[newbie] PCMCIA not detected
I am in need of help. I thought I would install Mandrake on my Sony laptop but it didn't go all that well. The installation kept freezing on the check for pcmcia devices. I ended up installing by using the linux noauto option. So, now I have no pcmcia support. I don't know if it was the right thing to do but I installed the kernel-pcmcia rpm, but still not working. I have no idea what to do to get this working. Any suggestions as to what to do? Thanks, Vern Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intel i810e video adapter installation -- rpm error
"Mark D. Flood" wrote: Processing files: I810Gtt Two files on one line: /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/misc/wavefront.o: File must begin with "/": unresolved Two files on one line: /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/misc/wavefront.o: File must begin with "/": symbol(s) Two files on one line: /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/misc/eicon.o: File must begin with "/": unresolved Two files on one line: /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/misc/eicon.o: File must begin with "/": symbol(s) PreReq: /bin/sh [root@localhost floppy]# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/I810Gtt*.i386.rpm error: cannot open file /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/I810Gtt*.i386.rpm [root@localhost floppy]# This is a "newbie answer" so it may not be worth much but I've run into similar problems when using the astrick (*) in part of the file name maybe you should type in: /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/I810Gtt-0.1-6.i386.rpm, as far as the file format errors above I don't know. vern
[newbie] A question for Mandrake gurus?
When Mandrake code is said to be optimized for the Pentium class machines is it optimized in the source code, or does Mandrake have a "custom" compiler they use?? I notice most all the mdk stuff is labeled i586. Do they (the programmers) have to go into the source of each package and "bit fiddle" it, or is it a matter of "packaging" the code. I notice each programmer, or engineer attaches their name to the package. vern
[newbie] Oh say can you C??
Hello, Where to start? I am still in the transition mode, coming over from the darkside (microsoft/DOS/windows/BASIC etc.) I tried to learn C about 10 years ago, when everyone had their own version. Before ANSI C was in full use. I had parts of a Borland compiler and did a few simple "Hello World!" type programs. Now I wonder if I need all new C reference manuals?? Since the advent of Linux and the GNU compilers and such. I'm leaning toward an O'Reilly book I just purchased a PERL manual (the camel book), and would like a similar book for modern day C. Do they still use "linker" processes, and what became of a.out?? Does C still equal C, or are there "flavors" of C?? Thanks, vern
Re: [newbie] How to run scripts at ppp-up?
Thank you Jose for the help, you have given me some more to think
about. That's the way Linux has always been I ask a small question
and wind up learning more than I bargained for! :-)
vern
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote:
If you create a /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, it will be executed upon successful
ppp startup.
Here's a snippet from my /etc/ppp/ip-up.local file which was added by
ddclient (Dynamic Dns Updating client, which is free BTW!)
Note the comment about which parameters are passed!
#!/bin/sh
##
## $Header:
##
##
## On my host, pppd invokes this script with args:
##
## /etc/ppp/ip-up.local ppp0 /dev/pts/1 115200 192.168.2.1 192.168.2.3
##
## From the manual page for my pppd, these aguments are:
## scriptname interface-name tty-device speed local-IP-address
remote-IP-address ipparam
##
## Some people have reported that their pppd returns their
## local-IP-address as $3. If that's also the case for you,
## you may need to change the $4 below to $3. This may not
## be necessary if you pppd also passes the local-ip-address
## in the environment as either PPP_LOCAL or IPLOCAL.
##
##
PATH=$PATH:/root/bin:/root/sbin
IP=
IP=${IP:-$PPP_LOCAL}
IP=${IP:-$IPLOCAL}
IP=${IP:-$4}
## update the DNS server unless the IP address is a private address
## that may be used as a internal LAN address (or PPtP tunnel).
logger -t ddclient $0 $*
case "$IP" in
10.*) ;;
192.168.*) ;;
"") logger -t ddclient No local IP given so cannot update
;;
*) (
sleep 5
ddclient -retry -wildcard -ip $IP | logger -t
ddclient
)
;;
esac
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of vern
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 4:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] How to run scripts at ppp-up?
I would like to start the program "portsentry" when my
dialup connection is started to my ISP. In which directory
might I insert this script??
thanks
vern
Re: [newbie] slow connection speed
Is there an MTU/MRU test utility for Linux? There are several for windoze to tune the MTU/MRU for minumum fragmentation/ maximum throughput. I have happened upon a mtutest program written in C, but haven't figured out how to compile it yet. vern "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: No in your case things are different. I'd start looking for MTU and packet latency problem in your situation. If this yields the same results then it's time to look elsewhere. The problem is probably external to Linux. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 9:47 AM To: Jose M. Sanchez Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: [newbie] slow connection speed I have encountered this as well but in a network enviroment does it have a speed setting like Setserial for ethernet? (dsl). Mike
[newbie] MTU test?
Is there a method to test the throughput of a ppp dialup connection in Linux? I would like the chance to optimize my packet length maximum throughput and minimum fragmentation. vern
[newbie] How to run scripts at ppp-up?
I would like to start the program "portsentry" when my dialup connection is started to my ISP. In which directory might I insert this script?? thanks vern
[newbie] Yo Denis a DISCUSSION TIDBIT here.
Well "tweaks" would be more in order from my vantage point, I'm waiting for the "major updates" to take place like: Xfree 4.0, KDE 2, and the 2.4 kernel before I upgrade again. I am one user on a desktop PC with no network, I use a firewall and "portsentry" to keep track of the "badguys" while I'm online. I use a crummy 24K dialup so I need to run a downloader manager to resume broken downloads. I have no need for much internal security, but none the less I run in the "root mode" as little as possible. So there's a short overview of how I use your present product, and what I'll be looking for in the future. Xfree 4.0 promises an end to the "crummy font" syndrome in X, the 2.4 kernel is starting to explore the UDF file system more and I hope will support multi session (packet writing) on the CDRW's that I miss so much! vern -- V3rn waz h3r3! Help! My Linux doc. heap has fallen on me, and I can't get up! ILOVEYOU is a GNUish plot!
[newbie] Rumors??
Is this STILL in beta?? Boy when will Macro$haft get off their collective butts?? vern "I heard that Microsoft has stopped all the developement on furthure windows versions, and concentrating the efforts on a BSD-based distro with propriatery graphical shell a-la Apple. The distro should be able to run all the linux progs, and first public beta is scheduled for august 2000." -- V3rn waz h3r3! Help! My Linux doc. heap has fallen on me, and I can't get up! ILOVEYOU is a GNUish plot!
Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?
But if the process is a part of another process running in the background with no window to drop the "X" on you need to know the PID and kill off just the "ugly" process. vern "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Younes Zouhair wrote: vern wrote: If you are using KDE you can use the "process management tool" I use it to ride herd on Nutscrape and the cdburners. In fact I have it permantly installed on my tool bar at the bottom! vern If you're using KDE there should be an icon for Xkill. Simply tag the icon then tag the window with the runaway app. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227 -- V3rn waz h3r3! Help! My Linux doc. heap has fallen on me, and I can't get up! ILOVEYOU is a GNUish plot!
Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?
If you are using KDE you can use the "process management tool" I use it to ride herd on Nutscrape and the cdburners. In fact I have it permantly installed on my tool bar at the bottom! vern Wade wrote: Hi List, I have found an occasion or two to use the 'Ctrl, Alt, Backspace' command a couple of times which has been a saving grace, but I have only had a need to kill a runaway (unresponsive) app, rather than my xserver. My question, is there a way to kill an app and not restart my xserver? Also would this apply to a runaway process as well? Thanks, b/web Wade -- V3rn waz h3r3! Help! My Linux doc. heap has fallen on me, and I can't get up! ILOVEYOU is a GNUish plot!
Re: [newbie] Linux and BeOS
I'm thinking of tinkering with BeOS myself the new issue of Maximum PC has a copy of the "personal edition" which runs it as one big Windoze file. That's just the way I started with Linux, so who knows?? vern Wayne Petherick wrote: I know this is slightly OT so if anyone would rather continue this off list but I am after info on running BeOS and Linux (and Wind'ohs) on the same machine and was wondering if anyone currently does this. I need to know the specifics of getting it up and running, and also whether I have to change the drive type under Linux' fstab entry etc. If anyone is willing to help, I would appreciate it. Wayne -- V3rn waz h3r3! Help! My Linux doc. heap has fallen on me, and I can't get up! ILOVEYOU is a GNUish plot!
Re: [newbie] epson stylus color 760
I just installed an Epson Stylus 740 yesterday, and I did a search in Google (linux) on the subject and found several nice websites on the subject. I don't think anyone has the color tweaks in for the super high res. mode about 1400 dpi. as I remember. vern Emanuele La Rosa wrote: Does anybody know where I can find the driver of the printer epson stylus color 760 -- V3rn waz h3r3! Help! My Linux doc. heap has fallen on me, and I can't get up! ILOVEYOU is a GNUish plot!
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and disk space
Small, maybe unrelated insight, I'd really give some thought to not as "root" most of the time. I'm another newbie giving thought to going Linux only. My new video card has pushed me over the edge, works beautifully in Linux and garbage in Windows. I'd like to see someone port one of the encyclopedias to Linux I'm partial to Encarta 2000. vern Jason Lindsay wrote: Hopefully I'll get some good insights on this. Windows appears to have taken a massive poop on me over the weekend, and since I really haven't booted into it for quite some time now, I think I'm going to redo my system linux-only. Here's the question: I have a total of 10.1G HDD space, on 2 4.3G and 1 2.1 G drives. where should I mount everything? how much space is reccommended for each mount point? It's a single-user system, not a server, and there will probably only be 3-5 user accounts (and I use root most of the time) I will also probably run windows 9x under vmware to try to smooth out the transition. Thoughts? Ideas? -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
Re: [newbie] Replies
Ron Greer wrote: I use outlook :) Hey Ron! I've got this r33l K00l visual basic script you should try!! Just kidding, still I find it odd that the guy who wrote that was kind enough to include his name and address!! H! Me thinks there's a false trail out there somewhere! vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
Re: [newbie] needed programs
"Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2000, you wrote: Ron, XMMS kicks a**. If you will try, you will see it is the same as winamp. -michael- Hi folks! I also like XMMS but can't seem to get it to automatically boot up when I try to listen to a radio station in www.shoutcast.com If I download the file (*.pl) and use an "open with" command it works just fine. Any idea on how to get Netscape 4.72 to recognize the file type? Thanks! I'm sure you'll get tons of answers on this, but I believe that's a Perl script. vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
Re: [newbie] 3dfx (Vern)
Hi again Michael, I'm not much of a gamer, in fact the only games I own are the one's that came with the Voodoo card and the Soundblaster card. :-) The original idea behind all this madness was to get back into a decent flight simulator for Linux. I found a web site for one complete with screen shots (always a sucker for a pretty face) so I pluncked down my $400+ for a Voodoo3 and 256MB of RAM in an attempt to make a silk purse outta a sow's ear. I wonder how Linux get's around the memory mapping thingy, it reads the same BIOS settings that Windoze does! I recenty got a "clean" version of Win98 to exclude the HP bloat, and no dice! Linux is getting a little too "mainstream" I'm looking at OpenBSD now, my first partition might be open for experimentation! Bye Bye Bill, hello cute little devils and penguins! :-) vern Michael Holt wrote: I'm sorry to hear about your winwoes; I'm not sure, but I would think if you've made sure to disable the onboard card (through a jumper or a switch) the only thing that would be left would be the bios settings. I have another however; I don't know if you're a gamer, but I just bought a copy of Quake 2 for Linux (never tried before) and my results were a little disapointing. First, I've got an AMD k6-3 450MHz with 192MB RAM and an ATI Rage Fury w/ 32MB RAM. I'm only able to play on a max window size of 640x480 before the sound starts cutting out and I start dropping frames. Also, I only get half the game window to play in, the other side is just black. Is this to be expected with non-3dfx cards? Thanks, Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! == -- Vernon Stilwell**Hardinsburg,Ky USA**[EMAIL PROTECTED] "You raise the blade, you make the change, you re-arrange me 'till I'm sane. You lock the door, and throw away the key, there's someone in my head but it's not me" 1973 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd.
Re: [newbie] Charles/DSL?
Same story in Kentucky the satellites will probably beat the wire guys around here! I'm in the woods miles from my central office and the best I ever get is 26K. So thank goodness for CD's, otherwise Linux would be still a dream! My first brush with Linux was Slackware on about 15 floppies I believe. vern Michael wrote: When i went to the phoneco in sitka and asked about a DSL they said,"Huh?" We'll have cablemodems by 2004. Til then it's 28.8. -michael- Paul wrote: On Sun, 14 May 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: Paul DSL( Digital Subscriber Line) is the big brother of ISDN. It requires a special modem and phone line hook-up and is provided most often by the local phone companies. With DSL I can achive upload speeds of 256k and download speeds of up to 1.5MB. To put that in terms of everyday use I can download the 600MB Mandrake image file in app. 45 min. In 2words. Its Great. 2 more words... Gulp... Drool... )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- Vernon Stilwell**Hardinsburg,Ky USA**[EMAIL PROTECTED] "You raise the blade, you make the change, you re-arrange me 'till I'm sane. You lock the door, and throw away the key, there's someone in my head but it's not me" 1973 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd.
Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice Mandrake7
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Alan P.S. I bought my first computer in 1978, it was a TRS-80 Model I with 4 K of ram and a cassette deck to load programs and save data. This was way before my first wordprocessor, Electric Pencil. :-) Hey Alan remember when the "new thing" was Wordstar? I have a similar history with the Apple ][, still got pieces of a Commodore 64 around here somewhere, used it on packet radio in my ham days. Before you could talk around the world instantly! take care, vern -- Vernon Stilwell**Hardinsburg,Ky USA**[EMAIL PROTECTED] "You raise the blade, you make the change, you re-arrange me 'till I'm sane. You lock the door, and throw away the key, there's someone in my head but it's not me" 1973 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd.
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
X Drake wrote: I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually SNIP! WOW! I've never had any of these problems, it looks like a flaky hard drive, I know Linux is a LOT more particular about it's disk/file conditions. Back when I was using WinLinux 2000 (Linux used as a BIG Windoze file) I would have to run scan disk almost everytime I tried to use WinLinux! But once Linux was sure of it's files and their condition it ran well. I'm sorry to see you go and I still wonder if it is not a hardware problem: heat on the motherboard, bad stick of RAM or again some weirdness with the hard drive. I know windoze is a lot more tolerant of hard drive errors. vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
[newbie] Documentation on kernel??
Has anyone at Mandrake ever documented the difference between the "secure" kernel, and the "regular" kernels?? Is it only used in the highest levels of security? Thanks! vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
Re: [newbie] 3Dfx
Hi I just purchased a Voodoo3 3000 and the drivers at the 3Dfx site are there but the one I started to download was 30+ meg. in length not something you want to try on a 24K modem hookup! :-( I have to wait till someone comes out with them on CD! vern Evan Holt wrote: Hi there, Sorry about this but I must be missing the plot somewhere. I have a 3dfx voodoo3 card and I have never needed to download any drivers of any kind. It works perfectly from the box. Am I missing something I am running 800x600 32bit true colour with no problems what so ever. I have used this card with perfect success under Md 6.1 and now 7 The later versions of XF86Setup can detect a Voodoo card, but the glide drivers are required for games such as Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 and some newer shareware games. Evan -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
[newbie] Where's the experts??
What has happened to the experts mailing list? No mail for almost 3 days! vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
Re: [newbie] LILO again!
Good answer Michael, I'm keeping these answers so I can find them next time. I've heard the answers before but they just don't stick in my feable mind! vern Michael Holt wrote: vern wrote: I know this was covered somewhere sometime, but I going to have to reinstall Windoze on my HD I know it messes up the MBR on the disk and I need to use fdisk to do something and how do I reinstate LILO back on the MBR? thanks vern After Windows is installed, use your Linux boot disk to boot back into Linux then from the command (or a terminal window) Just type 'lilo' as root without the quotes. This will reinstall lilo to the MBR; as long as your drive parameters haven't changed (as long as you haven't moved where windows and linux boot from) you'll be ok with that. If you've changed your partition arrangement, then you'll have to edit your /etc/lilo.conf file to reflect where things are now. Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! == -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
Re: [newbie] LILO again!
Thanks Paul, I suppose I still need Brother Bill's handy work on the front of my HD for some reason. vern Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, vern wrote: I know this was covered somewhere sometime, but I going to have to reinstall Windoze on my HD I know it messes up the MBR on the disk and I need to use fdisk to do something and how do I reinstate LILO back on the MBR? thanks vern Make sure you have your Linux bootdisk handy. Reinstall the dreaded thing, and afterwards boot into linux from the bootdisk (make sure you know the proper root partition number) and then edit lilo.conf as needed. Run lilo (as root), and things should be okay again. Paul )0(---)0( Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
[newbie] LILO again!
I know this was covered somewhere sometime, but I going to have to reinstall Windoze on my HD I know it messes up the MBR on the disk and I need to use fdisk to do something and how do I reinstate LILO back on the MBR? thanks vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)
I'm a confused newbie too when it comes to writing rules for IPCHAINS, I've had good luck with a program calle PMfirewall it's on www.pointman.org . It's a script for writing rules in IPCHAINS and all you need to do is answer the questions when you execute the script. It's not perfect for everyone but it will get you started, and you can edit rules as you like. I keep tabs on my firewall with kfirewall on KDE. Hope this helps. vern PS IPCHAINS is in Mdk 7.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been setting up a samba server with adsl connected to several win98 boxes. I was told that to share the dsl connection all I had to do was set up IP chains. I then downloaded the current ip chains howto and am now completely lost. I read the first 4 chapters right up to where you set up the win98 boxes. Do I have to recompile the Kernel (I have never done this before); I am running mandrake 7.02. I was assuming that the IP chains was already built in. Is there a easy way to set it up. I don't mind recompiling but could use any suggestions or help that anyone could put forward. Thanx in advance Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
[newbie] Another RTFM maybe?
In pouring over my logs I noticed a module error of sorts it says: "modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108" what does this module pertain to? And where might I find this module? Oh yeah the obligatory "porn test" to see if the wolfsucker at Texas Utilities is still working. Vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
Re: [newbie] A little security....
I'm a newbie on Linux firewalls too, I've had a pretty good experience with a product called "PMfirewall" it's a script that write rules to the IPCHAINS section. They have a pretty helpful email list, although it is very low volume, and there is an archive of the mail list so you don't have to ask the same questions over and over. Vern PS. As I didn't have a spare 486 box for a firewall I use this script on my stand alone Linux box. Paul wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2000, Andy wrote: Its great everyones talking about windows firewalls, but what about Linux firewalls. I have heard that a 486 with linux on it can become a great firewall for a business. I have read something a few days ago, somewhere (where???) that you can do something with IPCHAINS to set up a firewall. Perhaps looking around in that field brings you something. Paul )0(---)0( Happiness requires practice, just like playing the violin. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment!
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Help!
Thanks quayler! I'll give this a try! Vern quaylar wrote: i had the same problem with my soundcardafter loading the oss compatible modules snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss everything worked fine...system sounds and mp3 player too... On Thu, 04 May 2000 20:06:44 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I finally sprang for a new audio card, a brand new Sound Blaster PCI 512. This must be new one as it was the only affordable PCI Sound Blaster card Staples had. So I did all the research on available drivers for Linux and found same at ALSA so attempting my first source code compile I got it to make the object code module and installed it per "readme" instructions. My CD plays music fine but I can't get any of the system sounds to play. I've been through all the mixers and such in both KDE and GNOME with no success. Any help would be most appreciated! After working with this for 2 days I think I've tried all the combinations possible. HELP! Vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Have you hugged your penguin today? *** -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Have you hugged your penguin today? ***
[expert] Sound Blaster Help!
Well I finally sprang for a new audio card, a brand new Sound Blaster PCI 512. This must be new one as it was the only affordable PCI Sound Blaster card Staples had. So I did all the research on available drivers for Linux and found same at ALSA so attempting my first source code compile I got it to make the object code module and installed it per "readme" instructions. My CD plays music fine but I can't get any of the system sounds to play. I've been through all the mixers and such in both KDE and GNOME with no success. Any help would be most appreciated! After working with this for 2 days I think I've tried all the combinations possible. HELP! Vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Have you hugged your penguin today? ***
[newbie] PPP security (firewalls and such)??
Okay I'm just one guy with one computer and I like to surf and do email. Is there a way to monitor ports, and keep away evildoers? I'm used to Windoze programs like Black Ice, Zone Alarm and such. I would like to log port scans and such sniffer activity hitting my machine while online. I've read Network HOWTO's IPchains, and firewalling info's HOWTO's and man pages. I have no LAN, no separate 486 machine for a firewall. I've #'ed out all my services and disabled my "super server" (inetd) and tried to be as "security conscious" as I know how. There's a KDE program called kfirewall (front end for ipchains) but no docs, and as of this morning no website to get info on how to use it. What am I missing? I've looked into Ksnuffle but that seems a bit extreme for one machine and one very slow (24K) PPP dialup connection. Any help or ideas would be appreciated! Vern
Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results
Albert wrote: Depending on the motherboard / chipset hdparm -d1 /dev/hda is the common flag Here is a snip from this machine /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.68 seconds =76.19 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.29 seconds =19.45 MB/sec We have others on the bench with 150 MB/sec buffer-cache and disk reads of 26 MB/sec HTH WOW! I just wanted to thank you for posting this, I decided to try this and before DMA flag was set equaled 3.01 MB/sec, and after the DMA flag was set it was 17.93 MB/sec!!! WOW! Hope the rest of the computer can keep up with this throughput!! This should be on a page of Linux tweaks! Vern On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am running Mdk 7-2 with 13 GB HD and DMA33. When I ran my first hdparm -t to test the drive read speed the results were only 3 MB/sec and the RealPlayer radio I had running was shut down. After setting the dma and unmask flags to on ,the test speed jumped to 14 MB/sec and RealPlayer did not cut out. What are the average disk read speeds to be expected with such a hard drive and is there anything else to optimize speed ? This seems like a worthwhile tweak for those who suspect their hd speed is slowing down the system. Just like to pass this along fyi and to see what others are getting on this speed test. -- Linux Tests http://www.linuxtests.org
Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results
Okay, being an old skeptic and a young Linux mechanic what's the "downside" of such a tweak?? Will I have data errors (read/write) corrupted files, and such?? Why is the "default" set so low?? Vern Larry Varney wrote: Mine was similar, until I did the "hdparm -d1 hda", and the result jumped up into the 13 MB/sec range. Changing the umask didn't seem to make any difference, though. Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 4/24/00 at 11:50 PM vern wrote: Here's what my "hunk O junk" does pretty crummy by your standards!! Vern PS. Looks like I'm due for a tuneup! /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.62 seconds = 2.96 MB/sec Albert wrote: Depending on the motherboard / chipset hdparm -d1 /dev/hda is the common flag Here is a snip from this machine /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.68 seconds =76.19 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.29 seconds =19.45 MB/sec
Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results
Here's what my "hunk O junk" does pretty crummy by your standards!! Vern PS. Looks like I'm due for a tuneup! /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.62 seconds = 2.96 MB/sec Albert wrote: Depending on the motherboard / chipset hdparm -d1 /dev/hda is the common flag Here is a snip from this machine /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.68 seconds =76.19 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.29 seconds =19.45 MB/sec We have others on the bench with 150 MB/sec buffer-cache and disk reads of 26 MB/sec HTH On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am running Mdk 7-2 with 13 GB HD and DMA33. When I ran my first hdparm -t to test the drive read speed the results were only 3 MB/sec and the RealPlayer radio I had running was shut down. After setting the dma and unmask flags to on ,the test speed jumped to 14 MB/sec and RealPlayer did not cut out. What are the average disk read speeds to be expected with such a hard drive and is there anything else to optimize speed ? This seems like a worthwhile tweak for those who suspect their hd speed is slowing down the system. Just like to pass this along fyi and to see what others are getting on this speed test. -- Linux Tests http://www.linuxtests.org
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: I appear to be getting all the email from your forum/discussion group. Like 100's a day. What is the forum called so that I can try to get it fixed ?? Bryn Jones Hello Bryn, I'll not copy and resend all that pseudo intellectual crap, we in the "mainstream" have better manners than certain "eggheads" that are better left to their own devices. Please ignore them and maybe they will go away! One of them said a day or two ago they wouldn't go to the trouble of opening attachments to read them. Best reason I've heard so far to use attachments! Spam comes in all flavors! Vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] RR#3 Box 168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, KY 40143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Located on a dusty dirt road, running roughly parallel to the information highway. Awaiting BellSouth's efforts to bridge the "digital divide". Country penguins rock when given the chance.
Re: [newbie] Loging on
I usually select the console button, er konsole button from the tool bar at the bottom and "su" a session to just jump over and fix something quickly. Vern On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm looking for a way to log in as root while i'm in a user in KDE. with out logout and login out from user... Thanks for the help -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] RR#3 Box 168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, KY 40143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This signature was brought to you by vi. My other computer is a CRAY.
[newbie] CD-RW UDF?
Hello all, I just spent the afternoon hunting up all the infos, HOWTO's and man pages that weren't installed on my initial installation. Spent quite a time with the CDROM,CD-R HOWTO's. That left me with another question or two. I can read CD's CD-R's, but no CD-RW's does that mean that they are automatically in the UDF format?? Or are they merely not finished tracks? My ultimate goal is to use the CD-RW as a big floppy to archive data to. I hope "dump" and "restore" will use the CD-RW someday, if I can figure out all the ins and outs. Thanks for any help! Vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] RR#3 Box 168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, KY 40143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This signature was brought to you by vi. My other computer is a CRAY.
[newbie] Fine tuning my PPP?
Hello All! On modifying my options on the PPP service to work with my raggedy old 24K intermittent phone lines. I've set my MTU, and MRU to 296 to minimize the packet fragmentation. (I hope) I ran across the "noipx" command an wondered what "IPX" stood for, do I need it? And why should I care?? Every single packet is precious and I need every clock cycle I can latch on to! Thanks for any help! Vern
[newbie] My floppy went away!
This is spooky! I no longer have the ability to read my floppy. It worked for almost 2 days after installing Mdk 7.0-2. I tried to mount the /dev/fd0 and got the reading not found in my fstab or mtab (see attached) looks like they are there to me. Any ideas? I've also tried supermount enable and disable no change. Thanks for reading this! Vern PS. The IDE CDROM works after I told it that it was a scis (scuzzy)! :-) -- Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] RR#3 Box 168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, KY 40143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna race? My penguin can do 466.94 BogoMIPS /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/DOS_hda6 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /dev/hda2 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/DOS_hda6 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,conv=binary 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
RE: [newbie] take off your mailing list
Only if you take it off my mailing list, will I allow you to take it on the mailing list, whether you go to the mailing list or not! Oh Yeah! Let's see you say that in Perl!! Is it true that real programers write their email in octal?? Vern (still on the mailing list) :-) On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: Take your what off my mailing list? -Original Message- From: jose rechany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 April 2000 01:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] take off your mailing list please take my off your mailing list thanks -- Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] RR#3 Box 168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, KY 40143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna race? My penguin can do 466.94 BogoMIPS
Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beatWindowshandsdownon stability!!
Speaking as you were about motherboards, chipsets and such. What is your opinion of Intel's i810 chipset and the Celeron processor? I've bought a "real" modem, a "real" video card and am now in the market for a "real" audio card. I have since heard there are certain memory vendors that won't support the use of their memory chips in the i810 motherboards. Linux seems pretty happy with 96 MB, so I am guessing I won't be shopping for more memory anytime soon! What are your thoughts?? Vern On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: Jon wrote: "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: *laughs* What motherboard do you have again? You're running an AMD K6/2 -- I'm already suspicious (speaking from experience). Something is *definitely* wrong with your hardware if Linux is wobbly and Win98 is stable. -Stephen- I love my amd k6-2 450 ... :( Don't get me wrong -- I'm not criticizing the AMD K6/2 - I think it was an undersold processor. The problem was that a number of motherboard manufacturers were apparently unwilling to throw real support behind it and pushed boards onto the market that had not been adequately designed and tested. -Stephen- -- Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] RR#3 Box 168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, KY 40143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna race? My penguin can do 466.94 BogoMIPS
Re: [newbie] Intel i810 video and Mandrake 7.0
I've had some experience with the i810, I'm a newbie! I did as you did with the new Xserver and agpgart.o module from Intel. I never got it to work with the new 7.0 kernel, the module kept complaining about the kernel not being the 2.2 version. I'm running Mdk. 6.1 right now and it works great (2.2.13) verses the (2.2.14) kernel in the 7.0 version. One of the gurus over on the [expert] mailing list said that the new "Cooker" kernel fixed this problem. I haven't had a chance to go through that yet. I ordered a "new" old video card the other night, (Matrox Mystique) it's an old 2MB card that seems to satisfy both Windoze and Linux. I bought a "real" modem,a "real" video card, I guess a "real" audio card is next! So this is not much help but it is at least my experience with that hardware. Vern On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote: AlrightI need a little more help :) I am running linux Mandrake 7.0 on a box that has the intel i810 graphics chipset built into the board. (Note: I would NEVER purchase a mobo with anything like this built in for myself, but this is my box at work, and I didn't have a choice in that ;) ) Now, the problem is: I can't get the thing to work properly. I've gone to the intel website and gotten the two .rpm's needed for the install, and I've followed the intallation directions as far as I could. Here is where I get hung up. The directions call for me to edit the XF86Config file, to add in the intel chipset. I have done this, and rebooted, only to have the system hang upon restarting the Xserver. I gives me a message about the XF86Config file, and it not recognizing some setting with "My Video Card". Now I have checked and re-checked the XF86Config for errors in my editing, but everything was done just as the directions called for. Does anyone have any insight as to the problem? Have any of you experienced this yourself? Any soulutions whatsoever? Thanks in advance! Travis P.S. - Thank you to those that helped out with the network card (3c905b) problem, I now have that resolved! -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
Re: NDN: Re: [newbie] Prob2- Netscape
I wonder if the mailbox is full of duplicate mail?? HMMM! Hope this makes it! Vern On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: linus linus (Mailbox or Conference is full.) -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
[newbie] A little different X rant.
Hello All, I've been reading all the references to starting X at boot, and have yet to hear an answer to my particular delimia. I can start in class 3 for the command line and run startx and all goes well, but when I go to class 5 for default of X on the startup I get errors and a looping message about not starting the Xserver. I feel the problems are in my startup scripts somewhere but I don't know where to begin. I also would like to atomatically start X in the 16 bit color depth. I do that with "startx -- -bpp 16" now and would like to do that at the startup. Thanks in advance! Vern -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
Re: [newbie] A little different X rant.
No it's one step beyond that, it's a blank screen with the reoccuring error message. Vern On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: Does it loop at the large Penguin at the terminal right at login? --- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I've been reading all the references to starting X at boot, and have yet to hear an answer to my particular delimia. I can start in class 3 for the command line and run startx and all goes well, but when I go to class 5 for default of X on the startup I get errors and a looping message about not starting the Xserver. I feel the problems are in my startup scripts somewhere but I don't know where to begin. I also would like to atomatically start X in the 16 bit color depth. I do that with "startx -- -bpp 16" now and would like to do that at the startup. Thanks in advance! Vern -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
Re: [newbie] Prob2- Netscape
Thank you. Vern On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote: If you go to www.mandrakeuser.org there is a section on how to implement Mozilla fonts into Netscape. They actually work pretty good... -Necro On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, vern wrote: Here's My Nutscrape gripe! What can we do with those dirty, nasty, little unreadable fonts that come on Nutsrcape?? I know you can alter the size, but man those are some gnarley little pixel blobs! Thanks Vern -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
Re: [newbie] DOS based directories
Okay Bruce, I'll give that a whirl! Thanks! Vern On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: Vern; Even if you in DOS under windows, you can not say do "cd /program files/". Does under windoze uses the tilde "~". Under DOS in windows to change to directory "Program Files" you would type "cd /progra~1/" without the quotes or if you had another directory named "Programs", it would be "cd /progra~2", etc. Windoze dos keeps the first 6 characters of the directory name and assigns the tilde "~" plus a numeric from 1 to 9. I do not know what it would do if you had more than 9 directories named "program". Hope this helps. Bruce :-) Oliver Stieber wrote: if your setting up paths in wine.conf just type them in as you would under dos eg [wine] path=c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\dos;c:\program files\myprogram windows=c:\windows i'm not sure how you setup drives, as i'm on NT at the moment and can't remember how i set the up @home there's a man file for wine configuration in wine.configure and a few more in the wine doc's path -Original Message- From: vern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 March 2000 18:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] DOS based directories Hello All, I'm presently experimenting with Wine (windows emulator) not the drink! I have a question as to how Linux recognizes two word directory names? ie: /Program Files/ How do you represent the space between words? I have tried the following: "Program Files" "Program_Files" "Program%20Files" The last one came from watching how X represents them. I have tried all the above from the command line and nogo. This may be an easily found answer but I keep overlooking it! Thanks! Vern -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux
This may be a bit too simple, but I do 90% of my "surfing" in KFM right there on the KDE desktop. Don't use Nutscrape much since about ver. 3.0 or so. It's gotten much too big and buggy. But then again I'm not a "power user" whatever that is. :-) Vern On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: Does anybody have a solution to this? Any other recommended browsers? I hate the extended reboot where the filesystem autofixes itself ... "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Brent Pathakis wrote: If you do get stuck in X, you can always do a: ctrl-alt-backspace and it will usually send you back to a command prompt. That is exactly the problem, the keyboard is not responding either -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227
Re: [newbie] Lack of download speed/completion
I've had similar experiences, and will be very interested in the answers you recieve. Vern On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: I have my computer connected to the Internet with a NE2000 PCI 10mhz card by way of a small home LAN. The connections are made by a 56K modem on good phone lines. If I have OS/2 Warp running I can d/l the file, IBMJava-SDK-1_1_8-2_0_i386.RPM, in about 39 minutes with 4.5 k/sec using Netscape Communicator v4.61 for OS/2. If I have Win98 running, on the same machine, same connection setup, I can d/l the same file in about 41 minutes with a similar 4.5 k/sec with Netscape Communicator v7.2 for Windows. With Linux-Mandrake 7.0, or L-M 6.0, Readhat 5.2, or RH 6.0 I give up after several hours with a completion of about 5% with Netscape Communicator v7.0 or v7.2. I get tired of looking at (stalled) in the netscape download window. Same site, same time of day, same day of the week. This happens with ALL downloads, any site, any time, any day. Netscape displays web pages quickly. E-Mail downloads quickly. Any suggestions or information would be greatly appreciated. BTW.. incase it was not obvious, I am a Newbie a Linux, smile, but not to computing. -- --- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
[newbie] Acrobat default on KDE.
What is the "quick and dirty" way to get KDE to start Acrobat by default on .pdf files?? My current setup triggers PS Viewer on .pdf files. I've read all the howtos and infos and readmes and I must have missed that somewhere. Thanks for your help in advance! Vern
[newbie] OH! OH!
This is a tad off topic, but interesting none the less! I read now where the government has a plan to protect the net from hackers! My experience with such "protection" is we are better off with the hackers! Here's the URL: http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?28624:6712016 Now they are trying to "protect" us from our- selves! Looks like Mr. Gore's Internet is in trouble! Vern -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
[newbie] DOS based directories
Hello All, I'm presently experimenting with Wine (windows emulator) not the drink! I have a question as to how Linux recognizes two word directory names? ie: /Program Files/ How do you represent the space between words? I have tried the following: "Program Files" "Program_Files" "Program%20Files" The last one came from watching how X represents them. I have tried all the above from the command line and nogo. This may be an easily found answer but I keep overlooking it! Thanks! Vern
[newbie] The best audio/video cards for Linux??
I will be in the positon to purchase an audio and a video card and I want to get everyone's opinion which is the best supported under Linux?? They should be PCI type cards. (tired of fighting drivers!) Thanks! Vern
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
I've had similar experiences with MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 plus half of my hardware failed to function (video, floppy, CDROM etc.) I'm back with 6.1 or 6.5 as MacMillan calls it, and happy as a clam. I do regret the $50+ I wasted to learn this lesson, maybe something on those other 5 CD's is useful! Vern On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: On 26/03/00 7:53, steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: I bought MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 recently and I experienced the same problems Charles did on it being very slow. Also 6.0 takes about 30 minutes to install, and this new 7.0 took 2:40. Ridiculous. Same here. The install was very long, and my machine is much slower than with 6. Kirk vice | versa Translations from French to English, English to French Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [newbie]
I apologize to you and the others Jon my send button has a "hair trigger" and it got away from me! Vern - Original Message - From: Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 3:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Now while I am getting kinda used to not having enough info from you guys to not be able to give definite answers... Vern, you are pushing it! Vern wrote:NOTHING!!!
[newbie] Accessing floppy and cdrom?
[newbie] I wanna change kernels.
Hello All, I have the -1linus kernel installed and I want to change to the -15mdk kernel, how do I do this? I'm trying to get 7.0 to recognize my Xserver driver module thingy, and my CDROM. Both worked in 6.1. Vern
