Re: [newbie] Mail Config?
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I need to configure my mail system and I want to include spamassassin in the mix. I figure there are a number of ways to accomplish this. What I would like are some suggestions. What programs are best to use with spamassassin? Or what programs do you use witn spamassassin? Regards; Hoyt My personal preference is to use amavis-new... a very cool Perl daemon postfix content filter that is very fast.. you can set it up to scan for virus's, or spam, or both... I know of many ISP's using it now.. so its fast.. I've been using various versions of amavis for about 5 years now.. been very happy with it. http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ regards Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Config?
On Monday 09 Feb 2004 4:38 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I need to configure my mail system and I want to include spamassassin in the mix. I figure there are a number of ways to accomplish this. What I would like are some suggestions. What programs are best to use with spamassassin? Or what programs do you use witn spamassassin? Regards; Hoyt If all you want to do is provide mail for a single user (or small group of users), then all you really need do is run spamassassin as a filter in your mail client. No need for a mail server if you do not need one. The Sylpheed-claws mail client has a Spamassassin plugin (install the sylpheed-claws-spamassassin-plugin RPM) I have not used it myself, but I'm sure you could work it out. It is also quite easy to configure kmail to run spamassassin as a filter. Check out this post from the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg148384.html (You will need to install perl-Mail-Spamassassin) BTW: Charles Edwards has some lovely up to date RPMS for both Spamassassin and Sylpheed-claws at http://www.eslrahc.com/ If you have not already done so, then add him as a urpmi source. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Config?
On Monday 09 Feb 2004 4:38 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I need to configure my mail system and I want to include spamassassin in the mix. I figure there are a number of ways to accomplish this. What I would like are some suggestions. What programs are best to use with spamassassin? Or what programs do you use witn spamassassin? Regards; Hoyt I should have also mentioned in my last post :- If you want to go the whole hog and install a Postfix mail server with Spamassassin, procmail, fetchmail, IMAP and Clam-AV there is a HOWTO on my home page. But its quite a lot more work than just setting up kmail to use SpamAssassin. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wherfore art thou $PATH?
You can find some more scripts potentially modifying PATH under /etc/profile.d. On my system, msec.sh and local.sh (the latter modified by me) actually change the PATH. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] fubarski]$ echo $PATH /usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.1_01/bin I don't particularly like the fact that I the // and the :: are a part of $PATH. I can't seem to find where these are inserted, however. I use BASH and I can't find these items in /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc. As far as my limited knowledge is concerned, /etc/profile is the first file to be considered, and it adds /usr/X11R6/bin, so I guess the question is where is $PATH defined before /etc/profile? I'm using 9.1. With an advance of thanks, James Henry Maiewski 20 Plain Road East South Deerfield, Massachusetts Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Config?
I should also mention that with my suggestion for amavis-new/spamassassin with postfix... The contribs for mdk9.2 includes packages for amavis-new, all its dependencies, clamd and spamassassin. So using them makes it a simple rpm only setup. rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 These links were provided in the feedback to the note on pclinuxonline.com. Paul On Monday 09 February 2004 05:30 am, anton wrote: Is there someone out there with a webserver and a nice traffic policy like to mirror this so this guys server doesn't get bogged down? And so unlucky b'stards like me on dialup can have a go without leaving the rest of the community waiting for ... well, days? ftp://voidstar.dyndns.org/mirrors/kde32-for-mdk92/i586 Cheers Anton -=-=- ... What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Do I need to block these ports
Ramin; Shorewall blocks all ports that you don't specify. So unless you specifically open a port it will remain closed along with all the others that are left untouched. If you want to get into advanced configuration of Shorewall, an easy way to access it is through webmin which should already be installed and running on your system. Using the link below, go to the Networking section and click on Shorewall. If you are accesing webmin from another PC, substitute the IP address of the machine running Shorewall for the term localhost https://localhost:1 Hope that helps. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/8/2004 at 9:57 PM Ramin wrote: On February 8, 2004 05:29 am, Lanman wrote: Maureen; It would be a good idea to block those ports even though they are fairly safe as is. Head into your Mandrake Control Center and find the Security section, where you can setup your firewall. That should allow you to block off the ports that you don't want open. Lanman I am having two unused ports open. However firewall setup in the mandrake control center, the security section does not give me any option to close those ports. In advance mode, it only gives the option to open ports ¨Which services would you like to allows the internet to connect to?¨ Then some general options such as ftp, ssh or everything are mentioned to be checked or not and a box where i can open the specified ports! Besides i don´t know where is the file where one can add lines for the to close/open ports. There is a file /etc/services which apparently is just for information, right? Regards, Ramin -- Linux user #310496 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] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
Anton; One Any Nice Person coming right up. To all those interested, my ftp server has been set for KDE 3.2 RPM downloads. These RPM's are for Mandrake 9.2. Be careful though. I only have 800K upload abilities. Here's the link. ftp://ftp.maximumlans.com Log in as newbie with password newbie Enjoy! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/9/2004 at 6:30 PM anton wrote: Is there someone out there with a webserver and a nice traffic policy like to mirror this so this guys server doesn't get bogged down? And so unlucky b'stards like me on dialup can have a go without leaving the rest of the community waiting for ... well, days? ftp://voidstar.dyndns.org/mirrors/kde32-for-mdk92/i586 Cheers Anton -=-=- ... What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. 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] DVD -RW
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 19:02, Ron Stodden wrote: Poogle wrote: Using Optorite DVD writer which is DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW DVD+RW compatible. X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14 with cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu installed. Memorex DVD-R writes O.K. Unbranded (datasafe) DVD+RW writes O.K. Now here's the problem - Packard Bell DVD-RW's cause a complete lock up, Caps lock Scroll lock flash and only reboot clears it. The same DVD-RWs work in Win98 with the supplied software. I read that some drives/media/Linux DVD writing software combinations don't play nicely together so I'm wondering if it is the DVDs but before I buy any more, has anybody got DVD-RWs to work ? DVD+RW is the way to go, since it supports random r/w, which means you can place a file system on a DVD+RW blank and use it as a 4.4GB demountable medium with the normal file drag drop, delete, etc. Optical technology has finally arrived! Firstly, alter your /etc/fstab for the DVD writer to provide options rw and noatime. These work in kernel 2.4, but curiously didn't make it into 2.6. Secondly, make a file system on it using one of the mk???fs utilities. I prefer a UDF file system, but you will have to compile your own mkudffs. UDF is the file system used for DVD movies. Also do a google search on 'growisofs' and read all about DVD+RW. Download the tools.growisofs is an extremely useful and simple DVD utility and replaces cdrecord, etc for DVDs. Thanks Ron, I'll give it a go when I get a little more time -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] insmod reports error because no floppy
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:09:57 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 02:45 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: -I just got a new laptop that has no floppy. With both Mandrake 9.2 -32-bit and the AMD64 beta, every time they boot they print out an insmod-error during checking for new hardware because the box has no floppy-disk drive. Everything appears to work fine, so the message is just-a minor irritation. How can I tell the kernel not to look for a floppy-during bootup? The only mention I could find of a floppy in startup-config files was ide-floppy in devfsd(not booted at the moment, I think-that was it.) Can I simply remove that? Thanks. If you've got everything else going the way that you want, why not just turn harddrake off under MCC - services so it won't even check for new hardware? I plug in a USB mouse and compact flash into the built-in memory card reader. If I don't leave harddrake active, those are not detected. I have done that on other installations though. Thanks for the idea. (just don't forget to turn it back on if you do add new hardware) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Config?
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 01:52 Subject: Re: [newbie] Mail Config? On Monday 09 Feb 2004 4:38 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I need to configure my mail system and I want to include spamassassin in the mix. I figure there are a number of ways to accomplish this. What I would like are some suggestions. What programs are best to use with spamassassin? Or what programs do you use witn spamassassin? Regards; Hoyt I should have also mentioned in my last post :- If you want to go the whole hog and install a Postfix mail server with Spamassassin, procmail, fetchmail, IMAP and Clam-AV there is a HOWTO on my home page. But its quite a lot more work than just setting up kmail to use SpamAssassin. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org If you are 'dman' I already have it. One of the things that conviced me. I'll check it out. Thanks for your input. Good to know. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Config?
- Original Message - From: frankieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 02:27 Subject: Re: [newbie] Mail Config? I should also mention that with my suggestion for amavis-new/spamassassin with postfix... The contribs for mdk9.2 includes packages for amavis-new, all its dependencies, clamd and spamassassin. So using them makes it a simple rpm only setup. rgds Franki Thanks franki this is what I wanted. I'll check it out. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 3.2 RPM's
Well I guess it didn't take too long for the word to get out! Grin! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to update to 10b2
Is there a way to updtae do mandrake 10, without burning the iso? My cd-r is broken... Can I download the 10b2, and install? - Original Message - From: Lanman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:44 AM Subject: [newbie] KDE 3.2 RPM's Well I guess it didn't take too long for the word to getout! Grin!Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)
I've been looking at some laptop/notebook stuff, and was just wondering about Dells stuff. My wife says we can swing one around tax time grin. Does it work pretty good with Mandrake? If you had to choose, would you pick Intel Xtreme, ATI mobility, or Nvidias' NForce? (and why?) Thanks all! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)
Ronald wrote: I've been looking at some laptop/notebook stuff, and was just wondering about Dells stuff. My wife says we can swing one around tax time grin. Does it work pretty good with Mandrake? I have never had problems with _older_ Dell machines (Latitudes and Inspirons) and Mandrake, unlike some other laptop brands; 9.2 installed out of the box on my C610. If you had to choose, would you pick Intel Xtreme, ATI mobility, or Nvidias' NForce? (and why?) To be honest, there is little difference in performance and features. What might swing it is the driver support which, in my experience, is (in descending order of quality): NVIDIA ATI Intel Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)
You might also want to check out a site called linuxonlaptops.com or something like that. I'm not sure about the exact email address as I don't have a laptop sadly. But I would love to get one to load Linux on. I write tutorials for installing Linux to help out. I can't program so I cant write open code, so I do my part by making Linux easier for people who are new to it. I'v written install tutorials for Slackware 9.1, SuSE 8.1, and Libranet, which is a Debian based distro. I plan on doing Mandrake when I get my other box back, which is hopefully in the next few days. I also take requests :) Sorry I'm rambling on lol. It's almost 10 AM and I'm still awake. If you want to see any tutorials I'v done, or want to ask me for a request to write a Linux install tutorial, just mail me :) I won't do Gentoo as I don't like them. I know how the install goes, but I just don't like them. Also it would be hard to make a good easy to understand tutorial for a newbie when you have alot of choices for install. My tutorials usually go step by step, to make it easy. :) -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.daemonnews.org/ http://www.cannibalholocaust.net http://www.misfits.com http://www.onethirtyeight.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] insmod reports error because no floppy
Guy Rouillier wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:09:57 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 02:45 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: -I just got a new laptop that has no floppy. With both Mandrake 9.2 -32-bit and the AMD64 beta, every time they boot they print out an insmod-error during checking for new hardware because the box has no floppy-disk drive. Everything appears to work fine, so the message is just-a minor irritation. How can I tell the kernel not to look for a floppy-during bootup? The only mention I could find of a floppy in startup-config files was ide-floppy in devfsd(not booted at the moment, I think-that was it.) Can I simply remove that? Thanks. Not only the kernel will gave you this error message: lauch DrakConf *from a terminal*, give the root passwoed and you will see in the terminal 2 or three times this message. This does not have any consequence except that it take a few seconds to fail each time it try to load the floppy module. The easier workaround I have found is to insert the following line insmod floppy /bin/false in /etc/modules.conf This will cause the inserting of floppy to fail immediatly (you will see that DrakConf, for example, start much faster). You could disable this message by inserting insmod floppy /bin/true insted of insmod floppy /bin/false in /etc/modules.conf. Howhever if you do this the system will still try to insert the floppy module without succeed but believing it has succeed. I wouldn't suggest you to do this. If you've got everything else going the way that you want, why not just turn harddrake off under MCC - services so it won't even check for new hardware? I plug in a USB mouse and compact flash into the built-in memory card reader. If I don't leave harddrake active, those are not detected. I have done that on other installations though. Thanks for the idea. (just don't forget to turn it back on if you do add new hardware) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ 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
[newbie] GrSec howto...
How do I get grsec to allow me to execute a script file? Some scripts work fine and others don't. I don't get why, but I found this in my dmesg output: grsec: denied exec of ./build.sh by (bash:23577) UID(501) EUID(501), parent (bash:30327) UID(501) EUID(501) reason: untrusted Thanks, Marty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whats happinging
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 18:45, Rick Kunath wrote: Aron; IPCOP or Smoothwall 2.0 should be fine. I don't know if IPCOP allows you to do remote management of the firewall, Yes, IPcop does allow remote management of the firewall. I have just such a setup as you diagrammed, and it is running on some pretty old hardware. You don't need a CD-ROM drive except for the install, and need a floppy drive only for firewall configuration backups. I remove the keyboard and monitor after I get IPcop installed, and the rest can be administered either locally or remotely via a web interface or ssh. I am currently running it on a P133 with 32 megs of ram and a 1.2 GB hard drive. It can easily saturate my 2Mbps incoming connection, and because the green-side NIC is a 100Tx card, I get over 80Mbps speeds from the firewall's transparent cache into any of my workstations. You won't need the third NIC for use as you describe. I would get a switch instead of a hub, though. Since traffic on a switch isn't routed onto every port, you won't see speed decreases in your browsing if you are doing, say, a backup or transfer between two other machines on your local network segment. And a switch really isn't that much more money. IPcop is in active development and has a really friendly and helpful user base and mailing list. It's also real easy to set up and get going. I have used it since the original fork, and can say nothing but good things about it and it's community of users. I am just a satisfied user and am not associated with the group or the developers. Rick Kunath Hi, I wonder if you can help me figure out how to use ipcop with a verizon dsl connection. I'v tried twice to sub to the ipcop list, but haven't got a confirmation. The modem is a westell b90-210015-04. I'm currently using mnf on a mdk9.1 installation, and a dsl pppoe connection. Haven't been able to get it to work with ipcop or smoothwall. Thanks Dan ps I hope this isn't considered hijacking. __ 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] Fwd: Speakeasy.net Virus Notification
On Friday 06 February 2004 18:03, Aron Smith wrote: ;-) What Got me was it was from a CVS resoporty Probably not - remember heading spoofing? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ICS-everything works but www
On Saturday 07 February 2004 11:38, Jerry Barton wrote: mkd 10 beta 2. I have Internet Connection Sharing pretty much working except for one thing. The internal network computers can access everything but the WWW. Yahoo, winmx, irc, email, etc. all work, but the internal computers cannot access the web. I've always used an iptables rc.firewall to do this and not shorewall which is what is being used now. Any pointers on where to start looking would be greatly appreciated. This is the one thing keeping me from upgrading to a 2.6 kernel permanantly. If i need to post any .confs please let me know which. Thanks in advance! :-) Jerry Is your isp's dns server in /etc/resolve.conf ? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] application/x.java-vm complaint in mozilla (2nd time)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 08 February 2004 11:55 pm, Paul Harrison wrote: Still don't have a reply to this, so I'm reposting. I know I have Java installed, for many applets work, but there are some, eg http://world.std.com/~reinhold/BigNumCalc.html, which require a application/x.java-vm plug-in. I've Googled but cannot seem to find an answer...can anyone help? TIA, Paul Paul I just tried that URL and while it works fine with Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon; it dies a horrible death in Konqueror. What version of Mozilla, of Mandrake, and how did you install Java? Also is it the Java from Sun or one of the others? Check the archives for a thread with the subject Mozilla Java plug-in problems to see if any of the advice there will help. Archives are available at many sites, one of the best IMHO is: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbier=1w=2 The thread you need is from early to mid December. HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.3mdk 11:47:56 up 22:50, 1 user, load average: 0.72, 0.31, 0.18 Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. -- George D. Prentice -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAJ9eBZqvqlrLPr5YRApuXAKC2YwzjUl4A8oapn66CR6i850/78ACaA0yt V96z8vdosdpsMOMTosbfdWQ= =4ViX -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] S.O.S: Help with full root directory!
On Monday 09 Feb 2004 3:09 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Ramin wrote: Hi, I am getting full root directory problem! I was not able to login to KDE due to this, Fortunately i could login to xfce and i uninstalled some applications to free space. through this way i gained about 700MG from my 7.8GB / directory which was %99.9 full! I managed to login to KDE. Shortly later (just less than half an hour!!!), i am again getting %99 full / directory and i am afraid this may very soon cause problems. So what should i do? I am quite familiar with this behaviour, and in fact diagnosed what is happening and fixed it here. Unfortunately it was a while ago and I cannot recollect. BUT, you will certainly fix it if you use tar to copy out the entire partition data to another partition (retain this as a backup) with a third partition your active Linux. Make a new file system in the was-errant partition. Then copy the data back again.You must use tar because it alone has the capability of dumping and correctly restoring the /dev directory. So you're recommending he formats his root partition? Let's say again, although you did mention it, that to do that he needs to boot from another partition, or from a CD such as Knopix or Mandrake Move. Otherwise it's either impossible or very messy. In fact the entire process should be done from this other boot partition, because otherwise tar might record an inconsistent image (File X is from time a, but file Y is from time b. Where files X and Y are required to agree with one another.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Blogging [was Re: [newbie] CD Burning CLI style]
Todd Slater wrote: On another note, I'm compiling a list of feeds of Linux users who blog on the topic of Linux somewhat regularly. Not so much developer-type blogs, but end-user blogs. Nice idea. I blog occasionally on Linux/OSS/general computer issues, but I wouldn't say I did it regularly. However, the URL is www.livejournal.com/users/solri for anyone who's interested. Sir Robin -- Telling disgruntled employees that they are always free to leave their jobs seems no different in principle from telling political dissidents that they are free to emigrate. - Stephen Newman Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] lpr problem in 9.2
Another printing problem. Running Mandrake 9.2 with on my new laptop (plug from EmperorLinux /plug). OpenOffice.org prints a document without problems, the test page comes out fine, but trying to output a PostScript file with lpr produces a page which is approximately 60% of the required size, something which did not happen on my desktop system under 9.1. I tinkered with the -o scaling=% value option to lpr but this was totally ignored. Does anybody know if there is a solution for this? As an aside, the localhost:631 interface allows root to modify a printer but not to configure it - the latter raises a server error (? CUPS ?). -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help! Linux won't boot! Someone experienced in partitions and hard drives !
Okay here's what I did this time. Partition Magic wouldn't resize my Linux partition, and I needed more space. So I created a FAT32 partition for some extra storage. Everything went fine creating it. I restarted, and tried to boot Linux, but I got a Linux Ext2 mounting error. It said there was a Kernel Panic Error(which sounds pretty pad) and I should try passing intrd= into the kernel, or something like that. So then I figured I'd delete the partition, cause maybe linux wasn't recognizing it, then I'd create it through Linux. So I go into PM in Windows, and it won't delete it because it's an 'unrecognized format'. There were no errors it picked up though. So then I tried formattingit to NTFS, thinking it might recognizethat. I formatted it, tried deleting it, and I got the same error.Anyideason what I should do? Quick answer would be nice, Marc
Re: [newbie] insmod reports error because no floppy
On Sunday 08 February 2004 08:51 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: -I plug in a USB mouse and compact flash into the built-in memory card -reader. If I don't leave harddrake active, those are not detected. I -have done that on other installations though. Thanks for the idea. You should be able to setup those up with no need for detection though. I've got a 64mb USB device that I plug in, it has an icon assigned to it on my KDE desktop and it works without harddrake being active. Of course, I've got supermount disabled, and all my removables are like that, so that might make a difference. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] application/x.java-vm complaint in mozilla (2nd time)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well it took 3 hours but we got there in the end! Simple answer: go to http://www.goland.org/Tech/Installing_Java_in_Mandrake_9_1.html do exactly what it says. I have it permanently bookmarked now... P -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKAJLq+i2H9Bw1yoRAsW1AKCkXFed3yDKUDiD8cQYY2M27HUgJwCeM1I+ NEdZWN96bUqrY9WPD0CSU1U= =Xwdv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help.
On Sunday 08 February 2004 23:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 7:38 am, Marc Resnick droned on: The question: I want to add more space to my Linux partition. I used PartitionMagic to make my Windows XP NTFS partition smaller, but could only add that space to the overall Extended Partition, not the separate Linux space. I therefore suspect that there is some way through Linux to do this. Any help would be appreciated. You really don't need to expand your linux partition. I am assuming that you have a partition available for use. All you need to do is move some part of it away from /. Depending on what's big this could be /usr. /usr/local, /home, the really hard ones to move are /bin, /sbin, /boot, /etc and so on as they are vital to how linux runs all the time. Pick one, set up mounting and formatting that partition as /mnt/temp, not as the folder you want to move it to, test the partition as workable by copying stuff to and from it without errors, then drop out of X, and log in as root, and move the files. Then unmount the folder, and edit fstab to point from /mnt/temp to /etc, for example. Voila, free space! If you want a detailed description of how I tackled such a move, look at the 'drive full' section on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/ProBlems Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] application/x.java-vm complaint in mozilla (2nd time)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 09 February 2004 2:57 pm, Paul Harrison wrote: Well it took 3 hours but we got there in the end! Simple answer: go to http://www.goland.org/Tech/Installing_Java_in_Mandrake_9_1.html do exactly what it says. I have it permanently bookmarked now... P Basically everything on that site is available from the newbie list archives, or on the Community Wiki as far as I know. Almost word for word in fact. Good bookmark though, it'll probably help if you remember to post it for others that are having the same difficulties you were. Regards; Charlie addendum: I just checked the Wiki, it appears nobody has added a One Pager to install java and set up the browser plug-ins. I'll have to add that to my round-to-it file. The only question is what heading to put it under. C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.3mdk 15:47:59 up 1:15, 1 user, load average: 1.44, 0.37, 0.11 The course of true anything never does run smooth. -- Samuel Butler -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKBC2ZqvqlrLPr5YRAlaYAKCfdUYqtoirpEL/0Tb9I2BLMxuRqACgiQiL qLurokH3qHeAlS2dsrSdEhQ= =luRW -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Linux won't boot! --More Info!!
- Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, February 9, 2004 4:12 pm Subject: [newbie] Help! Linux won't boot! Someone experienced in partitions and hard drives ! Okay here's what I did this time. Partition Magic wouldn't resize my Linux partition, and I needed more space. So I created a FAT32 partition for some extra storage. Everything went fine creating it. I restarted, and tried to boot Linux, but I got a Linux Ext2 mounting error. It said there was a Kernel Panic Error(which sounds pretty pad) and I should try passing intrd= into the kernel, or something like that. So then I figured I'd delete the partition, cause maybe linux wasn't recognizing it, then I'd create it through Linux. So I go into PM in Windows, and it won't delete it because it's an 'unrecognized format'. There were no errors it picked up though. So then I tried formatting it to NTFS, thinking it might recognize that. I formatted it, tried deleting it, and I got the same error. Any ideas on what I should do? Quick answer would be nice, Marc Okay so I tried again, and I found that the message is Try passing init= option to kernel. So at Lilo, I press esc. I typed linux init=/dev/hda7. Then I tried /dev/hda5. Then I tried hda5 and hda7. In case you haven't figured it out yet, my Linux partition is hda5, my root partition is hda7(I think). I have no boot disk, because I have no floppy drive, so no solution there. Anyone have any ideas? 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 disseminated the following: Enjoy your new gtk2 sylpheed-claws Just did a CVS update, and folder properties are configurable now. The address book still hangs the app, and theres a weird thing when you first start it, it shows all messages in your folders as unread in the folder pane. It eventually went away when I had to kill SC because of the address book thing. Oh, and the wrapping appears to be working now. :-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 19:20:41 up 4 days, 7:09, 4 users, load average: 1.01, 0.65, 0.56 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. -- John Maynard Keynes 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 disseminated the following: Enjoy your new gtk2 sylpheed-claws Oh, and the wrapping appears to be working now. :-) ...maybe not... :-\ -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 19:20:41 up 4 days, 7:09, 4 users, load average: 1.01, 0.65, 0.56 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. -- John Maynard Keynes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Speakeasy.net Virus Notification
On Monday 09 February 2004 09:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 February 2004 18:03, Aron Smith wrote: ;-) What Got me was it was from a CVS resoporty Probably not - remember heading spoofing? Yes -After some one mentioned it :0 Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ldm_validate_partition failed
I had something funky happen, probably related to a cd-burning/cache-clearing mishap and/or a power failure. Anyway, when I try to boot, I get endless ldm_validate_partition failed messages. I do a hard reset and boot into nonfb or secure and everything seems normal. Any ideas on how to fix the normal boot? Todd 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 disseminated the following: Anyway, I may make an RPM for it once I figure a couple more things out. Checkinstall-built RPM here: http://www.orderinchaos.org/Sylpheed-Claws-CVS020904-1mdk.i586.rpm ***Warning...this RPM may melt your system*** ;-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 20:09:55 up 4 days, 7:58, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.23, 0.22 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power -- Benito Mussolini Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:23:51 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:24:01 -0600 John Drouhard disseminated the following: Enjoy your new gtk2 sylpheed-claws Just did a CVS update, and folder properties are configurable now. Awesome, I tried looking at the source to fix it myself, but was totally and completely clueless. I gave up. The address book still hangs the app, and theres a weird thing when you first start it, it shows all messages in your folders as unread in the folder pane. It eventually went away when I had to kill SC because of the address book thing. I sent a bug report about the address book thing into bugzilla, but they resolved it with a LATER. I guess that means they're not working very hard on the GTK2 port. :-/ Still nice to know that the folder properties is working. That means theres still SOMEBODY working on it. :-) John D. -- Mon Feb 9 19:16:35 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full mooon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Appgen MyBooks
Does anyone have an experience or opinion on the accounting package from Appgen called MyBooks? Thanks looking forward to feedback. Dave Ashmore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Linux won't boot! --Even more info. Please help!
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 6:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Linux won't boot! --More Info!! - Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, February 9, 2004 4:12 pm Subject: [newbie] Help! Linux won't boot! Someone experienced in partitions and hard drives ! Okay here's what I did this time. Partition Magic wouldn't resize my Linux partition, and I needed more space. So I created a FAT32 partition for some extra storage. Everything went fine creating it. I restarted, and tried to boot Linux, but I got a Linux Ext2 mounting error. It said there was a Kernel Panic Error(which sounds pretty pad) and I should try passing intrd= into the kernel, or something like that. So then I figured I'd delete the partition, cause maybe linux wasn't recognizing it, then I'd create it through Linux. So I go into PM in Windows, and it won't delete it because it's an 'unrecognized format'. There were no errors it picked up though. So then I tried formatting it to NTFS, thinking it might recognize that. I formatted it, tried deleting it, and I got the same error. Any ideas on what I should do? Quick answer would be nice, Marc Okay so I tried again, and I found that the message is Try passing init= option to kernel. So at Lilo, I press esc. I typed linux init=/dev/hda7. Then I tried /dev/hda5. Then I tried hda5 and hda7. In case you haven't figured it out yet, my Linux partition is hda5, my root partition is hda7(I think). I have no boot disk, because I have no floppy drive, so no solution there. Anyone have any ideas? Well I tried booting with the MDK cd 1. I booted from cdrom and chose the upgrade option. As soon as I got to partitioning, I got the error 'Could not mount hda5', and I could do nothing about it. Please tell me I'm not going to have to reinstall Linux. An easy solution would be much nicer. 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
[newbie] Dependency hell
I am running Mandrake Community(Download) 9.2. I have kept it up to date using urpmi but now have hit a dependency brick wall. The following is what I get when trying to do a update: Some package requested cannot be installed: ImageMagick-5.5.7.15-1.2plf.i586 (due to unsatisfied libMagick5.5.7[== 5.5.7.15-1.2plf]) k3b-0.11.1-3.5mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied libk3bplugin.so.1) libMagick5.5.7-5.5.7.15-1.2plf.i586 (due to unsatisfied libjasper-1.700.so.2) libk3b1-0.11.1-3.5mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied libFLAC++.so.2) xine-plugins-1-0.rc3a.1plf.i586 (due to unsatisfied libdirectfb-0.9.so.18) (Y/n) y I think this is why Totem Movie Player now crashes. I tried urpmi'ing the dependencies individually but it just goes in a circle with the dependencies and I get no where. These same stop me from installing xine or mplayer. Any help would be appreciated. Roly -- MicroSoft - The company that made the internet unsafe! Linux Counter #241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wherfore art thou $PATH?
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 07:37 am, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] fubarski]$ echo $PATH /usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/ jre-1.4.1_01/bin I don't particularly like the fact that I the // and the :: are a part of $PATH. I can't seem to find where these are inserted, however. I use BASH and I can't find these items in /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc. As far as my limited knowledge is concerned, /etc/profile is the first file to be considered, and it adds /usr/X11R6/bin, so I guess the question is where is $PATH defined before /etc/profile? I'm using 9.1. With an advance of thanks, James Henry Maiewski 20 Plain Road East South Deerfield, Massachusetts Edit /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc as root and remove the extra of both of these if you wish. The :: certainly bring back to the single : Charlie -- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. Aldous Huxley This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, Kmail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:04:01 -0500 Dan Gordon wrote: Thanks John, I tried this and also urpmi * but get this message each time. [EMAIL PROTECTED] kde32]# urpmi ./*rpm Some package requested cannot be installed: kdebase-3.2-1mdk.i586 kdegraphics-3.2-1mdk.i586 kdenetwork-3.2-1mdk.i586 kdepim-3.2-1mdk.i586 kdeutils-3.2-1mdk.i586 (Y/n) These packages are there so I'm not sure what is wrong ? Ok i found the problem, the packages look like they were corrupted during download. I am downloading them again now. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Feb 10 00:08:49 EST 2004 00:08:49 up 1 day, 11:34, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.10, 0.09 __ ( She liked him; he was a man of many ) ( qualities, even if most of them were ) ( bad. ) -- o ^__^ o (OO)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)
On Monday 09 February 2004 09:51 am, Alastair Scott wrote: -To be honest, there is little difference in performance and features. -What might swing it is the driver support which, in my experience, is -(in descending order of quality): - -NVIDIA -ATI -Intel - -Alastair Thanks for the reply. I was wondering about 3D accelerated stuff with the above chipsets. I should have made that clearer in the original post. I know that normally Nvidia is great, but the Dell models I'm looking at have the NForce chipset and I hear thats problematic sometimes. I was really unsure if 3D stuff worked with ATI mobility or the Intel Xtreme setups. Thanks! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 12:04 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:37:23 -0600 John Drouhard wrote: Ok maybe a dumb question but, I have all the files in a directory by themselves, what is the proper way to install them? change into the directory with the rpm's, become root and: urpmi ./*rpm Thanks John, I tried this and also urpmi * but get this message each time. [EMAIL PROTECTED] kde32]# urpmi ./*rpm Some package requested cannot be installed: kdebase-3.2-1mdk.i586 kdegraphics-3.2-1mdk.i586 kdenetwork-3.2-1mdk.i586 kdepim-3.2-1mdk.i586 kdeutils-3.2-1mdk.i586 (Y/n) These packages are there so I'm not sure what is wrong ? The package structure was changed significantly with 3.2 so that a straight upgrade from 3.1.3 will not be possible. For instance, kmail moved from kdenetwork to kdepim, so you cannot upgrade kdenetwork-kmail to kdepim-kmail. Try removing KDE 3.1.3 first and then installing 3.2. Probably 'urpme kdelibs' ought to do it. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Security Camera Software
Hi all Can anybody recommend software for use with security cameras? I have a 4-port card from conexant and would like to hook up 4 cameras with 24/7 recording. TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 09 February 2004 09:51 am, Alastair Scott wrote: -To be honest, there is little difference in performance and features. -What might swing it is the driver support which, in my experience, is -(in descending order of quality): - -NVIDIA -ATI -Intel - -Alastair Thanks for the reply. I was wondering about 3D accelerated stuff with the above chipsets. I should have made that clearer in the original post. I know that normally Nvidia is great, but the Dell models I'm looking at have the NForce chipset and I hear thats problematic sometimes. I was really unsure if 3D stuff worked with ATI mobility or the Intel Xtreme setups. Thanks! :-) Nforce is an AMD chipset.. Last time I checked, dell did not sell any AMD systems at all... I have a Dell 5150, and I have the nvidia driver working fine on mdk9.2 for its 64mb Geforce FX5200. I have sound, I have wireless, in fact I have pretty much everything bar the dumbass modem that has no modern driver. rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 12:34 am, frankieh wrote: -Nforce is an AMD chipset.. - -Last time I checked, dell did not sell any AMD systems at all... - -I have a Dell 5150, and I have the nvidia driver working fine on mdk9.2 -for its 64mb Geforce FX5200. -I have sound, I have wireless, in fact I have pretty much everything bar -the dumbass modem that has no modern driver. - -rgds - -Franki My bad, thanks for the info/update/reply! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ldm_validate_partition failed
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:56:20PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:39:05 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had something funky happen, probably related to a cd-burning/cache-clearing mishap and/or a power failure. Anyway, when I try to boot, I get endless ldm_validate_partition failed messages. I do a hard reset and boot into nonfb or secure and everything seems normal. Any ideas on how to fix the normal boot? I get this message on an old computer (dual Pentium 233MMX) with an external flash card reader plugged into USB. I normally only have one card in it (it has two slots for different formats) and Linux just doesn't like the missing drive. I've filed several bug reports and tried a half-dozen kernels over the last year, still no luck. Do you have a flash card reader? yes, a sandisk 2-in-1. When I log in normally I get a few of those messages, no big deal. This rebooting, though, seems to go in a loop and it never boots. Do you think the usb card reader is the problem? Strange cause it worked before. Go figure. When I'm feeling a little braver and have more sleep I'll see what unplugging the reader and removing the line from /etc/fstab does. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] terminal server client doesn't load boot image
I think I am close but not quite there yet. The client says: loading 192.168.0.2:boot-3c509.2.4.22-10mdk.nbi.. then just sits there. Dont think this is a firewall issue since I turned it off with gaurddog. I think exports for NFS have been set up correctly by drakTermServ. Sugestions? TIA. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whats happinging
Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, I wonder if you can help me figure out how to use ipcop with a verizon dsl connection. I'v tried twice to sub to the ipcop list, but haven't got a confirmation. The modem is a westell b90-210015-04. I'm currently using mnf on a mdk9.1 installation, and a dsl pppoe connection. Haven't been able to get it to work with ipcop or smoothwall. Thanks Dan ps I hope this isn't considered hijacking. I believe you can check the [ipcop-user] mail list archives without being a member of the list. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ipcop-userr=1w=2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 12:42:10 -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote
On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:53 am, Trey Sizemore wrote:
I have a new motherboard with an onboard VIA VT8233 sound card. I have
installed MDK 10 beta 2. Looks great, runs fast, but no sound. I have
run alsamixer to ensure volumes are up (although I didn't see a 'master'
volume category.). I've also looked at kmix to see if the volume levels
are right there, and that it is not muted. The MCC Hardware section
shows the card, and it's using the snd-via82xx driver.
Not sure what else to check (the speakers are plugged in and this is a
dual-boot machine currently with Win2000 where I can get sound). Hoping
that someone else had similar onboard sound and could point me in the
right direction.
Thanks.
Trey:
I have one of those critters, and while I was finally able to get
some sound out of it, it was at a very low volume level. I finally
took the coward's way out and installed an old Creative card. If
you're not as lazy as I am, this old posting from Derek Jennings
that may be of help to you:
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] no sound with mandrake 9.1
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:47:31 +0100
On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 7:31 pm, MACY, NIALLEN C wrote:
I am getting no sound with my VT8233 [AC97 Adio Controller] sound card. i
have run the config tool and sometimes i get sound and others i dont. I
just went to the via tech website and downloaded those drivers and it
still
doesnt work. does anyone have any ideas on what i should do?
I have that sound card.
Try setting your /etc/modules.conf like this:-
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
# module options should go here
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-0
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
below snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-oss snd-pcm-oss
There is lots of good info at
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
derek
-- cmg
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc proved to be the ticket. Afer more than
a year of poking this MSI KT3 Ultra on board sound, I now have glorious sound
at regular volumes.
Here's what I did (Some or all of these steps may be required):
Went to the www.alsa-project.org site, looked up VIA - via8233 details.
Downloaded alsa-driver-1.0.2, alsa-lib-1.0.2, alsa-utils-1.0.2
Set services 'alsa' and 'sound' to not start on boot. Removed all sound
related stuff from /etc/modules.conf. Then rebooted to make sure all sound
configurations (from previous attempts) were clear.
Followed the instructions in the details:
alsa-driver-1.0.2
# tar -xjf alsa-driver-1.0.2
# cd alsa-driver-1.0.2
# ./configure --with-cards=via82xx --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install
alsa-lib-1.0.2
# tar -xjf alsa-lib-1.0.2
# cd alsa-lib-1.0.2
# ./configure;make;make install
alsa-utils-1.0.2
# tar -xjf alsa-utils-1.0.2
# cd alsa-utils-1.0.2
# ./configure;make;make install
Then insert new modules:
# modprobe snd-via82xx;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe
snd-seq-oss
Finally run alsamixer to set volume levels, in particular 'Master', 'Master M'
and 'PCM'. And add options to /etc/modules.conf as described above:
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
# module options should go here
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-0
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
Create file /etc/asound.conf (which never existed before) with:
pcm.snd-via8233 {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.snd-via8233 {
type hw
card 0
}
Finally, selected service 'alsasound' to start on boot (not 'alsa' or
'sound'). 'alsasound' was created by the alsa-utils that was downloaded.
When I rebooted the computer, sound was coming through, but kept doing a crazy
looping sample effect. Reading through the alsa doc details a bit further I
discovered note to set acpi=no. So I went into the boot config, set acpi=no
and rebooted again. Now sound is clear as a bell, distortion free and at full
volume. I can't say if it's stereo, and I can't say if the I've got 6 speaker
surround sound, but I've got decent sound and that's more than I've been able
to say about this board for a very long time.
I'm not sure what the trick is. You may not have to go through the download
and compile process. In the past I've managed to get low volume sound (mixers
didn't do anything), and loopy sample sound. I suspect that the default
Mandrake sound setup may have worked properly if (A) I had the
/etc/asound.conf file (B) the
