[newbie] Matrox G450
I seem to remember that Mandrake 7.2 does not directly support the Matrox G450 card. Is there an updated RPM or something to support that card? Matrox has a beta driver on their site as well - any tips on getting that installed? I am running XFree 4x that comes with 7.2 TIA! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Mouseman plus
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:31:33 -0800 (PST), Dale Peterson wrote: For some reason, when I select mouseman plus hardware configuration, and then hit ok, it closes the window but doesn't change anything. Where do you see this? I went into the KDE control center for hardware/mouse. No option to set the mouse brand/model. I set my Logitech MouseMan Plus during install / works fine. Middle Button on the Maximize button works as advertised - max vertical but does not change the width of the window. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
[newbie] Samba Resource Suggestion
I highly suggest for those new to Linux and wishing to use Samba as a server to Windows or OS/2 PC's - get the Sams Samba Unleashed. Very good foundational info on the Linux file system, what every char means in a DIR/LS listing, chmod "unleashed", etc... as well as very good info on using a Linux/Samba box as a file/print server for Windows. Logon scripts, file, print, etc... good coverage of all. I had intended to get the O Reilly book as it is the "suggested" book at samba.org, but it was not as complete as the 2 inch thick Sams book. It is also one year newer than the Samba in 24 hours - I would say that book is EOL until it is updated. Unleashed actually covers some Win2K stuff - based on the Beta III. Highly Suggested for those wanting to sneak a Linux Samba server into a Windows world! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Corel getting out of the Linux business?
I thought it was talked of dumping the Corel Linux distribution, but not the apps on Linux. Had not even heard the distribution was going away, yet. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] WINE with Office 97
I highly highly doubt you will get that to install, ever, without MS making a special version of their code just like Corel did when they made their Windows version of WP Suite run on Linux. Someone correct me if I am wrong. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
[newbie] Source for newest 7.2 CD
With the talk of different cuts of 7.2 out there - version of KDE included - is there a list of places to get Mandrake (buy the CD's), and what version of 7.2 they offer? I've tried to DL the ISO file to build my own CD - can't keep a connection up long enough, and FTP Restart somewhere along the way let me down as Adaptec EZCD says the ISO file is invalid - I asume there is some sort of CRC check. I do have the last beta downloaded - is there a way to completely upgrade to the 7.2 release? TIA Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Source for newest 7.2 CD
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:23:08 +1100, David Grubb wrote: Can't help on the where to buy cds, but I also received an error when attempting to burn the ISO (using EZCD) - something along the lines of "this cd is not suitable for the image you are about to write" I have v4 Delux of the EZCD - no getting around the message. File - Create CD from CD Image, change to the ISO file listings, click on the file - boom the message - no option around the beast. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Matrox G450 LE
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:22:01 -, Steve wrote: I can't seem to get X working. Harddrake identifies the card as a G400 (which should work fine). Not really. I think you might be stuck until the rev the SVGA package to support that card. (Thanks for the warning, getting ready to upgrade to one - except the dual head 32MB version.) I'm a Matrox fan as well, and when the G400 came out it was detected as a G200 and would not work either. On the note of Matrox - the installer never does seem to get the memory right, it just picks the lowest ammount which is a valid choice for the card. I always have to set the number myself. Michael
[newbie] AMD Chips and Linux
I noticed on the AMD web site there are drivers to make Win2K work with an AMD based board - AGP, EIDE, ChipSet, etc... Are such drivers needed for Mandrake 7.2? The new AMD 761 chip set just came out, for the on chip cache vs L2 cache CPU's. That is the type of board I am thinking to get... since my current favorite SuperMicro's latest board (Intel 815 based) only has two PCI slots... they dumped the 5 slot version. I need three PCI slots min for: sound, ethernet, and SCSI. Thanks Michael
Re: [newbie] Do you have Linux installed on separate partition or drive?
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:47:45 -0500, Romanator wrote: I have lots of space. I think I'll wait for System Commander to arrive. PowerBoot runs circles around System Commander - I use it with Win2K and Linux. You can try it at www.bmtmicro.com - I suggest partitioning with Linux vs their FDisk program. Then install PowerBoot. Profiles are great, once you get the nack of the text user interface. Hide and unhide based on your menu choice w/o a reboot! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake install on an unformatted disk
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:58:28 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I start the mandrake 7.1 install on a system with one ATA66 10.2Gb Unformatted HD, will it format the disk when I get to diskdrake? Mandrake's GUI Install has an auto partition button. Good for beginers. Further windows will prompt you to format partitions - defaults are OK in the case of a new disk. Also, I'm using the 10.2Gb ATA66 disk on a UDMA33 Controller. Will I encounter any probs in the running of linux if I use this config? Mandrake will query the controller which only understands ATA33 and run at that mode. The only strange thing you might run into is if your LBA mode on the disk controller does not show Linux there is more than 8GB on the disk. If that is the case you might look for a BIOS update for your montherboard / disk controller if it is a plug in card. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Which hard drive is the most reliable and installation of Linux?
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 19:24:02 -0500, Romanator wrote: What would be the most preferable hard drive to install in your computer or does it matter? I've been building PC's for clients for 13 years now - and the past few years I've used IBM drives in both workstations (IDE - DeskStar) and in servers (SCSI - UltraStar). To date, I've had one drive crash out of MANY. To compare that, a large client switched to Dell, which uses a mix. Quite a few have the HDD crash when the PC is around a month old, and of those that crash all were WestenDigital (WesternCrapital in my mind) Before IBM I was using Fujitsu - it took so long for new drive models to get here from Japan that at times they would get here and ship them back as they could not sell them in the USA for the price they wanted to get for them. As well, tech support was hard to contact in those days. I heard that it changed after I quit using them. As well, a few years with Quantum. They actually had to buy some drives back once as they did not have enough media to repair the drive. Quite a few times it seemed they were pusing the technology envelope too hard, and new ideas were flops at my expense. Maxtor as much as I have used them were good middle of the road drives - not had to contact tech support so I don't know how they are. Seagate - I used them for Cheetah's before IBM got their 10K RPM drives out, not bad but noisier than IBM. And when you sit next to a server w/ RAID 5 it makes a difference. I hated the high pitch screem. That server is now sold and history! So, the order IBM Maxtor Seagate Quantum Fujitsu None! WD (WC) g Some of your other issues might be related to other compents of your hardware - motherboard, BIOS, IDE chip, etc... I had a couple of BCM/GVC motherboards - 440BX chip set, they were a pain about drives over 8GB. I had an IWill 440BX board, it using Mandrake 7.0 could only see 8GB of a 9GB drive. Currently I have a SuperMicro board - a rare 820 chip with DIMM and the famous MTH chip. Knock on wood it has been very solid with a 20GB ATA66 IBM DeskStar - and dual boots using Power Boot between Win2K and Mandrake 7.1. The only trick was to partition with Linux, and set the Extended partition to type F so that Win2K could install FAT32 out to the end of the drive. I use FAT32 as I developed my own imaging technology using InfoZip and some other tools. Someday I will tackle NTFS imaging. All the best! (And that means hardware too) To heck with the over clocking folks who do strange things with strange hardware. I stick to the middle of the road with cool hardware - and have just enough problems to keep life interesting. g Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Best to use RPMs ???
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:46:28 -0700 (PDT), Bradford Sturtevant wrote: Example, if you downloaded the latest Apache server from apache.org, installed it, then downloaded the RPM from Redhat and installed you would end up with Apache installed in two different locations. Sounds like RedHad changed the install dir in their distribution, and then the developers RPM put it in their intended place which gave you two copies. If the code is something which Mandrake shipped on their install CD, then generally they do a good job maintaining their MDK files which you can access from the MandrakeUpdate program. It also knows what are the suppported packages which need to be updated for the package you choose. For example, I wanted to see if SAMBA 2.0.7 fixed my Win2K client problems, ran Mandrake update, selected the SAMBA files, and the update program found package requirements about three levels deep - PAM, C, and some other stuff. In short, I had SAMBA up and running in just a couple hours after a clean install of Mandrake 7.1 - very nice! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] after install
1) If you want to just start the GUI after you logon to a text session, run "startx" 2) If you want your system to start the GUI by default, logon text mode as root and run "Xconfigurator" - at the end of this program you can choose to start XWindows when the system boots. Kind of a good idea to have your GUI configured correctly before you set it to auto start. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Server specs
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:44:57 +0200, Francois Swanepoel wrote: - fax server (windows clients) I understand that the Keller Group is releasing their famous FaxWorks on a Linux gateway ahead of having a Windoozz gateway. They were the ones who wrote FaxWorks for OS/2 - they very cool OO, drag drop version. I highly recommend working with that company if you have the option. Currently I understand they have clients for OS/2 and Win32, not sure about Linux. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] FAT partitions
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:11:43 +0100, Xavier Chitnis wrote: owever, when I get to the disk partition stage, it says my partition table is too corrupted to be read. If I select Automatic partitioning, it doesn't seem to realise there is a FAT partition that needs to be resized. Sounds like M$ has made a mess of your HDD. I've found that to be all too common. The safest thing would be to backup your data, blow everything away and have Mandrake FDisk create you a FATxx partition to restore to. If you need logical partitions for M$, make sure after the install of Linux you flip the partition type on partition 5 to type F which is a M$ extended partiton. Otherwise M$ can not read Fat32 partitions beyond X MB on your HDD. I think it is the 1024 cyl game again. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
[newbie] Q about the 7.2 beta
Someone with the beta who wants to dual boot with the FAT32 file system. Have they updated the GUI FDisk during install such that you can specify that the extended partition is type F vs the usual type 5? It is annoying to have to do the complete install to be able to get to the text mode fdisk and flip the type on partition 5 from 5 to F. (In the past the GUI FDisk did not show you partition 5) If this is still the case, could someone send in a req. I don't know when I will have the time to wait for the ISO image to download... but hopefully I will. Thanks! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] configuring net connection
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:11:31 +0100, Glen Scott wrote: the IP address, subnet mask and DNS server. The default router would also be helpful to get the connection running. Usually the DNS server is on a different subnet than user networks, so TCP/IP needs to know what the IP address is of the router on your subnet so it can contact the DNS server. Then, when the DNS sends back IP addresses of a different subnet then you are on, it will also use the default route to start looking for the IP address on the Internet. I usually configure these things while installing, but I have seen GUI utils which Mandrake sends along where you can configure these params later. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Samba Problem
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:47:24 -0700, Erylon Hines wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Rick Cawood wrote: I can access my shares with smbclient so Samba must be working, but when i try to get in with Win98 my password isnt accepted. Anyone have any idea whats going on and how to remedy it? The best resource I found was the RedHat 6 Unleashed book. You need to enable the password file, run a SAMBA command to add users / passwords, and don't forget to have allowed access at the filesystem level to the dirs you share - using chmod. Most other books didn't have even half of the info needed to get WinXX talking to SAMBA on Linux. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] transfering dirs/files
I wrote a Rexx script as part of the Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) systems I develop which uses the SysFileTree API to build a list of files and dirs for both the from and to, and notes differences by copying the file from the from to the to. Pretty quick and easy, built a hash table to speed up the locates in the array, or stem as they are called in Rexx. Rexx also makes it easy as you can use any set of chars to store the variable in a stem, whereas an array usually is partitioned into numbered units... file names are not really numbers usually. Don't know what languages you work with, but something like that would probably be a nice tool in your tool box. I'm on this newbie list because I am one when it comes to Linux... someday the code will be on Linux and then I would just ship it over. Sorry. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
[newbie] Adding dirs to the path
/etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security. Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point out: 1) Where Mandrake hides the ability to update the path 2) Where this and other differences in Mandrake vs popular Linux how-to books are documented 3) Is it a standard *nix security configuration to not search the current directory? Most annoying for an OS/2, Win32, DOS based person. 4) Where should I set other env vars so I don't have to run *.sh scripts to set / export env vars before running programs I've installed. Thanks! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:10:01 -0400 (EDT), Larry Marshall wrote: /etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security. Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point out: You didn't say why you wanted to change the path but I think you're looking in the wrong place. Well, Red Hat 6 Unleashed pointed me in that direction. Thus why I asked Q #2 below. 1) Where Mandrake hides the ability to update the path Who's path? If you want the default user path changed, change /etc/bashrc. If you want to change your user path, make changes to .bashrc in your home directory. I'd like to updated what in the Win2K world would be the system's path so that all users get updated. I am installing the Object Rexx language which I will want to be active for all users. 4) Where should I set other env vars so I don't have to run *.sh scripts to set / export env vars before running programs I've installed. Two things here. The path change will cause them to be "available" but if you want to run them as though they are executable, you have to make sure they have their execute bits set. Quite often shell scripts are distributed without this being the case. If you're only going to run it once (like during an install), it might be easier to use "sh install.sh" IBM provides a script to modify the env vars, run export on those vars, and you are all set until you logoff. I would like to modify all of those vars at a system level. IBM must have set the execute bit as I have no problem running the file. Thanks! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Samba Network
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:56:13 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: domain server possible dhcp server. I was not aware that Samba could emulate an NT Domain Controller. Doesn't it act as an additional server in the domain? Adding DHCP would be separate from changing the workgroup/domain configuration, yes? DHCP is quite easy to configure if you have only one subnet to address. I usually allocate a portion of the addresses for DHCP and some for static IP for printers, servers, etc... Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
[newbie] Linksys PCMPC200 + ThinkPad 600E + Mandrake 7 install problem
The device driver for the "Tulip / DEC" cards was unable to start when I got to the LAN setup portion of the Mandrake 7 install. I have been looking into the various pages I could find about the drivers on the web - mainly from the link on the Linksys web site - and have found only info on building the latest source into a device driver, etc... Are there any suggestions for getting this card working? Unfortunately neither of my other PCCard ethernet cards have Linux drivers - IBM EtherJet 10Base-T non-CardBus and Xircom 10/100 non-CardBus. TIA for any suggestions! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Partition Magic 4.01 will not run on Windows NT
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:26:33 -0400, Roman Bysh wrote: In order for PM to run on Windows NT4, you must purchase Version 5 Full Version for about $55. Or run the code from a DOS disk / partition. There is a DOSOS2 or OS2DOS dir on the CD, build the disks and away you go. I suggest applying the fix packs to the disks - at least the OVL file has been updated, I can't remember about the EXE. Not that I like PQ anyway. Those crazy programmers write the most mungged up partition tables, OS's don't like the partitions - at least since 3x or 4x or something. Michael
Re: [newbie] Tar and .Gz
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:47:54 -0400, Fred Hamilton wrote: First, my system has 164Mb of RAM but Mandrake only reports 64. I got a nice answer a while back on this same issue - saved text follows: To check what Linux detected, use the command 'free'. The output will look like: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:127980 124964 3016 44460 15884 53136 -/+ buffers/cache: 55944 72036 Swap: 130404 2792 127612 The line you're interested in is the top left numeric cell. If that doesn't show roughly the same number, you've got a problem to fix. To get Linux to recognize all of your memory, insert a line reading: append="mem=128M" into /etc/lilo.conf. The "linux" section will then look something like this: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-4mdksmp label=linux root=/dev/hda3 append="mem=128M" read-only After editing /etc/lilo.conf, you'll need to rerun lilo to install the new boot information. This will run it: /sbin/lilo Reboot the machine and all should be well! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Q about excessive HDD swapping when in KDE
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:22:24 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: "memory hole at 16 M"??? I did double check this and it is set to disabled. Seemed like a possability since Linux only was using 14MB. I do have the 64MB switch set to OS/2 mode since both OS/2 and DOS bassed like OS's like Win98 work better set in that mode. Possibly this is part of it, tho I am not making a change to this paramater - hurting other OS's on the box - since the lilo.conf file works fine in my case. FYI - the motherboard is an IWill BD100plus which is a really well designed board. The vendor I have build my private label boxes recomended them and BCM/GVC. I tried BCM first and had BAD success when it comes down to BIOS updates - they don't update! As well, their tech support was lacking, unorganized web site, etc... IWill has been professional and organized - and well supporting of the under-dog OS's I like to work with. Thanks to all! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
[newbie] Q about excessive HDD swapping when in KDE
I've just had time to setup a "serious" Linux learning box finally. When in KDE / Xwindows using a single application - WordPerfect 8, Netscape 4.6... the hard drive is just thrashing away - as bad as NT on 32MB. Strange thing, I have 128MB and a PIII 450 CPU. Is there some trick I missed somewhere which I need to do to use all 128MB? I installed w/ a 32MB /boot partition, 2GB / partition and a 40MB swap partition which I was hoping to never use since Linux code seems quite unbloated. Thanks in advance for hints. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
