many times. I recently decided to shrink my C:/hda1 partition and expand the adjacent one (Linux swap)-- -piece of strawberries and cream cake with Partition Manager. On 19 Jan 2002 at 17:16, Brian Parish wrote: Yes, that's the one! It will screw things up entirely. Brian On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean deselect: Rearrange program files so my programs start faster ? My defragger doesn't have anything about optimizing performance On 19 Jan 2002 at 14:17, Brian Parish wrote: One other note to this - yes, run the defragger, but ensure you have deselected the option to place data and programs to optimize performance - something similar to that anyway - at least in 98. If you defrag with this on, Mr. Gates will stick a whole lost of stuff at the very end of your partition and diskdrake won't let you do anything with it. Brian 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] Licq probs
I re booted a couple days ago - when I got back into LM 8.1 the panel wouldn't appear. After restarting X several times it was back, but LICQ won't start now. The shutdown hung and I was forced to shut the power off. I'm guessing there are now some corrupted files, but know where to start looking. Can someone give me a clue how to fix LICQ? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Log size in Linux
On Saturday 19 January 2002 01:05, you wrote: I have a question about the log file. I have run my Mandrake Linux for 2 weeks and I found the syslog and other log files have become larger and larger. Is there any way I can limit the size of these log files and make it automatically cut the beginning part when it over the size limit? Thank you! Daniel My solution has not been to place a limit on the log files, but to change the time that the system uses to rotate (and delete them). As root: Go the your /etc/logrotate.conf Replace weekly with daily. Replace rotate 4 with rotate 1 Replace all incidences of monthly with weekly This will go a long way to preventing the logs from getting out of hand. Years ago, I discovered that a small hard disk could get filled up with logs and cause all kinds of problems, so I do this as a matter of course with every installation. hth e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Log size in Linux
A weeks syslog on my box gzips down to about 30K. I can keep a several months of logs on a floppy, comfortably. I'd strongly advise against logrotating daily unless you don't want the logs. If you don't want the logs, switch them off. -Original Message- From: Erylon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Log size in Linux On Saturday 19 January 2002 01:05, you wrote: I have a question about the log file. I have run my Mandrake Linux for 2 weeks and I found the syslog and other log files have become larger and larger. Is there any way I can limit the size of these log files and make it automatically cut the beginning part when it over the size limit? Thank you! Daniel My solution has not been to place a limit on the log files, but to change the time that the system uses to rotate (and delete them). As root: Go the your /etc/logrotate.conf Replace weekly with daily. Replace rotate 4 with rotate 1 Replace all incidences of monthly with weekly This will go a long way to preventing the logs from getting out of hand. Years ago, I discovered that a small hard disk could get filled up with logs and cause all kinds of problems, so I do this as a matter of course with every installation. hth e File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] I lost my user accounts
What do you can in your .xsession-errors files for your bad users? How's about your Xfree log file, messages and syslog? Any clues in there? -Original Message- From: Bill Winegarden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] I lost my user accounts Hi, After finally getting my desktop, winmodem, network printer and network sharing all working; I somehow managed to screw it up. I can't login to my original user account. Crash handler reports nspluginscan, ksplash and ksmserver crash and I get kicked to the login screen. I created a new user in hopes that I would just transfer my important files and settings over until I could find the bug, but when I login my new user it just immediately kicks out to the login screen. Only the root account will log in and allow access. I have made countless changes to the original LM8.1 installation so I would like to remedy this without an re-install. Oh, I also did an 'update' from the install disk, with no new settings checked (basically nothing new) but that did not remedy the situation. Any ideas? If you require log files I can easily access through the root account. Thanks, Bill W. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] befuddled-mounting media
I thought I had everything working, until I recently tried to mount floppy, zip, and cd from the KDE desktop. Each time I try to mount I hear the drives spinning, desktop icons appear to be mounted, but trying to read I get error: /mnt/floppy or /mnt/zip or /mnt/cdrom does not exist. For zip it's especially fond of giving the error about no filesystem specified. This is bizarre in that I can successfully mount and umount, list and move and copy files to/from the media as su/root in a terminal. My fstab looks like this: /dev/hda1 / ext defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Mtab: /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 rw 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 Should I just give up on the convenience of the GUI? Thanks, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Log size in Linux
Derek wrote: I'd strongly advise against logrotating daily unless you don't want the logs. If you don't want the logs, switch them off. That's exactly it. There is no reason to keep all those logs. If there's a problem, the logs can still be checked out, but I don't need logs from last week, or even yesterday, to do that. Now, if I was running a server, that would be a different story. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] befuddled-mounting media
On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:26, you wrote: I thought I had everything working, until I recently tried to mount floppy, zip, and cd from the KDE desktop. Each time I try to mount I hear the drives spinning, desktop icons appear to be mounted, but trying to read I get error: /mnt/floppy or /mnt/zip or /mnt/cdrom does not exist. For zip it's especially fond of giving the error about no filesystem specified. This is bizarre in that I can successfully mount and umount, list and move and copy files to/from the media as su/root in a terminal. My fstab looks like this: /dev/hda1 / ext defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Mtab: /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 rw 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 Should I just give up on the convenience of the GUI? Thanks, Todd Not being a programmer I can't say for sure but this seems to be a bug in 8.1. Try making a new icon for each device on the desk top. In other words right click on an empty space anywhere on the screen and choose Create New and select new floppy device for the floppy and zip drives and new CDROM device for those pieces. The drop down list next to device is obtained by clicking the arrow and you will probably find that what is currently in the box label is not what your devices are call in the drop down list. Anyway have a look and you will see what I am trying to say. Once you have created new icons you can delete the old ones by right clicking and selecting delete. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Laptop maillist
Hi, I know there is a Dell laptop mail list at yahoo. Have a look and see if there's one for yours. http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Computers___Internet/Hardware/Personal_Computers/Manufacturers/Dell/Notebook_Computers hth, Bill W. On Friday 18 January 2002 22:01, you wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 22:26:13 -0600, Andy Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I see somewhere that there is a Linux Laptop maillist? If anyone has information, I would appreciate it. I don't know about a mailing list, but try http://www.linux-laptop.net/. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] befuddled-mounting media
On Saturday 19 January 2002 12:26 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I thought I had everything working, until I recently tried to mount floppy, zip, and cd from the KDE desktop. Each time I try to mount I hear the drives spinning, desktop icons appear to be mounted, but trying to read I get error: /mnt/floppy or /mnt/zip or /mnt/cdrom does not exist. For zip it's especially fond of giving the error about no filesystem specified. This is bizarre in that I can successfully mount and umount, list and move and copy files to/from the media as su/root in a terminal. In most distros, you have to be root to mount a file system. Mandrake??? -- Gerald Waugh Registered Linux User 255245 Register at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Licq probs
CT I re booted a couple days ago - when I got back into LM 8.1 the panel CT wouldn't appear. After restarting X several times it was back, but LICQ won't CT start now. The shutdown hung and I was forced to shut the power off. I'm CT guessing there are now some corrupted files, but know where to start looking. CT Can someone give me a clue how to fix LICQ? CT Thanks Instead of restarting programs over and over, I advice you read the logs, outputs, errors they give you and try to correct them. You can run licq in a terminal window and see what is wrong with it. If it is the pid file just delete de licq.pid in your home/.licq/. If it is more, you can reinstall the licq rpms. that should fix. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] befuddled-mounting media
On Saturday 19 January 2002 12:05, you wrote: On Saturday 19 January 2002 12:26 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I thought I had everything working, until I recently tried to mount floppy, zip, and cd from the KDE desktop. Each time I try to mount I hear the drives spinning, desktop icons appear to be mounted, but trying to read I get error: /mnt/floppy or /mnt/zip or /mnt/cdrom does not exist. For zip it's especially fond of giving the error about no filesystem specified. This is bizarre in that I can successfully mount and umount, list and move and copy files to/from the media as su/root in a terminal. In most distros, you have to be root to mount a file system. Mandrake??? Mandrake allows users to mount or umount a system if they are allowed in the permissions. Userdrake can be edited by su or root to add floppy, CDROM etc to the users permissions. If those aren't shown in userdrake then it's not possible for the user. repeated myself there. Anyway take a look and add your user to the permissions if they are not there. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to get Kernel headers going
I am finally at the stage of installing the module to run my LTWinmodem on my Inspiron 2500. The build_module installer requires that kernel headers be up and going. Anybody know how to access the kernel headers utility? Thanks. Andy Gay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] befuddled-mounting media
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:05:02 -0500 Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In most distros, you have to be root to mount a file system. Mandrake??? -- Gerald Waugh Not in Mandrake 8.1 anyway. Besides, you can control that with parameters for each file system in /etc/fstab. For example, /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto user , The key word there is user. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO won't load linux
On Saturday 19 January 2002 06:39, Joe Janzen wrote: Thanks for everyone's help with this problem. Yes, unfortunately I did update the kernel with MandrakeUpdate. I was apprehensive but went ahead, assuming it wouldn't be available through Update if that wasn't a recommended method. Yep, big mistake it seems. Anyway, I looked at the example you cited below, but I don't know how to do this since I can't execute any commands; I just get the error message and nothing (no prompt). Not even a LILO prompt - just the LILO loading linux... message. I can't check /etc/lilo.conf as someone suggested, for the same reason. Boot with the 1st Mandrake CD as if you're going to install ML and when you get to the bit where you choose the installation type, choose Expert and Update (NOT Install) - read carefully. Then continue without choosing any software packages and it will install the original kernel again. You should be right from there on. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Accessing Floppy Drive
Hi. I just installed Mandrake 8.1 and can't seem to access the floppy drive. I clicked on the floppy icon in the Desktop and got an error message [can't mount device]. I'm new to Linux and I guess clicking on the icon isn't enough. What do I need to do? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy Drive
Well firstly I assume there is a disc in it.. Secondly there is a known issue with some motherboards whereby the floppy drive is not recognised. To check it out when booting at the splash screen where you choose which operating system to run hit Escape You will get a text prompt type linux nobiospnp Linux should then continue loading. If that fixes it come back and we will tell you how to make the change permanent. Thirdly. Some users have found the icons are defined incorrectly on the desktop. Try opening a terminal window (Click on the little picture of a monitor at bottom left of your screen.) and type mount /mnt/floppy If that works then it is just your Icon screwed up. If none of that works type in the terminal window more /etc/fstab and copy the output to us in an email. Hope that Helps and welcome to the world of Linux. There is a lot to learn, but soon you will wonder why other operating systems are not this cool. Derek On Saturday 19 January 2002 22:42, you wrote: Hi. I just installed Mandrake 8.1 and can't seem to access the floppy drive. I clicked on the floppy icon in the Desktop and got an error message [can't mount device]. I'm new to Linux and I guess clicking on the icon isn't enough. What do I need to do? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy Drive
Raja Damodaran wrote: Hi. I just installed Mandrake 8.1 and can't seem to access the floppy drive. I clicked on the floppy icon in the Desktop and got an error message [can't mount device]. I'm new to Linux and I guess clicking on the icon isn't enough. What do I need to do? Thanks Well Raja, this question comes up very often here on the list, and I see that Derek already gave you an answer. But here's a tip : when running into trouble, try to search the mail-archive for the topic in question, type a keyword (i.e. floppy) in the find-box and see what appears. The mail archive is at : http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com This archive is a great source of wisdom, but - of course - you can always post a question to the list anyway ! - Welcome to linux-land ! Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy Drive
On Saturday 19 January 2002 16:42, you wrote: Hi. I just installed Mandrake 8.1 and can't seem to access the floppy drive. I clicked on the floppy icon in the Desktop and got an error message [can't mount device]. I'm new to Linux and I guess clicking on the icon isn't enough. What do I need to do? Thanks This is a common problem, you may need to change the icon link, try this: right click on the icon and choose properties, you will see an device tab, click on that and then in the device box there will be a down arrow click on the arrow and look for /dev/fd0 (mnt/floppy) and right click on it. This will put it in the box and you can click on ok. Then with a floppy in the drive right click on the icon and choose mount, then left click the icon and in a few seconds konqueror should come up and show you the files on the floppy. Hope this helps. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Superblocks corrupted after a change in fstab ....
Hi folks...I have the following trouble: I have a cd-copier a cd-reader, Due to I want to perform direct cd copying I made some changes in fstab and lilo.conf. For example: when in fstab appeared /dev/cdrom1 I put instead dev=/dev/scd1 (This was to made SCSI simulation on the cd-reader) I get both the cd-r the cd-wr recognized by the front-ends of burning although I cannot make any on-the-fly copies [This is another problem!!!]... The problem starts to arose when I tried to install some packages from the download cd's... When Software Manager asks for the cd1, I put it on the reader, and it ejects me the cd like it was a wrong one!!! Well, here is when the problem arises!!...Due to my big ignorance I open the file fstab and when it says dev=/dev/scd1 [IT IS MY CD-R] I put something like this dev=/dev/scd1,/dev/cdrom After that I rebooted and neither I can run the label failsafe nor the normal linux entrie on lilo. Moreover I cannot bot in linux 2-2.secure. When I tried to boot in any of those entries it stops in the Checking root filesystem step with a msg like this : The Superblocks on the device are corrupted, try to run an fsck and it says more things that I do not remember now. However, one thing sounds strange for me.It's says that I had to run fsck when my root partition is on a journallised file system [EXT3] Well, I know that this post might be very large, but... Unless I have a solution, I'll have to re-install Linux-Mandrake 8.1 Thanks in Advance Nicolas Gomez Montevideo, URUGUAY Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apostrophe's
On Friday 18 January 2002 19:56, you wrote: Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: On 18 Jan 2002 03:20:12 -0500 Paul Rodr$ByH(Buez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How come in some emails, apostrophe's [heh] show up as little square boxes in Evolution? - Paul Rod$Bmg(Buez must be conflict in locale and charsets. i have my locale set to japanese and your the 'rig' in your lastname shows up as a kanji character (yours is not the only one, there are some names which exhibit this behaviour). ciao! Well, as you know, Microsoft also set some of the codes reserved for control characters to graphics characters in their editors, and it might be an effect from that as well. There is a little perl script called Demoroniser which can clean up websites from that mess and keep the web author from looking dumber than a bag of dirt when the site is viewed from a non-microsoft platform. Website for the demoroniser is: http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ Also contains a pretty good description of the probs MS s/w puts into web pages (it's not just the stupid charset tricks). S -- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines Remove the fruit to obtain reply address: spencer at lasermount apple dot uklinux dot net 9:11pm up 56 days, 7:11, 9 users, load average: 0.70, 0.42, 0.60 Registered Linux User #232457 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy Drive
Or, for that matter, you may not be part of the 'floppy' group. On a medium level secured install, no user can mount a CD or floppy without being in the floppy / cdrom groups. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:52 PM 01/19/2002 -0600, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 19 January 2002 16:42, you wrote: Hi. I just installed Mandrake 8.1 and can't seem to access the floppy drive. I clicked on the floppy icon in the Desktop and got an error message [can't mount device]. I'm new to Linux and I guess clicking on the icon isn't enough. What do I need to do? Thanks This is a common problem, you may need to change the icon link, try this: right click on the icon and choose properties, you will see an device tab, click on that and then in the device box there will be a down arrow click on the arrow and look for /dev/fd0 (mnt/floppy) and right click on it. This will put it in the box and you can click on ok. Then with a floppy in the drive right click on the icon and choose mount, then left click the icon and in a few seconds konqueror should come up and show you the files on the floppy. Hope this helps. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 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] Superblocks corrupted after a change in fstab ....
Can you boot from your Boot floppy? If so you should be able to fix it. It looks as if you have edited the lilo.conf and fstab files incorrectly Your lilo.conf file should look something like this :- default=linux-2.4.8-34 boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8-34.1mdk label=linux-2.4.8-34 root=/dev/hda5 read-only optional vga=normal append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi devfs=nomount quiet initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.8-34.1mdk.img ***SNIP more stanzas follow Here I have defined IDE devices hdd and hdd as SCSI emulation. I am running with devfs disabled, but you may not need to do that. (In my system the CD writer would not work with devfs enabled) I am using the updated kernel so my Lilo points to the 2.4.8-34 image. After modifying /etc/lilo.conf be sure to run /sbin/lilo as root and be sure there are no error messages or else you will not be able to boot. (This could well be your problem) Now my /etc/fstab file looks like this :- /dev/scd0/mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,user,exec,noauto,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto iocharset=iso8859-1,user,exec,noauto,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 (these two statements occupy one line each. there is a space before and after 'auto') device hdc is now referred to as /dev/scd0 and hdd has become /dev/scd1 Note you do not need any 'dev=' in the fstab file. If you can get in to make these corrections you should be OK derek On Sunday 20 January 2002 00:14, ngn wrote: Hi folks...I have the following trouble: I have a cd-copier a cd-reader, Due to I want to perform direct cd copying I made some changes in fstab and lilo.conf. For example: when in fstab appeared /dev/cdrom1 I put instead dev=/dev/scd1 (This was to made SCSI simulation on the cd-reader) I get both the cd-r the cd-wr recognized by the front-ends of burning although I cannot make any on-the-fly copies [This is another problem!!!]... The problem starts to arose when I tried to install some packages from the download cd's... When Software Manager asks for the cd1, I put it on the reader, and it ejects me the cd like it was a wrong one!!! Well, here is when the problem arises!!...Due to my big ignorance I open the file fstab and when it says dev=/dev/scd1 [IT IS MY CD-R] I put something like this dev=/dev/scd1,/dev/cdrom After that I rebooted and neither I can run the label failsafe nor the normal linux entrie on lilo. Moreover I cannot bot in linux 2-2.secure. When I tried to boot in any of those entries it stops in the Checking root filesystem step with a msg like this : The Superblocks on the device are corrupted, try to run an fsck and it says more things that I do not remember now. However, one thing sounds strange for me.It's says that I had to run fsck when my root partition is on a journallised file system [EXT3] Well, I know that this post might be very large, but... Unless I have a solution, I'll have to re-install Linux-Mandrake 8.1 Thanks in Advance Nicolas Gomez Montevideo, URUGUAY Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail spell check
I have selected settings, spellckecker. In the dialog box that comes selected client as aspell. Still when I select edit spellcheck I get the msg. ISpell couldn't be started. Please make sure you have ispell properly configure and in your path. This I have written in my earlier mail also.Thanks for the interest. On Friday 18 January 2002 07:22, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2002 20:27, you wrote: I am working in Mandrake 8.1 I have configured Kmail Settings, Spellchecker with client aspell, dic default English british and encoding US-ASCII. But when I do spell check using icon on tools bar or menu I get msg as ISpell couldn't be started. Please make sure you have ispell properly configure and in your path. aspell is in path and installed. How to get it working. OOPs, forgot to mention that the settings to click on is in the box you get when you are sending a message, so first you have to click on new message HTH -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] etc/resolv.conf is overwritten during start
Hi, You are probably using DHCP and your router is probably configured as the DHCP server. If that is the case then your router will cause the update of the resolv.conf file every tim you boot. make sure that the router is configured correctly. When you do that, the router will update the resolv.conf file with the correct information every time you reboot and you will not have to play with the resolv.conf file any mmore. Evert van den Bos wrote: Hello people. I have a little problem with my network configuration file. I have access to the Internet trough a router. In order to configure this, I need to alter the resolv.conf file in the etc folder. I don't have trouble with the configuration it self. Any time the file is edited I get my network and Internet connection up and running. But, when I (re) start or reboot my system, the resolv.conf file is overwritten meaning that I have to alter it again. I suspect that somewhere in the dungeons of Mandrake a script, launched during the Linux start sequence, is responsible for this. I have tried to find it but without result. Do any of you have an idea which process/script can be responsible for this? Many thanks. Evertb 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] Kmail spell check
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 January 2002 10:17 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have selected settings, spellckecker. In the dialog box that comes selected client as aspell. Still when I select edit spellcheck I get the msg. ISpell couldn't be started. Please make sure you have ispell properly configure and in your path. This I have written in my earlier mail also.Thanks for the interest. Also running Mandrake 8.1 here. The only additional thing that I needed to do was install Pspell support for Ispell. The .rpm (pspell-ispell-0.12-1mdk) is on your #2 install disk. After doing that spellchecker worked fine for me. - -- Regards, Cordman Reg. Linux User #248796 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Digitally Signed For Authenticity! iD8DBQE8SiPhPeDX9F6/XnwRAiPYAJ9wsmpvT/qlIdF2g6VV9DmXs0yPMwCgltmc GB4KIN+CG52T+2o8P5NQYIY= =3Xax -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printer and /etc/modules
On Friday 18 January 2002 01:27 pm, you wrote: Alsa is probably going to use whatever IRQ the card thinks it has. I don't know that for sure, but I'm pretty sure you'll still have the same problem. Are you able to change the IRQ for your printer port through CMOS? That might work or if you have a PNP OS setting in your CMOS, you might try telling it the oposite of what it's currently at. Dear Joe, I do not think using Alsa will make the difference either. I changed the PNP stuff but nothing made a difference so far.I believe that I can change the IRQ for the printer through CMOS however according to all the files IRQ 7 has been used only by my printer so I am wondering if it is a dma conflict instead as you suggested? How would I check the DMA situation and how would I change it? From what I can tell there does not seem to be a DMA conflict either but I probably would not know how to tell if there was. Thanks very much for your help and suggestions. By the way, do you know how I would put my printer into /etc/modules so that it could load? I know that the devfs is different and I am not sure how to correctly edit the /etc/modules file for everything. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 8.x bug clock timer configuration lost???
Hi folks. I'm presently using Mandrake 8.0. When in console mode it spits out something like clock timer configuration lost- probably a VIA/686 motherboard every couple of minutes. It will show on top of my code, my man pages, my pine screen, my whatever. My motherboard does NOT have a VIA chipset. It's an asus a7a266 with an AliMagik chipset! What do i do now? Aside from waiting for 8.2 (when is that coming out anyway?) Is it a kernel thing? Should I download the latest 2.4.x kernel? 2.4.3 sounds really early in the kernel tree. Apparently now that 2.5.x already started the 2.4.x are really stable. But I dont really know how to go about installing a new kernel :) And since its a 30M download, well, if that isnt what fixes it, it would have been a big waste of time. So I was hoping you guys could help out. I once had 8.1 installed and it did the same thing, but the CDs were borrowed and I didnt make a copy of them. I deleted my Linux partition to try out Red Hat 7.2 which didnt spit out any messages, but somehow hated my Kyro2 gfx card and couldnt get into X even with the VGA drivers selected. So now I have a fresh mdk8.0 install and well its just so annoying in console mode :) Pc spex: AMD 1333 with 266 FSB 256M DDR asus a7a266 mobo 40 gig Seagate HD, 8 gig linux partition Hercules 3d prophet 4500 (Kyro2 chipset) SB Live etc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1
On a machine on which I have been able to install Suse 6.4 and Mandrake 7.1 I get the following problem when trying to install Mandrake 8.1: Mounting /dev/ram3 on /tmp/stage2 as type ext2 Mount failed: invalid argument Or (4) VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ram disk (1,3). Any thoughts? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound for window/system events (Gnome/Sawfish/LM8.1)
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 16:41, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 19 Jan 2002 14:33:45 +1000, Charles Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 22:35, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Try running GNOME as root. If sound works properly there, then we have a permissions problem. Load userdrake (as root) and add your username to the 'audio' group. No Gnome sounds as 'root' either, I'm afraid. Have you configured a Bastille firewall recently? I once had a problem with sound in GNOME and I managed to trace it back to my Bastille settings. I set up a Bastille firewall soon after I installed LM8.1, and since I have never heard any Gnome sounds, this may well be the cause. In fact, after I had started 'esd' as a background process from a terminal, a little while later the terminal displayed some sort of error message about Bastille and a 'tmp' directory. Bastille has an option to guard against abuse of the 'tmp' directory, which I enabled when I configured Bastille. Do you think this might be the problem ? If not, do you recall which Bastille setting gave you trouble ? Thanks again for your assistance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apostrophe's
snip Well, as you know, Microsoft also set some of the codes reserved for control characters to graphics characters in their editors, and it might be an effect from that as well. There is a little perl script called Demoroniser which can clean up websites from that mess and keep the web author from looking dumber than a bag of dirt when the site is viewed from a non-microsoft platform. Website for the demoroniser is: http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ Also contains a pretty good description of the probs MS s/w puts into web pages (it's not just the stupid charset tricks). S So I have the demoroniser perl script in my linux machine but the question is: how do I use it? I have a web site that was done some time ago in Front Page 2000 and I would like to clean it up and make it look right in all browsers. Not being a programmer I am not sure how to use the script. I have d/l'd the site in quanta+. Any guidance or documentation would be appreciated. TIA -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printer and /etc/modules
Under /proc there are all sorts of informational files. You can few them opening a terminal or shell and type cd /proc and then you can issue, for example, cat dma to see what dma channels are in use. cat ioports will tell you what ports are used by what devices and cat interrupts will tell you the same for IRQs. There should also be one there call isapnp. It's longer, and you may want to use less instead of cat to view it. Mine has my soundblaster card listed with the settings in use at the top (followed by a lot of alternate settings that aren't used). What is useful about it is that it should show you all of the optional IRQs, DMA and ioports that can be used by your card. That way if one of them are in conflict, you know what you can change. I'm not sure the printer port uses a dma channel, so that may not be the problem. It still sounds like some kind of IRQ problem. When you were in your CMOS, did you notice if the PNP settings were set for auto or manual (where you could reserve specific IRQs). If manual, there might not be an available IRQ to use without sharing, so you might try auto and see. Joe On Saturday 19 January 2002 07:33 pm, you wrote: On Friday 18 January 2002 01:27 pm, you wrote: Alsa is probably going to use whatever IRQ the card thinks it has. I don't know that for sure, but I'm pretty sure you'll still have the same problem. Are you able to change the IRQ for your printer port through CMOS? That might work or if you have a PNP OS setting in your CMOS, you might try telling it the oposite of what it's currently at. Dear Joe, I do not think using Alsa will make the difference either. I changed the PNP stuff but nothing made a difference so far.I believe that I can change the IRQ for the printer through CMOS however according to all the files IRQ 7 has been used only by my printer so I am wondering if it is a dma conflict instead as you suggested? How would I check the DMA situation and how would I change it? From what I can tell there does not seem to be a DMA conflict either but I probably would not know how to tell if there was. Thanks very much for your help and suggestions. By the way, do you know how I would put my printer into /etc/modules so that it could load? I know that the devfs is different and I am not sure how to correctly edit the /etc/modules file for everything. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printer and /etc/modules
I only responded to the first part of your message, sorry. You normally would not have to put your printer into /etc/modules. I believe it is compiled into the Mandrake kernel. For example, the only thing in my /etc/modules is scsi_hostadapter and usb-storage, and Mandrake put both entries there for me. Joe On Saturday 19 January 2002 07:33 pm, you wrote: On Friday 18 January 2002 01:27 pm, you wrote: Alsa is probably going to use whatever IRQ the card thinks it has. I don't know that for sure, but I'm pretty sure you'll still have the same problem. Are you able to change the IRQ for your printer port through CMOS? That might work or if you have a PNP OS setting in your CMOS, you might try telling it the oposite of what it's currently at. Dear Joe, I do not think using Alsa will make the difference either. I changed the PNP stuff but nothing made a difference so far.I believe that I can change the IRQ for the printer through CMOS however according to all the files IRQ 7 has been used only by my printer so I am wondering if it is a dma conflict instead as you suggested? How would I check the DMA situation and how would I change it? From what I can tell there does not seem to be a DMA conflict either but I probably would not know how to tell if there was. Thanks very much for your help and suggestions. By the way, do you know how I would put my printer into /etc/modules so that it could load? I know that the devfs is different and I am not sure how to correctly edit the /etc/modules file for everything. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printer and /etc/modules
On Sunday 20 January 2002 12:34 am, you wrote: I only responded to the first part of your message, sorry. You normally would not have to put your printer into /etc/modules. I believe it is compiled into the Mandrake kernel. For example, the only thing in my /etc/modules is scsi_hostadapter and usb-storage, and Mandrake put both entries there for me. Joe On Saturday 19 January 2002 07:33 pm, you wrote: On Friday 18 January 2002 01:27 pm, you wrote: Alsa is probably going to use whatever IRQ the card thinks it has. I don't know that for sure, but I'm pretty sure you'll still have the same problem. Are you able to change the IRQ for your printer port through CMOS? That might work or if you have a PNP OS setting in your CMOS, you might try telling it the oposite of what it's currently at. Dear Joe, I do not think using Alsa will make the difference either. I changed the PNP stuff but nothing made a difference so far.I believe that I can change the IRQ for the printer through CMOS however according to all the files IRQ 7 has been used only by my printer so I am wondering if it is a dma conflict instead as you suggested? How would I check the DMA situation and how would I change it? From what I can tell there does not seem to be a DMA conflict either but I probably would not know how to tell if there was. Thanks very much for your help and suggestions. By the way, do you know how I would put my printer into /etc/modules so that it could load? I know that the devfs is different and I am not sure how to correctly edit the /etc/modules file for everything. Sincerely, Marcia Dear Joe and All, Thank you Joe for your help and thank you Charles for yours as well as all others who gave suggestions. After 2 months my printer, ethernet, and sound are all working. I went into the Bios and went into the peripherals area, changed the irq and ioport of the printer. I actually changed it to irq 5 which is for my sound but it made the difference and everything works. It really does not make sense to me because the printer always used irq 7 before without a problem. I am very grateful for the help. I tried many other changes in the Bios which did not work but Joe's suggestion of changing the irq for the printer in the Bios made things work. I am thrilled. I think that it is and odd thing to have to do it but since it works I am not complaining. Thanks again, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
