Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2 with via82xx: solved
Just for future reference. I downloaded the ALSA 9.0 RC6 package, but did not yet install it. But yesterday evening when I was playing with the Mandrake Control Centre again, I changed to the OSS driver for the Via chip and also disabled ALSA at boot. This morning when I started up the computer there was sound. So the solution was to use the OSS driver instead of the ALSA one. The next challenge will be ACPI. Erik Op za 13-12-2003, om 21:00 schreef emnej: Op za 13-12-2003, om 08:46 schreef Frans Ketelaars: On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:13, emnej wrote: Op vr 12-12-2003, om 09:32 schreef Derek Jennings: On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I receive the following message: # alsaconf device_mode int, description Device file permission mask for devfs. which: no dialog in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr /local/sbi n) which: no whiptail in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr /local/sbi n) Error, dialog or whiptail not found. So it seems that something here is not good, but I have no idea what ;-) Thanks for helping, Erik Did you see this ? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#alsaconf alsaconf is very effective at setting up your sound card. It will write the driver configuration into /etc/modules.conf but be aware it will overwrite the existing contents, and will not replace the non sound lines of the file. So make a backup before running alsaconf and replace the non sound lines by hand afterwards. derek Derek, Thank you very much for the link. I didn't know this and it helped me to run alsaconf. It created a new version of the modules.conf but that was fine because I had backed up the file because you warned me. Since then I do not get a warning anymore when starting kmix from a terminal, but I also still do not have any sound. Is there anything else that I can do? TIA, Erik You must raise the volumes of the relevant channels _and_ unmute them. In kmix unmuting a channel is done by clicking on the green led. It should be bright green. HTH, -Frans __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I think that the problem is not with the volume. 'Inhabitant of Zion' advised me to look on the ALSA list. I searched their pages and found out that it seems to be a problem with recent versions of ALSA. Others had the same problem and were advised to go back to ALSA 9.0 RC6. This is what I will now try to do. Anyway, thank you very much for your help! Hartelijke groeten, Erik __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2
On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:13, emnej wrote: Op vr 12-12-2003, om 09:32 schreef Derek Jennings: On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I receive the following message: # alsaconf device_mode int, description Device file permission mask for devfs. which: no dialog in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr /local/sbi n) which: no whiptail in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr /local/sbi n) Error, dialog or whiptail not found. So it seems that something here is not good, but I have no idea what ;-) Thanks for helping, Erik Did you see this ? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#alsaconf alsaconf is very effective at setting up your sound card. It will write the driver configuration into /etc/modules.conf but be aware it will overwrite the existing contents, and will not replace the non sound lines of the file. So make a backup before running alsaconf and replace the non sound lines by hand afterwards. derek Derek, Thank you very much for the link. I didn't know this and it helped me to run alsaconf. It created a new version of the modules.conf but that was fine because I had backed up the file because you warned me. Since then I do not get a warning anymore when starting kmix from a terminal, but I also still do not have any sound. Is there anything else that I can do? TIA, Erik You must raise the volumes of the relevant channels _and_ unmute them. In kmix unmuting a channel is done by clicking on the green led. It should be bright green. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2: almost solved
Op za 13-12-2003, om 08:46 schreef Frans Ketelaars: On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:13, emnej wrote: Op vr 12-12-2003, om 09:32 schreef Derek Jennings: On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I receive the following message: # alsaconf device_mode int, description Device file permission mask for devfs. which: no dialog in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr /local/sbi n) which: no whiptail in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr /local/sbi n) Error, dialog or whiptail not found. So it seems that something here is not good, but I have no idea what ;-) Thanks for helping, Erik Did you see this ? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#alsaconf alsaconf is very effective at setting up your sound card. It will write the driver configuration into /etc/modules.conf but be aware it will overwrite the existing contents, and will not replace the non sound lines of the file. So make a backup before running alsaconf and replace the non sound lines by hand afterwards. derek Derek, Thank you very much for the link. I didn't know this and it helped me to run alsaconf. It created a new version of the modules.conf but that was fine because I had backed up the file because you warned me. Since then I do not get a warning anymore when starting kmix from a terminal, but I also still do not have any sound. Is there anything else that I can do? TIA, Erik You must raise the volumes of the relevant channels _and_ unmute them. In kmix unmuting a channel is done by clicking on the green led. It should be bright green. HTH, -Frans __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I think that the problem is not with the volume. 'Inhabitant of Zion' advised me to look on the ALSA list. I searched their pages and found out that it seems to be a problem with recent versions of ALSA. Others had the same problem and were advised to go back to ALSA 9.0 RC6. This is what I will now try to do. Anyway, thank you very much for your help! Hartelijke groeten, Erik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2
On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I receive the following message: # alsaconf device_mode int, description Device file permission mask for devfs. which: no dialog in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbi n) which: no whiptail in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbi n) Error, dialog or whiptail not found. So it seems that something here is not good, but I have no idea what ;-) Thanks for helping, Erik Did you see this ? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#alsaconf alsaconf is very effective at setting up your sound card. It will write the driver configuration into /etc/modules.conf but be aware it will overwrite the existing contents, and will not replace the non sound lines of the file. So make a backup before running alsaconf and replace the non sound lines by hand afterwards. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2
Op vr 12-12-2003, om 05:43 schreef Charlie: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:09 am, many eyes noted that Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 01:31 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Io Have you tried running alsaconf? Io Io Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. Io Have you tried running aumix or kmix to make sure that your sound settings are not muted? I think Derek said this was the number one problem/solution with sound. If everything else fails try this.. A long shot, but have uninstalled alsa and reinstalled it, and that made sound work on some systems after rebooting. Though it might have worked after just a new login. If everything else fails try this.. Charlie I already reinstalled the whole system twice but unfortunately without a good result. Still, thanks for the advice. Erik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2
Op vr 12-12-2003, om 09:32 schreef Derek Jennings: On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I receive the following message: # alsaconf device_mode int, description Device file permission mask for devfs. which: no dialog in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbi n) which: no whiptail in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbi n) Error, dialog or whiptail not found. So it seems that something here is not good, but I have no idea what ;-) Thanks for helping, Erik Did you see this ? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#alsaconf alsaconf is very effective at setting up your sound card. It will write the driver configuration into /etc/modules.conf but be aware it will overwrite the existing contents, and will not replace the non sound lines of the file. So make a backup before running alsaconf and replace the non sound lines by hand afterwards. derek Derek, Thank you very much for the link. I didn't know this and it helped me to run alsaconf. It created a new version of the modules.conf but that was fine because I had backed up the file because you warned me. Since then I do not get a warning anymore when starting kmix from a terminal, but I also still do not have any sound. Is there anything else that I can do? TIA, Erik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2
For the last half year, I have been using Mandrake 9.0 on my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D laptop. During that time the sound was working fine. A few weeks ago, I did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.2. It works fine, but the sound is not working at all. Because I am a newbie, I have no idea what to do. So I hope that someone on this list can help me, please. Let me first give you some information: Sound card: Crysal CS 4299(AC97), Integrated in the VIA chipset 'VIA 82C686A at 0x1400, irq 5' Sound card mentioned in configuration centre: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] Sound module in configuration centre: snd-via82xx (this is the ALSA module, I also tried the OSS module but that made no difference) In the configuration centre there are some commands mentioned for solving sound problems. I will enter them in a terminal and give you the results: $ lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO snd-via82xx : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1106 device:3058 subv:14c0 subd:0012) $ grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx $ /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted binfmt_misc 7116 1 snd-seq-oss32000 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 6080 0 [snd-seq-oss] snd-seq42544 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss43652 0 snd-mixer-oss 14200 1 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-via82xx15360 1 snd-pcm79588 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx] snd-timer 18436 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 45720 0 [snd-via82xx] snd-mpu401-uart 4704 0 [snd-via82xx] snd-rawmidi17760 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-page-alloc 9044 0 [snd-via82xx snd-pcm] snd41380 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 6340 0 [snd] $ /sbin/chkconfig --list sound sound 0:uit 1:uit 2:aan 3:aan 4:aan 5:aan 6:uit (uit and aan is Dutch. uit=off, aan=on) $ /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa alsa0:uit 1:uit 2:aan 3:aan 4:aan 5:aan 6:uit $ aumix -q vol 100, 100, P pcm 65, 65 speaker 27, 27 line 65, 65, P mic 65, 65, R cd 65, 65, P igain 27, 27 line1 65, 65, P phin 65, 65, P video 65, 65, P $ /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp This last command does not give any output. /dev/dsp is a link to dev/sound/dsp It has become quite a long list. I hope that there is someone out there who knows what the problem is. Thanks! Erik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2
Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 18:29:15 up 14 days, 10:52, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2
On Thursday 11 December 2003 01:31 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Io Have you tried running alsaconf? Io Io Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. Io Have you tried running aumix or kmix to make sure that your sound settings are not muted? I think Derek said this was the number one problem/solution with sound. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2
Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I receive the following message: # alsaconf device_mode int, description Device file permission mask for devfs. which: no dialog in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin) which: no whiptail in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin) Error, dialog or whiptail not found. So it seems that something here is not good, but I have no idea what ;-) Thanks for helping, Erik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:09 am, many eyes noted that Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 01:31 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Io Have you tried running alsaconf? Io Io Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. Io Have you tried running aumix or kmix to make sure that your sound settings are not muted? I think Derek said this was the number one problem/solution with sound. If everything else fails try this.. A long shot, but have uninstalled alsa and reinstalled it, and that made sound work on some systems after rebooting. Though it might have worked after just a new login. If everything else fails try this.. Charlie -- Hopeless fellows - using their heads to look for their heads! Zen saying This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help with fetchmail.....
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 4:31 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would be greatfull if some one could plz suggest a possible solution to a fetchmail problem I am having.. I am currently using smoothwall to connect to my ISP to send/ receive mail / browse the web, via a dial on demand ppp modem connection. On my Mandrake 9.0 Workstation, I have set up a cron job to run fetchmail several times a day to collect mail. The problem I am having is that when cron run's fetchmail at the designated time, fetchmail times out with the following error.. couldn't find canonical DNS name of pop.myisp.com I am running bind as a caching name server and it seems to be working ok. The average connect times on my dial up modem connection is 30-45sec... I run fetchmail with the following syntax /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -t 200 -D mydomain.co.uk -F Is there a way I can get fetchmail to wait for about 30 seconds before it tries to fetchmail.? I thought that the -t switch would be the answer, but this doesn't seem to help. Any suggestions welcome..? Regards Paul Downey Linux Newbie Instead of using a cron job you could put your fetchmail command in /etc/ppp/if-up.local It will be executed after the dial up is established. Alternatively run fetchmail as a daemon. Install the fetchmail-daemon RPM and it will run continuously using /etc/fetchmailrc as its config file. It does not matter if you are on line or not. By default it will poll for mail every 180 secs as defined in /etc/init.d/fetchmail Also to get bind out of the equation you could reference your ISP's mail server by IP address instead of canonical name HTH derek BTW: You do not need that Reply To setting in your LookOut Express configuration. Deleting it will make lots of people happy. -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back
Hi Derek: I followed your recommendations and lo and behold, the mouse is working again (after reboot). A million thanks to you, Derek. Also Merci to the folks who responded to my appeal for help. thu ps I had to open the console 'by hand' as CTL+ALT+F1 crashed the system. - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 4:29 pm, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it continues to work perfectly under Windows (dual-boot) but I don't know enough CLI commands to restore the original mouse configuration. The info I got when I do 'harddrake2' in the console is for the mouse: USB WHEEL 5BUTTONS so I presume therein lies the trouble? It's a regular 2-button wheel mouse. I need to know the proper configuration file: is it /etc/devfs/conf.d which had usbmouse.conf in it. This is where I committed the second mistake by deleting usbmouse.conf and haven't been able to restore it. Help is urgently requested and will be gratefully received. Log into a text console ( Ctl+Alt+F1 ) as root and enter mousedrake (Ctl +Alt+F7 to get back again) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help: I need my mouse back
Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it continues to work perfectly under Windows (dual-boot) but I don't know enough CLI commands to restore the original mouse configuration. The info I got when I do 'harddrake2' in the console is for the mouse: USB WHEEL 5BUTTONS so I presume therein lies the trouble? It's a regular 2-button wheel mouse. I need to know the proper configuration file: is it /etc/devfs/conf.d which had usbmouse.conf in it. This is where I committed the second mistake by deleting usbmouse.conf and haven't been able to restore it. Help is urgently requested and will be gratefully received. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:29, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it continues to work perfectly under Windows (dual-boot) but I don't know enough CLI commands to restore the original mouse configuration. The info I got when I do 'harddrake2' in the console is for the mouse: USB WHEEL 5BUTTONS so I presume therein lies the trouble? It's a regular 2-button wheel mouse. I need to know the proper configuration file: is it /etc/devfs/conf.d which had usbmouse.conf in it. This is where I committed the second mistake by deleting usbmouse.conf and haven't been able to restore it. Help is urgently requested and will be gratefully received. use mousedrake and set mouse to generic wheel mouse __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- When you're being mugged..a handgun is more comfort than an ACLU lawyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 4:29 pm, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it continues to work perfectly under Windows (dual-boot) but I don't know enough CLI commands to restore the original mouse configuration. The info I got when I do 'harddrake2' in the console is for the mouse: USB WHEEL 5BUTTONS so I presume therein lies the trouble? It's a regular 2-button wheel mouse. I need to know the proper configuration file: is it /etc/devfs/conf.d which had usbmouse.conf in it. This is where I committed the second mistake by deleting usbmouse.conf and haven't been able to restore it. Help is urgently requested and will be gratefully received. Log into a text console ( Ctl+Alt+F1 ) as root and enter mousedrake (Ctl +Alt+F7 to get back again) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:29, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it continues to work perfectly under Windows (dual-boot) but I don't know enough CLI commands to restore the original mouse configuration. The info I got when I do 'harddrake2' in the console is for the mouse: USB WHEEL 5BUTTONS so I presume therein lies the trouble? It's a regular 2-button wheel mouse. I need to know the proper configuration file: is it /etc/devfs/conf.d which had usbmouse.conf in it. This is where I committed the second mistake by deleting usbmouse.conf and haven't been able to restore it. Help is urgently requested and will be gratefully received. I spoke to soon try configuration--enter root password --Harddrake click on mouse run config tool (at bottom of right window ) set mouse to Generic wheel mouse in the pop-up window. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- When you're being mugged..a handgun is more comfort than an ACLU lawyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back
Just like what derek said, run 'mousedrake as root to reconfigure your mouse. I run into the similar condition several weeks ago. Wishes, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help with bash command
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:12:06PM -0800, Eric Huff wrote: I am trying to get a script to work. It is much more complicated than this, but i have boiled it down to this to debug it: command='dodge plymouth' echo $command snip But when the mhmail line runs, it apears to seperate at the space: ~/a/_linux/A_mandrake/mailinglist $ ./remove.bash dodge plymouth post: bad address 'plymouth' - missing mailbox ( ymouth), continuing... post: 1 address unparsable /usr/lib/nmh/post: exit 1 Letter saved in dead.letter mhmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -subject dodge plymouth -from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -body works fine, so i know it is in the $command part... Quote $command mhmail to -subject $command ... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help with bash command
command='dodge plymouth' But when the mhmail line runs, it apears to seperate at the space: mhmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -subject dodge plymouth -from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -body Quote $command mhmail to -subject $command ... Todd, somehow i figured you would have the answer. You are definitely the bash-man! I swear i even had that typed in once, but was sure it would make the subject be $command. Thanks for the help, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help with bash command
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:38:03PM -0800, Eric Huff wrote: Quote $command mhmail to -subject $command ... Todd, somehow i figured you would have the answer. You are definitely the bash-man! I swear i even had that typed in once, but was sure it would make the subject be $command. Thanks for the help, No prob; when I first started with bash I ran into a lot of problems with spaces--in filenames, in lines of a file. I asked a bunch of questions in comp.unix.shell and while I'm not really sure I understand variable expansion and all that stuff, I have a few scripts for these situations that I keep relying on. Now how did I do that? Hopefully after a little more playing around I internalize it and just know it, like learning a foreign language. t Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] help with bash command
I am trying to get a script to work. It is much more complicated than this, but i have boiled it down to this to debug it: command='dodge plymouth' echo $command mhmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -subject $command -from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -body But when the mhmail line runs, it apears to seperate at the space: ~/a/_linux/A_mandrake/mailinglist $ ./remove.bash dodge plymouth post: bad address 'plymouth' - missing mailbox ( ymouth), continuing... post: 1 address unparsable /usr/lib/nmh/post: exit 1 Letter saved in dead.letter mhmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -subject dodge plymouth -from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -body works fine, so i know it is in the $command part... Thanks for any help, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
u're off wrong. ;-) it's not a bug. the kernel can only access approx 860mb directly. anything above that, and the memory needs to be accessed differently for the total amount of memory, using translation tables. this leads to a performance hit as every memory access takes around 3 reads or what it normally does. so probably the only time when this pays off is when data is obtained off the memory rather than from disk (or any other storage media), eg in large databases, web servers, where the data is often intentionally placed in a ram disk and mounted, rather than on physical media. hope this explanation helps. any errors pls correct me. - Original Message - From: Martin L. Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 04:54 Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :) On Thursday 23 October 2003 21:54, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB I've got 512 of DDR here and AFAIK, I've -never- hit swap...so I'd have to agree...unless you're doing something really intensive like video editing or somesuch. Yeah, but I just understood it, that a bug caused the system to run better with less than 1024.. maybe I'm off wrong. -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Friday 24 October 2003 02:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 than 1024 ? Or does a person just not need that much? Not for a desktop. Only servers handling web services and lot'sa lot'sa users, or a sound/video studio. So unless you're Walt Disney or Dream Works, 512MB is overkill. 'Course if you've got more ram, Linux will try an use it all, and maybe still bump into /swap but the memory management scheme in kernels that can address over 860MB of ram, also slow things down. I've heard about 7%, I believe in the few days I've used an enterprise kernel, it's even more than that for normal desktop use. OK. Thanks m8. -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:41 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: You'll need to do the same, or add mem=860Mto your lilo append line for the kernel you're usin. Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:40 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Thursday 23 October 2003 19:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:40 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 than 1024 ? Or does a person just not need that much? -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB I've got 512 of DDR here and AFAIK, I've -never- hit swap...so I'd have to agree...unless you're doing something really intensive like video editing or somesuch. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Thursday 23 October 2003 21:54, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB I've got 512 of DDR here and AFAIK, I've -never- hit swap...so I'd have to agree...unless you're doing something really intensive like video editing or somesuch. Yeah, but I just understood it, that a bug caused the system to run better with less than 1024.. maybe I'm off wrong. -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Tom, I added mem=860 to lilo.conf and reran lilo. rebooted the machine and selected linx when the bootloader came and, and, and, the screen went blank. Bummer... I then tried each selection and the same thing happened. I looked at the messages and with my untrained eye didn't notice anything that might give me hint of what linux didn't like. Any suggestions? Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:16 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Tom, I added mem=860 to lilo.conf and reran lilo. rebooted the machine and selected linx when the bootloader came and, and, and, the screen went blank. Any suggestions? Yes, addmem=860MThe 'M' on the end specifies MB's. You told the kernel it had only 860 bytes to work in ;) Once I get my cpu and cooler deal straightened out, I'm gonna go back to a regular kernel, and 860 of 1024MB also. MM under a enterprise kernel is even slower than I expected. Not to worry, FedEx is on the way to straighten out my user error. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Thursday 23 October 2003 12:45 pm, Martin L. Johansen wrote: Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 than 1024 ? Or does a person just not need that much? Not for a desktop. Only servers handling web services and lot'sa lot'sa users, or a sound/video studio. So unless you're Walt Disney or Dream Works, 512MB is overkill. 'Course if you've got more ram, Linux will try an use it all, and maybe still bump into /swap but the memory management scheme in kernels that can address over 860MB of ram, also slow things down. I've heard about 7%, I believe in the few days I've used an enterprise kernel, it's even more than that for normal desktop use. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:06 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: Tom/List, I bought the memory according to a newer post to you sent (I can't find it :( ). Got the Two 512 MB sticks in the mail and stuck them both in (using proper static aviodance procedure) and tested. Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not familiar with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or bios defaults. Cas 3, precharge 3, banking disabled are the safest (but slowest) settings. Memtest gave me errors in the five figure area. I shutdown and tested each stick individually. One stick is fine and the other gave two errors in test 5. Why would I get 5 figure errors when both sticks are installed and only two when the bad stick in installed. If you want the particulars of the output, I'll post them it you like. OK, I've been havin hardware problems myself (due to overclocking too far. IOW's user error, ME). I narrowed it down to either my ram or the cpu has become weak. Figuring it would be better to try ram first, Crucial delivered a new stick of pc3200 this afternoon to replace my existing Kingston (both 512 MB sticks). I figured if ram wasn't the problem, then at least I'd have twice as much ram ;) But, I took some precautions. First I d/l'd a 1 GB ram capable kernel (2.4.22-18mdk-i686-up-4GB) an installed it. You'll need to do the same, or add mem=860Mto your lilo append line for the kernel you're usin. The 'regular' kernel can't address 1024MB of ram. Next I underclocked my XP 3000+ cpu to less than a 2200+ to try an mitigate it as a factor when I installed the new ram and tested with memtest86. First with just the new stick. It took 3 tries to get the new ram properly seated and the system to even boot. I also had to swap slots in order to find a combo that worked. By now I've determined that it's my cpu that's fragile, not the ram. So I'm usin both sticks now. Memtest86 checks both sticks together with no errors (an an underclocked cpu). BUT, a word about memtest86. There is no such thing as a software ram tester. While memtest86 is runnin, your whole system is being used, particularly cpu/cache/ram and motherboard. In memtest86's configuration tho (press the c key while it's runnin), you can turn cpu cache off. Press c, then 1, then 2, then 0. It could be the cache areas of your cpu generating the errors. So, install both sticks of ram and the kernel I did (or any 'enterprise' kernel) or add mem=860M to lilo. Don't forget to run 'lilo' to make the change effective. Then get ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/mprime2212.tar.gz and unpack it. cd to the directory you unpacked to and run './mprime -m' Then choose 17, the torture test. You should be able to let it run for at least an hour or more. If it doesn't stop on hardware errors, you done a better cpu/cache/ram test than letting memtest86 run for a week. oh btw I didn't notice a selection that would allow me to save output to disk. Is there one? Read the docs, look at all the options when you press c. I believe the error output would be shown in the bottom half of memtest86's screen, and there is an option to also write to file. But since I've never had any errors, I can't verify that. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not familiar with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or bios defaults. Cas 3, precharge 3, banking disabled are the safest (but slowest) settings. Memtest gave me errors in the five figure area. I shutdown and tested each stick individually. One stick is fine and the other gave two errors in test 5. Why would I get 5 figure errors when both sticks are installed and only two when the bad stick in installed. If you want the particulars of the output, I'll post them it you like. OK, I've been havin hardware problems myself (due to overclocking too far. I was overclocking then I reset them the heat was too much. So I moved the box down a floor in my house and place it in a small room. Much cooler here year round. IOW's user error, ME). I narrowed it down to either my ram or the cpu has become weak. Figuring it would be better to try ram first, Crucial delivered a new stick of pc3200 this afternoon to replace my existing Kingston (both 512 MB sticks). What setting should I use for PC2700? The manual states 100mhz for PC1600 and 133mhz for PC2100. I know I can run that higher, is trial and error the way to go here? I can only do this after verifying my ram. I figured if ram wasn't the problem, then at least I'd have twice as much ram ;) Same thinking here! But, I took some precautions. First I d/l'd a 1 GB ram capable kernel (2.4.22-18mdk-i686-up-4GB) an installed it. I'll check on my Mdk cds. Would I be able to urpmi it? You'll need to do the same, or add mem=860Mto your lilo append line for the kernel you're usin. The 'regular' kernel can't address 1024MB of ram. Next I underclocked my XP 3000+ cpu to less than a 2200+ to try an mitigate it as a factor when I installed the new ram and tested with memtest86. First with just the new stick. It took 3 tries to get the new ram properly seated and the system to even boot. I also had to swap slots in order to find a combo that worked. I first put them in slots and 2 and 3. Then behold I read the manual! and put them in the right slots together and the errors appeared again in #5 but in a lower memory range; within the range of the good stick. By now I've determined that it's my cpu that's fragile, not the ram. So I'm usin both sticks now. Memtest86 checks both sticks together with no errors (an an underclocked cpu). BUT, a word about memtest86. There is no such thing as a software ram tester. While memtest86 is runnin, your whole system is being used, particularly cpu/cache/ram and motherboard. In memtest86's configuration tho (press the c key while it's runnin), you can turn cpu cache off. Press c, then 1, then 2, then 0. It could be the cache areas of your cpu generating the errors. So, install both sticks of ram and the kernel I did (or any 'enterprise' kernel) or add mem=860M to lilo. Don't forget to run 'lilo' to make the change effective. Then get ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/mprime2212.tar.gz and unpack it. cd to the directory you unpacked to and run ./mprime -m I already have it. I'll get the kernel setup and give it a try. oh btw I didn't notice a selection that would allow me to save output to disk. Is there one? Read the docs, look at all the options when you press c. I believe the error output would be shown in the bottom half of memtest86's screen, and there is an option to also write to file. But since I've never had any errors, I can't verify that. I'll look again. Terry -- Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 9.1 - 2.4.21-0.13mdk | Gnome 2.0 | Evolution 1.4.4 | Opera 7.11 Soyo Dragon Plus K7VXA-ZBA2 1024MB in testing AMD Athlon(tm) 1250mhz | nVidia Riva TNT Model 64 | Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A Maxtor 6Y080P0 80GB | Media Electronices CM8738 5 Channel Sound VT6102 Rhine II 10/100 Ethernet | Monitor Sony CPD-A200 --Just a Newbieo- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:15 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not familiar with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or bios defaults. Cas 3, precharge 3, banking disabled are the safest (but slowest) settings. Memtest gave me errors in the five figure area. I shutdown and tested each stick individually. One stick is fine and the other gave two errors in test 5. Why would I get 5 figure errors when both sticks are installed and only two when the bad stick in installed. If you want the particulars of the output, I'll post them it you like. OK, I've been havin hardware problems myself (due to overclocking too far. I was overclocking then I reset them the heat was too much. So I moved the box down a floor in my house and place it in a small room. Much cooler here year round. Well, could be your problems, like mine, are from weakening the cpu IOW's user error, ME). I narrowed it down to either my ram or the cpu has become weak. Figuring it would be better to try ram first, Crucial delivered a new stick of pc3200 this afternoon to replace my existing Kingston (both 512 MB sticks). What setting should I use for PC2700? The manual states 100mhz for PC1600 and 133mhz for PC2100. I know I can run that higher, is trial and error the way to go here? I can only do this after verifying my ram. Your system is 133FSB (DDR 266). I figured if ram wasn't the problem, then at least I'd have twice as much ram ;) Same thinking here! But, I took some precautions. First I d/l'd a 1 GB ram capable kernel (2.4.22-18mdk-i686-up-4GB) an installed it. I'll check on my Mdk cds. Would I be able to urpmi it? You don't mention versions. 9.2 should have it. Or install the enterprise kernel from your CD's (any fairly recent version). Mind you tho, kernels capable of addressing more than 860 MB of ram are slower. You could be just as well off usin mem=860M in lilo, and keeping the regular kernel. You'll need to do the same, or add mem=860Mto your lilo append line for the kernel you're usin. The 'regular' kernel can't address 1024MB of ram. Next I underclocked my XP 3000+ cpu to less than a 2200+ to try an mitigate it as a factor when I installed the new ram and tested with memtest86. First with just the new stick. It took 3 tries to get the new ram properly seated and the system to even boot. I also had to swap slots in order to find a combo that worked. I first put them in slots and 2 and 3. Then behold I read the manual! and put them in the right slots together and the errors appeared again in #5 but in a lower memory range; within the range of the good stick. The manuals one thing, trial'n error is another. I use'ta have a Soyo BX/Intel cpu board that ram only worked in slot 23. Usin slot 1 was a no go. Often the order you put the sticks in the slots makes all the difference. Like me Terry, you might'a weakened the cpu by overclocking too much. Usually it's the cache areas that'll get 'migrated'. IOW's the traces get over resistant due to heat, over-voltage, etc. There's no going back. Either underclock, while still over volting, or replace. I'm fixin to replace as soon as I get over myself (and overclocking). It's not like the old days, these new high Ghz wicked fast cpu's just don't have the headroom. After years and years of overclocking, I think I'll just need to settle down ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: Snip snip snip But, I took some precautions. First I d/l'd a 1 GB ram capable kernel (2.4.22-18mdk-i686-up-4GB) an installed it. I'll check on my Mdk cds. Would I be able to urpmi it? You don't mention versions. 9.2 should have it. Or install the enterprise kernel from your CD's (any fairly recent version). Mind you tho, kernels capable of addressing more than 860 MB of ram are slower. You could be just as well off usin mem=860M in lilo, and keeping the regular kernel. I'm using 9.1. I installed the enterprise kernel and I had booting problems something about line 1939 not found/wrong in the kernel libraries. You'll need to do the same, or add mem=860Mto your lilo append line for the kernel you're usin. Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? The 'regular' kernel can't address 1024MB of ram. Next I underclocked my XP 3000+ cpu to less than a 2200+ I quit o'cing some time ago. The damage may have been done though. to try an mitigate it as a factor when I installed the new ram and tested with memtest86. First with just the new stick. It took 3 tries to get the new ram properly seated and the system to even boot. I also had to swap slots in order to find a combo that worked. I didn't have this problem. It like it immediately. snip Like me Terry, you might'a weakened the cpu by overclocking too much. Usually it's the cache areas that'll get 'migrated'. I'll run Memtest again and turn the caching off. IOW's the traces get over resistant due to heat, over-voltage, etc. There's no going back. Either underclock, while still over volting, or replace. I'm fixin to replace as soon as I get over myself (and overclocking). It's not like the old days, these new high Ghz wicked fast cpu's just don't have the headroom. After years and years of overclocking, I think I'll just need to settle down ;) O'cing never really caught on for me. Guess I have to buy that liquid cooled case and then go for it..:) Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
Tom/List, I bought the memory according to a newer post to you sent (I can't find it :( ). Got the Two 512 MB sticks in the mail and stuck them both in (using proper static aviodance procedure) and tested. Memtest gave me errors in the five figure area. I shutdown and tested each stick individually. One stick is fine and the other gave two errors in test 5. Why would I get 5 figure errors when both sticks are installed and only two when the bad stick in installed. If you want the particulars of the output, I'll post them it you like. Terry oh btw I didn't notice a selection that would allow me to save output to disk. Is there one? On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:31, Tom Brinkman wrote: SNIP Boot to memtest86, and as soon as it's running, press the c key for configuration. From memory, I believe you want to then select 6, then 2, then 8. Check the docs, but this should restart the test, log and report bad memory areas. Then you can add those statements to lilo or grub to let the kernel know not to use them. All of this works only if you are running one of the latest Mandrake kernels with the 'badmem' patch. AFAIK, that means, 2.4.22-7mdk or newer. I know for sure the tmb kernels have this patch, eg, 2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk I'd just replace the ram, and offer the old stuff to somebody I didn't like ;) You can always depend on Crucial for quality ram. http://www.crucial.com/store/listmfgr.asp?cat=RAM Corsair is good too, http://www.corsairmicro.com/ A good measure is to buy better ram than you need. EG, if pc100 is required, buy pc133. Ditto, pc2700 is required, get pc3200. Those are just consumer labels tho. Important ratings are ns (nanosecond) and Cas rating. The lower the better. I recently failed to follow my own advice, and now I'm stuck with some under performing (no bad areas tho) Kingston junk till I get around to replacin it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
On Friday October 17 2003 08:29 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: I started looking at memory online and I quickly became confused. I looked at my manual on page 10 for my SY-7KV and it doesn't mention the number of contacts. Is it 168 or 184? What memory can I use? Where did you find the right price? Sorry for all the questions. http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=108 Board uses 184 pin DDR. FSB is 266, so it needs at least pc2100. So buy DDR PC2700 * CL=2.5 * Unbuffered * Non-parity * 6ns * 2.5V * 64Meg x 64. Don't buy ECC ram, it's not needed, it costs a lot more, and it is slower than non-ECC. http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodule.asp?module=DDR+PC2700Attrib=Packagecat=RAM $48 for 256mb, $87 for 512mb -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
On Friday 17 October 2003 09:29 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: I started looking at memory online and I quickly became confused. I looked at my manual on page 10 for my SY-7KV and it doesn't mention the number of contacts. Is it 168 or 184? What memory can I use? Where did you find the right price? Sorry for all the questions. Go to http://www.crucial.com and find your board on their list. They will tell you what kind of memory you can use. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
Snip Tom, Thanks for all your help. I ordered two 512MB DIMMS. That should keep me for awhile. :) Terry On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 09:44, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=108 Board uses 184 pin DDR. FSB is 266, so it needs at least pc2100. So buy DDR PC2700 * CL=2.5 * Unbuffered * Non-parity * 6ns * 2.5V * 64Meg x 64. Don't buy ECC ram, it's not needed, it costs a lot more, and it is slower than non-ECC. http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodule.asp?module=DDR+PC2700Attrib=Packagecat=RAM $48 for 256mb, $87 for 512mb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help installing bittorrent
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 17, 2003 02:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 03:09 pm, Charlie M. wrote: I guess the texstar source has to be added to use it with 9.1 from the urpmi command or from software manager. Hope it helps. Charlie Sure does - I guess it was where I don't have Texstar added as a software source right now. Thank much! I often wish all my friends were as easy to please as the members of this community. (-; Have fun, and sorry for the late reply. Blame it on those aforementioned friends around here. g C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 16:01:05 up 28 days, 5:24, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.08 It says he made us all to be just like him. So if we're dumb, then god is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side. - -- Frank Zappa -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kbiUG11CaRuZZSIRAsQ4AKCbi2t026jlu2paISU9fK3mMtLnXwCeLsjl WdOa+XUafuNjkSwwak/JVLA= =gEvR -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help installing bittorrent
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 16, 2003 09:27 pm, Stormjumper wrote: hi, this must really sound stupid. The only stupid questions to my way of thinking are the ones you *don't* ask. (-; am trying to install bittorrent to dl 9.2, using the rpm as listed on the web page. requires python 2.3, which i dun have on Mandrake 9.1. I don't know if you need a specific version for the torrent to download. Have you tried, in light of the media sources you listed below, just opening a terminal and switching to super user and typing; urpmi bittorrent and accepting the To satisfy dependencies the following packages are going to be installed? prolly 9.2 has python 2.3, but i can't get it until i get bittorrent. i've sources for distro, updates, contrib and plf (for 9.1) added. shouldn't bittorrent rpm for mandrake be available somewhere, or did my sources mess up? thanks Don't be too wound up with specific versions of applications/packages. urpmi will satisfy dependencies for your version of Mandrake Linux in most cases. Good luck. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 09:36:29 up 26 days, 22:59, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.13, 0.11 Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kA5JG11CaRuZZSIRAmNcAJsHt5FDexMCTbXtksHKgobF7zCouwCgpkB/ kCVyBWWokb2OB47r98Mu7UI= =ASfl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 13:28, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:31, Tom Brinkman wrote: Snippit Snip Terry First, remove the ram and clean the contacts. A pencil eraser is good for this. Rub lightly, if it's decent ram the contacts are gold. Contacts are gold. Looked pretty clean to (me the uninitiated) :). Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. Used my mini vac. Need to get a can of 'Air' though. bad idea,,, minivac creates a ton of static, enough to screw memory chips as they sit. Re-seat the ram and check again. Try it in a different slot. Moved to center slot after cleaning, went through 5 runs w/o error. Next opposite end slot. Bombed with 429 errors in test 6. Checked seating and rerun test and it locked up at the beginning of test 7. Back to original slot where it all began ;, bombed on test 6 with errors in the 5 figures. Snip Snip Boot to memtest86, and as soon as it's running, press the c key for configuration. From memory, I believe you want to then select 6, then 2, then 8. I got plently of messages on the screen. Check the docs, but this should restart the test, log and report bad memory areas. Then you can add those statements to lilo or grub to let the kernel know not to use them. How I might save them to a file is not clear to me. All of this works only if you are running one of the latest Mandrake kernels with the 'badmem' patch. AFAIK, that means, 2.4.22-7mdk or newer. I know for sure the tmb kernels have this patch, eg, 2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk For now that is something I'll have to wait on. I'd just replace the ram, and offer the old stuff to somebody I didn't like ;) You can always depend on Crucial for quality ram. http://www.crucial.com/store/listmfgr.asp?cat=RAM Corsair is good too, http://www.corsairmicro.com/ A good measure is to buy better ram than you need. EG, if pc100 is required, buy pc133. Ditto, pc2700 is required, get pc3200. Those are just consumer labels tho. Important ratings are ns (nanosecond) and Cas rating. The lower the better. Thanks, Terry -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help installing bittorrent
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 17, 2003 12:52 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 11:44 am, Charlie M. wrote: urpmi bittorrent and accepting the To satisfy dependencies the following packages are going to be installed? here, that command returns a no package named bittorrent message. Howdy D.L.; Interesting. My bad; sorry. )-: I went back through my notes and found that I actually first installed bit torrent for 9.1 from texstar's RPM. I later re-installed it from cooker when I cooked this box completely. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/bittorrent-3.3-2tex.noarch.rpm I know that URL is going to wrap. Sorry again. I guess the texstar source has to be added to use it with 9.1 from the urpmi command or from software manager. Hope it helps. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 13:00:55 up 27 days, 2:23, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.17, 0.11 A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of everything before he destroys it. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kD5cG11CaRuZZSIRAvwRAKCw3iqSchZHm9rAEGBZcuMKJJOtwwCeIy98 8J/6mcuuTs4W2t/4gT1Az7k= =dDeB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help installing bittorrent
On Friday 17 October 2003 03:09 pm, Charlie M. wrote: I guess the texstar source has to be added to use it with 9.1 from the urpmi command or from software manager. Hope it helps. Charlie Sure does - I guess it was where I don't have Texstar added as a software source right now. Thank much! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
On Friday October 17 2003 02:00 pm, ed tharp wrote: Contacts are gold. Looked pretty clean to (me the uninitiated) :). Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. Used my mini vac. Need to get a can of 'Air' though. bad idea,,, minivac creates a ton of static, enough to screw memory chips as they sit. Yeah, I always just use lung power ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:48, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday October 17 2003 02:00 pm, ed tharp wrote: Contacts are gold. Looked pretty clean to (me the uninitiated) :). Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. Used my mini vac. Need to get a can of 'Air' though. bad idea,,, minivac creates a ton of static, enough to screw memory chips as they sit. Tom, I took the chip out before I went with the battery operated mini vac. Yeah, I always just use lung power ;) ( with all the dust in my box I'd choke ;) Gave up on testing after blowing out with a can 'o air I reran the test and after posting errors in tests 5 and 6 it rebooted. I started looking at memory online and I quickly became confused. I looked at my manual on page 10 for my SY-7KV and it doesn't mention the number of contacts. Is it 168 or 184? What memory can I use? Where did you find the right price? Sorry for all the questions. Thanks again, Terry -- Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 9.1 - 2.4.21-0.13mdk | Gnome 2.0 | Evolution 1.4.4 | Opera 7.11 Soyo Dragon Plus K7VXA-ZBA2 256MB AMD Athlon(tm) 1250mhz | nVidia Riva TNT Model 64 | Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A Maxtor 6Y080P0 80GB | Media Electronices CM8738 5 Channel Sound VT6102 Rhine II 10/100 Ethernet | Monitor Sony CPD-A200 --Just a Newbieo- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:05:29 -0400 Terence J. Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I have a bad DIMM. I read something about setting up memtest as a selection from the bootloader writing the bad memory blocks to disk and using another program/module to tell the kernel to not use that memory. Has anybody done anything like this? If not too involved I would like to try it before I buy new. snip Terry If its old RAM more failures will be coming your way. If its new stuff, take it back where you bought the box/sticks. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
On Wednesday October 15 2003 06:05 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: Greetings, I posted last month message me thinks I got a virus. Well.. I'm almost positive that I don't have a virus. I am still having the locking up problem and I downloaded memtest ISO burned it to a CD and ran the standard tests. It locked up on test 5 with errors in the 5 figures range. I ran it successfully by starting at 5 but the system crashed on 8. According to the documentation on the memtest86 web site, these are the crucial tests that shouldn't fail. Indicating that I have a bad DIMM. I read something about setting up memtest as a selection from the bootloader writing the bad memory blocks to disk and using another program/module to tell the kernel to not use that memory. Has anybody done anything like this? If not too involved I would like to try it before I buy new. In the event that this route is not feasible for any reason, would someone care to comment on the ram that they use and who make quality memory. I know that this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find them on the newbie mailing list archives. The search engine hasn't worked for me yet. If someone remembers the month I'll go back and check it out, no need to add any more bandwith like this sentence :). Thanks, Terry First, remove the ram and clean the contacts. A pencil eraser is good for this. Rub lightly, if it's decent ram the contacts are gold. Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. Re-seat the ram and check again. Try it in a different slot. If you have more than one stick, change the order you install them, ie, swap slots around. Still errors? then, I've come to believe memtest86 is a very lenient ram check. So if it found errors, the ram is surely bad, and probly will get worse. Best to replace it. In answer to your question tho. Install the Mandrake memtest86 rpm on your CD's (you never needed to get it from their website). The rpm will install memtest86 and make it a boot option in lilo and grub. Boot to memtest86, and as soon as it's running, press the c key for configuration. From memory, I believe you want to then select 6, then 2, then 8. Check the docs, but this should restart the test, log and report bad memory areas. Then you can add those statements to lilo or grub to let the kernel know not to use them. All of this works only if you are running one of the latest Mandrake kernels with the 'badmem' patch. AFAIK, that means, 2.4.22-7mdk or newer. I know for sure the tmb kernels have this patch, eg, 2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk I'd just replace the ram, and offer the old stuff to somebody I didn't like ;) You can always depend on Crucial for quality ram. http://www.crucial.com/store/listmfgr.asp?cat=RAM Corsair is good too, http://www.corsairmicro.com/ A good measure is to buy better ram than you need. EG, if pc100 is required, buy pc133. Ditto, pc2700 is required, get pc3200. Those are just consumer labels tho. Important ratings are ns (nanosecond) and Cas rating. The lower the better. I recently failed to follow my own advice, and now I'm stuck with some under performing (no bad areas tho) Kingston junk till I get around to replacin it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:31, Tom Brinkman wrote: Snip Snip Snip Terry First, remove the ram and clean the contacts. A pencil eraser is good for this. Rub lightly, if it's decent ram the contacts are gold. Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. Re-seat the ram and check again. Try it in a different slot. If you have more than one stick, change the order you install them, ie, swap slots around. Still errors? then, I'll try this tonight. I've come to believe memtest86 is a very lenient ram check. So if it found errors, the ram is surely bad, and probly will get worse. Best to replace it. In answer to your question tho. Install the Mandrake memtest86 rpm on your CD's (you never needed to get it from their website). The rpm will install memtest86 and make it a boot option in lilo and grub. Boot to memtest86, and as soon as it's running, press the c key for configuration. From memory, I believe you want to then select 6, then 2, then 8. Check the docs, but this should restart the test, log and report bad memory areas. Then you can add those statements to lilo or grub to let the kernel know not to use them. All of this works only if you are running one of the latest Mandrake kernels with the 'badmem' patch. AFAIK, that means, 2.4.22-7mdk or newer. I know for sure the tmb kernels have this patch, eg, 2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk Sounds like mdk 9.2. I'd just replace the ram, and offer the old stuff to somebody I didn't like ;) You can always depend on Crucial for quality ram. http://www.crucial.com/store/listmfgr.asp?cat=RAM Corsair is good too, http://www.corsairmicro.com/ A good measure is to buy better ram than you need. EG, if pc100 is required, buy pc133. Ditto, pc2700 is required, get pc3200. Those are just consumer labels tho. Important ratings are ns (nanosecond) and Cas rating. The lower the better. I recently failed to follow my own advice, and now I'm stuck with some under performing (no bad areas tho) Kingston junk till I get around to replacin it. I bought my system from Tiger direct over a year ago. Come to think of it the ram might be Kingston. ooops. :( Thanks, Terry -- Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 9.1 - 2.4.21-0.13mdk | Gnome 2.0 | Evolution 1.4.5 | Opera 7.11 Soyo Dragon Plus K7VXA-ZBA2 256MB AMD Athlon(tm) 1250mhz | nVidia Riva TNT Model 64 | Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A Maxtor 6Y080P0 80GB | Media Electronices CM8738 5 Channel Sound VT6102 Rhine II 10/100 Ethernet | Monitor Sony CPD-A200 --Just a Newbieo- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 17:52, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:05:29 -0400 Terence J. Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snippety Snip If its old RAM more failures will be coming your way. If its new stuff, take it back where you bought the box/sticks. Mike, Its over a year old and there far away. I'm going to get new it Tom's suggestions don't pan out. come to think of it just might get new anyway :. Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
Greetings, I posted last month message me thinks I got a virus. Well.. I'm almost positive that I don't have a virus. I am still having the locking up problem and I downloaded memtest ISO burned it to a CD and ran the standard tests. It locked up on test 5 with errors in the 5 figures range. I ran it successfully by starting at 5 but the system crashed on 8. According to the documentation on the memtest86 web site, these are the crucial tests that shouldn't fail. Indicating that I have a bad DIMM. I read something about setting up memtest as a selection from the bootloader writing the bad memory blocks to disk and using another program/module to tell the kernel to not use that memory. Has anybody done anything like this? If not too involved I would like to try it before I buy new. In the event that this route is not feasible for any reason, would someone care to comment on the ram that they use and who make quality memory. I know that this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find them on the newbie mailing list archives. The search engine hasn't worked for me yet. If someone remembers the month I'll go back and check it out, no need to add any more bandwith like this sentence :). Thanks, Terry -- Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 9.1 - 2.4.21-0.13mdk | Gnome 2.0 | Evolution 1.4.5 | Opera 7.11 Soyo Dragon Plus K7VXA-ZBA2 256MB RAM Unknown brand AMD Athlon(tm) 1250mhz | nVidia Riva TNT Model 64 | Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A Maxtor 6Y080P0 80GB | Media Electronices CM8738 5 Channel Sound VT6102 Rhine II 10/100 Ethernet | Monitor Sony CPD-A200 --Just a Newbieo- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable
On Monday 13 October 2003 01:27, Trey Sizemore wrote: When I plug in my Nikon CoolPix 885 digital camera via a USB connection, I get a /mnt/removable icon on my KDE 3.1 desktop. However, neither my user account or the root account can access the drive. I get a message saying the drive is not accessible. Is this something that needs to be fixed concerning an etc/fstab entry? I can access my Zip 250 USB drive with no problem and the permissions appear to be identical. Thanks for any input. See if there's an entry in /etc/fstab with /mnt/removable that (probably) points to /dev/scd0it should be there! If there isn't, just type sudo mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/removable after which you should be able to access it. Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 03:14, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 01:27, Trey Sizemore wrote: When I plug in my Nikon CoolPix 885 digital camera via a USB connection, I get a /mnt/removable icon on my KDE 3.1 desktop. However, neither my user account or the root account can access the drive. I get a message saying the drive is not accessible. Is this something that needs to be fixed concerning an etc/fstab entry? I can access my Zip 250 USB drive with no problem and the permissions appear to be identical. Thanks for any input. See if there's an entry in /etc/fstab with /mnt/removable that (probably) points to /dev/scd0it should be there! If there isn't, just type sudo mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/removable after which you should be able to access it. Good luck, HarM /dev/scd0 is my CDRW drive and I am getting a message that /dev/scd1 does not exist. Too add to what I mentioned previously, I am using defsd and and Mandrake 9.2 RC2. I will post the output of my dmesg and my fstab file below. hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1.2, assigned address 6 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 58 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: Nikon Model: Digital CameraRev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sdb: 251904 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 6 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A udf: registering filesystem usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:04.2-1.2 address 6 hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1.2, assigned address 7 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 7 FSTAB: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdwriter auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/sdb4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/removable2 supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 I'm unclear as to why some devices, like my Zip 250 USB drive are appearing twice. I have a CD drive, along with a CDRW (scsi emulation via k3b), the Zip drive, and occasionally the camera (not always attached). Apppears as if fstab is somewhat hosed. I have used this camera before on Mandrake with supermount and had no problems. Thanks again. -- Cheers, Trey --- Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable
On Monday 13 October 2003 13:19, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'm unclear as to why some devices, like my Zip 250 USB drive are appearing twice. I have a CD drive, along with a CDRW (scsi emulation via k3b), the Zip drive, and occasionally the camera (not always attached). Apppears as if fstab is somewhat hosed. I have used this camera before on Mandrake with supermount and had no problems. My fstab line looks like this: /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,noauto,exec,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 Where I just plugged in my camera for the first time(mine's a Trust). I then do mount /mnt/removable as the entry in fstab is such that I don't need to specify the device. In your case /mnt/removable2 is obviously an option too. About the double entries I don't really know..maybe cause you plugged it in on various occasions with different device configurations or other USB slots? Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable
On Monday 13 October 2003 06:19 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 03:14, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 01:27, Trey Sizemore wrote: When I plug in my Nikon CoolPix 885 digital camera via a USB connection, I get a /mnt/removable icon on my KDE 3.1 desktop. However, neither my user account or the root account can access the drive. I get a message saying the drive is not accessible. Is this something that needs to be fixed concerning an etc/fstab entry? I can access my Zip 250 USB drive with no problem and the permissions appear to be identical. Thanks for any input. See if there's an entry in /etc/fstab with /mnt/removable that (probably) points to /dev/scd0it should be there! If there isn't, just type sudo mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/removable after which you should be able to access it. Good luck, HarM /dev/scd0 is my CDRW drive and I am getting a message that /dev/scd1 does not exist. Too add to what I mentioned previously, I am using defsd and and Mandrake 9.2 RC2. I will post the output of my dmesg and my fstab file below. hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1.2, assigned address 6 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 58 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: Nikon Model: Digital CameraRev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sdb: 251904 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 6 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A udf: registering filesystem usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:04.2-1.2 address 6 hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1.2, assigned address 7 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 7 FSTAB: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdwriter auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/sdb4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/removable2 supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 I'm unclear as to why some devices, like my Zip 250 USB drive are appearing twice. I have a CD drive, along with a CDRW (scsi emulation via k3b), the Zip drive, and occasionally the camera (not always attached). Apppears as if fstab is somewhat hosed. I have used this camera before on Mandrake with supermount and had no problems. Thanks again. Looks to me like it is mounting at sdb so try mount /dev/sdb1 in a command line and see what you can see of the photos then. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable (supermount?)
On Monday 13 October 2003 17:51, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'll try this when I get back today. I have been thinking of disabling supermount. Thought some of these issues would go away...anyone had any issues with supermount? How about autofs? -- Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, not on 9.2 I haven'tsupermount's rock solid. Good luck, harM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable (supermount?)
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:51:14 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'll try this when I get back today. I have been thinking of disabling supermount. Thought some of these issues would go away...anyone had any issues with supermount? How about autofs? -- Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] had tons of issues with Supermount...never got kwikdisk to install so made icons on the desktop for things. shrugs never tried autofs. if you do let me know if it works better. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable (supermount?)
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:08, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 17:51, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'll try this when I get back today. I have been thinking of disabling supermount. Thought some of these issues would go away...anyone had any issues with supermount? How about autofs? -- Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, not on 9.2 I haven'tsupermount's rock solid. Good luck, harM I was able to launch Konq as root from a terminal window and the open 'file:///mnt/camera' but was not able to do this from Konq as a normal user. Nor could I use the shortcut on my desktop (from fstab?) for /mnt/camera. I belong to the USB group. Is there something else to check that would prohibit access to the drive? Thanks -- Cheers, Trey --- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable (supermount?)
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 01:12, Trey Sizemore wrote: I was able to launch Konq as root from a terminal window and the open 'file:///mnt/camera' but was not able to do this from Konq as a normal user. Nor could I use the shortcut on my desktop (from fstab?) for /mnt/camera. I belong to the USB group. Is there something else to check that would prohibit access to the drive? Thanks -- Cheers, Trey If you mounted your camera (which prolly should be removable on Mdk) on /mnt/camera, you'd have to do that as root i.e. make the camera/ directory and mount the device there, thus only read/writable as root. The created entry in /etc/fstab (like I said prolly /mnt/removable/) allows you to mount it as normal user and thus read it as that same user. Next time you reboot or connect the camera, supermount will take over and you even won't have to mount the thingI'm realy talking first time here (and before). Gawd, I hate to think what Femme's going to do with that last sentence;) Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help! Clearing log files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just found out that my /var partition is extremly low on free space. Mostly used by log files that getting bigger beyond my expectation. Is there any way that I can periodically clearing this log files? Thanks in advance. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 14:45:23 up 7:22, 10 users, load average: 1.22, 1.21, 1.26 Quote of the day: Sbelling chequed wyth MICROSOFT SPELLCHECKER - vorgs grate! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/eTVeMai9kCFqACoRApHyAKDnQsGEgeADuREHOSZaJBUNRpF5BgCgkOK0 6dwH6zeCFjtI0I5BqmMjGaU= =DqO8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:48 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just found out that my /var partition is extremly low on free space. Mostly used by log files that getting bigger beyond my expectation. Is there any way that I can periodically clearing this log files? Thanks in advance. - -- Yes. Install the anacron RPM from Mandrake Software Manager, and all the cron jobs which are supposed to run on your computer at 4am, but cannot because your computer is not switched on at that time, will be run 15 minutes after you power on your computer. One of those jobs tidies up your log files. Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy with disc accesses after you install anacron. You have a *lot* of log files to tidy :-) derek (I think thats the third time I have posted that advice this week) -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: One of those jobs tidies up your log files. Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy with disc accesses after you install anacron. You have a *lot* of log files to tidy :-) derek (I think thats the third time I have posted that advice this week) Thanks a lot Derek, If I'm not mistaken, anacron is the scheduler, not the actual cleaner of log files. I understand that logrotate is the one who does that? I've looked into /etc/logrotate.d/ and /etc/logrotate.conf but I can't understand how to configure it. Pls help. Thanks. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 15:18:53 up 7:56, 10 users, load average: 3.27, 2.18, 1.68 Quote of the day: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were playing a friendly game of Frisbee at the Gates estate on the shore of Lake Washington. At one point, Bill accidentally sends the Frisbee over Steve's head, and the Frisbee lands in the lake. Steve walks out onto the surface of the lake and retrieves the Frisbee. The next day the newspapers report: Gates' Throw Exceeds Expectations Apple CEO Unable to Swim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/eT7RMai9kCFqACoRAmY/AJ9XbiI8p6/BoIZIWijNT9rw0lwOMwCfezn7 lZBOlFBd/Ljlty2F87k8+8s= =a4If -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 9:28 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: One of those jobs tidies up your log files. Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy with disc accesses after you install anacron. You have a *lot* of log files to tidy :-) derek (I think thats the third time I have posted that advice this week) Thanks a lot Derek, If I'm not mistaken, anacron is the scheduler, not the actual cleaner of log files. I understand that logrotate is the one who does that? I've looked into /etc/logrotate.d/ and /etc/logrotate.conf but I can't understand how to configure it. Pls help. Thanks. Correct. anacron will schedule jobs to run that were not run by cron. Logrotate is the actual package to compress the log files. Logrotate is installed by default in Mandrake, and a cron job is automatically placed in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate That file points to the logrotate configuration /etc/logrotate.conf, but you should not need to touch it. By default logrotate will compress all your log files and keep four weeks of compressed backups. Whenever you install a new RPM which requires loggging, then a file is dropped into /etc/logrotate.d to add that log file to logrotates job entirely automatically. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:07 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Correct. anacron will schedule jobs to run that were not run by cron. Logrotate is the actual package to compress the log files. Logrotate is installed by default in Mandrake, and a cron job is automatically placed in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate That file points to the logrotate configuration /etc/logrotate.conf, but you should not need to touch it. By default logrotate will compress all your log files and keep four weeks of compressed backups. Whenever you install a new RPM which requires loggging, then a file is dropped into /etc/logrotate.d to add that log file to logrotates job entirely automatically. derek Oh, I got it. Yes, /etc/cron.daily contains logrotate And logrotate.conf contains how often it will rotate the logs, more spesifically settings are stored in /etc/logrotate.d And I've changed the time it is executed by crontab from 4am into 4pm when my server is still running during office hours. Thanks Derek! - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 16:22:56 up 9:00, 10 users, load average: 1.08, 1.15, 1.27 Quote of the day: Q: What's the difference between Windows 95 and a highly destructive virus? A: About 300 MB of hard disk space. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/eUx9Mai9kCFqACoRAidtAJ9Fqtt0yYN8xy5i8yvONjVmaZYNmACgmd3F f6c6/te1fsYVRWsyfnZkf7w= =K/Em -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:28 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: One of those jobs tidies up your log files. Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy with disc accesses after you install anacron. You have a *lot* of log files to tidy :-) derek (I think thats the third time I have posted that advice this week) Thanks a lot Derek, If I'm not mistaken, anacron is the scheduler, not the actual cleaner of log files. I understand that logrotate is the one who does that? I've looked into /etc/logrotate.d/ and /etc/logrotate.conf but I can't understand how to configure it. Pls help. Thanks. You merely need to add an entry for the specific log file that you want rotated to the /etc/logrotate.d directory. Tell us which apps currently have log files that are not being rotated and we can help you edit the entries necessary to add them to the rotation schedule. Essentially, we need to know if the app is being run in memory all the time as a daemon or is inactive unless being used, like rpm. If you tell me which kind, I can give you a sample logrotate file to add for that application. On my system, I had to add entries for antivir, procmail, privoxy, pure-ftpd, among others. One last thing. If the log file is large in size already, you need to manually archive and swap it out. Once you go past a certain time period, logrotate won't automatically pick it up. I think that the standard rotation period is a week. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help for installation
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 01:14, Budianto Yudi wrote: Hi, my name is Budianto Yudi. I have many problems during installation. My computer specification is Processor Duron 750 MHZ Motherboard Shuttle With VGA graphic and Sound Card Onboard HardDisk 20 GB Memory SDRAM 128 Mb Hello, Budianto...here's someting to check: * In your BIOS - turn off PNP OS This can really screw up the MDK installation and all the settings thereafter...if you do this, and can boot properly, once you've gotten into XWindows (most likely KDE) - go through all the Mandrake Control Centre properties - make sure you save any changes - and then reboot - you might find you have a bit better time then... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- QOTD: She's about as smart as bait. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
GOT IT! Re: [newbie] help with palm m130! (and JPilot)
On Friday 26 September 2003 03:43, you wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:08:09 -0300 TKS! I got to fix this trouble without the patch! I just followed the instructions at: http://www.linuxpda.com/visor/howto/current/ which you sent me! I've just applied the recommended changes to /dev/usb/ttsUSB0 (andUSB1) instead the other device mknod and that was it! Syncing fine and fast!!! Using Kpilot 'cause it just pops up when I sync! Tks again! Ricardo Castanho Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But I am still hold on a error message: kernel: visor.c: Device lied about number of ports. use a lower one. Do you happen to know what this is all about? I'm not sure offhand, but it seems like a relativlely common problem, possibly a bug in the kernel driver. http://www.google.ca/linux?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=kernel%3A+visor.c%3A+Devic e+lied+about+number+of+ports.+use+a+lower+one.btnG=Google+Searchmeta= -- == Linux user # 102240 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] user = [EMAIL PROTECTED] == AntiVir for UNIX Copyright (C) 1994-2002 by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH. All rights reserved. For more information see http://www.antivir.de/ or http://www.hbedv.com/ Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:35:00 -0300 09:35:00 up 21:08, 5 users, load average: 1.11, 1.23, 1.19 Time is fluid ... like a river with currents, eddies, backwash. -- Spock, The City on the Edge of Forever, stardate 3134.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help with video card drivers.
Hi, I'm having a problem with my video card driver. I'm using a ATI Radeon 9800 video card. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and set the video configuration for, video card- vesa, monitor- 1280*1024 @ 60hz, display- 1024*768 @70hz 24b. I then tested the configuration and it worked fine. I use the vesa driver because it's the only driver that will work with my card that is on the list of drivers. There are a few problems when I use vesa. When I try to logout, shutdown, or restart the computer goes blank when it is trying to shut down startX. I have to reboot manually, recheck the file system at startup and fix the file system. I installed the ATI 9800 drivers two times and I could not log into the desktop. I installed the drivers correctly and ran the driver config file. Does anyone know what the problem is? Thanks, Steven _ Need more e-mail storage? Get 10MB with Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers.
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:33:01 + d2ci1fj g1nf24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with my video card driver. I'm using a ATI Radeon 9800 video card. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and set the video configuration for, video card- vesa, monitor- 1280*1024 @ 60hz, display- 1024*768 @70hz 24b. I then tested the configuration and it worked fine. I use the vesa driver because it's the only driver that will work with my card that is on the list of drivers. There are a few problems when I use vesa. When I try to logout, shutdown, or restart the computer goes blank when it is trying to shut down startX. I have to reboot manually, recheck the file system at startup and fix the file system. I installed the ATI 9800 drivers two times and I could not log into the desktop. I installed the drivers correctly and ran the driver config file. Does anyone know what the problem is? When using the vesa driver: boot with vga=normal or edit your lilo.conf and set vga=normal Do not use dm Boot to init 3 and use Xtart to launch your wm (this will correct your log-out problem) I am running cooker and use the fglrx driver with a Radeon 9600 without problem. If you use the fglrx driver you need to get either fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.5.i586.rpm from ATI or glx1_linux_X4.3.zip from http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/body_download_ati.html Both are the same rpm but the zip file also contains the check.sh a file.list and a README. I have attached a walk-through for running fglrxconfig that I had done for another, this should assist you in its proper set-up. Charles -- 1.79 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight -- it's not just a good idea, it's the law! - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-7.tmb.1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - fglrx_setup.bz2 Description: Binary data pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers.
Hi, Thanks for the help. Would you send the walk-through in .txt for Windows? Also, do I need to do something to the vesa driver before I install the fgrlx driver? There is monitor configuration file that came with my monitor, I put it as an attachment. I don't know if it will help with driver installation. I understand some of it but not all of it. If it will help would you explain it to me? I do not know how to get to the X86 configuration folder and what settings I should change. From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers. Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:51:14 -0400 On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:33:01 + d2ci1fj g1nf24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with my video card driver. I'm using a ATI Radeon 9800 video card. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and set the video configuration for, video card- vesa, monitor- 1280*1024 @ 60hz, display- 1024*768 @70hz 24b. I then tested the configuration and it worked fine. I use the vesa driver because it's the only driver that will work with my card that is on the list of drivers. There are a few problems when I use vesa. When I try to logout, shutdown, or restart the computer goes blank when it is trying to shut down startX. I have to reboot manually, recheck the file system at startup and fix the file system. I installed the ATI 9800 drivers two times and I could not log into the desktop. I installed the drivers correctly and ran the driver config file. Does anyone know what the problem is? When using the vesa driver: boot with vga=normal or edit your lilo.conf and set vga=normal Do not use dm Boot to init 3 and use Xtart to launch your wm (this will correct your log-out problem) I am running cooker and use the fglrx driver with a Radeon 9600 without problem. If you use the fglrx driver you need to get either fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.5.i586.rpm from ATI or glx1_linux_X4.3.zip from http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/body_download_ati.html Both are the same rpm but the zip file also contains the check.sh a file.list and a README. I have attached a walk-through for running fglrxconfig that I had done for another, this should assist you in its proper set-up. Charles -- 1.79 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight -- it's not just a good idea, it's the law! - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-7.tmb.1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - fglrx_setup.bz2 attach5 _ Need more e-mail storage? Get 10MB with Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es 5. Linux Monitor Installation Procedure 1)Linux Install Procedure In order to execute the X-window, you have to make the XF86Config file which is the system setup file. Your monitor also can setup through this file. Also this file is generated by executing the XF86config. After execute the xf86config, press Enter at first and second display. At third display, you can see the display of installation of mouse At this time you have to setup your mouse according to your mouse hardware And next display is the installation of Keyboard. You have to setup your keyboard according to your keyboard. From now on , the monitor installation will be come out. At first, you have to setup the Horizontal frequency. Select the number which you want to setup. And also you can type the frequency directly. See monitor user's manual. And then you have to setup the Vertical frequency. Following is the same as Horizontal frequency. Type the name of monitor. This name is not related to X-window execution. Now the monitor setup is completed Complete the other hardware setup. If you complete all hardware setup, save the configuration file. Now execute the X-window. Even though you setup all above procedure, the X-Window can't run. If the X-window doesn't run properly, you have modify the x86config file as follows. Linux Modification Items Replace the # with the value of Bandwidth refer to user's manual Modify the other additional hardware modification. At last, you have to select the video mode. Now run the X-Window. 2)Monitor Installation Tip Explanation and Concept regarding the display monitor The related the document is located at dm/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/Video Mode.doc and read the readme.txt. Horizontal Sync. Frequency (Unit Khz) This is the Dot Line per 1 seconds. And if you setting the H-Frequency incorrectly, it causes to make the problem at monitor hardware. you have to set the H-Frequency correctly. Vertical Sync Frequency(Refresh Rate, Unit Hz) This is the frame number per 1seconds. And if you setting the V-Frequency incorrectly, it cause to make flicker. If you work long time with this stituation, your eye will be tired. In order
Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers.
Hi, Thanks for the help. Would you send the walk-through in .txt for Windows? Also, do I need to do something to the vesa driver before I install the fgrlx driver? There is monitor configuration file that came with my monitor, I put it as an attachment. I don't know if it will help with driver installation. I understand some of it but not all of it. If it will help would you explain it to me? I do not know how to get to the X86 configuration folder and what settings I should change. From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers. Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:51:14 -0400 On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:33:01 + d2ci1fj g1nf24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with my video card driver. I'm using a ATI Radeon 9800 video card. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and set the video configuration for, video card- vesa, monitor- 1280*1024 @ 60hz, display- 1024*768 @70hz 24b. I then tested the configuration and it worked fine. I use the vesa driver because it's the only driver that will work with my card that is on the list of drivers. There are a few problems when I use vesa. When I try to logout, shutdown, or restart the computer goes blank when it is trying to shut down startX. I have to reboot manually, recheck the file system at startup and fix the file system. I installed the ATI 9800 drivers two times and I could not log into the desktop. I installed the drivers correctly and ran the driver config file. Does anyone know what the problem is? When using the vesa driver: boot with vga=normal or edit your lilo.conf and set vga=normal Do not use dm Boot to init 3 and use Xtart to launch your wm (this will correct your log-out problem) I am running cooker and use the fglrx driver with a Radeon 9600 without problem. If you use the fglrx driver you need to get either fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.5.i586.rpm from ATI or glx1_linux_X4.3.zip from http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/body_download_ati.html Both are the same rpm but the zip file also contains the check.sh a file.list and a README. I have attached a walk-through for running fglrxconfig that I had done for another, this should assist you in its proper set-up. Charles -- 1.79 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight -- it's not just a good idea, it's the law! - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-7.tmb.1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - fglrx_setup.bz2 attach5 _ Need more e-mail storage? Get 10MB with Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es attachm.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get a FREE computer virus scan online from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers.
Hi, Thanks for the help. Would you send the walk-through in .txt for Windows? Also, do I need to do something to the vesa driver before I install the fgrlx driver? There is monitor configuration file that came with my monitor, I put it as an attachment. I don't know if it will help with driver installation. I understand some of it but not all of it. If it will help would you explain it to me? I do not know how to get to the X86 configuration folder and what settings I should change. From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers. Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:51:14 -0400 On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:33:01 + d2ci1fj g1nf24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with my video card driver. I'm using a ATI Radeon 9800 video card. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and set the video configuration for, video card- vesa, monitor- 1280*1024 @ 60hz, display- 1024*768 @70hz 24b. I then tested the configuration and it worked fine. I use the vesa driver because it's the only driver that will work with my card that is on the list of drivers. There are a few problems when I use vesa. When I try to logout, shutdown, or restart the computer goes blank when it is trying to shut down startX. I have to reboot manually, recheck the file system at startup and fix the file system. I installed the ATI 9800 drivers two times and I could not log into the desktop. I installed the drivers correctly and ran the driver config file. Does anyone know what the problem is? When using the vesa driver: boot with vga=normal or edit your lilo.conf and set vga=normal Do not use dm Boot to init 3 and use Xtart to launch your wm (this will correct your log-out problem) I am running cooker and use the fglrx driver with a Radeon 9600 without problem. If you use the fglrx driver you need to get either fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.5.i586.rpm from ATI or glx1_linux_X4.3.zip from http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/body_download_ati.html Both are the same rpm but the zip file also contains the check.sh a file.list and a README. I have attached a walk-through for running fglrxconfig that I had done for another, this should assist you in its proper set-up. Charles -- 1.79 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight -- it's not just a good idea, it's the law! - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-7.tmb.1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - fglrx_setup.bz2 attach5 _ Need more e-mail storage? Get 10MB with Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es attachm.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get a FREE computer virus scan online from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Try MSN Messenger 6.0 with integrated webcam functionality! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_webcam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Or how to build a (better??) BASH
On September 8, 2003 10:47 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:16, John Wilson wrote: Any help would be most appreciated. Even from Stephen. :-) ttfn John I would tend to think that they'd have set you up with includes and libraries that are specific to that package - so in using the .h includes from the Mandrake distro, it might be conflicting... stephen kuhn - owner I think that's what they're doing in the extern.h file. The question then is how would I get rid of the conflict? I'm quite prepared to dig into the rather dense GCC documentation but some idea of where to look would be helpful. (aren't rookies a pain? :-) ) btw, thanks Stephen. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Or how to build a (better??) BASH
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:21, John Wilson wrote: On September 8, 2003 10:47 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:16, John Wilson wrote: Any help would be most appreciated. Even from Stephen. :-) ttfn John I would tend to think that they'd have set you up with includes and libraries that are specific to that package - so in using the .h includes from the Mandrake distro, it might be conflicting... stephen kuhn - owner I think that's what they're doing in the extern.h file. The question then is how would I get rid of the conflict? I'm quite prepared to dig into the rather dense GCC documentation but some idea of where to look would be helpful. (aren't rookies a pain? :-) ) btw, thanks Stephen. ttfn John You might want to dig through the .c files to see which is calling what .h file - and correct them as per needed; if you do a locate thisfile.h and find several on the system, then you've really got to start digging - and even in putting an absolute path to the particular .h that you NEED to have - BTW, have you installed all the dev libs and kernel sources on your system prior to doing any of this stuff - along with making sure that you've re-run ldconfig to rebuild the lib path cache? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Well, my daddy left home when I was three, And he didn't leave much for Ma and me, Just and old guitar an'a empty bottle of booze. Now I don't blame him 'cause he ran and hid, But the meanest thing that he ever did, Was before he left he went and named me Sue. ... But I made me a vow to the moon and the stars, I'd search the honkey tonks and the bars, And kill the man that give me that awful name. It was Gatlinburg in mid-July, I'd just hit town and my throat was dry, Thought I'd stop and have myself a brew, At an old saloon on a street of mud, Sitting at a table, dealing stud, Sat that dirty (bleep) that named me Sue. ... Now, I knew that snake was my own sweet Dad, From a wornout picture that my Mother had, And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye... -- Johnny Cash, A Boy Named Sue Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help! Or how to build a (better??) BASH
Hi there. Okay, oh great gurus. Just for fun I'm running through LinuxFromScratch to see what I can learn. One of the first things they want me to do is build a new copy of Bash on the mount point I created for my experiment. What follows is the attempt to make the package: - gcc -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DC ONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -o mksyntax ./mksyntax.c rm -f syntax.c ./mksyntax -o syntax.c /bin/sh ./support/mkversion.sh -b -S . -s release -d 2.05a -o newversion.h \ mv newversion.h version.h rm -f version.o gcc -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DC ONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -g -O2 -c version.c gcc -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DC ONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -o bashversion ./support/bashversion.c version.o *** * * * GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) * * *** rm -f shell.o gcc -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DC ONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -g -O2 -c shell.c In file included from shell.h:41, from shell.c:48: externs.h:163: conflicting types for `gethostname' /usr/include/unistd.h:752: previous declaration of `gethostname' externs.h:196: conflicting types for `strncasecmp' /usr/include/string.h:292: previous declaration of `strncasecmp' make: *** [shell.o] Error 1 - Now, any error of 1 tends to make me nervous. In the above case I seem to have header files conflicting with one another. Sowhich one do I modify to get this to work? My bet that I either comment out the problem children in the Bash source or modify them cause I'm sure as hell not going to fsck my host system (MDK 9.1). Any help would be most appreciated. Even from Stephen. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Or how to build a (better??) BASH
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:16, John Wilson wrote: Any help would be most appreciated. Even from Stephen. :-) ttfn John I would tend to think that they'd have set you up with includes and libraries that are specific to that package - so in using the .h includes from the Mandrake distro, it might be conflicting... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Anything else, sir? asked the attentive bellhop, trying his best to make the lady and gentleman comfortable in their penthouse suite in the posh hotel. No. No, thank you, replied the gentleman. Anything for your wife, sir? the bellhop asked. Why, yes, young man, said the gentleman. Would you bring me a postcard? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help please
Help! I am getting the following error when trying to run gnucash : The font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the current locale en_US (Missing character set ISO8859-1) (Missing character set ISO8859-1) Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Anyone know how I can fix this? Also can anyone tell if these errors can be corrected? --- Hash table keys for warning below: -- file:///home/gilligan -- file:///usr -- file:///etc/gnucash -- file:///usr/lib/kde3 -- file:///usr/share/doc -- file:///usr/share/doc/mldonkey-2.5 -- file:///etc/rc.d -- file:///etc/security -- file:///usr/lib -- file:///usr/share -- file:///etc -- file:///home -- file:/// (nautilus:6439): Eel-WARNING **: nautilus-directory.c: directories hash table still has 13 elements at quit time (keys above) Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help please
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:24:40 -0400 Scooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I am getting the following error when trying to run gnucash : The font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the current locale en_US (Missing character set ISO8859-1) (Missing character set ISO8859-1) Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Anyone know how I can fix this? Try this: in your home dir, there should be a file called .gtkrc. edit that file and replace the last two asterisks of: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* with ISO8859 and 15 respectively. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ One learns to itch where one can scratch. -- Ernest Bramah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help... specifying an IP range
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 12:40, Roberto Armenteros wrote: Hi all, This should be a simple question. I am using a private network IP range for my internal network where all the IP's start with 192.168.0. the only thing that changes is the last octate. Please, advice if this representation of my IP's is ok or not. 192.168.0.0/24 I am trying to use this to setup snort. Thanks, Bob. Simple answer: YES stephen kuhn == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * - Win98 error 009: Erroneous error: Nothing is wrong. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help... specifying an IP range
- Original Message - From: Roberto Armenteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Help... specifying an IP range Hi all, This should be a simple question. I am using a private network IP range for my internal network where all the IP's start with 192.168.0. the only thing that changes is the last octate. Please, advice if this representation of my IP's is ok or not. Yep, that's exactly right. 192.168.0.0/24 I am trying to use this to setup snort. Thanks, Bob. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help on postfix
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:51:03AM +0200, Kim Brandt wrote: I got some problems when i tried to install qmail (i already got postfix 20010228-p103 working well) And the installation didn´t work, so i uninstalled qmail. I run a webserver on a Mandrake 8.1 machine, and usually get some e-mails from the server, but now i don´t. I think qmail, either deleted some postfixfiles, or changed them in the installing process. So my question is what to do? I got backup of /var, /etc, /usr and /home But i don´t know wich files that have been overwritten (or deleted) Is there any file that tell php wich mailserver is default? Maybe i could change in that file? I don't know if it will solve your problem but the /etc/php.ini defines the mailserver for php. Though it's not needed if you run on the defaults which uses sendmail. When you install qmail your supposed to delete your sendmail and qmail makes a symbolic link called sendmail which points to qmail-inject. To see what php is using for a mail server and all it's variables call the phpinfo( ) function. You can put it in a file and call it from your webserver. HTML HEADTITLEPHP Test /TITLE/HEAD BODY ?phpinfo( ) ? /BODY /HTML hope it helps. Roland Best regards Kim Brandt - Sweden Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help sounddriver !
Hi, I have some trouble with my Mandrake 9.0 which is can not access my sound card (there is no sound). When booting I always receive a message that sound server cannot start because CPU overload. I don't know what happend. Please some body help me !!! Specification my CPU is : Mainboard intel desktop EEA2 (i815). VGA + Sound card onboard. RAM 256MB. Processor P3-800eb. HDD Seagate Barracuda 20 GB. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:21:04 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What is init 3? How do I drop to it? How do I switch back to init5? Just for this post to you I have turned-off PGP so this should appear in OE as a simple text message, I would refer to keep it on at all times because of security and privacy concerns. For any future postings you may need to use another client or save to disk from OE and read it in notepad or other program. Runlevels are a state, or mode, defined by the services listed in the SysV /etc/rc.d/rcx.d/ directory, where x is the number of the runlevel. The idea behind SysV init runlevels revolves around the fact that different systems can be used in a different ways. For example, a server runs more efficiently without the drag on system resources created by the X Window System. Other times, a system administrator may need to operate the system at a lower runlevel to perform diagnostic tasks, like fixing disk corruption in runlevel 1, when no other users can possibly be on the system. The characteristics of a given runlevel determines which services are halted and started by init. For instance, runlevel 1 (single user mode) halts any network services, while runlevel 3 starts these services. By assigning specific services to be halted or started on a given runlevel, init can quickly change the mode of the machine without the user manually stopping and starting services. The following runlevels(init) are used 0 Halt 1 Single-user text mode 2 Not used (user-definable) 3 Full multi-user text mode 4 Not used (user-definable) 5 Full multi-user graphical mode (with an X-based login screen) 6 Reboot The default runlevels normally used are 1 and 5 On my systems I boot to runlevel(init) 3 then manually launch the X-server, if/when you boot to the graphical log-in you are booting to runlevel(init) 5 To get to init 3 from init 5 log-out of your WM so that you are at the login screen. Press the key combination Ctrl-Alt-F2 This will take you to a text login prompt. Login with your username and password and then su to root. At the prompt enter: init 3 example [EMAIL PROTECTED] charles]# init 3 This will shut down the X-server and drop you to runlevel 3. From this level it is safe to install the fglrx driver and to run fglrxconfig. If you have problems with fglrxconfig I can walk you through each setting being either as cryptic or verbose as you wish. Once the above is accomplished to return to runlevel 5 at the prompt enter: init 5 example [EMAIL PROTECTED] charles]# init 5 This will take you to the graphical login screen. Charles -- Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. -- George D. Prentice - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
Would you send it in text and not an attachment? Thanks. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:18:33 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need help installing a video card driver for a radeon 9800 in mandrake. What the problem is is after I install it ask me to generate a customized kernel module What version of Mandrake are you running and which of the ATI drivers are you using? I am running cooker (9.2) and using fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.0.i586.rpm with a Radeon9600 Pro. You will need to install the kernel-source rpm. You can do this by # urpmi kernel-source or use rpmdrake and look in the 'addable' section and select the kernel-source rpm. For my kernel it is kernel-source-2.4.22-1mdk Once you have installed the kernel-source drop to init3. Forget the direction they give for manually building the kernel module, thats to much like 'work'. It is much simpler to re-install the driver rpm -ivh --force fglrx-x.rpm It will now be able to find a kernel build environment and will build the kernel module for you. Once the module has been built and loaded run fglrxconfig to create the proper entries in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Switch back to init5 and you should be set to go. Charles -- Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before. - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:46:34 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you send it in text and not an attachment? Thanks. Since he will also get this as a attachment with crappy OE, Stephen would you mind explaining to him about PGP, which I do not intend to stop using, and possible send to him direct a copy of my original post. Thanks Charles -- We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
Would you send it in writing so that when I open the email I can read it instead of in an attachment? Thanks. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:21:04 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What is init 3? How do I drop to it? How do I switch back to init5? Just for this post to you I have turned-off PGP so this should appear in OE as a simple text message, I would refer to keep it on at all times because of security and privacy concerns. For any future postings you may need to use another client or save to disk from OE and read it in notepad or other program. Runlevels are a state, or mode, defined by the services listed in the SysV /etc/rc.d/rcx.d/ directory, where x is the number of the runlevel. The idea behind SysV init runlevels revolves around the fact that different systems can be used in a different ways. For example, a server runs more efficiently without the drag on system resources created by the X Window System. Other times, a system administrator may need to operate the system at a lower runlevel to perform diagnostic tasks, like fixing disk corruption in runlevel 1, when no other users can possibly be on the system. The characteristics of a given runlevel determines which services are halted and started by init. For instance, runlevel 1 (single user mode) halts any network services, while runlevel 3 starts these services. By assigning specific services to be halted or started on a given runlevel, init can quickly change the mode of the machine without the user manually stopping and starting services. The following runlevels(init) are used 0 Halt 1 Single-user text mode 2 Not used (user-definable) 3 Full multi-user text mode 4 Not used (user-definable) 5 Full multi-user graphical mode (with an X-based login screen) 6 Reboot The default runlevels normally used are 1 and 5 On my systems I boot to runlevel(init) 3 then manually launch the X-server, if/when you boot to the graphical log-in you are booting to runlevel(init) 5 To get to init 3 from init 5 log-out of your WM so that you are at the login screen. Press the key combination Ctrl-Alt-F2 This will take you to a text login prompt. Login with your username and password and then su to root. At the prompt enter: init 3 example [EMAIL PROTECTED] charles]# init 3 This will shut down the X-server and drop you to runlevel 3. From this level it is safe to install the fglrx driver and to run fglrxconfig. If you have problems with fglrxconfig I can walk you through each setting being either as cryptic or verbose as you wish. Once the above is accomplished to return to runlevel 5 at the prompt enter: init 5 example [EMAIL PROTECTED] charles]# init 5 This will take you to the graphical login screen. Charles -- Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. -- George D. Prentice - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help on postfix
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 8:51 am, Kim Brandt wrote: Hi everyone I got some problems when i tried to install qmail (i already got postfix 20010228-p103 working well) And the installation didn´t work, so i uninstalled qmail. I run a webserver on a Mandrake 8.1 machine, and usually get some e-mails from the server, but now i don´t. I think qmail, either deleted some postfixfiles, or changed them in the installing process. So my question is what to do? I got backup of /var, /etc, /usr and /home But i don´t know wich files that have been overwritten (or deleted) Is there any file that tell php wich mailserver is default? Maybe i could change in that file? Best regards Kim Brandt - Sweden There is a command update-alternatives to do that for you. I think the syntax is update-alternatives --config mta At the prompt select postfix. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help with a script
Thanks for the replies, but I don't think I covered the search fully.
The data I am searching for can be anywhere on the line, and the line
can be very large so I can't cut it. I am searching for data, but I
don't know what the data is. I know what it starts with and what it ends
with. example @(#) data so I need to be able to cut upto the
@(#) and then after the first . This could also appear a few times in
the same file but with different data. I have tried grepping and putting
'...' in place but the data is variable in size, so I can get a lot
of rubbish after the . I will start to look into sed.
Thanks all,
Tony.
-Original Message-
From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with a script
In Perl I would use a regular expression to match the text, then
end up with the string you're looking for in $1. So, for instance
#!/usr/bin/perl
open FILE, filename;
while (FILE) {
m/exp_here/;
print I found '$1'\n;
}
close FILE;
Miark
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:05:31 +0100, Tony S. Sykes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
I am struggling writing a script which greps a binary file (grep -a)
which will remove all of the data before the characters I am looking
for
and then to remove the data after another character so I have only the
relevant info. When you grep the binary file the line is very long. I
am
looking for only about 15 - 20 characters off the line. The problem is
that it can be anywhere on the line so I can't use a simple cut. Would
ed be able to do this? I am not looking for you to write the script,
just pointers as to what commands I could use. So far I have got the
grep done grep -a '@(#)' file but it's what I do to the line after
that.
Thanks in advance,
Tony.
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Re: [newbie] Help with a script
Tony,
Substitute each string of binary characters with a newline character.
Substitute multiple newline characters with a single newline character.
That will put the text strings one per line.
Miark
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:06:26 +0100, Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the replies, but I don't think I covered the search fully.
The data I am searching for can be anywhere on the line, and the line
can be very large so I can't cut it. I am searching for data, but I
don't know what the data is. I know what it starts with and what it ends
with. example @(#) data so I need to be able to cut upto the
@(#) and then after the first . This could also appear a few times in
the same file but with different data. I have tried grepping and putting
'...' in place but the data is variable in size, so I can get a lot
of rubbish after the . I will start to look into sed.
Thanks all,
Tony.
-Original Message-
From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with a script
In Perl I would use a regular expression to match the text, then
end up with the string you're looking for in $1. So, for instance
#!/usr/bin/perl
open FILE, filename;
while (FILE) {
m/exp_here/;
print I found '$1'\n;
}
close FILE;
Miark
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:05:31 +0100, Tony S. Sykes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
I am struggling writing a script which greps a binary file (grep -a)
which will remove all of the data before the characters I am looking
for
and then to remove the data after another character so I have only the
relevant info. When you grep the binary file the line is very long. I
am
looking for only about 15 - 20 characters off the line. The problem is
that it can be anywhere on the line so I can't use a simple cut. Would
ed be able to do this? I am not looking for you to write the script,
just pointers as to what commands I could use. So far I have got the
grep done grep -a '@(#)' file but it's what I do to the line after
that.
Thanks in advance,
Tony.
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[newbie] Help with a script
All, I am struggling writing a script which greps a binary file (grep -a) which will remove all of the data before the characters I am looking for and then to remove the data after another character so I have only the relevant info. When you grep the binary file the line is very long. I am looking for only about 15 - 20 characters off the line. The problem is that it can be anywhere on the line so I can't use a simple cut. Would ed be able to do this? I am not looking for you to write the script, just pointers as to what commands I could use. So far I have got the grep done grep -a '@(#)' file but it's what I do to the line after that. Thanks in advance, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with a script
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:05:31PM +0100, Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, I am struggling writing a script which greps a binary file (grep -a) which will remove all of the data before the characters I am looking for and then to remove the data after another character so I have only the relevant info. When you grep the binary file the line is very long. I am looking for only about 15 - 20 characters off the line. The problem is that it can be anywhere on the line so I can't use a simple cut. Would ed be able to do this? I am not looking for you to write the script, just pointers as to what commands I could use. So far I have got the grep done grep -a '@(#)' file but it's what I do to the line after that. Thanks in advance, Tony. You can do this with sed I know as I was just looking to do something similar. I don't have time right now, but I'll have a look through my bookmarks and notes later tonight. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with a script
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 17:05, Tony S. Sykes wrote: ed be able to do this? I am not looking for you to write the script, just pointers as to what commands I could use. So far I have got the grep done grep -a '@(#)' file but it's what I do to the line after that. Perhaps it is an idea to limit the length of the remaining file to about 100 chars by piping the result of grep to cut? And from there you could use sed or ed to snip out what you need. Paul -- A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with a script
In Perl I would use a regular expression to match the text, then
end up with the string you're looking for in $1. So, for instance
#!/usr/bin/perl
open FILE, filename;
while (FILE) {
m/exp_here/;
print I found '$1'\n;
}
close FILE;
Miark
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:05:31 +0100, Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
I am struggling writing a script which greps a binary file (grep -a)
which will remove all of the data before the characters I am looking for
and then to remove the data after another character so I have only the
relevant info. When you grep the binary file the line is very long. I am
looking for only about 15 - 20 characters off the line. The problem is
that it can be anywhere on the line so I can't use a simple cut. Would
ed be able to do this? I am not looking for you to write the script,
just pointers as to what commands I could use. So far I have got the
grep done grep -a '@(#)' file but it's what I do to the line after
that.
Thanks in advance,
Tony.
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