Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows
Josenildo Marques wrote: I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also come back to Windows, the best operating system ever ! Linux experience is, to say the least, disappointing and frustrating. I'm feeling so much better that I can't avoid giving you this piece of advice: do the same. Uninstall Linux and give Windows a second chance. Am I the only one to suspect the intent of your post, seeing as how it's April 1st? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Canon i470D Printer Driver?
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/07 Wed AM 06:55:45 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Canon i470D Printer Driver? On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 7:07 pm, Larry Varney wrote: I have just purchased the Canon i470D printer. Mandrake 9.1 has lots of drivers for Canon printers, but none specifically for this model. Is there one that is compatible? I have tried a couple, and the pages come out 1/4 the normal size! I assume this is a new model since it is not mentioned at www.linuxprinting.org If you look at the Canon report card there you will see that Canon does not have a great history of Linux support. Most people report best results from Canon printers using www.turboprint.de However Turboprint does not support that model either (although it might be worth trying it out) Turboprint is free for personal use, and RPMs are available from MandrakeClub HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Thanks! I'll check your suggestions out. It's a good printer, comes with a nice Windows/Mac bundle of software, and a rebate knocked the price down too low to ignore! Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Canon i470D Printer Driver?
I have just purchased the Canon i470D printer. Mandrake 9.1 has lots of drivers for Canon printers, but none specifically for this model. Is there one that is compatible? I have tried a couple, and the pages come out 1/4 the normal size! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New USR External modem
Ed Tharp wrote: I have been trying to get my brand new external USER modem working, it dials up but (in Mandrake 8.1) waits at expecting ogin as part of my connect script. it connects fine in M$win. I am guessing that I have some init (AT) or modem commands wrong, since it connects for years with a few different internal modems. if anyone knows the correct init string (or where to find the M$ string) I would appreciate at. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It couldn't be so easy that it's really expecting login instead, could it? -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:48:30 -0500 Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why dont we people post in what part of the world r we ?? Just about 10 miles due south of Cincinnati, OH. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sandisk USB CompactFlash Reader
I have a multi-card reader, both Compact Flash and Smart Media. Hard Drake would recognize it as a 1-Gig SCSI drive, but I was never able to get LM to see any SM card in it. Perhaps it would have worked with a CF card, but that's sort of moot. Anyway, I went out and bought a SanDisk Smart Media-only card reader, and I'm having even less luck. Hard Drake doesn't see it at all, except (possibly) for an entry in the other, unknown devices section. Perhaps from previous tries, including the successful ones of just attaching my Olympus C-700 directly to the computer, I have entries under /dev for SDA, SDB, SDA1 and SDB1. If I do an ls of them, they're all blinking, because (I'm assuming) they're really links to devices that aren't there any more. When I try the modprobe as shown below (as root), no errors are returned. The mount command, though, gives me this: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist I sympathize with everyone who complains about the hurdles we must jump just to install some new piece of software under Linux. I pick up a British magazine, Linux Format, and its DVD is loaded with the latest (more or less) stuff. When I tried to install the newer version of Mozilla, I was told that there were dependency problems, some file that I needed. Finding that in an RPM on rpm.net, I started to install that, only to find that, yes, there were more dependency problems with that one, too. I like Linux, I think it's a powerful system and fun to play around with, but I will have to admit that I really like the way similar things are handled in the Windows world. You buy a product, the CD or other installation medium has what's needed - you're (usually) not told that you have to go find some missing/newer files somewhere else. I plug in a card reader, and (again, usually) Windows recognizes it, and it works. I can live with the fact that the CD-player gives me some message about access permission errors on /dev/cdrom. This used to work in LM 8.0, but I'm more interested now in getting the usb card reader working. But it looks like Linux, or maybe just this distro, is similar to other systems, where things don't always work, and we just have to wait for further releases, this year or next. Bryan Tyson wrote: On Monday 04 February 2002 18:09, you wrote: Sandisk USB CompactFlash Reader Does anyone have one of these working? modprobe usb-storage mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /camera (or whatever mount point you want) *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sandisk USB CompactFlash Reader
Alan Patterson wrote: , another CF reader, usb-storage problem! I must be missing something really simple here. I've done a fresh install of LM8.1 and I don't even have the /dev/sd* files. So I don't even know where to start with even mounting my device! Any help ? When the system recognizes the product, everything works great. When I plug the camera directly into the computer, run harddrake and there it is, listed under the disks - even by name! It creates the SDA and SDA1 entries, too. But when it doesn't recognize things, such as with this latest card reader I have, it becomes a game of which will win first, frustration or you. That first reader of mine sort of was recognized, as a 1-gig scsi hard drive, but it didn't work out as a card reader. And this last (emphasis on last) one, just won't work with Linux. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Smart Media Reader - Not Under Linux
I checked the Sandisk website, and this is what they have to say about the reader I bought: Please Note: SDDR-55 is not mass storage compliant (not supported under Linux). Use drivers included with device or linked below. So, it looks like I'll have to be content with having to attach the camera directly, or just stick with Windows for those times when I need to use a card reader. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smart Media Reader - Not Under Linux
Nothing. It's not recognized by Harddrake. Modprobe produces no entries under SDA or SDB. I suppose I could 'force' it, by making an entry for SDA and then SDA1, then putting a statement into FSTAB where I mount the SDA1 into something like /mnt/camera, but if it's not really there - how would it work? LM had no problem with the Olympus C-700 directly plugged into a usb port. Harddrake found it, listed it under the drives, and I was able to mount it with no problem. And the really funny thing is, with both of my card readers, UsbView not only sees them, but even knows what their correct names are! But Mandrake thinks the dual-slot reader was a 1-gig scsci drive, and couldn't see the other one at all. Apparently, some card readers are spotted by Mandrake, while others aren't. I'm going to give Redhat 7.2 a shot tomorrow, and see if it does any better. Joseph Braddock wrote: Out of curiousity, what's your fstab got in it for the device? On Tuesday 05 February 2002 10:42 am, you wrote: I checked the Sandisk website, and this is what they have to say about the reader I bought: Please Note: SDDR-55 is not mass storage compliant (not supported under Linux). Use drivers included with device or linked below. So, it looks like I'll have to be content with having to attach the camera directly, or just stick with Windows for those times when I need to use a card reader. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP
I picked up a book, PHP Fast Easy Web Development, by Julie C. Meloni, and it comes with a CD containing Apache, PHP and MySQL - both Windows and Linux versions. The explanations and exercises are very good. Andre Dubuc wrote: I'm not even sure how to ask this: that's how abysmal my knowledge of servers. I would like to learn scripting in PHP, and I need to run an Apache server to test the code. I've installed (in LM 8.0) all the appropriate Apache programs and modules, and all the PHP related stuff. In the LinuxConf - Service Control, I notice that apache is not listed, and both httpd and webmin are running. What do I have to do to get a working server so that I can test any code that I write in html/php? (Can I use my only computer as a stand-alone server, and access it as a client? I assume that I should be able to do something like that especially since freeciv sets up server/client on my machine.) If someone could point me in the right direction, it would save me wading through tons of documentation that assumes I have Apache up-and-running! Help? Tia, Andre -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP
Yes, the ISBN is 0-7615-3055-x. It's published by Prima Tech. sda wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:26:34AM -0500, Larry Varney wrote: I picked up a book, PHP Fast Easy Web Development, by Julie C. Meloni, and it comes with a CD containing Apache, PHP and MySQL - both Windows and Linux versions. The explanations and exercises are very good. Larry - do you have the ISBN# for this book? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: [expert] How I got my USB card reader to work!
I haven't been able to get my SimpleTech Flashlink to work with Mandrake 8.1 - it keeps getting identified (after modprobe) as a 1 gig scsi drive, even without a card in it. I suspect that the fact that it's a combination reader, for both Compact Flash and Smart Media, might be the problem. At least, I've read of cases of units that are solely one or the other being able to work with Linux. I will try your fstab entry, though, just to see if it will work. - Original Message - From: Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:21 PM Subject: [expert] How I got my USB card reader to work! I have a PNY Smart Media reader that I purchased to read the Smart Media cards I use with my Olympus D460L digital camera. Like everyone else on the lists, I was unable to get it to work successfully with Linux (worked fine under Win98). But, tonight I got it to work! All I did was add the following line to my fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia msdos user (without the quotes, of course). The best that I can figure is that the msdos file system type is different from the vfat and that is why auto and vfat failed. I came up with this by looking at the properties of the reader under Windows and it showed the card was written to with 16bit MS-DOS. So, I thought I'd try it under Windows and it worked! My reader is listed under disks under Hard Drake as a SCSI on sda and the card is correctly identified as 32MB. I don't know if this will work for anyone else, but I post it hoping it will Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB Smart Media Card Readers/Was RE: Zip Drive and fstab
I've been thinking that MKNOD is what I should be doing, rather than MAKEDEV. MODPROBE doesn't give me an SDA1, but I do have an SDA. I'm curious: how do you determine those major and minor numbers? Is this something to be found in the UsbView output? Or is this limited to IDE and not USB? Also, am I fighting a losing battle - will Linux work with just card readers that do not have more than one 'slot'? That is, is a card reader that can accomodate both CF and SM doomed to failure? tester wrote: tester wrote: Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I am using Mandrake 8.1. I can access my floppy and my cdrom but not the Zip disk. It is an internal Atapi drive. My fstab entry looks like this: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,icharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 when I try to mount with the icon I get the following message: mount special device /dev/hdd4 does not exist I know it is probably something really simple, but I just can't figure it out. Your help is greatly appreciated. Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com In this case you need to create the device mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 69 Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ack Typo mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 68 is what it should be major 22 is ide channel secondary minor 64+partition number is slave drive and partition number combined. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader
I've been having problems getting my usb card reader to be recognized properly. I think I may have come upon some clues, anyway. When I have my card reader plugged in, with or without booting the computer with a card in the reader, a 'modprobe usb-storage' will result in an SDA being created, and Hardrake sees the thing as a 1 gig scsi drive. Even if I remove the card, it still sees the card reader as a 1 gig drive. But I've found that if I plug in my usb-equipped Olympus C-700 (not listed in gPhoto, btw, and none of the other entries seem to want to work with it), I find that it is recoginzed, it sees that it has 64 megabytes, and when I remove the card, Hardrake reflects that, giving a capacity of zero, and setting a couple of the other parameters to -1. I think that the misidentifying of the card reader's capacity is possibly part of the problem with mounting it - I am successful in mounting the Olympus. I don't know of a way to tell it, hey, this card reader is just 64 megs, or should be treated just like the camera when I plug it in. But at least I'm getting closer! skidley wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, poogle wrote: I may be completely off base here but I'll try anyway, I have an Olympus USB camera which uses Smartmedia cards but is not recognised by any of the photo packages. Thanks to Ric Tibbets I am able to download from it by doing the following:- modprobe usb-storage mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/cam (where /mnt/cam is the mountpoint I created) Checking Hardrake it shows my camera as a disk called /dev/sda, note it does not show it as /dev/sda1 which it is but then HDs are shown as /dev/hda /dev/hdb, again no drive number. It may be that you need to modprobe usb-storage and then mount it as /dev/sda1 BTW, I don't know anything about saving to such a device. A drive doesn't have a number, partitions have numbers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Card Reader Other USB Devices
I'm getting closer - I think. I can plug in my various USB devices, and the Control Center shows some of them as disks: the Card Reader at /dev/sda and the camera (Olympus C700; great performer, btw) at /dev/sdb. The Teleport USB modem shows up when I use UsbView, but I haven't spotted it yet under Control Center. Anyway: when I try to mount (as root) the camera or the card reader, as in: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/camera, I get this in return: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems. Any hints or suggestions? I have a feeling that the usb modem is falling into the Other Devices black hole. It's funny that UsbView finds and identifies it, and Control Center doesn't. I hope that someone steers me in the right direction so that I can use these things. It's tough being a Linux evangelist when you can't get the system to let you use something, and yet it's automatically loaded in Windows! -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Card Reader Other USB Devices
When I do the modprobe usb-storage, /dev/sda is created, but no sda1. I have a feeling that this is one of those things that will have to wait until Mandrake 8.2 or later. For now, I guess I'll just stick with Windows for my digital picture stuff. And I really think that I'm so *close* to getting this thing to work! Of course, it might help if I knew more about what I was doing. As in, is modprobe the only thing I should be doing? Iknow that /dev/sda doesn't exist until I do the modprobe, but I wonder: is there something else? I find it weird that UsbView finds the card reader just fine, even names it correctly. Finds the usb modem, too. But Mandrake itself doesn't have a clue about what to do about either of them. I'd like to use the usb modem, simply because it's faster than my external serial modem, but I'm not even sure what parameter I should do a modprobe on that guy - perhaps usbserial? I tried that, but then I don't know what new object was created from that. So, nothing to use in a 'mount' command. Oh well, there's nothing like a challenge, I guess - but I wish that I could use this card reader on Linux. I hate booting Windows, retrieving the pictures, then booting into Linux to use the GIMP. It's just easier, I guess, just to stay in Windows and use some photo software over there. Bob Bomar wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2001 14:59, you wrote: I'm getting closer - I think. I can plug in my various USB devices, and the Control Center shows some of them as disks: the Card Reader at /dev/sda and the camera (Olympus C700; great performer, btw) at /dev/sdb. The Teleport USB modem shows up when I use UsbView, but I haven't spotted it yet under Control Center. Anyway: when I try to mount (as root) the camera or the card reader, as in: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/camera, I get this in return: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems. Any hints or suggestions? I have a feeling that the usb modem is falling into the Other Devices black hole. It's funny that UsbView finds and identifies it, and Control Center doesn't. I hope that someone steers me in the right direction so that I can use these things. It's tough being a Linux evangelist when you can't get the system to let you use something, and yet it's automatically loaded in Windows! Try mounting as /dev/sda1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do i know if USB was detected? and iomega external CDRW ?
I have just today upgraded from 8.0 to 8.1, and it's getting to the point where I'll be surprised when the install *doesn't* go smoothly! But I have a similar question about USB devices. Mine were recognized by Mandrake, as seen by running USBViewer. It picked up my SmartMedia / CompactFlash Adapter, the scanner, and even a joystick and a modem. Trouble is: what do I do now? Out on Mandrake's site, I see that USB storage devices, such as the SM/CF adapter, should be mounted like SCSI stuff. As in: External USB storage devices are handled like SCSI devices, so everything I said about mounting parallel devices above also applies here, i.e. to mount a ZIP disk in a USB connected ZIP drive, you'd most likely use mount /dev/sda4 -t vfat /mnt/zip --- Trouble is, the info in USBView doesn't seem to include any info such as something that's found in the /dev directory. I would love to be able to use the scanner and especially the SM/CF adapter - two less reasons to boot up into Windows. So, how do I go about attaching these recognized USB devices to something that I can then 'mount'? -- Thanks! Kenn Murrah wrote: Greetings. I've done a default 8.1 installation on my laptop and everything seems to be functioning properly, including an ethernet connection that i was a little concerned about ... how do i tell if USB installed properly as well? the only USB gadget i have with me today at the office is an external Iomega zipCD drive, and i can't tell if it's seeing it or not ... i guess i also have an iomega usb zip drive, but that's also not listed as supported ... has anyone had any luck with either one of these products? thanks in advance, kennM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Memory Problem?
I've got Mandrake 8.0 on my system right now (but I'm writing this from Windows, for reasons that will be made clear). My system, an Athlon 950 from Gateway, came with 128 Megs of RAM. Everything installed and ran fine. So, of course, I had to change things. I added 256 Megs of RAM. It's not the same overall dimensions as the OEM one, but they both are SDRAM and 133 Mhz, so they should be fine. And, they work fine under Windows ME. But when I try to boot back into Linux (using LILO), it tries to start up the Xwindows, and then boots back to a command prompt, asking for a logon. Before I can even do that, I start seeing a series of error messages, apparently having something to do with the USB support. Since this worked fine with 128 Megs, I think that this isn't the problem, but that the memory is. So: does Mandrake not like changing the installed memory after you've got a system up and running? Should I boot from the boot disk and add a parameter telling it of the new amount of RAM? (That would be 'Linux append=mem=384, right?) Or should I just reinstall? Thanks! Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Change Default User
I've just recently installed Mandrake 7.2, and I'd like to change my selection for the default user that the system brings up automatically. Is there an easy way to do this, any particular files I can edit as ROOT? Or, do I need to put in the CD and choose UPDATE, and just skip ahead to the selection for choosing the default user? Thanks! -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY Powered by Linux!
Re: [newbie] Active X on Evan Messages
Definitely a name to be added to my straight-to-the-trash filter. *** REPLY SEPARATOR ***On 4/28/00 at 2:09 PM doom wrote: i have attached the following that is in his messages...this is a malicious script...i think he needs to be kicked off the list... ===You know you've been hacking too long when..your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!" ===
Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results
The downside involves just how much data you're reading in. Seeing as how the speed is now so much greater - about 5 times greater - you run the risk of having your hard drive coming loose, bouncing around inside the case, and perhaps causing bodily harm if it should escape altogether. My suggestion: line the inside of your computer case with heavy-duty duct tape, the handyman's secret weapon. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 4/25/00 at 2:14 PM vern wrote: Okay, being an old skeptic and a young Linux mechanic what's the "downside" of such a tweak?? Will I have data errors (read/write) corrupted files, and such?? Why is the "default" set so low?? Vern Larry Varney wrote: Mine was similar, until I did the "hdparm -d1 hda", and the result jumped up into the 13 MB/sec range. Changing the umask didn't seem to make any difference, though.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hanging
Necrotica wrote: Hello, Over the last couple of days Mandrake has been hanging on me for no apparent reason. In the last 2 hours it has hung on me 3 times, forcing me to power off my machine. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why its happening. Where is a good place to start troubleshooting this? I am starting to get real frustrated with it and would like to get it fixed. Are there logs that I can go through? Anything at all? Thanks... -Chris Try hitting the ctrl-alt-F2 to see if that will bring up the text logon screen. If it does, then hop back into your previous session with an ctrl-alt-F7, to see if you're "unhung". One other thing I've noticed, sporadically, is that some process will just seem to go nuts, something like ld-lo.so2 or something, and will take up nearly 100% of your cpu and memory. If you can bring up another destop and a terminal window and run TOP, you'll see this guy and his pid. Do a kill -9 on that pid and, while your Netscape session (in my case, usually) will suddenly disappear, at least it's better than powering off. Why does this happen? I don't know, just as I don't know why sometimes the cursor will suddenly freeze, forcing me to do the F2-F7 dance. I wish someone would find a cure for the problem rather than the symptoms! -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Powered by Linux!
[newbie] Overload
I have Mandrake 7.0, not the -2 version. Sometimes, when I'm using both Netscape Navigator and Messenger, I'll notice that things seem to have frozen. If I open a terminal window and run top, I'll see something called ld-linux.so.2, and I can sit and watch it start taking more and more cpu up to almost 10%. At that point, the only way to get Netscape to start working again, is to do a kill -9 on the pid of that process. My question(s): what is it? Why is it behaving that way, and is there a way to prevent it? Right now, for instance, it's behaving itself with a %cpu of 0.0 and %mem of 25.6. Any help would be appreciated. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Powered by Linux!
Re: [newbie] cable modem
At 02:06 PM 3/16/00 -0500, you wrote: Hello there I have Road Runner cable modem service and I was wondering if anyone knows how to set it up so I can get on to the internet with linux . I tried tech support but they said that they only support win/mac and can't help with any other OS. Cory I installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on a friend's machine that has Road Runner. All I had to do during the installation (I took the expert mode, workstation, I believe) was to tell it that I was using a LAN instead of a dial-up modem. It detected his card and configured it automatically. I brought up the KFM and told it to look for http://www.cnn.com, and up it came. Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney
[newbie] More Impressed Than Ever
With Mandrake 7.0's installation. I had mentioned earlier how it had included the XFree86 3.3.6, which now recognizes my S3 Savage 3D card, and my Maestro sound chip. Today, though, I was even more impressed. I used Partition Magic on a friend's machine to create a /boot partition for him (he's got a very big hard drive), making sure that it was within the first 8 gigabytes. He also has a cable modem (RoadRunner). I had read various sites on the web about how to work with DHCP and all that, and was prepared for an ordeal. Mandrake detected his ethernet card. When I told it that there were no others, it went on to the next selection. I though, uh-oh, I guess I'll have to deal with that stuff later. And, probably due to some installation decision I made (such as no dial-out modem support) it didn't seem to install Netscape. So, once everything appeared to be done, I rebooted, up came the desktop, I entered 'www.cnn.com' in KFM, and I was connected! I can't say everything went smoothly, as it seemed to have a problem with his RW CD-ROM until I removed the supermount from the line in mstab. But other than that, I am more than impressed. Mandrake, you guys make a great distribution! -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Powered by Linux!
Re: [newbie] S3 Savage3D
"-- XE --" wrote: I have S3 Savage3D video card. XFree86 3.3.5 only detect that card as supervga card with only 16 colors. Will XFree86 3.3.6 in Mandrake 7 detect my card as a true supervga card with 64k colors..?? TIA.. . -- XE -- You bet! I have the same video card. I downloaded Mandrake 7.0, was suitably impressed with the new installation setup, and was tickled to death to find that the latest XFree86 now recognizes that card, and I've got gobs of colors and multiple resolutions to play with. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Powered by Linux!
Re: [[newbie] 64 Meg Ram Problem =(]
John Catral wrote: What I meant was... where in the file "lilo.conf" do I put the "append=224M"? Do I put it before the boot=/dev/hda... boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b etc... I know that we can't just put append=224M anywhere inside the file. Or can I? -John I did a search on linux.com, and found this: All memory like DRAM, EDO and SDRAM can be used with Linux. There is one thing you have to look at: normally the kernel is not supporting more than 64 Mb of memory. When you add more than 64 Mb of memory you have to add the following line to your LILO configuration file. append="mem=number of MbM" So, when you have 96 Mb of memory this should become append="mem=96M" Don't type a number higher than the number Mb you really have. This can present unpredictable crashes. There was nothing about location of this statement, but I have heard that it should be on the BOOT line. I'm struggling along with just 64 Mb right now, so I haven't tested it myself! -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Powered by Linux!
Re: [newbie] Financial Freedom and Success
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, you wrote: Well, if it were a real address you could mail bomb him. However, it looks to me like he/she used a relay server (which anyone with an iq over 0 would do) so there probably isn't much you can do... it's probably the same person(s) sending all the spam to this list for all I know. DvB Mega-snippage -- Am I the only one who thinks that the continuing to quote what was perceived as spam, is spam as well? Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Powered by Linux!
Re: [newbie] Mouse woes driving me crazy
I've had the same problem with a PS/2 mouse and Mandrake 7.0. Sometimes it happens frequently enough to cause me to think seriously about finding another distribution, but I'm not sure if that would cure it. But, usually I can go for hours, if not days, without this happening. I do wonder if KDE is the culprit - I'm anxiously awaiting their 2.0 release. Or maybe I should just go to GNOME, figure out how to get its ppp-applet to work, and see if that solves the problem. Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney - Original Message - From: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Helios-New [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 10:14 PM Subject: [newbie] Mouse woes driving me crazy | Dear friends: | | Using Mandrake 6.1 and KDE. | | I have a plain Micro Serial PS/2 mouse. It's relatively new. Bought it | a few months ago. | | Here is what happens: | | The mouse freezes or just plain disappears. I do a Cnt+Alt+Esc if the | mouse freezes (e.g. in Netscape). If it disappears, I do a | Cnt+Alt+Backspace. This brings me back to the console. I type startx and | get back in KDE. The mouse is back in operation. But shortly thereafter | (about 10-20 minutes lates), this same scenario is repeated ad nauseam. | I tried another new version of the Micro mouse. Same problem. I don't | think it has anything to do with the mouse. I went into KDE's Control | Center (Input Devices, Mouse) and played with the acceleration option. | Hasn't helped one way or another. | | Would appreciate any advice. | | Thank you so much. | | Benjamin | | | -- | Benjamin and Anna Sher | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sher's Russian Web | http://www.websher.net |
Re: [Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?]
At 03:06 AM 2/10/00 -0500, you wrote: At 01:03 AM 2/10/00 -0600, you wrote: If anyone reads this, then it should be obvious that this particular piece of software, Microsoft's Outlook Express, does work. Outlook Exploder pseudo-works. Sometimes you might manage to read a few messages and even get one sent off before it decides to crash. Still, I have a strict definition for when software really works... :-) If you're serious about what you're saying, then perhaps you should look into your installation of the product. I use both Outlook and Outlook Express, send and receive dozens if not hundreds of messages per day, and I have yet to have it crash. I am having a problem with Kmail, though, with its sticking in what looks to be a 'skeleton' of a message, with no entries in the 'to' or 'from' fields, the date is way in the past, and I get the indicator that there's new mail - a (1), for instance - that is impossible to get rid of, unless I choose the option to empty the folder. And, while it may be fun and amusing to come up with different spellings, abbreviations, acronyms and so on, does the constant bashing of Microsoft serve any purpose? Are you kidding? It's necessary to ensure nobody forgets or fails to realize how evil Microsoft is, and how unusable and generally cruddy their softgware is... It's a duty and a responsibility for all of us who have seen and experienced what Microsoft and its software does, and have also experienced the alternative. Sorry, but "evil"? Sure, this is a fun bit of 'street theatre' to act out in front of outsiders, to get their attention, but it seems to be unnecessary here. Sure, I've had my fill of the Blue Screen of Death, the effects of Bloatware and so on, but I wouldn't classify the MS software that I use, as "unusable". Unstable, prone to security violations, sure, but they are usable. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848| Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney
[newbie] Pointer Sticking
I have installed Mandrake 7.0, and I love it. The new XFree86 handles my video card (Savage3D) much better than before, and my on-board sound chip (Maestro) now functions, too. But: frequently my mouse pointer will freeze up, sometimes first jumping to the upper-right and freezing there, and there's nothing I can do (I guess) but do a ctrl-alt-backspace, and then the pointer is "free" again. Of course, this disconnects my modem, too, and is a pain otherwise. Does anyone else have this problem? And, does anyone have a solution? Thanks!
