Re: [newbie] PHP[OFF TOPIC]
Marc wrote: I was wondering if there is a workaround for the newly arised bug in php (). I have not read alot about it but, I need a workaround or a fix badly! You need to supply ALOT more information that what you did. A) What bug, B) What version? Your best bet for finding PHP information is at its homesite: http://www.php.net -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Where is CONIO.H
bluebottle wrote: On Fri, 05 May 2000, you wrote: Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Steve Nice to see you posting again. Thanks! It's nice to be back. Things have finally slowed down enough that I have time to _play_ with my Linux machines. :) -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] modem/internet connection/cdrom2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Charles, For all of your help trying to figure this out with me. I do not think I have a winmodem though, it is a 'Creative Modem Sound Blaster Flash56 PCI DI5630' modem. With an IRQ:10 and I/O:03E8h-03EFh according to my 'windows system resource report', and from my receipt of purchase. I have asked since I first installed and have not yet heard any ideas as to if it would be a 'good idea' for me to reinstall? As during my installation I set the modem to the wrong com port? I think I see where my modem is and Linux is recoginzing it, just not as what it is 'a modem', it appears from my windows system resource report that my modem has an IRQ;10, also when I ran cat /proc/pci that (device 11) as per below, has an IRQ:10 also, which leads me to believe that it (device 11) is in fact my modem and Linux sees it but it is not properly defined. How to redefine it, of this I am not sure if it is best to re-install or if I can manually set the proper configurations for it from within Linux so that it has the proper settings to function? That odd IRQ could indeed explain alot of your problems in attempting to communicate with your modem. Linux defaults the serial port IRQs to the "typical" IRQ for that port (ie, IRQs 3 and 4). You need to explicitly tell Linux that your serial port is at another IRQ by using: setserial /dev/ttySX irq Y where you replace X with the serial port you're configuring (COM port - 1 (COM1=ttyS0)) and Y with the IRQ number. Also if re-installing is the appropriate method, are there any pointers that anyone could give prior to doing so? I get the feeling that you are and have been right on target with your ideas regarding my modem, and as a result I think you have at least helped me to locate it from within Linux. Reinstallation is NOT going to solve your problem. You'll have spent another hour waiting for the new software to install and you'll be in exactly the same place you're in now. Sound productive? Didn't think so. Thanks again to everyone, b/web Wade I thought winmodems were software modems and not hardware modems, something like a 'unimodem', do I have to purchase a new modem? I also see in looking through the files at Creative for my model 'PCI DI5630' that my modem is supported by Win 95/98 and Win NT, and that it has a Data Interface: PCI bus, and a Host Interface: PCI bus, with a system requirement of Pentium 100 or higher and a 'PCI slot'? Winmodems are defined by the lack of a $.50 part on the board that supplies a "real" serial port to the operating system. Instead, the emulate the hardware in software and drive the thing that way. All in all, it's a nice way for Intel to get people to buy new chips. You're getting confused by Windows terminology though... "Unimodem" is simply a generic modem driver used under Windows when a modem-specific driver isn't necessary. My Zoom 56k modem uses unidriver, but it is not a Winmodem. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] multiple X sessions
bascule wrote: i have read that it is possible to have more than one X session open (on different consoles) but when i switch to ctrl-alt-2 for example, and login and then run startx i get an error message: Server already active for display 0 if no server running , remove /tmp/.X0-lock Try startx -- :1 -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Version 7.1
Robert Krueger wrote: Hello, I currently have RH 6.1 installed, and have several issues that I had hoped would be fixed in the upcoming 7.1 LM. These are: Linksys LNE 100TX ethernet card w/tulip driver and DSL support. Yes, the tulip chipset is supported by the kernel. SoundBlaster Live! sound card compatibility Probably need external drivers for it. Check the Creative Labs site for more information. Promise Technologies Ultra66 DMA support Takes a bit of work, but it's possible to install on drives on the UDMA/66 interface. HP Deskjet 722C support ( graphics and text ) Not a clue... Check the Ghostscript site for more information. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mutt or Pine
Wayne Petherick wrote: Howdy all, I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up properly in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! I am guessing that where it downloads it to is where I have to point my Pine MUA to, but I cannot find in any how to's where this is and how to set it up. I would appreciate if anyone would avoid the temptation to point me to another how to (unless of course it is written for a complete spoon!) and give me some straightforward settings so I can get (preferably Pine) my mail up and running. I am gettting frustrated with underdeveloped GUI's. TIA, Wayne Check /var/spool/mail/username. If it isn't there, check your mail transfer/local delivery agent setup to see where it's configured to put the mail. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Fix the damn mailing lists already
ATTENTION MANDRAKE STAFF: It's been expressed on these lists a couple times now, but noone from Mandrake has deemed it necessary to respond or fix the problem. It would appear that someone has subscribed the expert list to the newbie list. It's causing a doubling of the traffic and is causing messages to be sent to me three times (I'm subscribed to both lists). I'm about -this- close to just saying screw it and unsubscribing. I don't have the patience to wade through the duplicates to find the "real" messages. Fix the damn mailing lists. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Where is CONIO.H
"Gunther C. Hebein" wrote: Hi all! Under DOS there is library for C++ called CONIO.H; There are many functions like "clrscr() etc..). Where's that library under Linux? Try the ncurses libraries. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] to stop the iloveyou virus spreading do this
Oliver Stieber wrote: if you are running windows nt/98/95 make local_machine\software\microsoft\wab read-only using regedit32 create the following files c:\winnt\system32\MSKernel32.vbs c:\winnt\Win32DLL.vbs c:\winnt\system32\LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs and set the files to readonly, Or simply remove Windows Scripting Host from the Accessories portion of Windows Setup. Start-Settings-Control Panel-Add/Remove Programs-Windows Setup. I get to be a bit glib about the "I Love You" mess. We had a few messages come in that were infected, but all of them were stopped at the email gateway by filters that explicitly toss attachments that we don't consider safe (.exe, .hta, .vbs, etc). While sites around the city were shutting down their external connections to "protect themselves", we ran merrily through the entire day. Our cleanup effort? Deleting the "Found a bad attachment" messages from the postmaster mailbox and watching the outgoing queue rise because of closed SMTP servers on the remote side. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] monitor and LILO woes
WolfRyder wrote: I've installed mandrake 7 twice trying to get LILO to work right. Right now, I boot from the rescue floppy because LILO, which worked the 2nd time, would hang up my login screen in Win98. I have multiple users on my puter and where the user name and password goes, the whole thing would justsit there! LILO has absolutely nothing to do with that. If you're able to boot Windows, LILO is working correctly. Strike your login problems up to another Microsoft "innovation". Also, my monitor, which is a Delta DE 570, I got used and have no specs. We guessed on them on installation, but must have guessed wrong because my bootup puts me in the default screen, not KDE, even though I selected it. I'm figuring X didn't get configured right, but how do I do that when I don't know the correct settings for my monitor? I've looked on the net to try to track them down, but no luck. Found the webpage and all, but no specs. Do you have any notion of what the maximum resolution of the monitor is? 1024x768? 1280x1024? Start with a "generic" monitor that supports your max resolution. From there, start at 640x480 and work your way up. I think you'll have better luck with this method than with asking for the max resolution right off the bat. The other thing you may want to check is that you're really booting into graphical mode. At the LILO prompt, enter "linux 5". That will guarantee that it tries graphical mode. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Printer fonts
Bob wrote: On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: I am looking for a way to set the fonts in the KDE mail client. An "Apperance Tab" is indicated. Haven't locaated that. Found GZIP even figured out how to setup Opera for Linux, a few buggs(it's only an ALPHA) promises to be a very good browser. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it. The thing's been in development longer than Mozilla and isn't anywhere close to being usable. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] SIGHUP?
Paul wrote: Hi all Sometimes I feel like I know a bit about Linux, sometimes I run into something that stumps me. Just now, I found this in a text-file: "give qmail-send a SIGHUP" Can anyone tell me what a SIGHUP is, and how you give it to a running process? killall -HUP qmail-send For information on signals, try 'man 7 signal' -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here
Mike Tracy Holt wrote: No, not anymore. If you have an html enabled browser (but I believe only on Windows machines, and that only because of permissions) you can actually 'activate' the virus simply by previewing your mail. I'm not an expert, but I think the only reason there aren't more viruses for Unix / Linux is that there aren't enough people that no how and actually have the motivation to write those viruses. Most anybody can write one for Windows with just a basic knowledge of 'Visual Basic'. Actually, the reason for the lack of Linux virus' is because it's difficult to infect the system binaries and libraries necessary for a good virus outbreak. As a normal user, a virus can only affect files you own. Isn't the only way to get a virus is to get an attached executable file or macro and you activating it? Seve -Original Message- From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 04, 2000 11:31 AM Subject: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here Im sorry to be asking on here about a windows question, but i heard people saying that they scan their e-mails and said they might have gotten viruses from this newsgroup. So im using Mcafee and if there are any Mcafee people out there can u please help me. I feel sorta stupid :) Thanx -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] to stop the iloveyou virus spreading do this
Martin Solms wrote: Our cleanup effort? Deleting the "Found a bad attachment" messages from the postmaster mailbox and watching the outgoing queue rise because of closed SMTP servers on the remote side. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Steve Congrats!! Good to know that you guys have your heads screwed on correctly and that you were not hit!!! Walking through London yesterday they had huge newspaper headlines: Virus hits London etc!!! Sometimes it pays to have a back-asswards network where no two machines even come close to matching. :) -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] GCC...where are you???
David Ramsey wrote: [snip] pretty much select any package you want. And then it seems that it will make all the required entries in the environment and required symbolic links. Otherwise, if you just install the RPM file, it does not. Please understand that the only thing the installer does is use RPM to install a list of packages. Just like you'd do from the command line. The same things happen in either case. Symbolic link and environment creation gets done by post-install scripts within the RPM package that would run the same at install time as they do at the command line. My guess is that you were missing other packages and took the "voodoo problem resolution" method popularized by Windows and reinstalled. If you expect to get much further than the three-days-at-a-time Linux usage, you're going to have to take a bit more time in researching and resolving the problem. Just as an example of the "voodoo problem resolution" method: I work in the IS department with one other person. Part of our job entails monitoring a SQLBase SQL server for crashed and hung processes. We got a call one afternoon that the server was hung. I opened the console tool, found the offending process, and killed it. My partner, who was in the bathroom at the time, came out and declared with a straight face that flushing the urinal must have cleared it up. THAT is what voodoo problem resolution is. No effort to understand the problem or resolution, just declaring that "something" must have fixed it. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Crash after hardware change
Mr A V Moisseenkov wrote: Dear experts, I installed Mandrake 7.0 on a powerful computer, where it worked fine. Than I took the hard drive out and inserted it into my home computer, which is a Pentium 120, Cirrus Logic 5446. Now, when Linux boots and goes through all the text-mode messaging fine, it fails to start up KDE and starts blinking in the text mode. What's interesting about the blinking is that it is still possible to login, but the keyboard works only when the display is on (half a second). It sounds like you told Mandrake to start in graphic mode when it boots. Since it was probably setup for a different graphics chipset (or a different resolution), it just keeps trying to restart gdm. flash, text, flash, text sounds about right for the problem. I had kudzu service on and it reconfigured my graphics card, I believe. I am interested in: - Whether I can run KDE without reinstalling the OS You'll need to rerun Xsetup to reconfigure the graphics modes since your home system doesn't support the chipset or mode you originally configured. - How do I stop Linux from starting KDE by default. At the lilo prompt, enter: linux 3 this will boot the machine into runlevel 3 (instead of 5) which is straight text mode. You'll be able to run Xsetup from here. Before installing Mandrake I tried Corel Linux. It managed to reconfigure itself without any work or even notice from my side. It also configured itself automatically for our university network, which Mandrake did not do even after I tried to manually alter the networking configuration. Unfortunately, Corel Linux crashed twice in two days... Interesting distribution, really. It worked well on one machine here, but was absolutely horrible on the other. Now it's gone from both. It was a freebie install anyway, it came with Corel Office 2k. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] SMP Support
Christopher wrote: Howdy people, first off - Mandrake is my fav distro and I've tried quite a few - bravo! Now, to my prob. Does the installer for Mandrake (I have 7.0) detect for SMP support or is that something I add after installation? My hardware is a Abit BP6 with two 500 mhz Celerons, 128 megs of RAM, VooDoo 3 3000 AGP, ect. If it would work in SMP mode, I'd be very very happy :-) Thnx! ~Christopher Yes, 7.0 will detect the SMP automatically during installation and install an SMP kernel. No worries there. 7.0 doesn't, out of the box, work the with UDMA/66 interfaces on the BP6 board though. It'll make a boot disk during installation for you, but it won't let you install on those drives. A bit annoying, since the patches for the HPT366 interface have been available since the 6.1 days... -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] first graphical version
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kind of a general question here... Does anybody know when Linux first went to a GUI and not entirely command line operated? The X Window System existed prior to Linux being a twinkle in Linus' eyes. Check the XFree86.org site for background information. You might also try the OpenGroup (the name is a bit misleading, really) who actually "owns" the X11 standard. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] A funny thing I noticed
flupke wrote: Actually, this is working with all GTK-based applications. Wanna try again? Netscape is not a GTK-based application. It's Motif. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: Perhaps most of you already know this, but it is new for me. I just noticed something funny with the mouse and scrolling in large windows. Netscape can sometimes show very long pages. The Windoze version supports Ctrl-Home / Ctrl-End to jump up and down to top and bottom. I have not found those shortcut keys in the Linux version. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] monitor brightnes
Omar RodrÃguez wrote: Yes, i alredy maxed it out on the game setup and also manually on my monitor but its still way too dark on windows the drivers came with a tweaking tool for gamma correction it does look a little better but not quite the way its supused to The X Windows System also includes the ability to set gamma correction. Try the -gamma flag to startx (check the X manpage for more information). -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] virtual store set-up
MC_Vai wrote: I hope anybody can help me with this trivial issue: How a WWW server running Apache can make sure a client connection?, Let me explain this straight, this is a project where a www server running mdk-7.0 acts like a virtual store it has to validate the client credit card number stuffs (from a win machine). I was thinking this must be in PHP or something like that but, this is what my question is about: is there another way to do this? (I can't even know if I'm going right or wrong) Where can I get documentation about this? I hope no one bothers about this trivial question, I really appreciate your help. Thanks! Yes, you'll need to have a CGI or server-side script of some sort to validate the information returned from the client-side. That script/program/applet/servlet/etc would take the credit card number offered from the client and verify it against a credit card processing service. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] WWW with 2 PC's
MC_Vai wrote: I know this might sound a little bit freaky but I really need to do this. You _really_ need to kill the HTML and the huge signature. It's a shool project which must simulate a conection to a WWW Virtual Store (a Linux-Mdk 7.0 PC with Apache) from a Win machine. But I really don't know where to start working on. My 1st question would be what is the proper IP Address for the Server? (does it have to be one of the privates [10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255; 172.16.0.0 - 172.16.255.255 o 192.168.0.0 al 192.168.255.255]) Depends on the situation. If you've gotten an IP range assigned by your service provider, you can use a public IP address. If you're using NAT (masquerading) on the Internet gateway, you'll need to use the private address ranges you listed above (as well as configure the gateway to forward HTTP packets to the proper internal machine). Simple situation: put private IP addresses on client and server machines, put them on same network and away you go. If you're not fond of typing IP numbers to connect to the server, add the server's IP and hostname to /etc/hosts on the client machine (or you could configure DNS on the server and point the client to that for name resolution -- which is better depends on network size and how often it changes). I really appreciate if someone could tell me the steps to achieve my goal. (very briefly I'm not asking for a detailed networking tutorial; I actually have some theorical knowledge in networking, It's just I don't have practical experience at all). Unless you've skipped something in the description of the problem above, there's not much practical networking going on... :) -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] PPP security (firewalls and such)??
vern wrote: Okay I'm just one guy with one computer and I like to surf and do email. Is there a way to monitor ports, and keep away evildoers? I'm used to Windoze programs like Black Ice, Zone Alarm and such. I would like to log port scans and such sniffer activity hitting my machine while online. I've read Network HOWTO's IPchains, and firewalling info's HOWTO's and man pages. I have no LAN, no separate 486 machine for a firewall. I've #'ed out all my services and disabled my "super server" (inetd) and tried to be as "security conscious" as I know how. There's a KDE program called kfirewall (front end for ipchains) but no docs, and as of this morning no website to get info on how to use it. What am I missing? I've looked into Ksnuffle but that seems a bit extreme for one machine and one very slow (24K) PPP dialup connection. Any help or ideas would be appreciated! Vern The absolute best packet logger I've been able to come across is something called iplog. By default it logs every connection coming into or out of your machine. You can configure it to ignore some connections through it's configuration file. We currently use it on the DMZ machine at work to monitor connections both legitimate and illegitimate. iplog can be found on Freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net) -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Startup issues.
Sam Roza wrote: Steve, all, Thanks for the replies. Ok, I've edited and all of that, but I can't seem to find the right combos(noaccel still doesn't work, just locks up)... You might try the release notes for 3.3.5 at the XFree website. They might have better information about any problems with using the Cirrus chipset. XFree is at www.xfree86.org Now I've discovered that I can get my plain GUI to work excellently, but the KDE desktop just locks up. Not sure why it locks up when it should just look crappy. What do you mean "plain GUI"? You mentioned in an earlier message that you were going to boot with "linux 3"... that will get you just plain text mode that doesn't have much to do with video card resolutions at all. When the "can you see this message" message pops up after setting up, everything looks good until the countdown numbers change, then it fails to redraw, and all of the numbers and letters write over each other. Makes me think this is a Monitor issue... Well, the monitor only draws what the video card tells it to. I'd look into deja.com to see if there are any messages from other Cirrus users that might point out what sorts of problems they've encountered. My monitor is a Compaq V70 17" monitor Hor. sync 30-69 and Vert. 37.5 @1280x1024. It is not in the monitor list, and when I set custom params, I choose the closest to it, and I get garbage, go as low as possible...same effect. Are you comfortable editing /etc/X11/XF86Config? You can set the correct parameters in that file. Won't make alot of difference until you get the video card issues sorted out though... -- Steve Philp, MCSE / MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Display - Gtk warning
Audrey Beck wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Francois Massonneau wrote: Hi, When I want to run a program, this is the warning message I've (and of course, the program doesn't fire up) : Gtk-WARNING ** : cannot open display. I have a Matrox Millenium II, and have no problem when running Xwindow. What do I have to do to make it works ? Thanks. Francois Set $DISPLAY, and try again.. export DISPLAY=:0 I can export this ok and it shows in my env, but it doesn't fix the errors about $DISPLAY that I'm getting. Well, it fixes the part where it tells me $DISPLAY is not setup in env. Can you help here? # netcfg _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/lib/rhs/netcfg/netcfg.py", line 24, in ? from rhtkinter import * File "/usr/lib/rhs/python/rhtkinter.py", line 52, in ? e = Entry() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1288, in __init__ Widget.__init__(self, master, 'entry', cnf, kw) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1042, in __init__ BaseWidget._setup(self, master, cnf) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1017, in _setup _default_root = Tk() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 844, in __init__ self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className) TclError: couldn't connect to display ":0" It may be a stupid question, but is X running when you're trying to start netcfg? -- Steve Philp, MCSE / MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Startup issues.
Sam Roza wrote: Ernie, I am past this now...I know the chipset(GD5436), and the RAM is at least 2 MB(there's a Kingston VRAM upgrade on the motherboard). I've run xf86config and Xconfigurator so many times I can enter all responses without looking now. I also have the specs for my monitor, and setting the correct settings does nothing but give me a screen so huge in size that I have to scroll my mouse in all directions to see it. Still nothing(as my last posts say)...I've updated my config file just like the readme's say and I'm at my ropes end. I don't think I've ever had this much trouble with Win95... Don't despair! Sounds like you've got all of the beginnings working, now it's just time to tune the behaviour. Go ahead and start X again into that huge desktop. Try the Ctrl-Alt-NumPad+ and Ctrl-Alt-NumPad- key combinations to see if any of those help with the big desktop issue. Really, it's just a matter of editing /etc/X11/XF86Config to get rid of the resolutions that you don't want. But first, make sure that the larger resolutions really work. Drop a note back if this helps. -- Steve Philp, MCSE / MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Turning off autocomplete in SO51
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: A simple question about SO51: As I type, many words seem to try to complete themselves automatically. For instance, if I try to type the word "transformation" and begin with "tran...", before I get a chance to complete the word, i.e. when I get to the letter "t", SO tries to complete it as "tranquility". "Rest... (i.e. "restoration") becomes "restlessness". I have tried to find out how to turn off this annoying opertion but I have no idea where. Nothing in my Que book about it, either. It's not Autocorrect or Autospell. What is it, please? Have you considered browsing/posting to the StarOffice newsgroups? These questions just seem to be drifting further and further off-topic... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] riva tnt drivers
Traci Collins wrote: John Aldrich wrote: John, Which revision of XFree from the Mandrake mirrors is the first that has the Riva TNT upgrades already in it? I would like to check to see if I am using the full support on my hardware and I don't know which rev number the upgrade would be included in. I'm not John, but I believe 3.3.5 was the first to include full TNT support. The server carried at the nVidia website is still faster, but that should change when XFree86 4.0 ships. On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote: hi again, has any one download the drivers for linux of the RIVA TNT from www.nvidia.com ? well I' m a little confused. from their ftp server I don't know which file I need to download in order to use it. I don't have any problem with my system. All works very good but as long as I remember I use the standard settings with the display. I want to configure it again with the new drivers. Thanks anyway... I think you can just go grab the updated X server tarball from www.xfree86.org or the RPM from rpmfind.net or one of the other Mandrake mirrors. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] crash tests....
Josh McCaffrey wrote: sometimes several seconds to do anything. If I have 60ns EDO RAM, what would disk swapping be comparable to? Well, typical disk accesses are around 10ms is I remember correctly... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] how about movies?
Lovister LJ wrote: Hi, it's me again. I wonder if there is any program to play MPEG movie files? I have a lot of vcd's that I like to try to watch on Linux. Any info is greatly appreciated. For VCDs, you'll need a program called mpegtv. You can find a link to it by doing a search on freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net). It's a commercial program, but it's only like $20. It works pretty well as my copy of Four Weddings and a Funeral can attest! :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Win95 modem connect to Linux
Bill Barnes wrote: Hello all: The Win95 setup: Dialup networking using 'Slip: Unix connection', log onto network, TCP/IP' or'PPP, Windows95, Windows NT 3.5, Internet', log ontonetwork, enable software compression, TCP/IP' TCP/IP settings: specified IP address, specified name server address, use IP header compression, Use default gateway on remote network. no scripting. The Linux box: /etc/resolv.conf contains 'search domain-name' nameserver host IP' The modem reaches my ISP. The phone dials from Win95 and I can see it ringing on my other line but the Linux box never answers. I must be missing some configuration setting but can't determine where. Isn't PPP/SLIP/PLIP on the Linux box for outgoing connections? Thanks for any help Bill Barnes You need to setup mgetty on the modem device to answer. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Lots of problems on install
Dan Ferris wrote: Well. I just got Mandrake Installed. So far nothing but grief with it. Don't know what its doing but I have a couple of problems. 1. Seems that it installed KDE fine. Only problem is that it somehow messed up the graphics for the buttons. NONE of the KDE apps have the correct pixmaps for their buttons. There is a known conflict with between a pair of KDE packages that causes this problem. You need to reinstall the kdelibs package. 2. Netscape seems to hang when I start. Not only that, it crashes my proxy server when it connects. I looked at the Netscape problem page on the mandrake web page, and set the environment variables that it told me to set, but still no luck. What are you using for a proxy server? Setting up Netscape for proxies has (for me) always just been a matter of going to the correct preferences page and setting hostname and port numbers for the proxy. 3. When I open a console in X, and I SU to root and try to run an X application (any one doesn't matter) it gives me an error that I an unable to connect with the X server permission is denied. What permissions do I have to change. Funny thing, this only messes up when I am ROOT not a normal user. ??? Actually, if you 'su user' to another user, it will also cause a problem. It's a security feature that prevents people from watching/launching programs on your desktop. To get around it, you can issue 'xhost +localhost' before doing the su. When you're done with the su, issue 'xhost -localhost' to reenable security. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Lnx4win install problems
Neil Galvin wrote: Hi I've just tried installing Lnx4win and I get the following error: "MNI Received. Dazed and confused, you probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips." The computer then froze. So I restarted it. After it restarted I then did a custom install, I think, everything went OK. But, when I 'run' Linux It will not let me passed the login screen It says ' localhost.login:' and when I type 'Root' or 'User' it just flashes off again. Any help would be much appreciated. Capitalization is important in Linux. The root user does not start with a capital letter. Also, 'User' should be the username you entered during setup. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Re:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta sndconfig will not work with the ensoniq pci card you have to (as was mentioned b4) goto the creative labs page, dl the ensoniq driver and install it Excuse me? I think you're thinking of the Live! line of Creative cards. The Ensoniq-driven cards have been supported for quite awhile by the mainline kernel. sndconfig works VERY well for them. I'm using an ES1371 on my machine now -- sndconfig picked it up without a problem. "Serpico" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/01/99 03:59:27 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote: I just installed Mandrake Linux6 on my system. I have no manual and can't find an answer to why my sound card was not detected. It's a Creative Labs Ensoniq pci card. It's seems to be compatible but I don't understand all the terminology about fixing it. Can anyone explain in layman's terms (or using Win98 commands/instructions as a comparison) how to get sound working? Thanks in advance. You probably need to go to the Creative Labs website and download the special drivers they have for Linux. Which sound card is this? Is it the SBLive??? That one has known problems under Linux... John Thanks John, but it's the ensoniq pci version and I've been told that it works. I just need to config my system to detect it as I have been told to do. So I'll try 'sndconfig' and see what happens. Unfortunately I haven't had the time to play with the suggestions yet. And I'm still learning how and where to type these commands. I hope to get it working with the rest of the system, sad to have no sound... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] re: re: Lost my printer
Joe Marcom wrote: Steve, Yes, it works. The command "lpr -Plp0 will print any file. I hope the /etc/profile you asked for was just a test...it was pure enigma. Now, if/when you have time, I would like to learn whatn went awry and make it right. However, if you have things to do in the "real" world, then please accept my thanks. Regards, Joe Excellent! This seems to be a frequent problem Here's how to fix it: Edit /etc/printcap. In that file, you'll see a line that starts: lp0: Add: lp| to the beginning of that line so it reads: lp|lp0: Save the file, then run: /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart You should now be able to print to your heart's content! Enjoy! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] UPDATE: lost my printer
Joe Marcom wrote: Hello again, Steve; Bad news first, this time. lpr /etc/profile lpr: lp: unknown printer lpq lp: unknown printer status all unknown printer restart all lp0 no daemon to abort lp0 daemon started lp1 no daemon to abort lp1 daemon started I'm consistent, anyway. Then, I went to X and opened the Kpackage Handbook. Perfect printing. Didn't need to run "Printtool", either. Back to command mode and the "unknown printer" error. I hope you can recognize a pattern here. BTW, interesting, re sndconfig and installation. I noticed it was an issue, recently. Regards, Joe Joe, Try this from the command line: lpr -Plp0 /etc/profile Does it work? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] UPDATE: lost my printer
Joe Marcom wrote: Steve: Thanks. I would not have thought that I HAD to run a command line in X. Well, I don't recall whether there's a link to control-panel from the KDE menus or not. I'd assume so. Either way, the command line is alot quicker (and much easier to describe!). Now, I have good news and bad news: the good news is that your advice worked. Also, the dialog box shows that my printer was included during Excellent! the install. The bad news is that I can print ONLY while in X, and I must run "printtool" each time. Have I missed something simple, or is What happens when you try to print? Does it just not come out? Do you get an error message? Try the command: lpr /etc/profile from the command line. Does it print? Are there things stuck in the print queue? Use the command 'lpq' to see. The 'lpc' command can sometimes be of help in sorting out problems. Give it a try and when the prompt comes up, type 'status all' then 'restart all'. That should at least get things out of the queue (and post the info from status all, it will help to debug the problem). this a L-M oversight, akin to not making "sndconfig" part of the install? Regards, Joe From what I understand, there are technical reasons not to run sndconfig during installation. I'm not recalling exactly what they were, but it's annoying either way. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Motherboards
bluebottle wrote: Help! A friend wants to build a linux box using either a single or twin Celeron. As I use AMDs I dont know much re Intel. He is thinking about ABIT boards either: ABIT BP6 i440BX Dual Socket 370 ATX I'm currently using this board and I'm extremely happy with it. The machine only runs Linux and is very stable. Support for the UDMA/66 interface is available in Mandrake and in 2.3.x kernels. I'd recommend this board for someone wanting to play around with SMP and who doesn't mind being dead-ended at Celeron socket 370 chips. I do recall someone else posting about using a slot-1 motherboard and the slotket boards. This probably represents a better investment since you can then move to any of the slot-1 cpus when you decide you've outgrown the Celerons. Sorry, I don't recall the model or manufacturer of the board. Anyone? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Newbie
Ger-Bil Jinn wrote: Hello, I'm a newbie to this list, and obvious Linux. So before I make a complete fool out of myself, what are the general rules and guidelines to this list? (besides the general no-flaming and no-spamming) No HTML is probably the big rule. Decent line lengths (around 70-72 works well) is probably second. Check the archives first, we've covered alot of the general stuff. Post detailed info about the problem. Follow those things and you'll have a wonderful time on the list! (You're already three steps ahead of most just by asking!) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] install bug?
touco wrote: my video card is a trident 3dimage975 agp i have these two options in manual install: when writing to /etc/X11/xf86Config i get a "explicit kill" message. when writing to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xf86Config i get: Vertical Refresh Rate Expected It looks like there's information missing from /etc/X11/XF86Config. Have you tried running Xsetup again to rewrite the file? Steve Philp wrote: touco wrote: i've done it everywhichway but loose video card is listed and i know the memory. i had the same hardware running on mandrake 6.0. i tried to xf86config the resolutions and all but it still gives me an "error Config: 302" What video card? Maybe you could post your XF86Config file? maybe my Komodo monitor just plain and simple isn't compatible with 6.5. if i go back to 6.0 i'll still have my hand's full with an os better than windows. ever hear of BeOS? Just kidding The Komodo monitors work with Mandrake without problems. I've got their 17" model here. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] . . .that one question
Seth Gibson wrote: Greetings all! Im taking a survey for a web project im working on and i was wondering if anyone interested would mind answering the following question: When you were just getting started in linux, what was question (or questions) you had that no one seemed to have an answer for? Why my Sony CDU31A cdrom worked during installation, but didn't work after rebooting and starting the new installation (was Slackware 2.3 or something like that -- Linux kernel was 1.0.9). How to configure X mode lines (this was before all the pretty configuration utilities). I spent just over a year using Linux without being able to use X. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Re: [newbie] OFF TOPIC !]
Jaguar wrote: Steve That makes a ton of sense. Anything to help a newbie get better aquainted with a new OS. As a side point, you mention SuSE, and Caldera... I have L-M 6.0 installed and I have some old distro's of those and a few other's. Now L-M supports RPM's and other _package_ installs. Is it worth while to browse these other distro's for MORE software ( given the fact that LIBS and stuff get indtalled also)?? Both of the other distributions that you mention (SuSE and Caldera) package their distribution using RPM as well. This makes it a little easier to "cut and paste" between the two because you have a .src.rpm available on the other distribution. A quick rebuild of the binary package from the source would ensure that it's using the updated libraries available on your new system. The one thing I _would_ do is check for updated packages. Alot of times there are updates since the other distribution shipped. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Netscape displays tiny fonts
William Winslow wrote: I found that by changing a few values in my font config file made a formidable difference. Below is my settings. The file exist at /etc/X11/fs/config. Note that I changed the line under catalogue to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts to '125dpi' and the line below it to '100dpi'. I then changed the # 100 x 100 and 75 x 75 section to read 'default-resolutions = 125,125,100,100' ...bill catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/125dpi:unscaled, Do you _really_ have a 125dpi directory filled with fonts? If not, this line is being silently ignored. # in 12 points, decipoints default-point-size = 125 # 100 x 100 and 75 x 75 default-resolutions = 125,125,100,100 THIS is the line that's causing the difference that you're seeing. It's causing the font server to realize that the display is not 75dpi but is instead 125dpi, which is probably closer to reality. You may also want to try using 'startx -- -dpi 125' from the command line. That will inform the X server that you don't want 75 dpi also. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] DNS problems.
Ken wrote: Hi again all. Okay got my KPPP to dial out nice. It connects awsome, i can manually enter in IP numbers and it goes there. But i still cant access my DNS server. I have even edited my /etc/resolv.conf it looks like this search connected.bc.ca nameserver 207.23.253.201 nameserver 207.23.253.202 I really am getting frustated as to what i have done wrong. Any idea?? maybe i missed something in config? Thanx for your time and for letting me pick your brains. =0 Can you use names as root? If yes, check permissions on /etc/resolv.conf. Does /etc/resolv.conf still show correct information when you're online? KPPP has an annoying checkbox that will allow you to override the information in /etc/resolv.conf. From the sounds of it, routing is okay, since IP pings get responses. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Cannot save or backup in SO
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: 1) Can't SAVE: "Error while saving document Untitled 1: Object not accessible The object cannot be accessed due to insufficient user rights." 2) Can't BACKUP: "Could not create backup copy" Check to make sure that it's trying to save it in your home directory. If you were in another directory when you started StarOffice, it's possibly trying to save it there. Don't laugh, it happens to me in Netscape all the time. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] OFF TOPIC !
Joachim Holst wrote: Hi ! I've just joined this list, and I wonder why the h?ck is there so much debate about getting EI to run on a Linux system ?? Isn't it better to get Mozilla in working order giving us an alternativ to propriety software ?? Yes! It's of immensely more importance to get Mozilla stable. Unfortunately, old habits die hard and people want to stick with software they've used before. I have a feeling that THAT (or quite possibly, people just want to troll the mailing list for reactions) is the reason for the IE postings. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] OFF TOPIC !
Joachim Holst wrote: On tor, 25 nov 1999, you wrote: Joachim Holst wrote: Hi ! I've just joined this list, and I wonder why the h?ck is there so much debate about getting EI to run on a Linux system ?? Isn't it better to get Mozilla in working order giving us an alternativ to propriety software ?? Yes! It's of immensely more importance to get Mozilla stable. Unfortunately, old habits die hard and people want to stick with software they've used before. I have a feeling that THAT (or quite possibly, people just want to troll the mailing list for reactions) is the reason for the IE postings. You could have a point there, and now I have reacted. I don't join a mailinglist concerning Linux to get updates on the possibility of porting an MS app to Linux. Another thing about IE, is that a Swedish computer magazine (PC+) made a survey of what browsers were most used. Of cuorse, IE won the race, but it doesn't really mean a thing. I mean, that if someone gave you a pre installed machine with window maker for example and you don't know about alternatives, then why should you use for example KDE or Gnome insteas. May it be that KDE or Gnome ar far superior to Windowmaker when it comes to usability for Linux starters. Hope you get my point here. Think I lost it somewhere.. Actually, that's a very good point. Think of Red Hat and Mandrake on both sides of this coin. Red Hat prefers to ship their distribution defaulting to GNOME. Mandrake ships theirs defaulting to KDE. Is one superior to the other? In technical ways, probably. In political ways, probably. Do they both allow you to simply get your work done? Yes. For that, neither is superior to the other. However, the interesting question is the one you raise: given the default desktop, how many people actively seek out other alternatives? I'd imagine it's probably a small percentage, probably those who've used other desktops/window managers previously. Could a Linux distribution survive (or alternately, keep it's customers happy) concentrating on one desktop? I'm not familiar enough with Corel's new offering to know whether they ship GNOME, but it could be an interesting path for them to completely concentrate on a single desktop. Personally, I'd love for a distribution to do it. Ship a single desktop. Ship a single set of applications created/molded to that desktop. Do away with the 15 choices of editors/mp3 players/mail readers/etc. For sure, it would be a much more compact installation. It would also be much easier from a quality control aspect since you'd be dealing with 1/3 to 1/2 the applications. Anyone know of a distribution currently taking that route? For the current extremes, you'd have to look at something like Mandrake which ships a "normal" distribution. For the most part, it's no more or less like any of the other big distributions (save one, but I'll get to that). Take a look at the package list and you'll find the same packages in Mandrake that you'll likely find in Caldera. Contrast that with SuSE and you'll find that Mandrake is rather conservative in the things they include. SuSE ships with applications and utilities that I haven't seen in 6 years of Linux use! Sure, it's nice to have all the choices, but the installation must seem extremely daunting to a new user. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Where is list of rpms?
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends; Another suggestion to Mandrake: Please, don't think I'm trying to be an ass in answering this, it's not my intention. It would help immensely if users, especially paying users, had a full and complete list of all Mandrake rpms, either on the installation CD or cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS; ls ~/rpm-list and you've got a list of all of the shipped packages. Need a list that includes a bit more information? cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS for i in *.rpm; do rpm -qpli $i ~/rpm-full-descriptions done the rpm contrib, in fact, there should be, I believe, a full and up-to-date list of all rpms, programs, documentation, etc available in a separate constantly updated brochure. Just not possible. Packages are updated and added to the contrib sections constantly. Any attempt at tracking them with a static document is just asking for headaches. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] modem configuration problem
ben bradley wrote: i believe, and this just might be me... but i don't think that you can use winmodems with linux hence the name winmodem i think they will only run with windows i know they won't run under dos anyone know if this is true? Absolutely true. Of course, some company had to go and break that rule... That's right, there are now LinModems as well. Do yourself a favor and avoid them. There are better things for a CPU to be doing than the work of a $.50 part on a modem. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] /swap file - 128 or 256
Benjamin wrote: Dear friends: Last question: I have an AMD K6-2 400 Mhrtz with 128 megs of real RAM. Should I go for a 128 swap file or a 256 swap file? Any special advantage to having a 256 swap file? It will depend on the kinds of jobs that you'll be running on the machine. If you estimate that you'll go over 256M of virtual memory, go for the extra swap space. Hard drive space is cheap. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] /swap file - 128 or 256
Brett Jones wrote: Linux will not use a swap partition over 128. if you need more swap space, make two swap partitions. That hasn't been true for quite awhile now... Benjamin wrote: Dear friends: Last question: I have an AMD K6-2 400 Mhrtz with 128 megs of real RAM. Should I go for a 128 swap file or a 256 swap file? Any special advantage to having a 256 swap file? Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic
Mike Perry wrote: Hi! I know this is off topic, but I noticed that a lot of you guys are Network Admins or similar.. I was just wondering if the following Saga is common practice by you guys... We have just been connected in the past month to the Internet at work and the following is the Lowdown of the past 2 days here. BTW, my work machine is a Windoze98 one :-( Yes, it's completely common (on both sides of the tale). Businesses providing Internet access have a large responsibility to ensure that it doesn't provide/promote an "uncomfortable workplace" and that the facilities are not used to harass others. That goes for inside and outside the company. You know, if the stupid bugger would just give me a call and say "We don't want you to go to porno sites or chat with your work computer" Then he wouldn't need to fartass around wasting both his time and mine, as I DON'T go to Porno Sites, and if it really get's his knickers in a knot about chatting, then OK, it is possible to accommodate him... But that would be to logical and wouldn't allow him to flex his scrawny little Nerd Muscles. Ever consider that there's 200 of you little buggers running around? Heck, he MIGHT have time to actually send an email about the new situation if he weren't having to create login scripts to counteract all the changed settings and extra software being placed on the computer. And what will appear on my screen during Logon tomorrow morning? Maybe a variant on Deltree C:\progra~1\Netscape or something? Jesus if he wasn't acting like an asshole I wouldn't be wasting my time trying to foil him.. Take a hint. The filter is there for a reason. If you've got a complaint about it, take it up with HR. IS doesn't make the rules, it follows them. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] I need to download Blue Screen of Death graphic image!
M Thompson wrote: Hi all, I'm doing a marketing presentation on Linux and I want to start out with an image of the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" from Windows. Please give me a URL where I can find such an image. Any image format will do. There's probably something usable in the xscreensaver source package. The BSOD screensaver has a Blue Screen for a screensaver (along with some other OS "utoh" screens). -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Modem settings.
Gilles Lahaie wrote: Help Again! My modem is ISA PnP. the Windows settings are COM 4, IRQ 11. When using Dialer and trying to interrogate the monitor, I receive message saying that modem is occupied.. which is truly false.(I use the right stty3) Is there a way to manually set the IRQ in Linux or should I configure the modem as non PnP? if I do so, i will set it to COM 4, with the IRQ who goes along with this Com port and I guess this will cause some problem when using Windows... Thanks again for help. Use the setserial command: setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 11 Then try using the dialer again. If it works correctly, add the setserial line to the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it will be run automatically everytime you boot. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Quake 3 Arena video cards
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Lionel Barrow wrote: Does anyone know if the demo of Quake 3 Arena that just came out works with any other cards that those based on 3Dfx I really don't wanna have to download this thing only to find out that I can't use it. Also, how can I set up my Red Hat 6.1 box to run it using a TNT2 Ultra card Thanks in advance. 2.2.12 kernel X ver 3.3.5 How about posting to the id mailing list or the Red Hat mailing list? Nothing in your post makes it even remotely applicable to a Mandrake mailing list. Hey your right, 'cept i need a tnt guinepig :) If you're serious, I've got a 32M TNT Ultra 2. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Memory - what a hoot!
Eric Mings wrote: I originally posed the question about where to find good prices on memory. Thanks to everyone who responded! Anyways, as a comparison, the local CompUSA quoted me a price close to $500 for 128 meg PC 100 memory. I just ordered it from Access Micro for $140! I repeatedly asked to make _sure_ the Access Micro memory was PC100 (not 66) and they assured me it is. Amazing to me. There are probably other sources that would have been close to that amount but I wanted to pay by business check instead of plastic (which many others couldn't/wouldn't do). Pays to shop around! Sure, call me lazy, but do you happen to have an URL for Access Micro? I'd like to pick up another 128 for this machine and that's the best price I've seen since I bought this stick 6 months ago. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Is Mutt restricted to 80x24 Screen?
Peter Heckert wrote: Hello Steve, On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 11:02:51PM -0500, Steve Philp wrote: Peter Heckert wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Did you try resizing while running mutt or before starting it? Maybe xterm isn't reporting the change in window size correctly? Try a 'resize' (it's a command) before starting mutt and see if that makes a difference. I resized the console first,then I typed "resize | sh". This solved the problem. Now I'm wondering why mc and tin dont need this command. They're probably linked against the ncurses library instead of slang. You _could_, of course, recompile the mutt package against the ncurses libraries if it's not already linked that way (haven't looked). -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Here's the latest info on Opera for Linux...
M Thompson wrote: This story was copied from: http://www.opera.com/interviews/linux.html [SNIP] DS I'm thinking before Christmas because I get a bonus! The test group is quite pleased with what we've sent out and I've gotten a lot of positive feedback. Great, we get fed crap because the guy gets a bonus for shipping before Xmas... I thought Linux was supposed to free us from the "rush it out the door" syndrome. That's the joy of open source boys and girls, it ain't done til it's done... Are you adding anyone to the test group? Can I e-mail somewhere to get on the list? DS No, I'm afraid not as the test group has already been settled. The bigger the pool of eyes, the shallower the pool of bugs. [SNIP] How will the Linux version compare to the Windows version when it comes to features? DS We don't have mail and news but we should have everything else. In a lot of cases we will have more features to make Linux users happy. 2 years and no mail or news? Double-bah. [SNIP] Which GUI toolkit will Opera for Linux be based on? DS It's based on QT right now and the window manager that we use will work under Gnome and KDE which is my first priority. We'll add support for other window managers in version 4.1. It should run under all the window managers but will lack integration. Someone mind explaining to me why a BROWSER requires it's own window manager? It's a fscking application for pete's sake! Create the top-level window and forget it. Sheesh... this thing's gonna be a pile of crap. What kind of dependency problems, if any, might a user run into installing it? DS Right now it's running on a computer with nothing but a kernel, the standard C++ libraries and X Windows. There are no other requirements as we include the libraries. What about the concept of shared libraries. Thanks, but I've already GOT Qt installed on this machine. Use it. This "ship the system libraries with the applications" is Windowsish to the core. Will Opera for Linux offer an automated install script for generic Linux or come packaged for the different flavors (rpm, deb etc...), or both? DS There will be a lot of different installation options including simple tar files for advanced users as well as advanced shell scripts for end users. How about creating a tarball, a .deb and an .rpm package and calling it a day. What system did I miss? Will Opera for Linux offer browsing from the console? DS The QT edition does not, however another version we are currently working on will be console, right now we have two different versions: console and X-Windows. Unless that's an FBDev graphical browser for the console, thanks but no thanks. Lynx and (umm, what's the name of the other one?) work just fine. Which flavors of Linux will be supported initially? DS Linux in general - anything with a 2.x kernal and X free 86 version 3.3.3.1 or better on an intel platform. Within a week after the first release we expect a public beta on Linux for Sparc. Will Opera for Linux support integration into different desktop environments, for instance "NeXTish docking", Gnome Panel integration and KDE? DS To a certain degree yes, however, the first version will be focused on browsing. This is something we'll be implementing, but in later versions; perhaps after 4.1 or 4.2. Well thank you, Darren, for taking some time out of your busy schedule to chat with us today. DS It's no problem, I don't mind at all. I think what the interviewer forgot to mention was that we might have had a browser over a year ago if these putzes weren't out trying to reinvent the wheel. We've got a variety of window managers and people are highly tied to their personal choice of manager. Forcing them to move to another one for a browser will seal the browser's fate. Step back and think hard about forking your money over to a company that clearly does not get the Linux platform. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Re: [newbie] Install problems...]
Simon Norris wrote: No, my Linux box is also a desktop, and it doesn't support ATAPI devices, which is why I do what I do! BTW, I have actually researched connectivity for my laptop IDE interface, apart from the size, my laptop IDE interface is the same as standard!! I'm tempted to wire up a conector and give it a go! You'll also find that the 2.5" laptop IDE drives have 44 pin connectors that are spaced much more closely together than a typical 3.5" desktop IDE drive. There are adapters available, but for what you get, they're damned pricey. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] OS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q: How many Internet mailing list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb? Nice one David. At the same time as I posted the odd digit fact I sent a copy to Bill Gates. I've had an email from an M$VP assuring me that Windows 3111 will correct this problem but it's too far ahead to give me a price in the UK. Now THAT's humor! Thanks for the laugh John -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ISP connection good...FIRE BAD
Jim Vaughan wrote: josh mccaffrey wrote: Boy, people thought I was a 'puter geek when I was using windoze... After several re-installs and reconfigurations of internet sofware, I think I've finally gotten pretty close to where I'd like to be. I can use my ISP connection as an unpriveleged user! Linux also doesn't gobble 73% of my HD. I'm learning alot, and when I get some more cash, I'll be getting some better books. I guess my "Mastering Windows 95" book is pretty useless now as well as "The Expert Guide...". This has been somewhat fun, if not frustrating for me and my family. I'm learning alot, and am thinking about finding another ISP that offers Linux/Unix support. There's plenty of smaller ISP's, and I'd think some of them would be more inclined to offer support. Mindspring tries to help, but let's face it, Linux hasn't quite gotten the market share as Microsoft and Mac. Josh Atlanta, GA I would have to highly recommend Corecomm.net as an ISP that provides support to the Unix/Linux community. They were and have been very helpful as well as providing the necessary info to setup my ppp connection. Are you in the Atlanta area? I'll be visiting in a couple weeks and I'm looking for some suggestions of things I should check out over a weekend. Anything you could recommend? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Mailing list problem
Would someone please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the mailing list until his email client problems are resolved? I'm sure we're all a little tired of reading how his client is unable to read messages with forwarded content... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Kernel compile for no external cache
"Neil K. Erickson" wrote: Is there a compile switch for handling a computer with no external cache or will the kernel handle this with no problems? Thanks It's not something that the kernel really has to worry about, just compile your kernel normally. If it were missing an FPU, then you'd have to add in a compile-time option. I'm wondering though: what chip do you have without external cache? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] No bounces???
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Bad form to reply to my own message, I know, but just a "heads up" that the bounces are still occuring. :( I know... :-( Sheesh. I'm doing the same job they are and at least *I* admit when there's a problem with our configs. :-( Ah, but it's so much EASIER to blame someone else! And you don't lose a life in whatever game you happen to be playing at the time either. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] connect/software issue?
PadLocke wrote: This one was an enigma till I "fixed" it. Mandrake dist. 6.0. Used kppp to dial into my ISP and all was well. The problem was that I couldn't launce anything while I was connected. No email client, browser, filemanager, terminal, nothing. Thing was though, that any app that was running before I connected would run normally, unless it launched a seperate thread. Then, of course, that thread wouldn't run. My "fix" I was installing a new kernel and messed up. Of course I didn't make a backup of my working kernel. That would have been the smart thing to do right? Anyway. I had to reinstall from my dist. CD and everything worked the way it was supposed to work after that. I could launce whatever I wanted before and after and during my connection to my ISP. Reinstallation is hardly a fix for the simple problem at hand. You got lucky on the second try is all... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] emu10k1
"Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia" wrote: I have an SB Live sound card that i am trying to get running under linux. About a couple of weeks ago i downloaded emu10k1 but i have some qestions about some of the instructions it gives. How do I: 1) "unload all existing soundcard drivers, including soundcore?" (if this step requires compiling the kernel, i am going to need really detailed instructions because i would not even know where to begin :-) , if not, what else do i have to do?) Use lsmod to list the modules currently installed into the running kernel. For each of them that looks like it refers to a soundcard, use: rmmod module-name on the right-hand side of the list will be some names in parentheses. You'll need to remove the ones with names there before you can remove the ones in the parentheses. 2) "remove all old soundcard references from /etc/conf.modules" (if this is the sound card i had during the install of linux do i have to perform this step, if so how?) 3) "know if my kernel is compiled with version information?" Check /etc/conf.modules to see if there's any sound modules referenced in there. If there are, just delete the lines and save the file. Hope that helps! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Re: general info on where files are kept
Jaguar wrote: Is there a HOWTO on the basic file types, and where certain types are located ie: as in *.DOC is a document, *.INI is an initialization file located in the Windows SUB-DIR. You can usually tell what type of file it is by using the command: file filename It will respond with it's type. For beginners, system configuration files are in /etc. Files necessary to boot the system are in /bin, /sbin, /lib, /boot, and /etc. System administration files are in /sbin and /usr/sbin. Libraries are kept in /usr/lib. The X Window System is stored in /usr/X11R6. Local software installations typically go in /usr/local. Files that change frequently get stored in /var. /tmp _used_ to be cleaned at each boot, but I'm not sure if that's true anymore (and I'm not interested enough to check the boot script). System daemons and other services are launched from scripts within /etc/rc.d. /opt is typically used for large commercial packages like StarOffice, etc. Hope that brief rundown gives you a general idea of things... I guess what I would like is to understand the why's/where's of the file structure and naming convention's of Linux. Maybe knowing what is what will allow me to get a better grip on Linux. As I see it, when I install a new program, unless it creates a link TO the file in a menu, I have NO clue where it ends up on the HD. Only using the FIND FILE can I try to narrow it down, and even then I can't always find them...:( If the files come in an .rpm package, you can use the command: rpm -ql package to list the files contained in the package. If you find a file and wonder what package it came from, you can use: rpm -qf filename To get a brief description of the package, use: rpm -qi package Sorry to be long winded, but as a newbie, I am sure other's have similar problems, and understanding them might make it easier on me/us. There is a document called the Linux Filesystem Heirarchy which goes into much more detail about the hows and whys of the filesystem layout. If you ever get a free weekend and are still curious about it, do a web search. It's a great document for understanding WHY things are placed where they are. It's also a little frustrating to realize that the thing is a couple years old and distributions STILL violate it's suggestions. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] K Destop
Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello All, Every now and then the icons in the panel cease to work - I click on them, they appear to work but nothing happens. I have to restart X to get them to work again. Anyone any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks. Did you happen to dialup the Internet right before they stop working? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] No bounces???
John Aldrich wrote: HeyI think we may have finally solved the bouncing problem. :-) I got tired of the bouncing emails and sent a message to Mindspring's support. THEY claimed it was on the list's mail server, but since receiving the note from Mindspring (AND having posted a couple messages) I haven't seen any bounces (yet! G) To bring this back on topic (a bit) I was trying to help a gentleman who described the symptoms that were happening with fresh installs of Mandrake 6.0, but he said he'd installed 6.1. Does anyone know if 6.1 suffers from the same problem of failing to cleanly unmount? The gent said he'd seen an updated initscripts package for 6.1. I don't remember any problems with 6.1's shutdown sequences, and I know I didn't see any unnecessary fscks while running 6.1. The updated initscripts is probably the fixes from Red Hat for various other problems. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] No bounces???
Steve Philp wrote: John Aldrich wrote: HeyI think we may have finally solved the bouncing problem. :-) I got tired of the bouncing emails and sent a message to Mindspring's support. THEY claimed it was on the list's mail server, but since receiving the note from Mindspring (AND having posted a couple messages) I haven't seen any bounces (yet! G) To bring this back on topic (a bit) I was trying to help a gentleman who described the symptoms that were happening with fresh installs of Mandrake 6.0, but he said he'd installed 6.1. Does anyone know if 6.1 suffers from the same problem of failing to cleanly unmount? The gent said he'd seen an updated initscripts package for 6.1. I don't remember any problems with 6.1's shutdown sequences, and I know I didn't see any unnecessary fscks while running 6.1. The updated initscripts is probably the fixes from Red Hat for various other problems. Bad form to reply to my own message, I know, but just a "heads up" that the bounces are still occuring. :( -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] make xconfig error
Jeremy wrote: Hey I get that too! I thiink it has something to do with ncurses?? Are you running Mandrake 6.1 ? J On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I want to recompile my kernel with support for my SoundBlaster CD-ROM, but when I run "make xconfig" I get the following error: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts' gcc -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.c make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts' cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2' make[1]: *** [tkparse.o] Error 1 make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 What does this mean? It means Mandrake never tested their packages before they shipped them. The kernel will not rebuild as they distributed it unless you edit the Makefile. Change to the /usr/src/linux directory and use your favorite editor to edit Makefile. Search for 'preferred-stack-boundary=2' and remove it. Save the Makefile. Now do your kernel compile and all will be well. It's been a month, where's the fix Mandrake?? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem
Robert Benson wrote: Thanks all who answered. 1. I tried ATZ0 in the Initialization string field in kppp and no change. 2. I tried ATZ4 in the Initialization string field in kppp and no change. 3. I tried "setserial /dev/ttyS1 spd_vhi" and this worked. It went from 37333 to 44333 then 45333. The only problem with this is I had to set su root to perform the command. I would like to put this in my .bashrc, but it would not work unless I am root? Add it to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local so it will be run at each boot. You only need to run it once. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Not Mandrake...but Linux
Mark Ramsey wrote: I have just setup my 3rd Linux box, one on Redhat 6.1, another on Mandrake 6.1 and the new one is Suse 6.0. (Trying to learn all in the ins and outs to Samba and such) Anyway.the main partition on the Suse box is 100% full.I tried mv'ing directories like /usr and /tmp to the second partition and going to link to them there, but when I try I get the error "cannot move "filename" across filesystems: Not a regular file" Am I doing something wrong or will it really not let me move these files? Thanks in advance You've discovered the "exception to the rule" of mv. When moving across filesystems, you cannot move the entire directory like you would within a filesystem. Use: cp -av original_directory new_directory to copy it over. So, to move /usr/lib to /mnt/newpoint/lib, use something like: cp -av /usr/lib /mnt/newpoint/lib That'll do it! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] want to reinstall sendfax
Karen Heiby wrote: I needed to uninstall the sendfax rpm so I could try hylafax. Now I want sendfax back. The installation CD does not have any RPMs named anything like "sendfax". Can someone tell me what file on the CD I need to install again? Please note that "sendfax" does not come up anywhere in a search of files on the CD, even though after sendfax is installed, the name of the package is "sendfax". try mgetty-sendfax. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Seeking Timothy Lewis
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Timothy: I had a request today from someone on our list for your wonderful step-by-step instructions on installing Java in StarOffice. I told him I would send him and the list your instructions after I got your official permission since your instructions contain personal data that you might consider confidential. May I send him and the list your instructions on installing Java in StarOffice? I am sure there are many people out there who would be very grateful to you for them. Think you can send these personal messages privately? The last two that you _thought_ you sent privately both went to the list. Don't feel bad, I once told off what I thought was a potential employer over an mailing list once... it's that split second after you hit send that you suddenly realize that you've made a horribly bad mistake. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Font trouble
Victor Henderson wrote: I've recently tried to install 6.1 on my HP 6357 and everything worked out except one minor detail, there were no fonts. On tbe desktop some of the icons showed up as a black shadow, others were fine, but not one letter showed up. I've had this type of problem with windows also where the fonts would be represented as square boxes, or not show up at all. I've completely erased and reformatted/partitioned my hard drive numorous times and tried every resolution type. When the graphics test screen came up during installation, there was a gray confirmation box that I hit "enter" even though it was not readable. My system has the Sis 5598 chipset with 64MB shared memory. Any help with this would be highly appreciated, otherwise I'll be forced to give the thing a drop-kick out the door. Thanks Vic Someone at SiS must be laughing their ass off at the hell that they've caused computer users with their graphics chips. Personally, I'm not laughing. I believe there was a suggestion earlier today to try using the 'noaccel' option in the XF86Config file. Check the archives if you need further information... Personally, I'd probably ditch the SiS chip and get a nice card. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] compiler cannot create executables
cyberclay wrote: Hey, I'm trying to compile some applications here and most of them seem to give me the following error while running the ./configure: configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. Make sure that the glibc-devel package is installed. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Opera for Linux -- it's alive!
Gregg Carrier wrote: Some said earlier that Opera has "let go" of its Linux team. I don't know where they got their information. I would sure like to know. I just checked Opera's Alternative Operating Systems page. Opera for Linux is NOT dead. On the contrary, it is moving along fast towards completion. Here is the latest info from Opera's page at: Excuse me, but why is everyone so excited about Opera for Linux? I mean, you can get free browsers on almost any platform, and you can get just about everything free on Linux, but everyone wants to PAY FOR Opera? Why? Trying to sell a browser is a bad long-term plan. It just won't last in the face of freely downloadable competition. When I've used Opera, it wasn't anything to write home about. It just doesn't seem to me that this commercial browser is the solution the Linux community is looking for. As a counter-argument, look around you... Do you see any useful, stable, open source browsers available? Amaya? It's a castoff. Lynx? Nice at the terminal, but I wouldn't want to rely on it. Communicator? We've been saddled with that lopsided horse long enough. Mozilla? Maybe someday. What happened to Mnemonic? It was supposed to be the "killer browser", but faded into oblivion about 6 months prior to the Mozilla announcement. Face it, the open source community just doesn't find browsers "sexy" to create. I'm not any happier about the prospect for Opera. It's been 2 years since their initial announcement and it's STILL vaporware. Maybe Opera has a nice plan to just wait out the competition... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] OT Quantum Fireball Plus KA shows only 371KB cache (vs 512KB)
M Thompson wrote: Here is a question I sent to Quantum (disk drives) along with the response I received from them. Does anyone know if their response is bogus? Their answer is legitimate. It's unfortunate, but true.
Re: [newbie] Reverse Windoze Internet sharing
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have two network cards and both are working fine . I am able to ping the other system, and the linux box shows up fine in network neighborhood on the windoze machine. I have internet connection sharing working fine from the win only box. I dual boot Mandrake 6.1 and 98 se. When I am in windoze it works fine. When I boot to linux I can no longer share the connection. I want to use the win box to be the main connection. Is it possable? If so how? I have set everything up from the Mandrakeuser.org site. But just by the way it reads it seams to expect the linux box as the main connection. Might one enquire why you're not using the full potential of your Linux box? After all, Linux is DESIGNED to do exactly the sort of thing you're trying to make your Windows box do. With special software (WinGate, I think...) you can do it, but Linux already has the capability of sharing the connection by default! John Windows 98 Second Edition (second try?) shipped the new Internet Connection Sharing functionality. As to the problem, it sounds like the Windows box isn't being referenced as the default gateway on the Linux machine. Should be fixable using netcfg, linuxconf, or just editing /etc/sysconfig/network or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Backup Utility for CD Burner - In Search Of...
Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm in search of a Backup Utility for my Ricoh 7040A CD-RW. Is there such a program for Linux? Seve cdrecord works well with those drives. I've got one myself! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Apache PHP
Alec Shaw wrote: I have exactly the same problem as this and just in case anyone missed it I get the error in my netscape browser when I attempt to load up a PHP script from the localhost FATAL ERROR: midgard module not found : on line 0 Please someone help, this is very annoying. I am sure lots others are having the same problem. Could everyone try uninstalling the midgard* packages and install the mod_php* packages instead? I have a feeling it might fix the problem... Hi Shannon; On Mon, 08 Nov 1999, Shannon M. Johnston scribed: I don't think php is installed automatically. In the httpd.conf file the LoadModule and AddModules are there but they are commented. Try un commenting them and restarting httpd. Hope that helps! Thanks...but I could not find any in my "httpd.conf" file.there are indeed some calls to modules commented out...but none are PHP related. there is no mention of any PHP/Midgard module except the one line at the bottom of the config file that was put there during the install of the RPM. ie: Include conf/addon-modules/midgardphp3.conf the contents of this file are.. LoadModule php3_module/etc/httpd/modules/midgardphp3.so AddModule mod_php3.c the first file path has been changed in my attempt to get this to work..yours will probably be diffrerent. :-) So these modules are being asked to be loaded and added...so I'm not sure where to go next... I also have these lines uncommented.. AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 .phtml .php AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps any ideas out there? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] modem
"Karen M. Heiby" wrote: I read the HOW-TO for modems and I'm lost as all get out. I would appreciate if someone could help me troubleshoot what is wrong by asking me some questions. I have a generic (Wisecom) 33.6kbps modem. It is not PnP, and it is not a winmodem. Here's all I can tell you so far: the setserial -g command appears to be configured correctly. My modem is on /dev/ttyS1 and it is linked to /dev/modem. I thought everything must be set correctly but still I can't get any fax/phone programs to work. /proc/ioports has me confused though because I don't know how to interpret what I see there. Next to the "3" it has eth0, so I don't know if that means "eth0" is using my modem's IRQ or what. I ran minicom and looked in /proc/ioports to see what it was using and minicom wasn't there. If /proc/interrupts shows eth0 next to IRQ 3, then you're going to need to do something to move the ethernet card to another interrupt before you'll be able to get the modem working. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] kernel boot problem
cyberclay wrote: Hey, I tried to upgrade my kernel (using rpm -Uvh kernel*.rpm instead of kernel -i kernel*.rpm). Then I forgot to run lilo before rebooting, and now linux can't boot. I have no other boot media besides the Linux Mandrake CD (which does not have a rescue option). I have Windows 98 on this system, and I'm able to do everything fine in there. How can I boot linux? I do not know which is my root partition. Without knowing which is the root partition, it'll be a little difficult... You _CAN_ use the Mandrake CD as a rescue CD, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it for the timid. Either way, here's what I do: Boot the Mandrake CD and answer the questions up until you get to the one about where the installation media is at. Tell it that it's the Local CD and it will mount it up. The other thing it will do is start a root console on Alt-F2. So, hit Alt-F2 to get to that prompt. My local machine is setup like this: /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda3 / At the prompt, type: mount /dev/hda3 /mnt mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/boot That will mount your existing Linux partitions so you can get to them. From there, you'll need to start working with that system, so type: chroot /mnt /bin/bash That will change the system's idea of it's root directory to be your previously installed system. First thing to do would be to change to /etc and make sure lilo.conf is correct. If it's not, edit it and make it so. Once you've got things straightened away, you can reinstall your lilo by typing: /sbin/lilo Assuming there are no errors, you're done, so type: exit You're now out of the changed root and back to the installation system. Finish things up by: cd / umount /mnt/boot umount /mnt (those umounts are EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! If you forget them, you'll face an fsck when you reboot your machine!) You can safely hit the CTRL-ALT-DELETE at this point to reboot the machine. Remove your Mandrake CD and you should be booting from your old system (and new kernel!). Good luck!! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] hdparm and ATA66 drive (drive running slow)!
M Thompson wrote: When I type "hdparm /dev/hdg" I receive the following: multcount = 0 (off) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings= 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly= 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry= 2246/255/63 , sectors=36094464,start=0 It bothered me that my ATA66 hard drive wasn't running in Ultra DMA 4 mode, so I then typed "hdparm -d1 /dev/hdg" only to be greeted by the following: Operation not permitted What do I do to make my hard drive operate at it full potential? Background: I installed a Promise Ultra66 controller card. To install Linux Mandrake 6.1, I passed "ide3=0xfff0,0xffe4" to the kernel when the installation started. That allowed the kernel to see the Promise Ultra66 card and then install all files to hard disk. Please help! Well, if it makes you feel any better, even if you manage to get DMA turned on, it will get turned back off again the first time you access the drive. At least, that is what's happening here. I've got an Abit BP6 motherboard with the Ultra66 controller onboard. Attempting to tune the drive is darn near useless as it doesn't seem to react correctly anyway. hdparm timings from the drive are absolutely atrocious: [root@localhost /root]# hdparm -tT /dev/hde /dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.82 seconds =70.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 17.13 seconds = 3.74 MB/sec I get better read times from my ancient Bigfoot 6.4G drive that does plain-old PIO transfers! I know support for the Ultra66 controllers is still extremely alpha/beta code, so I'm really just happy that it even works. As for tuning your hard drive, you'll probably be best off (for now) with something like: hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -a128 -k /dev/hdg That will set multcount to 16, turn on the 32 bit interface, enable interrupt handling during hard drive access, set filesystem readahead to 128 and tell the controller to keep these settings if it has to reset itself. I'm hoping stable Ultra66 code comes soon, I'd like to see what this drive can do! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] reformat partition
M L Cates wrote: I have created a 2nd partition on my BACKUP (2nd) hard disk in my windows/linux system. This HD was previously all DOS. Q. How do I reformat my newly created disk partition, which is still DOS formatted, for linux? mke2fs /dev/partition For example, to format hdb2, the command would be: mke2fs /dev/hdb2 You may want to consider using 4096 byte blocks, as it will give slightly better response: mke2fs -b4096 /dev/hdb2 Now, when are distribution vendors going to give us the option of block sizes during install?! I'd like to use 4096, but the only way to do that is to play with the install routines... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Proxy Setting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody here knows how to Proxy Netscape . I've edited it in setting (Control) for Netscape but still it does not point to my ISP Proxy a windows NT using Wingate... Thanks Lapu_Lapu You should be able to set it under the Advanced/Proxies tab in the Preferences window of Netscape. Simply tell it 'Manual Configuration' then enter the hostname and port number for each relevant item. That should be all you need to do! An ISP using Win NT and Wingate?? What sort of fly-by-night operation is that?! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Trouble installing/configuring X/video card
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have a monitor manual with all the spec such as horizontal and vertical range, but Xconfigurator doesn't allow manual input the range. Unless, I am missing something. What about xf86config? xf86setup??? I think xf86config will let you put in the infohaven't used it nearly as much as xf86setup, though... :-) xf86config allows it, as does xf86setup. Xconfigurator wraps a "comfy" interface around the configuration process and limits you to, what, 4 choices?? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Netscape - Locking Up and Self-terminating - How to prevent?
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: BTW, a neat trick I picked up from a budding "cracker" at work: (I chastised him severely for the action, but you gotta love his spirit!) We completely lock down the factory floor workstations running Win95 using a product called WinLock95. There's nothing runnable on that machine outside the data entry application they need and IE4 for their quality manuals. I felt pretty comfortable with the situation. Wrong! IE gives you the ability to browse the network by just punching in the domain (e.g. \\GRAND_RAPIDS). Surf to your hearts content. Read whatever you'd like. BAH!!! We've since removed IE. Don't you just LOVE "Uncle Bill" ;-) More and more everyday... :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Netscape - Locking Up and Self-terminating - How toprevent?
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, a neat trick I picked up from a budding "cracker" at work: (I chastised him severely for the action, but you gotta love his spirit!) We completely lock down the factory floor workstations running Win95 using a product called WinLock95. There's nothing runnable on that machine outside the data entry application they need and IE4 for their quality manuals. I felt pretty comfortable with the situation. Wrong! IE gives you the ability to browse the network by just punching in the domain (e.g. \\GRAND_RAPIDS). Surf to your hearts content. Read whatever you'd like. BAH!!! Guess i shouldn't tell you you can excecute things from the address bar also. huh Well known. The other "fun trick" for these guys is playing with the clock. It seems there's no way to _display_ the clock without also allowing the ability to modify the system time on Win95/8. We caught it when we suddenly had around 600 units of inventory with an aging date of -31 days. Remind me again why I love this job? :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] SQL systems comparison?
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 02:40:03PM -0500, Damien Mc Kenna wrote: For doing a pretty large databased web site for a college department (with all the cool stuff in PHP), which would people recommend I use: PostreSQL or MySQL? I've noticed that a lot of the PHP packages I'm looking at seem to favor MySQL, but PostgreSQL is getting more support these days. Should I just read through their respective documentations and figure it out for myself, or does anyone have a recommendation, or are there any good comparisons of them on the net? I'm rather partial to MySQL, but only because it seemed easier to deal with to me. PostgreSQL seems to do alot of things _outside_ the database, rather than dealing with them inside normal tables. Some of the decision will depend on what sorts of things you need to do with the database. I know that MySQL doesn't handle straight transactions, nor can it do table or row locking. I don't recall whether PostgreSQL handles those normally. I do know there was a rather lengthy discussion about this very topic on Slashdot awhile ago. You might try there. http://slashdot.org Try Sybase... :-) It rocks!!! At the ISP where I work, we are hosting the FIRST authorized electronic check conversion system (authorized by the Feds and by the banking industry!) and it has a HUGE database, and is being run off a couple Sybase servers. :-) What size servers? expected DB size? Anyone else tried Sybase? I'm always interested in fun new things to play with. I'm still waiting for an Oracle 8i CD to show up so I can "get smart" before we move to Oracle at work. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Segmentation Faults?
"Clyde J. Kell" wrote: = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 07:20:47PM -0500, Clyde J. Kell wrote: Help, Whenever I try to run a particular program I receive an: Segmentation Fault core dumped What program? Seti@Home here's the download page: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html Okay, that might explain some things. The seti@home client can be pretty processor intensive, and I've seen Windows users use it as a decent benchmark/burn-in tool when overclocking processors. Their reasoning is that if it survives seti@home, the machine will be fine for normal use. One thing I'm curious about... the memory in the new machine -- is it from the old machine? Maybe you need to adjust the waitstates in the BIOS to account for memory that's slower than it expects? Then when I try to do anything else I receive: unable to load interpreter init: Id "3" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes What did you edit in /etc/inittab? Nothing!! I did a complete re-installation from a Mandrake 6.0 CD. Any ideas on what the inittab should display? Another question -- does this occur only after you've had the segmentation fault above? Tough to tell with the limited information you provided. Post more info and we'll probably be able to help. Steve, Since posting my last msg, I've conducted a little experiment. It seems like my other applications, the things provided with the CD, and StarOffice, and one or two others downloaded appear to work just fine. The machine stayed up all night Sunday night, running KDE, and the built in screen saver. You'll find that the processor stays pretty quiet during these tasks. I'd expect probably 80% or higher idle. Linux will automatically call the HLT (is that correct?) instructions when it's idle, allowing the processor to slow and cool down. However SAT night I tried to run the Setiathome client software in background mode as normal but from Console mode. The system crashed over night, with segmentation faults, and a kernel panic. This machine and Mandrake just doesn't seem to like Setiathome. I find this very bothersome. Because I like to participate in distributed data processing projects, and if Mankdrake can't handle Setiathome... Well what other applications will it have problems with. Of course I'm still not ruleing out the possibility of my Motherboard giving me problems. I'd take a hard look at hardware on this one. Either the memory just isn't fast enough for the new board, or you've got dodgy cooling on the CPU. Hope these suggestions help, -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] packages
"Karen M. Heiby" wrote: Hi, I uninstalled Mandrake Update because of the problem I had. I'd like to reinstall it--can someone give me the name of the package on my first CD? Strangely enough, you'll find it as MandrakeUpdate :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] OT Freeware Partition Magic Boot Magic?
Guillermo Belli wrote: Go to my address below and there you'll find a version of partition magic I didn't realize that Powerquest had made a freely distributable version of Partition Magic. My wife had been extremely generous lately and I don't want to push it by purchasing the shrink-wrapped version of PowerQuest Partition Magic for $60+. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 [root@localhost alex]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Would I be correct in thinking that the 192.168.1.0 in the above destinations should be something else (line 192.168.1.1 ?) or am I completely off base? No, that line is correct. It says that for any address in 192.168.1.X, use the ethernet interface. All of the interfaces and routing looks correct. Could you try one more thing? On a linux terminal, start a 'ping 192.168.1.2'. Then switch terminals and run tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output Then mail a good portion of the tcpdump-output file to the list. One other thing, I seem to remember seeing something in your original log messages about the card being put into 100Tx mode. Is the Windows side also 100Mb? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
Brett Jones wrote: Your ifconfig shows no loop back device (an "lo" entry should show up in a ifconfig), is this the case, or did you leave out? By appending 'eth0' to the end of the ifconfig command, you specify that you only want information for that interface. Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 iso...
Sevatio Octavio wrote: Do you know how to make an ISO file from a Mandrake6.0 cd? If so, tell me how and I could make one to put on my FTP site for you. dd if=/dev/cdrom of=mandrake-6.0.iso Does anyone know where I can download this off of the Internet? I have 6.1, but I want to give 6.0 a try. I am having some printer troubles with 6.1, however I have heard that these problems don't exist in Mandrake 6.0. I have been using AltaVista to search for it, but I can't locate it anywhere. Thanks -Bill -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] What is the closest Linux shell to Unix Ksh?
Simon Norris wrote: I'd like to refresh my Unix scripting knowledge, but I have no access to pure Unix boxes now, so I need to practise on my own linux machine. Which shell should I use to get the best response from Korn shell scripts? I believe pdksh ships with Mandrake. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] WARNING: this message is NOT for the weak of heart...
s because I need to install some openGL port? If so, exactly how do I go about that? Try the WINE website at http://www.winehq.com -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Calcomp Tablet
jeff wrote: Next question. I have a Calcomp Tablet III on my cad system. I want to install Linux on it so I don't have to travel to the server to do little things. However I can't find support for this. Under DOS it uses a special serial driver. Does anyone have any ideas ? Check the XFree86 website to see if there is support for it. I believe it's http://www.xfree86.org. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
