RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.0
Title: RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.0 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.0 Where can I download the 7.0 486 optimized version? I can't find it on the mandrake website. Tom. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Erylon Hines > Sent: 01 March 2002 21:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.0 Hi, you can find it here ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake-iso/i586/
RE: [newbie] domain registration
Title: RE: [newbie] domain registration You will have to register a domain name. In doing so you would then show it in the registration as being hosted by yourself or your company and the IP addresses for your server. Sketchy answer, but just so you know that you will have to pay. Some of the registration companies out there now are not too expensive compared to the original $35 a year fees. HTH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] domain registration Hi guys a question which has not much to do with mandrakeIf I want to create a website ...let's say...www.i_love_curry.com or any other name..and host it on my PChave I got to pay some of those registrar companies to register the domain name or can I just set it up ?? Thanks everyonethis list is great.. Maurizio __ Abbonati a Tiscali! Con Tiscali By Phone puoi anche ascoltare ed inviare email al telefono. Chiama Tiscali By Phone all' 892 800 http://byphone.tiscali.it
RE: [newbie] ext 3
Title: RE: [newbie] ext 3 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ext 3 Hi girls and boys, I recently visited Redhat website and I saw that RedHat 7.2 supports a filesytem called ext3..which is different from the old ext2...do you know if Mandrake 8.2 will support it?? and which is the advantage in choosing one or the other for my linux box Thanks anyone in advance See ya Maurizio __ Abbonati a Tiscali! Con Tiscali By Phone puoi anche ascoltare ed inviare email al telefono. Chiama Tiscali By Phone all' 892 800 http://byphone.tiscali.it Mandrake-Linux 8.1 already supports ext3fs. And 8.2 does also. Ext3 has a journaling system whereas ext2 does not, so less chance of loosing data with ext3. I am using ext3 on two boxes right now and have had no problems as far as I can tell. One power outage found my non ups'd box rebooted and nothing lost and no files corrupted. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Strange CPU Load
Title: RE: [newbie] Strange CPU Load My apologies to the list I just noticed that I am sending in HTML format again. Had to reinstall on a new machine here at work and the default appears to be HTML format. I've changed it back to plain text. It's ok to talk to me again. I'm suitably contrite. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JSheble Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:20 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] Strange CPU Load First of all my linux machine isn't a production machine, in fact it probably can't even qualify as a development machine either. It sits idle for the majority of the time as I tinker with various aspects in an attempt to learn something about Linux. I have noticed though after loading a CPULoad DockApp that my CPU load averages between 50-80%. Since it's not supposed to be doing anything, I thought I'd investigate. After running ps aux, I noticed that PID #4 ([kapm-idled]) was taking up over 90% of the CPU cycles. Itried killing it off with kill 4 but it remains. Could somebody tell me what this process is, and how I can successfully kill it, or even if I should kill it. Thanx!! Hi, this will serve as the weekly kapm bulletin. kapm is a non process it merely indicates idle cycles of the cpu and is not taking up any process load. Ignore it. The other weekly notice is that: Linux does not like idle ram and will cache into ram and then free up as needed for processes so when a monitor shows ram usage at 90% or above it is not that something is necessarily sucking up the ram it is that linux is being effecient. HTH
RE: [newbie] Strange CPU Load
Title: RE: [newbie] Strange CPU Load -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JSheble Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:20 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] Strange CPU Load First of all my linux machine isn't a production machine, in fact it probably can't even qualify as a development machine either. It sits idle for the majority of the time as I tinker with various aspects in an attempt to learn something about Linux. I have noticed though after loading a CPULoad DockApp that my CPU load averages between 50-80%. Since it's not supposed to be doing anything, I thought I'd investigate. After running ps aux, I noticed that PID #4 ([kapm-idled]) was taking up over 90% of the CPU cycles. Itried killing it off with kill 4 but it remains. Could somebody tell me what this process is, and how I can successfully kill it, or even if I should kill it. Thanx!! Hi, this will serve as the weekly kapm bulletin. kapm is a non process it merely indicates idle cycles of the cpu and is not taking up any process load. Ignore it. The other weekly notice is that: Linux does not like idle ram and will cache into ram and then free up as needed for processes so when a monitor shows ram usage at 90% or above it is not that something is necessarily sucking up the ram it is that linux is being effecient. HTH
RE: [newbie] Memory(Again)
Title: RE: [newbie] Memory(Again) since all four slots are 72 pin It would seem reasonable that the best choice would be to replace the two 16mb modules with 32mb SIMM EDO. SEE: http://192.216.185.10/mwave/ProdMR-MW.hmx?UID=CN%2D1121954&CID=&updepts=MR&DNAME=%3Cb%3EMemory+%2D+Mwave%3C%2Fb%3E&back=ProdMR-MW.hmx? Current competitive prices I have seen. I am not sure but believe that with simm it is always best to upgrade in pairs. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marcia Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:41 AM To: Marcia Subject: [newbie] Memory(Again) Dear All, Thanks very much for your input and suggestions. Since memory is inexpensive right now I am leaning towards increasing it. I have a program that asks for 256 megs of ram. It is a SAP program. My hard drive is new anyway and it is possible I may decide to upgrade the cpu in the future. I found old receipts for the memory modules on my system and it is using 2 EPS-RM716E72pin EDO memory module 16 MB and 2 EPS-RM732EDRAM 32MB SIMM MODULE EDO. I did find a supplier for the 72 pin ED O Simms modules. Does this mean I need to buy 2 or 4 of those and do they all need to be the Simms modules? Your help will be greatly appreciated here, because I will order these right away if I can find the right ones. By the way, is it difficult to upgrade the cpu? What is the best to upgrade it to? Thanks very much for all of your help and suggestions. Marcia
RE: [newbie] system tray
Title: RE: [newbie] system tray Have a look at the gKrellm app I think you can configure it to do a mail notify, not sure about IM. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Kraus Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] system tray I am running gnome desktop. Is there system tray that will work globablly for apps? I want to at a glance see If i have IM's or Email waiting to be read. With having to have the app open on the desktop. PK
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 & 3
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 & 3 Take a look at this page, the CDs 2&3 should correspond to those in the retail packs so Second Install CD and Supplementary Open Source Apps CD are what you would get with download CDs. HTH http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/81/applications -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 & 3 Hi list, I just recently learned of there being a disk 2 & 3 to the MD8.1 'set'(from a reply in htis mailing list actually). Now before I download this 1.36 Gig for the other disks, can someone inform me of what is on them and its importance to me? tia Dave
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 beta
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 beta First turn up the sound with aumix. Then try the Mandrake Control Center>Harddrake>yoursoundcard>configure. HTH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Oder Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 beta I have recently installed Mandrake 8.2 beta and all running great except for the sound - Cirrus Logic Crystal Cs 4281. It worked fine under Mandrake 8.1. Can someone point me any idea about this problem? Thanks in advance, Oder.
RE: [newbie] Knowing partition and mounting NTFS
Title: RE: [newbie] Knowing partition and mounting NTFS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Old Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Knowing partition and mounting NTFS Hello all, I am wondering if someone can tell me how to know what partition certain operating systems are on? For instance.I want to mount a NTFS from within linux (I know how to do that for vfat so I assume I do the same except the file system type is ntfs instead of vfat) Someone said this line would work 'mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2/ /mnt/ntfs' Or I could adapt that line into the fstab file. Anyway, my question is, how did they know that the the ntfs system is on /dev/hda2? Is there a utility that can tell me this info? Thanks, Kevin Kevin, in a terminal just type "df" and it will bring up a table of all of the partitions seen on the drive. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Star Office
Title: RE: [newbie] Star Office It is not on the d/l'd version only on the boxed sets cause it is proprietary. You can d/l openoffice.org though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Kraus Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Star Office Someone posted earlier that star office was on the mdk8.1 cd's. Where is it located? I can't find it. Paul
RE: [newbie] make
Title: RE: [newbie] make You need to cd to the directory that the file is in: like cd emu10k1-1.1 and then type make.HTH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek fowler Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] make I am trying to compile the new drivers for my video card, I have followed thereadme & have gotten to "make" the instructions say type make & press enter, ths I done... & get "no such file or directory" back help ?? Derek
RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
Title: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Well son of a gun, somebody forgot to tell my computer that, cause it is using the new kernel and it does boot from lilo and the old kernel is, yes, gone. So until I have problems with what's up and running I will leave it alone for now. Next time I will use the ivh install cause everyone else seems to have the problem and mine could have been a fluke as was mentioned earlier. But, as I said to begin with, I used the Mandrake Upgrade just to see what would happen, as the computer in question is the one I use for testing and experimenting for the sake of learning about "what happens if I do this..?" Linux, the possibilities are infinite.: ) Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:31:39 -0800 "Myers, Dennis R NWO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got the same thing, but then discovered that lilo had the wrong harddrive > as the boot drive. Go in with your boot disk and check the lilo > configuration to make sure it is reading the hda1 or what ever your boot > partition is, correct it if need be and run /sbin/lilo from a console and > see if that doesn't get you a clean boot. I have (I say again) no problems > on two computers with the new kernel installation. I don't know what I did > wrong: ) Dennis M. > This Will Not work if you have used MandrakeUpdate to Update the kernel and there is a problem with the new kernel installation. An orig boot disk will not work because that kernel no longer exists. A boot disk made with the New kernel will not work because the New kernel was not properly installed and configured. The proper way to install a New kerel is to manually download the kernel and do rpm -ivh (New kernel), this will leave the old kernel intact and still bootable. Run lilo and then double check all your config files. Make a boot disk containing the New kernel. Reboot your system and boot to the New kernel. If there are no problem and after having run the said kernel for a period of time then update/install the headers and source for the New kernel using rpm -Uvh (headers) (source) Charles
RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
Title: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake I got the same thing, but then discovered that lilo had the wrong harddrive as the boot drive. Go in with your boot disk and check the lilo configuration to make sure it is reading the hda1 or what ever your boot partition is, correct it if need be and run /sbin/lilo from a console and see if that doesn't get you a clean boot. I have (I say again) no problems on two computers with the new kernel installation. I don't know what I did wrong: ) Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Johnson, David Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:03 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Just for fun, I decided to see what I had done to my machine. I was running -26 of the kernel and according the RPM manager, I had installed -34. When I reboot, I get: Loading LinuxEBDA too big and it stops there... You all were right! :-) -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake With the kernel you have to reboot for it to take effect. Try this at the command line type in : uname -a You'll see the current kernel that your using. Before you do reboot. Make sure you have a bootdisk and you have read the steps I had to take. Because once you reboot, your not going anywhere until you install the kernel the correct way. >From: "Johnson, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:56:03 -0500 > >That's the beauty of Linux. I shouldn't HAVE to reboot...right? :-) > >Fortunately, it's only a machine for me to learn the OS on, so I don't have >a problem wiping and re-installing... > >-Original Message- >From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:52 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake > > > >Ah so you haven't rebooted eh. Go ahead, and reboot then come back to the >list with your findings. I did the package install and it was fine for a >few > >hours, after i did the reboot, then it took the new kernel and thats when >the problems started. > > >From: "Johnson, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake > >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:11:46 -0500 > > > >Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without > >problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a >blanket > >DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate. Of course you must be very careful when > >doing something as drastic as updating your kernel. Just make sure you > >have > >a way out planned before-hand! > > > >-Original Message- > >From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 6:43 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake > > > > > > > >Just a warning to those who like using the Mandrakes Package Manager. >When > >your run the check for new security patches and you see the option to > >update > > > >your kernel. DON'T! > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > >_ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Database recommendations
Title: RE: [newbie] Database recommendations Have you looked at Open Office? Calc or Impress are part of it, I don't use access so not sure what you need. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Terry C Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Database recommendations I am looking for a database program which either comes with, or has available an easy-to-use GUI similar to Microsoft Access. I do not need an enterprise strength database since this will be used primarily for keeping various office records which will be used to track contributions, make mailing lists, phone lists and sort out tax deduction information. This will be for people without a high level of computer expertise. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Terry __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
Title: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake I recall something like that and did it anyway to see what would happen. My logic being that if this was a dangerous thing to do why would it be set up to show up on the Mandrake update. Anyway, I have rebooted both machines since then and have had no problems show up. This is what fascinates me about linux and the online download process, what works for one may not work for another but there are always alternatives. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Tharp Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake NO Mandrake says do NOT "upgrade" the kernal VIA packagemanger On Monday 17 December 2001 13:53, you wrote: > ?? Mandrake says it's ok to install the kernal via packagemanager? > I did some searching on the net and found alot of others who had the same > problem as I did with the update via PM. > > From: Ed Tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake > >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:30:45 -0500 > > > >this IS appropriate, and is the directions from Mandrake, as I recall > > > >On Monday 17 December 2001 13:11, you wrote: > > > Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without > > > problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a > > > >blanket > > > > > DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate. Of course you must be very careful when > > > doing something as drastic as updating your kernel. Just make sure you > > > have a way out planned before-hand! > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 6:43 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake > > > > > > > > > > > > Just a warning to those who like using the Mandrakes Package Manager. > > > >When > > > > > your run the check for new security patches and you see the option to > > > update > > > > > > your kernel. DON'T! > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > _ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Installation problem
Title: RE: [newbie] Installation problem
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:32:24 +0100
Helle Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have Dell inspiron 3800.
> Have had Linux mandrake 7.? (1?) on it before without any problem.
> Tried now to install LM 8.1, and I am not able to do it.
> It hangs when it tries to use the CDROM (But it is able to use it
> before.Strange..)
> Can anyone please help me?
>
>
>
> Here comes what I think is relevant of kernel messages:
> <4> ide0 BM-DMA at 0x860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hda:pio
> <4> ide1 BM-DMA at 0x868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdc:pio
Strange, it mentions hda for ide0 (twice) _and_ ide1 ...
>
> hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX700E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM DRIVER
>
> <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> <4>hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM-RW drive, 8192kB Cache, DMA
> <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> <6>SCSI subsstemdriver Revision: 1.0
> <7>ISO 9660 Extentions: RRIP_1991A
> <4>hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error
> }
> <4>hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x34
> <4>hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error
> }
> <4>hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x34
> <4>ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
> <4>hdc: lost innterrupt
> <4>ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
> <4>hdc: lost interrupt
>
> And continuing.
> Tries also to reset ATAPI and disable DMA
Looks like a cdrom hardware problem :( Is this a laptop ?
-Frans
Do you have the CDROM jumpered for slave or master on the secondary IDE channel? I would put it on the primary IDE and jump it as slave. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] XFree86 gamma adjustment
Title: RE: [newbie] XFree86 gamma adjustment -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Warren Post Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 12:49 PM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] XFree86 gamma adjustment I need help adjusting the gamma of my monitor. I've tried four methods without success: (1) The man page for XF86Config(5) documents the optional entries "Gamma x" or Gamma r g b" in the XF86Config file which should set the monitor's gamma (x, r, g, and b being between 0.1 and 10.0, default 1). I tried both variants as root but nothing happened either time... but since the man page warns that "Not all drivers are capable of using this information," I assume I'm out of luck here. Has anyone had luck with these entries? I have not one but three XF86Config files, not counting backups: /etc/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 I assume that multiple files are to provide different configurations under different circumstances. In any case I edited them all identically. For what it's worth, "XFree86 -version" reports: XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 2 June 2001 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.8-5mdkenterprise i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (2) My display adapter is a SiS620, which is supported by XFree86. Just for laughs I downloaded and installed the 620 driver from SiS (yes, they have Linux drivers) but there's no change. (3) The man page for XFree86(1) documents the command line switch -gamma. I normally work in X, so first I tried switching to tty1 with Ctrl-Alt-F1, logging in as another user, and entering "XFree86 -gamma 9.0", which returned: Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 I thought it was possible to run multiple instances of X, but I clearly did something wrong here. (I'd like to know what, as eventually I will want to have multiple instances... but that's another issue.) Then, I changed my boot configuration to not boot into X, rebooted and logged in, and gave the above command. X hung: the same moiré pattern appeared that always does when X is starting, but hung there. The result is the same when I simply enter "XFree86" from the command line without the -gamma switch. (4) From an xterm, I gave the command "xgamma -gamma 9.0", which returned: Xserver is running an old XFree86-VidModeExtension version (0.8) Minimum required version is 2.0 I did a web search on the above message but the only hits I found were for dead (404) pages. Ideas, anyone? I'm stumped, and in the meantime I'm stuck with a barely legible display. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Warren, have you tried to adjust manually on the monitor itself? mine all have the capability to set or adjust rgb and gamma manually with push buttons on the monitor case. Maybe that will get you a better screen. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] folder options
Title: RE: [newbie] folder options Speaking of KDE, I am having a problem with kmail again, it says something like "cannot retrieve mail, out of space?". I have checked the partitions and I am definitely not out of space on the drive. Has anyone seen this and knows what is the fix? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Caspar Kennerdale Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] folder options thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 16:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] folder options On Wednesday 05 December 2001 10:28 am, you wrote: > I have just installed mandrake > > something that is annoying me with KDE is that the default view within the > file manager is with icons. > > Is is possible to have the tree or detailed view as the default. > > I briefly looked at the prefences and could find it anywhere > > Thanks In Konqueror, under the "View"/"View Mode" , select Detailed List. Then, Under "Window", selct "Save View Profile - File Management", and save the profile with all boxes "checked". That's it. You're done. Lanman
RE: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question
Title: RE: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Newbie Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question Ok, its stupid question time. Ok, I'm no expert, but I'm not a complete newbie, but I still don't know, should I force install GCC2.95 to end my GCC3 compiler troubles? Or am I skrude until the next mandrake release? I can't seem to backgrade to some compiler without the OS bean-hatching about dependencies. Thanks Have you tried going into the software manager and uninstalling the gcc3.0 and then installing the gcc2.* ? Probably won't go so the only other solution is to reinstall not upgrade and just don't format /home. The version of gcc in 8.1 is gcc2.96 I think. so I am assuming you upgraded to the 3.0 version. Not a big help but maybe worth a try. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Gaming Edition
Title: RE: [newbie] Gaming Edition -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert MacLean Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 3:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Gaming Edition Hidiho Does anyone know what kernel comes with the gaming edition? Also what drivers for nvidia cards is it the nvidia ones or the nv ones? thanx ___ Robert MacLean 2.4.8 and 2.2.19 is what the Mandrake website says if I am remembering correctly.
RE: [newbie] RE: [newbie] Compaq Presario 1700t (modem)
Title: RE: [newbie] RE: [newbie] Compaq Presario 1700t (modem) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marcia Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RE: [newbie] Compaq Presario 1700t (modem) Thank you for letting me know that I was not the only one fooled. I will give them a call sometime about this. Unfortunately a very strange thing happened with my laptop right after I emailed about my modem. The screws came out of the bottom left corner of the screen and I could not close it. I was not happy about this and of course the warranty is up. I took it in for repair and it should be a simple repair. I have decided to change the modem while it is there. This repairman has a pcmcia modem that he says his Linux tech friend uses on his laptop. He cannot find the manufacturer on the box. On the outside of the box it says WPPPC56FM-00 PCMCI 56KFax Modem. The serial # is FM14005233. It is a v.90 56K Flex. Does anyone know about this modem? How would I find out about it on the net? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia On Wednesday 24 October 2001 07:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > HI there. > I have the same trouble..and I've been fooled by Compaq aswell.I think > we should hassle them everyday 'till they will release a working driver > for their modem with conexant chipset under linuxanyway...in the > meanwhile I'm going on playing with the driver I downloaded and the wrapper > to make them work with 2.4 kernelsif I get any good results I'll let > you know Regards > Maurizio > > > > > __ > Abbonati a Tiscali! > Con Tiscali By Phone puoi anche ascoltare ed inviare email al telefono. > Chiama Tiscali By Phone all' 892 800 http://byphone.tiscali.it Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Marcia, on the modem if used in the USA there will be a FCC (Federal Communications Commission) number. If the number is there you can go to the FCC website http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ and plug in the ID number to find out the manufacturer and model, I am not sure but it may give the website for the manufacturer also. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] mount umount cdrom
Title: RE: [newbie] mount umount cdrom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 5:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mount umount cdrom Hi everyone... I noticed that when I put the cdrom in the player and open it everything works fine...but afterwards it's impossible to eject it or unmount it...cos it says it's not mountedif I try to remount it...well it says it's already mounted...so i think it's taking the piss on meI have mandrake 8.1 ...recomended installation...kde as GUI...and thats all...any idea Thanks in advance Regards Maurizio __ Abbonati a Tiscali! Con Tiscali By Phone puoi anche ascoltare ed inviare email al telefono. Chiama Tiscali By Phone all' 892 800 http://byphone.tiscali.it Right click on the cdrom icon on the desktop and then click on eject. It will spit the cd out like a olive pit. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] kpp problems on update to 8.0
Title: RE: [newbie] kpp problems on update to 8.0 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Annandale Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] kpp problems on update to 8.0 On Friday 19 October 2001 5:52 pm, you wrote: > I am using Mandrake 7.1 without any problems, however when I tried to > update to Mandrake 8.0 I could not connect to my ISP as I gather they do > not use PAP. Is there any way I can get around this. > Is there anyway I can get around this. The same thing happened when I tried > SUSE, so I presume later versions of kpp only recognise PAP based ISP's. > Bernard Victor > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same problem as my ISP uses CHAP. Have you tried to select CHAP ? HTH Mark The newest version of Kppp on 8.1 recognizes several protocols. Go to the internet icon click setup >highlight the connection and click edit or modify(don't remember which. Then look for the authentication protocol and a popup with chap, pap, something else. Try chap then the others till you get one that works. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie]
Title: RE: [newbie] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of s Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] On Friday 19 October 2001 03:27 am, Khairil Osman wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. Everything seems > fine except for my zip drive. HardDrake shows it is on > /dev/hdb. When i insert a zip disk and click on the > zip icon, I get the following message: > > mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist > > Anybody know why i have this problem? I can't seem to > solve it. I never had this problem when I tried Suse > 7.1... > > Computer spec: > K6-2 500 > HP CDRW > IBM 15gig HD > Seagate 20gig HD > Creative AWE64 > WinTV Well, I can tell you what I did to get mine to work, ymmv. Mine is an ide 250. Fstab had it listed as a /dev/hdd4 but harddrake saw it: /dev/hdd I changed /etc/fstab to: /dev/hdd /mnt/zip auto user,noauto 0 0 and now I can mount it. I have supermount disabled still at this point. I'm just happy I can manually mount everything now. :-) So anyway, try changing your /etc/fstab to /dev/hdb and mounting it. hth, -s I just did a right click on the zip icon and selected "properties>execute" clicked on the drop down arrow and reselected the device and it filled in the proper location and such. then OK and out and the icon functions as it should. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] HP-8200 CD-Writer doesn't work
Title: RE: [newbie] HP-8200 CD-Writer doesn't work -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of The Spider Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:14 PM To: Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] HP-8200 CD-Writer doesn't work Also my cd writer was found during th)e installation and all the cd-writing software detect the device. I tried all speeds from 1x to 4x and all operations(writing,rewriting and blanking) with both media(cd-r and cd-rw) and i had thesame result: after some time (it can be a minute or less),the device st)ops operating and the system hangs (I can't switch consoles and have to do nothing but power off the computer). Given that all works fine under RH71 i think it can be a matter of the kernel(RH71 has 2.4.2 and LM8 has 2.4.3) or of hard-drake. Ragno "The Spider" Stefano. If you have the 8.0 version you may try downloading the cdrecord version in rpmfind.net. Highest version that is not cooker. This will then as for you to redetect the writer within gtoaster or cdtoaster etc. My cdwriter worked fine after install of the latest cdrecord package.
RE: [newbie] removing boot manager
Title: RE: [newbie] removing boot manager Should have proof read before I sent the message, it sounds a bit confusing now that I read it. Look for the words linux boot floppy for clarification. Also to the list I appologize if I've been sending HTML the dang windows machine reverted on me again and I didn't notice nor check it. Soy! Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:32 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] removing boot manager Did you make a boot floppy during the initial installation? If so you are good to go. If not go to Mandrake control center>boot>make boot floppy or something close to that(I'm not at the linux computer yet) Make the boot floppy for the partition you set it to and then log off. If you already have the floppy made go directly to this step and that is boot up with the MS start up floppy in and go to dos prompt on boot. In Win98 it just takes a ctrl-F5 to get the a: prompt but at any rate, once you are at the command prompt type "fdisk /mbr" and you will have the normal windows boot back. Slip in the linux boot floppy and boot and you will get a lilo prompt to boot linux. That's how it should work if everything is set the same on your machine as is on mine. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dean Morrell Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] removing boot manager I installed Mandrake 8.0 a couple days ago. What a ride. I installed it on a machine with Win98se already running. Now, I like the os, but I don't want a boot manager on this system. I'd much rather boot from a floppy to access the os. Can someone help with removing the boot manager and then configuring to boot to Mandrake 8 from floppy? Dean -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- "The way I see it, there were two great triumphs, two things that I'm proudest of. One is the economic recovery, in which the people of America created - and filled - 19 million new jobs. The other is the recovery of our morale. America is respected again in the world and looked to for leadership." -Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address
RE: [newbie] cdrom device busy
Title: RE: [newbie] cdrom device busy Hi, looking at the first message was the soft link listed a typo when you show "scd0 scdrom"? it should have been "...cdrom". I did not have to do this with my install, but that is neither here nor there. Since you had it going it made the link so what I would do is make a new desktop short cut. Go to an empty place on the desktop with the pointer and right click. On the pop up select "make new cdrom device" or what ever it says. It will pop up a new box change the title to your choice, like "CDRW" click on execute and then the selection arrow and select the /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom line (sorry I'm not at my linux computer so that may be a paraphrase). Selecting that will add the link to the desk top. then click on the desktop icon symbol and it will start loading application icons, click on the arrow you want device icons, select the cd burner mount icon click on it and then click ok and you should have a new desktop icon that actually works. Need any help with this come on back to the list, HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom device busy After sending the last message I sutdown the system. It took several tries to log out and then on shutdown it stopped at an error message that said "Kernel Panic" and "Supermount Panic". I finally shut off the power and started back up again. SW On Friday 17 August 2001 15:07, you wrote: > I just unstalled a cd rewriter (running 8.0) and was just burning a cd for > the first time. After I did this I put in a cd and tried to read the > contents by clicking on the desktop shortcut. The window never opened. > (I have already done: "cd /dev && rm cdrom && ln -s scd0 scdrom" and the > shortcut was working fine.) I rebooted and noticed a line saying the > device was busy as it shut down. After reboot it worked OK one time and > then same as before. If try to unmount : "umount /mnt/cdrom > umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy". > Does anyone know what's up? > Thanks, > SW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description:
RE: [newbie] removing boot manager
Title: RE: [newbie] removing boot manager Did you make a boot floppy during the initial installation? If so you are good to go. If not go to Mandrake control center>boot>make boot floppy or something close to that(I'm not at the linux computer yet) Make the boot floppy for the partition you set it to and then log off. If you already have the floppy made go directly to this step and that is boot up with the MS start up floppy in and go to dos prompt on boot. In Win98 it just takes a ctrl-F5 to get the a: prompt but at any rate, once you are at the command prompt type "fdisk /mbr" and you will have the normal windows boot back. Slip in the floppy and boot and you will get a lilo prompt to boot linux. That's how it should work if everything is set the same on your machine as is on mine. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dean Morrell Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] removing boot manager I installed Mandrake 8.0 a couple days ago. What a ride. I installed it on a machine with Win98se already running. Now, I like the os, but I don't want a boot manager on this system. I'd much rather boot from a floppy to access the os. Can someone help with removing the boot manager and then configuring to boot to Mandrake 8 from floppy? Dean -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- "The way I see it, there were two great triumphs, two things that I'm proudest of. One is the economic recovery, in which the people of America created - and filled - 19 million new jobs. The other is the recovery of our morale. America is respected again in the world and looked to for leadership." -Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address
RE: [newbie] installed xine, weird occurence
Title: RE: [newbie] installed xine, weird occurence you need to be in the same folder as the file that starts the app. Usually the sequence ./configure make make install will list out all of the files and the first one on the list will be what you want to get to. example first file on the list is "xine-0.5.0" so you type at the command prompt cd xine-0.5.0 and then it will jump to that folder. then you can type " xine" without the quotes of course. Best thing to do is open the readme file for Install and it should give you the full info and the command line for opening the file. The above usually will do it though. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of antoine rivoire Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installed xine, weird occurence hi all. i have just installed xine 0.5.0 from tar gz files. i have followed the usual procedure, tar xvzf xine-*.tar.gz configure make install and that went fine, compiled for 5 minutes, but now i am unable to find the file that launches the app. sometimes things like that really make you doubt of ur IQ. i have tried the howtos, but it appears that it should be straight forward, i should be able to launch it from console ($xine) but it then replies that the file or command doesn't exist. any idea?
RE: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0
Title: RE: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0 I have messed around with Caldera, Redhat and LM over the passed 2 1/2 years and IMHO, Linux-Mandrake is the most user friendly and has the exceptional list of applications in the "Power Pack" (don't know what comes with the enterprise addition). The whole thing is put together well and leaves lots of room for individuals to customize their desktop the way they want it. Mandrakesoft also appears to be dedicated for the most part to the desktop workstation and that can not be said of RH and some of the others who are pointing to the enterprise or server market only. Just my 2 pennys worth. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael D. Viron Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:16 PM To: Nicolás Gómez; newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0 At 11:23 AM 08/07/2001 -0300, Nicolás Gómez wrote: >Hi...In my college we are going to install in about 20 PC's one Linux >distribution. I believe that LM 8.0 is the best one i ever seen so far >for the purposes we had... Another persons think that SuSE 7.1 is the best, >another ones think that RH 7.2 is better, and so on RH 7.2 is in beta right now, and hasn't been officially released. 7.1 is the latest stable Redhat release. Michael
RE: [newbie] boot trouble
Title: RE: [newbie] boot trouble I see a similarity in a problem I had a while back. New ram installed, windows is tolerant of bad ram, linux is not. try swapping your ram sticks around, better yet run a memory check, there are several on line for free. But swapping memory sticks will tell you if one is bad, especially in the # one slot. If you have a bad stick Linux will give you a fit. What I found out is , that the mem test on boot will show the correct amount of mem but that doesn't mean it is good. Hope this helps as a place to start looking. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jordan Triebwasser Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 1:11 AM To: Newbie Linux-Mandrake Subject: [newbie] boot trouble Here's the situation: I had my mandrake box off for about a week, I go to turn it on yesterday and it boots and just says LIL. I check the web, says it means it can't load the descriptor table from the map file. I have no idea what that means, but it gives some suggestions on how to fix it, like reinstall lilo. So I attempt to boot from a floppy disk, and get an error msg, it says I need 608k for low dos ram to boot, and hold down crtl next time I boot to skip the error msg. I check the bios, and it says I only have 512 free. I then attempt to boot off the cdrom, again same error. I hold down ctrl on the next boot off the cdrom, I figure I'll just reinstall it. But I get an error, something like boot: could not find kernel linux. At the boot prompt I type 'rescue', and get boot: could not find kernel rescue. Mandrake is the only OS on that computer. The only difference when I turned it off a week ago, till now was I plugged it into a kvm. A few days before I shut it down, I installed more simms, bringing the total ram up to 128megs, it worked fine for a couple days, but then I had to shut it off since I was going away. So my questions are, is it LILO that is screwed up, or the fact that I only have 512 free is screwing up LILO. A friend said I could have a virus that is eating up the low ram, or screwed up the MBR, so I ran norton and it found nothing. I have no idea how much low ram I had before, but since I installed mandrake 3 times, and was running for a month, I assume it was more then 608, did 96 or more just rot away? I haven't changed anything in the bios, or done anything with the kernel. I am really at a lose here. Thanks for any help - Jordan
RE: [newbie] LM 8.0 install disks
Title: RE: [newbie] LM 8.0 install disks Jerry, try installation in expert mode. It will ask for partitions maybe and other stuff that should not be a problem if you have used LM 7.2 or others, otherwise you can just accept most of the stuff as default. You will have to pick the packages, but you can click on anything you want and let it go from there. Anyway, (I ramble sometimes) the expert install will usually work on a first time disk installation. One other thing you might want to check that I have recently stumbled on is the the cable used to hook up your hd and cdrom. If you have a motherboard with a via chipset on the southbridge you should use the 80 wire or high speed cable as there are problems with cdroms not working correctly on an ordinary 40 wire cable. Just a thought. Hope the above helps. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jerry Greene Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] LM 8.0 install disks I tried to to a clean install of LM 8.0 powerpak (from BestBuy). CD-1 is read and the install proceeds. Then it asks for CD-2 which I insert and click ok. But it keeps asking for CD-2 whenever I click ok. When I click cancel, it then asks for CD-3, CD-4 with the same results. I took the package back to BestBuy and exhanged it for another package, with the same results. I don't think the CD-ROM drive is bad because it boots from CD-1 and installs whatever is on CD-1. Also, after the installation, I have two CD-ROM icons, two floppy icons, etc on the KDE desktop. I am installing the "Recommended" version onto it's own hard drive (no dual boot). Thanks Jerry Greene
RE: [newbie] Firewall setup tool
Title: RE: [newbie] Firewall setup tool You may want to go to the Bastille web page and download the final release of Bastille. The one in 8.0 is release candidate 2 or something like that. InteractiveBastille should run out of /usr/sbin and you can do it in an x window su console if you load the Bastille-Tk-module*. It is then easier to look at and works quite well. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 7:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Firewall setup tool Hiya people, I just found a great tool hidden in Mandrake 8 that allows you to fine-tune the Bastille firewall (among other things) that can be set up from the Mandrake Control Centre. Just type "InteractiveBastille" in a root xterm. I have no idea why Mandrake chose to hide it the way they did (it's not in any of the GUI menus) -- it's such a great configuration tool, both easy to use and quite powerful. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
RE: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01
Title: RE: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01 If you do what I did, that is install using the --nodeps, the files should work fine and your installation can proceed. Just load up one or the other with nodeps and then the next one should have no dependency problems. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of g Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 6:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01 OK, lets just try the first upgrade and see if that will work. Sorry, thanks for playing but no upgrade for you. error: failed dependencies: kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk I downloaded kdelibs-2.01-2mdk.i586.rpm and it is sitting in the download directory w/all the other files? Now what? This is the same problem I run into if I use DrakConf, Software Update: Kdelibs & Kdesound Licq & gtk+licq. each says it needs the other. I am smiling see :-) , not mad.
RE: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86?
Title: RE: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86? Sorry to jump in here, but be careful in what you start. I tried installing KDE 2.1.1 and first had to go and find 14 dependencies in two stages. First test said I need 7 additional files, second try after I got those said I needed 7 more, I got those and then test said I needed 3 more and that there was a conflict with 22 files from a previous install. It is a snowball that never stops rolling down hill and gathers mass as it goes. Something is missing in the Package of Mandrake RPMs for KDE 2.1.1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86? Terry wrote: > I have been having sooo many problems upgrading to > KDE 2.1.1 from KDE 2.0.1 running under LM 7.2 .. I > have tried every single installation instruction that > someone has posted, and none of them work (even KDE's > instructions!) .. i even uninstalled KDE 2.0.1 and > then tried to install 2.1.1, and still get dependency > errors. And when I install the RPM's, I have to use > the --nodeps option, regardless. Everything seems to > work fine, but when I reboot, the graphical logon > screen for KDE starts to appear, then disappears, and > I'm stuck at the console. Can anyone help? This is > getting to be VERY frustrating!! > > Terry Sheltra Terrywhen you have a dependancy error then you need to make sure that the file specified in the error gets installed on your system. To do that you need to locate the .rpm file that the file specified in the error is part of and install it. This needs to be done for every file that is specified in the dependency error messages that are displayed by the rpm program. If you use --nodeps to force rpm to install a package that is giving you a dependancy error then that package will be broken and not work untill the dependency is resolved. The --nodeps switch can be used to make reluctant .rpm files install, but the package will only work properly if the dependency you forced rpm to ignore is bogus. But, how do you know if a dependency is bogus? On my system the last remaining dependency that was not allowing 2.1.1 to install was kdesu. A search of my rpm database showed that kdesu was installed (and I use kdesu all the time so I already knew it was on the system). I figured that this was a bogus dependency. So with all other dependencies already resolved I went ahead and installed the 2.1.1 .rpms with the --nodeps switch. Then after doing a 'rpm --rebuilddb', running the update-menus program and rebooting the system, version 2.1.1 of KDE worked. -- Alan
RE: [newbie] Manual
Title: RE: [newbie] Manual Andre, you should be able to download with netscape. Explorer should do it to since it is only text. (Explorer seems to have issues with downloading some linux based programs) I don't hardly use windows anymore so have forgotten a lot of how to do stuff for downloads but maybe if you use the free download prog called GOZILLA! you should get what you need that way. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of André D. Martinsen Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Manual Do I need to use Linux to download the files? I have yet to get my ISDN card up and running for the moment, so im using MS Exploder to download the files I need. I have tried holding shift, ctrl, alt, and about every comination of those before, during, and after the download but I stil only get the html-file. Do I actually need to use Linux to download the document, or wil it work if I use Netscape to download it? Or better yet, if some1 have those documents downloaded please e-mail them to me. André [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alan, André or somebody, > > Where can i download de .PDF files of all instructions about Linux Mandrake > 7.2? > > Alan, > > Can You send me yours .PDF files to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ? > > Thanks for everyone, > Cassiano Cavalcanti > > > -Mensagem original- > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Em nome de Myers, Dennis R NWO > Enviada em: quarta-feira, 28 de março de 2001 18:08 > Para: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Assunto: RE: [newbie] Manual > > > Andre, did you download in linux? And if you did, did you hold down the > shift key when you clicked on the files to download? If you didn't hold the > key down you would only get the .htm or .html file and not the actual > package. I would try the download again but hold down the shift key when you > click on the file URL. Sorry if I am stating the already known or obvious, > but on occasion I have not held the key down long enough and the .htm is all > I got. Good Luck, Dennis M. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan > Shoemaker > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 1:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Manual > > > André D. Martinsen wrote: > > Yeah well they dont seem broken until you open the file you > > downloaded and you see its only te html page you downloaded > > the files from. > > > > André > > > > > Cassiano A. wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Where can I download the manuals of linux-mandrake 7.2? > > > > Like user's guide, configuration guide, etc. Because > > > > the link in the site is broke. > > > > > > > > Tks, > > > > Cassiano Cavalcanti > > > > > > CassianoI don't know of any other location. But for > > > what it's worth, I'm downloading both manuals (.pdf > > > files) as I type this message. So at least from my > > > location here in Southern California the links to the > > > manuals on the linux-mandrake.com web site are not > > > broken. > > > -- > > > Alan > Andréwhen I wrote that message yesterday I was in the > process of downloading the two manuals in pdf form. After > they finsished downloading I checked them and they were both > proper viewable .pdf files. This was on a noisy 28,800 bps > modem connection in Southern California. > -- > Alan > > >
RE: [newbie] kmail
Title: RE: [newbie] kmail Right away I see that you need the true mail server name from your ISP. As an example, instead of just mail for the server name, my setup uses mail.earthlink.net or previously I had pop.omah.uswest. So what ever the server name is that you used in windows or whatever should be the same. The ISP support has nothing to do with what OS you use. The server name is the only thing you appear to have misconfigured. Any questions, come on back. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeffrey Sparks Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] kmail Having a devil of a time with kmail & wondering if anyone can help. Here's how I've set it up: (under Settings) Name: Organization: Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To Address: Signature File: [Sending Mail = SMTP] Server: mail Port: 25 [Incoming Mail = Pop Account] Name: Login: Password: Host: mail Port: 110 [Set to Delete & Retrieve all mail from server. Store new messages in account Inbox] When I try to send or receive: Pop Mail Network Error: Account is OPEN 'The server not found' error Now, the box can get online (Netscape works, etc.) so I know it's connected. And as far as the help pages from my ISP (Comcast @Home) will tell me (they only support Outlook Express and Netscape mail), the port settings, etc. are correct. I had kmail working once before on a now-dead box w/Mandrake 7.1 (same distro) & the same ISP, etc., so it CAN be done (sadly, those settings are gone with the wind). So what might be the issue? Any ideas/guesses?
RE: [newbie] kpackage in KDE 2.1
Title: RE: [newbie] kpackage in KDE 2.1 Kpackage should work just dandy. If it is not then you have a file that is corrupted or the installation was a bit out of order. I would first try doing a reinstall of the complete set of packages by going to console mode and using : rpm -Uvh *.rpm , in root and with the directory that you downloaded to open. If that is not the way you did it before, then move the files into their own directory and do the install the above way. I noticed that the theme manager did not show up on one of my computers when I first installed KDE 2.1 so I went back and without uninstalling anything and in root console did a : rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm and the theme manager showed up as it should have. It must have to do with dependencies and the order that the packages are installed. Hope this isn't to confusing, good luck. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of msoltys Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] kpackage in KDE 2.1 Hello All, I am running LM 7.2 and recently upgraded from KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.1 . I really like it for the most part but have noticed that since the upgrade, kpackage seems to be broken. I haven't seen much about this in the list archives. Has anyone else encountered this problem and if so, how did you fix it? Thanks, Mickey Soltys
RE: [newbie] Manual
Title: RE: [newbie] Manual Andre, did you download in linux? And if you did, did you hold down the shift key when you clicked on the files to download? If you didn't hold the key down you would only get the .htm or .html file and not the actual package. I would try the download again but hold down the shift key when you click on the file URL. Sorry if I am stating the already known or obvious, but on occasion I have not held the key down long enough and the .htm is all I got. Good Luck, Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Manual André D. Martinsen wrote: > Yeah well they dont seem broken until you open the file you > downloaded and you see its only te html page you downloaded > the files from. > > André > > > Cassiano A. wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Where can I download the manuals of linux-mandrake 7.2? > > > Like user's guide, configuration guide, etc. Because > > > the link in the site is broke. > > > > > > Tks, > > > Cassiano Cavalcanti > > > > CassianoI don't know of any other location. But for > > what it's worth, I'm downloading both manuals (.pdf > > files) as I type this message. So at least from my > > location here in Southern California the links to the > > manuals on the linux-mandrake.com web site are not > > broken. > > -- > > Alan Andréwhen I wrote that message yesterday I was in the process of downloading the two manuals in pdf form. After they finsished downloading I checked them and they were both proper viewable .pdf files. This was on a noisy 28,800 bps modem connection in Southern California. -- Alan
RE: [newbie] PM firewall documentation
Title: RE: [newbie] PM firewall documentation Don't think it exists. you might want to try Bastille for a firewall. The latest is pre 21 and it installs and configures on Mandrake very well. The configuration is text based using a series of questions with explanation. It is very nice and will provide good protection from the start and excellent protection as you learn more about it and it's setup. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] PM firewall documentation hi does anyone happen to know where i can find step-by-step configuration for PM firewall ? tnx __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
RE: [newbie] HELP... please
Title: RE: [newbie] HELP... please In Kppp setup, check the modem timeout, it needs to be a minimum of 60 to 90 seconds to allow login time. If it is set for only a few or say 20 or less seconds, the modem does not stay on long enough to log on, Hope that helps, Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of dan burrows Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP... please its a usr external hardware modem! can you help me fix that? dan > --- dan burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all > > > > i need some help i have managed to solve my winmodem problem by > > getting an > > external modem is an usr sportsterflash modem > > it connects fine in both windows98 and 2k bur i cant seem to > > successfully > > connect in linux > > > > i am using mandrake 7.2 with kde2 and kppp > > it dails, handshakes and appers to get to authentication then fails! > > i am > > using NTLworld as my isp. i am using the correct user name and pass > > and i am > > using PAP which i belive to be correct.. > > > > anyone any ideas? > > > > thanks > > > > dan > > Get a new modem! Linux HATES Winmodems, whether they are internal or > external. The only good thing about Winmodems is the price, but since > they rely on Windows (whether it be NT, 98, or 95) it will not work > with Linux. > > Sorry to burst your bubble! > > > > = > > Richard Wegner - Linux Newbie - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > NOTE: Derek Rayne is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER this is just an > e-mail address I chose! > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ >
RE: [newbie] Can't mount CDRom / CDWriter
Title: RE: [newbie] Can't mount CDRom / CDWriter Check out the demos page below, if you haven't already. It gives step by step how to set up a cdrom and cdrw combination. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Liu Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't mount CDRom / CDWriter Hi all people, I have a CDROM and a CDWriter installed running Mandrake 7.2. Using KDE I create an icon for CDROM with following steps; right click on KDE desktop > Create New > CDRom device > Device in Device drop-down list - select /mnt/cdrom in Mount Point - select /mnt/cdrom File System Type : Supermount then click OK An CDRom icon then created on desktop. I tried to mount the CDROM by : right click on "CDROM Device" icon > select mount It mounts the floppy (the floppy drive light glows) but can't mount the CDRom (same happens to my CDWriter) FILE /etc/fstab /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Kindly help. Thanks in advance. Stephen
RE: [newbie] Desktop problems
Title: RE: [newbie] Desktop problems OOOPS! Mia Culpa, right you have to type "startx" and then hit return again. Sorry, I usually boot to the graphical log in and forgot the startx part. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:06 AM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: RE: [newbie] Desktop problems you should add... to start the desktop after logging in type the command: startx -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 6:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Desktop problems On Wednesday 14 March 2001 14:37, you wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed Mandrake Linux, and I am somewhat new to linux. > I am having trouble with Mandrake. The desktop does not come up when > I boot into Linux. I just get a prompt with a Dos graphic of the > linux penguin. What did I do wrong in the install??? > > Thanks, > > James > > > -- James carlson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/14/2001 you didn't do anything wrong, all you need to do is type in the user name that you gave during installation. It will prompt for the password and then boot to the desktop once you give it and hit return. Enjoy, -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user # 180842
RE: [newbie] Backup needed
Title: RE: [newbie] Backup needed I believe ghost is a vfat environment program, not absolutely sure. If you can check into DriveCopy, the adds I have seen say it works with all windows and linux OS's. It sells for about 25 U.S. and can be used on single, multiple partitions or to copy one drive to another entirely. Just a suggestion, I have not had a chance to research it myself, only going by the ads. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don Mayhew Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Backup needed If I buy the disc imaging program Ghost 6.5 and install it on the Win2000 primary channel hard drive, will the program be able to see my MK7.2 ext2 system on a second hard drive set as master on the secondary IDE controller? My goal is to get a convenient, speedy way to backup my Linux system so I will be less hesitant to try modifying it for my special needs. Could I get this convenience by splitting the second hard drive (devoted to Linux) into an experimental partition and a backup partition? Would the dd command allow a complete restore of a saved backup, to the experimantal partition, without a lot of manual intervention? Thanks for any suggestions. Don
RE: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1
Title: RE: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1 I do not know the root of your problem, but I am running 7.2 with KDE 2.1 and it is lightning fast. I can open 5 or 6 different functions like Konqueror on line with Kppp in a 56k modem, have rpmdrake going, open a console and run kedit or kpackage and be downloading a file off the net, while at the same time installing another file previously d/l'd. Why you might ask? Just to see if I could. Anyway, I saw no difference in the speed of the various actions as opposed to if they were working by themselves, except of course for the downloads, which individually slow down due to the bandwidth available. Something else is eating your lunch, it is not LM 7.2 or linux. I have seen it suggested that you may not have the monitor optimized, or you might need to tune your harddrive. Keep looking for the culprit cause the Mandrake is well worth the effort. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1 You know, I understand all this but you'd think that you could run all typical daemons without adversely effecting the performance of your machine. At home I run both 7.2 and W2k, I counted 40 services running on W2K and the machine works fine. However, my 7.2 is a bit sluggish. I tried to disable as many daemons as I could but it had little effect. My impression is its the window manager/environment. It's kind of like you can't have your cake and eat it too type of thing - you can't have a wm/env that is both full featured and spunky. I'm sure they are working on it though... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1 take a very close look at the programs that are running automatically at boot time. That could be the source of your problems. Abe > Original Message --- > From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 15:29:08 -0700 > > I ran " $ free" and saw that I was heavily into my swap, to the tune of > around 227 M. I switched to Gnome and everything is running much > faster. I've been monitoring my memory / swap usage, and the most swap > I've used in Gnome is about 40M running Moz 0.8. That program eats up > buffer / cache too. > > The thing that's really weird, is a buddy of mine is using 7.2 and KDE > on a 200 PI with 64M and his system runs fine. I think somehow I must > have sprung a memory leak or something. Oh well, I'm actually starting > to like Gnome a lot. It's much more stable than it was a couple of > years ago. > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > Glen Leinweber wrote: > > > Michael, > > This is a guess... I wonder if 64MEG is close to the > > limit for 7.2? Perhaps 7.1 fits KDE and one or two apps > > fits into 64M without going to swap. Once you get into swap, > > things really slow down. > > I've often heard that more RAM often solves speed > > problems. > > > > > >
RE: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release?
Title: RE: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release? OOps, come to think of it is /var one of those partitions that would be under /home if you don't specifically make a partition for it when installing? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release? Dennis Myers wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, you wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > Does any one know when Mandrake will start posting KDE2.1 > > Final Release? Will we be able use the update feature? > > Or, is there an alternate ftp site? > > Hey Roman, I don't know how others do it but I use gftp > from the KDE desktop to down load, that way I can save to a > designated file, copy to a zip for future use and do the > "rpm -Uvh *.rpm " from the saved file to load the new rpms. > If I ever have to reinstall the zip files are waiting > without having to go through a 56K modem d/l again. gftp > also is capable of resume function so if you loose the > connection you can pick it up where you left off. Dennismandrakeupdate saves the rpms that it downoads and installs in your /var/cache/grpmi directory. -- Alan
RE: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release?
Title: RE: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release? Cool, so I can copy them from there to a temp folder in my /home and then if things go askew as they do frequently I still have them after a reinstall. Thanks for the info. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release? Dennis Myers wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, you wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > Does any one know when Mandrake will start posting KDE2.1 > > Final Release? Will we be able use the update feature? > > Or, is there an alternate ftp site? > > Hey Roman, I don't know how others do it but I use gftp > from the KDE desktop to down load, that way I can save to a > designated file, copy to a zip for future use and do the > "rpm -Uvh *.rpm " from the saved file to load the new rpms. > If I ever have to reinstall the zip files are waiting > without having to go through a 56K modem d/l again. gftp > also is capable of resume function so if you loose the > connection you can pick it up where you left off. Dennismandrakeupdate saves the rpms that it downoads and installs in your /var/cache/grpmi directory. -- Alan
RE: [newbie] Kmail won't connect
Title: RE: [newbie] Kmail won't connect Don't think so, cause I'm able to connect to everything on the other computer. It is just the one computer that I have windows on one disk and linux on the other. It acts like the MSwin winsocket problem I used to have on occasion with windows but don't see how to fix it Mandrake. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kmail won't connect Dennis Myers wrote: > Actually it isn't just Kmail, Netscape can't find any > servers either. This just happened on my other box and came > out of nowhere. Kmail says it can't find > "mail.earthlink.net" and netscape has a socket problem. I > have checked and double checked my addresses and password. > My Kppp dials up and connects and there it stops. Any one > run into this before, I'm not using the right keywords to > find any answers in the archives, so would appreciate any > help or point me in the right direction and holler > "charge!" TIA Dennishow about your dns servers? One day my browser quit working and I called my isp and found out that the dns servers had changed to different ip addresses that morning. -- Alan
RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM-solved and update
Title: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM I took the suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and the tech put it in a windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so they said the memory was tested ok. They gave me an exchange anyway, but I thought it interesting that their test was to boot it and let the bios test tell them if it was ok. That's fine i'm back to 256M and it was instantly recognized in LM7.2 on boot. Dennis M. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWOSent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:45 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM This is the funny thing about my situation, no crashes, no weird things going on, I just can't get linux to recognize my ram. The system doesn't even seem to run any slower, transfers of web pages and searches are as fast as ever. I am thinking motherboard, so I will try suggested test of putting the ram in another box and see if it causes problems there. Two of the sticks are only a couple of months old and I should be able to exhchange them if I can determine good or bad. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark JohnsonSent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:58 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM Naa, I can't believe this, I have a 256 stick that crashed three computers continuously and it counted up in the bios just fine in all three. This 128 stick isn't quite so ruthless on me but linux apps keep crashing on me left and right and weird things like the logout won't work sometimes in X... -Original Message-From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:20 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM I've been told by local computer techs that if your bios sees the ram at bootup ,( in other words detects it and counts it off on the first screen that shows your primary and secondary IDE devices and you can hit del to get to bios) then the ram memory is good and should be functional. I am not a technician so I am relying on their advice. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:31 PM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM I am suspicious that my RAM is bad. Is there anyway in linux that I can confirm this?
RE: [newbie] Can't get eth1 up
Title: RE: [newbie] Can't get eth1 up Did you know that if you highlight the text you want to put in an e-mail or elsewhere for that matter, you can then go to the email composition screen and right click and then click on "paste" in the popup box? Don't click on copy when you first highlight the text with the mouse pointer, just highlight it and then go to where you want to paste it and then do the right click and paste. Saves a lot of time and also gives the verbatem text. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Roberts Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't get eth1 up It was a typo, I was copying it off the screen somedays I just can't type worth a Doug > If this is a cut-and-paste as opposed to a retype with a typo, then you > should probably change 3th1 to eth1. > > Doug Roberts wrote: > > alias eth0 3c503 > > alias 3th1 3c503 > > options 3c503 irq=5,9 io=0x2e0,0x2a0 > > > > This used to work for SuSE, before it went south on me. What am I doing > > wrong that I cant get eth1 to work? > > If you need more info, I am glad to provide. > > > > Doug > > -- > Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age > Guerilla Linux Warrior >
RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
Title: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM This is the funny thing about my situation, no crashes, no weird things going on, I just can't get linux to recognize my ram. The system doesn't even seem to run any slower, transfers of web pages and searches are as fast as ever. I am thinking motherboard, so I will try suggested test of putting the ram in another box and see if it causes problems there. Two of the sticks are only a couple of months old and I should be able to exhchange them if I can determine good or bad. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark JohnsonSent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:58 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM Naa, I can't believe this, I have a 256 stick that crashed three computers continuously and it counted up in the bios just fine in all three. This 128 stick isn't quite so ruthless on me but linux apps keep crashing on me left and right and weird things like the logout won't work sometimes in X... -----Original Message-From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:20 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM I've been told by local computer techs that if your bios sees the ram at bootup ,( in other words detects it and counts it off on the first screen that shows your primary and secondary IDE devices and you can hit del to get to bios) then the ram memory is good and should be functional. I am not a technician so I am relying on their advice. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:31 PM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM I am suspicious that my RAM is bad. Is there anyway in linux that I can confirm this?
RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
Title: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM I've been told by local computer techs that if your bios sees the ram at bootup ,( in other words detects it and counts it off on the first screen that shows your primary and secondary IDE devices and you can hit del to get to bios) then the ram memory is good and should be functional. I am not a technician so I am relying on their advice. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:31 PM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM I am suspicious that my RAM is bad. Is there anyway in linux that I can confirm this?
RE: [newbie] Printer recommendations
Title: RE: [newbie] Printer recommendations I had similar problem and solved it by changing to 90% on the page resolution, I think that was it . -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Aaron Benedict Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:36 AM To: Sevatio Octavio; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer recommendations On Tuesday 30 January 2001 08:31, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Sevatio Octavio> I heard that Epsons are linux-friendly. I have an Epson Photo 750 and for the most part it works well in Linux except for when I try to print from Kmail. It is always coming up with the last few line of the page and the first few lines missing. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? Aaron -- Aaron Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2
Title: RE: [newbie] upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2 Just an added comment, there does seem to be a large variation in experience with the upgrade, so if it was me, I would back up what I didn't want to loose completely, like mail addresses, e-mail and URLs as well as any spreadsheets letters etc. and then go ahead and try the upgrade. If it doesn't work you've only lost a bit of time, and can then wipe the hd and do a clean install. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Quaylar Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 6:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2 hiho ppl. i followed the earlier thread about the question wether 7.2 is worth upgrading and many of u said it is. so my question to this is : i´ve made bad experiences with upgrading from 6.2 to 7.1, i had a working install of 6.2 where everything was working (took me months !) and after the upgrade almost nothing was working any more.all the settings gone and nothing than problems.. so is there something i have to especially take care of when upgrading to 7.2 (from 7.1) to avoid screwing up my entire system ?... or.has somebody of u made experiences like this ?. greets --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Goodbye
Title: RE: [newbie] Goodbye What were you installing with? Your own d/l'd and burned CD's or a store bought set? I had similar problems with installs until I bought the boxed set Power Pack Deluxe and then all was well. The CD's I burned myself were not being read properly by my CDROM . -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of GECOS Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 9:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Goodbye Hello All, Saturday evening my HDD failed, installed a new one today with mixed feelings about Mandrake, on the failed HDD I had 6 failed installs before everything went well, this time I gave up after **8** failed installs, different error everytime, I was very disappointed, but decided to look elsewhere, SuSE 6.3 first time right (5+GB) Corel Linux v2 from my daughter again first time installed without any problems. So I'm joining SuSE now. Cheers, Herman
RE: [newbie] New system-failed install
Title: RE: [newbie] New system-failed install I have a problem with install on one of my systems also. The thing is, it has two hard drives and on the secondary hard drive (a maxtor) linux installs just fine. So I know it is not the mother board and other hardware. This is the one thing we have in common other than the sound card, my primary hard drive is a WD 13 gig ATA66. I have had linux on it before but after a power problem I had to reinstall on both hard drives and the WD is not cooperating. Hopefully someone out there can give us a fix. Other wise I am saving my pennies for a new Maxtor to replace the frisbee I have now. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert F. Trettel Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 6:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] New system-failed install Hi All, I hope someone can help me out,can't get a good install on my home built system. This is what I have: Asus A7V 700Mhz Duron 128mg PC133 ram Sound Blaster Live Value Ati Rage pro 128 32mgs Acer 40x Cd-rom 10gig W/D hard drive ATA66 When Mandrake's installer gets to the package install it finds errors in them and shuts down the install. Tried turning off my L1 cache, also just about anything else I could think of. Always the same. Even Windoze doesn't like this setup. I thought I had the parts to make one heck of a Linux box,but soon going to swap out parts. May get something back. I am tried of my out dated 166Mhz. Thanks for any input Robert F. Trettel
RE: [newbie] Patches
Title: RE: [newbie] Patches Use " rpm --rebuilddb " should do it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kevin Tambascio Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Patches Hi, Has anyone had any problems with Mandrake Update freezing during the updates? I was trying to perform a bunch of the updates, maybe about half, and the MandrakeUpdate froze during the actual installation. Doing a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or Ctrl-Alt-Delete did not do anything! Mouse and keyboard were non-responsive. The harddrive was making tons of noise, so it got stuck doing something. If I selected one or two of the updates, that seemed to work OK. After rebooting, I re-ran MandrakeUpdate, and the potential list of security updates was the same as before I started, even though I successfully updated some of the entries before, almost like my RPM database is messed up. Could it have something to do with the RPM database? maybe it needs to be rebuilt before installing the new security updates? (I'm not at my linux box to try it now...). I am running Mandrake 7.2, 2.2.17 kernel. This was under KDE 2.01. Can someone tell me what the command is to update the RPM database? Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: "Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Patches > Just run Mandrake Update, and it will give you a list of all available and > applicable security patches for your system. Choose "Select All", then "Do > Updates", and it's all automated from there... > > Dave > > At 02:25 PM 01/26/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >How can I get all of the security updates in one swoop? Are they packaged > >somewhere or would I have to download each patch separately? > > > >Thanks, > > > >The Moose > > Dave Sherman > SoftServ Business Systems, Inc. "Quid quid latine dictum sit, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] altum viditur." > (763) 569-9839 >
RE: [newbie] Aurora
Title: RE: [newbie] Aurora Pardon me for butting in but, how do you edit if you can't get a konsole. I am only able to log in and get to where the command line is as "root @localhost". Which editor and how do I get to the correct file? I'm lost without kedit and it won't work without an xserver running. Thanks for any help. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 12:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Aurora Shawn Daniel wrote: > I thought someone had posted something on this before, but > I couldn't find it in the archive. > > I have installed 7.2, it works pretty well (some of it > kinda slow though), but the only way I can get into it is > with my boot disk. If I use grub to get in, it boots to > Aurora and stops. All it ever says is "Booting.". It > never gets any further then that. When I check the other > consoles, there are two running and both are locked up. I > have no idea where to start. I know that I really don't > care for Aurora at all. I would rather just boot in to > Xthe way my boot disk does. > > Now when I do a control-alt-delete the box responds and > starts shutting down. So does this mean Aurora is REALLY > slow and I need to wait even longer? > > Can someone tell me how to either repair Aurora, where to > begin, or how to rid myself of this nuisance. Shawnit sounds like the framebuffer resolution specified in /etc/lilo.conf is bogus for your system. Boot into Linux with the boot floppy you made during installation. Sigb in as root and edit /etc/lilo.conf by changing any line that starts with: vga= and replace whatever appears after the 'equals sign' with 'normal', like this: vga=normal then save the file and at a command line type: lilo -v after lilo is done re-writing itself then log out and reboot. Your system should boot normally without Aurora. If you want to experiment wuth getting Aurora to run during boot, change the current 3 digit code to another in the 'vga=' line in /etc/lilo.conf till one works properly. The below chart of framebuffer codes will help you in this process: Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 +---+---++-+- 256 | 769 771 773 775 796 32,768 | 784 787 790 793 797 65,536 | 785 788 791 794 798 16.8M | 786 789 792 795 799 -- Alan
RE: [newbie] size of log files
Title: RE: [newbie] size of log files This also begs the question, is there a file or files that one should periodically clear out to prevent filling up a disk with garbage? I have found nothing in my reading that says it is necessary, but just maybe I missed it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of philomena Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] size of log files Hi Alan, I will subscribe to that list, but my question is not really a PMFirewall question - its about controlling the size of the system log files - since I saw a syslog.gz , which I know I didn't create, I am assuming there is some system utility that compressed the /var/log/syslog file when it reached some filesize. The same happened with /var/log/messages - there was a messages.gz, which I didn't create. Is there a system parameter or service that monitors and controls the size of specified log files ? If so, I want to set that max file size to something small, so that my system doesn't go haywire while I am workign on the firewall issue. Thanks, philomena Alan Shoemaker wrote: > > philomena wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I installed PMFirewall recently and have been getting a ton > > of the same message in my syslog and messages files - they > > are "deny" messages, but of my own static IP address, so I > > must have something set up wrong. As a consequence, these > > files have been getting huge, and have caused me some > > problems when the partition has run out of space. I notice > > that there is a ..gz file of each of these files. Is there > > a system parameter that based on the filesize automatically > > compresses the file ? If so, how do I manipulate that so > > that my system behaves while I track down the firewall > > problem ? > > > > Thanks, > > philomena > > To subscribe to the pmfirewall mailing list send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe pmfirewall in the body > of the message. > -- > Alan
RE: [newbie]printing
Title: RE: [newbie]printing Or, when you select the object or file you want, hold down the shift key and then click, you should get a save to box that will start the download to a location like /home/dennis/ filename. That is the quickest way I know of to start a download. You can change the save location also. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dale Kosan Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]printing You are using Netscape I bet,right click on the file or link and choose save as.The other way,as you have found out is not easy to understand.After all the code is done,go up to file,save as and you are done.Just easier to right click... - Original Message - From: "Marcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]printing > Dear All, I went to the site to download Cups and I got alot of computer > language or code printout to my screen instead of an RPM package that I > expected. I went to a site for Acroread 4.02 rpm and the same thing > happened. What do I need to do to correct this? Thank you. Marcia > > >
RE: [newbie] PCMCIA modems
Title: RE: [newbie] PCMCIA modems Look in the Drakeconfig for hardware detection or lothar I can't remember which its called now, click on that and when it lists everything there should be a + box next to modem, see what it says, did it detect the modem? Also I have found that when I give KPPP all the configuration data I then have to exit from the Xwindow and restart or exit completely and reboot. Once I have done that the modem works fine. I don't think you will be able to use /dev/modem without making a symbolic link to it from the real port... Is a PCMCIA plugged into or considered a serial port on your computer( I've never used one on a laptop)? If it is the equivalent of COM 1 or 2 in windows then you should get a connection at /dev/ttys0 or ttys1, hope that helps. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] PCMCIA modems I am trying to get a PCMCIA modems to work under Kppp (MD7.1, Sony Vaio PCG F250) I have tried all the /dev options from /dev/modem to whatever the last one is and either get modem busy, can't open modem etc. If I set flow control to "none" and then try to query modem, it will say modem ready and check the ATI commands but the resulting table of ATI commands is blank. The shop told me that all PCMCIA modems are "hardware" modems, were they wrong, have they sold me a Winmodem ?
RE: [newbie] Making DHCP work
Title: RE: [newbie] Making DHCP work Hi, just to check, did you configure Netscape?. In otherwords go to the Netscape tool bar, click on edit, click on preferences and put in the IP addresses in mail server for your ISP. For some reason I have noticed that Netscape will not connect without that information. I may be all wet but this is what it seemed needed doing in two cases of my own installations . Luck, Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Making DHCP work Hi! I subscribed to Road Runner (cable using DHCP) two weeks ago and am still not able to use it... I got rid of my first problem (making eth0 work) thanks to two Linux angels, Michael and Greg, that I thank again. Now here is what's happening: * Eth0 seems to work like a charm (IRQ and IO are specified for eth0, the boot says "OK" after "Configuring the Eth0 interface" and so on) * DHCPCD has been configured, and also seems to work. Indeed, when I type "dhcpcd" it says "already running". * When I use the command "ifconfig", I have a nice inet adress for eth0. * The "online" led of the cable modem they provided is flashing on and off. BUT * When I open netscape and type "www.linux.org" or any other adress it answers "unable to locate the server bla bla bla". I did not configure myself DHCPCD or any connection, I let Mandrake do it: In Netconf, I simply used the "Basic Host Information" tab, enabling DHCP. I didn't touch the other tabs as I do not understand that Networking stuff. I guess there is something to do, and I am pretty sure it is something very simple, but I don't know what... [My computer features a Pentium 733, 128 RAM, Tyan Trinity 400 motherboard. Good stuff.] I thank the Linux angels who will save my computer life again! Nicolas
RE: [newbie] Browsers
Title: RE: [newbie] Browsers I had tried the tar file on Opera and got a dump due to unexpected EOF. So that didn't work for me. And I do understand that beta may load slower but what I am seeing is after it loads and is running, if I change screens to go to say "mail" it takes about 5 times longer to bring up the mail screen, same thing in doing changes of URLs or any move in an existing screen. Is that common with a beta? It's like my computer has gone into slow motion. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Larry Marshall Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Browsers > I have d/l'd Opera, Netscape 6, and Mozilla and find that I can not > install Opera due to wrong architecture, and the other two flow like If you want to try this, download the tar file instead. I dont know what's going on with their rpms but you've bumped into what's a common problem there. > molasses in January. They are so slow to load anything that I feel like > I have timewarped back to the good old dos days and booting with floppys Haven't wasted my time with NS6.0. It's true that Mozilla loads slowly. Truthfully, most betas will load more slowly (often by a lot) than true releases as they're bloated with developer code. On the other hand, who cares when it comes to a browser. Load it, stick into one of your windows and leave it there. > one found the fix for the wrong architecture thingy in Opera? I have See above. > are twitchy and crash frequently. I hope that the final releases are > better for speed in Linux than what I see now, or have I missed One of the things I see regularly is people's unfamiliarity with beta-test software, both in terms of expectations and interpretations. I guess it is pretty unique for most people working in Windows to see true beta-apps with all their trace code, dead code, etc. still hanging inside them. With Windows you get to beta-test after you buy it and the bloat there is more a matter of programming taste than anything else. > something in the install? Linux makes everything but the mozilla prog > run faster so something is amiss. Only your interpretation and expectations of beta software. Cheers --- Larry
RE: [newbie] Security for Single Client
Title: RE: [newbie] Security for Single Client You don't have to do anything but follow the readme. When the install starts it will ask a bunch of questions. Answer no to most of them and allow unlimited access to 127.0.0. When all questions are answered and you tell it to start on ppp0 connection, it will automatically modify your IPchains. You will be off and running. No other config required. Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:10 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Security for Single Client Thats great. I've downloaded the .tar and have been going over the readme's and the IPChains HowTo. Do I have to compile the kernel under Mandrake 7.1 to enable IPChains, or can I do it from Drakconfig? Barry :-) On Tue, 12 September 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Barry, In a word yes. I have it on my dial-up machine and it works like > a charm. Dennis > > Barry Premeaux wrote: > > > The majority of the info I have been reading > > on firewalls, and pmfirewall in particular, > > refers to a second machine setting between > > you and the outside world. > > > > What about the typical dial up client? Does > > pmfirewall work here as well? > > > > -- > > Barry :-) > > -- > Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842 _ The freedom to choose your own Internet access price. Surfree.com - got to be free http://www.surfree.com
RE: [newbie] Learning Linux?
Title: RE: [newbie] Learning Linux? "Running Linux " (O'Rielly Publishing) is an excellent reference. Dennis registered linux user #180834 or something like that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Learning Linux? ihave linux mandrake for beginners and it wasnt very helpful it seems more like $25 for the mandrake 7.0 cd which i never used because i already had 7.1 In a message dated 13-Sep-00 05:57:17 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like "Linux for Dummies" for example chapter by chapter? >>
RE: [newbie] Yahooooooooooooooo - Party at Fred's Tonight!!!
Title: RE: [newbie] Yahooo - Party at Fred's Tonight!!! Did you use the Mandrake update function? I started to but the warning message about doing it separately stopped me. Did you ignore and go for it? If so, I will give it a try also. Thanks, Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Rye Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Yahooo - Party at Fred's Tonight!!! Well folks I bit the bullet. Decided on a marathon tonight in honour of the upcomming Olympics. Started at 6.00pm and downloaded Kernel-2.2.16 (1.5 hrs!!! Good line tonight !!) And installed same.. all 'looked' ok, so a reboot was attempted and dam me if it didn't work!! Roman on Sun 10 said install and reboot!!! Forgot to tell us we newbies needed to tweak the bootloader eh? 8.00pm downloaded Bastille-1.1.0 after reading an article at/on http://www/enteract.com about Armouring Linux. Sat down and read the Ipchains HOWTO yet again. 10.00pm - decide that a backup might be in order - so /etc and /home copied to a spare chunk on the other HDD and beast rebooted to that other opsys where a cd was written (That's another bullet yet to be tasted.) 11.30pm Sore eyes - bored with infer-mercials - reboot to Linux untar Bastille and go for it - answered all the questions eventually between reading man pages and hoping I got it right.. 00.45AM - all looks good - reboot - and hope. 00.47AM - I'm up and running - so attempt to get to the Net. 01.30AM - success - line has deteriorated even more - only getting around 1.2kbs transfer, lots of ppp timeouts - I have to deal with that later. Get the mail - yup worked - answered/responded to 20-odd. Go surfing - water is bloody cold this time of morning - try grc.com get lots of triggers from portsentry even at 1.2kbs 02.30 - logout and check logs - yup I'm all happy What a relief it's been.. Now all I have to do is make suitable sacrifices to any diety we/you care to name so that I don't stuff it all up. Cheers John -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] I can't detect my modem
Title: RE: [newbie] I can't detect my modem Sorry to butt in but I have read that if you have the Network routing daemon running it will interfere with a dialup modem. You might want to check that in Drakconfig. Just a thought. It got me on one install. As soon as I disabled the network routing the modem dialed. Good luck, Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I can't detect my modem Charles, I followed your instructions for configuring my port. Unfortunately with no success. Found my device just fine using cat tool. It is indeed a Communication controller. :) It is set to IRQ 9. I entered the setserial commands you gave me and after doing so and did a modem query. Now I get "No response from modem" vice "Modem is Busy" reply. So I did some experimenting with the setserial handles. I entered them each one at time, skipped different ones, just about every combo possible(restarting between different patterns). What is happening is I continue to get the busy reply unless I either (1) include skip_test with the autoconfig handle -or- (2) run the autoconfig without the skip_test (still busy) and then do the setserial uart 16550A. Then i get the no response. It seems to me I have isolated the problem to the uart. I can do all the other commands and still get the busy reply, but once I use skip_test or set the uart I get no response. I also tried every different uart setting it would allow me to. No help. I tried the process on ttyS1 as well with same results. What exactly is the uart anyway? I also did less /proc/interrrupts to look at my IRQs and it wasn't listed (9 that is). Where do I go from here? /proc/pci info BUS 0, device 4, function 0: Communication controller: Lucent (ex-At&t) Microelectronics L56xMF(rev. 1) Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master capable. No bursts. Max Gnt=252. Max Lat=14 Also, I am running dual boot (grub) WIN98/Mandrake7.1 Athlon600 Help! ) John > Here are my weekly instructions for a PCI modem in Linux. > > > The first thing you need to do is find out if you winmodem or a real > modem. Log in as root and from terminal enter the following command # cat > /proc/pci > This will list all your PCI devices. On this list you should see either > Communication controller or Communication device, that listing is your > modem. If it shows as Comm. device you have a winmodem and it won't work in > Linux. If it shows as Comm. controller prceed as follows: > Write down the first I/O range. In the example I am using 0xd800 replace > that with yours. > Enter the following > # setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0xd800 spd_vhi skip_test auto_irq autoconfig > If there are no errors, then enter > # setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A > > Select /dev/ttyS3 as the device in kppp and your modem should now initalize > and operate. > To make this perm. you will need to edit your rc.local file which is located > in the /etc/rc.d directory. Add the 2 setserial lines to the end of this > file > Save the changes and reboot your system. > > Charles :-) > > > - Original Message - > > From: John > > > > It is on com port 4 in windows which is ttys3 in linux I believe. When I > > query it using KPPP it tells me "Sorry, modem is busy". Of course it also > > says this for just about every other port as well. I found some > > documentation on Maximumlinux.com and it mentions that special > instructions > > are required for ttys2 and ttys3. Of course they don't tell you what > these > > instructions are. I am unable to change the com port to 2 as it goes to 4 > > automatically when it installs (in Windows). I am really stumped here. > Any > > words of advice? Thanks > > > > John > > > > > >
RE: [newbie] host.allow
Title: RE: [newbie] host.allow I've seen this nomenclature in other places, like samba man etc, does it really mean to put the .com at the end. Should I be putting as an example localhost.localdomain.com or can I leave the .com off? This confuses me for some reason. Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Holly Henry-Pilkington Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] host.allow The format of hosts in hosts.allow or hosts.deny is: SERVICE: host name e.g: TELNET: mydomain.com FTP: 123.456.789.012 yourdomain.com ALL: 111.111.111. ALL: ALL The first is specifying by domain name which has to be resolvable via DNS or present in your /etc/hosts file to work. The second is an example of specifying by IP address as well as how to enter multiple hosts for a given service. The third is an example of a subnet mask. For example, if you wanted to give all of your local network machines access to all services, you would put in the first three parts of the IP addresses (the parts that all of your internal machines have in common) and end with a dot. Then all machines on that subnet will have access. The final example (what I use in hosts.deny) is the wildcard ALL. You can use this for services you want fully open like HTTP or FTP for certain servers. For more info, type: man hosts.allow at your command line. HTH. Holly On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Manuel Tuthill wrote: > Does anyone know the format of how to a a host to host.allow if so could > they let me know! > > > Warmest regards, > > Manuel Tuthill > > > >
[newbie] Rpm designations
Title: Rpm designations Can somebody explain the difference in .i386 and .i586 designation in rpms Sometimes you have a choice and I'm not sure but I think that this is referring to processor class. I have a AMD K-6 II 400 and I think the .i586 is ok for that processor? Somebody educate me here. Thanks, Dennis
RE: [newbie] cannot connet to internet
Title: RE: [newbie] cannot connet to internet Hi, from the KDE desktop click on the internet link to bring up Kppp box. Click on setup and then in the little window it should show what you named your internet connection. Like "Earthlink" or what ever. If nothing shows click "add" if something is there click "edit". Then you should put in the DNS addresses for you service provider in the appropriate places, I can't remember which tabs they are but check each tab to make sure the correct info is in there. The PAP or CHAP should be selected and set your modem speed to the appropriate setting. (I always set mine one step higher than it actually is like at 112 K instead of 56K. Let us know what you find and if it works. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 1:57 PM To: Mandrake maling list Subject: Re: [newbie] cannot connet to internet On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Juggernaut wrote: >But if I'm using kppp to dial, this file change into : >domain craven.net # kppp temp entry >#domain link.net #disable by kppp >search link.net >nameserver 202.137.2.155 >nameserver 192.168.0.1 #kppp temp entry > >So, I can't browse internet. Because domain of my ISP was blocked. How can I >solve this problem ? I don't use kppp, but I would suggest you check the settings and dns entries that you set up there. Paul -- Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them? http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
RE: [newbie] ESS Audio still not working
Ooops! earlier message is right, it's "sndconfig" not soundconfig. Sorry, I got verbose there and let my fingers take over from my brain. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julio C. GutierrezSent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 2:14 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] ESS Audio still not workingDennis Myers wrote: I have already tried both ways and when I go on the console and type soundconfig it gives me a coomand not found message, is there anything else I can tryThanks for your help! Are you sure it is not working? I mean, have you enabled system sounds in KDE and turned up the volume for CD players? I'm not sure how to enable sounds in gnome if that is the desktop you are using. Check in KDE control center to see if system sounds is enabled. And click on the small speaker icon on the task bar to see where the volume is set. If you have already done these things, I would go to Konsole and "su" and type in " soundconfig" and try configuring that way. "Julio C. Gutierrez" wrote: Hi everyone, I recently installed Mandrake 7.1 and it works terrific, with one exeption, My Ess sound card that is supposed to be compatible doesnot work, and it was working under windoze before, so my question is: is there anything I can do or is there any new or current drivers for linux? your help will be appreciated Thank you!-- Dennis a registered linux user #180842
RE: [newbie] error on boot-up
Title: RE: [newbie] error on boot-up Try one last thing, at the prompt, type just linux or just failsafe and hit return. That about uses up my help knowledge on this subject J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marcia Waller Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] error on boot-up Dear Paul, Alan, Mark, Thank you for your help. I would definitely agree that my system is stalling as it's attempting to mount the 'root' file system in read/write mode. I typed the' linux single' and it made no difference. I have not found a way to get to a console or linuxconf. I have read and tried many things and none have worked. I suppose you have to choose Grub at installation and it is a little late now. The failsafe did not work with LILO that is for sure. Would I be better off totally reinstalling Linux Mandrake 7.0? I did do the upgrade install and that did not change anything either. I suspect that I did something incorrectly in the fstab file since I was working on that for the zip drive just before I had problems. I touched nothing but the zip drive entry. I have been working on that for awhile trying to get it to work and that never hurt anything before plus it did not get my zip to work either:) Thank you for your help. I may just try to start over if I can. If I decide to reinstall how would I use grub instead? I appreciate the help. Marcia
RE: [newbie] Detecting Zip drive & Modem
Title: RE: [newbie] Detecting Zip drive & Modem Go to the linux-mandrake homepage and click on tutorials, there is some very good help on setting up a modem in Kppp. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting Zip drive & Modem On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Rakesh Raghvani wrote: >Could you please help me! > >I've currently installed Linux Mandrake on my computer and I've read the >help files on how the detect and set up the Zip drive and Modem Card. I >can't seem to install the hardware, installing sound card, cd rom driver etc >were easy! So I've decided to give up. So if you now, I would be grateful if >you could tell me how to solve this problem. I can't help you on the modem, but try typing insmod ppa on a prompt. If that works, then you are already somewhere. Then you have to create a directory to mount the zip to, like /mnt/zip and find out on which device the ZIP is located. Most likely on /dev/sda4. Try 'mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip' and see if that works. Paul -- Saudi Arabia has NO freedom of religion. )0( [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] )0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
RE: [newbie] Second hard drive
Title: RE: [newbie] Second hard drive Two replies and both are right. I set it up on the secondary (ide1) so it is hdd as the secondary slave. Sorry for giving out the wrong info when asking for help. Only serves to confuse the issue. I am going to download diskdrake and try that for partitioning and formatting. Thanks, I'll let you all know how this comes out. Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Goldenpi Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Second hard drive If its primary slave, shouldn't it be hdb1, not hdd1? I know all those names, haveing 4 hard drives in my system, includeing cd, with 7 partitions. - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 4:05 AM Subject: [newbie] Second hard drive > I have installed a second hard drive on the linux box.It is shown as > hdd. Went in and did a mke2fs and made one big partition, hdd1. Oh, > it's a Maxtor 15gig DiamondMax on Primary slave. When I look at the > drive now it says no readable partitions present. How do I make the > partitions and save it so I can use it to back up my master hda. I'm not > even sure how to send files to it. I have looked at How to's and the > archives and don't find any help. Surely two hard drives are acceptable > to linux. A little help here, this package is heavy and I can't seem to > lift it. Ha! Thanks in advance, Dennis > >
RE: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive
Title: RE: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive There was an excellent help a while back on this list. Look in the archives and search under "zip" and you should find the answers I used to set up my zip drive. I would give you the data now but am at work on a win machine and don't have the access. Just in case you don't know you can find the archives on the Mandrake webpage that has mail lists, its down near the bottom of the page http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 . If you can't find it come back to this thread and tonight I will dig up the data and put it on the e-mail again. Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Doug McGarrett Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive If your disk is VFAT, Linux will think the fs is on partition 4. So you need to set up your fstab to look for (frinstance) /dev/hdc4. At 09:40 PM 08/14/2000 -0700, you wrote: >I had to subscribe again in order to get any of the emails again. Any help >with the zip drive would be great. I have a dual boot system with Windows 95 >and Linux Mandrake 7.0. I have 2 hard drives and an Atapi internal IDE zip >drive. It is supermounted but I do not know how to access and use it. Thanks >for your help. The rest of the needed information for this zip should be >below. Marcia >- Original Message - >From: Marcia Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 10:12 PM >Subject: zip disk drive > > >> Dear Anyone, First of all, I have not received any emails from this group >> for 2 days now. Is anyone else having this problem? >> >> Second of all, I finally have my internal Atapi Zip drive supermounted in >> Mandrake 7.0 but I cannot access it. I click on the zip icon and I get the >> same error message that I was always getting-can't find dev/hdc4 in >> /etc/fstab. How do I create an icon to work with my supermounted zip >> disk?How do I access my zip with or without an icon? How do I save files >> and place them into my zip disk? Any assistance will be appreciated. Thank >> you very much. Marcia >> >> P.S. I am very impressed with how everyone is so helpful here. I have come >a >> long way in a short time with Linux because of this group. Thank you. >> > > >
RE: [newbie] Problems w/Netscape 4.73 & Mandrake Updater
Title: RE: [newbie] Problems w/Netscape 4.73 & Mandrake Updater
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/NByName.html
you will find the 4.74 here. I d/l'd it and it has the strong encryption too.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Cindy Bartorillo
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Problems w/Netscape 4.73 & Mandrake Updater
Netscape 4.73 seems unable to load several java pages that are favorites
around my house, such as a couple of the games at Yahoo. The Mandrake
Update feature gives me a list of all the things it can get for me,
among which is Netscape 4.74, but every time I try to get it I get an
error ('error fetching').
The weird part is that I ftp'ed to half a dozen mirror sites, including
ones listed by the Updater, and can't find any 4.74 at all. All the
Netscapes available for download are 4.73.
Does anyone know if this 4.74 really exists? Is the Mandrake Updater
generally kinda flaky, or is it a local problem?
While I'm at it, does anyone know of a better browser? As someone who's
accustomed to IE, Netscape is a real disappointment.
CindyB
RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Netscape/password
Title: RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Netscape/password Good question, on my machine it is the ISP password, that's where Netscape goes to get mail. In thinking about it I would say that the password should be what is required to connect to the POP3 or IMAP. So, it may be either the ISP or the mail server password they could be one and the same. This may be as clear as mud, but I hope it is understandable. Dennis -Original Message- From: Roman Korcek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 7:38 AM To: Dennis Myers Subject: Re[2]: [newbie] Netscape/password Hi, Should it not be the mail account password rather than the ISP password ? Roman > "Eric MC.D" wrote: >> Darryl Gibson wrote: >> > >> > Hello list, >> > >> > When I select "Get Messages" in Netscape I'm prompted for a password. My >> > user's password doesn't work, but Root's password does. Root isn't even >> > logged onto the machine. Why is this, and how can I permit users to get >> > their mail, without using Root's password? >> > >> > TIA >> > >> > -- >> > Darryl Gibson >> > Linux Neophyte (tm) >> > RLU # 182668 >> > This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE >> Are you sure about your passwd ? >> When netscape ask for a password to retrieving mail from >> the net (ISP) this means OMHO that the 'remember my >> password' >> on the 'edit' of 'pop.yourISP' (or imap) is not set. >> When set, you are asked for that password only one's for >> all, >> the first time you logon. >> >> Eric > To put it another way, the password it is asking for is the one you were > given or set up with your ISP to log on to their server and the Internet. If > you have used the same password for logging on to the Net and for root , I > would change one of them just for security purposes. Dennis > -- > Dennis-Registered Linux User #180842
RE: [newbie] XFree86 Setup Question
Title: RE: [newbie] XFree86 Setup Question Try setting on the AOpen P128 card, I believe that is the right designation in the list. That is the card I have at home and Mandrake listed it although it did not find it on the install. When I picked it from the list and use a 16bit color and 800x600 resolution everything works fine. The card is an S3 Trio3D/2X so maybe those settings will work for you. -Original Message- From: Leo Stutzmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 9:07 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] XFree86 Setup Question I have an IBM 300PL, with integrated Trio3D chip on the motherboard. I installed XFree86 3.3.6. I have tried the Trio3D, Trio3D/2X, and the 86C365 setting. All these settings don't work. The screen just goes black. Sometimes I can recover by using ctl-alt-backspace, and other times the machine is locked up. The chip says 86C366 on it. There does not seem to be a listing in the graphic cards for this chip. Anyone have this working? Do you have an XF86Config file or the needed lines in the config to make this work? Thanks for any help Leo
RE: [newbie] What happerned to "setup"
Title: RE: [newbie] What happerned to "setup" I believe it is "XF86Setup" try that and see if you get where you want to go today. Heh! -Original Message- From: Jaguar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:15 AM To: Linux Newbie Subject: [newbie] What happerned to "setup" I just reinstalled MDK 7.0 after a HD failure, and was trying to use "setup" from a command line to configure my Opti 82C929 sound card. I can't find "setup", what is the RPM, or file name to install/use "setup". TIA Jaguar The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
RE: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0
Title: RE: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0 You can get some pretty detailed information on a generic device if it has an FCC code on it. This indicates that it was certified for use in the USA and by going to: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/help.html You can find out who made the device and other interesting info. -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 7:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0 On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Michael Khachiki wrote: >I can't find any documents on how to install a No Name PCMCIA card in Linux. >with out it I can't get on the net from Linux. Please let me know how should >I go about installing a No Name PCMCIA (Modem and LAN) on a laptop. I have >tried "man pcmcia" on the system. It showed me where I can find the pcmcia >config file. when I looked in that file, I could not find my pcmcia in the >list. How should I go about configuring my PCMCIA card ??? If you have a no name card, with no idea who or what made it, and equally no clue as to the drivers needed, I am afraid you have a big problem. If you could figure out the brand of it, or what taiwanese/singapore/indian company made it, you could still stand a chance. Otherwise my bets would be on a pcmcia card that is supported by Linux. I know this is not the answer you want. Paul -- Yesterday is Past; Tomorrow is the Future; Today is a Gift...That is why we call it The Present. )0( [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] )0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
