Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 21:59, Warren Post wrote: I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is achived through the use of alt codes: Alt+164, for example, gives the letter n with a tilde on top (ñ). Are there similar shortcuts for Linux? Warren Can't you just setup a Spanish keyboard? If you are using KDE, it's trivial to set it up and switch between 2 keyboard layouts: KDE Control center- Peripherals-Keyboard-Layout Mark your keyboards in the Additional Layouts section and once you've hit the apply button, you should see a keyboard switch icon in the taskbar. You can switch by clicking on that icon, by right clicking on it, or by hitting alt+ctrl+k. Once you have set this up and are used to alt+ctrl+k to cycle through the keyboard layouts (I use U.S., Icelandic and Norwegian), you'll not want to type the Alt+164 keystrokes again :-) I hope this solves your problem, Narfi. ps. Of course, if you're not using KDE, then I'm afraid I can't help you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] windows sucks, but it does sound nice
civileme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: civileme wrote: the mobo is an msi k7t266 pro2-ru (ms-6380 v2.x) with a via vt8366a (522bga) and a via vt8233 (376 bga) chipsets amd athlon xp 1700+ I don't know what your TV card is but the chipset on your Mobo has a broken clock which can cause a host of problems with a real multitasking OS. Civileme Civileme, do you know what is the status of the work-around attempts for the clock bug in the newer versions of the kernel? Since I have this particular VIA chipset (like a large number of other mandrake users), I'm very interested in hearing any news about any progress or lack thereof... Thanks, Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Wish I did have that info--it is on the ALi Magic Chipsets as well as the KT266A. I believe the expert archives do have a workarouns for the BT848, but filesystem corruption is another symptom and these boards are currently useless for some journaling filesystems... but seem to work OK with ext2. Civileme Can you please elaborate a little bit? ... you said something interesting that I haven't heard before... I know that filesystem corruption can occur if one overloads the PCI bus [because of the timer bug], and that one way to overload the PCI bus is with a TV card. However, I haven't heard anything about different behaviour of different filesystems w.r.t. corruption. In particular, I switched to ext3 myself since I was willing to trade speed for some security against crashes. Was I misled in my thinking there? Have you perhaps run experiments with these chipsets in your lab? Narfi. ps. I've been trying to follow the discussions on the lkml about the clock bug, it pops up sporadically, there are patches floating around, but I haven't seen any concrete data about their effectiveness. I'm still hoping the situation will improve before 9.0, but I'm not holding my breath :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble: Solved
On Monday 10 June 2002 05:53, you wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 01:26, you wrote: As I said previously, I had problems with my western digital hard drive. fdisk complained: Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary Previously, I had tried to put this information in the header of lilo.conf: install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 sectors = 53 heads = 16 cylinders = 77545 but that change never seemed to take effect so I deleted those 3 lines. Now I added a parameter in the append line in /etc/lilo.conf: append=hde=77545,16,63 and I believe this has the effect that I so much desired. At least fdisk does not complain any more. Who knows why this was needed? Maybe the hardware supplies the incorrect values, maybe the bios supplies the incorrect values. Or, perhaps, because there is already confusion about the bios code for /dev/hda and /dev/hde [see bios=0x81 and bios=0x80 above], the numbers for sectors and heads on /dev/hde are the numbers for a different drive! Narfi. Well I find that interesting, I do not see why Western Digital hardrives should work any different from anyone else's hard drives, as far as size and allocation of h s c is concerned. I don't think it does. It's just a piece of junk as we have often discussed here on the list, that's all. [See Civileme's posts for that] so any explanation for this apparent quirk is something I want to know about as much as you. See my explanations above and the large disk howto, e.g. sections 14.1 and 14.2. file:///usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Large-Disk-HOWTO-14.html As far as the other problem goes , the not ending on cylinder boundaryis concerned it is almost certainly something to do with using mixed partition tools, my experience is that they don't go There was just the one problem: I created all my partitions on my old motherboard with c, s, h = (x, y, z). When I moved it to my new motherboard, Mandrake didn't think it was (x, y, z) any more. Thus, I pretty soon figured out that I just wanted the c, s, h to be read again as (x, y, z) and I had to figure out how to change that. This doesn't have anything to do with what partitioning tool I've been using. All my partitions were consistent with (x, y, z) and before creating any new partitions, I had to make sure that the partitioning software saw the c, s, h as (x, y, z). This is what the line append=hde=77545,16,63 in my /etc/lilo.conf does. Lessons to be learnt from this: After you have partitioned your hard drive, always print out and store the c, h, s of your hard drive that was used during the partioning. When you want to partition a second time, make sure that the partitioning software is using this same c, h, s so that your new partitions become compatible with the old ones. I have not read any warnings or indications about disk damage occurring if you do not do this and you are only using linux on your harddrive and the hard drive is using lba32 and the bios supports lba32. I simply tend to be cautious when it comes to my hard drives. [As an added note: if you are sharing the drive with windows then it is imperative that the c, h, s that is seen from Windows must be compatible with the partitioning of the hard drive. Otherwise you risk disk corruption.] Best, Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble
On Sunday 09 June 2002 06:55, etharp wrote: more info about the new MOBO is in order, in particular the IDE controller (is it a HPT win-RAID?) No, I stay clear of the raid controllers... The MSI k7T266 pro2 comes in different flavours and I chose the one which doesn't have any raid controllers. On the motherboard, I have: Primary master: the wd drive, /dev/hde secondary master: a DVD drive, /dev/hdg I also have a PCI controller card and on it I have: primary master: an old IBM hard drive for backups: /dev/hda primary slave: zip drive: /dev/hdb secondary master: CD-writer: /dev/hdc-- /dev/scd0 A correction to the c,h,s count in the bios: it is (19158, 16, 255). Narfi. On Saturday 08 June 2002 10:57 pm, Narfi wrote: In my previous life, I was young and ignorant and I bought a WD drive! ... well, I'm at least not young anymore .-) I installed mdk on this second harddrive of mine and the setup was with (cylinders, heads, sectors,) = (77545, 16, 63) However, after I moved the hard drive to a my new motherboard and installed mdk 8.2, fdisk and diskdrake report the geometry as (c,h,s) = (4865, 255, 63) and fdisk warns that partitions do not end on cylinder boundaries. Can I still use diskdrake to create new partitions on this hard drive? I tried to put a section into lilo.conf: [this is the disk in question. Nevertheless it is on the primary ide0 controller:] disk=/dev/hde sectors=63 heads = 16 cylinders = 774545 But this didn't change the way fdisk and diskdrake saw the drive geometry. If I go into the bios, the geometry is listed with heads = 16 and cylinders some value 4 thousand something (sorry, forgot to write down!) I have lba32 in /etc/lilo.conf and I do not share this hard drive with any other OS. Does anyone have any suggestions? Resize the partitions to conform with heads = 255 using ext2online perhaps??? thanks, Narfi. mobo: MSI k7t266 pro2 /dev/hde: WD400BB fdisk -l /dev/hde Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 164511528+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1014, 15, 63) should be (1014, 254, 63) /dev/hde264 3844 30359448 85 Linux extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) /dev/hde56496255496+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hde696 478 3071848+ 83 Linux /dev/hde7 478 1116 5119600+ 83 Linux /dev/hde8 1116 2901 14335744+ 83 Linux /dev/hde9 2901 3155 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hde10 3155 3206409216+ 83 Linux /dev/hde11 3206 3844 5119600+ 83 Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble
In my previous life, I was young and ignorant and I bought a WD drive! ... well, I'm at least not young anymore .-) I installed mdk on this second harddrive of mine and the setup was with (cylinders, heads, sectors,) = (77545, 16, 63) However, after I moved the hard drive to a my new motherboard and installed mdk 8.2, fdisk and diskdrake report the geometry as (c,h,s) = (4865, 255, 63) and fdisk warns that partitions do not end on cylinder boundaries. Can I still use diskdrake to create new partitions on this hard drive? I tried to put a section into lilo.conf: [this is the disk in question. Nevertheless it is on the primary ide0 controller:] disk=/dev/hde sectors=63 heads = 16 cylinders = 774545 But this didn't change the way fdisk and diskdrake saw the drive geometry. If I go into the bios, the geometry is listed with heads = 16 and cylinders some value 4 thousand something (sorry, forgot to write down!) I have lba32 in /etc/lilo.conf and I do not share this hard drive with any other OS. Does anyone have any suggestions? Resize the partitions to conform with heads = 255 using ext2online perhaps??? thanks, Narfi. mobo: MSI k7t266 pro2 /dev/hde: WD400BB fdisk -l /dev/hde Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 164511528+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1014, 15, 63) should be (1014, 254, 63) /dev/hde264 3844 30359448 85 Linux extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) /dev/hde56496255496+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hde696 478 3071848+ 83 Linux /dev/hde7 478 1116 5119600+ 83 Linux /dev/hde8 1116 2901 14335744+ 83 Linux /dev/hde9 2901 3155 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hde10 3155 3206409216+ 83 Linux /dev/hde11 3206 3844 5119600+ 83 Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] deleting files = 500k on the command line
On Sunday 19 May 2002 18:46, Damian G wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002 17:36:28 -0400 Kirtis B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping that it'd be something simpler than that. For example could i use ls grep and rm together to search for all the files that end in .mp3 and are less than 500k and then delete them? I'm certain there is a way to do this, i just don't really know how to string the commands together properly and i don't want to accidently delete my entire mp3 collection. =) KIRT You want to find the all the mp3 files that satisfy a criteria and delete them, right? Well, find is your friend: find . -name *.mp3 will list all files named *.mp3 that exist in . (i.e. the current directory) or any subdirectory of . Now what about the size requirement? I had a quick look at the man-page and became wiser: find . -name *.mp3 -a -size -512k The -a stands for and, the -512k stands for less than 512k. Now all we need is to delete these files: You can do that with find, but I find it much simpler to pipe the search results from find into xargs: find . -name *.mp3 -a -size -512k | xargs /bin/rm and this will run the /bin/rm command on the output from find, i.e. delete all the files that find returned from the search. Of course you have to be darn careful about this -- make sure you don't accidentally delete all your mp3 files! Check the output from find first, then append the | xargs /bin/rm part. Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BBC Streaming OGG - FYI
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 12:35, you wrote: Interesting, but how do you play it? I cannot persuade xmms, noatun or even (in desperation) realplayer to accept that url On Wednesday 24 April 2002 5:31 pm, you wrote: http://support.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/oggurl/radio1_high.ogg.m3u http://support.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/oggurl/radio1_low.ogg.m3u http://support.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/oggurl/6music.ogg.m3u I believe this here is all that I did: K-Menu-Configuration-KDE-File Browsing-File Associations type in m3u in the Find filename pattern field. Choose add an application, choose xmms. Move the new xmms entry to the top. After you have done this, you should be able to type the URLs listed above in konqueror and it'll start xmms. IThe quick-and-dirty one-time-only solution is to run lynx --dump http://support.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/oggurl/radio1_high.ogg.m3u; and you should receive http://ogg.bbc.co.uk:8001/radio1_high.ogg and that is an url that you can pass to xmms. Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTS / Audio Codec97 / and VT8233 Audio Chip configuration
On Thursday 18 April 2002 17:38, you wrote: [snip] Upon install LM8.2 seems to configure an OSS driver which works,but only with one item, namely the CD player. Nothing else seems connected to the system. There is no Mandrake sound for the OS, no Xcdroast , no midi player, you name it it doesn't work. It does not seem to be anything to do with unmuting. So what am I to do, several suggestions later someone said configure the alsa sound driver, instead of the OSS driver,which I think I have achieved. Certainly kernel configure and KDE sound believe it is running. It makes no difference whether ARTS is enabled or disabled. There does not seem to be any sndconfig command line facility. The website mentioned previously says add alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-via8233 post-install snd-slot-0 snd-pcm-oss to modules.conf, but although this does help to bring alsa to live as a driver It appears in the boot script now, Nothing including the CD player works. I don't actually have any sound at all. However I think it should work, something is amiss, but I am fast running out of ideas. Installing the latest alsa driver was just one idea. Reconfigure the modules.conf file to include lines about amixer set Master 22 unmute amixer set Master Mono 22 unmute amixer set Input Gain 22 unmute amixer set Aux 22 unmute amixer set Line 22 unmute amixer set PCM 22 unmute was another, but when I do this I get lots of failed script at boot time, with comments about line this and that being unrecognised. The only clue I can find is in configure KDE-info-sound, two lines, synth dev:not enabled in config midi dev : not enabled in config possibly modules.conf needs additional lines to achieve this ? I suspect the alsa sound driver is there and running but no sound device is connecting with it. Is it anything to do with AC97 ? I don't know ? regards, John Here are more details on my setup: I have version 3.4 of the AMI bios. I=20 have ac97 enabled in the bios, pnp os off. I boot with nobiospnp in=20 lilo.conf. All that I did with regards to sound was to make sure I had these=20 settings, change /etc/modules.conf as detailed before. After I had=20 rebooted, I changed the volumes using kmix. midi does not seem to work for me, and Configure KDE-info-sound gives= =20 me the same 2 lines as you get about synth and midi. I have alsa and sound start as services at boot time. I'm using devfs. This is all I can think of, wish I could do more to help. Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads
I just did a major upgrade on my computer and installed 8.2 at the same time. I replaced my motherboard, cpu, memory and power supply and I now have everything running well, except that d@#n WD hard drive. I have of course slowed it down to DMA33, but I have problems with the (c,h,s) count on it and the partition boundaries. Right now, I get the following reports about the (c,h,s) triple: DiskDrake: (4865, 255, 63) fdisk: (4865, 255, 63) bios: (19158, 16, 255) Not only do these not agree, but none of them are the same as fdisk reported on the old motherboard: fisk on old mobo: (77545, 16, 63) I started with an empty hard drive on the old mobo and set up the partitions inside Mandrake, so they are consistent with these last (c,h,s) numbers. Of course fdisk -l /dev/hde warns me now about inconsistent boundaries [output below]. What should I do? Put the old (c,h,s) numbers into lilo.conf? I already have lba32 set in lilo.conf, and linear addressing activated in the bios. One thing I know is that the bios will not accept the (77545,16,63) triplet. Motherboard: MSI K7T266 Pro2. Bios: AMI version 3.4 Hard drive: WD400-BB (Yes, I know it's trash, I bought it before I knew) Thanks for any help, Narfi. Below: fdisk output and /etc/lilo.conf # fdisk -l /dev/hde Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 164511528+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1014, 15, 63) should be (1014, 254, 63) /dev/hde264 3844 30359448 85 Linux extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) /dev/hde56496255496+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hde696 478 3071848+ 83 Linux /dev/hde7 478 1116 5119600+ 83 Linux /dev/hde8 1116 2901 14335744+ 83 Linux /dev/hde9 2901 3155 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hde10 3155 3206409216+ 83 Linux /dev/hde11 3206 3844 5119600+ 83 Linux # cat /etc/lilo.conf default=linux boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=nobiospnp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 18:04, Narfi wrote: Right now, I get the following reports about the (c,h,s) triple: DiskDrake: (4865, 255, 63) fdisk: (4865, 255, 63) bios: (19158, 16, 255) ... Not only do these not agree, but none of them are the same as fdisk reported on the old motherboard: fisk on old mobo: (77545, 16, 63) Motherboard: MSI K7T266 Pro2. Bios: AMI version 3.4 Hard drive: WD400-BB (Yes, I know it's trash, I bought it before I knew) ... # cat /etc/lilo.conf default=linux boot=/dev/hde ... disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 We share the same Mobo, and I found something similar resulted. In my case I had a 40gig Maxtor hard drive, where all the different means of defining hard drive size, came up with different answers, no matter which partition tools were employed. I asked the hard drive manufacturers, about this problem, and to cut a long story short, it turns out there are more than one way of actually measuring hard drive sizes, which I did not know. It all depends upon which formular is employed. This can mean that bioses can vary the result In the end I elected to use one partition tool, PQ Partition Magic, to do all the partition work,on all my hard drives, this way at least , the size came out equal no matter which means of listing the partition table you chose to work with, that is the old dos fdisk, or linux fdisk , and there were no missing bits between the partitions, that somehow get created , and cyliners head and sectors get rounded off. Yes, but one would like consistency in these numbers and that the partition boundaries match with the (c,h,s) triple that is used. I have read that the only place where linux actually uses the (c,h,s) addressing instead of lba32 addressing are in lilo and fdisk (diskdrake as well?), so I'm not overly concerned since I'm not sharing the hard drive with any other OS. If I were sharing the hard drive with windows, which only uses (c,h,s), I would be concerned since windows might think it was writing inside a fat32 partition boundary and write in an area that linux thought was ext2 area. I think I'll end up with adding lines to lilo.conf stating that the (c,h,s) count should be what fisk on the old mobo thought it was, i.e. (77545, 16, 63). Unless somebody on this list tells me that it wouldn't be wise to do so, of course. I also notice your lilo.conf has additional stanzas:- ignore-table disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 I would ask what these entries are there for ? Sure, I added the bios-lines this morning and I was finally able to boot from hard drive as opposed to only from floppy :-) The ignore-table line came with the installation, I have to look closer at that line and why the installer put it there. If the bios-lines are not present, LILO tries to guess the code that the bios uses for the hard drives. In my case, lilo failed in the first stage of booting and it was due to incorrect guesses. In short, the whole bios-lilo communication/guessing was a little bit messed up and I had to correct the situation by hand. I'm not the only one, I had already guessed this to be the case when I found an message on the MSI message board where somebody had to do the same thing. I don't have raid controllers on my mobo, I have an extra IDE controller card in an PCI slot. I've heard so many silly things about these RAID controllers that I didn't want them. However, I would have liked the USB 2.0 controller but I couldn't find the k7t266 pro2-U version for sale any where, only the plain pro2 or the pro2-RU. At some point, I'll perhaps add linux software raid to my system, just for the fun of it but I don't have the time for it right now. Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MSI K7T266 Pro2 mandrake compatability
Hi, Is anyone out there using the MSI K7T266 Pro2? I'm trying to decide whether I should buy the MSI K7T266 Pro2, the Pro2 RU or to spend 50% more and buy the Soyo Dragon+. The price estimates are $100 for MSI K7T266 Pro2 $120 for MSI K7T266 Pro2 RU. It's a never revision of the same board, has USB 2.0 and the regular useless RAID. $150 for the Soyo Dragon+. [A little too expensive for me, unless the MSI turnes out to be useless] Has anyone had any problems setting the MSI boards up in Mandrake? The review of the pro2 RU at Tom's hardware complains about our D-Link network card only worked in the first and second PCI slots. I'd really be interested in hearing your stories before I start spending any money .-) Thanks, Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resizing partitions
On Friday 01 March 2002 12:53, Jeff Quandt wrote: How do I resize partitions on an existing install? I allocated way too much space for swap, and with 512MB Ram, I have yet to even touch the swap space So I want to reclaim some of that space Can I resize it without trashing everything? On a related note, if anyone knows of a good tutorial on Linux point, me to it I don't want to waste everyone's time on silly questions like this one, but I have not found the answers in the archives (When I search I seem to hit everything but the archives) To clarify, I don't mean an install tutorial, I handled that fine I mean something that helps with day to day operation and maintainence Thanks a lot Jeff file:///usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/userhtml/diskdrakehtml may answer your resizing question and file:///usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/indexhtml may answer some of your future questions My favourite recommendations are a) These 2 books by Mandrake which you have on your hard drive, accessible from file:///usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/indexhtml I even went so far as to download them in pdf format from the Mandrake website and print them our in a 4-in-1 format The troubleshooting section in the reference manual has come in very handy many times! I've apprecitated having that in a printed format :-) b) http://wwwmandrakeuserorg Good luck, Narfi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] uninstall .tar.gz
On Friday 15 February 2002 10:12, you wrote: Hi, Is it possible to somehow uninstall something I compiled and installed from a tarball? TIA Roman For next time: I think that the best way to handle the installation of tarballs is through checkinstall. Use it to create an rpm based on the tarball, then you can uninstall the program with rpm if you want to. No need to mess around with 'make uninstall' anymore, which may or may not work. I highly recommend this program! Narfi. ps. The project's home page is http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ From the checkinstall page: A lot of people has asked me how can they remove from their boxes a program they compiled and installed from source. Some times -very few- the program's author adds an uninstall rule to their Makefile, but that's not usually the case. This is my primary reason to write CheckInstall. After you ./configure; make your program, CheckInstall will run make install (or whatever you tell it to run) and keep track of every file modified by this installation, using the excelent installwatch utility written by Pancrazio 'Ezio' de Mauro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). When make install is done, CheckInstall will create a Slackware, RPM or Debian compatible package and install it with Slackware's installpkg, rpm -i or Debian's dpkg -i as appropriate, so you can view it's contents with pkgtool (rpm -ql for RPM users or dpkg -l for Debian) or remove it with removepkg (rpm -e|dpkg -r). Aditionally, this script will leave you a copy of the installed package in the source directory so you can install it wherever you want, which is my second motivation: I don't have to compile the same software again and again every time I need to install it on another box :-). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] maximal mount count error
On Friday 14 September 2001 08:47, Seeun William Umboh wrote: When I boot up, I sometimes get a maximal mount count error, check forced. What does this mean? How do I avoid it? Here's what http://www.mandrakeuser.org has to say about the subject: maximal mount count reached - check forced This is not an error, it's a feature ;-). After a specified number of reboots GNU/Linux checks the filesystem for consistency even if the box has been shutdown properly. This can take some time, especially on large partitions. You can set the interval with tune2fs. I would always recomment these 2 sources of information: 1) The Mandrake reference manual. It's well written and chapter 13 on trouble shooting is invaluable for newbies! You should find it in HTML format on your hard drive: /usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/ref.html/index.html 2) http://www.mandrakeuser.org It is written for newbies and I've always found it to be very readable. . Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] login manager
However, I prefer to run Gnome and would rather log in with gdm, but can't get rid of KDM! I've created /etc/sysconfig/desktop containing only GNOME and /etc/X11/prefdm does seem to specify gdm if the preferred desktop is Gnome, but every time I start up, there's KDM! How do I change this (or does Mandrake's gdm look like KDM?) I believe /etc/sysconfig/desktop should contain the line DESKTOP=GNOME see /etc/X11/prefdm: . /etc/sysconfig/desktop /dev/null 21 [ -n $DISPLAYMANAGER ] DESKTOP=$DISPLAYMANAGER if [ $DESKTOP = GNOME -o $DESKTOP = Gnome ]; then preferred=gdm elif [ $DESKTOP = KDE -o $DESKTOP = KDE1 -o $DESKTOP = KDE2 ]; then preferred=/usr/bin/kdm elif [ $DESKTOP = AnotherLevel ] ; then preferred=/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm or you can look at the story on www.mandrakeforum on this topic: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=964lang=en Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 14:05, jennifer wrote: Does anybody have an Emacs quick reference file? If you do, please share. On my computer I issued the following commands: narfi@/[1042] locate refcard.ps /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/refcard.ps narfi@/[1043] rpm -q -f /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/refcard.ps emacs-20.7-16mdk I.e. the file is called /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/refcard.ps and it came from the rpm package emacs-20.7-16mdk. Provided you have everything installed, you should be able to view it with gv /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/refcard.ps Best, Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
