Re: [newbie] 9.1 problems
---Original Message--- From: Colin Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04/02/03 04:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 9.1 problems Just finished a clean install of mdk9.1 and have a few problems. 1. if I run harddrake from the menu or run command, logdrake runs instead. (logdrake also runs when I run logdrake) 2.no sound. sis7012 pci worked out of the box with 9.0, but not with 9.1. tried changing driver, but that killed kde and I had to reinstall. any ideas? The more times you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets. Don't know about your harddrake problem, but if you are running KDE, the volume is turned down in aumix and kmix. Go to the KMenu, then multimedia, then sound, then aumix (I think that's what it's called, I'm not on a Linux box right now). IIRC, you have to click the volume on and then adjust the slider. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RC2 and PRINTERS
Have you posted this on bugzilla (qa.mandrakesoft.com) or the cooker list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so the developers will see it? Joeb ---Original Message--- From: Bela Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03/07/03 12:02 PM To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RC2 and PRINTERS Hi, RC2 looks really good overall, but can't get printers work. I have remote CUPS printers recognized, but in fact doesn't work. In MCC PRINTERDRAKE lists all but double clicking on a printer returns to MCC only, closing PRINTERDRAKE. Is it possible to get printers work? regards... Bela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Stuck with PCTel Modem Driver
You should not need to download anything to compile the PCTel driver. Everything is on your installation CDs for Mandrake (I know, because I recompile this all the time). You definately do not need to compile a new kernel, nor do you want to download a different kernel source as some have suggested. I've compiled this driver with versions 8.0 through 9.1RC1 of Mandrake (although the 9.1 betas and RC1 needed some tweaking of the script to get it to work). I'm not at my linux box right now, but will be this this evening.But I can check then on my notes as to anything special I had to do. Almost always, with Mandrake, the error you are getting means that the actual kernel sources were not installed (or installed correctly). What version of Mandrake are you running and what package did you install for the kernel sources (and did you change the name of the install directory)? Joeb ---Original Message--- From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02/19/03 07:44 PM To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Stuck with PCTel Modem Driver My Toshiba laptop comes with a Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Modem (rev 05) that I am trying to setup for the first time. After googling around I found that the PCTel driver (version 0.9.5 and up) supports this modem. I downloaded version 0.9.6 and tried to build the module using ./configure --with-hal=i8xx as directed by the INSTALL file. However, ./configure complains with: configure: error: modversions.h is missing - you should configure your kernel first! They recommend to install kernel sources to solve this problem but I already have installed them. The other ugly solution (as they called it) is to touch /usr/src/linux/include/modversions.h. This one didn't work. Has somebody had this sort of problem? Any information on how to solve this problem will be truly welcome. -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] modprob
after adding the lines to your /etc/modules.conf, did you run a depmod -a command? That tells the system reload what's in modules.conf (well, not exactly, but for all practical purposes, it does). Joeb ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02/04/03 06:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] modprob I've read somewhere that i must add the lines options scanner vendor=0x04a9 product=0x2206 (with the apropriate vendor and product id for my scanner) and pre-install usb-uhci modprobe scanner to /etc/modules.conf and the appropriate device driver will automatically be loaded when the machine boots. I thought that i was doing this right, but...it seems that i'm doing something wrong somewhere.. BTW, i have an epson 1250 photo and i'm using iscan TIA for any help Filipe Dinis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: Re: [newbie] modprob
---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02/04/03 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] modprob Hi Filipe. I have not come across this before. I used my Epson 1650 with iscan under 8.2, and use it with the supplied drivers under 9.0. I did not have to set up any extra parameters. Make sure your scanner is on, then start up MCC. Go to Hardware. Ignore the Scanners icon, that seems to be for setting one up manually, and you shouldn't need to do that. Look at Hardware List. Is your scanner recognised? If so, it should work. How are you trying to use it? You can scan from XSane, but I prefer to scan from Gimp. It's up to you. Let us know how you get on. Anne My scanner is not supported be sane (mine is an epson 1250 photo usb). I can only use it with Iscan, but everytime i want to use it i must modprob... beforei launch Iscan. I want to know how can mdk recognize it at boot. I've seen that it can be done. thanks Filipe Dinis Are you sure it's not supported? I went to the sane homepage (www.mostang.com/sane and did a search and it says that both the Epson 1250 and 1250 Photo are supported with the plustek backend. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Influence and help LM91 NOW
---Original Message--- From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01/10/03 01:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Influence and help LM91 NOW OK, so what mirrors are showing 9.1 cooker? Actually, they are updated on Mandrake's normal download page with a link for something like Mandrake Linux 9.1 Beta. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] PC Chips 810LR motherboard results
ECS sold a K7SEM combo board with attached CPU that stated it was a 1200, but as you point out really wasn't. This board is still available at very low price but is not even fully compatible with the true K7SEM board (bios issues). You can easily tell this board because it doesn't have an PCI slots and the color of the board is red! I was not aware of PC Chips selling such a creature. The MB and CPU I ordered from EconPC were ordered together, but weren't a combo. The CPU is an actual boxed set Duron 1200, so unless AMD has started to ship and label them otherwise, I'm pretty sure it is a true 1200 (note, there was a design change in Durons greater than 1Ghz that vastly improves performance). The MB takes Duron through XP CPUs, so I don't think it's overclocking a slower chip to make up the speed difference. My understanding of the ECS board was that it was a custom configuration for a low end OEM. What is now available through the supply chain is over stock (these are the very, very low price ECS/Duron 1200 combos on PriceWatch). Again, the easiest way to tell is to ask if there are PCI slots and if the board is red (or can the CPU be replaced). If the answers are no, yes and no, then it is the suspect board. I always buy from a reputable dealer and make sure I know what I'm getting (and it's returnable) before ordering. Thanks for the info, though. Joeb ---Original Message--- From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/30/02 01:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] PC Chips 810LR motherboard results On December 29, 2002 07:11 pm, Joeb wrote: snip In short, I would like to say that if you are looking for a low-cost system board/cpu and don't require a lot of expansion slots, you may want to check out the PC Chips 810LR. Joeb Joe; I've had a few run-ins with a local shop regarding this SIS730 chip-set motherboard and a Duron 1200+ or Duron 1200 Pro label. What I found was a bit aggravating. It also reaffirmed my personal conviction never to own anything by ECS or PC Chips. YMMV. Background; A friend was also in upgrade mode; but being on a fixed (low) income he bought the parts he could afford, then called me to help him make a computer out of it. The motherboard is an ECS K7SEM, it uses the same chip-set and 'advertising philosophy' that PC Chips uses on labelling. The upshot of the whole thing was that what he thought was a Duron 1200 was actually a Duron 850 running the default core clock timing but a slightly faster bus speed for an actual clock speed of 892 MHz. This pissed me (and him I suppose) off so I did some checking. Both ECS and PC Chips were doing this until (maybe still are) recently and it ain't right IMHO. From ECS Support in reference to my queries: The BIOS posted on the ECS web site shows the real CPU ID which is a Duron/850MHZ, you need to contact your vendor regarding the old BIOS because they might have modified it showing the performance rating of 1200 instead of the real CPU ID. The BIOS release date: 2002/08/01 will give you an option to select the CPU speed but since the Duron CPU is 200MHZ base, you need to setup the CPU clock to 100 not 133. From AMD re.: my queries: Hello, Thank you for contacting AMD. Yes, AMD is aware of ECS, and PC Chips bundling Duron 850's with these boards and listing them as 1200's. Please not that the Model #ing methodology was not intended to be applied to the Duron processors. We are currently looking into the issue. However, at this point your concern would be best aimed at ECS, for clarification on why they are misleading their customers. Please stay posted to our website for the latest information. Regards, Ryan Gardner CPU Specialist AMD TSC So I guess my question is did they get you too? Did you actually get what was advertised or is it a performance rated CPU? Don't misinterpret what I've been saying here please. I'm glad you have a higher performance machine now and that the transition was so smooth. An 850 Duron still cooks versus a K62 500, but I'm always a bit suspicious of budget brand hardware with delusions of performance added by advertising drones. In the market the way it stands today (or any other day) there's no reason to outright _lie_ to customers, is there? I hope you enjoy the new machine. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org We are stronger than our skin of flesh and metal, for we carry and share a spectrum of suns and lands that lends us legends as we craft our immortality and interweave our destinies of water and air, leaving shadows that gather color of their own, until they outshine the substance that cast them. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] curious
Probably because they are using Outlook and have the Request delivery receipt or read receipt box checked. I don't think that it is anything sinister. Just don't send the receipt notification. If you can identify the user, you could send them an email about it, because they probably aren't even aware it's on. Joeb ---Original Message--- From: Don and Alexa Pongracz Sent: 12/11/02 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] curious Why would a list member request a reply from my computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned off. Just a thought Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 won't work here - need help.
When you say that it requires a hard power off/on, how long have you let it wait? Couple things to check, You have a network card, right? Is it connected to a hub? If the card was configured to use DHCP to get an address and it's not connected (or there isn't a DHCP server on the network), you are going to hang until it times-out and then it will continue booting. Just a thought. As for no 3D, the 8.2 Nvidia drivers don't work with 9.0 and I don't believe new ones were available at the time the distro shipped (they're closed source, so someone couldn't just compile them). The good news is, that they are now available! Joeb ---Original Message--- From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/12/02 12:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 9.0 won't work here - need help. System - Shuttle motherboard - Athlon 900mhz CPU, 384 megs ram, 60 gig IBM Deskstar HD, Nvidia Geforce2 with 64 megs ram, SB Xgamer Live sound card, Adaptec 2930 SCSI card with SCSI Toshiba DVD/Plextor CDRW/Umax Astra 1200 Scanner, IDE Zip, WinTV tuner card, Linksys network card, external Creative modem blaster modem. 9.0 installs beautiflly, finds (almost) everything (it did not setup 3D acceleration on my Nvidia card - v8.1, and v8.2 did) configures, offers congratulations at the end before rebooting: Using a normal boot - gets to setting hostname darkforce.com stops. Requires a hard power on/off. Using the non-frame buffer boot: gets to finding module dependencies stops. Requires a hard power off/on. Version 8.2 of Mandrake was faultless on this setup. A friend of mine had been asking me to try Libranet 2.7 so since my system was bottoms up anyways, I tried it. Installed fautlessly. (well, I had to hand-edit the config files to get the modem to hook up with my provider). No other problems - in fact I'm using it to send this S.O.S.. :-) Anyone have any ideas as to what I can do? I'm using the 3 - CD download version purchased from LinuxCentral. I don't think there is anything wrong with it because I used it to install 9.0 on my 9 year olds (very basic) computer with no problems. I'll give this a couple of days - then if I can't get a resolution, I'll reinstall v8.2, which does work here... :-( Thanks everyone. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
I am not in a position to search the archives right now, but I'm assuming that if your modem is working under RH that it also is working under Mandrake, but you can't get anywhere on the internet. Is that correct? If so, I also assume that you have a network adapter installed. If so, most likely (I know, a lot of most likelies), you have a default gateway set or a dns server set (or both). With either one, Mandrake will not use your modem for your dns resolution (meaning you can't type www.xyz.com in your browser). Are those the correct assumptions? If so, that's good, because this has been discussed in the last few weeks on the list. I do not have access to my stuff right now, so I can't give you the specifics on how to fix it (although, I do recall that you must remove the GATEWAY= line from your /etc/net.conf, but there might be a second step, too). Please respond back with whether this is your situation or not. And if not, could you describe, one more time, your modem, the problem and what you have tried to fix it. Joeb ---Original Message--- From: greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/06/02 04:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] about to give up Hi, I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical ways. No internet! So annoying. Windows has no probs fully setup first time I boot in, with no further configuration, Red Hat the same, didn't have to touch a single setting to get it to work, but with Mandrake I have tried every possible combination known to me, and set everything as it should be, re-installed three times, with less and less packages installed to see if anything was interferring with the net connection, but no go. It looks like I will be getting rid of it for good, and reverting back to Red Hat, where I can at least use the system. If you don't know what problems I have had, just do a search for my posts internet problem mandrake 9 for an idea. I am about to go to work, but I think tomorrow, if nothing has come up and I still can't get it to work, that will be it. Unbelievable! thanks to those who have tried to help, but I can't take this anymore. regards Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0.5
---Original Message--- From: Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/30/02 08:57 PM To: Mandrake-Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] KDE 3.0.5 Does anyone know why there are no 3.0.5 rpms available for download from either the KDE or Mandrake ftp servers? Anthony I'm not sure about from official Mandrake RPMs, but you get use Texstar's. Go to www.pclinuxonline.com and on the left side of the page should be some links to Texstar's rpms. They work great (you might get an error about an invalid signature when trying to install them, you can ignore the error message - Texstar's stuff is valid). Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 09:53:22 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard of many having success with CF, but the only model I have heard quoted as working for SM is the Sandisk SDDR-77. I have had long conversations with Sandisk, as that model does not seem to be available here in the UK. First I was told that it was available, but then I was told that there was only one model, a CF/SM reader with a different number, that they could offer me. I'm still trying to find out if it is the same one, renamed. Anyone with any experience of working SM readers in UK? John and I are still looking for one. Anne Anne, I've had just the opposite experience. Most SmartMedia readers work fine, but CompactFlash can be problematic, and I'm only aware of one combo reader (CF/SM) that works under Linux (but I can't recall the brand). I don't know if you can get PNY products in the UK, but my PNY Smartreader works just fine under Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0). It is small, plain black and ugly and cost $29 (US) from Staples Office Supply. I don't know if they are in the UK, but they have a web site (www.staples.com) and I'm sure others carry the PNY brand. I'd give you the model number, but I'm not at that computer right now. If you're interested, let me know. My best recommendation, though, would to buy locally from a vendor who allows returns. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] galeon and mozilla not starting
---Original Message--- From: L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/12/02 07:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] galeon and mozilla not starting I am having mdk 9.0. Yesterday when I was downloading some file from sourceforge.net galeon crashed. Today i couldn't start galeon. I tried mozilla also. It also didn't start. Then i erased .galeon files and still no use. I rpm -e all mozilla and galeon rpms and reinstalled. Still galeon is not starting. Error is as follows even if I start in a console. [lvgandhi@localhost .galeon]$ galeon ** ERROR **: First `engine' section must include a `stock' section. aborting... Aborted for mozilla it simply says aborted. Is there any way to make them work? -- I had a similiar situation with Mozilla, where it would appear to start but then exited without any error messages. On of the files was corrupted under .mozilla/xyz (where xyz is the funcky directory Mozilla creates for your profile). Unfortunately, I don't recall which one it was but found it by trial and error (renaming them one at a time). A much easier way would be to create a new profile or rename .mozilla to something else and restart Mozilla and it will automatically create the new profile. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] location of netscape/mozilla mail, address, bookmark files
---Original Message--- From: Chris Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/12/02 09:35 PM To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] location of netscape/mozilla mail, address, bookmark files I just installed mozilla after having used netscape 7. I would like to uninstall/delete Netscape but want to ensure I don't delete my settings, bookmarks, address contacts, mail, mail settings. Where would these be kept? /usr/local/netscape and /usr/local/mozilla? Any suggestions? i686, Mandrake 9.0 -- Chris Edwards Send email for alternate contact information email | aim | icq | postal | cell | phone Usually Netscape settings, etc. are located in your home directory in a directory named .netscape (and Mozilla's are in .mozilla). Your mail folder would be there, too, unless you told it to put it somewhere else. To be safe, you can rename the .netscape (mv .netscape .netscape-old) and then start Mozilla and see if things still work and you have the bookmarks and mail folders you expect. If so, then you can delete the .netscape-old. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
