[newbie] can not connect video device(/dev/video0)
Dear mandrake linux users: I had download and install most of my device driver of my webcam BTC usb webcam, but when I run xawtv or camoram or webcam, it response me error can not connect to video device(/dev/video0) please check connection please help on this, highly appreciate your effort and time sincere ERic _ Have you signed up for the World's Fastest Free Email ? http://www.Luxmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and WindowsXP
how do we get the Luna theme on Mandrake? does it come with KDE selection? I really enjoyed and missed apple system 7.6, but Mac computers usually are more expensive than pc. If we can run mac theme on Mandrake - that would be great! Eric On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, skinky wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:11, D. wrote: | Well why do we care about XP? And if you just | installed it how do you know that it is more stable | then ME? Don't you need some run time before you make | that statement?? And please tell us how you enjoy | paying the license fee again after you upgrade your | hardware. The last time that I looked this was | [newbie] Linux-Mandrake list not XP. If there is a | problem running a dual boot with XP(eww) and Mandrake | then yes we care. | Don | | --- Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Just upgraded to WindowsXP, for those who even care, | and it went smoothly. | Runs faster than ME and is very stable and solid. | The usual applications that | would crash ME without fail didn't even make XP | hiccup. | | Two things though in both Linux and XP I just can't | get my ancient external | parallel port CDwriter to work automatically. With | XP I have to wait until HP | puts the download on their website, which I had to | to with my scanner with | ME, and so far with Linux the information I found | requires me to play with | some settings which I am more than willing to learn | just hard to find the | time lately. | | As far as the Luna interface being a rip of Apple's | Aqua, not with all the | wishful thinking and eye squinting does it look like | Aqua. I still enjoy | Linux's adaptability for making the Aqua theme much | nicer than to enjoy | without tying it to a premium system. | | If anyone wishes to drop me a hint on the CDwriter | issue or a link for the | truly RAW newbie I would appreciate it very much. Quite the opposite in my case. As I have _no_ intention of upgrading M$ Win98SE to XP, I'm quite curious as to the differences in XP. I never got ME but I've read about a few people's experiences with it. Yes, this is a Linux-Mandrake list but there's nothing wrong with the comparision between the two OS's displaying a theme. And besides, I think Robert wants to know how to get his CD Writer going in Linux. Sorry I can't help you there Robert. Good luck. skinky PS. why are we getting so touchy on the M$ subject? Must be the weather... ; ) -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATI XPERT 2000 AGP 32Mb
I don't know if I know enough to help, but I installed an S3 with 1mb video card onto a i810e motherboard with integrated video card, without being able to disable the i810 video accelerator that my installation on Mandrake 7.2 and earlier versions of redhat just froze. Did you have another video accelerator on board? if so, were you be able to disable it? On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:02:22 +0200 Berthus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Today I've installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 in my AMD K7 900MHz and I've got the same problem that I had with Mandrake 7.0, 7.2 and RedHat 6 Linux don't support my ATI XPERT 2000 Pro video Card and my LG studioworks 775n screen. Does anyone in the forum knows what can I do for work with those adapters, if there is a driver or a device of similar characteristics? Thanks Are you selecting the r_128 driver. The installation may not recognize your card but it is supported for 3d hardware accelleration using the above driver since XF-3.3.6. If your card will not work it may be that you are suffering from a hardware conflict. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter
I am not sure where I did wrong... I usually use customized install option choosing developement settings. I let it install with most of the packages except games at the package selection prompt. At the video settings I choose the normal 16 color with 600 * 800 without 3D acceleration. I changed the file system and operating system option in the bios from windows 2000/Me to Others. And I have windowsMe on the first partition and ext on the second. I didn't put /boot so installed bootloader in MBR. I have two IDE one for CDROM and one for my Hardisk, and 128 - 2 mb ram (2 usually for the video card). I use the KDE - Information - Memory to tell how much memory I have. It usually takes about 30mb for buffer and leaves about 2 ~ 3 mb free. Would it take less memory if I try to disable some of the startup services? Thanks Eric On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, civileme wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2001 04:59, Dave Sherman wrote: On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 21:41, Lin wrote: hi, ever since I upgraded to Mandrake 7.2 I noticed the increase use of buffering under KDE, but when I do open a new program such as netscape I eventually ran out of memory and need to use disk swap - which the buffer really doesn't help... could anyone help me on how to disable the memory buffering under KDE? snip How do you believe this is happening? Thiis seems more an interpretation of data than the data itself. What steps did you take to notice this? If it is a memory leak as you tend to describe here, it would be either a bad bug or s seriously corrupted install. But linux uses memory and disk differently, so it may be only an interpretation. Still, I did notice what appeared to be a memory leak which was really a bad install not long ago. The computer involved had a WD and a Maxtor on the same chanel and they were killing each other's data with timing chatter. Separating the disks to different channels and reinstalling cured the problem which had heretofore persisted through two reinstalls. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter
hi, ever since I upgraded to Mandrake 7.2 I noticed the increase use of buffering under KDE, but when I do open a new program such as netscape I eventually ran out of memory and need to use disk swap - which the buffer really doesn't help... could anyone help me on how to disable the memory buffering under KDE? My other question is that I tend to use disk defragmenter under windows, but after I switch over I realize I couldn't find anything like it under KDE... could anyone also help me how to run defragmenter with Mandrake? Thanks Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
I am sort of having similar problems.. My computer was cyrix 366 mhz and it runs blazing fast with Mandrake 7.0 when having 128 mb of pc100 memory - It was really impressive comparing to win98 it shipped with; But now after I upgrade to an celeron 600 mhz with the same memory and Mandrake 7.2 - kde becomes quite sluggish. .. often it takes most of my memory for buffering - but when I do open a new application - those buffer doesn't seem to help.. I only use it to run gcc compilers and tex wordprocessing, sometimes xpdf and netscape... is it possible for me to disable the buffering after I start up the computer? thanks Eric On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Franki wrote: I regularly get several months uptime from a server with mdk7.2 and it only has 128mb of pc133... Until next week anyway, then it gets an upgrade to 256 or 512mb... I don't think it'll make a huge lot of difference, all its running is Postfix, Amavis and serving web and cgi stuff... does about 1200 emails a day and runs 7 domains... The uptime shows that its usage is nearly 0 across the board... Maybe 2.4 kernels are less efficient for this sort of stuff?? rgsd Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brandon Caudle Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2001 7:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? If you talking about how much ram is necessary, I feel there is never enough, I have 768meg of PC133, and Suse Still uses 400meg of swap. With 200 days+ up time its a little excusable, but if your building a server, that has a required uptime, Get the max you can afford! ~Brandon Caudle Adrian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? Two 64Mb chips, one PC133 the other PC100. Not a happy bunny, see :o( Whats the point of giving me a mix of the two if the lower one brings the higher one down? Adrian Lynch -- United Kingdom http://www.thoughtbubble.co.uk/ Ph: +44 (0) 20 7387 8890 -- New Zealand http://www.thoughtbubble.co.nz/ Ph: +64 (0) 9 488 9131 The information in this email and in any attachments is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s) . Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Thoughtbubble. This information may be subject to legal, professional or other privilege and further distribution of it is strictly prohibited without our authority. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorised to disclose, copy, distribute, or retain this message. Please notify us on +44 (0) 20 7387 8890 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to setup a telnet server?
hello, I have Mandrake 7.2 installed, but I don't know how to setup to have the telnet server to work. It says: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused I couldn't find a telnet in startup program, so I just enabled rlogin at boot time, but it still doesn't work. Could anyone please help? Thanks Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ATI TV tuner compatibility
hi all Is Mandrake capable of running ATI tv tuner cards? Could I be able to find the application anywhere? Thanks Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Integrated Video chip vs S3 Trio 64
thanks, I thought i810e uses my celeron processor. Right now I am trying to install BeOS, it is really cool, and it doesn't have any partitioning problems, but it doesn't work with my i810e video chip. I was thinking to put this 1 meg S3 card in, but wishing to know if the performance will be degraded too much under windows and linux. Thanks again Eric On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, civileme wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2001 13:12, Lin wrote: I had an i810 shared memory video accelerator(up to 11mb sdram), will it make a difference if instead I put in a 1 MB S3 trio 64 v2 video card to run Linux? I couldn't really find the video accelerator on my Motherboard, I am worrying it is actually using my processor to do all the work... Thanks all Eric It would absolutely assure that you had no video acceleration, and it would be non-trivial to configure. Actually the video accelerator is buried in the Northbridge of the i810 Chipset. The new NVidia Chipset is designed the same way, and no one can fault its projected performance. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Kmail question
Hi Jim and all, All config files that are particular to a user are in the users /home directory, or for root are in /root. I always backup /root /home as well as /usr/local - which is where I add my scripts or progs I have found. I also backup /etc/fstab, ..*.conf, ...conf.* config.* and *.config. Hope this helps. Lin -Original Message- From: Jim Kempton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, July 01, 2001 21:36 Subject: [newbie] Kmail question Hey all Is there a Kmail config file wherin is stored all the settings PARTICULARLY filter rules? If so, uh, where is it please. When I back up I wanna back this up too. TIA Jim -- MJK Systems-IT Consultants Training Phone/Fax-020 8697 4912 Mobile-077 4066 3292 Linux User #-196384
Re: [newbie] Zip Drive question
Hi, I have found that the device for ZIP 100 is /dev/sda1 for an ext2 f/s and /dev/sda4 for a DOS or VFAT f/s on the ZipDisk. I hope this helps Cheers, Lin -Original Message- From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, June 30, 2001 09:07 Subject: Re: [newbie] Zip Drive question It was Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:26:52 -0500 when Dave wrote: OK---this is my second post so I hope this isn't a stupid question.. Will my External Parallel 100 mb Zip Drive work with LInux Mandrake 7.2? Ps: I did finally get the settings right on my USR 33.6 modem(didn't have a manual...tinkered with it till I got it right.) It is not a stupid question. You're stupid when you don't ask! And yes, the zip will work. You have to find the proper modprobe command for it on boot. 1.Turn on the drive and insert a disk. 2.Type modprobe ppa or modprobe imm. This will load the module. 3.Try to mount the drive as 'root': mount /dev/sd[x]4 -t vfat /mnt/disk 4.If mount doesn't complain, you've got it. (from http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hremov2.html ) Then stick the modprobe in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and you're done (this will require the drive up and loaded though). If you want, you can create a script for that, to run when you need the drive. Paul -- I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. -Alexandre Dumas (fils) http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] need help to install without CD-ROM
hi, I have MDK 7.0 on CD, but my notebook doesn't have a CD-ROM. It didn't let me do network install neither because Red Hat asks for more than 16mb RAM. Is there any way I can install linux on it? It is 133mhz, and 16mb RAM, will linux work ok with it? Thanks Eric
[newbie] PartImage - Very useful for O/S Fiddlers
Hi everyone. As one who enjoys messing with Linux, I dont risk my system by fiddling with major updates or reconfiguring. Instead I have 3 different systems, Caldera, Mandrake 7.2 and now Mandrake 8.0. So it doesnt matter if I destroy one. What we need is a quick way of restoring them. I have just got PartImage on a Mag disk and it is brilliant. Using it to make an image of a Partition, and them burning a CD with that image gives a quick way. I have just deliberately deleted my Man 8.0 partition, so I could restore it, which took about 3 minutes. It is better than Nero in that it ignores unused space, and compresses. Get it from ,http://www.partimage.org/ Cheers Lin Kenham
Re: [newbie] 7.2 install question
the addresses should be ok, the Mandrake installation program have partition utilities you will probably be asked to use. The major part is to resize windows without lossing any data. Then I would use the free space to install linux with the given installer. I don't remember the 7.2 installation, but they should let you boot from floppy drive and without floppy for windows, by selecting fd0 instead. On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jeffery Chapman wrote: I've created a partition and swap file space on my secondary harddrive. I used Partition Magic to create the partitions. The harddisk now looks like this: |--- windows ---||--- linux part ---||--- linux swap ---| | /dev/hdb1 || /dev/hdb2|| /dev/hdb3| Questions: 1) Am I correct on the /dev/ addresses? 2) Will the Mandrake installation program recognize the linux partitions I've created as the place to install linux? Currently there is nothing in the partitions. The documentation is a bit fuzy in this area. Will the install program ask me where to install? I'm not the only user of the PC and I really do not want to risk destroying any data in the first partition. 3) If I do a custom install, will I be prompted on whether or not to install a bootloader or can I just skip the step? I don't want to install GRUB or have it automatically installed. Thanks.
[newbie] why at nonroot user session is slow?
when I tried to open netscape message by user mode, it was freezed. that is kernel proble? I use 7.1 anyone have same situation or you all using root mode? eric
Re: [[newbie] Bottom panel configuration]
Hi Hugo: The things (both of them) you are missing is called "gnome pager" and should be one of the default applet when you try to configurate your panel bar. As far as why it went missing, I have no idea. Hope this helps. John Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Server assign DNS address
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] Windows Manager
I am somewhat suprised with the lack of support for WindowMaker. I have tried both KDE/KWM and Gnome/Enlightenment combo, they both seemed too heavy duty for my mediocre computer. As user, I am now running WindowMaker on its own, it is stable, fast, and have a clean interface. It is also both Gnome and KDE compatable. As root, I run KDE because it is easy to configurate system settings. John Lin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Oops! Destroy my X server
Hello all: I was trying to run the linux quake 2 and I accidently messed up my X server. Now I can not enter the X windows environmentr. I have tried to run XF86config and Xconfigurator in text mode as a root, but it does not solve my problem. When I test the setup in Xconfigurator, the message "An error occurred, try changing some parameters" appears. When I run xinit, the following messages showed up: FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 fail to set default font path 'unix1:-1' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' And when I shutdown the computer, it reads Shutting down X font server [failed] Can anybody help me. Any suggestion/comment would be much appreciated Thanks in advance John Lin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Sound volume
I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my computer without any problem. And I have run sndconfig to setup my (very) old SB16 sound card and it is running nicely. The problem is that every time I log on (either as root or user), the sound volume is always at maximum level and I have to reduce it manually. Is there a way to save the sound volume setting after I have adjusted it? Any help would be appreciated. john lin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
