[newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk
I had Mandrake 9.2 running fine with two disks. (hda) has the root filesystem, (hdb) had only one directory I used for Samba. Both were ext3 fs. I suspected problems with hdb, but WDDiag test results were ok, so I wiped the hdb disk with zeros anyway using the Western Digital utilities. Now I can't boot into Mandrake 9.2 with or without hdb connected. Not sure how to make Mandrake forget about the hdb disk. I get an error "Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/hdb1. The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem" I know the root disk is good (hda). I had hoped Linux would boot and allow me to re-configure hdb. How can I accomplish this? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fyi--thunderbird and url's
Todd Slater wrote: That choose profile is annoying. I use this script which I called /usr/bin/firebird to open links in a new tab. If you prefer, you can substitute new-window. Everything I use that launches URL's calls this script. Todd, thanks for telling us about the version that fixes that annoying URL problem, AND giving us a solution for the profile problem! I was going to set it up to use Galeon, now I won't have to. -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I've got a B/W boot script back, It seems to work this way, When boosplash packages are installed, which happened in my case when I reinstalled deleted kernel from CD1 To get a text based boot script , Edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash set SPLASH=no Edit /etc/lilo.conf add to append= splash=quiet Now I know how to do it the right way instead of uninstalling the package. Thanks :-) but I'm not sure if by removing the bootslash packages one cound also achieve the same result without having to edit the above ? since I didn't have to before I reinstalled the kernel. Well I should say I'm running mdk 9.1. I had the blue splash like monitor on boot up and shutdown. When I did a "rpm -e --nodeps bootsplash" and rebooted no more blue splash. I still have a /usr/share/bootsplash directory but its empty except for a /themes directory which is also empty. Also I have no /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash file my /etc/lilo.conf file has no entry it like append= splash=quiet. I would guess that when it looks for a splash or a theme it does not find one, so it doesn't use one and continues on with the process. On another note John, did you get the text resolution you wanted on boot up? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 08:35 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back > > up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to > > the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): > > > > No room on / [0] expecting [2] > > Derek wrote: > It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for > huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron > package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete > old logs. > > derek This is how I solved my log problem back in the old days, with a really small HD. As root, I edited my /etc/logrotate.conf I changed anything "monthly" to "weekly" I changed anything "weekly" to "daily" If it says "rotate 4" I changed it to "rotate 1" Who needs all that log info anyway--you ain't administering a server, are you? e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Odd Konqueror config problem
In recent days, the behavior of the "Forward", "Back" and "Up" buttons in Konqueror (9.2, / KDE 3.1.3) has changed. Formerly, when I clicked on any of the buttons I would move to the previous or next page/directory viewed or up to the parent directory. If I clicked and held down the left mouse button, I got a dropdown list of the previous/next pages. Now, I only get the dropdown list and I have to select from the list even if I want to go directly to the previous page. I haven't found any configuration options that control this behavior. Does anyone know how to restore the button functionality? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't play DVD
I already had a PLF and Contrib software repository setup. Once I updated Mplayer it worked fine. The site you listed, although a bit out of date still had good information on it. Thanks for the help --pat From: Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't play DVD Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:38:20 -0500 On Tuesday 16 December 2003 03:11 pm, Patrick Coffey wrote: > hello, > I can't play DVD's under MDK9.2. When using totem it says "The movie > 'Error reading NAV packet.' could not be read." I looked around for some > settings but all I found that looked interesting was under preferences, the > optical devices and it displays my DVD drive there. I then tried to use > MPlayer to play the DVD but it just locked up. I have a Samsung DVD-Rom. > Has anyone had this problem before? Take a look at this link, slightly outdated but it should still work for 9.2 http://www.lavigna.us/dvd/ BTW, Google is your friend. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Make your home warm and cozy this winter with tips from MSN House & Home. http://special.msn.com/home/warmhome.armx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't play DVD
You were right! After adding the PLF software source and updating Mplayer it worked like a charm. Thank you very much! --pat From: Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't play DVD Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:47:11 -0700 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:11 pm, Patrick Coffey wrote: > hello, > I can't play DVD's under MDK9.2. When using totem it says "The movie > 'Error reading NAV packet.' could not be read." I looked around for some > settings but all I found that looked interesting was under preferences, the > optical devices and it displays my DVD drive there. I then tried to use > MPlayer to play the DVD but it just locked up. I have a Samsung DVD-Rom. > Has anyone had this problem before? > > --Pat > > P.S. It does work under windows so the hardware works. > ;-) That P.S. is of little value for the simple reason that this ain't Windows. (-; Off the top of my pointy head I'd say you need the decoders and codecs that can't be included in GPL operating systems to do what you're attempting. Go to: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ and add a PLF software source repository, then upgrade the mplayer, xine, and other multimedia packages. You may get lucky. Then come back to post any specific questions. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 13:39:08 up 2 days, 1:11, 1 user, load average: 1.21, 1.23, 0.77 We gotta get out of this place, If it's the last thing we ever do. -- The Animals -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/329PZqvqlrLPr5YRAoqyAJ0dK2GDQ1Wa7BqEghbkpzc4MWOqHgCgnBwJ Pa7LG2iKQ82NCS1OCrCu7m0= =BkAA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Enjoy the holiday season with great tips from MSN. http://special.msn.com/network/happyholidays.armx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fyi--thunderbird and url's
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:10:49PM +1300, Sharrea Day wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 05:20, Todd Slater wrote: > > with some easy config, thunderbird 0.4 can launch url's. > > > > http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/mozilla_thunderbird_04_released > >.html > > Thanks for that Todd... been waiting for this feature! > > Bit of a bummer that the script copied from the URL wants to use another > profile if firebird is already running tho. I changed it to konqueror so I > don't have to worry about whether or not firebird is already running. > > Cheers > Sharrea Sharrea, That choose profile is annoying. I use this script which I called /usr/bin/firebird to open links in a new tab. If you prefer, you can substitute new-window. Everything I use that launches URL's calls this script. Todd #/bin/bash browserPath="/usr/local/MozillaFirebird/MozillaFirebird" url="$@" $browserPath -remote "ping()" # $? = false if running, true if not if [ $? = 0 ] ; then exec $browserPath -remote openURL"($url,new-tab)" else $browserPath $url fi exit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reading PDF attachments from Mozilla containing spaces in the title
Jerry Barton wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:24:13 -0800 Adrian Kuepker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We're having trouble opening PDFs directly from Mozilla(mdk9.2) that contain a space in the file name. put %20 in place of the space like%20this%20for%20example.pdf Not sure what the problem is, but it went away when once I manually removed the profiles for all the effected users. =( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fyi--thunderbird and url's
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 05:20, Todd Slater wrote: > with some easy config, thunderbird 0.4 can launch url's. > > http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/mozilla_thunderbird_04_released >.html Thanks for that Todd... been waiting for this feature! Bit of a bummer that the script copied from the URL wants to use another profile if firebird is already running tho. I changed it to konqueror so I don't have to worry about whether or not firebird is already running. Cheers Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Sylpheed links in background (in Galeon)
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:28:21 + RichardA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Much as I crave anti-aliased email, I can't be doing with crashy apps. > I'll wait. > > Thanks, Joe. actually, the 0.9.5 version is pretty stable. The only bug I'm aware of is the old "crashes when you try to delete a folder". -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't play DVD
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:47:11 -0700 Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ;-) That P.S. is of little value for the simple reason that this ain't > Windows. (-; Except if you are familiar with google.com/linux... -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."-- Karl Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should be: mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img 2.4.21-0.13mdk Can I first understand what we are doing here, I'm supposing that if I remove the bootsplash packages, I need to run the above in order to remake the /boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img file so that it knows how to boot without the gui stuff , is that it ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should be: mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img 2.4.21-0.13mdk May I come back to this see prior email, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kroupware
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:21:24 -0700 Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:52 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: > > > Hi Lee; > > > > Is there a reason you wouldn't use the packages available from > > Mandrake? If you have a contrib source set up just > > > > urpmi kdenetwork_kroupware > > > > You'll get a package like this one: > > > > ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586/kdenetwork_kroupware > >-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm > > > > Wouldn't that be easier? > > > > Regards; > > Charlie > > I meant to add this but got temporarily (???) "stuck on stupid" > and hit send before I did it. Sorry about that. > > opengroupware is also on the contrib mirrors. > > HTH > Charlie > - -- > Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org > Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel > 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 11:19:47 up 1 day, 22:52, 1 user, load average: > 0.23, 0.24, 0.15 Humor in the Court: > Q: ...any suggestions as to what prevented this from being a > murder trial >instead of an attempted murder trial? > A: The victim lived. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/300kZqvqlrLPr5YRAk++AKCA1ntPzo/+5w9SQshlaDsppIjV/QCdEfCq > 1T6go7ucIKsnB3tRZOU6XkA= > =w6ua > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > Must have burped when I should have urped. That's the first thing I tried, being lazy and all. Maybe misspelled it. I'll try again. Thanks Charlie. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 03:56 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 04:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly ? John, I just jumped in on this thread, but it *is* the bootsplash that is giving you the blue background. I am not talking about the LILO bootsplash screen, but the bootsplash package that gives you the blue screen during boot. Just urpme bootsplash and you should get what you want. really, just put up a terminal and, urpme bootsplash and all will be restored ? Hell, lets try it Well Greg, Half a success. It has removed the gui blue screen shutdown,and return to B/W , but , not the gui blue screen bootup. Hmm, what man pages governs this ? Okay, now I recall that the bootsplash graphic is now stored in the initrd, and you may have to regenerate it after removing the bootsplash package. The syntax is mkinitrd -f Why this is so hard, I don't know Do you mean like this, [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk /lib/modules/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk is not a directory. No I don't think I understood. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Sylpheed links in background (in Galeon)
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:13:26 -0500, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:41:13 + > RichardA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, on a related note, how can I get anti-aliased text in > > Sylpheed? Would I need a GTK2-enabled Sylpheed? If so, does one > > exist? > > Yep, check Sourceforge. > > There's a 0.9.8 version out here: > > http://xem.jp/~tkng/sylpheed-gtk2/sylpheed-0.9.8-gtk2-20031212.tar.bz2 > > but I've had a few probs with it, like not displaying the messages in > the preview pane, crashing. Which is why you'll see I'm back to ver > 0.9.5, which seems fairly stable. > Much as I crave anti-aliased email, I can't be doing with crashy apps. I'll wait. Thanks, Joe. I'm still really annoyed by the behaviour I mentioned in my original post. I middle-click on a link ... wait for Galeon to appear in front of Sylpheed ... click on the Sylpheed title bar ... repeat. If the email is Crypto-gram, or Need To Know that's a lot of clicks. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
Martin Brandt wrote: Hey, im trying to change the permissions for my windows partition so that i can write into it on a normal user. Atm i can't even write onto it via root, and it wont let me change the permissions on root either. Ive tried going onto the windows boot and sharing the Partition but it says its only for admins blah blah. I then tried to share a directory in it, but when i went back to the linux root there was not difference. What do i have to do? There are two ways to do this. One is by editing /etc/fstab, but it2s easier to do it through the Mandrake Control Center. Click Mount Points, then on DiskDrake and you'll see your partitions. Click on your Windows partition, then "Toggle to Expert Mode". This will produce a button labelled Options. Click on that and see what you have checked. Normally you shouldn't have anything checked - make sure in particular that noauto isn't checked, or if it is, that user and umask=0 are checked. Sir Robin -- "Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia." - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
On Monday 15 December 2003 03:56 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >On Monday 15 December 2003 04:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly > >> ? > > > >John, I just jumped in on this thread, but it *is* the bootsplash that is > >giving you the blue background. I am not talking about the LILO > > bootsplash screen, but the bootsplash package that gives you the blue > > screen during boot. Just urpme bootsplash and you should get what you > > want. > > really, > > just put up a terminal and, > > urpme bootsplash > > and all will be restored ? > > Hell, lets try it > > Well Greg, Half a success. > > It has removed the gui blue screen shutdown,and return to B/W , > but , not the gui blue screen bootup. > > Hmm, what man pages governs this ? > Okay, now I recall that the bootsplash graphic is now stored in the initrd, and you may have to regenerate it after removing the bootsplash package. The syntax is mkinitrd -f Why this is so hard, I don't know -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
SNIP It says that root (/) is full, and the iso images were in /home/trey so doesn't that count against root or am I having a conceptual error here. When I get back I'll try to isolate where the space hogs are using df and du again. I think it was the du command that showed file sizes but if there was a directory I would no see the sizes of files within the directory. It may be log files and I'll check into that as well. Thanks. I should have added on my last post :- If you install fsv (from contrib) it will show your file system as a 3 dimensional map. It is easy to see where disc space is being used up. Of course it will not help you just at the moment because you do not have enough space to install fsv in ;-) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Trey Sizemore wrote: SNIP It says that root (/) is full, and the iso images were in /home/trey so doesn't that count against root or am I having a conceptual error here. When I get back I'll try to isolate where the space hogs are using df and du again. I think it was the du command that showed file sizes but if there was a directory I would no see the sizes of files within the directory. It may be log files and I'll check into that as well. Thanks. It would if you had only 1 linux partition. But most people (and the default Mandrake install) use more than 1 HD partition. /home usually gets a partition to itself. That makes life easier when you come to upgrade your Linux. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [OT?} Quote from a news article...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Writing for Israel's Ynet, Gal Mor reports that the Israeli Treasury has decided to walk away from the Government's contract with Microsoft. Signed two years ago, the contract expires this month, and the ministry is testing localized builds of Mandrake Linux." I always knew that the Israelis were clever people. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 11:28:02 up 1 day, 23:00, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.14, 0.11 The difference between dogs and cats is that dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/308iZqvqlrLPr5YRAjtkAJ9D0gOyFQyKa1vI7ySE4yJtyDH89ACgn2mK hWpYQmVcEaFmXyIeLq9Ue2Y= =YmzR -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kroupware
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:52 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: > Hi Lee; > > Is there a reason you wouldn't use the packages available from Mandrake? If > you have a contrib source set up just > > urpmi kdenetwork_kroupware > > You'll get a package like this one: > > ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586/kdenetwork_kroupware >-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm > > Wouldn't that be easier? > > Regards; > Charlie I meant to add this but got temporarily (???) "stuck on stupid" and hit send before I did it. Sorry about that. opengroupware is also on the contrib mirrors. HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 11:19:47 up 1 day, 22:52, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.24, 0.15 Humor in the Court: Q: ...any suggestions as to what prevented this from being a murder trial instead of an attempted murder trial? A: The victim lived. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/300kZqvqlrLPr5YRAk++AKCA1ntPzo/+5w9SQshlaDsppIjV/QCdEfCq 1T6go7ucIKsnB3tRZOU6XkA= =w6ua -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:00 am, Martin Brandt wrote: > Partition magic here i come... Why pay for Partition Magic? Have you heard of parted? It's available in an RPM package for Mandrake. It should be in the 9.2 directory on any mirror. Project information: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 11:13:50 up 1 day, 22:46, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.09, 0.10 Don't suspect your friends -- turn them in! -- "Brazil" -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/30ymZqvqlrLPr5YRAq14AJ4hRFu/dg5xv5Sx7y7TQMvYGBccXgCfYj/1 5+wCHvNAcY9p+U6V+4gEsrg= =rak6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 5:01 pm, Lanman wrote: > 3) You can create and format this partition in Windows or > Linux, but the trick is to format it as FAT32. In > this partition you will store all you data - documents, > MP3's, etc., etc. You can even "re-map" your > "My Documents" folder on your Windows Desktop to this > drive, but do yourself a favor and create the folder > on this drive before you do the move. > The only thing I'd add is to remind you that fat32 has the cluster-size problem. Two 4GB partitions hold more than 1 8GB partition. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened. Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. derek It says that root (/) is full, and the iso images were in /home/trey so doesn't that count against root or am I having a conceptual error here. When I get back I'll try to isolate where the space hogs are using df and du again. I think it was the du command that showed file sizes but if there was a directory I would no see the sizes of files within the directory. It may be log files and I'll check into that as well. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 5:00 pm, Martin Brandt wrote: > Partition magic here i come... > I'm not slamming PM as such, it's just that mixing tools is not ideal. You should be able to do all you need from Mandrake Control Centre > Mount Points. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 5:35 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 16:25, Martin Brandt wrote: > > Damn it is NTFS. I'll just have to work out how to Detect my > > linux boot on the windows OS then, if thats possible, or else ill > > have to write a CDRW each time i want to transfer files... > > Nope, Martin. Not necessarily. There is a common denominator for > Windows and Linux. Both can read and write to FAT32 (vfat). > If you can create a smallish FAT32 partition, you are done. > > Don't know though, if Windows can "see" beyond any Linux > partitions, so if possible, create the FAT32 partition bettween > those > filesystems. > It's not a problem. I have /mnt/OldData (fat32 partition) on hdf6, after /mnt/Mandrake9_0 and /mnt/OldHome Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Java plug-in probs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 16 December 2003 8:56 am, Martin Brandt wrote: > Well no luck so far. Im gonna get a knowledgeable friend to look over my > system via ssh. > Thanks all for your help, i know im gonna need a lot more of it : P > I wish I had actually _been_ of some help Martin, but you're most welcome. Have you considered reverting to a stable version of Mozilla (1.4 or 1.5) instead of the alpha you were running, or the beta that's available? If your configurations now match what's working on this system, and every one I've had access to over the past 10 days, since they all work and yours doesn't then that's the only thing that comes to mind that might be causing you grief. Best of luck. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 10:53:30 up 1 day, 22:26, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.11, 0.10 ONE LIFE TO LIVE for ALL MY CHILDREN in ANOTHER WORLD all THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/30exZqvqlrLPr5YRAi/nAJ4z7u2Iab82qIWSJnPsas39buUSEQCcDDSg AE9bccy1o+FmPZAzKQQW5mM= =8UMm -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 12:25, Martin Brandt wrote: > Damn it is NTFS. I'll just have to work out how to Detect my linux boot on > the windows OS then, if thats possible, or else ill have to write a CDRW > each time i want to transfer files... If you have an ext2/ext3 partition you can access it from Windows using "explorer2fs". http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kroupware
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 16 December 2003 7:25 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > This program is the last step in my office. Act! is the only thing > running on VMware right now. > > Has anyone installed either server or client. Does the available > rpm work on mdk? > > Should I dl the tarball and checkinstall an rpm? > > kdenetwork-kroupware-1.0.1-1 RPM for i386. > > Lee Hi Lee; Is there a reason you wouldn't use the packages available from Mandrake? If you have a contrib source set up just urpmi kdenetwork_kroupware You'll get a package like this one: ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586/kdenetwork_kroupware-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm Wouldn't that be easier? Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 10:38:35 up 1 day, 22:11, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.09 I am more bored than you could ever possibly be. Go back to work. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/30ZPZqvqlrLPr5YRAq7wAJ9A43eSC57EUqIla/f1FFZY/36doACgsQ44 YaJrhEGb/YIZAyDzdGuA5L0= =dDT7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
Martin; If you've got the time and patience, I'd like to suggest something that will solve most of your hard drive access problems. This is something that I have done time and again, and I've been damn glad I did because it saved me from a catastrophic loss of data several times, so I'll throw it into the mix here. Let me know if it works for you. The first thing to remember is that this will mean wiping your hard drive completely, so I'd like to suggest that you start burning CD's right away. Once you've saved all your important data to CD, you should be able to proceed without concern. On a typical system, with at least a 25 Gb hard drive, I typically split the hard drive into smaller partitions. If you follow this suggestion to the end, you should have everything you need with a minimum of wasted space, and access to all your data with a minimum of hassle. For example - A 25 Gb hard drive divided into 3 partitions 1) The first is approximately 8GB in size, and formatted for NTFS. Here, you'll re-install Windows. 2) The second partition is ALSO 8 GB in size - and here you'll install Linux. A typical install of Linux would be set up with a "/" ( root ) partition of about 6GB's - giving you lots of space for applications and assorted packages, with another partition equal to the amount of RAM you have in your system - not to worry because Mandrake will suggest the appropriate size during installation. Use the remainder of the 8Gb partition for "/home". Item #2 above is inclusive - that is all the partitions mentioned during this part of the re-installation are all contained in the second 8GB partition. Even though the "/home" patition looks small, don't worry. That's what the rest of the hard drive is for. 3) You can create and format this partition in Windows or Linux, but the trick is to format it as FAT32. In this partition you will store all you data - documents, MP3's, etc., etc. You can even "re-map" your "My Documents" folder on your Windows Desktop to this drive, but do yourself a favor and create the folder on this drive before you do the move. Some final notes - Is essence, you only need to leave enough space in Windows or Linux to install your programs. If you look at it this way, you don't need as much space in either because you won't be storing any data on "C:\" ( in Windows) or "/" (in Linux ). This means that you don't have to duplicate storage space on either partition. It also means that you can have one location for all your data, since Microsoft Office, OpenOffice , and Koffice will all allow you to use the exact same folder as the location of your documents. In a similar fashion, you should be able to re-map the location of emails, MP3's, etc., so that programs from either operating system can access and use the files. The added bonus is that if your Wiindows ever needs to be re-installed, or you accidentally blow away the /home partition in Linux, all your data will be safe as long as you don't touch that last partition. Since doing this, I haven't lost a thing in the way of important info, docs or media of any kind unless I made a silly mistake. It may sound complicated, but it really isn't. Just takes a bit of time. Once it's done you should be able to access your files from either O/S without having to install anything else, and you can leave your Windows partition alone and untouched while using Linux. One last note here. Don't bother creating or formatting the last partition until both Windows and Linux are fully installed. That way, you can do it quickly from either O/S at your convenience, and you don't have to do it until you're happy with the results of the installs. One other feature of this is that you can create separate folders on the third partition to store Linux and Windows downloads, so that if you ever need them again, they'll be right where you left them. You'll save time on having to re-download them again and again. Hope this helps. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] incredible: chromium worked fine without drivers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 15 December 2003 4:23 pm, robin wrote: > Charlie Mahan wrote: > > In specific; NVidia, as well as ATI and quite a number of hardware > > manufacturers; don't necessarily own all of the technology and/or methods > > used to make their latest toys. What they own in the main is their own > > technology, and a license and/or contract with the owners of any other > > included technology, to use that other proprietary technology to make a > > blended whole. > > Quite. If nVidia wholly owned their drivers, I imagine they'd make them > open source. As a hardware company, they have nothing to lose and a lot > to gain (e.g. a bunch of unpaid hackers improving their drivers). Yeah I've noticed. (-: Then again if they were to adhere to OpenGL specs and (I suppose) re-invent the wheel to a degree they could force a major change in the way that (other) hardware manufacturers deal with Open Source. If ATI were ever to jump on that bandwagon as well... Just a dream, I know. )-: > > Since download editions are usually (always with Mandrake, others?) > > released under the GPL that means these items are not allowed to be used. > > It's a matter of licensing and permissions; and has nothing to do with > > "Free" as in no cost. It means the owner(s) of the technology or > > architecture have reserved exclusive rights to their own property or > > technology under a proprietary Copyright, and if you want to use it you > > have to agree to their terms. > > Exactly. If people think Mandrake are a bit prissy about the GPL thing, > remember that for years Debian refused to include KDE because the Qt > widgets weren't 100% Free Software. > > Sir Robin I actually do remember that. But it's been years and the closest I get to Debian these days is a Knoppix disk. Thanks for the input Sir Robin. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 10:23:24 up 1 day, 21:56, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.29, 0.21 "There is such a fine line between genius and stupidity." - - David St. Hubbins, "Spinal Tap" -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/30EfZqvqlrLPr5YRAhdWAJ0XQDubv+W0pfbaafmOdsjZcjrlCQCaAyOi N1IojWWE8L6sj4CM4SvBYOU= =Ayt4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 15 December 2003 4:03 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: [..] > > > > Open lilo.conf in the editor of your choice and change the append: > > splash=quiet > > to > > splash=verbose. > > > > You'll still get the 'fancy background' but you'll see the messages > > scroll by. Run lilo -v as super user afterwards. > > I'm using the version of lilo that comes with 9.2 (22.5.7.2) and it > doesn't recognize the splash= option in lilo.conf. The bootsplash > package is installed. Is your boot set to use the frame buffer (vga=xxx) or something else? Mine works, and since I hate to have the boot process hidden behind a splash image I had splash=no set for quite some time. I was experimenting one day with the different boot-splash themes. I kept switching until I found one I thought the customer that box was for could live with, and when I tested it I enabled splash=verbose just for grins. It worked. That's two machines this worked for, this one and a delivered system. I have the same version of lilo as you. AFAIK there were no updates in that regard for 9.2 and I haven't re-cooked this box yet. No time. (-: > > You can also change the splash themes but that's another project for > > another post. ie.: When someone asks about it. > > > > Alternative, splash=no gives a full "console" style boot, black > > background, boot messages. > > - -- Correct, it turns the boot-splash off. sh switch-themes -c will tell you the currently used theme. You can also find this in /etc/bootsplash/current which is a link to the one you are using now. sh switch-themes -l will list available themes. sh switch-themes Mandrake is the pattern to use for switching. Mandrake is the one I have selected now, the blue "denim look" sort of thing but there are others. The themes are in; file:/usr/share/bootsplash/themes/ The scripts for manipulating them are in; file:/usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/ Knock yourself out. If I were to reboot any more often than I absolutely have to I'd probably play with them more. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 09:56:47 up 1 day, 21:29, 1 user, load average: 0.46, 0.23, 0.13 Support wildlife -- vote for an orgy. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/3z80ZqvqlrLPr5YRAn/yAJ9IK7afD3o9wa2LkTUQk1Rwi1ErGQCgndQw vZFVe6NH8IorI6WDxI/wJM0= =AF/c -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 11:25 am, Martin Brandt wrote: > Damn it is NTFS. I'll just have to work out how to Detect my linux boot on > the windows OS then, if thats possible, or else ill have to write a CDRW > each time i want to transfer files... Unless you have room on the disk. If so, you can create a FAT32 partition in Windows and you should be able to mount that in Linux and write to it. Most people who dual boot keep such a partition available for just such purposes. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scannerdrake doesnt save config
David Little wrote: try,[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# sane-find-scanner -v searching for USB scanners: checking /dev/usb/scanner... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner0... open ok, vendor and product ids were identified found USB scanner (vendor=0x1606, product=0x0030) at /dev/usb/scanner0 If this is your system report and not mine, then it has found your scanner and it is situated on /dev/usb/scanner0, good . So you have a device and it's connected. found USB scanner (vendor=0x1606, product=0x0030) at libusb:002:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be sup # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. sounds to me as though it doesn't think you have a driver for this scanner. [EMAIL PROTECTED] david]# scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). sane-find-scanner appears to recognise the scanner properly? This seems to imply it doesn't recognise your make of scanner So what is your make and modelof scanner ? Has your scanner ever worked in linux ? If not then, I think I would go look on the sane website first and see what it says about your make and model. Then there is a sane help available here, [EMAIL PROTECTED] to join or, http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel [EMAIL PROTECTED]for help [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the list administrator To sum up if seems to of found a scanner on your system, but it doesn't seem to think it has a driver , or it has a wrongly set up driver maybe. Don't rule that out yet. scanner drake doesn't have a complete list of scanner makes and models and it may just be setting things up wrong. Once we know what your scanner make and model is you can alter the settings, as there are text based files to reset the settings even if scanner drake doesn't do it right. At the moment I don't know what make or model you have, but it would help if you went and assertained what sane believes your scanners is suported or not. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:20 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:59 am, Martin Brandt wrote: > > Hey, im trying to change the permissions for my windows partition > > so that i can write into it on a normal user. Atm i can't even > > write onto it via root, and it wont let me change the permissions > > on root either. Ive tried going onto the windows boot and sharing > > the Partition but it says its only for admins blah blah. I then > > tried to share a directory in it, but when i went back to the > > linux root there was not difference. What do i have to do? > > If it is an NTFS partition, it is mounted read-only because writing > to NTFS is still experimental in Linux. > > If it is FAT32, you need to set the umask=0 flag in /etc/fstab so > that users can write to it. Since you can't write to it as root, I > figure it is probably NTFS. It is not recommended to use Linux to > write to NTFS. To get round that, many of us have a fat32 partition, which can be shared by both OSs. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
Partition magic here i come... From: Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:35:05 + On Tuesday 16 December 2003 16:25, Martin Brandt wrote: > Damn it is NTFS. I'll just have to work out how to Detect my > linux boot on the windows OS then, if thats possible, or else ill > have to write a CDRW each time i want to transfer files... > Nope, Martin. Not necessarily. There is a common denominator for Windows and Linux. Both can read and write to FAT32 (vfat). If you can create a smallish FAT32 partition, you are done. Don't know though, if Windows can "see" beyond any Linux partitions, so if possible, create the FAT32 partition bettween those filesystems. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2 with via82xx: solved
Just for future reference. I downloaded the ALSA 9.0 RC6 package, but did not yet install it. But yesterday evening when I was playing with the Mandrake Control Centre again, I changed to the OSS driver for the Via chip and also disabled ALSA at boot. This morning when I started up the computer there was sound. So the solution was to use the OSS driver instead of the ALSA one. The next challenge will be ACPI. Erik Op za 13-12-2003, om 21:00 schreef emnej: > Op za 13-12-2003, om 08:46 schreef Frans Ketelaars: > > On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:13, emnej wrote: > > > Op vr 12-12-2003, om 09:32 schreef Derek Jennings: > > > > On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: > > > > > Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: > > > > > > Have you tried running alsaconf? > > > > > > > > > > > > Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. > > > > > > > > > > When I run alsaconf as root, I receive the following message: > > > > > > > > > > # alsaconf > > > > > device_mode int, description "Device file permission mask for > > > > > devfs." which: no dialog in > > > > > (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr > > > > >/local/sbi n) which: no whiptail in > > > > > (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr > > > > >/local/sbi n) Error, dialog or whiptail not found. > > > > > > > > > > So it seems that something here is not good, but I have no idea > > > > > what ;-) > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for helping, > > > > > > > > > > Erik > > > > > > > > Did you see this ? > > > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#alsaconf > > > > > > > > alsaconf is very effective at setting up your sound card. It will > > > > write the driver configuration into /etc/modules.conf but be aware > > > > it will overwrite the existing contents, and will not replace the > > > > non sound lines of the file. So make a backup before running > > > > alsaconf and replace the non sound lines by hand afterwards. > > > > > > > > derek > > > > > > Derek, > > > > > > Thank you very much for the link. I didn't know this and it helped me > > > to run alsaconf. It created a new version of the modules.conf but > > > that was fine because I had backed up the file because you warned me. > > > Since then I do not get a warning anymore when starting kmix from a > > > terminal, but I also still do not have any sound. > > > > > > Is there anything else that I can do? > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > > Erik > > > > You must raise the volumes of the relevant channels _and_ unmute them. > > In kmix unmuting a channel is done by clicking on the green led. It > > should be bright green. > > > > HTH, > > > > -Frans > > > > > > > > __ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > I think that the problem is not with the volume. 'Inhabitant of Zion' > advised me to look on the ALSA list. I searched their pages and found > out that it seems to be a problem with recent versions of ALSA. Others > had the same problem and were advised to go back to ALSA 9.0 RC6. This > is what I will now try to do. > > Anyway, thank you very much for your help! > > Hartelijke groeten, > > Erik > > > > __ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
you can check the free space of youre partitions with the df conmmand so you can have an idea if there is a space problem Cdrack. --- Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. > Tried to start back > up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot > up say something to > the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine > now): > > No room on / [0] expecting [2] > > I haven't done anything new to the setup or > installed/upgraded anything > new. > > Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's > just my understanding), > but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I > remembered that I > still have a couple of .iso images taking up some > space (this is a 25GB > drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them > freeing up a couple of > gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the > same message about > root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login > after some failed > attempts to start X. > > Just looking for some next steps and ultimately > finding out why this > happened. > > Thanks. > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back > up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to > the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): > > No room on / [0] expecting [2] > > I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything > new. > > Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), > but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I > still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB > drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of > gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about > root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed > attempts to start X. > > Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this > happened. > > Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 16:25, Martin Brandt wrote: > Damn it is NTFS. I'll just have to work out how to Detect my > linux boot on the windows OS then, if thats possible, or else ill > have to write a CDRW each time i want to transfer files... > Nope, Martin. Not necessarily. There is a common denominator for Windows and Linux. Both can read and write to FAT32 (vfat). If you can create a smallish FAT32 partition, you are done. Don't know though, if Windows can "see" beyond any Linux partitions, so if possible, create the FAT32 partition bettween those filesystems. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] fyi--thunderbird and url's
with some easy config, thunderbird 0.4 can launch url's. http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/mozilla_thunderbird_04_released.html HTH, Todd -- Name that tune #22: No caffeine, no protein, no booze or nicotine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
Damn it is NTFS. I'll just have to work out how to Detect my linux boot on the windows OS then, if thats possible, or else ill have to write a CDRW each time i want to transfer files... From: Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:20:56 -0500 On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:59 am, Martin Brandt wrote: > Hey, im trying to change the permissions for my windows partition so that i > can write into it on a normal user. Atm i can't even write onto it via > root, and it wont let me change the permissions on root either. > Ive tried going onto the windows boot and sharing the Partition but it says > its only for admins blah blah. I then tried to share a directory in it, but > when i went back to the linux root there was not difference. > What do i have to do? If it is an NTFS partition, it is mounted read-only because writing to NTFS is still experimental in Linux. If it is FAT32, you need to set the umask=0 flag in /etc/fstab so that users can write to it. Since you can't write to it as root, I figure it is probably NTFS. It is not recommended to use Linux to write to NTFS. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Find a cheaper internet access deal - choose one to suit you. http://www.msn.co.uk/internetaccess Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:59 am, Martin Brandt wrote: > Hey, im trying to change the permissions for my windows partition so that i > can write into it on a normal user. Atm i can't even write onto it via > root, and it wont let me change the permissions on root either. > Ive tried going onto the windows boot and sharing the Partition but it says > its only for admins blah blah. I then tried to share a directory in it, but > when i went back to the linux root there was not difference. > What do i have to do? If it is an NTFS partition, it is mounted read-only because writing to NTFS is still experimental in Linux. If it is FAT32, you need to set the umask=0 flag in /etc/fstab so that users can write to it. Since you can't write to it as root, I figure it is probably NTFS. It is not recommended to use Linux to write to NTFS. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
Hey, im trying to change the permissions for my windows partition so that i can write into it on a normal user. Atm i can't even write onto it via root, and it wont let me change the permissions on root either. Ive tried going onto the windows boot and sharing the Partition but it says its only for admins blah blah. I then tried to share a directory in it, but when i went back to the linux root there was not difference. What do i have to do? Thanks _ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Java plug-in probs
Well no luck so far. Im gonna get a knowledgeable friend to look over my system via ssh. Thanks all for your help, i know im gonna need a lot more of it : P From: Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mozilla Java plug-in probs Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:29:13 -0700 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 13 December 2003 7:33 am, Martin Brandt wrote: > I had already done that : ( > The wierd thing is, i went on that test page and it says no java enabled, > but it says the version no. (1.3) and that cookies are enabled which it > says should only be displayed if java test says enabled. > From the experience of trying to install Bit Torrent, should there be some > stuff on java in /etc/mailcap file? application/x-java-jnlp-file; /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_03/javaws/javaws %s I didn't add that manually to the mailcap file. But you're right, it is there. It's the last line. I'm absolutely positive that my friend Ed didn't change any configurations in anything since he's an almost totally _raw gnubie_ and while he isn't afraid to try things he won't until someone gives him links to information. His java worked with just the instructions I gave him, which is what I posted. Try adding the relevant version path to mailcap and try again maybe? Good luck Martin. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 10:22:59 up 1 day, 18:55, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.06 There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead. -- Lord Thomas Rober Dewar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/20xpZqvqlrLPr5YRApD3AJ985tH97ySK/gTVlUCT64odyrQRWgCfY0Lp O5o/ERWg8PhLCjZRdSfYgeg= =iW9n -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Find a cheaper internet access deal - choose one to suit you. http://www.msn.co.uk/internetaccess Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kroupware
This program is the last step in my office. Act! is the only thing running on VMware right now. Has anyone installed either server or client. Does the available rpm work on mdk? Should I dl the tarball and checkinstall an rpm? kdenetwork-kroupware-1.0.1-1 RPM for i386. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wat is cooker version
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 10:15 am, babar haq wrote: > Hi > Can someone tell me wat is mandrake cooker rpm??? Cooker means that it is still largely experimental. It may work for you, but it could well be unstable. No guarantees on anything. Cooker versions are best left alone unless you are very confident or have no other option. > i have been using > red hat linux. i know wats rpm but wat is urpmi??? Thanx > Babar urpmi is a very powerful tool for handling rpms. There's a lot of info about it on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi There are also graphical interfaces. Try Mandrake Control Center > Software Management. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scannerdrake doesnt save config
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 09:35, John Richard Smith wrote: > > try,[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# sane-find-scanner -v searching for USB scanners: checking /dev/usb/scanner... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner0... open ok, vendor and product ids were identified found USB scanner (vendor=0x1606, product=0x0030) at /dev/usb/scanner0 checking /dev/usb/scanner1... failed to open (Invalid argument) .. (& more /dev/usb/scannerN... failed to open (Invalid argument) ) checking /dev/usbscanner... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner0... failed to open (Invalid argument) & so on found USB scanner (vendor=0x1606, product=0x0030) at libusb:002:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be sup # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# scanimage -L > device `epson:/dev/usb/scanner0' is a Epson GT-9300 flatbed scanner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# > > > > And report what the two command find. > John [EMAIL PROTECTED] david]# scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). sane-find-scanner appears to recognise the scanner properly? david Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
mike wrote: mike wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=menu vga=791 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="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off" vga=791 read-only Here is mine, boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=791 default="91-2.4.21.0" keytable=/boot/uk.klt prompt nowarn timeout=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk label="91-2.4.21.0" root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off" vga=791 read-only John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 05:38 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: GR > But it will - if you just hit during the bootup process, right? GR GR I switched to LILO graphics for booting. If I hit escape while the LILO GR graphics menu is up, it simply switches to the LILO text prompt. If I GR hit escape after the making a selection from the LILO menu and the GR kernel has started loading, absolutely nothing happens - the kernel just GR keeps on loading. It definitely doesn't switch to the blue Mandrake GR window that John showed. GR Hmm, right now - mine shows the Mandrake 9.2 logo in the right hand lower corner, and it has a loading (progress) bar going from left to right across the middle of the screen with the message "Press Escape for verbose mode". I fI hit escape, it goes to a screen on top of the original screen with the scrolling bootup text messages. (Same thing for when I logout). It finally winds up at the login screen showing my account and my wifes'. Just different setups, I guess. :-) Yes, It's confusing. I'm getting a bit lost now. See, my blue gui boot script arrived after I reinstalled the standard M9.1 distro kernel, the very same one as on the discs. It added something new that seems to dominate the boot procedure. All this confusion is not helped by the splashscreen package names , very confusing since it's the boot script we are trying to return to text mode, not the splash screen, but never mind , so long as the confusing name is understood, so well and good. But I've done the urpme splashscreen bit and removed the gui shutdown, but the bootup remains blue screen gui. I haven't tried these two yet, should I ? Edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash set SPLASH=no Open lilo.conf in the editor of your choice and change the append: splash=quiet John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
Chris wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 07:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John John, are you talking about this entry in lilo.conf? image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" read-only Yep, here's mine boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=791 default="91-2.4.21.0" keytable=/boot/uk.klt prompt nowarn timeout=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk label="91-2.4.21.0" root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off" vga=791 read-only as you can see the vga=791 goes in twice, globally, and specifically, though I guess the specific arguement prevails ? but I think I'm beginning to loose the train of these various sub-threads John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
mike wrote: The blue screen like I said I just removed the splash package with --nodep. Perhaps changing the lilo.config specifically what change ? then running lilo -v might tell us something I'll try that after I back it up. And see what happens. Anyways I was able to change it with the gui. Mike John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scannerdrake doesnt save config
et wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 06:58 pm, David Little wrote: Might be as well to install the updates first as I think it has been mentioned that there is some kind of bug in harddrake as supplied on the disk. Cheers, I've done all the updates to no avail. Will try the installation CD route when I get back from holiday. David what is the error messages from (in a text console, without the quotes) "sane-find-scanner" and "scanimage -L" Not much of a message . Lets start somewhere at the beginning, try,[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# sane-find-scanner -v searching for SCSI scanners: checking /dev/scanner... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sg0... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sg1... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sg2... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sg3... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sg4... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sg5... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sg6... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sg7... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sg8... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sg9... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sga... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgb... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgc... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgd... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sge... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgf... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgg... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgh... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgi... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgj... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgk... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgl... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgm... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgn... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgo... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgp... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgq... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgr... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgs... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgt... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgu... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgv... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgw... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgx... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgy... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/sgz... failed to open (Invalid argument) # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. searching for USB scanners: checking /dev/usb/scanner... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner0... open ok, vendor and product ids were identified found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x011b) at /dev/usb/scanner0 checking /dev/usb/scanner1... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner2... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner3... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner4... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner5... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner5... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner7... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner8... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner9... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner10... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner11... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner12... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner13... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner14... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usb/scanner15... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner0... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner1... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner2... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner3... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner4... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner5... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner6... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner7... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner8... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner9... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner10... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner11... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner12... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner13... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/usbscanner14... failed to open (Invalid argu
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
Guy Rouillier wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 02:43 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: GR John, thanks for posting the image - I *never* would have understood GR that was what you were seeing. I just spent an hour trying to make that GR happen under 9.2, and no matter what combinations I tried, I couldn't GR get the OK messages to come up in that blue Mandrake graphics window. GR Sorry! But it will - if you just hit during the bootup process, right? I switched to LILO graphics for booting. If I hit escape while the LILO graphics menu is up, it simply switches to the LILO text prompt. If I hit escape after the making a selection from the LILO menu and the kernel has started loading, absolutely nothing happens - the kernel just keeps on loading. It definitely doesn't switch to the blue Mandrake window that John showed. I'm guessing here, but maybe it requires an extra package or two to provide the gui in question ? that urpme splashscreen thing I did removed something ? Well it sounded like it did, some number crunching going on, Whether it did or not it didn't tell me, just returned to shell. But it did remove the blue gui shutdown script and replaced it with the usual B/W text But not the blue gui boot-up script , odd ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wat is cooker version
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 10:15 am, babar haq wrote: > Hi > Can someone tell me wat is mandrake cooker rpm???i have been using red hat > linux. i know wats rpm but wat is urpmi??? Thanx > Babar Mandrake Cooker is the development strand of Mandrake. At Mandrake all development is conducted in the open. Cooker is where the developers are currently building Mandrake 10.0 Unless you are an experienced Linux user, then it is best to leave Cooker alone. It is especially not recommended to mix packages from Cooker with the current stable release unless you know what you are doing. Urpmi is Mandrakes package manager. Ut builds upon RedHats rpm by managing online software sources, and automatically resolving dependencies. It is quite similar to apt-get in the Debian world. You can read about urpmi here http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] wat is cooker version
Hi Can someone tell me wat is mandrake cooker rpm???i have been using red hat linux. i know wats rpm but wat is urpmi??? Thanx Babar -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compex WLU11A with Mandrake 9.2 Detected but unable to surf the net. ( post #1)
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 5:56 pm, Benjy wrote: > i've got for meself a compex wlu11a wireless usb adapter. did some research > on it and i found that it was to use the atmel driver. came across this > site: > > Jenning's Homelinux site. (found out i can't post URLs ) > > and it said to use the at76c503a driver over the atmel one. followed the > instructions on screen and everything seemed to work. well, it worked up to > the point where i can't seem to be able to surf. did a iwconfig, and > realised that essid has been resetted to a default setting and so were the > modes and channels. restored it back, got a signal level, but was still > unable to surf or use the net. > > am a windows user actually, played with RH9 a few months back and i got my > wlu11a working but doesn't seem to be so with Mandrake 9.2. and i wonder > why. can anyone point me in the right direction please? > > p.s. did some searching in this forum, came across stuff like 'service > network restart.' how do you actually do that anyways? also, what does > broadcast in linux mean? the gateway or the dns server? > > my server settings in case needed for explanation: > Internal IP: 192.168.168.102 > DNS servers: 165.21.100.88 and 165.21.83.88 > Gateway: 192.168.168.1 > SubnetMask: 255.255.255.0 > DHCP Server:192.168.168.1 > (Got the above information from me windows xp os) > > thanks and pardon the long post! I am the author of the site you found. It sounds as if you are very nearly there. If you have a signal level then the wireless system seems to be working. Your problem is likely to be setting up your default routes or the nameserver. Could you post the contents of the following files please? /etc/resolv.conf /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 /etc/sysconfig/network The 'service network restart' I mention on my site is a command to restart networking. To use it open a terminal window and enter 'su' to become root user. The 'Broadcast' address is a reserved IP number which all devices on a Lan listen to. By default it is the highest address in the subnet. In your case it will be 192.168.168.255 derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scannerdrake doesnt save config
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 00:18, et wrote: > what is the error messages from (in a text console, without the quotes) > "sane-find-scanner" and "scanimage -L" > sane-find-scanner returns: # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. # Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system. # If using Linux, try "modprobe sg". found USB scanner (vendor=0x1606, product=0x0030) at /dev/usb/scanner0 found USB scanner (vendor=0x1606, product=0x0030) at libusb:002:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports can't be # detected by this program. - In /etc/sane.d/umax1220u.conf # The following line enables autodetection for the # Astra 2000U and Astra 2100U. However, this driver # isn't entirely compatible, so expect color problems :) usb 0x1606 0x0030usb 0x1606 0x0030 usb 0x1606 0x0130 so it looks like it has detected the right back-end. --- scanimage -L returns: No scanners were identified... David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
