Re: [newbie] nForce2

[Graham]

Nvidia have just released new drivers for linux and the nforce chipset 
including Mdk9 / RH8 etc


Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote:

On Qua 11 Dez 2002 15:15, T C wrote:

I'm using Asus A7N266-vm with gforce2 Integrated!

On mdk9 it's just great!

rgs

Ricardo

 

Is anyone here using the Asus A7N8X motherboard, or any motherboard
with the nForce2 chipset? I am interested in this MB, but want to make
sure Linux will work with it without a lot of hassles.
Thanks.

TC

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Re: [newbie] How to make 8.2 run faster

[Robin Ballantine]

On Thursday 12 December 2002 2:35 am, David Sexton wrote:
> I  am running Mandrake 8.2 on my Dell Laptop with 850 PII 128mb of ram.
> I was wondering if any one had any sugestions on how to speed it up. I
> am in the process of getting 256 MB more of ram. Duse any one have any
> ideas. I don't want to upgrade to 9.0 yet as I have a lot of tweaks
> running on it right now.
>
>
> David

Just about the first thing everyone should do is recompile the kernel to suit 
the hardware its running on. I'm sure you will notice an immediate speed 
increase if you do this.

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Re: [newbie] OT Too funny

[David Mascot]

>Damn...and I know where these people live...used to live rather close
>to that (within 5 miles).

I was surprised to find out that I live 2 blocks from that nut.  I was
wondering who brought the Fiber into the area.

DSL wasn't available until six months ago around here.

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RE: [newbie] Modem Installation

[Franki]

Lol, 

Alot of married men have told me I should get married recently...

Is that because misery loves company???  :-)


rgds

Franki

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On Wednesday 11 December 2002 16:11, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote:

> i dont believe winmodems are supported by linux

Actually, a surprising number can work in Linux, although my personal 
preference is to just get an external hardware modem so I always know 
it will work.

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Re: [newbie] "Broken" rpm?

[Ray Henry]

OK, modem is now working again. Thanks for everyone that made
suggestions.

What finally worked was forcing the rpm, removing it, and installing it
again. Then, only root had access. Went into the fax.conf file, altered
the device=modem to dev=ttySHCF0, and altered the line for the lock file
to a directory that users could access. Now it works like a charm...  :)

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Re: [newbie] nForce2

[Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas]

On Qua 11 Dez 2002 15:15, T C wrote:

I'm using Asus A7N266-vm with gforce2 Integrated!

On mdk9 it's just great!

rgs
 
Ricardo

> Is anyone here using the Asus A7N8X motherboard, or any motherboard
> with the nForce2 chipset? I am interested in this MB, but want to make
> sure Linux will work with it without a lot of hassles.
> Thanks.
>
> TC
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Re: [newbie] Help getting Sony Clie Working

[yankl]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 09:25 pm, David Mascot wrote:
> I have the NR 79 Sony Clie with a USB Cradle.  I have tried both the
> Gnome Pilot and the KPilot programs that came with Mandrake.  Neither
> program seems to see the Clie when I try to configure it.
>

actualy a jpilot works fine.

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Re: [newbie] clipboard question

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:41, b w wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I've installed Mandrake Linux 8.2 onto a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop a couple 
> of months ago, and am finally getting a chance to play on it.
> 
> One thing I've noticed:  I can't cut and paste between applications.  If I 
> cut (or copy) text, say, from Mozilla or KMail, I'll get feedback that I've 
> copied it... but when I try to paste into, say, GEdit or KWord, nothing is 
> inserted (paste is disabled/greyed out).
> 
> What gives?  Is there some configuration tweak I need to do?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Bill
> 
> BTW, I am SO thankful for Linux... my Windows partition took a major 
> dump last night, but I haven't seemed to miss it too much...

Windows TOOK a dump, or Windows IS a DUMP? Hmmm...

Meanwhile, you should have a little clipboard icon sitting in your
system tray - you should be able to use THAT for copy/pasting -
otherwise, if your normal CTRL-C / CTRL-V doesn't work, something might
be amiss...

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Re: [newbie] clipboard question

[b w]

Paul.

THAT WAS AWESOME!

Thanks,

bw







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Subject: Re: [newbie] clipboard question
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 06:58:56 +0100

In reply to b's mail, d.d. Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:41:24 -0800:

Try this: select the text you want to copy, then press the middle mouse
button (or both mouse buttons at once) in the application where it has to
go. THat is the trick to copy info usually.

Paul

>One thing I've noticed:  I can't cut and paste between applications.  If 
I
>cut (or copy) text, say, from Mozilla or KMail, I'll get feedback that 
I've
>copied it... but when I try to paste into, say, GEdit or KWord, nothing 
is
>inserted (paste is disabled/greyed out).

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Re: [newbie] Log all tcp and udp attempts

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:22, Rohit wrote:
> Hi, 
> I have a very old laptop up and running with linux on it. I'm using this
> as my test maching. I was wondering (without having to setup any sort of
> firewall), how do i log all tcp and udp connect attempts to my computer.
> Thanks
> Rohit
> 

Best bet would be to get an ethernet sniffer to trap all those
calls/attempts...

Else, you can check your /var/log/secure logfile...but a sniffer is
better...

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Re: [newbie] about to give up (I did from linuxconf!)

[Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas]

On Seg 09 Dez 2002 21:04, gklofa wrote:

uh I quite have the same problem and the solution is:

First and most important: get rid of linuxconf, if you've never used, please, 
don't

Second: Affter the first solution, it's been quite easy to keep my connection 
on mdk9.0 adsl.

But, do you use rp-pppoe?

My ex-linuxconf used to keep every dynamic IP it got, so after a while or a 
reboot, it would be impossible to get connected!!!

Looking into linuxconf, there were 6 nic cards!?!? And I got only TWO!
Guess what happened if I just disable a single one?
No connection again!
So, my last and best shot so far was doing a complete, comprehensive rpm -e 
linuxconf

Everytime I had to issue the command: ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
then adsl-start and have all the joy!

Everything is just fine since then...

[]s Ricardo

> Well here we are guys,  this is an email coming from my mandrake
> system!  But I have been in this pos before, but when re-boot, loose it
> all and no connection again!  I am not going to re-boot at this point in
> time.  To get it connected this time, it did not automatically connect
> on boot, I had to use the wizard again, and then select connect.
> John,
> tripple boot system yes.  Booting through a program called system
> commander.  Only one nic, only need the one to connect the
> router/modem.
>
> Here is the ifcfg-eth0 file:-
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=static
> IPADDR=10.0.0.1
> NETMASK=255.0.0.0
> NETWORK=10.0.0.0
> BROADCAST=10.255.255.255
> ONBOOT=yes
>
>
> and here is the network file
> NETWORKING=yes
> FORWARD_IPV4=false
> HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
> DOMAINNAME=localdomain
> GATEWAY=10.0.0.138
>
> to me, everything looks good.
>
> What do you reckon, re-boot and see what happens?  Maybe not be able to
> get back on again!  I like living life on the edge though,
> so I think I will later today, when I have done a bit more
> investigating, and some advice from the list.
>
> Also, what is the latest kernel for mandrake?  I am running the one that
> came with the distro, 2.4.19-16mdk.  If there is a later mdk kernel, I
> wouldn't mind loading it in, just incase this is a bug in the current
> one.  I went into the mandrake control centre, and used the update
> software, but it doesn't appear to update kernels, none were listed.
> This is unless this one is the most current??  The update seems to be a
> bit buggy as well, it kept on dropping out on the downloads, even though
> the connection was up and working well.  I checked by doing a bit of
> browsing.  Maybe the mirror was a little overloaded at the time, will
> try later.  Just want to make sure I have all updates installed before
> re-booting.
>
> regards Greg


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Re: [newbie] clipboard question

[Paul]

In reply to b's mail, d.d. Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:41:24 -0800:

Try this: select the text you want to copy, then press the middle mouse
button (or both mouse buttons at once) in the application where it has to
go. THat is the trick to copy info usually.

Paul

>One thing I've noticed:  I can't cut and paste between applications.  If I 
>cut (or copy) text, say, from Mozilla or KMail, I'll get feedback that I've
>copied it... but when I try to paste into, say, GEdit or KWord, nothing is 
>inserted (paste is disabled/greyed out).

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Re: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)

[Miark]

Gil,

1) Open /etc/lilo.conf in your editor of choice.
2) Find the line that reads append="blah blah"
3) Insert into that line hdc=ide-scsi so that it looks something like
   append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
4) Save and quit.
5) As root, type
   lilo 
   and Bob's yer uncle.

Miark



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> How do I do that
> I run lilo with switches ?
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:19 PM
> To: Newbie
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)
> 
> Enable SCSI emulation on the CD-R drive in lilo.
> This will make /dev/hdc /dev/scd1 and ERoaster
> will see it.
> 
> Miark
> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:57:20 +0200
> "Gil Katz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I have CDR and CDRW
> > The system recognize the CDRW in /dev/scd0
> > And the CDR in dev/hdc
> > When I press on detect writer the Eroaster detects the CDRW but when I
> press
> > the detect reader it detects again the CDRW.
> > What to do
> > Thanks gil
> >
> >
> >
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[newbie] Log all tcp and udp attempts

[Rohit]

Hi, 
I have a very old laptop up and running with linux on it. I'm using this
as my test maching. I was wondering (without having to setup any sort of
firewall), how do i log all tcp and udp connect attempts to my computer.
Thanks
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[newbie] clipboard question

[b w]

Hi, all.

I've installed Mandrake Linux 8.2 onto a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop a couple 
of months ago, and am finally getting a chance to play on it.

One thing I've noticed:  I can't cut and paste between applications.  If I 
cut (or copy) text, say, from Mozilla or KMail, I'll get feedback that I've 
copied it... but when I try to paste into, say, GEdit or KWord, nothing is 
inserted (paste is disabled/greyed out).

What gives?  Is there some configuration tweak I need to do?

Thanks in advance,

Bill

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Re: [newbie] Quick Question

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:30, Chris Benedict wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a way to make it so that I got all the emails 
> as a daily package instead of having 149 different emails everyday.
> 

Yes.

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Re: [newbie] How to make 8.2 run faster

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:35, David Sexton wrote:
> I  am running Mandrake 8.2 on my Dell Laptop with 850 PII 128mb of ram.
> I was wondering if any one had any sugestions on how to speed it up. I
> am in the process of getting 256 MB more of ram. Duse any one have any
> ideas. I don't want to upgrade to 9.0 yet as I have a lot of tweaks
> running on it right now.
> 
> 
> David

You can first do something about the HD access timings.
If you have hdparm installed, you can use it to "tweak" the speed at
which I/O is handled by the disk and the controller. A great generic one
is:

hdparm -d1 -p2 -X66 /dev/hda

If you don't have it installed, it's probably on either CD1 or CD2 of
your MDK installation set. You might be surprised at how much that
increases your overall system speed.

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Re: [newbie] just a comment

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 08:58, Dennis Myers wrote:

> That may be part of it, but I believe that the people who venture in to linux 
> have open minds and a belief that the world is bad enough as it is so maybe 
> we can make it better with the OSS. Turn no one away, help all that we can.  
> This is a network of givers not greeders.  Bad english, bad english. Hehe.
> You get my meaning?  :  )

It's the same mentality that we had throughout the 80's and early 90's -
but that changed with the tide of Win95 and WinNT and public internet.
THEN all of a sudden, people became closed mouthed and close minded -
almost like CNE's (Novell ticket holders)...now that's all changing once
again - and the only way for everyone to benefit is to benefit everyone
else.

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[newbie] Quick Question

[Chris Benedict]

I was wondering if there was a way to make it so that I got all the emails 
as a daily package instead of having 149 different emails everyday.





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Re: [newbie] RESOLVED toshiba 1410-S173, GeForce4 go MX420 and Flat panel Display issue

[Dennis Myers]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 09:19 pm, Todd Franklin wrote:
> > This turned out to be the  answer.  For some reason the flat panel
> > display in the laptop was reporting 800x600, which overides the
> > specified 1024x768 in the XF86Config-4.  This option fixed the problem.
> >  Full screen and beautiful.
> >
> > Todd Franklin
> >
> >
> >Option "IgnoreEDID" "boolean"
> > Disable probing of EDID (Extended Display Identification
> > Data) from your monitor.  Requested modes are compared
> > against values gotten from your monitor EDIDs (if any)
> > during mode validation.  Some monitors are known to lie
> > about their own capabilities.  Ignoring the values that
> > the monitor gives may help get a certain mode validated.
> > On the other hand, this may be dangerous if you don't
> > know what you are doing.  Default: Use EDIDs.
> >
> > Todd Franklin wrote:
> > > 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>---
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> > >>
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> Great! Glad to see you got it. Now I won't worry about getting a Toshiba
> for my first laptop. Thanks for coming back to the list with the solution.
Bummer, I didn't reset the clock after booting and haven't got it to lock down 
on the right time so the last message I sent probably looks like I sent it 6 
hours ago. My bad. Anyone know how to reset clock to permenant status, I 
think I selected the GMT sync with this install, and maybe shouldn't have?  
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Re: [newbie] 9.0 won't work here - need help.

[Dennis Myers]

On Thursday 12 December 2002 12:59 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 18:44, Joe Braddock wrote:
> > When you say that it requires a hard power off/on, how long have you let
> > it wait?  Couple things to check,  You have a network card, right?  Is it
> > connected to a hub?  If the card was configured to use DHCP to get an
> > address and it's not connected (or there isn't a DHCP server on the
> > network), you are going to hang until it times-out and then it will
> > continue booting.  Just a thought.
> >
> > As for no 3D, the 8.2 Nvidia drivers don't work with 9.0 and I don't
> > believe new ones were available at the time the distro shipped (they're
> > closed source, so someone couldn't just compile them).  The good news is,
> > that they are now available!
> >
> > Joeb
>
> Hi Joeb - thanks for the reply.
>
> Yes, I have a Linksys network card - on a 3 comp LAN with a hub. I've
> always set it up like this:
>
> 192.168.0.1   darkforce.com
> 192.168.0.2   darkforce2.com
> 192.168.0.3   darkforce3.com
>
> I use NFS between them, Samba (temporarily) thru the MCC when my sons comps
> are in Windows. (I don't use Windows )
>
> My comp is the server for NFS - and the gateway for the other 2. I have an
> external modem for my 'Net connection.
>
> AFAICT, I setup the network stuff during configuration exactly like I've
> set it up for the last 2 releases (which worked fine after a little
> "tweaking") I've never, since v7.0 of Mandrake, had an install to fail -
> small issues that were resolved? Sure - but never fail.
>
> I have to admit - its unsettling... :-(
>
> I remember reading on the list that some other SCSI users had problems, so
> I searched the mailing lists but found nothing useful. 

Ron, have you tried booting with the "noapic" append? Not sure but may get you 
going. 
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Re: [newbie] just a comment

[Ray Henry]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 15:58, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 09:38 pm, Ray Henry wrote:
> > > I think it's grate that every on can help other Linux user. Unlike
> > > Windows users Linux users stick to grate
> >
> > I have a theory on that...  :)
> >
> > My great theory is that there are so many levels in which one can get
> > involved in Linux that those using it are willing to spend time with the
> > newbies because one day, they may venture into a realm that is out of
> > their depth, and need help themselves  :)
> >
> > OK, flame away!  
> 
> That may be part of it, but I believe that the people who venture in to linux 
> have open minds and a belief that the world is bad enough as it is so maybe 
> we can make it better with the OSS. Turn no one away, help all that we can.  
> This is a network of givers not greeders.  Bad english, bad english. Hehe.
> You get my meaning?  :  )

Or it *could* be a vigilant fringe of oddballs with a chip on their
shoulders, willing to expend any amount of energy just to prevent Bill
Gates from getting another dollar!  LOL!

Ah, whatever it is, I'm sure everyone has their own reasons, and it's
all good...  :) Bad English or not..  ;>




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Re: [newbie] screen oddity?

[Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas]

On Seg 09 Dez 2002 13:18, Martin L. Johansen wrote:

Yep!

It also happens with me!
So far only with mdk8.2 machine! The other one with mdk9.0 hasn't showed that 
up!

According to a list member, who advised me on that (Tod? maybe?) It's because 
I am always flipping from graphical mode to text to ctrl+alt+f1 and back with 
f7!

That happens only after some ""flipping"". I got used to it! ;-)

rgs,

Ricardo

> On Sunday 08 December 2002 17:08, Jerry wrote:
> > > Look in Mandrake Control Center --> Powercontrol --> Energy
> >
> > Thanks for the reply, but I've looked in Mandrake Control Center for
> > Powercontrol and Energy on both machines, niether machine has those
> > options on it.
>
> Just what I thought. Hmm, I wouldn't know then. I always turn off my
> monitors when I don't use'em, so I cannot say if it's the same by me.
>
> The reason I thought it would be so, is that mine's disabled too by
> default, so I guessed yours was too, but wanted you to check the
> option.
>
> Anyone else?

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Re: [newbie] Modem Installation

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 06:43 pm, Bryan Tyson wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 16:11, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote:
> > i dont believe winmodems are supported by linux
>
> Actually, a surprising number can work in Linux, although my personal
> preference is to just get an external hardware modem so I always know
> it will work.
>
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Yep -- the original plug and play. The only hard part is trying to remember 
which connector corresponds to which port while lying on my back under the 
desk. (And, for dual-booters, there's the additional chore of convincing 
Windows that I DON'T NEED ANY DAMN DRIVER!)
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Re: [newbie] 9.0 won't work here - need help.

[Joe Braddock]

When you say that it requires a hard power off/on, how long have you let it wait?  
Couple things to check,  You have a network card, right?  Is it connected to a hub?  
If the card was configured to use DHCP to get an address and it's not connected (or 
there isn't a DHCP server on the network), you are going to hang until it times-out 
and then it will continue booting.  Just a thought.

As for no 3D, the 8.2 Nvidia drivers don't work with 9.0 and I don't believe new ones 
were available at the time the distro shipped (they're closed source, so someone 
couldn't just compile them).  The good news is, that they are now available!

Joeb

---Original Message---
From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 12/12/02 12:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] 9.0 won't work here - need help.

> System - Shuttle motherboard - Athlon 900mhz CPU, 384 megs ram, 60 gig IBM 
Deskstar HD, Nvidia Geforce2 with 64 megs ram, SB Xgamer Live sound card, 
Adaptec 2930 SCSI card with SCSI Toshiba DVD/Plextor CDRW/Umax Astra 1200 
Scanner, IDE Zip, WinTV tuner card, Linksys network card, external Creative 
modem blaster modem.

9.0 installs beautiflly, finds (almost) everything (it did not setup 3D 
acceleration on my Nvidia card - v8.1, and v8.2 did) configures, offers 
congratulations at the end before rebooting: 

Using a normal boot - gets to "setting hostname darkforce.com" stops. Requires 
a hard power on/off.

Using the non-frame buffer boot: gets to "finding module dependencies" stops. 
Requires a hard power off/on.

Version 8.2 of Mandrake was faultless on this setup. A friend of mine had been 
asking me to try Libranet 2.7 so since my system was "bottoms up" anyways, I 
tried it. Installed fautlessly. (well, I had to hand-edit the config files to 
get the modem to hook up with my provider). No other problems - in fact I'm 
using it to send this "S.O.S.". :-)

Anyone have any ideas as to what I can do? I'm using the 3 - CD download 
version purchased from LinuxCentral. I don't think there is anything wrong 
with it because I used it to install 9.0 on my 9 year olds (very basic) 
computer with no problems.

I'll give this a couple of days - then if I can't get a resolution, I'll 
reinstall v8.2, which does work here... :-(

Thanks everyone.

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[newbie] 9.0 won't work here - need help.

[Ronald J. Hall]

System - Shuttle motherboard - Athlon 900mhz CPU, 384 megs ram, 60 gig IBM 
Deskstar HD, Nvidia Geforce2 with 64 megs ram, SB Xgamer Live sound card, 
Adaptec 2930 SCSI card with SCSI Toshiba DVD/Plextor CDRW/Umax Astra 1200 
Scanner, IDE Zip, WinTV tuner card, Linksys network card, external Creative 
modem blaster modem.

9.0 installs beautiflly, finds (almost) everything (it did not setup 3D 
acceleration on my Nvidia card - v8.1, and v8.2 did) configures, offers 
congratulations at the end before rebooting: 

Using a normal boot - gets to "setting hostname darkforce.com" stops. Requires 
a hard power on/off.

Using the non-frame buffer boot: gets to "finding module dependencies" stops. 
Requires a hard power off/on.

Version 8.2 of Mandrake was faultless on this setup. A friend of mine had been 
asking me to try Libranet 2.7 so since my system was "bottoms up" anyways, I 
tried it. Installed fautlessly. (well, I had to hand-edit the config files to 
get the modem to hook up with my provider). No other problems - in fact I'm 
using it to send this "S.O.S.". :-)

Anyone have any ideas as to what I can do? I'm using the 3 - CD download 
version purchased from LinuxCentral. I don't think there is anything wrong 
with it because I used it to install 9.0 on my 9 year olds (very basic) 
computer with no problems.

I'll give this a couple of days - then if I can't get a resolution, I'll 
reinstall v8.2, which does work here... :-(

Thanks everyone.

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Re: [newbie] "Broken" rpm?

[Huub van den Heuvel]

To force a reinstall try:

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs the_broken_rpm.rpm

which forces rpm to replace the packages if they exist and if not it
installs them.

If this refuses step it up a notch:

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles the_broken_rpm.rpm

You could eventually use the option --force but this also skips the
dependency check so be careful.

So this is actually not an answer to your question but I'd try it
anyway..

Huub



On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 10:02, Ray Henry wrote:
> OK, since updating my libraries, my modem has stopped functioning. I can
> use minicom to send commant to the modem, and everything responds well
> until I go to dial out. Then I get a no dilatone error. This is
> incorrect.
> 
> The modem is a conextant winmodem, and I got it going using the rpm
> mbsi.ca. Now, when I try to rpm -e the rpm, it says it's not installed.
> when I try to rpm -i, it says it's installed. when I urpmi it, it says
> everything is installed.
> 
> I'd like to remove this, and re-install it. How does one go about
> removing an rpm MDK doesn't think is installed?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[newbie] Unsupported Camera Update

[Dennis & Sue]

Ok, I looked around a bit, screwed around some, And added these lines to fstab 
and mtab.
Adding these lines caused the camera to appear in /mnt as camera directory. 
And on the desktop as  dynamic_mnt camera link. Which was cool.
In Root, clicking the desktop link produced this error message :
File system not supported by the kernel.
In user the error message is :
mount according to mtab
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0  is already mounted on /mnt/camera mount 
failed.
Any ideas what I might do from here ?
Remove the reference in mtab, as it's apparantly being addressed in 
/mnt/camera ?
/dev/hda9 / ext2 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda10 /home ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat rw,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat rw,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat rw,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f vfat rw,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0 /mnt/camera
/dev/hda11 /store1 ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hda12 /store2 ext2 rw 0 0
automount(pid1032) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1032,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0
automount(pid1053) /net autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1053,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0

/dev/hda9 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda10 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,ro,umask=0 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/scd0 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,ro,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f vfat umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0 mnt/camera
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda11 /store1 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda12 /store2 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0

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Re: [newbie] Modem Installation

[Bryan Tyson]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 16:11, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote:

> i dont believe winmodems are supported by linux

Actually, a surprising number can work in Linux, although my personal 
preference is to just get an external hardware modem so I always know 
it will work.

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Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 10:14, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote:
> i get payed not to use windows

Well, same here, but at least I do things in linux out of LOVE for the
OS...as opposed to Windows...

...who joyfully does what they hate to do? (Married men need not answer)

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Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs

[Vasiliy Boulytchev]

i get payed not to use windows

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 03:51 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:16, Mr. VLE79E wrote:
> > No No, I am not using IIS. I am using Win Apache. Anyway, one guys
> > mentioned the ln command. How to use it and where can I find the htdocs?
>
> If you're using Windows' Apache, cain't help ya mate.
> Don't do Windows unless I absolutely have to (or else if I'm getting
> paid to do Windows)

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[newbie] "Broken" rpm?

[Ray Henry]

OK, since updating my libraries, my modem has stopped functioning. I can
use minicom to send commant to the modem, and everything responds well
until I go to dial out. Then I get a no dilatone error. This is
incorrect.

The modem is a conextant winmodem, and I got it going using the rpm
mbsi.ca. Now, when I try to rpm -e the rpm, it says it's not installed.
when I try to rpm -i, it says it's installed. when I urpmi it, it says
everything is installed.

I'd like to remove this, and re-install it. How does one go about
removing an rpm MDK doesn't think is installed?









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Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:16, Mr. VLE79E wrote:
> No No, I am not using IIS. I am using Win Apache. Anyway, one guys mentioned 
> the ln command. How to use it and where can I find the htdocs?
> 

If you're using Windows' Apache, cain't help ya mate.
Don't do Windows unless I absolutely have to (or else if I'm getting
paid to do Windows)

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Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 08:54, Charlie wrote:

> Can you tell I'm looking forward to Friday and the release of Star Trek 
> Nemesis? 
> 
> Regards;
> -- 
> Charlie

Are you going to watch it because
A.) You know that Nemesis was created on a render-farm of linux boxes?
B.) You know that most of the image design was done on linux boxes?
C.) You're hoping to see Kirk die again?
D.) You're a Trekkie?
E.) You want to hear Piccard say " No. 1, you have the bridge" yet
again?

(BTW, I'm a Trekkie and just bloody can't wait!)

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Re: [newbie] External Hard drive on Parallel port.

[Dennis Myers]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 05:58 am, John McQuillen wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > 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...
>
> The parallel port IDE device module is paride
>
> Read the documentation /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt for
> detailed usage. Especially note that you should set your BIOS to use EPP
> mode rather than ECP mode for your parallel port.
>
> Regards,
>
> John...
Thanks, found the documentation and am doing the homework. Sometimes with this 
stuff it is just knowing what man to call for or what search term to use. A 
lot of "that is not intuitive" involved. Thanks for the Help guys, I will let 
you know how it goes. 
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Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs

[Mr. VLE79E]

No No, I am not using IIS. I am using Win Apache. Anyway, one guys mentioned 
the ln command. How to use it and where can I find the htdocs?


From: Vasiliy Boulytchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:16:00 -0700

I was thinking an AFS cluster, but yeah, its is the worst way to test
windows/linux website interoperability.  And I tell you, linux will run 
more
than an IIS server, I will stand behind my words.  And if you bring ASP, I
will have to slap you around.  hehe


On Wednesday 11 December 2002 01:57 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 04:12, Fish Fash wrote:
> > How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can 
work
> > on one directory.
> >
> > c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs
>
> You're not going to be able to see the Apache docs via Windowsunless
> you copy the docs dir to the Windows partition under the specified
> directory...but if you're doing it from linux, that's different as you
> can use "ln" to "link" directories.

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Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera

[Peter Watson]

On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 14:11, Todd Slater wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:01:06AM -0500, Dennis & Sue wrote:
> > I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ).
> > Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about
> > it as well.
> > Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot make it work.
> > It seems to me that I should be able to mount it as a filesystem ? of
> > some kind / type, virtua,l removeable, or scsi, and access it as such.
> > Does anyone know of a way, or a site that might offer this possibility
> > ? My cd burner is set up as sco ( I don't know if this matters ).
>
> I could never get my Fuji Finepix 4700 to work with Gphoto, but my 8.1
> and up systems always knew the camera was there.
>
> When I set it up in 8.1, I connected the camera and turned it on as if I
> were going to transfer files. I then ran MCC and in the
> hardware/mount points section, it recognized the camera there as well. I
> just clicked it and gave it a mount point. After that, I could mount it
> without any problem. I don't know if that will work in 9.0. The
> important thing would be to see which device it is, probably /dev/sdb1.
>
> The line in my fstab is:
> /dev/sdb1 /mnt/fuji vfat user 0 0
>
> I type mount /mnt/fuji, and I can copy all the files from there.
>
> I would say your chances are good since the system knows it's there. But
> then again, I wouldn't be surprised if I were totally wrong!
>
> Todd

My Fuji FinePix 2600 is not supported by Gphoto but it works fine under 
LM9.0 as a mass storage device. it comes up automagically as /dev/sda1.
You need module usb-storage loaded, I added it to /etc/modules, and a mount 
point created, mine is /mnt/camera. also a line similar to above in 
/etc/fstab then just plug in, type mount /dev/sda1 
and there it is.

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Re: [newbie] particition magic etc.

[Ray Henry]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 10:43, Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote:
> Hi, one more time the computer has crashed. I am beginning to think that the drive 
>has been damaged, from before when I had a virus etc. My husband has an older 
>computer, Pentium 2 that he has said I can set up Linux on. He would like to try to 
>reformat my drive and take the time to figure out where we went wrong. In other words 
>start from scratch.
> As I have no operating system ie: I can get to login: in something similar to dos 
>but it does not boot, is there any way to 1. login and get my files
> 2. Reformat the drive using particion magic (we have the program)

If you've got another HD you can install Linux on, set it up, and the
one you're trying to get files from as either a slave or stick it on the
secondary IDE channel. then you should be able to access the drive. I;m
assuming of course, that you don't make a bott floppy after installing
MDK.

I cringe at using Partiticion Magic, as it's really DOS based. I have
used it, but finds it likes to set Linux partitions as DOS. I don't
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Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera

[John Richard Smith]

Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote:





>
Well I tend to agree, I think a reader is the best route because you
will inevitably
want to use all sorts of peoples cameras , and well a readers means 
you can.
The only thing is that there is quite a lot more to readers than meets
the eye.
At first I went out looking for a smartcard readers. I soon found that
in fact
there are quite a few readers that can read all sorts of removable media
types
in the one device. I been looking for the right one, might as well get
one that
handeles just about eveything, then I'm equiped for the future so to speak
Funny thing is they are not much more expensive.

John

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John, use caution, I have been seeing discussions about multireaders 
having trouble in linux. We need some input from the list here, anyone 
have a smartcard/flashcard reader working? Successful ones I have seen 
are one or the other not a combo.  I/O from the group would be good 
here. Dennis M.


Yes, we want some well made , not earthly expensive, muliread usb reader
testing out properly, and reported so that we can all focus on the right
equipement.
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Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.

[Charlie]

On December 11, 2002 12:53 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:50:06 -0700
>
> Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Seems the "Spam King" has been "/.ed".
> >
> > http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm
> >
> > Delicious irony, don't ya think?
>
> Yeah, it was funny... about a week ago (6/12) when it got /.ed... LOL.
> Maybe it's time to clear your cache :D
>
> Greetings
> Ralph

You're probably right Ralph. It may also be time to leave the ring off on the 
telephone 'til after the holidays so I'll have time to read some news rather 
than spend time talking to *spatial anomaly* friends that break things then 
want my help fixing them. :-)

As if I knew anything about anything anyway. 

*Also known as space/time distortions. Or maybe quantum singularities. Black 
holes?*

Can you tell I'm looking forward to Friday and the release of Star Trek 
Nemesis? 

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Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.

[Ralph Slooten]

On 11 Dec 2002 14:32:41 -0600
Jason Guidry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:53, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> > Yeah, it was funny... about a week ago (6/12) when it got /.ed... 
> 
> be nice...not all of us refresh slashdot every <2 minutes.  besides, I
> signed you up for a few "enter to win things, too.
> 
> |:-0

Nice one :-)


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[newbie] A big thank you

[George Baker]

I have been on this list for a few months and have saved all messages I
thought were important. Today I installed a new hard drive and moved MDK
over to it and resized the partitions without one problem. All due to the
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Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera

[John Richard Smith]

Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote:


Did you load the usb-storage module?



El Mié 11 Dic 2002 16:37, John Richard Smith escribió:
 

Todd Slater wrote:
   

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:01:06AM -0500, Dennis & Sue wrote:
 

I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ).
Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about it
as well.
Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot make it work.
It seems to me that I should be able to mount it as a filesystem ? of
some kind / type, virtua,l removeable, or scsi, and access it as such.
Does anyone know of a way, or a site that might offer this possibility ?
My cd burner is set up as sco ( I don't know if this matters ).
   

I could never get my Fuji Finepix 4700 to work with Gphoto, but my 8.1
and up systems always knew the camera was there.

When I set it up in 8.1, I connected the camera and turned it on as if I
were going to transfer files. I then ran MCC and in the
hardware/mount points section, it recognized the camera there as well. I
just clicked it and gave it a mount point. After that, I could mount it
without any problem. I don't know if that will work in 9.0. The
important thing would be to see which device it is, probably /dev/sdb1.

The line in my fstab is:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/fuji vfat user 0 0

I type mount /mnt/fuji, and I can copy all the files from there.

I would say your chances are good since the system knows it's there. But
then again, I wouldn't be surprised if I were totally wrong!

Todd
 

Well this is what my camera throws up in MCC,
Bus: SCSI
Location on the bus: 0:0
Channel: 00
New devfs device: scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
Old device file: /dev/sda
host: 1
info:  1.3M DigitalCAM
lun: 00
Media class: hd
raw_type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
usb_bus: USB
usb_description: ViewQuest Technologies Inc.|1.3M DigitalCA
usb_driver: unknown
usb_id: 4880
usb_media_type: Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip)
usb_pci_bus: 2
usb_pci_device: 2
usb_vendor: 1843
vendor_name: ViewQuest Technologies Inc.

To I run configure, and ,

I can't read the partition table of device sda, it's too corrupted for me
:( I can try to go on, erasing over bad partitions (ALL DATA will be
lost!). The other solution is to not allow DrakX to modify the partition
table. (the error is unknown partition table format on disk /dev/sda.
)

Do you agree to loose all the partitions?

I say no, and that's it


So the system finds the device ok , but that's as far as it goes.

John
   


 

Yep,

John

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Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera

[John Richard Smith]

Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote:





>>
>>So the system finds the device ok , but that's as far as it goes.
>>
>>John
>>   
>>
>
>Hmm, what is it, then? Some weird proprietary file system?
>
> 
>
I wish I could tell you , I plucked up courage just now and decided to try
formatting the card in the camera in fat32, but when it came to actually
do the job it baulked, said it could not read the partition table.

so I thought why not give it a go from the command line ?
[root@localhost root]# mkfs /dev/sda
mke2fs 1.27ea (14-Mar-2002)
/dev/sda is entire device, not just one partition!
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
4096 inodes, 16384 blocks
819 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
2 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
2048 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193

Warning: could not read block 0: Attempt to read block from filesystem
resulted in
short read
Writing inode tables: done
ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
read while
creating root dir

So my guess is , especially as it's only a month or so old is that it
uses some file system mandrake cannot understand, but then if that's
the case then how come windblows can read the card.

Intersting don't you think. Is there a new denser file system on the 
block ?
Has someone got more into less , perhaps the file system is somehow
different . I don't know, but it's a shame, the cameras all right really.

John

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From the Hp data sheet:
Images saved as JPEGs to CompactFlash (Type I) memory cards

This is the same thing that My Kodak uses and I have been able to 
access via usb with a PNY CompactFlash card reader. You can do a mount 
/dev/sda1 and then find the card with files mounted under 
/mnt/memory_card, works great. I have gphoto2 working but the battery 
toll is high so I use the card reader instead and save batteries. HTH

Dennis M.

Well I tend to agree, I think a reader is the best route because you 
will inevitably
want to use all sorts of peoples cameras , and well a readers means you can.
The only thing is that there is quite a lot more to readers than meets 
the eye.
At first I went out looking for a smartcard readers. I soon found that 
in fact
there are quite a few readers that can read all sorts of removable media 
types
in the one device. I been looking for the right one, might as well get 
one that
handeles just about eveything, then I'm equiped for the future so to speak
Funny thing is they are not much more expensive.

John

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Re: [newbie] Modem Installation

[Vasiliy Boulytchev]

although, i have tried installing one on slack 3.blah back in the old days 
when I understood nothing.  I cant speak about todays modem drivers, since I 
havent set one up in ages.


On Wednesday 11 December 2002 02:11 pm, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote:
> i dont believe winmodems are supported by linux, since windows takes care
> of modulation/demodulation part, not the chip on the modem.
>
> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:30 am, Mr. VLE79E wrote:
> > Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I
> > install it?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _
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Re: [newbie] External Hard drive on Parallel port.

[John McQuillen]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> 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...

The parallel port IDE device module is paride

Read the documentation /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt for
detailed usage. Especially note that you should set your BIOS to use EPP
mode rather than ECP mode for your parallel port.

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Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs

[Vasiliy Boulytchev]

I was thinking an AFS cluster, but yeah, its is the worst way to test 
windows/linux website interoperability.  And I tell you, linux will run more 
than an IIS server, I will stand behind my words.  And if you bring ASP, I 
will have to slap you around.  hehe


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> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 04:12, Fish Fash wrote:
> > How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can work
> > on one directory.
> >
> > c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs
>
> You're not going to be able to see the Apache docs via Windowsunless
> you copy the docs dir to the Windows partition under the specified
> directory...but if you're doing it from linux, that's different as you
> can use "ln" to "link" directories.

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Re: [newbie] Modem Installation

[Vasiliy Boulytchev]

i dont believe winmodems are supported by linux, since windows takes care of 
modulation/demodulation part, not the chip on the modem.


On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:30 am, Mr. VLE79E wrote:
> Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I
> install it?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 06:50, Charlie wrote:
> Seems the "Spam King" has been "/.ed".
> 
> http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm
> 
> Delicious irony, don't ya think?
> 
> Regards;
> -- 
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> Edmonton,AB,Canada
> Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org
> Slow day.  Practice crawling.
> 

Damn...and I know where these people live...used to live rather close to
that (within 5 miles).

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Re: [newbie] Modem Installation

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 05:30, Mr. VLE79E wrote:
> Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I 
> install it?

You can get HCF/HST modem drivers source code and compile the drivers as
per your system. On Sourceforge.net, there is a set of three drivers
"precompiled" that just came out within the past three days - but
overall, surf to:

www.linmodems.org

...that will show ya...

I think most of the people that are using linux now are using winmodems
- so you're not alone in the crowd...

I have an HCF and it works like a charm - better even than under
XP/Win98/ME/Win2k...

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Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 04:12, Fish Fash wrote:
> How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can work on 
> one directory.
> 
> c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs
> 

You're not going to be able to see the Apache docs via Windowsunless
you copy the docs dir to the Windows partition under the specified
directory...but if you're doing it from linux, that's different as you
can use "ln" to "link" directories.

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Re: [newbie] particition magic etc.

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 03:43, Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote:
> Hi, one more time the computer has crashed. I am beginning to think
> that the drive has been damaged, from before when I had a virus etc.
> My husband has an older computer, Pentium 2 that he has said I can set
> up Linux on. He would like to try to reformat my drive and take the
> time to figure out where we went wrong. In other words start from
> scratch.
> As I have no operating system ie: I can get to login: in something
> similar to dos but it does not boot, is there any way to 1. login and
> get my files
> 2. Reformat the drive using particion magic (we have the program)
>  
> Many thanks in advance, 
>  
> Alexa

If you've got a second drive you can stick in the machine, you can boot
with the MDK CD and use the repair feature - which will let you chroot
to the partition, then you can copy the files necessary to the second
drive...

If you take the drive out of the P2 and put it as secondary to the drive
in the computer that crashed - that should do the trick for ya mate.

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RE: [newbie] PV-BT878P+w/FM tv card how do u set it up properly in Mandrake 9.0

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 00:16, Sabin, Matthew wrote:
> I built a PC to be our home-entertainment-system (replacing TV, CD
> Player, DVD Player and Tuner while adding MP3/OGG Player, Video
> Recorder, and Digital Video Player)
> 
> All of it's working except the FM tuner and the DVD playback -- where
> the video and audio get out of sync in the first 10 minutes or so.
> 
> The TV tuner took lots of fiddling under 8.2, but Mandrake figured it
> out by itself when installing 9.0 -- I had to manually tune the
> channels in XawTV since I'm on antenna, and all signals are too weak
> for the autodetect.
> 
> Does anyone have the FM tuner working?
> Does anyone have advice on troubleshooting my DVD playback?
> 
> --Matthew

DVD playback is generally an issue with disk I/O - so you can use hdparm
to tune the drive.

When I watch DVD, I use the following (and mind you, your settings may
differ)

hdparm -d1 -p4 -X66 /dev/hdc

...then I fire up Mplayer or Xine and that's that.

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Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.

[Jason Guidry]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:53, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> Yeah, it was funny... about a week ago (6/12) when it got /.ed... 

be nice...not all of us refresh slashdot every <2 minutes.  besides, I
signed you up for a few "enter to win things, too.

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Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:54, Ray Henry wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 06:37, John McQuillen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:04, Ray Henry wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a
> > > dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands
> > > except dialing out...  :/
> > > 
> > I have often experienced problems with modems not detecting a dialtone
> > here in Australia, and I have always just told the modem to ignore it.
> > If there's a dialtone, there's a dialtone, it doesn't matter whether the
> > modem can detect it or not...
> > 
> > In kppp you can just uncheck 'wait for dial tone before dialing', or try
> > changing 'atdt' in your dial string to 'atd/'
> > 
> 
> Just tried that, still get NO DIALTONE. Tried pausing before dialing,
> still no good..  :/

Have y'all tried:

/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kppp/tricks.docbook


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Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera NO MORE!

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:44, John Richard Smith wrote:

> If your camera is not supported then it's not supported.
> most of the chepies are not. Mine included.
> 
> there are three possible solutions,
> 
> Try to get it to work as a mass storage device.
> 
> Mount any windblows OS and then having used windblows software to
> download onto that OS, merely transfer the files over to linux.
> 
> Buy yourself a usb smartcard reader.
> Quite possibly the best long term way of doing it, since it
> is likely to be an ongoing problem, because not only your
> camera but your friends and relatives will all have their
> own unsupported versions, so cut the problems down
> to size , and use a smartcard reader, end of problems.
> Not that I actually have one to confirm this, but I'm
> certainly going to get one oneday. Actually this
> is quite a larger question really, because there are
> various kinds of usb card readers, many models
> can actually read various types of mass storage
> media.
> 
> 
> 
> John

Y'all know, I've been so sick of not being able to use my QuickCam, that
I finally found the driver (and info on how to use it)

http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/

Now, I can use my nasty little LogiTech QuickCam Color with XawTV to
either record vids or take snaps. EZ as pie to configure, compile and
install. HA! I've been waiting for two years to do that...

This just goes t'show ya - don't give up. Keep trying. Someone out
there's got the same cam you do, and WILL make a driver or proggie to
read it...

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Re: [newbie] palm pilot

[RichardA]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 02:33, David Williams wrote:
> I am using the USB cradle. I tried everything that I could think of under 
> Evolution and Kpilot for USB setup and I couldn't get anything to work. I 
> read on some web site somewhere that Jpilot was much more forgiving (read 
> that as easier to install) so I tried it and have been using it ever since. 
> By-the-way, this was on Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0
> DBW
> 

KPilot looks prettier, but I didn't like the way it spread info between 
different KDE applications. It means a more integrated and convenient 
desktop, but JPilot keeps the data in one place, so I can back it up, restore 
versions and so on more easily.

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Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.

[Ralph Slooten]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:50:06 -0700
Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Seems the "Spam King" has been "/.ed".
> 
> http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm
> 
> Delicious irony, don't ya think?

Yeah, it was funny... about a week ago (6/12) when it got /.ed... LOL.
Maybe it's time to clear your cache :D

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Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:37, John McQuillen wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:04, Ray Henry wrote:
> 
> > 
> > So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a
> > dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands
> > except dialing out...  :/
> > 
> I have often experienced problems with modems not detecting a dialtone
> here in Australia, and I have always just told the modem to ignore it.
> If there's a dialtone, there's a dialtone, it doesn't matter whether the
> modem can detect it or not...
> 
> In kppp you can just uncheck 'wait for dial tone before dialing', or try
> changing 'atdt' in your dial string to 'atd/'
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John...

Or, to make it wait a tad bit longer (Telstra is Satan) - you can do
something like:

ATDT ,,,

(the comma's are 1 second pauses)

...but I also found that forcing a generic init string to the modem can
get better results as well:

AT &F &C1 &D2 E1 Q0 V1

...which can also solve problems with line noise (&C1 &D2) and proper
echo recognition to the modem (E1)...

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[newbie] OT Too funny.

[Charlie]

Seems the "Spam King" has been "/.ed".

http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm

Delicious irony, don't ya think?

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RE: [newbie] Modem Installation

[Franki]

There is a linux HCF modem driver now..
http://www.mbsi.ca/mailman/listinfo/hcflinux

They have 8.2 drivers.. they work, I have used them..

rgds

Frank

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Subject: [newbie] Modem Installation


Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I 
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Re: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)

[Charlie]

On December 11, 2002 05:57 am, Gil Katz wrote:
> I have CDR and CDRW
> The system recognize the CDRW in /dev/scd0
> And the CDR in dev/hdc
> When I press on detect writer the Eroaster detects the CDRW but when I
> press the detect reader it detects again the CDRW.
> What to do
> Thanks gil

For the record, I won't reply to any more posts to the list that have a "Reply 
To:" set after this one. It's a pain in the keister to have to remember to 
change the address when one only wants to reply to the post _on the mailing 
list_ in order to try to help.

Most of what I've learned regarding the uses of ISOs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs etc in 
GNU/Linux came from the page at the link below or is linked from there. It's 
a good place to start.

http://www.cpqlinux.com/cdrw.html

Eroaster is a front end for cdrecord. It only reads IDE devices that are 'SCSI 
emulated' and you'll need to add IDE-SCSI to append the stanza in:

/etc/lilo.conf 

that shows your CD-ROM.
 eg.: hdx=ide-scsi 
where 'x' is the a, b, c, etc of the drive. All of the editing you want to do 
there has to be done as super user (su) or root. In your case you should add 
hdc=ide-scsi for your cd-rom to the append lines. This will sometimes cause 
it's own troubles too.

Once you add the phrase to the append line that's there open a terminal and as 
su (root) type:

sbin/lilo -v

then at the new prompt:

reboot -n. 

You should be able to have eroaster recognise the cdrom as a read device after 
that reboot. Hopefully. If I've made any errors I'm sure one of our 
list-mates will correct me.

Or just find (in any mirror's contrib directory) k3b and install and use that 
instead for copying disk to disk. This is a link to one place you can find 
it:

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS

and you can use the KDE package manager to install it so it'll appear on the 
menus.

I'm absolutely _not_ certain if any of the above will do you any good since 
it's not the method I use. If I need to copy a disk I just copy it to a hard 
drive (any of the 4) and burn the copy from there. Small relatives are bad 
news on any CDs that aren't backed up; even though they never seem to touch 
the ones that have been copied and can't get at the originals. When I hear 
"Shiny Frisbee!!!" I start looking. Quickly. 

The little monsters. :-)

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[newbie] Modem Installation

[Mr. VLE79E]

Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I 
install it?







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RE: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)

[Gil Katz]

How do I do that
I run lilo with switches ?

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To: Newbie
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)

Enable SCSI emulation on the CD-R drive in lilo.
This will make /dev/hdc /dev/scd1 and ERoaster
will see it.

Miark


On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:57:20 +0200
"Gil Katz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have CDR and CDRW
> The system recognize the CDRW in /dev/scd0
> And the CDR in dev/hdc
> When I press on detect writer the Eroaster detects the CDRW but when I
press
> the detect reader it detects again the CDRW.
> What to do
> Thanks gil
>
>
>



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Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs

[Fish Fash]

Yes, I am running both. I have to, so I can test my website on windows since 
most users are using windows.








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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:37:51 -0700

You can get an AFS cluster up, but i dont see why you want this setup  
are
you running windows and linux on one box?


On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:12 am, Fish Fash wrote:
> How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can 
work
> on one directory.
>
> c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [newbie] curious

[Don and Alexa Pongracz]

that's a thought

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Franki 
  
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:46 
  AM
  Subject: RE: [newbie] curious
  
  Its 
  a good way to get confirmed address's if you are a 
  spammer...
   
  rgds
   
  Frank
  
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don and Alexa 
PongraczSent: Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:59 AMTo: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: 
[newbie] curious
Why would a list member request a reply from my 
computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of 
emails with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should 
be turned off. Just a 
thought

RE: [newbie] nForce2

[Franki]

There was talk of this on the expert list... check the archives...

apparently there have been some success's and failures..

Nvidia have nforce2 linux drivers available..

the expert list gave some advice on how to get it up and running.

rgds

Frank

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Subject: [newbie] nForce2


Is anyone here using the Asus A7N8X motherboard, or any motherboard
with the nForce2 chipset? I am interested in this MB, but want to make
sure Linux will work with it without a lot of hassles.
Thanks.

TC

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RE: [newbie] curious

[Franki]

Its a 
good way to get confirmed address's if you are a spammer...
 
rgds
 
Frank

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  [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On 
  Behalf Of Don and Alexa PongraczSent: Thursday, 12 December 
  2002 12:59 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: 
  [newbie] curious
  Why would a list member request a reply from my 
  computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of 
  emails with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should 
  be turned off. Just a thought

Re: [newbie] utf-8

[Charlie]

On December 11, 2002 03:50 am, Tuija wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have several distributions in use, not really make up my mind yet :-)
> I like Mandrake 9.0 very much, it is trouble free and runs smoothly.
> One little problem I do have, at some situations Kmail uses utf-8
> when I reply messages and utf-8 messes up scandinavic locales
> (äåö) in unreadable mode. This same problem is in RH8.0 also
> and there it is caused by system fonts, however I think that is not the
> case with Mandrake 9.0. How do I prevent sending utf-8 ever at any
> case?
>
> Tuija

In KMail; 
click on the settings button, 
chose configure KMail, click, 
then in the left pane click on composer,
then in the Char set tab remove utf-8 click apply, then OK. 

Then close and reopen KMail and the settings should be changed. In Mandrake 
(GNU/Linux operating systems for the most part for most things) settings 
changes that require a reboot in Windows only need closing and reopening the 
application being modified after settings are changed. Sometimes not even 
that much.

You should be good to go. I think. ;-)

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Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs

[Vasiliy Boulytchev]

You can get an AFS cluster up, but i dont see why you want this setup  are 
you running windows and linux on one box?


On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:12 am, Fish Fash wrote:
> How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can work
> on one directory.
>
> c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [newbie] curious

[Joe Braddock]

Probably because they are using Outlook and have the Request delivery receipt or read 
receipt box checked.  I don't think that it is anything sinister.  Just don't send the 
receipt notification.  If you can identify the user, you could send them an email 
about it, because they probably aren't even aware it's on.

Joeb
---Original Message---
From: Don and Alexa Pongracz 
Sent: 12/11/02 10:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] curious

> 
>
>   Why would a list member request a
>  reply from my computer that I have received his message. Will
>  they then get myraid's of emails with our addy's...already
>  available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned off. Just
>  a thought
>
> 
> 
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Re: [newbie] NIC Card set-up details

[Miark]

Run a graphical network monitor such as gkrellm or kcpuload.
Then upload and download and download a large file at the same time.
Put the monitoring on the quickest update possible--100ms or whatever.
If it's not clear doing that, upload (or download) the same file and
time it.

Miark


On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:19:00 -
Ken Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex mode
> without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program.
> 
> Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10 or
> 100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine.
> 
> Many Thanks
> 
> Mr Smiley
> 
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[newbie] Apache htdocs

[Fish Fash]

How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can work on 
one directory.

c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs





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Re: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)

[Miark]

Enable SCSI emulation on the CD-R drive in lilo.
This will make /dev/hdc /dev/scd1 and ERoaster
will see it.

Miark


On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:57:20 +0200
"Gil Katz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have CDR and CDRW
> The system recognize the CDRW in /dev/scd0
> And the CDR in dev/hdc
> When I press on detect writer the Eroaster detects the CDRW but when I press
> the detect reader it detects again the CDRW.
> What to do
> Thanks gil
> 
> 
> 


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[newbie] nForce2

[T C]

Is anyone here using the Asus A7N8X motherboard, or any motherboard
with the nForce2 chipset? I am interested in this MB, but want to make
sure Linux will work with it without a lot of hassles.
Thanks.

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Re: [newbie] curious

[Paul]

In reply to Don's mail, d.d. Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:58:41 -0800:

>Why would a list member request a reply from my computer that I have
>received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails with our
>addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned off.
>Just a thought

It is a setting in most mail programs. This is not something from the list,
but something from the poster of the mail.

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[newbie] curious

[Don and Alexa Pongracz]

Why would a list member request a reply from my 
computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails 
with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned 
off. Just a thought

[newbie] particition magic etc.

[Don and Alexa Pongracz]

Hi, one more time the computer has crashed. I am 
beginning to think that the drive has been damaged, from before when I had a 
virus etc. My husband has an older computer, Pentium 2 that he has said I can 
set up Linux on. He would like to try to reformat my drive and take the time to 
figure out where we went wrong. In other words start from scratch.
As I have no operating system ie: I can get to 
login: in something similar to dos but it does not boot, is there any way to 1. 
login and get my files
2. Reformat the drive using particion magic (we 
have the program)
 
Many thanks in advance, 
 
Alexa

Re: [newbie] Ardour M9.0

[John Richard Smith]

Derek Jennings wrote:


On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 2:14 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

The only package I could find,
rpm -rebuild ardour-0.107.3-1mdk.src.rpm
Installing ardour-0.107.3-1mdk.src.rpm
error: failed build dependencies:
   alsa-driver >= 0.9.0beta2 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk
   alsa-lib-devel >= 0.9.0beta2 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk
   gdbm-devel is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk
   libgtkmmext-devel >= 2.9.0 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk
   libguileconfig-devel >= 0.2.0 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk
   libmidi++-devel >= 1.5.0 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk
   libpbd-devel >= 1.2.2 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk
   libxml++-devel >= 0.11 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk
   libaudioengine-devel >= 1.1.0 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk

There's no sign of these of ardour website, and besides searching with
www.rpmfind.net
which doesn't often come up with the correct choice of packages for each
dependency,
what is one to do.

clearly i do have such things as alsa sound drivers installed, but not
apparently the
correct ones.

Seems like I need a better package, any suggestions

John
   



Ardour  is available in RPM format for 9.0 at Mandrake Club. It is currently 
in testing phase, and is therefore not on the public servers yet.

derek

 


 

I guess I will have to wait then.

John

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Re: [newbie] Right's problem - second try

[Roland Hughes]

Yes, I gave it a root password and can log in as root with red screen
and all. What I can not do is install packages and change config files
without getting a message to the effect that I do not have the rights to
do it.
Thanks for the reply.
Roly
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 14:09, Dennis Myers wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 

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RE: [newbie] PV-BT878P+w/FM tv card how do u set it up properly in Mandrake 9.0

[Sabin, Matthew]

Title: RE: [newbie] PV-BT878P+w/FM tv card how do u set it up properly in Mandrake 9.0





I built a PC to be our home-entertainment-system (replacing TV, CD Player, DVD Player and Tuner while adding MP3/OGG Player, Video Recorder, and Digital Video Player)

All of it's working except the FM tuner and the DVD playback -- where the video and audio get out of sync in the first 10 minutes or so.

The TV tuner took lots of fiddling under 8.2, but Mandrake figured it out by itself when installing 9.0 -- I had to manually tune the channels in XawTV since I'm on antenna, and all signals are too weak for the autodetect.

Does anyone have the FM tuner working?
Does anyone have advice on troubleshooting my DVD playback?


--Matthew


-Original Message-
From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:15 AM
To: Mark
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] PV-BT878P+w/FM tv card how do u set it up properly
in Mandrake 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.


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Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera

[Bryan Tyson]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 05:35, Ralph Slooten wrote:

> I think you are shit outta luck here if you are looking of an easy
> way to do this

In that case I suggest getting a usb compact flash reader (I have San 
Disk, which I got for about $23 at Best Buy - works great in Linux). Be 
sure you have the usb-storage module loaded, which I think recent Linux 
distros do automatically (if not, type modprobe usb-storage), then 
mount your CF with mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash (or 
whatever mount point you have created) and you can copy the photos from 
the CF to your PC.

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[newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)

[Gil Katz]

I have CDR and CDRW
The system recognize the CDRW in /dev/scd0
And the CDR in dev/hdc
When I press on detect writer the Eroaster detects the CDRW but when I press
the detect reader it detects again the CDRW.
What to do
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Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?

[Ray Henry]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 06:37, John McQuillen wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:04, Ray Henry wrote:
> 
> > 
> > So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a
> > dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands
> > except dialing out...  :/
> > 
> I have often experienced problems with modems not detecting a dialtone
> here in Australia, and I have always just told the modem to ignore it.
> If there's a dialtone, there's a dialtone, it doesn't matter whether the
> modem can detect it or not...
> 
> In kppp you can just uncheck 'wait for dial tone before dialing', or try
> changing 'atdt' in your dial string to 'atd/'
> 

Just tried that, still get NO DIALTONE. Tried pausing before dialing,
still no good..  :/




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Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera

[John Richard Smith]

Dennis & Sue wrote:


I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ).
Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about it as 
well.
Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot make it work.
It seems to me that I should be able to mount it as a filesystem ? of some 
kind / type, virtua,l removeable, or scsi, and access it as such.
Does anyone know of a way, or a site that might offer this possibility ?
My cd burner is set up as sco ( I don't know if this matters ).

 


 

If your camera is not supported then it's not supported.
most of the chepies are not. Mine included.

there are three possible solutions,

Try to get it to work as a mass storage device.

Mount any windblows OS and then having used windblows software to
download onto that OS, merely transfer the files over to linux.

Buy yourself a usb smartcard reader.
Quite possibly the best long term way of doing it, since it
is likely to be an ongoing problem, because not only your
camera but your friends and relatives will all have their
own unsupported versions, so cut the problems down
to size , and use a smartcard reader, end of problems.
Not that I actually have one to confirm this, but I'm
certainly going to get one oneday. Actually this
is quite a larger question really, because there are
various kinds of usb card readers, many models
can actually read various types of mass storage
media.



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Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?

[John McQuillen]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:04, Ray Henry wrote:

> 
> So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a
> dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands
> except dialing out...  :/
> 
I have often experienced problems with modems not detecting a dialtone
here in Australia, and I have always just told the modem to ignore it.
If there's a dialtone, there's a dialtone, it doesn't matter whether the
modem can detect it or not...

In kppp you can just uncheck 'wait for dial tone before dialing', or try
changing 'atdt' in your dial string to 'atd/'

Regards,

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Re: [newbie] Different problems with Mandrake 9.0

[Ray Henry]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 05:57, Vahur Lokk wrote:
> Hello!
> Recently I finally did it - dumped my perfectly working 8.2 and installed 9.0.
> After two weeks I have list of problems:
> 
> 1. Sound. My mp3 collection plays OK. Sound effects in KDE work OK. But games 
> like Maelstrom and few others are broken - in KDE sound comes hacked, in 
> other WMs there is no sound at all.
> 2. Freeciv. There seem to be two modes of play. In better case everything 
> works, but every move is accompanied with a weird sqeaking sound. In worse 
> case there is no sound at all and every move just takes ages, causing finally 
> lost connection to server (I've been playing only with localhost server).
> 3. Midnight Commander. It works OK in terminal window, but when changing to 
> different virtual screen with Ctrl-Alt-F1 I get a warning message like this:
> [gpm.c(857)]:
> Failed gpm connect attempt by UID 501 for vc /dev/vc/0
> last=/home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
> /home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
> flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
> RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
> BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
> gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
> src/liblow.c
> liblow.c
> info [liblow.c(446)]:
> Warning: Closing connection
> 
> Machine is new and shiny.
> Sound card is some integrated piece (VIA 8233), sound driver is ALSA v0.9.0rc2 
> emulation code. It's exactly as it was automatically configured during the 
> install.
> Graphics card is GeForce2 DDR. Because there are no nVidia drivers for 9.0 
> yet, its using some generic drivers probably. Is this the problem?
> 
> Vahur
> 
> 
Check out this site to fix your sound:
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1491





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Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup

[John Richard Smith]

Daniel Buchanan wrote:





ok i got it working most of the way.  I see what my problem was.  Lilo 
is compiled and i had assumed it was outo compiled and not only on 
demand.  No wonder nothing seemed to work exactly the way i wanted it 
to.  Now my only problem is how to keep the system from locking my cd 
trays. :)


 

I'm not sure I know what you mean by not compiled, do you mean , 
/sbin/lilo had not been
run.

Incidentally, what does cdrecord -scanbus now say.

Can you mount  both writer and rom directories .

John

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Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error

[Technoslick]

I think it is rather weird that it does this, but then it isn't that big a
deal for me to stay away from that rodent until shutdown (or maybe, in your
case, boot-up) is finished. Problems like these I can live with as long as I
find the source of the problem and see something I can do keep it from
happening. I wonder if Mandrake is already aware of this issue?

You mentioned that USB hasn't been very reliable under 9.0. I never used USB
in the short time that I had 8.2 running, so I have no comparison on my end.
The other USB devices I have tried to us with this particular box (IBM
Webcam and DCS Pro Digital Camera) have both failed to be recognized or
usable. I am sure that it is a combination of my lack of understanding, the
proper software loaded and device incompatibility with Linux. So, what else
is new? :-) I guess I really can't be sure that I am having any problems
with USB to defend or deny the issues.

As for the use of USB in a mouseI wouldn't hesitate, if I was you, to
buy new mice USB capable. I think most come with a USB --> PS/2 adapter, so
you get the choice as to how you want to make it work. You gotta love modern
technology. It's about choices that weren't there before. However, I
wouldn't throw your PS/2 rodent away as yet. If you are experiencing the
same problem/result as I am, there's no need to buy a replacement. Let me
know if what is happening with you is the same as with me? It makes me feel
a little more confident that my box isn't just getting pissy with me from
time to time. ;-)

Yes, I do believe all my computers have it in for me. Doesn't everyone feel
the same about theirs?

T :-)

- Original Message -
From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:38 PM
Subject: 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."


**

Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?

[Ray Henry]

> 
> If it is installed, you should have
> 
> /usr/bin/minicom and
> /usr/bin/xminicom

There was a mini_commander_applet there, no minicom or xminicom.
> 
> If they are not there, try (as root, from an xterm)
> 
> rpm -e minicom
> urpmi minicom

Yes! That did it! Installed the very same one I was trying to directly
from the CD...  :)

Thank you!  :)

> and then try to find it again with 
> which minicom

So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a
dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands
except dialing out...  :/

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RE: [newbie] NIC Card set-up details

[Ken Walker]

Many thanks, but the problem with that is i work at a university, and the
only connection we have is a little ( or in my case lots ) of little box's
on the wall. 

We haven't access to the main switches and routers :( there big guys access
only.

The reason I'm asking is that last night i dumped 8Gig over the net from a
samba with an Intel 10/100 running at 100, to a nt with an Intel nic running
at 100, and it went out at 2Mb/second.

Now on my other samba, which has a 10Mb 3Com, it only sends at 1Mb/s on a
very good day.

Now the history of the 3com machine is, originally we were on 10base2 ( coax
). And this machine was connected through a 10Mb hub and then went down the
coax, and then when we had 100Mb lines put in, it went strait to the wall.

On the hub going down the coax the nic's had to be at half duplex.

I don't think, when we switched over to 100M i changed the duplex settings.
Which i believe would explain the difference in transfer speed.

If i can get 2M/s out of a 100M nic then i should get the same out of the
10M nic.

many thanks

-Original Message-
From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 11 December 2002 11:43 AM
To: Mandrake List
Subject: Re: [newbie] NIC Card set-up details


Ken; Most NIC's, hubs switches, etc. will display the speed of your
connections by using 2-color LEDS. The general rule-of-thumb is that a
10Mb connection will show an amber or yellow LED color on the NIC, hub,
etc., and a 100 Mb connection will show a green LED. The owners manual
for your NIC, hub, etc., will also tell you whether or not they support
this standard.

So, tests are not required, just a little bit of "light" reading. Hope
this helps(?).

Lanman

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 06:19, Ken Walker wrote:
> Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex
mode
> without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program.
> 
> Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10
or
> 100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine.
> 
> Many Thanks
> 
> Mr Smiley
> 
> 
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Re: [newbie] External Hard drive on Parallel port.

[John McQuillen]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> 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...

The parallel port IDE device module is paride

Read the documentation /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt for
detailed usage. Especially note that you should set your BIOS to use EPP
mode rather than ECP mode for your parallel port.

Regards,

John...


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[newbie] Different problems with Mandrake 9.0

[Vahur Lokk]

Hello!
Recently I finally did it - dumped my perfectly working 8.2 and installed 9.0.
After two weeks I have list of problems:

1. Sound. My mp3 collection plays OK. Sound effects in KDE work OK. But games 
like Maelstrom and few others are broken - in KDE sound comes hacked, in 
other WMs there is no sound at all.
2. Freeciv. There seem to be two modes of play. In better case everything 
works, but every move is accompanied with a weird sqeaking sound. In worse 
case there is no sound at all and every move just takes ages, causing finally 
lost connection to server (I've been playing only with localhost server).
3. Midnight Commander. It works OK in terminal window, but when changing to 
different virtual screen with Ctrl-Alt-F1 I get a warning message like this:
[gpm.c(857)]:
Failed gpm connect attempt by UID 501 for vc /dev/vc/0
last=/home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
/home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c
src/liblow.c
liblow.c
info [liblow.c(446)]:
Warning: Closing connection

Machine is new and shiny.
Sound card is some integrated piece (VIA 8233), sound driver is ALSA v0.9.0rc2 
emulation code. It's exactly as it was automatically configured during the 
install.
Graphics card is GeForce2 DDR. Because there are no nVidia drivers for 9.0 
yet, its using some generic drivers probably. Is this the problem?

Vahur


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Re: [newbie] NIC Card set-up details

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 22:19, Ken Walker wrote:
> Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex mode
> without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program.
> 
> Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10 or
> 100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine.
> 
> Many Thanks
> 
> Mr Smiley
> 

If you do an "ifconfig" from a terminal window, you should see the
following:

> 
> __
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:18:8C:2C:81  
  inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:36194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:117638 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
  RX bytes:6991327 (6.6 Mb)  TX bytes:82379827 (78.5 Mb)
  Interrupt:9 Base address:0xaf00 


Where you see the txqueuelen:100 - that's your speed...now when you want
to get DEEPER than that, you'll have to find out what your module
reports when loading - or find out if there are switches to use with
that module when it loads...

You can make the direct modifications to the cards module in the
/etc/modules.conf file...JUST BE CAREFUL and make a backup of the file
prior to playing...

You can remove a mod from running with: rmmod modulename
You can insert the module again with the switches you want to add with:
insmod modulename -iobase=X irq=X switches=X (but consult
that modules readme or other info before playing...)


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Re: [newbie] NIC Card set-up details

[Lanman]

Ken; Most NIC's, hubs switches, etc. will display the speed of your
connections by using 2-color LEDS. The general rule-of-thumb is that a
10Mb connection will show an amber or yellow LED color on the NIC, hub,
etc., and a 100 Mb connection will show a green LED. The owners manual
for your NIC, hub, etc., will also tell you whether or not they support
this standard.

So, tests are not required, just a little bit of "light" reading. Hope
this helps(?).

Lanman

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 06:19, Ken Walker wrote:
> Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex mode
> without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program.
> 
> Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10 or
> 100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine.
> 
> Many Thanks
> 
> Mr Smiley
> 
> 
> __
> 
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[newbie] NIC Card set-up details

[Ken Walker]

Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex mode
without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program.

Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10 or
100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine.

Many Thanks

Mr Smiley


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RE: [newbie] urpmi

[Tony S. Sykes]

Let me be a bit clearer on this, you need the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file
which holds all the connection information, there may be an easier way
but I then overwrite the /var/lib/urpmi directory with the new stuff
(this holds the lists for the sources set-up in the config file), and
then do an urpmi.update -a. I tried it before I did the urpmi.update and
it didn't work for some reason, but once I updated it, it was fine. I
have only done this twice so far, but it seems to work fine though.

Tony.

-Original Message-
From: Michel Clasquin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi


On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:54, David Robertson wrote:
> For a variety of reasons (and I won't bore you with the details) I
> have to reinstall LM 9.0. However, I have set up the software
> manager with a lot of extra ftp/http sources and it would be a real
> hassle to do it all again. Is there a config file that I could save
> and then reinstall afterwards?

/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg seems to be what you are looking for

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Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?

[Michel Clasquin]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 12:13, Ray Henry wrote:

> > > 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,
> >
> OK, says it's already installed. But it's not in any of the menus,
> and locate minicom or locate Minicom find nothing. Search on the
> Internet reveals nothing as to where to find it. How does one find
> it on the system?

If it is installed, you should have

/usr/bin/minicom and
/usr/bin/xminicom

If they are not there, try (as root, from an xterm)

rpm -e minicom
urpmi minicom

and then try to find it again with 
which minicom

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Re: [newbie] urpmi

[Michel Clasquin]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:54, David Robertson wrote:
> For a variety of reasons (and I won't bore you with the details) I
> have to reinstall LM 9.0. However, I have set up the software
> manager with a lot of extra ftp/http sources and it would be a real
> hassle to do it all again. Is there a config file that I could save
> and then reinstall afterwards?

/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg seems to be what you are looking for

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RE: [newbie] urpmi

[Tony S. Sykes]

No, You have to urpmi.update -a and it updates the files and lets it
work.

-Original Message-
From: Ralph Slooten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi


On 11 Dec 2002 09:54:59 +
David Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> For a variety of reasons (and I won't bore you with the details) I
> have to reinstall LM 9.0. However, I have set up the software manager
> with a lot of extra ftp/http sources and it would be a real hassle to
> do it all again. Is there a config file that I could save and then
> reinstall afterwards?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> David

Yeah,

Backup /var/lib/urpmi/  :-) I think it should work replacing it, but I'm
not sure if after replacing it you have to run some command or another.
Probably with the first start of urpmi or rpmdrake, it'll reload
everything.

Greetings
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