[newbie] setenv?
how do i do a setenv with mandrake? short of int main(int argv,argc[])
RE: [newbie] Cameras was: More problems as if
Take a look at GPhoto ,(www.gphoto.org), I have a canon digital ixus, and it works fine with Gphoto2 version 1 of gphoto supports lots of cameras(but not USB) version 2 (still alpha) supports more cameras and USB, and has konquror and gnome intergration. evrything was fairly easy to compile and install, apart from the konquror intergration which was missing some files from the cvs get. I am considering getting a digital camera, would you or anyone on this list know of where I can go snoop to find a list of linux supported digital cameras? I know of gphoto and heard it works fair, but I need to be sure so I don't have to keep taking cameras back for exchange, that would look really weird. Thanks.
[newbie] ahhhhhhh corrupt partition table
here's what I've done... nt workstation was installed on the pc (not allowed to remove it because of work!) hda1 + hda2 both 4096mb installed mandrake 7.1 all reiserfs except for /boot with was ext2 every thing ran fine.. then i created another reiserfs partition with diskdrake. but didn't get around to mounting it. booted up into nt, and created an extended partition with 1 fat logical drive to share between Linux and nt and formatted it. rebooted into Linux, moved /downloads to /olddownloads started diskdrake, which told me that the partition table was too corrupt. couldn't mount the reiserfs partition mount said that there was a problem reading it probably not formatted). mounted the fat partition as /downloads and moved all the stuff across. rebooted Linux and tried to go into nt, nt loaded came up and told me it couldn't find disk(0)partition(1) or something like that, tried to boot into Linux, kernel came up but couldn't mount root partition. tried mandrake install disk to try and recover the situation it just comes up with No root partition found when setting up filesystems. doing a mount -r -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/nt from the Linux installer disk says, mount failed: Illegal seek at /usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm linr 209 any clues on how to recover the file system? good Linux/ dos tools for sorting things out.
[newbie] slow telnet ssl
it takes about 30 seconds to connect to my linux box over telnet or ssl, once connected every thing is quick enough though, and http seems fine when connecting, and outbound connections are fine. i've looked through the logs and can't seem to find anything particular, no timeouts infact no messages other that that someone has connected. any clues on how to sort this out or track down the problem.
RE: [newbie] slow telnet ssl
i'm using the ip address, it's fine from the local machine, but vslow from anywhere else. with various clents etc -Original Message- From: John Couturier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 August 2000 13:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] slow telnet ssl Are you telneting with an IP address or a name? If you are using just the name make sure your DNS is configured right or you have the pc in your /etc/hosts file. -- Original Message -- From: Oliver Stieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:02:44 +0100 it takes about 30 seconds to connect to my linux box over telnet or ssl, once connected every thing is quick enough though, and http seems fine when connecting, and outbound connections are fine. i've looked through the logs and can't seem to find anything particular, no timeouts infact no messages other that that someone has connected. any clues on how to sort this out or track down the problem.
RE: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]
[rant on] I hate html mail, it has funny colours that heart my eyes, doesn't cut and past properly, links upto nasty web sites, tries to download stuff off of the web, and means that my mail client needs to load another load of bloat to be able to read html mails. RTF is just as bad. [rant off] I would never dream of sending a html mail, unless accidentally now only does it assume the reader can view said html email but that they like your fetching choice of colour and font, long live text.
[newbie] svgalib not as root
how do i give non root users io permissions for svgalib? i have lots of gfx programs and a few games that use it, and i'd rather not logon as root(or su ) unless it is necessary.
RE: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
you can use fsck which is kinda like scandisk i don't know about a defrag tool.(i once had an nt box that was 98% fragmented!) -Original Message- From: Joe Lore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 June 2000 14:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Piero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's a massive search going on. What's up with this? -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know?
[newbie] kde strangeness....
it's obviously a good day for questions from me... (ie. my internets down, so i cant browse for answers). Linux locked up while i was changing themes (i also thick someone was vncing into my box at the time) any how i have got some dodgy gfx drivers so i do get the occasional lockup.. when i rebooted, and logged into kde i had no desktop icons and the menu entries didn't work (except for the display configure and logout). i could still run stuff though rbm execute command or alt f2. i tried creating a new user and logging in (the desktop co was fine). i then copied the .kde desktop .kderc .xscreen? etc files from the new user to the broken one and chown,chgrp -R ed them all. the border, theme was reset but still no desktop icons and the menu entries don't btw. gnome co all work fine.
[newbie] my kde/x problems have got lot worse
i've go some page faults etc... in the messages log.. kdm[1152]: server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 0 kernel: unable to handel kernel paging request at virtual address 8be44591 kernel: current-tss.cr3 = 0c458000, %cr3 = 0c458000 kernel: *pde = kernel: Oops: kernel: CPU:0 kernel: EIP:0010:[d_lookup+124/216] kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 kernel: eax: 8be44589ebx: cfa692c0ecx: 001e edx: 56695b7e kernel: esi: edi: 40012e30ebp: cff895e8 esp: cdb37ebc kernel: ss: 0018 ds:0018 es:0018 // wheres fs and a cpu dump? kernel: Process kdmdesktop (pid: 1183, process nr: opps it's locked up compleatly now!!! any clues as to the cause would be greatfully recieved. the only problem even remotly simila i had with mandrake 7.0 was after I had got mess-glx instlled.
[newbie] more samba
ok I've now managed to get samba up and running fine, and have a fully talking office lun(linux underground network) with one little exception. dozy 2000, it refuses to connect to my Linux box, and smbclient shows no shares. the samba site says that 2.0.7 fixes a lot of 2000 interferences so I downloaded the 2.0.7 red hat rpms, but they have a dependency problem (readline#.so or something). un-installing 2.0.6 and forcing 2.0.7 to install results in unstartable services, so I went back. well here's the question, 1: has anyone got samba 2.0.7 working under mandrake 7.1 2: does it have any problems talking to dozy 2000. 3: where can I get the missing lib. and last but not least, when's the samba documentation getting updated, is a nightmare.
[newbie] lost root desktop + menus
i just upgraded to 7.1 everything went fine with two exceptions. for some reason downloading of the security tools failed part way through, and I was left with 64M of ram even though I told the installer I had 256M. anyhow, I was just sorting out the network, installing the downloading+security packages and putting the append mem=256M in the lilo.conf when x/linux or whatever started paging memory and ground to a halt. after a few attempts to change terminals I ended up telnetting in and rebooting. (since I wanted to do a reboot to get my memory back). I logged back in as root to check everything was ok and I had no desktop, and the menu items didn't work. I could still open display properties and execute commands. I checked to see if /root existed and that was ok. the desktop for my normal logon still fine. any clues?
[newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions.
first here's the problem.. squid keeps saying that FATAL: Unknown cache_dir type 'var/spool/squid' and then has Page faults with physical i/o: 197 i don't even have a clue where to start with this one. question 1. where can i find some documentation on hot to mount a windows share on linux. do i just put a the correct info in fstab dozy\\share /mnt/dozyshare smbfs etc. question 2: is there a network browser/automounter that works correctly with samba 2.0.6 and other nfs's??? thanks in advance
RE: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions.
-Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 June 2000 11:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions. See below... |-Original Message- |From: Oliver Stieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:13 AM |To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' |Subject: [newbie] 7.1 one problem, two questions. | | |first here's the problem.. | |squid keeps saying that | FATAL: Unknown cache_dir type 'var/spool/squid' |and then has | Page faults with physical i/o: 197 | |i don't even have a clue where to start with this one. | Like with anything else, it really pays to read the docs first. Squid needs to be initialized before you use it. This sets up it's directory structure... /usr/sbin/squid -z will do the trick. i think i've done that already, yep it still causes the same problem. | |question 1. | where can i find some documentation on hot to mount a windows share |on linux. | do i just put a the correct info in fstab dozy\\share |/mnt/dozyshare smbfs etc. | Nope you have to set up Samba first. You can do this from within Linuxconf (start with an empty /etc/smb.conf if you choose to do it this way!) or by directly editing /etc/smb.conf. There is quite a lot of documentation available... i already have samba configured, and a load of linux shares available to the rest of the network, i've gone through most of the documentation ican find on samba, and havn't found anything that tells me how to mount windows shares, the man pages mention this but i cant get teh example or anything like it to do anymore that cause a shell error. |question 2: | is there a network browser/automounter that works correctly with |samba 2.0.6 and other nfs's??? | Supermount (part of the distro) will handle this, but you first need to correctly configure NFS at both ends, and/or Samba itself. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] ok it's more of an autobrowser i'm after, so that i don't have to setup all the mount points i'm interested in. i want to be able to interagate the network for all available mount points on all machines nad mount them on the fly. a bit like doing a smbcli -L machiname and then mounting a file from the list without the extra reading/typing. | |thanks in advance |
RE: [newbie] SAMBA
excurse the poor gwammer co samba sits on a linux box (or other any othe os it has been ported to) it can access netbios resources on other machines and also provide resources to other machines. (2.0.6 dosn't seem to work with windows 2000 though, i'm just getting 2.0.7 down to see if that fixes things). the basic configuration is fairly simple. after installing samba go-into drakconf. then network config. servertasks then samba. select defs. the help on this tool is quite good, heres my configuration if its any help SMB acc mang. ACCT passwords Sync Linux from smb passwords checked. serverdiscription oliverthered work group =brimpton (our NT workgroup) netbios name and aliases are the same as the server description. passwords. it's well worth reading the help to sort this section out. i'm using a pdc for nt passwords so i have server checked and a password server of my pdc for the access section. i have my local subnet in allow hosts 10.10.1.0/255.255.255.0 for networking (i dont want to scare nt too much so) os level = 67 and remote anounce to the pdc. i have also put in the ip for the wins server. (even though it's shot). the howto's describe setting up of shares quite well as does www.mandrakeuser.org under connectivity. you can use nmblookup to serach the network and smbclient to browse. i havn't yet worked out howto get a windows share on my linux box, (i'm wating for an answer to 1proble, two questions). -Original Message-From: Pete Clapham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 15 June 2000 15:11To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] SAMBAHi, all --I have, for some time, been trying to figure out how to use my Linux box to access files and printers on my NT and Warp Server networks. The obvious answer is SAMBA. As one who does not like to bother my colleagues on this list, I wanted to go to www.samba.org first to see how to configure SAMBA, but navigating the site is next to impossible.Questions:1. I assume that the SAMBA Server goes on the Linux box that is trying to access NETBIOS resources. Is this correct?2. How do I configure the SAMBA Server so that it can access the NETBIOS resources? I've tried various combinations of TCP/IP and NETBIOS names and numbers, but none seem to work. Has anybody actually done this, so that you can either tell me how to do it or where to go to find out?Thanks.petePete ClaphamDepartment of Biological, Geological, and Environmental SciencesCleveland State UniversityCleveland, Ohio, 44115Voice: [216] 687-4820Fax:[216]523-7200[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] A question for Mandrake gurus?
can you compile the mandrake distro with the pcg compiler, and if so is it any quicker(mandrake not the compiler). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] A question for Mandrake gurus? On 3 Jun, Paul wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, vern wrote: When Mandrake code is said to be optimized for the Pentium class machines is it optimized in the source code, or does Mandrake have a "custom" compiler they use?? I notice most all the mdk stuff is labeled i586. Do they (the programmers) have to go into the source of each package and "bit fiddle" it, or is it a matter of "packaging" the code. I notice each programmer, or engineer attaches their name to the package. vern My guess is that they use special compiler switches for that. such as -mpentium. L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
RE: [newbie] Linux is more popular than sex and windows (fwd)
ahh that's aload of cwap, goto altavista and try it for your self. linux 11,000,000 ish windows 15,000,000 sex 11,000,000 ish god 5,450,618 bill gates wants to rule the world with his evil microsoft empire 7,274,452 -Original Message- From: J D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 5:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is more popular than sex and windows (fwd) i'm sorry, but i sex is more popular than linux. sex is human nature. but anyway :) jd From: Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux is more popular than sex and windows (fwd) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:21:37 +0200 (CEST) I suppose you always wondered what it is that we do all day long, right? Well, one of the things we are kind of good at is browsing the web. Below is a typical example! enjoy Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- (This is a major information since it was not true at all one year ago.) "Isaksson's research was simple - he ran the word Linux through the AltaVista search engine and then he did the same with the word Windows. ... There were 11,313,520 Web pages found for the Linux search but only 10,755,265 found for Windows." "So there you have it, inconclusive proof that Linux is now more prevalent/important/hyped than Microsoft Windows." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-05-24-011-06-PS-CY Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: UNCLASSIFIED:-[newbie] Purcahsing a copy of Linux-Mandrake ve rsion 7.0 in Australia.
theres a list of them on the mandrake site, @ http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/asia.php3 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 4:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-[newbie] Purcahsing a copy of Linux-Mandrake version 7.0 in Australia. Hi All, My local electronics retailer says they can't get copies of Linux-Mandrake version 7.0 from O/S. Does anyone know a web site where you could purchase a copy on the internet? Thanks Marco Mastrocinque.
[newbie] installing a tcp-ip printer
how do i setup a port to print out on a tip/ip address (10.10.1.49) using raw postscript
RE: [newbie] watch what you say on this list
why not scan a picture and use and converty to ansi text the picture dosn't have to contain anything it shouldn't but it would make the point. -Original Message- From: flupke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 May 2000 10:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] watch what you say on this list Well, I also had the same problem while answering to someone stating that a program told him that "his kernel was an asshole" or something like that. I really don't apprciate this kind of mail sniffing. I find that outrageous. I sent them a mail, asking for explaination, who they were to afford to watch my mail, saying that couldn't let a robot judge the content of an email, etc... Of course, I didn't receive any answer. I really think we should do something against those people. I don't know what, but we have to find something. Thinking about those guyz makes me sick! Maybe adding a word like "porn", or "asshole" or something like that in *EVERY* mail sent to the list would annoy them enough. Or if everyone could send them a mail to ask for explaination would convice these guyz to leave us alone and let the ineternet be a place of freedom. Maybe others will have better suggestions. I usually don't smile about other's problems, but I'm kind of glad that this didn't happen only to me. Flupke On Mon, 8 May 2000, WolfRyder wrote: Following is a copy of an email I am sending to the "filtering" site that linux-mandrake uses. This is in reference to the email thread about "Parental Control". I received an email just now saying my email was " inappropriate subject matter ". It was logged by you. I don't understand why, though. I was answering an email on a listserv of which I am a member and we were discussing filtering software for Linux as opposed to parental monitoring. I don't understand why I was singled out for this type of monitoring when the other people the list used the same word as I, but were not censured (as far as I know). You can bet I won't be discussing the merits of software filtering on that list again. If they use this service to strike fear in the hearts of it's participants when discussing possible writing of filtering options, it's not a site I wish to respond to at all. I am therefore unsubscribing right now. Carol MIMEsweeper ChineseWall Server: CN=NS005/OU=DSRV/O=Texas Utilities - -- - Mail-Info From: WolfRyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ TU To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05/08/2000 07:42:46 AM Subject:Re: [newbie] Parental Control - - -- 'ChineseWall Job' reports: TXU automatically screens all e-mail for inappropriate subject matter (i.e. material that is discriminatory, hateful, vulgar, pornographic, sexually-explicit, or obscene). This e-mail contains information that is considered inappropriate for the business environment and has been logged and will be reviewed to determine final disposition. If you have any questions, please direct them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' porn ' found! Mail has been archived!
RE: [newbie] Sound Blaster And Mandrake 7.0
from console type in sndconfig -Original Message-From: A.CAnela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 08 May 2000 12:53To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster And Mandrake 7.0 Hi, I'm a new Linux's user and I've installed Mandrake 7.0, but my system doesn't recognize my Sound Blaster AWE 64. How can I install it?
RE: [newbie] wine don´t open display
it looks like you don't have x started, wine needs x. wine that comes with mandrake doesn't seem to have the configuration files, I had a hell of a time getting it to work correctly, and even after downloading the latest version of wine and modifying there config files i still got registry errors (even as root), i could also get a lot of things that don't say they work on the wine list to work and v.v. eg delphi, acdsee32. anyhow try getting the latest version of the site it has a far better config stuff that the mandrake dist. -Original Message- From: Jose Fernando García Arranz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 May 2000 17:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] wine don´t open display I´ve tryed to run some windows´program like calc o sol.exe to prove WINE but it always answer the same message: wine-debug can´t open display. Have i got to configure something in the wine.conf o anything else. Could someone give me a answer to do for running w´s program in linux. Thanks.
RE: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0 Powerpack and Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???
ok i got a little consused between the different versions of mandrake out there, looking at the web site i can only find thease two differences, gold pack (2000) has phone support, powerpack only has email support(i think) buying the gold pack will give you a free update to the latest version of mandrake. powerpack will not or at least it dosn't clame to. there are also 2 versions of mandrake that have been boxed up and distributed by mac-millan publishing. -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 May 2000 21:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0 Powerpackand Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe??? OliverGold Pack is a product of MandrakeSoft, not MacMillan. Alan Oliver Stieber wrote: the power pack has all 6 cd's also i think the difference may be in the documentation. there are 2 gold packs the normal one and the not so normal one, the image of the box on mandrake.com looks a bit bigger with the not so normal one(about a book bigger). i think the gold pack is just the mac-millan distrib of the power pack? -Original Message- From: Romanator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 May 2000 12:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0 Powerpackand Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe??? Hi, How is the PowerPack or Deluxe Mandrake 7.0 behaving? What are your thoughts? Roman Andrew Edward McCall wrote: Hi there, With 7.0 Deluxe you get all six CDs (Installation, Sources, RPMs, Contribs and 2 Application CDS) where as I believe the plain Powerpack only carries the Installation and Sources CD) Evan I got the PowerPack I think, (It has PWP in its product code somewhere IIRC) and I got the 6 CD's, two books and a set of stickers. Thanks Andrew Edward McCall Be Developer ID : E-16721 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.h2o.demon.co.uk/ -- [snip]
[newbie] to stop the iloveyou virus spreading do this
if you are running windows nt/98/95 make local_machine\software\microsoft\wab read-only using regedit32 create the following files c:\winnt\system32\MSKernel32.vbs c:\winnt\Win32DLL.vbs c:\winnt\system32\LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs and set the files to readonly,
RE: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0 Powerpack and Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???
the power pack has all 6 cd's also i think the difference may be in the
documentation.
there are 2 gold packs the normal one and the not so normal one, the image
of the box on mandrake.com looks a bit bigger with the not so normal
one(about a book bigger).
i think the gold pack is just the mac-millan distrib of the power pack?
-Original Message-
From: Romanator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 03 May 2000 12:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0
Powerpackand Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???
Hi,
How is the PowerPack or Deluxe Mandrake 7.0 behaving? What are your
thoughts?
Roman
Andrew Edward McCall wrote:
Hi there,
With 7.0 Deluxe you get all six CDs (Installation,
Sources, RPMs, Contribs
and 2 Application CDS) where as I believe the plain
Powerpack only carries
the Installation and Sources CD)
Evan
I got the PowerPack I think, (It has PWP in its product
code somewhere IIRC)
and I got the 6 CD's, two books and a set of stickers.
Thanks
Andrew Edward McCall
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RE: [[newbie] Autoboot Patch]
try pressing crtl+alt+F12 this is the log screen (i believe)
you can press crtl+alt+F1 to bring you back to the main console screen.
AMD is an automount for network shares, sits about on my computer for ages
as well(probably because i only have the network half setup).
-Original Message-
From: Jaguar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 May 2000 15:06
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Autoboot Patch]
Are you sure it has totaly stopped??? I know with mine on a
fresh install...it
gets to certain services (AMD, POSTFIX ( I think that one
anyways) and sits
there...I guess it times out waiting for the services to
start...sometimes
well over a minute. To fix these sine I don't use
them...when booted...I
disable those services.
HTH
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"Bailey, Matthew B." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Help,
I have ben trying to install Mandrake 7.0 and it goes thru
the setup and
say's congradulation you are done, linux will now reboot to
configure
Xwindows and during the reboot it locks up my computer. I
have tried to
download the patch for this to my boot disk but when I ask
to save to my
disk my computer states that it has not been formated.
Please help, I
bought
this for its ease of install and setup and this has been
frustrating. I am
obviosly new to Linux and thought wuth this I would not
nedd hand-holding
but was wrong.
Thanks
Matt
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RE: [newbie] What's Mandrake 7.0 like?
-Original Message- From: Joe Fernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 May 2000 05:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] What's Mandrake 7.0 like? G'day all, I'm pretty new in the linux world and still got a copy of RH6.1 on the pc and don't use it much at the moment. What's mandrake-linux like? RH with some extra bits Is it stable?.. is anything? i haven't had it die yet, applications and demons will crash from time to time, but i haven't had anything kill the kernel yet. Configuration easy? fairly, few points to look out for, ide cd-rw 's, if your bios manufacturer has removed support for the function that tells you how much ram is in the computer you'll have to set it buy hand. Is the powerpack worth buying? yep, 1:- you get loads of apps so you don't have to download them 2:- the howto's are included which will be a great help if your new to linux 3:- you're supporting the cause. I'd wait until 7.1 is released, the kernel should be a lot better and detect more hardware (eg how much ram you have) X windows should be quicker and less memory hungry it should have a lot of the bugs in 7.0 fixed. Thanking all in advance. Regards Joe
RE: [newbie] my installation...1024th cylinder limit
you need to use scsi-ide to use an ide burner i can't remember all the detail but it goes somthing like this change "linux" in lilo.conf to "linux scsi-ide" map the ide drive to a scsi device(scd0?), then mount(supermount) the scsi device (or link the scsi driver scd0? to cdrom1 or 2 there's some more on this topic in the list, and also a faq. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 May 2000 16:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] my installation...1024th cylinder limit My second cd drive an r-w went unrecongnized during the installation, I think at this time, Linux only supports scsi cd burners. Can someone confirm?
RE: [newbie] C++-Editor
for kde theres kedit and kdevelop you can also get emacs to work as an ide. you could try to recompile rhide(a dos gpp ide) for linux or find an equivilent for linux. -Original Message- From: Gunther C. Hebein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 April 2000 14:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] C++-Editor Hi all! I am also interested in C++programming, and I am just searchingfor a good editor like the editor by Borland under DOS (It should color my source code, show the errors ..) Anything like that under Linux available? Thanks Gunther ** Hebein, Gunther Cyrill Cand. Pharm. Innsbruck - Austria **
RE: [newbie] (Newbie) Hydrogen
i'm after buying a DVD drive, 1: does 7.1 support dvd's 2: which dvd drive shouldn't i buy, eg bad ones or ones produced buy companies that give money to the us government ;-), put the patient on the fermentation of penicillin -Original Message-From: Evan Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 26 April 2000 14:04To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] (Newbie) Hydrogen I don't know if this has been posted yet, but the latest version of Mandrake (Mandrake 7.1-BETA) can be obtained here http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hydrobeta.php3
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7 slowdown
apparently xfree4 has lower memory usage than 3.x, and runs quicker. mandrake 7.1 beta is using xfree4, so you could do some beta testing as well as getting a more light weight desktop. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 April 2000 20:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7 slowdown Thanks John and Paul for the suggestions. My swap partition ( 64 meg) seems adequate as it was before. I ran "setup" and removed a few non-relevant programs with no significant improvement. I guess I'll have to live with the more leisurely pace or else switch to a less memory-demanding desktop. At 06:55 AM 4/25/00 +0200, you wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since moving up to Mandrake 7 from M 6 I find that the loading time for KDE, and even the Kmail program inside KDE takes much longer than it did in Mandrake 6. All I can think of is in the latter stage of install I agreed to the default list of programs to be automatically booted at startup - programs that I really would only use on certain occasions. Could it be that they are clogging my 32 Meg ram? If so, is there some way I could cut back on what is loaded at startup? I think the slowness is because the added things in the X-servers, but that is just an educated guess. To see what stuff is loaded on boot, you run setup as root, and in the "system services" you can select what will be loaded and omitted. make sure you don't kick out important stuff!! If you're not sure, ask here, or leave it alone! Paul M.
RE: [newbie] Hi
yes you are, so ask away -Original Message-From: Henri Bouchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 25 April 2000 01:01To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Hi Am I at the right place to ask a question or could u tell me where I go for that Henri Bouchard
RE: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
my sound balster live seems to work fine, there have been some probles with it though, you can get the latest drivers from soundblaster. i'm not sure whats up with the floppy drive, and what type of cd-rom drive do you have. -Original Message- From: root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 April 2000 00:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems Hi, just installed 7.0 from the CD that comes with the Sams "teach yourself mandrake in 24 hours". The install went pretty well- partitioned my drive, picked up my network card, zip drive (i think!), network config worked first time, IDed all the available memory - everything seems fine so far except the three basic things - sound. floppy drive and CDROM drive My sound card was correctly identified, but any sounds come out as tones - no bells, roars, crashing windows - just flat tones. The card is an SB Live!. Neither the floppy nor the CDROM drive will mount - any attempt comes back with the error msg like (for the floppy) "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device" Help ! I would really like to find out what is happening here. Thanks, philomena
RE: [newbie] Problems with IWheel
looking at the security list there is a bug in imwheel /* * * * * imwheel * - * * A security bug was found in imwheel; the bug can be exploited to * provide local users with root access. Version 0.9.8 fixes this * problem. Please upgrade (manually or with MandrakeUpdate) to: * * Mandrake 7.0: * * 854fa68b384b28dbafeb298faeb67310 imwheel-0.9.8-1mdk.i586.rpm * f5d52736bacb9f4c2d40df8cedcdbecb imwheel-0.9.8-1mdk.src.rpm * */ you may want to get an updated version. -Original Message- From: Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 April 2000 13:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with IWheel Everyone with the IMWHEEL Problem i just wanted to let you know that there is a great help file on it here http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xmouse.html if you are still having troubles - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Don W. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 1:05 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with IWheel On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Don W. Jenkins wrote: Dropping in on this thread, as I have never been able to get imwheel to work, either. I don't have a /home/user directory. Should I create one? Where is my autostart folder supposed to be located? /home/'user' is the directory where you go when you type cd e.g. /home/don Autostart is a folder on the Xwindows desktop. Paul Thanks! Don J. Michael Holt wrote: You need to add these lines to your /etc/X11/XF86Config file under the pointer section: Buttons 3 ZAxisMapping4 5 Then comment out (with the # symbol) the lines: Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout Next, drop a copy of /etc/X11/imwheelrc into your /home/user directory and put a copy of /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel into your autostart folder and use the -k option. i.e. 'imwheel -k' Mike Hawk82 wrote: I downloaded IWheel from the Mandrake ftps and installed it. It is a rpm, so I figured that is all I had to do. It does not work. I can't scroll though web pages. Thanks for the help. Josh -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff! )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
RE: [newbie] ByeCycle (Mouse and Mozilla)
mouseconfig will setup the mouse from console. as for the printer , find out what emulation is supports, epson lazerjet, post script, plain text and install an apropriate driver. -Original Message- From: rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 April 2000 20:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] "ByeCycle" (Mouse and Mozilla) Thanks, I downloaded the update for the mouse, but to no avail.. Is there any command from the console to set up the mouse? sndconfig worked perfectly and I am downloading mozilla 14 right now (not sure if I want to use the nightly build yet) I appreciate all of the help! Have any clue how to get a Xerox XJ8C to print at least black and white?? Rich Foreman Oliver Stieber wrote: theres an update for the mouse from the updates thing in x or on a mandrake mirror, and my AWE64 wasn't detected either, but sndconfig from console should sort that out. hmm not sure about the netscape one, iv'e been using mozilla 15 instead (aka nightly build), from www.mozilla.com
RE: [newbie] running windows in linux
Don't forget to have a look to the free opensource attempt at vmware http://www.plex86.org/ plex86, former FreeMWare. -Original Message- From: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 April 2000 12:59 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] running windows in linux use WINE, it is included with Mandrake -Original Message- From: Dreja Julag [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] running windows in linux I think VMware is the only product I have seen that lets you use win in linux. www.vmware.com For mozilla, read up on creating links on your desktop. I will send an example. BTW, this prog is probably in your sys and should work. Just replace the commands. Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 20177604 - Original Message - From: "Rich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 3:35 PM Subject: [newbie] running windows in linux Hi, I saw a screenshot on the mandrake site that had the linux operating system running with a window open running windows. I need this because I have one of the only cable modems in the dang country that you have to force to dial (it sends through phone, receives through cable). It works fine if I boot to windows and force it to dial, then restart in linux while it is still connected. If I could open windows while in linux I could make it dial that way. Can someone help me? I also downloaded and installed mozilla 15 today... Is there any way to start it without typing the command in the console? It keeps the console open that way... Thanks a lot, Rich Foreman File: IglooFTP.kdelnk
RE: [newbie] need list
there's dwww if anyone knows where to get it from, it will do man and info pages, and links with apache. but i cant find it anywhere other than the corellinux distrb -Original Message- From: jero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 April 2000 16:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] need list Wow...never knew something like xman existed. i'm impressed! Been using Linux for about 4 years...and I never knew there were so many commands! Jero Mike Corbeil wrote: Donald Carpenter wrote: If your familiar with DOS, There's a a good book you can buy. It's called "Unix for dos users" by Martin R. Arick I bought my copy at a local bookstore. It's very helpful I'ld suggest Linux or Unix in a Nutshell, from O'Reilly. I never needed a book like "Unix for dos users", "Unix for dummies", or any of that kind of material, but the Nutshell books are definitely worthwhile for beginners. Also, try running xman This tool brings up a gui for man pages with nicely formatted or laid out categories. cp = copy rm = remove or del or delete mv = move or rename cd = chdir ls = dir (but there are many options so check the man page, "man ls") ls -F = ls with / and @ and * at the ends of names of directories, symbolic links and executables ls -l = ls with long listing format df = filesystem space usage and availability as well as mapping du = disk space usage etcetera The Nutshell books are worthwhile. I haven't looked at the one for Linux and haven't needed it, because I have the one for Unix, plus know about the various sources of free documentation, but compare the two and purchase the one which seems most suitable. mike Dreja Julag wrote: In the redhat manual, there is usually a list of commands. Same for Mandrake, rather it be on the CDROM, or not. Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 20177604 - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Linux" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 4:51 PM Subject: [newbie] need list Hi...does anyone know WHERE (online)...I can get a list of all the COMMANDS for linux...that are used in a terminal access...for instance, in a rescue mission...or whatever... or that are used in a command line prompt...etc. ? I need to have a hardcopy of them...in case of emergency, I need them also to specify...the purpose behind each command, and their syntax...etc. -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
RE: [newbie] imwheel update
have you tried loading imwheel at boot. -Original Message- From: Fabio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 April 2000 18:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] imwheel update Dear all, after installing the imwheel update, the wheel is working only in root. If a login with a diferent user and I try to start it with the command imwheel -k I got this error message : imwheel process could not be verified: : No such file or directory imwheel pid file could not be removed: : Operation not permitted Couldn't write pid to pid file: Permission denied I know that is something related to some permission, but I do not know how to fix it.. If I switch to su and I run the same command it works. Thanks in advance Fabio
RE: [newbie] Can't load startx: error ;(
looks like your hard drive is full, or at least mine was when i got that message do df /k that should tell you your free space you can setup fonts not using the fontserver if you want the easiest way is, backup you xconfig (in etc) X86Free.conf i think. (twice) run the X config program from console copy the font information it puts into the config file into one of your backup config files,(the second section it fonts?) then copy it over the proper conf file. or just try to clean up some disk space, /tmp is a good place to start, i had an install program create 500mb of junk. -Original Message-From: Glen M. Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 10:08 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Can't load startx: error ;(Hello All,Having real problems starting 'startx' - I keep getting this error;-- cutfont transocketUNIXconnectcan't connect: errno = 111failed to set default font path 'unix/:1'fatal server error:could not open default font 'fixed'when reporting a problem etc. . . . . x connection to :0.0 broken explicit kill or server shutdown-- cutNow when loading LINUX the X font server starts [ OK ]But when shutting down I get [ FAILED ]It's just happened when I booted LINUX - I have made no changes and as far as I am aware I shutdown the system OK. Thanks everyone.Glen -- ~~|| Glen M. Chambers ||~~ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] ByeCycle
theres an update for the mouse from the updates thing in x or on a mandrake mirror, and my AWE64 wasn't detected either, but sndconfig from console should sort that out. hmm not sure about the netscape one, iv'e been using mozilla 15 instead (aka nightly build), from www.mozilla.com -Original Message- From: Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 4:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] "ByeCycle" Quick question.. I am VERY new to linux. I just installed mandrake 7.0 It detected my mouse as a 'default mouse' I have an intellimouse explorer pro and would like to use the scroll bar. Ho do I change it to the correct mouse. It also didn't detect my Creative Labs AWE64, is there any way to use this card or will I have to get another card? Also, I downloaded netscape 4.7 for linux and don't know how to install it. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Rich Foreman
RE: [newbie] Mounting 2nd CD
if you using a ide cdrw, it will have been maped to a scsi device (because the cdrw progs only seam to work with scsi) assuming you are using a ide cdrw you need to edit /etc/fstab , you cdrom should be at the bottom of the list with somthing like /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 etc . supermount /dev/cdrom2 0 0 you should change the /dev/cdrom2 bit to /dev/scd0, umount /mnt/cdrom2 then mount /mnt/cdrom2 you may also have to restart x, ctrl+alt+backspace. looking under lothar (start darkconfig and select hardware ) the cdrom section should show your cdrw and a scsi device -Original Message- From: andy barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 1:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mounting 2nd CD I have a CD rom and CD RW.. I cannot get a read of the CDRW. Both Drives are identified correctly, and both have icons on the desktop. Any ideas? Cheers Andy
[newbie] memory violation in civ-ctp (off of disk 6)
does anyone know how to get arround the memory access problem whenever you kill someone in civ-ctp, is there a file that i have to change permissions on, or is it somthing else. it happens on my last pc, and my current one. both are using mga gfx cards (g200 and g400) and I have loaded utah-glx and mesa.
RE: [newbie] display problems
you can use darkconfig, if you didn't chouse to not install it, it may be on the kde menu, but it changes the resolution for x so it will work for gnome as well. -Original Message- From: Steven Cheong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 April 2000 16:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] display problems can anyone tell me how to change the resolution from 1024*768 to 800*600 in the GNOME - Original Message - From: Alvarez, Angel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 9:49 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] display problems You must choice the correct parameters for your video card and monitor Try XF86Setup from the command line # XF86Setup Angel Claudio Alvarez -Mensaje original- De: gene foy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Jueves 13 de Abril de 2000 19:35 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [newbie] display problems i used linux once before and loved it. i just installed mandrake 7.0 and went through the process rather smoothly until i reached configure x. i selected the defaults the first time then when that failed i tried several of the other options for resolution and monitor. wheather i accept the change or reject it, my screen becomes a kalidascope of colorful little retangles. nice look but unreadable. i have a pentiun 233mmx, 64mb ram, 8.4gb hd, diamond stealth 220turbo video card, monitor is an nec multisync 2. the equipment is not the newest but i think it will work with some more attention. thank you i would appreciate any help. gene __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
try pressing tab quickley when lilo loads it will give you a list of boot otrions, and typr in windows,dos or the most apropriate thing from the list is windows,dos etc.. arn't on the list you can configure lilo(darkconfig is probably the easiest place to do this) otherwise try /boot/lolo.conf ? (maby /etc/lilo.conf) -Original Message- From: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 April 2000 15:31 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install Why can't you boot in Windows??? Is the option not there at the lilo prompt? Are you even getting the Lilo prompt?? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Help with Mandrake install I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latest cdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to be faulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal.
RE: [newbie] postfix or sendmail
there's a gui setup in dark config for sendmail, i havn't yet found one for postfix, i havn't managed to get postfix working correctly yet so i may go back to using sendmail.(lame excuse i know) anyhow i don't know the dirrefence, sendmail probably has better support and intergration with other apps. -Original Message- From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 April 2000 04:29 To: Mandrake Linux Subject: [newbie] postfix or sendmail is postfix better, at least with setup... sendmail is so confusing.? also, does anyone know of a RPM for a majordomo type mailing list program...besides MAILMAN...that's confusing also -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
RE: [newbie] Sound
there's also soundconfig(a lothar setup thing), a bit trickier to use(asks nasty questions of pnp devices like iqr dma1,dma2 etc...), it doesn't seem to work as well as sndconfig either(or maybe i just #'d out the setup created by sndconfig badly) -Original Message- From: Icebreaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 April 2000 07:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound I'm not sure about Mdk 7, but in Mdk 6.5 there is a utility called 'sndconfig' try running that from the command line, maybe it will help -Original Message- From: Glen M. Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 7:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound Hello all, Using Mandrake 7 - Is there a util to configure sound cards and system sounds etc.? Glen -- ~~|| Glen M. Chambers ||~~ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Installation Problem
signal 11 is probably a protection signal from the processor. or in English the installer is running in 'protected' mode, this means it can protect your computers resources from bugs, malicious , or badly written programs causing to much damage, when a program tries to access something it shouldn't, a signal is generated to the installer (11 in your case) I'm sure someone who can remember what signal 11 is can give you a better description of your problem, or you can look it up on the web, try searching for DPMI documentation, or looking at Intel's manuals on there web site. basically a bit of the installer has a bug in it(though I'm not sure what). if it's as soon as the installer loads it may be having problems with your cd-rom drive or bios, make sure the pnpos option is off in the bios. (any other suggestions?). if it's further through the installation process try not installing things through the installer, you can always install them later. -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 April 2000 12:08 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal While installing 7.0 on a Dell Dimension, 400mhz Celeron, after you select the packages, the install program shuts down with an error " Exited Abnormally, Received Signal 11" ?? What is going on? Version 6.0 installed with little problems. TIA VT Huelskamp
RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!!
why do things crash? hm -Original Message- From: George Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 April 2000 15:02 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdownon stability!! paul haine wrote: Funny how when Windows doesn't work it's Windows fault, but when Linux doesn't work it MUST be the hardware. Not true, look at all of the S3 Savage 3, 4, and 2000 owners out there (I have a Diamond Stealth s540 Savage4) complaining on a regular basis about their hardware crashing Windows. To it's credit, the Stealth III works fine with Linux (no 3d accell though). Many times it is the hardware, but everyone is so used to blaming Windows that no matter what "It has to be Windows". AMD's processors 350Mhz+ required a patch in win95 in order to work. Intel had no such problem, Cyrix has no such problem. Problem with Windows? I doubt it. this was infact a problem with windows, a timing bug Amd 350Mhz+ were just too quick for windows, Cyrix and Intel process obviously wern't ;- Windows98SE works for me. It crashes only when I try something that I shouldn't... Like running OpenGL screensavers (Savage4 drivers don't allow GL accellerated savers to function). Application crashes (read:Games!) happen because of instability of my video card. Linux never crashes with the same hardware, then again, there's no 3D accelleration for the Savage4 to crash it. this is usually a driver quality issue, which boils down to a few things. 1:- Quality of the driver development kit (windows/Linux etc... me thinks) 2:- 'Protection' given by the kernel and api (windows/Linux again) 3:- build quality of the drivers well this is the oem's responsibility. 4:- reliability of the hardware 5:- driver compatibility, and configuration windows nt 3.xx had good driver protection, the drivers could crash and the system would still run. (in theory) windows nt 4 less protection, bad drivers can kill the server windows nt 5(2000) similar protection to 95 , ie flaky anything dead computer. I'm not sure how Linux handles protection but I've had a fileing system and a video driver crash the computer has still been running. manly down to bad configuration. any how the quality of the final driver usually lies with the oem and not windows/linux(unless there certified drivers), but a poor os makes bullet-proofing a driver a near impossibility, and ends up with massive drivers. My overclocked K6-2 450 (@500Mhz) runs everything just fine. (So does my Overclocked Celeron366 - 550Mhz) "I have no irrational allegiance to any OS. I use Linux because it works,and shun Windows because it doesn't." But that's irrational in itself. Windows and Linux, as we have seen, will both crash. Your Hardware configuration may be what's preventing you from running Windows well. Your not looking into that is irrational. Please don't take this as a flame, that's not what I'm trying to do here. For the record the configuration of my main Linux/Windows box is: Matsonic 6120s Motherboard w/Alladin V chipset AMD K6-2 450 @500Mhz SB Live Value Diamond Stealth III s540 Linksys PCI nic MIDIMan Winman 2x2 MIDI interface 128mb Crucial Tech ram. Generic USB Card from CompUSA (I shorted out the USB/PS2 ports on the mobo) Generic USB Mouse 3Com Cable Modem. It runs Windows and Linux quite well.
RE: [newbie] Boot Manager
3 ways. or at least 3 ways i know of if your in x windows, 1:- rpmdrake there should be an icon for RPMDrake (you'll need root password/rites), if it's a cd, the menu option on the far right that isn't help and whos name i cant rember, well click on it, then update, and then instalation. this will update the lists of rpm's on the cd. click the icon with two circular arrows this will change you between what you have installed and what youhave on the cd. you should see a list of available files. select the one you want and click the install button (bottomright) 2:- kpackager, archive if you have installed kpackager/archive then you can select the file from the directory this should bring up an instalation manager, it should be fairly obvious what to do from either kpackager or archive. 3: rpm from the command line. you can also install from the command line. the instalation general systax is rpm -i filename if you need to install somthing other than a tar/rpm eg a deb file it's probably a good idea to install alien first, and convert the pagkage to a rpm. -Original Message- From: Adrian Simmonds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 April 2000 13:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot Manager Hi. Help. I have just installed Linux mandrake 7.0 Can someone tell me how the hell you install any software. ie Star office 5.1 PLEASE Thanks Adrian. Mark Ward wrote: I'm attempting to install Mandrake Linux 7.02 and want to run it through BootMagic 1.0 that came with PartitionMagic 4.0 My setup is as follows: I have two physical hard drives in my computer. The first drive has two primary partitions and one extended partition divided into 5 logical partitions. The first partition contains Windows 98 Second Edition, the second partition contains Windows 2000. The second drive has one primary partition and one extended partition divided into one logical partition. On the second drive I have installed Linux to the primary partition which I believe is listed as hdb1. When I installed Linux I installed the bootmanager and pointed it to the partition hdb1. Read it in here somewhere that this was the thing to do. . Now when I boot to Linux using BootMagic the screen flickers madly and the printer prints out the screen contents much like someone is sitting there pressing [Print Screen]. I can boot Linux using the floppy disk I created and it works great. What I'd like to be able to do is boot into Linux using BootMagic. Can someone detail the steps involved from the beginning to achieve this. Regards, Mark -- If I throw a cat out the car window is that considered to be Kitty Litter?
RE: [newbie] Boot Manager
don't run /opt/Office51/install-kde as it mucks about with the hard drive too much fo my liking instead /opt/Office51/kde/softlinks/setup is far nicer. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 April 2000 13:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot Manager In rpmdrake select Configuration, Add location of packages CDROM (suggested name is extra). It will look on the CD with the StarOffice rpm (you did put it in the drive didn't you?) and adds it to the list of installable packages. You can find it in (I seem to remember) Applications/Publishing/Word Processor. Select the StarOffice rpm and press install. When this is done, go to /opt/Office51/install-kde and run this. Voila! (I had to do it several times, eventually creating a bigger EXT2-formatted partition as it kept telling me there wasn't enough room. Never did find out how to analyse the space.. DU seems to tell you what's using it, but not how much is free. Regards Martin Sydenham Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |+- || Adrian Simmonds| || adrian.simmonds@dt| || n.ntl.com | || | || 06/04/00 13:01 | || Please respond to | || newbie | || | |+- - --| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: (bcc: Martin Sydenham/UK/IBM) | | Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot Manager | | | - --| Hi. Help. I have just installed Linux mandrake 7.0 Can someone tell me how the hell you install any software. ie Star office 5.1 PLEASE Thanks Adrian. Mark Ward wrote: I'm attempting to install Mandrake Linux 7.02 and want to run it through BootMagic 1.0 that came with PartitionMagic 4.0 My setup is as follows: I have two physical hard drives in my computer. The first drive has two primary partitions and one extended partition divided into 5 logical partitions. The first partition contains Windows 98 Second Edition, the second partition contains Windows 2000. The second drive has one primary partition and one extended partition divided into one logical partition. On the second drive I have installed Linux to the primary partition which I believe is listed as hdb1. When I installed Linux I installed the bootmanager and pointed it to the partition hdb1. Read it in here somewhere that this was the thing to do. . Now when I boot to Linux using BootMagic the screen flickers madly and the printer prints out the screen contents much like someone is sitting there pressing [Print Screen]. I can boot Linux using the floppy disk I created and it works great. What I'd like to be able to do is boot into Linux using BootMagic. Can someone detail the steps involved from the beginning to achieve this. Regards, Mark -- If I throw a cat out the car window is that considered to be Kitty Litter?
RE: [newbie] Sound Card Problems.
LOTHAR didn't find my card either, Cretive AWE 64, i just ran sndconfig from console, and things work fine. except LOTHAR still can't find my sound card. -Original Message- From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 04:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. is your card a PCI...card...? Roy Smith wrote: The sound card is a ESS 1868 I've copied down the IRQ and DMA settings that windows uses and still can't get it to work with Linux. Later... Roy Smith ICQ UIN #265622 -Original Message- From: Seth Hollen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 10:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. Classification: UNCLASSIFIED what's your sound card? have you tried LOTHAR on the command "soundconfig"? -Original Message- From: Roy Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 8:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. Hi! I just got Mandrake Linux installed on my PC and am having problems figuring out how to get my sound card to work on the new OS. Any suggestions? Later... Roy Smith ICQ UIN #265622 -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
RE: [newbie] can't get 2nd cd to mount - more info
it looks like your cd-rw has been been ids-scsi'd try changing /dev/cdrom2 to /dev/sc0 of have a look in hardware setup in darkconfig in x to find the correct scsi device. (mine is listed as cdrom's unknown scsi). -Original Message- From: Todd Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 April 2000 05:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] can't get 2nd cd to mount - more info Here's some more info I discovered looking at dmesg: ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsiis this right? hdb: ASUS CD-S400/A, ATAPI CDROM drive hdc: CREATIVE CD-RW RW4224E, ATAPI CDROM drive hdc: IRQ probe failed (0) hdd: IRQ probe failed (0) hdd: IRQ probe failed (0) hdc: driver not present hdc: driver not present 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe400, 00:50:da:7c:15:82, IRQ 3 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d. MII transceiver found at address 0, status 786d. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. hdc: driver not present hdc: driver not present hdc: driver not present hdc: driver not present hdc: driver not present hdc: driver not present hdc: driver not present hdc: driver not present VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64)
RE: [newbie] Performance differences
I think it in the way that X handles video.. there's a generic video library called XsvgaLib, which is generic but slow. direct video is one of the features of XFree86 4, so things should be getting a lot quiker soon. -Original Message- From: Mani Abreu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 05:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Performance differences Oh, and while I'm at it. Truth be told, I've only read messages that seemed pertinent, and dumped all the rest. So another question: Why does Mandrake 7.0 (Linux in general?) seem to run slower than Windows95 when running the same application? That is, why does a video file run some much slower when using an application that has been compiled for Windows95 *and* Linux? Why does the "Flight of the Bumblebee" seem to be the "Flight of the Stumblebee" ? Mani Nope. Just tried that, here's the result: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) I read that the problem may be that the kernel is loading the drivers for the line printer first, before parport/ppa driver. How do I change the order around? Mani forstfed wrote: On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote: Well, try just doing the mount now. See if that does anything. Well, I tried that. Here's what I got after typing "insmod ppa": /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Any ideas? I really want to get this thing resolved. Mani forstfed wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: This is what worked for me: As su in a terminal window: mkdir /mnt/zip insmod parport insmod ppa mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip make sure there is a disk in. You have to umount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip to eject the disk, then mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip again when you insert another disk. Ed
[newbie] Upgrading Packages.
I've been having a hell of a time upgrading packages, I only have a slow, metered phone line at home so I download updates from work. I downloaded the new version of wine, and glx-mesa as rpm's. went to install it them, from rpmdrake and was told there were conflicts, so i went to uninstall wine-debug and mesa (why it didn't upgrade i don't know), wine-debug uninstalled fine, mesa told me there were dependant's. after a lot of searching for something different, and trying rpm from the command line, I then found KPackager and managed to uninstall mesa without dependants , and glx-mesa installed fine, and opengl is now about 4X faster. (except it does get lost if I change the screen res) is there an easier way to do this without spending several hours/days on the phone, which would probably cost me far more than getting a boxed copy of m$ 2000 enterprise. (not that i'd want to mind).
RE: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux
so far as i am aware VMware runs both os's at once, and you have to switch between the two. if you are thinking about VMware, don't forget to have a look to the free opensource attempt: http://www.plex86.org/ plex86, former FreeMWare. -Original Message- From: Lane Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 11:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux Drazenko Djuricic said: go to VMware Inc. www.vmware.com I have had only limited success getting the programs I care about to run in WINE. Is VMware any better at running modern 32-bit Windows programs? I have two in mind: Corel Ventura for work and Kyodai for play. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
RE: [newbie] Still No Internet Connection
to get rid of the linux_old you may need to edit lilo.conf. this is in either /boot or /etc or maby /etc/lilo ,i'm not sure where mandrake put's it. you can open this up in vi(for the bold) or the kde editor. there will be a line with linux_old in there which you can just remove or comment out. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 09:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Still No Internet Connection Hello All, Okay, I still cannot get on the internet but I have received some good leads, here's what I've done so far: went into Drakconf entered the two DNS numbers of my ISP (connection still didn't work) I think I may need to know the code or whatever it is for my "net device". That is one of the fields I have to fill in, "net device". There are about 20 options like "eth0, eth1, s10, tr0, tr1, etc. I have a PCMCIA card in the COM 1 slot (Joe, you mentioned that COM 1 = ttyso but that was not on the list. Is it o or 0 by the way?) It also required for me to enter something in the "kernel module" field. What the? I needed to specify "which order the various name services must be probed" (e.g. DNS, host or host,DNS are amont about 20 options). I have a cable modem DHCP connection, does that help anyone? Also, how do I know if my "machine is allowed to route IP packets". Finally, I have my hard drive partitioned into a windows and linux section. When booting up, LILO says I have both a "linux" and "linux_old" operating system. How do I get rid of the linux_old crap? all help is appreciated, Andrew
RE: [newbie] Problems with linux mandrake 7.0
from console run sndconfig, to get your sound card up change your cdrom to /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/sc0 0 0 or /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/sc0 0 0 go into dark config, look at your settings and find out which cdrom drive has been mounted as scsi , every thing should then work fine. -Original Message-From: Augusto Madaschi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 02 April 2000 14:31To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Problems with linux mandrake 7.0 Please see the attached document. Registration number LMPP70-2606-NIF-Y0EO-KFLN My computer is a HP Vectra VL6 Pentium II Two hard disk (hda 4Gb ; hdb 10 Gb ) CDROM (hdc ) CD-Writer ( hdd ) Floppy IDE/ATAPI device All device correctly checked by Linux On partition hda1 I have Windows 98 Partitions hda5 , hda6 : DOS formatted On partition hdb1 I have Windows NT Partitions hdb2 , hdb9 with NTFS filesystem On partition hdb8 I have Linux Mandrake 7.0 On partition hdb7 Linux Swap File /etc/fstab is : /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/DOS_hda6 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb8 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 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 Under Windows all is OK Under Linux two BIG Problem First It's impossible read CD_Writer ( CDROM2 ) Message Error of Kfm Is: Could not list directory contents From terminal Emulation the message is : Input/output error The click on the iconCDROM2 seems activing also the floppy ! ( but the floppy is ok , and run correctly ) Second Lothar does not find my sound bluster . In sound_config I have this message An ISA PnP card has been found but hasn't been identified. The identifier was : AZT1008 ( my souncard is: Pro 16V A PnP ) If I choose a soundcard from the menu and try to test it a message says System is busy What can I do ? Thanks Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank forfast reply Augusto
RE: [newbie] DOS based directories
if your setting up paths in wine.conf just type them in as you would under dos eg [wine] path=c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\dos;c:\program files\myprogram windows=c:\windows i'm not sure how you setup drives, as i'm on NT at the moment and can't remember how i set the up @home there's a man file for wine configuration in wine.configure and a few more in the wine doc's path -Original Message- From: vern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 March 2000 18:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] DOS based directories Hello All, I'm presently experimenting with Wine (windows emulator) not the drink! I have a question as to how Linux recognizes two word directory names? ie: /Program Files/ How do you represent the space between words? I have tried the following: "Program Files" "Program_Files" "Program%20Files" The last one came from watching how X represents them. I have tried all the above from the command line and nogo. This may be an easily found answer but I keep overlooking it! Thanks! Vern
