Re: [newbie] ATA drives in A7N8X deluxe with mdk 9.1

2003-09-29 Thread Graham Banks
L.V.Gandhi wrote:

I have some more questions on this A7N8X deluxe MB.

I get this from dmesg 

1)spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
most probably for parallel port. I couldn't get parport in lsmod. What to do?
2)my hdds has been recognised as ATA 100 ie udma 5 drives with my old MB 
intel815 chipset. Even with this MB, knoppix shows as udma5. What is stopping 
in mdk 9.1 from showing them as udma 5. in dmesg, I get line as
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
I have put in lilo.conf, append as below
append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi idebus=100 acpi=off quiet
did /sbin/lilo -v.
Still I get udma 2 only.
What to do?

I found that I had to install the Nvidia chipset driver - Linux nForce 
Driver Version: 1.0-0261
to get higher than udma2 for my Maxtor ATA133 hard drive

HTH

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Re: [newbie] ATA drives in A7N8X deluxe with mdk 9.1

2003-09-28 Thread Graham Banks
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
I have provisions for 2 SATA drives. Even BIOS checks for that while POST. But 
mdk 9.1 while booting checks for hde and hdf for quit considerable time. with 
fb mode it looks as if it hangs. This happens now after reinstallation of 
mdk9.1 yesterday. Before that it didn't happen like that. I would like to 
avoid that. Any solution is appreciated.
I have the same motherboard and as I don't have any SATA drrives I was 
able to get
around the consderable boot time by changing the jumper pin on the 
motherboard to
disable the SATA controller. Boot up time has been reduced significantly.

HTH

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Re: [newbie] Nvidia Tweak Utility

2003-09-28 Thread Graham Banks
Richard Hackwith wrote:
I remember seeing something once about a utility program for adjusting
nvidia cards, but can't remember the name.  Can anyone remember, and
know where to find it?
yanc

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Re: [newbie] Trolltech (was opera)

2003-09-01 Thread Graham Banks
Bryan Phinney wrote:

This kind of knee-jerk reaction can do irreparable 
harm to members of the open-source community and if you want to convince 
developers, businesses, etc. that open source is a bad investment and will 
cause them greater harm than sticking with the traditional proprietary model, 
I can't think of a better way to demonstrate it than to start some knee-jerk 
reactions to rumors about ownership.

At the end of the day, we need to judge a company and organization based upon 
its actions, and spreading rumors, calling for negative actions is simply 
playing right into the FUD covered hands of those who would like nothing 
better than to see the open source community cannibalize itself.

SCO is a very poor threat to Linux currently, but our own community is a much 
greater one due to this type of reaction.

snip
Well said, I agree wholeheartedly.
I think that we as a community need to consider the overall scenario and 
not
get over-emotional or over-react. The facts speak for themselves - no 
need to cut off
your arm just because you injure your finger.

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Re: [newbie] Lost New Mozilla

2003-09-01 Thread Graham Banks
snip
Margot wrote:

I finally took the plunge this morning and upgraded from the Mozilla 
1.1 that came with my Mandrake 9.0 to the Mozilla 1.4.

I downloaded it, unzipped it, untarred it and installed it following 
the instructions it came with - and now I can't find it!

For the 1.1, I had some desktop icons that I'd dragged from the K menu.

The icons are still on the desktop, and still bring up 1.1.

The K menu still brings up 1.1.

The only way I can access 1.4 is by going to a Konsole, doing cd 
/usr/local/mozilla, then doing ./mozilla.

How do I get the new version on to the K menu?

Margot


MCC - System - Menudrake - system menu configure -Networking -
either mail, chat, news , www, whaterver and change the path to the app.
snip
Whenever I install a new version of mozilla I creat a link to the app on 
the desktop.
Then when everything is ok and running smoothly I create a symlink in 
/usr/bin to
the executable in /usr/local/mozilla(-version) that way the K menu entry 
will work.
HTH

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Re: [newbie] nvidia chipset in ASUS A7N8X deluxe motherboard- soundnvidia.o

2003-08-28 Thread Graham Banks
Frans Ketelaars wrote:
snip
On Monday 25 August 2003 04:04, L.V.Gandhi wrote:

I have the above motherboard. mdk stock kernel drivers were working
ok. However I installed
NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.mdk91up_2.4.21_0.13.athlon.rpm
obtained from nvidia site.
The kernel says: Loading sound module (i810_audio) succeeded.


I suggest changing i810_audio to nvaudio.
snip

I have the same motherboard and changing i810_audio to nvaudio worked 
just great
HTH

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Re: [newbie] Paraniod - start worrying

2003-08-28 Thread Graham Banks
Todd Slater wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:35:34PM -0400, Todd Slater wrote:

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:26:17PM -0500, Dennis Myers wrote:

horse to water... Anyone seen any other indications that somebody 
thinks one of the virus or worms was getting into linux?
Wasn't there a worm recently that exploited mySQL?

Todd


This is what I was thinking of:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.slapper.worm.html




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wot only 3,500+ *nix boxes out of 20+ million!

how many million win$ux boxes are affected by the myriad of nasties
daily encountered when you run the demon OS?
Peleeease!

I am constantly asked to help people rid their Redmond based
evil-OS systems of trojans/worms/virii and spyware.
I, like many other responsible nix users, run a firewall, update 
regularly to
prevent intrusions and maintain the security of my *nix boxes and run a
virus checker to make sure I don't pass on any win$ux nasties to other 
win$ux
users I correspond with.

I have been running *nix systems for 2 years now and never have I been 
unable
to use my systems because of trojans/worms/virii and spyware problems.

My house recently became an MS OS free site with 3 boxes running Mdk9.1
and 1 box running MDK9.2 cooker.
Shite!! that means I  owe SCO heaps of pesos! LAUGH LAUGH LAUGH
(which they can claim from my estate - behind all of my other creditors).
In the last week there are now 3 more *nix converts in my circle of 
aquaintences
who are amazed that they no longer have continual problems with 
intrusions to their
boxes.

- vive la penguinistas!!

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Re: [newbie] Twinview and output to TV

2003-08-21 Thread Graham Banks
HaywireMac wrote:
Hey y'all,

I used yanc to configure X to enable output to TV as secondary device,
but now how do I actually get movies to play out to the TV, say through
mplayer?


snip

I have a GF4Ti4600 and have managed to get xine to output to My Samsung TV
via the svideo connection. I haven't had time to play with the settings 
any further
but if you like I can send you a copy of the XF86Config-4 file that 
allows me to
watch DVDs from my mdk box on the widescreen tv. May need a little work but
I'm enjoying watching my dvd collection thru nix too much to play with 
the settings
any more at the moment.

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Re: [newbie] CUPS and OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Banks
Miark wrote:

How do I get CUPS to work with OOo?

Miark
I set the OOo print command to kprinter and let KDE print manager
handle things. works very well for me with a Kyocera-Mita FS1000 and
an Epson Stylus Photo 830.
HTH
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Re: [newbie] CUPS and OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Banks
Miark wrote:
And how did you set it? spadmin is the only tool I see, and it doesn't
look like it can do this.


I set the OOo print command to kprinter and let KDE print manager
handle things. works very well for me with a Kyocera-Mita FS1000 and
an Epson Stylus Photo 830.

I used spadmin to create a new printer and entered kprinter as the 
print command,
then set the new printer as default.
Works like a charm in OO-1.03 and OO- 1.1 rc2.
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Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake

2003-08-10 Thread Graham Banks
The scumbags at SCO will need more than that by the time IBM finishes 
with them...

IBM have filed a counter suit with an interesting twist thrown in by 
Novell -

http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5060965.html

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Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-29 Thread Graham Banks
Aron Smith wrote:
On Monday 28 July 2003 04:50 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:20, Aron Smith wrote:

On Monday 28 July 2003 03:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:58, Eric Huff wrote:

BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll
; 
Shrimp is stephen's pet name for ken.
BTW, in relearning English - we don't say shrimp here - it's
prawns
Went to a seafood resturant in Cupertino they had Tiger Prawns they
brought me 4 shrimp I thought it was the appitizer It was the prawns
(so-called)
What y'all need to see are Balmain Bugs; makes ya rethink eating
shellfish. We do have some prawns here that are the size of bloody small
lobsters...fantastic eating...
**Butterfly Cook under  Broiler with garlic and butter sauce --I'll take 2

Cooked in a light beer batter and served with a chilli/plum sauce!

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Re: [newbie] Recommended A4 Scanners for MDK91?

2003-07-18 Thread Graham Banks
Douglas Bainbridge wrote:
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 21:23, John Richard Smith wrote:
snip
To that end my epson perfection 2400 phot is excellent.

John
My Epson Perfection 1260 was detected by mdk9.1 install and has worked
without a single problem.
When I used to run winblow$ I had problems with the install and 
configuration
of the scanning software but NOT with mdk.
I also have an Epson Stylus Photo830 (usb), and Kyocra FS1000+(lp0) 
printer(s)
with which I have not had a single problem.

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Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4

2003-07-09 Thread Graham Banks
Mike Larson wrote:
snip
Anyone know of a Mandrake RPM for Java 1.4.2 (I think that is the 
version needed for Moz 1.4)?

Mike

snip

I've downloaded and installed sun's java 1.4.2 and it works great with
the mozilla-1.4 tarball install.
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[newbie] Window$ free -follow -up

2003-07-04 Thread Graham Banks
In my last post I referred to convincing the g/f to abandon window$ in 
favour
of Mandrake 9.1...
Just deleted win2K from her machine and now my home is totally free from 
the
o/s from the darkside! WOO HOO! it feels great to a be totally 
GNU/LINUX -
4 computers and not a copy of window$ anywhere.

Ain't it grand...

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Re: [newbie] acroread won't print

2003-07-03 Thread Graham Banks
Sharrea wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 17:52, Eric Huff wrote:

Anyone know why i wouldn't be able to get acroread to print?

Other programs print the same files with the same command. /usr/bin/lp,
lpr, etc.
snip

If you use KDE and can print without any problems from kprinter, you can 
change the print command in acroread to kprinter (without the quotes of 
course) and see if it will print from there.  Also, if you're printing from 
a machine on a lan, when the kprinter dialog box opens make sure it is 
connected to the server where it says Connected to: xxx.xxx.x.x.

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My system prints well with the acroeaed printer command set to kprinter

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Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-30 Thread Graham Banks
John wrote:
Snip
I'm not really sure , but we have been told here on newbie that once one 
install of M9.1 is completed on the second more options are available

Snip John

On one of my systems I have mdk9.1 with kernel 2.4.21-0.18 which I have 
played around with
for a couple of months getting things right. I decided to try dual 
booting with the same os so
that I can optimise my system with what I have learned. (I ended up with 
a lot of crap from my
efforts...as is sometimes the case when learning)
Yesterday I took a deep beath and installed a vanilla mdk9.1 on a spare 
partition and voila when it
came to load lilo the option was there to skip the bootloader 
installation. I installed with the existing
/boot partition then edited lilo.conf from my existing 2.4.21-0.18 
install to point to the partition containing
the new vanilla 2.4.21-0.13 installation - reran lilo as root - rebooted 
and was able to select from either
version of the kernel. The only thing I had to do was reinstall the 
nvidia drivers for the new kernel and
edit the XF86Config-4 accordingly.
I did it mainly as an exercise to familiarise myself with the process 
for the upcoming 9.2 release and now
feel confident enough to eventually install mdk9.2 (when released) with 
mdk9.1 on the same drive in one computer.

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Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Graham Banks
Dennis Myers wrote:
I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the 
message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM.  Message is ;  A:  drive 
error  F1 to continue .   I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and 
hdc are there and both cdrw and cdrom work. I am puzzled about what drive is 
in error. Any one seen this before? Advice? Guesses for grabs.
I had that error come up last week after installing a new CDRW on my 
A7N8X mobo,
turned out I had dislodged the floppy drive cable and when I reconnected 
it the
boot up message disappeared.
HTH

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Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-22 Thread Graham Banks
FemmeFatale wrote:
snip
Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different 
busses.. or IDE connectors.

so for me:

Primary HDD  DVD ROM are on IDE1 ( i don't copy back  forth tween 
those... so no need to split them up)
Secondary CD R/W  HDD are on IDE2 (I DO Copy from HDD 1 (Primary) to my 
CD Writer...alot.  Splitting them up allows faster transfer of data 
because they are not waiting for one another on teh same IDE Port/bus.  
This way they can transfer  don't need to wait for one another to 
finish unloading off the same Bus.)
snip

Something to consider - and I may be wrong (I often am!) but I was 
having trouble with the
transfer speed on my shiny new ata133 hard drive a while back when it 
was connected as
master, and the dvd as slave, on the primary IDE cable.

I can't remember exactly where I read it - as it was some time ago - 
that if you connect
two drives to the same cable then both drives will be limited by the 
transfer capabilities
of the slower drive, eg master=udma5 - slave=udma2 then both drives will 
behave as
though they were udma2.

When I put my dvd drive as slave to my cdrw drive master on the second 
ide channel I got an
incredible improvement in transfer rates for my hard disk.

This may or may not be relevant but I just thought to comment on this 
for consideration and/or
comment from the more learned folks on the list. I like to learn and 
appreciate info from others.

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Re: [newbie] Install - no sledge....CD Drive is.....

2003-06-16 Thread Graham Banks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Philips Model # CDD4801/81

i'm giong to check the list myself to see if it's listed or not, and if 
someone beats me to it or knows for certain, please let me know.  
thanks!
I had a similar problem when downloading an iso on a friends W98SE 
machine, the iso for Morphix was saved with an added pdf (?) extension. 
(eg; Morphid-x.iso.pdf) His new Samsung CDRW/DVD drive was 
not compatible with NTI CD. The solution was to remove the .pdf 
extension and make sure the file name was correct and then use Nero to 
create the bootable CD. For some reason winblows adds strange extensions 
to d/loads if the extension of the downloaded file is not in the 
winblows registry as a valid extension. This confused the hell out of my 
friend but he now knows why some of his downloaded winblow$ files try to 
open with acrobat.

HTH

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Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-28 Thread Graham Banks
snip
FemmeFatale wrote:
IF he wants partition hiding  all the fun  usefulness of running 
DOS/Win98/XP/Linux/another Linux Distro all at once, Use XOSL  say 
fuck LILO.  Cause frankly, it sucks for this kind of thing.

How do I know?  There was an article about it in Maximumpc about a guy 
who runs 32 (!) OSes.  He uses XOSL.  Nothing else works.  So...take his 
lead.
The great thing about GNU/Linux systems is choice... there are many ways 
to do
what you want to do - if it don't break your setup, or how YOU want to 
do things - then
no problems! When you start to mix things up eg; operating systems - 
multiple versions
of different operating systems -  with expectations about how things 
SHOULD be then
I certainly don't have any definitive answersHell I'm still a newbie 
who lurks and LEARNS
and posts about something when I know for certain that it works for me 
and how I want to do it.
If the way I have my setup is broke, . then I'll leave it broke 'cause 
somehow it works for me.

Tom, Joe, Stephen (your advice/recommendations are second only to your 
incredible SOH,)
Anne, Femme - with the pink hair... (and all you guys - to numerous to 
mention individually -
who make this list what it is) keep up the great work.

When the reference is made to the Mandrake Community,  it is people 
like you
who make it so.

I have worked for about seven years in my local neighbourhood for a 
community organisation
and we have a saying...If you want a Community, you don't have to give 
freely to to make
your community what you want it to be .

I find myself reading articles where now, I feel I know a response may 
be appropriate and I
feeling confident that I can respond without fear of ridicule. That I 
can post a response that
answers a request, or elicits debate is something that makes me feel 
empowered.

I run GNU/Linux by chioce, and Mandrake is my preference and knowing 
that you guys are
using/learning/living and sharing your knowledge/experience here on this 
list is something
I look forward to daily.

I'm proud to use Mandrake and thankful to benefit from being a member of 
this list.

A big thankyou to you all

Regards

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Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-28 Thread Graham Banks
Graham Banks wrote:
snip
FemmeFatale wrote:
IF he wants partition hiding  all the fun  usefulness of running 
DOS/Win98/XP/Linux/another Linux Distro all at once, Use XOSL  say 
fuck LILO.  Cause frankly, it sucks for this kind of thing.

How do I know?  There was an article about it in Maximumpc about a guy 
who runs 32 (!) OSes.  He uses XOSL.  Nothing else works.  So...take 
his lead.


The great thing about GNU/Linux systems is choice... there are many ways 
to do
what you want to do - if it don't break your setup, or how YOU want to 
do things - then
no problems! When you start to mix things up eg; operating systems - 
multiple versions
of different operating systems -  with expectations about how things 
SHOULD be then
I certainly don't have any definitive answersHell I'm still a newbie 
who lurks and LEARNS
and posts about something when I know for certain that it works for me 
and how I want to do it.
If the way I have my setup is broke, . then I'll leave it broke 'cause 
somehow it works for me.

Tom, Joe, Stephen (your advice/recommendations are second only to your 
incredible SOH,)
Anne, Femme - with the pink hair... (and all you guys - to numerous to 
mention individually -
who make this list what it is) keep up the great work.

When the reference is made to the Mandrake Community,  it is people 
like you
who make it so.
Whoopscorrection - that should be If you want a Community, you have
to give freely to to make your community what you want it to be .
Graham
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Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2003-03-11 Thread Graham Banks
Stephen Kuhn wrote:

SNIP

Ok - so now I've installed MDK 9.1rc2 -
installation of EVERYTHING (and some) was less than an hour. Even setup
my / and other FS's as ReiserFS without a hitch. 

I have to say that KDE 3.1 is a beaut. MDK 9.1 has quite a bit of
polish, quite a bit of performance... BUT, I'm happy it's
working like a champ (performance is still mind boggling for me...really
- not a joke)
SNIP

Sorry to hear about your woes Stephen... haven't we all had similar 
experiences.
I'm currently battling with setting up the firewall now that my home 
network is up and running - had it nearly right (almost) .. but that's 
half the fun of it.

It's been a lot easier for me with the things I've learned from the 
advice given by yourself and others on this list.  Big thankyou to you all.

As soon as 9.1 final is out I'll get the disks off to you so you can 
revel in your new found performance gain

keep up the good work

Graham






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