Re: [newbie] updates
dont know if you can download it i have been looking for it aswell -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] install KDE
I have the REdHat7.2 CD's and i want to install KDE (i dont to it when i install my linux) where i can find one howto from the CD? i found only from binary on the web... thank [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] /dev/ttyS3
Hello, I repost this message as I've got no reply, and I need to be sure about that stuff to solve another problem. I would like to know whether or not ttyS3 and ttyS03 are the same thing ? dmesg | grep tty, gives me : ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A but I don't have a device ttyS03 but ttyS3. Why does it give me 03 instead of 3 ? Thanks. Francois Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/ttyS3
port one. That matches in the same way as S3 and S03. So my educated guess is that this is okay. They are the same. Thank you Paul, Francois Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla spell checker
Hi I have just downloaded Mandrake Freq 20010619 and installed mozilla 0.9.1 from these CD's. (Uninstalled 0.8.x first) Now the spell checker in message composition is missing. I messed around with aspell/pspell to try and get spelling to work in Evolution, so if mozilla uses that the spelling might not work. If it doesn't use pspell where is the spell checker? Thanks Francois
Re: [newbie] Supermount and new kernel
I've just installed kernel 2.2.18 and I have 3 things that don't work as before : - Kheader : I solved this one by adding a "0" in the kheader file and it works now. - Supermount : I do not have supermount anymore. How can I do to get it back ? - The alsa drivers I have installed with my previous kernel, don't work. Does that mean I have to reinstall them ? I'm running Mandrake 7.1 Thank you. Francois Whoa which 2.2.18? 2.2.18-1mdk ? and was it the ready made, or did you compile it, and from mdk source, or vanilla source ... with the appropriate 7.1 patches ? I believe you can see I'm gettin at there can be endless variables here I downloaded the one I found on kernel.org named "linux-2.2.18.tar.bz2" I compiled it, but I do not know about the "appropriate 7.1 patches" you're speaking about. Francois
Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02
Thank you Chris, Your advice is to download .tgz files, but I have already downloaded the XFree4.02 rpm source file. I've just finished to rebuild the files from the source file, and now I have the following files built : -rw-r--r--1 root root 1274861 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 10686424 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1101761 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 622913 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-Xnest-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1675192 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 385112 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1967017 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-devel-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 9273769 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-doc-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 622058 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-glide-module-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 2128405 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-libs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 6343726 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-server-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1756340 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-static-libs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 422201 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-xfs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm Is it enuf ?? With my XFree3.3.6 install, I saw that I have the following files not created for Xfree4.02 : XFree86-XF86Setup XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts XFree86-SVGA XFree86-VGA16 XFree86-server-common Do I have to find them for this upgrade ? Do I need anything else ? Thank you. Francois - On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote: You need to go download the binaries for your system from ftp.xfree86.org. Here is a list of the minimum files you need: Xinstall.sh extract Xbin.tgz Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xfnts.tgz Xfenc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xvar.tgz Xxserv.tgz Xmod.tgz Just put them in the same directory and type "sh Xinstall.sh". It will ask you a couple of questions. I said no to the first question and left the answers as default to the rest. Fairly easy to do. Good luck and I hope this helps! - Original Message - From: "Francois Massonneau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02 Hi, I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with XFree3.3.6 I guess (that's the one that comes with Mdke7.1) I would like to upgrade XFree4.02, so I downloaded a file named "XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.src.rpm" To rebuild it, I've got to upgrade 4 files (freetype... and VGlide ). While I'm writting this message, I'm rebuilding this XFree source rpm file. Now the questions : - Do I need something else ? - How do I do to install this new XFree. ? - Do I have to uninstall XFree3.3.6 then install 4.02 ? All your help will be very appreciated, because I 'm really afraid about that upgrade. Thank you. Francois
[newbie] Can't start X server
Hi, Today, and I don't know why, the X server doesn't want to start . I use to let my computer to run 24/24, and yesterday when I went to bed, I left my computer running, (I just turn off my screen as usual). This morning, I tried to fire up kppp, and I got a message something like : "I can't create the modem lock file". Then I loged out from kde, and tried to restart it. As user "fm" (my login), this is the message I have now each time I try to launch "startx" ;-( "authentification failed - cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console ownership". And as "root", this is the message I have : "The XKeyboard keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports : Error Cannot open "compile/server-0.xkm" to write keyboard description. Exiting Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap. localhost being added to access control list waiting for Xserver to shut down." What can I do to make it to work as it did ? Thank you. Francois
[newbie] XFree
Hi, I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with kernel 2.2.15 and I would like to upgrade to XFree 4,xx. Is it possible ? If so, do I have to upgrade something else ? and what are the packages I need to do that upgrade ? A ftp site and the exact location would be useful as I can't load the whole page from the RMPFIND http site for the packages beginning with letter X . I've tried for two days without any success ;-( Thank you. Francois
[newbie] Server specs
Hi all We aim to setup a proof-of-concept linux-based department server which can cater for 5-50 users, which can provide at least the following services: - mail (SMTP + IMAP) - file server (windows clients) - print server (windows clients) - fax server (windows clients) Can anyone recommend the minimum hardware platform we can run this on? If some of you have implemented such a server, what are the hardware specs and how well does Mandrake perform? Is it better to go for a uni- or multiprocessor machine? Thanks Francois
[newbie] Server Specs
Hi all We aim to setup a proof-of-concept linux-based department server which can cater for 5-50 users, which can provide at least the following services: - mail (SMTP + IMAP) - file server (windows clients) - print server (windows clients) - fax server (windows clients) Can anyone recommend the minimum hardware platform we can run this on? If some of you have implemented such a server, what are the hardware specs and how well does Mandrake perform? Is it better to go for a uni- or multiprocessor machine? Thanks Francois
Re: [newbie] Cannot mount HPFS partition
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote: sorry the only windows filesystems linux can read are fat vfat and fat32, i know it sucks but i run win 2000 and ust the ntfs and i used to use win98 so when i upgraded i found i had to create a new partition so i can swap my files between both os's Oh noo, hpfs works fine with linux. This is my /etc/fstab using Mandrake 6.1 /dev/sda2 /mnt/diskc msdos defaults 00 /dev/sda5 /mnt/diske hpfsdefaults 00 /dev/sdb2 /mnt/diskd hpfsdefaults 00 /dev/sdb5 /mnt/diskf hpfsdefaults 00 /dev/sdc10 /mnt/diskg hpfsdefaults 00 /dev/sdc11 /mnt/diskh hpfsdefaults 00 And I can assure you it works fine. I can read them, not write of course, but for the reading, it's ok. Francois
[newbie] Modem is busy
Hi, I have problem to make my connections to the internet to work using my portable PC. Each time I launch kppp, I have the following message : "Sorry, the modem is busy" What is that ? I've never had any problem with my other computers running Linux, but it's the first time I install Linux on a portable PC, and maybe I made a mistake or/and forget to install something else . These are the infos I've got using Windows : Fujitsu LB Global LTModem Port com2 IRQ9 Address 1010 uart NS 16550AN Max speed : 115k I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and I 've just compiled a new kernel 2.2.17. Thank you for your help. Francois
[newbie] New kernel and error messages
Hello, I've just compiled and installed a new kernel. I upgraded from 2.2.15 to 2.2.17 on my Portable PC. Everything runs fine, except during the boot process where I have a few error messages. These are the main ones : - This new kernel doesn't seem to recognize my Slim SCSI PC Card - Fast SCSI 1460D (Adaptec). With kernel 2.2.15 during the boot process, I have a message telling me that it has recognized this adaptor card (One scsi host detected). With kernel 2.2.17 I have no message at all. Is it because I forgot to do something during the kernel configuration? To configure the new kernel, I saved in a txt file my 2.2.15 kernel config, and loaded it when I run the "make xconfig" to create my new 2.2.17 kernel. - I have the following message too : "locate usb interface modprobe can't locate module usb-interface" (This one doesn't appear when I boot on 2.2.15). - And finally this one : "starting kheader -- failed" (It doesn't failed with kernel 2.2.15) How can I make it run the same way as my old kernel ? Thanks. Francois
[newbie] How to apply patches
Hi, I've got a cd-rom which comes with kernel 2.4.0-test2. I have patches "test3" to "test7" also. How can I apply those patches ? The only things I did, were : - to delete the link between /usr/src/linux and /usr/src/linux-2.2.15 - Then I copied the file linux-2.4.0-test2.tar.bz2 in my /usr/src directory. - I unpacked the file, - Then I recreated the link between /usr/src/linux and /usr/src/linux-2.4.0 - and finally I copied the patches in my /usr/src directory. Now, what do I have to do to apply those patches ? Does someone can give me the process step by step ? Thank in advance. Francois
[newbie] D-Link PC Card DFE650 for portable PC
Hello, I 've just installed Mandrake 7.1 on my Portable PC Fujitsu/Siemens Lifebood E Series, and I've bought an Ethernet/fast ethernet D-Link PC Card DFE 650 Series. The problem is that my Mandrake doesn't recognize this Ethernet adapter ? How can I do to make it work ? ON the handbook, it is said "100Mbps Full Duplex and Linux Ready", but I doubt. Thank you in advance. Francois
[newbie] no innd PID
Hi, I wanted to set up a newsgroup server. I updated the /etc/news/inn.conf file with my own infos, I changed the /etc/news/nnrp.access file to allow access to the newsgroups to my intranet. BUt when I try to add new newsgroup, using ctlinnd, this is the resulting output : [root@francois log]# ctlinnd newgroup celtes.alt.noirmoutier y No innd.pid file; did server die? Can't send "newgroup" command (sendto failure) No such file or directory. I know innd is started, but even if I stop it, and restart it, I have the same error message as above. [root@francois fm]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/innd stop [root@francois fm]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/innd start Starting INND system: [ OK ] [root@francois fm]# ctlinnd newgroup celtes.alt.noirmoutier y No innd.pid file; did server die? Can't send "newgroup" command (sendto failure) No such file or directory. [root@francois fm]# How can I do to make it work ? Thanks. Francois
[newbie] Ethernet PC Card for portable PC
Hey folks. . . I 've just installed Mandrake 7.1 on my Portable PC Fujitsu/Siemens Lifebood E Series, and I've bought an Ethernet/fast ethernet D-Link PC Card DFE 650 Series. The problem is that my Mandrake doesn't recognize this Ethernet adapter ? How can I do to make it work ? ON the handbook, it is said "100Mbps Full Duplex and Linux Ready", but I doubt. Thank you in advance. Francois
[newbie] wine and share - the solution
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, you wrote: "You must install the program SHARE.EXE before starting those programs. To install the program SHARE.EXE, you have to read the documentation related to the DOS Operating System." As "root", I do not have such a message and the program runs fine. How can I do to make it run for someone else than "root" ? Thanks. Francois = Try changing the permissions on the executable so that users can execute. Right click on the program, go to properties and check all of the appropriate boxes. I did that already, The permissions are 555 for all files, except the ini files which are 755. . For "root", it works like a charm ;-( Francois Try this as root: cd to the directory where SHARE.EXE is located #ls -l SHARE.EXE (you should see something like this -rwxr -xr -x) #chmod +s SHARE.EXE (this should change it to -rwsrwsrwx) No promises. but it has sometimes worked for me. Good Luck I do not have a file SHARE.EXE, but .. I found a way to make it works ;-)) I changed the permissions for the "/var/lib/wine" the "/var/lib/wine/windows", the "/var/lib/wine/windows/Fonts" and the "/var/lib/wine/windows/system" directories. They were "drwxr-xr-x" and I changed them to "drwxrwxrwx" Now everything works like a charm ;-) Hope this help someone else. Francois
Re: [[newbie] wine and share]
I have a problem when I want to run a windows program. I do not have any windows HD on my system, but I have a windows program I need to run. I have no problem to run it as "root", but as a simple user, it doesn't want to run. Each time I have a message saying something like that : "You must install the program SHARE.EXE before starting those programs. To install the program SHARE.EXE, you have to read the documentation related to the DOS Operating System." As "root", I do not have such a message and the program runs fine. How can I do to make it run for someone else than "root" ? Thanks. Francois = Try changing the permissions on the executable so that users can execute. Right click on the program, go to properties and check all of the appropriate boxes. I did that already, but nope, it doesn't work. All files belong to user "fm", group "users", The permissions are 555 for all files, except the ini files which are 755. But user "fm", can't run the program. It complains about the install of "share". For "root", it works like a charm ;-( Francois
[newbie] wine and share
Hi, I have a problem when I want to run a windows program. I do not have any windows HD on my system, but I have a windows program I need to run. I have no problem to run it as "root", but as a simple user, it doesn't want to run. Each time I have a message saying something like that : "You must install the program SHARE.EXE before starting those programs. To install the program SHARE.EXE, you have to read the documentation related to the DOS Operating System." As "root", I do not have such a message and the program runs fine. How can I do to make it run for someone else than "root" ? Thanks. Francois
Re: [newbie] windows porting question
Have a look at wine. It lets you run windows programs with varying success under Linux. Ultimately you can try VMWare. This will cost you an arm and a leg though. Cheers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few programs that are windows based that I wish to run in linux. Is there any easy way to run them in or port them over to linux. Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com -- Francois Swanepoel AIX, HACMP and ADSM System Administrator Tel: +2673616961 Fax: +267304144
Re: [newbie] hdd space
man df or If you have KDE installed kfsstatus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I get the amount of hdd spaced used and how much is left on my machine(multiple hdd's) Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com -- Francois Swanepoel AIX, HACMP and ADSM System Administrator Tel: +2673616961 Fax: +267304144
[newbie] ncftpget firewall problem
Hi I am using Mandrake 7.1 and ncftp-3.0.1-2mdk. When accessing external web sites we need to go through a firewall requiring authentication. I have set up the ~/.ncftp/firewall file and using ncftp works fine. However when using ncftpget it does not seem to use this file at all and fails with the following error message: [.ncftp]$ ncftpget ftp.wustl.edu /pub/README ftp.wustl.edu: unknown host. ncftpget: cannot open ftp.wustl.edu: unknown host. Below is the output from using ncftp command. [.ncftp]$ ncftp ftp.wustl.edu NcFTP 3.0.1 (March 27, 2000) by Mike Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Connecting to ftp.wustl.edu via 172.17.1.1... Proxy first requires authentication ccbux003.gov.bw FTP proxy (Version 4.1) ready. Logging in... Welcome to wuarchive.wustl.edu Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. Logged in to ftp.wustl.edu. ncftp / I have read the man pages and searched the net, but no luck. Am I missing some config setting or does ncftpget not work through firewalls? Thanks -- Francois Swanepoel AIX, HACMP and ADSM System Administrator Tel: +2673616961 Fax: +267304144
Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]
I use a PIII 500 with 64Mb of RAM. Starting up SO does take some time, but I can handle that. The problem is trying to do anything else on your computer, e.g.. use Netscape. Once you change applications your disk starts swapping and never stops. I use VMware and Win95 with Office97. This uses less memory and is 'quicker' than using Staroffice. Maybe I should buy some more RAM and give Staroffice another go. Cheers Francs "Austin L. Denyer" wrote: All this about Star Office got me curious, so I timed it: System: AMD K6-3, 400 Asus p5A-b RAM = 192 (64 + 128 ) HDA = WD 13.6GB HDB = WD 30.7GB SWAP = 128mb OS = SUSE 6.4 - "Practically Everything" option (HDA is almost full) So, from starting to move the cursor to the KDE panel icon to Star Office fully up was: 20.3 seconds. Still, I firmly believe in one fundamental law of computing: There's no such a thing as too much hard drive space or too much RAM. I would give you exact times for mine, but I recently re-installed Linux and have not bothered to re-install StarOffice. I do remember from previous timings that from clicking on the icon to being able to use it was 3 or 4 minutes. It took 60 seconds just to get the splash screen... Regards, Ozz. -- Francois Swanepoel AIX, HACMP and ADSM System Administrator Tel: +2673616961 Fax: +267304144
[newbie] in second stage install problem
Hello there, I try to install Madrake 7.0 on my P100 32Mb Ram. Seems to start ok but then I have this message: message begin in second stage install _X11ransSocketUnixConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11ransSocketUnixConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Sun Apr 16 15:04:05 2000 Gtk - WARNING: Cannot open display :0 at /usr/bin/per l-install/my_gtk.pm line 139 install exited abnormally Sending termination signals ... done Sending kill signals ... done unmounting filesystems ... /tmp/rhimg /proc You may safely reboot your system. message end So what' s wrong ? Is this a video card problem ? (Ati xpert 8Mb PCI) or a monitor problem (AOC 4N) ? Have a good day Francois
[newbie] SCSI hidding some EIDE66 drives
I have a ABIT BP6 motherboard with 2 ATA33 controlers (unused except a DVD drive) and 2 ATA66 controlers (each with a large disk) (these 2 extra controlers are handled by a hpt366 chipset) I installed Mandrake70gpl without any problems (as far as I could see :-)) in addition to a win98 system. And I was very happy to be able to use Gimp. This weekend I added a scsi card (2930cu) for a CDwriter and external disk. Linux does not work any longer! It sees my DVD drive (EIDE1) and CDwriter (SCSI) and external disk (when present) - no problem with the scsi card - but not the EIDE3 4 (where it is installed). When trying reinstalling it, it offers to see additional SCSI cards, I tried (as on Win98 the hpt366 is seen as a pseudo scsi controler), it can see the chipset but in the list of scsi card to be selected, of course it doesn't appear! I am stuck dead! All suggestion welcome, thanks in advance Francois
[newbie] Re(2): newbie SCSI hidding some EIDE66 drives
Should I mentionned that with win98 I have no problems at all, I can see all my peripherals so I am not that encline to change interrupts just for Linux sake... BTW my computer is not hanging at all, it just doesnt see the extra EIDE66 drives from linux. It really looks like once it has seen that there is SCSI it does not go futher to look for something else not basic EIDE. Thanks anyway for these first comments Francois
[newbie] Display - Gtk warning
Hi, When I want to run a program, this is the warning message I've (and of course, the program doesn't fire up) : Gtk-WARNING ** : cannot open display. I have a Matrox Millenium II, and have no problem when running Xwindow. What do I have to do to make it works ? Thanks. Francois
[newbie] JDK and Java
Hi, I've just discovered Linux and installed Mandrake 6.1 (Helios). I have to run a java program that needs the JDK I downloaded the jdk_1.1.7-v1a-glibc-x86.tar.gz and it gave me the folowing error when I tried to run simply "./java" /usr/local/jdk117_v1a/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java : error in loading shared libraries : ./../lib/i686/green_threads/libjava.so : undefined symbol : _dl_symbol_value Yesterday I tried to find another jdk package, and I spent one hour and an half to dowload it :-(. It was jdk-117_v1a-2.i386.rpm, but it failed the same way as the previous one ;-(( Does someone can help me ? Thanks in advance. Francois
