Re: [newbie] vectorlinux? Too much choices
Hello, Thank you for all your answers and now I'm confused with all the solutions... Not used to that after all the years with windows ;-) If I get it wright I can use MDK also with that config... and I have it already on cd. (save a lot of download time). I need a Xwindow program like Kde... If not my wife will kill me :o because it is here computer that I want to modify! And last of all I'm really a beginner with linux... see all the messages I mailed to the list the last weeks! Thanks Christophe Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 01:40 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:31 pm, rhein wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a light version of linux to run on a old MMX200 with 64 MB of ram. Is vectorlinux a good choice for a beginner? Thank you Christophe Absolutely, but on those specs a Slaclware9.1 would run acceptably (maybe even faster) too. Without the heavy weight Windowmanagers like KDE and Gnome even Mandracke9.1 will run OK providing there's not too many unnecessary services running. Good luck, HarM Slackware is a better choice. DebianAny version of Linux can run fine on the hardware you said, but yes, Slackware would be much better. Or Free BSD. If you can install Slackware, you can install Free BSD, they look the same and act almost exactly a like. 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] Questions with storage devices
Hello, Last night I was looking to create a usr partition using diskdrake under Mandrake Control Center...Then I could not understand why I have a mnt hda5 partition called win_d (it shows /r on the file system. So I went to see my storage devices and there I found this: Device Type Size MountP Free Full% /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 ? 6,3GB /home 5,7GB 9,8% /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 ? 5,8GB / 4,2GB 27% /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 ? 512,2MB/mnt/win_d 4,2GB 0,2% /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 ? 14,6GB / mnt/ win_c 4,2GB 25,3% /dev/hda8 ext3 N/A/home 0B N/A /dev/hda6 ext2 N/A/ 0B N/A /dev/hda5 vfat N/A/ mnt/win_d 0B N/A /dev/hda1 vfat N/A/ mnt/win_c 0B N/A 1/ The 4 last devices are not mounted when I click on it. So what is this? 2/ There is no such D drive on my win partition. I have one big 14,6 GB for windows. Where does it come from?? 3/ By the way is the root partition not too big with 5,8 GB and only 27% used? There is a lot of free space and I will not install a lot of new softs. 4/I would like to shrink my windows drive (starting slowly to remove XP) is there any trick to do it or can I unmount and resize it in the control center with no risk? Thanks for your help Christophe ps: it is snowing here...a good day for snowboarding again ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Firewall
Hello, I tried to setup a firewall since my notebook will be personal... I went to mandrake control center and removed the cross in no firewall at the Drakfirewall.(I left all the boxes blank... hope this is good so) Then It asked me if I want to install the shorewall package. I clicked ok. I put cd1 like it requested. And then Mandatory package missing. I browsed the cd and I found a package called /shorewall-1.4.6c-2mdk.noarch.rpm/ If that is the package it is already installed. So how can I then setup the firewall? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SOLVED: sound card problems
I don't know if this will help anyone or not but I just accidently solved my sound problems. I had the same problem with no sound with a Cmedia chipset ( 1878?). I was able to hear audio cd's but nothing else. I double click'd on an mp3 and it opened xmms, which looked as if it was playing but nothing came out. I had previously set kde sound to alsa as thats what I was pretty sure was installed but no luck. So then I started digging in xmms preferences ( right click on the x in the top left corner ) and discovered under Audio I/O Plugins a Output Plugin line which stated OSS DRIVER 1.2.9 libOSS.so there where no other options under the arrows, so I went back to KDE sound and changed it to Open Sound Server and VIOLA!! Aaron Tippin started blasting through the speakers. Hope this helps someone. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound card problems
ok, not quite solved. I have no mpg or mpeg sounds. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using CD-RW with K3b
Very true, and we could also add that older CD-ROM drives (or hifi CD players) can fail to read CD-RW disks completely, no matter what is written on them. The subject of burning to CD can become very messy very quickly :-( Le Samedi 6 Mars 2004 00:23, Bryan Phinney a écrit : Well, the subject title says Using CD-RW which implies rewriteable CD media. So, you can erase the disk, rewrite the file back again, you just need to completely transfer all files to the hd, erase and then rewrite. However, I was not really referring to rewriting, I was saying that if you create a multi-session CD that has 200MB worth of files on it with the CD not finalized so that you can create additional sessions, some CD-ROM drives can not read the format. They are expecting a completed TOC that is only really created when you finalize the media after all sessions have been completed. Just an FYI for him to keep in mind in case he was planning on using the disk in the meantime. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need help installing SATA drive!!!(Please help)
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 02:46, DC A wrote: Yes I tried 10 but it's taking a long time to load. I donno why thorugh. (I tried to auto allocate 20GB for linux and it's taking more than an hour and still it's formatting) So I donno whether I'll be able to linux on this system. Is there any other linux that support single SATA or any other alternative? Thanks for reply. --AR I'm using Mandrake 9.2 on a SATA drive, but I've never tried booting from it. I also have a small drive that I have as a boot drive, and from windows. I've just downloaded Mandrake 10 and was impressed with the speed it did download - after I'd changed the upload rate. 2 GB in about 22 hours. Finally, you'll probably get more responses if you don't upset everyone - people here tend to get upset if you ignore the long-standing convention by top-posting. Paul M Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SOLVED: sound card problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:11, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I don't know if this will help anyone or not but I just accidently solved my sound problems. I had the same problem with no sound with a Cmedia chipset ( 1878?). I was able to hear audio cd's but nothing else. I double click'd on an mp3 and it opened xmms, which looked as if it was playing but nothing came out. I had previously set kde sound to alsa as thats what I was pretty sure was installed but no luck. So then I started digging in xmms preferences ( right click on the x in the top left corner ) and discovered under Audio I/O Plugins a Output Plugin line which stated OSS DRIVER 1.2.9 libOSS.so there where no other options under the arrows, so I went back to KDE sound and changed it to Open Sound Server and VIOLA!! Aaron Tippin started blasting through the speakers. Hope this helps someone. Could you add this to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SoUnd please? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFASaUMkFAvMr/nNX8RAnCRAJoDYeHpb4swPVSk/9dK866I0iCaBACeID2D RH5VHjR+F5+3PryyxsJy27Y= =jF2x -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:21, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: ok, not quite solved. I have no mpg or mpeg sounds. xmms plugins? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFASaUykFAvMr/nNX8RAqHFAJ47jkEW74s4RRqueB5qEIi7WcwY9QCbB3w6 qCAFnsRAfPEmx/rIWJmxJ6I= =CNO4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 15:21, rhein wrote: 2/ There is no such D drive on my win partition. I have one big 14,6 GB for windows. Where does it come from?? It's small - could this be one of those systems with a hidden restore partition? OTOH, I don't see a swap partition mounted. You didn't format the swap partition as fat32 did you? I'm not sure how that could happen, though. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFASaYUkFAvMr/nNX8RAkuEAJ9f0JF+0LsDMTXUZLYENeTZpGK1+wCfVbWj U8bYYV1bPwrVpIy7ZkmR0H4= =5RQj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KolourPaint 1.0.1 Seagull
Hello, You might like to try KolourPaint, a really good paint program for KDE. You can download Mandrake 9.2 packages at kolourpaint.sf.net. The pages list all the features, so I won't go over them all here. I just want to highlight some of the novel and useful features in KolourPaint: - Colour Eraser - Colour Similarility - Transparency. You can do it on selections, even use it as a colour, plus on text! (Use an opaque background and transparent text.) - Selections that you can undo and redo - rectangular, freeform as well as elliptical/circular. - Shape centring! You can now draw a circle/rectangle with the centre where your mouse pointer is by holding Ctrl. - Autocrop As I've noted before, there's a lot of other features. The development team has obviously done some excellent requirements engineering - even the eraser sizes are well thought out. Of course, I do have to admit I have a small vested interest in KolourPaint - so don't take my word for it, download it and try it out! By the way, this is an exclusive announcement. The official one hasn't come out yet! Software this good only gets released once every 28 years. Regards, _nasturtium P.S. There's 2 easter eggs in KolourPaint. Try and find them! (they're in the main window). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages
Hi, On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 10:09 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:05:09 + Margot disseminated the following: If things carry on as they are currently going, many of those aspiring young lawyers at Harvard Law School will one day be participating in Darl's spurious lawsuits - now they've seen him in action, perhaps they will develop consciences and be working for *our* side! Hmmm, 'lawyer' and 'conscience' in the same sentence? Doesn't that violate some linguistic/grammatical rule? Merriam-Webster definition of oxymoron: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionaryva=oxymoron : a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness); broadly : something (as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements A few popular ones: honest politician Microsoft Works and, according to my English teacher, maths enrichment :-). Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install
On Saturday 06 Mar 2004 01:22, David B. Carter wrote: Derek Jennings said: The modprobe snd-cs-4236 loads the driver. But it will not load on the next boot unless you configure /etc/modules.conf. That is what alsaconf is supposed to do for you, but for some reason alsaconf is unable to detect your soundchip. If you go to http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Cirrus+ Logiccard=CS4236chip=CS4236module=cs4236#modp You will see an example modules.conf configuration for your driver. You could try copying this into your /etc/modules.conf I haven't had a chance yet to try your suggestion, but I tried following the instructions on the ALSA page a few days ago when I was using RedHat 9, and I had no luck. Of course, I used the sample config exactly as is. I didn't try setting any of the options (port, irq, dma, etc.) because I had no idea what to put. Is there any way to determine what IRQ, DMA, etc. the card is currently using so that I can specify those values in modules.conf when the driver loads? Thanks. Given that your soundchip was not detected on installation, or that alsaconf fails to detect it, then I suspect you may may a problem with IRQ conflicts. If you type 'dmesg' in a terminal you will see all the boot messages. If you scroll up you may see some clues. The command 'cat /proc/interrupts' will tell you how IRQs are currently assigned. Things that can resolve interrupt problems are :- 1/ Boot with 'noapic' - In Mandrake Control CentreBootBootloader tick the 'Force No APIC' button This fixes a lot of these sorts of problems. 2/ In your BIOS disable any onboard devices you do not intend to use - This often causes IRQ lines to be allocated differently. 3/ In your BIOS select PnP Operating System =No 4/ If your BIOS allows manual selection of IRQ lines, try allocating a line. If no selection is possible try moving a PCI board to a different slot. Sometimes IRQ lines are allocated according to slot number. If you have your /etc/modules.conf file configured then the driver will load if the card is detected during boot. dmesg will document that happening. HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bittorent download won 't work
Hi all , After 1/2 a day of trying i still can 't download the new 10.0 iso . I am behind a NAT router , so i opened ports 6881 = 6889 and 6969 and 7070 , tried DMZ , but nothing works . I always get the following error : Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error 404: Not Found The ip address used to generate the file mytorrent-myID.torrent is the one from my router . i both tried the gui and commandline version . Thank , Bart. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bittorent download won 't work
On Saturday 06 March 2004 07:51 am, Bart Salien wrote: Hi all , After 1/2 a day of trying i still can 't download the new 10.0 iso . I am behind a NAT router , so i opened ports 6881 = 6889 and 6969 and 7070 , tried DMZ , but nothing works . I always get the following error : Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error 404: Not Found The ip address used to generate the file mytorrent-myID.torrent is the one from my router . i both tried the gui and commandline version . Thank , Bart. I had to use galeon, I got the same as you with Konq, so try a different browser. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmdrake
rhein wrote: Hello, I try to use rpmdrake to add a medium (contrib file) and I get this error message after a long time of waiting... Unable to update medium... Errors: urpmi database locked urpmi database locked retrieve of source hdlist failed no hdlist file found for medium contrib problem reading synthesis file of medium contrib Does it say there is a problem with the ftp server or my computer? Thanks Christophe If your urpmi database is locked, as root navigate to /var/lib/urpmi and delete the two files called LOCK and RPMLOCK - then try again. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmdrake
On Saturday 06 March 2004 06:09, rhein wrote: Hello, I try to use rpmdrake to add a medium (contrib file) and I get this error message after a long time of waiting... Unable to update medium... Errors: urpmi database locked urpmi database locked retrieve of source hdlist failed no hdlist file found for medium contrib problem reading synthesis file of medium contrib Does it say there is a problem with the ftp server or my computer? Thanks Christophe Hello Rhein, It would be helpfull if you include the exact command you are trying to run. In any case, I see the dadabase is locked, which suggests you are running another instance of URPMI in the background. Try closing all rpm related apps (urpmi, rpmdrake, rpmdrake-remove) and then add the desired media, using the console, and urpmi.addmedia. Good luck, .::. Amichai Rotman, The Jerusalem Linux Club - Founder. Smart IT people are staring out the window into the eye of a giant penguin! Short text-only e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bittorent download won 't work
On Saturday 06 Mar 2004 11:59, et wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 07:51 am, Bart Salien wrote: Hi all , After 1/2 a day of trying i still can 't download the new 10.0 iso . I am behind a NAT router , so i opened ports 6881 = 6889 and 6969 and 7070 , tried DMZ , but nothing works . I always get the following error : Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error 404: Not Found The ip address used to generate the file mytorrent-myID.torrent is the one from my router . i both tried the gui and commandline version . Thank , Bart. I had to use galeon, I got the same as you with Konq, so try a different browser. Got it working , had to reboot my pc after editing download.py I have limited upload to 2K , but download isn 't going any faster than 1k . Don 't like leaving ports open for 360 hours . Greetings , Bart. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices
Hello,
My swap file is hd7 with 494MB and it is different from this hd5 called
/mnt/win_d with 525 MB.
When I click on this win_d (hd5) in Konqueror there are 2 directories:
= a system volume information with a file
_restore{2F3FC359-5C9C-424F-B0EF-325C191C6F2E}
= recycled with a nprotect directory in it.
What shall I do? remove it?
Thanks
Christophe
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Saturday 06 March 2004 15:21, rhein wrote:
2/ There is no such D drive on my win partition. I have one big
14,6 GB for windows. Where does it come from??
It's small - could this be one of those systems with a hidden restore
partition?
OTOH, I don't see a swap partition mounted. You didn't format the swap
partition as fat32 did you? I'm not sure how that could happen,
though.
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Re: [newbie] Bittorent download won 't work
On Saturday 06 March 2004 07:45, Bart Salien wrote: Got it working , had to reboot my pc after editing download.py I have limited upload to 2K , but download isn 't going any faster than 1k . Don 't like leaving ports open for 360 hours . Greetings , Bart. The download speed should increase gradually, if memory serves. -- 07:04:03 up 1 day, 14:27, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.2-3mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Let's just be friends and make no special effort to ever see each other again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SOLVED: sound card problems
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:11, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I don't know if this will help anyone or not but I just accidently solved my sound problems. I had the same problem with no sound with a Cmedia chipset ( 1878?). I was able to hear audio cd's but nothing else. I double click'd on an mp3 and it opened xmms, which looked as if it was playing but nothing came out. I had previously set kde sound to alsa as thats what I was pretty sure was installed but no luck. So then I started digging in xmms preferences ( right click on the x in the top left corner ) and discovered under Audio I/O Plugins a Output Plugin line which stated OSS DRIVER 1.2.9 libOSS.so there where no other options under the arrows, so I went back to KDE sound and changed it to Open Sound Server and VIOLA!! Aaron Tippin started blasting through the speakers. Hope this helps someone. Could you add this to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SoUnd please? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFASaUMkFAvMr/nNX8RAnCRAJoDYeHpb4swPVSk/9dK866I0iCaBACeID2D RH5VHjR+F5+3PryyxsJy27Y= =jF2x -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com sure -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SOLVED: sound card problems
On Saturday 06 March 2004 04:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:11, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I don't know if this will help anyone or not but I just accidently solved my sound problems. I had the same problem with no sound with a Cmedia chipset ( 1878?). I was able to hear audio cd's but nothing else. I double click'd on an mp3 and it opened xmms, which looked as if it was playing but nothing came out. I had previously set kde sound to alsa as thats what I was pretty sure was installed but no luck. So then I started digging in xmms preferences ( right click on the x in the top left corner ) and discovered under Audio I/O Plugins a Output Plugin line which stated OSS DRIVER 1.2.9 libOSS.so there where no other options under the arrows, so I went back to KDE sound and changed it to Open Sound Server and VIOLA!! Aaron Tippin started blasting through the speakers. Hope this helps someone. Actually, you'd probly be better off usin alsa. Run draksound and it'll tell you the default driver for your sound chip. If it's somethin 'alsa', then install the 'xmms-alsa' rpm and put the sound back to alsa, or auto in kcontrol. Could you add this to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SoUnd please? Anne -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:50:50PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 05 March 2004 07:31 pm, Todd Slater wrote: These do not support Ogg Vorbis yet. From tech support: Currently our CD based players do not support OGG file format. There is no ETA as to when this may be offered. I have forwarded your request to our Development team for consideration. Darn, the iMP50 was only $50! http://www.iriver.com/community/notice_view.asp?idx=24page=1mode=Totalstrque=field=1 http://www.iriver.com/company/news_view.asp?idx=368 -- /g Proving once again that good help is hard to find! ;-) According to those pages, then, the cd-based players iMP250+ have the firmware upgrade, but it's beta and works with oggs encoded up to 168kbs. The player may choke or skip parts if the bit rate exceeds that, which is possible with VBR encoding. Maybe the tech support guy responded the way he did since to play oggs would involve updating the firmware and using a beta product? Anyhow, if anybody here can report on performance that would be great. Thanks Greg and Glenn! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players
On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:15 am, Todd Slater wrote: Proving once again that good help is hard to find! ;-) According to those pages, then, the cd-based players iMP250+ have the firmware upgrade, but it's beta and works with oggs encoded up to 168kbs. The player may choke or skip parts if the bit rate exceeds that, which is possible with VBR encoding. Maybe the tech support guy responded the way he did since to play oggs would involve updating the firmware and using a beta product? Anyhow, if anybody here can report on performance that would be great. I have found the US website is often at least 1 and sometimes 2 firmware revs behind the International site. All the new stuff will show up first on the international site, so hang out there. Anyway, I have been using this firmware with my iMP-350 for the last couple of weeks using oggs encoded at 128kbps and the performance is outstanding. No skipping at all. I did have some problems with my ogg library. There were a lot of artifacts even though the bit rate was within spec. I think the problem had to do with them being encoded with a beta version of oggenc, as they were originally ripped and encoded about 18 months ago. If the decoder in the firmware is written very efficiently to fit in the limited flash rom and is based on the current spec, then it probably cannot deal with the small differences in the ogg files made with older versions of the encoder. The software decoders in the media players probably have some code to correct for this since their memory footprint is not so limited. I re-encoding the same disks with the oggenc in Mandrake 10 and it eliminated the problem. HTH -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ML 10.0 problems
Hi all, I have the 5 CD set of 10.0 and it is not playing nicely with my comp. This is the first time of all the releases that I have had such a mess. I have two choices on boot. the 2.4.xx kernel or the 2.6.xx kernel. Both go through the boot up fine but 2.6.xx ends with just a blank screen and no keyboard action. 2.4.xx loads up and runs but apps like OO.org just kind of hang with transparent screens. I continue to explore. But for now this looks like a PITA. Anyone getting better results? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:37:38AM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:15 am, Todd Slater wrote: Proving once again that good help is hard to find! ;-) According to those pages, then, the cd-based players iMP250+ have the firmware upgrade, but it's beta and works with oggs encoded up to 168kbs. The player may choke or skip parts if the bit rate exceeds that, which is possible with VBR encoding. Maybe the tech support guy responded the way he did since to play oggs would involve updating the firmware and using a beta product? Anyhow, if anybody here can report on performance that would be great. I have found the US website is often at least 1 and sometimes 2 firmware revs behind the International site. All the new stuff will show up first on the international site, so hang out there. Anyway, I have been using this firmware with my iMP-350 for the last couple of weeks using oggs encoded at 128kbps and the performance is outstanding. No skipping at all. I did have some problems with my ogg library. There were a lot of artifacts even though the bit rate was within spec. I think the problem had to do with them being encoded with a beta version of oggenc, as they were originally ripped and encoded about 18 months ago. If the decoder in the firmware is written very efficiently to fit in the limited flash rom and is based on the current spec, then it probably cannot deal with the small differences in the ogg files made with older versions of the encoder. The software decoders in the media players probably have some code to correct for this since their memory footprint is not so limited. I re-encoding the same disks with the oggenc in Mandrake 10 and it eliminated the problem. HTH -- /g Greg, do you encode by specifying bitrate or quality level? I typically encode at as low as -q 3 to save disc space (playing oggs on a Zaurus using CF), which reports a nominal bitrate of 112. Just wondering if you've found a good -q level for your purposes on the iMP-350 Thanks, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install
On Friday 05 March 2004 08:23 pm, David B. Carter wrote: Mike Adolf said: I have not read all the correspondence on this problem, so I may be suggesting something already tried. I also have the same sound system as you. For a long time I used 4236 driver (on MDK 91) and I could play CDs but nothing else. Once after booting I ran 'dmesg' to see any boot messages. When I booted with a failed driver (ie 46xx) the message suggested I try 4232. I did and everything is much better. xmms works, and kbootle plays DVDs with audio. I also get KDE startup and logoff sound. Try using harddrake to set this driver. That's great! I'll give it a try as soon as I get a chance. Did you run alsaconf to autodetect the card using that driver? Or did you just manually configure it and it worked? I probably won't get a chance to try it tonight, and I'm going to be out of town tomorrow, but I'll report back as soon as I try it. Thanks. I did not do anything with alsa at the time I changed to 4232 using harddrake. But, I may have worked (played) with alsa in earlier attempts on sound. Can't remember. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices
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Hello,
My swap file is hd7 with 494MB and it is different from this hd5
called /mnt/win_d with 525 MB.
When I click on this win_d (hd5) in Konqueror there are 2
directories: = a system volume information with a file
_restore{2F3FC359-5C9C-424F-B0EF-325C191C6F2E}
= recycled with a nprotect directory in it.
What shall I do? remove it?
Thanks
Christophe
That sounds like the hidden restore partition I mentioned - the sort
that compaq have used for a long time and more oems are using now
with XP. I'd leave it alone. Just don't have any mount point
specified in your fstab, and ignore it. You don't need the space, I
think.
Anne
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Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players
On Saturday 06 March 2004 11:03 am, Todd Slater wrote: Greg, do you encode by specifying bitrate or quality level? I typically encode at as low as -q 3 to save disc space (playing oggs on a Zaurus using CF), which reports a nominal bitrate of 112. Just wondering if you've found a good -q level for your purposes on the iMP-350 I don't normally use the -q levels, but instead set a bitrate. I usually use grip as the front-end for my encoding projects and you specify the actual bitrate. I would think 112 is pretty close to the 128 that I use and would sound fine. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with Nvidia video card and its driver
Hi Juan Firstly, the driver you have is old. The newest driver is version 1.0.5336. Just so you know. In your XF86Config-4, you have the following lines: Section Device Identifier device1 Driver vesa Option DPMS EndSection That driver line there has to be set to nvidia. I can't say I understand why you have NVIDIA driver lines in your logfile if you're using the VESA driver, but anyway - that's one possible problem. Give it a spin, send word of the results. pgp0.pgp Description: signature
[newbie] Spamassassin CPAN Question
I installed spamassassin 2.63 a few weeks ago via CPAN leaving the old 2.41 intact. Looking at the CPAN install log I can't seem to decipher where the newer version has been installed. Any help would be appreciated. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 11:01am up 15:30, 4 users, load average: 1.00, 1.03, 0.69 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Linux vs Windos WAS : [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:11:27 -0500 Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now if only HP would sell desktops and laptops running HP-UX :) I can get Linux and install it, hell this is an HP Why? :) Another problem these hardware makers have is using integrated hardwareFor Goodness sakes I absolutly That's why I put together systems from the ground up. My current box (3 yrs old), athlon 1ghz Asus motherboard, 256 megs ram, sb live, matrox millenium II video, etc. All in a nice blue case w/3 fans (not including the m/b cpu fans). Solid as a rock. The rest of the things, hd and such, just migrated from my even older system, which was a p/100 ca 1996. 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 -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin CPAN Question
On Saturday 06 March 2004 12:04 pm, Chris wrote: I installed spamassassin 2.63 a few weeks ago via CPAN leaving the old 2.41 intact. Looking at the CPAN install log I can't seem to decipher where the newer version has been installed. Any help would be appreciated. I am pretty sure that installing SpamAssassin via CPAN will remove the old version. I don't think that you can have more than one version of SA running unless you are installing and running it as a user out of your home directory and the default installations of SA don't run like that. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices
Ok
Thanks for the tip
Christophe
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Saturday 06 March 2004 21:01, rhein wrote:
Hello,
My swap file is hd7 with 494MB and it is different from this hd5
called /mnt/win_d with 525 MB.
When I click on this win_d (hd5) in Konqueror there are 2
directories: = a system volume information with a file
_restore{2F3FC359-5C9C-424F-B0EF-325C191C6F2E}
= recycled with a nprotect directory in it.
What shall I do? remove it?
Thanks
Christophe
That sounds like the hidden restore partition I mentioned - the sort
that compaq have used for a long time and more oems are using now
with XP. I'd leave it alone. Just don't have any mount point
specified in your fstab, and ignore it. You don't need the space, I
think.
Anne
- --
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Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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[newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should I get out of KDE and stop what services I can BEFORE I attempt to update everything? What is the safest environment to be in when updating? Thanks, -=Thinker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 Community available to club members...
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 21:37:50 -0700 Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, wait three weeks and you, too, can download the 3-ISO set. Just one of the benefits of club membership. Look at it this way, once it's spread more Or, don't wait at all, if you've had access to the Cooker repository via urpmi for the last month or so :). Are there bits on the 4/5 cd's that aren't in cooker main and contrib? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem with sharing ADSL on mdk 10
Hi, This is actually my first post ever to any mailing list :-S So here is my problem, I use Mandrake 10.0 (ftp/coocer). I am sharing my ADSL (pppoe), I configured it with drakeconnect and here are results from syslog: Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Loading /usr/share/shorewall/functions... Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Processing /etc/shorewall/params ... Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Processing /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf... Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Notice: The 'check' command is unsupported and problem Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: reports complaining about errors that it didn't catch Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: will not be accepted Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter capabilities: Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:NAT: Available Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Packet Mangling: Available Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Multi-port Match: Available Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Connection Tracking Match: Available Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Verifying Configuration... Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Loading Modules... Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Determining Zones... Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Zones: net loc Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Validating interfaces file... Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Validating hosts file... Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Determining Hosts in Zones... Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Net Zone: ppp+:0.0.0.0/0 Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Local Zone: eth1:0.0.0.0/0 Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Validating policy file... Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Policy for loc to net is ACCEPT using chain loc2net Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Policy for fw to net is ACCEPT using chain fw2net Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Policy for net to loc is DROP using chain net2all Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Policy for net to fw is DROP using chain net2all Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Policy for loc to fw is REJECT using chain all2all Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Policy for fw to loc is REJECT using chain all2all Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Validating rules file... Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Rule ACCEPT net fw udp 137,138,139 - checked. Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Rule ACCEPT net fw tcp 137,138,139 - checked. Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Rule ACCEPT loc fw udp 137,138,139 - checked. Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Rule ACCEPT loc fw tcp 137,138,139 - checked. Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall:Error: Undefined Client Zone in rule REDIRECT masq 3128 tcp www - Mar 6 19:16:25 nolife rc: shorewall käivitamine: failed Mar 6 19:16:25 nolife service_harddrake[956]: ### Program is starting ### Mar 6 19:16:26 nolife modprobe: FATAL: Module ide-probe-mod not found. Mar 6 19:16:26 nolife modprobe: FATAL: Module ide-disk not found. Mar 6 19:16:26 nolife service_harddrake[956]: running: /sbin/modprobe hid -- Klemens Arro Yeah, Windows is great... with out it, how the hell would I download Linux? Registered Linux User#: 346118 ICQ#: 179198850 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin CPAN Question
On Saturday 06 March 2004 12:32 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 12:04 pm, Chris wrote: I installed spamassassin 2.63 a few weeks ago via CPAN leaving the old 2.41 intact. Looking at the CPAN install log I can't seem to decipher where the newer version has been installed. Any help would be appreciated. I am pretty sure that installing SpamAssassin via CPAN will remove the old version. I don't think that you can have more than one version of SA running unless you are installing and running it as a user out of your home directory and the default installations of SA don't run like that. I know that spamc/spamd have been replaced, as I remember from a previous mail you replied to me: CPAN has the actual binary files but not stuff like the init scripts. I am pretty sure that you need the RPM for that. I have never uninstalled the RPM's when I have upgraded and it has never caused me any problems. Since the files are all stored in the same directory structure, I am pretty sure that the spamd/spamc binary applications have been replaced. I was just wondering where the files were placed when upgrading via CPAN. I've also noticed that my syslog file is huge now with spamassassin running, its 1.3gb in size. I can see I'm going to have to go into webmin and change it from weekly to daily for that log. Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 3:25pm up 3:51, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.16, 0.25 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
On Saturday 06 March 2004 04:02 pm, Thinker wrote: I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should I get out of KDE and stop what services I can BEFORE I attempt to update everything? What is the safest environment to be in when updating? I do it in runlevel 5 all the time from the command line. Log out of KDE and then when you see th egraphical login greeter, hit ctrl-alt-F1 to get to a console and do your urpmi --auto-select from there. When done, hit alt-F7 to get back to the greeter. Restart the xserver and then login. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
On Saturday 06 Mar 2004 21:02, Thinker wrote: I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should I get out of KDE and stop what services I can BEFORE I attempt to update everything? What is the safest environment to be in when updating? Thanks, -=Thinker Well I do it while logged into KDE, and without stopping any services. YMMV If you are worried then do a backup before proceeding. Note: If there is a preexisting config file in /etc which conflicts with the config file from a new package the old config file will be left in place and the new one will be suffixed .rpmnew You should review these files after install is complete to see if there is anything new which needs configuring. 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] making 10.0rc1 into 10.0 release via cooker.
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:52:46 -0500 Thinker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So.. you are saying that I can reinstall with the 10.0rc1 disks I made a few weeks ago and go to the cooker and update that to what is the Barring goofs like getting the boot table fubar'd (that has happened to me in the past), or something else, the answer is a pretty much yes. There may be packages that are in cooker that aren't automatically going to be included when you urpmi, since by urpmi'ing you are just updating to new versions of the files you install. So with that qualification, I'm at final now, because I've been urpmi'ing for the last 30 days, if not more. I didn't install RC1 although I made disks - I installed from beta1 I think. One thing I may do soon is to take RC1 and update everything back to what it is now on my other partition, which houses ATM 9.2 + cooker before 10.0 started. And that's because the partition I have 10.0 in now is a bit small (5 megs) rather than the bigger partition I had 9.2 in. As a result, I have less space for big /tmp things like audacity runs, dvd rips and space to install more things. to make the update process run smoothly. Any additional guidance on servers and what to and what not to check would be appreciated. That usually takes experience. I can attach my /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file though. Once you put that in place, then you can just do urpmi.update -a, followed by a urpmi --auto-select and in a while you'll be up to 10.0. If you get 'curl failures' or things like that, just wait a while and repeat the commands, as 9 times out of 10 it means that the mirror is clogged with too many users. My system ATM is setup to use uninett.no for main, sunet.se for contrib, and some turkish mirror alongside a french one for plf. I was doing well with just that for quite a while, and then the french plf was down (I'm unsure if that's been fixed) so plf stuff comes from turkey now. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- urpmi.cfg Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with sharing ADSL on mdk 10
On Friday 05 Mar 2004 22:45, Klemens Arro wrote: SNIP Thanks, but it didn't help, shorewall started but I still can't share my ADSL. As for the question, no I didn't put it there, Mandrake Controll Center internet connection sharing tool put it there. Here is /etc/shorewall/interfaces: #ZONEINTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS net ppp+detect loc eth0detect #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOVE /etc/shorewall/zones: #ZONE DISPLAY COMMENTS net Net Internet zone loc Local Local #LAST LINE - ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS ONE - DO NOT REMOVE /etc/shorewall/policy: # THE FOLLOWING POLICY MUST BE LAST # loc net ACCEPT fw net ACCEPT net all DROPinfo all all REJECT info #LAST LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE /etc/shorewall/rules: # PORTPORT(S) DEST LIMIT Nothing to do with your Internet sharing but you should remove these 2 lines ACCEPT net fw udp 137,138,139 - ACCEPT net fw tcp 137,138,139 - If these lines are present, and you are running Samba (Windows networking), then anyone on the internet could access your Samba file shares. ACCEPT loc fw udp 137,138,139 - Again nothing to do with your problem, but if you want to add any other features to your Linux box you should open up the appropriate port here. Ports you might like to open are :- 22 - ssh service 631 - CUPS print server 1 - Webmin configuration ACCEPT loc fw tcp 137,138,139 - This line has nothing to do with Internet sharing. I do not know how it got in, but I suggest you remove it. REDIRECTloc 3128tcp www - ACCEPT fw net tcp www #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOVE /etc/shorewall/masq: You only need one of these lines. The other can be removed. ppp+192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 ppp+192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 I assume your internal ethernet is on the 192.168.0.0 subnet? None of the comments I have made above would stop shorewall from working, and you say that shorewall now starts, so it looks as if Internet sharing is actually working. Your problem may be that you have not configured the Windows clients correctly. If you have not started a DHCP server on the Linux box (to allocate IP addresses to the Windows machines), then you should be using static addressing on the Windows clients. (IP addresses manually configured) You should also configure the Windows clients to use the Linux box as the Default Gateway, and you should enter the IP addresses of your ISPs DNS servers in the DNS configuration of your Windows clients. BTW: By default shorewall inhibits 'ping' so do not be surprised if you cannot ping the Linux box from your Windows clients. HTH 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] bad superblock
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 19:50, Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 08:54, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello ! I installed 9.2 for a friend of mine and everything went smoothly. I even updated it completely. His computer had a Windows partition and I decided to turn it into a /home partition. I think my mistake was that I didn't format it - I was running HardDrake. Now his computer won't start because of a superblock error - partition /dev/hda6 is said to have superblock errs. Is there a way I can (re)format it and create the /home directory again ? I was advised to boot in failsafe mode and run e2fsck, but unfortunately it didn't work. Please, I really need help. TIA You can boot into single use mode using failsafe as you did before, but you need to then format the partition. Running e2fsck won't do that. Try: mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda6 to create the default journalized filesystem on this partition. HTH Brian Thank you very much, Brian. Everything is OK now. __ -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. Albert Camus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] vectorlinux? Too much choices
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 10:15:01, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, Thank you for all your answers and now I'm confused with all the solutions... Not used to that after all the years with windows ;-) If I get it wright I can use MDK also with that config... and I have it already on cd. (save a lot of download time). I need a Xwindow program like Kde... If not my wife will kill me :o because it is here computer that I want to modify! And last of all I'm really a beginner with linux... see all the messages I mailed to the list the last weeks! Thanks Until you are comfortable with Linux, using any of the distributions besides Mandrake or SuSE may be asking for more work and frustration than you bargained for. None of them have as many user-friendly tools to help the newbie as Mandrake and SuSE. Unfortunately, Mandrake 9 and up will not run well using either KDE or Gnome on a computer such as you describe. You would have to use a different, lightweight desktop manager to access the gui-based software. I use Mandrake 8.2 on a similar setup with full use of KDE and Gnome, but not the most current KDE or Gnome. When I have really resource-intensive work to do on that system, I use Blackbox which is a minimalist desktop manager. To use the utilities and applications that come with KDE and Gnome, you merely have to have KDE and Gnome installed (although there are exceptions). You don't have to actually run them, and it is running those desktop managers that eats up resources. They consume a lot of space and on smaller systems that could also be a problem. Blackbox doesn't really appeal to many people coming from mswin, but IceWM does and it is a lightweight desktop manager which looks similar to win95. Mandrake 8.2 is no longer supported, but if you have a favorite discount Linux CD site (e.g., Cheapbytes) in your region of the world, you usually can get copies inexpensively on CD (including a CD with the advisories and security updates) via the mails. I haven't checked any mirrors to see if the 8.2 files are still available that way. You can always try your current version of Mandrake on the older system with a desktop manager like IceWM to see if it is satisfactory (back up your old system so you can restore it in case you don't like what happens). Once you get comfortable with Linux, there are many ways of dealing with this, but none of them are easy for Linux beginners. --- deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit WordStar GNU/Linux http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] boomshakalaka (ignore)
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[newbie] can't compile a file with -static
Hello everyone..
I have a simple file and I try to compile it with -static flag, but I
can't. I use:
gcc -o shellcode -ggdb -static shellcode.c
but I got the following error::
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
my test file is the following:
#include stdio.h
int main(void) {
char *name[2];
name[0] = /bin/sh;
name[1] = NULL;
execve(name[0], name, NULL);
return(0);
}
The reasion I want to compile it with -static is that I want to know how
the execve is done in assembly level. If anyone can offer some help,
that is really appreciated.
btw, my MDK is 9.2
and gcc is 3.3.1
best regard
Chungwei
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[newbie] HP scanner with SCSI card
My HP 4P scanner worked fine with an Adaptec SCSI card in Windows 2000 I installed the card and attached scanner. HardDrake recognizes the SCSI card as a Adaptec AHA 7850 ScannerDrake does not find a scanner. When I manually install the scanner it is listed in list of HP scanners. After supposed installation the scanner is still not listed as installed. In the simplest of terms, can some one please tell me how to install the scanner? Thank You, Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML 10.0 problems
On Saturday 06 March 2004 08:42 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I have the 5 CD set of 10.0 and it is not playing nicely with my comp. This is the first time of all the releases that I have had such a mess. I have two choices on boot. the 2.4.xx kernel or the 2.6.xx kernel. Both go through the boot up fine but 2.6.xx ends with just a blank screen and no keyboard action. 2.4.xx loads up and runs but apps like OO.org just kind of hang with transparent screens. I continue to explore. But for now this looks like a PITA. Anyone getting better results? So, I solved the problem by reinstalling 10.0 with only the 2.6.2 kernel and then went in and edited X11 to take out the driver nvidia and replace with nv. So the Nvidia driver that comes with 10.0 is not compatible with the 2.6 kernel. I am leary of going and getting the one on the NVIDIA site cause of the boot up problems this release is having on my comp. Anyhoo, the bugger runs. I hope some of this gets cleared up soon. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dvd plugin for xine
I have a 850 AMD cpu 640 megs of ram GForce TI 4400 AGP Tyan Motherboard I have been surfing for the plugins for xine so I can play dvds in Mandrake 9.2 I am still new at this and all the different rpms and tars I find are confusing. I'm not sure which one to use or how many to use. If I could just have a good source to download from that works well I could probably figure out how to install it. Please help Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install
Mike Adolf said: That's great! I'll give it a try as soon as I get a chance. Did you run alsaconf to autodetect the card using that driver? Or did you just manually configure it and it worked? I probably won't get a chance to try it tonight, and I'm going to be out of town tomorrow, but I'll report back as soon as I try it. Thanks. I did not do anything with alsa at the time I changed to 4232 using harddrake. But, I may have worked (played) with alsa in earlier attempts on sound. Can't remember. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me :( I tried to run alsaconf using the 4232 drivers, and it hung my machine just like the 4236 did. Then I tried to modeprobe it, and I got a bunch of errors. Then I ran dmesg, and it said that the soundcard was not detected. At least with the 4236, I can load it. Oh well, thanks for the suggestion. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dvd plugin for xine
I have a 850 AMD cpu 640 megs of ram GForce TI 4400 AGP Tyan Motherboard I have been surfing for the plugins for xine so I can play dvds in Mandrake 9.2 I am still new at this and all the different rpms and tars I find are confusing. I'm not sure which one to use or how many to use. If I could just have a good source to download from that works well I could probably figure out how to install it. Please help Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install
Derek Jennings said: Given that your soundchip was not detected on installation, or that alsaconf fails to detect it, then I suspect you may may a problem with IRQ conflicts. If you type 'dmesg' in a terminal you will see all the boot messages. If you scroll up you may see some clues Thanks for all the tips, Derek. I just got back into town, and I probably won't have time to try them out until Monday, but I'm looking forward to it, and I will report back as soon as I have tried everything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML 10.0 problems
On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:18 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 08:42 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I have the 5 CD set of 10.0 and it is not playing nicely with my comp. This is the first time of all the releases that I have had such a mess. I have two choices on boot. the 2.4.xx kernel or the 2.6.xx kernel. Both go through the boot up fine but 2.6.xx ends with just a blank screen and no keyboard action. 2.4.xx loads up and runs but apps like OO.org just kind of hang with transparent screens. I continue to explore. But for now this looks like a PITA. Anyone getting better results? So, I solved the problem by reinstalling 10.0 with only the 2.6.2 kernel and then went in and edited X11 to take out the driver nvidia and replace with nv. So the Nvidia driver that comes with 10.0 is not compatible with the 2.6 kernel. I am leary of going and getting the one on the NVIDIA site cause of the boot up problems this release is having on my comp. Anyhoo, the bugger runs. I hope some of this gets cleared up soon. No it is. Zeb discovered that that a depmod needs to be run to get the nvidia module to load. See bug 8647 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8647 'depmod -a' should solve the problem also. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dvd plugin for xine
Robert Beach wrote: I have a 850 AMD cpu 640 megs of ram GForce TI 4400 AGP Tyan Motherboard I have been surfing for the plugins for xine so I can play dvds in Mandrake 9.2 I am still new at this and all the different rpms and tars I find are confusing. I'm not sure which one to use or how many to use. If I could just have a good source to download from that works well I could probably figure out how to install it. Please help Robert Let's see... Go into a terminal. Type su for root. If you don't have your urpmi sources defined, I suggest you do so: www.urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php After you do that, type urpmi libdvdcss. Reply if you still can't get it to work. --Marc 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] ML 10.0 problems
On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:45 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:18 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 08:42 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I have the 5 CD set of 10.0 and it is not playing nicely with my comp. This is the first time of all the releases that I have had such a mess. I have two choices on boot. the 2.4.xx kernel or the 2.6.xx kernel. Both go through the boot up fine but 2.6.xx ends with just a blank screen and no keyboard action. 2.4.xx loads up and runs but apps like OO.org just kind of hang with transparent screens. I continue to explore. But for now this looks like a PITA. Anyone getting better results? So, I solved the problem by reinstalling 10.0 with only the 2.6.2 kernel and then went in and edited X11 to take out the driver nvidia and replace with nv. So the Nvidia driver that comes with 10.0 is not compatible with the 2.6 kernel. I am leary of going and getting the one on the NVIDIA site cause of the boot up problems this release is having on my comp. Anyhoo, the bugger runs. I hope some of this gets cleared up soon. No it is. Zeb discovered that that a depmod needs to be run to get the nvidia module to load. See bug 8647 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8647 'depmod -a' should solve the problem also. Thanks Greg, I installed the drivers from the 3rd CD and that fixed it. I then had problems with no mouse thru the zonet kvm switch so I put the USB logitech optical mouse in the usb port and that fixed the mouse problem. I must have been having a irq conflict. Any way thanks for the bug point. Now I can wring this puppy out and see what I can break on my own. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kthememanager
Does anyone know the name of the package with the KDE Theme Manager in it? Thanks --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lost gnome-panel after installing 4.4.0 XFree86 on 9.2 AMD64
I installed the AMD64 binary version (yes, on an AMD64 system) of XFree86 4.4.0, downloaded from the XFree86.org site. I installed on an eMachines M6805, and I'm pleased to say that I've been able to get the native 1280x800 resolution on the LCD, and I've been able to simultaneously drive an attached monitor at an independent resolution and refresh rate. This laptop uses the ATI 9600 Mobility chip with 64 MB discrete RAM, and I'm running the RC1 Mandrake 9.2 AMD64 release. I'm using the radeon driver. The issue I'm having is with gnome-panel, and unfortunately I don't see a pattern in the problem. The very first time I started up X after installing 4.4.0, both screen had their own panel, and they both worked. I shut down and added Xinerama. When I rebooted, only the CRT had a panel. If I put the mouse on the LCD and hit alt-F1, I get the system menu in the upper right corner of the LCD, and it works. I've verified in /var/log/XFree.0.log that X recognizes the LCD as being the first monitor. If I now comment out Xinerama, when I start X I have *no* gnome-panel at all! Alt-F1 will still pop up the system menu in the upper right corner of the LCD. What can I do to get the panel on the LCD? And where can I find the configuration options for the radeon driver? Thanks. -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
