Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly

[Seedkum Aladeem]

Or you can define an alias in your shell rc file. This way you can start 
openoffice from the command line.

For csh the line would go in the .cshrc file in your "home" directory and it 
will be:

alias soffice /OpenOffice.org641/soffice

This way whever you type "soffice &" in a terminal window, Open Office gets 
started. 

Seedkum

On Friday 08 March 2002 09:56 pm, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote:
> On 9 Mar 2002, Charles Muller wrote:
>
> Using KDE I just made a 'icon' to it.
> Right click I select something like make new application link and fill in
> the blanks!
> Sorry, I don't have the 'correct' steps 'cause I'm not using mdk8.1 in
> English!
>
> Ricardo Castanho
>
> >I installed OpenOffice 6.41 using the tarball, and it works fine.
> >However, it is slightly inconvenient to use, since each time I have to
> >open the console, change directories to /OpenOffice.org641 and then type
> >./soffice. Is there a way of simplifying this process?
> >Regards,
> >Chuck



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Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.

[Seedkum Aladeem]

Ralph,

I used the www.rpmfind.net site to search for "openoffice". The site kept 
timing out today.  I do not have the URL unfortunately. There was only one 
site with the i586 rpm out of a total of 4 sites. I do not know what kind of 
directroy the rpm came from (contrib or not). I just clicked on the file name 
not knowing where it resided.  

I followed your advice today and told the KDE Software Manager to search the 
LM 8.1 CD ISO files too. I got the following error messages this time:

rpm -U --replacepkgs  /home/rpmdir/openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk.i586.rpm;echo 
RESULT=$?
error: failed dependencies:
lpddaemon is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
libstdc++3.0 >= 3.0.4-1mdk is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
libstdc++.so.3   is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
RESULT=1

Will the rpm package manager be able to keep track of Open Office the way it 
is able to keep track of rpm packages if I use this "tarball" thing you have 
used?

I think Open Office needs Java for the help menus. Do you have help menus?

Thanks,

Seedkum

On Friday 08 March 2002 01:01 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> Umm, where did you download the rpm's from? I have looked before, but
> didn't have much luck...
>
> What I did was just to download and install the tarball (binary file)
> from openoffice.org... works fine here, although I think it's built for
> an i386 and I run an i686 .. so I guess an i586 build probablty would
> speed up things.
>
> What version of Mandrake are you running? If 8.1, gcc3 and others are on
> the install cd's.
> ~ What I think you did was to download a file from a contrib ftp
> directory or not? Well, please give me the URL you used, and I will try
> it here... and let you know
>
> About the j2re and kafee... well, I can't help... I don't like java, and
> it does not like me. Never got it working here with openoffice.org
> either :-) Does not matter, it works without.
>
> Neither do I know the answer to the unicode Q... sorry about that :-)
>
> For what it's worth.. I hope this helps
>
> Greetings
> Ralph
>
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Re: [newbie] installing rpms

[Michael]

FemmeFatale wrote:
> 
> Gaim & Licq I believe are both hidden directories.
> 
> So, do thusly:
> 
> Open Terminal window
> make sure you're in ~/home/yourdirectory
> then issue a "ls -a" command *no quotes ofc*
> 
> Then you'll see hidden directories.  They start with a period.  Like so:
> 
> ./licq

Like so:

.licq

Sorry

Michael


> 
> HTH
> Femme
> 
> Heather Reed wrote:
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Brian Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:52 PM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] installing rpms
> >
> > > Heather,
> > >
> > > No thickness or slowness is evident.  Your willingness to ask "simple"
> > > questions is I am sure appreciated by many readers of this list.
> > >
> > > Anyway...
> > >
> > > The great thing about RPMs is that they know what to do with
> > > themselves.  I find the easiest way to deal with them is to download to
> > > my home drectory and then in a console do the following:
> > >
> > > rpm -ivh name-of-app.rpm
> > >
> > > The ivh means: Install Verbose Hash
> > >
> > Brian - thanks very much for your excellent step by step guide - much
> > appreciated! I followed the instructions to the letter, but what I got at
> > the console was a list of the various commands that could be used by rpm. I
> > looked in every single directory, and couldn't find the gaim entry, and
> > found a gaim directory in the usr/local list that was completely empty! I am
> > cursing with frustration here - and definitely without a clue!!! Can you or
> > anyone enlighten me?
> > Thanks in advance
> > Heather
> >

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Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

[Michael]

FemmeFatale wrote:
> 
> Just to clarify... and thank you for the input & explanations. :)
> 
> Michael wrote:
> 
> > I think it is a neat facility to have available to us. It's use: A program dies,
> > or you have to kill it. Once you have cleared it from memory "Ctrl Alt F12" and
> > it tells you what happened. It seems to be a bonus not a problem Femmey. Much
> > easier to keep up with what is happening on your box.
> 
> How do I clear it from memory?  I used the XKill a few times (icon on
> desktop).  Is that it?
> Hm ya sounds useful. Thx.

1. A nice easy way (if X is still ok) is with kpm. In my LM7.1 menus on KDE it
is in

Applications > Monitoring > Process Management

2. From command line use "ps" to find the ap and "killall" or "kill -s x proc"
to kill it. Where x=the signal number and proc= the process number that was in
"ps" is  Being a real operating system Linux will ensure that all space that any
locked program was taking is freed up when you kill it. Read the manual on these
for your options i.e. "man ps"

3. They talk about "top" as a command line version of kpm.  Don't know as
i haven't used it yet - hey we can't learn all the tools simultaneously
. Try "man top" and see if that is what you want.

4. Like the Xkill icon, as i found out from a recent thread, "Ctrl" "Alt" and
"Esc" turns on an Xkill mode with a nice mouse pointer. Manouver with the
keyboard arrows if the mouse is frozen. Try it, the same key combination toggles
it back off again. 

> 
> > And while we are on the subject of logs. Be aware that you shouldn't turn off
> > your machine overnight. Read up on logrotate "man logrotate".
> 
> Hm... well my little box is usually on 24/7, except when I reboot to
> Windows.
> 
> Thx I will look that up.
> 
> > Sorry about the bandwidth but i hope this helps our distressed lady friend ;)
> >
> > Michael
> >
> 
> Love the sig line.  Yes i'm distressed, usually when I melt yet
> *another* install.  Like yesterday, I installed Ximian Gnome & it broke
> a lot of programs.  Such as Xmms & a few others. :\

My sig is autogenerated by "cron" running "fortune". I vet out the long ones and
replace them if i feel like it. I still read the long ones as there are so many
on the database and they are so good.

> 
> Awww I'm a lady friend, thx.  Very cool to know I'm your friend.  Guess
> that means I'm part of this community now, like it or not. :)
> 
> FF
> 

Are you happy with all the info on the "F12" display? Was yours running ok when
you checked it out? The reason i am asking is it is good to hear back when and
how a problem was solved. Especially for someone searching the archives in the
future.

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Re: [newbie] OT, I know this is a LM List, but...

[civileme]

FemmeFatale wrote:

>
>civileme wrote:
>*faints* My lord, that is a helluva set of instructions, some of which
>I'm not sure I understood completely.  
>
>But I will give it a shot.  However I use Bootmagic for my booting needs
>& to dual boot OSes.
>
>If I read that correctly, Lilo would be used doing your method Civil.
>Correct?
>
>Femme
>
>>Only 4 primary partitions per disk, and one of them has to be used as
>>the root or container for extended partitions if you have any.  That
>>leaves 3.
>>
>>BUT
>>
>>Partitions are the last 66 bytes of the first sector on the first track
>>of the first cylinder of the disk.  There are 4 16-byte fields which
>>define the beginning CHS address, the number of blocks, the type, etc.
>> If the type is extended, then the CHS points to a part of the disk
>>where the software will read the first sector for two items--one is the
>>real CHS and extent of the first extended partition and the second is a
>>pointer to the next sector that is used for a definition of the next
>>extended partition.
>>
>>It is ridiculous to have a stricture that the beginning / or /boot be
>>primary...  If you default install Mandrake, you get NO primaries, and
>>LILO or GRUB still work.  And we are still largely compatuble with RH,
>>at least for rpms.
>>
>>Anyway, boot up Mandrake and go to Mandrake Control Center.  Find "Mount
>>Points" and start that up
>>
>>Now look at the disk.  The ext2 partition you want to put RH on should
>>be shown...  clear it by deletion then click on the blank area and
>>create a new partition and specify that it be primary.  (That's under
>>preference) Check in the window by clicking on the new partition and
>>make sure it is one of hdx1-4.  If not, and if there is actually room to
>>make one, then open a terminal window, su to root, and make the
>>partition with fdisk (VERY carefully and with thought).  It may be that
>>the extended partition has claimed all of the disk and you can resize it
>>with fdisk non-destructively so its end is at the last of the last
>>extended partition defined after you undefine the one you want to use
>>for RH.
>>
>>PM is NOT capable of doing this.
>>
>>OK with the primary defined, install RH but CANCEL bootloader
>>instalation or you may lose Mandrake.  You can just make a boot floppy
>>or you can do the following:
>>
>>1.  Make the RH partition mountable under Mandrake --  call the mount
>>point /spare.  You use diskdrake (the MCC "Mount Points") to do this.
>>
>>2.  Open two instances of  Applications=>File Tools=>File Manager (Super
>>User Mode)--point one at /spare/boot and the other at /boot
>>
>>3. There will be a file called /spare/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-something and
>>another called initrd.img-2.4.7-samesomething that you need to drag to
>>/boot.  Do that and close the file managers
>>
>>4.  Now Use Mandrake Control Center => Boot configuration.  Add a new
>>boot with
>>vmlinuz-2.4.7-something as your image, the initrd you dragged over as
>>your intird, and the root filesystem the /dev/hda4 or whatever primary
>>you chose.
>>
>>That will work and will triple-boot W2K, Mandtrake, and RH
>>
>>A better way is to have a separate named /boot shared among your linux
>>systems.  Then those steps are unnecessary.
>>
>>/home can often effectively be shared among linux systems--all you have
>>to watch for is making a user who has the same user and group number in
>>every system.  *the /home/username directory and all files within belong
>>to that user by user and group number*
>>
>>Write and let us know how you fare.
>>
>>Civileme
>>
>>  
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>
>
>
>
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Yes, well my knowledge of Bootmagic could fill a thimble and leave room 
for your thumb, so I suggest making sure you do not install the RH 
bootlloader and adapt bootmagic to doing it however.  It has been years 
since I used non-free software.

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Re: [newbie] installing nic driver

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 22:38:48 -0500, Scott Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'm trying to install drivers for my smc1211tx ethernet card so I can get my
> cable connection configured correctly.  I'm running 8.0.  I have a couple of
> questions about the directions that came with the cd before I try it.
> The directions say to verify that you have the source code for your current
> kernel version installed.  How do you do that?
> Later it says "install the driver module in the proper location for your
> distribution.  This is usually  /lib/modules/kernel-version/net/driver"  The
> closest thing I have is /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net.  I want to be
> sure that that is the correct location to install the driver before I do it.
> Finally,  it says to run the following command as root to install the
> driver:
> install -m 644 driver.o /lib/modules/'uname -r'/net/
> Am I really supposed to type 'uname -r', or does this stand for something
> else?
> Should I substitute this directory with the
> "/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net" one?

The SMC 1211TX runs just fine in Mandrake 8.0 using the (Realtek) 8139too
driver. I have the same card, and it was automatically detected and configured
during the installation. If this was not the case for you, add the following
line to /etc/modules.conf:

  alias eth0 8139too

where eth0 is the address of the card.

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[newbie] xmms problem

[Jonathan Dlouhy]

I have xmms installed. I was working fine, I had it associated with 
.wav files, etc., no problem. Then I installed RealPlayer 8, which 
worked well, but nuked my .wav sound file associations. I restored them 
to associate with xmms, but no go. Then i uninstalled RealPlayer. I 
rebooted, got the correct .wav icons back from RealPlayer, but now xmms 
will start from a command line but not from the Multimedia menu. It is 
supposedly associated with .wav files but I get the same problem as 
when I try to run xmms from the menu.
HELP!

Thanks,

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Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly

[Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas]

On 9 Mar 2002, Charles Muller wrote:

Using KDE I just made a 'icon' to it.
Right click I select something like make new application link and fill in
the blanks!
Sorry, I don't have the 'correct' steps 'cause I'm not using mdk8.1 in
English!

Ricardo Castanho

>I installed OpenOffice 6.41 using the tarball, and it works fine.
>However, it is slightly inconvenient to use, since each time I have to
>open the console, change directories to /OpenOffice.org641 and then type
>./soffice. Is there a way of simplifying this process?
>Regards,
>Chuck

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Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

[FemmeFatale]

*Smiles* So true Shane

shane wrote:

  why?  i
> have no idea, i was using komba2 and it worked great to browse shares, but
> hey when everything is working, you find something to break while trying to
> make it run better
>



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Re: [newbie] OT, I know this is a LM List, but...

[FemmeFatale]

civileme wrote:
*faints* My lord, that is a helluva set of instructions, some of which
I'm not sure I understood completely.  

But I will give it a shot.  However I use Bootmagic for my booting needs
& to dual boot OSes.

If I read that correctly, Lilo would be used doing your method Civil.
Correct?

Femme
> >
> Only 4 primary partitions per disk, and one of them has to be used as
> the root or container for extended partitions if you have any.  That
> leaves 3.
> 
> BUT
> 
> Partitions are the last 66 bytes of the first sector on the first track
> of the first cylinder of the disk.  There are 4 16-byte fields which
> define the beginning CHS address, the number of blocks, the type, etc.
>  If the type is extended, then the CHS points to a part of the disk
> where the software will read the first sector for two items--one is the
> real CHS and extent of the first extended partition and the second is a
> pointer to the next sector that is used for a definition of the next
> extended partition.
> 
> It is ridiculous to have a stricture that the beginning / or /boot be
> primary...  If you default install Mandrake, you get NO primaries, and
> LILO or GRUB still work.  And we are still largely compatuble with RH,
> at least for rpms.
> 
> Anyway, boot up Mandrake and go to Mandrake Control Center.  Find "Mount
> Points" and start that up
> 
> Now look at the disk.  The ext2 partition you want to put RH on should
> be shown...  clear it by deletion then click on the blank area and
> create a new partition and specify that it be primary.  (That's under
> preference) Check in the window by clicking on the new partition and
> make sure it is one of hdx1-4.  If not, and if there is actually room to
> make one, then open a terminal window, su to root, and make the
> partition with fdisk (VERY carefully and with thought).  It may be that
> the extended partition has claimed all of the disk and you can resize it
> with fdisk non-destructively so its end is at the last of the last
> extended partition defined after you undefine the one you want to use
> for RH.
> 
> PM is NOT capable of doing this.
> 
> OK with the primary defined, install RH but CANCEL bootloader
> instalation or you may lose Mandrake.  You can just make a boot floppy
> or you can do the following:
> 
> 1.  Make the RH partition mountable under Mandrake --  call the mount
> point /spare.  You use diskdrake (the MCC "Mount Points") to do this.
> 
> 2.  Open two instances of  Applications=>File Tools=>File Manager (Super
> User Mode)--point one at /spare/boot and the other at /boot
> 
> 3. There will be a file called /spare/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-something and
> another called initrd.img-2.4.7-samesomething that you need to drag to
> /boot.  Do that and close the file managers
> 
> 4.  Now Use Mandrake Control Center => Boot configuration.  Add a new
> boot with
> vmlinuz-2.4.7-something as your image, the initrd you dragged over as
> your intird, and the root filesystem the /dev/hda4 or whatever primary
> you chose.
> 
> That will work and will triple-boot W2K, Mandtrake, and RH
> 
> A better way is to have a separate named /boot shared among your linux
> systems.  Then those steps are unnecessary.
> 
> /home can often effectively be shared among linux systems--all you have
> to watch for is making a user who has the same user and group number in
> every system.  *the /home/username directory and all files within belong
> to that user by user and group number*
> 
> Write and let us know how you fare.
> 
> Civileme
> 
>   
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[newbie] FTP thru Linksys Router - Solved

[Bryan Tyson]

FTP thru Linksys Router - Solved

First I would like to thank each of you who offered advice and comments 
on this problem. I learned plenty from your posts.

Here's what solved the problem in my case. Perhaps someone more 
knowledgeable about networking and FTP can explain why this solution 
worked.

When I ran ifconfig initially, it showed MTU 1500. I assume that is the 
default value. I have never touched it, and it always worked until I 
added the router. After adding the router, I could still view directory 
listings, delete files, and download. However, I could not upload!

The command ifconfig eth0 mtu 1492 got me uploading to my heart's 
content.

I recommend http://www.dslreports.com/ for lots of great information on 
DSL in general as well as plenty of vendor-specific information.

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Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity

[Ashley Reynolds]

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Ashley Reynolds wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Kirtis B wrote:
>
> > No need to download anything.  Just recompile the kernel with high memory
> > support included.
>
> That's also a viable option, however, I thought it would be far easier to
> download a kernel RPM and install it.
>
> I'd also like to compliment you on that tutorial, it was one of the first
> that introduced me to kernel compiling.

Oops.  My mistake.  You're not the author of that tutorial.  ;)

Ashley

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[newbie] Running Open Office more directly

[Charles Muller]

I installed OpenOffice 6.41 using the tarball, and it works fine.
However, it is slightly inconvenient to use, since each time I have to
open the console, change directories to /OpenOffice.org641 and then type
./soffice. Is there a way of simplifying this process?

Regards,

Chuck

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Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity

[Ashley Reynolds]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Kirtis B wrote:

> No need to download anything.  Just recompile the kernel with high memory
> support included.

That's also a viable option, however, I thought it would be far easier to
download a kernel RPM and install it.

I'd also like to compliment you on that tutorial, it was one of the first
that introduced me to kernel compiling.

Ashley

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Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem - better explanation

[Joseph Braddock]

There should be a pctel chip on the modem itself.  What does it say the model is?

Joe


On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 00:59:32 -0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> At 03:07 p.m. 08/03/2002, you wrote:
> > > I shouldn't jump into the middle of a thread, and I'm not sure of this,
> > > but the CM8738 number sounds more like the number of the sound module
> > > than the modem.  I have a Matsonic MS8308EP motherboard, without the LMR
> > > modem, but (IIRC) the sound card is CM8378 or something like that.
> > >
> > > Possibly, on the LMR modem, the sound module is the modem and goes by
> > > the same name??
> > >
> > > Randy Kramer
> >
> >shockwave:
> >Randy is quite right -- CM8378 refers to a sound chipset. Have you seen the
> >miniHowTo at http://sayamindu.topcities.com/pctel.txt? Not having been
> >through the thrill of dealing with an HSP modem, I can't vouch for its
> >usefulness, but the guy solicits comments on the main page, so perhaps an
> >e-mail to him would work.
> >HTH --
> >-- cmg
> 
> Hmm..now i'm confused, here are the options I can choose,
> 
> "./configure
> Options: --with-hal=hal
> Select one of: pct789, cm8738, i810intel, i810sis, via686a"
> 
> I thought it was a i810sis first but then I opened the box and the only 
> chip I found that matched one of these was HSP56 cm8738/PCI-SX. I'm reading 
> the text file and it has some sections of the FAQ I already have,
> 
> "7.3. Other options while loading the modules. The other options that you 
> may want to use while loading ptserial.o are:
> For all HALs :
> - irq: Force to using irq #.
> - iobase: Force to use iobase for modem detection.
> 
> Only for I810/VAI686A HALs:
> - iobase1: Force the iobase 1
> NOTE: if you want to set iobase or iobase1, you should use 
> irq/iobase/iobase1 at same time.
> 
> Only for CM8738/PCT789 HALs:
> - vendor_id: vendor ID of the modem
> - device_id: device ID of the modem."
> 
> and CM8738 is also listed. I know that CM8738 has to do with audio but 
> reading the previous FAQ,
> 
> "You need an Elite/SiS mainboard with the CM8738 Audio/Modem ASIC and PCtel 
> Codec/DAA daughterboard.  The modem daughterboard has a RJ-11 phone jack to 
> hook up to a phone line."
> 
> that Audio/Modem confuses me, the other chip close to the ones listed is 
> PCT303L.
> 
> Regards
> Paul
> 
> 
> 



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Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem - better explanation

[Joseph Braddock]

Okay, the 2.4.7 should work.  Have you installed the kernel source?  You need it to 
compile the drivers.  

Joe


On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 06:04:53 -0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> The kernel is 2.4.8-26mdk, I installed LM 8.1 3 weeks ago so I've not 
> changed or upgraded anything yet. By the way, the modem was a CM8738 not a 
> i810sis, I tried all back from the scratch with this new setting 
> --with-hal=cm8738 but the results are the same. How exactly did you make 
> the driver ptserial.o work and ignore those errors?
> 
> At 09:55 p.m. 07/03/2002, you wrote:
> 
> >What kernel are you running?  After upgrading my kernel, I could not get 
> >the 2.4.7 driver to work, but the pctel-0.8.6 did.  Are you sure your 
> >modem is an i810sis?  Mine is the pct789.  I didn't have to use any of the 
> >other command line switches except for the --with-hal.  The errors I had 
> >with the 2.4.7 all dealt with unresolved referrences in ptserial.  Again, 
> >I never could resolve them, but did get the later driver to work.
> >
> >Joe
> 
> --
> reply to a previous mail,
> 
> >what mainboard?
> 
> Elite/SIS
> System Mainboard PCCHIPS
> Model M598LMR 1.0
> 
> >mainboard chip?
> 
> SIS530 CPU to PCI Bridge, ISA AGP PCI USB SMBus/i2c
> 
> >pci board chip?
> 
> probably HSP56 CM8738 /PCI-SX, the sound card works ok.
> 
> >new daughter board chip? [forget name for new io slot]
> 
> PCtel/DAA, fb daa2, daa2f PCT303L.
> 
> According to 2 different FAQs (same pctel.o driver different versions),
> 
> "You need an Elite/SiS mainboard with the CM8738 Audio/Modem ASIC and PCtel 
> Codec/DAA daughterboard. The modem daughterboard has a RJ-11 phone jack to 
> hook up to a phone line. The modem driver autodetects the correct PCI 
> vender and device ID to install the correct interrupt handler."
> 
> AFAIK all within the minimum hardware requirements for installing the 
> driver properly, so it should not matter, unless i'm missing something. 
> Therefore, making insmod ptserial.o work would be enough to load the modem, 
> now how do i get rid of those errors?
> 
> Regards
> Paul
> 
> 
> 



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Re: [newbie] installing nic driver

[Damian Gatabria]

El Jue 07 Mar 2002 00:38, escribió:
> I'm trying to install drivers for my smc1211tx ethernet card so I can get
> my cable connection configured correctly.  I'm running 8.0.  I have a
> couple of questions about the directions that came with the cd before I try
> it. The directions say to verify that you have the source code for your
> current kernel version installed.  How do you do that?
> Later it says "install the driver module in the proper location for your
> distribution.  This is usually  /lib/modules/kernel-version/net/driver" 
> The closest thing I have is /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net.  I want to
> be sure that that is the correct location to install the driver before I do
> it. Finally,  it says to run the following command as root to install the
> driver:
> install -m 644 driver.o /lib/modules/'uname -r'/net/
> Am I really supposed to type 'uname -r', or does this stand for something
> else?
> Should I substitute this directory with the
> "/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net" one?
>
> Sorry for all the dumb questions,
> SW


well, to check if you have the source code installed
for your kernel, ( if you are using the download edition 
you probably do ) just go to /usr/src/linux and make 
sure all the directories are there. if you are not sure, 
just put the first mandrake cd in your cd-reader and
type " urpmi kernel-source " without the quotes.
it will say it will install other packages as well to resolve
dependencies. say yes to everithing and that will be it.

i guess all of your other suppositions are correct.. 
try them and if you get any more trouble post back.

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Re: [newbie] IMAP+Postfix

[Michael Viron]

Top get IMAP up and running:

1.  Make sure that imap-.i586.rpm is installed.  If it isn't, you won't
be running either an imap or pop3 server.

2.  Make sure that xinetd-*.rpm is installed.  If it's not, you aren't
going to be running any servers managed by the inetd super-daemon.

3.  Next, edit /etc/xinetd.d/imap* -- since I'm not in front of a Mandrake
8.1 PC at the moment, I'm guessing at the filename -- regardless, it will
be somewhere under /etc/xinetd.d/ and will begin with imap, making sure
that you don't have a "disable" line in there.

4.  restart xinetd, and try connecting via imap with a valid user account.
If it still doesn't work, send another e-mail to the list, with the
specific problem you are encountering.

Finally, try not to send in HTML, as it really screws up the formating on
your message, and annoys people on the list.

--
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Registered Linux User #81978
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At 08:44 AM 03/06/2002 -0400, you wrote: 

How can I setup the IMAP server?. I running  Mandrake Prosuite 8.1 Please,
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Re: [newbie] installing nic driver

[Gerald Waugh]

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:38 pm, you wrote:
> I'm trying to install drivers for my smc1211tx ethernet card so I can get
> my cable connection configured correctly.  I'm running 8.0.  I have a
> couple of questions about the directions that came with the cd before I try
> it. The directions say to verify that you have the source code for your
> current kernel version installed.  How do you do that?

should be it /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20/

> Later it says "install the driver module in the proper location for your
> distribution.  This is usually  /lib/modules/kernel-version/net/driver" 
> The closest thing I have is /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net.  I want to

should be something like this 9 and full of drivers)
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/

> be sure that that is the correct location to install the driver before I do
> it. Finally,  it says to run the following command as root to install the
> driver:
> install -m 644 driver.o /lib/modules/'uname -r'/net/
> Am I really supposed to type 'uname -r', or does this stand for something
> else?

uname -r is your kernel version, so it looks OK, 
try it at the command line type uname -r  Enter
I would use the following
install -m 644 driver.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/drivers/net/
[ now don't forget those `s are backword 's its probably on the ~ key ]

ls lib/modules/'uname -r'/drivers/net/ to see what you get?
should be a lot of nic drivers

> Should I substitute this directory with the
> "/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net" one?

   No, unless you have all the NIC drivers in that dir

> Sorry for all the dumb questions,
> SW
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake security notices

[Gerald Waugh]

On Friday 08 March 2002 11:11 pm, you wrote:
> Not to be difficult, but I was asking if any of the mirrors on
> /www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftptmp/1015646520.f7faa791a1e9b634712c47f070275f
>0f.php
>
> where you are supposedly able to download the updates, actually had them.
> There are several more than the ssh one I need to get.  I have tried every
> one listed under 8.1 / US over the past week and not found any that have
> the newest sec updates.
>

It is a published exploit, and if you are security concious, why wait,
get the source and do it.

cd to the directory of your choide
su -
password for root

wget  
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.openssh.com/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/porta
ble/openssh-3.1p1.tar.gz 

Oh this word wrap is hell, the above 3 lines are 1.

tar -xzvf openssh-3.1p1.tar.gz
cd openssh-3.1p1
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

look to see where your current ssh is 
it will be in either /usr or /usr/local/
If it is in /usr/local don't use the --prefix=/usr for configure

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Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

[shane]

On Friday 08 March 2002 18:32, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and 
transmitted:

> *laffs* ya that's me, I can't program but I've managed to fook up every
> install.  *shrugs*
>
> I don't mind, cept I don't have enough expertise yet to fix my crashes.
> So I take the 30 min to reinstall.

well i don't know enough either, but i keep banging my head on the wall 
till it works,  :-)

right now i am messing with fstab and adding network drives to it.  why?  i 
have no idea, i was using komba2 and it worked great to browse shares, but 
hey when everything is working, you find something to break while trying to 
make it run better

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[newbie] cable connection glitch

[Scott]

I am using Mandrake 8.0. I just got hooked up to cable.  I got an SMC 1211TX 
ethernet card  and an RCA DCM245R modem.  I was able to get the connection 
working by using Draknet in the Mandrake control center, but there is a 
problem.  On boot, there is a message that says: "Bringing up interface eth0: 
Delaying eth0 initialization   Failed" There is no connection made during 
boot.  I can connect by going into the Control center and into internert 
connection configuration area and clicking on "connect". But after doing this 
none of the shortcuts on my desktop will work.  Programs won't load.  I can 
fix this by loging out and logging back in again.

By the way the info given about the connection is
Type: cable
interface: ppp0
status: not connected
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
SW



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[newbie] installing nic driver

[Scott Wagner]

I'm trying to install drivers for my smc1211tx ethernet card so I can get my
cable connection configured correctly.  I'm running 8.0.  I have a couple of
questions about the directions that came with the cd before I try it.
The directions say to verify that you have the source code for your current
kernel version installed.  How do you do that?
Later it says "install the driver module in the proper location for your
distribution.  This is usually  /lib/modules/kernel-version/net/driver"  The
closest thing I have is /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net.  I want to be
sure that that is the correct location to install the driver before I do it.
Finally,  it says to run the following command as root to install the
driver:
install -m 644 driver.o /lib/modules/'uname -r'/net/
Am I really supposed to type 'uname -r', or does this stand for something
else?
Should I substitute this directory with the
"/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net" one?

Sorry for all the dumb questions,
SW




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Re: [newbie] Mandrake security notices

[Jeff]

On Friday 08 March 2002 09:40 pm, you wrote:
> On Friday 08 March 2002 10:32 pm, you wrote:
> > On Friday 08 March 2002 09:29 pm, you wrote:
> > > I suppose I am not the only one to see the recent security notices on
> > > SSH, etc.  I have not been able to find a US mirror with the updated
> > > packeages yet.  I have tried using MandrakeUpdate and manually
> > > searching the ftp's for the files.  Does anyone out there know where I
> > > can find a mirror that is updated more frequently, or anyplace to get
> > > the update packages?
> >
> > I got it from a New York mirror listed on http://openssh.org
>
> ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.openssh.com/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/porta
>ble/openssh-3.1p1.tar.gz to be specific

Not to be difficult, but I was asking if any of the mirrors on 
/www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftptmp/1015646520.f7faa791a1e9b634712c47f070275f0f.php

where you are supposedly able to download the updates, actually had them.  
There are several more than the ssh one I need to get.  I have tried every 
one listed under 8.1 / US over the past week and not found any that have the 
newest sec updates.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem - better explanation

[shockwave]

At 03:07 p.m. 08/03/2002, you wrote:
> > I shouldn't jump into the middle of a thread, and I'm not sure of this,
> > but the CM8738 number sounds more like the number of the sound module
> > than the modem.  I have a Matsonic MS8308EP motherboard, without the LMR
> > modem, but (IIRC) the sound card is CM8378 or something like that.
> >
> > Possibly, on the LMR modem, the sound module is the modem and goes by
> > the same name??
> >
> > Randy Kramer
>
>shockwave:
>Randy is quite right -- CM8378 refers to a sound chipset. Have you seen the
>miniHowTo at http://sayamindu.topcities.com/pctel.txt? Not having been
>through the thrill of dealing with an HSP modem, I can't vouch for its
>usefulness, but the guy solicits comments on the main page, so perhaps an
>e-mail to him would work.
>HTH --
>-- cmg

Hmm..now i'm confused, here are the options I can choose,

"./configure
Options: --with-hal=hal
Select one of: pct789, cm8738, i810intel, i810sis, via686a"

I thought it was a i810sis first but then I opened the box and the only 
chip I found that matched one of these was HSP56 cm8738/PCI-SX. I'm reading 
the text file and it has some sections of the FAQ I already have,

"7.3. Other options while loading the modules. The other options that you 
may want to use while loading ptserial.o are:
For all HALs :
- irq: Force to using irq #.
- iobase: Force to use iobase for modem detection.

Only for I810/VAI686A HALs:
- iobase1: Force the iobase 1
NOTE: if you want to set iobase or iobase1, you should use 
irq/iobase/iobase1 at same time.

Only for CM8738/PCT789 HALs:
- vendor_id: vendor ID of the modem
- device_id: device ID of the modem."

and CM8738 is also listed. I know that CM8738 has to do with audio but 
reading the previous FAQ,

"You need an Elite/SiS mainboard with the CM8738 Audio/Modem ASIC and PCtel 
Codec/DAA daughterboard.  The modem daughterboard has a RJ-11 phone jack to 
hook up to a phone line."

that Audio/Modem confuses me, the other chip close to the ones listed is 
PCT303L.

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Re: [newbie] plizzz help me

[FemmeFatale]

If you're using Bootmagic with PM, I suggest you load bootmagic *you may
have to make the BM partition visible*, then look for your linux
partition.  Point it there.

If you're using LILO, you'll have to re-edit the LILO config file to
point it as you've changed where your first Linux partition is kept. 
I.E. You changed what cylinders it starts at & ends at.

FF

"H.J.Bathoorn" wrote:
> 
> On Friday 08 March 2002 10:10, you wrote:
> > hi , i just install linux mandrake 8.1 after install win xp, after all
> > finished i change the size of my linux swap partition with partition magic
> > after that all lilo can;t boot anymore...pliz help me



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Re: [newbie] OT, I know this is a LM List, but...

[FemmeFatale]

Thx for the input.  And I do agree with you.  Disk Druid sucks even
though it has been redesigned (I was thinking, Really!?  Wow could of
fooled me.  This is really bad.).

FF

Erylon wrote:
> 
> I've installed it (and then wiped it).  The installer is o.k., if you've been
> a linux user for years, but is nothing to write home about.  I particularly
> do not like the installation order for RH, and the RH partitioning tool
> doesn't hold a candle to DiskDrake, RH is nowhere near as intuitive.  It did
> find my hardware, though.  If you haven't used the RH partittioning tool
> before, it might take you several tries to get it right.
> 
> jmo
> 
>



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Re: [newbie] SB Audigy question

[FemmeFatale]

FWIW Jeff,
I have an SBLive! and it worked fine on LM8.1.  On LM8.0, it works
great.

Btw, IEEE1394 is Firewire.  Its for hooking into something that needs a
ton of bandwidth, like video cameras.

HTH,
Femme

Jeff wrote:
> 
> Anyone got it, Gamer, MP3, or Plat versions?  How does it work in Linux?  LM
> 8.1 specifically.  I mean both hardware and software.  Do the fancy extras
> packed in really work?  ( the Mp3 players, etc)  How about the connector box?
>  How about the SB 1394?  (I believe that's the part that does the 24bit
> encoding and other "extra features" of the audigy)
> 
> Please let me know, as I am going to ditch my acoustic edge and I want to
> make sure my preffered upgrade will work.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
>   
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Re: [newbie] New topic about submitting Bug reports

[FemmeFatale]

I have found that if I select one or two screen savers in the control
center on KDE, it crashes that program really well.

It happened when I didn't have Nvidia drivers installed, just a stock
installation of LM8.

Have yet to try again with Nvidia installed.

Tried to do a backtrace on it, but it said, "no symbols found".

So how would I submit this as a bug report? I know gnome has "bug
buddy".  Any ideas?


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Re: [newbie] Mandrake security notices

[Gerald Waugh]

On Friday 08 March 2002 10:32 pm, you wrote:
> On Friday 08 March 2002 09:29 pm, you wrote:
> > I suppose I am not the only one to see the recent security notices on
> > SSH, etc.  I have not been able to find a US mirror with the updated
> > packeages yet.  I have tried using MandrakeUpdate and manually searching
> > the ftp's for the files.  Does anyone out there know where I can find a
> > mirror that is updated more frequently, or anyplace to get the update
> > packages?
>
> I got it from a New York mirror listed on http://openssh.org
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.openssh.com/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-3.1p1.tar.gz
to be specific
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Re: [newbie] installing rpms

[FemmeFatale]

I hope you know you can use the TAB Key to fill in long words for you?

I.E., at a # type "rpm -ivh ga" then hit the tab key.  Whatever starts
with "ga" in that directory will be displayed.  Just keep typing letters
till it fills the blanks for you correctly.

:)

Neat trick I learned a long time ago.

Femme

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Re: [newbie] OT, I know this is a LM List, but...

[civileme]

FemmeFatale wrote:

>Has anyone tried installing or had experience with RH 7.2?
>
>I have several partitions, thanks to Partition Magic 7.  Great program. 
>However when I tried to install RH 7.2, I had a problem.  
>
>Seems it will NOT install to anything but a primary partition.  What
>gives?
>
>My current drive looks like this:
>
>Windows FAT32 drive D:  Primary Part.
>Windows Extended Partion on same drive (physical drive): Primary
>Linux Mandrake install on same drive again: Logical (/Root)Ext2, Reiser
>Linux Mandrake install on same drive again: Logical (/Swap),Ext2
>Linux Mandrake install on same drive again: Logical (/Home?)Ext2, Reiser
>Linux: Logical, soon to be I hoped the RH 7.2 partition, Ext2
>
>Now, PM 7, sees those partitions as EXT2 partitions.  And only 2
>partitions are Primary as you can see.  The Fat32 partition is "Hidden"
>as only one Primary may be visible to Windows 2k at once.  The visible
>one being the extended one *though I'd like to change that, I can't find
>a way to do it yet, and make the Extended partition the hidden one*.
>
>Anyway, when I go to install RH2 it gives me an error saying it can't
>install to anything but a Primary partition.  Now, in the installer I've
>tried to "force" a Primary partition, but no go.
>
>Any ideas???
>
>Thx,
>Femme
>
>
>
>
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Only 4 primary partitions per disk, and one of them has to be used as 
the root or container for extended partitions if you have any.  That 
leaves 3.

BUT

Partitions are the last 66 bytes of the first sector on the first track 
of the first cylinder of the disk.  There are 4 16-byte fields which 
define the beginning CHS address, the number of blocks, the type, etc. 
 If the type is extended, then the CHS points to a part of the disk 
where the software will read the first sector for two items--one is the 
real CHS and extent of the first extended partition and the second is a 
pointer to the next sector that is used for a definition of the next 
extended partition.

It is ridiculous to have a stricture that the beginning / or /boot be 
primary...  If you default install Mandrake, you get NO primaries, and 
LILO or GRUB still work.  And we are still largely compatuble with RH, 
at least for rpms.

Anyway, boot up Mandrake and go to Mandrake Control Center.  Find "Mount 
Points" and start that up

Now look at the disk.  The ext2 partition you want to put RH on should 
be shown...  clear it by deletion then click on the blank area and 
create a new partition and specify that it be primary.  (That's under 
preference) Check in the window by clicking on the new partition and 
make sure it is one of hdx1-4.  If not, and if there is actually room to 
make one, then open a terminal window, su to root, and make the 
partition with fdisk (VERY carefully and with thought).  It may be that 
the extended partition has claimed all of the disk and you can resize it 
with fdisk non-destructively so its end is at the last of the last 
extended partition defined after you undefine the one you want to use 
for RH.

PM is NOT capable of doing this.

OK with the primary defined, install RH but CANCEL bootloader 
instalation or you may lose Mandrake.  You can just make a boot floppy 
or you can do the following:

1.  Make the RH partition mountable under Mandrake --  call the mount 
point /spare.  You use diskdrake (the MCC "Mount Points") to do this.

2.  Open two instances of  Applications=>File Tools=>File Manager (Super 
User Mode)--point one at /spare/boot and the other at /boot

3. There will be a file called /spare/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-something and 
another called initrd.img-2.4.7-samesomething that you need to drag to 
/boot.  Do that and close the file managers

4.  Now Use Mandrake Control Center => Boot configuration.  Add a new 
boot with
vmlinuz-2.4.7-something as your image, the initrd you dragged over as 
your intird, and the root filesystem the /dev/hda4 or whatever primary 
you chose.

That will work and will triple-boot W2K, Mandtrake, and RH

A better way is to have a separate named /boot shared among your linux 
systems.  Then those steps are unnecessary.

/home can often effectively be shared among linux systems--all you have 
to watch for is making a user who has the same user and group number in 
every system.  *the /home/username directory and all files within belong 
to that user by user and group number*

Write and let us know how you fare.

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Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

[Gerald Waugh]

Thanks to all who replied,
I have decided that since the system is runing so good.
and I have much more on my todo list than I will ever get done in one 
lifetime, I am going to leave it alone.
Again, thanks to all
--
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Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

[civileme]

FemmeFatale wrote:

>UMM
>
>OK... Don't say I didn't warn you but...
>Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy.  I
>kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC.  No joke,
>otherwise you do risk frying the CPU.
>
>As for OCing, if you want links on how to do so SAFELY I will ask some
>friends for them.
>
>DO NOT OC if you don't know what you're doing!  It will void your
>Motherboards & CPU's warranties automatically.
>
>Femme
>
>Gerald Waugh wrote:
>
>>This thing is running quite well and seems real snappy running X
>>Now I want to know about fine-tunning it.
>>What are people using for overclocking?
>>and what CPU Freq Multiplier?
>>I have the multiplier on AUTO, so I am not sure what speed the CPU is running
>>at.  /proc/cpuinfo says 1.4 Ghz but I think it gets that from the CPU not
>>actual clock.
>>And do I want to fool with the cpu volts?
>>
>>I am not using overclocking, bus is set for 133 MHZ
>>TIA for any info
>>--
>>Gerald Waugh
>>
>>  
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>
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Besides which, a lot of our timing on drivers is really close to specs, 
rather than tolerant and sloppy like windrivers.  The result is that 
overclosking can narrow the tolerance window too much and make some of 
your devices not work with efficient drivers.

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Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

[Jeff]

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 09:06 pm, you wrote:
> UMM
>
> OK... Don't say I didn't warn you but...
> Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy.  I
> kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC.  No joke,
> otherwise you do risk frying the CPU.

That is definately true for Athlon T-birds, but the newer Xp's have a smaller 
process, I believe, and therefore are cooler.  But, with a T-bird, I suggest 
you do a LOT of homework on cases, fans, heatsinks, peltier, etc. before 
proceeding.

For example, I have a T-bird 1.33 GHz running at stock speeds ( at the 
moment).  I run 4 Enermax speed variable 80's, 2 in, 2 out, an Antec PCI Sys. 
cooler ( blows air out a PCI slot), an Enermax 350 W PS with dual fans, an 
OCZ Gladiator w/80 mm Delta in a Antex 1030 Full tower case. ( That means it 
is big and has good airflow, and with 6 x 80's and a delta, gets rather 
loud).  Checking Asus probe (which, if you know about MoBo temp sensors, 
reads from under the core and not actually touching it, which would give more 
accurate readings) reads my proc at between 40-42 C at boot and climbs about 
3-4 deg C after a few hours of use.  That is rather cool for an Athlon 
without major cooling.  My previous set up with the same chip, nix the 
Enermax PS and 2 80's gave 50-55 deg C and unstability after long gaming 
sessions with temps 60+ deg C.

I did a lot of research before first OC'ing my sys and I still f'ed up.  I 
reccommend you look at a few websites, and decide if you can pick up the 
pieces if it blows up.  It is definately not something to do on a whim or 
without some background knowledge.  I am also not sure the purpose of OCing 
other than 3D gaming, which is not really supported in Linux that much.  As a 
previous poster said, your gain may not be noticable in real world apps.

Jeff

Oh, don't think I am trying to tell you what to do, or that I trying to talk 
down to you.  I am simply suggesting you do your homework before messing 
around too much.  Good Luck.



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Re: [newbie] root / su passwords different?

[ed tharp]

do you have numbers in you password? is the num lock light on when you type 
the password and are you using the numberpad keys?


On Friday 08 March 2002 17:19, you wrote:
> Paul F. Fraley wrote:
> > I DL'd and upgraded with the MDK 8.2 beta4 cd-ISOs yesterday on a working
> > 8.0 installation.
>
> i am saying with 8.1. and skipping 8.2
>
> > I was able to log in as root from the graphic login screen one time. 
> > After that I tried to log in as root, ROOT, and Root, getting a "login
> > failed" message.  Same result from the command line.
>
> should _always_ be 'root'. but then we are dealing with electronics.
>
> > I was able to log in as a user, and su to root using the same password
> > that did not work for root.
>
> normal
>
> > As su, I did "passwd root" and entered a password.  Didn't help with
> > root, worked fine with su.
>
> see below
>
> > I thought the su and root passwords were the same?  Or was the login
> > failing because there was no user named root somehow?
>
> they "should" be. not likely
>
> from what you write, you may have security set at max,
> no root log in from console.
>
> nothing wrong with that. you should not log in as root anyway.
>
> you should find that at lilo boot prompt, if you enter
> 'linux init 1' or 'linux init 3', you will boot to
> 'maintenance/single user' or 'multi user/command line'.
>
> at init 1, you need no password, at init 3, users log in with
> password, still no root. again, high security level is set.
>
> > I'm fixed now, I did an install to get rid of the upgrade, since there
> > were several problems.  But I would still like input on how to fix this
> > should it happen again.
>
> so is my ex-girlfriend's cat, but he is not very happy about it.
>
> [clean install always better than upgrade.]
>
> it is not broke. do not try to fix it. leave it alone.
>
> it is that way for a reason. it is that way to make things more secure.
>
> it is a feature, not a bug/fault/error.
>
> until you learn more about unix/linux security, _do_not_ weaken system.
>
> should by some chance you need to boot unsafe, boot to init 1.
>
> if others are going to have access to you system, add passwording
> to 'lilo.conf' run 'lilo' and remove file from system.
>
> put a lock on boot floppy drive. ;)
>
> hth.
>
> iat.
>  being that you are new to open world of unix and linux,
>  i would suggest you find some good books on security.
>
> btw.
>  tabs are a waste. blank lines break thoughts. 79 line wrap is nice.
>
>
> tc,hago.
>
> g
> .



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[newbie] Lexmark Printer

[Keith Lynn]

Hello everyone,
 I'm having a problem getting the rpm that I downloaded from Lexmark's
site to install. I have the Z32 color printer and downloaded the correct
rpm. But when trying to install it, there is a stream of errors reported.
I'm using Mandrake 8.0. I just thought I'd see if anyone else had that
problem, and if they found a solution. Thanks.

Keith Lynn
Systems Administrator
School of Computer and Information Sciences
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36608
Phone: (251) 460-6390
Fax: (251) 460-7274
Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake8.1 / new computer / mouse cursor ceasure

[Kaj Haulrich]

John, I'm not sure this will work, but give it a try (it won't harm
anything) :
Become root, edit the file : "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" to enable the
software-cursor.
To do that, just find the line :
   # Option "sw_cursor"
and remove the hash-mark (#). Save the file, exit root-status and
restart the X-server.

If this doesn't fix it, continue according to Brian's advices. (He knows
more than somewhat about linux).

Kaj Haulrich.




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[newbie] Empty files when saving from cdrom to disk

[Marco Verheul]

Hello,

I have a cdrom that I burned (using Nero in Windows) containing a number
of tutorials in HTML. I want to save them on the harddisk (Linux) and
bookmark them so I can access them with Galeon or any other browser for
that matter.

When I open a file from cdrom it's no problem to navigate through the
contents, but when I save them to my home directory (using Nautilus or
Konqueror) all files and directories are displayed, but the files
contain 0 bytes. Even if I save them as root and try to access them as
root.

When I checked the file properties on the cdrom root is mentioned as the
owner.

What am I doing wrong?

Marco






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Re: [newbie] Re: How do I make the german [UNKNOWN]"_" with a keystroke combination

[Kaj Haulrich]

JOHN HEMMER wrote:
 
> The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been
> reached to adopt ENGLISH as the preferred language for European
> communications, rather than GERMAN, which was the other possibility.
> 
> Ze drem vil finali kum tru
>
> Just Kidding,
> 
> John Hemmer
> Syracuse

John, I think I must leave this list alone for a while, at least until I
recover from my severe asphyxia caused by unstoppable laughing ! - Did
you make that one up yourself ? - If so, may I quote you to my friends ?

BTW - did you know that the European Union intends to enforce US-style
legislation on software-patents thus letting "The Evil Empire" take over
Europe as well ? - Ironically this will make Europe a copycat of the
first degree !

Kaj Haulrich
Denmark.



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Re: [newbie] root / su passwords different?

[g]

Paul F. Fraley wrote:
>
> I DL'd and upgraded with the MDK 8.2 beta4 cd-ISOs yesterday on a working
> 8.0 installation.

i am saying with 8.1. and skipping 8.2

> I was able to log in as root from the graphic login screen one time.  After
> that I tried to log in as root, ROOT, and Root, getting a "login failed"
> message.  Same result from the command line.

should _always_ be 'root'. but then we are dealing with electronics.

> I was able to log in as a user, and su to root using the same password that
> did not work for root.

normal

> As su, I did "passwd root" and entered a password.  Didn't help with root,
> worked fine with su.

see below

> I thought the su and root passwords were the same?  Or was the login failing
> because there was no user named root somehow?

they "should" be. not likely

from what you write, you may have security set at max,
no root log in from console.

nothing wrong with that. you should not log in as root anyway.

you should find that at lilo boot prompt, if you enter
'linux init 1' or 'linux init 3', you will boot to
'maintenance/single user' or 'multi user/command line'.

at init 1, you need no password, at init 3, users log in with
password, still no root. again, high security level is set.

> I'm fixed now, I did an install to get rid of the upgrade, since there were
> several problems.  But I would still like input on how to fix this should it
> happen again.

so is my ex-girlfriend's cat, but he is not very happy about it.

[clean install always better than upgrade.]

it is not broke. do not try to fix it. leave it alone.

it is that way for a reason. it is that way to make things more secure.

it is a feature, not a bug/fault/error.

until you learn more about unix/linux security, _do_not_ weaken system.

should by some chance you need to boot unsafe, boot to init 1.

if others are going to have access to you system, add passwording
to 'lilo.conf' run 'lilo' and remove file from system.

put a lock on boot floppy drive. ;)

hth.

iat.
 being that you are new to open world of unix and linux,
 i would suggest you find some good books on security.

btw.
 tabs are a waste. blank lines break thoughts. 79 line wrap is nice.


tc,hago.

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Re: [newbie] Key correspondent to characters]}º

[Paul Rodríguez]

Boa tarde, Carlos.  What type of keyboard are you using?  I'm asuming a
Brazilian (ABNT-2) keyboard?  What may be happening is that the keyboard
layout is incorrect for you particular keyboard.

Go to the Mandrake Control Center, click on "Hardware", then "Keyboard",
and select the keyboard that corresponds to yours.

- Paul Rodríguez


On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 02:52, Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos wrote:
>   I use the Mandrake 8.1, and have problems for use the key correspondent
> to characters ]}º. Somebody know a solution for this problem.
> 
> T+
> 
> 
> =
> 
> Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA)
> Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil
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> 
> 
> 
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[newbie] Re: [expert] high perf partitionning question again....

[Damian Gatabria]

El Vie 08 Mar 2002 17:41, escribió:
> 
> --- On Fri 03/08,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, gikoreno wrote:
> > 
> >
> > >
> > > DISK 2:
> > > SWAP 128MB
> > > /usr 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd
> > > /usr/local 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd
> > > SWAP 128MB
> > > /var 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd
> > > SWAP 128MB
> > > /tmp 5GB XFS
> > > SWAP 128MB
> > > /opt 5GB RAID0 XFS 2st
> > > /home 11GB RAID0 XFS 2st
> > >
> > >
> > > Summary:
> > > /boot -> 36MB
> > > / -> 5GB
> > > /usr -> 10GB RAID0
> > > /usr/local ->10GB RAID0
> > > swap -> 2GB
> > > /var -> 10GB RAID0
> > > /tmp -> 5GB
> > > /opt -> 10GB RAID0
> > > /home -> 22GB RAID0
> > > X -> 16GB
> >
> > 
> > Is there a reason for breaking up swap like this? I.e., are you
> > interleaving swap partitions between the others?
>
> 
> Yes, the idea was to ensure that the drive's read/write heads were always
> close to a swap partition (on the faster part of the hard drive). I was
> told this is supposed to improve performance. 
> 
> 

hi.
while that's right in the case a process needs to be swapped out, when a 
process or a part of it needs to be read into memory, it will
be the same speed as having one single swap partition, if not slower...
i'm not very aware of what algorythms linux uses for multiple swaps, 
but i wouldn't do that. 

instead, i guess having two swaps, one at the beginning of each HD
would be better. 

someone with more knowledge about the linux virtual memory system than me
could correct me, of course... 

see ya.

Damian



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[newbie] Remove

[Juan]

I don't even have mandrake anymore I switched to redhatplease 
remove me the commands to [EMAIL PROTECTED] do 
notwork
Please remove me 
Thanks,
Joannet

Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.

[Ralph Slooten]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Umm, where did you download the rpm's from? I have looked before, but
didn't have much luck...

What I did was just to download and install the tarball (binary file)
from openoffice.org... works fine here, although I think it's built for
an i386 and I run an i686 .. so I guess an i586 build probablty would
speed up things.

What version of Mandrake are you running? If 8.1, gcc3 and others are on
the install cd's.
~ What I think you did was to download a file from a contrib ftp
directory or not? Well, please give me the URL you used, and I will try
it here... and let you know

About the j2re and kafee... well, I can't help... I don't like java, and
it does not like me. Never got it working here with openoffice.org
either :-) Does not matter, it works without.

Neither do I know the answer to the unicode Q... sorry about that :-)

For what it's worth.. I hope this helps

Greetings
Ralph


Seedkum Aladeem wrote:
| I down-loaded the openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk rpm and got the following
messages
| when I tried to install it on Mandrake 8.1 using the Package Manager
in KDE:
|
| rpm -U --replacepkgs  /home/rpmdir/openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk.i586.rpm;echo
| RESULT=$?
| error: failed dependencies:
| lpddaemon is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
| libstdc++3.0 >= 3.0.4-1mdk is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
| libgcc_s.so.1   is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
| libstdc++.so.3   is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
| libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0)   is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
| RESULT=1
|
| I do not have a clue as to where to get these rpm packages. I tried
| www.rpmfind.net and a few of the ftp sites shown on the Mandrake web site
| without success. Can somebody please give me a hint?
|
| By the way, because OpenOffice uses Java 2 run time environment, I
| uninstalled kaffe and installed the j2re from the SUN web site. I hope
this
| is not a dumb move.
|
| Does OpenOffice support unicode and right to left languages. I hope it
does.
|
| Any help would be much appreciated.
|
| Seedkum


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[newbie] Fwd: Re: MANDRAKE INSTALLON NEW COMPUTER - SOLVED

[John Richard Smith]

This  problem is now solved

Kindly remove from list

John


--  Forwarded Message  --

Subject: Re: MANDRAKE INSTALLON NEW COMPUTER
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:47:08 +
From: g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

John Richard Smith wrote:
> Yes, I do understand , I am not trying to do a graphical install

ok. XF86Config and 2 others are what were one used for cl install.
i have not used them lately, but i imagine that they are still
somewhere in installation files.

anyway, i read back thru last 2 after sending last message and i
could see what it was that you were trying.

to make install easy, i have gone thru 2 installs with gui installer
and it is possible to make a cl install without x. first time i cut
out too much and locked system. second time, i missed x part and
got a no frills xwindow. i will go thru install again and make notes
on what to leave out. will send you what i come up with later today.

i have been up late tonight getting some work ready for a client
tomorrow and need to crash.


tc,hago.

g
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Re: [newbie] installing rpms

[John Richard Smith]

Yes let us hope that both the graphical and the console methods remain in 
place.I have nothing whatsoever against the graphical method of doing things, 
indeed I use it all the rime, but it is nice to have the shell consol to fall 
back upon. You also learn a lot more.

John

On Friday 08 March 2002 00:21, you wrote:

>
> As you have seen from some other responses, there are always many ways
> to do things in linux.  I would like to enter one more vote for the
> console, as it makes exactly what is going on very clear, or at least
> provides nice error messages that you can mail to this list for
> explanation ;-)
>
> cheers
> Brian
>

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RE: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake TROUBLES

[Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)]

>>1. Cannot log into X as root.
>>I know, I know I shouldn't use X as root, but I need to be able to do 
>>it! I'm using Sawfish 1.01 and XIMIAN GNOME 1.4 (I think it's that 
>>version; not sure).
>
>Must be a security issue. Set the security level down, I think that should
help.
>
Actually, what isn't working is this: My system boots into TEXT (not
graphic) mode. So, I log in as "root" and type "startx" at the command
prompt to enter X. Then I just get a blue GUI screen, but no icons, no
taskbar, etc...

>Did you set up the append=ide-scsi routine in lilo.conf? See
mandrakeuser.org for the gory details.
>
I just followed the steps at
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hremov3.html in the "CD-R(W)"
section... I'll test when I get home.

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Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake TROUBLES

[H.J.Bathoorn]

On Friday 08 March 2002 17:31, you wrote:
> I am having THREE very persistant, very annoying problems with my
> Linux-Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack installation on a Celeron 533 machine... Here
> they are. Can ANYONE help me?
>
> 1. Cannot log into X as root.
> I know, I know I shouldn't use X as root, but I need to be able to do it!
> I'm using Sawfish 1.01 and XIMIAN GNOME 1.4 (I think it's that version; not
> sure).

If it's because you can't find a 'root' icon in kdm: just type 'root' as user 
and then the password. -there's no icon for root anymore.
If it's not that try starting X from the console as root and watch the 
messages.

>
> 2. IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot write to the CD... There was a CD
> reader installed before (and it worked fine). I want to use the excellent
> MONDO/MINDI (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) as a system backup tool.

Add the user to the cdwrite group with userdrake.

> 3. ATAPI ZIP drive not recognized.
> I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on
> the SECOND IDE channel and harddrake reports it as hdd). It used to work
> just fine under 8.0, but since I did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, it
> isn't recognized within Linux. The drive powers during POST, so I know the
> connections are still good. I've got a known good ZIP disk in the drive.
Is the drive mentionned in /etc/fstab? If it's not, mount it manually from 
the commandline.
What messages do you get when you try to mount it from the commandline. Take 
a look at /var/log/syslog for info.
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity

[Kirtis B]

No need to download anything.  Just recompile the kernel with high memory support included.
http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/kernel.html
 

>From: Ashley Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity 
>Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:33:43 +0800 (WST) 
> 
>On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
> 
> > Does anyone know what the limit is for Mandrake's memory capacity. I 
> > installed Mandrake 8.1 with 2GB of RAM, were doing a lot of compiling here 
> > and it will only recognize 1GB! I was just curious on whether or not it 
> > would utilize that other 1GB of RAM. 
> 
>The default Mandrake 8.1 kernel, 2.4.8-26mdk, supports a maximum of 1024Mb 
>RAM. To gain support for high-memory (upwards of 1Gb) and SMP (Symmetric 
>Multi Processing), you must download and install the Enterprise kernel. 
> 
>Ashley 
> 
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[newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.

[Seedkum Aladeem]

I down-loaded the openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk rpm and got the following messages 
when I tried to install it on Mandrake 8.1 using the Package Manager in KDE:

rpm -U --replacepkgs  /home/rpmdir/openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk.i586.rpm;echo 
RESULT=$?
error: failed dependencies:
lpddaemon is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
libstdc++3.0 >= 3.0.4-1mdk is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
libgcc_s.so.1   is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
libstdc++.so.3   is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0)   is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk
RESULT=1

I do not have a clue as to where to get these rpm packages. I tried 
www.rpmfind.net and a few of the ftp sites shown on the Mandrake web site 
without success. Can somebody please give me a hint?

By the way, because OpenOffice uses Java 2 run time environment, I 
uninstalled kaffe and installed the j2re from the SUN web site. I hope this 
is not a dumb move.

Does OpenOffice support unicode and right to left languages. I hope it does.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Seedkum




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Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake TROUBLES

[Paul]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:31:18 -0500  Vogel, wrote:

>1. Cannot log into X as root.
>I know, I know I shouldn't use X as root, but I need to be able to do it!
>I'm using Sawfish 1.01 and XIMIAN GNOME 1.4 (I think it's that version; not
>sure).

Must be a security issue. Set the security level down, I think that should
help.

>2. IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot write to the CD... There was a CD
>reader installed before (and it worked fine). I want to use the excellent
>MONDO/MINDI (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) as a system backup tool.

Did you set up the append=ide-scsi routine in lilo.conf? See
mandrakeuser.org for the gory details.

>3. ATAPI ZIP drive not recognized.

Dunno...
Paul

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Re: [newbie] Sharing resources between linux mandrake machines and windows

[Ronald J. Hall]

Heather Reed wrote:

> Hi - yes, this looks interesting :-)) Can you tell me, out of the list you
> have there, which is the linux, and which the windoze PCs? Can I assume that
> the darkforce.com mc is linux, with the others being windoze? I found that
> when I entered a second Ip address, my linux box wanted to take it over -
> i.e. appeared as the IP and name of the windoze box in terminal!!! My linux
> mc is 192.168.0.10, and the main windoze one I want to connect to is
> 192.168.0.1. I'll try to do a similar config in my hosts file and see what
> happens.
> Heather

Yes, 192.168.0.1 is my Linux machine and the other 2 IP addresses are pointing
to my sons Windows computers. (I did assign these numbers to them under
Windows on each machine).

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Re: [newbie] root / su passwords different?

[David]

If you figure it out, please please post it here.  I have the same problem.  

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:46:40 +0100
Hamster Hamster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> > I thought the su and root passwords were the same?  Or was the
> > login failing > because there was no user named root somehow?
> 
> Wow that is a weird one...
> 
> but rest assured, su and root are exactly the same password, because all
> su does is log you in as the user root. Just as a matter of interest,
> did you know that su allows you to login as any user, not just root?
> Typing plain old su without a username defaults to logging in as root,
> but if you type su somename, then you can login as the user somename.
> 
> It is possible to delete the user root, but it is something I dont think
> you can do by accident. I guess you might be able to corrupt the passwd
> or shadow files, but... .
> 
> Sorry I cant actually answer your question, but it sounds something odd
> might have happened during the upgrade. Maybe post your question to the
> mandrake-expert list and see what response you get there.
> 
> H
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Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem - better explanation

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Friday 08 March 2002 09:57 am, Randy wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The kernel is 2.4.8-26mdk, I installed LM 8.1 3 weeks ago so I've not
> > changed or upgraded anything yet. By the way, the modem was a CM8738 not
> > a i810sis, I tried all back from the scratch with this new setting
> > --with-hal=cm8738 but the results are the same. How exactly did you make
> > the driver ptserial.o work and ignore those errors?
>
> I shouldn't jump into the middle of a thread, and I'm not sure of this,
> but the CM8738 number sounds more like the number of the sound module
> than the modem.  I have a Matsonic MS8308EP motherboard, without the LMR
> modem, but (IIRC) the sound card is CM8378 or something like that.
>
> Possibly, on the LMR modem, the sound module is the modem and goes by
> the same name??
>
> Randy Kramer

shockwave:
Randy is quite right -- CM8378 refers to a sound chipset. Have you seen the 
miniHowTo at http://sayamindu.topcities.com/pctel.txt? Not having been 
through the thrill of dealing with an HSP modem, I can't vouch for its 
usefulness, but the guy solicits comments on the main page, so perhaps an 
e-mail to him would work.
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Re: [newbie] gtk/gnome themes

[Paul Rodríguez]

Thank you, Sridhar, that's very useful, I didn't realize that.

Not all of the sawfish themes allow you to reconfigure that color (about
6 of the ones that come with Mandrake do).  They appear as submenus of
the appearence menu.  There are some pretty cool themes there that
really let you play more with the UI.  Very nice.

Thanks.

- Paul Rodríguez  

On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 01:00, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On 07 Mar 2002 11:22:40 -0500, Paul Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would like to change the color of the title bar in the window that is
> > selected.  How do I do this?  I am running Sawfish under Gnome.  I
> > looked at the theme I was using (found in
> > /usr/share/themes/Bubbles-Revisited-GTK/gtk/ ) but found no settings for
> > that.  AM I looking in the wrong place, or not deeply enough?
> 
> Sawfish themes are separate from GTK+ themes. The ability to change the title
> bar colour depends on the Sawfish theme you're using. This can be changed in the
> "Appearance" section of the Sawfish configuration settings.
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[Michał POZARZYCKI]

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Re: [newbie] root / su passwords different?

[Hamster]

>   I thought the su and root passwords were the same?  Or was the login failing > 
>because there was no user named root somehow?

Wow that is a weird one...

but rest assured, su and root are exactly the same password, because all su does is 
log you in as the user root.
Just as a matter of interest, did you know that su allows you to login as any user, 
not just root? Typing plain old su without a username defaults to logging in as root, 
but if you type su somename, then you can login as the user somename.

It is possible to delete the user root, but it is something I dont think you can do by 
accident. I guess you might be able to corrupt the passwd or shadow files, but... .

Sorry I cant actually answer your question, but it sounds something odd might have 
happened during the upgrade. Maybe post your question to the mandrake-expert list and 
see what response you get there.

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[newbie] Linux-Mandrake TROUBLES

[Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)]

I am having THREE very persistant, very annoying problems with my
Linux-Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack installation on a Celeron 533 machine... Here
they are. Can ANYONE help me?

1. Cannot log into X as root.
I know, I know I shouldn't use X as root, but I need to be able to do it!
I'm using Sawfish 1.01 and XIMIAN GNOME 1.4 (I think it's that version; not
sure).

2. IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot write to the CD... There was a CD
reader installed before (and it worked fine). I want to use the excellent
MONDO/MINDI (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) as a system backup tool.

3. ATAPI ZIP drive not recognized.
I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on
the SECOND IDE channel and harddrake reports it as hdd). It used to work
just fine under 8.0, but since I did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, it
isn't recognized within Linux. The drive powers during POST, so I know the
connections are still good. I've got a known good ZIP disk in the drive.

* From dmesg (anything that looked interesting or remotely related is
included here, the rest cut):
Linux version 2.4.8-34.1mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
2.96 2731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk))Memory: 254824k/262080k
available (1086k kernel code, 6868k reserved, 397k data, 712k init, 0k
highmem)
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC26400R, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 12715920 sectors (6511 MB) w/448KiB Cache, CHS=791/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=6149/64/32, UDMA(33)
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.97
hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Partition
check:
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ide-floppy driver 0.97
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
SB 4.11 detected OK (220)
 at 0x220 irq 7 dma 0
 at 0x330 irq 7 dma 0,0
cdrom: open failed.
 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4
 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4
devfs: devfs_register(): device already registered: "0"
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[newbie] root / su passwords different?

[Paul F. Fraley]

I DL'd and upgraded with the MDK 8.2 beta4 cd-ISOs yesterday on a working 
8.0 installation.

I was able to log in as root from the graphic login screen one time.  After 
that I tried to log in as root, ROOT, and Root, getting a "login failed" 
message.  Same result from the command line.
I was able to log in as a user, and su to root using the same password that 
did not work for root.
As su, I did "passwd root" and entered a password.  Didn't help with root, 
worked fine with su.
I thought the su and root passwords were the same?  Or was the login failing 
because there was no user named root somehow?

I'm fixed now, I did an install to get rid of the upgrade, since there were 
several problems.  But I would still like input on how to fix this should it 
happen again.

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Re: [newbie] Sharing resources between linux mandrake machines and windows

[Heather Reed]

- Original Message -
From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Sharing resources between linux mandrake machines and
windows


>
> Heather, don't know if it will help or not but this is what my /etc/hosts
file
> looks like:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.0.1 darkforce.com darkforce
> 192.168.0.2 darkforce2
> 192.168.0.3 darkforce3
>
> I've got a 'Nix box with 2 Windog machines (my sons - for games mostly)
hooked
> up in a LAN.
>
Hi - yes, this looks interesting :-)) Can you tell me, out of the list you
have there, which is the linux, and which the windoze PCs? Can I assume that
the darkforce.com mc is linux, with the others being windoze? I found that
when I entered a second Ip address, my linux box wanted to take it over -
i.e. appeared as the IP and name of the windoze box in terminal!!! My linux
mc is 192.168.0.10, and the main windoze one I want to connect to is
192.168.0.1. I'll try to do a similar config in my hosts file and see what
happens.
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[newbie] Pointing boot floppy to new kernel

[Heywood Jablowme]

I installed Mandrake to boot from floppy. Now, I want to play with the kernel but how 
do I point the boot floppy to the new kernel version? I can't tell what the bootloader 
is - I assumed it was grub but it only prints out mandrake. Thanks.
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Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem - better explanation

[Randy Kramer]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The kernel is 2.4.8-26mdk, I installed LM 8.1 3 weeks ago so I've not
> changed or upgraded anything yet. By the way, the modem was a CM8738 not a
> i810sis, I tried all back from the scratch with this new setting
> --with-hal=cm8738 but the results are the same. How exactly did you make
> the driver ptserial.o work and ignore those errors?

I shouldn't jump into the middle of a thread, and I'm not sure of this,
but the CM8738 number sounds more like the number of the sound module
than the modem.  I have a Matsonic MS8308EP motherboard, without the LMR
modem, but (IIRC) the sound card is CM8378 or something like that.

Possibly, on the LMR modem, the sound module is the modem and goes by
the same name??

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Re: [newbie] Sharing resources between linux mandrake machines and windows

[Ronald J. Hall]

Heather Reed wrote:

> I want to ask the same question! I saw Ed's reply concerning the etc/hosts
> file. Mine has two entries:
> 192.168.0.10   (the linux machine)
> 127.0.0.1localhost
> I am seeing the linux box in windows, but am getting the same error message
> as Costin when trying to access the network from Linux. A search for the
> LISa readme or manual comes up blank. Any offers? :-))
> Heather

Heather, don't know if it will help or not but this is what my /etc/hosts file
looks like:

127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.0.1 darkforce.com darkforce
192.168.0.2 darkforce2
192.168.0.3 darkforce3

I've got a 'Nix box with 2 Windog machines (my sons - for games mostly) hooked
up in a LAN.

Under my setup, we can all play games together, the 2 Windoze machines can
copy files back/forth to each other, and my Linux comp can copy files to them,
but they can't see or access my Linux box. They are 11 and 8 years old - just
the way I want it. 

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[newbie] FTP thru Linksys router

[Bryan S.Tyson]

FTP thru Linksys router

I have 2 computers sharing a DSL connection through a Linksys router. 
This works great for web browsing, but I cannot seem to upload via ftp 
(I'm talking about a remote site, not between machines on the local 
network). I can list and get, but not put. If I dial in via modem I can 
put with no problem, which is why I think it has something to do with 
the router. Does anyone know what my problem is? I spent hours looking 
around the Net and failed to find the answer.

Let me emphasize I am not trying to open a port for incoming ftp 
requests. I want to send files to my Earthlink file space via ftp.

Thanks for any advice.

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Re: [newbie] KDE3BETA2 Installation Help!

[Dimitris Ioannou]

I have just installed (after downloading the rpm's) the KDE 3BETA2, doing urpmi --force since I was not able to satisfy the dependencies and got it installed in /opt/kde3/bin. Problem is, I had already KDE  2.2.2 installed and KOffice 1.1.1 too. Now, I can't login to KDE 2.2.2 anymore. Only to Gnome. Of cource I can start KDE 3 from cmd with kde3 command. But the KOffice already installed does not start anymore. It crashes. I reinstalled it but nothing. I would be very grateful if someone can direct me telling me how I can (details won't be bad at all), correctly install KDE 3BETA2-should I remove KDE 2.2.2 first and then install KDE3 or I could have both without removing KDE 2.2.2. If there is no other way I'd like to stick to the KDE3BETA2 and also have it as my automated login environment and of cource have my KOffice 1.1.1 working. After installing KDE3 I got the messaged "Remember to add /opt/kde3/bin to your path". How can I do that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Re: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows

[Ashley Reynolds]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Seb Kinnaird wrote:

> I've since installed Solaris 8 on my machine. Is there any way to view the
> Solaris partition from within Windows/Linux?

I don't think so.

Ashley

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Re: [newbie] How to Mount NTFS Partition

[Ashley Reynolds]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, John Richard Smith wrote:

> OK, I've read how to mount Vfat  partitions, and accomplished it,
> but how do you mount NTFS partitions in linux.

Basically the same way you mount a VFAT partition.  :)

mount -t ntfs /dev/hd** /mnt/*

There is a catch though.  The Linux kernel supports reading from NTFS
partitions, however write support is HIGHLY experimental and rather
dangerous.  It is disabled in the default 8.1 kernel, for obvious reasons.
Read support, however, is entirely functional.

I hope this helps.

Ashley

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Re: [newbie] video conferencing

[Ashley Reynolds]

On 7 Mar 2002, Paul [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote:

> What programs are people using (or know about) for video-conferencing?

GnomeMeeting is apparently rather good, and a quick poke around the site
has me greatly impressed.  You can find it at:

http://www.gnomemeeting.org/

> I need an easy and convenient way to set up a video-conferencing
> connection with Linux and non-unix users.

According to the FAQ,  GnomeMeeting works with Microsoft Netmeeting 3.01
*and* Netmeeting for Windows XP.  However, Netmeeting users will not be
able to see GnomeMeeting users.

There is a way around this though.  Read about it here:

http://www.gnomemeeting.org/faq.php#AEN57

I hope this helps.

Ashley

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Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity

[Ashley Reynolds]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Does anyone know what the limit is for Mandrake's memory capacity. I
> installed Mandrake 8.1 with 2GB of RAM, were doing a lot of compiling here
> and it will only recognize 1GB!   I was just curious on whether or not it
> would utilize that other 1GB of RAM.

The default Mandrake 8.1 kernel, 2.4.8-26mdk, supports a maximum of 1024Mb
RAM.  To gain support for high-memory (upwards of 1Gb) and SMP (Symmetric
Multi Processing), you must download and install the Enterprise kernel.

Ashley

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[newbie]

[Dimitris Ioannou]

I have just installed (after downloading the rpm's) the KDE 3BETA2, doing urpmi --force since I was not able to satisfy the dependencies and got it installed in /opt/kde3/bin. Problem is, I had already KDE  2.2.2 installed and KOffice 1.1.1 too. Now, I can't login to KDE 2.2.2 anymore. Only to Gnome. Of cource I can start KDE 3 from cmd with kde3 command. But the KOffice already installed does not start anymore. It crashes. I reinstalled it but nothing. I would be very grateful if someone can direct me telling me how I can (details won't be bad at all), correctly install KDE 3BETA2-should I remove KDE 2.2.2 first and then install KDE3 or I could have both without removing KDE 2.2.2. If there is no other way I'd like to stick to the KDE3BETA2 and also have it as my automated login environment and of cource have my KOffice 1.1.1 working. After installing KDE3 I got the messaged "Remember to add /opt/kde3/bin to your path". How can I do that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Re: [newbie] plizzz help me

[H.J.Bathoorn]

On Friday 08 March 2002 10:10, you wrote:
> hi , i just install linux mandrake 8.1 after install win xp, after all
> finished i change the size of my linux swap partition with partition magic
> after that all lilo can;t boot anymore...pliz help me

As a last resort you could try to put the swap partition back to it's 
original size and see if it boots. If that doesn't work (it probably will 
not) you could try to 'upgrade' your Mandrake install and hope the installer 
sees (or doesn't) your missing files and makes it complete again.
There are many ways you could repair yoyr damaged system but most if them 
would require more time and trouble than a complete fresh re-install.

If you're looking for a steep learning curve, do that! Otherwise: Just 
re-install straight off. There shouldn't be that much too lose if the install 
is that recent.
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Re: [newbie] Sharing resources between linux mandrake machines and windows

[Heather Reed]

- Original Message -
From: "Costin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:47 PM
Subject: [newbie] Sharing resources between linux mandrake machines and
windows


> The windows computers see the linux machines but from the linux machine I
> can't see the other computers. The error message, when I try to browse the
> network from Konqueror is: "Could not connect to host localhost". Each
> machine has it's own static IP address. What means: host localhost?

I want to ask the same question! I saw Ed's reply concerning the etc/hosts
file. Mine has two entries:
192.168.0.10   (the linux machine)
127.0.0.1localhost
I am seeing the linux box in windows, but am getting the same error message
as Costin when trying to access the network from Linux. A search for the
LISa readme or manual comes up blank. Any offers? :-))
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[newbie] plizzz help me

[DiAbLoS]

hi , i just install linux mandrake 8.1 after 
install win xp, after all finished i change the size of my linux swap 
partition with partition magic after that all lilo can;t boot anymore...pliz 
help me

Re: [newbie] Upgrading Mandrake 8.1 to XFree86-4.2.0 on a Dell i8100

[Walter Logeman]

Hi,

I have done quite a bit since I made the post quoted below.

I installed XFree86-4.2.0 from binaries using the sh Xinstal.sh 
process.  I read the instructions in the INSTALL file.  And said 
yes to everything.  I have a copy of the two directories so i 
could find old stuff if need be.  

I went through the process twice.  The first time I think I 
still had X and KDE open - foolish me.  

The next time i used init 3 in the ctrl -alt -F1 console.  and 
did it all again.

I have rebooted and am now in the graphical interface - but i 
think I have Twm running not KDE as i used to.

Other than that everything seems ok.  

I want to now see if i can upgrade to the right driver for my 
vido card -- where do i go for that?


Walter

~~~


> I have Mandrake 8.1 on a Dell i8100 with an ATI Radeon video
> card.  It is currently running XFree86-4.1.0 and only has very
> generic support for the card.  Apparently there is a better
> driver in XFree86-4.2.0
>
> Am I on the right track?  I have been fining quite a few of
> the files that are needed however each time I find one there
> are more dependencies.  I am happy to keep finding more e.g:
> libtinfo.so.5 - but what about the programs such as libXv.so.1
> that are needed by other programs on the system?
>
> Has anyone upgraded Mandrake 8.1 to XFree86-4.2.0?  Can it be
> done?  Should I upgrade to a whole new Mandrake beta?  Am I
> using the right commands here? (See output below)
>
> Looking forward to some feedback!
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Walter
>
> ~~~
>
>
>
> 164 root@psybernet:/home/walter/wldownloads/x (03:19:51)
> # ls
> ncurses-ext-5.2-22.i386.rpm  XFree86-4.2.0-1.i386.rpm
> XFree86-fonts-4.2.0-5.i386.rpm
> xauth-4.2.0-0.1.i686.rpm XFree86-common-4.2.0-1.i386.rpm
> XFree86-libs-4.2.0-7mdk.i586.rpm
> 165 root@psybernet:/home/walter/wldownloads/x (03:19:56)
> # rpm -U *rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> libtinfo.so.5   is needed by ncurses-ext-5.2-22
> libtinfo.so.5   is needed by XFree86-4.2.0-1
> XFree86-fonts-base = 4.2.0 is needed by
> XFree86-fonts-4.2.0-5
> XFree86 = 4.1.0 is needed by
> XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-17mdk
> XFree86 = 4.1.0 is needed by
> XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-17mdk
> XFree86-libs = 4.1.0-17mdk is needed by
> XFree86-devel-4.1.0-17mdk
> XFree86-libs = 4.1.0-17mdk is needed by
> XFree86-xfs-4.1.0-17mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by chromium-0.9.12-3mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by tuxracer-0.61-4mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by kdemultimedia-2.2.1-2mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by rocksndiamonds-2.0.0-4mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by mures-0.4-2mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by Maelstrom-3.0.1-10mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by armagetron-0.1.4.9-1mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by gltron-0.59-10mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by libSDL_net1.2-1.2.2-1mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by libSDL_image1.2-1.2.0-2mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by csmash-0.6.2-1mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by xmovie-1.9-4mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by xmms-smpeg-0.3.4-4mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by libSDL_mixer1.2-1.2.0-3mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by
> nethack_falconseye-3.3.1_jtp_1.9-3mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by libSDL1.2-1.2.2-1mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by libsmpeg0.4-0.4.4-3mdk
> libXv.so.1   is needed by vlc-0.2.83-1mdk
> libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by chromium-0.9.12-3mdk
> libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by tuxracer-0.61-4mdk
> libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by
> kdemultimedia-2.2.1-2mdk libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by
> rocksndiamonds-2.0.0-4mdk libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by
> mures-0.4-2mdk libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by
> Maelstrom-3.0.1-10mdk libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by
> armagetron-0.1.4.9-1mdk libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by
> gltron-0.59-10mdk libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by
> libSDL_net1.2-1.2.2-1mdk libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by
> libSDL_image1.2-1.2.0-2mdk
> libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by csmash-0.6.2-1mdk
> libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by xmms-smpeg-0.3.4-4mdk
> libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by
> libSDL_mixer1.2-1.2.0-3mdk
> libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by
> nethack_falconseye-3.3.1_jtp_1.9-3mdk
> libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by libSDL1.2-1.2.2-1mdk
> libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by libsmpeg0.4-0.4.4-3mdk
> libXxf86dga.so.1   is needed by vlc-0.2.83-1mdk
> 166 root@psybernet:/home/walter/wldownloads/x (03:20:26)
> #

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Re: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows

[Seb Kinnaird]

Thanks for all the suggestions. Captain Nemo seems to be the perfect 
solution! But now to add a spanner in to the works...

I've since installed Solaris 8 on my machine. Is there any way to view the 
Solaris partition from within Windows/Linux?

Thanks again!

Sebastian


>From: "Seb Kinnaird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows
>Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 08:16:13 +
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm currently running dual-booting Windows with Mandrake, which are on
>seperate physical drives. Is there any way I can get terminal access into
>Linux from within Windows without rebooting??
>
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>Sebastian
>
>
>
>_
>MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
>http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
>
>
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Re: [newbie] Floppy problems

[Walter Logeman]

Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=-,
> I am having a problem getting my floppy drive working. This is
> what I have in my /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/flopy auto user,
> iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0

My fstab line is exactly the same, and the floppy works.

However do you need to mount the floppy?

mount /mnt/flopy 

I also unmount it after use.

umount /mnt/flopy 

(note no n in umount)


> This line is under it but I'm not sure what it goes to:
>
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0

It is somthing to do with a virtual file system - do not touch 
it i have been told.


Walter

~~~


> *
> *   Mithrilhall's  Linux*
> *  Server   *
> *  AMD-K2 350MHz*
> * http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net *
> *

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Re: [newbie] Kmail question

[Lee]

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:35 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
> Is there any way of making Kmail check for mail automatically upon
> starting the program? I don't see a setting anywhere. Is there a
> setting I missed, or is there maybe some other way of making it do that?
>
> Thanks,


Easy as can be.

Settings
Configure Kmail
Network
Select account (highlight)
modify
Enable interval mail checking
set the interval
ok
ok


That's all there is to it or maybe that's more than you wanted?


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Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem - better explanation

[shockwave]

The kernel is 2.4.8-26mdk, I installed LM 8.1 3 weeks ago so I've not 
changed or upgraded anything yet. By the way, the modem was a CM8738 not a 
i810sis, I tried all back from the scratch with this new setting 
--with-hal=cm8738 but the results are the same. How exactly did you make 
the driver ptserial.o work and ignore those errors?

At 09:55 p.m. 07/03/2002, you wrote:

>What kernel are you running?  After upgrading my kernel, I could not get 
>the 2.4.7 driver to work, but the pctel-0.8.6 did.  Are you sure your 
>modem is an i810sis?  Mine is the pct789.  I didn't have to use any of the 
>other command line switches except for the --with-hal.  The errors I had 
>with the 2.4.7 all dealt with unresolved referrences in ptserial.  Again, 
>I never could resolve them, but did get the later driver to work.
>
>Joe

--
reply to a previous mail,

>what mainboard?

Elite/SIS
System Mainboard PCCHIPS
Model M598LMR 1.0

>mainboard chip?

SIS530 CPU to PCI Bridge, ISA AGP PCI USB SMBus/i2c

>pci board chip?

probably HSP56 CM8738 /PCI-SX, the sound card works ok.

>new daughter board chip? [forget name for new io slot]

PCtel/DAA, fb daa2, daa2f PCT303L.

According to 2 different FAQs (same pctel.o driver different versions),

"You need an Elite/SiS mainboard with the CM8738 Audio/Modem ASIC and PCtel 
Codec/DAA daughterboard. The modem daughterboard has a RJ-11 phone jack to 
hook up to a phone line. The modem driver autodetects the correct PCI 
vender and device ID to install the correct interrupt handler."

AFAIK all within the minimum hardware requirements for installing the 
driver properly, so it should not matter, unless i'm missing something. 
Therefore, making insmod ptserial.o work would be enough to load the modem, 
now how do i get rid of those errors?

Regards
Paul




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Re: [newbie] installing rpms

[Heather Reed]

- Original Message -
From: "Brian Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] installing rpms


> H - curious.  The fact that it worked when you moved (copied?) it is
> a little weird.  You were doing this as root right?
>
When I got the 'curiosity' I was doing it as root via the terminal by typing
in su. When the install actually worked, I had logged out and logged in
again as root into KDE. The su command had worked, as the command line
changed to display root as user. If I get it again I will do as you suggest
and paste the contents to the list. Thanks again for your wonderfully clear
explanations - you should write a newbie book :-)))
Heather




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Re: [newbie] Sharing resources between linux mandrake machines and windows

[ed tharp]

do you have a correct /etc/hosts file on the linux box?


On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:47, you wrote:
> Hi all!
> I have a bus topology network of 6 pc's on windows 98 and using winproxy
> (set up on NAT) on one of them to get them out on the internet. The network
> is working fine on windows platform but I want to "evolve". For a few days
> I installed on two of them mandrake 8.1 with KDE. The server is still on
> windows platform. I know it sounds like a joke but first I want to know how
> a linux machine works before I change the OS on the server.
> The browsing and IRC are working fine but now I want to share some files
> between all of those pc's.
> I installed samba, lisa, reslisa (all the services are running from boot).
> The windows computers see the linux machines but from the linux machine I
> can't see the other computers. The error message, when I try to browse the
> network from Konqueror is: "Could not connect to host localhost". Each
> machine has it's own static IP address. What means: host localhost?
> I want to share files and printers not only between linux and windows, and
> even between one linux machine to another. In fact I want to change the
> OS's on all the pc's.
> Please, someone help me before I'm geting crazy. I really want to know how
> to do that!
> Costin



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