Re: [newbie] compiling kwintv
the file itself should be in /usr/lib, make sure that you also have kdesupport-devel rpm loaded. It may be looking for a specific header file or something. -- Original Message -- From: Ashley Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:16:59 +0300 I'm trying to get bttv to work on my LM 7.1 installation. I have all the required modules and they load correctly. Then I got my hands on the 'kwintv-xx.tar.gz' and expanded it. When I run ./configure from within the kwintv directory, a lot of check scroll up quickly till 'checking for jpeglib6a. Please install the kdesupport package If you already installed kdesupport, you may have an old libjpeg somewhere' I have the kdesupport package installed. Where can I find this file 'libjpeg' or am I supposed to get something else confiured before trying to complie the kwintv package Ashley Moore.
Re: [newbie] Advice on Library Versioning in Linux
I don't know about other unices but in Linux that is the way Library stuff works. You usually have one actual file libGL.so.1.2.3 then you have libGL.so and whatever other version links you need as sym links to libGL.so.1.2.3. It seems rather silly to have version links I agree as libGL.so will always point to the the most recent library and 90% of the time that is the version you want. Anyway your correct that is how it goes. John -- Original Message -- From: Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:39:54 -0400 I think you're asking on the wrong list. Try the "expert" list. Probably most of the folks reading here do not even understand the first of your questions! (I speak for myself, of coourse.) --doug At 11:48 AM 10/25/2000 +0100, you wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux but I cut my teeth on SVR4 so I'm pretty familiar with Unix like systems; but I'm stumped on this one. I'm trying to build a program that uses the mesa3d libs the package (freedraft-0.38) uses the standard GNU configuration tools which are normally very effective. In this case however it is not finding the requisite libraries even though they exist. The problem seems to be due to library versioning I can make the configure scripts work by symbolically linking (for example) libGLU.so.1 to libGLU.so but this seems to me to be wrong in that I shouldn't have to do this if library versioning is working properly. I have run ldconfig as well as checking that /etc/ld.conf.so contains an entry for the path where the libraries are stored all to no avail. Can anyone help here??? I also have a minor configuation query. When working on SVR4 it was possible to run man on the console and then press the DEL key to kill it and get back to the command promt without the screen being cleared. This was very conveniant because the remnants of the manual page were left displayed thus making typeing the syntax of an unfamiliar command less of a memory feat. I can do this in any of the terminal windows supplied. As soon as I press q to get out of less the screen is cleared. I would like to change this behaviour but I don't know whether it is a function of man less or the terminal app. Any ideas??? Regards, Colin H. Close [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] This is *REALLY* friggin stupid!
Use the 1.1.1 version from sourceforge of the aureal drivers. The BofH drivers were merged with the ManMower drivers to produce version 1.1.1. The work for me with a TB A3dExstream. based on the AU8820 chip. KDE 2.0 system sounds only work for about 30 seconds though. When you use this driver you have to compile sound support only into to kernel not as a module and make sure nothing else under sound is selectd. The 1.1.1 drivers work all the way through the latest test kernel. John -- Original Message -- From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:24:56 -0400 (EDT) Well...I've tried and tried...but No matter what I try, nor how I try it I just can't "a" kernel to compile to support this TB sound card. I've got 2.3.4 running and it does support my Creative SB. Yes, it is an old card, but that's beside the point. At this point I'm figuring on just forgetting about ever getting this thing to work. Unless of course someone has a brainstorm they'd like to try. Or there's something so fundamental, (heavy on the mental part) that I've missed. Which is of course entirely possible. There is one bright spot in all of this though. I've gotten more different kernels to compile than I ever have before and all in one week! So what if they all do the same thing! :) I guess the next challenge will be to learn how to use iptables instead of ipchains. Since they're going away and routing and filtering will be done via iptables in the near future. The learning never ends! -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 4:09pm ,Mark Weaver spake passionately in a message: John Rye wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Please check out the attached error message I recieved from the compiler when I attemtped to "follow the directions to the letter" as it were. I'm left shaking my head with only one question left to ask. -- Mark On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 7:07pm ,Erylon Hines spake passionately in a message: On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, you wrote: update on 2.3.4 -- managed to get sound working for my SB card but I still can't get anything happening with the Turtle Beach card. Anyone have any ideas? -- Mark I use a TB Montego II, and have sucessfully with the 2.2.14, 2.2.15 and 2.2.16 Kernels. I don't use the Aureal drivers, I use BOFH's tweaked drivers downloaded from here: http://www.geocities.com-bofh_666-aureal.html I/ve followed his directions to the letter and its always worked great (Clapton's turning on the CD right now). Hope this helps, eryl Name: au88xx-error-msg.txt au88xx-error-msg.txtType: Plain Text (TEXT/PLAIN) Encoding: BASE64 [root@epix au88xx-1.0.5-2.3-bpl1]# make install 10 Here it is ^^^ should have been: [root@epix au88xx-1.0.5-2.3-bpl1]# make install10 ^ Thanks, but I tried it both ways. It just seemed to stump me real good first thing this morning.
Re: [newbie] Aureal Driver problem
look in /etc/conf.modules (or modules.conf depending on version of modutils) and delete any line that has "sound" in it, then re-install the aureal drivers. It is possible that another module is loading before the aureal ones and taking the IRQ. Also try switching PCI slots. Many of your slots will share with USB,IDE etc... and while the sound card will happily share an interupt very few other things do. I've found that mine works best in PCI slot 1 just under the AGP slot. It shares with the AGP card but nothing complains. Hope this helps. John -- Original Message -- From: Eddie Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:57:50 -0500 On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, you wrote: Hi, I have a sound card driver im trying to install, a TBS Montego II. While installing the drivers a error "Device/Resource in use" comes up and interrupts the process. The installation does not complete. Im have a P3 600 with 128mb , and dual boot to Win98 and Mandrake. I checked the Aureal website and it says to disable the BIOS option "PnP OS" , i did this and it still doesn't work. If someone can help me please reply. Thanks very much.yc Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: That's not unusual, I don't know of many folks getting any of the Vortex chipset cards working under linux. What is your kernel version? BTW, there is a forum in linux.aureal.com and they should be able to help you further, if not try aureal.soundforge.net. -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA's drivers gone?
Your brother hased missed something, they are where NVidia has always had them. www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html -- Original Message -- From: "Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:05:00 -0400 My younger brother just told me that the Linux driver section from their official web site is *gone*. Is this right? Has something happened, or did my brother just miss something somewhere? I've not seen any announcements along those lines... -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Problems compiling 2.4.0
Here is how I do it: 1. su root 2. cd /usr/src 3. rm the symlink named "linux" it points to the old kernel source. 4. extract new kernel to /usr/src 5. cd /usr/src 6. mv linux linux-2.4.0-test9 7. ln -s linux-2.4.0-test9 linux 8. cd linux 9. make xconfig (configure the kernel the way I want) 10. Exit and save. 11. make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make install make modules_install 12. If you use lilo type "lilo" to make it work. If you use grub your good to go. Step 11 is all done on one line. This will setup the 2.4.0 kernel to boot by default by making /boot/vmlinuz and point to it. Depending on your requirements you will want to make changes to either /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst to add an entry for you old kernel (cut and past the current default and where it says vmlinuz put vmlinuz-2.2.7 or whatever the other kernel name is in /boot) re-run lilo if you use it and reboot. Have fun and good luck John -- Original Message -- From: Synapse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 22:50:32 -0400 (EDT) After a four month war to get linux installed and running, I found that I needed a 2.3 or higher kernel to recognize my modem. I've extracted and configured the 2.4.0-test9 kernel, and I'm now attempting to compile it. I have had to change the links in some of the included files to direct it to the correct place on the drive, as well as move a few .o files into the right places. The final error I have come to has brought me to a halt. I will save the lengthy explanation and simply show you. # make dep gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep scripts/mkdep.c /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [scripts/mkdep] Error 1 I'm new enough to the environment that I have run out of ideas. If it is relevant at all linux is currently running the 2.2.14-15mdk kernel. If there is anyone in the ocean of minds who has further ideas, I would be most grateful for any help. Thank you all for the time you have put into helping others via this list. First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant . __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] proxy setup on install of 7.1
I believe its for use if you are installing over a network or the internet itself. Its so it can connect to an outside server and download the packages. JOhn -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:41:04 +0100 Hi, My first question to the list, (probably first of many!) Installing Mandrake 7.1 x86, a question is asked about the http and ftp proxy. Which application does these setting correspond to? Which files is this information stored? It does not affect Netscape Navigator so im just wandering why? thanks Andy
Re: [newbie] OpenGL
Kind of. OpenGL is the standard and MesaGL is the open source implementation of it. For CopyWrite reasons Mesa cannot call themselves OpenGL so they are at best OpenGL "compliant". Now it is true that a true OpenGL graphics library must be based on the OpenGL "Sample Implementation" put out by SGI. The way I understand it Mesa didn't get the "SI" from SGI they simply took SGI's published standards and created Mesa from scratch to match it, that makes it "technically" legal. I also believe that the NVidia GLX drivers are true OpenGL, but I don't know for sure. Most Linux software that requires OpenGL will use the Mesa libraries. Some will use nothing but Mesa as can be shone by the fact that XMMS GL plugins will not work with my NVidia GLX drivers installed. John -- Original Message -- From: KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:16:53 -0400 I thought I answered your question in my first email Larry Hignight wrote: Well it kind of depends. OpenGL is a graphics library and I seriously doubt that there is an OpenGL rpm on your system. Try rpm -qa | grep opengl. The missing OpenGL support that the game is refering has to do with your graphics card drivers. So the question becomes what kind of graphics card are you using and does it support OpenGL. A OpenGL rpm would be something developers would use in order to create graphic images, etc. Larry -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta Tester Caldera Linux 2.4 5:10pm up 2 days, 21:06, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.12, 0.08 KompuKit wrote: I have a Pentium 233 MMX 64 mg ram a S3 video card Rev 1.0 drivers (in windows) I'm trying to install a game: Search and Rescue for Linux helicopter game that requires OpenGL... it won't compile...unless it's on my system... I have Mandrake 7.02...does this come on the CD? if so, what's the RPM called... -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit= -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] OpenGL
OpenGL, is the "Mesa" rpms. You will need to make sure you install the Mesa-devel rpm for the compile to work. They should be on the CD. -- Original Message -- From: KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:41:22 -0400 I have a Pentium 233 MMX 64 mg ram a S3 video card Rev 1.0 drivers (in windows) I'm trying to install a game: Search and Rescue for Linux helicopter game that requires OpenGL... it won't compile...unless it's on my system... I have Mandrake 7.02...does this come on the CD? if so, what's the RPM called... -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] Problems with Via Sound card 82c686 on 694D(Microstar)and LM 7.1
The only thing I can think of is to see if there is a setting in the BIOS to change your sound card IRQ. My guess it would be in the PCI section. "Device or Resource Busy" is an IRQ conflict. -- Original Message -- From: "Sounak Sinha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:14:02 -0700 Hi guys, I have been struggling to get my sound card working with Mandrake 7.1. This sound card is on board and is part of the Southbridge (Via 82c686). This particular chip is reported to be supported. What I believe is the problem is IRQ sharing. This card is sharing IRQs (IRQ 9) with the USB controller. Although there are quite a few IRQs vacant(like IRQ5), I dont know how to move the IRQ from 9 to 5 under Linux. Anyone with any help on this ? This is with stock 2.2.15 SMP kernel. Sometimes with 2.4.0test8 kernel I can get my sound card to work, but just barely. I can listen to Audio CDs. Change the volume using the mixer; but momemt I try to play a RealAudio clip, the sound gets all locked up and the first syllable keeps repeating. I also tried with the latest OSS files, after installing those(what a pain !!! told me Mandrake was not a supported kernel) I could play my audio cds fine but had problems with .ra files again. OSS actually warned me since the card was sharing IRQs there could be problems. So what is the solution here ? Can anyone help ? Anyone with any experience with the Redhat install ? Could you get sound working flawlessly ? I tried with both setting on the motherboard - Soundblaster mode on (part 1) and Soundblaster mode off (part 2). The boot.log messages from Part 1 and 2 are appended below. Any help is highly appreciated ! Thanks Sounak PART 1 === Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems succeeded Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems succeeded Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space succeeded - Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions succeeded Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx kudzu: succeeded Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o failed Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed -- Sep 20 18:29:47 xxx sysctl: error: 'net.ipv4.tcp_timestamp' is an unknown key Sep 20 18:29:47 xxx network: Setting network parameters succeeded == PART 2 === Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx kudzu: succeeded Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o failed Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed --- Sep 20 18:48:03 xxx sysctl: error: 'net.ipv4.tcp_timestamp' is an unknown key Sep 20 18:48:03 xxx network: Setting network parameters succeeded
Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager
I believe your sound problem to be an IRQ conflict. How to fix it depends on your sound card and your motherboard. First make sure your IRQ's in the computer bios are all set to auto. The turn off "plug and play OS" in the BIOS. THat is the stupidest thing in the world in first place. next. Assuming you have a PCI card try putting it in different slots. You'll find that PCI slots share IRQ's with other things in your system like USB ports and UDMA 66 controllers. YOur motherboard documentation should tell you what shares with what. Personally I've go my sound card in PCI slot 1 right next to my agp video card. That slot shares its IRQ with the AGP card but for some reason that is the only one that doesn't care. John -- Original Message -- From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:18:54 +1200 Alan Shoemaker wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Anyone, Before my computer crash 4 weeks ago I had sound working in Linux but I do not know why it worked finally. Now after my reinstall (without windows 95 this time) I am trying to set up sound and I just get error messages when I try to do it through sndconfig. I went through this exact same thing before and finally I just put in a musical CD after weeks of going through this and I had sound! Now I tried the CD but no sound. Is there anything else I can do? Yes, my card is supported and is on the list. It did work before. It says something about device resource busy. Would anyone be able to help me on this one? My other problem is- now that I finally have X going correctly( I think )I do not get the graphical login manager where you login and pick a window manager. I can only login in from the prompt with startx then I get KDE and Gnome. I would like the choice of the other window managers, also. How do I get the graphical login manager to come up? Thank you very much, Marcia Marciaas root edit your /etc/inittab file and change 3 to a 5 in the following line like this: id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: The next time you boot the system you'll come up in the gui mode and will beable to login in the gui login manager. Concerning your sound problem, try this. On your Panel (at the bottom og f the screen) there is an icon for mixer. Open it and make sure that the volume is turned up loud enough. If this doesn't help then you'll need to supply more info about your sound card. Alan Also make sure you have sound enabled within the KDE Control Centre Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And 23:59:59 ahead of most of the rest of the world
Re: [newbie] XFree86 - 4.0.1 - Cannot open fixed
Could be a couple of things. Did you install all the fonts that come with XFree86 4.01. Are you running "XFS" at startup, if no then you need to enable the font server build into 4.01. Make sure you have the fixed font package installed. -- Original Message -- From: "Adam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:25:12 -0400 XFree86 Version 4.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 1 July 2000 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.2.17-2mdkmosix i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Sep 17 13:09:50 2000 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout "layout1" (**) |--Screen "screen1" (0) (**) | |--Monitor "" (**) | |--Device "RIVA128" (**) |--Input Device "Mouse1" (**) |--Input Device "Keyboard1" (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105" (**) XKB: model: "pc105" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) XKB: layout: "us" (**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1" (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" (--) using VT number 7 (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.2 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.1 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.1 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.1 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.2 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x8058, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,7190 card , rev 02 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,7191 card , rev 02 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 8086,7110 card , rev 02 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 8086,7111 card , rev 01 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 8086,7112 card , rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 8086,7113 card , rev 02 class 06,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0a:0: chip 1102,0002 card 1102,0020 rev 04 class 04,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0a:1: chip 1102,7002 card 1102,0020 rev 01 class 09,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0b:0: chip 10ec,8139 card 1186,1300 rev 10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0c:0: chip 10de,0020 card 1102,1016 rev 03 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0d:0: chip 11ad,c115 card 11ad,c001 rev 25 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: "scanpci" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.2 (II) UnloadModule: "scanpci" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x81 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) Bus 1 I/O range: [0] -1 0xe000 - 0xefff (0x1000) IXB (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0xdf00 - 0xdfff (0x100) MXB (II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0xaff0 - 0xafff (0x10) MXB (--) PCI:*(0:12:0) NVidia Riva TNT rev 3, Mem @ 0xe800/24, 0xe900/24 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x0) MXB [1] -1 0x - 0x (0x1) IXB (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0xffe0 - 0x (0x20) MXB(B) [1] -1 0x0010 - 0x3fff (0x3ff0) MXBE(B) [2] -1 0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MXB [3] -1 0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MXB [4] -1 0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MXB [5] -1 0x - 0x01ff (0x200) IXBE (II) Active PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 0xea001000 - 0xea001fff (0x1000) MXBE [1] -1 0xea00 - 0xebff (0x200) MXBE [2] -1 0xe000 - 0x (0x2000) MXBE [3] -1 0xe900 - 0xe9ff (0x100) MXB(B) [4] -1 0xe800 - 0xe8ff (0x100) MXB(B) [5] -1 0x7400 - 0x74ff (0x100) IXBE [6] -1 0x7000 - 0x70ff (0x100) IXBE [7] -1 0x6c00 - 0x6cff (0x100) IXBE [8] -1 0x6800 - 0x68ff (0x100) IXBE [9] -1 0x6400
Re: [newbie] KDE problem
I have had similar problems in the past. Make sure that the .kderc file in your $HOME directory is owned by you and not root. For some reason mine was owned by root when I logged in the first time. -- Original Message -- From: Hellmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:46:00 +0200 Hi! I have experienced the same problem and I found out where it came from (On my machine): Every time I ran kdesu on my users desktop, I wasn't able to change the color scheme anymore. It had to with kdesu here, but I don't know which file got locked... :( -- Here is an interesting one. Whenever I try to change the colour scheme of my windows in KDE, I run into an unusual problem. The Window titlebar changes colour, but the font always remains black. The panel changes, but the taskbar doesn't. The file manager background changes, but in every application, the window itself (with the exception of the titlebar, borders) remain that drab gray colour. Every other user can customize, except for me. What do I do to change this? This is only a minor annoyance, but I wish to resolve it. Jay "Every man dies, not every man really lives." http://www.mrsnooky.com -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
Re: [newbie] More C++ problems
I would think it would be glibc-devel.whatever.rpm. If you have the "Macmillan" developer package that would explain why you don't have it. The "Mandrake Complete" from MacMillian came with 3 CD's but 90% of the *-devel*.rpm's are on the second CD from the true Mandrake 7.1 distribution but are not included in the MacMillan copy of Mandrake 7.1. I sent them an e-mail to this effect but they appear to be a "typical company" and don't care. Purhaps someone from Mandrake could ask them why they didn't distribute the entire 7.1 distribution? IN fact there aren't even enough devel rpms to allow you to rebuild the rpms from the source cd to get the rest of the devel rpms you will need. John -- Original Message -- From: "Mark Thurston" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 07:05:49 -0600 Yes, I wrote a simple "hello world" program and it would not compile because it could not find iostream.h. Mark - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 4:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] More C++ problems Mark Thurston wrote: Alright, I was finally able to install the developer version of Linux, I just used the one CD and it worked. Anyway, now I use g++ (part of the gcc) at school. What happens now is that none of the libraries are there. I checked using whereis iostream.h -- nothing. I know that I can download it from the internet, any ideas on where to find it? Is it in an RPM file or will I have to use a tar? Anyway, hopefully by tomorrow this will be solved. Thanks Mark Mark, Have you tried to compile a program with g++ yet cause attempting to locate iostream like that using whereis is not going to find the library file. Whereis doesn't work that way. It's primarily a tool for searching for and find and displaying the FS path of binarys on your system. You would have to perform a regular file search to check for iostream.h's existance. Or, you could just physically check the library yourself. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [newbie] lexmark
Depends on what Lexmark you have. I have a Z51 that work great with drivers from: www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/lexmark/lexmark.html Another set of drivers can be found at: bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluck/17kdriver Hope this helps you out. John -- Original Message -- From: Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:07:03 +0200 Dan LaBine escribió: Lexmark has a complete set of drivers on their web-site. www.lexmark.com In my opinion he was asking you for the Linux drivers ;-) - Original Message - From: "jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 5:33 AM Subject: [newbie] lexmark Is there any drivers for the new lexmarks series of printer outhere...?? The Z series Jeremie -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de
Re: [newbie] Basic (?) Networks Shares
Edit your /etc/inetd.conf. At the bottom you will see the line with "SWAT" on it commented out, un-comment it. Then run "killall -HUP inetd". Now if you go into a web browser and depending on your setup go to localhost:901, or pcname:901 and use your regular root userid and password when it asks you. -- Original Message -- From: Dan LaBine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 07:50:50 -0400 I would really appreciate a little help with a couple of things. I'm currently running a dual-cpu server with a dual-boot configuration (Win2K Server LM7.1). I left it that way until I'm a little more up-to-speed on Linux. I'm also running a couple of client workstations (K7-850's, Windows Me, and LM 7.1). No matter what O/S I'm running on the server, everything is sweet. Internet, etc. But, I can't seem to access files/folders on the server when it's running LM7.1. The server can see the Win Me clients, and it can access their drives/folders/files, but not the other way around. Is there a GUI method to set up shares on the server that is relatively painless? I tried to run the Win Me network wizard on the clients, and the only thing preventing it was the password. But the clients don't even see the server in "Network Neighborhood". Do I need to use "Swat"? If so, where would I find it??? I'm trying to migrate our office to Linux servers, and I'm training myself at home on! my home network. I tried XSMBrowser, but how do I set it up to automatically re-mount the shares, etc., each time I re-boot the server?? If I can get this up and running, the office gets it in a couple of weeks. Thanks in advance for any help.
Re: [newbie] Need to get Grub back
run 'sh /boot/grub/install.sh'. This will install grub in the same place you installed it during your initial install. -- Original Message -- From: "Kelly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:14:39 -0500 I had to reinstall win 98 (it got real unstable after a driver update and corrupted some stuff). Any how I dont get Grub at boot up any longer how can I get it back with out install? Kelly
Re: [newbie] slow telnet ssl
Are you telneting with an IP address or a name? If you are using just the name make sure your DNS is configured right or you have the pc in your /etc/hosts file. -- Original Message -- From: Oliver Stieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:02:44 +0100 it takes about 30 seconds to connect to my linux box over telnet or ssl, once connected every thing is quick enough though, and http seems fine when connecting, and outbound connections are fine. i've looked through the logs and can't seem to find anything particular, no timeouts infact no messages other that that someone has connected. any clues on how to sort this out or track down the problem.
Re: [newbie] Re: HPT 366
Mandrake has full support for the hpt 366, I have an Abit BP6 with a Western Digital and a Maxtor drive attached to the hpt366 controller. Mandrake worked out fo the box. I piece of advice, if your SCSI writer is actually an IDE writer that uses the Generic SCSI driver support. DO NOT PLUG IT INTO YOUR HPT366 CONTROLER, it will always lock up on boot if you do that. -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:54:25 +1000 I want to install mandrake 7.1 but not sure if i can? I have RedHat 6.2 but to do so i had to type in commands for it to detect my hard drive. I was told this is because i have a HPT 366 BIOS ver. 1.22 my hard drive is a 15Gb fireball (UDMA 66). I have tried booting off both floppy and CD but it still locks up on a screne with: Welcome to Linux Mandrake Scanning ide - probe SCSI BUS. then locks up. I have a SCSI Burner but RedHat picked it up fine This also happened before redhat was installed. Can you PLEASE HELP ME! thank-you very much for your time. Mathew Istria
Re: [newbie] Desktop camera support
I have a Creative Labs WebCam3 USB, that at least works, the pictures are grainy and the driver for it needs some work. The developer of the Linux driver is working very hard on it. I don't know what the status of any other driver is, but I would start by looking for a camera that is supported in Linux and make sure it is USB. You won't have any fancy software to automatically upload to a website etc... so you'll have to figure that one out on your own. I would guess, wget or ftp with some sort of script or something. -- Original Message -- From: Mikael Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:40:47 -0700 (PDT) I'd like to attach one of them nifty cameras that allows people to see eachother over the net. I'd also like to be able to read the images directly into my own programs if possible. Any tips? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] modprobe 2.3.1.??
I usually find this kind of stuff at www.appwatch.com and then just put "modutils" (no quotes) in the find box. My personal opinion of HardDrake and Lothar is they are a nice attempt at a good idea but do a very poor job. They are not much for the newbie. You still need to know your io ports irq etc... from my experience with them. John -- Original Message -- From: "Drake Vaughn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:49:47 -0500 I am completely new to linux(and its making me climb the walls) but i'm understanding it I don't think this would call for the specs on my machine but my problem lothar was not working so I installed a program called HardDrake and now when I try to configure my hardware it tells me I need to update my modprobe to version 2.3.1 and another problem its giving my is when I startup linux, HardDrake runs and trys to configure everything and when it fails it leaves me without my USB, both my mouse and my keyboard run on USB so I get screwed and have to disconnect them and hook up some older ones I have. Thanks in advance for any help at all.
Re: [newbie] Problem with kernel modules
Make sure you have the latest version of modutils. -- Original Message -- From: "Daniel J. Ferris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:30:40 -0600 Hi again, Just a small problem that is becoming really annoying. I have upgraded to kernel 2.2.15 from 2.2.13 with plans to get 2.2.16 at some point in the future. Anyway, since I did the upgrade, modprobe can no longer find any of my kernel modules, and not being able to use my zip drive has become an annoyance. Any ideas? Even when I specify the absolute path to the module, it still comes back and says module not found. TIA, Dan
Re: [newbie] How do I get IMWHEEL to start every time I boot into
I had to download the source code, recompile it to run suid root (not a good idea for security reasons but the only way I could get it to work) then in /etc/X11/Xsession I commented out where they run imwheel and just added imwheel -k above what they had. I also have XFree86 4.01. There are some changes to XFConfig you have to make also, man imwheel explains it better. Hope some of this helps. John -- Original Message -- From: mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 00:01:13 -0400 I am running Mandrake 7.1, how do I get IMWHEEL to start automatically everytime I boot Linux? This needs to work without SUing to root because my wife can't do that. Suggestions? Thanks, Mark
Re: [newbie] Script errors during kernel upgrade
I don't think you can regenerate that file. It is not necessary for the stock kernels to boot and is just something Mandrake put it in there. Try creating just an empty file with the name the rpm wants. module-info should be a link to module-infokernel version just like vmlinuz was a link to vmlinuzkernel version. So the command would be something like "touch module-info-linux-2.2.14-mdk" Hope this helps John -- Original Message -- From: Claudio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:32:42 -0300 (ART) Hi, I am trying to upgrade my 2.2.14 kernel to 2.2.16 but with problems. During the process the rpm reports that couln't find vmlinuz and stops. The link of vmlinuz and system.map, in /boot, are broke. These links I correct. The problem is with the module-info points to old version and I couldn't find the its new version. How can I generate or get this new version of module-info? Thanks, Claudio H. O YAHOO! GEOCITIES CHEGOU AO BRASIL! Crie sua home page com tudo em português - http://br.geocities.com
Re: [newbie] DNS Problems
My temp directory is named /tmp is it possible that your /temp is not the temp directory that bind is trying to write the tmpfile to? -- Original Message -- From: "Aman Chang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:33:31 +0800 Dear All, Why my /var/log/messages log file show error messages as below Some one help me ? Some one interpret for me? if I upgrate my BIND versin to 8.2.2-P3 ,any affect ? /temp 777 , /var 755 , /var/named 755 ,BIND version named 8.2.2-P3,OS:Mandrake 6.1 thanks regards, -- Jul 12 09:08:14 leo named[25923]: Zone "emedia.com.tw" (file named.emedia): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Jul 12 09:08:14 leo named[25923]: master zone "emedia.com.tw" (IN) loaded (serial 250517) Jul 12 09:08:14 leo named[25923]: Zone "asiansources.com.tw" (file named.asiansources_tw): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Jul 12 09:08:14 leo named[25923]: master zone "asiansources.com.tw" (IN) loaded (serial 262713) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: Zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (file 127.0.0): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 251615) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: Zone "6.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (file named.1921686): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: master zone "6.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 250517) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: Zone "26.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (file named.19216826): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: master zone "26.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 250517) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: Zone "27.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (file named.19216827): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: master zone "27.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 250517) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: Zone "151.61.210.in-addr.arpa" (file named.21061151): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: master zone "151.61.210.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 2147483647) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "mds.com.sg" (IN) loaded (serial 1998082201) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "asiansources.com" (IN) loaded (serial 260501) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "globalsources.com" (IN) loaded (serial 262102) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1999062801) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "7.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1997112701) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "asiansources.com.hk" (IN) loaded (serial 260101) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "mediadata.com.sg" (IN) loaded (serial 233101) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "216.127.203.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1998050201) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "2.184.210.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1998060601) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "chat.yahoo.com" (IN) loaded (serial 1998061201) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "hotmail.com" (IN) loaded (serial 1999111801) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "cnnsi.com" (IN) loaded (serial 1998070701) Jul 12 09:08:15 leo named[25923]: slave zone "gamespot.com" (IN) loaded (serial 1998070701) Jul 12 10:11:39 leo named[844]: secondary zone "mediadata.com.sg" expired Jul 12 10:11:39 leo named[844]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0) Jul 12 10:11:39 leo named[844]: secondary zone "mds.com.sg" expired Jul 12 10:11:39 leo named[844]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0) Jul 12 10:11:39 leo named[844]: secondary zone "asiansources.com.hk" expired Jul 12 10:11:39 leo named[844]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0) Jul 12 10:11:39 leo named[844]: secondary zone "asiansources.com" expired Jul 12 10:11:39 leo named[844]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0) Jul 12 10:11:39 leo named-xfer[847]: can't make tmpfile (sec.asiansources.Qbr5T5): Permission denied Jul 12 10:11:39 leo named-xfer[848]: can't make tmpfile (sec.mediadata.dslQXi): Permission denied Jul 12 10:11:40 leo named-xfer[849]: can't make tmpfile (sec.mds.FlfMar): Permission denied Jul 12 10:11:40 leo named-xfer[850]: can't make tmpfile (sec.asiansources_hk.mPdFOO): Permission denied
Re: [newbie] XFree86 4.0.1
I'm currently using 4.0.1. I downloaded the binaries from www.xfree86.org and installed them using the installation instructions from xfree. I'm running Mandrake 7.0 and an Nvidia TNT2 video card. I have had some strange lock-ups. I am also running the latest developement kernel 2.4.0-test4/pre6 so my problems may be related to that also. -- Original Message -- From: John Catral [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:50:43 -0400 (EDT) Hi! Has anyone tried using XFree86 4.0.1 yet? Are there RPM's for them and what files should I get to run on my mandrake 7.1? Any links would be very helpful. =) Thanks! John -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=- John M Catral ICQ# 7113128 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://i.am/JohnCatral Registered Linux User #183190 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
Here is how I got it to work in 7.0. Upgrade to the latest version of imwheel then edit /etc/X11/Xsession and you'll see "(fg) Starting imwheel from here works" around line 78. I commented out the 3 lines under that and just put "/usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k" above it and it works. I think the key is upgrading to the latest version. Hope this helps. -- Original Message -- From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:47:49 +0200 (CEST) On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: Thanks for the info Paul. I have imwheel installed. It starts, but still I get no wheel support in KDE. Is the package supposed to be started before KDE comes up? I haven't tried that yet. Again, thanks. Harry As you may have seen or missed: another post stated to create a new option in the autostart folder, and execute "imwheel %f" in that. That should do it. (Can't check it, I use a trackball). Paul -- Quantity is no substitute for quality )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Server assign DNS address
I hate to tell you this but I could almost swear that pppd does not allow this. I think that it is not called Dynamic DNS though. I think I read in the ppp Howto that "pppd does not allow this and won't likely in the future", you might want to check the Howto. I even think the howto says the only way to do it is to argue with your ISP and get them to give you the DNS server address's. John -- Original Message -- From: john lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10 Jul 00 13:51:15 NZST Can anyone tell me how to set up kppp to connect to a ISP that uses "dynamic DNS" (not sure if this is the right name), in Windows this is the "let server assign DNS address" option in dial up networking. Some of the new ISPs in my country (New Zealand) starts to use this type of setup and do not offer the 4 number DNS address anymore. Thanks in advance John Lin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] I just get a Big White Box :-(
I would check www.xfree86.org they have a part where it shows common problems and solutions listed by video card. I don't know if yours is on the list but I would check. Also check which version of XFree86 your using 3.3.6 or 4.0 and make sure you check that version on www.xfree86.org. Hope something in here helps you. John -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Dentremont) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:27:28 -0300 I'm running a pentium II 450 with 128 mb of ram...a Diamond Speedstart A55 (S3 Trio3D/2X)..a Sceptre dragon eye monitor. all well flawlessly well though the install of mandrake 7.1. An d I'm extremely happy with what I see!..the only problem that I have is that it seems no matter what resolution/monitor type or graphics card I chose I get a great big white box as a cursor...Does anyone else have this same problem or know a workaround?...I love this oswould be a shame if I couldn't get this part resolved..thanks for any assistance you may provide :-)
Re: [newbie] I just get a Big White Box :-(
I would check www.xfree86.org they have a part where it shows common problems and solutions listed by video card. I don't know if yours is on the list but I would check. Also check which version of XFree86 your using 3.3.6 or 4.0 and make sure you check that version on www.xfree86.org. Hope something in here helps you. John -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Dentremont) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:27:28 -0300 I'm running a pentium II 450 with 128 mb of ram...a Diamond Speedstart A55 (S3 Trio3D/2X)..a Sceptre dragon eye monitor. all well flawlessly well though the install of mandrake 7.1. An d I'm extremely happy with what I see!..the only problem that I have is that it seems no matter what resolution/monitor type or graphics card I chose I get a great big white box as a cursor...Does anyone else have this same problem or know a workaround?...I love this oswould be a shame if I couldn't get this part resolved..thanks for any assistance you may provide :-)
Re: [newbie] XFree86 v4.0
I've heard good and bad stories. Of those selections you would want Linux-ix86-glibc21. I would download the RPMS from the cooker site though. Most of them are in the contribs directory and the XServer rpm is in the cooker/Mandrake/RPMS directory. That is by far the easiest way to upgrade. There is also no Xconfigurator and I don't beleive the XFDrake will work to configure it either. You have to use xf86config. -- Original Message -- From: wayne petherick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:06:32 I am looking at upgrading to XF86 v4.0 and was wondering a few things. First of all, is this release stable yet, and second, there are a few version for Linux iX86 systems. Linux-alpha-glibc21/17-Mar-2000 09:55 Linux-ix86-glibc20/ 17-Mar-2000 23:25 Linux-ix86-glibc21/ 26-Apr-2000 03:44 Linux-ix86-libc5/ This is pasted from the XF homepage and I was wondering which one I need. I am running MDK7.0 on an Athlon 550 with the same kernel version that came with the distro. Any help would be appreciated. Wayne ** ** Wayne Petherick Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University ** **
Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk
I had the same problem and when I researched it, it came down to Windows and therefore Windows programs read the partition table in a different order than Linux. The error I got was #120. It is because Linux programs chain logical partitions together in the order they were created and Windows and OS2 require them to be chained together in ascending order. Which ones better I don't know, I got that from the Partition Magic book. I know this doesn't fix anything, but it is why I allways use Partition Magic to do my stuff. Linux isn't picky, but windows is. -- Original Message -- From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 03:47:20 +0100 i second that, diskdrake really messed up my disk after i decided to let it do the job instead of pm, went back to pm and had no problems bascule Ron Peake wrote: Hi Dick I have experienced the same problem and in my case it resulted from letting Mandrake's Diskdrake 'fiddle' with the partitions created by Partition Magic. The only solution that I found was to let Nortons DiskDoctor fix the partition tables, then resize the partitions again using Partition Magic 4,01. Mandrake Sofware suggested in January or February of this year to use a later version of their Diskdrake program instead of the one which was in release 7,0. But in my PC, there was no improvement. So from my experience, Mandrake's program is still unable to alter vfat or even linux partitions safely, in a way which allows other operating systems such as DOS/Windows to also use them. Ron
Re: [newbie] gcc weirdness
Interesting I just downloaded ksnuffle and it compiled and ran perfectly. I have gcc 2.95.3 I downloaded the source RPM from the cooker site and rebuilt the whole gcc suite and installed it. I also did that with glibc-2.1.3. So it could be that last .3 in my gcc or possible glibc that makes it work for me. Those are the only two packages I've upgraded that would come close to causing (or fixing for that matter) compiler errors. Hope this information helps you a little. John -- Original Message -- From: Dan Ferris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 21:50:21 -0600 This came to my attention after fighting ksnuffle for a week trying to get it to compile. So in frustration, I wrote to the developer of ksnuffle and was told that the problem stems from the fact that gcc 2.95 does not like me. Since that time, I have tried to compile multiple apps/utilities only to have gcc crash and burn. This was especially frustrating when I tried to compile kfstab and KDE explorer (can't remember the name now). These are apps that have compiled and worked before. I would like to convert to egcs, which I downloaded from a Mandrake mirror and installed. Heck, with my luck egcs would probably not work either :-) HOWEVER, the stinking autoconf configure scripts still find and use gcc. I don't know that much about the differences between egcs and gcc except that egcs is used by Red Hat, and gcc is used by Mandrake. So, here is the burning questionHow do I make egcs work instead of using gcc. Or am I all screwed up??? TIA, Dan
Re: [newbie] Error when running LILO
Phil, I'd have to look at your lilo.conf file to be sure, but maybe your windows section is pointing to something that doesn't exist. I've attached mine for you to take a look at. Mine defaults to linux, but to make it default to windows I just change the "default=" line to "default=windows" which is the label for my windows setion. I'm guessing you set your windows section up like a linux section and boot.b does not exist on a windows boot partition. John -- Original Message -- From: Phil Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 22:30:06 -0700 I've edited my /etc/lilo.conf file to default to windows (easier for my children to access their programs) but when I run lilo I get: open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory lilo -q returns: open /boot/map: No such file or directory Any ideas why? My changes will not take effect otherwise. Thanks, Phil map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb1 append="hdd=ide-scsi parport=auto idebus=33" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.3.99-pre7 label=linuxold root=/dev/hdb1 append="hdd=ide-scsi parport=auto idebus=33" read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe
Re: [newbie] Window manager(KDE,Enlightenment,BlackBox...)
My personal vote is for KDE. I like the symplicity of setup and the way it is packaged. KDE is in only mabye 10 packages. GNOME is something like 80 and that makes it hard to keep up to date. Currently I think GNOME only beats KDE in the themeing arena. But from what I've seen of KDE2 they are in for a fight. I try and stay out of the liscense debates and phylosophy type arguments. I like KDE because it fits my style. And the one you like best is the one that fits your style of doing things. John -- Original Message -- From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 19:12:56 -0800 Who uses which for what? It seems each of the "session types" ie. WindowMaker, After Step, Enlightenment,Gnome, KDE,etc has its proponents. I'd like to know what you guys think is the best . -- -michael brower- "Dancing with Penguins" Registered Linux User #175480
Re: [newbie] High failure rate tar.gz
I have found that sometimes when I download a file with Netscape it names it with a
.tar.gz extention but in fact it unzipped it when it was downloaded. Try renameing it
to whatever it should be named without the .tar.gz I know that appears strange, but it
has actually worked for me sometimes.
John
-- Original Message --
From: "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:17:17 -0500
Wed, 17 May 2000 16:30:04
I have downloaded eighteen tar.gz files from various sites...some of
them work without complaint...six of them will not gunzip..
The Archiver tool claims they are of an unknown format...
zcat and midnight commander will not open them...I have tried to open
them with tar -zxvf (crummy file) tar.gzno soap.
keep in mind that I am able to do other files ok, so my procedures
should be adequate,..?.. I downloaded A thirty meg book "Grokking the
GIMP", it took three hours with my antique phone line hookup,, and the
file gave the error below...this file is read by other people so I
cannot believe all these files are bad...
what could I do to recover this file ? can I change some
coding with a hex editor or something and make them decode? take a
look at the file fragment below I obtained, using the tar test (first
line below).
=
[olly@localhost Lintech]$ tar -tf Grokking-the-GIMP-v1_0_tar.gz
Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0/
Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0/Grokking_the_GIMP.html
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Archive contains `"N U\240\301P\226\203\t\330\026Y"' where
numeric off_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `"\362\037`\261\b\264\341\216D\334\023"' where
numeric time_t
value expected
\022\304\001\025\230[\355\330\245\260\260\313v\266\013_\n\013\242\331I/\274\342F\026\002\024t$\355!U\017.\346z\262g{\332EcrZJ@\221\321g}\332\347}\342\247}B_\237\345g\177\342'\364\251\303\304\370\347\200\022\350\177\322\b\215\004h\236\361\247\221M\314\202\026\350\203\022\350\304
tar: Skipping to next file header
\253\013\273q\326\272\257\353\272\261k\273\221\005n\220{\273\273\213X\257Fo\274\013\274Mgl\234;g\301\333^\201
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
==
can someone offer a theory? anyone? comeon Paul you have an answer
don't you? grin.
thank you kindly for your efforts
Olly P
Biloxi
Mississippi
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
These are problems that I've had on in the development kernels, not the 2.2 series.
Loosing the inturupt means you have a timming problem. ARE YOU OVER-CLOCKING. Some
MB's and Hard-drives can get the timmng right some can't. What type of hardware are
you running. If Slackware also caused problems with your harddrive you may just have
buggy hardware.I noticed that your dealing with hda5 is this your / partition? Is
your /boot below the 1024 cylinder.
Also if you do "one last re-install" don't select specific packages. Let Xdrake
install what it wants. But choose the "Developer" install or you'll have to add a
bunch of -devel packages later to compile anything.
John
-- Original Message --
From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:49:50 -0400
Hi folks,
My install keeps booting to text install and then does not recognize my
partition table.
Sample message:
hdb: drive not ready for command
hdb: status error: status = 0x00 {}
unable to read partition table
hdd:hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: lost interrupt
The line: 'hdd: lost interrupt' keeps repeating and repeating until I have to
do a CNTRL+ALT+DELETE.
How do you get into graphical mode? I have the Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack.
Roman
Registered User
Eduardo Arauz wrote:
i haved the same problem a month ago.. try first to run :
fsck/dev/hda5.. once you ve got into root.. and see if that solve the
problem... i am about to quit mandrake too but because other problems
finally i reinstalled all ... and upgraded my PC but it still doesnt work
100% i cant mount either a cd rom or a diskette )
-Original Message-
From: X Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 3:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[newbie] No more Mandrake.
I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So
I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop
icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would
normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time
to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up
and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually
rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been
every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the
boot process slightly. But then something different popped up:
"/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5:
inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then:
"/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p
options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred
during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will
reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or
ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said,
"BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or
6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version
1.14...".
I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the
ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I
saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it
scrolled too fast to make out the whole message.
It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to
finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously
experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics
setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring
reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better.
Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed
with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime
you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and
crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1
AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel
different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm
thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or
something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's
definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems
like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in
Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may
still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The
worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time
in Linux. I
RE: [newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu
As root edit the file /etc/inittab and on the line that says 'id:3:initdefault:' change the 3 to a 5. Also make sure you have a file named 'desktop' in /etc/sysconfig with one word in it "KDE" in upper case with no quotes. That should do it. John -- Original Message -- From: Paulus Hendarwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:28:10 +0700 You can set the initial window type in LinuxConf. At the prompt, just type : #linuxconf. Select Boot something I forgot. And in there you can configure to start with X-Windows system (KDE) May it helps. Best Regards, Paulus Hendarwan -Original Message- From:Michael A. Kellogg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:Tuesday, May 16, 2000 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu Hi Folks! Well, I don't quite know how I did it, but when I reboot the computer, I'm only given a command prompt (login name, password) rather than the nice graphic screen I was accustom. It's not a big deal, I type startx and get things going but I would like to reset my initial boot in to a graphic format. Any ideas? All I can recall is doing a ctrl/alt/backspace during an KDE session and that is when it started. Thanks!Mike
Re: [newbie] UDMA-66 in Mandrake 7.1
UDMA-66 is an after thought for the version of the kernel that comes with Mandrake 7.0 even when it asked you had to boot from a floppy. To get it right, you need to upgrade to 2.3.99-pre9-2. 9-1 crashed my ABIT BP6 hard. 9-2 appears fairly stable. It also solved some problems with my sound card. As I said above I have a BP6, some things I learned from the Kernel Mailing list is that the BP6 implementation of th HPT366 controller leaves a lot to be desired. I can say pretty assuradly that many Maxtor hard-drives have problems with it. Also I have had a few problems with my Maxtor when I over-clock so be carefull with that. The 2.3.99-pre9.2 is a nice kernel either way and would upgrade to it if I were you. It will detect your HPT366 controller on bootup. I currently don't have a UDMA66 drive so I don't know how good it works. If you want to upgrade let me know and I can walk you through the steps. It isn't as scary as people make it out to be. John -- Original Message -- From: "Garron Moore" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:32:35 -0700 I was under the impression that Mandrake 7.1 beta was supposed to support UDMA-66. My Abit BP6 motherboard w/ onboard HPT-366 doesnt even show up during the install. At least in mandrake 7.0 it told me that i would have to make a boot disk to install on a udma-66 drive. Can someone help me?
Re: [newbie] XFree86 4.0 problems
Open /etc/X11/XF86Config and make sure that your cyrillic fonts directory is in there with all the other "FontPath" Entries. I also found that xfs does not need to run on bootup because 4.0 includes the support built in. As to the problem with KDM only loading kde. I don't know. Did you install with the Mandrake 4.0 rpms or download the binaries from XFree86.org? It appears that your X configuration is not where the Mandrake boot scripts are looking for it. Usually all the configuration stuff should be in /etc/X11. I can only guess at this though. John -- Original Message -- From: "Nickolay Belostotsky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:36:44 +0400 Hello all! Have just installed X 4.0. Pretty smooth (apart from XFree86 -configure not working for me). BUT: 1. My Cyrillic fonts are gone. That is baaad. I did download the cyrillic fonts package, but during install it said something like 'duplicate font name, skipping'. How do I add fonts into X? 2. (I use KDM) No matter which desktop/window manager I choose, e.g., Gnome, after a small (~5 sec.) pause KDE is loaded. Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Koly
Re: [newbie] Compiler trouble...AGAIN!!
It looks to me like you have gcc installed but not gcc-c++ the compiler has a lot of modules. Look on your Mandrake CD in Mandrake/RPMS and do ls gcc* you should also make sure that gcc-cpp is installed. -- Original Message -- From: "James McLaughlin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 16:53:26 -0600 I am trying to install some programs that require a g++ compiler. When I goto compile HTDIG. I get this error returned : checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. 2nd line from the bottom is the error ..I was wondering if anyone could tell from this output what the problem is...I am stuck :( katana
Re: [newbie] GPGP
I don't know the answer the your problem but you may want to go out to http://geheimnis.sourceforge.net and try geheimnis. This is what I use and it is very nice, I believe the one your using is the Gnome PGP GUI. JOhn -- Original Message -- From: Dennis Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 14:31:48 +1000 I am trying to run gnupg with the gpgp gui front end in L-M7.0. When I try to decrypt with gpgp I get the error message: gpg: cannot open /dev/tty: Device not configured Gnupg works fine in a term. I cannot find any info on configuring /dev/tty. Can anyone assist? TIA. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone for setup.
Re: [newbie] PGP on 7.02 - need help, please!
'pgp -k' will give you a list of keyring options. You may want to go to http://geheimnis.sourceforge.net/ and check out "Geheimnis" very nice graphicall manager for all versions of pgp and gpg 1.0. Very nice. John - Original Message -- From: mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 20:44:36 -0300 Hello I downloaded and installed pgp soft on a Mandrake box. I couldn't quite understand what I did so I wonder whether someone could help me with the follwoing: a) ID? As far as I know I entered Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I am not sure which is my ID? b) Althoguh I have run the whole pgp -kg, I have not idea what is my secret and public keys. How can I see them? Thanks a lot. Regards Eduardo
Re: [newbie] Dial Up Internet
By default kppp uses /dev/modem as the default modem device. Usually this is a symlink in your /dev direcory to the ttyS* device which is the actual modem. cd to /dev and type 'file modem' make sure it is a symlink to your modem. You modem will more than likly be on ttyS1 (comm 2 in windows). If it is not there make sure you have a real modem and not a win-modem. It its a winmodem there isn't much help for you. John -- Original Message -- From: "Dreja Julag" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 17:05:31 -0700 Hi Everyone, I am using Mandrake 7 and I can't seem to get a dial up conenction going. kppp says the modem doesn't respond and the system dialer can't connect. Can anyone run the procedure by me? The documentation in Mandrake wasn't helpful at all. Thanks Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Still Can't Get GUI I need
To change your run-level you must (as root) edit /etc/inittab and change the first line after the comments from - id:3:initdefault: to - id:5:initdefault: You should then get your choice of window-managers. That is it! -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:45:10 -0500 (CDT) I am encountering the same problem. I am used to mandrake 6.2 but when I reinstalled with 7.02 I can't do anything. all basic cammands ie setup, Xconfigurator, etc are gone. I have recentely gone back to 6.2 because 7.02 is not as fuctional for me and I could not get a reply for my questions regarding this and many others. If you have a solution I would like to go back to newer ver. but I need KDE and I need to know what replaced the old config files. I am new to linux and unfortunately only know the KDE gui with a little console experience. Mike When you are in X go to a terminal and type in setup. Then go to X Configuration. Then choose the monitor that you should have already sleected and test it out. Then it should say Do you want me to boot X on on startup and choose yes. And it should work - Original Message - From: Andrew Brackenbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 1:18 PM Subject: [newbie] Still Can't Get GUI I need Hello. First, thank you to everyone who has helped me with all my very newbie question. Here's the most recent problem: So, I still can't get linux to boot to a nice GUI login window. I still get the lego looking penguin window. A couple of you suggested that I login at the lego penguin and then type startx. This did take me to a GUI but it was the "enlightenment" GUI. Frankly, this is the most un-enlightening interface I have ever sworn at. I want to get to kde. I must get to kde. One of you mentioned that I may have changed my default run level somewhere. How do I fix this? -andrew Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] Fw: Boot problem with LINUX version 5.5 on a computer
Solution 1: Boot with a DOS floppy (with a copy of DOS fdisk on it) go to the C: drive and type a:fdisk.exe /mbr and that should take care of your problem. Solution 2: Boot with a Linux floppy and run linux fdisk and set the partition types from there current to DOS partition I can't think of the numbers right now, but the "m" for help command will point you in the right direction. Then boot with DOS floppy and use dos FDISK or boot with NT install CD and format file system to dos 16 for now. I believe that your problem lies in the fact that for a dual boot system between NT and anything else, there are some NT boot files that "MUST" reside on a FAT16 boot drive. I've only read about this not done it! What I've heard is create a small 50-100 meg fat16 partition and install some NT boot files on it. Hopefully this points you in the right direction. I wish I could tell you exactly how to do it. John -- Original Message -- From: "Marc V. C." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 03:15:44 -0700 - Original Message - From: Marc V. C. To: Linux Mandrake Sent: April 27, 2000 03:05 Subject: Boot problem with LINUX version 5.5 on a computer with a AMD K6 processor. Dear Sir, Dear Madam, This is a description of the problem I experienced after I installed Linux 5.5 on a computer with a AMD K6 processor: - The computer had Windows NT 4.0 Server installed and was working correctly. - Following hardware was installed on the Computer: S3 Virge display driver, 16 speed IDE CD ROM and a HP CD Writer, Advance Sound card, Dynalink S1433VQH modem, HP 880C deskjet printer, IOMEGA Zip drive for parallel port. - A 5 GB diskdrive and a 3 GB diskdrive are installed in the computer. - The partition table is C: 2 GB for the Windows NT 4.0 boot under NTFS. (drive A) D: 3 GB formatted NTFS (drive A) E: 3 GB Formatted NTFS (drive B) When I first tried to install the LINUX 5.5 software version using a boot floppy following errors were encountered: - Linux was installed on hdb. A swap partition of 100 MB was reacted in hdb. This gave following partition table: hda1: NTFS with WINNT boot function. hda2: NTFS hdb1: Linux mounted with "/" hdb2: Linux Swap - I was only able to install Linux with the "Recommend" option. For all other options the installation failed. - After installation Linux was configured as the default boot. WINNT could be selected after pressing the TAB button. - After a couple of days the contents on the display got scramble while browsing through the "HELP" for DRAKE. The scrambling of the display could be compared with the same screen you get under Windows when your monitor does not support the display settings of your display driver. - First of all I tried to re-install Linux with the upgrade option. This failed. - Linux was re-installed with the " Install" option. Installation was completed successfully. - I was no longer able to select the WINNT boot option. - The display got scrambled while I was configuring the WINNT boot option. - At this moment I am nolonger able to install Linux nor Windows NT. when I try to start up or re-install linux the display is filled with an error message that refers the K6 processor and a lot of code. At the end of the message the cursor in blinking in the lower left corner and the system doesn't respond any more. In the boot mode the message appears shortly after the Linux boot option was selected. when trying to install Linux the error occurs after you hit the enter key or after you have selected the " expert" option in the first screen. - Even when I format all harddrives under DOS the computer still tries to boot Linux. The same problem also persists after I used the restore default BIOS settings. What do I need to do to be able to re-install WINDOWS NT 4.0 Server and to remove the Linux boot selection after any reboot? At this moment I can't install any operating system on the computer. The installation of WINNT 4.0 fails during the copying of the files to the harddisk before the first reboot. Please advise what to do. Is it possible to install any Linux version on a system that originally has WINDOWS NT 4.0 installed? Is possible to install Linux as a server of as a development platform when Windows NT is originally installed on the computer? ( note: multiple boot active) Thanks for your support.
Re: [newbie] Upgrading X
There are XFree86-4.0 mandrake out on the cooker ftp sites in the contrib directory. The one I always use is ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrakecooker/contrib for some reason XFree86-server-4.0 is in MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS. Once you get those and upgrade with them you will need to delete your current /etc/X11/X sym-link to link to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 there is only one server now not a different one for each card. Also Xconfigurator does not work for 4.0 so you have to use the good old generic xf86config. The /etc/X11/XF86Config file is a lot different. I have been using these RPMS for a while and have no problems. In fact 4.0 is incredibly fast. John -- Original Message -- From: Thomas Huld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:20:04 +0200 Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: Hello! What do I have to do to make a backup of my current XFree (3.3.6) installation? Would just copying /usr/X11R6 to another location do? Or there /still/ will be some files missing from backup? (I want to move to 4.0 because it's new :-) and because of the new NVidia drivers) At least two other things: Backup /etc/X11 The new installation will update the shared library database, so if you go back to the old installation you will have to run: ldconfig I couldn't get the binary distribution of XFree86 4.0 supplied from the xfree86.org site running with Mandrake 7.0, but when I removed /usr/X11R6/ and /etc/X11 and restored these two directories from tar's and ran ldconfig I could get the old X to run again (after a reboot). Hope this helps. Thomas -- - Thomas Huld European Commission - Joint Research Centre - Ispra Site(IT) T.P.723 I-21020 Ispra| Insofar as my employer has coherent Italy| opinions they are unlikely to be mine tel. +39 0332 785273 | (That said, see http://eu.conecta.it) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: [newbie] DHCP
I know for a fact that the Mandrake install does not install the DHCP client software. So most likely need to install dhcpcd (note the second c as dhcpd is the actual dhcp server). If you installed the network during the install of Mandrake you might want to uninstall the dhcpcd and re-install it anyway. I never set up the network during the install of NT Workstation and I don't do it in Linux either. Just never seems to work right when you do that. Then run 'netcfg' and configure your NIC. John -- Original Message -- From: Dallas Haggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 27 Apr 2000 09:40:42 +1000 Hi, I have installed Mandrake 7.02 (i486) on my old 486 DX2/66. I have an SMC8000 series ethernet card set to software config. Using linuxconf the pc comes upon my network OK with a static IP address, but if I set it to DHCP the ethernet card fails to start and my DHCP server doesn't get a request for an IP address. Any suggestions? Thanks Dallas - Send Amazing Cards FREE by e-mail with FREE e-Gift and FREE decoration: www.mini-card.com/index.asp?referer=fm1 - Get your own free email account at http://www.freemail.com.au/ now part of the Webuser.com.au independent portal. Visit at? http://www.webuser.com.au -
Re: Re(2): Re(2): [newbie] Make?
Lee,
Your fine I just forgot that it was lower-case 'm' vice uppercase. I'm sorry I can
only read my e-mail at home from 4:00 AM to 6:00 AM as my work is a little restrictive
about personal e-mail so I couldn't get back to you sooner.
As to your Starting X question it is a little more complicated. I had this problem
when I installed without selecting the "Start X on startup" option. I guess when you
do that it doesn't load some files. I believe I may have stumbled on something that
will help though.
Here we go. I changed my mind. I've attached a copy of my /etc/X11/window-managers
file put it in you /etc/X11 directory it is a safe file, you can open it and look at
it and see that it contains no commands.
Next create a file in /etc/sysconfig named 'desktop' (no quotes) and in it have only
one line with 'KDE' (again no quotes) but must be upper-case.
Make sure there is a file in /etc/X11/prefdm on your system. If no I can send you
mine.
edit /etc/inittab and up near the top is a line that says 'id:5:initdefault' yours may
have a '3' vice a '5' change it to '5' this will make it boot to a graphic login and
if prefdm is set up right it better be kdm. The last line in the file should be
'x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon' already if it is not change it to that. Again
the quotes don't go in just the words between them. I don't want to insult you
intelligence but I do want you to get your system the way you want it.
Now reboot and hopefully all will be as you want it. The kdm login will have a
Mandrake Penguin picture on the left of a dialog box. If you get that your good.
Make sure in the dropdown box where you select your window manager you have kde
selected (or whatever you want).
Exiting plain-jane X is done by 'right-clicking' your mouse and a menu should come up
with 'exit' or 'log-out' as an option. If that fails ctl-,alt-backspace key
combination will do it.
If you have problems with your startup into X windows after you reboot. Reboot again
and at the lilo: prompt type 'linux 3' (no quotes) this will drop you to run-level 3
(dos like) and then edit /etc/inittab and change the :5: to a :3: on the first line
there after all the comments.
Let me know if this works for you.
John
-- Original Message --
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_lee _kinkade)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:37:55 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes:
mount the mandrake CD. (if you installed with supermount it will mount
itself when you put it in)
if you didn't use supermount. Open a shell (dos like box).
1. su
type in root password
If now supermount support
2. mount /dev/cdrom
3. cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS
4. rpm -Uvh Make*.rpm
Thats it.
John
Thanks a bunch. Instructions like that I understand! I did not find
Make*.rpm but did find make*.rpm so i did that instead. Was that a mistake?
How do I use kde or gnome? I startx, but it is plain old x AFAICT. Once
in x, how do I exit?
---
lee
If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
NAME=kde
ICON=kde.xpm
DESC=The fabulous desktop
EXEC=/usr/bin/startkde
SCRIPT:
exec startkde
--@@--
NAME=Gnome
ICON=Gnome.xpm
DESC=The another fabulous desktop
EXEC=/usr/bin/gnome-session
SCRIPT:
exec gnome-session
--@@--
NAME=WindowMaker
ICON=WindowMaker.xpm
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/wmdrake
DESC=Another NeXt like Window-Manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/wmdrake
--@@--
NAME=Enlightenment
DESC=The enlightenment window manager
EXEC=/usr/bin/enlightenment
SCRIPT:
[ -f $HOME ] || {
/usr/bin/enlightenment.install
}
exec /usr/bin/enlightenment
--@@--
NAME=BlackBox
ICON=BlackBox.xpm
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox
DESC=A Light but nice looking window manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/bbdrake
--@@--
NAME=AfterStep
ICON=AfterStep.xpm
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep
DESC=A NeXt like Window-Manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep
--@@--
NAME=Fvwm2
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2
DESC=A popular window manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2
--@@--
NAME=Icewm
ICON=icewm.xpm
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/icewm
DESC=A Light Window-Manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm
--@@--
NAME=Fvwm1
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm
DESC=A very stable and light window manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm
--@@--
NAME=Xfce
EXEC=/usr/bin/xfwm
DESC=A CDE like window manager
SCRIPT:
[ "x$XFCE_DATA" = "x" ] XFCE_DATA=/usr/share/xfce
exec /usr/bin/xfwm
--@@--
NAME=AnotherLevel
ICON=AnotherLevel.xpm
DESC=The AnotherLevel desktop
EXEC=/usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.anotherlevel
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.anotherlevel
Re: [newbie] Make?
You need to install make from the Mandrake CD. You probably didn't install with the "development" option. -- Original Message -- From: "John Catral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:15:07 -0400 Hi! I tried compiling EveryBuddy last night. So I used ./configure and it went well but when I used make or make install, linux was stating that there was no such command. Do I need to install something for me to compile? I always thought it was one of the bare necessaties. Anyway, I hope someone can help! Thanks! =) John
Re: [newbie] USB printer?
I don't have a usb printer, however if it is setup on lp0 etc... then all you should have to do is load the drivers for it. su to root type printtool select "add" and follow the directions. Also does the kernel usb drivers directly support your particular printer or is that just the generic usb support that is detecting something on the usb port? John -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:29:46 -0500 Has anyone gotten a usb printer to work under 7.0? I have upgraded to 2.3.99-pre5 and I get a messae in the kernel log that it sees the usb hardware but I am yet to get the printer to function. Any help?
Re: Re(2): [newbie] Make?
mount the mandrake CD. (if you installed with supermount it will mount itself when you put it in) if you didn't use supermount. Open a shell (dos like box). 1. su type in root password If now supermount support 2. mount /dev/cdrom 3. cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS 4. rpm -Uvh Make*.rpm Thats it. John -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_lee _kinkade) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:02:05 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: You need to install make from the Mandrake CD. You probably didn't install with the "development" option. How does one install make from the CD after the initial installation? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
Re: [newbie] C++
www.gnu.org -- Original Message -- From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 11:59:25 -0700 Hello, The topic a week or so ago was C++ programming - shoot me for not paying attention! I'm interested in learning C++ and have picked up some books on the topic, seems pretty straight forward. My question is, since the books I bought we're written for the what seems to be the windows community, there doesn't seem to be any instruction for GNU tools. I have succesfully compiled one of the sample programs, but I don't know how to run a linker or even what the name of it is. I guessed at the compiling 'g++ filename.cpp' and it worked, but I was wondering if someone could direct me to some kind of 'GNU C++ howto' (preferably a web page) or maybe just give me the names I need to call (under linux) to get this little program turned into an executable. Thanks much! Mike -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] mandrake is a terd
Perhaps, before you get bent to much further out of shape, you should realize that you have just tapped into the best support Mandrake can give you. I don't know about there phone support. But perhaps when you get to your lilo prompt you can type "linux 3" (no quotes on the command line) to boot into run level 3 then you can re-run Xconfigurator and try selecting a lower refresh rate for you monitor, that is 100% of my problems with XFree86. Not the video card driver. Another option would be "vi /etc/X11/XF86Config" and edit the horizontal and vertical refresh rates yourself. You could also fill us in on the actual problem your having and we could help you ourselves. John -- Original Message -- From: Roger Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 05:27:00 -0600 !doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en" html font color="#00"I purchased Linux Mandrake gold box because I think it is a great release/font brfont color="#00"and wanted to give money in hopes that would help further development/font brfont color="#00"of the best Linux release I have installed and used to date. I also have had/font brfont color="#00"some questions in the past and wanted to speak with a live person on the phone/font brfont color="#00"about some installation issues. Linux Mandrake 7.0 goldpack comes with 60 days/font brfont color="#00"phone support so says the advertisement and the support paper that I received in/font brfont color="#00"the box./fontfont color="#00"/font pfont color="#00"I followed the instructions and registered my release at the mandrake web site./font brfont color="#00"I could not get my video card to work with 7.0. The video card worked with 6.0/font brfont color="#00"and was in the XFree86 supported card list. I called Bynari and the operator/font brfont color="#00"said that she would have someone call me back. no one called back so I called/font brfont color="#00"the next day and was told by the support representative that the contract/font brfont color="#00"with Linux Mandrake had run out and that Linuxcare had taken over support./font brfont color="#00"(Bynari did not return my call after 6 trys - they always said that someone would/font brfont color="#00"be paged and call me back - appears to be a less than functional operation)/fontfont color="#00"/font pfont color="#00"Bynari could not give me a number to Linuxcare and I could not boot my computer/font brfont color="#00"to goto the website creating great inconvenience in finding the 800 tech support number./fontfont color="#00"/font pfont color="#00"Linuxcare said they had not been contacted by MandrakeSoft to give the phone support./font brfont color="#00"they did give some help but not enough to get my installation working. I searched the MandrakeSoft/font brfont color="#00"web site over and over and can not find a number to call. I searched all the information in the/font brfont color="#00"documentation and could not find a number to call at Mandrake. Leaving off a number to call/font brfont color="#00"or someone to contact at mandrake soft appears to me to be intentional./fontfont color="#00"/font pfont color="#00"It has been said that Linux cannot be used in mainstream industry because it is not supported./font brfont color="#00"With mandrake I have found this to be the case./fontfont color="#00"/font pfont color="#00"Can someone give me a number at MandrakeSoft to speak with so they can honor the agreement/font brfont color="#00"to provide 60 days of phone support? This has been so frustrating that I really would like to choke/font brfont color="#00"someone at Mandrake for dropping the ball on this. Why in the hell is there no number on the/font brfont color="#00"website to call? Why in the hell did MandrakeSoft not change their website to point to the new/font brfont color="#00"support contact after registering my relase? If I cannot get help on this I will change back to RedHat/font brfont color="#00"and on the next upgrade have all instances of Mandrake removed from my companys computers./fontfont color="#00"/font pfont color="#00"thank you/fontfont color="#00"/font pfont color="#00"am/font/html
Re: [newbie] COULD SOMEONE HELP ME...PLEASE!!
Make sure that your using /dev/ttyS1 (if your modem is setup on com 1). By default Kppp uses /dev/modem which is supposed to be a symlink to your com port but more often than not it isn't. To see what tty your com port is. Open /var/log/messages and look for a line that says something like ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq-3) is a 16550A. What kind of Sound card do you have? you may be surprised there may be a driver that is compatible enough to work with it. I wouldn't make a gaurantee, but you never know. More important than the card name would be the chip its based on. John -- Original Message -- From: "Adam Black" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:19:50 -0500 First of, Linux doesn't support my soundcard so that's one thing that I am upset about. Another thing is I can't get my modem to be recognized. I know for a fact that it is not a Winmodem. When I try to configure the modem thru KPPP it gives me a busy signal that the modem is busy. I can understand that maybe the port is being used by another piece of hardware. If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks a bunch!! Adam --- I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 21:50:19 Francois Massin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can you please help me to understand this line of fr Linux code? scr.Path=(la=="fr")?"C:\\windows\\Menu Dimarrer\\Programmes\\Dimarrage\\kak.hta": "C:\\windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\StartUp\\kak.hta"; Not the javascript or vbscript portion, the French portion? Hi there :) you are answering yourself this question. The second line with C:\\ is the exact replica from the french line. Menu demarrer = Start menu Programmes = Programs Demarrage = Startup BTW: you're infected by the kak virus. If you're interested, I have the whole procedure to eradicate this kak.hta entry. Have a good day Francois Send FREE April Fool's Greetings to your friends! http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/redirects/American_Greetings.rdct
Re: [newbie] Installing Boot Magic the Magic is GONE???
I'm not in windows at the moment, but to make your win95/98 partition visible in linux you have to cnofigure it in BootMagic. I think it is when you Edit a boot configuration in the dialog box that allows you to change the icon there is a second tab, on that tab you select the partitions you want to be visible to Linux. Or win98 depending on which one your editing. -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:39:29 -0700 Alan, thank you very much, that even sounds *logical* :) yay. Now for a really dumb newbie question, How do I set it as visible and where do I accomplish this task? PS I did notice when I first installed Partition Magic, that it said that my C:\ partition was a *No Name* or un-named partition, which sounds exactly like what you have mentioned about my windows partition being 'hidden'. b/web At 08:17 AM 4/18/00 -0700, you wrote: b/webyour windows partition is incorrectly set as hidden, it needs to be set as active. If bootmagic is indeed already installed, once you've set the windows partition as active bootmagic will show up, if it is not already installed you'll be allowed to install it. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I bought Mandrake 7.0 and began to install it but am having a problem installing Boot Magic. I was able to install Partition Magic and repartition my hard drive and then it asked me to insert the Mandrake CD instead of the Boot Magic CD which the installation manual calls for. When I do attempt to install Boot Magic I get an error message that says; Cannot install Boot Magic because 1) There are no visible FAT16 or FAT32 primary partitions that are completely below cylinder 1024 on the first hard disk or 2) Boot Magic is already installed to a hidden partition Which is not possible as I have deleted the new Linux partitions I made, and then uninstalled Partition Magic and then I tried to install Boot Magic First, but I got the same error message. Any helpful thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Much thanks, b/web PS My system is FAT32 so I do not understand how it can not see that unless it does not look at the WINDOWS Partition???
Re: [newbie] Lexmark z51 driver? Anywhere?
I have a Z51 and the driver on this page works for me. No color though. http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/l7kdriver/ -- Original Message -- From: "Leanne Leith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:17:27 -0700 Help! Searching everywhere for a driver for my new Lexmark. Idiot me bought the thing just before I got excited about switching to Linux, adn though I checked for everything in my system, forgot about printers. Anyone? It's really nice, would hate to trash it. *** chickclick.com http://www.chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickmail.com sign up for your free email. http://www.chickshops.com boutique shopping from chickclick.com ***
RE: [newbie] update to XFree86 4.0
The Answer to your problem is this. Whoever created the XFree86-4.0-6 rpms neglected to put XFree86-server-4.0-6. I had previously downloaded the -4 rpms and had it already, if you know who produced the -6 version we need him to post the XFree86-server rpm. John -- Original Message -- From: "Eric MC DECLERCK" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 16:46:08 +0200 Verify first of all if youve get all the necessary packages related to XFree. See www.rufus.com , go to distributions, mandrakesoft and select the first XFree package you have downloaded. There you'll see what is provided and what is needed by the package, see also the changelog. And so on. Don't forget to download the 'libs' ! The X contribs are of course the X11R6 packages. Check out if there is a new version needed for XFree 4. There is a new X11R6 version 4 on www.xfree.org ! Let me now. Eric -Original Message- From: Claus Atzenbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 8:59 AM To: Eric MC DECLERCK Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] update to XFree86 4.0 On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Did you also install the X contrib ? Which X contrib? I was trying to install the following packages: XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-devel-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-doc-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-glide-module-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-libs-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-static-libs-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm These are the packages which are installed currently: XFree86-libs-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-xfs-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-Xnest-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-devel-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-VGA16-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-Xvfb-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-Rage128-1.3-2mdk Thanks a lot for your help! Claus -Original Message- From: Claus Atzenbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 5:09 PM To: Mandrake Listing Subject: [newbie] update to XFree86 4.0 I was downloading XFree86 version 4.0 as RPM. I was trying to upgrade my current version 3.3.6, bu I couldn't: Almost every package had some dependency problem. So I decided to "rpm -e --nodeps all_old_XFree_stuff" and installing the new v4.0 packages. The result: X didn't start up anymore (Error 2). My question: I have the new RPMs here. How can I upgrade my XFree stuff?? Thanks a lot for your help!
Re: [newbie] X Problem
Make sure you have the 75dpi fonts installed. John -- Original Message -- From: John N [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 09:18:28 -0700 When trying to change resolution from 640 x 480 to ANYTHING else i get the error message: Could not open default font "fixed" Where is this default defined, what should it be and how do I fix it? Thanx in advance John
Re: [newbie] need help with netscape
Sounds like your DNS or routing is wrong. If your straight dialin and use kppp go to the DNS setup tab and put your ISP's DNS server's IP addresses in there. Make sure you put your domain in the domain box. -- Original Message -- From: "Jared Dziedzic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:49:04 GMT i'am able to connect to the internet, but netscape won't find any web pages. it doesn't give me any errors either. it just says it cannot find the page. please help! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try this. Go to ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/ once there go to the contrib directory and download the XFree86-4.0 RPMS. You will also need to install Xaw3d-devel and the xinitrc rpm from that directory. Don't worry about the Xconfigurator it won't work. You have to use xf86setup. Anyway install all that. Make a sym-link in /etc/X11 like this 'ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X'. You can also stop running xfs (if you currently run it) as it is built into XFree86 4.0. This is what I did and it works fine. The last time I downloaded the binaries from XFree86.org I had many problems also. Waiting for RPMS is the best answer. Luckily they are out. -- Original Message -- From: "magick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:45:18 -0500 no i didn't do an rpm install i downloaded the files from xfree86.org - Original Message - From: Mike Tracy Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! I haven't had much luck either with 4.0, if you did an rpm install, you can just go back, uninstall and reinstall 3.3.6 from the disk. (At least that would save an entire system reinstallation.) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. sorry I can't tell you how to fix the problem :-o - Original Message - From: magick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! YES i have tried startx obviously if i can sy that it gives me the error explicit use of the kill command or sever shutdown i have trie dto startx using the startx command - Original Message - From: _-+Richard Kim=-_ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! magick wrote: i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate it have you tried "xstart" or "startx" ? w/o quotes? that should start it once more. try again and reply once more.
Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)
Partition Magic will pay for itself in "hours saved" very soon after you buy it, beautifull program. One very very very big problem you could have is if you have previously tried to partition/re-partition with "DiskDrake" or "linux fdisk". Those two programs when they re-write your partition table do it in the order the partitions were created, windows requires them in there "logical" order. Partition Magic is windows based. I love the program but lost my most important stuff because of this little problem. Outside of that it is great and will solve your problem. If you do get it and get an error #120, the only way to rebuild it in a way Partition Magic can understand is to wax it and start from scratch. -- Original Message -- From: "Tony" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:44:49 -0400 Ranish Partition Manager is able to resize partitions probably also PartitionMagic and various other utilities I have forgotten but which you might find on the freeware/shareware sites often as part of a multiboot program, I remember looking at several 2/3 years ago when interested in multibooting win95/Cpm/linux. "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: Kyle "Orange" Spahn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time) Okay: I understand about the types of partitions that I have to have.. but right now.. I have a Windows partition that is like 26068 MB (or something close to that) and then I have a 15MB empty partition.. that's all.. and it doesn't allow me to resize my Windows partition without deleting it. I just got this computer from Gateway like a week ago and it's a powerhouse system with full Linux compatibile components.. -Kyle "Orange" Spahn Freespace 2 Coordinator Lead Reviewer Descent Chronicles - http://descent.gamestats.com News GameLordz Network - http://www.gamelordz.net News Summoner Homeland - http://www.summonerhl.com - Original Message - From: Alex Kirkovsky To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time) Your boot partition MUST be before 1024 cylinder.. Reorganize your partition something like that: 1. WinXX (if you have one) 2. Linux boot partition (starting from cylinder 1024) Size: ~30MB 3. WinXX (if you want to have more space for Windoze) Size: up to you 4. Linux swap partition, Size: up to you 5. Linux root partition, Size: up to you So, the ONLY important point here is No.2 Regards, Alex Kirkovsky - Original Message - From: Kyle "Orange" Spahn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 8:16 PM Subject: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time) Hey Everyone, I keep trying to partition my hard drive so I can use Linux, but when I do so, it says that the last cylinder of my drive is full. So it thinks my entire drive is filled up, which it isn't. I have a 27.3 GB Hard Drive which I've maybe used 5 GB of. It's definitely not full! I need help!!! PLEASE! -Kyle "Orange" Spahn Freespace 2 Coordinator Lead Reviewer Descent Chronicles - http://descent.gamestats.com News GameLordz Network - http://www.gamelordz.net News Summoner Homeland - http://www.summonerhl.com
[newbie] Supermount patch
Hello, To get my USB Camera working I had to move to the stock 2.2.14 kernel. I then applied the usb back-port patch from Suse. All works but I can't get supermount back. There is a supermount patch for Suse 6.3 but it is for a 2.2.13 kernel and it messes up 2.2.14. I'm wondering if anybody has or has found a supermount patch for the 2.2.14 kernel. I hated having to give it up. Any help would be nice. Thank you in advance. John
Re: [newbie] Sound module
Try editing your /etc/conf.modules and deleting any line (or if you want to feel safer just put a # sign in front of) any line that says sound in it. -- Original Message -- From: "John Catral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:08:37 -0500 Hi! I have the OSS opensound drivers but it wont install because the original sound module that was automatically loaded by Mandrake 7 is causing problems with my OSS install. How can I take the sound modules off?? John
[newbie] Modules strange behaviour
I am having many module problems. It started with my sound card. /var/log/messages says "au88xx: unable to register sndstat device". The sound card works, but "cat /dev/sndstat" returns nothing. It is a modular driver put out by the manufacturer. Any ideas on why it can't register sndstat? Second I re-compiled my kernel with printer support and my NIC card compiled into the kernel vice as a module (it is modular by default in Mandrake 7.0). When I did that both of them faild to work. I then re-compiled again with them as modules and all worked fine again. Question is what is the fasination with modules in Mandrake 7.0? and why will it not allow me compile these two drivers into the kernel. 6.0 worked fine that way. I did not do an upgrade from 6.0 to 7.0. I formated and re-installed the whole thing. Thank you in advance for any help you can give me on this. John
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Sound Problem
Try this, select whatever you want in the dropdown box. Then close lothar. As "root" edit /etc/conf.modules and look for the line with the incorrect io port and change it to the correct port number. Then not the line that says "alias sound" the last thing on that line is the module name. Save conf.modules and do "modprobe (the name of the sound module)" replace (the name of the sound module) with the actual name of the module from conf.modules. Or just reboot. Hope this works for you. -- Original Message -- From: "jack hess" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:55:32 MST I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on my IBM Thinkpad 600E. I ran Lothar to configure my sound chipset. Lothar "sensed" the incorrect chipset, and when I selected the correct one, Crystal CS4232, I was given via a drop down window the IO PORT addresses 230 through 280. This chipset uses 0x530 port address. Lothar will not allow me to edit in the correct address. Can anyone tell me how to get around this issue? Thanks, Jack __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] ABIT Linux distro
I am downloading and burning a CD today and will try it. I hope it does what it promises. You can check it out at www.gentus.com. -- Original Message -- From: Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 Feb 00 19:35:27 EST I saw a blurb in SlashDOT's site about a distro optimised for ABIT mobo's. Has anyone tried it yet? Sorta off topic...:) Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
