[newbie] Inconsistent success with gdesklets
Hello again, everyone. I've recently started using gdesklets (v0.26.1), but have so far only been able to get the SysInfo desklet to work. Whenever I install and try to run a new desklet, I get two errors (examples from the Calendar desklet): - Could not load sensor 'Calendar' An error occurred while loading a sensor. This most likely means that the sensor is broken or simply not installed. Invalid display file '/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/calendar-0.2.5.2/Calendar.display' The display file contains invalid data and could not be loaded. - I got the same problem early on with SysInfo, but I finally got it to work. The only trouble is, I moved things into so many different directories in an effort to get it to work-- and I kept such poor track of what I was doing --that I can't recall which setup finally worked. This is my fault, obviously, and I hate to keep bothering you fine folks with problems related to my own inattention; but anyway... ;) The main problem is that I can't get a clear and consistent answer for exactly _where_ desklets ought to be installed in the first place. Some sites have users install them in their home directories (I get a flat-out file does not exist error when I try this); others mention setups in the /usr directory tree, but nothing matches my own directory structure well enough for to guess how to adapt the instructions. Is there anyone here using Mandrake 9.2 who can pass along the secret of their gdesklets success? By the way, I'm using Xfce, so the 'drag-n-drop' solution for GNOME won't work for me. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Inconsistent success with gdesklets
On Mon, 10 May 2004 20:40:15 -0400 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: Hello again, everyone. I've recently started using gdesklets (v0.26.1), but have so far only been able to get the SysInfo desklet to work. Whenever I install and try to run a new desklet, I get two errors (examples from the Calendar desklet): - Could not load sensor 'Calendar' An error occurred while loading a sensor. This most likely means that the sensor is broken or simply not installed. Invalid display file '/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/calendar-0.2.5.2/Calendar.display' The display file contains invalid data and could not be loaded. If you read the docs in the archive for any given display, it explains this. You need to install the 'sensor' first. For example, from the 'clock' package: Displays (desktop applets) don't have to be installed to be used. You may run them where they are (you decide where you collect your displays). Sensors, however, have to be installed before displays can use them. If a required sensor is not installed, then 'gDesklets' will complain that it couldn't find the sensor. You just have to run the sensor installer in order to install a sensor. Look for a file called 'install-thing-sensor.bin' and run it. An easier method, though, for at least the clock display, is to install from urpmi: urpmi gdesklets-clock -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 21:19:54 up 4 days, 7:47, 8 users, load average: 0.30, 0.11, 0.03 +++ The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. -- Karl Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault
On Monday 10 May 2004 07:31 pm, JoeHill wrote: 'It's your fault. Yeah you, Mr. or Ms. Corporate IT Person. Microsoft says it's your fault, and the fault of your users, that there are so many security problems with Microsoft software. Oh, sure, there are security holes in Microsoft products. But Microsoft does patch them -- eventually. And unless corporate IT does a better job of promptly applying those patches, as well as training users in safe computing practices -- well, there's only so much Microsoft can do. Yes, at Microsoft irony is dead. And so, apparently, is shame.' Link: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,92 802,00.html Joe: Actually, he understates the true cost of MS negligence by not mentioning that the RestOfUs (Linuxers, Mac types, etc) have to suffer through all of the havoc caused by all of the the MS messes. If you had any guts, you'd post this to the expert list to see what Chris Fox has to say. Please avoid any political sigs; the right wingers seem to have taken control over there. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault
On Mon, 10 May 2004 21:32:51 -0400 Carroll Grigsby disseminated the following: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,92 802,00.html Joe: Actually, he understates the true cost of MS negligence by not mentioning that the RestOfUs (Linuxers, Mac types, etc) have to suffer through all of the havoc caused by all of the the MS messes. ya, it's real fun when it takes a minute and a half to send an e-mail because Windows XP Zombies are spewing crap all over the 'Net. If you had any guts, you'd post this to the expert list to see what Chris Fox has to say. Please avoid any political sigs; the right wingers seem to have taken control over there. Well, I'm kinda tryin' to avoid this stuff on Expert, we already lost Jack Coates to this shite, I seem to get into/cause less trouble here on Newbie. And as for Chris Fox, he can...well, use your imagination. Circular Logic and Avoiding Discussing the Real Issue, Honours Thesis, Professor Chris Fox. LOL! I think the RW'ers would have enjoyed -this- sig tho! -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 22:15:49 up 4 days, 8:42, 8 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 +++ The struggle between people and capital is now an epic struggle between life and death. -- Vandana Shiva, World Social Forum, January 16, 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Inconsistent success with gdesklets
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 20:40:15 -0400 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: Hello again, everyone. I've recently started using gdesklets (v0.26.1), but have so far only been able to get the SysInfo desklet to work. Whenever I install and try to run a new desklet, I get two errors (examples from the Calendar desklet): - Could not load sensor 'Calendar' An error occurred while loading a sensor. This most likely means that the sensor is broken or simply not installed. Invalid display file '/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/calendar-0.2.5.2/Calendar.display' The display file contains invalid data and could not be loaded. If you read the docs in the archive for any given display, it explains this. Yes, I read that; I also read this: Again in theory this is simple. First you get some desklet, for example a clock desklet. Then you untar its package and run ./Install.bin-script. $ wget http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/files.php?func=gd_downloadfilegd_filename=clock-desklet-0.32.tar.bz2gd_fileid=83; $ bzip2 -cd clock-desklet-0.32.tar.bz2|tar -xf - $ cd clock-desklet-0.32 $ ./Install_Clock_Sensor.bin After ./Install_Clock_Sensor.bin you might get a message The sensor has been installed successfully. gDesklets is now able to use it.. I read it, followed it, got the 'go-ahead' message from gdesklets-- and still they don't work. Though it may not seem like it from some of my posts, I _do_ generally try to exhaust all the documentation I can find before I post here. ;) Thanks for the urpmi tip, though I tend to shy away from online updates/installs-- my dialup connection is unreliable and awful beyond description. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault
JoeHill wrote: 'It's your fault. Yeah you, Mr. or Ms. Corporate IT Person. Microsoft says it's your fault, and the fault of your users, that there are so many security problems with Microsoft software. Oh, sure, there are security holes in Microsoft products. But Microsoft does patch them -- eventually. And unless corporate IT does a better job of promptly applying those patches, as well as training users in safe computing practices -- well, there's only so much Microsoft can do. Yes, at Microsoft irony is dead. And so, apparently, is shame.' Link: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,92802,00.html What made this even funnier was that there was only a 2 week period between the patch being released and when the exploit comming out.. That means that sysadmins had two weeks to ensure that the patch didn't break any functionality or compromise stability and roll it out onto all their machines, which often number in the thousands.. Considering MS's practise to release patches that break something.. they can hardly expect people to patch that quickly. I wrote about this on my blog a few days ago. http://htmlfixit.com/don_and_franki_news_blog_on_htmlfixit_dot_com/index.php?p=62 -- rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:32:51PM -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote: If you had any guts, you'd post this to the expert list to see what Chris Fox has to say. Please avoid any political sigs; the right wingers seem to have taken control over there. -- cmg Wasn't it just a couple of people that had problems with the political sigs? The rest of the group seemed to say hey, it's a sig for goodness sake! t Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Red Hat in or out of the Desktop biz?
I coulda sworn I was just reading a few weeks ago that Red Hat said they were not giving any support to Linux on the desktop... But now this? If Matthew Szulik is to be believed, the first thing we will see when we start up our computers in the morning will no longer be Micro- soft's familiar green, red, blue and yellow logo. Instead it will be a battered red fedora. Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/story.jsp?story=519375 -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 23:55:53 up 4 days, 10:23, 8 users, load average: 0.25, 0.12, 0.12 +++ The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack! -- Rick Mercer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Inconsistent success with gdesklets
On Mon, 10 May 2004 22:32:45 -0400 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: If you read the docs in the archive for any given display, it explains this. Yes, I read that; I also read this: Again in theory this is simple. First you get some desklet, for example a clock desklet. Then you untar its package and run ./Install.bin-script. $ wget http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/files.php?func=gd_downloadfilegd_filename =clock-desklet-0.32.tar.bz2gd_fileid=83 $ bzip2 -cd clock-desklet-0.32.tar.bz2|tar -xf - $ cd clock-desklet-0.32 $ ./Install_Clock_Sensor.bin After ./Install_Clock_Sensor.bin you might get a message The sensor has been installed successfully. gDesklets is now able to use it.. I read it, followed it, got the 'go-ahead' message from gdesklets-- and still they don't work. Though it may not seem like it from some of my posts, I _do_ generally try to exhaust all the documentation I can find before I post here. ;) Sorry, shouldn't have assumed :-\ So it is the clock you are trying to get going. Well, this probably isn't the 'proper' way, but it's the way I first got it working, cuz I don't use Gnome either: In a terminal do 'gdes [tab]' and you should see a command 'gdesklets-add-starterbar-display'. Run that, and you will get a (kinda cool) animated starter bar on your desktop. Click on the house to open Nautilus, and navigate to where you have the clock archive. Click on the display and see if it will start. If it does, it should start whenever you fire up your desktop if you have some way of running 'gdesklet' at startup with XFCE. Thanks for the urpmi tip, though I tend to shy away from online updates/installs-- my dialup connection is unreliable and awful beyond description. I sympathize, but believe me 'urpmi gdesklets-clock' will take a few minutes and save you hours of headaches. I mean, unless you are on 28K or something (ouch). It can't take much longer than downloading the tarballs. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 23:34:12 up 4 days, 10:01, 8 users, load average: 0.22, 0.23, 0.19 +++ These neocons have made a horrible mess of things, but that gives them no pause. They went to war with a nation that had no weapons of mass destruction and few connections to terrorism — but have coddled Pakistan, which sponsored the Taliban and Al Qaeda and which recently was revealed as the source of nuclear weapons technology for North Korea, Iran and Libya. -- Robert Scheer, robertscheer.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Red Hat in or out of the Desktop biz?
JoeHill wrote: I coulda sworn I was just reading a few weeks ago that Red Hat said they were not giving any support to Linux on the desktop... But now this? If Matthew Szulik is to be believed, the first thing we will see when we start up our computers in the morning will no longer be Micro- soft's familiar green, red, blue and yellow logo. Instead it will be a battered red fedora. Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/story.jsp?story=519375 Yeah, it was.. but I think from memory that that was more about home users... Redhat, novel, IBM and co are all going after the enterprise desktop... mostly places where the user in question only needs email, web, basic office stuff etc... and a sysadmin loads it all on for them.. In that market, Linux is already competitive because MS's preloading and stuff doesn't really come into it., -- rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there
Thanks Derek and bascule. I have now setup KDE/MDK for ALSA, and logging in/out between users works fine. Have also put them both in 'audio' group I said I was a newbie so... how do i give the audio group rw perms? also changing the console.perms, and commenting out the sound line results in BOTH users losing sound, is this because audio group needs the rw perms. ( I,m learning, honest I am!) Peter On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:29, bascule wrote: i'm guessing that this happens when you are also logged on and youhave started a second session, if you look in /etc/security/console.perms you will see a list pertaining to what permissions device get assigned when someone logs in and the default perms when you log out, note that all the sound devices will be owned by the first logged in user and stay that way if someone else logs on in the meantime, to fix this you can comment out the relevant lines, and then make your users members of the audio group, also make sure that you alter the perms of the file to give the audio group rw perms, do this for other device files that the other user might need access to, although this works for me to allow my daughter to log on and play music, i would appreciate if some expert could explain why it is that the references (in my case) to the device files for my nvidia card don't need to be changed for another user to log on, how does that work? bascule Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom
On Sunday 09 May 2004 16:47, John wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:28, John wrote: I have just upgraded to MD 10 official from 9.2. The cdrom was reconfigured and now it will not mount. It is a memorex cdrw. Would appreciate any help in getting it back up. Thanks John Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line for your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 Also in 10.0 the 2.6 kernel no longer needs to use ide-scsi in order to write CD-RW so in your /etc/lilo -v file remove any reference to ide-scsi in the append line and then run lilo -v to write the boot sector. derek hello derek Thanks for the quick response. I installed the magicdev package and changed the fstab file to mnt/cdrom auto from mnt/hdc. The mount point has to exist as a folder. So if the folder /mnt/cdrom does not exist you must create it before the cdrom will mount. Magicdev starts when you log in, so you might have to log out and back in again before it will start ps aux | grep magicdev will confirm it is running. I checked the lilo file and did not see any reference to ide-scsi. The new lilo file read: append=devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5. I also ran the lilo -v afterwards. Cd-rom won't mount. I am probably doing something wrong here but can't see it. Thanks john I assume you are using a data CD and not an audio CD? Audio CDs do not mount. Also how are you checking if the drive will mount? With magicdev there is no need to mount the CD. Just open konqueror and browse to the mount point. And finally. You are actually using the 2.6 kernel are you? uname -r will confirm which kernel you are using. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom
On Sunday 09 May 2004 12:50 pm, John wrote:
Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms
Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line
for your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto
umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec
0 0
Also in 10.0 the 2.6 kernel no longer needs to use ide-scsi
in order to write CD-RW so in your /etc/lilo -v file remove
any reference to ide-scsi in the append line and then run
lilo -v to write the boot sector.
derek
Removing references in modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload
for ide-scsi is also neccessary. Consider this advice
temporary as Mandrake (current 10.1 devel) is goin back to
ide-scsi for IDE CD devices. Early 10.1 (2.6.5 or .6 kernel)
is already back to it.
Contrary to the questionable Mandrake move, this 'last
minute' change to magicdev for 10.0, I'd suggest doin a urpme
on it an then runnin 'supermount -i enable' 'mount -a'
Supermount is mature, magicdev is alpha, and has known
problems. I find supermount-ng as implemented in current 2.6.x
kernels to be flawless.
Another mistaken Mandrake move, but can easily be turned off
or removed is tmdns.
John, check that 'll /dev/hd*' return drives numbers
suitable for your CD drives(s). Make sure fstab also reflects
the correct device, ie, hd*, not scd*. Check /etc/ modprobe*
files to be certain they don't call ide-scsi or scsi host
adaptor. I'm sort'a thinkin your fstab (Mandrake bug) doesn't
accurately reflect the device connotations. If my advice
doesn't work for you post the results of
- 'll /dev/hd*' and also /dev/scd*
- Your /etc/fstab file.
- 'cdrecord -scanbus' and 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus'
- Your modprobe* files
Come to think of it, post your kernel version ('uname -r')
and the above to the list before makin any changes.
Tom
-Kernel version=2.6.3-7mdk
IIRC, that kernel uses ATA, and not ide-scsi. Newer kernels
do use ide-scsi (later 2.6.5 and now all 2.6.6)
-Fstab:/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
- None /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
-/dev/hda6/home ext3 defaults 1 2
- /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask =o,user,iocharset=iso8859-
1,codepage=850,ro,exec 00
You don't have supermount for your cd drive. If you want
it, just run 'supermount -i enable' It knows when and when not
to mount CD media. Make sure your cd drive is in fact the
primary drive on the 2nd ide channel (hdc).
-none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=
850,uma sk=0 0 0
-none /proc proc defaults 00
-/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
-modprobe: -options i810fb xres=800 hsync1=32 hsync2=48
vsync1=50 vsync2=70 vram=2 bpp=16 accel=1 mtrr=1
-install scsi_hostadapter ; /bin/true
^^
-install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe usb-uhci;
/bin/true
Remove or comment out (#) all ide-scsi and scsi_hostadapter
references in modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload. Might as well
take any out of modules.conf, even tho your 2.6 kernel doesn't
use it. Back up any files you make changes to before you edit
them. You might just need 'em later if you install a newer
kernel.
The cdrecord -scanbus produced a long file. Included was:
You need to use 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus'
After making all the changes above, it'd probly be easiest
just to reboot. Your cd drive should then be working properly.
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Proud to be an American
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[newbie] vmware-config.pl
Hi, I can not finnish vmware-config.pl in mdk 10C with 2.6.3-9mdk, script returns with an error despite I have kernel source too? Is there any solution for that? With mdk 9.2 it worked fine. -- best rgds tt 18:44:30 up 5 min, 0 users, load average: 0.21, 0.43, 0.22 2.6.3-9mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tv tuner card help needed
- Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Tv tuner card help needed On Sunday 09 May 2004 02:00 pm, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just bought a WINTV USB. I bought it because I was sure that I read here that some people had gotten this to work in Mandrake. One program I tried with said it couldn't open /dev/video1. Another program I tried asked Are drivers loaded? Can anybody help me to get this thing working, please? Thank you! Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try going into Mandrake Control CenterHardwaretvcard and check the configuration. you may have to select the set up such as us-cable or us-broadcast and let it find the stations. It should then work. HTH -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Hi, Okay. I do see the TV card in MCC. I just can't get it to work. This is the error message I get from motv. I have tried TVtime. KwinTV and maybe some others but I always get errors. This is motv-3.91, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.3-7mdk) Warning: Actions not found: Remote can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory no video grabber device available Any help you can give is appreciated. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there
On Monday 10 May 2004 15:58, Peter wrote: Thanks Derek and bascule. I have now setup KDE/MDK for ALSA, and logging in/out between users works fine. Have also put them both in 'audio' group I said I was a newbie so... how do i give the audio group rw perms? also changing the console.perms, and commenting out the sound line results in BOTH users losing sound, is this because audio group needs the rw perms. ( I,m learning, honest I am!) Peter On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:29, bascule wrote: i'm guessing that this happens when you are also logged on and youhave started a second session, if you look in /etc/security/console.perms you will see a list pertaining to what permissions device get assigned when someone logs in and the default perms when you log out, note that all the sound devices will be owned by the first logged in user and stay that way if someone else logs on in the meantime, to fix this you can comment out the relevant lines, and then make your users members of the audio group, also make sure that you alter the perms of the file to give the audio group rw perms, do this for other device files that the other user might need access to, although this works for me to allow my daughter to log on and play music, i would appreciate if some expert could explain why it is that the references (in my case) to the device files for my nvidia card don't need to be changed for another user to log on, how does that work? bascule It it works then there is no need to do anything with the perms. As I said, it is not normally required. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there
Derek, Yes it works fine if I log out, and log dominic in, but i *would* like to just switch session for him. If you can let me know how to change permissions on the audio group, then this would help. Peter. On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:29, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 15:58, Peter wrote: Thanks Derek and bascule. I have now setup KDE/MDK for ALSA, and logging in/out between users works fine. Have also put them both in 'audio' group I said I was a newbie so... how do i give the audio group rw perms? also changing the console.perms, and commenting out the sound line results in BOTH users losing sound, is this because audio group needs the rw perms. ( I,m learning, honest I am!) Peter bascule It it works then there is no need to do anything with the perms. As I said, it is not normally required. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: writing sms
Thujan wrote: Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard rather than phone itself. I have used this same phone as gprs-modem with pppd and it works fine. But writing sms needs some program to do it. Thank you advance google for gsmlib /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MS does something intelligent!
Stop the presses! Microsoft's increasing concern over information security has translated into its decision to bite the bullet and make its upcoming SP2 (Service Pack 2) security patch available to all users - including those using pirated copies of its Windows XP software. Link: http://computertimes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,5104,2292,00.html Maybe, just maybe, the 'Net will be somewhat safer with all those warez kiddies patched up somewhat... Well, we can dream, can't we?! LOL! -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 13:19:01 up 3 days, 23:46, 8 users, load average: 0.31, 0.22, 0.14 +++ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] VS: Trying Upgrade 9.1 to 9.2
Hello. I have tried to do the Upgrade of 9.1 to 9.2 by cdrom installing to see if I can getting a better system workinp on my PC Epox P2 amd 256Ram IBM 500MHz and when i have the pc into do some by the ramdisk, version 9.2 saying ramdisk error, but it goes fine with usig the version 9.1 install cds. Is there som of that 9.1 not can be install and upgraded to 9.2 by the 9.2 cd1. The same goes on my 2th linux pc where i have got the trouble and problem that the my Xfree and hd partion install maker function hang in lot of minutes wit a black screen, when I trying use [drakconf] then [install new harddisk}, and here have I first tried to run cd install + upgrade for 9.1 and got that the install screen hang up rigth after I have shoosing standard mouse driver selv if the mouse is a wireless ps2 mouse and if i have choose ps2 mouse it install the driver and then hang without doing anymore on installing. After about 15 min. to 30 min. i got tried of there nothing happens and do reboot the pc and then I still can start up linux, and then try a new install upgrade with the version 9.2 cd1, it go on and reach to load the ramdisk and first stoppin and saying ramdisk error and I take out the 9.2 cd1 install and put another install c1 for 9.2 and here it goes fine until it have insalled the mouswe driver and htne now hang up as by with the 9.1 installing. The pc is a PII 266 266Mhz 256MB ram and 2 x 120GB hds. On the same pc has I tried to figured out whar in MB a 40Gb hd show at 37G have for linux in MB for the current working is. --- --- Regards Gert Koefoed Andersen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kofobbs.dktelnet://fido.kofobbs.dk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] writing sms
On Monday 10 May 2004 9:35 am, Thujan wrote: Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard rather than phone itself. I have used this same phone as gprs-modem with pppd and it works fine. But writing sms needs some program to do it. Thank you advance Maybe. You could try scmxx. I've used it to send SMS from a T39m over bluetooth. (But that shouldn't make any difference; at that level bluetooth looks like a serial port, in fact I think scmxx expects a serial port.) The caveat is that scmxx is written for a Seimens phone, and using anything else is at your own risk. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Helix Player
Just in the process of snagging an RPM of the Helix Player. Wanted to know if anyone out there in Mandrakeland has had any experience with this thing, good or bad (esp bad...). For some reason, RealPlayer is loading fine now on the Jon Stewart site now (wasn't on my previous install...), but I can't get Air America [1] to come in, though it did just a few days ago. I'm thinkin' they may have changed their format, maybe Helix will play it? How it the integration of Helix with Firefox? Will it interfere with the functionality of RealPlayer? Any info appreciated, thanks. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 12:57:40 up 3 days, 23:24, 8 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.07 +++ Gauging the number of Iraqi civilian casualties since the war began is difficult because the U.S.-led occupation force does not count them... -- Letta Tayler, Newsday, March 7th 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] vmware-config.pl
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thujan Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 5:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] vmware-config.pl Hi, I can not finnish vmware-config.pl in mdk 10C with 2.6.3-9mdk, script returns with an error despite I have kernel source too? Is there any solution for that? With mdk 9.2 it worked fine. Which version of vmware? For 2.6 kernel you either need to patch 4.0.5 or download 4.5 -- best rgds tt 18:44:30 up 5 min, 0 users, load average: 0.21, 0.43, 0.22 2.6.3-9mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10 Official and Speedtouch ADSL......
Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem to work under 10 official? I upgraded, and for some reason, the files are still in the /usr/share/speedtouch/ folder (speedtouch.sh and mgmt.o), but the modem wont start. If I open up a terminal and cd to the /usr/share/speedtouch/ folder, and type ./speedtouch.sh start, the modem lights will flash away as if something is going on, but then I get a red failure message. No backtrace or anything. Can anyone pinpoint the problem? Oh yes, and when I go into drakconnect to configure the connection, I click on speedtouch USB, and I get a little warning pop up, saying sorry we only support kernel 2.4 and higher. eh?? I'm on a 2.4 kernel! Cheers, JRH
[newbie] apache making me batty
On a 9.1 box running highest level security with Apache 1.3. I'm trying to access the ~/username directory but keep getting 403 forbidden error. ~/public_html is readable by all ~/public_html/index.html is readable by all In /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf I have: Directory /home/*/public_html AllowOverride All Options MultiViews -Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks IfModule mod_access.c Order allow,deny Allow from all /IfModule /Directory which seems to be pretty standard. I don't see anything in the apache logs other than the 403 errors. Anybody know what's up with that? Todd -- Let us be utopian for a moment so that when we get realistic again it is not that realism so useful to the Establishment in discouraging action. -Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6
Le May 9, 2004 06:49 am, Derek Jennings a écrit : On Sunday 09 May 2004 05:13, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 7, 2004 04:41 am, Derek Jennings a écrit : On Friday 07 May 2004 05:41, Marc Lijour wrote: Would you know what to do in order to make the firmware uploaded automatically as soon as the device is detected on the USB port? At this point I have to use fxload manually each time I boot. To make a kernel module load automatically on inserting a USB device edit /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap Copy the format from an existing device. You will need the usb vendor/product codes of your device which you will see somewhere in dmesg, or install and run usbview and it will tell you the codes. Hi derek in this file it is written that it is automatically generated (by what I do not know!), and actually there are multiple line for my backpack. In spite of these lines it is not recognized. Do the vendor/product codes in the file match your backpack? What do you see in /var/log/syslog when you insert the usb cable? I get that (at the end of usb.usermap): bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x0001 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x1000 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x1001 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x1002 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x1003 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x1004 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x1005 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x1006 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x1007 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x0010 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x bpckusb 0x0003 0x0ac9 0x0011 0x 0x 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x AND - [EMAIL PROTECTED] hotplug]# cat /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc=118/900 us (13%), #Int= 1, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 2.06 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.3-9mdk uhci_hcd S: Product=UHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=:00:1f.4 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=046d ProdID=c506 Rev=16.00 S: Manufacturer=Logitech S: Product=USB Receiver C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr= 50mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=hid E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 11/900 us ( 1%), #Int= 1, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 2.06 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.3-9mdk uhci_hcd S: Product=UHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=:00:1f.2 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 4 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=058f ProdID=9254 Rev= 3.12 S: Manufacturer=ALCOR S: Product=Generic USB Hub C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0ac9 ProdID= Rev= 0.00 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 0 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none) I: If#= 0 Alt= 1 #EPs=13 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none) E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 16 Ivl=10ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=84(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=04(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=86(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=06(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=88(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 16 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=08(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 16 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=89(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 16 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=09(O)
Re: [newbie] pcmcia nic card problem
Marcus Schwab wrote: I installed MDK10.0 over an ftp server using the netorking boot disk, and my 3Com 3CCFE574BT pcmcia nic card worked fine for this. (I have an ADSL connection) But after I installed MDK I can't find the nic in the hardware section, and my networks/internet does not work. And the light doesn't even turn on, on the card. Please help me! Marcus Two things you could try. First, try booting with the card installed. Because Cardbus cards are handled as PCI cards, the system should find it, and set up the correct driver. ALso, if the system doesn't beep at you when you install the card, try removing it, and plugging it in again. I have an IBM thinkpad that I sometimes have to do that with. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Trying Upgrade 9.1 to 9.2
Hello out there! I have tried to do the Upgrade of 9.1 to 9.2 by cdrom installing to see if I can getting a better system workinp on my PC Epox P2 amd 256Ram IBM 500MHz and when i have the pc into do some by the ramdisk, version 9.2 saying ramdisk error, but it goes fine with usig the version 9.1 install cds. Is there som of that 9.1 not can be install and upgraded to 9.2 by the 9.2 cd1. The same goes on my 2th linux pc where i have got the trouble and problem that the my Xfree and hd partion install maker function hang in lot of minutes wit a black screen, when I trying use [drakconf] then [install new harddisk}, and here have I first tried to run cd install + upgrade for 9.1 and got that the install screen hang up rigth after I have shoosing standard mouse driver selv if the mouse is a wireless ps2 mouse and if i have choose ps2 mouse it install the driver and then hang without doing anymore on installing. After about 15 min. to 30 min. i got tried of there nothing happens and do reboot the pc and then I still can start up linux, and then try a new install upgrade with the version 9.2 cd1, it go on and reach to load the ramdisk and first stoppin and saying ramdisk error and I take out the 9.2 cd1 install and put another install c1 for 9.2 and here it goes fine until it have insalled the mouswe driver and htne now hang up as by with the 9.1 installing. The pc is a PII 266 266Mhz 256MB ram and 2 x 120GB hds. On the same pc has I tried to figured out whar in MB a 40Gb hd show at 37G have for linux in MB for the current working is. --- --- Regards Gert Koefoed Andersen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kofobbs.dktelnet://fido.kofobbs.dk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6
Le May 9, 2004 11:46 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar a écrit : On May 8, 2004 22:26, Marc Lijour wrote: How do you manage to have your fxload called each time you boot? ... I just downloaded the rpm file from source forge, then did: urpmi fxload-2002_04_11-1.i386.rpm I use fxload-2002_04_11-2mdk (!) to install it. The code to call it each time was installed as part of the backpack driver install. Part of the backpack usb package was a script called bpckusb. The install script does the following (among other things): cp bpckusb /etc/hotplug/usb This script at the end has the line: /sbin/fxload $FLAGS -I $FIRMWARE The script in my version is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hotplug]# cat usb/bpckusb #!/bin/sh # Load bulk/interrupt transfer test firmware into # various EZ-USB USB devices that will run it #TEMPLATE PROGRAM TAKEN FROM http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/perf 4/2/2002 #Adapted for BACKPACK USB drives FIRMWARE= FLAGS= # pre-renumeration device IDs case $PRODUCT in # BACKPACK USB2 INTERNAL ADAPTER #--SCANNNERS SCANNERS--- #external usb1 scanner ac9/0/0) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP1SCAN.HEX ;; #external usb2 scanner ac9/1/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP2SCAN.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #--USB1 EXTERNAL--- #external usb1 cd-romish series 5 ac9/1000/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP1CD5.HEX ;; #external usb1 cd-romish series 6 ac9/1001/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP1CD6.HEX ;; #external usb1 hard drive series 5 ac9/1002/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP1HD5.HEX ;; #external usb1 hard drive series 6 ac9/1003/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP1HD6.HEX ;; #--USB2 EXTERNAL--- #external usb2 cd-romish series 5 ac9/1004/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP2CD5.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #external usb2 cd-romish series 6 ac9/1005/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP2CD6.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #external usb2 hard drive series 5 ac9/1006/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP2HD5.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #external usb2 hard drive series 6 ac9/1007/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP2HD6.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #--USB2 INTERNAL--- #internal usb2 cd-romish drive ac9/10/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BPINTCD.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #internal usb2 cd-romish drive ac9/11/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BPINTHD.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; esac # quit unless we were called to download some firmware if [ $FIRMWARE = ]; then # OR: restructure to do other things for # specific post-renumeration devices exit 0 fi # missing firmware? if [ ! -r $FIRMWARE ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/logger ]; then /usr/bin/logger -t $0 missing $FIRMWARE for $PRODUCT ?? fi exit 1 fi if [ ! -x /sbin/fxload ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/logger ]; then /usr/bin/logger -t $0 cannot load firmware, missing fxload fi exit 1 fi if [ -x /usr/bin/logger ]; then /usr/bin/logger -t $0 load $FIRMWARE for $PRODUCT to $DEVICE fi /sbin/fxload $FLAGS -I $FIRMWARE end --- Where the PRODUCT variable is coming from? Where the messages are going to? I have a problem in /var/log/messages: it looks like it can not find fxload however, a which finds it. How can I fix this? (Under which user the script is it called?) May 10 16:01:50 laptop /etc/hotplug/usb/bpckusb: cannot load firmware, missing fxload May 10 16:02:32 laptop devfsd[128]: read config file: /etc/devfs/conf.d//usbmouse.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] hotplug]# which fxload /usr/sbin/fxload All of the usb.usermap lines start with bpckusb. I'm assuming that roughly what happens is: 1. When you plug in the usb device (the backpack drive in this case), it looks up the device ids in usb.usermap. 2. From the line it finds there, it gets the name bpckusb. 3. It runs the script/program of this name in /etc/hotplug/usb. 4. This script runs fxload to load the firmware. 5. The loaded firmware does some black magic with the usb modules to get itself recognized as a cd burner. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] apache making me batty
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:27:10PM -0400, Todd Slater wrote: On a 9.1 box running highest level security with Apache 1.3. I'm trying to access the ~/username directory but keep getting 403 forbidden error. ~/public_html is readable by all ~/public_html/index.html is readable by all In /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf I have: Directory /home/*/public_html AllowOverride All Options MultiViews -Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks IfModule mod_access.c Order allow,deny Allow from all /IfModule /Directory which seems to be pretty standard. I don't see anything in the apache logs other than the 403 errors. Anybody know what's up with that? Well it seems that ~/ needs to be +x, too, so chmod 755 ~/. It works, but do you reckon it's safe? Also, msec's bound to change permissions any second now, back to the archives! Todd -- Name that tune #18: When you own a big chunk of the bloody third world the babies just come with the scenery. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6
Le May 10, 2004 04:34 pm, Marc Lijour a écrit : Le May 9, 2004 11:46 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar a écrit : On May 8, 2004 22:26, Marc Lijour wrote: How do you manage to have your fxload called each time you boot? ... I just downloaded the rpm file from source forge, then did: urpmi fxload-2002_04_11-1.i386.rpm I use fxload-2002_04_11-2mdk (!) to install it. The code to call it each time was installed as part of the backpack driver install. Part of the backpack usb package was a script called bpckusb. The install script does the following (among other things): cp bpckusb /etc/hotplug/usb This script at the end has the line: /sbin/fxload $FLAGS -I $FIRMWARE The script in my version is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hotplug]# cat usb/bpckusb #!/bin/sh # Load bulk/interrupt transfer test firmware into # various EZ-USB USB devices that will run it #TEMPLATE PROGRAM TAKEN FROM http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/perf 4/2/2002 #Adapted for BACKPACK USB drives FIRMWARE= FLAGS= # pre-renumeration device IDs case $PRODUCT in # BACKPACK USB2 INTERNAL ADAPTER #--SCANNNERS SCANNERS--- #external usb1 scanner ac9/0/0) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP1SCAN.HEX ;; #external usb2 scanner ac9/1/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP2SCAN.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #--USB1 EXTERNAL--- #external usb1 cd-romish series 5 ac9/1000/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP1CD5.HEX ;; #external usb1 cd-romish series 6 ac9/1001/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP1CD6.HEX ;; #external usb1 hard drive series 5 ac9/1002/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP1HD5.HEX ;; #external usb1 hard drive series 6 ac9/1003/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP1HD6.HEX ;; #--USB2 EXTERNAL--- #external usb2 cd-romish series 5 ac9/1004/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP2CD5.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #external usb2 cd-romish series 6 ac9/1005/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP2CD6.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #external usb2 hard drive series 5 ac9/1006/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP2HD5.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #external usb2 hard drive series 6 ac9/1007/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BP2HD6.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #--USB2 INTERNAL--- #internal usb2 cd-romish drive ac9/10/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BPINTCD.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; #internal usb2 cd-romish drive ac9/11/*) FIRMWARE=usb/bpckusb.fw/BPINTHD.HEX FLAGS=-2 ;; esac # quit unless we were called to download some firmware if [ $FIRMWARE = ]; then # OR: restructure to do other things for # specific post-renumeration devices exit 0 fi # missing firmware? if [ ! -r $FIRMWARE ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/logger ]; then /usr/bin/logger -t $0 missing $FIRMWARE for $PRODUCT ?? fi exit 1 fi if [ ! -x /sbin/fxload ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/logger ]; then /usr/bin/logger -t $0 cannot load firmware, missing fxload fi exit 1 fi if [ -x /usr/bin/logger ]; then /usr/bin/logger -t $0 load $FIRMWARE for $PRODUCT to $DEVICE fi /sbin/fxload $FLAGS -I $FIRMWARE end --- Where the PRODUCT variable is coming from? Where the messages are going to? I have a problem in /var/log/messages: it looks like it can not find fxload however, a which finds it. How can I fix this? (Under which user the script is it called?) May 10 16:01:50 laptop /etc/hotplug/usb/bpckusb: cannot load firmware, missing fxload May 10 16:02:32 laptop devfsd[128]: read config file: /etc/devfs/conf.d//usbmouse.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] hotplug]# which fxload /usr/sbin/fxload All of the usb.usermap lines start with bpckusb. I'm assuming that roughly what happens is: 1. When you plug in the usb device (the backpack drive in this case), it looks up the device ids in usb.usermap. 2. From the line it finds there, it gets the name bpckusb. 3. It runs the script/program of this name in /etc/hotplug/usb. 4. This script runs fxload to load the firmware. 5. The loaded firmware does some black magic with the usb modules to get itself recognized as a cd burner. There was a bug in the Mandrake config file: it used /sbin/fxload but fxload was at /usr/sbin/fxload ! Now I have: May 10 16:38:48 laptop kernel: usb 1-1.2: new full speed USB device using address 8 May 10 16:38:50 laptop /etc/hotplug/usb/bpckusb: load usb/bpckusb.fw/BP1SCAN.HEX for ac9/0/0 to /proc/bus/usb/001/008 May 10 16:38:50 laptop kernel: usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, address 8 May 10 16:38:51 laptop kernel: usb 1-1.2: new full speed USB device using address 9 OK! Thanks for the help here.
Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians
On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:27:00 -0500 Avi Schwartz disseminated the following: 'According to Stacey Quandt, principal analyst of Quandt, 'RBC probably went into the deal as an investment, and now they appear to have lost confidence in SCO's ability to win its case, so they've decided to cut their losses.'' Link: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040507143313869 If the Canadians have such superior intelligence, then why did the RBC get into bed with SCO to begin with? Well, it *is* a bank...you can't expect too much ;-) Seriously though, you know if someone with multi-kazillions of dollars is nervous about their relatively small investment in SCO... -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 16:45:14 up 4 days, 3:12, 8 users, load average: 0.13, 0.03, 0.01 +++ Microsoft Palladium: The world is a fearful place (because we allowed it to be by introducing vulnerable designs followed by clueless security initiatives) so let us fix it for you. --Cringely Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Error by starting X up after a liveupdate.
Hello Joe Hill I have have got some problem with the X when I trying to run command startX Can you describe the errors? Look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for line that begin with [EE] for possible reasons for the failure. By starting: # startX I got this Using Xauth... Writing Xauth... Using Xauth.. Writing Zauth.. execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2) giving up. Xinit no such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to Xserver then a line with (errno 3): server error. Write more later on it. after I have run liveupdate and udpated the Xfree86 on my 2 pc's with version 9.1, it looks like Mandrake 9.1 not have done the update as it should but just have removed the working Xfree and not installed the new updated one as it shall and then will the Xree window not run. Do 'rpm -qa | grep XFree' and post the results. How can I fix it to it will work again. If XFree has indeed been removed, just do 'urpmi XFree' and see if it will install properly. --- --- Regards Gert Koefoed Andersen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kofobbs.dktelnet://fido.kofobbs.dk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Error by starting X up after a liveupdate.
Hello Joe Hill. I have have got some problem with the X when I trying to run command startX Can you describe the errors? Look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for line that begin with [EE] for possible reasons for the failure. No log by name Xfree86.0.log in /var/log/. after I have run liveupdate and udpated the Xfree86 on my 2 pc's with version 9.1, it looks like Mandrake 9.1 not have done the update as it should but just have removed the working Xfree and not installed the new updated one as it shall and then will the Xree window not run. Do 'rpm -qa | grep XFree' and post the results. Then have I now got it work and here is the results: --- XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-devel-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-xfs-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-static-libs-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-libs-4.3-8.2mdk How can I fix it to it will work again. If XFree has indeed been removed, just do 'urpmi XFree' and see if it will install properly. Got about 15 files or more starting with XFree86 with that command. --- Regards Gert Koefoed Andersen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kofobbs.dktelnet://fido.kofobbs.dk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:47:22PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Microsoft Palladium: The world is a fearful place (because we allowed it to be by introducing vulnerable designs followed by clueless security initiatives) so let us fix it for you. --Cringely How bout this. Microsoft security: because adults don't have snow days. Todd -- If those in charge of our society--politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television--can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. -Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians
On Monday 10 May 2004 11:27 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: On May 10, 2004, at 12:35, JoeHill wrote: 'Royal Bank of Canada has notified SCO it has elected to convert 10,000 shares of SCO's Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock it currently holds into a total of 740,740 shares of SCO's common stock. Further, it has sold 20,000 shares of Series A-1 stock to BayStar so that after completion of the conversion, Royal Bank of Canada will have no equity interest in SCO other than the shares of common stock it receives from the conversion.' ... 'According to Stacey Quandt, principal analyst of Quandt, 'RBC probably went into the deal as an investment, and now they appear to have lost confidence in SCO's ability to win its case, so they've decided to cut their losses.'' Link: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040507143313869 If the Canadians have such superior intelligence, then why did the RBC get into bed with SCO to begin with? The Moose made me do it g Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!
Lanman wrote: JoeHill wrote: Stop the presses! Microsoft's increasing concern over information security has translated into its decision to bite the bullet and make its upcoming SP2 (Service Pack 2) security patch available to all users - including those using pirated copies of its Windows XP software. Link: http://computertimes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,5104,2292,00.html Maybe, just maybe, the 'Net will be somewhat safer with all those warez kiddies patched up somewhat... Well, we can dream, can't we?! LOL! This tends to support the contention that Microsoft wants to make sure that consumers keep buying/using Windows, and they don't seem to mind those running pirated copies too much either. If this service pack is as good as they say, why would they need to allow pirated copies to download it, just so they could protect valid users? Something is missing here. How can a legal copy of Windows be vulnerable to the attacks that this service pack prevents, if non-licensed (ie; pirated) copies don't have the service pack installed? Maybe when Longhorn finally comes out, they'll release a special pirate edition. Long John Silverhorn, perhaps. Sir Robin -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:27:00 -0500 Avi Schwartz disseminated the following: 'According to Stacey Quandt, principal analyst of Quandt, 'RBC probably went into the deal as an investment, and now they appear to have lost confidence in SCO's ability to win its case, so they've decided to cut their losses.'' Link: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040507143313869 If the Canadians have such superior intelligence, then why did the RBC get into bed with SCO to begin with? Well, it *is* a bank...you can't expect too much ;-) And SCO aka Caldera used to be a perfectly respectable 'nix company. Sir Robin -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians
On May 10, 2004, at 16:18, robin wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:27:00 -0500 Avi Schwartz disseminated the following: 'According to Stacey Quandt, principal analyst of Quandt, 'RBC probably went into the deal as an investment, and now they appear to have lost confidence in SCO's ability to win its case, so they've decided to cut their losses.'' Link: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040507143313869 If the Canadians have such superior intelligence, then why did the RBC get into bed with SCO to begin with? Well, it *is* a bank...you can't expect too much ;-) And SCO aka Caldera used to be a perfectly respectable 'nix company. Wasn't the RBC investment part of the $50M SCO received from BayStar on Oct 16, 2003, 7 months into the SCO lawsuit? I bet they thought, just like BayStar, that SCO will be able to extort billions of dollars from IBM and Linux licensees, which makes them no better then SCO and BayStar. Just a bunch of greedy bankers. BTW, don't get me wrong, I like Canada (both English and French speaking parts) and Canadians (ditto). I just don't like SCO investors :-) Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians
On Mon, 10 May 2004 16:40:10 -0500 Avi Schwartz disseminated the following: And SCO aka Caldera used to be a perfectly respectable 'nix company. Wasn't the RBC investment part of the $50M SCO received from BayStar on Oct 16, 2003, 7 months into the SCO lawsuit? I bet they thought, just like BayStar, that SCO will be able to extort billions of dollars from IBM and Linux licensees, which makes them no better then SCO and BayStar. Just a bunch of greedy bankers. Actually, worse, it was RBC, IIRC, that initially fronted the whole transaction. BTW, don't get me wrong, I like Canada (both English and French speaking parts) and Canadians (ditto). I just don't like SCO investors :-) There are two industries who are exempt from all rules of karma, ethics, or fair dealing in general: banks and insurance companies. True the world 'round. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 18:31:14 up 4 days, 4:58, 8 users, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.01 +++ It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth... -- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing Fox News Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] vmware-config.pl
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 01:51, Thujan wrote: Hi, I can not finnish vmware-config.pl in mdk 10C with 2.6.3-9mdk, script returns with an error despite I have kernel source too? Is there any solution for that? With mdk 9.2 it worked fine. install the kernel sources via mcc and you and then compile the entire lot. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- World War Three can be averted by adherence to a strictly enforced dress code! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Official and Speedtouch ADSL......
This is only for 10CEbut the only way that I found worked was with mgmt.o on floppy, letting Drak copy it to wherever it wanted. JRH wrote: Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem to work under 10 official? I upgraded, and for some reason, the files are still in the /usr/share/speedtouch/ folder (speedtouch.sh and mgmt.o), but the modem wont start. If I open up a terminal and cd to the /usr/share/speedtouch/ folder, and type ./speedtouch.sh start, the modem lights will flash away as if something is going on, but then I get a red failure message. No backtrace or anything. Can anyone pinpoint the problem? Oh yes, and when I go into drakconnect to configure the connection, I click on speedtouch USB, and I get a little warning pop up, saying sorry we only support kernel 2.4 and higher. eh?? I'm on a 2.4 kernel! Cheers, JRH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] CD sound only from Totem
Hey all, Weird problem, I can play CD's no problem in Totem (not my favourite), but not GnomeCD, GRip, or ROX-CD. All are set to use /dev/hdd as the CD reader (actually my DVD drive). There does not appear in any of them to be a way to set it to use ALSA or OSS, so I'm not sure if that is the problem. Any ideas? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 19:23:07 up 4 days, 5:50, 8 users, load average: 0.33, 0.08, 0.02 +++ One of the most dangerous errors of our time is the belief that human beings are uniquely violent animals, barely restrained from committing atrocities on each other by the constraints of ethics, religion, and the state. -- Eric S. Raymond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault
'It's your fault. Yeah you, Mr. or Ms. Corporate IT Person. Microsoft says it's your fault, and the fault of your users, that there are so many security problems with Microsoft software. Oh, sure, there are security holes in Microsoft products. But Microsoft does patch them -- eventually. And unless corporate IT does a better job of promptly applying those patches, as well as training users in safe computing practices -- well, there's only so much Microsoft can do. Yes, at Microsoft irony is dead. And so, apparently, is shame.' Link: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,92802,00.html -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 19:29:07 up 4 days, 5:56, 8 users, load average: 0.39, 0.18, 0.07 +++ Rule $19.99 (Brad `Squid' Shapcott): The Internet *isn't* *free*. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Helix Player
On Mon, 10 May 2004 11:08:10 -0700 Aron Smith disseminated the following: but I can't get Air America [1] to come in, though it did just a few days ago. I'm thinkin' they may have changed their format, If by some chance they have gotten a sponsor they will have changed the format the Unions have complained about the commericals streaming here is the reply I got from Neil Boortz on players. Well, I may never get to find out if Helix works for anything, I registered on their site, still waiting for an e-mail so I can get a link to download the RPM. Not a good sign... -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 19:35:04 up 4 days, 6:02, 8 users, load average: 0.24, 0.32, 0.17 +++ There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there
to change permissions you can use 'chmod' on the command line, as root: cd /dev/sound chmod g+rw the g stands for group (which is audio) and the +rw should be self explanatory, if the owner is not root and the group audio then do: chown root.audio * (assuming you are in the /dev/sound directory, you will need to do the same for files in /dev/snd there are files outside these directories but there are symlinks and you shouldn't have to touch them for audio stuff bascule On Monday 10 May 2004 5:15 pm, Peter wrote: f you can let me know how to change permissions on the audio group, then this would help. Peter. -- Millennium hand and shrimp. (Hogfather) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Gnome 2.6?
Anybody running Gnome 2.6? I tried it out on a livecd, gnoppix, and was greatly impressed by it--great ui, everything was where I expected it, great options for mime-types and such, the file manager was actually rather fast. The whole thing was fast, and that running off a cd. Todd -- Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. -Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Official and Speedtouch ADSL......
On Monday 10 May 2004 20:26, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 19:00, JRH wrote: snipI was never able to have the same modem working under Linux. The best thing to do, in my opinion, is to buy an ethernet modem (which is not expensive). With ethernet modems, you will not have any problems with your ADSL connection./SNIP Paul, It worked fine under 9.2, 10 RC1 didnt have the chance, as it only lasted 45 mins before I reinstalled 9.2, 10CE was a bit of a pain in the butt to get it to go, but it ran eventually, but 10 Official is a complete no go. The drivers are on the distro, so theoretically, it should work.. I'm currently stuck in windows XP (ggg), my idea of hell, and I want to get it running on Mandrake, as I'm just fed up of reinstalling stuff now... I havent found a cheap ethernet setup yet, here in the UK (we are 10 times more expensive then the rest of the world!), and until I can find one, I'm stuck with the USB. I tried Red Hat 9 tonight, and that has no provision for USB ADSL at all (or not that I could see, anyway), so Mandrake is still ahead of RH in my book. JRH - Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 10 Official and Speedtouch ADSL.. JRH wrote: Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem to work under 10 official? I upgraded, and for some reason, the files are still in the /usr/share/speedtouch/ folder (speedtouch.sh and mgmt.o), but the modem wont start. If I open up a terminal and cd to the /usr/share/speedtouch/ folder, and type ./speedtouch.sh start, the modem lights will flash away as if something is going on, but then I get a red failure message. No backtrace or anything. Can anyone pinpoint the problem? Oh yes, and when I go into drakconnect to configure the connection, I click on speedtouch USB, and I get a little warning pop up, saying sorry we only support kernel 2.4 and higher. eh?? I'm on a 2.4 kernel! JRH, I was never able to have the same modem working under Linux. The best thing to do, in my opinion, is to buy an ethernet modem (which is not expensive). With ethernet modems, you will not have any problems with your ADSL connection. Paul I am coming into this thread late, but I have speedtouch USB working on Mdk 10.0 official at one of my clients premises OK (USB Vendor Id: 06b9,Product Id: 4061) I am using the 2.4.25-2mdk kernel, It did not work with the 2.6 kernel, and since I was doing a remote install I could not work out why not. /etc/ppp/peers/adsl contains noauth noipdefault pty /usr/sbin/pppoa3 -m 1 -c -vpi 0 -vci 38 sync kdebug 1 noaccomp nopcomp noccp novj holdoff 4 maxfail 25 persist usepeerdns defaultroute user [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The vpi/vci numbers in this file are good for all DSL in the UK) /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets both contain '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' * 'password' * /etc/speedtouch.conf contains MICROCODE_DIR=/usr/share/speedtouch MODEM_RUN_OPTIONS= PEER=adsl CONFIGURED=1 Thats all I need to have speedtouch start automatically on booting. No need to run speedtouch.sh HTH derek Correction :- speedtouch.sh does have to be run. It is run by the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_up which contains #!/bin/bash /sbin/route del default /usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh start and net_cnx_down contains #!/bin/bash /usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh stop The speedtouch will be initialised when the 'Internet' service starts. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] writing sms
Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard rather than phone itself. I have used this same phone as gprs-modem with pppd and it works fine. But writing sms needs some program to do it. Thank you advance -- best rgds tt 11:28:16 up 3:53, 0 users, load average: 0.18, 0.08, 0.08 2.6.3-4mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Setting up a 2nd user
Hi All, Been running MDK 10.0 (CE) for about a week, and beginning to get used to it. (Thanks to Derek for his help). Still VERY new to Linux, so will be asking questions. I have added a 2nd user (dominic), and am having a problem allowing 'dominic' to use sound. It says 'permission denied', do I need to set permissions, or can I do it from 1st user (where setting up sound etc. is fine). Th reason for setting up 2nd user is to allow my son (dominic who is disabled), to use the PC, with sound, and other input devices (joystick, tracker ball, Accessible features), seperate from me. Please help ( in simple terminology at the moment!) Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
SV: [newbie] Error by starting X up after a liveupdate.
I have have got some problem with the X when I trying to run command startX Can you describe the errors? Look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for line that begin with [EE] for possible reasons for the failure. after I have run liveupdate and udpated the Xfree86 on my 2 pc's with version 9.1, it looks like Mandrake 9.1 not have done the update as it should but just have removed the working Xfree and not installed the new updated one as it shall and then will the Xree window not run. Do 'rpm -qa | grep XFree' and post the results. Then have I now got it work and here is the results: --- XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-devel-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-xfs-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-static-libs-4.3-8.2mdk XFree86-libs-4.3-8.2mdk How can I fix it to it will work again. If XFree has indeed been removed, just do 'urpmi XFree' and see if it will install properly. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 16:48:44 up 3 days, 3:15, 6 users, load average: 0.20, 0.28, 0.19 +++ Not only do I think marijuana should be legalized, I think it should be mandatory -- Bill Hicks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user
On Monday 10 May 2004 09:36, Peter wrote: Hi All, Been running MDK 10.0 (CE) for about a week, and beginning to get used to it. (Thanks to Derek for his help). Still VERY new to Linux, so will be asking questions. I have added a 2nd user (dominic), and am having a problem allowing 'dominic' to use sound. It says 'permission denied', do I need to set permissions, or can I do it from 1st user (where setting up sound etc. is fine). Th reason for setting up 2nd user is to allow my son (dominic who is disabled), to use the PC, with sound, and other input devices (joystick, tracker ball, Accessible features), seperate from me. Please help ( in simple terminology at the moment!) Peter It is not normally required to have to give individual users permission to use sound. Although there are some circumstances where someone may be denied access to sound. One such circumstance is when you use the older OSS sound driver. The OSS drivers only allow one application to use sound at any one time, and the sound system will be locked out to other applications for about 30 seconds after the sound was last used. It may be you are falling foul of this restriction in some way. The solution is to use the newer ALSA sound drivers which allow simultaneous access to the sound system by several applications at once. You can recognise if you have the ALSA drivers if you open Mandrake Control CentreHardwareHardware If the Module for your sound card is listed as snd-x then you are running the ALSA driver. If you are using the OSS driver you can switch to the alternative ALSA driver by pressing the 'Run Config Tool' button. If you are already using the ALSA driver, the problem could still be related to OSS only supporting one application at a time, because ALSA supports an OSS emulation mode for those older applications that only understand OSS. If you are using the KDE desktop there is a setting in there to have it use ALSA or OSS (emulation) Open KDE Control Centre (MenuSystemConfigureConfigure your desktop) SoundSoundsystemHardware There is a selection there to force it to use the ALSA sound system. (You would have to do this for each user) If that does not help let us know which sound drivers you are using and the details of the sound card. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0
I installed 10.0 official. I have a azt2320 ISA soundcard, which worked fine in 9.x and 8.x I added to /etc/modprobe.preload the snd-azt2320 line. Sound modules are loaded correctly at boot, but /dev/dsp is not created so xmms and mplayer don't generate sound. If I manually create the /dev/dsp device, sound works ok. I also tried adding alias snd-slot-0 snd-azt2320 to /etc/modprobe.conf, but it does not change, still no /dev/dsp. Is there a correct way to force the boot script to create the /dev/dsp device? thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0
On Monday 10 May 2004 10:56, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I installed 10.0 official. I have a azt2320 ISA soundcard, which worked fine in 9.x and 8.x I added to /etc/modprobe.preload the snd-azt2320 line. Sound modules are loaded correctly at boot, but /dev/dsp is not created so xmms and mplayer don't generate sound. If I manually create the /dev/dsp device, sound works ok. I also tried adding alias snd-slot-0 snd-azt2320 to /etc/modprobe.conf, but it does not change, still no /dev/dsp. Is there a correct way to force the boot script to create the /dev/dsp device? thanks, raffaele You may need to add the OSS emulation lines as well. See :- http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=AzTechcard=AZT2320chip=AZT2320module=azt2320 This page only goves the lines to add for the 2.4 kernel (modules.conf) If you edit /etc/modules.conf and then run /sbin/generate-modprobe.conf then it will create a /etc/modprobe.conf file for you (Make a backup first in case it screws something up. It always gets the nvidia line wrong when I use it) (BTW: You might find xmms works without having to do anything to the drivers if you configure xmms to use the ALSA output plugin ) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user
i'm guessing that this happens when you are also logged on and youhave started a second session, if you look in /etc/security/console.perms you will see a list pertaining to what permissions device get assigned when someone logs in and the default perms when you log out, note that all the sound devices will be owned by the first logged in user and stay that way if someone else logs on in the meantime, to fix this you can comment out the relevant lines, and then make your users members of the audio group, also make sure that you alter the perms of the file to give the audio group rw perms, do this for other device files that the other user might need access to, although this works for me to allow my daughter to log on and play music, i would appreciate if some expert could explain why it is that the references (in my case) to the device files for my nvidia card don't need to be changed for another user to log on, how does that work? bascule On Monday 10 May 2004 9:36 am, Peter wrote: I have added a 2nd user (dominic), and am having a problem allowing 'dominic' to use sound. It says 'permission denied', do I need to set permissions, or can I do it from 1st user (where setting up sound etc. is fine). Th reason for setting up 2nd user is to allow my son (dominic who is disabled), to use the PC, with sound, and other input devices (joystick, tracker ball, Accessible features), seperate from me. -- Woof bloody woof. -- Gaspode the Wonder Dog (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I'm losting my samba's shares after some time... permission denied... help plz.
Bill, I would like to thank you again... well, I would run ls -ld /share/docs before doing 'chmod -R 750 /share/docs' to see if the permissions had been changed. Also, I you should use 2770 as the permissions. 2xxx sets the sticky bit which means all files/directories created in this directory will have the group of this directory. the permission changed right... no problem with this... Ok.. I will use 2xxx permission... I did not understood what means this '2' I do not see /share/docs in your smb.conf. I see /home/docs and /home/c. Where you put the share is important as far as msec is concerned. I just create the share directory with another name... but using yours instructions... There are five security levels for msec. I am using security level 3 for msec: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msec]# cat /etc/sysconfig/msec META_CLASS=PowerPack SECURE_LEVEL=3 CLASS=expert UMASK_ROOT=027 UMASK_USER=022 TMOUT=0 My security level is 3, and my msec file have this: UMASK_ROOT=022 SECURE_LEVEL=3 UMASK_USER=022 TMOUT=0 which means that msec will use /usr/share/msec/perm.3 as the control file for setting permissions. If you use SECURE_LEVEL=2, then examine /usr/share/msec/perm.2 and so on. Let us assume you are level 3. Examine /usr/share/msec/perm.3. Do you see the lines: /home/root.root 755 /home/* current 711 yes they are there... msec will decrease the permissions on /home to at most 755. However, I think the next line is biting you. msec will set the permissions on all directories off of /home to at most 711. Therefore, if /home/docs is where you put the directory, msec is clobbering the permissions. If you move /home/docs to /home/shares/docs then the permissions will not be affected. This is what I would reccomend. hmmm... this is great! I, personally, use: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msec]# ls -ld /lan /lan/shares /lan/shares/Apps drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 26 2003 /lan/ drwxr-x--x 23 bill smbusers 4096 Apr 30 00:08 /lan/shares/ drwxrwsr-x 12 bill smbusers 4096 Jun 30 2003 /lan/shares/Apps/ [Apps] comment = Windows/MS-DOS applications (r/w) path = /lan/shares/Apps browseable = yes guest ok = yes writeable = no write list = @smbusers create mask = 771 directory mask = 770 map hidden = yes map system = yes map archive = yes available = yes smbusers is the group that I put all samba users in. It is not affected by msec: /root.adm755 which would affect /share, or by: /home/* current 711 which would affect /home/docs. msec is sometimes a pain, but I am learning to live with it. I haven't disabled msec in the far chance that if my system ever gets compromized, msec may help me. HTH, Bill Shirley I will try to create the directories in /home/shares/docs to see what happens... when I install Mandrake, I create a partition for each /, /home, /usr, /var, /tmp directories, to avoid lost data in some crash... so maybe creating my shares directories in another partition than /home resolve this problem (?) I will try your hints and will let you know... Thank you again. Flávio Henrique Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
