[newbie-it] Pnm Tools
salve, sapete dove sono reperibili i pnm-tools (necessari a gocr)?
Re: [newbie-it] I: sempre sulla scheda audio
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 11:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: specialmente per me che affronto Linus da zerociao!!! LINUX si scrive e si legge con la X finale :) -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ 8 orizzontale: Battono con il freddo... transsiberiani Slack 9.0 Linux user Tattari_manna aka plugs Mauro... un'ammaestratore di liste ... un incubo!
Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
On Thursday 07 Aug 2003 10:32 am, Sharrea wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2003 09:35, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: In a PCI/ATAPI/IDE/USB system, how do I get a SCSI card recognised at boot-up? My PC has IDE HD and ATAPI CD-writer and a USB flat-bed scanner, all of which are recognised automatically. But the SCSI card, which only serves a 35mm film scanner, is not. /etc/modules has scsi_hostadapter /etc/modules.conf has probeall scsi_hostadapter usb-storage ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-uhci etc. cat /proc/scsi/scsi shows CD-writer on Host: scsi0 ; chan:0; id:0; lun:0. I can get the SCSI card recognised *after* the system is up and running by using modprobe. Then my SCSI device turns up as Host: scsi1, chan:0; id:2; lun:0. But I lose the SCSI card when I power down. I have an Adaptec scsi card for my Microtek E6 scanner which is not presently being used with my current MDK9.0. It took me _weeks_ to find information on setting it up with Mandrake - MDK 8.1 at the time. Anyway, here's the website that provided the information: http://www.mir.com/mtek/ava-hints.html At the time I added the following line to /etc/modules.conf: options aha152x aha152x=0x140,9 and in /etc/lilo.conf append=aha152x=0x140,9 with 140 being the base I/O address (140h) and 9 being the IRQ which I set manually in BIOS. So perhaps you need to edit your lilo.conf. HTH. Sharrea Sharrea, I have added this link on the HardwareCompatibility page of the TWiki. Could you add your extra information, please? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:14, Anarky wrote: so what can I do (without buying new hardware or moving back to windows) ? There's got to be soemthing ... and btw, how do I reset to what it was before/default? will it reset after reboot? It's this speed drop thing that's weird: it starts copying with 9Mb per sec .. but quickly drops to 3,2,1 Mb/sec (quickly as in in 30 seconds). Well, something is definitely up with that - do you have both HD's on the same cable? Does your motherboard support ATA133/ATA100? I don't trully know ... but it can't be something hardware related, because as I said if I reboot to windows I get a constant fast copy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CF card
My wife doesn't show up in there, so I have to mount her manually. rotfl! David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 10 August 2003 07:32 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:20, Dennis Myers wrote: Stephen, do you not need to put the parameters in /etc/rc.d/rc.local or somewhere like that to get the hd set on each boot up? Long time back I seem to recall having to do that on one of my older machines but forgot about it till this thread popped up. /etc/sysconfig/harddisks That was it, thank you. so if I don't change there and just reboot whatever paramaters I just gave won't hold, right? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:12, Richard Hackwith wrote: At 01:32 PM 8/7/2003 +0800, you wrote: Lanman, when are you gonna understand.. Fosters is the cats wiz we export overseas for schmucks such as yourself :-) I don't know anyone here that drinks it at all The Foster's sold in the USA is actually made in Canada. Richard Alright - so then the Canucks piss in the bottles and then ship it out to the yanks...same diff...and they wouldn't know the diff anyways... -- Fri Aug 8 17:10:00 EST 2003 17:10:00 up 4 days, 20:58, 1 user, load average: 1.17, 1.31, 1.12 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Scully: Well, let it never be said that you wouldn't walk through fire for a woman Mulder. Mulder: And never let it be said that I wouldn't do it for you again Scully. The X-Files: Fire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] realaudio player
Hi again, I am going to be needing a realaudio player for my LM9.1 installation. I have downloaded the rp8 file but I was wondering if there are any further developed clients available. Or is there an alternative client for .rm and .ram files? tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] home architecture and PCB schematic software: anyfavorites?
*** Vari-Cad is on the 9.1 distro commerical apps CD. Thanks, i'll give that a look. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SUBSCRIBE newbie
YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO MICROWAVE COOKING AND CATTLE FETISH GROUP HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SOME COUNTRIES HAVE AN AGE LIMIT ON SEXUAL CONTENT AND THAT THIS GROUP DOES NOT. Fine ! I'm a ten years-old Linuxer who is enjoying Xfce4 very very much. :-) ROTFL cyb Now? How good you are in explosition! How farflung is your fokloire and how velktingeling your volupkabulary! Where did *that* come from? David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT - Must-read on Caldera + Linux
This from an Inquirer article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10972)-- . . . Christoph Hellwig worked for Caldera on Linux/UNIX integration and at the same time separately contributed his own efforts to the kernel. While doing so, Chris Hellwig used an identifiying caldera.de email address to do his work. Much more at this blog: http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/07/18.html Todd -- Name that tune #10: Now a very great man once said that some people will rob you with a fountain pen; it didn't take too long to find out just what he was talking about. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions
Michael Lothian wrote: I use 08089916001 the 1470 makes sure you aren't withholding your number. According to Freeserve this number along with others is being withdrawn into the 1470 numbers. No only your modem driver and kppp settings (and modem cable conections) will have a bearing, everything else goes over the tcp/ip conection it makes. OK, that's eliminated that. See the seperate mail for ADSL info but remember you don't have to buy your ADSL from BT Yes that's true but the cost is considerably more, the quality of service improvement not that much higher, and in my case I have to buy 4 new modems just to get started. 147008089933265 147008089916163 147008089916001 in kppp. Say your saw the other day Stephen Kuhn's ducktape wonder bus, meet my blue phunk modem, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: dsci0021.jpgWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:00, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 06:40, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:40, ed tharp wrote: snip snip here is part of my lilo.conf image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off read-only each stanza starts with image= the append lines have options stack by including and separating by a single blank space, so if I wanted to include NOAPIC to the smp stanza it would look like this before I rerun /sbin/lilo, which I would do before I rebooted, but after editing image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off NOAPIC read-only so the only change would have been from this; append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off to this; append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off NOAPIC this would not have effected any other choices in my lilo menu, just when I start selecting the entry corresponding to the label. so for my self, I might even cut and past so I had a lilo that gave me the option smp-noapic (bad Idea, don't really try it, SMP, is multi procesor and needs apic) by adding a 'stanza' for smp-noapic so that lilo.conf looked like this image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp-noapic root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off NOAPIC read-only hope that helps Ed, Thanks. I'll give it a go. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Accessing ACM device
I have a USB Zoom 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0. How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. When I was trying to identify all my USB devices (I had trouble at that time getting Mandrake to recognize my USB external floppy drive), I got back the following information which I believe to have something to do with the modem: hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-2, assigned address 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x803/0x9700) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver acm ttyACM0: USB ACM device acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters Since I'm relatively new to Linux, I will need specifics on what to do or where to look in the Help or manual. Thanks, deedee __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
On Sunday August 10 2003 06:21 pm, Joeb wrote: Just to add to this, if he's using /dev/hda and /dev/hdb aren't they both on the same IDE controller on most systems? Since IDE can only write to one drive at a time per controller, improved performance would result in using the secondary IDE controller. To further complicate it, since they're both on the same controller (and cable) and one is UDMA 133 and the other UDMA 100, the fastest they will go is 100 and maybe only 66 because of the mismatch (although I'm not positive on the 66 part). Finally, I believe Windows is caching it's writes which will speed things up, at the expense of safety. Joeb There's two parts involved, the drive firmware (controller interface) and the controller on the motherboard. So unless you've got separate PCI controller cards, all the drives use the one controller, whether they're on the same cable or not. What is to be avoided is putting a CD drive and HDD on the same cable. In any event, no matter the number of controller cards you might have, they all use the one old and tired 33mhz PCI bus. There's a new PCI spec comin, PCI eXpress with a 66mhz bus. Like the AGP gimmick tho, it only marginally (+5%) improves performance. [root /tom] $ hdparm -tT /dev/hd[ab] /dev/hda: (ata/133, udma6) Timing buffer-cache reads: 1232 MB in 2.00 seconds = 616.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.00 seconds = 46.67 MB/sec /dev/hdb: (ata/100, udma6) Timing buffer-cache reads: 1252 MB in 2.00 seconds = 626.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 122 MB in 3.02 seconds = 40.40 MB/sec Both hda and hdb are on ide0. I have a cdrom and a burner on ide1. BTW I've got a week old motherboard. Aopen AK77-400 Max/n, KT400a chipset, IDE controller. It has 3 ide ports, ide0, ide1, ide2 and a Serial/ATA port. So I could'a separated the HDD drives, one to a cable (ide port). But I knew there's no point in that. I believe the hdparm numbers back me up on that opinion ;) OTOH, hdparm spits out burst numbers. In the real world I get about 20mb/sec transfers, ReiserFS to RieserFS, whether just moving files on the same HDD, or hda to hdb. I didn't wanna try separating the HDD's. When I installed the new mobo/cpu/ram, I configured the ide's just as they were on the old mobo. So when I booted up for the first time, my existing Mandrake 9.2 install found the new onboard NIC, and then went on like nothin was amiss. If I had Windoze, I'd still be installing new drivers ;) The latest cooker 2.4.22 kernel has support for the Serial/ATA port, but I don't have a S/ATA drive to try out. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
On Monday August 11 2003 02:13 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 3:26 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: [root /tom] $ hdparm -tT /dev/hd[ab] /dev/hda: (ata/133, udma6) === underlined data is not shown for me. I added it. From the results you posted it looks like your drives are ata/100, udma5 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Way OT Celeron vs Duron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Urwin If you can get a Celeron they were always very capable of being over-clocked. Checkout http://www.tomshardware.com -- Richard Urwin Yes, thats certainly true.. I am writing this from a Celeron 300A (300mhz) with 384MB ram that has been running at 464 mhz 24/7 for many years now.. never crashes and never runs hot. (and it benchmarks faster then a PIII 450 too thanks to the front side bus and cache on the CPU.) Having said that, with a duron and a celeron of the same clock speed, the duron is a ton faster.. and some of the durons were very very handy for overclocking as well. (I have heard of stable cases of a 400mhz increase.) rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
Ed and Ronald, On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:00, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 06:40, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip single blank space, so if I wanted to include NOAPIC to the smp stanza it would look like this before I rerun /sbin/lilo, which I would do before I rebooted, but after editing image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off NOAPIC read-only so the only change would have been from this; append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off to this; append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off NOAPIC snip Ronald, Thanks for the advice - I googled linux Adaptec/AHA1520, problems and installation. Problems referred to kernel problems around 1998, Installation gave essentially the same information as the Mandrake Twiki SCSI entry, so unfortunately, no further forward. Ed, Thanks for the help. I added the aha152x bit onto the append in my linux* stanza. /sbin/lilo accepted it without objecting this time. But on bootup, no sign of the fscking SCSI card. Any more suggestions? DougB BTW, I thought I might take the problem to the expert list as well: I've tried to subscribe through the support list and the mailing list via [EMAIL PROTECTED], but have had no acknowledgement whatever. Are they not accepting new subscribers, or is there some problem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday August 10 2003 11:38 am, Anarky wrote: hi everybody ... me new ... I just had a very embarassing moment today. A friend came by with his hdd .. and I was copying about 1Gb of data from one hdd to another. My linux preaching was going pretty well .. and he was pretty much willing to give it a try too ... but then ... well .. copying from one hdd to another was SOO slow that I had to reboot in windows. very embarassing. anyway, now I've done some tests and copying with Krusader gave me some speed results: the copying starts off at a boooming nice 8Mb/second .. and then gradually by the time it copies 200Mb it's at like 1Mb per sec .. and my hdds are making a noise like they're going to die ... plz help. It can't be hardware problems because in windows it copies the stuff fast .. and at a constant speed (can't say exactly ... but I got a feel for the time it takes to copy 700Mb ... and it takes a LOT longer in linux) Now for my specs: I should mention that Im copying from on fat32 partition to another. running mandrake 9.1, no updates, the tested drive speeds are: [EMAIL PROTECTED] void]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.87 seconds = 34.22 MB/sec [EMAIL PROTECTED] void]# hdparm -tT /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.87 seconds = 22.30 MB/sec both my drives are udma if I read the output of 'hdparm -i /dev/hda' 'hdparm -i /dev/hda' correctly: for hda: UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 udma5 udma6 and for hdd: UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 so that's not it ... umm .. what else: I've got 256Mb SD ... and I don't know the motherboard type exactly (kt133B?) ... anyway, the proc is K7 Athlon 550Mhz slot A he me ... please!!! greets thanks in advance to everybody [root /tom] $ hdparm -tT /dev/hd[ab] /dev/hda: (ata/133, udma6) Timing buffer-cache reads: 1232 MB in 2.00 seconds = 616.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.00 seconds = 46.67 MB/sec /dev/hdb: (ata/100, udma6) Timing buffer-cache reads: 1252 MB in 2.00 seconds = 626.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 122 MB in 3.02 seconds = 40.40 MB/sec Your hardware is a good part of the slowness. OTOH, you didn't say how you were transferring. I suspect it was with a GUI. If you'd have used the CL, Linux would smoke Winblows. Maybe not necessarily faster, but Linux does proper verification, Winsux slides over this. Google 'CRC checks' Also, if the files had been on a real file system, and not subject to M$ fragmentation, the transfer would'a been no problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Just to add to this, if he's using /dev/hda and /dev/hdb aren't they both on the same IDE controller on most systems? Since IDE can only write to one drive at a time per controller, improved performance would result in using the secondary IDE controller. To further complicate it, since they're both on the same controller (and cable) and one is UDMA 133 and the other UDMA 100, the fastest they will go is 100 and maybe only 66 because of the mismatch (although I'm not positive on the 66 part). Finally, I believe Windows is caching it's writes which will speed things up, at the expense of safety. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:00:00 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 3 computer, and my wife has hers and several of my daughters each have computers that float in and out according to presence in the family.I don't propose upgrading them, but the 4 that sit at home will all need one ADSL each. I have concidered building a serverbox to link via lans to each but right now that is beyond my ability, though I don't rule it out for the future, but bear in mind I didn't even own a computer 3 years ago. I would like a server box though, would be fun to muck around with. There are as many solutions to this problem as there are people on this list, but for instance, I was given a P90 by a relative who'd been running Win 3.11 on it for ten years (perhaps even the same install!). I put in a spare NIC, then put IP Cop on it, and the install was easier than Mandrake. I worked out by trial and error which NIC was which, taped a hub to the side, and left it running for a couple of years. It's do-able. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mail test rant
On Friday 08 Aug 2003 8:34 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:11:13PM -0400, Todd Slater wrote: So my ISP has decided to reject all mails originating from dynamically assigned IP blocks, which my computer is on. So, I can't send mail to my ISP-provided account from my box unless I use their smtp server. This is problemlatic since my family also uses this ISP and I can't send them mail using my preferred agent, Mutt. I've also been noticing that messages I send to newbie aren't appearing in my Mandrake folder--so perhaps even though sympa-mandrake redistributes the message, my ISP still sees that I sent it and rejects it? This is really annoying. Instead of telling people, Hey bozos, secure your machines, don't use M$ etc. the ISP's are punishing all the good people as well. This does not bode well for future Internet freedom. Is there some sort of mail relay (like a dynamic dns) I could use that would let my mail get through? (AOL also blocks mail from dynamic IPs, I believe.) I'd even be willing to pay a reasonable fee for such a service. Todd OK, how about this? In /etc/postfix/main.cf: relayhost = smtp.myisp.com Any problems/security issues with that? IOW, will I get in trouble? g Todd No thats fine. I do the same myself. It is common practice for mail servers to do reverse DNS lookups to make sure the hostname in the header matches the IP address the mail came from. Using your ISP as a relay will make sure that works. As far as your ISP is concerned it is the same as if your client connected directly to their SMTP server. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wallstreet Powerbook X error
Greetings, I just finished installing Mandrake 9.1 on my Wallstreet Powerbook (266MHz, 128MB Ram, 4GB hard drive). In BootX, I specified the root drive, the init file, and my video settings, which worked great during the gui install. But when I try to start kde or gnome, I get the following error: execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 13) any help is greatly appreciated. Peace, Vickie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem
Hi João, If you experience power outs more often, I think that getting a UPS is better than changing FS. I use EXT3 also, which has so far not failed me. I am satisfied with it. Paul On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 19:51, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: I got this twice, as I was using linux and got a blackout. When I turned on the system again, it gave me this message, then I wanted to repair the errors. When the boot was complete, I got many erros. One of them, i couldnt start X. Some /usr/bin commands where lost, and some other files where lost too. Then, without knowledge enough to repair file to file, and without time to do so, I reinstalled my mdk system. Finished the install, another blackout, and the same problem. Reinstall again. So, should I use another FS? Is there any FS better in all ways (performance, confiability)? -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache/MySQL/PHP triad
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 00:40, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:06:30PM +, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, Is there anything like Apache2Triad ( see http://sourceforge.net/projects/apache2triad/ ) available for Linux, or do we need to install and configure it all piece by piece? I don't mind reading a book about it and i know i got it all on my cd's, but i don't quite know where to get started. I want to get into building dynamic websites and i want to have a local setup on my pc so i can run it there and test the whole lot. I'm just a bit overwelmed about the fast amount of red-tape to get started (which versions to use, wich packages to install or ignore etc.). Can anybody recommend something...? Marco If you installed the server packages, you already have everything you need. You may need to start yourSQL, but there's no great need to configure perl, php, or yourSQL. Apache may need some configurin', though. I don't know how much you know about apache etc. but the webroot on Mandrake is /var/www/html/. The apache conf files are in /etc/httpd/conf/. Todd Thanks Todd, I guess i will survive. I will just do all the installations and go from there. I ordered a nice book with handy 'projects' in it. If i read previous mails on the topic right it seems Apache 2 works out of the box. But i guess i will be doing some tweaking anyway. Bye, Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CF card
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:25, Frankie wrote: Come on stephen, be realistic,, Every time you try to mount your wife you end up with a floppy instead... :-) rgds snip That was a brilliant set of repartees! :-)) I'm still chuckling DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 07:18, Heather/Femme wrote: I have to install my linux by passing the argument linux vga=normal *Ty Charles :)* to the Kernel to get video. While doing so is fine, i get a normal installation I want the installer to use Expert mode. Can i add another arg to that line to pass to the kernel? if so syntax pls? Ty linux vga=normal acpi=off thc=on morphine=yes percodan=high beer=more -- Sun Aug 10 13:24:59 EST 2003 13:24:59 up 6 days, 17:13, 1 user, load average: 2.39, 2.12, 2.02 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * BOFH excuse #166: /pub/lunch Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake
I guess you missed that reference. (hint - That song was playing in the Monty Python Aussie Philosopher's sketch.) And that is where the reference between american beer and making love in a canoe comes from as well /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
On Monday August 11 2003 03:50 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom, Why does your previous example so much faster everything, what is it and how you configure that makes the difference ? John Well, I'm reading this thread and seein the suggestions to use hdparm parameters in rc.local or harddisks with some wonderment. With Mandrake 9.x, you shouldn't need to configure any hdparm parameters. Mandrake does it automatically unless it detects known problem hardware or configurations, even without hdparm being installed. IIRC this began with 8.2. Forcing hdparm parameters should be done with caution. It can easily lead to file system corruption. 'info hdparm' contains many warnings. So to answer your question, I didn't do anything, Mandrake did it. I just use quality hardware and ReiserFS 3.6. So my good hdparm -Tt numbers (T=650mb/s, t=47mb/s) are due to many factors, 9.2 current cooker and a Mandrake 2.4.22 kernel among them. Mandrake is installed on the second hda partition, just after the /swap partition. So both are on the fastest sections of the HDD platters. Probly 40% faster than the outer edges of the platters. True for all HDD's, newest to the older ones, inspite of rpm speeds. Tho higher rpm drives will deliver better performance, there's still the drop off as you go out on the platters. VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xdc08-0xdc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA That's a kt400a (pre-kt600) chipset runnin an overclocked XP 3000+ at 88 mhz higher than a 3200+ (176x13, 2288mhz). 512mb DDR400 ram runnin at DDR416 (416mhz) at CL2.5, 2-bank (a single 2-bank stick). Vcore, IO, and AGP voltages, I raised above normal (+.1v each). Two Maxtor 7200rpm, 2mb cache drives. One fairly new ata/133, one an older ata/100 (altho dmesg shows both setup as ata/133). No shared IRQ's, everything has it's own interrupt. To be honest, the overclock has very little or nothing to do with HDD performance, tho the PCI bus is at 35mhz. The system will clock even faster, but I don't want the PCI bus speeds getting too far off spec. That can actually hurt HDD and AGP video performance/stability. Both of which use the PCI bus. My Abit AGP nVidia GeF2 card doesn't even like 35mhz very much ;) So I set the aperature to 4MB and set it to agp=1x, effectively disabling sidebanding. I also don't use nvidia's closed source driver. I particularly sought out a kt400a chipset board due to rave reviews, better performance than nforce2 chipsets. My one week experience with it certainly bears this out. Aopen AK77-400 Max/n (AMD approv'd). My old Sparkle 300w PSU (also AMD apprv'd) puts out extremely stable voltages, all a touch over spec. Rock steady voltages are very important to high system performance, HHD's included. Bottom line: I attribute my good HDD performance mostly to the PSU, chipset/motherboard, Maxtor 7200 rpm's, and Mandrake. BTW, the numbers I posted were with X and dozens of processes runnin. As someone already correctly pointed out, hdparm -Tt needs to be run several times and an average taken. I posted my average numbers, actually some of my lower results. If you wanna cheat a little, boot to level 3, kill all unnecessary processes, then run hdparm -Tt. I'd rather have real world, as I use the system, numbers tho ;) OTOH, hdparm -Tt numbers have little to do with real world performance. FWIW, an I know this upsets some of y'all, you'll never see good performance with a store bought ready made system, or a laptop. If ya can't/won't do it yourself, find a good trustworthy system builder to do it for you. If ya havt'a have a laptop, you're just SOL ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More Stupid Questions(XMMS)
How has Streamripper worked for you? buggy? Does it do both windoz and realplayer type streams? found it actually in cooker/contrib. I hven't tried it yet maybe will tomorrow. For real audio stuff, there's a little helper library on http://sed.free.fr called libreplay.so. Works all right it seems, provided that you set a few environment variables and are careful enough not to point LD_PRELOAD at a relative path. Otherwise when you cd out you end up with ls not working :(. I found starting mozilla out of that shell problematic -- much better with konqueror. Of course, if you have started realplay out of another shell, it won't record the stream -- recall that different shells can and do have different environment settings. That can be a plus, actually. And in passing, libreplay.so has the added benefit of showing you on the console what files get opened/closed etc. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] file name format in Grip
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:28:59PM -0500, fifner the dragon wrote: Hi all, I just started to rip my complete cd collection to ogg using Grip. The ogg files are named by default like: 11_sun_in_your_face.ogg The encode file format is set to ~/mp3/%A/%d/%t_%n.ogg I want capital letters in the beginning of every word and spaces instead of underlines between the words. How shoud I set the encode file format to get the following file name: 11_Sun In Your Face.ogg Thanks in advance, Fifner This is Linux, you'll have to do that manually to each file you encode. Or, you can use another app like easytag. But seriously now folks, there should be an option in options somewhere that says replace spaces with underscores. I'd say if you uncheck that you should be set except for the capital letters. My first instinct is man tr on that one. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] subscribe
This happens now and then and I wonder how the subscribe even gets to the list if the person didn't subscribe correctly to begin with. I sometimes send a mail from my comp at work and it requires a added step asking that the mail be put through to the mail list. So how does the subscribe message show up like it does if the person isn't subscribed to the list? Weird things are afoot, methinks. I once responded to one of these, and it was basically a Sign me up for spam tactic. Like you said, something was a foot (or at least smelled like it). I would think that in the process of approving the send, you would figure out how to subscribe... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphical Boot is not working
Thanks, I will give that a go aswell Ciao... www.slowlymakingsmoke.com www.qually.net Quoting Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 05:51, Gareth Qually wrote: I have installed Linux, which seems fine. But when I boot it trys to start X, but fails. It mentions editing a config file, but does not say what it needs to do. I had Linux working fine on my old system, but the new system does not like it it seems. The graphics card and other PCI slot cards are the same. I did find at the end ofthe installation it would say that all was done but could not unmount some disks. Oh yes I also have to do a text install, cause a graphical install seems to hang the machine. Any ideas? Ciao... www.slowlymakingsmoke.com www.qually.net You've not said what kind of system, ram, other components you have... but i'm betting you have a newer ATI card or Nvidia one... if i don't hit f1 and then type: linux vga=normal at the command/install prompt my setup hangs too...black screen. Try that..its shitty grafx but works better than text mode. -- Femme On MDK 9.1, more or less 24/7...cept for gaming. Finally. :D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] a cd catalog
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:05, Anarky wrote: hi everybody. I'm trying to move to linux completelly for like 3 weeks now (I think) ... been flirting with linux for many years now .. but this summer I've been the most determined (I'm pretty much constantly in linux) .. but I'm still looking for software that would fully satisfy me that I had in windows. Although I've configured XNC to the bone it's still got problems for me ... so I'm thinking to try Krusader again (I've tried as many file managers as I could find in an attempt to find one as productive as Windows Commander). ... .. but I got sidetracked: is there a Linux cd catalog that's good? Also it would be even cooler if this program had some way of exporting to a format or something that a windows program could read too. thanks Best windows commander type FM I have found is Midnight Commander heard good things about XFTree too (supposedly a clone of XTree Gold). -- Femme On MDK 9.1, more or less 24/7...cept for gaming. Finally. :D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Session management on logout
i have 'save session' at the bottom of my 'k' menu, is that what you mean? plus i have kmenuconfigkdecomponentssession manager is it that you do not have these things? bascule On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 6:09 am, Heather/Femme wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 23:46, ed tharp wrote: snip you are right, I am going to bed sorry femme ya tried your suggestion ed. didn't work :( next idea? ;) -- The thing about iron is that you generally don't have to think fast in dealing with it. (Lords and Ladies) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 03:51, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: I got this twice, as I was using linux and got a blackout. When I turned on the system again, it gave me this message, then I wanted to repair the errors. When the boot was complete, I got many erros. One of them, i couldnt start X. Some /usr/bin commands where lost, and some other files where lost too. Then, without knowledge enough to repair file to file, and without time to do so, I reinstalled my mdk system. Finished the install, another blackout, and the same problem. Reinstall again. So, should I use another FS? Is there any FS better in all ways (performance, confiability)? Thanks ReiserFS. End of story. -- Tue Aug 12 09:04:59 EST 2003 09:04:59 up 8 days, 12:53, 1 user, load average: 1.07, 1.20, 1.17 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * HP had a unique policy of allowing its engineers to take parts from stock as long as they built something. They figured that with every design, they were getting a better engineer. It's a policy I urge all companies to adopt. -- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Will Wozniak's class give Apple to teacher? EE Times, June 6, 1988, pg 45 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem
Thanks for the answer Paul... but, what UPS means? I mean, what is UPS ;) From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:52:41 +0200 Hi João, If you experience power outs more often, I think that getting a UPS is better than changing FS. I use EXT3 also, which has so far not failed me. I am satisfied with it. Paul On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 19:51, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: I got this twice, as I was using linux and got a blackout. When I turned on the system again, it gave me this message, then I wanted to repair the errors. When the boot was complete, I got many erros. One of them, i couldnt start X. Some /usr/bin commands where lost, and some other files where lost too. Then, without knowledge enough to repair file to file, and without time to do so, I reinstalled my mdk system. Finished the install, another blackout, and the same problem. Reinstall again. So, should I use another FS? Is there any FS better in all ways (performance, confiability)? -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Hotmail, o maior webmail do Brasil. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: CUPS and OOo ...Re: [newbie] a cd catalog
Oh ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL.. answered the wrong post.. Sorry about that, hehehehe On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:34:58 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:05:44 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everybody. I'm trying to move to linux completelly for like 3 weeks now (I think) ... been flirting with linux for many years now .. but this summer I've been the most determined (I'm pretty much constantly in linux) .. but I'm still looking for software that would fully satisfy me that I had in windows. Although I've configured XNC to the bone it's still got problems for me ... so I'm thinking to try Krusader again (I've tried as many file managers as I could find in an attempt to find one as productive as Windows Commander). ... .. but I got sidetracked: is there a Linux cd catalog that's good? Also it would be even cooler if this program had some way of exporting to a format or something that a windows program could read too. thanks If you have set up cups, then you have in /etc/cups/ppd the propper ppd file for your printer, containing the info needed to print with. Open spadmin (from OpenOffice.org), click New printer. Click Import. Browse to /etc/cups/ppd, clock OK, and you printer should come up in the Driver Installation ;-) It will probably be added to the list, which will then let you add the fine touches ;-) Have fun Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Linkskys, anyone?
On Monday 11 August 2003 10:43 am, Ben wrote: On Sunday 10 August 2003 22:35, Nick Emans wrote: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 15:28, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, This Sunday paper came with a flier of Amazon.com (is it just me, or does that seem weird? regardless, it seems to have worked on me). At any rate, in it are a few Linkskys wireless gizmos (I know I live under a rock, but I'd never heard of Linskys, what a cool name). Particularly intriguing to me was the WMA 11B wireless digital media adapter. it claims to be able to send all ones mp3 (read oggs) and pics to ones stereo and TV. It doesn't specify the usuall Windows XNTP2,000,000 baloney. Does thins mean that it is compatable with any PC with ML 9.1? The hardware database lists some Linskys stuff, but I don't know what they are. With an advance of thanks, Jim They've been around for a long time and have relatively good products. ..probably adding old news to this thread, coming late; but they are being acquired by Cisco as their low end/SOHO HUB/Router supplier, particulary in the wireless area Crisco did acquire Linksys a few months ago as part of their world domination strategy. I'm not familiar with WMA 11B wireless digital media adapter but Sony introduced their own WAT (wireless audio transfer) a few months ago. It uses a 900 mhz transmitter to send to certain home audio devices. Check out http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/3061 I am running a linksys cable router w/firewall and am well satisfied with it's capabilities. Easy to configure and forget. I still run firewalls on the individual computers (6) as insurance. But Linksys is or appears to be well made. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test again my mail does not go to list
H, it takes a while for mine to go, but they all have me filtered out so i never get a response. - Original Message - From: yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:54 PM Subject: [newbie] test again my mail does not go to list test Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Government trying to control our computers - OT but Important
Hello Dow, Monday, August 11, 2003, 4:39:56 PM, you wrote: DM Well, I did a search on the Senate website It's much more informative to just do a quick search on CBDTPA. This will tell you much more than will be on any government site. The politicos want to keep us in the dark as much as possible. :-) DM So I guess that it didn't pass. Not yet, but they will keep trying. Their other approach is to get M$ to build in essentially the same thing into their software. M$ is certainly going in that direction. Remember, if you use XP, you agreed to let M$ do whatever they want to to YOUR computer. The chip companies are also looking at hardware security options. The security is, of course, for THEM, not us. :-(( -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS and OOo
I thought OOo and CUPS work together, but when I print, there's no mention of CUPS, and whatever is working in its place does a crap job of printing (draft mode instead of normal, although it's not set to do that). How do I get CUPS to work with OOo? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
On Monday 11 Aug 2003 6:15 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Well, I'm reading this thread and seein the suggestions to use hdparm parameters in rc.local or harddisks with some wonderment. With Mandrake 9.x, you shouldn't need to configure any hdparm parameters. Mandrake does it automatically unless it detects known A very good info. Thanks a lot. I have just ordered ASUS A7N8X deluxe mother board with Athlon XP 2400+ (I couldn't better cpu in my town) and 256 mb 333 DDR Ram for swap with my present system PIII 866, intel 815 kobian board and 256 mb sdram. Any suggestions for tweaking it better will be appreciated. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
you know ... turns out this slowdown only happens when copying from fat32 to fat32 ... when copying from fat32 to linux partition it's constantly at about 9mb/second. Still, acording to your huge test results my hdds might be somehow missconfigured, or is Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.87 seconds = 34.22 MB/sec normal for a 7200 rpm 20Gb Ibm drive? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 02:55, ed tharp wrote: not 'really' true, As I recall, NTFS has been updated (in order to retain incompatibility)a couple of times, NTFS on XP is not exactly the same critter as NTFS on NT3.5 It still sucks nonetheless. Too bad they're (M$) not smart enough to make use of say, ReiserFS... -- Tue Aug 12 09:04:59 EST 2003 09:04:59 up 8 days, 12:53, 1 user, load average: 1.07, 1.20, 1.17 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * HP had a unique policy of allowing its engineers to take parts from stock as long as they built something. They figured that with every design, they were getting a better engineer. It's a policy I urge all companies to adopt. -- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Will Wozniak's class give Apple to teacher? EE Times, June 6, 1988, pg 45 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
On Sunday 10 August 2003 06:14 pm, Anarky wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: In the case of slapping hard drives into your machine and then copying data to them, it's best to get to know HDPARM quite well, and how to tweak drive settings with it. After slapping the drive in your boxen and getting linux up and running and recognising the drive, you're going to want to force some params on it in order to get some better throughput - much better than what you experienced today. I honestly suggest reading very carefully through the HDPARM man pages, but then again, I know about RTFM and how often we choose not to do that... I've looked through there a lot .. but am confused about all the hardware details. So, with that said, here are some settings that I've found work about right for every drive I slap into a system here (for basically the same thing): hdparm -X69 -d1 -u1 -c3 -m16 -A1 -W1 /dev/hdX (where X is the letter of the device) I did this on /dev/hdd ... and .. well, it seems the results are even worse than before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] void]# hdparm -tT /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.96 seconds =133.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.88 seconds = 22.22 MB/sec whiel before it was: [EMAIL PROTECTED] void]# hdparm -tT /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.87 seconds = 22.30 MB/sec so what can I do (without buying new hardware or moving back to windows) ? There's got to be soemthing ... and btw, how do I reset to what it was before/default? will it reset after reboot? It's this speed drop thing that's weird: it starts copying with 9Mb per sec .. but quickly drops to 3,2,1 Mb/sec (quickly as in in 30 seconds). Sorry for butting in, but, correct me if I'm wrong here, civileme always said to run the hdparm -tT /dev/hdx command three times minimum to get a correct reading, that said I would try Stephens hdparm parameters and see if you get an improvement. You should not have to reboot to see it, it should make an immediate difference. I just wish I could remember where to put the parameters to get set up on a new boot. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SUBSCRIBE newbie
On Saturday 09 August 2003 11:47 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: DEAR SIR, YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO MICROWAVE COOKING AND CATTLE FETISH GROUP HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SOME COUNTRIES HAVE AN AGE LIMIT ON SEXUAL CONTENT AND THAT THIS GROUP DOES NOT. PLEASE CHECK THE LEGAL RIGHTS YOU HAVE IN YOUR COUNTRY AS THEY MAY NOT APPLY TO SOMEONE LIVING IN ANOTHER COUNTRY WHERE MICROWAVE COOKING AND CATTLE FETISH ARE DEEMED ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES. WELCOME TO THE MICROWAVE COOKING AND CATTLE FETISH MAILING LIST. SUBSCRIPTION PRICES ARE AVAILABLE AT $1000 USD FOR MORE SERIOUS USAGE. ouch lol and the subscription price isn't $1000 USD, it's $1399 USD per computer, remember all the SCO stuff going on? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CF card
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 04:18, Jesüs Arocho wrote: I am running mandrake 9.1 and just purchased a PNY CF card and card reader. How do I get this to work on my box? The card reader might not show up, but if you insert a card into the reader, it SHOULD show up as a mountable device - you can fire up kdf and see what devices are listed once you slam a card into it... -- Mon Aug 11 07:25:00 EST 2003 07:25:00 up 7 days, 11:13, 1 user, load average: 2.34, 2.34, 2.58 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Kleeneness is next to Godelness. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
