Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11?
--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I am wondering if any k3b users here have tried to upgrade to the latest release 0.11? I found a binary package for Mdk9.2 here: http://www.k3b.org/ but, when I try to install, urpmi tells me there is conflicting file in the package, libk3b1-0.9-10mdk. Now, the only libk3b1-0.11 package I can find is, libk3b1-0.11.1-3mdk.alpha.rpm, which is a cooker package. I know full well that it is taboo to use cooker stuff on a non-cooker installation, but, I will ask anyway. ;-) Is it OK to install this libk3b1-0.11 package? It looks to me like k3b is the only thing using this lib package. Urpmi tells me that it can be installed. Should I just leave well enough alone? Am I tempting fate and trying to break my system? Please advise. TIA for any help. Best regards to all. --Angus I managed to get k3b .11 installed just fine on 9.2, but for the life of me cannot remember where I got the package from, sorry. Checking my database the package was k3b-0.11-db. Also, there is an rpm for k3b available here: ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/ I haven't tested it, but chances are it should work. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Error while doing Mandrake Update
I have tried to install the Bugfix "libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk" multiple time now at different times of the day but I continue to get the same error: The following packages have bad signatures: libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Couldn't open file) Do you want to continue installation? Russ Hoyt Bailey wrote: Ignore the past and you will fail Ignore the future and you have already failed. - Original Message - From: "Russ" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie e-mail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 23:22 Subject: [newbie] Error while doing Mandrake Update When I do a Bugfixes updates and select the following updates I get errors. Updates: libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk libqt-devel-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk qt3-common-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk First error: The following packages have bad signatures: libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Couldn't open file) Do you want to continue installation? I reply yes!! Second error: There was a problem during the installation: libqt3 = 3.1.2-15.3.92mdk is needed by libqt3-devel-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk libqt3 = 3.1.2-15.3.92mdk is needed by qt3-common-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk qt3-common = 3.1.2-15.3.92mdk is needed by (installed) libqt3-3.1.2-15.2.92mdk unable to install package ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/./libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk.i586.rpm Any help would be appreciated Russ I'm going though it too Russ just click install untill it downloads all of the rpm's you have selected. You will likely get this sequence more than once just go through it and click install again. Finally it will install everything and you will be happy. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 2.6: The Speed Demon
Not tried it I don't think but I would double check the reiserFS web site. I am still having problems with my Sata controller so after 3 atempts to install beta 3 I gave up last night will give it another couple of goes tonight. Tony. -Original Message- From: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 2.6: The Speed Demon On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 1:40 pm, JoeHill wrote: For those of you struggling to get 2.6 up and running, and those who are lukewarm on the subject, check out what you're missing (as am I): http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Feb/gee20040203023723.htm Can anyone help with a question on 2.6? I have ReiserFS on all my partitions. Half the reason for wanting 2.6 is the capability bits in the filesystems. If I install 2.6 on my spare partition will the 2.4 FS and the 2.6 FS be compatible, and will I have the capability bits when running in 2.6? -- Richard Urwin -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops
Terence Golightly wrote: re-examining the man page to cdrecord and choosing the -ignsize option. I burned, I see files, I happy!!! Cheers to all, Terry That's right , unless you specify differently cdrecord, as I understand it , assumes your media size is 650MB, but as long as you take care to insure that your media is large enough to receive all the data, using the -ignsize option allows your to override it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Export from Kmail into OE6
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Can I export messages back from Kmail into OE6? Thanks. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 16:58:25 up 9:08, 9 users, load average: 0.75, 0.31, 0.22 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIhQWMai9kCFqACoRAs3DAJ40xjGd7jff24gfbHkfd9JpVSEpEACaApDs AXhcknkAa50pmF5O6bxKcwE= =3mVc -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working
On 2/4/2004 at 10:21 PM Steve Kaufman wrote: I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get it to work. I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a router with a printer port. Under windows I just set up a port and put in the router base address and print to it. No problem. I tried the CUPS setup and it goes all the way through. I put in that it was an LPR printer and gave it the ip address but don't have a quename to give it. I tried MCC add a printer but it can't see the printer so it won't let me go farther. Also read a lot of man pages about lpr and print and other stuff like that. Tried those things to no avail. If anyone can give me a hint on what to do I would appreciate it. Have done the google think and don't seem to find anything. The d-link sit was not much help either although I did fine one thing where it said to put in the ip address and lp so I'm not that lp was the que name ot what. I have switched back to my doze system so I can't test that right now. Will tomorrow so I thought I would just drop this out to you helpfull people and see what other ideas people have. By the way the printer I have attached to it is a HP Laserjet IIIP. TIA Steve Linux user number 344404 *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** Steve; I had a look at the unit on D-LINK's web-site and it doesn't seem to support any protocols other than Windows printing, that means SMB is your friend. The problem is that while it is accepting SMB connections, the print server is NOT broadcasting it's existance. Your best bet with this unit is to try the following; 1) Using the Windows software for the router, or the web-based interface, log into the router and configure it for your network. By the sounds of things that's already been done since you're using the router in Windows for printing. 2) Once you're logged into the router, go to each panel or page of the Interface where there is a space to enter a host name for the unit, and put in the following name exactly as I have it here in brackets - ( dlink_printer ) - don't include the brackets. 3) Make sure that the router has a static IP address - ie; 192.168.0.1 and a subnet that matches your network setup - ie; 255.255.255.0 4) Boot your PC into Mandrake, and change to the root user. 5) In the /etc folder, find the file called hosts, and add the following line to the file - 192.168.0.1 dlink_printer , making sure that you leave a space between the IP address and the name of the router. Save and close the file. 6) In Mandrake Control Center, go to the Hardware section, then go to printers. Try setting up the printer using Windows SMB and it should give you a line to put in information about the location of the printer like this - smb:// - Note that you may only see this type of entry if you are in expert or advanced mode. When you get this option, enter the name dlink_printer without the quotes, and make sure that it's exactly the way you typed it in the /etc/hosts file. 7) At the next section, you should be asked about the printer drivers for your printer so select the drivers for your HP printer. 8) Do a test page. 9) If it doesn't work, it's because Mandrake still can't see the router/printer-server, and chances are that it never will. There's no guarantee that it will work, but it's something you might try though. I had the exact same problem with another brand of All in One router, but I checked it out before buying to make sure it supported LPD or CUPS. Once I found out what was needed, it took 3 minutes to set up on each of 5 Mandrake Systems. Good luck. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] missing /boot/boot.b
I am trying to make a bootable CD using mindi. However it complains that I have no /boot/boot.b and offers to use /boot/boot.0300 instead. I am sure that I used to have a file called /boot/boot.b and a line in /etc/lilo.conf install=/boot/boot.b but this has gone also. I do have the /boot/boot.0300 file which mindi refers to. I can only think that something must have gone wrong when I updated my kernel as this is the only time I can remember doing anything which would affect /etc/lilo.conf. Anyone know what has happened here? Thanks Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail word wrap
I've got this problem with Kmail. Word wrap is set at col 75 and in the composer window this works fine. But when I see my messages after they are delivered they are not wrapped at all. Anyone got ant ideas? Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:21 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get it to work. I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a router with a printer port. Under windows I just set up a port and put in the router base address and print to it. No problem. I tried the CUPS setup and it goes all the way through. I put in that it was an LPR printer and gave it the ip address but don't have a quename to give it. I tried MCC add a printer but it can't see the printer so it won't let me go farther. Also read a lot of man pages about lpr and print and other stuff like that. Tried those things to no avail. If anyone can give me a hint on what to do I would appreciate it. Have done the google think and don't seem to find anything. The d-link sit was not much help either although I did fine one thing where it said to put in the ip address and lp so I'm not that lp was the que name ot what. I have switched back to my doze system so I can't test that right now. Will tomorrow so I thought I would just drop this out to you helpfull people and see what other ideas people have. You were right, lp is the queue name. I had an old 704P and had it setup and printing with an HP Deskjet printer. Since then, I have changed printers and routers so I don't use it anymore. Concept is the same though, LPR printer, IP address of the router and lp for queue name should work, if it doesn't then I can try to help you troubleshoot it. BTW, based on my experience, using the router as a print server is only useful under windows. Under windows, the computer that the printer is connected to slows down when others are printing to it (Possibly higher resolutions supported under windows or postscript drivers rather than pcl drivers). Using a Linux machine for the print server, I never had that problem with a shared printer. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting the last 10 changed files
I would like to get a list of the last 10 changed files on my computer. Is that possible? If so, how? That would be a very slow process, I think: cd / ls -lRt | head -n 10 Thanks, a lot! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11?
Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:23:18 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11? On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 15:46:46 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I just leave well enough alone? Am I tempting fate and trying to break my system? Please advise. If using a gui I, myself, prefer either x-cd-roast or eroaster. After having my fstab scrambled by k3b several releases ago I never touched it again. With that preamble out of the way, if you can wait until tomorrow I will rebuild for 9.2 and upload to my site k3b-0.11.1-4mdk, which will be actual mdk rpms and not the wanna-bes that is on the k3b site. Charles Thanks Charles, and Bryan, I appreciate your help/advice. I will perhaps do a urpmi --test on the 9.1 package that Bryan's url points to. I will get your rebuilt for 9.2 package Charles, as soon as you have it ready. :-) Will you also have to do the libk3b1 package? Thanks again guys. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11?
- Original Message - From: Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 23:01:21 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11? --- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I am wondering if any k3b users here have tried to upgrade to the latest release 0.11? I found a binary package for Mdk9.2 here: http://www.k3b.org/ but, when I try to install, urpmi tells me there is conflicting file in the package, libk3b1-0.9-10mdk. Now, the only libk3b1-0.11 package I can find is, libk3b1-0.11.1-3mdk.alpha.rpm, which is a cooker package. I know full well that it is taboo to use cooker stuff on a non-cooker installation, but, I will ask anyway. ;-) Is it OK to install this libk3b1-0.11 package? It looks to me like k3b is the only thing using this lib package. Urpmi tells me that it can be installed. Should I just leave well enough alone? Am I tempting fate and trying to break my system? Please advise. TIA for any help. Best regards to all. --Angus Job Evers did divulge: I managed to get k3b .11 installed just fine on 9.2, but for the life of me cannot remember where I got the package from, sorry. Checking my database the package was k3b-0.11-db. Also, there is an rpm for k3b available here: ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/ I haven't tested it, but chances are it should work. Thanks Job Evers for your reply, and the link to the ftp site with the Mdk rpms. :-) Nice find! Best regards to you. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Testing USB
Dear All I would like to know how to learn whether the USB connection is working properly. I have a printer connected to there and it does not work. Could somebody here please help me? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE brings Safari improvements to Linux
I'm no big fan of KDE, but this sounds pretty cool: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39145507,00.htm -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 07:33:38 up 18:28, 4 users, load average: 1.21, 1.19, 1.13 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ 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] Testing USB
On Thursday 05 February 2004 13:31, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I would like to know how to learn whether the USB connection is working properly. I have a printer connected to there and it does not work. Could somebody here please help me? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Open a terminal, become root/su (type su then enter, enter root password and enter) and type tail -f /var/log/messages. Then unplug the printer...wath the output there, and plug it in again...and watch the output again. You should be getting messages there followed by -success:) If in doubt do service usb restart and try again. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdlist.cz
On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:19 am, anton wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me what this file is known as. I.e, what would Cooker gurus (Sir Charles, etc) say that they had just updated... I guess the hdlist -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Testing USB
There's also a nice graphical tool, usbview, which shows the tree of USB devices currently connected. If not already installed, you can find it on disk1 of MDK9.2. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 13:31, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I would like to know how to learn whether the USB connection is working properly. I have a printer connected to there and it does not work. Could somebody here please help me? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Open a terminal, become root/su (type su then enter, enter root password and enter) and type tail -f /var/log/messages. Then unplug the printer...wath the output there, and plug it in again...and watch the output again. You should be getting messages there followed by -success:) If in doubt do service usb restart and try again. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 12:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:21 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get it to work. I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a router with a printer port. Under windows I just set up a port and put in the router base address and print to it. No problem. I tried the CUPS setup and it goes all the way through. I put in that it was an LPR printer and gave it the ip address but don't have a quename to give it. I tried MCC add a printer but it can't see the printer so it won't let me go farther. Also read a lot of man pages about lpr and print and other stuff like that. Tried those things to no avail. If anyone can give me a hint on what to do I would appreciate it. Have done the google think and don't seem to find anything. The d-link sit was not much help either although I did fine one thing where it said to put in the ip address and lp so I'm not that lp was the que name ot what. I have switched back to my doze system so I can't test that right now. Will tomorrow so I thought I would just drop this out to you helpfull people and see what other ideas people have. You were right, lp is the queue name. I had an old 704P and had it setup and printing with an HP Deskjet printer. Since then, I have changed printers and routers so I don't use it anymore. Concept is the same though, LPR printer, IP address of the router and lp for queue name should work, if it doesn't then I can try to help you troubleshoot it. BTW, based on my experience, using the router as a print server is only useful under windows. Under windows, the computer that the printer is connected to slows down when others are printing to it (Possibly higher resolutions supported under windows or postscript drivers rather than pcl drivers). Using a Linux machine for the print server, I never had that problem with a shared printer. I have a netgear print server attached to a router and this link tells how to set it up. http://www.aplawrence.com/Linux/netgearcups.html Worked like a dream first time - might help tho hardware differs. david Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] clock doesn't keep accurate time
NTP will synchronize your clock to UTC time. It will also maintain a drift file and get better with time at holding the machine's clock accurate. You can't set your clock to a local timezone. Rick, Just realized your reply to: is set to your address so you'll get this twice. Thanks for the help - the issue is resolved. Curt -- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] k3b and root privileges
Greetings, I have installed k3b-0.11, which I rebuilt from the src rpm here: ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/SRPMS/ (Thanks Job Evers) I had to install libk3b1-0.11 also, but it was compiled as part of the k3b src rpm. All seems well, but k3b is requesting root privileges for cdrdao, and wants to change permissions for my CDRW and cdrecord too. I haven't given the OK. Would this be just granting k3b the right to mess up my system? K3b tells me that it is recommended to configure cdrdao to run with root privileges, to increase the overall stability of the burning process. Is this software doubletalk for I want your permission to trash the system please. I wonder if I can give the OK to this, and not have k3b rewrite my fstab? I forget what I did when I installed the previous version of k3b. :-/ Help please. TIA. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Testing USB
There's also a nice graphical tool, usbview, which shows the tree of USB devices currently connected. If not already installed, you can find it on disk1 of MDK9.2. Thanks, but I cannot install usbview. The installer complains about bad signatures. How to overcome the bad signatures problem? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] connectivity issue.... again
I just started gFTP to get the 10.0 iso and it is proceeding and only with occasional interruptions to the xmms stream I was using Opera's download manager which may have been part of the problem. I've lowered the Audio Buffer size (KDE) which seems to have improved the situation - though there are still some drop-outs. Top shows xmms using 2% to 9% of the cpu. This shouldn't be happening should it? Curt -- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little fingerWilliam James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] connectivity issue oops! thought I'd sent this....
My 9.2 upgrade (from 9.1) seems to be having a problem. I'm downloading the 10.0 betas but when I start the download it interrupts the stream playing on xmms - and then the stream will not reconnect - it will hang at the connecting phase or during buffering. On occasion it will start the stream for just a few seconds then quit. Has anyone seen this behavior or have a clue what might be happening? As a side note I've d/l'd CD 2 three different times from three different mirrors but the md5sum is always wrong - -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 3.2 for Mandrake 9.2
Does anyone know whether or not KDE 3.2 will run on Mandrake 9.2 or not ? If it does, can anyone tell me if the rpm's are available anywhere, or is it strictly for Mandrake 10? Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.2 for Mandrake 9.2
On Thursday 05 February 2004 10:26 am, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know whether or not KDE 3.2 will run on Mandrake 9.2 or not ? If it does, can anyone tell me if the rpm's are available anywhere, or is it strictly for Mandrake 10? Lanman I'm trying to build the cooker srpms on my 9.2 box, QT built cleanly, but I ran into a little difficulty with my build environment, which I need to clean up. I am going to do this tonight and see what happens, but I'm giving no guarantees. I would say that from an official standpoint, you may see them available to the Club, but with 10.0 development being in such a late state, Laurent may not have time to package it for 9.2 until after 10.0 comes out. IMO, at that point you might as well upgrade the whole distro to get the advantages of the 2.6 kernel and XFree 4.4. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Hi all I am unable to get my DVD drive to eject I tried to hold the open button on the drive. Also tried to use the eject command. The drive is not mounted but yet it refuses to eject. when I try to use the eject command I get the following error. eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument David David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.2 for Mandrake 9.2
Yeah, That's what I thought as well. Sigh. So I started a download of 10.0 beta 2 an hour ago. I'm going to see whether or not I can update a 9.2 install with the new packages. Probably won't work, but what the heck, it's fun to experiment. Thanks for the reply Greg. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/5/2004 at 11:30 AM Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 10:26 am, Lanman wrote:. Does anyone know whether or not KDE 3.2 will run on Mandrake 9.2 or not ? If it does, can anyone tell me if the rpm's are available anywhere, or is it strictly for Mandrake 10? Lanman I'm trying to build the cooker srpms on my 9.2 box, QT built cleanly, but I ran into a little difficulty with my build environment, which I need to clean up. I am going to do this tonight and see what happens, but I'm giving no guarantees. I would say that from an official standpoint, you may see them available to the Club, but with 10.0 development being in such a late state, Laurent may not have time to package it for 9.2 until after 10.0 comes out. IMO, at that point you might as well upgrade the whole distro to get the advantages of the 2.6 kernel and XFree 4.4. -- /g 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]
Try umount -l or while it is booting try if not then you will have to use the SDOD (special drive open device) a paper clip through the small hole at the front, unless you have the correct toll bundled with the drive. DO the latter part with the PC turned off. Tony -Original Message- From: David Sexton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hi all I am unable to get my DVD drive to eject I tried to hold the open button on the drive. Also tried to use the eject command. The drive is not mounted but yet it refuses to eject. when I try to use the eject command I get the following error. eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument David David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel 260ent and floppy drive
Hi, I am running kernel 260ent for a while without problem. Now it seems that byaccident I found that it ca not read a grub boot floppy. That is a ext2 file system. Other boot and dos floppy's no problem. reboot in 2422-26 and all is well. It seems that 260 can not read it's own fs ? Any ideas please. Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?
Hi, I suggest grub.. On my drive one there is win 98 - mdk 9.2 - fedora - suse 9.0. On my drive two there is win xp home. Grub handles this effortlessly. I even experimented with to two win systems (up to 3 win systems can be handled) on same drive - that worked fine with the hide/unhide option. This is all in the grub howto.. etc. grub need some close study and I feel sure it can be done. Johan *** On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 20:17:49 + Robert Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 4:59 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: Robert, mind if I piggyback on this question? I have a new AMD64 laptop, and it came with XP Home (of course!) I want to put XP-64 as well as Mandrake 32-bit and 64-bit. Can lilo or grub handle copying files before starting to boot Windows versions? Here's the rub: all versions of Windows derived from NT have two critical startup files: ntldr and ntdetect.com. These are incompatible between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, so I need the boot mechanism to copy in the right versions from backup directories before kicking off the boot process. System Commander does this, and I just learned the hard way that BootMagic (comes with Partition Magic) does *not* gr. Seeing as I have to start all over, I thought I'd try doing it with grub. Thanks. Greg, If I read your question right you want to quad boot your machine? That is an interesting idea :-) Might be difficult to manage booting into the 2 Windows partitions though. (Not sure really). I think you might have to move this question to the expert mailing list if you get stuck :-) It would be difficult for Lilo/Grub to see the windows files you refer to as the Windows partitions wouldn't be mounted by Linux at that point. Robert -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sound
Dear all still struggling with this sound problem, Now got sound in the cd player and have run alsaconf to make sure everything there is ok. my mixer setting seen fine and all the slides are on any at full volume. But still no sound. Also installed aumix which is where the problem in 9.1 was and that is fine too as far as i can tell.? any sugestions. Philip. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 05 February 2004 2:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Terence Golightly wrote: re-examining the man page to cdrecord and choosing the -ignsize option. I burned, I see files, I happy!!! Cheers to all, Terry That's right , unless you specify differently cdrecord, as I understand it , assumes your media size is 650MB, but as long as you take care to insure that your media is large enough to receive all the data, using the -ignsize option allows your to override it. John The first thing I would do with any older CD-R/RW is check the manufacturer's site to find whether there's a firmware update available. That's the easy way to ensure capability of larger capacity disks. ignsize can be dangerous because it instructs the writing app to over burn. Often a very bad thing. If you want to see what cdrecord does before it starts to write to a blank run the following command with a blank in the drive:. Alter the dev= part to suit your environment of course, not everyone's burner is dev=0,0,0: cdrecord -atip dev=0,0,0 You'll get more than you want to know about the device, the media, the version of cdrecord you're running, etc.. Thusly: Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a25 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: '' Identifikation : '52X24X52 CD-RW ' Revision : '1.07' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 7 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11646 (97:26/54) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type:Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar) Manuf. index: 10 Manufacturer: Lead Data Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nanook]$ I've assembled far too many boxes for people using recycled components such as CD-RW drives to neglect a firmware update, and if the drive is old but has no update available I always test with larger capacity media before I'll use it or stick it into a new system. The price isn't high enough to justify it, the A-Open shown above that's in this machine was only $39.95 Canadian. The DVD +-R/+-RW (Sony) I installed yesterday was only $180.00 Canadian. Both use any size blank you can buy. With the software built in for Mandrake 10 beta2. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.2mdk 10:20:41 up 1:02, 1 user, load average: 0.50, 0.41, 0.29 Most people can do without the essentials, but not without the luxuries. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIn7vZqvqlrLPr5YRAl5QAKCnTSxI6vyuifQDKyjV6E5de1pnzwCfRzNB 3GR15hXRrL+Ieq/PkO6sETQ= =g/og -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops
On Thursday 05 February 2004 17:35, Charlie Mahan wrote: The first thing I would do with any older CD-R/RW is check the manufacturer's site to find whether there's a firmware update available. That's the easy way to ensure capability of larger capacity disks. ignsize can be dangerous because it instructs the writing app to over burn. Often a very bad thing. Totally side-issue (apologies to the original poster) - I have an issue with an older drive being unable to read home-recorded disks. I'm wondering if the higher capacity of these disks is the reason, although they are far from full. Any comments? 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
[newbie] Syslog
I need to setup syslog on my 9.2.1 box. My router is 10.1.1.2. Two questions: Where do I setup the ip address of the router in linux and have the linux box accept log entries from the router? Is it just the /etc/syslog.conf file? Where do the logs go once it is setup? Do I need to setup a directory or do they go to the /var/log directory? If anyone knows where there is some good docs on this, that would be great. Thanks, Mike
[newbie] CPAN (Swatch)
Hello, I am trying to install Swatch log viewer and it tells me that I need to install some CPANs. It gives me a site of search.cpan.org. I get two errors: Calc 0 not found Parse 0 not found How do I go about solving this problem? Thanks, Mike
Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd
Bryan I have tryed alreday using umount /mnt/cdrom and got back no errors but still can not eject it I have been using the command eject /mnt/cdrom but get same error I posted earyler I also tryed eject /mnt/hdc From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/05 Thu PM 03:49:49 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:36 am, David Sexton wrote: Hi all I am unable to get my DVD drive to eject I tried to hold the open button on the drive. Also tried to use the eject command. The drive is not mounted but yet it refuses to eject. when I try to use the eject command I get the following error. eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument What target are you using for the command? If you haven't created a /dev/dvd or link, you may need to specify /dev/cdrom depending on how many drives you have. You can also use the mount point /mnt/cdrom /mnt/dvd depending on what you use and it should still open the tray. However, if you have opened a console window to go to a mounted drive or konqueror window, you need to close all of those before you can eject the drive and you may need to su to root to get the drive to open. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdlist.cz
On Thursday 05 February 2004 02:43 pm, anton wrote: I guess the hdlist Cheers, I am trying to do some translation and in French it is apparently index. I thought maybe index, but then again, maybe list, or maybe there is some more specific name. It would sound pretty stupid if there is a good English name for it, and I can't translate it properly! Cheers Anton Okay, yes then, it could be called the package index or package listing. Also, the synthesis.hdlist.cz is a smaller version of that file for use over dialup. It has only very basic info about each package. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with lspci command
On Thursday 05 February 2004 03:22 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am running a script which looks for the not found command lspci. How can I find it? Is it necessary to install some package? Thank you a lot in advance! It is in the pciutils package, and if you don't have that installed, it will not be present on your system. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures
Dear All How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but with no success. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with lspci command
I am running a script which looks for the not found command lspci. How can I find it? Is it necessary to install some package? Thank you a lot in advance! It is in the pciutils package, and if you don't have that installed, it will not be present on your system. Thank you very much indeed, Greg! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] prism2_usb driving me mad:-P
Hello all, I'm having a devil of a time getting a sitecom usb wl-012 to workehh, it's driving me round the bend: Here's the sad story in a nutshell: I connected and installed all the necessary stufthe thing worked using kismet and scanned fine for networks, couldn't get it to set to ad-hoc mode though. I edited the /etc/wlan/ wlancfg-DEFAULT file to IS_ADHOC=y and it can be used after bringing up wlan0 with ifconfig. This did mean that kismet wouldn't run though.:( So being overly confident I stumbled into bridge-utils, installed and configurated it..got working it nicely too. Bridging went well..wonderfull:) Even kismet could be used and after kismet_unmonitor the bridge re-initialized:) Rebooted and for the life of me I can't get wlan0 to work againnot in the old settings nothingexcept kismet that still works:( Anybody got any straws for me to clutch before I drown the damn thingplease??? The thing just blinks at me and it shouldn't, the light is steady if it works. Grrr! Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RFC on translation of http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/urpmi.html
Hi, I have butchered the intro to urpmi into English and have attached both the initial rough translation, and a (very) slightly smoothed version for your wits to pick to pieces. My partner and I are going to spend a year in France in April and I thought it would be fun/useful to translate it, seeing as there is no obvious English version. If there is one (a better one) then I shall write to Guillaume Rousse and/or the urpmi people and get it linked, or offer this as a translation. It has a few ??? points - these are areas where I just couldn't work out what it would be in English (i.e., I didn't understand the French or the concept...). Your help here would be greatly appreciated. I am a long way from being an expert in urpmi so there may actually be some factual errors. In terms of translation - I am not a translator, and do not claim to be, though I enjoy speaking and reading French. I have tried to walk the ever-present line in translation between literalness and sense. There is some humour that I have probably mis-represented, ah well, that was unavoidable!;-). Some of the sentences are very long in the original, and a French scholar would probably raise the eyebrows... I cut only one sentence in two - far be it from me to advise on such matters! Please note that it is a translation into British English, so spellings like connexion and colour, are correct and which is often used where North American English permits only that. Other spelling corrections are warmly received. Thanks for any help, suggests, insults you can manage! Cheers Anton -=-=- ... He knew the tavernes well in every toun. -- Geoffrey Chaucer At every release of an application in LinuxMag, one is faced with the ever-present formula happy Debian users can simply apt-get install whatever, although others will have to run the hasardous gauntlet of a manual installation... (read: serves them right). However, this is completely untrue???. Firstly, Connectiva has put rpm support into apt-get, which has become a standard for this distribution, and also both Mandrake and RedHat offer apt-get as part of their respective offerings. In addition, Mandrake offers its own tool, urpmi, whose functionality is continually expanding, that makes possible the above operation with the same simplicity : urpmi whatever, and the point is made. Presentation Anyone who has worked with packages has already confronted a certain number of issues. Firstly, the name??? : you need a text editor, so you attempt to install vim (you only have 10 fingers after all :-), but what is the exact name of the package? By chance, the local guru takes pity on you, and tells you that it's vim-enhanced you are after. You still need to determine its location : where are you going to dig up the latest version of this packages, compiled for your distribution and platform? After a quarter of an hour of laborious research on rpmfind.net, you finally dig it up, and triumphantly launch rpm with its url argument. Alas, the dependencies checker??? voils the best intentions, as vim-enhanced refuses outright to install while his mate vim-common is not there... There no option but to go looking for this new one, hoping the it too won't have its list of dependencies, and so on and on. So urpmi is programme layer???, running on top of rpm, that solves certain problems, and offers vastly superior ease-of-use. It is a tool essentially developed in perl, like the Mandrake's collection of administration tools, with its own native parts included for performance reasons.. Beginners often use it through the rpmdrake graphical interface, which like all graphical interfaces quickly becomes a handicap when one learns how to manipulate??? the underlying engine. On the command-line, especially with programme-completion1???, it is infinitely more effective. This tool can be used with any distribution that uses rpm packages, even if it means writing the necessary indices??? oneself. All of this presentation??? is based on the current development version of urpmi, 3.2 for your information, and a cooker distribution. Configuration A urpmi package source is called a medium. Media can be remote (accessed by http or ftp) or local (permanent support??? or removable). Remote media need to have a pregenerated index???(list), as urpmi can't download all the packages on the fly to analyse them (sentence???). Others are indexed??? on the fly. You can add a medium using the following command: urpmi.addmedia [options] name url [with relative_path] name is the name you want a medium to be known by. url is the URL of the repository where the packages are kept. This can be of the form http://, ftp://, file://, or even removable://, for a removable medium. relative_path is the path to the index??? file to use, relative to the preceding URL in the case of remote media. There are several types of index??? files: complete indices???, generally named
[newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures
Dear All How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but with no success. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] attachments to RFC ...
In this case I think it was justified, and they are .txt files... ;-0 Plus, I forgot to say that any suggested changes can be sent direct to me, or sent to the list, whatever people think is appropriate. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... I drink to make other people interesting. -- George Jean Nathan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Disappearing Menu Icons
Hi All, I seem to be losing menu icons. I have been getting segmentation faults in KDE (3.1 under Mandrake 9.2). Could this be the cause? If I rerun the setup (repair) then they come back but will be lost rather quickly. Any ideas? Also, any ideas on what causes segmentation faults? My first guess is bad RAM. What else could it be? Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eject dvd
On Thursday 05 February 2004 04:05 pm, David Sexton wrote: Bryan I have tryed alreday using umount /mnt/cdrom and got back no errors but still can not eject it I have been using the command eject /mnt/cdrom but get same error I posted earyler I also tryed eject /mnt/hdc Okay, well assuming that you are using ide-scsi emulation for your DVD device, then /dev/hdc would probably not work. The actual device would probably be listed in fstab as /dev/scd0 or something along that line. Have you tried to actually issue a mount /mnt/cdrom to see if that works. If so, it would confirm that the drive is not mounted, if you get an error, it might help to troubleshoot the problem. Do you happen to have a copy of the fstab that I could look at, especially the line related to the dvd device. Also, just off hand, have you tried restarting to eliminate an actual hardware fault on the dvd device? In other words, restart Linux and see if the eject button works while the OS is not active. If we confirm that there is no hardware problem, we can then try to figure out why the eject command is not working. Sometimes eliminating possibilities is the quickest path to a solution. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 05 February 2004 2:31 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but with no success. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Give an example Paul. If the packages are in the contrib directory on a mirror you'll get that warning every time. If they're on the disks then there's something else gone wrong. Are they actual Mandrake packages? So which is it? Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.2mdk 16:10:45 up 5:17, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.09, 0.08 No extensible language will be universal. -- T. Cheatham -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIs3eZqvqlrLPr5YRArZlAJ91FnrdAO3kBDTT1UQ1aVM7cP+RZQCfUU0l 7s6w4x7Z68FWhLzO0/n+nKs= =Xxps -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures
On Thursday 05 February 2004 23:44, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but with no success. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul I just ignore them:) Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd
ok I tryed the mount command i got back no errors when I typed mount /mnt/cdrom here is my mtab file /dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda9 /tmp ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /var ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/05 Thu PM 06:05:18 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd On Thursday 05 February 2004 04:05 pm, David Sexton wrote: Bryan I have tryed alreday using umount /mnt/cdrom and got back no errors but still can not eject it I have been using the command eject /mnt/cdrom but get same error I posted earyler I also tryed eject /mnt/hdc Okay, well assuming that you are using ide-scsi emulation for your DVD device, then /dev/hdc would probably not work. The actual device would probably be listed in fstab as /dev/scd0 or something along that line. Have you tried to actually issue a mount /mnt/cdrom to see if that works. If so, it would confirm that the drive is not mounted, if you get an error, it might help to troubleshoot the problem. Do you happen to have a copy of the fstab that I could look at, especially the line related to the dvd device. Also, just off hand, have you tried restarting to eliminate an actual hardware fault on the dvd device? In other words, restart Linux and see if the eject button works while the OS is not active. If we confirm that there is no hardware problem, we can then try to figure out why the eject command is not working. Sometimes eliminating possibilities is the quickest path to a solution. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer 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] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures
How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but with no success. Any ideas? Give an example Paul. If the packages are in the contrib directory on a mirror you'll get that warning every time. If they're on the disks then there's something else gone wrong. Are they actual Mandrake packages? So which is it? Charlie, I hope I will be enough clear this time. Whenever I try to install a package using Mandrake installation CDs (whose contents were downloaded from a mirror) and rpmdrake, I am, most of times, unable to get the desired packages installed. For instance, that just happened when I tried to install pciutils. Sometimes, to avoid those problems with bad signatures, I download the packages directly from the source sites, but such a procedure is not very good at the moment because I have yet been unsuccessful with the connection of my DSL Alcatel Speedtouch modem to the Internet; I have to use MS Windows, unfortunately. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures
How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but with no success. Any ideas? I just ignore them:) HarM, If I ignore them, the installation of packages is not completed! Well, it is not completed both ways! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2
This thing SMOKES! Granted it's lacking a lot of the normal things, but WoW! Is it fast! I can hardly wait for this to go to final release! Microsoft - Take note! There's a new desktop in town, and you just became history! OK, I'm done. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 05 February 2004 4:36 pm, Paul Smith wrote: snip I hope I will be enough clear this time. Whenever I try to install a package using Mandrake installation CDs (whose contents were downloaded from a mirror) and rpmdrake, I am, most of times, unable to get the desired packages installed. For instance, that just happened when I tried to install pciutils. Sometimes, to avoid those problems with bad signatures, I download the packages directly from the source sites, but such a procedure is not very good at the moment because I have yet been unsuccessful with the connection of my DSL Alcatel Speedtouch modem to the Internet; I have to use MS Windows, unfortunately. Paul OK so it's the disks themselves? Number one, try to avoid installing with rpm -ivh (pkg.mdk) and use urpmi instead. That's the back end, rpmdrake is the front end. Dependencies satisfied, signatures imported (with a caveat maybe) etc., and no more grief. OK, there's an updated version of the dakxtools on the update mirrors and, if I recall correctly, an updated urpmi. That's the caveat mentioned above. I remember it from pre-release testing but I don't recall when and if it was fixed. I could be wrong on that one though since it's been a while. I'd probably run the (risky) command; urpmi.removemedia -a [Enter] then: urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom [Enter] with cd1 in your drive from a super user terminal. That will add the disks back in, and should fix the signature warnings. If not follow HarM's advice and ignore them. As long as the CDs were clean and the md5sums checked you should be looking at good packages anyway. BTW there's a repository of valuable information just a click away. http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Everything is still constantly under construction, and I owe my long-suffering cohorts here and on the expert mailing list a whack of articles. I need a round-to-it first though. g Have fun! Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.2mdk 16:39:45 up 5:46, 1 user, load average: 0.70, 0.44, 0.34 A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. -- Victor Hugo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIteQZqvqlrLPr5YRAs8iAKC5bVRxucvycWYLvmmMJGIhkwW7KACfdaAQ pGhowBrijepgNHMzOhOcrKw= =/dqf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2.6: The Speed Demon
From: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 2.6: The Speed Demon On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 1:40 pm, JoeHill wrote: For those of you struggling to get 2.6 up and running, and those who are lukewarm on the subject, check out what you're missing (as am I): http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Feb/gee20040203023723.htm Can anyone help with a question on 2.6? I have ReiserFS on all my partitions. Half the reason for wanting 2.6 is the capability bits in the filesystems. If I install 2.6 on my spare partition will the 2.4 FS and the 2.6 FS be compatible, and will I have the capability bits when running in 2.6? I can tell you that the partitions that I keep (/var+ /var/www on different drives) are both reiser, and I have no trouble accessing them... not really sure about the bits. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disappearing Menu Icons
On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:58 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I seem to be losing menu icons. I have been getting segmentation faults in KDE (3.1 under Mandrake 9.2). Could this be the cause? If I rerun the setup (repair) then they come back but will be lost rather quickly. Any ideas? Also, any ideas on what causes segmentation faults? My first guess is bad RAM. What else could it be? Have you applied the security and bugfix updates? There was an update to rpm itself that fixed this behavior. Apply all the updates and then run 'update-menus -v' as root to fix permanently. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures
Charlie, Thank you very much indeed for your detailed reply! But, unfortunately, no progress! Please, have a look below. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi pciutils cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm': Input/output error unable to read rpm file [/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm] from medium Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1) error: read failed: Input/output error (5) The following packages have bad signatures: /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Could not read lead bytes) Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y installing /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm unable to install package /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi --no-verify-rpm pciutils cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm': Input/output error unable to read rpm file [/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm] from medium Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1) installing /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm unable to install package /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disappearing Menu Icons
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 17:20, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:58 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I seem to be losing menu icons. I have been getting segmentation faults in KDE (3.1 under Mandrake 9.2). Could this be the cause? If I rerun the setup (repair) then they come back but will be lost rather quickly. Any ideas? Also, any ideas on what causes segmentation faults? My first guess is bad RAM. What else could it be? Have you applied the security and bugfix updates? There was an update to rpm itself that fixed this behavior. Apply all the updates and then run 'update-menus -v' as root to fix permanently. -- /g I tried running urpmi --auto-select to get everything up-to-date but it seems to time out. I have a broadband connection. I have tried two or three times. Is there another way to get the update? Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disappearing Menu Icons
On Thursday 05 February 2004 07:39 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Have you applied the security and bugfix updates? There was an update to rpm itself that fixed this behavior. Apply all the updates and then run 'update-menus -v' as root to fix permanently. I tried running urpmi --auto-select to get everything up-to-date but it seems to time out. I have a broadband connection. I have tried two or three times. Is there another way to get the update? It sounds like the mirror you are using is busy or otherwise not available. You could try another mirror, but to avoid this problem, I copy all the updates to my local directory using an ftp client and then add the local source as a urpmi source. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whats happinging
On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:48 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:52, aronsmith wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:23, Lanman wrote: On 2/4/2004 at 7:21 AM aronsmith wrote: any reason to?.. not to? *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** Aron; Using two firewalls usually causes problems with file sharing, etc., so I wouldn't bother with 2 firewalls if I were you. If you put up a firewall box in front of the server, remember to shut down the firewall ( Shorewall ) that's running on the server. As far as services that you can shut down are concerned, you'll need to send me a list of the services that are running on it now, and the services that you need. By the way, is this box being used as a server or workstation ? That answer can go a long way to helping us decide what to leave running and what to shut down. Lanman = The old box will just be used as a firewall the workstation will be a seperate box i had an old 500mhz compaq that I had stripped the am and drives out of so I bought 3 Nics at the surplus shop All 3Coms I have downloadd IPcop and with 128Mg Ram (probably overkill) should make a nice firewall Also want to be able to put my laptop on line also (old Dell 500 win XP ) Thinking kinda like this DSL oldbox(firewall) hub | ---___|__ (Workstation) laptop spare (slimserver? Do you think that would do it? thanks smitty Yes, just remember to configure your DSL box as a bridge, so that the public IP assigned to you by the telco will be right on your NIC card *inside* the firewall itself. If the DSL box is configured as router, then the public IP is the DSL box itself, and that limits your options with Shorewall and netfilter. With the DSL box as bridge, you have maximum flexibility. === No way to configure my dsl modem in and out no options it's aZyxel 600 LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eject dvd
On Thursday 05 February 2004 06:25 pm, David Sexton wrote: ok I tryed the mount command i got back no errors when I typed mount /mnt/cdrom here is my mtab file /dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda9 /tmp ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /var ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Okay, so now that the disk is mounted, try as root: eject /mnt/cdrom or eject /dev/hdc. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory
On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 9:08 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I agree with what Tom is saying. But a CPU that isn't overvolted or overclocked should be OK at an idle temperature of 48C. I would still suspect a PSU issue. Its worth checking by borrowing someone else's just to rule this out. Modern PC components draw massive amounts of current in surges. If your PSU lets the voltage drop slightly too much when this happens (ie not matching the ATX standard of -+5% tolerance) then you get system instability. Just my $0.02. Robert I don't suppose there is a way of testing that in some way. Could I set up a test rig to record power surges in overload use, or something. to hell if it surges and siezes up. as long as I've some stats to analise and present a case, if only to myself. gkrellm does running voltages, but I find reading them near impossible. Sensors does one time reports I can read, but not running voltages. I don't mind condeming equipement, but I don't like, condeming without reason. I've got spare PSU's that's no problem, but what is there to say the replacement is not just as bad ? John Hi John, You said that the problems happened when the system was under a bit of stress (high CPU load). I would trying using some of your spare PSU's under these conditions. You probably won't see the problems in the voltage under any system monitoring software (they may be of too short a duration - if they are occurring at all). You aren't trying to do a double blind placebo trial here You just want a PC that works!! (PS thats one way to define the difference between an engineer and a scientist :-) So just try out the other dodgy PSU's. If they haven't been used to much they should be fine. The cheaper ones do seem to wear out over time :-) Everything in your system depends on stable voltages from the PSU (RAM, MB and CPU) so it is the lowest common denominator for system stability!! Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whats happinging
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:55, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:48 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:52, aronsmith wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:23, Lanman wrote: On 2/4/2004 at 7:21 AM aronsmith wrote: any reason to?.. not to? *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** Aron; Using two firewalls usually causes problems with file sharing, etc., so I wouldn't bother with 2 firewalls if I were you. If you put up a firewall box in front of the server, remember to shut down the firewall ( Shorewall ) that's running on the server. As far as services that you can shut down are concerned, you'll need to send me a list of the services that are running on it now, and the services that you need. By the way, is this box being used as a server or workstation ? That answer can go a long way to helping us decide what to leave running and what to shut down. Lanman = The old box will just be used as a firewall the workstation will be a seperate box i had an old 500mhz compaq that I had stripped the am and drives out of so I bought 3 Nics at the surplus shop All 3Coms I have downloadd IPcop and with 128Mg Ram (probably overkill) should make a nice firewall Also want to be able to put my laptop on line also (old Dell 500 win XP ) Thinking kinda like this DSL oldbox(firewall) hub | ---___|__ (Workstation) laptop spare (slimserver? Do you think that would do it? thanks smitty Yes, just remember to configure your DSL box as a bridge, so that the public IP assigned to you by the telco will be right on your NIC card *inside* the firewall itself. If the DSL box is configured as router, then the public IP is the DSL box itself, and that limits your options with Shorewall and netfilter. With the DSL box as bridge, you have maximum flexibility. === No way to configure my dsl modem in and out no options it's aZyxel 600 That's strange, cause I've got a Zyxel too, and I was able to do so. You saying that there's no serial, no web, no telnet capabilities, at all? What about ftp; config upload and config download? LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-10mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whats happinging
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:55, Aron Smith wrote: No way to configure my dsl modem in and out no options it's aZyxel 600 Plus, I just thought...that is an extremely older model. Are you sure that that is the exact model number? Many of the docs speak of the Zyxel 600 Prestige series. But there are many more newer models than a base 600. My model is much higher than that. Who is your telco? LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-10mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 05 February 2004 5:37 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Charlie, Thank you very much indeed for your detailed reply! But, unfortunately, no progress! Please, have a look below. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi pciutils cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm': Input/output error unable to read rpm file [/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm] from medium Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1) The file on the disk is obviously corrupted then, isn't it? error: read failed: Input/output error (5) The following packages have bad signatures: /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Could not read lead bytes) Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y installing /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm unable to install package /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi --no-verify-rpm pciutils cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm': Input/output error unable to read rpm file [/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm] from medium Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1) I don't think you have a very clean burn there Paul. I strongly suggest you download anything listed as a dependency for the package you're trying to install and, since you have to use Windows to do that, boot back into Mandrake and copy those packages (cp /directorynamepkgname /var/cache/urpmi/rpms) then run urpmi package name. It shoud (I hope!) work. Or you can set up an install directory in your /home space and add it as a local media source. The first plan (/var and so on) is probably the easiest though. installing /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm unable to install package /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm Let the list know how you get on? Thanks. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.2mdk 19:05:18 up 8:12, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.09, 0.03 Would it help if I got out and pushed? -- Princess Leia Organa -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIveuZqvqlrLPr5YRApa3AKCZBJE9Mz75OYM0/CokawBDAMiH1QCbBphO reJztBGkyb8NF9YboUeZA9k= =HvnK -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!
Sorry for the long post, but I am happy right now. I finally got sick and tired of that horrible GTK1 version of Sylpheed. It was really the only app I still used regularly that used it. So I went on a treasure hunt to find a gtk2 port of sylpheed, and guess what I found? Sylpheed-claws's cvs holds a gtk2 branch! I checked it out, compiled it, and tried it. It's even the newest version: 0.9.8. Check my X-Mailer: header. Anyway, I may make an RPM for it once I figure a couple more things out. Here's what you can do to get it yourself: 1. cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sylpheed-claws login press enter when the password prompt comes up. 2. cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sylpheed-claws co -r gtk2 sylpheed-claws ^^^That is one line 3.change into the sylpheed-claws directory. 4. Open the file configure.ac and change line 63 from AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h) to AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) 5. Then save it, and run autogen.sh. type make, then become root and type make install. Enjoy your new gtk2 sylpheed-claws John Drouhard -- Thu Feb 5 20:11:30 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. -- Homer -- Thu Feb 5 20:23:46 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao Tsu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd
I tryed eject /mnt/cdrom and /dev/hdc as root and got this error eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/05 Thu PM 07:58:25 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd On Thursday 05 February 2004 06:25 pm, David Sexton wrote: ok I tryed the mount command i got back no errors when I typed mount /mnt/cdrom here is my mtab file /dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda9 /tmp ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /var ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Okay, so now that the disk is mounted, try as root: eject /mnt/cdrom or eject /dev/hdc. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer 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] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2
On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:53 pm, Lanman wrote: This thing SMOKES! Granted it's lacking a lot of the normal things, but WoW! Is it fast! I can hardly wait for this to go to final release! Microsoft - Take note! There's a new desktop in town, and you just became history! OK, I'm done. Lanman EXACTLY! Almost burned the house down the darn thing moves so fast, heat from friction you know. OOO.org opens much faster. KDE is quick add infinitum. And it isn't even cleaned up yet. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops
Charlie, try this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ cdrecord -atip dev=0,0,0 Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W1210A' Revision : '1.01' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 01 00 00 Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x01 (medium not present - tray closed) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk! [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ The first thing I would do with any older CD-R/RW is check the manufacturer's site to find whether there's a firmware update available. Yes there is an upgrade available. That's the easy way to ensure capability of larger capacity disks. ignsize can be dangerous because it instructs the writing app to over burn. Often a very bad thing. If you want to see what cdrecord does before it starts to write to a blank run the following command with a blank in the drive:. Alter the dev= part to suit your environment of course, not everyone's burner is dev=0,0,0: snip,snip,snip I've assembled far too many boxes for people using recycled components such as CD-RW drives to neglect a firmware update, and if the drive is old but has no update available I always test with larger capacity media before I'll use it or stick it into a new system. I noticed that the firmware upgrades are in an m$ executable format. Is it time to get the dos boot floppy out again or is there a better way? I have a FAT32 partition on my disk but I've never used it. I have samba installed and running but no access to my local /mnt/windows partition, or can I just change the group permissions and write to it? snip Thanks, Terry -- I used to have a signature, but I lost it. My new one is: IIRC CRS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whats happinging
On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:23 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:55, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:48 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:52, aronsmith wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:23, Lanman wrote: On 2/4/2004 at 7:21 AM aronsmith wrote: any reason to?.. not to? *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** Aron; Using two firewalls usually causes problems with file sharing, etc., so I wouldn't bother with 2 firewalls if I were you. If you put up a firewall box in front of the server, remember to shut down the firewall ( Shorewall ) that's running on the server. As far as services that you can shut down are concerned, you'll need to send me a list of the services that are running on it now, and the services that you need. By the way, is this box being used as a server or workstation ? That answer can go a long way to helping us decide what to leave running and what to shut down. Lanman = The old box will just be used as a firewall the workstation will be a seperate box i had an old 500mhz compaq that I had stripped the am and drives out of so I bought 3 Nics at the surplus shop All 3Coms I have downloadd IPcop and with 128Mg Ram (probably overkill) should make a nice firewall Also want to be able to put my laptop on line also (old Dell 500 win XP ) Thinking kinda like this DSL oldbox(firewall) hub | ---___|__ (Workstation) laptop spare (slimserver? Do you think that would do it? thanks smitty Yes, just remember to configure your DSL box as a bridge, so that the public IP assigned to you by the telco will be right on your NIC card *inside* the firewall itself. If the DSL box is configured as router, then the public IP is the DSL box itself, and that limits your options with Shorewall and netfilter. With the DSL box as bridge, you have maximum flexibility. === No way to configure my dsl modem in and out no options it's aZyxel 600 That's strange, cause I've got a Zyxel too, and I was able to do so. You saying that there's no serial, no web, no telnet capabilities, at all? What about ftp; config upload and config download? No they just assigned me an IP address which talks to the DSL modem which has a preassigned address there is a way but they won't give me the password to access the modem LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whats happinging
On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:27 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:55, Aron Smith wrote: No way to configure my dsl modem in and out no options it's aZyxel 600 Plus, I just thought...that is an extremely older model. Are you sure that that is the exact model number? Many of the docs speak of the Zyxel 600 Prestige series. But there are many more newer models than a base 600. My model is much higher than that. Who is your telco? LX= It's a Prestige 600, ISP is Speakeasy.net like I said itnwasshipped to me preconfigured Actualy since I own the modem They should give me the password. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2
wahoo... works for me. Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1753 N6REJ Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2 This thing SMOKES! Granted it's lacking a lot of the normal things, but WoW! Is it fast! I can hardly wait for this to go to final release! Microsoft - Take note! There's a new desktop in town, and you just became history! OK, I'm done. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.577 / Virus Database: 366 - Release Date: 2/3/04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whats happinging
On Thursday 05 February 2004 10:41 pm, Aron Smith wrote: -No they just assigned me an IP address which talks to the DSL modem which has -a preassigned address there is a way but they won't give me the password to -access the modem I've got a cable-modem here, but they at least did give me an ip address to the modem that I can log into and check stuff. Of course, the username and password they use are so lame its downright funny. Hmm, is it safe to tell? -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b
Now available for 9.2 Updated: gaim-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-encrypt-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-festival-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-perl-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-spam-blocker-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-devel-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm **This is patched and should again allow connection to Yahoo New: k3b-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm k3b-dvd-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm libk3b1-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm libk3b1-devel-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm As I have no tuner card I need a couple of guinea pigs to test kwintv3 before I add it to my site's index and hdlist. The rpms were built from the 20040201 CVS snapshot. If you would care to test it the direct dl links are: http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/kwintv3-0.1-0.alpha1.6.20040201.i586.rpm http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/libqtvision1-0.1-0.alpha1.6.20040201.i586.rpm http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/libqtvision1-devel-0.1-0.alpha1.6.20040201.i586.rpm Charles -- Finagle's Seventh Law: The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. -- Mandrake Linux 9.2 Registered Linux user #182463 Machine: BigBoy #184142 *http://www.eslrahc.com* -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:56:24 +0200 Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I suggest grub.. On my drive one there is win 98 - mdk 9.2 - fedora - suse 9.0. On my drive two there is win xp home. Grub handles this effortlessly. I even experimented with to two win systems (up to 3 win systems can be handled) on same drive - that worked fine with the hide/unhide option. This is all in the grub howto.. etc. grub need some close study and I feel sure it can be done. Thanks, I'm going to give it a try! Johan *** On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 20:17:49 + Robert Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 4:59 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: Robert, mind if I piggyback on this question? I have a new AMD64 laptop, and it came with XP Home (of course!) I want to put XP-64 as well as Mandrake 32-bit and 64-bit. Can lilo or grub handle copying files before starting to boot Windows versions? Here's the rub: all versions of Windows derived from NT have two critical startup files: ntldr and ntdetect.com. These are incompatible between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, so I need the boot mechanism to copy in the right versions from backup directories before kicking off the boot process. System Commander does this, and I just learned the hard way that BootMagic (comes with Partition Magic) does *not* gr. Seeing as I have to start all over, I thought I'd try doing it with grub. Thanks. Greg, If I read your question right you want to quad boot your machine? That is an interesting idea :-) Might be difficult to manage booting into the 2 Windows partitions though. (Not sure really). I think you might have to move this question to the expert mailing list if you get stuck :-) It would be difficult for Lilo/Grub to see the windows files you refer to as the Windows partitions wouldn't be mounted by Linux at that point. Robert -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:24:01 -0600 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the long post, but I am happy right now. I finally got sick and tired of that horrible GTK1 version of Sylpheed. It was really the only app I still used regularly that used it. So I went on a treasure hunt to find a gtk2 port of sylpheed, and guess what I found? Sylpheed-claws's cvs holds a gtk2 branch! I checked it out, compiled it, and tried it. It's even the newest version: 0.9.8. Check my X-Mailer: header. Anyway, I may make an RPM for it once I figure a couple more things out. Here's what you can do to get it yourself: Spell check works too, if you add --enable-aspell to configure. 1. cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sylp heed-claws login press enter when the password prompt comes up. 2. cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sylp heed-claws co -r gtk2 sylpheed-claws^^^That is one line 3.change into the sylpheed-claws directory. 4. Open the file configure.ac and change line 63 from AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h) to AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) 5. Then save it, and run autogen.sh. type make, then become root and type make install. Enjoy your new gtk2 sylpheed-claws John Drouhard -- Thu Feb 5 20:11:30 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. -- Homer -- Thu Feb 5 20:23:46 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao Tsu -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whats happinging
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 22:59, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 10:41 pm, Aron Smith wrote: -No they just assigned me an IP address which talks to the DSL modem which has -a preassigned address there is a way but they won't give me the password to -access the modem I've got a cable-modem here, but they at least did give me an ip address to the modem that I can log into and check stuff. Of course, the username and password they use are so lame its downright funny. Hmm, is it safe to tell? NO! You've probably changed yours, but the newbies... LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whats happinging
On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: - -NO! - -You've probably changed yours, but the newbies... - - -LX Lyvim, I'll send it to you in private - you'll appreciate it. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b
i've tried your latest gaim charles and i'm afraid that yahoo still doesn't work for me, after googling and chatting with a friend the other day it appears that the problem maybe my isps transparent http proxy, he has the same isp as me, uses the same programs and same servers but his is a business account and uses no proxy at the isp end my isp is ntl here in the uk, according to the gaim site at sourceforge fixing this probelm is currently holding up the release of gaim 0.76, note even the latest yahoo official linux client - rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm doesn't work though the latest win client does i have read that one can do clever stuff with tunnelling via ssh and a machine beyond such a proxy but i don't have access to such bascule On Friday 06 Feb 2004 4:00 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: Now available for 9.2 Updated: gaim-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-encrypt-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-festival-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-perl-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-spam-blocker-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-devel-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm **This is patched and should again allow connection to Yahoo New: k3b-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm k3b-dvd-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm libk3b1-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm libk3b1-devel-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm As I have no tuner card I need a couple of guinea pigs to test kwintv3 before I add it to my site's index and hdlist. The rpms were built from the 20040201 CVS snapshot. If you would care to test it the direct dl links are: http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/kwintv3-0.1-0.alpha1.6.20040201.i586.rpm http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/libqtvision1-0.1-0.alpha1.6.20040201.i586.rpm http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/libqtvision1-devel-0.1-0.alpha1.6.20040201.i586. rpm Charles -- 'I think, if you want thousands, you've got to fight for one.' (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 05 February 2004 7:33 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: Charlie, try this: whack Yes there is an upgrade available. Then I suggest you use it. Depending of course whether Plextor states that it's to make the drive compatible with larger blanks, or for whatever reason actually. snip,snip,snip I've assembled far too many boxes for people using recycled components such as CD-RW drives to neglect a firmware update, and if the drive is old but has no update available I always test with larger capacity media before I'll use it or stick it into a new system. I noticed that the firmware upgrades are in an m$ executable format. Is it time to get the dos boot floppy out again or is there a better way? I have a FAT32 partition on my disk but I've never used it. I have samba installed and running but no access to my local /mnt/windows partition, or can I just change the group permissions and write to it? I usually just go to http://www.bootdisk.com and download any of the DOS based boot disk files. Or a Free DOS version. All you really need on the disk is the firmware file and installer plus command.com and system files. The rest is a waste of effort and space. You should also be able to use something like Dr DOS or similar. Or just get a friend to make you a Windows boot disk and just save the parts you need then add the firmware package from Plextor. It's really not that hard. Thanks, Terry No problem. Let the list know how it goes? Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.2mdk 21:51:50 up 10:59, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.00 Stay away from flying saucers today. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIx9xZqvqlrLPr5YRAlm/AJkBroEVf5Q4MHifzTmlkrK+U1wlIgCeLfN5 3xY/njL4oOATZlbWGnBYof0= =h1ll -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for update?
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 08:27:32 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone else suggested that maybe I was looking for kpackage. Sounds right but it's not in KDE and neither is mandrake update but it is in gnome. So I You're probably right on that one. I have not used it very much, and find that it's not here on my Mandrake system (cooker, not yet beta though). It's a KDE app, and used to be in kdeadmin, but the KDE rpms in particular have been fractionalized in the last few months, with much of the functionality broken up into little pieces. What was at one time a monolithic package (kdeadmin, for instance) now has a slew of components, and this likely explains why you couldn't find it and it isn't installed by default over here. Using urpmf kpackage seems to tell me you (and I) should look for a package called 'kdeadmin-kpackage'. There seem to be remnants of it here, but kpackage itself is not found. Strictly speaking, Mandrake Update isn't part of gnome. It may look like a gnome app but it can be used irrespective of the window manager. and working on security. Frankly mandrake update needs to be more robust. It needs too much management. The few times I've used it in the past -- yes, to a point, but it's basically a GUI shell for the underlying update system that Mandrake uses -- i.e., urpmi. Many common errors with that (IMHO) are connection failures, mirrors out of sync, and not strictly a problem as such with the method that Mandrake uses. Hoyt -- 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
