Re: [newbie] KSplashML
On Thu, 16 May 2002 04:55, Brian Koppe wrote: I'm trying to get KSplashML running, but I couldn't install the packages off of my D's - a dependency on kdebase2.2.2 - I'm running KDE3. I searched in the KDE RPMs and could not find one for KSplashML - am I correct in assuming it's just not available as of yet, or does someone know of a way it works? Thanks Brian The cooker package kde3-ksplashml-0.93.1-2mdk.i586.rpm is available from ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS2/ but I don't know if will work with the version of KDE3 you are using. It works here but I'm using Mandrake cooker (8.3). In any case, it is in the subdirectory RPMS2 on mirror sites. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE3 - Can't start ksmserver
I installed KDE3.0beta1 (Texstar's rpms) but can't log in to KDE2.2 or KDE3. I know others have had problems also but thought that _just maybe_ someone came across the error message Cannot start ksmserver. Check your installation. and was able to solve it. I've been going around in circles trying to fix it (*groan*... more grey hairs). Any help much appreciated. skinky -- Oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????
On 06 May 2002 08:48, skinky wrote: I just installed redhat and had lilo/boot problems also. You only need the one swap partition. I have a separate /boot partition which I share between the distros - be sure NOT to format the /boot partition if you have the same setup. During the redhat install I chose not to install a boot loader - thought I would rather keep Mandrake's lilo going. When the rh installation finished I rebooted with the boot floppy (made during installation) and all seemed OK. I rebooted from the hard drive to Mandrake (with Mandrake's lilo) and edited lilo.conf to include the rh partition. However upon running lilo (# /sbin/lilo) I got an error about an older version. So I rebooted with the rh boot floppy, uninstalled lilo (rh had automatically installed lilo but /etc/lilo.conf did not exist), then reinstalled lilo. I edited the lilo.conf to include Mandrake and ran # /sbin/lilo. All is well but I don't like rh's boot loader (its ugly). From what Civileme said I think you need to install rh first then install Mandrake to use Mandrake's lilo. I might reinstall Mandrake later in the week - I'm getting faster at setting up apache, samba and twiki and upgrading all packages ; ). Ooops! Just found out that all I had to do in Mandrake was uninstall lilo (with --nodeps) and reinstall it! Piece of peewees... skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)
On 06 May 2002 22:57, Michael Adams wrote: While I'm here, can anyone tell me if Mandrake 7.2 runs on the older pcs and if it is much different to 8.0/8.1? skinky I have 7.1 running on a p1 circa 95-96 second PC and it is graphically very different. Mandrake won't run on a 486 or 386 as it is compiled for pentiums. I beleive there is a 486 distro downloadable (from memory). Thanks for the info, much appreciated. Will see what I can find in the 'net. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????
On 06 May 2002 08:48, adrian wrote: Hello, I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After the installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo thingie and red hat was not in any of the options, so i went into mandrake control center and added the hde which was the red hat partiion and then rebooted, The option was there but when i chose it i got all kinds of failure and it wouldnt boot up, so i wonder if i can run 2 distribution on the same harddrive and computer ? and also do i need 1 swap for each distrubtion or can they share swap? If its possible to run 2 i would be gratefull if you could tell me how to set it up. Best regards Adrian I just installed redhat and had lilo/boot problems also. You only need the one swap partition. I have a separate /boot partition which I share between the distros - be sure NOT to format the /boot partition is you have the same setup. During the redhat install I chose not to install a boot loader - thought I would rather keep Mandrake's lilo going. When the rh installation finished I rebooted with the boot floppy (made during installation) and all seemed OK. I rebooted from the hard drive to Mandrake (with Mandrake's lilo) and edited lilo.conf to include the rh partition. However upon running lilo (# /sbin/lilo) I got an error about an older version. So I rebooted with the rh boot floppy, uninstalled lilo (rh had automatically installed lilo but /etc/lilo.conf did not exist), then reinstalled lilo. I edited the lilo.conf to include Mandrake and ran # /sbin/lilo. All is well but I don't like rh's boot loader (its ugly). From what Civileme said I think you need to install rh first then install Mandrake to use Mandrake's lilo. I might reinstall Mandrake later in the week - I'm getting faster at setting up apache, samba and twiki and upgrading all packages ; ). BTW rh is a lot slower than Mandrake on my machine! I'm still downloading all the updates (sloww dial-up internet connection). IMHO rh's installation is much cleaner/clearer than Mandrake's but I prefer Mandrake any day! I needed to try rh because I only have Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 and most of my friends who are keen to try linux have older i386/i486s. While I'm here, can anyone tell me if Mandrake 7.2 runs on the older pcs and if it is much different to 8.0/8.1? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't su to root
Today I made a reeeal bad mistake... I accidentally changed permissions on the /bin directory instead of a bin subdirectory and now I am unable to su to root. I get incorrect password. Well at least I think thats what the problem is. AND I've only just completed a clean reinstall of LM8.1 which has taken days to get everything configured (eg. apache, twiki, samba, etc)! I really don't want to reinstall... Spent hours searching the net for clues, thinking it was something to do with basic authentication in apache with .htaccess files then remembered my error. I think it was a chmod a+x /bin/*. So can someone pleeease tell me the permissions on /bin/su ? Hopefully that will solve my problem. Many TIA skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't su to root
On 27 Apr 2002 00:44, Nathan Pryor wrote: # ls -l su -rwsr-xr-x1 root root17912 Mar 7 09:54 su* HTH, -nathan Many thanks to all those who replied. That did the trick. Jeez I didn't know about the s flag (Set user or group ID) in permissions. It was a simple matter of a quick look at Linux in a Nutshell and # chmod 4755 /bin/su and all is well again : ) . After searching thru so many different mailing list archives and various articles on the net the good ol' faithful Mandrake Newbie list comes up trumps again! Thanks. Cheers skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: RE: [newbie] What programs are you looking for?
Was sent to me but I'm not the programmer ; ) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: RE: [newbie] What programs are you looking for? Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:46:35 +0100 From: Baka Attila Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some programs I need A GOOD CD burning program :-) I want something like Nero 5!!! With real time CD copy without making an image, and I also want to be able to set the speed for each burn. The GUI should be over simplified (like in burncenter) with process bars etc... And I want to overburn CD's and I don't want the program to stop burning a 730MB avi if I use a 700MB disc, because it can be burnt...! I found only burncenter and cdbakeoven usable in linux BAT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of skinky Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:42 AM To: Randy Kramer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nelson Bartley Subject: Re: [newbie] What programs are you looking for? On 27 Mar 2002 14:19, Randy Kramer wrote: skinky wrote: Sorry for the LATE reply... WAY behind with my email... For quite some time I've been looking for a diary/journal that contains daily entries with a search facility on say a subject heading or just be able to search all text. Kinda like the journal part of KOrganizer but searchable. Have you considered a wiki, specifically TWiki? See, for example, http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/LinuxResources and click on search and edit (successively -- i.e., go back to the page after you do a search and try an edit). Then try http://twiki.org. You could install a wiki (TWiki) locally for your own use. Randy Kramer I dont even know what a wiki or TWiki is! I know you've mentioned this several times on list for other reasons but never got around to looking it up - although I've been to your site a few times. BTW, your instructions at your site on rsyncing a large file certainly prevented me from tearing ALL of my hair out a day or two ago. Don't think I would have figured that one without help! Thanks Randy and others who contributed! Anyways, sounds like a wiki could solve my journal/diary problems. Looks like I'll be reading a lot tonight ; ). Thanks again. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.332 / Virus Database: 186 - Release Date: 2002. 03. 06. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.332 / Virus Database: 186 - Release Date: 2002. 03. 06. --- -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What programs are you looking for?
On 17 Mar 2002 12:52, Nelson Bartley wrote: Heyo, I've begun to develop an insterest in Linux programming and I was wondering what applications, you as the linux beginner, are looking for? Setup files, scripts, GUI programs, anything, as I'm interested in trying my hand at it. Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry for the LATE reply... WAY behind with my email... For quite some time I've been looking for a diary/journal that contains daily entries with a search facility on say a subject heading or just be able to search all text. Kinda like the journal part of KOrganizer but searchable. I've downloaded about 15 apps but none have the search feature while still browseable/entered daily. So for now I use KOrganizer journal and have to flick thru each day to find what I'm looking for - the problem being I've been using it since October last year, thats a lot of entries to hunt thru : ( I use it solely for keeping a record of how I fix/configure linux since I have a habit of later forgetting how I had fixed something. I figured that I'm going to have to learn to program (only used crappy VB a while back) to write the app myself so I've started learning python (to start with). How 'bout it? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What programs are you looking for?
On 27 Mar 2002 14:19, Randy Kramer wrote: skinky wrote: Sorry for the LATE reply... WAY behind with my email... For quite some time I've been looking for a diary/journal that contains daily entries with a search facility on say a subject heading or just be able to search all text. Kinda like the journal part of KOrganizer but searchable. Have you considered a wiki, specifically TWiki? See, for example, http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/LinuxResources and click on search and edit (successively -- i.e., go back to the page after you do a search and try an edit). Then try http://twiki.org. You could install a wiki (TWiki) locally for your own use. Randy Kramer I dont even know what a wiki or TWiki is! I know you've mentioned this several times on list for other reasons but never got around to looking it up - although I've been to your site a few times. BTW, your instructions at your site on rsyncing a large file certainly prevented me from tearing ALL of my hair out a day or two ago. Don't think I would have figured that one without help! Thanks Randy and others who contributed! Anyways, sounds like a wiki could solve my journal/diary problems. Looks like I'll be reading a lot tonight ; ). Thanks again. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alias problem
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:16, alex wrote: Did you restart your computer after you saved the alias or at least reboot?. I use a lot of aliases and after saving them, I just reboot back into Linux. Incidently, I have never put the aliases into $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.bashrc_profileThe only place I put them is into etc/bashrc, do a save and then reboot. You don't have to reboot. Just type $ source path to file eg. $ source ~/.bashrc skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall setup
On Friday 08 March 2002 01:38, Dr Joe Brand wrote: iptables and Bastille are installed, but drakconf still can't find them. I've removed them and reinstalled them to no avail. I think there is a problem with drakconf and the wizards it uses. When I start drakconf the following message apears in the shell window Subroutine _ redefined at /usr/X11R6/bin/drakconf.real line 271. Subroutine translate redefined at /usr/X11R6/bin/drakconf.real line 276. wizard-3.2.1-5mdk Then I click on the security-firewall and this error message appears. no package named iptables no package named Bastille What needs to be done to fix this? You could try updating your rpm database. In a terminal as root type # rpm --rebuilddb skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wine install on mandrake 8.1
Hi Rob Sorry, I'm no help here. I have the same problem - can't print from myob (an accounting app). Just haven't had the time to look into it yet. Hopefully someone else can help out here. When I get around to sorting that problem out I'll post the results to the list, but don't hold your breath. Good luck. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works On Monday 25 February 2002 09:12, Robert Gray wrote: Dear All I use Windows to run a couple of legacy apps, Wine now runs most of these (thank you Skinky) and as soon as I can print from Quattro Pro 7 in Wine (help please I cannot make head or tail of the documentation)only my bookkeeper will use the Windows partion. We progress. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where's my LILO? (edited)
On Saturday 23 February 2002 16:57, Tonton wrote: My question is, after I format drive C, my LILO didn't show up anymore, what should I do? How do I return my LILO? How do I get-in back to Linux? Is there any solution to my problem? This one comes up often... so I've copied this from a previous post: You can boot with the first Mandrake cd then at the prompt type: F1 rescue chroot /mnt Now you can check/edit the entries in /etc/lilo.conf then type lilo and reboot. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where's my LILO? (edited)
On Saturday 23 February 2002 16:57, Tonton wrote: My question is, after I format drive C, my LILO didn't show up anymore, what should I do? How do I return my LILO? How do I get-in back to Linux? Is there any solution to my problem? This one comes up often... so I've copied this from a previous post: You can boot with the first Mandrake cd then at the prompt type: F1 rescue chroot /mnt Now you can check/edit the entries in /etc/lilo.conf then type lilo and reboot. HTH Jeez, I just realised my error in the above. Your system will be simulated in the /mnt directory so lilo.conf will be in /mnt/etc/. IOW check/edit the entries in /mnt/etc/lilo.conf. I apologise for the oversight. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Email
On Thursday 21 February 2002 07:17, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Kraus Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Email I have sent like 5 messages to the server over the last two days and have yet to see any of them show up. If anyone gets this message please send me a response. I got it and the previous one about samba. Are you getting the other mail from the list, like about 100 per day. If not you may need to resubscribe. HTH Dennis M. The server may be having problems. Over the last 3-4 days I have received answers to questions that I never received (the questions still haven't arrived). However my messages seem to show up. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing the new Mozilla
On Thursday 21 February 2002 07:20, Hanan Shargi wrote: Hi, a quick Question, I d/l Mozilla 0.9.8 rpm's for Mandrake and I was reading the installation instruction, it said somewhere that it is better to uninstall the old mozilla before installing the new release. my Q is : can't I just use the rpm upgrade option instead of uninstalling ? will that save my bookmarks though ?! if uninstalling is required...how can I do that :) ? You can export your bookmarks to an html file. Open mozilla and click Bookmarks Manage Bookmarks. In the window click File Export Bookmarks and save to your home dir. Importing/Exporting bookmarks is also handy for sharing your bookmarks between different browsers. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] installing the new mozilla
On Thursday 21 February 2002 09:13, Hanan Shargi wrote: skinky thanks for the hint .. i exported my bookmarks :) now i tried installing the new mozilla ( as root )using the following command: rpm -Uvh mozilla-0.9.8-5mdk.rpm --nodeps and it gives me the following error: file /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so form install of mozilla-0.9.8-5mdk conflicts ith file from package libnss3-3.2.1-6mdk as a newbie with no clue ... i guessed that the error must have came from the 5mdk and the 6mdk part ... and I thought the --nodepss should take care of that ():-) what other option can I use for this kind of error ?? Regards - Hanan AL-Shargi IIRC, I had to force an upgrade of mozilla. ie. rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force mozilla-0.9.xmdk.ix56.rpm I just checked and I have both /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so and /usr/lib/mozilla/libnssckbi.so installed. The first one is from the libnss3 package which couldn't be uninstalled (IIRC) because netscape (or was it evolution) needed it. The force has not caused any problems for me. Mozilla, netscape (and evolution) work fine. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sending mail via Perl with Postfix
On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:39, Kevin Old wrote: Hello all, I have a Mandrake 8.1 box running Postfix. I have a few CGI's that need to send email. I have always used Sendmail and have been come stumped with this line in my script after swtiching to postfix: # * NAME (AND LOCATION) OF THE SERVER MAIL PROGRAM * # Enter the name of your server's mail program. Most servers are # configured with a program called 'sendmail'. You may, depending on the # server settings, have to enter the complete path in addition to the name. $mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; What should I put here? All help is appreciated, Kevin Not that I know much about postfix but... [skinky]skinky$ whereis postfix postfix: /usr/sbin/postfix /etc/postfix /usr/lib/postfix /usr/share/man/man1/postfix.1.bz2 So I guess you should put '/usr/sbin/postfix' HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VCD/Mpeg Application
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 18:06, Allen Hernandez wrote: I've tried the xine-ui RPM more than 6 times and it stops at 24K sometimes 32 both on Linux and Wndoz using nt, konq, gtm, getright, dap. The sources won't compile on my machine coz I haven't made SDL install (using several different rpms and orig sources). Will try mplayer. Thanks for the replies guys. The Mandrake xine rpm works fine. Look for it at www.rpmfind.net I have ths one: xine-0.4.3-1mdk.i586.rpm but there is likely a newer version out now. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running slow [OT]
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 16:54, Carroll Grigsby wrote: To give fair credit, however, I understand that MS has replaced the legendary BSOD (R). It's black now. Yet another market-driven innovation. Oh good so the acronym BSOD still stands? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wine install on mandrake 8.1
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:27, Rick Henderson wrote: I just mandrake loaded. Hoping this os will let me do away with window$. I know nothing about wine. And I can't seem to get a windows program running. Any suggestions on what to look for and/or to do. Thanks Rick Henderson The wine package that comes with ML8.1 is broken. Download the latest from http://wine.dataparty.no and you'll find it'll work instantly. An example on how to use wine: I have an windoze accounting program called myob.exe so I $ cd /mnt/windows/myob/ $ wine myobe.exe Just go into the directory where the win app is located, then issue the command wine win app executable. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Backups
On Monday 18 February 2002 22:12, Paul Kraus wrote: Is it possible to backup your entire system by tar /bziping / ? then incase of a system rebuild / reinstall you could boot to a boot disk and untar your machine? If so what is the best way of doing this? Do a search for mindi and mondo. Those two apps (together) are for backing up your entire system to CD. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] (OT) LAN/network hardware requirements
Hi list This is a bit OT, but... I have ordered a pc that has a mobo with an integrated Network Card - Realtek 8100. My question is what other hardware is required to connect my current linux box to the new pc? Do I need to purchase a network card for my current pc also? What sort of cabling? The new pc is for surveillance purposes only and will be approx. 20-25 metres away from my current pc. Unfortunately it will be running Win98SE until I find suitable software in linux for video capture that will work with a motion sensor and has masking capabilities - haven't even begun to look for this sofware yet. Before I got ML in June last year, I had already purchased the cameras, video capture card and Windoze software (software cost NZ$750!!). No monitor will be connected to the Win pc so I really need to sort this LAN thing out pront-haste. Any advice is greatly appreciated. TIA skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Booting problems
On Saturday 16 February 2002 05:38, Spyros Spyropoulos wrote: On Fri, 15 February 2002, Spyros Spyropoulos wrote: Hi, Booting via CD does not seem to help either. Any ideas how I could fix this? Did you hit F-1 when you booted from the CD? This puts you into a rescue set of menu options. Barry I did. I used the rescue option to boot linux, however it seems that in this mode you cannot do much - it does not mount any harddrives. Maybe I should try to manualy mount the harddrives (hm stupid me did'nt thought of it earlier). Thnx I will try once I get home. After F1 and rescue type chroot /mnt without the quotes. This simulates mounting your partiitions and you can access your files. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel-2.4.17 install
On Friday 15 February 2002 15:42, Gerald Waugh wrote: [root@gerald kernel-2.4.17]# rpm -Uvh findutils-4.1.7-3mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:findutils ### [100%] [root@gerald kernel-2.4.17]# rpm -Uvh mkinitrd-3.1.6-26mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:mkinitrd ### [100%] [root@gerald kernel-2.4.17]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.17.17mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ### [100%] 1:kernel-2.4.17.17mdk ### [100%] what is kernel-BOOT-2.4.17.17mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm for [snip] I read about that the other day, but can't for the life of me remember exactly what it was for... maybe that has something to do with the 1/2 doz rums I've had ; ) ... IIRC, it is not required if you use lilo. I think it has something to do with grub or another boot manager. I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.17-13mdkenterprise a little while ago and figured I didn't need the kernel-BOOT- package, and as it turns out, I don't seem to be missing anything. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel-2.4.17 install
On Friday 15 February 2002 16:31, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2002 09:42 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: [root@gerald kernel-2.4.17]# rpm -Uvh findutils-4.1.7-3mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:findutils ### [100%] [root@gerald kernel-2.4.17]# rpm -Uvh mkinitrd-3.1.6-26mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ### [100%] 1:mkinitrd ### [100%] [root@gerald kernel-2.4.17]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.17.17mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ### [100%] 1:kernel-2.4.17.17mdk ### [100%] what is kernel-BOOT-2.4.17.17mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm for As you can see above I installed the RPMs Now for the 64000 dollar question What do I do now? I read lilo.conf and see that 2.4.17 is in there I increased delay to 100 and rebooted select 2.4.17 and it is now running I guess I have to copy it to vmlinux cp vmlinuz-2.4.17-17mdk vmlinux What is the config for? I think the config is the config used for your kernel. If you wanted to change just one or two things in your kernel, you could install the kernel source and edit that config file with your changes and compile a new kernel using that edited config. Hope this makes sense. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition
On Saturday 16 February 2002 20:20, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2002 04:07, you wrote: I don't think ReiserFS is worth crying about since it doesn't get smaller than 32MB... A partition that small (such as /boot) isn't getting much activity anyhow. So using a non journel FS is fine. Or, like you seggested, ext3. Fsck on 32MB is hardly even noticable. What you say is very true. However, to go on to the *rest* of the story, the reasons you enunciate do not pass as reasons NOT to use a capable journaling FS on smaller partitions. I don't see the mandatory use of fsck or sync as being a valid reason for anything, no matter how fast it is; except maybe clinging to a dramatic but inferior version of past evolutionary history best left behind. On the other hand, if you do happen to have a personal fetish for other filesystem types other than journaling, Linux certainly scores with the ability to support those fetishes. Freedom rules; so more power to ya. I've found that it depends on the kernel you're using. A couple of months ago I installed a kernel that could not boot from a reiserfs boot partition (that was the message I repeatedly got when trying boot with that kernel). I was determined to try the kernel so reinstalled and changed the boot partition to ext2 which booted no probs after installing the new kernel. I don't remember which kernel it was, because at the time I was experimenting and installed 7 different kernels in about 4 days. Anyway, since I keep upgrading my kernel (I don't know why I do that ;) ) I decided to leave my /boot and / partiitons as ext2. Obviously not all kernels can handle reiserfs and after all it is a relatively new fs. Haven't tried any of the other journalling fs for /boot. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer Problem - BJC 4200 - prints garbage at bootup
On Friday 15 February 2002 18:14, Walter Logeman wrote: Hi, I had this printer working ok for a few days - now it stars printing garbage as soon as it is no. it does not matter what order I switch things on as soon as the printer is on in Linux it begins to print garbage. The problem is not there in XP on the other side of the dual boot! Rather a let down to have to save stuff to floppies and re-boot to print :( I have checked through all the processes with ps -ax and killed anything that looked likely. I have also used kups - which tells me there are no print jobs. I have removed and reinstalled the printer. Now I am stuck. Walter I have a HP Deskjet 670C which used to do that when booting into Win98 when that was the only OS installed (for 12 months or more). Then June last year I installed ML8.0 and it stopped doing it when booting into win but was doing it when booting linux. Then in October I re-installed Win98 and installed ML8.1 and it doesn't do it at all! Go figure. BTW, it first started in Win98 when the printer had to be plugged into the parallel zip drive (and has been ever since). Is your printer plugged into another device? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bash/Konsole resetting to top of screen
A few weeks back I upgraded bash to bash-2.05-15mdk and ever since then the prompt returns to the top of the screen after using a shell program like vim. When I exit a program such as vim the prompt is at the top with any previous output below it and I am forced to clear the screen (Ctrl+l) to prevent subsequent commands from writing output over the top of previous output. This is very annoying. Anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition
On Saturday 16 February 2002 23:51, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Saturday 16 February 2002 04:18, you wrote: the reasons you enunciate do not pass as reasons NOT to use a capable journaling FS on smaller partitions. I don't see the mandatory use of fsck or sync as being a valid reason for anything, no matter how fast it is; except maybe clinging to a dramatic but inferior version of past evolutionary history best left behind. On the other hand, if you do happen to have a personal fetish for other filesystem types other than journaling, Linux certainly scores with the ability to support those fetishes. Freedom rules; so more power to ya. I've found that it depends on the kernel you're using. A couple of months ago I installed a kernel that could not boot from a reiserfs boot partition (that was the message I repeatedly got when trying boot with that kernel). I was determined to try the kernel so reinstalled and changed the boot partition to ext2 which booted no probs after installing the new kernel. I don't remember which kernel it was, because at the time I was experimenting and installed 7 different kernels in about 4 days. Thanks for writing this in. I'm ever so more glad I skipped reiserfs; from what I've seen you are not the only one with difficulties. Robin Turner related the loss of her entire reserfs system to a power failure; the type of thing that journaling fs's are supposed to provide more contingencies against. Originally I was sold on reiserfs for performance reasons; since then I decided to go to the ext3 journaling FS for reasons of robustness. I haven't really had a reason to look back, except for curiosity. I have been tracking other people's experiences, which only seem to confirm what Red Hat has already said about ext3. Anyway, since I keep upgrading my kernel (I don't know why I do that ;) ) I decided to leave my /boot and / partiitons as ext2. Are you installing new kernels from rpm, or new source and then recompiling, or are you running patches on distro source? I can tell you that Red Hat chose ext3 because the code required for it was not a significant departure from existing ext2 code in the kernel now. The last few kernels were installed from rpm but I had compiled a few from source before. It was only that one kernel that did not support reiserfs on / or /boot. Yes, I've been meaning to get a rountuit - change my ext2 partns to ext3. Its crazy not to use a journalling fs. I currently have on my 1st hd: / and /boot on ext2; /usr, /usr/local, /var, /home and /bulk all on reiserfs, and a vfat win partn. On a 2nd hd /mnt/backup is ext3 and /mnt/winbackup is vfat. Obviously not all kernels can handle reiserfs and after all it is a relatively new fs. Haven't tried any of the other journalling fs for /boot. skinky Are you running raid0 and/or raid1? Ext3 is the only one I've checked out for root-raid operation so far. I can tell you it works great, either as a less-than-32meg boot partition or otherwise; I enjoy having a sane boot partition size with a journaling fs. It would be good to hear about other journaling fs's and experiences with them. No I'm not running any raid. Oh here comes my ignorance again... I don't really know anything about raid... why one would use it... does one need two identical drives for raid... etc... I'll leave that one for now, so busy learning other (read more basic) stuff. I haven't had any problems with reiserfs but I've only been using it for 5 months and I make regular backups to the 2nd hd every other day and weekly backups to cdrw to minimise data loss should anything go wrong. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unexplained crashes
On Saturday 16 February 2002 21:14, RichardA wrote: I've got a homebuilt Celeron 300 with 128 MB. It has run windows reliably for a couple of years (well, reliably for windows). Now I have MDK 8.1 on it, all will seem well until I play an avi, mpg or mp3. and then it will lock up - taking the keyboard with it. Running a couple or four programs at once seems to lock it up too. If I leave it running untouched for a few days (I proxy my laptop through it), it's fine when I turn the monitor back on. Once this has happened, I have to reset it, and it will often lock at loading the window manager or just after the splash screen goes - this could be a corrupted file in ~/.kde, and might not even be a part of my real problem (and it can happen in Gnome too). I know this is vague, and I don't expect a fix, but where should I start? I haven't found anything in the logs, but then it freezes in an instant, so it presumably has no time to write an error message. I hope someone can give me an idea where to start with this. Richard ===(later)=== It just happened again. I had gkrellm, menudrake a terminal and a konqueror folder open in KDE - surely that's not too much. Menudrake was saving, I went to move the folder view and my desktop turned into a still-life. I rebooted twice after that, and it locked as it showed the desktop, until I went in as root and back out again. If I turn off the monitor now, it will run for days, but I'd like to use it. Don't let me be the only person ever to go back to windows for the improved reliability! Richard It sounds like it has something to do with X. What version of XFree are you using - 3.3.6? 4.10? It might pay to backup /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 files then log out of X and run XFdrake to choose a different setting for screen resolution, monitor type or driver. You may need to try several different combinations before you get it right. If that doesn't work, get back to the list. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Booting problems
On Friday 15 February 2002 23:14, Spyros Spyropoulos wrote: Hi, I have the following problem. I recently got a second hard drive, to install my (Mandrake 8.0)linux. Prior to that I had linux installed on a partition of my first hard drive. However, once the intsallation was complete, Lilo could not be (re)intsalled for some reason. Now it is looking for the linux partition in the wrong place (on the partition in was intalled before) when I try to boot (I can boot windows as it is on the same partition it was before). Foolish enough, I did not create a boot disk when I intsalled linux, and every try to create a boot disk via windows (you get this option when you intert the mandrake installation cd) that would enable me to boot and edit the lilo.conf file failed. Booting via CD does not seem to help either. Any ideas how I could fix this? You can boot with the first Mandrake cd then at the prompt type: F1 rescue chroot /mnt Now you can check/edit the entries in /etc/lilo.conf then type lilo and reboot. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] (OT) AT or ATX
I know this isn't the place to ask this question, but I just have a quick question: I have an old (1997) pc case that I want to use for a new pc. How do I tell whether the case is AT or ATX? The mobo currently in it is a J-656VXD (Intel VX chipset) with a Socket 7 200MHz CPU and 200W power supply. I have the mobo manual but it doesn't mention anything about AT-anything. I've been given a good price on an Asus A7VL133VM mobo with an AMD Duron 1000MHz CPU but it requires an ATX case. When I asked the supplier about using my old case he said he would have to see it. Unfortunately he is in Auckland and I'm in the Bay of Islands (3.5-4 hour drive). The pc is for surveillance and will be hidden in a cupboard which is why I want to use my old case (its only 330mm high). The smallest (in height) that the supplier has is 460mm. Is there an easy way of telling what the form factor the case is? Any help is greatly appreciated. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB memory leak?
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 05:22, jeff wrote: I've been fighting a system hang up for several weeks now and it looks like the problem is with the USB service. All the problems go away when USB is disabled. When enabled the system sometimes hangs on shutdown. The random nature of all this suggests a memory leak. Someone suggested changing the /etc/modules.conf alias to alias usb-interface uhci but this did not help. Anyone know how if this is a known problem or where more USB info. might be found? Where would one look for driver updates? jeff I think what you're referring to is a known bug. Go to http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ and click on the link for the errata page - the workaround/fix is given there. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BIG thanks ;o)
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 18:50, Damian G wrote: Where did you find the 2.4.17 kernel? right here: ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS then i downloaded and installed kernel*.rpm ( you don't need the kernel-source or docs to install it, i just needed them myself to make vmware workstation work. ) oh, someone else mentioned that if you use iptables you had to upgrade them too. And iptables usually requires initscripts. Also the last kernel upgrade I did, initscripts required setup. So if you download a new kernel it might pay to grab those 3 files at the same time. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video Problem (I think)
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 14:25, Greg Smith wrote: I installed Mandrake 8.1 using the recommended settings. Install went al the way through without a hickup. It asked me to remove the boot media and restart. I removed the CD and restarted the machine. The boot sequence went all the way to the gray criss-cross screen with the X cursor. Just before the login screen popped up, the screen went black and started flashing a white line across the screen near the top. The green light on the monitor started to flash as if it was loosing signal, then gaining signal, then loosing signal, over and over. After about 5 minutes a non-GUI Linux screen came up and had this message: INIT: Id x respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Then in 5 minutes the screen started to flash again and the whole process started again. It didn't look good so I shut downand tried to boot again. Same thing. Please, does anybody have an idea on what could be causing this? Others have had this problem. Search the mailing list archives. The fix was fairly simple, but I don't know what it is. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/ skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't mount my CDROM anymore
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 15:51, Nicolas VERITE wrote: Nicolas VERITE wrote: [snip] What's that last line ??? I ain't got not SCSI host in my box ! Shouldn't SCSI devices be named like /dev/sda0 ? # more /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Oh s**t, it's in my fstab ! I'm lost, don't find helpfull enough on MUO... In HardDrake, I've got twice the same CDROM drive name, except : /dev/hdd is labelled 'unknown' /dev/scd0 is supposed to be a SCSI drive Can't change anything... In my fstab, the lines concerning removables media aren't the same (?) There is no /dev/hdd file... Can automount and/or supermount provoke some misconfigurations ? Howto know if these features are currently working ? No files in /mnt/cdrom, no process using it... # ll /mnt/cdrom/ total 0 Oh I forgot to mention, this CD ROM drive is a CD burner... The model is Ricoh MP7080A. Firstly, to use your cdrw for burning cds you need scsi emulation, so don't freak about the scsi stuff. And /dev/scdX is correct for cdwriters. My external parallel zip is /dev/sdaX. Check your /etc/lilo.conf file (assuming you're using lilo as your boot manager) and if necessary edit (as root): Look for the label entry which matches the option you choose at the lilo boot prompt then look down a couple of lines for a line that starts wtih append= . If there isn't one, just add it: append= hdX=ide-scsi where X is the ide device letter as seen by your system (in your case I think its 'd') For example, mine looks like this: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17-13mdkenterprise label=2417-13ent root=/dev/hda13 read-only optional vga=788 append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi devfs=nomount mem=nopentium initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.17-13mdkenterprise.img ** Note my cdrw is /dev/hdc and my cdrom is /dev/hdd. You can do the same if you have a cdrom drive and want to copy a cd directly. After saving the file you need to run lilo to save your changes in the mbr, so again in a console as root type: # lilo ( or # /sbin/lilo) Reboot and your cdrw should now be recognised correctly. Secondly, if you're using the standard kernel that comes with ML8.1 (2.4.8-26mdk) then supermount is broken in that kernel. It works for some and not for others. You can disable supermount by typing in a console as root: # supermount -i disable Try manually mounting your cdrw drive. First insert a cd then in console as root, type: # umount /mnt/cdrom # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom # ls /mnt/cdrom The first line above unmounts the cdrom drive. Don't worry if it says 'umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted'. The second line mounts the device using the iso9660 filesystem. And the last line lists files on the mounted cdrom (thats if you didn't get any errors from the mount command). If you can manually mount it like this, its really just a matter of clearing up your fstab file. However I am not familiar with the correct options for your cdrw with the 2.4.8-26mdk kernel. I'm using 2.4.17.13mdkenterprise kernel with supermount which I think is quite a bit different (other than the obvious 'supermount'). So can someone using a similar setup please give Nic a hand with his fstab file? HTH somewhat skinky PS. Don't forget to make a backup copy of these files before you edit them. -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA rpm
Terry S. wrote: All, Thanks to everyone who responded to my dilema of trying to get the NVIDIA_kernel RPM for my LM 8.1 system. I did as everyone suggested and downloaded, rebuilt, and instlled the source RPM. Things seemed to go well as the packages installed, with only the customary warnings that NVIDIA warns you about when installing the packages. I made the necessary changes in my /etc/X11/XFconfig-4 (i think that's what it's called, i'm not at my linux box) as suggested by NVIDIA's website, and then rebooted. Things booted up just fine, but as soon as X started up and showed the KDM login screen, the machine completely locked up, forcing to press the reset button to get out of it. Anyone have any more suggestions on how to remedy this situation? I've looked the the Xserver logs, and nothing seems out of the ordinary. It shows that the NVIDIA kernel, the NVdriver, and even the glx libraries loading ok (at least it doesn't show any errors about loading them). Does anyone have any other suggestions to get this to work properly? Thanks! Terry Try getting rid of the graphical login so that you login from console (ie.init3). You can make this change in Mandrake Control Center Boot Boot Config System mode. To start X from console, just type startx MIGHT help... skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] emu-tools
On Monday 11 February 2002 03:59, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey, I installed emu-tools 0.9.4 but whenever I am trying to run emu-config it gives me: SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Invalid argument I checked the tools' docs for such a thing but it is not mentioned there. Can anyone please tell me what it means and how to fix it? Well I know zilch about monitor power management but I don't understand what you mean about trying to run emu-config. I'm using emu10K1 with the tools so perhaps I _may_ be able to help if you explain what you mean by running the config. Well, as far as I understand there are three executable files installed from this package - emu-config, emu-dspmgr and the script one, IIRC. The script is calling emu-config to perform things. Now, whenever I run the script or the emu-config file (e.g. with parameters to enable rear speaker support) I get the error message mentioned above. I don't exactly recall what command I was typing but I can try again and tell you tomorrow. OK, I checked it. For instance, an emu-config -? gives a SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Invalid argument error, aswell as an emu-config -I or anything else. Running emu-script does the same. What is wrong? TIA Roman Oh yeah, I forgot about the tools... I found that digital doesn't work (my centre speaker hisses) so I just use analog. Haven't really played about with the emu10k1 tools. I also compiled the drivers from Creative Open Source. Did you install the standard emu-tools package that come with Mandrake or did you download the tarball from Creative? I haven't used the Mandrake one so I don't know anything about it. If you compiled the drivers from source: --- have you since upgraded your kernel? Sometimes a kernel upgrade requires any software/drivers that you have compiled from source to be (re-)compiled against the new kernel. --- Your kernel must be compiled with loadable modules and soundcard support and without any integrated emu10K1 soundcard drivers. --- Plug'n'pray must be disabled in bios. --- Did you edit the Makefile.config before compiling. --- Try setting AC3PASSTHROUGH=no (if you haven't already) in the emu10k1.conf file. I haven't had any problems with it (well apart from digital not working properly). You could check the FAQ at Creative. Umm... can't think of anything else... skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DiskDrake And WinXP
umm... how about... ... forget the broads... and check out the boards... ? sorry, couldn't resist ;) seriusly now... I don't know anything about ntfs. Hopefully someone else can help. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works On Monday 11 February 2002 13:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just surfing around various broads, trying to answer a previous post. I came across that DiskDrake cannot format ntfs partitions(Laptop was winXP on a ntfs partition) without corruption. I think this explains my inability to succesfully install Mandrake. Anyone have any more information, or a better explanation? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building a PC (3).
On Saturday 09 February 2002 19:51, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote: Ok, I am getting closer to my goal, but still have a few questions: 1) For those on the list using the Soyo Dragon+. I see that there is a sound card built into the motherboard (C-Media 6 Channel Sound Card). Any problems with Mandrake recognition of the card or performance problems with Mandrake? Should I disable the C-Media card and go for the Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Platinum? I wouldn't ... I had a board with integrated sound, and putting in the SB created problems 2) My tech guy can't seem to get an ATI Radeon AIW 32mg nearby. The other possibilities are a PixelView GeForce3 T200 64MB or one of the new (new here anyway) Radeon 8500 cards. Any advice or comments? My obvious concern is getting everything in the box to work with the Mandrake install and not to have to niggle too much with post install configuration to get the box up and running. Cheers, Brian OTH, I have onboard sound (AC97) on a Soltek SL-75KAV mobo and later installed a pci SB 5.1 Live! card: No problems at all. So ? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re(2): [newbie] Building a PC.
very nice - I like ; ) skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works On Thursday 07 February 2002 11:51, Roger Sherman wrote: I just put together a new PC about three days ago, with an AMD XP1800 cpu and an Abit KG7 motherboard. It rocks pretty hard... Also under the hood (in case you care) 512meg DDR RAM (as stated, so cheap right now, why not? And the KG7 will support up to 4 gig) ATI Radeon AIW 32mg vid card Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Platinum w/Live!Drive Plextor 16x10x40A CD-RW 60.5 gig 7200 rpm IDE HD (maxtor) 40 gig 7200 rpm IDE HD (maxtor) Linksys NIC card Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building a PC.
On Friday 08 February 2002 02:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: The Linux philosophy is unused RAM is wasted RAM. After all, there's no point in having the RAM you spent good money on sitting around doing nothing. Unlike Windows, Linux will try to fill up _all_ of your RAM. If there is any left after all your apps are loaded, it will be used to cache the hard drive. Since the hard drive is by far the slowest part of any system, this can bring huge performance improvements. IMHO, the best way to speed up a system is to have more RAM than you need. Even with the recent RAM price rises, this is still a bargain. Not only will your hard drive be cached, you also minimise HDD accesses by eliminating the need to use swap. Very true. This (below) with only konsole and kmail open: [skinky]skinky$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 1157748 915700 242048 0 178312 459632 -/+ buffers/cache: 277756 879992 Swap: 200772 0 200772 skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Man--Konqueror STINKS
On Friday 08 February 2002 00:26, Mark D'voo wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2002 05:39 pm, you wrote: i can't get midis to work at all in linux, i get the error, can't open /dev/sequencer, no such file or device yet it is there, i have a c-media builtin sound card, any ideas? mark if your worst problem is midi, is it really that bad? do you only surf midi sites? have you tried changing the midi file association? not sure if that matters in web page use, but i am not sure, but i think this a known bug, still, never tried to run a midi in it so i am not a lot of help. :-( On Thursday 07 February 2002 09:08, you spoke unto me thusly: How come every dang time Konqueror goes to load a midi file from a web page the damn thing locks up and just sits there like a turd on a log with a stupid dialogue box ??? I'm going to Mozilla if this don't stop. I get the same error with Midi Karaoke Player but Midi synth works fine. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Frozen RPMDrake
On Thursday 07 February 2002 22:22, Marc Audard wrote: Hi, If you would like to reply, please do it also to my e-mail address, since I am not subscribed to the mailing list. Thanks. I had last time run rpmdrake to update my packages. Since my modem connection was very low and rpmdrake was very long, I had killed rpmdrake with Xkill. Now, I try to run rpmdrake using LAN, and rpmdrake gets stuck, apparently at the same stage where I killed it last time. Do you know a way cure this? Note that I have LM8.0 Thanks, Marc You could try rebuilding the rpm database. # rpm --rebuilddb skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] KDE and Gnome
On Thursday 07 February 2002 03:42, Roman Korcek wrote: Again, thanks to all, and a bitter Argh when remembering that 2 days ago nobody responded to my monitor power management and emu-tools questions. :-( * From: Roman Korcek * Subject: [newbie] emu-tools * Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 03:53:19 -0800 Hi, I installed emu-tools 0.9.4 but whenever I am trying to run emu-config it gives me: SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Invalid argument I checked the tools' docs for such a thing but it is not mentioned there. Can anyone please tell me what it means and how to fix it? TIA Roman (copied and posted the above message from the archives) Well I know zilch about monitor power management but I don't understand what you mean about trying to run emu-config. I'm using emu10K1 with the tools so perhaps I _may_ be able to help if you explain what you mean by running the config. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] boot question
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 06:32, Frederic Rooms wrote: Hi, I need to reinstall Windows 2000 on my computer. I expect Win2000 to erase my boot sector which will kill my opportunity to launch linux. What can I do to not reinstall my system ? Does the booting work with a floppy disk ? What do I have to do ? I know this works with win95/98, not sure about win2000. After reinstalling windows simply boot with your LM boot floppy and run lilo (just type lilo or /sbin/lilo without the quotes in a console as root). This will overwrite the mbr. It pays to first check lilo (/etc/lilo.conf) to ensure your boot partitions are as they should be in case you made changes whilst installing win. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 22:20, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the right one for you. And please let's not talk about other WMs, I would only like to compare *these* two. Its definitely a matter of personal taste but I prefer the look and feel of KDE. Back when I had LM8.0 I found that Gnome ran faster (opening apps, etc until I installed texstar's kde rpms which really sped up KDE. Now I have more ram and LM8.1 and there's no difference in speed. While I really like the look of Gnome's file managers I don't care much for their functionality and preference settings in some of them seem quite limited. But you can still use Konqueror in Gnome anyway. Just use what you like best. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.1 CD-ROM install problem
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 05:47, John Cichy wrote: Hello all, I am attempting to install LM8.1 from an ISO image I burnt. System specs: AMD K6/3 450 768meg RAM (ran memtest86 for 24hrs with no errors) ATI Mach32 ISA (swapped video after failure to ATI Radion w/same result) AHA-2940U2W scsi adaptor 3 9gig 10,000rpm WD drives Problem: Install program boots (from CD-ROM) and makes it through initial setup and package selection. As it starts coping/loading software the system hangs. I have done this MANY times, and the hang occurs while loading different package each time, so I have been unable to attribute it to a particular package. The install images have been used to install a 950Athlon (twice), and an AMD K6/2 300 with no problems. The machine was running RH7.0 (for almost a year with no problems). This machine will be a server, and I don't need X, so video should not be an issue. I have run the install in both GUI and TEXT mode, with same results (although TEXT did freeze once while it was trying to see what packages were available). Any suggestions would be appreciated... John Firstly, I don't exactly know why, what or how but here goes... The problem could be with your memory (?). I had the same thing happen a few months back with about 12-15 attempts at installing LM8.1. Sometimes it would start to copy files then hang with no error messages, other times it kept giving me errors about ldconfig after selecting the packages, and during one text install the system froze with an error message that was unreadable (words spread randomly on the screen) but I noticed one of the words was memory. At the time I had recently increased my ram from 128 to 1152 MB so I wondered whether I had bought dud ram. My cpu is also AMD (Athlon tbird 1.0 GHz). Anyway, I thought I'd read something about (most likely I just made it up or dreamed it) the system keeping things (don't ask me what) going on a reboot instead of releasing/flushing everything like it supposedly does on shutdown and cold boot. So out of sheer desperation I shut down the computer and left it for 5 mins before starting it and trying to install again. Voila! No more install problems. Since then I have reinstalled several times without a hitch and each time I have shutdown the computer and left it for a while before starting it again. Might work on your pc??? BTW, I later ran memtest which gave 0 errors so ? Oh, and Civileme has mentioned in a post to this list this type of problem sometimes indicates that its your cdrom thats the problem. Perhaps you could search the list archives. Good luck skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] backup app for LM 8.0
On Sunday 03 February 2002 17:48, shane wrote: once you get used to tar another option, if you find you haven't enough room for a full backup is to (after a fresh install) make the replication disk. you know where it asks if want to make an install disk that remebers everything you just installed? then you only have to backup changes to your system. after a total (and i mean _total_) failure you can use that disk, the install cds, and the backup of your changes to get back to where you were pretty fast. that is pretty much just a hack job and i sure it could be done better, but hey what works works. not sure if you can make one of those disks after the install, maybe someone else knows. You can still make the auto install disks in Mandrake Control Centre Boot Auto Install. -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] backup app for LM 8.0
On Sunday 03 February 2002 14:20, mike wrote: No flame intended, so hang on, backup (pun intended) and tell us just what you are doing and why. I want to backup the system ( meaning the whole system / , and /home included ) because i'm very tired of reinstalling ( no negativity intended just trying to be honest ) every time I try to update something and it breaks something else, or i try to install some app which is supposed to work with my distro, ( LM 8.0 stock kernel 2.4.3-20mdk ) I have everything working well now and have only to install a new scsi card ( ava aha-2906 ) when it gets here to try and get my umax astra 600s ( scanner ) working. I want to an extreme degree to not have anything windows on by box. and have been using Mandrake for three years or so ( maybe I'm a little slower on the uptake than others ) but I still have trouble with some simple things which stop me from completely removing windows. a way to make a simple backup which i can use to restore the system is one. To clarify more exactly: I have a cdrw and can use it to burn a disk, and would like to make a linux restore cd if possible. short of that i can backup to another hd ( There are three in the box, hda=windows hdc5/6/7=/,swap/home Lm8.0 hdd5=/backup ) If there is a different or simpler way tell me. OK, here's a few that I've found but haven't had a chance to use them yet: There's backuponcd which is on the 2nd cd for LM8.1, sorry don't know if its on LM8.0 cds. The manual is installed in /usr/share/doc/backuponcd-0.9.1/. It appears to be for backing up files, not your system. There's also mindi and mondo. Search for mindi and mondo in www.google.com Seems to be straight-forward and once again a manual comes with it and is installed in /usr/share/doc/mondo-1.16/. Mindi is for backing up the kernel, modules, tools and libraries to a bootable cd which allows you to boot from the cd and carry out basic system maintenance in the same environment you were in when the backup cd was made. Mondo backs up your filesystem to cd. Before I started using linux I used a boot manager called BootIt Next Generation which also has partition imaging and is very easy to use. BootIt NG is available from http://www.TeraByteUnlimited.com and they have a 30-day trial version. It backs up any partition regardless of the filesystem type. You can make the installation floppy in linux, you don't have to have Windoze installed. I have actually backed up and later used the cds to restore my Windoze partition with BootIt NG and it was a breeze. Since I've been using linux I've been using tar and burning to cds to backup my home dir and other files. Although I do intend to check out the backuponcd app and run a script to do it for me while I sleep. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE problems
On Thursday 31 January 2002 01:35, Alex Fite-Wassilak wrote: I tried renaming my .kde/ to .kdebak/ then the .kderc file to .kdercbak, but when I start KDE it still crashes. I created a .xinitrc file, but since I don't know much about it, it's kind of a hack job. I can start the gnome panel, and gnome-session, as well as sawfish. I didn't try anything else, so far. It's not really the fully-functional gnome environment, but at least I can start X this way without crashing. Did you encounter a similar situation? Any other ideas? I was thinking about posting this to the advanced user list to see what they had to say as well... Thanks in advance. Alex I installed kde2.2.2 last night and did not encounter any problems. I logged out of X into console and used rpm -Uvh, then startx. Kde started fine. The fact that you can start kde without problems as root indicates that its most likely some sort of configuration file in your user directory (user home dir) thats causing your problems. I just created a new user (joebloggs) as a test and it works. When I logged in and started X as joebloggs it ran MandrakeFirstTime and set the default files in joebloggs' home dir. So I suppose you could backup your own home dir (use tar) to another dir (you could put the tar backup file in say /usr/local/). Start kde as root and delete your user account and your user home dir. Then recreate your user account and log out of X. Now start kde as user and MandrakeFirstTime should run and create default files in your new home dir. You could then untar your backup file in /usr/local/ and cp the files that you want to your new home dir. I would only copy a few files at a time and restart kde in case one of the copied files is the culprit. Does that make sense? A bit confusing I know. I used userdrake - just type userdrake without the quotes in a console as root. If you do try the above, be sure to backup first. Or if you don't want to do the above perhaps you could repost your question to the list in the hope that someone else can tell you which is the offending file in your home dir. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail and Abiword problems mandrake 8.1
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 00:31, Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP I gave up on kword because I couldn't get the printing side of it sorted, a real shame because I really liked kword for WP. I use OpenOffice.org instead. If you are referring to the problem with kword printing everything all compressed, that bug is fixed in koffice1.1.1 As usual Texstar has an RPM on his site that works great. derek skinky Thanks for the info derek, I'll start downloading. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ldconfig failed
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 07:54, F. Arocha wrote: I hope someone can help me with this. In trying to install 8.1 over 8.0 and I decided to do a new install (not an update), but the installation stops after looking for packages with the message An error ocurred: ldconfig failed. I dont know what to do now. I have separate partitions for /, usr, and home. I would appreciate any help. Thanks, paco I had that happen a few times. Try turning your computer off (not reboot) for at least 15 seconds, then turn it on and try again. If that doesn't work repost to the list. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE problems
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 07:58, Alex Fite-Wassilak wrote: Hi, I'm running LM 8.1 on a dell inspiron 8000. Everything had worked pretty smoothly until I recently downloaded all the new KDE 2.2.2 packages. I put them all in a folder in my home directory, then did rpm -Fvh the install went off without an apparent hitch, but when I rebooted KDE crashed on startup and then donesn't do anything. I have to restart the X-server (ctl-alt-backspace) to get back to the kde display manager (the login thingee). It says that ksplash is getting a SIGGENV signal. sometimes it says it's the kmsserver. I tried to rpm -Uvh --force the old packages from the distribution, but everytime I boot it's the same thing. even with the old packages. Also, I accidentally started x as root, and it worked fine. no hang-ups. I'm a little confused what the problem is. Anyone encounter a similar problem or know how I might get kde running again? Any little hint is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Alex You could try renaming your ~/.kde directory to ~/.kde-old and see if it makes a new one. If it does, you could then copy any special configs from your .kde-old directory while keeping an eye out for the offending file that prevents kde from starting. Might me worth a try. If it doesn't work you could rename it back to ~/.kde until you find the solution. Can you start Gnome or any other wm? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot disk failure
On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Windows Xp, and want to boot to MandrakeLinux 8.1 using a boot disk. The boot disk that was made during the installation does not work. It come up with this message: Could not find ramdisk image: initrid.img. Now what do I do? Apparantly, this is a common problem. Is there somewhere on the Internet that I can download a workable boot for a floppy? Thanks Boot from the first LM cd and hit F1 at the prompt then type rescue enter without the quotes. Now type chroot /mnt/# runs from / on your hard disk cd /boot# change to the /boot dir mkinitrd /boot/initrd-[kernel].img [kernel version] # create initrd.img file (eg.) mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.8-26mdk.img 2.4.8-26mdk ln -s initrd-[kernel].img initrd.img#create a link to the new initrd.img file Insert the boot disk you have already made (with the missing initrd) mount /mnt/floppy # you may need to mount your floppy drive # first (I'm not sure) cp initrd-[kernel].img /mnt/floppy # copy the initrd to your boot disk Now you should be able to boot from the boot floppy. Good luck. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail and Abiword problems mandrake 8.1
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 06:33, marvin wrote: [snip] So, this morning, I tried to do some WP with KWord. Looks O.K. on the screen, ah, a preview button (new). Garbled mess. I print it out and the text is really close together, no spaces (that I can see) and in bold. This works fine in 7.2 kmail by the way. So, highlight cut and paste into AbiWord. Refuses to paste. I check the clipboard, yes it`s there. It pastes into other text editors but not AbiWord. Paste DOES work in AbiWord in Mandrake 7.2. Anyone else seeing :- a) print problems from Kmail (v1.1 kde 2.2.1) b) pasting problems into AbiWord (v0.9.2 ditto) If you mean kword (not kmail) then yep, I've had the same problems with both LM8.0 and 8.1. Does kde 2.2.2 fix these problems ? Don't know, still using kde 2.2.1. I gave up on kword because I couldn't get the printing side of it sorted, a real shame because I really liked kword for WP. I use OpenOffice.org instead. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia-v.low sound volume?
On Monday 28 January 2002 23:49, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: The man's a genius, sort of! I had the speakers plugged into the headphones socket and sweet nothing was coming from the speakers. At least with the correct hole chosen I can just hear the sound, if I hold the speaker to my ear. Well sounds like you're getting there... umm... I would try running sndconfig again and then open kmix and check the volume settings. The only red light (mute) in kmix should be on microphone. Now that you've got sound, albeit very low volume, check the mailing list archives as I recall others had very low volume and they did find a solution. Good luck skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accessing cdrom causes segv
On Sunday 27 January 2002 12:30, Vijay Ramachandran wrote: Hi. After upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0, I recently tried to access the cdrom, by inserting a cd and going to /mnt/cdrom. This caused ls to segv and the following message was in /var/log/messages: Jan 22 08:34:29 saraswati kernel: kernel BUG at super.c:274! Jan 22 08:34:29 saraswati kernel: invalid operand: [snip] The entire /mnt directory is not visible. I do have a usb printer attached. Any idea what's wrong? Is this a known problem, or should I report it as a kernel bug? If so, to whom? output of lspci, which doesn't show the device: [root@saraswati root]# lspci -vvv 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] System Controller (rev 23) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort+ SERR- PERR- Latency: 64 [snip] thanks, Vijay What kernel are you using? I had the same problem earlier (Oct last year) which I _think_ was with kernel 2.4.8-26mdk. When I searched the Mandrake website I found that they had already been notified of the problem and were at the time working on a fix. They recommended booting with the devfs=nomount option. That certainly fixed my problem. Although I'm using a newer kernel now, I can't say whether that problem still exists in the newer kernels because I still boot with the devfs=nomount option (I can't get the hang of devfs). So I guess you could try editing your /etc/lilo.conf file and in the append line add or change the devfs bit. Good luck. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia-v.low sound volume?
On Sunday 27 January 2002 18:34, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi all, I am having a very weird problem with my sound running a AMD K7 onboard sound card, the Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI The problem is that even though the volume is at 100% on the controls the audio coming out of the speakers can only just be heard. I have been able to determine that there is nothing wrong with the speakers as they work AOK on my Windy box. I have tried many things with the help of Dave Jones but still have not been able to solve the error. I have tried: Aumix, Timidity, CDPlayer, Arts Builder, KDE Media Player, Midi and Karaoke Player, Midi synth, Sound Mixer, arts control, xmms. I have also tried running the following from a root terminal: sndconfig, kmix, gmix, umix and xmix? Three of the *mix ones commands could not be found and the kmix, I think had a nice GUI with all the levels showing at 80%, all the green lights are on and one red light on. There are three coloured holes on the panel which accept a 3.5mm jack plug namely, a pink one with a mic next to it, a blue one with headphones next to it and a green one with what looks like a speaker next to it. I am using the blue headphones socket. Any ideas where the fault could be or do I need to pack it back in the box and return it to the store and tell them I'm too fffing stupid to own a PC? Just a guess, but shouldn't the speakers be plugged into the green socket with the speaker next to it? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring a scanner w/Sane in LM 8.1?
On Thursday 24 January 2002 10:17, Graham Watkins wrote: skinky wrote: To start xscanimage just type xscanimage without the quotes in a terminal. I don't know anything about parallel port scanners. Hopefully your scanner was automatically detected during ML installation. skinky My scanner I fear, is not detected by anything. scanimage -L gives me the message No Sane devices detected or similar. xscanimage does not appear to be installed but it seems premature to be worrying about that just now. The correct Plustek backend is present in the sane directory. There's obviously more configuring needs to be done. But what? (BTW I'm using Mandrake 7.2 running Sane 1.03.) All constructive comments welcome. Thanks guys. Do you have a Plustek Parallel Port Scanner? If so, a quick search in Google came up with an excellent HOWTO for that scanner: http://home.t-online.de/home/g-jaeger/howtos/NewbiePlustekHowto/NewbiePlustekHowto.html If not, hopefully someone else can help. My scanner is scsi so configuration is somewhat different to parallel. Good luck. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adding WM-specific startup scripts
On Friday 25 January 2002 00:25, Ville V Sinkko wrote: I mainly use Enlightenment nowadays, but quite often run Blackbox too, and sometimes other WM's depending on how I feel and what I'm doing. What I'd like to do is somehow make a startup script for Enlightenment (and another one for Blackbox - sure can't live without BBKeys in there) which starts some epplets (or slit applets, resp.) at login time; but this kind of functionality can't be done with .xinitrc, right? So I guess what I need to do is somehow configure KDM to run the Enlightenment script if I login with E and the Blackbox script if I login with BB. Any suggestions? You could create an alias: alias BB='startx BlackBox' then at login (init 3) just type BB skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dial-up connection problem
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 22:22, Mandrake Newbie wrote: On Tuesday 22 January 2002 05:41, Dennis Myers wrote: I need your help. I don't know how to connect to the Internet using my dial-up connection. I am using Speed Com+ 56K external modem (serial) running on Mandrake 8.1. I hope you can give me a HOW-TO on how to connect my dial-up to the Internet. Are you using KDE for your desktop? if so click on the icon that says Internet It will bring up Kppp dialer. You will have to know your ISPs two DNS addresses, like 207.217.126.81 or similar. You should make the device on the device tab /dev/ttyS0 and you will need your dial in number and password. I don't know how it's handled in console mode but this is a start if you use KDE desktop. Most of it is self explanatory. Come back if you need more help. HTH Just to add to Dennis' post, FYI /dev/ttyS0 = COM1 in Windoze and /dev/ttyS1 = COM2 (just in case you have plugged your modem into your second serial port). skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO won't load linux
On Saturday 19 January 2002 06:39, Joe Janzen wrote: Thanks for everyone's help with this problem. Yes, unfortunately I did update the kernel with MandrakeUpdate. I was apprehensive but went ahead, assuming it wouldn't be available through Update if that wasn't a recommended method. Yep, big mistake it seems. Anyway, I looked at the example you cited below, but I don't know how to do this since I can't execute any commands; I just get the error message and nothing (no prompt). Not even a LILO prompt - just the LILO loading linux... message. I can't check /etc/lilo.conf as someone suggested, for the same reason. Boot with the 1st Mandrake CD as if you're going to install ML and when you get to the bit where you choose the installation type, choose Expert and Update (NOT Install) - read carefully. Then continue without choosing any software packages and it will install the original kernel again. You should be right from there on. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 10:36, Joe Wittmer wrote: | Hi Group, | | I have LM version 8.1 installed this last week and choose to install | the wine package. However, I am unable to figure out how to get it | working... | | It seems that the fake windows directory structure is already in place | for me at /var/lib/wine. I switched to su and copied an application to | the wine directory (sol.exe from a Windows 98SE machine). Then, I | switched back to my regular user and typed wine c:\sol.exe. | | A lot of text was on the screen related to fonts. Then, the last | failure was an exception error and that was it. | | Sorry for not producing a better report. | | I found the configuration file in my ~/.wine directory. But, I am a | little confused as to if there is something already setup (or not). I | mean is there an environment setting already associated with this file. | Do I need to move it? | | I am pretty green when it comes to Linux after a couple of years | vacation from it... Is there any How-Tos for setting up wine with the | preconfigured Linux Mandrake install. Or, is there a better method in | general. Joe, if you installed the wine package from the cds, it won't work. That version appears to be broken. Uninstall that rpm then download and install the latest from http://wine.dataparty.no and you'll find it'll work fine. If this is what you have already done then I'm sorry I can't help you but perhaps someone else has a suggestion. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Adding a zip drive
Hi All, I recently got my zip drive back after lending it to a friend for a few months and in the meantime I had reinstalled ML8.1 so the system doesn't recognise the drive anymore. Its a parallel port 250MB. There is both sda and sda4 listed under /dev/. I created a mount point for the zip drive (/mnt/zip) and tried # mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip/ but got the error message: mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device I looked in diskdrake but the zip drive is not listed under removable media. Can anyone tell me how to manually install the zip drive without having to reinstall the system? I don't understand mknod or MAKEDEV and I certainly don't know anything about major and minor. Perahps if I knew what major and minor to use I could try mknod. I am using the 2.4.16.3mdk-1-1mdkenterprise kernel. Any help much appreciated. TIA skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Extra Programs on Installation CD's
On Monday 14 January 2002 07:03, Wes Gregg wrote: | Hello, | | Someone recently told me about Lopster which is on one of the 8.1 | Powerpack cds. Ok, they included which cd it was so I found it was an | rpm and clicked on it from a file browser and it loaded the rpm | installation program and installed it. Sweet, no sweat. | | Then today I checked into one of the package tools in the config menu | and it gave me a list of programs (2 lists - installable and installed) | and Lopster wasn't on either list even though it is installed (I just | don't know how to use it). | | This behavior leads me to think there may be other programs on the cds | that aren't mentioned anywhere. Is there a good way to browse them and | any way to tell what kind of program they are and what they do without | actually installing them? | | Thanks a lot everyone. In a terminal (as root) type rpm --rebuilddb without the quotes. That should update what is displayed in Software Manager. Software Manager will display ALL rpms that are on your cds. The reason it was not showing lopster may be because lopster was not installed using Software Manager. Updating the database as above may correct this. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My middle button mouse doesnt work,
On Monday 14 January 2002 11:00, NY-Bro wrote: | I have the microsoft IntelliMouse Optical PS/2 Under | LM 8.1 I cant get the middle button to work. I've | tried to configure it under drakconf but i cant get | linux to see the middle button. I would appreciate | some directions on how to set this up. I'm not sure if this works with the optical mouse but I know it definitely works with the MS (Intellimouse) Cordless Wheel Mouse: Install imwheel, its on your cds. In your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file make the following changes so that it looks like this: # ** # Pointer section # ** Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolIMPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 #Option Emulate3Buttons #Option Emulate3Timeout 50 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #Option ChordMiddle EndSection Be sure to comment out the Emulate... lines as above. In /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc - add the following line to the bottom of the file: imwheel Copy /etc/X11/imwheelrc to ~/.imwheelrc Log out of X then restart X and the scroll wheel should work. Before you edit your files you should make backup copies. Also, a lot of people will disagree with using imwheel because it has caused some people grief - in my case, the scroll wheel just won't work without imwheel. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kppp's temporary entries :-(
On Thursday 10 January 2002 15:21, lee wrote: | Hi folks... | | What causes kppp to enter temp entries into the /etc/resolve file | anyway ? One fix I've heard (coulda been right here) was to make the | resolve file read only ? | | Another fix I'm curious about is just another dialer altogether..say | wvdial for example. I used it in debian and worked well I thought. | | If I knew what was causing these entries perhaps I could fix that ? It | does it to the point sometimes where it'll stop my surfing (more than 3 | nameservers for ex.) I can't remember what I changed in kppp but this is an extraction in part of my ~/.kde/share/config/kppprc shows this: [Account0] AccountingEnabled=1 AccountingFile= Authentication=1 AutoDNS=1 AutoName=0 BeforeConnect= BeforeDisconnect= Command= DNS= DefaultRoute=1 DisconnectCommand= Domain= ExDNSDisabled=0 Gateway=0.0.0.0 IPAddr=0.0.0.0 Thats with a dynamic ip address. Maybe you could compare? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to reset monitor type (SVGA etc.)?
On Friday 11 January 2002 02:50, Andy Gay wrote: | Could someone advise me how to reset my monitor type as I was able to | do at the install? In a terminal as root run XFdrake or in Mandrake Control Center Hardware Display (choose Expert). If it tests your display and asks if it was displayed correctly, choose No - this will allow you to change your settings. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can u read this?
| On Friday 11 January 2002 21:30, you wrote: | hey... i thought i was asking a simple question... ( perhaps too | simple to be answered? ) | | did the list get my message? this is not the first time i get no | response when i come here with a question.. :o/ a simple dunno | will do... | | i was asking why i have to open harddrake every time i boot in order | to get my sound working, and if devfs had anything to do with it... | any ideas on how to solve this? I don't know the answer to your problem but you could try editing /etc/lilo.conf and change devfs=mount to devfs=nomount to disable devfs at boot. Might help? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnutella Client
On Saturday 12 January 2002 11:12, Wes Gregg wrote: | Hello, | | My Linux installation seems to be stable enough to actually use on a | day-to-day basis! Also I finally saw the light and created a separate | partition for my /home directories, so in the event of yet another | reinstall I won't lose everything. | | I would like to know if there is any kind of gnutella type program | for Linux, and if it is included on 8.1's powerpack cd's? lopster is the best! Its on the third cd. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel update question [How to]
On Saturday 12 January 2002 10:01, Johnson, David wrote: | You've all been so helpful today...Here's another question: | | I'm going through the process of updating my kernel as detailed in | http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-079-1.php3 | and my question comes from this snippet of text where I'm supposed to | add something to lilo so I can boot to the old kernel if I need to: | | You will also want to create a new entry with the initrd and image | directives pointing to the old kernel's vmlinuz and initrd images so | you may also boot from the old images if required. | How do I make these additions to /etc/lilo.conf? After installing your kernel with # rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.x-xmdk.i586.rpm look in /boot where your new vmlinuz/images will have been installed. Sometimes the new kernel installation adds the new kernel vmlinuz (boot image) to /etc/lilo.conf for you (usually at the bottom of the file). If it has not already been added for you, add it yourself. For example when I installed a new kernel (2.4.16.3mdk-1-1mdkenterprise) I added: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16.3mdk-1-1mdkenterprise label=24163-1-1mdkent root=/dev/hda5 read-only optional vga=normal append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi devfs=nomount mem=1152M You can use similar parameters to your existing kernel listing in the lilo.conf file. The label can be anything you like so that you can identify it when lilo gives you the option at boot. If you want to make the new kernel your default to boot, just change the default= (near the top of the file) to your new kernel label. After saving the file, you must run lilo for changes to take effect. In a terminal as root: # lilo or # /sbin/lilo Then reboot and enjoy! skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ouch - I cannot install the C/C++/Make packages...
On Sunday 06 January 2002 20:16, Chris Anderson wrote: | During the install I decided I would not need the C/C++ dev system | (DOH!). Now I | am trying to get gcc and make onto my system. ALL installs to GCC | and/or make are | failing with dependencies to either themselves or binutils. | | Now I cannot install them (I am actually using urpmi, but have tried | rpmdrake). | | I tried the GUI tools for packages and they always give an error | stating that the files | (make, gcc) are either bad, unreadable or not found packages. | | Other than a complete re-install and try from scratch, any ideas??? You could try updating the rpm database. In a terminal as root rpm --rebuilddb without the quotes. That usually fixes the problem for me when rpmdrake starts telling me that all my packages are bad. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Startup Sound
On Thursday 03 January 2002 08:14, Miark wrote: | Sound has never worked as it should on my 8.1 with | SB Live Value, but it's worked well enough to do | what I want (for instance, using mpg123 or ogg132 | instead of xmms, etc.). Things are still fine, but | I'm regularly expiencing something strange that I | thought I ask about. | | When startx into KDE, I hear no startup sound. But | if, later in the session, I play a song, like with | mpg123, the KDE startup sound plays all of the sudden. | It doesn't affect the music playing at all. It's just | weird. | | Any ideas? | | Miark I had this problem with same sound card. I think to fix it, I unchecked Run soundserver with realtime priority in KDE Control Center (kcontrol) Sound Sound Server General tab. I think that was it. I don't have that problem anymore. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.
1. 80+ 2. 35 3. F 4. Dial-up 5. 2 good luck with your project skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem correctly detecting cdrom
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 13:41, mr_tortoise wrote: | I'm have problems mounting my cdrom. I assume that supermount was | installed on the system. I have tried mounting the cdrom drive at the | command line and using konqueror with no success. I have two cdroms | installed - a TEAC CDRW and a generic cdrom that did not work in | windows, so I am only concerned with with getting the TEAC to work. It | was working OK with a default install of Mandrake 8.0. When I run | HardDrake 3 cdrom devices are detected: [snip] | Seems that HardDrake is detecting the TEAC drive twice. Also, the TEAC | drive is not a SCSI drive (I think I would have remembered installing a | SCSI card and a big chunk of change leaving my bank account!) [snip] | Near the end of the log I found this: | | SCSI cdrom error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 2800 | Info fld=0x10, ILI Current sd0b:00: sense key Illegal Request | Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for this track |I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64 | isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=0b:00, iso_blknum=16, block=16 | SCSI cdrom error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 2800 | Info fld=0x10, ILI Current sd0b:00: sense key Illegal Requestheck that /etc/lilo.conf has: append= hdc=ide-scsi which will load the scsi emulation at boot. | | Actually, the lines Additional sense... to Info fld=0x10... is | repeated five or six times. Also, when I do a ls hd* in /dev hdc is | not there but when I look for SCSI devices I find scd0. | | Any ideas on what I need to do to get the CDrom working? I know this | is a lengthy message but I wanted to include all the information that | someone who really knows hardware and Mandrake would need. | | TIA, | mr_tortoise Firstly, scsi emulation is necessary for cd writing, thats why your cdrw is listed twice (once with scsi emulation on /dev/scd0). It should have been the same when you were using ML8.0. Check that /etc/lilo.conf (make a backup copy before editing) has: append= hdc=ide-scsi (assuming your cdrw is hdc) which will load the scsi emulation at boot. You can also add your cdrom drive there as well, which will allow cd burning apps to read from your cdrom drive and write to your cdrw drive (eg. when copying cds): append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi (assuming your cdrom is hdd) You will need to run lilo for the change to take effect: /sbin/lilo Secondly, if you're using the standard kernel with ML8.1 (2.4.8-26mdk), supermount is broken in that kernel. But you can TRY to mount it with supermount as I think others had some success (not me tho) - in a terminal as root supermount -i enable without the quotes. If supermount doesn't work for you, then again in a terminal as root supermount -i disable without the quotes. Then try mounting your cdrom as root in a terminal with mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom (without the quotes). You can change your /etc/fstab file as well from supermount to auto (again, make a backup copy before editing). I don't know about the error in your boot log so if you're still having problems perhaps someone else can help you. [Note: Supermount is fixed in the newer kernels, so I suppose you could install a newer kernel. Be warned: do NOT update your kernel but INSTALL it with rpm -ivh kernel-package_name.i586.rpm - see the archives] skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem shutting down
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 06:42, Paul Rodríguez wrote: | On my 8.1 system I have recently encountered a problem shutting down | the computer. I'm not sure what could be causing the problem since I | rarely need to power down, but when I choose 'halt', the system powers | down and then right up again. This didn't used to happen. | | Booting into Windows98 (something that's only been done a few times on | this box) shuts down without a problem (of course sometimes it crashes | while running). So it's not a hardware issue. What could be causing | this? I have the same problem in 8.1 with both 2.4.16.3mdk-1-1mdkenterprise and 2.4.8-26mdkenterprise kernels. I also didn't have this problem with 8.0 and Win98 still shuts down OK. I've tried halt, halt -p and shutdown -h now but they all have the same effect: after terminating all processes the computer makes the power down sound but keeps running. Your post prompted me to look in BIOS so I disabled ACPI but that didn't help either. Its got me stumped. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to REMOVE GL libs/etc and nVidia 2313/2314?
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 03:53, Wes Gregg wrote: [snip] | I also screwed something up because it gave me this line: | Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.i686.rpm | somewhere along, I must have followed the wrong directions in more ways | than one because I haven't tried to recompile my linux kernel with the | i686 optimizations, it is just the regularly installed i586 version! Wes, I don't think it matters that your kernel is i586. Your system must be i686 which is why the driver was compiled i686. That is the driver you install. If it doesn't work (like it didn't for me - seg faults), I'm sure it has nothing to do with i586/i686. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. The only nvidia driver I got to work with 3D is the one from www.mandrakeuser.org for the 2.4.8-26mdk (a few months back). The only problem being that supermount doesn't work with that kernel. Those drivers were: NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1541.1mdk.i586.rpm NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.8-26mdk-1.0-1541.2mdk.i586.rpm (since I'm using the enterprise kernel I actually used this one:) NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.8-26mdk-enterprise-1.0-1541.2mdk.i586.rpm The nvidia drivers currently available at muo are built for the 2.4.8-34.1mdk, so you could try installing that kernel (http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=kernel) and those drivers. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM or just a script?
On Monday 31 December 2001 15:24, Jon Doe wrote: | I am trying to make some sort of package for a friend who is new to | linux. Basically I want replace the KDE splash screen with different | screens. I made a script that will move the default png's to a new | folder called old. This is as far as I got, I wasn't sure how an rpm | worked, if it reads a script or what. What would everyone suggest to | accomplish this? The easiest way for the newbie to get the pics in the | right place. I downloaded a nice splash screen called connectiva. You just replace the four .png files in /usr/share/apps/ksplash/pics with the downloaded ones. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] software manager gives errors on all rpms
On Sunday 30 December 2001 07:31, Daniel McCarthy wrote: | I downloaded and was attempting to install firestarter. The rpm had | dependencies that were on the Core System Install disk. Unfortunately | after inserting the disk the computer completely froze, leaving me no | other option than the reset button. I thought I had an idea of the | files that were needed so I copied them and placed them into a directory | of their own and added a new media with the urpmi.addmedia daniel | file://home/daniel/misc/ command. I then tried to install firestarter | again and received other dependcy errors. I gave up on installing | firestarter and removed that media. | | Now when I attempt to install anything, for example xmms, I get Bad, | unreadable or not found packages , xmms. | | Thanks in advance for any help you have to offer | | Dan You could try rebuilding the rpm database. In a terminal as root: # rpm --rebuilddb That may set things right. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Default Browser
On Sunday 30 December 2001 02:48, Rich wrote: | Not too long ago I made some changes to my Mandrake 8.1 desktop and now | have a couple of minor problems with my Galeon browser: | | Galeon now wants to be on top all the time and it doesn't respond to | any setting changes to let something else be on top; | | I want Galeon to be the default browser when I click on a link in my | mail client (Evolution), but Mozilla keeps popping up. Where do I go | to change the default? | | TIA | | Rich In KDE Control Center (kcontrol in a terminal) File Browsing File Associations. Under Known Types click the plus next to text and select html in the list. Now you can change your settings on the right and click Apply. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]
. Thanks for your suggestions Wes. I'll check out the power supply in the next few days. And sorry for the long post everyone. skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How long to wait???
On Saturday 29 December 2001 20:03, Andrew wrote: | Hi All, | | I have been having a long wait to do anything in Mandrake 8.0 | w/KDE on 32m RAM. A few hours ago I put in *128M* and it only reads | 65m or so, it is much faster. Maybe it would be faster still if | *128m* was reading? How do I use the GUI to set the ram? If no GUI, | can I get to lilo while the server is running, or do I need to shut | it down and restart? Have you tried typing free in a terminal (without the quotes)? Not sure if this is the right way to do it, but you can set the amount of ram in Mandrake Control Center Boot Boot Config Advanced. | Question two... I am running rpminst after selecting update | to most of the packages on the update list. It has been going for | hours maybe the progress bar is moving, maybe not. I am reluctant to | shutdown. I have an almost fast, cable connection that is working ok | for web pages on another machine at the same time. How long should I | wait and/or how do I tell/determine if rpminst is stalled and | unrecoverable. The graffic box in Software Manager is going back and | fort nicely, back and forth, back and forth, to and fro.(-: (-; :-) hynotising? ; ) u... well last time I tried that it took approx 3-4 hours (IIRC) but then I can only connect at 19200 bps... skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Off topic? How things are going with Linux...
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 17:26, Mark Weaver wrote: | - | If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do | the first time! yeah... what is it with men? ; ) I have to bite my tongue (daily I swear) so as not to say I told you so or if only you'd listen! grin skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question about directory and file permissions
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 12:04, E Estes wrote: | I am in the process of setting up a ftp server for anonymous users but | they have the ability to delete files and/or directories. You can see | how this would be bad if a malicious user logged on to it. I looked | around in the User Manager, Userconf, and Userdrake and didn't see | anything pertaining to what I need to do. I know it will be a simple | thing to do (I would rather learn how to do it in shell) but I am | stumped. | | Thanks in advance if you can help, | Mithrilhall | | =Mithrilhall= | Linux - Mandrake 8.1 | AMD K-2 / 350 Mhz | File Server | FTP Server | Web Server | = I know nothing about servers but perhaps the same principle applies as with any directory or file: In the Mandrake documentation Reference Manual Chapter 3 - Introduction to the Command Line 3.2.2 chmod: Changing Permissions on Files and Directories Thats where I learned about dir/file permissions. There is also man chmod and info chmod. HTH skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] emails
On Thursday 20 December 2001 20:27, chris swain wrote: | Hi all. I use Kmail for my mail program and mandrake 7.2. Ive been having | some strange problems where I have sent an email and it doesnt arrive | until several days later. The last incident I sent the mail on the | 16th and he recieved it on the 20th. chris, its possible that its a problem with your isp. I had the same problem about 6 weeks ago but it only lasted a few days then all was back to normal. The only thing I could put it down to was that my isp was having problems. Hopefully your problem will aslo solve itself soon! skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I've got a strange one
Mark Weaver wrote: Question that is... over the last few days since I used Gmc to browse a few directories last weekend, everytime I start the Kde desktop Gmc filemanager appears along with all the Gnome desktop icons. what in the world is making this happen and how can I make it stop. its so bad I can't sleep at night cause the clowns will eat me! You can also edit ~/.gnome/session and remove the offending gmc entry. The entries in this file are numbered so you may have to renumber them if gmc is not the last entry. Before editing this file, make a backup copy of it. skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI Emulation of CD-ROM
On Monday 17 December 2001 15:56, Ira Bargon III wrote: | Hello, | | I have just installed Linux Mandrake 8.1. I am running it on a system | with and ide atapi cdrom (Kenwood 52X True-X) and a ide atapi cd-rw | (Creative 6424). When i installed mandrake it set up my cdrw for scsi | emulation but it kept my cdrom as ide. Everything works fine, but i cant | use X-cdroast to do a direct copy of a cd because, my cd-rom isn't set | up with scsi-emulation and the program only knows of scsi devices. Does | anyone know of a way i can setup my cdrom for scsi emulation and is | their a way without recompiling my kernel. Maybe a script of something. Edit /etc/lilo.conf. You will see that there is already an entry for your cdrw like: append= hdX=ide-scsi # where X is the cdrw drive letter now add the same for your cdrom drive like: append= hdX=ide-scsi hdY=ide-scsi # where Y is the cdrom drive letter Once you have saved your changes, in a terminal run lilo (as root): # /sbin/lilo Now edit your /etc/fstab file - this depends on what your fstab looks like. For example mine looks like this: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,exec,--,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=iso9660,exec,--,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Where /dev/scd0 is my cdrw and /dev/scd1 is my cdrom. Note that I am using a newer kernel than the stock 2.4.8-26mdk that comes with ML8.1 so I am using supermount - yours may be different as supermount is broken in the 2.4.8-26mdk kernel. The important bit is the /dev/scdX part. And lastly (I'm not sure if this is absolutely necessary) reboot - I'm not sure if just remounting the cdrom will do it so I just reboot. HTH skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kppp help
On Friday 14 December 2001 12:31, David wrote: | my linux box had a sudden crash which suddenly shut down the computer, | when it booted back up i re booted kppp, to get back online. | however all the settings had gone and i had to re-enter them to get | back online. | once online i noticed the two graphical rx tx lights that show kppp is | running and is working failed to come up leaving me with now way to get | back offline other than switching the modem off. | I cant find an rpm called kppp.rpm so how do i reinstall kppp to get it | back as it should be ? | I later noticed that the original kppp config file is still there but | does not get loaded when kppp boots up?? | | mandrake 8.1 | kernel 2.4.13-6smp | freiserFS You can disconnect by typing in a terminal: $ kppp -k As far as the lights not appearing goes, I can't help you with that. I suppose you could try reinstalling the package that contains kppp, whatever package that is, don't know sorry. I see that rpmfind.net has kppp-2.1.1-1.i386.rpm - perhaps you could install that package??? Hopefully someone with more know will help you out here. skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia on kernel 2.4.13-12mdkenterprise
On Friday 14 December 2001 17:09, Mark Weaver wrote: | 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 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 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 till I found the generic multi-sync 74hz - 1024 x 768. | | give it a shot... couldn't hurt. Thanks Mark! I haven't tried using nvidia's closed source drivers again (yet) but took your advice and changed the monitor setting and X server to 3.3.6 - and I'm absolutely stoked that my fonts are a normal size again! I had to set helvetica to size 13 because size 12 was unreadable... well barely readable... now its back to normal anyway. Thanks again. skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kaj Haulrich, lost your address!!
On Saturday 15 December 2001 13:32, Mick wrote: | Hello list, | | Last week, I posted a question about getting CD Burning up and running | on a new LM 8.1 system. Mr Kaj Haulrich answered my questions and then | sent me example files to work from. To make a long story short, my Init | file somewhere on my system became either corrupt or lost. My system | could not boot up. My level of experience with Linux didn't allow me to | save anything from my setup including the files I'd saved from the CD | Burning questions. I re-installed the OS. Mr Haulrich if you read this, | please send me your email address, so I may once again setup my two | CD-ROM drives for Burning. Thank you much, | Mick Duffy Mick, if Mr Haulrich sent his reply to the list you can look it up in the mailing list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/ skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia
On Thursday 13 December 2001 11:49, Steven Spears wrote: | She's running 3. | | How, through command line, do I upgrade to 4. | | I tried through control center, but it didn't work. In Mandrake Control Center you need to choose Expert. Then you can change it. HTH skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nvidia on kernel 2.4.13-12mdkenterprise
Hi all I've been trying to get the nvidia (closed source) drivers to work with 2.4.13-12mdkenterprise but I'm not having much luck. First I tried the source rpms but the kernel source rpm wouldn't compile - Can't insmod NVdriver thingy even tho NVdriver was in the right place. Then I compiled the tarballs which gave no errors and installed correctly - or so it told me ; ) However, I have done this about 8 times now and I've even tried clean reinstalls of ML8.1 (twice) but no go. I have to mess around with XFdrake but testing the config always tells me that there was an error and to change some options. Eventually I choose my monitor (Philips 107S), NVIDIA-GeForce2 DDR (generic) graphic card, 800x600 16bits resolution, XFree 4.1.0 server, quit (without testing), edit XF86Config-4 and startx - everything works fine initially, even tuxracer, tuxkart and gears work fine. But if I log out of X or reboot I start getting segmentation faults on most things I try to do in konsole (bash). The strange thing is once I start getting segmentation faults like trying to open kmail from konsole I can still start kmail from clicking on the menu. Gears, tuxracer, tuxkart, etc won't run at all then. I've tried both nvidia's 1.0-1541.1 and 1.0-2313. I've also upgraded XFree86 but that didn't make any difference. I've tried the depmod -a and reboot thing too but that also made no difference. So basically I give up on trying to use 3D on this kernel. I have a separate installation of ML8.1 on 2.4.8-26mdkenterprise (sharing /boot, /home and /usr/local) on the same computer with NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.8-26mdk-enterprise-1.0-1541.2mdk.i586.rpm installed and working fine (no segfaults) - but supermount is broken in that kernel. The reason I am using enterprise kernels is for the large amount of ram. My graphics card is nvidia GeForce2 GTS PRO 64MB w TV-out. I apologise for the long message but I was just letting ya'll know what I've tried so far. I'm not worried if nobody can help me on this one but any advice would be greatly appreciated. skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake xdos and vintage dos games
| On Sunday 09 December 2001 23:29, you wrote:
| and i figured out how to get xdos to work [although in su mode]
| {any way to launch it as a reg user?}
Have you tried editing the /etc/dosemu.users file? You can add:
fred c_all unrestricted private_setup
for user fred. This gives the user unrestricted privileges and the
private_setup allows the user to have a private dosemu lib in your home
dir (~/.dosemu/lib). I don't really know much about dosemu but I've been
reading about it this morning and found that I can run xdos as user by
editing the users file as above. HTH
skinky
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Re: [newbie] mandrake xdos and vintage dos games
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 09:48, chris huston wrote: | Hi, | I'm trying to play a few of my favorite dos games | using linux xdos. | | Is there a location where i can move the dos games into | its directory structure so i can reach them via xdos? As per README.txt instructions, I made a new directory called drives in /var/lib/dosemu/, created a symlink called C to the mounted dos drive, then edited /etc/dosemu.conf # mkdir -p /var/lib/dosemu/drives # cd /var/lib/dosemu/drives # ln -s /dos C Using your favourite editor (I use vim) as root, edit /etc/dosemu.conf: $_hdimage = drives/* I can now access all files on my dos drive. My dos drive is usually mounted as vfat on /mnt/windows but I created some aliases for root to speed up the dos mounting: alias mdos='mount -t msdos -o umask=000 /dev/hdb1 /dos' alias mw='mount /mnt/windows/' alias ud='umount /dos/' alias uw='umount /mnt/windows' # mkdir -p /dos # mount position for my dos drive so all I have to do (as root) is unmount windows and mount dos before running xdos: # uw# umount /mnt/windows # mdos # mount /dos exit# [Ctrl+D] to return to user $ xdos # run xdos as user and when I'm finished with xdos: $ su Password: [password] # ud# umount /dos # mw# mount /mnt/windows I think you can make symlinks in /var/lib/dosemu/drives to any dos-useable dir on your hd which will give you access to those dirs. For example you'd end up with: /var/lib/dosemu/drives/C /var/lib/dosemu/drives/D /var/lib/dosemu/drives/E /var/lib/dosemu/drives/F and your /etc/dosemu.conf accesses all links in your drives dir. HTH skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bastille
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 04:40, poogle wrote: | I have iptables installed, all the Bastille packages and used | BastilleChooser rather than baffle myself with InteractiveBastille, done | a stealth scan at http://scan.sygatetech.com which shows ports as | closed rather than stealth, I understand from previous posts that if | Bastille is running properly that ports should show as stealth, can | someone tell me where I've gone wrong please ? | -- IIRC the Sygatech port scans should show as blocked if your computer is to be invisible to the internet. Try Shields Up at www.grc.com - that will show your ports as being in stealth or closed mode. If that shows as closed something's wrong which I can't help you with because I use Tiny Firewall (in mcc) but hopefully someone else can help you. skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem in Changing to Single User Mode (runlevel 1)
On Monday 03 December 2001 13:04, Mandrake Newbie wrote: | Hello, gurus! | | I was trying to change from my default runlevel 5 to single user mode | (runlevel 1) using the command of: | | # telinit 1 | | but I think, I hanged up. What could be the problem with this? | | I am using Mandrake 8.1, default kernel 2.4.8. Sorry, don't know much about single user mode - I always boot to runlevel 3. | BTW, I am planning to upgrade to kernel 2.4.13 (mdk.rpm) from | speakeasy.rpmfind.net. How do I upgrade on this? Do I still have to | change from my default runlevel 5 to single user mode (runlevel 1)? | What is more appropriate rpm command in upgrading my 2.4.8 to 2.4.13 | kernel, the rpm -ivh package_name or rpm -Uvh package_name? If I'll | issue the command of: | | # rpm -ivh or -Uvh package_name | | do I still need to configure or something or it will automatically set | up? Use rpm -ivh to install the new kernel alongside your current kernel. Check your /boot directory/partition to check that the kernel image is there. Check /etc/lilo.conf to check that the new kernel is entered and has the same image filename as in /boot. At the top of this file you can make your new kernel the default by replacing the current kernel's label with the new kernel's label. Run /sbin/lilo Reboot and select your new kernel to boot (if you didn't make it the default selection). Enjoy! skinky PS. You should probably also install the new kernel docs, headers and possibly source. I do this before installing the kernel itself using the rpm -Uvh command for those ones. Good luck. -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] taskbar empty
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 07:51, Bill Winegarden wrote: | Hi, | While working on my laptop without a mouse, I somehow selected to not | show running tasks in the taskbar. I now have my mouse backhow do I | re-configure to show the tasks in the task bar? | | thanks in advance, | | Bill W. Right-click in the taskbar and select Preferences. In the window that pops up, select Taskbar on the far left. There you can choose your settings. HTH skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
