Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD
JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home. The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont ask!!), and DiskDrake sees it as /dev/hda, and LiLo sees it as hda1. In theory, all looks like it should work. But it dont! When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is intact etc. Any Ideas?? or am I just hoping for too much? :-( JRH Dunno much about ME but it's probably the case, as with 98, that in order to boot, it needs to be installed on the first sector of the Master HD. This would explain why it boots up when you swap the drives. (Interesting experiment: - swap the drives then try to boot 98SE. If it fails then I'm probably right about this.) Never heard of a way round this although there are smarter people than me on this list so you never know. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.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] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:21:11PM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 30 August 2004 3:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! One of the things about ogg players is that there aren't any car players that will play them. Sort of hacks me off, but I reripped my 20Gb to mp3s to satisfy my need last fall. I have tried my brothers ipod FM sending unit, and it stunk in my car. Sliding all over the place and reception was lousy. Mp3s in my car are my #1 need, so ogg support, while I would prefer to use oggs, is not that important. Rob I use the iMP-350 in the car. It's cd-based, which kind of sucks, and oggs have to be of a certain bitrate, but for somebody who refuses to play mp3's it's about the cheapest option. (got mine for $50) Todd -- Name that tune #22: No caffeine, no protein, no booze or nicotine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mouse kboard dont work
- Original message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:19:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] mouse kboard dont work On Saturday 28 August 2004 03:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i have an old keyboard gateway2000 (the one that has 12 'f' buttons onn the far left), and a relatively new simple laser logitech mouse. It's USB, but I use the P/S 2 adapter that it came with. Whenever I boot mandrake, the keyboard stops working. I tried fixing that by, going thourgh the Install, and disabling all the services. Then it works, but when i try to start the x window, neither keyboard nor mouse works. Mandrake is really nice, and i just wanna have a working system with printing (btw mandrake is great at setting up printers) and Icewm. I really would appreciate if you could help me. Regards N. Is the problem apparent only in X-windows? Does your keyboard have a PS/2 adapter or does it have one of the old-style din connectors? /g - Original message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:19:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] mouse kboard dont work On Saturday 28 August 2004 03:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i have an old keyboard gateway2000 (the one that has 12 'f' buttons onn the far left), and a relatively new simple laser logitech mouse. It's USB, but I use the P/S 2 adapter that it came with. Whenever I boot mandrake, the keyboard stops working. I tried fixing that by, going thourgh the Install, and disabling all the services. Then it works, but when i try to start the x window, neither keyboard nor mouse works. Mandrake is really nice, and i just wanna have a working system with printing (btw mandrake is great at setting up printers) and Icewm. I really would appreciate if you could help me. Regards N. Is the problem apparent only in X-windows? Does your keyboard have a PS/2 adapter or does it have one of the old-style din connectors? /g The keyboard first didn't work when I booted into console. I went bak and turned all the services off. It worked. But when I startup X, the mouse(functioned just fine when testing during the installation), and the keyboard stop working. Yes it's a PS/2 keyboard. The Mouse is USB, put there's a PS/2 converter on it. PS/2 is the around-8-pin round thing I hope:) O. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD
Vincent Voois wrote: Asa Rossoff wrote: When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is intact etc. Any Ideas?? or am I just hoping for too much? :-( JRH Windows expects to boot from the first drive in the system (which it will always call C:). I believe there are ways to trick it into booting from other drives. I haven't tried it. Smart Boot Manager can do this by (I think) having the bios report the drives in a swapped fashion. SBM is at http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ Right as well as wrong. First of all, the Bios always searches the first IDE drive for the boot-sector and simple executes it and whatever bootmanager is on there, it will do the rest. Unless there is an option in the Bios to change bootpriority for IDE drives, you won't be able to change this fact. I understand that. Smart Boot Manager can be installed to the boot sector of the real first drive, and when you select a Windows/Dos partition on the Second drive, it can be configurered to make Win/Dos think that the second drive is 1st, and the first drive is 2nd. SBM is not a kernel loader, so you still need a kernel loader for linux (I think it has to be installed on a supersector or something like that if you have SBM on track 0... there are instructions with SBM. It could also go on the boot sector of the second hardddrive.) Second, Windows boots from the first boot-device, but it can be configured to have it's OS on another drive by altering the MSDOS.INI and in case of WinNT 4.x, 5.x you can alter the BOOT.INI to set the drive and startup-path where the os is stored. If your bootmanager on the primary IDE drive allows you to boot from the second drive, you can install all of the Windows data on there but in the win9x/ME cases you for sure have to modify the system settings to make it boot properly. I didn't realize Win98 and Me had a similar boot config file to NT/XP. It looks like it's actually msdos.sys on Win98 at least, rather than msdos.ini. Since he is running both 98 and Me, on seperate drives and partitions, and using Lilo to select them (currently), in theory he could just edit the msdos.ini (or msdos.sys) file on his WinMe partition (second drive) to indicate that the OS is on drive D: -- it might work. BUT, he would have to reinstall WinMe while the drive is recognized as D: (if the WinMe installer allows it) or do some major registry, shortcut and config file hacking. IMHO:Ditch WinME, it's really not worth the trouble, either install '98SE or XP, but Win'98 is currently less vulnerable to virusses these days as most viruses dedicates themselves to NT5.x exploites (XP/2000/2003). Asa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Microsoft security chief admits to using the Firefox browser.
http://htmlfixit.com/index.php?p=139 This is something funny I came across while doing my daily news search for anything web tech related. I'll bet his bosses are not happy about this little fupar.. regardless for his reasons for using it. I hope my site stays up, I posted the same story in groklaw (and the mdk OT list) and I'm currently getting a ton of traffic from them as well. It sure does feel good to get the word out though.:-) -- 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] Dual Boot Dual HDD
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:14, Asa Rossoff wrote: JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home. The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont ask!!), and DiskDrake sees it as /dev/hda, and LiLo sees it as hda1. In theory, all looks like it should work. But it dont! When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is intact etc. Any Ideas?? or am I just hoping for too much? :-( JRH Now I do my dual OS - dual HDD soulution with W2k, and it works like a charm: Lilo and linux on HDD1, w2k mbr OS on HDD2. Lilo can boot either OS, and both drives can boot without the other drive's mbr. But back in the days of W98, I had w98 mbr OS on HDD1, and lilo lin on HDD2, and I had a boot floppy to boot the system with. I know. Boot floppy? In the 21st century? This way though, if I took one HDD home with me (I did that a lot), I could boot up from the other one without any hassle. I never really used the floppy drive for anything else, so at least it wasn't redundant. cheers Andras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD
Asa Rossoff wrote: Vincent Voois wrote: Asa Rossoff wrote: When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is intact etc. Any Ideas?? or am I just hoping for too much? :-( JRH Windows expects to boot from the first drive in the system (which it will always call C:). I believe there are ways to trick it into booting from other drives. I haven't tried it. Smart Boot Manager can do this by (I think) having the bios report the drives in a swapped fashion. SBM is at http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ Right as well as wrong. First of all, the Bios always searches the first IDE drive for the boot-sector and simple executes it and whatever bootmanager is on there, it will do the rest. Unless there is an option in the Bios to change bootpriority for IDE drives, you won't be able to change this fact. I understand that. Smart Boot Manager can be installed to the boot sector of the real first drive, and when you select a Windows/Dos partition on the Second drive, it can be configurered to make Win/Dos think that the second drive is 1st, and the first drive is 2nd. SBM is not a kernel loader, so you still need a kernel loader for linux (I think it has to be installed on a supersector or something like that if you have SBM on track 0... there are instructions with SBM. It could also go on the boot sector of the second hardddrive.) Second, Windows boots from the first boot-device, but it can be configured to have it's OS on another drive by altering the MSDOS.INI and in case of WinNT 4.x, 5.x you can alter the BOOT.INI to set the drive and startup-path where the os is stored. If your bootmanager on the primary IDE drive allows you to boot from the second drive, you can install all of the Windows data on there but in the win9x/ME cases you for sure have to modify the system settings to make it boot properly. I didn't realize Win98 and Me had a similar boot config file to NT/XP. It looks like it's actually msdos.sys on Win98 at least, rather than msdos.ini. Since he is running both 98 and Me, on seperate drives and partitions, and using Lilo to select them (currently), in theory he could just edit the msdos.ini (or msdos.sys) file on his WinMe partition (second drive) to indicate that the OS is on drive D: -- it might work. BUT, he would have to reinstall WinMe while the drive is recognized as D: (if the WinMe installer allows it) or do some major registry, shortcut and config file hacking. IMHO:Ditch WinME, it's really not worth the trouble, either install '98SE or XP, but Win'98 is currently less vulnerable to virusses these days as most viruses dedicates themselves to NT5.x exploites (XP/2000/2003). Asa Unless you have actually tried for yourself, please layoff saying things as if they were fact. As to windows, WinMe ain't so bad once you bash it's face in a bit AND it will run off another HDD without reconfiguring anything AND from a install from Mandrake to boot. Don't believe me: read the following and weep: # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=windows keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linuz263NNet root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent nonetworking=yes vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux-nonfb263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=failsafe263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=failsafe267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only other=/dev/hdb1 label=windows table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux-nonfb267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2422 label=2422-21 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2422.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/memtest-1.11.bin label=memtest-1.11 None of the original was configured br myself, I only added the extra kernel stuff
Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good
On Friday 27 August 2004 07:42, Stephen Kühn wrote: Microsoft is their own worst enemy. Linus Torvalds said the best thing he has goiing for him is that he is not Bill Gates... -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] http://localhost:631/admin
Err.. I don't recall having ever been here before so was somewhat confused when ask for a user name and password for Cups. Anyone know where I ought to be looking for this albeit as su? -- Regards SnapafunFrank 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
Re: [newbie] http://localhost:631/admin
W licie z wto, 31-08-2004, godz. 11:52, SnapafunFrank pisze: Err.. I don't recall having ever been here before so was somewhat confused when ask for a user name and password for Cups. Anyone know where I ought to be looking for this albeit as su? It's your root login and password. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [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] http://localhost:631/admin
Thereidos wrote: W licie z wto, 31-08-2004, godz. 11:52, SnapafunFrank pisze: Err.. I don't recall having ever been here before so was somewhat confused when ask for a user name and password for Cups. Anyone know where I ought to be looking for this albeit as su? It's your root login and password. Tried that thinking the same thing but no go! HA!!! I didn't think to use 'root' as the login user name... that worked. Thanks -- Regards SnapafunFrank 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
Re: [newbie] KDE - KPPP
David wrote: I've just recently upgraded to MDK 10 Official and have upgraded all my kde files. Since installing 'kdenetwork-kppp-3.2-17.1.100mdk.i586.rpm' I've experience problems with the dialler. After installing the /etc/ppp/options were changed, (cann't remember exactly how it went in the 3rd line but it was something like this: lock noauth n***default [where * = a letter]) and now does not want to always connect. If I use 'wvdial' to connect and then disconnect and try 'kppp' I can then get a connection with it sometimes. Has anyone else experienced problems with this upgrade and if so how did you overcome them if you have. [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDK_Updates]$ cat /etc/ppp/options lock debug noauth defaultroute lcp-max-configure 45 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote idle 600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDK_Updates]$ These settings were given by a linux knowledgeble helpdesk person from my isp. ^ David Taylor Taranaki, New Zealand http://windwand.co.nz proudly using a 100% Linux, Mandrake OS, computer === if replying please leave the filter code,ie [] contents, in subject line === The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble. -- Thomas Carlyle The .100 in the version number suggests to me that you are using thacs.rpm. Is this true? If so then you may have to consider updating all of kde from thacs site or uninstalling that rpm and issuing: # urpmi --excludemedia thacs.rpm kdenetwork I like thacs rpms but have struck a few incompatable probs when using only some of the kde rpms, [ Lost kdeinit when I updated kdebase and not kdelibs for example.] Sometimes the odd rebuilt rpm from any site doesn't quite make it as backwards compatable so go the whole hog or try things out installing to a different location and starting it manually until you are satisfied it works. Be warned, I am extremely newbie in these matters so if you find out different to the above please post so that I might learn more. -- Regards SnapafunFrank 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
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 14:26, JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home. The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont ask!!), and DiskDrake sees it as /dev/hda, and LiLo sees it as hda1. In theory, all looks like it should work. But it dont! When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is intact etc. Any Ideas?? or am I just hoping for too much? :-( JRH First some basics: There is a current mythology running around these days that Winblows (be it me or xp or 98 or whatever) must have a partition at the beginning of the drive. This is patently false and I want to debunk this old wives tale right now, I'm tired of seeing it. Second, the prime real estate for any drive is at the beginning of the drive, not the end. If a Linux installation is put at the end then you are most likely depriving your MDK of some prime real estate. Third, most bioses these days allow you to choose which drive you boot from. The installation trick with me, XP, or whatever is to boot your MDK installation disk #1 into it's install routine, and get the installation program to the point where you see the partition layouts at the install screen. I know about the rescue disk option but I've done extensive work both ways, and it turns out that for low level maintenance, an install boot is handier than a rescue disk boot. An MDK install boot to the partitioning step makes a better rescue disk than the rescue disk. Once you see that screen, you do ctrl-alt-f2 and that puts you in a console screen, with all filesystem modules loaded that you need for that box. After you do that, use fdisk to set up all your partitons, including the Windows one. What I do is allocate an extended partition first, the size I want the linux install to be. It would look like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elx]# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 160.2 GB, 160226334720 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19478 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 4462 35840983+ 85 Linux extended /dev/sda5 1 6 48132 83 Linux /dev/sda6 793698796 83 Linux /dev/sda794 160538146 82 Linux swap /dev/sda8 161 307 1180746 83 Linux /dev/sda9 308 902 4779306 83 Linux /dev/sda10 903 4462 28595668+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 * 4463 7961 28113718+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 7962 19478 92510302+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) sda5 = boot sda6 = root sda7 = swap sda8 = tmp sda9 = usr sda10 = var Boot-root are special cases, don't take up much room, and therefore have a minimal impact on the prime real estate at the drive spindle; and boot speed is my main reason for putting them there, besides there being an old under-the-1024 cylinder OS boot rule that I still subconsiously respect for some reason. Swap is first in line to take advantage of spindle real estate; followed by /tmp. You definitely want swap to have the best seat in the house, with /tmp following a close second. Generally you want to put partitions that have the shortest file lifetimes closer to the spindle and partitions that have files with the longest file lifetimes out towards the edge of the platter. /usr has long file lifetimes and thus as you see above is an exception to the latter speed rule, but I put it where it is for reasons of program load speed. There's always an exception to the rule. ;) Note that I have given NTFS and Win98 primary partitions and I have put Linux inside a type 85. The reason for that is that Winblows is less likely to screw with the tables of a non-dos partition that it does not understand, and a type 85 has historically fallen within that category. Note also that I have put these partitions at the end of the drive; that is because they simply have the lowest priority. ;) Note also that there is no primary partition for Linux. This is simply because of symmetry and also because of the fact that Linux doesn't need one. MDK can operate completely within an extended partition shell with no problem and it is preferable to do it this way for many reasons. Retain your primary partition entries (which are very limited in number) for dumber stupider OS's like XP, ME, or 98se. Now the trick. After partitioning layout is done you start your winblows installation; do not install MDK. You tell your bios to boot from the winblows drive after you have done all your partitioning setup with
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD
On Monday 30 August 2004 11:14 pm, Asa Rossoff wrote: Windows expects to boot from the first drive in the system (which it will always call C:). I believe there are ways to trick it into booting from other drives. I haven't tried it. Smart Boot Manager can do this by (I think) having the bios report the drives in a swapped fashion. SBM is at http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ Not totally correct. Windows NT, 2000, XP can all boot from drives other than C: or the first drive in the system. 16 bit versions or versions that contain 16 bit legacy code, such as 95, 98, ME, etc. will only boot from the C: drive. Now, the BIOS will expect to find a boot loader on the hard drive that you tell it is the primary boot device, but that can be any drive in the system, not necessarily the first one. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation
Hi guys I installed Man10 but I was faced with a lot of packages installing errors during installation like 'error in installing packege appache2', but I continued installing it. when everything is finished and I rebooted the system ,when it arrived to the user menu there was about ten users that I did not ask for them like 'appache, xfc,administrator,kassem,..'and when I clicked on my account and filled the password the screen blinks and goes back to the users menu. Anybody know what is wrong. Best regards, --Kassem Nasser--Kassem Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] American University of Beirut [EMAIL PROTECTED]P.O.Box 11 -0236/5253 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Riad El Solh Beirut: 1107 2020 --WS:www.students.aub.edu.lb\~kmn01--Lebanon 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 - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 00:04, Vincent Voois wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: any different. This is also true of UNIX and other OS's such as IBM can you imagine IBM loseing business to linux. IBM always had a good arrogant head up, this is why they had to fire over 40.000 people back 1 and a half decade ago. They have the potential to do it again on this market. They already loose in Asia and Africa as Microsoft really get's whooped-ass over there due to the fact people rather using Linux in those regions. That just proves that their people are smarter than ours. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again
My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop asked a professional to save what she could. I did slip the professional my Mandrake CDs so she could try to install 10. She had problems with the modem ( we knew about that, easily solved), the sound and , much more annoying, the touch screen ( or whatever it is called). Now she is back on a limping Win XPbut would prefer Linux if it works Anyone has any solution? thanks Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD
SnapafunFrank wrote: Unless you have actually tried for yourself, please layoff saying things as if they were fact. As to windows, WinMe ain't so bad once you bash For the fact that i couldn't run half the shit in WinME due to whatever MS invention was in there makes ME a pretty invaluable Win9X environment. (I still had a lot of DOS applications i wanted to run which ME didn't allow anymore and so were many companies having office tools based upon DOS that did not worked (properly) in ME) ME supposed to be the stepping stone to NTFS system but it was lacking tools that were very usefull in Win9X and had things that crapped up various software packages. I couldn't even get Adobe Premiere to run in it, neither could i get bug-free hardware drivers for my pinnacle card for ME (as it did not support a load of other new hardware either which was released after Windows ME) It's a fact that some people like WinME but it's also a fact that WinME was a marketfailure and not only for the reasons i just mentioned. If it works:Congratulations and have fun, but if considering for a new install: VOID it. For one thing it was good for was the silent hint that DOS software-support were about to become a thing of the past. it's face in a bit AND it will run off another HDD without reconfiguring anything AND from a install from Mandrake to boot. Don't believe me: read the following and weep: If you have only a non-FAT or non-NTFS platform on your primary harddrive, your second harddrive will always become C:\. But if you have a Windows system on your primary partitions which shares the same FS as the one on your second harddrive... Generally the msdos.sys holds a line which points to the systemdir. This has never been different, neither in current NT's boot.ini, it's required that the windows system knows where it's systemfolder is, Unless you have no other existing windows environments on your primary harddrive, you will have to configure that and that was my point. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation
W licie z wto, 31-08-2004, godz. 13:36, Kassem Nasser pisze: Hi guys I installed Man10 but I was faced with a lot of packages installing errors during installation like 'error in installing packege appache2', but I continued installing it. when everything is finished and I rebooted the system ,when it arrived to the user menu there was about ten users that I did not ask for them like 'appache, xfc,administrator,kassem,..'and when I clicked on my account and filled the password the screen blinks and goes back to the users menu. Anybody know what is wrong. Best regards, Maybe your desktop's packages haven't been installed properly. Try other environment. If it is completely fresh install try to reinstall mdk (and format any linux partitions). If it won't help you might have some problems with the cd you've installed from (most probable). When reinstalling pay attention on which cd are those corrupted packages and try to re-download those disks. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [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] [help]Mandrake 10 installation
Thank you Thereidos but what did you meant about the enviroment, and what about the 'users menu' problem where I have users like apache,xfs,and others that I did not create them. Best regards, Quoting Thereidos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: W li¶cie z wto, 31-08-2004, godz. 13:36, Kassem Nasser pisze: Hi guys I installed Man10 but I was faced with a lot of packages installing errors during installation like 'error in installing packege appache2', but I continued installing it. when everything is finished and I rebooted the system ,when it arrived to the user menu there was about ten users that I did not ask for them like 'appache, xfc,administrator,kassem,..'and when I clicked on my account and filled the password the screen blinks and goes back to the users menu. Anybody know what is wrong. Best regards, Maybe your desktop's packages haven't been installed properly. Try other environment. If it is completely fresh install try to reinstall mdk (and format any linux partitions). If it won't help you might have some problems with the cd you've installed from (most probable). When reinstalling pay attention on which cd are those corrupted packages and try to re-download those disks. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Kassem Nasser--Kassem Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] American University of Beirut [EMAIL PROTECTED]P.O.Box 11 -0236/5253 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Riad El Solh Beirut: 1107 2020 --WS:www.students.aub.edu.lb\~kmn01--Lebanon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:32 pm, M.Schild wrote: My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop asked a professional to save what she could. I did slip the professional my Mandrake CDs so she could try to install 10. She had problems with the modem ( we knew about that, easily solved), the sound and , much more annoying, the touch screen ( or whatever it is called). Now she is back on a limping Win XPbut would prefer Linux if it works Anyone has any solution? thanks Maryse The touch pad works in my Acer but with the 2.4 kernel, it never gets past the mouse configuration with the 2.6 kernel. No matter what I have tried, and commands are passed to the kernel, it won't get past that point. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- He who distinguishes the true savour of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 10, KMail 1.6.1 and of course OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) 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] OT? win2k clients are printing via Samba/CUPS-Printer but ...
... if the printers are just highlighted in the win2k printer-window, there's a message similar like 'Access denied, No connection to Printer' But printing _is_ possible ;-) (Printers are defined via samba as guest OK...) It's not very important but I would like to know why win2k is complaining about a denied access to the linuxed network printer access although printing is possible -- (o Best regards //\Harald T ZIPKO V_/_ please no html - mails -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation
W licie z wto, 31-08-2004, godz. 14:38, Kassem Nasser pisze: Thank you Thereidos but what did you meant about the enviroment, and what about the 'users menu' problem where I have users like apache,xfs,and others that I did not create them. Saying enviroment I mean desktop enviroment (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, IceWM etc.). As for the users this is somehow related to the errors you had but I haven't got a clue how. Do not worry about it now, you can remove them later. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [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] Dual Boot Dual HDD
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 04:29, Asa Rossoff wrote: Vincent Voois wrote: Asa Rossoff wrote: snip Second, Windows boots from the first boot-device, but it can be configured to have it's OS on another drive by altering the MSDOS.INI and in case of WinNT 4.x, 5.x you can alter the BOOT.INI to set the drive and startup-path where the os is stored. If your bootmanager on the primary IDE drive allows you to boot from the second drive, you can install all of the Windows data on there but in the win9x/ME cases you for sure have to modify the system settings to make it boot properly. I didn't realize Win98 and Me had a similar boot config file to NT/XP. It looks like it's actually msdos.sys on Win98 at least, rather than msdos.ini. Since he is running both 98 and Me, on seperate drives and partitions, and using Lilo to select them (currently), in theory he could just edit the msdos.ini (or msdos.sys) file on his WinMe partition (second drive) to indicate that the OS is on drive D: -- it might work. BUT, he would have to reinstall WinMe while the drive is recognized as D: (if the WinMe installer allows it) or do some major registry, shortcut and config file hacking. IMHO:Ditch WinME, it's really not worth the trouble, either install '98SE or XP, but Win'98 is currently less vulnerable to virusses these days as most viruses dedicates themselves to NT5.x exploites (XP/2000/2003). Asa I'm not at all sure you guys have a good understanding of what msdos.sys does. Msdos.sys doesn't have jack to do with the boot process; that is set at windows installation time. The only thing that msdos.sys does is set the path for windows; it merely tells windows where to look for it's binaries (dll exe etc). The true motherload of drive relevant information resides in the registry. Msdos.sys merely sets environment variables; that's all. Another thing to realize is that at it's core, msdos.sys is truly a dos artifact and NOT a windows artifact. Dos loads first and then winblows gets loaded by the dos environment, depending on what dos tells it to do by virtue of the parameters in msdos.sys. Also, msdos.sys was not always a text file. In Dos version 6.22 it was binary and was actually part of three components of the operating system. (I include the command interpreter in that number.) Subsequently in dos 7.00 it was kept for some wierd compatibility reasons, but changed to a parameter text file. Dos 7.10 kept that convention. Barring reinstallation it is very problematic to mess around with the msdos.sys file path line. You still have a bazillion inf and registry entries to deal with if there is a drive change. Much better to reinstall. Having said that there's alot of stuff you can do with msdos.sys. For instance: -- [Paths] WinDir=C:\USR\98R2 WinBootDir=C:\USR\98R2 HostWinBootDrv=C [Options] AutoScan=0 BootDelay=0 BootWarn=0 BootGUI=0 BootKeys=1 BootMenu=1 BootMenuDelay=2 BootMulti=1 DoubleBuffer=0 DblSpace=1 DrvSpace=0 LoadTop=0 Logo=0 ; ;The following lines are required for compatibility with other programs. ;Do not remove them (MSDOS.SYS needs to be 1024 bytes). ;xa ;xb ;xc ;xd ;xe ;xf ;xg ;xh ;xi ;xj ;xk ;xl ;xm ;xn ;xo ;xp ;xq ;xr ;xs DisableLog=0 WinVer=4.10. -- Why the funky nonstandard path? Once upon an age ago I was experimenting with wine and 98se under Linux. But in any case, as some examples, looking above you can see where you can keep the logo from being displayed or you can have the system boot you directly into dos and then
Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again
charlie wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:32 pm, M.Schild wrote: My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop asked a professional to save what she could. I did slip the professional my Mandrake CDs so she could try to install 10. She had problems with the modem ( we knew about that, easily solved), the sound and , much more annoying, the touch screen ( or whatever it is called). Now she is back on a limping Win XPbut would prefer Linux if it works Anyone has any solution? thanks Maryse The touch pad works in my Acer but with the 2.4 kernel, it never gets past the mouse configuration with the 2.6 kernel. No matter what I have tried, and commands are passed to the kernel, it won't get past that point. Charlie. In this case, it wold be easier if I installed 9.1 Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:36, Kassem Nasser wrote: Hi guys I installed Man10 but I was faced with a lot of packages installing errors during installation like 'error in installing packege appache2', but I continued installing it. when everything is finished and I rebooted the system ,when it arrived to the user menu there was about ten users that I did not ask for them like 'appache, xfc,administrator,kassem,..'and when I clicked on my account and filled the password the screen blinks and goes back to the users menu. Anybody know what is wrong. I faced a similar nightmare install few weeks ago and eventually I found that the problem was defective memory. Try to boot from the first CD and instead of starting the install, run memtest and let it test your memory at least for one full cycle. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] File System Problem
Hi all, We had a power failure the other day and now my ML10.0 system barfs out messages every so often to the main screen (presumably when it does an FS check) that look like the following: INFO : [2004-08-31T06:33:15-0700] msg=,Check failed., path=/etc/ioctl.save I presume that this is due to file system errors caused by the power failure and the system not shutting down properly, but how can I fix the problem? I have tried running fsck and forcing it, but I'm still getting the problem. Can anyone offer a different solution? TIA --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.744 / Virus Database: 496 - Release Date: 8/24/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File System Problem
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 11:01, David Johnson wrote: Hi all, We had a power failure the other day and now my ML10.0 system barfs out messages every so often to the main screen (presumably when it does an FS check) that look like the following: INFO : [2004-08-31T06:33:15-0700] msg=,Check failed., path=/etc/ioctl.save I presume that this is due to file system errors caused by the power failure and the system not shutting down properly, but how can I fix the problem? I have tried running fsck and forcing it, but I'm still getting the problem. Can anyone offer a different solution? TIA You havent told us wether you are running a journaling file system or for that matter even what kind of file system you have. The first thing I would do were I you would be to get your data backed up to another drive. I'd do this before attempting any more fixes. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xsessionerrors file growing
On Monday 30 August 2004 06:03 pm, warren wrote: hi all, while trying to work out why i couldn´t burn dvds i happened to check the .xsessionerrors file which wouldn´t open. Eventually i opened it with tail -f and it spewed forth: ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) and proceeded to do so at the rate of 3 or 4 lines a second. I have just recently installed MDK 10 on a new HDD. Every day as soon as i turn my machine on the file starts to grow, and although it only grows by MB or so an hour this cant been good for things. Any ideas? I've only seen that problem in cooker 10.1. And cooker by nature of being updated several times daily, the problem was eventually fixed. In the meantime, as root, 'rm -f .xsession-errors', log out of KDE and then back in. A new, small .xsession-errors will be recreated. As root make it read only. Not a fix, but it will prevent the file from filling up your partition. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop
Dear All Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to control that, but I have found nothing. I am using KDE 3.2 and Mandrake 10. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] FTP Download issues...
Hi all, I experience some strange behavior when I try to download files, etc. from an ftp site. For example, when I click the following (to download UltraEdit) it times out. http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Downloadsd_op=getitlid=1 When I click the same link on a Windows box on the same intranet I can download it no problem. I am behind a firewall but so is the Windows box. I'm guessing it has something to do with my Linux box but I don't know what! Any ideas on why this is? tia -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Download issues...
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 22:10, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I experience some strange behavior when I try to download files, etc. from an ftp site. For example, when I click the following (to download UltraEdit) it times out. http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Downloadsd_op=getitlid=1 When I click the same link on a Windows box on the same intranet I can download it no problem. I am behind a firewall but so is the Windows box. I'm guessing it has something to do with my Linux box but I don't know what! Any ideas on why this is? tia At a guess, you're using Internet Explorer on the Windows box, and it's a non-standard site, e.g uses the crap MS called javascript . if this is true you can do several things: 1. set up your browser to masquerade as IE, (Opera is probably the easiest), 2. download using windows, and the MOST IMPORTANT 3. contact the owner of the site and complain about their web page not using standard HTML coding, thereby reducing their consumer base. -- Paul M Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. Jules Renard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firewire external enclosure with HD : message log at boot
Hi, i've got a Mandrake 9.2 on a Shuttle X with 2 firewire port 1394 I've visited the linux1394 website read the FAQ. Nothing happened with modprob -r sbp2 and the rescan scsi bus script. But when i see on the boot message log, here is what i can read : Aug 28 20:24:26 localhost kernel: ohci1394: $Rev$ Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aug 28 20:24:26 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[19] MMIO=[e8001000-e80017ff] Max Packet=[204 8] Aug 28 20:24:26 localhost kernel: ieee1394: Node 0-01:1023 has non-standard ROM format (0 quads), cannot parse Aug 28 20:24:26 localhost kernel: ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023 has non-standard ROM format (0 quads), cannot parse Anyone could tell me what is the problem; Can i solve it ? thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Upgrading
Does anyone know how I can upgrade my site to version 4.5.1 from 4.5 without having to redo all my pages? image001.jpg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 17:02, Wally Brown wrote: version 4.5.1 from 4.5 of what program? please don't send html-mail to this list (you wannna see what it looks like???) -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 10:15, Avi Schwartz wrote: On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:36, Kassem Nasser wrote: Hi guys I installed Man10 but I was faced with a lot of packages installing errors during installation like 'error in installing packege appache2', but I continued installing it. when everything is finished and I rebooted the system ,when it arrived to the user menu there was about ten users that I did not ask for them like 'appache, xfc,administrator,kassem,..'and when I clicked on my account and filled the password the screen blinks and goes back to the users menu. Anybody know what is wrong. I faced a similar nightmare install few weeks ago and eventually I found that the problem was defective memory. Try to boot from the first CD and instead of starting the install, run memtest and let it test your memory at least for one full cycle. Avi are you typing the password with the num locks on or off?? have you tried it the other way? the settings for your display manager are what is showing every user. when you are at the password prompt, in X (so you are seeing those names) try to do a ctrl+alt+f3 (or f1 thru f6) and try to login there. if you give up trying to log in, get back and we will start your computer with single user mode (linux1 after hitting escape when the lilo prompt is up. -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:02:02 -0600 Wally Brown disseminated the following: Does anyone know how I can upgrade my site to version 4.5.1 from 4.5 without having to redo all my pages? Ok, you gotta be kiddin' me. Not only *HTML* but a *cutesy coloured background*??!! What's next, freakin' animated gifs of dancing babies? sigh Anyway, we're really very friendly here (er, mostly), but please be more specific about your question and please read this: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Thank you, come again! -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:08:33 up 27 days, 18:53, 5 users, load average: 0.09, 0.09, 0.03 +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. -- 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] CUPS
Thank you, It is now working. Steve - Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CUPS On Monday 30 August 2004 4:15 pm, Steve wrote: After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to Configure your hardwarePrinters, it tries to load CUPS again, opens the packages to install it (even though I have already installed it) and then fails with the message CUPS cannot be installed. It does this every time. You installed it using rpm, no? Under mandrake one needs to use urpmi, as its urpmi that is having the problem. I am not sure how to correct this problem, if there is one. Now, let the configure your hardware stuff alone, Use the Cups software to configure it all. Point your browser at http://localhost:631/ and fire away. The CUPS web interface should come right up. If you have problems with that, and its a pretty simple interface, then you can click the on-line help link to get help from the cups website. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ 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] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:32:26 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: No not specifically, if you don't have any money to spend on software, you use free software. In a way smarter:it's smarter than downloading illegal versions of Microsoft ware. But Asians and Africans still have some good pot of politeness in comparance to the average western arrogant PC user. So let me see if I got this straight. You are saying that entire majority of PC users in the western world are arrogant? Terrible, just terrible, to generalize like that, yes. He should have specified *Americans* ;-) -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:22:51 up 27 days, 19:07, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 +++ The really critical thing isn't who is sitting in the White House but who is *sitting in*; in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating--those are the things that determine what happens. -- 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] Laptop Easy one Silver again
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:30 am, Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:01 pm, charlie wrote: I couldn't get the win modem to work because 9.2 didn't supply a kernel source and I am in very slow dial up. That is the problem with that lappy, no serial port. But someone posted something about a modem card that might be the way to go. But haven't investigated it as yet. Price is about $AU135.oo. HTH Charlie arrh! if australian dollars are anywhere close in value to american dollars, then that price is awful!!! check this out: http://www.meritline.com/zfm5600-v-92-56kb-fax-modem-pcmcia-pc-card.html and note at the bottom of the page thay have an aussie flag icon marked: 'Australia customers, click here.' i've used this brand/model pcmcia hardware modem with my toshiba laptop for several years now. Thanks Alan, I don't know anything about these cards, but read something about them on this or the expert list some time back. I looked at the above website and then moved to the one in OZ, but copying the exact name in had no results there, and also typing in pcmcia modem card had no result. So maybe there is something about the card that is not accepted in Oz. I have only ever found one, that being the one which I posted the price on. I don't think they are much used in this country. But when I bought the lappy I didn't check, but just assumed [ which as it turned out, made an ass of me ] a serial port. We are about to move to solar power, and the lappy will drag less power. The $Au is valued at about half the US dollar. I will keep looking, there is no option but dial up in the bush here. Thanks again. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 10, KMail 1.6.1 and of course OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) 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] Upgrading
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:13:54 -0400 JoeHill wrote: Thank you, come again! They've put you back on the meds, haven't they? Charles -- The second best policy is dishonesty. - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8.1-4mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpaXPbKdxtyA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 04:37 pm, charlie wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:30 am, Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:01 pm, charlie wrote: I couldn't get the win modem to work because 9.2 didn't supply a kernel source and I am in very slow dial up. That is the problem with that lappy, no serial port. But someone posted something about a modem card that might be the way to go. But haven't investigated it as yet. Price is about $AU135.oo. HTH Charlie arrh! if australian dollars are anywhere close in value to american dollars, then that price is awful!!! check this out: http://www.meritline.com/zfm5600-v-92-56kb-fax-modem-pcmcia-pc-card.html and note at the bottom of the page thay have an aussie flag icon marked: 'Australia customers, click here.' i've used this brand/model pcmcia hardware modem with my toshiba laptop for several years now. Thanks Alan, I don't know anything about these cards, but read something about them on this or the expert list some time back. I looked at the above website and then moved to the one in OZ, but copying the exact name in had no results there, and also typing in pcmcia modem card had no result. So maybe there is something about the card that is not accepted in Oz. I have only ever found one, that being the one which I posted the price on. that's certainly a bummer. use froogle: http://froogle.google.com/ and type in the search window: australia pcmcia 56k modem then in the list that results (i got over 800 hits), look for 56k pcmcia modems that are priced better than $130. the before purchase, verify with the seller that it is, in fact, a hardware modem, and not a winmodem, softmodem, hfc modem etc. good luck and be careful, caveat emptor! I don't think they are much used in this country. But when I bought the lappy I didn't check, but just assumed [ which as it turned out, made an ass of me ] a serial port. We are about to move to solar power, and the lappy will drag less power. The $Au is valued at about half the US dollar. I will keep looking, there is no option but dial up in the bush here. Thanks again. Charlie. -- Alan 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 - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:24:34PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:32:26 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: No not specifically, if you don't have any money to spend on software, you use free software. In a way smarter:it's smarter than downloading illegal versions of Microsoft ware. But Asians and Africans still have some good pot of politeness in comparance to the average western arrogant PC user. So let me see if I got this straight. You are saying that entire majority of PC users in the western world are arrogant? Terrible, just terrible, to generalize like that, yes. He should have specified *Americans* ;-) My wife is quick to point out that she is American, even though she is not a US citizen ;) 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] Upgrading
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:50:14 -0400 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: They've put you back on the meds, haven't they? You betcha, massive doses of Thorazine. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:05:06 up 27 days, 19:49, 6 users, load average: 1.50, 1.52, 1.19 +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. -- 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] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Friday 27 August 2004 13:52, Stephen Kühn wrote: Kmail unstable? Outlook and Outlook Express are unstable; Kmail is just, er, quirky. that would be... 'random enhancements' -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvdshrink and wine
Vincent Voois wrote: What kind of troubles do you have with DVDShrink? I usually use DVDDecrypter if DVDShrink does not succeed, when i got the decrypted vob files on HD i then use DVDshrink to reauthor or compress elements of the DVD. This is a good test to see if it operates properly at all. And burning with DVDshrink does not work in Windows itself properly either if there is any other burn application installed like Nero. (It's Nero's DVDr driver that is getting in DVDShrink's way, this may count for other installed burn apps as well) If I run it by clicking on the .exe (in KDE) I am asked to agree to the licence, I do, then the main window for dvdshrink appears, along with a little exception raised window (empty of any info which might help me solve the problem). If I run it from the command line I get this error message: Warning: the specified System directory LC:\\windows\\system is not accessible. Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/evolt/Desktop', starting in the Windows directory. wine: cannot open (null) I do have winxp installed, and wine had previously been set up to use it. I looked for the wine.cfg in /etc/wine but none seems to have been installed this time (I removed them after uninstalling wine and tried re-installing it) Thanks for any help you can provide. Joe. evolt wrote: Having some troubles running dvdshrink under wine. Installed the latest wine rpm because I read changes had been made to make dvdshrink work better. Anyone have success running dvdshrink with wine and mdk 10? Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] System locks up every 10days
This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated reasons. For instance, last time it happened it locked up while one of the X-Screensavers was running. I noted which one was on the screen at the time and disabled it. I've since only enabled two of the screensavers, Nose Guy and Phosper. Last night I installed FSV just to see how it looked, install went fine and it ran great, tonight I brought it up, went to open a directory and the system locked up tighter than a drum, uptime was at about 10days, 20+ hrs. Last time the lockup came at about the same amount of uptime. This is with MDK 9.0. Althought I've gone 30+ days previously before I had to hit the reset due to a lockup and if I remember that was due to a game that the system just didn't like. Any ideas on what could be the problem? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:14pm up 9 min, 1 user, load average: 0.83, 0.54, 0.29 Suicide is simply a case of mistaken identity. Live - From Virgin Radio UK The Rolling Stones - Angie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 08:25 pm, Chris wrote: This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated reasons. For instance, last time it happened it locked up while one of the X-Screensavers was running. I noted which one was on the screen at the time and disabled it. I've since only enabled two of the screensavers, Nose Guy and Phosper. Last night I installed FSV just to see how it looked, install went fine and it ran great, tonight I brought it up, went to open a directory and the system locked up tighter than a drum, uptime was at about 10days, 20+ hrs. Last time the lockup came at about the same amount of uptime. This is with MDK 9.0. Althought I've gone 30+ days previously before I had to hit the reset due to a lockup and if I remember that was due to a game that the system just didn't like. Any ideas on what could be the problem? have you checked the syslogs? Kinda sounds like something is being saved to say /tmp until there is no room and /tmp is only cleared on reboot. Just a wild guess. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 09:30 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 08:25 pm, Chris wrote: This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated reasons. For instance, last time it happened it locked up while one of have you checked the syslogs? Kinda sounds like something is being saved to say /tmp until there is no room and /tmp is only cleared on reboot. Just a wild guess. Dennis, in the /root/tmp are 192 hidden files called .drakx-stdout.(a number here, ie..11153. The contents of these files are: alsa0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off dm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on6:off kheader 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:off 5:on6:off keytable0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off network 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off partmon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off random 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off saslauthd 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off crond 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off httpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off apmd0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off cups0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off linuxconf 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off iptables0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off devfsd 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off gpm 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off postgresql 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off numlock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off rwhod 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off routed 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off postfix 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off mysql 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off named 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off ipvsadm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off upsmon 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off prelude 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off yppasswdd 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off webmin 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off internet0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:off 5:on6:off ypserv 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off ypxfrd 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off oki4daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off ntpd0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off firestarter 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off mtink 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off sensors 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off spamassassin0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off sendmail0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off xinetd based services: chargen-udp:off chargen:off daytime-udp:off daytime:off echo-udp: off echo: off services: off servers:off time-udp: off time: off cups-lpd: off xadmin: off fam:on linuxconf-web: off rsync: off cvs:off I'd hazard a guess and say the above is not the 'tmp' you're referring to, however, now that I've mentioned these files, what are these and can they be deleted? My actual /tmp is 125.5mb with 124mb free. I assume that this was the /tmp you were referring to? I'll keep an eye on /tmp over the next few days and see if it grows. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:44pm up 1:39, 2 users, load average: 0.52, 0.60, 0.52 I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day cause that means it's going to be up all night. -- Steven Wright Live - From Virgin Radio UK Rod
Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 09:54 pm, Chris wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 09:30 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 08:25 pm, Chris wrote: This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated reasons. For instance, last time it happened it locked up while one of have you checked the syslogs? Kinda sounds like something is being saved to say /tmp until there is no room and /tmp is only cleared on reboot. Just a wild guess. Dennis, in the /root/tmp are 192 hidden files called .drakx-stdout.(a number here, ie..11153. The contents of these files are: alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off dm0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on6:off kheader 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:off 5:on6:off keytable 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off network 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off partmon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off random0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off rawdevices0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off saslauthd 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off syslog0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off crond 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off xinetd0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off httpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off cups 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off linuxconf 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off devfsd0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off gpm 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off postgresql0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off numlock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off rwhod 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off routed0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off postfix 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off mysql 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off named 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off ipvsadm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off upsmon0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off prelude 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off yppasswdd 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off webmin0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off internet 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:off 5:on6:off ypserv0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off ypxfrd0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off oki4daemon0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off firestarter 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off mtink 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off sensors 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off spamassassin 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off sendmail 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off xinetd based services: chargen-udp:off chargen:off daytime-udp:off daytime:off echo-udp: off echo: off services: off servers:off time-udp: off time: off cups-lpd: off xadmin: off fam:on linuxconf-web: off rsync: off cvs:off I'd hazard a guess and say the above is not the 'tmp' you're referring to, however, now that I've mentioned these files, what are these and can they be deleted? My actual /tmp is 125.5mb with 124mb free. I assume that this was the /tmp you were referring to? I'll keep an eye on /tmp over the next few days and see if it grows. The above are the current xinit
Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days
I can't even seem to load the program from the disks I bought is there any driver issues with my hardware? It haults and asks me to reboot when I'm loading the packages. Specifically when it gets to Fonts. mandrake 10 64 version athlon 64 3000 asus K8V 2 raptors 70 gigs apiece 9600XT sony CDRWDennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 09:54 pm, Chris wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 09:30 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 08:25 pm, Chris wrote: This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated reasons. For instance, last time it happened it locked up while one of have you checked the syslogs? Kinda sounds like something is being saved to say /tmp until there is no room and /tmp is only cleared on reboot. Just a wild guess. Dennis, in the /root/tmp are 192 hidden files called .drakx-stdout.(a number here, ie..11153. The contents of these files are: alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off dm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off kheader 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off keytable 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off partmon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off random 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off saslauthd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off httpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off linuxconf 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off devfsd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off gpm 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off postgresql 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off numlock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off rwhod 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off routed 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off postfix 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off mysql 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off named 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off ipvsadm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off upsmon 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off prelude 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off yppasswdd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off webmin 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off internet 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off ypserv 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off ypxfrd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off oki4daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off firestarter 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off mtink 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off sensors 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off spamassassin 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sendmail 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xinetd based services: chargen-udp: off chargen: off daytime-udp: off daytime: off echo-udp: off echo: off services: off servers: off time-udp: off time: off cups-lpd: off xadmin: off fam: on linuxconf-web: off rsync: off cvs: off I'd hazard a guess and say the above is not the 'tmp' you're referring to, however, now that I've mentioned these files, what are these and can they be deleted? My actual /tmp is 125.5mb with 124mb free. I assume that this was the /tmp you were referring to? I'll keep an eye on /tmp over the next few days and see if it grows.The above are the current xinit settings that your system is running. As 1-off is init 1 and alsa is off and so forth. Bad explanation, maybe someone can jump in here and explain better. And /tmp was what I had in mind but other tmp files could be causing a problem, like /home/your usr/.tmp could be acting up. Not real sure but a memory leak might end up tying up all of your ram also. Anyone else have a thought? Slap me if I'm leading down the garden path. : )-- Dennis M. linux user #180842Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out!
RE: [newbie] FTP Download issues...
Got a firewall on this box? What does 'iptables -L -n -v' say? Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Travis Crook Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:08 PM To: Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] FTP Download issues... On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 15:32, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 22:22, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:31, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 20:10, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, snip Any ideas on why this is? tia That link works for me using konqueror, opera, and mozilla-firefox so it clearly has nothing to do wih Linux itself, but something about your environment. No idea what though :-( Thanks for checking and verifying that it wasn't a Linux issue! I will have to keep digging! Thanks! derek Do you have a proxy server in your network? You may need to route your traffic through a proxy. No proxy server here. derek -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:01 pm, charlie wrote: | On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50 pm, M.Schild wrote: | charlie wrote: | On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:32 pm, M.Schild wrote: | My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop as | I cannot recall for certain, but 9.2 worked everything rather well too. | HTH | | Charlie Ditto, here. 9.1 worked well and 9.2 is problem free (except for the need to download the kernel-source, which is 40+ megs and the need to get the update-db bugfixes--absolutely mandatory). If you have a Lucent chipped winmodem that will work with the 2.4 kernel, too. Truthfully, I don't see much difference between 9.1 and 9.2, and I have both systems side-by-side in my office. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 07:02 am, Erylon Hines wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:01 pm, charlie wrote: | On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50 pm, M.Schild wrote: | charlie wrote: | On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:32 pm, M.Schild wrote: | My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop as | | I cannot recall for certain, but 9.2 worked everything rather well too. | HTH | | Charlie Ditto, here. 9.1 worked well and 9.2 is problem free (except for the need to download the kernel-source, which is 40+ megs and the need to get the update-db bugfixes--absolutely mandatory). If you have a Lucent chipped winmodem that will work with the 2.4 kernel, too. Truthfully, I don't see much difference between 9.1 and 9.2, and I have both systems side-by-side in my office. If my friend is willing to try 9.1, where do I find the kernel-source and the updates? Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Postcard
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 2:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best wishes, your friend. Ok, so, fess up, who clicked the .pif? Time for the truth to be told, and time to run Mdk full time, the easy way is to login in a root. go to your windows partition and fire off, rm -Rf *. That is a great virus prevention method, for the time being. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 21:25, Chris wrote: This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated reasons. For instance, last time it happened it locked up while one of the X-Screensavers was running. I noted which one was on the screen at the time and disabled it. I've since only enabled two of the screensavers, Nose Guy and Phosper. Last night I installed FSV just to see how it looked, install went fine and it ran great, tonight I brought it up, went to open a directory and the system locked up tighter than a drum, uptime was at about 10days, 20+ hrs. Last time the lockup came at about the same amount of uptime. This is with MDK 9.0. Althought I've gone 30+ days previously before I had to hit the reset due to a lockup and if I remember that was due to a game that the system just didn't like. Any ideas on what could be the problem? Install lm-sensors and start monitoring your motherboard and cpu temperatures to eliminate that as a possibility. Sometimes a system fan will get clogged with dust and the cpu temp will climb to borderline levels; this is especially true with AMD cpus, which are notorious for maintaining deceptively respectable behavior right up until they flake out. I have also seen AMD's that are overclocked pass Prime95 tests perfectly, but still lock up after a few days. This probably isn't your case but high case or cpu temperatures can cause the same thing to happen. I would say that you could have a program running that has a memory leak, but it sounds like you've reinstalled and had the same symptoms across multiple installs. This would pretty much eliminate the memory leak possibility. If you want to try to narrow it down to hardware a little better, what you can do is run the box at runlevel 3 for 11+ days and see if it locks up without a gui running. That would give is a little more information. It also wouldn't hurt for you to download the sysrescuecd and run some hardware checks and a test of the memory: http://www.sysresccd.org/download.en.php Regardless of how you feel about your hardware or your confidence level you should still follow troubleshooting procedure and eliminate memory and cpu as possibilities. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
