Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found
have you checked your path? echo $PATH try the full path to urpmi /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels bascule On Friday 11 Mar 2005 03:47, joe wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels bash: urpmi: command not found -- The kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance. -- (Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman, Good Omens) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Home directory
well the errors make complete sense, a file isn't writable if it doesn't exist and each file mentioned is relative to the /home/user1(2) directories that have been removed, kde needs files in the users home directory to start, it's interesting that you can start icewm without a home directory but obviously once you do you can't access kde files since there aren't any for that user, i'm assuming that when you say the new user3 can log in ok you mean into kde, since it has a home directory? since the home directories for users 1 and 2 have gone you don't lose anything by deleting the users and recreating them - since you've already lost it :( , assuming you can run mcc from the user3 login (with the root password root of course) then you can delete the problem users and recreate them, this doesn't explain why their directories were deleted in the first place, what mandrake ver. are you? and what was the program you were trying to install when it all went pear shaped? bascule On Sunday 20 Feb 2005 11:31, john wrote: Message 1: Could not read network connection list. //.DCOPServer_localhost_0. Message 2: Will not save configuration- Configuration file //.kde/share/config/ksplashrc not writable. Configuration file //.kde/share/config/kdeglobals not writable. Message 3: No write access to $HOME directory-Kde is unable to start. I can log in to icewm but still have no access to any kde files. User 3 is the new one and login is ok. The file /Home now only lists user 3. The files /home/user1 or /home/user2 have been removed -- Ah, said Arthur, this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Home directory
lets see if i get this straight, you had a functioning system? with kde running fine, you tried to install a program using mcc and since then the user's home directory has disappeared? was that an ordinary user? were you running mcc from the ordinary users logon - providing the root password when asked? what program were you trying to install? had you used mcc to install any other programs before this? if installing a program has wiped a users home directory from /home then i'd be very suspect about your system as a whole, but assuming your hardware is ok, your system is basically set up ok and you haven't been compromised, then i suggest making sure that you have urpmi (to which rpmdrake is a front end) configured correctly, if you can run rpmdrake from icewm then delete all your sources (repositories) and set them up again, you probably have local media for this but if not and you have web access i suggest visiting http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ to obtain commands to configure online sources. if you can't run rpmdrake then (as root) run: urpmi.removemedia -a this removes all your sources, then add your cds as such: urpmi.addmedia cd1 removable://path with my system of 10.0 that would be: urpmi.addmedia cd1 removable://mnt/cdrom it seems that for removable media the exact path to the rpms dir is not necessary and neither is the path to the hdlist file to set up your update source it seems that this can't be done from the command line without knowing in advance the source, again visit easyurpmi.zarb.org to get a command line such as: urpmi.addmedia --update updates http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/main_updates with media_info/hdlist.cz you might want to change the name of the udate source to 'update_source' since in the past i've had mcc create a new update source if that name didn't already exist i.e. urpmi.addmedia --update update_source http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/main_updates with media_info/hdlist.cz with this done you can run: urpmi --auto-select if there is missing packages from your system then this should install what's missing, prior to doing this it might help to run: rpm --rebuilddb at this point you might want to consider adding the program you first started with: urpmi program_name if this prompts for a choice and your choice prompts for another choice then it is likely that you have a fairly minimal system installed and your program requires quite a few dependencies, once this is done you can now worry about your user, rereading your post i think you are saying not that the user dir was deleted but that you can't access it from the new user logon? this is as it should be, if so then as the old user from a console delete any of the following files: ~/.DCOP* /tmp/mcop-olduser/* this has often restored kde to functionality for me in the past when i've had problems starting it i'm confused regarding your references to the old home dir having two users in it but the new one having only one, by home directory for a user i mean /home/user, perhaps you could give some paths to make this clear? bascule On Saturday 19 Feb 2005 21:32, john wrote: Hello I was setting up rpmdrake to install a program. The list was set up by repository group. When I picked a group, menus started popping up indicating a choice of files to pick from to continue. I could not get this to stop and the repository group never came up. I turned off mcc and everything went down. I rebooted to kde and messages started coming up regarding dcop server, kdeinit, etc. The home directory had been deleted or changed. I rebooted and opened icewm through normal login and created a new user. The new account opened ok but a new home directory was created and there was no access to the old. The messages indicated no permissions, kdeinit could not launch, etc. The users are listed in mcc under user/groups and there are various files listed in ./tmp but the home directory only list the new user. There are 2 user accounts in old directory. There are various logs/ files indicating errors and failures but I don't know how to use them to get these files back. Any help would be appreciated. John -- when two computers love each other, very much... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
you'll need to install drakxtools-newt to get XFdrake on your system, use urpmi (as root) to ensure you get all its dependencies bascule On Thursday 17 Feb 2005 19:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: typed XFdrake, got bash: XFdrake: command not found -- And the child had a permanently runny nose and ought to be provided with a handkerchief or, failing that, a cork. (Lords and Ladies) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)
perhaps i missed it in previous threads, but we are talking about an external serial port modem and not an external usb modem? i have read of usb modems that are effectively external winmodems (never actually come across one) bascule On Monday 14 Feb 2005 07:50, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Well - I went a bought an external hardware modem which says it is linux compatible. I have attempted to install several times over but get this message each time, when I test. The system doesn't seem to be connected to the Internet. All the cables, power etc seem to be in place. -- All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed. (Pyramids) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD
do you have the latest version of mandrake, previous ones had cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /base/ /RPMS/ or just cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /RPMS(N)/ the latest ones seem to have cdroot/ /media/ /main/ /media_info or cdroot/ /media/ /contrib/ /media_info i can't say for certain that the new cds are laid out as above, im just going by the directory structure under the i586 tree but i'm guessing you've got older instructions but the newest distro bascule On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 11:45 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: 3. If I don't have a /base or /Mandrake directory, can I configure urpmi to work with the CD copies on my hard drive? -- Rome wasn't burned in a day. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Is sending remote bash commands across LAN possible?
hi, what you are referring to is called a remote shell, the best implementation of that here would openssh, ssh standing for secure shell, it installs as a server program on the remote machine and as a client program on your main machine, you use it by issuing a command on a local console thus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ ssh watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ as you can i sat at mycroft and issued a command to ssh to watson, my console then showed a prompt as if i was sat at watson, any commands i issue now at the promt are executed on watson and ny output or error is shown on the local console install openssh and read the man pages bascule On Friday 14 Jan 2005 7:03 pm, magnet wrote: I only have a monitor/keyboard/mouse on the main computer and I would like to be able to type a single line command into my console and have it execute on any of the other remote machines I choose it to go to. This is all user-level stuff, no su commands at all. -- `Credit?' he said. `Aaaargggh...' These two words are usually coupled together in the Old Pink Dog Bar. -- Ford in a spot of bother. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xmms-infopipe
sounds like you might need xmms-devel? bascule On Monday 27 Dec 2004 2:18 am, Chris wrote: checking for XMMS - version = 1.0.0... no *** The xmms-config script installed by XMMS could not be found. *** If XMMS was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the XMMS_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to xmms-config. configure: error: You need XMMS version = 1.0.0 I installed ver 1.2.10 when I did the install. Any help would be appreciated -- One day a tortoise will learn how to fly. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Download the rpm directly instead of urpmi
no reason why not, use urpmi --test to check that you don't need to download dependencies as well, if so, download those, put all in a directory and then run 'urpmi namesofrpmshere', urpmi is usually better to use on an rpm than rpm itself since you will get more useful info regarding dependencies that might not be met bascule On Wednesday 08 Dec 2004 1:24 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, Can I download the rpm directly from Mdk's update repository and then install it manually instead of using urpmi? -- Oh no, not again. -- A bowl of petunias on it's way to certain death. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] help on NFS!
sometimes problems with nfs occur because the same username on two machines have different uids this causes the machine that is trying to access the files not recognising the owner of the dir/files you try to access bascule On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 6:39 am, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: I can mount the directory from mach1 into mach2 (mount -f shows it!) but I dont have access to directory reading. Using mc I got the msg: Cannot read the direstory content -- `Credit?' he said. `Aaaargggh...' These two words are usually coupled together in the Old Pink Dog Bar. -- Ford in a spot of bother. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.
keith, i've looked at the specs for both products, the nic is bog-standard, references to setting up the 'bios' make no sense to me, it is a pci card that should need no pre configuring of irq etc. however if you are dual booting win, then there is no harm in running whatever prog come with it, then just taking a note of what ever irq etc windows used for it, however that said, given that linux may automagically assign different resources to pci hardware than win that info may not be useful :) the router, assuming it is compatible with your service provider - i know little of adls, i'm a uk cable customer - seems like a standard device, it can be set up using any browser i suspect, in short, i'll be gobsmacked if you have problems with anything, you probably won't need the provided driver either, since as far as i can tell the card uses the tulip driver, which you will already have bascule On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 10:12 pm, Keith Powell wrote: For information, the card is an SMC1255TX-PF, and the router is an SMC7204BRA - which Derek recommended as working well with Linux. (I want to play safe and not have any problems getting going in broadband). -- There's very good eating on one of these, you know. -- Eyeing the tortoise for tea (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FSTab
well lets see, On Monday 18 Oct 2004 4:04 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: Can someone tell me of the following entries which are not needed. you definitely need this: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 i strongly suspect you need the following, its for pseudo terminals, none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 odds are you want a home partition, thats where your stuff is: /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 you can remove this if you don't want to access the smb share //sentinel/Primary /mnt/Primary smbfs user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.sentinel.admin 0 0 this is your cd drive /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 and this is your swap, which you should have /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 bascule -- I used to think that *I* was stupid, and then I met philosophers. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Installing USB flash drive
i always run 'sync' before unplugging my usb drive, a manual umount will do this but if you are using supermount then you don't getto issues mount/umount commands bascule On Friday 01 Oct 2004 10:18 pm, Bjrn Lundin wrote: Thanks. Is there some way of safely disconnect the flash drive? I know that I can just unplug it, but I fear that it may hurt the drive. Paul unmount it. I'm not sure, but sometimes, when I have written to it, it looks -- DROP THE SCYTHE, AND TURN AROUND SLOWLY. -- Dirty Death (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Booting from hard drive
well my guess is that with only windows on your system and one partition then you will have partition hda1 being your windows 'c drive' in which case leave everything at the defaults on that page i.e. everything at '1st' then in the box type /Linux10 mind you i don't really know what this is for, it seems to be for a way to install mandrake, but i never came across the need to modify a floppy image for a hard disk install this way before, have i missed a huge thread or something? :) bascule On Monday 13 Sep 2004 11:25 pm, othman El Moulat wrote: do that are here http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/hd_grub.cgi now suppose i have only one partition on windows box C:\ and that the distro for mdk 10 are stored in the folder C:\Linux10\ what are the input i should choose in the cgi application of the link above ? thanks for helping -- 'A man like that could inspire a handful of broken men to conquer a country.' 'Fine. Just so long as he does it on his day off.' (Jingo) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB flash drive with Mandrake 10.0 CE
this is how i mount my usb drive in 9.2
i edited my /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap to include the two lines:
# Integral 128mb USB Flash Drive
usbdrive-script 0x0003 0x0d7d 0x14200x 0x
0x00 0x000x000x000x00
0x00 0x
the 'usbdrive-script' is a script that i wrote to do mounting and stuff, it is
placed in /etc/hotplug/usb/
the '0x0d7d' and 0x1420' 3rd and 4th entries on the second line respectively,
are the usb vendore and product code, even when linux has no driver for a usb
itme it will know the vendor code and the product code since this is passed
on as part of the device detection process and is the same for all usb
devices, you will need to find them for your device, try usbview and look for
'vendorid' and 'productid'
my 'usbdrive-script' reads:
#!/bin/bash
#
#usbdrive-script
#
sleep 5s
#
echo /home/bascule/scripts/unmountusbdrive $REMOVER
chmod u+x $REMOVER
#
/home/bascule/scripts/usbdrive
i use the sleep command to allow the device to be fully setup by the drivers,
the $REMOVER is a variable that is created for each hotplug event, it
references what should happen when the device is removed, in the past one
could also use the variable $DEVICE to refer to the mount point but since i
went to lm9.2 this no longer seemed to work, at least for usb storage
devices.
the script 'usbdrive' calls a more complicated script that endeavours to
ascertain the device file for the usbdriev so that it may be mounted and
unmounted, this more complicated script relies on my usbdrive always being
identifed in linux as USB DISK Pro and that whenever it is plugged in, it
is treated as a scsi device and appears as an entry in /proc/scsi/scsi
here is 'usbdrive':
#!/bin/bash
#
#usbdrive
#
devicename=USB DISK Pro
#
. /home/bascule/scripts/finddevice
#
umount $devicefile
umount $symdev
#
mount -o uid=500,gid=500, $devicefile /mnt/usbdrive play
/common_stuff/wavs/misc/halawake.wav
in this script /mnt/usbdrive is a mountpoint of my choice, the line
. /home/bascule/scripts/finddevice runs the finddevice script and uses the
variables it defines - $devicefile and $symdev, the '' bit just plays a wav
file if there is a succesfull mount :)
here is the meat, the finddevice script:
#!/bin/bash
#finddevice
#
#first we find the line from /proc/scsi/scsi with
#the device name in
#
#'devicename' should be set by calling script
#
#devicename=USB DISK Pro
line=$(cat /proc/scsi/scsi |grep -n $devicename|gawk '{print $1}'|sed
's/://g' |head -1)
#
#next we refer to the preceding line that has the host info on
#
newline=$(( $line -1 ))
#
#next we parse 'newline' for host and bus info
host=host$(head -$newline /proc/scsi/scsi |tail -1|gawk '{print $2}'|sed
's/scsi//')
#
bus=bus$(( $(head -$newline /proc/scsi/scsi |tail -1|gawk '{print $4}') +0 ))
#
target=target$(( $(head -$newline /proc/scsi/scsi |tail -1|gawk '{print $6}')
+0 ))
#
lun=lun$(( $(head -$newline /proc/scsi/scsi |tail -1|gawk '{print $8}') +0 ))
#
#echo host=$host
#echo bus=$bus
#echo target=$target
#echo lun=$lun
#
#now we make an assumption concerning this device
#we assume that it has one partition and that is numbered 1
part=part1
#if this assumption should ever fail then
#parsing the directory listing of /dev/scsi/$host/$bus/$target/$lun
#would be necessary
devicefile=/dev/scsi/$host/$bus/$target/$lun/$part
echo devicefile=/dev/scsi/$host/$bus/$target/$lun/$part
shortdev=scsi/$host/$bus/$target/$lun/$part
symdev=$(find /dev -lname $shortdev)
there's an echo in the last lines for using on the command line while testing,
the variable $symdev should be the symlink under the /dev tree that links to
the full /dev/scsi/.device file
for completeness my 'unmountusbdrive' script is:
#!/bin/bash
#
#unmountusbdrive
#
umount /mnt/usbdrive play /common_stuff/wavs/misc/halsmind.wav
note that above is used the mount command with the options:
-o uid=500,gid=500
my user has 500 as uid and gid, ymv
this results in every plugin of my pen drive mounting in the same place as my
normal user, playing a wav when mounted and also when unmounted, note that i
always issue a manual 'sync' on the command line before unplugging, and watch
the little led on the device stop falshing before unplugging
i use lm9.2 and thus devfs, i'm told that using udev will make all this
redundant since there will then be a built in way to refer to a device in way
that will not change between boots and thus specify mount point etc in a
better way
anyway, maybe this will be of use?
bascule
On Monday 06 Sep 2004 6:57 pm, Matt Smith wrote:
manually (this is very quick in Rox-Filer). I have tried creating a
separate mount point for the drive and adding a new line in fstab but when
I plug the drive in Mandrake just creates '/mnt/removable' preventing me
from mounting the drive at my mount point.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could improve
Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth
stephen, i'd agree that a truly secure environment would prevent unknown programs from running, but a virus doesn't necessarily need root privs. if i can write a shell script that runs as a user, that can wipe my user files, send mail with attachments, create a dotfile and a user cron job to run it, then so can a virus writer, all that is required is that i be tricked into downloading the file/saving the attachment, making it executable and then running it, of course that involves a lot of social engineering compared to simply relying on a broken email client to do all that for you, but, let me say that again, but, in a world where every one switches to linux from windows there will be an awful lot of users on whom such social engineering will work. you and i, and probably most everyone on this list at this moment in time are, almost by definition, the kind of people who like to know more than just how to click a mouse button, folk who like to learn about our machines, in doing so we will inevitably pick up skills of net hygiene, if not by deliberate learning then by a form of osmosis, surrounded by a culture of people who truly 'know better'. one day that previous paragraph may no longer be true. that is why a lot of old hands in the linux/bsd/unix world will seem to be anal about things like md5sums, pgp sigs on mails etc. not because they all move in a harsh 'cracker eat hacker' world (though some do), but because they can see the future, or at least one possible iteration of it, and getting those habits down now, before they become necessary, can't hurt any :) bascule On Monday 26 Jul 2004 8:05 pm, Stephen Khn wrote: The simple fact of the matter is that a virus cannot run in a secure environment; you have to have root privileges in order to do so; hence an attack on a linux box is generally from outside, and not inside - unless someone was successful at running a rootkit on the machine in question. -- - What're quantum mechanics? - I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose. (Eric) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror Error
have you tried saving your session once you've closed down all the extraneous windows? look in kconfigurationkdecomponentssession manager bascule On Sunday 27 Jun 2004 5:51 pm, Dmitri wrote: Hello. I clicked on a URL shortcut created by Windows and Mandrake asked me what program to use and if i'd like to use it to open all similar files with this program. I selected Konqueror and checked yes. Now, every time i log in, between 20 and 40 instances of the program (konqueror) open. Help!! -- `Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.' -- Arthur experiences the improbability drive at work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror autocomplete forms
the file that stores them is ~/.kde/share/apps/khtml/formcompletions bascule On Thursday 27 May 2004 10:25 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I cannot find the place in Konqueror to clear the forms autocomplete history. -- For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konq's gone weird
unless the router is also a dns server i don't see how konq is supposed to resolve addresses bascule On Friday 21 May 2004 8:48 am, Steve Mansfield wrote: I have made a few config changes recently, the most significant probably being the resolv.conf file which now says: search local nameserver 192.168.0.1 -- You're very sure of your facts, he said at last, I couldn't trust the thinking of a man who takes the Universe - if there is one - for granted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there
to change permissions you can use 'chmod' on the command line, as root: cd /dev/sound chmod g+rw the g stands for group (which is audio) and the +rw should be self explanatory, if the owner is not root and the group audio then do: chown root.audio * (assuming you are in the /dev/sound directory, you will need to do the same for files in /dev/snd there are files outside these directories but there are symlinks and you shouldn't have to touch them for audio stuff bascule On Monday 10 May 2004 5:15 pm, Peter wrote: f you can let me know how to change permissions on the audio group, then this would help. Peter. -- Millennium hand and shrimp. (Hogfather) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user
i'm guessing that this happens when you are also logged on and youhave started a second session, if you look in /etc/security/console.perms you will see a list pertaining to what permissions device get assigned when someone logs in and the default perms when you log out, note that all the sound devices will be owned by the first logged in user and stay that way if someone else logs on in the meantime, to fix this you can comment out the relevant lines, and then make your users members of the audio group, also make sure that you alter the perms of the file to give the audio group rw perms, do this for other device files that the other user might need access to, although this works for me to allow my daughter to log on and play music, i would appreciate if some expert could explain why it is that the references (in my case) to the device files for my nvidia card don't need to be changed for another user to log on, how does that work? bascule On Monday 10 May 2004 9:36 am, Peter wrote: I have added a 2nd user (dominic), and am having a problem allowing 'dominic' to use sound. It says 'permission denied', do I need to set permissions, or can I do it from 1st user (where setting up sound etc. is fine). Th reason for setting up 2nd user is to allow my son (dominic who is disabled), to use the PC, with sound, and other input devices (joystick, tracker ball, Accessible features), seperate from me. -- Woof bloody woof. -- Gaspode the Wonder Dog (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem
i think you want ttyS3 note the upper case 's' bascule On Sunday 09 May 2004 4:57 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: 4, which I assume is /dev/ttys3. When I look in the /dev directory ttys3 is linked to pty/s51. I suppose that's why my comm and fax programs -- Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix
have you used saslpasswd2 to create users and passwords? bascule On Tuesday 04 May 2004 9:12 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: How do you configure /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd to work with sasldb ? If I set SASL_AUTHMECH= sasldb I get # service saslauthd start Starting saslauthdsaslauthd[13725] :set_auth_mech : unknown authentication mechanism: sasldb (libsasl2-plug-sasldb is installed.) -- IT'S BECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINITY PRINCIPLE. 'What's that?' I'M NOT SURE. (The Fifth Elephant) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mldonkey
did you start 'mlnet'? bascule On Wednesday 07 Apr 2004 4:52 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I've always used Mldonkey cough with no problems but just recently I did the urpmi --auto-select thing and got a newer version of Mldonkey. Flashy, nice gui...and not worth a damn. It starts with this fancy screen with the penguin in the middle with all the networks around it. Greyed out. Not working. Not connecting. I tried going into settings/options but there's nothing that I can see that will help. The older version had a gui, and it was fairly straightforward and worked great here. Any ideas on how to get the new one working (or how to get back to the older version since urpmi always finds the new version now?) Thanks much. -- 'Somewhere, A Crime Is Happening,' said Dorfl. (Feet of Clay) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mldonkey makes swap memory too low.
known issue, its a memory leak, at least the mlgui had that, when i started using a browser to look at localhost:4080 my swap problems went away, there was a reference to this on the mldonkey site, maybe it's fixed now bascule On Thursday 08 Apr 2004 3:41 am, otavio augusto viegas wrote: Have anyone experienced the same problem as follows? Whem i run Mldonkey, or as a service with mlnet, the swap usage goes up till I must reboot. I have 256 MB of swap and in a few hours I have only 4 MB of swap space. This only happens when I run Mlnet ou Mldondey, I've check with top and Mldonkey-gui or mlnet is the process which consumes more memory ou processor. How could I fix it? thanks Otavio -- Zaphod grinned two manic grins, sauntered over to the bar and bought most of it. -- Zaphod in paradise. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] shorewall: how to open high port
well i'm no expert but it looks like you are using 'active ftp', you connect to the server on port 21 and the server connects back to you from port20 to a random high port for the data transfer, of course you don't know in advance what that port might be i got round this by telling my ftp server to accept passive connections, and then specified to the server what range of high ports it should offer to the client, then when a client connects on port21 it is given a port to make another connection on for the data transfer, of course then all one has to do is open that range of ports oin the firewall for incoming connections now it may be possible to configure an 'active' setup to only connect back on certain ports, i wouldn't know, but the above solution was the one profferred to me a few years ago bascule On Wednesday 31 Mar 2004 2:24 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: SPT=20 DPT=32802 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Can anyone give me direction here? Why the setting doesn't work? How do I open this high port? TIA -- Ah. Philosophy, said Om. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Belkin USB SDcard reader? Gphoto?
fair enough paul, but... it does appear that your system does not have a properly setup update source for urpmi, since 9.1 has 2.4.21-28 and 9.2 has 2.4.22-28 released, this should be a concern since it means that security updates may not be found by urpmi, i hate to sound like your grandma :) but have you checked that your source has been updated? you can do this from the gui by selecting the list of sources in mcc and choosing the update option, or from the command line by: urpmi.update --all this will update all sources this should show the kernel as an update, if it doesn't then either you don't have an update source or you need to remove the one you've got and install another one, i tend to look for alternative update sources by looking at the mandrake list of mirrors for the distribution files (not iso) and then using the browser to search up from that location for an 'updates' directory, which will usually have update files for all the current releases of mandrake bascule On Saturday 27 Mar 2004 9:31 am, Paul wrote: I am not going to venture into this any deeper, I think. I will just wait for the cardreader to arrive and get that up and running. I found several sources (on mailing lists etc) on how to get that going and that looks a straight-forward process. -- He didn't look mad, but they never did. (Strata) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI oddity
well either you have specified the hdlist file for that source as being /var/lib/urpmi/list.distrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_10.0 or more likely whatever location you have specified the hdlist file as having doesn't exist, these files have to be generated, whenever the source repository is altered new files are made, it seems that for some reason this hasn't been done, or that you can't access it, a good idea would be to try a different mirror, or at least to delete that source and recreate it bascule On Friday 26 Mar 2004 9:50 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: unable to take medium distrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_10.0 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.distrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_10.0] exists -- All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional. (Guards! Guards!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Belkin USB SDcard reader? Gphoto?
i'm jumping in late but have you checked to see if there are any new device files on your system with the camera plugged in, i find that usb-storage will create a scsi device for the camera, in my case /dev/sdb because i already have a scsi drive but if you don't look for /dev/sda bascule On Friday 26 Mar 2004 7:29 pm, Paul wrote: I don't know if there are more places to look at, this is all I can find so far... Thanks for the help anyway! :-) Paul -- He dropped his voice still lower. In the stillness, a fly would not have dared cleat its throat. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Belkin USB SDcard reader? Gphoto?
well that suggests that your camera does not support usb-storage, not all cameras do, have you tried adding your camera to gphoto as a generic ptp device? bascule On Friday 26 Mar 2004 7:50 pm, Paul wrote: I looked at all odds and ends, but nowhere something like /dev/sd* is to be found... Thanks for the idea... Paul -- Stuck? You're an *alien*, said Johnny. Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact. (Only You Can Save Mankind) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Belkin USB SDcard reader? Gphoto?
ah, install gtkam, that will give you a gui, from the drop down list you can select generic ptp class camera, i imagine you can do this with the other frontends for libgphoto(2) as well bascule On Friday 26 Mar 2004 8:06 pm, Paul wrote: As I would not know how to do that, I am sure I have not! What would be the way to go there? I have found something called /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap which lists a lot of cameras and also the ptp-device. Paul -- There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. -- This line perhaps best sums up the whole book. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] adding win boot to boot loader
the table entry there should be /dev/hda not /dev/hda3 if you are running a recent mandrake the mcc should allow you to add the windows partition using its gui bascule On Wednesday 17 Mar 2004 12:53 am, et wrote: Ive tried that, but it cant find the file... I put Other=/dev/hda3 label=windows table=/dev/hda3 seeing as my windows boot partition is hda3, but not mounted.. Anymore tips? Should i be doing it as other or image? -- By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold. (Moving Pictures) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmix setting doesn't stick?
have you saved the 90% setting as the default volume in kmix, i believe that the 'save session' doesn't save kmix volumes, it starts with its default volumes bascule On Monday 15 Mar 2004 10:10 am, Fajar PRiyanto wrote: Hi all, I'm still using mdk92 on my notebook. The problem is: Kmix volume doesn't stick. It always on 67%. Every time I changed it into 90%, it would go back into 67% when I rebooted. Also, the Kmix full window always shows up when mdk is restoring session, I have close it, but it re-appears in every boot. I suspected there's something wrong with the session saving, so I opened /home/fajar/.kde/share/config/session and deleted the kmix entry, but it still reappears in every booting. I don't know what's wrong. Help. TIA, Fajar. -- You're very sure of your facts, he said at last, I couldn't trust the thinking of a man who takes the Universe - if there is one - for granted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GAIM
hi, somewhere out there is an rpm called: gaim-0.75.yahoo-3.i386.rpm this fixes the yahoo problem, i've had no troubles since i installed it i can't remember where i found the pointer to it, i'm sure it was someone on either this or the expert list bascule On Sunday 14 Mar 2004 3:31 am, Anand S Bisen wrote: use kopete !!! it works with all of em On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 18:17, Matt Harrison wrote: That's good advice, but the problem I have now is, how do I apply the patch? -Matt -- Zaphod grinned two manic grins, sauntered over to the bar and bought most of it. -- Zaphod in paradise. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] K-mail settings
i think you'll find that currently kmail does not compose in html but in plain text only if you meant to ask how to compose in html then you'll have to specify an external editor but if that is the case please reconsider if html is necessary bascule On Sunday 14 Mar 2004 6:49 pm, acid wrote: mandrake 9.2 How do i send email as text and not HTML. I've looked every where in Kmail and can't find that setting. -- What's a philosopher ? said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting, said a voice in his head. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User permissions
assuming that you would like users to be able to change the media in the cdrom and floppy drives you will need to either use supermount or add the option 'user(s)' to the entries for these things in /etc/fstab 'user' allows any user to mount and that user to unmount, 'users' allows any user to mount and a different user to unmount (as well the first user) i.e. for my cdrom drive i have: /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-15,users,noauto,ro 0 0 to enable supermount, as root run: supermount -i though ymmv with supermount, i find it increases read times on my cdroms to intolerable levels bascule On Sunday 14 Mar 2004 11:07 pm, acid wrote: How do I let regular users access the cdrom and floppy dive etc. I tried User Admin with no success. -- You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User permissions
well my old cdrom line looked like this (all one line): none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 if that's any help bascule On Sunday 14 Mar 2004 11:49 pm, acid wrote: Ok the cdroms are set and work fine, but my floppy and zip in /ect/fstab are set to supermount: none /mnt/zip supermount. there's no dev= /dev/hdb or anything like that and I can't access them as regular user. What should I add if anything?? -- Yes, it's the right planet, all right, he said again. Right planet, wrong universe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User permissions
first check the results of running: mount it should list all mounted drives including entires for supermount drives with or without media in them, for your zip drive you should see an entry like: none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0) if not then there's a problem, otherwise run: umount /mnt/zip and then try to mount manually using the filesystem you know to be on the disk i.e. mount -t filesystem /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip see if that works and if you can browse the contents plus, are you sure that the device is /dev/sda4? i've read of some devices that require the mounting of just the plain /dev/sda though i'd try that with 'ro' as an option for safety's sake bascule On Monday 15 Mar 2004 12:14 am, acid wrote: /dev/hde1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,sync,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 -- `The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...' -- The Book, on one of the Vogon's social inadequacies. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User permissions
if you formatted it in winxp is it ntfs? what does: fdisk /dev/sda4 give you? bascule On Monday 15 Mar 2004 1:47 am, acid wrote: i used: mount -t vfat /mnt/zip the zip drive actually tried to read the disk, the little light came on and I could hear the drive read head spin( i think it spins ). But I got an error message: 'wrong fs type, bad option,bad superblock on dev/sda4 or too many mounted file systems' The disk is ok it reads fine in XP, and i'm sure it's vfat, what else could it be? -- I wouldn't give it to a dog, and I *am* one. -- Gaspode the wonder dog (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User permissions
actually that should read: fdisk /dev/sda sorry about that, assuming that sda exists then you can press 'p' and get a list of partitions on sda and see what filesystem it thinks is on there bascule On Monday 15 Mar 2004 2:06 am, acid wrote: fdisk command not found--using bash if you formatted it in winxp is it ntfs? what does: fdisk /dev/sda4 give you? -- Woof. In tones of low menace. -- Gaspode the wonder dog (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User permissions
hmm, from what i read zip disks have only one partition on them but it is always number four, for some sort of compatibility reasons, i'd suggest making sure you have a backup of what's on it because i'm not sure that you should have that result, perhaps backing up in winxp and then making a filesystem on it using linux and seeing if that can be read by winxp, you can use fdisk to delete all partitions on it, then create just one, specifying its number as four, give it an id of 'c' for fat32, then make a filesystem on it: mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda4 see if this shows up in winxp i'm afraid that apart from this i'm all out of ideas bascule On Monday 15 Mar 2004 2:28 am, acid wrote: OK it list 4 partitions and they all say: partition has differnet physical/logical beginnings (non-linux?) Does not end on cylinder boundary -- ...[Arthur] leapt to his feet like an author hearing the phone ring... -- Who says that the character of Arthur isn't autobiographical? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Copying Files from CDROM
or, for an inplace solution, alt-f2, 'kdesu konqueror' provide password :) bascule On Wednesday 10 Mar 2004 2:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2004 13:11, Weiers Coetser wrote: I remember the superuser file manager in 9.1 and I did wonder what happened to it now that I've installed 9.2. I found it useful then. It's still there, but hidden. From a root console su give password konqueror opens it just as FMSU used to. Anne -- They said we should mount guards and they'd take steps. To the nearest place of safety, no doubt. (Maskerade) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] regarding winex in the uk
a note to all uk users who may be considering trying out winex for games, the current exchange rate makes the minimum three month subscription much more of a worthwhile experiment, only £8.97 www.transgaming.com bascule -- One day a tortoise will learn how to fly. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chmod?
christophe, to recursively change perms use: chmod -R bascule On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 12:30 pm, rhein wrote: Thanks for the trick. Since I'm the only one using the machine and soon will remove XP... I thing there is no problem to open the win_c drive. When I red the properties of the subfolder Doc Windows the write permission was not granded. Does it mean that the subfolders are not included in the permission of the main folder (win_c)? Thank you Christophe -- He expanded his chest to make it totally clear that here was the sort of man you only dared to cross if you had a team of Sherpas with you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda
hmm, you may need to see what usb device files get created when you connect the pda, in the past the device file would not get created until one actually started a hotsync, of course since the hotsync requires knowledge of the device file the hotsysnc would fail! however, the line: 22:17:01 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses DevFS. 22:17:02 Trying to open device... 22:17:02 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) 22:17:08 Device link ready. 22:17:08 Checking last PC.. makes me think that kpilot is a lot cleverer than that now, in fact the log states that: 22:17:09 KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSync starting... 22:17:09 [Conduit abbrowser_conduit] 22:17:09 Running with flags: 22:17:10 No Files to install 22:17:10 End of HotSync 22:17:10 HotSync Completed. so you did do a hotsync! if the results weren't what you expected then perhaps you need to check the settings for the abbrowser conduit (thats the one for syncing the pda addressbook with the kde one), it appears that no other conduits are configured since they aren't referenced in the log as for why you get the error message after the hotsysnc: 22:17:10 HotSync Completed. 22:17:12 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses DevFS. 22:17:13 Trying to open device... 22:17:13 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) i'm not sure, that might not indicate an error, just the logic of the part of the sync daemon that keeps the connection open? i'm not sure that you do need to create a /dev/pilot link given what the log says, but if you wish to do so then i'd start a hotsync while seeing what files get created in /dev/usb, if you see a file called /dev/usb/tts/1 or /dev/usb/tts0 then try creating /dev/pilot as a link to one of those: ln -s /dev/usb/tts/1 /dev/pilot, or try linking to any other files that seem to be created when you press the hotsync button bascule On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 3:24 am, g wrote: Hi folks, I'm a newbie and admit that I have little idea what I am doing. I am trying to get my Sony USB based palm pilot (model PEG-SJ22) to synch with built in programs under mandrake 9.2 I am currently using the Gnome desktop, and have tried synching with both jpilot as well as kpilot. When I try to synch, this is what kpilot has to say about it: == Version: KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) Version: pilot-link 0.11.8 Version: KDE 3.1.3 Version: Qt 3.1.2 HotSync Log 22:17:01 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses DevFS. 22:17:02 Trying to open device... 22:17:02 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) 22:17:08 Device link ready. 22:17:08 Checking last PC... 22:17:09 KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSync starting... 22:17:09 [Conduit abbrowser_conduit] 22:17:09 Running with flags: 22:17:10 No Files to install 22:17:10 End of HotSync 22:17:10 HotSync Completed. 22:17:12 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses DevFS. 22:17:13 Trying to open device... 22:17:13 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) == There does seem to be some communication taking place between the computer and PDA as the PDA hotsynch log registers: KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSynch and shows the proper date and time that I tried to initiate the synch. I have tried various settings both on the pilot as well as in kpilot. What does /dev/pilot mean? I looked in the /dev directory and found no entry for pilot. Do I need to create this? If so how? Any help would be much appreciated ! Thanks a bunch. Gideon Turner -- `The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...' -- The Book, on one of the Vogon's social inadequacies. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] formating Kmail
actually i don't think you can without writing the html directly into the email, i've read that html functionality is something that future kmail might have - can't remember where, it was in passing to be honest this is an interesting subject, the whole html/bad, text/good thing is based on the fact that html rendering email progs seem to support the whole gamut of web technoloy, it might not be a bad idea for linux to take a lead in establishing just what html features are reasonable i.e. font's, colours, layout. bascule On Friday 27 Feb 2004 1:34 pm, Charlie wrote: Probably; but it might be done if you select prefer HTML, I have never used it, my reasoning being that if I want to add those things to text then I use OpenOffice.org1 and send a .pdf file or straight document as attachment. Charlie. -- Another world, another day, another dawn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logitech USB Headset
are you sure about that /dev/dsp, if the headset is a second audio device in your system then have you tried /dev/dsp1 and dev/mixer1 ? bascule On Sunday 22 Feb 2004 3:09 pm, Jonas Claesson wrote: It seems that the USB Headset works through /dev/dsp, still confused though? Could anyone please explain how I should do to have the USB Headset show up as a device in ALSA and then be able to control it using KMix? -- - Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. - And that which *does* kill us leaves us *dead*! (Carpe Jugulum) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin
then you need to start your system with init level 3 to avoid X coming up, now on traditional lilo setups there is instant access to a boot prompt, at which you would type: linux init 3 assuming your kernel was called 'linux' with this new fangled 'ooh look its a pretty blue'! i'm not sure, i think if you press esc when you get the list of boot choices you will be able to access a prompt bascule On Wednesday 11 Feb 2004 3:27 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I tried ctl-alt-F1, F2, Delete, Backspace. No response just that ugly green screen with two white bars and a watch. Regards; Hoyt -- Does it worry you that you don't talk any kind of sense? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b
i've tried your latest gaim charles and i'm afraid that yahoo still doesn't work for me, after googling and chatting with a friend the other day it appears that the problem maybe my isps transparent http proxy, he has the same isp as me, uses the same programs and same servers but his is a business account and uses no proxy at the isp end my isp is ntl here in the uk, according to the gaim site at sourceforge fixing this probelm is currently holding up the release of gaim 0.76, note even the latest yahoo official linux client - rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm doesn't work though the latest win client does i have read that one can do clever stuff with tunnelling via ssh and a machine beyond such a proxy but i don't have access to such bascule On Friday 06 Feb 2004 4:00 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: Now available for 9.2 Updated: gaim-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-encrypt-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-festival-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-perl-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-spam-blocker-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-devel-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm **This is patched and should again allow connection to Yahoo New: k3b-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm k3b-dvd-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm libk3b1-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm libk3b1-devel-0.11.1-3.4mdk.i586.rpm As I have no tuner card I need a couple of guinea pigs to test kwintv3 before I add it to my site's index and hdlist. The rpms were built from the 20040201 CVS snapshot. If you would care to test it the direct dl links are: http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/kwintv3-0.1-0.alpha1.6.20040201.i586.rpm http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/libqtvision1-0.1-0.alpha1.6.20040201.i586.rpm http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/libqtvision1-devel-0.1-0.alpha1.6.20040201.i586. rpm Charles -- 'I think, if you want thousands, you've got to fight for one.' (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] module.conf loading joystick drivers question ?
you need to list the modules in /etc/modules lines like: alias char-major-13 analog go into /etc/modules.conf i'd try without adding that line alias... line first, just to check if it's necessary, i don't have it for loading the analog module on my machine bascule On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 6:04 pm, RickS wrote: Hello, I got my sidewinder joystick and SBlive gameport working with bascule's help by adding: emu10k1-gp joydev to modules. .. and from googling found this added it to modules.conf... alias char-major-13 analog rebooted .. then... $modprobe joydev then... $modprobe sidewinder in that order.. it works. I've been trying to get these modules loaded in module.conf but with no success. I've tried alias, probeall and modprobe ( which is a bad idea ) and read .. re-read the man pages, so what's the proper syntax for these command lines in modules.conf ? is this the correct file to add them to ? or would it be module. ? I tried different methods but to no avail. I'm not understanding somethings about the module loading, so can any one help please ? TIA -- 'I don't see why everyone depends on me. I'm not dependable. Even I don't depend on me, and I'm me.' (Interesting Times) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] module.conf loading joystick drivers question ?
rick, when i said put the alias line in modules.conf but try without it i didn't mean to imply that you didn't need a reference to analog in /etc/modules, cos you do! the alias line simply tells the kernel that the module analog is the one that controls devices that have that major and minor number - or something like that, maybe someone else will explain:) but you will need to add analog to /etc/modules: scsi_hostadapter nvidia analog emu10k1-gp joydev sidewinder i see you have nvidia listed in /etc/modules, assuming you, like me are using the nvidia binary drivers do you not find that they are loaded automatically when X starts? there should be no need in a typical setup to specify the graphics driver, that is done in the config file for X and should be loaded from that reference, try it and see! bascule On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 7:52 pm, RickS wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 01:56 pm, bascule wrote: you need to list the modules in /etc/modules lines like: alias char-major-13 analog go into /etc/modules.conf i'd try without adding that line alias... line first, just to check if it's necessary, i don't have it for loading the analog module on my machine bascule 1st , thx for replying 8) /etc/modules. looks like this now scsi_hostadapter nvidia emu10k1-gp joydev sidewinder and I commented the alias line from modules.conf then reboot ... $ lsmod .. shows .. sidewinder9848 0 (unused) joydev7136 0 (unused) input 5696 0 [sidewinder joydev] emu10k1-gp 2184 0 (unused) gameport3268 0 [sidewinder emu10k1-gp] It doesn't seem to create the dev node this way. I tried a number of different ways but didn't write them down 8( do I need analog also ... I will soon 8) although, I really don't need the joystick loaded all the time and could just modprobe them before starting any games which require it, but its bugging not to know how to set this up to load at boot ... On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 6:04 pm, RickS wrote: Hello, I got my sidewinder joystick and SBlive gameport working with bascule's help by adding: emu10k1-gp joydev to modules. .. and from googling found this added it to modules.conf... alias char-major-13 analog rebooted .. then... $modprobe joydev then... $modprobe sidewinder in that order.. it works. I've been trying to get these modules loaded in module.conf but with no success. I've tried alias, probeall and modprobe ( which is a bad idea ) and read .. re-read the man pages, so what's the proper syntax for these command lines in modules.conf ? is this the correct file to add them to ? or would it be module. ? I tried different methods but to no avail. I'm not understanding somethings about the module loading, so can any one help please ? TIA -- 'In the Fyres of Struggle let us bake New Men, who Will Notte heed the old Lies.' (Feet of Clay) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] module.conf loading joystick drivers question ?
ok, you got me, i'm not sure, here are my two files: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ cat /etc/modules scsi_hostadapter emu10k1-gp ns558 analog joydev the ns558 is for a second gameport so you don't need this, you will need the sidewinder module but you already have that listed [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ cat /etc/modules.conf alias eth0 8139too above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-1 snd-emu10k1 probeall scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd #the following is to get the webcam working in large mode post-install pwc /sbin/insmod --force /lib/modules/usb/pwcx-2.4.20.o /dev/null 21 || : #alias char-major-195 nvidia alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia as you can see i have nothing in the latter file that relates to joysticks/gamesports, the device node should be created automatically, so i'm not sure how to help you any further bascule On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 9:57 pm, RickS wrote: OK, I put in the order you showed and left the alias in modules.conf and I still dont have the dev node and jstest fails .. do I have to manually set the nod up .. js0 .. ?? it was being created when I would do the modprobes manually. -- -- Carrot was two metres tall but he'd been brought up as a dwarf, and then further up as a human. (Men at Arms) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Camera Card Readers
if you already have usb up and running then i suspect that will need to use the usb-storage module, this should allow your card reader to show up as a hard disk, usually an emulated scsi disk, then you can mount the card reader just as you mount a hard disk and treat it as such, there have been issues with card readers that support more than one kind of memory card though with not all of them being accessible if you don't have usb up and running then then you will need to make sure it is enabled in your bios, then you will need to use the correct module, for usb1.1 this will be either 'uhci', 'usb-uhci' or 'usb-ohci', for usb 2.0 it will be 'ehci-hcd' of course it may be that harddrake will detect your reader and configure it for you, if not then try modprobing the above modules and see what works, if this helps then you will need to add the names of the modules to your /etc/modules file, - warning - some people have found that with some kernels the autoloading of usb modules at boot up can hang their system, this appears to depend on the usb hardware, the motherboard and the kernel revision, make sure you have a rescue floppy or a mandrake install cd so that if this does happen you can copy your backup of /etc/modules back! :) bascule On Friday 30 Jan 2004 6:57 pm, Maurice O'Connor wrote: I have an older digital camera (Olympus c2000Z). I can connect to it through gphoto, but it is a serial connection and very slow. Recently I was given a card reader for a USB connection. It would be great if I knew how to use it. What should I do to have the system see the card and is there any software necessary for workable system. I have an HP D200 I bought with linux. It has 4 USB ports. TIA -- Zaphod grinned two manic grins, sauntered over to the bar and bought most of it. -- Zaphod in paradise. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Message during startup
colour me 'talking tosh' but my guess is it's to do with stuff like hibernation, bascule On Tuesday 27 Jan 2004 11:35 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: During boot when I hit the esc key to see what is happening I get a message that says SWSUSP - 103 Missing or invalid swap partision location (Resume = Parameter ) Disabled. Everything seems to come up normally and later I see messages that the swap file is put on line so I think all is well but thought I would ask. TIA Steve -- The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving. (Men at Arms) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MOHAA Linux Client
rick, on my machine i use a cyborg3d attached to a the gameport on the motherboard, this requires the following modules in my /etc/modules: joydev analog ns558 for the gameport on my sblive i have to add emu10k1-gp, bascule On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 3:15 am, RickS wrote: that way. I have yet to get my joystick working 8( and Freespace is best played with one 8-) BTW .. how did you get yours working ?? I run mdk 9.2 I have the 1.2.15 rpm from contrib, but I am missing the device /dev/js0 ?? I am still googling on this so far . -- You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cant get a joystick for SBlive Sound card gameport working ..
if it's working properly then the device files /dev/js0 etc will get created, at least they do on my system, i'm using devfs, not sure how that might change things, so you need to test using: $jstest /dev/js0 you might find that the device files exist but don't have the right permissions, esp if you have loaded the modules manually after running X, if they exist and you haven't put those modules into /etc/modules then do so and reboot, then try jstest, if /dev/js0 doesn't exist then i'm not sure, those modules are what i use for my sblive gameport (the ns558 is for the standard gameport which is on my motherboard), note that for me /dev/js0 is a symlink to /dev/input/js0 bascule On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 4:53 am, RickS wrote: so i did a $jstest input Joystick (Unknown) has 2 axes and 2 buttons. Driver version is 0.8.0. Testing ... (interrupt to exit) jstest: error reading: Is a directory Its a sidewinder precision pro joystick ... ( x-window user ) I googled .. and found the same info you indicated Bascule, but I still have no device node or is it named input Am I supposed to make one ... any help is appreciated -- WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN? -- Death appeals to Azrael (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cant get a joystick for SBlive Sound card gameport working ..
i note also that there is a 'sidewinder' module listed in /lib/modules/2.../kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ perhaps for your joystick you also need this? try modprobe sidewinder as root, if this creates the device files then you will need to add this module to /etc/modules bascule On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 5:16 am, bascule wrote: Its a sidewinder precision pro joystick ... ( x-window user ) -- All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional. (Guards! Guards!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Got NTP installed, ntpd is running...
joe, ntpd is both the server and the client, though to check it use ntpq not ntpdate: [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads-linux]$ ntpq ntpq peer remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == LOCAL(0)LOCAL(0)10 l 55 64 3770.0000.000 0.015 *sherlock.excess LOCAL(0)11 u 105 512 3774.873 68.425 33.595 ntpq quit [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads-linux]$ in the above output sherlock is my firewall and time server for the lan, so ntpd is running on that machine and also on my workstation, mycroft. on mycroft i put the server ip into /etc/ntpd.conf and into the timeserver /etc/ntpd.conf i put the ip of one of manchester uni's timeservers , being a firewall of course i also have to allow traffic on port 123 in both directions! if i'm right ntpdate is a one off time setter, it won't keep the time correct and it won't calculate the 'tick' of the local machine compared to the time server so that if the timeserver goes down local time is still counted reasonably accurately at least i think ntpd does that :) bascule On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 5:36 am, JoeHill wrote: ...and seemingly communicating with NTP servers (Stratum 2): quit [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads-linux]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joehill$ntpdate time.chu.nrc.ca 25 Jan 00:29:57 ntpdate[10642]: adjust time server 209.87.233.53 offset 0.034102 sec So, now what? Will my clock be set automagically, or is there something else I need to do? Followed this howto (google.ca/linux, I love you): http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/ntp.htm Seems I now have an NTP server running, but do I also need a client? -- Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. (alt.fan.pratchett) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Got NTP installed, ntpd is running...
anne, ntpd is a service running continously, it can be stopped/started with: service ntpd stop/start if it is installed bascule On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Bascule - so is ntp on the server then running continuously, or is it called by a cron job? Anne -- ...[Arthur] leapt to his feet like an author hearing the phone ring... -- Who says that the character of Arthur isn't autobiographical? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown
you can use the 'sudo' command to allow a use to issue any particular command that ordinarily could only be run by root, you need to edit the /etc/sudoers file to specify what user and what commands and whether the user needs to specify a password, to edit this file you need to logon/su to root and run 'visudo' this opens the file in a mode of vi that will check for errors on the file upon closing you will need to read the man pages for 'sudo' and and 'sudoers' but as an example i added the following to my /etc/sudoers to allow me to run urpmi without suing to root: bascule mycroft = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/urpm*, /usr/bin/urpm* note that to run urpmi as bascule i have to issue: $ sudo /usr/sbin/urpmi as /usr/sbin is not in the path of my normal user and that 'mycroft' is the name of my machine bascule On Sunday 18 Jan 2004 7:31 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: How can I allow a single normal user (me) to execute the shutdown command without changing the suid bit on the shutdown executable? This can obviously be done if I were using a display manager, but I don't. TIA Paul -- 'Does he have people put to death?' said Mort. SOMETIMES. THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO, WHEN YOU'RE A KING. (Mort) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
have you lost the link to the drive if you are using devfs? i don't remember the earlier posts but if you have 9.2 and are using devfs then you will find that /dev/hda etc are symbolic links, i.e.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ ls -l /dev/hda lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Jan 9 12:13 /dev/hda - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ ls -l /dev/hda1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Jan 9 12:13 /dev/hda1 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 bascule On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 3:11 am, Troy T. Hall wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. -- Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?
i just ran tuxracer to check and it was fine, though i did think that the screen seemed a litle flickery, as though the refresh rate went down, i'm using the driver installed using the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run package from nvidia, bascule On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 2:00 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Basclue, I see you have the same card as I do - Nivdia GFX 5600 - did you run into any problems with this. I didn't get a chance to fully test the 3D abbilites, but I did install the nvidia driver from nvidia and attempted to start tuxracer. It didn't go. In 9.1 I had a permissions problem where I would occationally have to chmod 666 /dev/nvidia* to get it to work. -- Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz smiled very slowly. This was done not so much for effect as because he was trying to remember the sequence of muscle movements. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?
hmm, not to be a party pooper but some folk still have problems that we didn't have with 9.1 i get random xmms freezes where it just stops, i cant use the mouse to change desktops but i can use ctrl-f1 etc. i alt-f2 and issue 'killall -9 xmms' and i'm back in action, the freeze was almost instantaneous with all kernels that i've tried but the current one i found a refernce to on the web - 2.4.22-18mdk, even then the freeze still happens, it just takes longer also if i have my webcam plugged in on boot up then kmix doesn't load saying that it can't find the mixer being specifed, i suapect that the mixer for the usb audio on the webcam is to blame, if i plug the webcam in after booting then it works and kmix still works so not exactly a flawless install, esp. the xmms thing, the webcam did take some sorting in 9.1 but for xmms to be dodgy is bloody annoying! my hardware is: aopen ak77-600gn + athlonxp 2500 soundblaster live value (onboard sound turned off though onboard gameport enabled) nvidia 5600xt logitech 4000 pro webcam running kde, using alsa-output with xmms 2.4.22-18mdk kernel realtek 8139 nic having googled and searched for 'xmms' in the archives i think i'm alone in my particular category of woes but this was a clean install, not to mention that the well publicised 'fix' for the menu problem by updating via rpmdrake didn't work for me either, i had to play around with menudrake selecting different options from the menu bar and saving and suddenly things got fixed, however my trust in the system is such that i daren't edit the menus in case it all goes south again! oh yes, did i mention that my custom hotkeys for volume changing on this old keyboard using ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc no longer work either? i also appear to be alone in the universe in this also :) so, if your reason for upgrading is to fix a problem that you couldn't find an answer to (like i did) then i suggest spending more time on the original problem first, before upgrading, because in my case, i've swapped one problem for three! bascule On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 2:32 am, julie wrote: On Monday 05 January 2004 02:58 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Tango Echo wrote: | Hi all, | | What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2? For me, 9.2 worked much more out of the box than 9.1. Sound, digital camera, printer all worked more or less straight away, whereas 9.1 took a lot of fiddling. Was worth it...for /me/ at least. I might be unusual. Paul Paul: How much updating was necessary? Yeah, I'm still on dialup (at 44K), and downloading massive files is not a pleasant task. -- cmg Cheapbytes has a CD of the Mandrake 9.2 updates that takes you through the bulk of them ... I think it is a little over 400MB (or there abouts). Anyway after updating with that and then doing a further update via the Internet can be a great help to those on dial-up. Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gotmail is not working
i get it too, i guess microsoft changed things again, with luck there'll be a fix soon, (oh the arrogance of a mere user, just assume some soul will fix it! :) ) bascule On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 1:44 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: Hi there: In the past two days I haven't been able to download my hotmail account mails using gotmail 0.7.9. It's been complaining with: Getting hotmail index page... Processing java check Logging in... Following redirect... Loading main display... gotmail died with message: Could not isolate folder index location Exiting abnormally, cleaning temp files. = It was working nicely before. I just checked the .gotmailrc file and it looks OK. Does any gotmail user have this problem or is it just me? TIA -- Zaphod grinned two manic grins, sauntered over to the bar and bought most of it. -- Zaphod in paradise. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
thanks eric, i resubbed on expert, thanks to those who replied direct as well bascule On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 3:38 am, Eric Huff wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:23:14 + bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: either no-ones posting, the lists are down, or i've been unsubbed if this shows on either list can some kind soul mail me direct to let me know I resubbed you on newbie. You'll need to do it on expert. See http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NeWs for what happened. Also, you can't cross post: the sympa server can't handle it. You need to post 2 messages... eric -- A man could go far, knowing his rights like you do, said Granny. But right now he should go home. (Wyrd Sisters) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [newbie-hi] Welcome Message for Hindi Users : newbie-hi
out of sheer curiosity i looked at the source of your email and saw: -cut-- X-KMail-SignatureState: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1068897663-683-8421 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If you are able to see the Hindi contents, means your -cut- is the reference to iso-8859-1 supposed to be there? seeing as how you want readers to render the hindi contents? bascule On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 3:05 pm, Dhananjaya Sharma wrote: f you are able to see the Hindi contents, means your settings are appropriate for Hindi-Unicode utf-8, else to view Hindi Contents in your Browser set: view-encoding-utf-8. Still not able to see properly, to know how-to send an e-mail on this mailing-list. -- Idiot I may be, but tied up I ain't. -- Gaspode the wonder dog (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Repairing Perl (was many perl things broken)
just a small point. to query an installed package, ommit the .i586.rpm e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads-linux]$ rpm -q perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.2mdk.i586.rpm package perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.2mdk.i586.rpm is not installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads-linux]$ rpm -q perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.2mdk perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.2mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads-linux]$ bascule On Friday 14 Nov 2003 2:24 am, Richard Babcock wrote: here) After a little time with 'man rpm' I tried to query the package. #rpm -q perl-5.8.0-19mdk.i586.rpm package perl-5.8.0-19mdk.i586.rpm is not installed. Ok, fine. I left the upgrade option out. #rpm -i perl-5.8.0-19mdk.i586.rpm package perl-5.8.0-19mdk is already installed. -- 'What can I do? I'm only human,' he said aloud. Someone said, Not all of you. (Pyramids) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Problem
kat, what i do with gotmail (fetches hotmail mail) is to specify a directory in my home directory (just create one) and then setup kmail with another receiving account that fetches mail from that directory, bascule On Friday 07 Nov 2003 11:09 am, kat wrote: I did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.2 and have had no problems until now. I installed 'Fetchyahoo' last night, and when it asks for the spool path (usually '/var/spool/mail/username') I put that in. However it said 'path not found,' and sure enough, it's not there. I use Kmail which set up my inbox, etc path in my home directory. Is that where the spool would be? Sorry to sound so idiotic. TIA, Kat -- He expanded his chest to make it totally clear that here was the sort of man you only dared to cross if you had a team of Sherpas with you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
flavio, if you have done fdisk /dev/hdd and confirmed that windows is indeed on the first parttition on that disk and that it does have the number 1 - not necessarily the same thing! then i suggest that lilo is choking ion your other entries, perhaps those other entries regarding /dev/hdd1? bascule image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 -- `Credit?' he said. `Aaaargggh...' These two words are usually coupled together in the Old Pink Dog Bar. -- Ford in a spot of bother. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ssh question
wild guess - is the clinet trying to do a password login but the other one doing key exchange? bascule On Friday 19 Sep 2003 12:15 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello there, I hope someone can help me with this. I'm having a hard time connecting to a friend's Mandrake box via ssh. I'm getting an error ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. Firewall is not in the way. sshd is running. It's not a routing problem. What else can I check? -- ...[Arthur] leapt to his feet like an author hearing the phone ring... -- Who says that the character of Arthur isn't autobiographical? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Palm USB sync
the white on red means that the targets of the links don't exist, in the past i bought a serial cradle for my palm because at the time there was some pronlem where sinply plugging in the cradle didn't create the device files but that only happened when you pressed the hot sync button with the pam in but when you did that the hotsync fialed because util then it couldn't 'see' the cradle, how this works now i don't know cos i just put up with the slow serial link bascule On Friday 19 Sep 2003 1:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Here's what a listing shows (all the data after the date is white flashing letters on a red background -- alarming): [EMAIL PROTECTED] random]# ll /dev/pilot lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 12 Sep 18 03:48 /dev/pilot - /dev/ttyUSB1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] random]# ll /dev/ttyUSB1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 10 Sep 17 19:32 /dev/ttyUSB1 - /dev/pilot -- `If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.' -- Zaphod. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bash Script to change file prefix
okay josenildo, if you don't have exif support in your camera then you might want to rename files based on their timestamp, i do this with my camera because it also creates avis and wavs, by renaming them before editing the 'modification' timestamp of the files is the time they were created, i copy them to a temp directory using 'cp -a' and then run the attached one-liner in that directory, if you only have files with the one suffix of course then you won't need the bit about storing the suffix in varaible! i guess what i'm saying is look at the 'stat' and 'date' commands :) bascule On Friday 05 Sep 2003 1:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 3:16 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: My camera is a quasi-camera. It must be an old model. Don't bother, Todd. It's good enough as it is. That might be it, then. Still, I'd like to confirm that it doesn't use exif headers. Todd OK, it is a Pretec DC-520 USB camera. I use GTKam to grab the pics. GTKam has an option I have just seen, a box to check and save exif data. I checked it, saved more pics but they don't seem to be any different from all the others. All the pics are saved with the .JPG extension. That's it. As I said, it's OK. Don't know if it helps, but some setting in kde lets you see an enlarged thumbnail together with exif info when you hover over the image. Example attached - note the exposure info. Anne -- 'Is it heroic to die like this?' said Conina. 'I think it is,' he said, 'and when it comes to dying, there's only one opinion that matters.' (Sourcery) photorename Description: application/shellscript Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fstab, windows folders and permissions
are they really spaces in the umask? and have you tried without? bascule On Monday 04 Aug 2003 1:59 pm, The Other wrote: 08/04/03 I have uid=501 and umask=0 2 2 for windows folders in fstab. though I get owner as 501 user, permissions are there as 777 instead of 755 as dictated by umask. How to go about getting permissions as 755 for windows folders. Try ..,user,umask=0,auto,... with umask=0 I think permissions will be 777. Am I correct? -- 'What ho, b'zugda-hiara.' (Footnote: A killing insult in Dwarfish. It means 'Lawn ornament'.) (Wyrd Sisters) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Session management on logout
i have 'save session' at the bottom of my 'k' menu, is that what you mean? plus i have kmenuconfigkdecomponentssession manager is it that you do not have these things? bascule On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 6:09 am, Heather/Femme wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 23:46, ed tharp wrote: snip you are right, I am going to bed sorry femme ya tried your suggestion ed. didn't work :( next idea? ;) -- The thing about iron is that you generally don't have to think fast in dealing with it. (Lords and Ladies) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware
wade, well seeing as how it's a microsoft piece of kit i'd guess that the odds of them realeasing drivers are vanishingly small, however according to: http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html under 'network adapters' the top two entries looks promising, you will need to know what speed usb port you have, note the second entry seems to imply that you need a later kernel it's also not obvious what the actual driver names are from the devices listed there :) however assuming that a)the pegasus driver is what you want b) you have your usb system up and running then hopefully #modprobe pegasus (note done as root) will load the driver, if not you could try some of the other drivers listed under /lib/modules/2./kernel/drivers/usb/ use #modinfo modulename to see what sort of driver it is now the next bit i could be wrong! :) assuming the driver is correct then you will need to set up an interface using that device, assuming you haven't any already then i think you may be talking 'usb0' from something i read online if you do: # ifconfig -a you should hopefully see a refernce to usb0 or indeed to a net interface that didn't use to be there, if so then you need to set it up, i believe you will need to create a file under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ called ifcgf-usb0 (assuming usb0 is the interface name) that has something like: BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.129.255 IPADDR=192.168.129.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.129.0 DEVICE=usb0 this assumes a static ip for the interface, you will have to adjust accordingly or DEVICE=usb0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=dhcp IPADDR= NETMASK= NETWORK=0.0.0.0 BROADCAST=255.255.255.255 DHCP_CLIENT=/sbin/dhcpcd for a dhcp assigned ip i ripped that from my dhcp assigned interface on my mandrake firewall so i figure it should be the right format, not you would have to have /sbin/dhcpcd on your system then you should be able to do #ifup usb0 and if it works #ifconfig should show it up and running then you would need to add your pegasus module (or whatever it turns out to be) to your start up files, that would either be /etc/modules with a line: pegasus or /etc/modules.conf with a line: alias usb0 pegasus i'm not sure if both would work and if so which is better form for how wrong i am with this advice wait for others to comment! :) bascule On Friday 11 Jul 2003 3:24 am, Wade Waldron wrote: Microsoft MN-110 USB ethernet adapter. Wade - Original Message - From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware On Thursday 10 July 2003 08:15 pm, Wade Waldron wrote: Okay, maybe some more background is needed. When I run the mandrake configuration utility, and look under the listed hardware I have a few unknown devices (like my network adapter). I have looked around and found that my network adapter probably uses the pegasus driver. I would like -- Oh no, not again. -- A bowl of petunias on it's way to certain death. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware
wade, to do things manually (is there a specific reason for that by the way?), you'll need to specify the hardware you have installed so that folk can tell you what needs to be done - assuming we know! bascule On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 6:05 am, Wade Waldron wrote: I would like to install hardware while bypassing the Mandrake configuration utility. Can someone give me an idea where to start. Basically the hardware is installed, I just need to make the system aware of it and set up the drivers. Wade -- 'Somewhere, A Crime Is Happening,' said Dorfl. (Feet of Clay) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
hitch hikers guide... WAS: Re: [newbie] Window$ free -follow -up
and for those who never played: http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html bascule On Saturday 05 Jul 2003 8:15 am, Anders Lind wrote: (where's my towel???) You always need to know where your towel is... /Anders -- `The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...' -- The Book, on one of the Vogon's social inadequacies. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router]
although this isn't the solution you want, netstat can still be your friend :) to see what is happening on your machine (assuming you haven't been rooted but then all approaches are moot) use: netstat -tuap to see all connections that are tcp or udp but not unix sockets, this will show both listening and connected , the 'p' will show associated pid/program name but you might have to be root to see all that particular info :) netstat --help for more info bascule On Monday 16 Jun 2003 9:22 pm, rikona wrote: Sine there doesn't seem to be a linux app-aware firewall, I was interested in a centralized solution. The key is that the firewall has to know about EVERY possible access, even from pgms that try to hide their call home. Highly unlikely they would use H.323. :-)) -- We only remembers that the elves sang. We forgets what it was they were singing about. (Lords and Ladies) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network question
you'd need to arrange for the gateway to your lan to forward telnet requests to that particular machine, or connect to the gateway and then connect to the internal machine from there, assuming your gateway is also a firewall i wouldn't personally do that, however the most important thing is that whatever you do you should not be using telnet if you can possibly help it, use ssh instead, it uses port 22 and this is the port that needs to be forwarded, the hows and wherefores of the forwarding itself will depend a bit on your network topology and the os involved if you need a windows prog that can be a ssh client, then i suggest 'putty' it's small and you can run it standalone on a windows box bascule On Monday 16 Jun 2003 10:04 pm, Patrick Coffey wrote: Hello, I have a quick question, I just recently got rid of my cable modem and now get internet access through my LAN, but now I have a local IP address (I.E. 192.168.0.22) So I'm wondering how would I telnet into my computer from outside the LAN. And please keep in mind I don't know much about networking. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- Carrot was two metres tall but he'd been brought up as a dwarf, and then further up as a human. (Men at Arms) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[4]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router]
well i found that runing netstat as root showed some progs/pids that running as a user didn't i think netstat has a continuous mode 'netstat -c', i was thinking you could do something clever with a script using netstat and grep? and have a filelist of progs you know about and if 'netstat -cp' gives a line wihtout one of these progs in have the script issue an alert, but you'd need to find an expert to do that and such a thing may already exist. also i noticed form a little experimenting that watching 'netstat -c' while opening web pages and stuff i had temporary connections appear that didn't appear to have specific prog names in but things like 'appletproxy' and other kde arcana, what would be cool would be a way to put in a shell script to bring forward to the current desktop the terminal that the script is running in then you could just monitor 'netstat -ct' for new lines, perhaps some expert knows of something really basic built into X that can be utilised in a script? bascule On Monday 16 Jun 2003 11:32 pm, rikona wrote: I also see several listening ports with no app name. Is there a way to get the app name for these? Is there something like this that monitors continuously, and might give a warning if some unknown-to-the-monitoring-program app opens an unexpected port? Even though it might not block it, it is nice to know about. -- 'Why?' he [Rincewind] said. The world is going to end. 'What, again?' (Sourcery) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where should I go first?
hi, i've attached my modules.conf, i have an sblive card too, ignore the scsi,usb and eth0 lines :) backup up your current one, and use these lines instead of whatever you have for sound module references, see what happens, if all is working properly you should get something similar to the following when (as root) you do 'lsmod': [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]# lsmod Module Size Used byTainted: P sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused) ide-cd 28712 0 (autoclean) cdrom 26848 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd] floppy 49340 0 (autoclean) binfmt_misc 5696 1 lp 6720 0 parport_pc 21672 1 parport23936 1 [lp parport_pc] fglrx 145896 196 agpgart31840 0 (autoclean) (unused) nfs67328 2 (autoclean) snd-seq-midi3680 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-emu10k1-synth 4220 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-emux-synth 25532 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth] snd-seq-midi-emul 4880 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth] snd-seq-virmidi 2888 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth] snd-seq-oss26176 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3208 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq33264 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss36932 1 snd-mixer-oss 9016 1 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-emu10k156592 5 [snd-emu10k1-synth] snd-pcm55808 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1] snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-util-mem1280 0 [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1] snd-rawmidi12864 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1] snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-hwdep 3840 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd24804 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-util-mem snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-hwdep] soundcore 3780 0 [snd] nfsd 66576 8 (autoclean) lockd 46480 1 (autoclean) [nfs note the stacks of references to snd* modules bascule On Monday 09 Jun 2003 10:54 am, James Henry Maiewski wrote: By the way, I've read on this list several times the suggestion of trying sndconfig. This detects my SBlive!, but informs me that it is not supported. -- `The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...' -- The Book, on one of the Vogon's social inadequacies. probeall scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-1 snd-emu10k1 alias eth0 8139too above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Grip
it seems that under the config'mp3' section you haven't got a valid mp3 encoder selected, you may need to install one, try 'notlame' available i believe from the plf repository bascule On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 5:18 am, Aron Smith wrote: Have been trying to rip som tunes(bluegrass) from cd to Mp3 with grip, However whin I rip and then burn them to a CD my CD/Mp3 player cannot reconize the Mp3s any Ideas Also Grip insists on encoding WAV files as Ogg -- Looking into Granny's eyes was like looking into a mirror. What you saw looking back at you was yourself, and there was no hiding place. (Maskerade) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos
actually lilo allows you to hide/unhide partitions as part of its config, you add a stanza to lilo.conf to change the partition type id to the hidden/unhidden version of whatever it is, as an example take an old lilo.conf of mine: ---snip--- other=/dev/hda2 label=winxp change partition=/dev/hda1 set=DOS16_big_hidden partition=/dev/hda2 set=NTFS_normal snip--- i can't remember my particular need for this as i don't have it in my current config but 'man lilo.conf' will give an explanation of what you need bascule On Tuesday 27 May 2003 4:14 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: I think he wants different combinations of FAT partitions to be visible in DOS and Windows. lilo will let the Microsoft systems, when booting, make their own decisions as to what is visible, which is precisely what he does not want. Now there is a utility called letterassign that runs in Windows, (and probably in Dos too, but I'm not sure) that allows you to tell a Windows system what partitions it is to see, and which partitions are to correspond to which so-called drive letters. I've used it with Windows 98SE, and it seems to work. -- Yes, it's the right planet, all right, he said again. Right planet, wrong universe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?
#slocate --help shows that '-r regexp' is probably what you want bascule On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:49 am, rikona wrote: I just tried this - works OK, and is fast, but gives me too much. Is there a way to use more complex search expressions (or regex?) to nail down exactly what I'm after? In my indices, there are sometimes more than 100,000 references to a single word(and, yes, I do exclude commonly used words). I need to combine, say, three words (each with perhaps 50,000 occurrences) to get just the 4-5 files in which they occur as specified. Is there a way to do that, perhaps by combining tools? Would it be a mess to think of manipulating the dbase to do this if no tool is available? When the final list of files is found, is there a way to easily and quickly see them without necessarily opening them, again perhaps with another tool.? I'm REALLY addicted to this kind of tool. :-) -- 'What shall we do?' said Twoflower. 'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. (The Light Fantastic) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
have you tried: #cdrecord -reset bascule How do I turn the recorder off and on again? cdrdao says it has finished the burn successfully. Thanks, Todd -- One's never alone with a rubber duck. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
apart from the obvious of checking mixer levels i should note that my sblive card is significantly quieter in lm 9.0 than it is in winxp, if i put the amp volume down and turn mandrake and winxp volumes to max the winxp has a lot more! why this is i don't know, with lm 8.2 this wasn't the case, but then in lm8.2 there was a mixer control (digital 1 or something) that acted as a volume control that is missing in lm9.0, i can't help wondering that there might not be some miser setting that is unaccessible to lm9.0 using even alsamixer that is not set to optimal but that is set properly by winxp, i realise that that's hardly a scientific diagnosis but it's the best i've got! the point is if you still find that the volume is below what you would expect after checking mixer levels you might just have to turn up your amp/speaker volume as there may be nothing 'wrong' with your system :) bascule On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 7:04 am, Jon wrote: Hi, I have a sound blaster card that Mandrake 9.0 has detected. Whilst the sound is coming through the volume level is very low. How can this be changed? Thanks. Jon. -- - It could be a torture chamber or a dungeon or a hideous pit or anything! - It's just a student's bedroom, sergeant. - You see? (Men at Arms) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
OT: Re: [newbie] What the sHell is foo ? ;-)
it's my understanding that it's originally a services term, probably air force bascule On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 4:15 am, Warren Post wrote: El lun, 24-02-2003 a las 04:59, Josenildo Marques escribió: And why is it used so much in examples ? The story as I've heard it is this: Long ago, coders began to use the acronym fubar (F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition), which later evolved into the more phonetic foobar used today. Being a popular term, both foobar and its shortened form foo have since become common placeholder terms in examples, to keep examples clearer and less obtuse. Thus if you were to ask me, say, How can I read a man page?, I might reply To read man page 'foo', enter 'man foo' at the console. It's clearer, if less precise, than replying man [options] [section] [title]. -- ...[Arthur] leapt to his feet like an author hearing the phone ring... -- Who says that the character of Arthur isn't autobiographical? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cd players?
is there a cd player that will recognise a cd in either of the drives without having to config seperately each time i swap drives? one that can let me choose which drive to play from and that has a bar to choose what part of the song to play from? i want the functionality of the basic cd player that windows has always had - at least up to win9x anyway, also, how does one get xmms to play cds, the plugin is installed, configured and enabled but how do i use the gui to play the cd? bascule -- ...[Arthur] leapt to his feet like an author hearing the phone ring... -- Who says that the character of Arthur isn't autobiographical? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unauthorized link.
was it a link? i get those every now and then i think its some attempt to get you to run some applet or other to access your 'c' drive :) i could be talking from below of course bascule On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 6:52 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I was surfing some web sites last night using Konqueror and I warning window popped up saying that something or other has an unauthorized link to my machine. What does that mean? is it a virus or a hack attack or what? Thanx, Seedkum -- 'Oh, them as makes the endings don't get them,' said Granny. (Maskerade) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unauthorized link.
i see those all the time, sometimes however i get something that pops up and has a url typ thing of c:/// or something similar in it, always when i click on an otherwise innocent looking link bascule On Thursday 20 Feb 2003 1:31 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 12:14, bascule wrote: was it a link? i get those every now and then i think its some attempt to get you to run some applet or other to access your 'c' drive :) i could be talking from below of course bascule Trust me. Next time you see one, do a view source on it and you'll see what I mean - it's a silly attempt to advertise PC/Windows software that hooks the unknowing person into going to the site and believing that their computer can or is infected or intruded. -- For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone tried out the official Radeon 9700 PRO drivers from ATI?
mandrake 9.0, radeon 9000 (powered by ati) using the ati drivers no problem, i can't remember the install itself since it was a while ago but i may have had to do a --force in the rpm upgrade as i think is mentioned in the documentation, bascule On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 2:47 pm, Kim Beck wrote: I have a Radeon 9700 Pro card, but currently run Mandrake 9.0 with the VESA drivers... I would love to hear about peoples experiences with ATIs drivers. Kim -- He expanded his chest to make it totally clear that here was the sort of man you only dared to cross if you had a team of Sherpas with you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous re-boots
the system logs will be under /var/log/ bascule On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 2:07 am, Greg wrote: I had the same trouble with my system just once Where are the system logs so I can check them Thanks Greg -- A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. (The Fifth Elephant) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
one of the reaons that can happen is if you have subscribed with an email address different to the one you are sending with bascule On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 5:29 am, Robert Wideman wrote: Why am i getting emails from Sympa requiring me to email a reply??? I am getting this on all emails i send to this list. Rob -- 'Never say die, master. That's our motto, eh?' I CAN'T SAY IT'S EVER REALLY BEEN MINE. (Hogfather) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LAN/firewall setup
hi dennis, your description doesn't match your diagram, your diagram has the cable modem attached to eth1 of your firewall and the switch to eth0 of your firewall, which is exactly what i have, plugging the cable modem straight into your switch won't work unless it's actually not a switch but a router that can take dhcp assignments, (i'm assumimg that you use dhcp, if you have a static this still applies since whatever the cable modem plugs into must be set up correctly), all my cables into my switch are patch cables and not crossover, i have to admit that i've never looked at the cable that came with the modem so whether that's crossover or not i don't know but using the one that came with the modem means it doesn't matter! - though if someone could enlighten me without my having to take the network down (and get down on hands and knees behind my desk!) so perhaps you could clarify your setup, also when you say that your computers work fine i assume you mean with each other but not with the internet? otherwise there's something i'm missing here! bascule On Wednesday 01 Jan 2003 11:11 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Below is the way I think my network should be wired. However, I can not get anything to connect with the set up shown. What I have is both eth0 and eth1 on the firewall going into the switch and then an uplink cable going to the cablemodem. If I wire the way I think it should be I can not ping the router or connect to the internet. All computers can connect and function fine with the wrong set up. However, I don't feel comfortable that my firewall is really protecting me. This has to be some simple thing I am doing wrong but I have tried for months to make it work and no go. Any ideas or howtos that might clear the mud from my mind? Suggestions are appreciated. cablemodem xx.xx.xx.xxx eth1 firewall/router 192.168.0.5 eth0 network switch 192.168.0.3 .0.5.0.1 -- 'Oh, them as makes the endings don't get them,' said Granny. (Maskerade) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie]I have a sticky situation/installation issue, Triple booting WinXP, Win2K MDK
just a comment, when i installed winxp pro corp it left the mbr alone lilo was already there it was there afterwards, all i had to do was alter lilo.conf to add an entry for winxp and run /sbin/lilo bascule Problem: It is a logical partition and is on a totally different drive. Now I know Winfucksme likes to redo your MBR w/out asking without any prompting. Lovely... so how can I fix that afterwards? LILO is the boot manager right now, and it works fine. Win2k is getting along nicely I want to keep it that way. Am I playing with fire even thinking this can work?! Thx - FemmeFatale -- `The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...' - The Book, on one of the Vogon's social inadequacies. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/sound/* owner set to my username. should that be?
ooh, i had this lets see if i can remeber how i fixed it:) yes, i had to edit /etc/security/console.perms there are entries that dictate permisions that are set when a/the first? log is made, i have copied mine here for you and you can see the differences, i think that all i did was comment out the line that referred to setting 'sound' permissions and then manually make sure all my users were members of the 'audio' group and make sure the permissions on all the files mentioned in the 'sound' class listed in the files were set to 0660 root.audio, i think that's all i did, let us know if that works bascule On Friday 06 Dec 2002 12:10 am, Marty McFly wrote: Hey all, another question. The things in /dev/sound (files or what?) are all owned by my user, and part of the audio group. I can use sound when I log in, but when someone else logs in, for example to KDE, they can't use the sound stuff, because, I guess, I own it. Not sure why I own it. Who should the owner be? And how can everyone have access to the sound system? Here's the output of an ls command. PS, what does c mean in the first column? [bryant@neutrino sound]$ ls -l total 0 crw---1 bryant audio 14, 4 Dec 31 1969 audio crw---1 bryant audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw---1 bryant audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 mixer crw---1 bryant audio 14, 1 Dec 31 1969 sequencer crw---1 bryant audio 14, 8 Dec 31 1969 sequencer2 thanks, bryant _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- All Hell hadn't been let loose. It was merely Detritus. But from a few feet away you couldn't tell the difference. (The Fifth Elephant) # /etc/security/console.perms # # This file determines the permissions that will be given to priviledged # users of the console at login time, and the permissions to which to # revert when the users log out. # format is: # class=list of regexps specifying consoles or globs specifying files # file-glob|class perm dev-regex|dev-class \ # revert-mode revert-owner[.revert-group] # the revert-mode, revert-owner, and revert-group are optional, and default # to 0600, root, and root, respectively. # # For more information: # man 5 console.perms # file classes -- these are regular expressions console=tty[0-9][0-9]* vc/[0-9][0-9]* :[0-9]\.[0-9] :[0-9] xconsole=:[0-9]\.[0-9] :[0-9] # device classes -- these are shell-style globs serial=/dev/ttyS* floppy=/dev/fd[0-1]* \ /dev/floppy/* /mnt/floppy* sound=/dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/midi* \ /dev/mixer* /dev/sequencer* \ /dev/sound/* /dev/snd/* /dev/beep \ /dev/admm* \ /dev/adsp* /dev/aload* /dev/amidi* /dev/dmfm* \ /dev/dmmidi* /dev/sndstat cdrom=/dev/cdrom* /dev/rdvd /dev/ide/*/*/*/*/cd /dev/scsi/*/*/*/*/cd pilot=/dev/pilot jaz=/mnt/jaz* zip=/mnt/pocketzip* /mnt/zip* ls120=/dev/ls120 /mnt/ls120* scanner=/dev/scanner /dev/usb/scanner* camera=/mnt/camera* /dev/usb/dc2xx* /dev/usb/mdc800* memstick=/mnt/memstick* flash=/mnt/flash* diskonkey=/mnt/diskonkey* rem_ide=/mnt/microdrive* fb=/dev/fb /dev/fb[0-9]* \ /dev/fb/* kbd=/dev/kbd joystick=/dev/js[0-9]* v4l=/dev/video* /dev/radio* /dev/winradio* /dev/vtx* /dev/vbi* \ /dev/video/* /dev/vttuner gpm=/dev/gpmctl dri=/dev/nvidia* /dev/3dfx* mainboard=/dev/apm_bios burner=/dev/scd* /dev/sg* /dev/pcd* /dev/pg* /dev/cdwriter /dev/scsi/*/*/*/*/generic usb=/dev/usb/dabusb* /dev/usb/mdc800* /dev/usb/rio500 /dev/ttyUSB* \ /proc/usb/[0-9][0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9][0-9] # permission definitions console 0660 serial 0660 root.tty console 0660 floppy 0660 root.floppy #console 0600 sound 0600 root.audio console 0600 cdrom 0660 root.cdrom console 0600 pilot 0660 root.uucp console 0600 jaz0660 root.disk console 0600 zip0660 root.disk console 0600 ls120 0660 root.disk console 0600 scanner0600 root console 0600 camera 0600 root console 0600 memstick 0600 root console 0600 flash 0600 root console 0600 diskonkey 0660 root.disk console 0600 rem_ide0660 root.disk console 0600 fb 0600 root console 0600 kbd0600 root console 0600 joystick 0600 root console 0600 v4l0600 root.sys console 0700 gpm0700 root console 0600 mainboard 0600 root console 0660 burner 0660 root.cdwriter console 0600 usb0660 root.usb xconsole 0600 /dev/console 0600 root.root xconsole 0600 dri0600 root Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] font size in konqueror
is the minimum font size set in konqueror overidable by individual web sites? i've set my minimum to be 11 with a 17 crt, my eyesight can't really cope with less, however often i have to use the 'increase font size' button to be able to read! fonts and stuff always went over my head, is it just that 11 point in one font can be a lot smaller than 11 point in another? bascule -- 'They were myths and they were real,' he said loudly. 'Both a wave and a particle.' (Guards! Guards!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] JPilot
alter the permissions of ttyS0 to allow your user to read/write to it, assuning that isn't already the case that should do the trick bascule On Monday 18 Nov 2002 8:55 pm, Matt Harrison wrote: Nevermind, I had to run it as ROOT in order to get it to work. Seems odd to me, but oh well, it works now. Thanks. -Matt -- He dropped his voice still lower. In the stillness, a fly would not have dared cleat its throat. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resetting setserial
teh rc.local is just a script, edit in vi or whatever and add the line you use at the cli to the end of the file, save and on reboot everything should be done bascule On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 1:18 am, David Farrington wrote: Having hacked my way into using my Archtek Smartlink 5634PCV Surfrider hardware PCI modem a couple times now. I'm now using it, but. 1)I need to open a root terminal every boot to type in Setserial ttyS2- uart 16550A irq 11 port 0x1490 autoconfig At one point it was appended to /etc/rc.local ?? I can't find the web page that showed me how to do this... 2) Why does the MAKEDEV come up with the ttyS2- emphasis on the minus sign. 3) Interesting that kppp says that the modem is busy until I use the Setserial This newbie is having fun, the Mandrake is certainly getting there, but not quite there to displace M$ on the desktop IMHO. Thanks Dave F. -- For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KNewsTicker
the should be a small 'up' arrow at the edge of the list of running progs, right click on that, follow the 'remove' path bascule On Monday 11 Nov 2002 3:06 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: How does one remove knewsticker from the task bar I don't seem to have enough room for it. John -- 'Things either exist or they don't,' said Jeremy. 'I am very clear about that. I have medicine.' (The Thief of Time) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
