Re: [newbie-it] -unknown
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:12:26 +0100 Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:27:43 +0100 rino favretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alcuni giorni fa ho esposto alla lista un mio problema su mdk 9.0 . Non volevo avere la soluzione, ma un consiglio, un prova così,smanetta.! quello che poi dovrebbe essere lo spirito di linux. Ritorno a debian e saluti a tutti: Rino Per curiosità sono andato a ripescare il tuo messaggio: Saluti a tutti - ho installato mdk 9.0-non riesco a stampare con galeon,mozilla e opera,mentre con netscape si. Non riesco a capire dove sia il problema. Per risponderti era necessario essersi trovati nella tua _identica_ situazione o avere a disposizione una sfera di cristallo. Purtroppo, la mia l'ho prestata a Harry Potter, che non si decide mai a rendermela :-( Dubito che sulla ML di Debian una domanda di questo tipo possa avere un'accoglienza diversa. Ovviamente, a meno che tu non trovi qualcuno che ha avuto il tuo stesso problema. buona fortuna, Andrea Ti ringrazio per avermi riesumato.La mia domanda non è così sibillina, ma solo troppo concisa.Per debian non mi riferivo alla ML ,ma alla distro: mdk e rh stanno diventando come win. Di fortuna ne abbiamo bisogno tutti. salut rino.
Re: [newbie-it] -unknown
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:21:11 +0100 rino favretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saluti a tutti - ho installato mdk 9.0-non riesco a stampare con galeon,mozilla e opera,mentre con netscape si. Non riesco a capire dove sia il problema. Per risponderti era necessario essersi trovati nella tua _identica_ situazione o avere a disposizione una sfera di cristallo. . Ti ringrazio per avermi riesumato.La mia domanda non è così sibillina, ma solo troppo concisa. Tieni conto che l'80% delle persone usa uno di quei browser. Hai lasciato fuori solo konquerror, lynx e links, tra quelli che io ho conosco per averli usati. Se ci fossero dei problemi generali per stampare con quei browser, la tua domanda sarebbe una ultra-super-stra-faq. Siccome non lo è, si tratta di qualcosa legato alla tua particolare configurazione. A questo punto (non avendo sfere di cristallo) devi dare delle informazioni in più. Lanciare l'applicazione da xterm e vedere eventuali messaggi di errore, ... Altrimenti, la gente vede la tua domanda, dice booh? e non sapendo cosa rispondere passa la mano ad altri. Se non incappi in uno che ha avuto il tuo stesso identico problema, non riceverai risposte su nessuna ML. Per questo ti auguravo fortuna nell'incontrare un compagno di sventura :-) Per debian non mi riferivo alla ML ,ma alla distro: Da come ti eri espresso, sembrava proprio che abbandonassi Mandrake per uno scarso supporto da parte della ML. Devi ammettere che non sono stato l'unico ad interpretare così la tua frase. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] router ADSL
Salve Lista! Qualche giorno fa avevo postato (in maniera molto incasinata!) un quesito simile. Ho proseguito con i tentativi ottenendo molto poco. Riassumo Ho installato su una macchina che fa parte di una piccola rete locale. L'accesso al web è garantito da un router ADSL collegato ad un hub. Ho impostato al scheda di rete come eth0, impostato come gateway l'indirizzo IP del router ed il protocollo pppoe. Riesco a pingare da shell sia questo che l'IP del provider ma Konqueror non vede nulla. C'è qualcosa che mi sfugge, ma cosa? Grazie e saluti anticipati. G.Paolo __ Yahoo! Foto: salva, ritocca, condividi e ordina stampe professionali http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.photos.yahoo.com
Re:[newbie-it] router ADSL
Hai scritto: Ho installato su una macchina che fa parte di una piccola rete locale. L'accesso al web è garantito da un router ADSL collegato ad un hub. Ho impostato al scheda di rete come eth0, impostato come gateway l'ind irizzo IP del router ed il protocollo pppoe. Riesco a pingare da shell sia questo che l'IP del provider ma Konquero r non vede nulla. C'è qualcosa che mi sfugge, ma cosa? Hai editato il file /etc/resolv.conf sul pc inserendo i dns vero? del tipo: search a.aa domain a.aa nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy dove a.aa è il tuo provider (es: tin.it) e xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx è il dns primario e yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy è il dns secondario Ciao Marco _ http://www.linuxland.org
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
Il Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:59:24 +0100 Marco Forti [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: Hai editato il file /etc/resolv.conf sul pc inserendo i dns vero? del tipo: search a.aa domain a.aa nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy dove a.aa è il tuo provider (es: tin.it) e xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx è il dns primario e yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy è il dns secondario In win$ c'è un file dove posso trovare questi dati? Ciao Marco Ciao GPaolo __ Scarica il nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: con webcam, nuove faccine e tante altre novità. http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.messenger.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie-it] -unknown
Alle 09:21, martedì 10 dicembre 2002, rino favretto ha scritto: mdk e rh stanno diventando come win. salut rino. Questo è troppo!!! Non solo - pretendi - un - servizio - di assistenza che non è l'obiettivo della ML, non solo dai informazioni insufficienti sul tuo problema fidando sulle capacità divinatorie degli altri, pure anche ti dai arie arroganti da professionista che dall'alto della tua, presunta, capacità di sapere usare Debian snobba i poveri mortali che usano mdk e rh... Risolviti da -solo- i tuoi problemi, visto che sai usare Debian...
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
... file /etc/resolv.conf In win$ c'è un file dove posso trovare questi dati? a rischio di essere OT :-) : Start - Impostazioni - Pannello di Controllo - Rete Poi evidenzi il protocollo TCP/IP della tua scheda di rete, clicchi sul tasto proprietà e imposti i dati nella tab Configurazione DNS Ciao Marco __ http://www.linuxland.org
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
In win$ c'è un file dove posso trovare questi dati? ... ooops mi sa che ho capito male. Scusa forse intendevi estrarre da win i dati da inserire in /etc/resolv.conf ? In questo caso no (se non li avevi già inseriti tu come da mia precedente e-mail) Comunque basta che tu controlli sulle pagine di assistenza del tuo provider e lì trovi tutti i dati. Comunque, per i dns basta che ne inserisci di funzionanti ... Puoi provare, ad esempio quelli di tin.it: search tin.it domain tin.it nameserver 212.216.112.112 nameserver 212.216.172.62 Ciao Marco _ http://www.linuxland.org
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:59:24 +0100 Marco Forti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hai scritto: Ho installato su una macchina che fa parte di una piccola rete locale. L'accesso al web è garantito da un router ADSL collegato ad un hub. Ho impostato al scheda di rete come eth0, impostato come gateway l'ind irizzo IP del router ed il protocollo pppoe. Sei sicuro che il router utilizzi pppoe e non pppoa? ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
Il Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:50:43 +0100 Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:59:24 +0100 Marco Forti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: intanto grazie ad entrambi, appena potrò staccare winz, farò entrambi i tentativi. Sono testone e per capire chiedo prima di provare: il router è già attaccato e funzionante, serve lo stesso modificare /etc/resolv.conf? Ciao GPaolo __ Yahoo! Foto: salva, ritocca, condividi e ordina stampe professionali http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.photos.yahoo.com
[newbie-it] Apache e virtual host
Salve a tutta la ml. Volevo chiedere come si fa a configurare più virtual host su apache, mi spiego meglio ho installato mandrake 8.2 con anche apache 1.3.23 ho tentato di configurare dei vitrtual host andando a modificare il file /etc/http/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf ma non funziona nel senso che mi fa vedere una pagina web su una directory diversa da quella che ho impostato nel file ho scritto esattamente quanto segue: NameVirtualhost webmail.mydomain.comVirtualHost webmail.mydomain.comServerName webmail.mydomain.comServerPath /webmailDocumentRoot /var/www/html/VirtualHost e precendentemente avevo scritto NameVirtualhost webmail.mydomain.comVirtualHost 111.111..111ServerName webmail.mydomain.comServerPath /webmailDocumentRoot /var/www/html/VirtualHost dove sbaglio? Grazie
Re: [newbie-it] -unknown
rino favretto wrote: mdk e rh stanno diventando come win. Sorry :-( ma hai *sbagliato* ML per certe asserzioni! Valle a fare in qualche ML winzozziana e (forse) troverai qualcuno che ti sostiene. Alla faccia di: quello che poi dovrebbe essere lo spirito di linux. OAO Giovanni ;-) -- ~/~A \// Membro del FoLUG - http://folug.linux.it ~o)Red Hat 8.0 GNU/Linux Powered --- Il miglior modo per predire il futuro e' inventarlo - Alan Kay (inventore delle finestre che oggi si aprono sui nostri pc)
Re: [newbie-it] -unknown
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:22:46 +0100 CyberPenguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rino favretto wrote: mdk e rh stanno diventando come win. Sorry :-( ma hai *sbagliato* ML per certe asserzioni! Valle a fare in qualche ML winzozziana e (forse) troverai qualcuno che ti sostiene. Alla faccia di: quello che poi dovrebbe essere lo spirito di linux. OAO Giovanni ;-) -- ~/~A \// Membro del FoLUG - http://folug.linux.it ~o)Red Hat 8.0 GNU/Linux Powered --- Il miglior modo per predire il futuro e' inventarlo - Alan Kay (inventore delle finestre che oggi si aprono sui nostri pc) Hai provato mdk 6.0 o rh 5.0 ? Prova e vedrai la differenza con la mdk 9.0 o la rh 8.0 che stai usando! saluti rino
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
Il Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:50:43 +0100 Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:59:24 +0100 Marco Forti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hai scritto: Ho installato su una macchina che fa parte di una piccola rete locale. L'accesso al web è garantito da un router ADSL collegato ad un hub. Ho impostato al scheda di rete come eth0, impostato come gateway l'ind irizzo IP del router ed il protocollo pppoe. Sei sicuro che il router utilizzi pppoe e non pppoa? ciao, Andrea Ho provato entrambe le soluzioni, purtroppo ciccia :-(( cos'altro potrebbe essere? ciao, grazie GPaolo __ Yahoo! Foto: salva, ritocca, condividi e ordina stampe professionali http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.photos.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie-it] -unknown
Il Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:08:56 +0100 rino favretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: Hai provato mdk 6.0 o rh 5.0 ? Prova e vedrai la differenza con la mdk 9.0 o la rh 8.0 che stai usando! saluti rino Faccio parte della moltitudine di utonti e dico solo grazie mdk per i tuoi tool grafici. Senza di loro non ci avrei neanche provato a uscire dalle grinfie di zio bill. ciao GPaolo __ Yahoo! Foto: salva, ritocca, condividi e ordina stampe professionali http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.photos.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie-it] -unknown
Alle 19:08, martedì 10 dicembre 2002, rino favretto ha scritto: Hai provato mdk 6.0 o rh 5.0 ? Prova e vedrai la differenza con la mdk 9.0 o la rh 8.0 che stai usando! Ma dai !!, ma che ti importa se la mdk è sempre più automatizzata... ognuno si sceglie ciò che è adeguato a sé... o devi sindacare pure su questo??... si parlava di linux nella scuole (email miKe - resistenza culturale), per cominciare, ad un ragazzetto delle medie o delle elementari, mdk o rh può essere utile, se poi si appassiona arriverà a slackware
Re: [newbie-it] registrare suoni
Prova sotto Multimedia-Suono-Registratore di suoni Sono convinto che il registratore di suoni funzioni molto bene, ma il problema è che da me non c'è: evidentemente senza volerlo l'ho escluso dall'installazione. Sai mica dirmi se il programma ha un nome particolare, in maniera da riuscire ad identificare il relativo pacchetto rpm? Grazie Giorgio P.S. Attendo con trepidazione di sapere quale enorme e complicatissimo programma Arwan mi costringerà ad installare.
Re: [newbie-it] registrare suoni
Giorgio Griffon wrote: Prova sotto Multimedia-Suono-Registratore di suoni Sono convinto che il registratore di suoni funzioni molto bene, ma il problema è che da me non c'è: evidentemente senza volerlo l'ho escluso dall'installazione. Sai mica dirmi se il programma ha un nome particolare, in maniera da riuscire ad identificare il relativo pacchetto rpm? Grazie Giorgio P.S. Attendo con trepidazione di sapere quale enorme e complicatissimo programma Arwan mi costringerà ad installare. guarda nel quick menu cosa vuoi fare lo trovi li... registratore di suoni. ciao francesco
Re: [newbie-it] registrare suoni
Il mar, 2002-12-10 alle 20:33, Giorgio Griffon ha scritto: Prova sotto Multimedia-Suono-Registratore di suoni Sono convinto che il registratore di suoni funzioni molto bene, ma il problema è che da me non c'è: evidentemente senza volerlo l'ho escluso dall'installazione. Sai mica dirmi se il programma ha un nome particolare, in maniera da riuscire ad identificare il relativo pacchetto rpm? Grazie Prova a digitare da consolle gnome-sound-recorder; se parte, vuol dire che l'hai installato :) altrimenti ti sarà facile rimediare con l'installer grafico o manualmente. Giorgio P.S. Attendo con trepidazione di sapere quale enorme e complicatissimo programma Arwan mi costringerà ad installare. Bè, negli Stati Uniti il progetto del gigantesco ciclotrone è stato cancellato tempo fa, a lavori già iniziati... un attimo... questa follia è mia, non di Arwan! :-D Scusate, a volte mi confondo con qualcun altro. Lo fa anche Bruce Wayne. E qualcuno confonde W98 con un sistema operativo. Oddio, questo era legato a un altro topic (flame?) ma devo dire che anch'io *ringrazio* Mandrakesoft per aver introdotto certi sistemi di automatizzazione delle procedure; oggi sono pienamente consapevole della potenza della linea di comando, ma certo non si nasce imparati... Corrado
[newbie] Laptop sleep settings
Could anyone tell me how to adjust my laptop sleep settings? I am running a Dell Lattitude LS w/ Mandrake 9.0. In 8.2 the HD would go to sleep (stop spinning) automatically. 9.0 leaves it on all the time. I am thinking this will wear it and suck up my battery so I want to make it stop spinning when the computer is inactive. I know nothing about how to do this but if someone else does I'm sure I can do it if they tell me :) Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel Sourcea Space
Acording to www.linmodems.com, in order to install my winmodem (HSP56MR by PCtel) I need to have my Kernel sources. I looked for them and I couln't find them. I tried to install them from my Mandrake 8.2 CD's using the mandrake software manager, but when I clicked on Imstall option, a message was displayed: Not enough space. I made a 2GB partition for Mandrake-Linux (1GB for / and other for /home). Is there any posibility on installing the kernel source in /home. Also I need help with the modem installation. I would be grateful if you help me with the command line. Thanks for your attention. Kevin A. _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] re: about to give up, is now given up
Well, that's it. I have to stop stuffing around trying to get a net connection that will not work, work. I just won't hold settings, and the wizard works only when it wants to. I will wait until the next version comes out. Generally how long is it between releases, say 9.0 to 9.1 for example? Also, a great big thanks to all who spent time trying to help, but this is a hopeless case, and I am running out of options and things to do. Will stick with what works for now (red hat), and try the next realease when it is out. thanks Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mpg123 coredumps
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My Inbox Happily Received This From Ralph Slooten @ Mon, 9 Dec 2002 20:13:01 +0100 (CET) If you followed the thread you'd know :-) mpg123 is coredumping with mandrake 9.0 when invoked by a program not started via the console (In my cases PSI and Nautilus) mpg321 fixes this it appears. Actually, it's coredumping since 8.2 well, i don't use gnome, the only thing i use is gqmpeg. can run it from the console! - -- - - -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 FIRST make it run, THEN make it run fast Brian Kernighan. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE99bMwy2aOKaP9DfcRAvMCAKCeUHQjTmkaRd92Lz+QsYN/XAJsmwCfTe/+ q/dE4voUElSEcP25FlzlW4g= =/VYp -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Sourcea Space
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 19:57, Kevin Allen wrote: Acording to www.linmodems.com, in order to install my winmodem (HSP56MR by PCtel) I need to have my Kernel sources. I looked for them and I couln't find them. I tried to install them from my Mandrake 8.2 CD's using the mandrake software manager, but when I clicked on Imstall option, a message was displayed: Not enough space. I made a 2GB partition for Mandrake-Linux (1GB for / and other for /home). Is there any posibility on installing the kernel source in /home. Also I need help with the modem installation. I would be grateful if you help me with the command line. Thanks for your attention. Kevin A. The kernel source and headers is going to be around about 190mb total - you might be able to put the actual sources on your /home partition and put a symbolic link in the /usr/src/ folder, but that might be tricky getting the RPM to WANT to unpack itself to /home/whatever/whatever... You will need to have the kernel source and header source in order to compile the modem driver - sorry - wish I could compile the binary for ya, but it's system dependent... Being that you've laid your system out the way you have, you are pushing it a bit for total system packages...that is, unless there's a way you can resize the partitions so that there is at least 300mb more space on the / partition. -- Tue Dec 10 20:55:01 EST 2002 8:55pm up 2 days, 40 min, 6 users, load average: 0.99, 1.25, 1.39 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Pudder's Law: Anything that begins well will end badly. (Note: The converse of Pudder's law is not true.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Netscape problem
I have installed Mandrake 9.0 and Netscape 7.0, When Netscape starts up, I get a dialog which says: Please enter the master password for the software security device It accepts my log-on password. How can I get rid of this message? John -- Dr John Foster GOLD SOFTWARE International Pty Ltd P O Box 5033 Laburnum Victoria 3130 Australia Phone: 04 1173 7288 Fax:03 9836 6604 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:http://www.goldsoft.com.au Free office software: http://www.openoffice.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digest
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:56, David Mascot wrote: Digest I keep telling my stomach this every day but it keeps repeating. There is no digest option David. But there are a couple of other options. either Create a 'newbie' folder and filter all these e-mails into it, you can then thread them and quickly delete threads that don't appeal. or Hop off the mail list and visit the archives when you want info. See- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 and read the whole page. Hope that helps. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape problem
I am not sure how this got setup on your system (maybe old settings in .mozilla directory? ). Anyhow, you can go to Netscape-Edit-Preferences-PrivacySecurity-Certificates Here choose the Manage Security Devices. Try playing with the settings for the Software Security Device here. HTH Nikunj. --- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Mandrake 9.0 and Netscape 7.0, When Netscape starts up, I get a dialog which says: Please enter the master password for the software security device It accepts my log-on password. How can I get rid of this message? John -- Dr John Foster GOLD SOFTWARE International Pty Ltd P O Box 5033 Laburnum Victoria 3130 Australia Phone: 04 1173 7288 Fax:03 9836 6604 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:http://www.goldsoft.com.au Free office software: http://www.openoffice.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] UserDrake problem
Whne accessing Users in the Mandrake Control Centr, I get a message: Cannot lock usr lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist, and then cannot access any of the functionality. The file /etc/gtmp exists; if I rename it, I still have the problem. Any ideas? John -- Dr John Foster GOLD SOFTWARE International Pty Ltd P O Box 5033 Laburnum Victoria 3130 Australia Phone: 04 1173 7288 Fax:03 9836 6604 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:http://www.goldsoft.com.au Free office software: http://www.openoffice.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Permissions for Windows partitiion
I have two windows partitions, one of which I want to use for shared files under Mandrake Linux. I can read all the files, but want to have write access to one of the partitions. Is this possible? If so, how do I do it? John -- Dr John Foster GOLD SOFTWARE International Pty Ltd P O Box 5033 Laburnum Victoria 3130 Australia Phone: 04 1173 7288 Fax:03 9836 6604 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:http://www.goldsoft.com.au Free office software: http://www.openoffice.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape problem
Thanks, that fixed it. John Nikunj Bansal wrote: I am not sure how this got setup on your system (maybe old settings in .mozilla directory? ). Anyhow, you can go to Netscape-Edit-Preferences-PrivacySecurity-Certificates Here choose the Manage Security Devices. Try playing with the settings for the Software Security Device here. HTH Nikunj. --- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Mandrake 9.0 and Netscape 7.0, When Netscape starts up, I get a dialog which says: Please enter the master password for the software security device It accepts my log-on password. How can I get rid of this message? John -- Dr John Foster GOLD SOFTWARE International Pty Ltd P O Box 5033 Laburnum Victoria 3130 Australia Phone: 04 1173 7288 Fax:03 9836 6604 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:http://www.goldsoft.com.au Free office software: http://www.openoffice.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Dr John Foster GOLD SOFTWARE International Pty Ltd P O Box 5033 Laburnum Victoria 3130 Australia Phone: 04 1173 7288 Fax:03 9836 6604 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:http://www.goldsoft.com.au Free office software: http://www.openoffice.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions for Windows partitiion
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 12:48, John wrote: I have two windows partitions, one of which I want to use for shared files under Mandrake Linux. I can read all the files, but want to have write access to one of the partitions. Is this possible? If so, how do I do it? Make sure they are in FAT32. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UserDrake problem
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 22:46, John wrote: Whne accessing Users in the Mandrake Control Centr, I get a message: Cannot lock usr lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist, and then cannot access any of the functionality. The file /etc/gtmp exists; if I rename it, I still have the problem. Any ideas? John This has been on the list before - a quick and efficient way of dealing with it is to use kuser - without all the MCC hassles. -- Tue Dec 10 22:55:00 EST 2002 10:55pm up 2 days, 2:40, 6 users, load average: 1.53, 1.42, 1.34 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn You can't cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump. -- W.C. Fields Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions for Windows partitiion
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 22:48, John wrote: I have two windows partitions, one of which I want to use for shared files under Mandrake Linux. I can read all the files, but want to have write access to one of the partitions. Is this possible? If so, how do I do it? John If you've got FAT or VFAT file systems on the Windows drivers, you should be able to read/write to them without a hitch. If the drive is NTFS, you aren't going to be able to write (safely), but can read from them with a quick kernel compile (is there such a thing as quick kernel compile?). You should have the partitions/drives already mounted automatically by MDK - under the /mnt directory. You might want to check'see that they're already there and mounted. If not, you can either use MCC to mount the partitions, or manually edit your /etc/fstab, or open a term and do a mount manually there. -- Tue Dec 10 22:55:00 EST 2002 10:55pm up 2 days, 2:40, 6 users, load average: 1.53, 1.42, 1.34 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn You can't cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump. -- W.C. Fields Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UserDrake problem
Easiest way to solve this is to delete /etc/gtmp AND /etc/ptmp, then re-open Userdrake. Lanman On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 06:46, John wrote: Whne accessing Users in the Mandrake Control Centr, I get a message: Cannot lock usr lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist, and then cannot access any of the functionality. The file /etc/gtmp exists; if I rename it, I still have the problem. Any ideas? John -- Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
Daniel Buchanan wrote: I have a cd-rw and a cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my lili,modules and fstab files. If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd be really happy :) boot=/dev/hde5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 I don't know what this is ? append=hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi I would add this to the append=line in each of the stanzas below, not here, as indeed you have done to some . mage=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hda=-scsi hdd=scsi read-only other=/dev/hde2 label=dos table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hde3 label=dos2 table=/dev/hde I don't understand these, presumeably they are floppies I would expect an entry something like this, other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe other=/dev/fd1 label=floppy unsafe Your setup is unusual,so, /dev/hda is your rom or writer /dev/hdb does not exist /dev/hdc does not exist /dev/hdd is your rom or writer /dev/hde is your hard drive, and M8.2 is on hde5 which I do not really understand but if correct , so well and good. I could not open your /etc/fstab, but to get your rom and writer to work you need enties something like this, /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 these will not give you supermount. then in /mnt directory make sure you have /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy2 (if you have two floppy drives) then on desktop rightmouseclick to create,each of the devices, and in properties of each point to the /dev files for each. nothing else required in /etc/modules.conf John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord files to PDF files with print to PLF
Pilagá wrote: El Lun 09 Dic 2002 15:32, John Richard Smith escribió: Something very odd has occured. Everything I told you above is precisely true, but when I came back to have another look at the same 3 previously created PDF files , this time they were all there with some Mb's each of data in each and now display normally when I leftmouseclick on them in a viewer. So I repeated the event again , and again the files are empty on first visit, but normal on second. Now what on earth could cause that. John Hola, John. If you are trying to look this 'fresh' files from inside Konq, just pres F5 and the info will be updated correctly. Suerte. Suerte, You Johnare dead right, so what is happening then, -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
Erik Farnsworth wrote:
Daniel,
First...I'm hoping that it was a copy and paste error, but you are
missing the 'i' on image=/boot/vmlinux on the first (default) entry.
In addition, the default entry is the only one with the append= line
that does not read append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi
('quiet' keeps you from seeing all the 'goodies' load--I prefer to see
that everything is loading o.k., so I have removed it.)
Without those ide-scsi and hdd-scsi entries, your system is going to
have problems 'seeing' them. I would suggest that you modify the
append= line in your first (default) entry to read either:
append=quiet devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi
or
append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi
Either way, once you have made the change and saved the lilo.conf file,
at a (root) command prompt, type 'lilo' or '/sbin/lilo' (without quote
marks). You will get a return of the new lilo configuration, so you
know it 'took'.
Then do a normal shutdown and restart...your CD drive should then be
available as a CDROM and a CD burner.
(BTW: I have found eroaster to be very reliable and much easier to
configure...personal opinion, of course.)
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 19:44, Daniel Buchanan wrote: I have a cd-rw and a
cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can
not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive
either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as
in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work
the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my
lili,modules and fstab files.
If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link
cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd
be really happy :)
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well i had the entries there to start with, the directions on xdcroast
told me to try the way i have it now.
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Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: I have a cd-rw and a cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my lili,modules and fstab files. If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd be really happy :) boot=/dev/hde5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 I don't know what this is ? append=hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi I would add this to the append=line in each of the stanzas below, not here, as indeed you have done to some . mage=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hda=-scsi hdd=scsi read-only other=/dev/hde2 label=dos table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hde3 label=dos2 table=/dev/hde I don't understand these, presumeably they are floppies I would expect an entry something like this, other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe other=/dev/fd1 label=floppy unsafe Your setup is unusual,so, /dev/hda is your rom or writer /dev/hdb does not exist /dev/hdc does not exist /dev/hdd is your rom or writer /dev/hde is your hard drive, and M8.2 is on hde5 which I do not really understand but if correct , so well and good. I could not open your /etc/fstab, but to get your rom and writer to work you need enties something like this, /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 these will not give you supermount. then in /mnt directory make sure you have /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy2 (if you have two floppy drives) then on desktop rightmouseclick to create,each of the devices, and in properties of each point to the /dev files for each. nothing else required in /etc/modules.conf John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok my setup, i have the writer on hda and the reader on hdd. Then i have a 40 mb hd on a promise 100 eide controler. I only have 1 floppy, which works, and am confused about the second entry as well. I do not have the mnt entires for either cd device nor can i get them to mount. I had already tried the 2 fstab lines you had listed. What it appears to me is the ide driver is only partially letting go of the drives. I only see a scsi entry for the burner. All i have in my dev/scsi. (i think lun0 is the last subdir on a deap path) is scsi0 and generic. According to the directions on the cd-ram how to, if i want the devices to be seen under mnt i have to make a soft link to something. It's that something i can't figure out as the something that the directions say to link to doesn't work Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] UserDrake problem
You could write a very simple script and call it summat like MyUserDrake that deletes the said mentioned files and then runs UserDrake. But does anybody know why it does this Mr Smiley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman Sent: 10 December 2002 12:20 PM To: Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] UserDrake problem Easiest way to solve this is to delete /etc/gtmp AND /etc/ptmp, then re-open Userdrake. Lanman On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 06:46, John wrote: Whne accessing Users in the Mandrake Control Centr, I get a message: Cannot lock usr lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist, and then cannot access any of the functionality. The file /etc/gtmp exists; if I rename it, I still have the problem. Any ideas? John -- Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UserDrake problem
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 15:56, Ken Walker wrote: You could write a very simple script and call it summat like MyUserDrake that deletes the said mentioned files and then runs UserDrake. But does anybody know why it does this They occur when you forget to hit save... So the solution is to delete them once, and then remember to hit save whenever UserDrake is started.. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
SV: [newbie] UserDrake problem
This has been on the list before - a quick and efficient way of dealing with it is to use kuser - without all the MCC hassles. Or even better open up a console window as root and type adduser (or useradd) username and then passwd username /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop sleep settings
On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 7:59 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: Could anyone tell me how to adjust my laptop sleep settings? I am running a Dell Lattitude LS w/ Mandrake 9.0. In 8.2 the HD would go to sleep (stop spinning) automatically. 9.0 leaves it on all the time. I am thinking this will wear it and suck up my battery so I want to make it stop spinning when the computer is inactive. I know nothing about how to do this but if someone else does I'm sure I can do it if they tell me :) Thanks Noah There is a command called hdparm which can stop your HD spinning after a defined time. However there is not much point using it since the Ext3 file system does a write to the HD every 5 seconds. I have just spent days trying to tune the file system to be able to stop the HD without success. If anyone can actually do it I would be delighted to hear about it. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cron problem
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 2:10 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have the following /etc/crontab [root@localhost lvgandhi]# cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly But for hourly cron, rest are not working now. In my previous installation mandrake 9, with same crontab, all used to work irrespective whether PC was on at 4:40 am or not. What can be the problem. Perhaps like me you do not have the anacron RPM installed? It seems as if anacron is no longer installed by default. Anacron will run any job that cron is late running (because the computer was switched off at the time) HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)
On Sunday 08 December 2002 00:02, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, This is somewhat an illegitimate question, as it deals with hardware and not with linux per se. However, since there are quite a few helpful folks around here, and since my laptop runs Mandrake 9, I dare this breach of etiquette: I was given an old Quantex N30W-15 (on which Mandrake 9 runs without any problems, by the way - except for the Winmodem which one can easily fix with the RPMs available on the Linmodem.org site). It runs on a BAT30WL Lithium Ion Battery (rated 11.1V-4800mAh). I used my laptop at home 99% of the time so I do not need to run it on batteries. How should I best use this battery? Should I keep it plugged in and constanting charging, should I always use it on battery and thereby empty the battery daily, or is there anything else I should do to maximize my battery's life? Thanks in advance for your advice and sorry for the off-topic question, Andrei Every time you charge a Li-ion battery you shorten it's life (i.e. the uptime) a little. Taking it out and unloading and loading it every once in a while (monthly or so) will keep it in shape for years to come. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On December 8, 2002 03:06 pm, Jerry wrote: snip,snip,snip I fixed it! I had to remove/reinstall the apm packages to do it, but when I did, I found the settings for Powercontrol. They must not have installed correctly the first time or something. Worked on both machines. No more flashing D! :-) Thanks again! Cool. I'm glad you got it figured out Jerry. It's the little things that make all the difference. Speaking of little things; I have to go try and figure out what my buddy did to his machine when he tried to install the latest NVidia sources. I swear that man (and the rest of his family) could break the Lord's Prayer without even trying. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you? -- Garrison Keillor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: I have a cd-rw and a cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my lili,modules and fstab files. If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd be really happy :) boot=/dev/hde5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 I don't know what this is ? append=hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi I would add this to the append=line in each of the stanzas below, not here, as indeed you have done to some . mage=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hda=-scsi hdd=scsi read-only other=/dev/hde2 label=dos table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hde3 label=dos2 table=/dev/hde I don't understand these, presumeably they are floppies I would expect an entry something like this, other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe other=/dev/fd1 label=floppy unsafe Your setup is unusual,so, /dev/hda is your rom or writer /dev/hdb does not exist /dev/hdc does not exist /dev/hdd is your rom or writer /dev/hde is your hard drive, and M8.2 is on hde5 which I do not really understand but if correct , so well and good. I could not open your /etc/fstab, but to get your rom and writer to work you need enties something like this, /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 these will not give you supermount. then in /mnt directory make sure you have /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy2 (if you have two floppy drives) then on desktop rightmouseclick to create,each of the devices, and in properties of each point to the /dev files for each. nothing else required in /etc/modules.conf John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok my setup, i have the writer on hda and the reader on hdd. Then i have a 40 mb hd on a promise 100 eide controler. I only have 1 floppy, which works, and am confused about the second entry as well. I do not have the mnt entires for either cd device nor can i get them to mount. I had already tried the 2 fstab lines you had listed. What it appears to me is the ide driver is only partially letting go of the drives. I only see a scsi entry for the burner. All i have in my dev/scsi. (i think lun0 is the last subdir on a deap path) is scsi0 and generic. According to the directions on the cd-ram how to, if i want the devices to be seen under mnt i have to make a soft link to something. It's that something i can't figure out as the something that the directions say to link to doesn't work I do not really understand this setup, is there any particular reason for it, I mean the hda, hdd, and hde, arrangement. I take it you have 2 ide lines, and generally speaking, though not necessarily the rom/writer goes master and slave on one line, and the hard drives on another, you don't seem to have this arrangement. I guess this means I haven't come across it before but I would just like to know why the unusual arrangement. Are any of these devices true scsi devices, because to get writer programmes in linux to recognise most ide devices scsi emulation is employed , and indeed that is what hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi does for you, though I add them to the append= line in each stanza , rather than globally at the beginning. However I note that even in the append= line for each stanza you have something different, that is, hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi, rather than hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, and I believe this is incorrect, and since it is the later entry in the whole business of reading your lilo.conf entries I'm guessing these are the ones it is trying to implement. Why not change these entries in each stanza to hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi and see what happens, and while you are at it put the i in image as well, then run
[newbie] whew-boy help again
Well, I've gone a redone a bit. First my printer didn't work, and I thought perhaps it was the settings, although they seemed okay. Then it hung...my fault, and then I rebooted. The printer still won't print, I now suspect it is out of ink, and the one red warning is this: dhcpd failed and now my internet won't work. Question one: what remedy would work Question two: would the settings I had in place perhaps change as I had to shut the computer off when it hung?? Any help would be appreciated. Alexa
Re: [newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)
Hi, Ok. But does keeping my laptop with the battery inside CONSTANTILY connected to the power outlet qualify as recharging or not (since the battery does not really discharge the battery to being with, right?). Thanks, Andrei Every time you charge a Li-ion battery you shorten it's life (i.e. the uptime) a little. Taking it out and unloading and loading it every once in a while (monthly or so) will keep it in shape for years to come. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 16:53, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, Ok. But does keeping my laptop with the battery inside CONSTANTILY connected to the power outlet qualify as recharging or not (since the battery does not really discharge the battery to being with, right?). Thanks, Andrei Usually, yes! when the voltage goes down it recharges immediately, thus decreasing the life span. Depending a little on what sort of charger it's using it might even start to push the voltage up to a higher level creating all sorts of problems. Especially older types of batteries are hard to come by. I even once built my own for a compaq contura using plain Ni-cadmium rechargeables:o) So take good care if it. Good Luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing default browser
On Monday 09 December 2002 02:12, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: I'd like to change my default browser from Konqueror. URLs in mail messages can be opened from within the message with Konqueror as the default browser. If I go into file associations and change the default browser to anything else here's what happens: Here's the URL for example, http://honestreporting.com/a/r/323.asp. With Konqueror as the default it opens and goes to that site. If the default browser is something else the browser opens, then I get: file:///root/.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp/26647.0.323.asp, where the address should be.. Konqueror is ok, and it's getting better with each release, but I don't like having no choice. According to your message headers you are using kmail So what you want to do is to change the association for html files in the KDE control centre run kcontrol (no you don't need to be running KDE as window manager to do this) click on FileBrowsing, then File Associations expand text (click on the + next to it), then select html you will see on the right a list of browsers on your system The one on top will be the default, if it is not found the second one will be used. Now you can add browsers or rearrange them I used this to set my preferred browser to galeon and that is what loads when I click on a link in kmail -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CDR
Hi I've change the CD Reader and CD Writer position on the IDE bus and now what I get is CD Reader on /dev/hdc and the Writer on /dev/hdb When I try to detect the CD in Eroaster I get Couldn't detect your reader /recorder make sure you are allowed to read /dev/sg* I checked it out and there is no file like that in /dev. Any idea what to do Thanks Gil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDR
In reply to Gil's mail, d.d. Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:43:03 +0200: /etc/lilo.conf You can find it with [paul@tbird paul]$ whereis lilo.conf lilo: /sbin/lilo /etc/lilo.conf /usr/share/man/man8/lilo.8.bz2 (You need to be root to edit that too.) If you have no ide-scsi in there, do not edit anything unless you know what you are doing. -- Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. -Dwight D. Eisenhower http://nlpagan.net - OS:Linux Mandrake 8.2 - E-mail:Sylpheed 0.8.6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Difference between 8.0, 8.2, 9.x
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 06:35, Jason Guidry wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 23:18, Fish Fash wrote: What is the difference between ver 8.0, 8.2, 9.x? 8.2 works. use it. 9.0 works. Use it. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CDR
So what to write I saw that this is like ini file with section And the file end in the floppy with no CD -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] CDR In reply to Gil's mail, d.d. Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:43:03 +0200: /etc/lilo.conf You can find it with [paul@tbird paul]$ whereis lilo.conf lilo: /sbin/lilo /etc/lilo.conf /usr/share/man/man8/lilo.8.bz2 (You need to be root to edit that too.) If you have no ide-scsi in there, do not edit anything unless you know what you are doing. -- Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. -Dwight D. Eisenhower http://nlpagan.net - OS:Linux Mandrake 8.2 - E-mail:Sylpheed 0.8.6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: I have a cd-rw and a cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my lili,modules and fstab files. If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd be really happy :) boot=/dev/hde5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 I don't know what this is ? append=hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi I would add this to the append=line in each of the stanzas below, not here, as indeed you have done to some . mage=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hda=-scsi hdd=scsi read-only other=/dev/hde2 label=dos table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hde3 label=dos2 table=/dev/hde I don't understand these, presumeably they are floppies I would expect an entry something like this, other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe other=/dev/fd1 label=floppy unsafe Your setup is unusual,so, /dev/hda is your rom or writer /dev/hdb does not exist /dev/hdc does not exist /dev/hdd is your rom or writer /dev/hde is your hard drive, and M8.2 is on hde5 which I do not really understand but if correct , so well and good. I could not open your /etc/fstab, but to get your rom and writer to work you need enties something like this, /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 these will not give you supermount. then in /mnt directory make sure you have /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy2 (if you have two floppy drives) then on desktop rightmouseclick to create,each of the devices, and in properties of each point to the /dev files for each. nothing else required in /etc/modules.conf John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok my setup, i have the writer on hda and the reader on hdd. Then i have a 40 mb hd on a promise 100 eide controler. I only have 1 floppy, which works, and am confused about the second entry as well. I do not have the mnt entires for either cd device nor can i get them to mount. I had already tried the 2 fstab lines you had listed. What it appears to me is the ide driver is only partially letting go of the drives. I only see a scsi entry for the burner. All i have in my dev/scsi. (i think lun0 is the last subdir on a deap path) is scsi0 and generic. According to the directions on the cd-ram how to, if i want the devices to be seen under mnt i have to make a soft link to something. It's that something i can't figure out as the something that the directions say to link to doesn't work I do not really understand this setup, is there any particular reason for it, I mean the hda, hdd, and hde, arrangement. I take it you have 2 ide lines, and generally speaking, though not necessarily the rom/writer goes master and slave on one line, and the hard drives on another, you don't seem to have this arrangement. I guess this means I haven't come across it before but I would just like to know why the unusual arrangement. Are any of these devices true scsi devices, because to get writer programmes in linux to recognise most ide devices scsi emulation is employed , and indeed that is what hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi does for you, though I add them to the append= line in each stanza , rather than globally at the beginning. However I note that even in the append= line for each stanza you have something different, that is, hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi, rather than hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, and I believe this is incorrect, and since it is the later entry in the whole business of reading your lilo.conf entries I'm guessing these are the ones it is trying to implement. Why not change these entries in each stanza to hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi and see what happens, and while you are at it put the i in
Re: [newbie] CDR
In reply to Gil's mail, d.d. Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:04:54 +0200: So what to write I saw that this is like ini file with section And the file end in the floppy with no CD I have something like this in my lilo.conf: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only Key in here is append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi Is there something like that in your /etc/lilo.conf? From your replies, I see that you do not know your way around Linux yet. Better dump your lilo.conf here so we can have a look. It is better to be safe than sorry. Also let's see the output of ls -l /dev/hd@ E.g. [root@tbird paul]# ll /dev/hd? lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 30 Dec 4 19:16 /dev/hda - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Dec 4 19:16 /dev/hde - ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Dec 4 19:16 /dev/hdf - ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/disc And also read through the post that just came through: Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup This seems to deal with the same problem that you have. Paul -- Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. -Dwight D. Eisenhower http://nlpagan.net - OS:Linux Mandrake 8.2 - E-mail:Sylpheed 0.8.6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: I have a cd-rw and a cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my lili,modules and fstab files. If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd be really happy :) boot=/dev/hde5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 I don't know what this is ? append=hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi I would add this to the append=line in each of the stanzas below, not here, as indeed you have done to some . mage=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hda=-scsi hdd=scsi read-only other=/dev/hde2 label=dos table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hde3 label=dos2 table=/dev/hde I don't understand these, presumeably they are floppies I would expect an entry something like this, other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe other=/dev/fd1 label=floppy unsafe Your setup is unusual,so, /dev/hda is your rom or writer /dev/hdb does not exist /dev/hdc does not exist /dev/hdd is your rom or writer /dev/hde is your hard drive, and M8.2 is on hde5 which I do not really understand but if correct , so well and good. I could not open your /etc/fstab, but to get your rom and writer to work you need enties something like this, /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 these will not give you supermount. then in /mnt directory make sure you have /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy2 (if you have two floppy drives) then on desktop rightmouseclick to create,each of the devices, and in properties of each point to the /dev files for each. nothing else required in /etc/modules.conf John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok my setup, i have the writer on hda and the reader on hdd. Then i have a 40 mb hd on a promise 100 eide controler. I only have 1 floppy, which works, and am confused about the second entry as well. I do not have the mnt entires for either cd device nor can i get them to mount. I had already tried the 2 fstab lines you had listed. What it appears to me is the ide driver is only partially letting go of the drives. I only see a scsi entry for the burner. All i have in my dev/scsi. (i think lun0 is the last subdir on a deap path) is scsi0 and generic. According to the directions on the cd-ram how to, if i want the devices to be seen under mnt i have to make a soft link to something. It's that something i can't figure out as the something that the directions say to link to doesn't work I do not really understand this setup, is there any particular reason for it, I mean the hda, hdd, and hde, arrangement. I take it you have 2 ide lines, and generally speaking, though not necessarily the rom/writer goes master and slave on one line, and the hard drives on another, you don't seem to have this arrangement. I guess this means I haven't come across it before but I would just like to know why the unusual arrangement. Are any of these devices true scsi devices, because to get writer programmes in linux to recognise most ide devices scsi emulation is employed , and indeed that is what hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi does for you, though I add them to the append= line in each stanza , rather than globally at the beginning. However I note that even in the append= line for each stanza you have something different, that is, hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi, rather than hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, and I believe this is incorrect, and since it is the later entry in the whole business of reading your lilo.conf entries I'm guessing these are the ones it is trying to implement. Why not change these entries in each stanza to hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi and see what happens, and while
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: I have a cd-rw and a cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my lili,modules and fstab files. If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd be really happy :) boot=/dev/hde5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 I don't know what this is ? append=hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi I would add this to the append=line in each of the stanzas below, not here, as indeed you have done to some . mage=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hda=-scsi hdd=scsi read-only other=/dev/hde2 label=dos table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hde3 label=dos2 table=/dev/hde I don't understand these, presumeably they are floppies I would expect an entry something like this, other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe other=/dev/fd1 label=floppy unsafe Your setup is unusual,so, /dev/hda is your rom or writer /dev/hdb does not exist /dev/hdc does not exist /dev/hdd is your rom or writer /dev/hde is your hard drive, and M8.2 is on hde5 which I do not really understand but if correct , so well and good. I could not open your /etc/fstab, but to get your rom and writer to work you need enties something like this, /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 these will not give you supermount. then in /mnt directory make sure you have /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy2 (if you have two floppy drives) then on desktop rightmouseclick to create,each of the devices, and in properties of each point to the /dev files for each. nothing else required in /etc/modules.conf John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok my setup, i have the writer on hda and the reader on hdd. Then i have a 40 mb hd on a promise 100 eide controler. I only have 1 floppy, which works, and am confused about the second entry as well. I do not have the mnt entires for either cd device nor can i get them to mount. I had already tried the 2 fstab lines you had listed. What it appears to me is the ide driver is only partially letting go of the drives. I only see a scsi entry for the burner. All i have in my dev/scsi. (i think lun0 is the last subdir on a deap path) is scsi0 and generic. According to the directions on the cd-ram how to, if i want the devices to be seen under mnt i have to make a soft link to something. It's that something i can't figure out as the something that the directions say to link to doesn't work I do not really understand this setup, is there any particular reason for it, I mean the hda, hdd, and hde, arrangement. I take it you have 2 ide lines, and generally speaking, though not necessarily the rom/writer goes master and slave on one line, and the hard drives on another, you don't seem to have this arrangement. I guess this means I haven't come across it before but I would just like to know why the unusual arrangement. Are any of these devices true scsi devices, because to get writer programmes in linux to recognise most ide devices scsi emulation is employed , and indeed that is what hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi does for you, though I add them to the append= line in each stanza , rather than globally at the beginning. However I note that even in the append= line for each stanza you have something different, that is, hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi, rather than hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, and I believe this is incorrect, and since it is the later entry in the whole business of reading your lilo.conf entries I'm guessing these are the ones it is trying to implement. Why not change these entries in each stanza to hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
[newbie] XCDroast primary read device.
Hello all, Has anyone experienced a problem with XCDROAST on Mandrake 9.0 because I cannot get it to recognise my CD Reader either Primary or Secondary. Under CD Writer Config I have Mitsumi CR-4804TE which is correct. But under CD Reader both Primary Secondary are given the same Mitsumi Writer instead of the correct Teac CD Rom. Are there any XCDRoast files I can manipulate? Has any one else had this problem? With best wishes and seasons greetings to you all. Malcolm Candlish. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop sleep settings
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 16:09, Derek Jennings wrote: However there is not much point using it since the Ext3 file system does a write to the HD every 5 seconds. I have just spent days trying to tune the file system to be able to stop the HD without success. If anyone can actually do it I would be delighted to hear about it. derek I can't tell from a quick look which file sytem this guy is running, but he's talking about minimising disk accesses: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/jj/linux.html He's a big wheel in West Yorkshire LUG. I keep meaning to go to a meeting, but haven't yet. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] question about log files
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 01:58, Angus Auld wrote: Richard, does anacron need to be configured to do that, or is that default behaviour? Default in 8.2, but I've just seen Derek Jennings say that's changed in 9.0. All I know is my laptop gets very excited if it hasn't been booted for a few days. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDR
Paul wrote: In reply to Gil's mail, d.d. Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:04:54 +0200: So what to write I saw that this is like ini file with section And the file end in the floppy with no CD I have something like this in my lilo.conf: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only Key in here is append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi Is there something like that in your /etc/lilo.conf? From your replies, I see that you do not know your way around Linux yet. Better dump your lilo.conf here so we can have a look. It is better to be safe than sorry. Also let's see the output of ls -l /dev/hd@ E.g. [root@tbird paul]# ll /dev/hd? lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 30 Dec 4 19:16 /dev/hda - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Dec 4 19:16 /dev/hde - ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Dec 4 19:16 /dev/hdf - ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/disc And also read through the post that just came through: Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup This seems to deal with the same problem that you have. Paul -- Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. -Dwight D. Eisenhower http://nlpagan.net - OS:Linux Mandrake 8.2 - E-mail:Sylpheed 0.8.6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com yea i'm still working on my problem, when i finally get it fixed i'll post a full explination on that thread. Problem is lunix will hang you but good if stuff doesn't match up between several files. I'm assuming i got one of mine out of sync. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.
Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hello all, Has anyone experienced a problem with XCDROAST on Mandrake 9.0 because I cannot get it to recognise my CD Reader either Primary or Secondary. Under CD Writer Config I have Mitsumi CR-4804TE which is correct. But under CD Reader both Primary Secondary are given the same Mitsumi Writer instead of the correct Teac CD Rom. Are there any XCDRoast files I can manipulate? Has any one else had this problem? With best wishes and seasons greetings to you all. Malcolm Candlish. I have a mitsumi writer like yours, and a pioneer dvd but are worksin fine in xcdroast. sounds as though the scsi-emulation is out somewhere try , cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-ROM DVD-116 ' '1.22' Removable CD-ROM 0,3,0 3) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-48X9TE ' '1.0C' Removable CD-ROM 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * and see what comes up, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: I have a cd-rw and a cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my lili,modules and fstab files. If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd be really happy :) boot=/dev/hde5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 I don't know what this is ? append=hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi I would add this to the append=line in each of the stanzas below, not here, as indeed you have done to some . mage=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hda=-scsi hdd=scsi read-only other=/dev/hde2 label=dos table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hde3 label=dos2 table=/dev/hde I don't understand these, presumeably they are floppies I would expect an entry something like this, other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe other=/dev/fd1 label=floppy unsafe Your setup is unusual,so, /dev/hda is your rom or writer /dev/hdb does not exist /dev/hdc does not exist /dev/hdd is your rom or writer /dev/hde is your hard drive, and M8.2 is on hde5 which I do not really understand but if correct , so well and good. I could not open your /etc/fstab, but to get your rom and writer to work you need enties something like this, /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 these will not give you supermount. then in /mnt directory make sure you have /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy2 (if you have two floppy drives) then on desktop rightmouseclick to create,each of the devices, and in properties of each point to the /dev files for each. nothing else required in /etc/modules.conf John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok my setup, i have the writer on hda and the reader on hdd. Then i have a 40 mb hd on a promise 100 eide controler. I only have 1 floppy, which works, and am confused about the second entry as well. I do not have the mnt entires for either cd device nor can i get them to mount. I had already tried the 2 fstab lines you had listed. What it appears to me is the ide driver is only partially letting go of the drives. I only see a scsi entry for the burner. All i have in my dev/scsi. (i think lun0 is the last subdir on a deap path) is scsi0 and generic. According to the directions on the cd-ram how to, if i want the devices to be seen under mnt i have to make a soft link to something. It's that something i can't figure out as the something that the directions say to link to doesn't work I do not really understand this setup, is there any particular reason for it, I mean the hda, hdd, and hde, arrangement. I take it you have 2 ide lines, and generally speaking, though not necessarily the rom/writer goes master and slave on one line, and the hard drives on another, you don't seem to have this arrangement. I guess this means I haven't come across it before but I would just like to know why the unusual arrangement. Are any of these devices true scsi devices, because to get writer programmes in linux to recognise most ide devices scsi emulation is employed , and indeed that is what hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi does for you, though I add them to the append= line in each stanza , rather than globally at the beginning. However I note that even in the append= line for each stanza you have something different, that is, hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi, rather than hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, and I believe this is incorrect, and since it is the later entry in the whole business of reading your lilo.conf entries I'm guessing these are the ones it is trying to implement. Why not change these entries in each stanza to
Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.
John Richard Smith wrote: Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hello all, Has anyone experienced a problem with XCDROAST on Mandrake 9.0 because I cannot get it to recognise my CD Reader either Primary or Secondary. Under CD Writer Config I have Mitsumi CR-4804TE which is correct. But under CD Reader both Primary Secondary are given the same Mitsumi Writer instead of the correct Teac CD Rom. Are there any XCDRoast files I can manipulate? Has any one else had this problem? With best wishes and seasons greetings to you all. Malcolm Candlish. I have a mitsumi writer like yours, and a pioneer dvd but are worksin fine in xcdroast. sounds as though the scsi-emulation is out somewhere try , cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-ROM DVD-116 ' '1.22' Removable CD-ROM 0,3,0 3) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-48X9TE ' '1.0C' Removable CD-ROM 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * and see what comes up, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com i have a thread already open on this exact problem, when i finally get it solved, i'll be posting a full fix on that thread. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:06:48 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds as though the scsi-emulation is out somewhere Yes. For xcdroast to see the cdrom he needs to add an idex=ide-scsi append for it. If he does not wish to do that he can use k3b which does not require it. Charles I call them as I see them. If I can't see them, I make them up. -- Biff Barf -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] whew-boy help again
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 03:54, Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: Well, I've gone a redone a bit. First my printer didn't work, and I thought perhaps it was the settings, although they seemed okay. Then it hung...my fault, and then I rebooted. The printer still won't print, I now suspect it is out of ink, and the one red warning is this: dhcpd failed and now my internet won't work. Question one: what remedy would work Question two: would the settings I had in place perhaps change as I had to shut the computer off when it hung?? Any help would be appreciated. Alexa DHCP is failing because it's not able to bind an IP address to your network card. If you re-setup the network card again for DHCP you should be good to go. -- Wed Dec 11 08:10:00 EST 2002 8:10am up 32 min, 3 users, load average: 0.32, 0.14, 0.16 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Princess Leia: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 02:54 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hello all, Has anyone experienced a problem with XCDROAST on Mandrake 9.0 because I cannot get it to recognise my CD Reader either Primary or Secondary. Under CD Writer Config I have Mitsumi CR-4804TE which is correct. But under CD Reader both Primary Secondary are given the same Mitsumi Writer instead of the correct Teac CD Rom. Are there any XCDRoast files I can manipulate? Has any one else had this problem? sounds like your reader is not under ide-scsi look in /etc/lilo.conf for a line with hd?=ide-scsi and make sure that both the cdrom and cdwriter are listed, then lilo and reboot. -- Alex / KC2IVL ft100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] autologout
Ladies and Gents, I have surfed the web for answers before resorting to the list. I have found a few answers to my problem, and none of them are working. My TMOUT variable is set to 900, i check that by echo $TMOUT. I have tried resetting this variable and it either works, or gives me an error stating its a read-only variable. Has anyone extended this 900 second barrier. You see, I have to run about 50 different SSH sessions to my servers, so essentially I use Konsole and have the quick and painless buttons, which makes my life easy, but as soon as the logout procedure happens, I am faced with relogging through a SSH gateway into all my production boxes. I basicly have to give about 5 commands, and they are not scriptable (passwords) in order to sudo into a prompt, which is driving me insane. HELP! -- Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. (719) 473 2800 x15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PV-BT878P+w/FM tv card how do u set it up properly in Mandrake 9.0
I have played around with it and can not seem to get any channels on it. I have tried using using xawtv (no channels found), kwintv and zapper but all fail. I have created a sym link in /dev to video0. It is all plugged in. The card is in my PCI slots and is being recognised. Any suggestions? Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Daniel Buchanan wrote: I have a cd-rw and a cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my lili,modules and fstab files. If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd be really happy :) boot=/dev/hde5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 I don't know what this is ? append="hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" I would add this to the append= line in each of the stanzas below, not here, as indeed you have done to some . mage=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="quiet devfs=mount" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe devfs=nomount hda=-scsi hdd=scsi" read-only other=/dev/hde2 label=dos table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hde3 label=dos2 table=/dev/hde I don't understand these, presumeably they are floppies I would expect an entry something like this, other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe other=/dev/fd1 label=floppy unsafe Your setup is unusual,so, /dev/hda is your rom or writer /dev/hdb does not exist /dev/hdc does not exist /dev/hdd is your rom or writer /dev/hde is your hard drive, and M8.2 is on hde5 which I do not really understand but if correct , so well and good. I could not open your /etc/fstab, but to get your rom and writer to work you need enties something like this, /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 these will not give you supermount. then in /mnt directory make sure you have /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy2 (if you have two floppy drives) then on desktop rightmouseclick to create,each of the devices, and in properties of each point to the /dev files for each. nothing else required in /etc/modules.conf John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok my setup, i have the writer on hda and the reader on hdd. Then i have a 40 mb hd on a promise 100 eide controler. I only have 1 floppy, which works, and am confused about the second entry as well. I do not have the mnt entires for either cd device nor can i get them to mount. I had already tried the 2 fstab lines you had listed. What it appears to me is the ide driver is only partially letting go of the drives. I only see a scsi entry for the burner. All i have in my dev/scsi. (i think lun0 is the last subdir on a deap path) is scsi0 and generic. According to the directions on the cd-ram how to, if i want the devices to be seen under mnt i have to make a soft link to something. It's that something i can't figure out as the something that the directions say to link to doesn't work I do not really understand this setup, is there any particular reason for it, I mean the hda, hdd, and hde, arrangement. I take it you have 2 ide lines, and generally speaking, though not necessarily the rom/writer goes master and slave on one line, and the hard drives on another, you don't seem to have this arrangement. I guess this means I haven't come across it before but I would just like to know why the unusual arrangement. Are any of these devices true scsi devices, because to get writer programmes in linux to recognise most ide devices scsi emulation is employed , and indeed that is what hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi does for you, though I add them to the append= line in each stanza , rather than globally at the beginning. However I note that even in the append= line for each stanza you have something different, that is, hda=ide-scsi
Re: [newbie] Right's problem - second try
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 09:03 pm, Roland Hughes wrote: I have recently upgraded/installed Mandrake 9.0 on a 700Mhz Duron, 512 of memory and a 40 Gig drive. It was a fresh install with formating etc. Below are my Fstab and pci output. The problem I am having is that the system thinks root has no rights to things such as drives and various configuration files. This is logging in as root or su'ing a terminal window. I have looked at various setting such as security etc but everything seems ok. The security level is standard/normal as I am on a dialup. Thanks in advance, any help appreciated. Roly boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount quiet mem=nopentium hdc=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=nomount failsafe read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] System Controller (rev 37). Master Capable. Latency=120. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe800 [0xebff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed9fe000 [0xed9fefff]. I/O at 0xd600 [0xd603]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] AGP Bridge (rev 1). Master Capable. Latency=120. Min Gnt=10. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ISA (rev 1). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] IDE (rev 7). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xf000 [0xf00f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ACPI (rev 3). Master Capable. Latency=120. Bus 0, device 7, function 4: USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] USB (rev 6). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=16. Max Lat=80. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefffe000 [0xefffefff]. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 0). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdcff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xefff]. Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 8). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f]. Bus 0, device 9, function 1: Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 8). Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xde00 [0xde07]. Bus 0, device 10, function 0: Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 1). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed9ff000 [0xed9f]. I/O at 0xda00 [0xda1f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefe0 [0xefef]. Bus 1, device 5, function 0: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (GeForce2 MX) (rev 178). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee00 [0xeeff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd800 [0xdfff]. This is probably a dumb question, but, did you give a root password during install? If not I'm not sure how you do it after the fact, but someone on the list will know I'm sure. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] External Hard drive on Parallel port.
A friend gave me one of those cases that you can put a spare hard drive in and it uses a parallel port connection. It is generic and has no FCC # on it, but the box says it works for hard drives. Anyone have any idea how to access it to format and read/write to it? It runs on a seperate power supply and shows up in hard drake as an SBLive joystick. ( I think). Is this thing useless or what? Any help is appreciated. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] toshiba 1410-S173, GeForce4 go MX420 and Flat panel Display issue
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 10:01 pm, Todd Franklin wrote: Wondering if anyone can help us out. My buddy's sister bought a new Toshiba Satellite (1410-s173) which includes an integrated GeForce4 go MX420. Problem: after loading nvidia drivers and making the necessary changes to XF86Config-4, the display resolution in X defaults to 800x600, in other words, it only fills a small part of the display. Using the stretch screen option in the bios, we were able to get it to cover more of the screen but the quality sucks and it is still about an inch off center so there's a large black area on the right of the screen. Also, with stretch screen turned off, when you shut down X, there is no output to the display. So no command line. you can type startx or reboot and get your command to go. If we re-enable stretch-screen we don't have that problem. The default mandrake settings seem to run fine, but we'd really like to have the 3d chipset enabled. We've tried a few from the Nvidia readme, but nothing's helped so far. Changing resolutions in either drakconfig, or directly editing the XF86Config-4 file, seem to change nothing. It's like the nvidia driver is overriding our settings. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Todd Franklin Todd did you use the .rpm packages or the .src.rpm packages for the NVidia drivers. You may be more successful using the src packages so that it configures to your machine. I had problems getting the .rpm packages to work on my desktop so try the source files. Kernel anyway, I don't think you need to use .src on the GLX, the .rpm package seems to work for that one. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error
- Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:51:47 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error At 11:19 PM 12/9/2002 -0300, you wrote: ** Thanks for the reply Femme, I was actually under the impression that it would easier to use the MS Intellimouse as a PS/2. I haven't tried it as USB. It's working OK really, just the occasional error comes up. I am dual-booting an MS system too...no probs with the mouse there. Shouldn't be either...after all it's an MS mouse! I do have a free USB port. You think it would be better to try that? Mdk 9.0 hasn't been the most USB friendly system. I had quite a battle to get my Epson USB printer up and printing! :-( I did get it working though, after a scrap. Works OK now. Thanks for the help. All the best. --Angus Success is the art of being who you are. Dear Sweety: Some info for you tho: USB is faster in its polling rate than PS/2/2. Once you try it you never want to go back, especially if you game! Caveat: It can be a bit hard to setup. Email me off-list for help if you wish. Finally, USB Offers a way of working around IRQ's their conflicts, should that be a problem... as it is all daisy chained off of one central HUB. Hard to explain but basically think of a pinwheel. The centre is the Master HUB controller chip on the mobo. From there it will allocate addresses Space for each USB Device in use at any one time. The explanation can be more complex of course, but you get the idea. As for it being better in terms of performance, see above. And honestly I've had nothing but smooth sailing on anything from 8.0 - 8.2 on MDK. Haven't tried it on 9.0 yet tho. So I will load that today See for ya. The Only time i had trouble was in 8 or 8.2 I think when I had to have the mouse be on a PS/2/2 port to install the system. After that I ran Mousedrake in a term set it to USB. So... have fun! --- Femme Thanks for for your insights and explanation FemmeFatale (fatal woman...hmmm). I'm not having any IRQ conflicts or anything like that, and I'm not a gamer. Is there any noticeable difference in performance between USB PS/2 when just doing regular non-gaming computing? I will wait to hear how your USB mouse works with Mdk 9.0. Maybe I'll switch to USB too. Thanks for your kind offer of off list help too. You're definitely a sweety ;-) I think Technoslick is on to something about jarring the mouse causing the error. I usually reach down to turn on my sub-woofer when booting up (vice-versa when shutting down), and I do bump the drawer that my mouse and keyboard are on sometimes! That is a very likely explanation Technoslick. I'll watch out for that! Best regardsand thanks a bunch. --Angus Happiness and success is to find and develop our special gifts found inside each of us. And true mastering is achieved when these gifts are shared with others. *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] toshiba 1410-S173, GeForce4 go MX420 and Flat panelDisplay issue
yep we did use the source rpms. both kernel and glx to be safe. Have used them many times myself on desktop systems with various nVida cards ranging from tnt2 to GeForce 4. This problem seems to be more specific to the GeForce go and/or the flat panel display on the toshiba. Thanks for your quick reply though, it's really appreciated. Todd Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 10 December 2002 10:01 pm, Todd Franklin wrote: Wondering if anyone can help us out. My buddy's sister bought a new Toshiba Satellite (1410-s173) which includes an integrated GeForce4 go MX420. Problem: after loading nvidia drivers and making the necessary changes to XF86Config-4, the display resolution in X defaults to 800x600, in other words, it only fills a small part of the display. Using the "stretch screen" option in the bios, we were able to get it to cover more of the screen but the quality sucks and it is still about an inch off center so there's a large black area on the right of the screen. Also, with "stretch screen" turned off, when you shut down X, there is no output to the display. So no command line. you can type startx or reboot and get your command to go. If we re-enable "stretch-screen" we don't have that problem. The default mandrake settings seem to run fine, but we'd really like to have the 3d chipset enabled. We've tried a few from the Nvidia readme, but nothing's helped so far. Changing resolutions in either drakconfig, or directly editing the XF86Config-4 file, seem to change nothing. It's like the nvidia driver is overriding our settings. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Todd Franklin Todd did you use the .rpm packages or the .src.rpm packages for the NVidia drivers. You may be more successful using the src packages so that it configures to your machine. I had problems getting the .rpm packages to work on my desktop so try the source files. Kernel anyway, I don't think you need to use .src on the GLX, the .rpm package seems to work for that one. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PV-BT878P+w/FM tv card how do u set it up properly inMandrake 9.0
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 11:03, Mark wrote: I have played around with it and can not seem to get any channels on it. I have tried using using xawtv (no channels found), kwintv and zapper but all fail. I have created a sym link in /dev to video0. It is all plugged in. The card is in my PCI slots and is being recognised. Any suggestions? Cheers Mark Before I decided that a TV card and my workstation DIDN'T work, I had to muck around endlessly with XAWTV to get it to work - ended up using GTV instead...that worked...but it's all a matter of driver and character device Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks I have it working now I was using the wrong card identifier in my module.conf Now all I need to do is get the FM tuner up and running. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
The two label=dos entries appear to be windows fat partitions. The stanza format is not unusual as my windows partition entry shows. The labelling is slightly irregular but a label is only a label. They are definately hde partition 2 3. mine other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda /mine Every append=XXX is different in the supplied file (i suspect none would work). Really in my opinion you only want scsi emulation in normal mode, so i have taken the liberty of editing the given lilo.conf file to something that 'should' work. By all means if someone sees errors or ommissions in this then please offer an alternative. ++ boot=/dev/hde5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount read-only other=/dev/hde2 label=win_c table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hde3 label=win_d table=/dev/hde other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe + -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] External Hard drive on Parallel port.
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:17, Dennis Myers wrote: A friend gave me one of those cases that you can put a spare hard drive in and it uses a parallel port connection. It is generic and has no FCC # on it, but the box says it works for hard drives. Anyone have any idea how to access it to format and read/write to it? It runs on a seperate power supply and shows up in hard drake as an SBLive joystick. ( I think). Is this thing useless or what? Any help is appreciated. If you don't have the parallel IDE support in the kernel (i.e. module) you're not going to be able to access it properly. Check if you've got that module (lsmod to view loaded modules) and see what's listed as parport (parallel port). If you DON'T see any modules for the parport, you might try loading 'em (insmod parport_pc, insmod parport) and trying again... -- Wed Dec 11 16:00:00 EST 2002 4:00pm up 8:22, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.27, 0.36 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn The river Ankh is probably the only river in the universe on which the investigators can chalk the outline of the corpse. (Men at Arms) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB hubs
I'm using LM 9. Has anyone had any experience using those USB hubs to add more USB ports to your system? Any experience would be helpful, also whether or not you used an external power supply or got by with the power from the USB port. Thanks, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Wednesday, December 11, 2002 I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PV-BT878P+w/FM tv card how do u set it up properly inMandrake 9.0
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 15:50, Mark wrote: Thanks I have it working now I was using the wrong card identifier in my module.conf Now all I need to do is get the FM tuner up and running. Cheers Mark I could NEVER get the FM to work properly - and being now that the card was sold to a customer who happily sits and watches tellie on his worktation, I shan't venture to try it again. Spent way too much time playing with it only to end up deciding that watching Fawlty Towers, surfing the net and compiling proggies didn't fit very well. -- Wed Dec 11 16:10:00 EST 2002 4:10pm up 8:32, 5 users, load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.21 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in. -- H.R. Haldeman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB hubs
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:12, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: I'm using LM 9. Has anyone had any experience using those USB hubs to add more USB ports to your system? Any experience would be helpful, also whether or not you used an external power supply or got by with the power from the USB port. Thanks I have two four port hubs chained - one unpowered (connected to the PC) and one powered (connected to the other hub) and didn't experience any problems whatsoever... -- Wed Dec 11 16:15:01 EST 2002 4:15pm up 8:37, 5 users, load average: 0.22, 0.24, 0.24 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn `...and the Universe,' continued the waiter, determined not to be deflected on his home stretch, `will explode later for your pleasure.' Ford's head swivelled slowly towards him. He spoke with feeling. `Wow,' he said, `What sort of drinks do you serve in this place?' The waiter laughed a polite little waiter's laugh. `Ah,' he said, `I think sir has perhaps misunderstood me.' `Oh, I hope not,' breathed Ford. - Ford in paradise. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Write command directly to modem?
OK, how does one go about writing commands to the modem to see what it's doing? I've recently lost the use of my WinModem fax modem, and can't for the life of me figure out how to see what's happening. With Windows, you can use Hyperterminal to write requests directly to the modem and see what the responses are. Anything like that in Mandrake 8.2? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba with NT domain
I've been trying to join a Windows 2000 server domain but when I do a smbpasswd -j home -r netserver -U Administrator I get: Password: Error connecting to netserver Unable to join domain The machine netserver is up and running and the win98 and winXP machines can log into the domain perfectly. My computer has an account on the server and the ping netserver works fine. Here's my smb.conf file: [global] encrypt passwords = yes security = domain workgroup = home password server = netserver I would appreciate any help. netmaniac _ MSN Messenger: converse com os seus amigos online. http://messenger.msn.com.br Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?
On 11 Dec 2002 00:05:21 -0600 Ray Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, how does one go about writing commands to the modem to see what it's doing? I've recently lost the use of my WinModem fax modem, and can't for the life of me figure out how to see what's happening. With Windows, you can use Hyperterminal to write requests directly to the modem and see what the responses are. Anything like that in Mandrake 8.2? Minicom :) HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] toshiba 1410-S173, GeForce4 go MX420 and Flat panel Display issue
Wondering if anyone can help us out. My buddy's sister bought a new Toshiba Satellite (1410-s173) which includes an integrated GeForce4 go MX420. Problem: after loading nvidia drivers and making the necessary changes to XF86Config-4, the display resolution in X defaults to 800x600, in other words, it only fills a small part of the display. Using the stretch screen option in the bios, we were able to get it to cover more of the screen but the quality sucks and it is still about an inch off center so there's a large black area on the right of the screen. Also, with stretch screen turned off, when you shut down X, there is no output to the display. So no command line. you can type startx or reboot and get your command to go. If we re-enable stretch-screen we don't have that problem. The default mandrake settings seem to run fine, but we'd really like to have the 3d chipset enabled. We've tried a few from the Nvidia readme, but nothing's helped so far. Changing resolutions in either drakconfig, or directly editing the XF86Config-4 file, seem to change nothing. It's like the nvidia driver is overriding our settings. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Todd Franklin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
