Re: [newbie] doing some bash commands and then send the results by email
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:41:27 +0700
Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FP> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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FP> Dear All,
FP> I want to do some bash commands and then send the results by email
FP> from CLI, can I do that?
FP>
FP> I tried this but didn't work:
FP> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Documents]# df > /home/fajar/Documents/df | mail -I -s
FP> df [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~r /home/fajar/Documents/df
FP> Null message body; hope that's ok
FP>
FP> Seems that ~r option only works in the body of the message.
FP> Thanks.
Think it this way
> direct to file
| direct to next command
So you want it to be mailled, you should
df | mail -s subject receivers_mail
If you want it both mailed and saved as a file, you can use tee ("man tee" for more
info)
df | tee /where/you/want/the/file/be | mail -s subject receivers_mail
HTH
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[newbie] Re: X server won't start
Thursday, April 11, 2002, 10:33:58 AM, you wrote: MV> Hello, MV> I'm running Mandrake 8.1 and had it configured to startup running KDE under my MV> . Now I can't start X anymore. I suspect that the changing the screen resolution MV> with Mandrake Control Center messed things up. Before I did all was running like a MV> charm. MV> When I try I get this message: MV> % startx MV> execve failed for /etc/X11/X MV> (errno 13) MV> (system waits for a short while...) MV> giving up MV> xinit: Connection refused MV> (errno 111): unable to connect to X server MV> xinit: No such process (errno 3): server MV> error MV> Does anybody know how I can fix this problem. A new install would mean a loss of data MV> since I didn't get to running the cd-burner yet, in other words, I have no backup of my home MV> directory. MV> Marco Try running drakconf at the console, which will ask you the root password. Here you can change/reconfigure the display settings. You dont need to reinstall. Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] NVIDIA RPMs
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 2:02:54 PM, you wrote: GS> Below is the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. GS> The output from the locate NVdriver is as follows: GS> /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver GS> Section "Module" GS> # This loads the DBE extension module. GS> Load"dbe" GS> # This loads the Video for Linux module. GS> Load"v4l" --- add Load "glx" --- GS> EndSection GS> Section "Device" GS> Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)" GS> VendorName "Unknown" GS> BoardName "Unknown" GS> Driver "nv" --- change to Driver "nvidia" --- GS> #VideoRam32768 GS> # Clock lines Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 5:25:13 AM, you wrote: BS> Umm...this was posted some time ago, and I haven't recieved a response since. BS> Any help? BS> - Original Message - BS> From: Blood Slap BS> To: Newbie Linux Mandrake BS> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:55 PM BS> Subject: Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2 BS> I didn't see that v42 there, but here's my config files are attached. As much as I can say, it is v4l, video for linux. It usually resides in the modules section, and ppl suggest it is your problem. This might be something to do with the dri driver for your ati card. if (and only if) removing the - Load "v4l" - line does not fix your problem, you may try to give the dri support manually, (changing the dri mdule by hand with a different one), gatos.sourceforge.net is the adress. Though I suggest you check for the v4l stuff, and check if there is an irq conflict, before changing dri modules in your mdk box manually. Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cant boot lilo or Grub.. Very strange error.
FH> Hi good people.. FH> I have just bought a new 41 gig IBM hard drive for my FH> old heap of a home server. (IBM 300PL. 233mmx HX FH> chipset, 160MB ram, TNT2 Video.) FH> Anyway, I installed the drive, the 300PL saw it as an FH> 8.4 gig drive.. (and thats after I flashed the latest FH> IBM bios.) FH> Still, I thougt if it works as an 8.4 that will do.. FH> But the Mandrake 8.2 install saw the full 41 gig and FH> partitioned and installed accordingly. FH> All went well, including setting up X and everything FH> else.. so I had lilo written to the MBR and went to FH> restart my new install. FH> No good, it couldn't find the boot record.. kept askin FH> for a bootable media. FH> So I tried writing lilo to /dev/hda5 which is my /root FH> partition, but that resulted in the same thing.. (is FH> it possible that I can only load lilo to the /root FH> partition if there is no seperate /boot partition?) FH> After makin everything XFS and then discovering there FH> was no way to make a boot disk, I reloaded with FH> everytyhing as Reiserfs except /boot and /root which FH> were ext3.. so now the only way to get my system up FH> and running is via a boot disk, although it works FH> perfectly from that point on, including X and all... FH> How can I got my system to boot from the hard disk??? FH> does anyone know what I could try? FH> I found some utils on the IBM hard drive site for FH> this, but they all turned out to be winblows stuff, FH> even though you could make their disks from linux, FH> they still wanted to format everything in fat or fat32 FH> and load dos TSR's.. which is not alot of good in a FH> linux system. FH> Any help would be wonderful.. FH> many thanks FH> kindest regards FH> Frank Hauptle. FH> PS.. I apologise for not posting much lately, but I FH> still have not got a domain that mandrake accepts for FH> posting mail, and yahoo via the web is a pain in the FH> tookus.. so I only post now when I'm desperate, at FH> least until I find a good easy method.. FH> thanks again. :-) First of all, when you are using a journal filesystem, reiser, XFS etc. I suggest you have a seperate partition for /boot, and never install lilo to the head of "/" partition. EXT3 is slow, try reiser or XFS. Your trouble seems to be related to bios, that is not capable of defining the size of your disk, which is common for many of the old boxes. Still lilo overcomes this usually. I suggest you boot from a floppy disk, and not get much deeper on this size thing. What may look bad, is the delay caused by the floppy. To overcome this, boot your system, put in a fresh floppy, open up "/etc/lilo.conf", change "boot=/dev/hda" (or something similiar) to "boot=/dev/fd0", save, type "lilo" to make it write lilo to the disk. It will make things a lot faster. Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compiling PCTEL modem drivers under Mandrake 8.2
ŁŁ> First of all. I'm totally new to Linux. ŁŁ> When compiling the pctel-2.4.7 drivers for my modem under MANDRAKE 8.2 I ŁŁ> get an erron message saying that I cannot have #include or #include ŁŁ> in my code and I should update ma Makefile. I was trying to do so, but I can't succeed. ŁŁ> Can anyone help? The reason may be that you dont have kernel source installed. Check the software manager (rpmdrake) in flat view Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shutdown does not turn PC off
RK> Hi everyone, RK> I've seen a user having the same problem as me - when shutting down RK> the computer, no matter if using shutdown -h now, poweroff or halt -p RK> (yeah, haven't tried telinit 0 ;-) the computer goes through the usual RK> shutdown process as in MDK8.1 and then at "Power down." it just turns RK> off the disks and stops. It should turn off the computer but it RK> doesn't. RK> I haven't changed a thing since 8.1 and even PnP OS is set to No if RK> that matters. There doesn't seem to be a visible difference in the RK> scripts in /etc/rc.d/ which are probably responsible for shutdown (as RK> far as I figured). RK> Since another user has already asked the same question, I wonder, has RK> anyone else come across it meanwhile? RK> BTW: My computer is an Athlon 750 on an ABIT KA7 mainboard, 128MB RK> SDRAM. RK> TIA RK> Roman +1 Intel i845 board + 512 MB SDRam + Nvidia Geforce2MX Exactly the same Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reading ISO files.
Thursday, March 21, 2002, 7:49:11 AM, you wrote: SA> Hi, SA> I down loaded the LM 8.2 CD ISO files and I am about to do an upgrade from SA> hard disk. I need to read the hd.img file from the first CD ISO and write it SA> onto a floppy disk but I could not find out how. It was not obvious to me how SA> to mount the ISO files; the mount man pages were no help. I read the messages SA> on this list related to installing and upgrading and also the documents on SA> the Mandrake web site and the linuxdoc web site and there was no explanation SA> as to how to mount the ISO files. I used to mount ISO files on other OSs but SA> not Linux. SA> Can somebody please give me a hint? SA> Thanks, SA> Seedkum mkdir /tmp/myisofile mount /where-iso-is/mandrake-blahblah.iso /tmp/myisofile -o loop Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] OK New Q, OT Small Linux! ;)
F> Yes yes, stop groaning, I haven't even asked yet! :) F> From the README: F> Q: How do I get images onto diskettes? F> A: Make sure both root and boot diskettes are formated 1.44 F> dd if=root of=/dev/fd0 F> where "root" equals file name of the root image as stored on your F> system. F> Is that the only way to put the images onto diskette? Can I do it from a F> windows machine? F> THX F> Femme You can use rawrite (dos) or rawwrite (windows) Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with Harddrak
CALdS> Hello all !!! CALdS> I install the Mandrake 8.1, in a Pentium III with a motherboard of Asus. CALdS> After I try run the harddrak, but the computer stop run and I have of CALdS> initialize again. CALdS> Don't appear anyone error message simply, it stop. CALdS> Somebody already had this problem? CALdS> T+ CALdS> = CALdS> CALdS> Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) CALdS> Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil CALdS> [EMAIL PROTECTED] CALdS> I came across this many times, when there is something unsupported deep under. Try booting the system by passing some safe_mode options to the kernel. When the boot prompt (lilo) pops up, press esc to be able to write, and try "combinations of" linux noapic nousb noauto etc. Also if you can, try to upgrade your kernel, which usually helps. PS: I assumed you dont have a hardware problem. Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] start a program as user on boot
PR> Hi, I am trying to start a program as user on boot. But not sure how to PR> do it. PR> I've been trying to use rc.local, but not running the program as root. PR> I have been trying: PR> cd /home/paul/.seti ; su paul -c ./setistack > /dev/null 2> /dev/null PR> But this seems to stop my system in boot, and it just stays booting PR> forever. PR> - Paul You better try it with sudo, instead of su Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem
sgcu> Did anyone here install the HSP56 drivers successfully? I've been stuck for sgcu> over a week, I'm not making any progress. This is what i get when I tipe sgcu> isnmod -f pctel.o sgcu> unresolved symbol bh_mash sgcu> unresolved symbol sgcu> etc etc I suggest you try with modprobe , instead of insmode. To get more info about the module, check with modinfo Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transparent menu
Saturday, March 02, 2002, 10:27:55 AM, you wrote: M> How do you enable this? I have looked in: "Control Center-->LookNFeel" and I M> don't see the option anywhere. Just go to http://plf.zarb.org/ and download kde-moreartwork-liquid. You will have the new "style" and translucency options. Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Loading Linux......
RB> After downloading the latest kernel upgrade for my Mandrake 8.1 laptop RB> install, RB> I can not boot. When i do boot, i get the following; RB> Linux Loading ... RB> thats it??!! Its as if grub (??) was edited and now lilo can't find RB> vmlinuz? RB> I can't use my boot floppy...i get a kernel panic error. RB> Any suggestions on how i can boot so i can edit lilo and/or grub? RB> thanks in advance RB> Ralph The trouble is, kernels should never be upgraded, but they should be installed. Guess some necessary actions are skipped, when you upgrade instead of install. Also, having a trustable kernel around is a good idea, as the new kernel may somehow cause trouble. To solve the trouble, you can use your mandrake CD's. Just boot from the cd, choose to update (not install) your system. This should fix it. Regards Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Charset in Star/Open Office
Sunday, February 17, 2002, 2:38:50 PM, you wrote: RT> On Sunday 17 February 2002 13:32, Onur Kucuk wrote: >> RT> I'm sure this one must have been asked and answered before, but >> I RT> can't find it in the archives >> >> RT> How do you get Star / Open Office to use a different charset? >> I need RT> Latin5 (iso-8859-9) encoding and can't find anything >> there to set it RT> (choosing language as Turkish has no effect >> either). Is there some RT> environment variable to set this or >> what? >> >> RT> Robin >> >> Honestly I could not also realize what "choosing Turkish" does, >> either. >> >> The display problem is caused by the default fonts of >> openoffice/staroffice lacking iso8859-9. To correct this, there is >> a utility in the main folder of the office, spadmin. Spadmin >> manages printers and fonts. Just open it up and show openoffice new >> truetype (ttf) fonts to use, that supports iso8859-9. Choosing "use >> symlinks/softlinks" will prevent wasting space for fonts. RT> I tried that, both as root and user. It still defaults to iso8859-1, RT> as far as I can tell. A quick fix was to download and install a RT> couple of "Turkish only" fonts, but I'd still like to be able to RT> choose between character sets for existing ttf and Type 1 fonts. RT> IMHO, Open Office would be a better (and smaller!) program if it RT> stopped trying to duplicate things that are already done perfectly RT> well by the existing system. I realise this is extra work if you're RT> developing a cross-platform application, but why not just use the RT> existing X-fonts, use CUPS or lpd for printing, and even Qt/Tk for RT> widgets etc.? (I suspect the answer would be "If you want that, use RT> KOffice," but KOffice, although it's an impressive application, is RT> really not my cup of tea.) RT> Robin No actually I agree with you. Koffice is good, and in time it will be really good, with improvements on stability and filters, but now is the time of openoffice. Not so long ago the staroffice was trying to be a window/desktop manager on its own, perhaps designed to be used at office only. Waste of resources, especially for the desktop user, and waste of time of the developers, preventing them to focus on some other things, other than the dm etc. They gave up trying to make their own desktop, a good start, and a big improvement. Though I am not sure that the whole openoffice can be ported to other libraries, easily. I guess what openoffice team cares most, is being available in most platforms, so that they can become a standart (and I really would love to get rid of the pressure of `MS compatiable`). To be such, they must have compatible libaries, either created by them, or not. Perhaps they prefer to stay in their own line for a while, not risking or trying, so they have the time to focus on prior subjects, like stability, speed etc. This may be good, that they are spending time more efficiently for now, but this may be bad, that they may get in a highway, that they may not be able to get out of, later. Hope no such thing happens. Regards Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation of LILO Failed
JR> Hello all JR> I installed mandrake 8.1 but get error trying to install the dual boot i JR> have linux running from a floppy disk boot up but when i try a boot config JR> for lilo i get this message JR> Installation of LILO failed . The following error occured JR> Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1567 > 1023) JR> anyone run into this problem trying to set up the boot manager JR> also have windows 98 SE installed on the pc first JR> thanks Do you have a "lba32" in /etc/lilo.conf ? Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Charset in Star/Open Office
RT> I'm sure this one must have been asked and answered before, but I RT> can't find it in the archives RT> How do you get Star / Open Office to use a different charset? I need RT> Latin5 (iso-8859-9) encoding and can't find anything there to set it RT> (choosing language as Turkish has no effect either). Is there some RT> environment variable to set this or what? RT> Robin Honestly I could not also realize what "choosing Turkish" does, either. The display problem is caused by the default fonts of openoffice/staroffice lacking iso8859-9. To correct this, there is a utility in the main folder of the office, spadmin. Spadmin manages printers and fonts. Just open it up and show openoffice new truetype (ttf) fonts to use, that supports iso8859-9. Choosing "use symlinks/softlinks" will prevent wasting space for fonts. Regards Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall .tar.gz
RK> Hi, RK> Is it possible to somehow uninstall something I compiled and installed RK> from a tarball? RK> TIA RK> Roman Does not guarantee to 100% work, but mostly does. Go to the source directory of that app and do "make uninstall". If you have deleted it already, untar it again, do ./configure (with the options you used during installation) and then do the "make uninstall". If there is no uninstall rule for make, you will need to trace the files tru Makefile. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Translation
GM> I am looking for a program that will translate German web pages into GM> english while online. Google was not helpful. Any suggestions? GM> Thanks, GM> Gary Konqueror :) Check the tools menu. Though I dont remember from which version this is included. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java in Konquerer
GS> I am having a problem getting Java to work from the Konquerer browser. I GS> have set the "Enable Java Globally" to on in the Settings. Is there GS> something else I'm missing? GS> Greg Do you have any java runtime envoriment installed ? The default that comes with mandrake is kaffe, though it is not totally good enough. Open the console and type `java -v` to see what is installed. If it does not find the executable java, then you dont have any installed. Also, I actually would advice you dont use kaffe and use another jre. You can use from blackdown.org , sun.com, IBM.com. I personally choose 1.4.0 beta from sun. Regards Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 beta, :) very impressed
JD> Well I installed the mandrake 8.2 beta last night. Why is it called beta? JD> It installed on a test computer that has never been liked by mandrake. Could JD> never get any version installed on it before JD> 8.2. Kudos to the mandrake team! My i810 chip works great! JD> I have only found one problem so far(granted it was only installed last night) JD> the sound. It says it found the card and its the correct card but I get an error JD> at every boot saying it can't open JD> sound server and obviously I don't get any sound from the speakers, but hey thats just minor! JD> Just my .02 cents. Seems like you are using kde. Just open the sound server in kde control center and disable arts. And all your troubles will be over :) PS: You may also need to disable the alsa services starting at boot. (Mandrake control center --> system--> services ) Regards Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo versus fdisk/mbr
AR> Hi! AR> I am unclear about how exactly somebody can remove linux from a multi-boot AR> machine. I am interested in two cases: AR> a) the machine already is multi-boot with, say, Windows98 and Windows2000 AR> installed. When linux is installed, linux places lilo in the mbr and lilo AR> gives give the option to either select linux or windows in which case a menu AR> to choose between W98 and W2000 appears. AR> b) a machine only has W2000 and linux is added. AR> To remove linux - I was told that one only needs to boot with DOS and type AR> the command "fdisk/mbr". This then removes lilo from the master boot AR> record. So fine so good. But HOW does it place the "loader" which gives AR> the choice between W98 and W2000 (in the first case above) or how does it AR> then allow for the selection of W2000 in the second case. fdisk/mbr AR> "cleans" the mbr - but it should not replace the windows options back into AR> the mbr, right? AR> Thanks for your help! AR> Andrei Well, there is no "cleaning of mbr" actually. Fdisk /mbr just re-writes the mbr. You can do it with "fdisk /mbr" to make windows rewrite it, or do a "lilo -U" to make lilo write the original mbr that it had backed up. W2K and W98 multiboot is not limited to mbr. If you investigate more, you will see that in the c: there are files like ntloader.exe , xxx.bin or stuff like that. As they are not at the mbr, they are not affected by lilo. When lilo boots C:, it boots nt loader, that is the MS multiboot menu. Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange CD error installing 8.1
CR> While trying to boot from CD and install, I get to the point where it tries CR> to load the second stage ramdisk and it errors out saying it cannot CR> uncompress the second stage ramdisk. In the logs it tells me trying to load CR> /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.bz2 as ramdisk. CR> In the kernel msgs I get a scrolling set of errors: CR> <4> hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 DriveReady SeekComplete Error CR> <4> hdc: cdrom decode_status: error=0x34 CR> It repeats these lines several times then gives: CR> ATAPI reset complete. CR> <6> end_request I/O error dev 16:00 hdc sector CR> It repeats all of these, with a different sector number each time. I've CR> burned several copies from two different mirrors with no luck. CR> Also, immediately after I burn disk 1 I can read it on my Windows machine, CR> but if I eject the CD I can no longer read it, but it still boots from it to CR> to the install. I can read disks 2 and 3 fine on my other machines. I've CR> also installed versions 6, 7.2 and 8.0 with (basically) the same hardware CR> and no problems. CR> chris Have you done md5checksum to the iso images you downloaded ? Have you tried to burn them at a much-slower speed ? I guess your CD-Rom is getting old (or writer ?). The message comes when your cdrom is not able to read your cd well, even if your cd is ok. If the images you downloaded are ok, as for md5, you can install your mdk from your hard disk. Regards Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] For Help
J> Hello, J> I am Jamil. I am a novice user of Linux Mandrake 8.0 and i am facing J> difficulties wihin it. can u please help me by letting me know that how J> can i get inti a server ( e.g : latcs5.cs.latrobe.edu.au) from the J> Terminal. As it will help me to do my studies. I want to get in this J> server and execute linux command. I tried a lot, but i failed. I would J> be very greateful if u let me khow. Thank u. J> jamil The server name you gave, seems to have both ssh and telnet service available. In your linux system, open a terminal window in x-windows, (or in the console) - telnet telnet the_name_of_the_server and you will be able to login. - ssh ssh -l your_user_name the_name_of_the_server - for telnet, telnet client, for ssh, openssh must be installed in your system. (you can find them in your mdk cd's) Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation error
MB> I am installing LM8.1 and got the following error message during the MB> installation. MB> There was an error installing packages: MB> XFree66-4.1.0-17mdk.i586 MB> I am installing on a Netfinity 3500 with 256 megs of memory and a 4 gig MB> scsi drive. MB> The video adapter is an S3 Virge/GX2 agp with 4 megs of ram MB> Any suggestions on how to install Xfree? MB> Please respond with as much detail as possible, I am a totally new to MB> Unix/Linux and am starting from scratch knowledge wise. MB> Thanks! Your installation CD's might be corrupted, or your cdrom drive may have trouble reading it. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Licq probs
CT> I re booted a couple days ago - when I got back into LM 8.1 the panel CT> wouldn't appear. After restarting X several times it was back, but LICQ won't CT> start now. The shutdown hung and I was forced to shut the power off. I'm CT> guessing there are now some corrupted files, but know where to start looking. CT> Can someone give me a clue how to fix LICQ? CT> Thanks Instead of restarting programs over and over, I advice you read the logs, outputs, errors they give you and try to correct them. You can run licq in a terminal window and see what is wrong with it. If it is the pid file just delete de licq.pid in "your home/.licq/". If it is more, you can reinstall the licq rpms. that should fix. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] etc/resolv.conf is overwritten during start
EvdB> Hello people. EvdB> I have a little problem with my network configuration file. I have access to EvdB> the Internet trough a router. In order to configure this, I need to alter EvdB> the resolv.conf file in the etc folder. I don't have trouble with the EvdB> configuration it self. Any time the file is edited I get my network and EvdB> Internet connection up and running. But, when I (re) start or reboot my EvdB> system, the resolv.conf file is overwritten meaning that I have to alter it EvdB> again. I suspect that somewhere in the dungeons of Mandrake a script, EvdB> launched during the Linux start sequence, is responsible for this. I have EvdB> tried to find it but without result. Do any of you have an idea which EvdB> process/script can be responsible for this? Many thanks. Evertb If you are using dhcp, this is it. (The dhcpcd, the client) Instead of changing the default scripts, I suggest you add something like rm -f /etc/resolv.conf cp /var/resolv.conf.ofmine /etc/resolv.conf to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] LILO won't load linux
JJ> Thanks for everyone's help with this problem. Yes, unfortunately I did JJ> update the kernel with MandrakeUpdate. I was apprehensive but went JJ> ahead, assuming it wouldn't be available through Update if that wasn't a JJ> recommended method. Yep, big mistake it seems. JJ> Anyway, I looked at the example you cited below, but I don't know how to JJ> do this since I can't execute any commands; I just get the error message JJ> and nothing (no prompt). Not even a LILO prompt - just the "LILO JJ> loading linux..." message. I can't check /etc/lilo.conf as someone JJ> suggested, for the same reason. JJ> I did try the linux boot disk, as someone else suggested. At the JJ> "boot:" prompt, I just typed "linux", and then got a bunch of OK JJ> messages, ending in this: JJ> --- JJ> autodetecting RAID arrays JJ> autorun ... JJ> ... autorun DONE. JJ> VFS: Cannot open root device 03:41 JJ> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41 JJ> --- JJ> At that point, the system ceases activity. At the "boot:" prompt, there JJ> was a message saying that it was going to check "/dev/hdb1", which I'm JJ> not sure is correct. Any further tips would be appreciated. JJ> thanks, JJ> Joe Just tell the lilo in your boot disk "which partition is your root (/) partition" Say, if your "/" partition is /dev/hda5, then boot with linux root=/dev/hda5 Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TNT graphics card problem
PG> Hello! PG> I sent this mail yesterday but didn't get it back from the list, PG> so maybe it hasn't been sent properly. Sorry if you get it twice, PG> and sorry also for the two following messages! PG> I have a problem installing Mandrake on a new machine. PG> I bought a TNT2 board. I could use the installer so basically PG> it works in a low resolution / low color definition mode. PG> When the X server starts, or just before it starts, the text mode PG> screen flashes, The period of the flashes is about a second, PG> it lasts for about 1 minute, and after that it says something PG> like: respawning too fast. Stop for 5 minutes. PG> At that point, I can log in text mode and perform all operations PG> you can perform in text mode. 5 minutes later, it retries to launch PG> X, flashes again, and then stops for another 5 minutes. PG> I have tried to download the latest TNT driver. On the same PG> page, there is also a linux kernel that I have downloaded and PG> installed. The symptoms are exactly the same. PG> I am almost sure the problem is within the driver because: PG> 1. The TNT board does not work on another Mandrake 8.1 machine PG> after replacing its card and drivers; PG> 2. The TNT board works perfectly with BeOS in full color, 1280x1024. PG> Any hint to solve this problem? PG> Thanks, PG> Pascal Your card seems to be ok, just the drivers might be installed wrong. Make sure you have installed the nvidia driver correctly on linux. In the nvidia's official pages, there are 2 drivers, a glx rpm and a kernel rpm (not kernel, but an addon for kernel). Make sure that you install them both. Keep in mind that if you changed your kernel to one other than the official mdk kernel, you must update your nvidia-kernel-driver. For your question, if I remember right, try booting in console mode. Like if you are using lilo to boot, try to boot with "linux 3", and then login, and type "startx". This should do all the work about "respawning too fast) if the drivers are set up correct. I advice you check madnrakeuser.org, mandrakeforum.com and the archives of this list, this subject has been discussed many times. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need some help with Apache::ASP.
Monday, January 14, 2002, 11:49:08 PM, you wrote: MN> It has somebody there that it uses this? tried but could not make it "execute" :( any info will be welcome Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and Disk Managers
LWIS> Hi, LWIS> I am having a problem getting Lilo to work on my machine. I have a LWIS> motherboard with an old LWIS> 1996 bios that doesn't support hard disks larger than 8.4 gig. Maxtor's LWIS> MaxBlast disk manger LWIS> software provides an extension to the bios code to allow my 20 gig drive to LWIS> work. I have LWIS> tried to install Mandrake 8.1 several times always with the same result: LWIS> When I reboot, LWIS> LIL is printed to the screen then it hangs. LWIS> When I first installed MaxBlast, I allowed it to partition the drive. When LWIS> I tried to install Linux LWIS> the disk partitioning software got confused and trashed the whole partition LWIS> table. I thought LWIS> that perhaps Linux didn't like the way MaxBlast created the partitions so I LWIS> used a Win98 LWIS> boot disk and fdisk to create the two Windows partitions. Tried to install LWIS> Linux again today LWIS> and still get the LIL thing. LWIS> Is there a way around this? LWIS> Thanks, LWIS> Larry Sounds like a tough question. - What does maxblast do? I mean, how do you make it run ? Off a floppy? Does it add any info to your bios? Does it come before your harddisk boots ? - Have you tried using a system disk to boot mandrake? - Have you tried using loadlin to boot linux from a dos system ? loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 for example, and you must have a kernel in that partition, I assumed its name is vmlinuz, and hda5 is your "/" partition. - Do you have your linux "kernel", I mean the boot partition at least, within the first 8 GB ? - Is your hard disk set to LBA or normal mode in your bios ? ( if sector and head numbers are 255 and 15 it most probably is) Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] quake 3
MDv> On Monday 14 January 2002 10:15 am, you wrote: >> I'm trying to play the quake 3 demo and I get the following error: >> >> Sys_Error: Couldn't load default.cfg. >> >> I don't seem to have a default.cfg file anywhere. where can I get a >> default.cfg file or what needs to be in it, and where does it go? Any >> help is appreciated. MDv> hmm default.cfg should be in one of the .pk3 files. go into your home MDv> directory and remove the .q3a folder then try it, if not you may have a MDv> corrupt download MDv> mark >> >> TIA >> >> -Chuck You are right, the file is in one of .pk3 files. The thing is, they are not in the proper place. It has been too long that I havent played with it, but you must put the game data files (*.pk* takes about half gigabyte, in your cd) or link them :) to the proper place. The proper place has a small, single *.pk* file, just check the folders. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to renew IP address?
Wednesday, January 09, 2002, 12:33:14 AM, you wrote: JD> Ok. I've searched around and I know I've seen it on the list before, but I JD> just moved my machine to a different physical network and need to get a new JD> IP address from a DHCP server. How do I release/renew my IP address without JD> rebooting the machine? JD> Thanks in advance! if eth0 is configured to use dhcp to get its ip etc., as root, do ifdown eth0 ifup etho Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 on a sony vaio
Saturday, January 05, 2002, 3:12:28 AM, you wrote: CJ> I wonder if anyone has had the experience of installing Md 8.1 on a Sony CJ> Vaio PCG-982L ( the number on the back of the lap top). However the CJ> system information windows says it's a PCG-FX250(UC). In trying to find CJ> the other information, I get: an Intel Pentium III, 800 mhz, 256k RAM, CJ> 20gig hard drive, running windows ME. Bios are PheonixBios 4.0. CJ> Intel(R)82815 graphics controller.AnologDevicesInc Soundmax.Cd is a CJ> Matshita ujda710. Modem is a Conexant-Ambit 56k DataFax Internal. CJ> I don't know where to go to get the motherboard or other designations. CJ> But the problem is that both Md 8.0 and 8.1 freeze up at "configuring CJ> PCMIA cards", which is right up front on the install. CJ> Any help or experience would be appreciated. CJ> Chuck Check here first http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/errata.php3 if none works, try passing these options to the installation kernel noauto noapic nousb ide=noautotune,noprobe vga16 Like when you are booting your cd, type linux noauto or multiple commands linux noauto noapic nousb Good Luck Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GForce 64MB Graphics Card
TR> Does anyone know if a 64MB GForce Graphics Card will work under Md 8.1 TR> without any problems? TR> Trevor R. TR> Campbelltown NSW AUS TR> Registered Linux User #252240 Should work. And I advice to use nvidia drivers for it. (www.nvidia.com) Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem shutting down
PR> On my 8.1 system I have recently encountered a problem shutting down the PR> computer. I'm not sure what could be causing the problem since I rarely PR> need to power down, but when I choose 'halt', the system powers down and PR> then right up again. This didn't used to happen. PR> Booting into Windows98 (something that's only been done a few times on PR> this box) shuts down without a problem (of course sometimes it crashes PR> while running). So it's not a hardware issue. What could be causing PR> this? PR> -Paul Rodríguez Had you ever shut down your pc from linux "normally" ? I have a p4 on i845 board and it does not shut down (o does but I dont know how ) so it may not be supported. Usually I would recommend you check your apm stuff, both in linux and bios. If I remember it right, it should be enabled. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to correctly change Lilo Configuration
DB> Awhile back a few users where asking about changing their lilo DB> configurations and I remember some other users suggesting that they VI their DB> lilo config. This in itself does not work. I knew that but had to get DB> caught up with other things before looking further. Anyway, to change the DB> default OS that lilo boots up in while in a root status in a shell type in DB> this line: DB> lilo -D Windows DB> this will change lilo from it's default Linux boot up to Windows. The lower DB> case d can be important too, but that's another email. Happy New Year to all. DB> Dan B You can change your /etc/lilo.conf with anything you like, mc, pico, vi, adding lines with echo or changing from x windows. But whatever you do, to make it work, you have to execute "lilo" to make your changes written to proper places. Happy new year :) Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hotmail
OK>> >Does hotmail "really" support pop3 ? Accessible tru kmail etc If OK>> >so what is the POP3 adress ? ... OK>> > JH> Sure does. I forget what the POP3 is, but is on the site. Nothing about it on neither the help section or settings. There is one, that makes hotmail check "other pop sites" like "your isp's pop account" and adds to the hotmail one. If I missed it, please show me. JH> I have never really tried it in Kmail. So i will not make any promises. I had given kmail just as an example of "non ms related mail clients" because I am looking for a normal/real pop server. JH> But I do know I have alot of users on my network that do it through Outlook. That does not mean hotmail has a pop server. It is, I believe, nothing more than another MS' style "ignore all the other, and do our stuff secretly, so no one can know what we do, or no one else can use it". I tried on some guess for a pop server in the name, and found only pop.hotmail.com to be existent. It used to be a normal pop server actually, back in the old days, 3-4 years ago, when hotmail was running non MS os. The machine, though, seems to be ignoring everything. telnet to port 110 gave me nothing, also the nmap. Up to here, nothing proves me hotmail has a pop server. Any other ideas are welcome. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail
Friday, December 28, 2001, 9:46:51 AM, you wrote: JH> Borrow someones Windows box, setup your Hotmail account so you can send JH> and recieve the email via POP3. Doesn't 'fix' the problem, but you get JH> your mail. Does hotmail "really" support pop3 ? Accessible tru kmail etc If so what is the POP3 adress ? ... Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh, ftp or telnet from network
IKH> First of all, thanks a ton for all the suggestions, but I still cannot connect IKH> to apache, telnet, ftp or ssh. Heck I can't even ping the LM8.1 computer from IKH> another machine either over the internet (ppp0) or over the lan (eth0) but IKH> internet masquerading works just fine. IKH> All the appropriate services are up and running nothing can connect to them IKH> though unless I flush the iptables firewall rules and set all the policy IKH> defaults to allow. IKH> There are no entries at all in hosts.allow or hosts.deny and the services i IKH> want to allow connections to are all listed in the bastille-firewall.cfg file IKH> in the correct places. IKH> Everything can be connected to from the localhost as well, just not over the IKH> internet (for 21, 22, and 80) or over the ethernet (for 21, 22, 23, and 80). IKH> Anyone have any more suggestions? IKH> Ian K. Harrell IKH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have your services up and running, and you can access them by typing localhost as adress. You have set up your firewall rules correct. (MDK control center does it fine for standart ports) Then what is left is the definition in /etc/hosts. Define your ip (that is connected to the internet) as your host.name (that is connected to the internet) above the line of your local line. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor/Resolution Problem
TR> Hi All, TR> I have a monitor that is NOT listed but does 1024/768 and an S3Trio Video TR> Card. Once I've picked ANYTHING for monitor and/or resolution my computer TR> hangs with some message about nodevice. I can reproduce this message TR> exactly if you need to see it fully, but does anyone have any ideas that TR> might get me up and running? TR> Regards TR> Trevor Are we speaking of X or console ? In X, I set up such monitors as "generic". If it is 17' I do 1024x768@70 Hz. If it is something lower, choose something that gives 56 Hz or 60Hz @ 1024x768. If these tries wont work, the error output would be nice. Honestly I never saw that error. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) How to install software in .bin format.
SL> Hi all people, SL> Sorry for (OT) SL> Kindly advise how to install SO.6.beta in .bin format to Mandrake 8.1 and SL> where to join the discussion list of StarOffice. SL> Thanks in advance. SL> B.R. SL> Stephen Make its permissions executable ( right click on it,properties etc.) or at the console type chmod +x the_name_of_your_bin_file then run it. (double click, or at the console ./the_name_of_your_bin_file) Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Linmodems
Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 7:06:11 AM, you wrote: RB> :-( RB> i crashed it.. trying to install a old worn out no good plain ole soft ware windoze powered piece of crap.. RB> thanks for the link.. i went to the site and tried what they suggested.. (almost) i had some type o's in my RB> /etc/devfsd.conf file.. so it crashed my machine.. i do not have a rescue disc and my RB> friend has my copy of MD 8.1.. fail safe will not even boot.. and when it allows me in as root to repair things.. RB> the fs is read only. i cannot restore the file from my back up.. any id's? RB> thanxs.. RB> roy Try passing "single" to kernel when you are booting. Like, if you are using lilo, type "linux single" instead of "linux" at the prompt. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.
May you add the following disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x82 disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x83 or if it does not work disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x81 to the /etc/lilo.conf right under the line boot=/dev/hda ? and of course run lilo, check if lilo gives an error output and check if it works ? Most probably, adding only disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x81 or disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x82 will fix it, just try which one solves and plz inform us :) And whitin your tests, please keep whatever is in hdb, in its place. Good Luck Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.
IO> I looked all over the Linux Documentation Project website for this IO> information. I couldn't seem to find it anywhere so I was hoping someone IO> could help me with it on this list. IO> I'll explain my situation. IO> I have two hard drives installed on my computer. IO> hda is dedicated to Windoze. IO> hdc is dedicated to Linux. IO> When I install Linux (I've gone through the process a few times) it has me IO> choose between LILO and GRUB. I have chosen LILO since I've read more about IO> it than GRUB and I have a better understand of how it works. IO> After installing and booting up, I get the choice of booting Linux-Secure, IO> Linux, Linux Failsafe, or Windoze. Everything works fine like it should. IO> When I installed I tried both the normal boot and also the nicer looking IO> boot (the equivalent of "vga=791" in the config. file), they both worked fine. IO> The trouble comes afterwards. IO> I edited my /etc/lilo.conf file, saved it, and then typed "lilo" into the IO> shell. IO> It returned a confirmation that the file was edited properly. IO> When I restarted my computer the BIOS went through its normal checks and IO> when it got to the "OS Loading..." part the screen starts filling with "01 IO> 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01" etc. Either a geometry mismatch or a "0x80 0x81" stuff trouble. IO> I understood that this meant my MBR was corrupted, so I did a fdisk /mbr IO> from my DOS bootdisk. This allowed me to get into Windoze normally and I IO> could of course get into Linux using my Linux bootdisk. I restored the IO> /etc/lilo.conf file to its original condition and typed "lilo" once more. IO> When I restarted my computer the next time I got the same 1s and 0s. Nope this does not happen when mbr is corrupted. It is an error message of lilo actually. Until here I can say that there is a geometry mismatch or a "bios hard disk boot priority" problem. IO> Considering that I took much care into editing the /etc/lilo.conf file IO> originally, this leads me to believe that it wasn't the result of a typo in IO> the file. Dont think so IO> What it does lead me to believe is that the installation process writes to IO> the MBR differently than LILO does from Linux. No they dont. But meanwhile something might have changed, that should be defined in lilo.conf IO> I'm not sure if that's the IO> case though. It's also possible that I'm doing something wrong somehow that IO> I don't realize. Most probably. But sometimes some stuff needs to deep info. IO> Is it possible that hda isn't being mounted properly IO> before it's being written to? No need to mount it. Lilo deals with physichal sectors. IO> Does the fact that the drive is used for IO> Windoze make a difference in this case? Is there something else I'm IO> overlooking here? IO> I'd appreciate any help that anyone can offer to fix this problem. I'd like IO> to be able to boot into Linux without a floppy disk again and be able to IO> use LILO properly. IO> Ivan. I can help you, I had gone too much deep into lilo. Here we have - Geometry mismatch. There may be some trouble with lilo, when it is trying to define your hard drives geometry. I dont know your lilo / MDK version, but with assumptions, there must be a "lba32" line in your /etc/lilo.conf, so lilo will be able to access your disk that is larger than 8GB. - 0x80 0x81 stuff I said. This is deep. I had written a long mail once for this, in this list, but could not "somehow" find it in the archives. The thing is, When you boot your system, bios gives names to your devices. IDE devices (hard disks, cdroms etc) are given names 0x80, 0x81, etc. 80 is hda, 81 hdb (if exists). Unfortunately, MS products always assume they are 0x80. When a device is booted, bios assigns it a 0x80, does not matter if it is hda or hdc, so this confuses logic, this confuses lilo. What may affect you, did you chage your boot sequence from your bios? Did you have a previously installed cdrom at hdb, then removed (or vice versa) ? These are what I can think of now. If you give me more info, (how is your boot sequence defined in your bios, what are your hd~ devices, and their sizes, /etc/lilo.conf) I can help you about this. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linmodems
RB> ok.. RB> I'm new to this wonderful thing called linux, but i love it. i understand the file system and the fact that everything is a file. i know there is support for some linmodems, including the one i RB> my machine. 8.1 did not autodetect it so i went on a search for a rpm that would work and found one. i installed it, but cannot get the internet dialer to recognize it. is there another dialer i RB> can use .. or would it be best to by an external modem?. RB> i have the same problem with my PDA.. the soft where is there, but it is looking @ /dev/polit when it is connect to comm2.. does any one know of some free training one the web or some good books RB> i can read. i want to use my machine on the web instead of going under windoz all the time.. RB> thanks RB> roy I did make some models work fine under linux, but all have different "styles" to be configured. Which modem are you trying to make work ? What rpm did you use ? Btw, many of the modems can not work with rpms, as they need to be compiled against your machine. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] nvidia on kernel 2.4.13-12mdkenterprise
MW> skinky, MW> I've got almost the same monitor and I can tell you that the version of XFree86 you're trying to use will not work with that monitor. I've got a Philips 107T and the only version of XFree that MW> will work is 3.3.6. As I stated in an earlier post I had to use a generic Multi-sync monitor and refresh rate if 74hz - screen setting of 1024 X 768. I really doubt that as much of the trouble MW> that you're having is the vid card, but rather a lot may be the darn monitor. I almost took mine back when i was trying to get it to work with Mandrake. I just kept trying the different monitors MW> till I found the generic multi-sync 74hz - 1024 x 768. MW> give it a shot... couldn't hurt. I agree with this, I personally dont set up the predefined monitors for some models, instead I use the generic monitors. Personally I choose the 70 Hz one, as it seems to work on more monitors, but if 74 works for you of course it is better. Just find a generic monitor that gives you display, even if it is ugly. Then you can use xvidtune to make the display look better. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Partition-setup trickery for a 40 Gb hard drive
VVS> Yesterday I bought a 40 Gb hard drive to replace my old 2-gig one. VVS> The oldish BIOS refuses to detect it so I asked around for alternative VVS> ways to get the disk working so that I can the olde Win95/Mandrake VVS> doubleboot on it. I received a helpful reply describing the general VVS> process, but newbie as I am, I need some help in applying it for VVS> Mandrake (8.1). VVS> It's the first step of the process that I can't figure out: VVS> "Make a small (10 megs) as /dev/hda1 and mount your Linux boot VVS>partition there. Do this before you install Windows. Then install VVS>Windows... [snip]... then install Linux... [snip]" VVS> OK, so I do what I think it says. I fire up the Mandrake installation utility VVS> and start setting the system up. When the time comes to create the partitions, VVS> I make a /boot partition. Then I'm apparently supposed to stop the VVS> installation procedure, exit the installer and install Windows before VVS> finishing the Linux install. But the installer won't let me do that: it keeps VVS> complaining that I should make a /root partition or stuff to that effect. What VVS> am I misunderstanding here? Can someone give me insight on this? VVS> (And BTW, the partition size slider in the Mandrake installer is so VVS> big-grained that it won't let me create a partition smaller than 196 VVS> megs. Is there any way around that?) VVS> +Cinquo The installer does not like it because you did not define a root partition. So the "installer" does not know where to "install". Just define a 10MB or so /boot , as hda1, then define your windows partition as hda2 (maybe you will have to make it active) then define your mandrake root partition. The trick is that "/boot" and "windows first partition" shall be named as hda1 and hda2 (or vice versa) and that they are both limited to the first 8GB. Rest will be managed by lilo and your OS. For the slider, try the arrow keys on your keyboard. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine under 8.1...Anybody?
PR> I'm no expert on Wine and wine debugging, but I would suggest you PR> download the latest CVS builds from http://wine.dataparty.no . These PR> will always be the latest version every day. And they are easy to PR> download/install. I have had them running with no problems (though I PR> still can't open all the programs I would necesarily like to). I have PR> ehard of people running starcraft successfully with wine, but have never PR> played any games myself. PR> Good luck. PR> -Paul Rodríguez Yes, forget about the mdk wine rpms. The ones coming with the default MDK 8.1 are not working, and dont waste your time trying to fix it. Just remove the wine and wine-devel packages, and install a wine package from wine.dataparty.no or linuxeasy.com/daily . The rpms in wine.dataparty.no do not have opengl support compiled in. You can play starcraft with them, but no opengl games. I have sent an email to the maintainer, maybe he will fix it. But if you dont wat to wait, you can get the source from the same site and compile it on your own. On the other hand, there are rpms at linuxeasy.com/daily . These ones support opengl, but they dont seem to be updated for a few weeks, since winehq anounced it as a usable version. (11.01 I guess) Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate
MG> Yikes. I just installed tuxracer --my first attempt at 3D gaming in Linux-- MG> and the framerate is 1 frame per second at best. It's more like watching a MG> slide show than playing a game. MG> This seems to be a somewhat common problem? But I haven't found any solutions. MG> My computer should be able to handle tuxracer. My video card is just a 16MB MG> Nvidia TNT2 M64, but even with software rendering my 1.1 ghz Athlon should be MG> able to get, say, 5 fps? :) As far as OpenGL goes I have the mandrake MG> Mesa-Common and Mesa rpms installed. MG> Running the gears Mesa demo gave me 250fps, which maybe suggests a tuxracer MG> problem and not mesa? MG> Any ideas? I usually just play 2D games, which are fine in Linux. But I MG> wasn't expecting performance like this. MG> Matt You did not install the nvidia drivers so your system is not using your nvidia cards hardware acceleration. Go to nvidia.com and mandrakeuser.com and follow the instructions. The fps in gears may be 250, but gears do alot less than tux racer so it is normal. Actually, it is slow. Just install the drivers. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Latin5 charset
r> I have Mdk 8.0 at home and 8.1 at work. At work, the Latin5 (Turkish) r> charset works fine, but at home I get everything but the lowercase r> dotless "i" and uppercase dotted "I". Is this to do with ... r> - Mandrake version? r> - KDE version? r> - something dumb I've done? r> Is there something (like a SETENV command) I can use to fix this without r> screwing up anything else? r> Robin The guilt belongs to XFree. The trouble is that it works with shift key, but it does not work with caps lock. Unfortunately changing keymap was not enough to fix it so it was reported to XFree and fixed in new versions. About July 2001 I had realized this and proper reports were sent to Xfree, so I guess a version after that will be enough to fix it. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA Driver installation
RS> I installed the NVIDIA drivers on my ML 8.1 system. Everything seems RS> fine and my monitor screen looks better. (It was shifted to the right) RS> The one question I do have is now while loading into X just before KDE RS> starts, my screen flickers 3-4 times and then a screen comes on that RS> says NVIDIA. Is this normal behaviour with the screen flickering with RS> the NVIDIA drivers installed or do I need to do something else? TIA RS> -- RS> Regards RS> Ron It is totally normal :) Nvidia drivers scan your monitors preferences by changing different resolutions, to see what is available, and what works better. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD player?
>> Anyone know of a good DVD (Linux Native) player for Linux? >> TIA >> DJW >> DR> Xine at http://skyblade.homeip.net/xine/XINE-0.9.4/i686.RPMs/ DR> regards Darrin xine released a new version, 0.9.5 , at the same site. Last time I checked i586 rpms were ready, but i686 were not yet. Maybe he made them. http://skyblade.homeip.net/xine/XINE-0.9.5 Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting WinNT Partitions
R> Is it possible to mount WinNt NTFS partitions in linux? If so, what is R> the correct format to use in fstab? mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ntfs user,exec,umask=0 0 0 But keep in mind that writing to an NTFS partition is still experimental. (It has been for long actually :) Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature sensors) for LM8.1
CD> Hi, CD> I'd like to install the latest nVidia GeForce drivers in LM8.1, but CD> the nVidia download site only provides rpm's up to LM8.0. Is there any CD> chance the LM8.0 drivers rpm will work with LM8.1 ? Not unless you downgrade your kernel, but dont even think about it :) You can use both the src.rpm's or the tar.gz's . They do work. Also keep in mind, if you will upgrade your kernel, you will need to reinstall them again. CD> The site also provides a source srpm. If the LM8.0 rpm is unusable, CD> perhaps I can generate the drivers for LM8.1 from the srpm ? (I've never CD> installed from srpm's before.) CD> Has anyone had any success with either of these approaches ? CD> I'd also like to install the glms hardware sensors (cpu temp, fan CD> speed, etc) package. Is the Cooker version safe to use ? Could not try that yet CD> Thanks for any help, CD> regards, CD> Charlie. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video Card Purchase?
RC> Hi All, RC> I've been reading all the messages about video card compatability. I RC> currently have a NVidia GeForce MX 2 installed on my AOpen AK73 series MB RC> w/an Athlon 1000mhz processor. (dual boot w/win98 se) RC> I do plan on upgrading my linux version in the future and I read where my RC> card, even if upgraded w/new drivers, will most likely not work on the new RC> Linux version. So, w/out looking at the educational benefits of this process, RC> I'd rather just install a new card that works! RC> Since I'm not exactly strapped for money, does anyone have any suggestions RC> for a new video card? RC> Also, is there a web site that offers information on, ie: compatability RC> w/linux, and recommendations? (like the modem site) RC> TIA RC> Roger I dont think they will not work, they "will" work ! But I guess there is a misunderstanding. When you upgrade your linux, aka the kernel, the drivers you had installed previously will not work. All you need is to re-install them so they will be using your new kernel. Geforce 2mx works, I have no trouble, tried on so many systems and distros, like many ppl around me. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] cdrom and floppies! Again.. or yet?
>> >>mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom >>will be the answer :) >> Onur Kucuk RCdOF> I've tried that too! ;-( RCdOF> Oops! now I got it permissions problem!;-/ RCdOF> I think there is a problem with the links RCdOF> When I eject the 'cdrom' the cdrom2 is ejected, like: RCdOF> eject cdrom (cdrom2 is ejected!) RCdOF> to eject cdrom I have to give the full path... RCdOF> Any idea? RCdOF> I'm not worried about 'ejecting' but, to have correct links RCdOF> []s Ricardo Castanho Actually tis happens to me too, it is just a devfs trouble. (If I remember right they are writing the devfs from the scratch now) 2 solutions, Sorry dont remember the name, but someone had adviced to delete everything in /lib/dev-state , and reboot. Guess this works until you change the places of devices in your pc, just give it a try. Second one, I use this. Simply dont use devfs. How ? If you are using lilo, change the kernel option, that is in /etc/lilo.conf , devfs=mount to devfs=nomount. And dont forget to type lilo at the command prompt to make the new setting work as default. I dont know the grub type, but I guess it is easy to figure out :) Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Terminus (game) problems.
--- "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running v8.1 and I reinstalled the space > combat/flight game "Terminus". It > installed just fine, but I'm having a problem > running it. Whenever I type in > "terminus" from a shell, I get the following: > > [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ terminus > terminus: error while loading shared libraries: > libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory Just install egcs-c++-1.1.2-53mdk . It is in the MDK 8.1 CD's. > Well, I searched and found several RPM packages that > have this file in them, > however all are older than what is currently being > used with Mandrake 8.1. So, > is there a way to remove that 1 single file from an > RPM? I did a "man rpm" but > didn't see anything like that. > > Thanks! ;-) To get files from an rpm, you can use alien. It is also in the mdk cd's :) Onur Kucuk __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom and floppies! Again.. or yet?
RCdOF> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- RCdOF> Hash: SHA1 RCdOF> Hi! RCdOF> I've seen on the list that mdk8.1 has some 'problems' with floppies and RCdOF> cdrom. RCdOF> Ok, I can understand that! RCdOF> But I can't understand why I can not mount any one MANUALLY! RCdOF> Can anyone help me out? RCdOF> hardware: 1 cdrom creative and 1 cd-rw creative! RCdOF> cdrom: it was originally set to /dev/hdb and /mnt/cdrom RCdOF> I tried to emulate scsi, just as cd-rw! RCdOF> Both are detected by 'cdrecord -scanbus' RCdOF> cd-rw: I cannot mount it! Although I can 'burn' cd's!! RCdOF> The error is always the same: "you have to specify the file system..." RCdOF> But, if I do that, such as, "mount -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom2" nothing RCdOF> happens but a help page for 'mount' RCdOF> any idea, direction? RCdOF> []s Ricardo Castanho This is normal, because you tell mount where to mount, but it does not know what to mount. Normally mount your_device_name to_where_you_want_to_mount Assuming your cdrom is /dev/hdb , and you want to mount it to /mnt/cdrom, and nothing is "already" mounted to /mnt/cdrom, the correct command is mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom I dont think you will even need to define the type, but if you will want or need mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom will be the answer :) Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
Ng> Hi Buddies! Ng> I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. Ng> When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online Ng> I do not know what else do Ng> Thanks Ng> Bytes I guess you have a dns problem. Writing your isp's DNS servers' ips to /etc/resolv.conf most probably will solve the problem. say if they are 1.2.3.4 and 1.2.3.5 then write to resolv.conf nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 1.2.3.5 You can get these numbers from your isp, or if you have windows, use winipcfg (write it at start --> run ) and note the DNS servers. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling Distance
AGD> SoloCDM wrote: >> While at the console (not X), what settings make the mouse scroll >> further from top to bottom and left to right? >> AGD> I dont think mouse works in the console mode unless you are using framebuffers AGD> and that is roughly the equivalent of X. The console is used for those quick AGD> sessions wherein the mouse only gets in the way and hinder faster processing. AGD> The only reason that I know that you are asking this question is that the text AGD> display in your console is not configured correctly and display is too large AGD> for pleasant viewing. I encountered this one when I picked a wrong setting. I AGD> vaguely remember that there is a setting in the Mandrake Control Center for AGD> this one. AGD> HTH. The mouse in console is managed by the program called gpm. Use "man gpm" command to find more info on gpm. If you will find the proper command, you can change how gpm is started, in the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm Sorry cant tell you where and how right now (have no linux-pc right now), but these will show you the way I guess Good luck Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie troubles with installing (xine)
JC> I am trying to install Xine - on a Mandrake 8.0 setup. JC> I have downloaded xine-lib and xine-ui. I have successfully run ./configure, JC> make and make install for xine-lib. When I run ./configure for xine-ui it JC> fails with a message telling me that I have not installed xine-lib. JC> Is there some stage I am missing between the two? JC> John No you are doing right, but xine has sone trouble with the path. I guess xine-ui is looking for the xine-libs under /usr/xine, but xine-lib is installed under something like /usr/local/xine . Copying the files to the correct path will solve the problem but you dont need that. Go to the adress below and install the rpms. http://skyblade.homeip.net/xine Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] The Best Sound Blaster
Is soundblaster audigy supported ? And do you advice to use it? Thank You Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo)
Sunday, November 04, 2001, 9:41:46 AM, you wrote: pbc> It can and _will_ cause you great harm. pbc> The next day, LILO got up to LIL- and wouldn't boot. pbc> It makes configuring LILO more difficult. pbc> It is hacky and dangerous. pbc> Causes more trouble than good. pbc> It is therefore stupid. pbc> - pesarif I dont agree, lilo works just fine. But you have to be aware of what you are doing, end believe it or not it is MS's fault again when it does not work. Things are managed in a way (in a stupid way) so that MS OS's can boot, and it is normal that stupidity confuses lilo... hdc = 0x80 when I have hda. Nonsense. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What do I nedd for compiling c++ code?
Sunday, November 04, 2001, 12:50:43 AM, you wrote: BK> I tried to compile c++ code using gcc and get message that gcc can not BK> find iostream.h or BK> other c++ specific files. What do I need to install? compile with c++ , the command is it :) Actually it is g++ I guess, but you can use the command c++ Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone able to play DVD movies?
GT> Has anyone successfully gotten dvd movies to play on Mandrake 8.1? What GT> software works and what doesn't? I've gotten a few to try to play but all of GT> the ones I own are encrypted so I end up seeing a bunch of garbage. I tried GT> compiling the latest version of Xine but couldn't it get it to work. It's in GT> two pieces and the first one works but the second part never can find the GT> first part. GT> Mandrake does a great job with my sound files. Now if I can just get my GT> movies to work, I'll be able to dump WInblows for good! http://skyblade.homeip.net/xine/XINE-0.9.2/ download the rpms and install them. Nothing more :) Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware
SD> As much as I'd like to see it happen, I don't think it'll work. Hardware SD> manufacturers will scramble to get XP support, and our lead will quickly SD> disappear. If only they scrambled to get GNU/Linux support... And if only heaven was on earth :) Honestly I dont understand, why all those hardware companies (conextant at the top of my list) do ignore the giant penguin, while the strongest/biggest companies on world ( IBM at the top of the list) support this giant ? IBM is a very important example, because IBM supports linux, even though they have their own UNIX (AIX) for long, and they spend billions of $ for the penguin. It is wise to see the future, and it is even wiser to catch the technology. Those companies who ignore linux will regret it one day, in a very bad day. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary
And if things did not change, debian is the only distro that can support the GNU's kernel, hurd. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pentium IV
How good can linux use p4's capabilities ? Is there a kernel version you advice to upgrade to ? Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?
>> ICQ has been really messing up lately, or maybe its something to do with my >> firewall, either way what the list suggest for IM between this linux box >> and windows users. Something that is fairly secure and has decent features >> but easy for windows people to install. Actually there is an ICQ trouble all over the world for 4-5 weeks. They changed some stuff in their servers, so that servers work better with icq2000. If you are using any other icq client, (even mirabilis 99b) you can log hardly, with one account, but can log in easily with another. You get offline messages forever, untill you login with an icq2000 client, or not get any offline messages at all. They simply force you to use icq 2000 :( I believe that these troubles will stay still, untill an icq client will act like icq 2000. Licq seems to be the best, so it will be developed fast, and will fix the troubles I believe. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IRQ`s
FS> Hello i have a little problem with my irq`s . FS> Since i have quite a lot of hardware in my box there is some sharing. Now the FS> problem is that my wintv card shares an irq with my GeForce and since it FS> crashes my complete system after running xawtv or zapping as well as any FS> other tv prog its obviously not wise that they share the irq with the grafix FS> device =). Most probably the irq conflict is causing this, you are right. Especially the graphics card should stay alone, even though there are lots of irq management systems (mean the ones in your board and OS). FS> Now i dont know much at all about irq management if someone could tell me the FS> comand to change an irq and which irq is free and available in my pc FS> here is a cat /proc/interrupts : Unfortunately there is no command that can change irqs, as long as they asre not pnp etc. But even if they are, I never could get success in this. Why ? Because IRQ's are managed by boards more strictly in later systems. FS> # cat /proc/interrupts FS>CPU0 FS> 0: 567487 XT-PIC timer FS> 1: 3092 XT-PIC keyboard FS> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade IRQ 3 and 4 seems to be not used. These are the serial ports. If you dont use any of them,or both, shut them off from your bios. FS> 5: 0 XT-PIC es1371 You are very lucky your sound card uses irq 5 (I could not manage that) Keep it like this. FS> 7: 1 XT-PIC parport0 FS> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc FS> 10: 4323 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, eth0 If you are not using any usb devices, shut your usb controllers from your bios. They dont screw things but it would be better. FS> 11: 238652 XT-PIC bttv, nvidia I guess your tv card is in slot 1 of your board. Usually in boards the pci slot 1 and the agp slot share the same irq, so change the place of it. FS> 12: 90182 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse FS> 14: 54881 XT-PIC ide0 FS> 15: 7586 XT-PIC ide1 These are all fine. I guess 13 is also being used by something related to CPU, so dont try to use 13. (most probably cant either) FS> NMI: 0 FS> ERR: 0 FS> All devices are listed exept my firewire card which i didnt load yet but if i FS> remember right it would, if loaded, use irq 9 but i might be wrong about that. Actually irq 9 is not as fine as irq 5,10,11 etc. but I did not have any troubles using that. Usually boards assign irqs to pci slots, that is like pci slot 3 can only use irq 9 and the irq of the pci slot 6 (something like that). You can find info about this in your mobo's manual, though you dont need to waste your time. Simply, shut down the systms that you dont use, serial port, parallel port, usb etc. After all that, try different combinations of pci slots on your board, after a few tries you will realize how to solve your trouble. Good Luck Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] midi playback problem
Can anybody send me a sample /etc/modules.conf (or at least the right entries for it) so that emu10k1 works right. After adding those lines and a reboot I guess I will only need to change the sampling rate in arts. Thanks Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to extract bz2 files
Sunday, October 28, 2001, 4:19:01 PM, you wrote: SN> How do I extract bz2 files from a console? SN> Best regards SN> Søren bunzip2 the_file Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where to place 'xset' command?
GM> What file should be used to hold commands to be run at the start of GM> an X session? I need to run an "xset" command to adjust the mouse GM> acceleration. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with kdm starting Gnome. GM> thanks, GM> gm I dont know about the xset, but to accelerate my mouse I add Option "Resolution" "250" in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 , in the mouse section. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] running wine ?
--- Paul Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Along these lines, running wine for me gives:
>
> [paul@localhost paul]$ wine
> /mnt/win_c/windows/calc.exe
> fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_KEYBOARD_DetectLayout Your
> keyboard layout was not
> found!
> Using closest match instead (United States keyboard
> layout (phantom key
> version)) for scancode mapping.
> Please define your layout in
> windows/x11drv/keyboard.c and submit them
> to us for inclusion into future Wine releases.
> See documentation/keyboard for more information.
>
> But, it doesn't start the program, it just stays
> like that for a long
> time. ANybody have similar issues?
>
>
> -Paul Rodríguez
>
Just removed the wine and wine-devel MDK rpms. Went
to wine.dataparty.no and downloaded the latest cvs
rpm. Installed it. Just mentioned the drives in
wine.conf (as I will attach down). In X , opened the
konsole,
[root@zaburt /]# wine /mnt/hda1/windows/calc.exe
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_KEYBOARD_DetectLayout Your
keyboard layout was not found!
Using closest match instead (Turkish keyboard layout)
for scancode mapping.
Please define your layout in windows/x11drv/keyboard.c
and submit them
to us for inclusion into future Wine releases.
See the Wine User Guide, chapter "Keyboard" for more
information.
and it ran normally. Why not try other programs ?
Onur Kucuk
- wine . conf ---
WINE REGISTRY Version 2
;; All keys relative to
\\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config
;;
;; MS-DOS drives configuration
;;
;; Each section has the following format:
;; [Drive X]
;; "Path"="xxx" (Unix path for drive root)
;; "Type"="xxx" (supported types are 'floppy',
'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network')
;; "Label"="xxx" (drive label, at most 11
characters)
;; "Serial"="xxx" (serial number, 8 characters
hexadecimal number)
;; "Filesystem"="xxx" (supported types are
'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')
;; This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a
certain
;; directory structure.
;; Recommended:
;; - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
;; - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT
driver strongly recommended)
;; DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port
programs using Winelib !
;; "Device"="/dev/xx" (only if you want to allow raw
device access)
;;
[Drive A]
"Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Type" = "floppy"
"Label" = "Floppy"
"Device" = "/dev/fd0"
[Drive C]
"Path" = "/mnt/hda1"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "MS-DOS"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[Drive D]
"Path" = "/"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Linux"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[Drive E]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "CD-Rom"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
; make sure that device is correct and has proper
permissions !
"Device" = ""
[Drive F]
"Path" = "/tmp"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Tmp Drive"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[Drive G]
"Path" = "${HOME}"
"Type" = "network"
"Label" = "Home"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[wine]
"Windows" = "c:\\windows"
"System" = "c:\\windows\\system"
"Temp" = "e:\\"
"Path" =
"c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;e:\\;e:\\test;f:\\"
"Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows
programs by default.
; Enabling this may crash some programs that do
recursive lookups of a whole
; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to
itself.
;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"
"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"
#
[DllOverrides]
"commdlg" = "builtin, native"
"comdlg32" = "builtin, native"
"ver" = "builtin, native"
"version" = "builtin, native"
"shell"= "builtin, native"
"shell32" = "builtin, native"
"shfolder" = "builtin, native"
"shlwapi" = "builtin, native"
"lzexpand" = "builtin, native"
"lz32" = "builtin, native"
"comctl32" =
Re: [newbie] running wine ?
JT> Hallo! JT> Does any of you know how to run a windows program using wine?? I get the JT> following error: JT> - JT> [quini@quinipc Starcraft]$ winereal starcraft.exe JT> Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working JT> directory /mnt/win/Archivos de programa/Starcraft; starting in windows JT> directory. JT> winereal: cannot find 'starcraft.exe' JT> [quini@quinipc Starcraft]$ JT> JT> Thanks! The trouble is, that you did not configure wine. You must have a file ~/.wine/config that describes your preferences. (you can find an example in /etc/wine I guess, but you must have the config in your home directory to make it work ). As that config is not there, wine could not find how( c:\blablabla\starcraft etc ) it should name your starcraft folder. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with Telnet (Fixed?- No)
Friday, October 26, 2001, 3:02:59 PM, you wrote: ME> I don't know if this'll work for you guys, but I took a stab ME> in the dark and now telnet works for me. ME> I just downloaded the new telnet rpm from rpmfind ME> (telnet-client-krb-1.2.2-15mdk), and ME> rpm -Uvh telnetblahblah ME> and now I'm up and running. ME> HTH ME> Edmund Well, that is the client part, which did not seem to have trouble. What we are trying to do is to make the "server" run. Thanks anyway. For Frans Ketelaars, our configurations were the same actually, though I tried with the ones you wrote in the mail, I tried to delete, reinstall and update the latest cooker telnet server, client, xinetd etc. None could take me anywhere :( Nothing seems wrong in the logs, the xinetd startup script works fine etc. I even tried to run it as executable, say, not like daemon, of course nothing changed. There is only one thing that looks strange, when xinetd starts, even if only one server is active, or none is, it starts very slow, though it starts. May someone show me how to accept telnet connections in my MDK 8.1 ? At least before I will loose all my hair :( Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Help with Telnet
Thursday, October 25, 2001, 6:17:54 PM, you wrote: ME> I'm having the same problem as you two - three separate installs of ME> LM 8.1, and none of them have a functioning telnet :>( ME> Can't figure out why, but I'll post if I do find out anything. ME> Edmund Is anyone totally sure that his/her telnet server is running ? I dont mean if you have your config files arranged right , etc. Mine were too, but just run a " ps -ax | grep telnet " and see what I mean. Or do "nmap localhost" or whatever IP you are at. I had posted this both on expert and newbie a while ago, and there was no solution. MDK 8.1 is not capable of telnet-serving As far as you will be told, "use secure shell". Though if it will be fixed anyhow, I will be glad to know too. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Circular dependancies?
DJ> Hello all, DJ> I've been trying to install Galeon onto my LM8.0 machine where the only x DJ> environment I have is KDE. I'm downloading the RPM's from the Mandrake site DJ> (which means that they're the 8.1 RPM's) because my CD-ROM drive has died and DJ> I no longer have access to the original disks. DJ> Here begins my problem: DJ> When I try to install the Galeon rpm, I get: DJ> [root@pengo packages]# rpm -i galeon-0.12.1-2mdk.i586.rpm DJ> error: failed dependencies: DJ> GConf >= 1.0.4 is needed by galeon-0.12.1-2mdk DJ> mozilla >= 0.9.4 is needed by galeon-0.12.1-2mdk DJ> So I went and downloaded the GConf 1.0.4 rpm and attempt to install that: DJ> [root@pengo packages]# rpm -i GConf-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm DJ> error: failed dependencies: DJ> libGConf1 = 1.0.4 is needed by GConf-1.0.4-2mdk DJ> libdb-3.2.so is needed by GConf-1.0.4-2mdk DJ> So I download the libGConf 1.0.4 rpm and when I install it, I get: DJ> [root@pengo packages]# rpm -i libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm DJ> error: failed dependencies: DJ> GConf >= 1.0.4 is needed by libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk DJ> Is this my fault for trying to install from the 8.1 RPM's or should I be able DJ> to do this? Just put the necessary rpms to the same folder and do an rpm -ivh * Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] help~ lilo is gone~
>Hi, >Please help me... >My LILO disappeared.. and when I run lilo to install it, it says that >/boot/boot.b is missing... I checked is /boot and it's empty... what do >I do??? *sniff sniff* >Any help is appreciated~ >Valerie Hi Valerie, How could you boot, with the boot empty ? Or didnt you boot yet? If you could boot, then most probably you have a partition containing your boot data, but it is not mounted now. Type fdisk -l and compare it with /etc/fstab entries, especially with the line containing /boot . Check if there is a line missing, a partition not mounted etc. And also, if you dont want re-install your system, if you can give us the name "which version" you have, and if you did not change much in /boot , a copy+paste from a friend would be fine I guess. If it is MDK 8.1 I can send you my /boot/* Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBLive working, but no mixer
--- "Jesse C. Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone suggested I turn off Plug-and-Play in BIOS, > and that got my sound > card working - when I test the sound card in > HardDrake, I can hear Linus's > test-sound-thing. However, clicking on Open results > in the following error > message: > > sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': no such > device > > Then HardDrake plays a test sound, but I don't hear > it. > > And when I shutdown, I get the following: > > Saving mixer settings aumix: error opening mixer >[FAILED] > > Also, here's what happens when I try to launch some > sound-related epplets > in Enlightenment 0.16.5: > > Emix - Mixer device open failed > > E-Mixer - Couldn't open mixer device /dev/mixer > > E-SD - /dev/dsp: No such device > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > I never used to get any of the five error messages > above, and the epplets > of course all ran fine. Somewhere in my fiddling > (just following what the > linuxnewbie.org and linux-mandrake.com articles say, > really), I started > getting these error messages, and they didn't go > away when I got SBLive > working. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > > Thanks, > Jesse I am not sure, but, do you have your soundcard working now ? These errors happen when your soundcard is not working. There are many ways to make it work, define, other than drakes. ( like /etc/conf.modules, or was it /etc/modules.conf , you can add a " alias sound emu10k1) I believe that your modules are not installed while you are trying to run these apps. before running a mixer or so, open a terminal window and type "lsmod". This shows you the installed modules. Check if you have emu10k1 , soundcore, ac97. If they are there and you still have troubles, then I advice you to go to opensource.creative.com and get the latest sblive driver, and install it on your system. (it is really easy and there are docs about it, if you want I can send you some.) If you dont see those modules I said, with lsmod, try at the terminal modprobe soundcore modprobe emu10k1 if you did not get any error messages, they are installed correctly, check with lsmod. if these modprobe stuff corrects your troubles, just add these modprobe lines to the end of the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local so they shall be run automatically at every boot. Also, just in case, if there is not one, add alias sound emu10k1 to the /etc/conf.modules file. (or was it modules.conf) -- but, honestly, these are the detail things you can do. I advice you try to run sndconfig in a terminal window, before doing these manually, because it will do these automatically. ps: module means sort of driver. goodluck. Onur __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile
--- s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great link. Thank you for the only one that clearly > explains a possible fix > for the agpgart failure part. I may get brave and > try for the 3rd time. But > I do have another newbie problem I hope you may be > so kind as to assist me > with. The install sets up XFree 3.3.6 and though I > have installed the 4.0.1 > from the cd in preparation for the NVdriver install, > and I know its on here > somewhere, X -version reveals that 3.3.6 is being > used. How do I ensure that > my system uses the 4.0.1 rather than the 3.3.6? (Do > I need to do anything or > will the nvdriver setup fix that?) > Most probably nvdriver wont do anything for that. What defines your X version, is the link /etc/X11/X if it is linked to something like /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_ then it is the 3.3.6 if it is linked to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86then it is 4.0.x Also, /var/log/XFree86.0.log is the output of your last X session, and you can find lot sof info there too, just a good way to check out things :) To make it 4.0.x straight delete the link and remake it in the correct way rm /etc/X11/X ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X will do the job. Goodluck Onur __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
