[newbie] samba as DC
Haiz newbie, can someone mail me working smb.conf file as domain contoler and please point out things I have to be avare of while setting up my own DC. force, my friend, is violence! hugenots [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:55 +0200, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Simple test: same movies that in 9.2 played fine and smooth in 10.0 skip LOTS of frames What video card do you have? If it's an nvidia card, you might need to Nope, it's an ATI Radeon 7xxx (don't remember exact model). Next I will try installing the 9.2 version of mplayer into 10.0, just to rule out kernel issues. If it doesn't do the job, I'll have to go back to 9.2 :-( Don't install the 9.2 version of mplayer on 10.0, there will be dependency problems. Yes, I tried and gave up due to the dependencies issues (didn't want to spend too much time on it). Now I'm back to 9.2 :-( accessing a CD in 10.0 eats up all CPU, while in 9.2 it was only using a small fraction - like if it was not using DMA, but DMA is enabled for all drives. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the default mandrake kernels not include dma support? If they do, then I'm not sure what to do about the You are wrong :-) My understanding is that MDK (or the Linux kernel, not sure which) enables DMA for a drive by default, then disables it if it detects errors on drive access. On my other box, a 10.0 system, hdparm reports DMA enabled for the HDs, disabled for the CDROM (an old drive which I suspect does not support it). I remember somebody defining 10.0 speed daemon so I was quite negatively impressed by my results. Has anybody noticed such bad performance? It is a speed daemon :). No but really, its fast. Ok, demon :-). Anyway, I have to confirm my first impression. The 10.0 box is slower to react to GUI, slower to rip CDs, slower to mp3-encode them. Not much, but it can be appreciated. BTW, I got a confirmation on the first web article I googled: 2.6 better for server, equal or less than 2.4 for dektop. (http://www.2cpu.com/articles/98_1.html) bye, 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] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
For the day I had 10 running (many moons ago) it was noticeably faster than 9.2. The gui was nearly there before I clicked the button or hovered over the icon, I didn't do very much in it though before I rebooted and lost X. It was like I said noticeably faster. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Raffaele BELARDI Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2? John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:55 +0200, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Simple test: same movies that in 9.2 played fine and smooth in 10.0 skip LOTS of frames What video card do you have? If it's an nvidia card, you might need to Nope, it's an ATI Radeon 7xxx (don't remember exact model). Next I will try installing the 9.2 version of mplayer into 10.0, just to rule out kernel issues. If it doesn't do the job, I'll have to go back to 9.2 :-( Don't install the 9.2 version of mplayer on 10.0, there will be dependency problems. Yes, I tried and gave up due to the dependencies issues (didn't want to spend too much time on it). Now I'm back to 9.2 :-( accessing a CD in 10.0 eats up all CPU, while in 9.2 it was only using a small fraction - like if it was not using DMA, but DMA is enabled for all drives. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the default mandrake kernels not include dma support? If they do, then I'm not sure what to do about the You are wrong :-) My understanding is that MDK (or the Linux kernel, not sure which) enables DMA for a drive by default, then disables it if it detects errors on drive access. On my other box, a 10.0 system, hdparm reports DMA enabled for the HDs, disabled for the CDROM (an old drive which I suspect does not support it). I remember somebody defining 10.0 speed daemon so I was quite negatively impressed by my results. Has anybody noticed such bad performance? It is a speed daemon :). No but really, its fast. Ok, demon :-). Anyway, I have to confirm my first impression. The 10.0 box is slower to react to GUI, slower to rip CDs, slower to mp3-encode them. Not much, but it can be appreciated. BTW, I got a confirmation on the first web article I googled: 2.6 better for server, equal or less than 2.4 for dektop. (http://www.2cpu.com/articles/98_1.html) bye, raffaele -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.6?
Marco Verheul wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 23:34, Todd Slater wrote: 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 Didn't try it yet, but I checked out their site a while ago and it looks very promising. It seems though that upgrading to 2.6 is quite an adventure, isn't it? I had no problems doing it with the rpms from http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/Mandrake/GNOME2.6/RPMS/ but somehow you need to have access to the contrib rpms as well Erik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] AutoCAD2000LT
Hi I am attempting to get AutoCAD2000LT up and running within the Wine installation of Mandrake10 Official. To date I have copied the contents of WinMe~ C:\Windows\System and \System32 over to Wine's like folders, I have downloaded and installed the Visual Basic Script thingy and have also entered into the config file: [AppDefaults\\acad.exe\\DllOverrides] commctrl = native comdlg32 = native comctl32 = native shell = native shell32 = native When I issue wine aclt.exe I get a run of error message the main part complaining about acge15.dll ie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AutoCAD LT 2000]# wine aclt.exe edited till here err:module:import_dll No implementation for acge15.dll.??1AcGeCircArc2d@@[EMAIL PROTECTED] imported from LC:\\Program Files\\AutoCAD LT 2000\\aclt.exe, setting to 0xdeadbeef err:module:import_dll No implementation for [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@QBE?AVAcGePoint2d@@XZ imported from LC:\\Program Files\\AutoCAD LT 2000\\aclt.exe, setting to 0xdeadbeef edited past here And as user and issuing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]$ wine aclt.exe wine: cannot find 'aclt.exe At this point I have stretched my hacking skills to the limit so seek pointers from anyone who has got AutoCAD2000LT up and running. Yeah, that means take me by the hand so do not think I will be offended by simple step by step howtos. Any and all assistance will be appreciated. Kind Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Directory Structure
I am about to install Mandrake and need some advice on the directory structure I should us. I have a 6 Gig drive which I will dedicate to Linux use. I plan to keep any data that should be used by both W98 and Linux in a separate 5 Gig Fat partition on another drive. I would like to be able to do new installs without having to do a reformat of my Linux drive each time. I also might want to try to install Fedora. So, how can I set up my directory structure so that I can upgrade or add another distribution with minimum disruption and without deleting applications that I have added. Thanks Preston --- Betti Ann Preston Smith, Head of St Margaret's Bay, NS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1962 MGA 1600 MK II, 1980 MGB Limited Edition 2002 Damon Challenger 335 Motor Home on 2001 Ford V-10 20,500 lb chassis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Directory Structure
You want to install both MDK and Fedora on 1 6 Gig harddrive? I don't know how others feel, but I personally feel that you are pushing the limits here in terms of space :\ Last time I tried fedora on a development machine, it took up a decent amount of space, and well I just don't think I would have been able to survive with a 6GB hdd ! Kind Regards -- Marc Hultquist ComputerKit Systems (Pty) Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P) +27 11 695 5317 (F) +27 11 312 1408 (C) +27 82 563 2861 (W) http://www.cks.co.za Confidentiality Notice: The above message and all attachments may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, copy or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, facsimile or telephone and thereafter delete the material from your computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the view of the entity transmitting the message. Computerkit Retail Systems (Pty) Ltd hereby distances itself from and accepts no liability in respect of the unauthorised use of its e-mail facility or the sending of e-mail communications for other than strictly business purposes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Directory Structure
Marc - Thanks - that is the type of info this newbie needs. Assuming then that I install just one distro, what directory/partition structure should I use and what size should they be? Preston At 09:31 AM 5/19/04, Marc Hultquist wrote: You want to install both MDK and Fedora on 1 6 Gig harddrive? I don't know how others feel, but I personally feel that you are pushing the limits here in terms of space :\ Last time I tried fedora on a development machine, it took up a decent amount of space, and well I just don't think I would have been able to survive with a 6GB hdd ! --- Betti Ann Preston Smith, Head of St Margaret's Bay, NS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1962 MGA 1600 MK II, 1980 MGB Limited Edition 2002 Damon Challenger 335 Motor Home on 2001 Ford V-10 20,500 lb chassis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive
- Original Message - From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive On Monday 17 May 2004 02:28 pm, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my hard drive. I've tried using Gramofile but I didn't get great results and it isn't being developed anymore. Anybody know of software I can try for this? I'm using audicity myself (line level output on amp (tape monitor) I do have Audacity installed. I'm just guessing but unless I missed something, you have to record each song seperately or record one large wav and then edit it. Gramofile, certainly not a very fancy looking program, will record the lp as one big wav file. It then has a function that is supposed to identify the number of tracks in that wav file. I've only tried it 3 times but the results weren't good. The original author hasn't worked on this program in several years but I did find a Mandrake RPM. There is a patched version by someone else that you can compile. Yesterday I found a program on the DVD that came with the May 2004 issue of Linux Format called wavsilence. It's supposed to break up a large wav file into seperate tracks also. It doesn't have the ability to record the original wav so you have to use another program for that. I couldn't get wavsilence to work. Basically, I ended up with another big wav file with another name. 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] Directory Structure
Marc - Thanks - that is the type of info this newbie needs. Assuming then that I install just one distro, what directory/partition structure should I use and what size should they be? Preston At 09:31 AM 5/19/04, Marc Hultquist wrote: You want to install both MDK and Fedora on 1 6 Gig harddrive? I don't know how others feel, but I personally feel that you are pushing the limits here in terms of space :\ Last time I tried fedora on a development machine, it took up a decent amount of space, and well I just don't think I would have been able to survive with a 6GB hdd ! The easyest thing is to have one swap partition and one partition mounted at '/'. This has the advantage of not forcing you to guess how much space to allocate to / v.s /usr. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Directory Structure
David A. Ferguson wrote: The easyest thing is to have one swap partition and one partition mounted at '/'. This has the advantage of not forcing you to guess how much space to allocate to / v.s /usr. David Not very good idea. At least you should divide / and /home in separate partitions, otherwise on first opearting system update you're going to delete all your personal data. I'd suggest 3G for /, 2.5G for /home and 500M for swap (more or less). I have no experience with Fedora, but I did have MDK9.2 and W2K both installed on a 6G HD. No KDE or Gnome, though (but the complete development tools). 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] Directory Structure
I have to agree with other replies on the list. I would basically for a simple setup do as follows: / - Root Partition /home -Home Direcroties /swap -Rule of thumb, your swap partition is twice the size of your ram, of course it can be bigger. -- Marc Hultquist ComputerKit Systems (Pty) Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P) +27 11 695 5317 (F) +27 11 312 1408 (C) +27 82 563 2861 (W) http://www.cks.co.za Confidentiality Notice: The above message and all attachments may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, copy or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, facsimile or telephone and thereafter delete the material from your computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the view of the entity transmitting the message. Computerkit Retail Systems (Pty) Ltd hereby distances itself from and accepts no liability in respect of the unauthorised use of its e-mail facility or the sending of e-mail communications for other than strictly business purposes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive
- Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 18:28, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my hard drive. I've tried using Gramofile but I didn't get great results and it isn't being developed anymore. Anybody know of software I can try for this? Eric Jackson Audacity Yeah, I've tried that. Gramofile tries to save you the editing by identifying seperate tunes from an lp that you've recorded as one big wav file. I was wondering if there are other programs that work like Gramofile. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * O real no est na sada e nem na chegada, est na travessia. Jao Guimares Rosa 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] Directory Structure
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 08:42 am, Betti Ann Preston Smith wrote: Marc - Thanks - that is the type of info this newbie needs. Assuming then that I install just one distro, what directory/partition structure should I use and what size should they be? Preston At 09:31 AM 5/19/04, Marc Hultquist wrote: You want to install both MDK and Fedora on 1 6 Gig harddrive? I don't know how others feel, but I personally feel that you are pushing the limits here in terms of space :\ Last time I tried fedora on a development machine, it took up a decent amount of space, and well I just don't think I would have been able to survive with a 6GB hdd ! Preston: My advice would be to use the default partitioning suggested by the Mandrake installer, but with a separate /home partition. Format them as either reiser or ext3. -- 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] XFree86-DRI
On May 11, 2004 10:35, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I'm trying to install the KDE game mahjongg 3D (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12553PHPSESSID=23d79a4e78002 9a6433767155a41f066) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhd]$ /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0. /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires: line 8: 23090 Illegal instruction ./mahjongg3d ... I got Mahjongg 3D working. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what I did to get it working. I downloaded the 0.92 release from the author's web site (I had the 0.90 release from KDE-Apps) and built as a regular user instead of root (there's a permissions problem in the install script. But I also made several upgrades in the interim (Mdk10 installs ancient versions of autoconf, automake, etc. by default, and another program wouldn't build until I upgraded). My ancient graphics card does support 3D, via the Mesa 3D glx package. It just doesn't support DRI (or more specifically, doesn't have a driver available for it that supports DRI). Turns out the DRI missing msg is just a warning, it has nothing to do with the actual problem (the illegal instruction). I get it with any OpenGL program I start from the command line (e.g. glxgears), but the program runs fine anyway, just not accelerated. I'd like to know how to get rid of this message if possible (before you ask, no, my X86Config-4 does not have a 'load dri' line in it). It's harmless but annoying. Any ideas welcome, but it's not a priority. BTW, it's a great game if you like solitaire games. Check it out. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] defraging
Thanks to everyone for all the replies. Regards, Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Package to turn off the LCD monitor of a Notebok
Hi to everyone, I have Mandrake 9.2 on My Notebook Compaq evo 1020v, and i have enabled the screensaver that automatically turn off the monitor. But when this happen, i see that the LCD isn't really off because a thin light comes from the LCD while when i use Windows XP it turns all off (at the screensaver). Now i want that at the screensaver the LCD completely turns off. May i install some package to correct this? Regards Donato Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK 10 Final ISOs?
Hi there, Is it possible to get MDK 10 Final as an ISO image? The official MDK site lists only the files - no ISO... Thanks, ::. Amichai Rotman The Jerusalem Linux Club - Founder. UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 --- PLEASE READ: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 18:28, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my hard drive. I've tried using Gramofile but I didn't get great results and it isn't being developed anymore. Anybody know of software I can try for this? Eric Jackson Audacity Yeah, I've tried that. Gramofile tries to save you the editing by identifying seperate tunes from an lp that you've recorded as one big wav file. I was wondering if there are other programs that work like Gramofile. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] By far the best I've used is rezound and there's a nice friendly list to support you as well. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] geforce mx4000/nvidia
frankieh wrote: John wrote: Hello Would appreciate any information or links that would help with installation and setup of a new video card. I am running md10 official with 2.6.3-7 kernel. I thought the nvidia drivers were included on the installation cd's but can't locate them. Thanks in advance. John If its the download edition, then no, the 3d drivers are not included.. go to nvidia.com and download the auto install script and run it.. it will do the rest. Its pretty simple. Yes, but read the README file first, particularly the bit on the XF86Config file. And before you do anything, set your computer so that it doesn't start X on boot and back up /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (it does that automatically, but it's easy to lose the original one). You might need to install the kernel headers as well. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus 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] KPPP: Kernel PPP support
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 01:16, et wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 01:55 am, Katinka Peter wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2004 09:26 am, Katinka Peter wrote: Since I`ve updated from 8.2 to 10.0 Official, I cannot connect to the internet anymore. When I try to connect using KPPP, the modem dials but then I get the following error message: pppd daemon died unexpectedly! Exit status 4 (On man pppd, the explanation is: 4: The kernel does not support PPP, for example, the PPP kernel driver is not included or cannot be loaded.). Details: unable to open the /dev/ppp device. You need to create the /dev/ppp device by executing the following command as root: ^lmknod /dev/ppp c 1808 0 When I do this, I get the message: substitution failed, so I don`t have ppp in the /dev folder. I`d be grateful for help. Thanks, Kat Did you do a clean install of 10.0 or a upgrade? I had LOTS of problems with 10.0 after upgrades and internet connections was one of them. Marc I`ve only done an upgrade, which might be the problem. I`ll do a clean install instead and hope it`ll work then. Thanks for your advice, Kat install kdenetwork Thanks, it worked without problems after a clean install. Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mdk-10-official! bittorrent problem! (cd1-cd3 only!)
Hi! I'm in trouble because I can't download the official mdk10-CD1-CD3!!! ALL the OTHERS are functioning perfectly! i.e., bittorrent and etc!! The link for mdk10-CD4 is working correctly! As a club member, I thought I could, but is there any catch? Any Help? Ricardo Castanho -- == Linux user # 102240 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] user = 100% M$ FREE == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dev file question
Grant wrote: Hello! I had my win modem working with penggy to dial up to AOL, but every time I restarted the computer I had to: rm /dev/modem because there was a different symlink in there, and then: ln -s /dev/modem /dev/tts/LT0 This worked great for a while, but yesterday things were acting strange and now I've got these symlinks: /dev/modem - /dev/tts/LT0 /dev/tts/LT0 - /dev/modem There doesn't seem to be a normal LT0 file in /dev/tts anymore, just the symlink. There is a weird 0 in the file listing that wasn't there before too. Does anyone know how I can get my /dev/tts/LT0 file back? - Grant To get it back, try: rm /dev/tts/LTO rm /dev/modem modprobe lt_serial ln -s /dev/modem /dev/tts/LT0 As for the origional problem, I think it is the device file system settings that are causing this problem. I have not played with it enough to tell you how to fix it. I have just about the same setup on my Thinkpad, but I am not in Linux right now, so I will try and send more information later. Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
On May 14, 2004 01:55, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: ... I remember somebody defining 10.0 speed daemon so I was quite negatively impressed by my results. Has anybody noticed such bad performance? raffaele I never used Mdk 9, but I can tell you I was impressed with the speed of 10.0, both CE and Official. I revived an ancient (~6 years old) NT machine, Pentium II 400MHz, graphics card so old it's no longer supported by the vendor. I was surprised how responsive it is on such an old machine - practically instantaneous. It gets sluggish only if there are heavy background processes running, but that's to be expected. Have you tried running top to see if there's something else chewing up your cpu? I've had some runaway kde processes a couple of times (most notably konqueror on certain web sites). 3D programs also kill my performance, because I only have s/w rendering. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Package to turn off the LCD monitor of a Notebok
Donato wrote: Hi to everyone, I have Mandrake 9.2 on My Notebook Compaq evo 1020v, and i have enabled the screensaver that automatically turn off the monitor. But when this happen, i see that the LCD isn't really off because a thin light comes from the LCD while when i use Windows XP it turns all off (at the screensaver). Now i want that at the screensaver the LCD completely turns off. May i install some package to correct this? Regards Donato Check the powersave settings of the window manager you are running. If there isn't one for the window manager you are using, look at the xset dpms options. Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] another colour calibration tool
Unlike Kgamma, Scarse is not related to KDE. To download and install it, just use urpmi or grab it from here http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/17/dept/2/idg/Graphics For more info, go to http://www.scarse.org/adjust/ -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * A cincia descreve as coisas como so; a arte, como so sentidas, como se sente que so. Fernando Pessoa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT possibly and quite long] Well I won't do that again...
On Thursday 20 May 2004 01:16, Asa Rossoff wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Your trouble with upstream SMTP servers rejecting your mail may be because thet are doing a reverse DNS lookup as an anti spam measure. They look at the domain name in your headers, scoop.local and do a reverse DNS lookup to see if it matches the IP address you are attached to. If they are non consistent your mail is rejected. You can get around the problem by forwarding your mail via tiscali. The tiscali SMTP server knows you are connected to one of its own ISDN lines and will accept any mail from you. In your /etc/postfix/main.cf add the line relayhost = smtp.tiscali.fr (or whatever it is) I've heard this rumor before, but I have never had any problems with mail delivery direct to various smtp servers as long as I had a fully-qualified domain name on my machine. I am not aware of isp's that validate by reverse-lookup before accepting a connection, only of many isp's that check that your machine id's itself with a fully-qualified internet domain name. I could be wrong, since I don't handle huge volumes of mail, just personal correspondence, but in that, I have had no problems. Asa If you want to enable this feature in your own Postfix server use :- smtpd_helo_restrictions = reject_unknown_hostname http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_ACCESS_README.html#lists 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] [OT possibly and quite long] Well I won't do that again...
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 08:16 pm, Asa Rossoff wrote: I've heard this rumor before, but I have never had any problems with mail delivery direct to various smtp servers as long as I had a fully-qualified domain name on my machine. I am not aware of isp's that validate by reverse-lookup before accepting a connection, only of many isp's that check that your machine id's itself with a fully-qualified internet domain name. Actually, the messages I originated to the Mandrake mailing list used to get dumped into the bitbucket somewhere along the chain when I was originating mail without a valid MX record matched to my domain name. I simply don't see that as a problem since dyndns.org offers free domain names, dynamic dns and allows you to specify an MX record, all with dynamic ip addresses and you don't even have to pay for it. Failure to have a valid MX record for reverse dns is simply laziness on the originating server's end and if they get mail rejected because of it, they only have themselves to blame. I could be wrong, since I don't handle huge volumes of mail, just personal correspondence, but in that, I have had no problems. Some admins also reject mail from any IP range that is specified by the ISP as dynamically assigned. I also never had mail messages rejected for that but have heard of others who did. All depends on how strict the mail admin is about who he accepts packets from. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Dumb Newbie Question
OK, so I'm a real newbie. I've been running 10CE (still waiting for my 10 official DVD to be delivered), wanted to upgrade to Gnome 2.6. Decide to try it myself, using a site in Germany that had 299 RPM's. To make a long story short, I totally hosed up Gnome - to the extent that I can no longer access it, no big deal, I still have KDE, decided to remove gtk+ from the KDE side (don't ask, it seemed logical at the time), and in a moment of distraction didn't catch that a ton of other stuff would die as well - including DrakConf, Mozilla Thunderbird etc. Luckily I still had Opera and Urpmi to fall back on, I reinitialised Urpmi, installed Drakconf, Mozilla and Thunderbird, at least I can work until my new laptop arrives later this week and I can do a clean install and move my stuff over. The question - the only thing visibly missing from DrakConf is the RPM stuff - Install, Upgrade etc. For the record - can anyone tell me what I should URPMI to regain them? Cheers Older and wiser Ed Smits Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Checking disk size from C
Greetings If I do 'df' if get /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7 49G 755M 48G 2% /home Says I have 48G free. If I run a C program calling statfs(/home, fs), I get: type of filesystem = 61267 optimal transfer block size = 4096 total data blocks in file system= 1510072 free blocks in fs = 905771 free blocks avail to non-superuser = 829062 total file nodes in file system = 768544 free file nodes in fs= 631185 file system id = 0 maximum length of filenames= 255 3710038016 bytes left The numbers don't add up. What am I missing? I'm running 10.0 CE. Thanks Mike. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted
On Mon, 17 May 2004 17:52:23 -0500 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip. I will look in syslog the next time it happens. I ran a surface scan of the disk and it said ok. I don't know how to test the RAM but I haven't had any other problems at all so I would bet the RAM is fine. Well, it pays to be prudent, so first install the memtest RPM, it will create a boot entry for it, so you can shutdown/reboot and let the test run for as long as you wish, typically overnight. It's not the most robust memory tester, but it is pretty good. The other thing to try is mprime, which is available over at www.mersenne.org. Its claim to fame is that it's probably the most robust and thorough test of computing hardware (processor/ram/cache) around, especially in the torture test (./mprime -m 17). If this test passes, you're practically assured of a rock-solid system. If not, well, caveat emptor ;). ps. a new Mersenne prime has been found per that site. -- 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 Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Option glx missing
Since installing 10.0 Community, I've occasionally gotten messages from xlib saying that the glx extension is missing on display 0:0. Looking for this, I find in /etc/X11 the main configuration file for Xfree86, and furthermore, in the Modules option, a number of load statements, which did not include a glx option. I went in and edited the configuration file, saved, and restarted KDE. When bringing it up, it still emits the error message on some applications. I can get by without it, but it's kind of unnerving, and one package in particular seems to just freeze (celestia), consuming most of the available CPU, with much of its window unpainted. Attached is my current configuration file. I will of course compare it with the previous Cooker install, which did not complain that this thing was missing. I'm running a Matrox Millenium II. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- XF86Config-4 Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dumb Newbie Question
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 22:24 -0400, Edgars Smits wrote: OK, so I'm a real newbie. I've been running 10CE (still waiting for my 10 official DVD to be delivered), wanted to upgrade to Gnome 2.6. Decide to try it myself, using a site in Germany that had 299 RPM's. To make a long story short, I totally hosed up Gnome - to the extent that I can no longer access it, no big deal, I still have KDE, decided to remove gtk+ from the KDE side (don't ask, it seemed logical at the time), and in a moment of distraction didn't catch that a ton of other stuff would die as well - including DrakConf, Mozilla Thunderbird etc. Luckily I still had Opera and Urpmi to fall back on, I reinitialised Urpmi, installed Drakconf, Mozilla and Thunderbird, at least I can work until my new laptop arrives later this week and I can do a clean install and move my stuff over. The question - the only thing visibly missing from DrakConf is the RPM stuff - Install, Upgrade etc. For the record - can anyone tell me what I should URPMI to regain them? urpmi rpmdrake gurpmi John Drouhard -- Wed May 19 22:58:55 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT possibly and quite long] Well I won't do that again...
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 20 May 2004 01:16, Asa Rossoff wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Your trouble with upstream SMTP servers rejecting your mail may be because thet are doing a reverse DNS lookup as an anti spam measure. They look at the domain name in your headers, scoop.local and do a reverse DNS lookup to see if it matches the IP address you are attached to. If they are non consistent your mail is rejected. You can get around the problem by forwarding your mail via tiscali. The tiscali SMTP server knows you are connected to one of its own ISDN lines and will accept any mail from you. In your /etc/postfix/main.cf add the line relayhost = smtp.tiscali.fr (or whatever it is) I've heard this rumor before, but I have never had any problems with mail delivery direct to various smtp servers as long as I had a fully-qualified domain name on my machine. I am not aware of isp's that validate by reverse-lookup before accepting a connection, only of many isp's that check that your machine id's itself with a fully-qualified internet domain name. I could be wrong, since I don't handle huge volumes of mail, just personal correspondence, but in that, I have had no problems. Asa If you want to enable this feature in your own Postfix server use :- smtpd_helo_restrictions = reject_unknown_hostname http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_ACCESS_README.html#lists derek Here's the description of that option, from http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#reject_unknown_hostname : :: reject_unknown_hostname ::Reject the request when the HELO or EHLO hostname has no ::DNS A or MX record. ... It doesn't say that the DNS A or MX record has to match the IP of the connecting machine, just that their is a DNS record (you'll have an MX record for your domain if you intend to receive email) Does it really also compare the ip address from the DNS record to that of the connecting machine? I thought maybe the following restriction offered this feature: dsmtpd_client_restrictions = reject_unknown_client http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_client_restrictions :: reject_unknown_client ::Reject the request when the client IP address has no PTR ::(address to name) record in the DNS, or when the PTR record ::does not have a matching A (name to address) record. ... However, on further thought, it appears only to verify that the IP address of the connecting mail client is listed with dns, without regard to the DNS name or the name the client identifies itself with. Asa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
