Re: [newbie] imwheel controls
Find the section at the bottom of the file with the comments about defaults. The first 3 lines of the section should be: ".*" None, Down, Page_Down None, Up, Page_Up Just replace the Page_Down with Down,3 and Page_Up with Up,3: None, Down, Down, 3 None, Up, Up, 3 The 3 is the number of repeats for the up or down key sent when the wheel is rolled one notch. Save the file and restart imwheel with the command "imwheel -k" - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Jeff Malka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 1:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] imwheel controls > Thanks. I looked up the imwheel doc file but am still not clear. Do I just > add the lines: Up 3, Down 3? What exactly should I add? > > Thank you.
Re: [newbie] imwheel controls
Read the doc (/usr/doc/imwheel*) on the .imwheelrc file. This file controls the actions taken for the mouse buttons and wheel in different windows. The default for any window not defined in the file is Page Up and Page Down for the wheel actions making it very jerky. A change to Up 3 and Down 3 (or however many repeats works for you) smooths it out. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Jeff Malka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 6:42 AM Subject: [newbie] imwheel controls > I read somwhere on this newslist that one can control the speed the mouse > scrolls at and I unfortunately did not save the message. Drakeconf (mouse part) > only asks what kind of mouse you have. > > My scroll is much too jerky in its movement. Where can I find the control for > the scroll mouse? > > Thanks. > > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [newbie] imwheel probs
Someone mentioned earlier that you could delete the /tmp/imwheel.pid file in the users home directory .logout script. Sounds like it should work fine but I haven't tried it. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "jeremy rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 12:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] imwheel probs > > heya dave > its me again...(had to get a 2nd email account for this list to keep > the wife happy)i was wondering...is there any way to run imwheel on > *both* my root account and my other account(s)? > > thanks again, > jeremy > > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > > had this prob 2 days ago. > > > delete the /tmp/imwheel.pid file and restart imwheel with the user id u > > want to use imwheel with.. > > this sets permissions on imwheel.pid to the user u are currently running > > and u can place imwheel -k in your autostart > > folder to start it everytime u start x > > > > regards.. > > > > --dave > > > > > > > > > > > > At 09:14 18.07.00, you wrote: > > >greetings.. > > > > > > i am new to the group and am having probs with imwheel i can > > >only get it working on my root accountbefore i upgraded to > > >7.1 i could use it on both root and my normal account why is > > >this? > > > ive tried to change permissions, but when i use the "imwheel -k" > > >command i get this bit about being nable to write pid file nonsense > > >i was able to get it working on 7.0 (though i dont remember how exactly) > > >grrr any help will be greatly appreciated.. > > > > > > > > > > > > jeremy
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
Read the doc on changing the imwheelrc file. You can change the default of page up/down for the wheel to whatever you want it to be. Take care of the /tmp/imwheel.pid file like mentioned in another post so a user other than root works. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Gil Baron W0MN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 2:09 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse > Well I do get wheel mouse now but only in root. > It is also not very good, you turn on notch and the screen moves practically > top to bottom. Not smooth. > > There must be ways to fix this but I can't find them. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gil Baron W0MN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 8:17 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse > > > > > > I read the documents, put in the lines, rebooted with restart xserver > > > > NO JOY, still no wheel mouse. > > > > The things we have to live with with LINUX :-) > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:24 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse > > > > > > > > > Gilread these docs /usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.8/ > > > > > > Alan > > > > > > > > > Gil Baron W0MN wrote: > > > > > > > > I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB > > > > compatible attached to PS/2. > > > > I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse > > > support. It is not > > > > supported. > > > > Where do I go from here? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ > > > > 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 > > > > "Hierro candente, batir de repente" > > > > >
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
In case you missed my earlier e-mail. Don't put in "Buttons 3" like the doc says. That made my wheel up work like a left click and wheel down like a middle or right click I can't remember which. I commented out the "Buttons 3" and my wheel mouse works like a champ. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Gil Baron W0MN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 6:17 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse > I read the documents, put in the lines, rebooted with restart xserver > > NO JOY, still no wheel mouse. > > The things we have to live with with LINUX :-) > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker > > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:24 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse > > > > > > Gilread these docs /usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.8/ > > > > Alan > > > > > > Gil Baron W0MN wrote: > > > > > > I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB > > > compatible attached to PS/2. > > > I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse > > support. It is not > > > supported. > > > Where do I go from here? > > > > > > -- > > > Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ > > > 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 > > > "Hierro candente, batir de repente" > >
Re: [newbie] Lost DMA with 7.1 update
Thanks for the tip, it look like when I get it working I can tune it a little better, but unfortunately I get the same errors using hdparm. Using hdparm I have tried all UDMA modes and still get the CRC error. With any mdma mode I get "timed out waiting for DMA". PIO is all that works. Any other ideas? Thanks - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lost DMA with 7.1 update > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > I just installed the update to 7.1 (from the 7.1 2.2.15 to the 7.1 2.2.16 > > kernel, not an upgrade from 7.0) and now my hard drive DMA has quit working. > > The messages are below. Any clues? > > > > - Ralph > > I've quit using HDD optimizations in the kernel because of > problems like yours, and my HDD's need different settings (WD & > IBM). I also enable 32 bit and DMA for my CDrom and CD-RW. > > Read 'info hdparm', it's pretty straightforward. Then you'll > need to add hdparm lines for each drive to the end of 'rc.local' > Here's mine as an example > > hdparm -m64 -c1 -u1 -d1 -k1 -a128 /dev/hda > hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -d1 -k1 -a128 /dev/hdb > hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hdc > hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hdd > -- > ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
Beware the "Buttons 3". I know the imwheel doc says to use it but it made the wheel not work for me. I removed it and all works fine. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "John Couturier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 5:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse > Make sure you have the protocol in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file set to IMPS/2 and ZAxisMapping = 4 5. If your using XFree86 4.0 then it is in the InputDevice section like this. > > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Buttons" "3" > > 3.3.6 has the same things but I think it is in the "Pointers" section and just: > > Protocol=IMPS/2 > ZAxisMapping=4 5 > Buttons=3 > > But don't quote me on that. Edit the file and "When in Rome do as the Romans" whatever you input should mimick the current entries. > The Quotes are required here. It sounds like you have a USB mouse but have it connected to a PS/2 port so it should work with the standard driver. By default Mandrake 7.1 install sets the mouse type to just PS/2 and that breaks the wheel stuff. I also had to edit /etc/X11/Xsession and comment out the part where they run imwheel -k and put my own line in just above it that says imwheel -k. Also because of problems witht he pid file I had to recompile the imwheel and make it suid root, or you could just set the suid bit on the imwheel binary. That is a security risk, but I wanted my wheel. I'm not sure how to run it without the SUID bit set. > > It does come with support but it doesn't do a good job of setting it up for you. > > Hope this helps. > > John > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Gil Baron W0MN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:35:44 -0500 > > >I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB > >compatible attached to PS/2. > >I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not > >supported. > >Where do I go from here? > > > > > >-- > >Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ > >44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 > >"Hierro candente, batir de repente" > > > >
[newbie] Lost DMA with 7.1 update
I just installed the update to 7.1 (from the 7.1 2.2.15 to the 7.1 2.2.16
kernel, not an upgrade from 7.0) and now my hard drive DMA has quit working.
The messages are below. Any clues?
- Ralph
Jul 17 19:09:59 spinaltap kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Jul 17 19:09:59 spinaltap kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Jul 17 19:09:59 spinaltap kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Jul 17 19:09:59 spinaltap kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Jul 17 19:09:59 spinaltap kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Jul 17 19:09:59 spinaltap kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Jul 17 19:09:59 spinaltap kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Jul 17 19:09:59 spinaltap kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Jul 17 19:09:59 spinaltap kernel: hda: DMA disabled
Jul 17 19:09:59 spinaltap kernel: ide0: reset: success
Re: [newbie] Linksys Network card help needed...
I have two of these cards in one box both working fine using the tulip driver - originally under LM 7.0 and now LM 7.1. This sounds like a card configuration problem. Check your BIOS settings and make sure PNPOS is set to No. This will make the BIOS configure the cards IRQ and I/O address. Many machines running Windows have PNPOS set to Yes which requires the OS to configure the cards I/O and IRQ which Windows happily does and Linux doesn't seem to do. Your lilo change only tells Linux where to look for the card. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Joe Brault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 5:47 PM Subject: [newbie] Linksys Network card help needed... > Thanks everyone who helped with my pcmcia card, but now i'm onto an even > more difficult one for my desktop. I have a Linksys LNE100tx card, and am > unable to get it to work no matter what i do. I tried to downnload the > latest driver and get that compiled,but it wil not compile... I tried the > tulip driver the comes with mandrake 7.0 and that gave me an error saying > delaying eth0 initialization, followed by 'FAILED'. I also tried manually > setting the IO and irq for it taken from my winbloz portion of my computer, > but that didn't work either, just gives the same message as above. I even > went as far as to add a line to my lilo.conf file to see if I could assign > it an irq and IO that would work on boot, but nothing works... I am really > lost and would appreciate any help that anyone can give. Thanks in advance! > > - Joe :) > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
Dave - The problem is that imwheel writes a file /tmp/imwheel.pid where it keeps track of the pid of imwheel so the "imwheel -k" command can be used to kill a currently running imwheel and start a new one. imwheel has a nasty habit of leaving its pid file around and it sets the user and group to the user creating it and permissions to rw for only the user creating it. So it sounds like you have an imwheel.pid file in /tmp that only root and read and write. You have a couple of options. Note this is all theory as I only run with one user id and "su root" when I need to so I haven't had your problem. That said, you can "chmod a+rw /tmp/imwheel.pid" and hope imwheel doesn't manage to delete it or your system cleanup doesn't delete it. Or you can try using "imwheel -p" to forego writing the pid file. Then you takes your chances that you don't end up running two copies of imwheel and making things act goofy. This might happen if you put it in your autostart folder. A recent post about putting the imwheel command in the Xsession script might be a better idea for this option. Lastly, you could write a script that starts imwheel and does the "chmod a+rw /tmp/imwheel.pid" in case it is freshly created and put that in your autostart folder. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Quaylar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver > At 11:41 10.07.00, you wrote: > > > hi harry/ralph > > i was trying too what ralph described, but for some reason i cant start > imwheel as user.only as root. > typing imwheel -k as user results in following : > > couldnt write pid to pid file : no permission > > i already changed permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel* with chown and > chgrp , also $HOME/.imwheelrc > but problem remains.. > srolling with mousewheel as root user works pretty good-would > appreciate doing it as normal user too. > > hope u can help > > --dave
Re: [newbie] Server assign DNS address
pppd does allow this. I don't use kppp so I'm not sure how to specify it using kppp. But if there is a place to specify additional options for pppd try adding "usepeerdns". This will make pppd add the DNS entries received from your ISP to your /etc/resolv.conf if no nameserver entries exist, otherwise it will overwrite the first two nameserver entries in resolv.conf. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "John Couturier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 4:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Server assign DNS address > I hate to tell you this but I could almost swear that pppd does not allow this. I think that it is not called Dynamic DNS though. I think I read in the ppp Howto that "pppd does not allow this and won't likely in the future", you might want to check the Howto. I even think the howto says the only way to do it is to argue with your ISP and get them to give you the DNS server address's. > > John > -- Original Message -- > From: john lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 10 Jul 00 13:51:15 NZST > > >Can anyone tell me how to set up kppp to connect to a ISP that uses "dynamic > >DNS" (not sure if this is the right name), in Windows this is the "let server > >assign DNS address" option in dial up networking. Some of the new ISPs in my > >country (New Zealand) starts to use this type of setup and do not offer the 4 > >number DNS address anymore. > > > >Thanks in advance > > > >John Lin > > > > > >Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. > > > >
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
Glad I could help - its what the newbie list is all about. This one drove me crazy for a while too. I haven't had any X crashes with imwheel yet but I'm on LM 7.1 now which comes with a newer version of imwheel. I believe the ability to move the cursor around the console is a function of gpm, not X or imwheel so its probably unrelated to the crash. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Harry Flaxman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 2:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver > Ralph, > > Thanks for the info, this worked wonderfully. I did have one x-windows > crash since doing this, so I don't know if it's due to the mouse or > not. When it crashed to the console, I noticed that the mouse was able > to move the cursor around the screen of the console. Will keep an eye > on this. > > I had tried all.including just putting imwheel in the autostart > folder. Deleting those lines and adding the one you said to was > perfect. > > Harry >
Re: [newbie] New Partition Question
If this is LM 7.1, there is a diskdrake bug that changes the first extended partition type from Windows Extended to Linux Extended making it unreadable from Windows. See http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3 for more info and a script that might fix it. I tried the script, but it failed for a reason I couldn't figure out. So I picked out the fdisk commands from the script and just typed them in by hand to change the partition type back to Windows Extended. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Jim Dwyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake Mail List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 10:02 PM Subject: [newbie] New Partition Question > I have 2 HDD. Winblows is installed on the first HDD and the second HDD has > 2 partitions. Before i installed Mandrake, i had MP3's on the extended > partition on the second HDD. Then i installed Mandrake on the Primary DOS > partition. Now i can't access the Extended partition from windows. Is > there anyway to fix this. Thanks. > > --- > Jim Dwyer > ICQ# 54625148
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
That should be: "imwheel -k" in your Autostart folder There are a few other things I've had to do to get imwheel to work. First, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config: Find the lines follwing Section "Pointer" Change the line that says Protocol "PS/2" to Protocol "imps/2" Comment out the two lines using a # at the start of the line Emulate3Buttons Emulate3TimeOut 50 Add a line: ZAxisMapping 4 5 If you have a serial mouse, set the protocol line to "IntelliMouse" or "Auto". Don't add the line Buttons 3 to the XF86Config file like the doc says. It caused my PS/2 Intellimouse wheels buttons to act like left and middle click. Copy /etc/X11/imwheelrc to $HOME/.imwheelrc HTH - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Andrew Scotchmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver > On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > I know that Mandrake 7.0 comes with a wheel mouse driver. How do I > > enable this under KDE? > > > > Supposedly, that was one of the last updates was for it. Is it possible > > to use the wheel mouse under KDE? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Harry > > > Hi, > > I use a microsoft intelli-mouse and have the wheel running perfectly. > Open autostart and place into it a new application. > Under execute type: imwheel %f > -- > Andrew
Re: [newbie] Communigate
Actually from the message headers it looks like someone subscribed to the list with address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reflecting all of the messages he receives back to the list again - probably unintentionally. I seems like LM may have figured it out and either blocked his posts or helped him clean up his configuration of Communigate. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: [newbie] Communigate > > I assume that folks at Linux-Mandrake.com are playing around with a new > mailserver program and that these messages are processed through it. As an > evaluation test. > > Paul >
Re: [newbie] Where is SuperUser in LM 7.1?
The menus are rearranged in LM 7.1. File Manager SU is under Applications/File Tools now. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 10:49 PM Subject: [newbie] Where is SuperUser in LM 7.1? > Dear friends: > > Recently I tried LM 7.1 (by downloading it by FTP). I liked some things > and did not like others. > > ONE QUESTION: Have I missed something, or is it not true that LM 7.1 > does NOT have a GRAPHICAL SuperUser option on its menu as LM 7.0 does > (under K, System, FileManager SuperUser Mode). In LM 7.0 you click on > the FileManager SuperUser Mode and, after typing in your root password, > you are immediately allowed access to the graphical File Manager as > ROOT. > > I used LM 7.1 for at least a week and never found such an option. It is > one of the main reasons I switched back to LM 7.0. > > Is it conceivable that Linux-Mandrake would abandon such a critical > tool? > > My instinct tells me that I must be wrong, that I must be missing > something. > > Could someone please clarify this situation for me and everyone else. If > LM has dropped this option, then we need to urge them to restore it. > Without it, the FileManager is essentially crippled. > > But first the facts. Am I right or am I wrong. > > Thank you so much. > > Benjamin > -- > Benjamin and Anna Sher > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sher's Russian Web > http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Ethernet problems.
OK, then we are going to need more information. What exactly does "can't configure" mean? What have you tried so far? If you have a working Win98 install, how is the card configured there? Any messages about the adapter in the log? This card works fine for me and is supported using the RTL8139 driver. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "A J Benamu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 11:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Ethernet problems. > I did what you said and still no ethernet card working.. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > AJ > > -Original Message- > From: Ralph Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 11:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Ethernet problems. > > > On my HP with the same NIC card LM recognized the card but I couldn't get it > to work. I had to go into the BIOS setup and change the OS from Windows to > Other (the same as PNP OS no in other BIOS) to solve the problem. The > problem was that the IRQ for the card wasn't getting automacally assigned by > the BIOS and LM wasn't configuring the card either. Changing the setting > makes the BIOS assign an IRQ. > > - Ralph > > - Original Message - > From: "A J Benamu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 7:01 PM > Subject: [newbie] Ethernet problems. > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I hope I can get my message across... > > I installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 in my Athlon 700 machine.. Also using Win > 98. > > > > I can't seem to configure my ethernet card. I use cable modem to access > the > > internet. > > > > The ethernet card is HP EN1207D-TX PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter. > > > > Can anybody help me? > > > > Why can't I configure my HP M90 with Mandrake? > > > > Thanks, > > > > AJ
Re: [newbie] Graphics Card Question
Here's what I had to do for my I810 on LM 7.1 to get 1024x768 at 16 bits: Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config: Find the "Device" section that has an ID of Intel 810 Add the following lines to it: VideoRam 2048 Chipset "i810" Vendor "Intel" Find the section "Screen" for "Driver" "svga" Find the subsection within it that says depth 16 Add 1024x768 to the listed resolutions. Save it, logoff and restart the X server. Go into Drakconf and select Change X resolution. Select 1024x768 at 16 bits. If you are running LM 7.0, I'm not sure this will work because I don't think the i810 driver is available by default. Take a look at support.intel.com for the driver and instructions on how to load it. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Jason Angus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 7:23 AM Subject: [newbie] Graphics Card Question > Just installed Mandrake 7 this weekend - the install > went rather smooth (had to do it twice) - but those > were errors on my part. > > I have an Intel 810 video card with AGP - and cannot > seem to get the resolution or graphics just right with > it. I have looked on some news groups and found > others with the same problem. I can not seem to get a > better resolution that 640 x 800! It works but that > is just a little too big for me. Any suggestions? > > If it matter - here is the run down on the rest of my > system: > > Dell Deminsion L500C > Celeron 500 mhz > 64 mb ram > 6 gig HD - linux has a 1.5 gig/ windows 98 has the > rest. > The video card is built into the mother board... > > Any help you could send this newbies way would much be > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jason > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. > http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Booting from CD at install?
The original LM 7.0 CD had a problem if you booted from it and tried to repartition your hard drive. It could damage partitions and make them unreadable. Not quite erasing your drive, but close enough. From the LM site: February 4 2000 - Diskdrake problem (installation disks & DrakXtools package) A severe problem occurs with Diskdrake when resizing certain FAT partitions. Please upgrade to drakxtools-1.0-44mdk.i586.rpm if you want to resize FAT partition. For a new install, a new ISO image mandrake70-2.iso is available for download. Other mirrors here. For those who use the former ISO image we build new install floppy disk that fixes the problem (cdrom.img, network.img, hd.img, pmcia.img) These images are incompatible with the new ISO image. Additionnaly this new installation floppy/Iso fix several bugs: Mylex DAC 960 hardware RAID handling auto-configuration bug for Matrox G100 (and some other very seldom used) a few mis-autoconfiguration fix (tulip NIC) one more kind of GeForce video card autodetected My boxed LM 7.0 came with the new boot floppy and a note to not boot from the CD because of this problem. If you are not sure you have the right boot floppy, I'd download the new one from one of the mirrors like: ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/7.00/images/cdrom.img You'll have to read the doc on creating the boot floppy form the .img file. - Ralph On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Gist wrote: > Getting ready to do my first ever Linux install. I have the 7.0 boxed > set. My CD drive is bootable. The computer has Windows on a 6.4 gig > hard drive that is all one partition. I want to keep Windows and set up > dual boot with Linux. In a book on Linux/Mandrake I purchased at the > book store is a statement that sounds as if booting from the CD will > erase the drive. If this is true I will use a floppy instead. > > Thanks > John
Re: [newbie] Wine & VmWare
That's correct. With either VMWare or Win4Lin you have to install Win98 to run MSMoney. To get completely away from Windows you have to wait for Wine to mature to the point it works or scrap MSMoney and go with a Linux-based software package. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "A&L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wine & VmWare > Hi, > > >From your statement below, am I correct in assuming that I have to > install Win98 (to run MSMoney) on top of VMWare? > > Thanks > > > > Ralph Day wrote: > > > I just > > downloaded VMWare 2.01 last night and it installs just fine on LM 7.1. I > > haven't finished installing Win98 yet on it. > > > > HTH - Ralph
Re: [newbie] Wine & VmWare
VMWare resumed the Win98 install just fine and it completed with no problems though its a little slow but very usable. I've got a Celeron 500 with 192 MB. I also installed LM 7.1 into another VM and it works great too. It'll give me a chance to fool around with patching the kernel to try and get Win4Lin running on LM 7.1 without hosing my base install of LM 7.1. Supposedly Win4Lin will run Windows on Linux a lot faster than VMWare. All in all VMWare is a very cool program. Even if I get Win4Lin working I'll keep VMWare around for testing new distro's, kernel patching, etc. - Ralph - Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 7:05 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wine & VmWare > I have heard Wine is a pain but haven't used it. The Wine application DB > shows reports that the latest MSMoney is not functional on Wine. I just > downloaded VMWare 2.01 last night and it installs just fine on LM 7.1. I > haven't finished installing Win98 yet on it. I suspended the install part > way through. As soon as boot back over to Linux I'll resume it and see if > it finishes. Cool stuff! There is personal financial software for Linux. > Christopher Browne has a great page > http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/financelinux.html listing lots of financial > software though I haven't played with any yet. The two that look most > promising to me are GNUCash and Money Dance (under the Other Personal > Finance Software link). > > HTH - Ralph > > > - Original Message - > From: "Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:35 PM > Subject: [newbie] Wine & VmWare > > > > Greetings! > > > > I am having extreme difficulty in making Wine or VMWare work on a > > Mandrake 7.1. > > > > I have tried numerous options and read the man pages for both of these > > but no joy. > > > > I only wish to run MSMoney :-) > > > > Which of the two (if I get it working) is easier to use? And are there > > any Linux programs like MSMoney? > > > > Any help or link is greatly appreciated. > > > > Thank you.
Re: [newbie] Wine & VmWare
I have heard Wine is a pain but haven't used it. The Wine application DB shows reports that the latest MSMoney is not functional on Wine. I just downloaded VMWare 2.01 last night and it installs just fine on LM 7.1. I haven't finished installing Win98 yet on it. I suspended the install part way through. As soon as boot back over to Linux I'll resume it and see if it finishes. Cool stuff! There is personal financial software for Linux. Christopher Browne has a great page http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/financelinux.html listing lots of financial software though I haven't played with any yet. The two that look most promising to me are GNUCash and Money Dance (under the Other Personal Finance Software link). HTH - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:35 PM Subject: [newbie] Wine & VmWare > Greetings! > > I am having extreme difficulty in making Wine or VMWare work on a > Mandrake 7.1. > > I have tried numerous options and read the man pages for both of these > but no joy. > > I only wish to run MSMoney :-) > > Which of the two (if I get it working) is easier to use? And are there > any Linux programs like MSMoney? > > Any help or link is greatly appreciated. > > Thank you.
Re: [newbie] $6.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL version)
A quick look shows cheapbytes charges 6.99 for MDK 7.1 2 CD set, the $1.99 price is for MDK 7.0 single CD. Matt includes shipping in his price, cheapbytes charges $5.00. If I hadn't already downloaded and burned my own CD-R's I'd probably get a set from Matt as other online vendors look like they charge even more than cheapbytes. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] $6.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL version) > You can get the same thing at http://www.cheapbytes.com for $1.99 US. > > -- > Mark > > I love my Linux Box! > > On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, M Thompson wrote: > > :Hi everyone, > : > :As a convenience to this list, I will burn MDK 7.1 onto two CD's at a cost > :of $6.50 for my time, my CD-R media, and shipping costs. > : > :If interested, just send me an E-mail requesting my mailing address. > :
[newbie] rc.firewall
rp_filter turns on Source Address Verification to provide some protection against IP spoofing attacks. rp_filter checks each packet to verify that replies to that packet would route back out the same interface it was received on. Take a look at section 15.3 of the latest Firewall and Proxy Server How-To for a little bit of code that turns on rp_filter for each interface to pick up interfaces that were added after rp_filter was initially set. I'm not sure why its done this way instead of default way Mandrake does it. - Ralph You wrote: > What does the default entry in /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter" do? Or more directly - what is rp_filter?
