Re: [newbie] Can't access CD drives - even as root
I've experienced this problem too, In my case, i had the devices mounted as supermount filesystem when there was no media in the drives i would get similar errors, however putting media in them did the trick. also got the same type of errors with blank cd's. since you brought up that you have a 4802TE, may I ask if it is working under linux ? root wrote: Here's a funny thing! Whenever I try to access either of my CD drives, whether as root or user, I am refused access. Using Konqueror, I get the message: "Unableto enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You do not have access rights to this location." - if root doesn't have access, who does? My CD drives are shown under /mnt with little padlocks on them. Using a terminal command: ls /mnt/cdrom, I get the message "Input/output error". The only way I have ever been able to get round it is to boot from a floppy rather than LILO - this is a hassle. If anyone has encountered and solved this problem, I would be grateful for guidance. I am running Mandrake 7.2 (never had this problem with 7.1) and my drives are a Mitsumi 4802TE (re-writable) and Samsung SCR232 Graham Watkins
Re: [newbie] cdrecord
As the original poster of this, I'm thinking its time to put it to rest, It was not my intention to start a MS vs. Linux discussion as I feel this is not the place for it. I think those of us on this list have mandrake and/or some other distro for our own reasons, probably most of us also use microsoft products for our own reasons and that's probably enough said. Now on to the (non)solution to the original problem(seems it must be a hardware problem). Subject: Re: cdrecord errors?? Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:12:29 -0500 (EST) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:11:41 +0100 (MET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip original message stating problems w/cdrw and cdrecord /snip Mitsumi ignores SCSI standards, I cannot help. However, the CD should be OK after some time. Jrg EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jrg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix
[newbie] cd/rw compatiblity Aopen CRW1232
With my previous dissappointment with my current cdrw, I'm looking at buying a new one. I'm looking at the Aopen CRW1232 it is not listed int the compatible list but I'm wondering if this is just because its relatively new on the market place or if it is really not compatible. If anyone is using this drive, please let me know what your experience has been with it -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
RE: [newbie] MS Outlook
I've never used outlook so i can't speak for it, but here's what i have done with netscape i've created sym links to the netscape mail folders to somewhere in my linux home directory and pointed kmail/mutt whatever at those folders. works for me maybe for you too
Re: [newbie] MODEM Com port?
I'm thinking you can just sym link it to /dev/modem to get dialers to work with it. but I'm no genius Charley Peggy Robinson wrote: I'm using a 3-Com (USR) MD-U56P2977 PCI hardware (they told me) MODEM. The BIOS in the 'pooter assigned it to Com 5, according to win dev mgr. Trouble is, X or Gnome deal only with Coms 1 - 4, so I can't reconfigure the SW in a GUI. Sadly, I don't know enuff yet to do it in console mode. I've been searching MUO, MNO, etc, but haven't found any specific info yet. Can anyone tell me where the info is stored and how to access/change the com port? TIA, Charley -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
Re: [newbie] Xwindows configuration
you didn't mention what card you have Derek Rayne wrote: Hi there, I am still stuck on configuring my Xwindows, I am having very bad luck, even if I try the standard VGA or SVGA. Could my card be not one supported? Richard Wegner Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
Re: [newbie] Text login vs. graphical login
edit /etc/inittab comments within the default file are fairly plain Keith Christian wrote: Running Mandrake 7.2 - how do I set the machine to give a plain text login page instead of the graphical login? I didn't get an option with 7.2 to choose what I wanted. Thanks! Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
Re: [newbie] SPAM
legal arguments aside, its unsolicited email that i (and others) receive from you it is rude and inconsiderate, you can just as easily filter it Cyber Sam wrote: You my knowledge, having an autoreply assigned to my email is not spamming, if in the opinion of the moderators of this list it is considered spam, I should let you know that I run a legal business on the web that requires that my customers get a timely reply to all of there queries. I have had my legal department look at what constitutes 'SPAM' and in there opinion, since the autoreply does not imply or solicited you to do anything, only supplies information, it can not be legally considered 'SPAM'. If you do not like the fact that my company has an autoreply assigned to it's email, you have the choice of filtering it out, or ignoring it. Reporting it to the anti-spam groups will not cause me to change how I or how thousands of other businesses do business in the net. -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
Re: [newbie] Yet another question.
I am a newbie too, so I jump at the chance to answer a question the proper way to shutdown would be something like: shutdown -h now the -h passes the halt command to the shutdown scripts and is, as I have read, the cleanest way to shutdown your machine. Matthew Harrison wrote: As I am a total newbie to linux, I have a question on how exactly do I use the shutdown command to shutdown the computer. Right now I have to just let it reboot and shutdown as soon as it resets. Thanks. Matt -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
Re: [newbie] pppd dies ????????
edit /etc/ppp/options add the line noauth that'll fix it Liz wrote: hi everytime i try to get online i get "the pppd daemon died unexpectedly" with the blow log file Feb 21 22:22:18 localhost pppd[943]: By default the remote system is required to authenticate itself Feb 21 22:22:18 localhost pppd[943]: (because this system has a default route to the internet) Feb 21 22:22:18 localhost pppd[943]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Feb 21 22:22:18 localhost pppd[943]: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.) if i then try to dial up as root i get the same problem with a different debug log Feb 22 14:19:22 localhost pppd[3854]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Feb 22 14:19:22 localhost pppd[3854]: Using interface ppp0 Feb 22 14:19:22 localhost pppd[3854]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Feb 22 14:19:25 localhost pppd[3854]: Peer is not authorized to use remote address 212.161.112.68 Feb 22 14:19:26 localhost pppd[3854]: Connection terminated. Feb 22 14:19:26 localhost pppd[3854]: Connect time 0.1 minutes. Feb 22 14:19:26 localhost pppd[3854]: Sent 311 bytes, received 295 bytes. Feb 22 14:19:26 localhost pppd[3854]: Exit. in both cases it dials up and handshakes ok but fails at the last bit, i dont know if this is important or not but i have been trying to get a lan setup between this and my own pc using the network configuration tool in drakconf thankz David -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
Re: [newbie] Real rm?
try rm -f DRX wrote: When I give the command "rm annoyingfile" I expect annoyingfile to disappear -- not to be asked rm: remove 'annoyingfile'? What's the point of asking that? I wouldn't have given the command rm if I didn't want to remove annoyingfile, would I? How do I change the function of rm to make it work the way I would like? DRX -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
Re: [newbie] commands
good info, thx to all others: this is a "newbie" list and I would hope that we would advocate linux as much as possible even if it means spoonfeeding newbies. If you want to show your superior l33t skillz, then get on IRC and respond to all questions with "RTFM". Every user that is converted to linux is one who will not purchase WIN** or whatever. Sorry I am AFU at the moment, but everyone needs help at some point, and if you don't wish to spoonfeed newbies, there are many outlets for expert knowledge. Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2001 08:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: keith dalpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: totally new in the old world i came from dos/widoze you would type cd/dir to change directories could some one please show me a type of directory change command i would be greatful Check out http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/commands/index.html for basic command structure. -Dale From a command shell, run this command whatis `ls /sbin` commands.txt (note that those are BACKTICK marks) Do the same thing for /usr/sbin, /bin, /usr/local/bin, /usrX11R6/bin, etc. This will output one-line descriptions of well over 2500 commands. Eventually, type "less commands.txt" to read the file. Then use either 'man' or 'info' to learn more about each commands capability. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay --
Re: [newbie] USB Hubs
never used linksys myself, i use a belkin and it works fine i also have some generic piece of crap that werks good too Aaron Benedict wrote: Are there any 4 port USB hubs that can be recommended for use with LM 7.2? Is the Linksys one any good? Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." - Mahatma Ghandi -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
[newbie] irc/dcc with ipchains
I've read until my eyes bleed but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere on how to troubleshoot dcc send failures behind a masq'd connection. from what i have read i know i need ip_masq_irc loaded and it is [root@satan Documentation]# lsmod Module Size Used by ip_masq_irc 1664 1 sg 15872 0 (autoclean) (unused) lockd 32208 1 (autoclean) sunrpc 54640 1 (autoclean) [lockd] autofs 9456 2 (autoclean) usb-uhci 19184 0 (unused) usbcore43632 1 [usb-uhci] ppp20976 0 (autoclean) (unused) slhc4544 0 (autoclean) [ppp] via-rhine 8560 2 (autoclean) pci-scan2624 0 (autoclean) [via-rhine] supermount 14224 3 (autoclean) nls_cp437 3952 7 (autoclean) vfat9408 3 (autoclean) fat30432 3 (autoclean) [vfat] But I can't find any thing else. someone point me in the right direction? -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
Re: [newbie] Window Maker desktop screenshot
sweet Ribbo wrote: Tanggal 11 Feb 2001, dari abe : hey here's my windowmaker desktop. I just figured out how to take screen captures and I thought I'd share ;-) http://www.foramenmagnum.net/windowmaker.html and here's mine, http://www.gauli.com/~des/audi.jpg taken from Acer Travelmate 340 (i will be very glad if someone could teach me how to make it runs at 1024x768) its windowmaker 0.64, runs without docks, gkrellm-1.0.2 (i hide the icons behind this), and transparant aterm. im using Aqua themes, for gkrellm, wmaker, and gtk, from themes.org. background picture i got somewhere. abe nice playlist you got there, abe :) -- Ribbo "Laughing? Me? Of course I'm laughing at you." -- Slash, "Quake 3 Arena" -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
Re: [newbie] win98 freezes after 7.2 install
you don't need it anymore :) seriously tho, its two seperate systems i doubt it is causing any problems with win98 Craig Rowan wrote: I just installed mandrake 7.2 and now my windows 98 seems to pause for about 20 seconds at certain times. I'm not sure whether its mandrake or not, maybe its something to do with the boot loader. Anyone had the same problem. --
[newbie] starband linux (sorry if this is a repeat)
I dont see that my original message went through so I'm trying again Has anyone got any experience with starband and linux, if so, how did you get your NIC to get an ip via dhcp? mine works if I enter in an ip manually but I am thinking dhcp would be better. any help would be appreciated.
[newbie] starband linux
Hi, just got starband and was wondering if anyone has any experience with it, mostly did you get your NIC working to get a ip via dhcp. Mine works if I configure it manually, but won't get an ip via dhcp
Re: [newbie] MP3 to .wav?
this has been a very informative discussion, i have learned much, thanks to all who contribute. this is a great community. Todd Flinders wrote: No, no, no!!! Your CD players does NOT play .wav!! Your burning software knows to convert .wav to the proper format! You need to convert your .mp3 to a .wav so that the burning software can burn the audio CD. If you tell your burning software that you are burning a data disc, then you will get a CD with .wav files. It will be as any other data file and it will NOT play in your car stereo (or it will play as static). If you tell the burning software you are burning an AUDIO disc, the .wavs will be converted and you will burn TRACKS that WILL play in your car stereo. Looking at this CD will reveal that you do NOT have .wavs on this AUDIO CD. --- Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CD players do read .wav music. Don't ask me the technicality's of it, but I have made many CD's by burning .wav files onto a CDR and they play just fine in my computer's CD-Rom drive and my parents stereo. Why would you want to convert them to .wav? The music on a normal CD is in raw digital format, not .wav, so it's not like your CD player will be able to read it anyway... Dave At 01:02 AM 02/01/2001 +, you wrote: You can use XMMS. Go to Preferences; output Plugins; Select "Diskwriter Plugin"; configure it for a location to put your created wav files. Seve Original Message On 1/31/01, 4:43:44 PM, Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] MP3 to .wav?: How do I change MP3 files to .wav format so I can burn them to cd? What programs and front ends are there for this process? -- Registered Linux User #181996 Dave Sherman SoftServ Business Systems, Inc."Quid quid latine dictum sit, [EMAIL PROTECTED] altum viditur." (763) 569-9839 -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. __ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ --
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 not detecting RAM correctly
SpeedMan wrote: On January 28, 2001 12:32 pm, you wrote: Well, here is my linux.conf file: boot=/dev/hda5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 append=" hdd=ide-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 append=" hdd=ide-scsi failsafe mem=256M" right there read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe So where would I put "mem=128M"? In place of append=" hdd=ide-scsi" or append=" hdd=ide-scsi failsafe"? and wouldn't changing those lines screw with my harddrive? Thanks for the help. I REALLY appreciate it. Salman, Under default=linux add the line ... append="mem=128m" Regards, SpeedMan -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
Re: [newbie] install with /home unchanged
yes, just choose to not format that partition Busterfred wrote: I run mandrake 7.1, with /, /home, /user/storage, swap on separate partitions. I wish to install mandrake 7.2. Can I leave everything except / untouched and retain my music binaries in /user/storage and my four identities and their desktop preferences in /home ? Or is it simpler and cleaner just to start over? I assume I just avoid formatting my storage and home as I install. Any help appreciated. Busterfred -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
[newbie] restore aurora
its a long story, but i edited /etc/inittab to start in runlevel 3, after my problems with X were fixed, i re-edited to start in runlevel 5, but i did not get aurora back, anyone know how to restore it?
Re: [newbie] Running shell script at startup or shutdown, how?
i was wondering the same thing, i pulled this off the kde user archives: Start the Control Center and select "Loook Feel"/"Desktop"/"General". There's a setting named "Autostart path" on the "Desktop" tab. You can enter your autostart folder here. Jon Doe wrote: How do I run a shell script at startup or at shutdown with LM7.2? I know 7.1 had an autostart folder on the desktop, how was that done? Actaully I am more interested in running a shell script at shutdown, or logout. -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
