[newbie] LM8.0 crash recovery
Dear all, I have a linux Mandrake 8.0 box which crashed yesterday when I tried to mount the iso image of for cd1 LM9.0 to a dir in / as root. An initial hardware reboot seemed to work ok, however at some stage it failed and the screen went black. Since then I cannot boot without using the rescue option on the LM8.0 installation cdrom. (I tried the tomsrtbt disk but that fails with message: LILO Error 0xFF.) at the prompt, I don't really know what to do. The suggestions at MU.org don' t help at the moment as no fs is mounted. When trying to do a mount e.g. mount -t ext2 /dev/hda7 /mnt/disk -o ro I get unknown device. Can anyone help what to do next ? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM8.0 konqueror crashing
Hi All, I set my up my LM8.0 for three users. Root, Me and my Son! I've had no problems until tonight. My son tells me that his konqueror keeps crashing. I went to his login session and tried to launch konq from the terminal. It tells me the following: KCrash: Application Name = konqueror path = Now this is just the reference to the crash for this particular application. There are many other errors listed. Does this line tell me that konq cannot be found? and if so, what file do I put the correct path into and what correct path would that be? assuming this is my problem! BTW, I changed the name of /home/myson/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/profiles/filemanagement -> to oldfilemanagement then I copied my filemanagement file to his! (I only did this because the paths listed in my file was the complete path to this file and his was just /home/myson anyway, konq seems to be the only application crashing. I did have problems with KMail crashing but I found the "file lock" box checked in KPPP so I unmarked the box and KMail now loads fine. ??? TIA Roger -- Tell me something..and I forget. Show me something...and I remember. Let me do somethingand I understand! --- Registered Linux User 244036 Since August 2001 - LM8.0 Open Source = Freedom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 Video display garbled - solved
I solved my problem by rerunning the installation program, using expert mode and the update option (not install). At the "Configure X" portion, I tried different settings untill the configuration tested okay. Thanks everyone for your help, and I hope that this will be useful to others. Warren Warren Post wrote: > I've finally received and installed LM8.0, hurray! (Thanks, s!) On one > of my boxes the video display is garbled: duplicate images appear > horizontally, corresponding with vertical bands of video noise. In > addition, the display image is not scaled properly and some 3/4 of the > desktop spills off the right and lower edges of the physical screen. > > Here's what I've tried: > > * Consulted the LM "User Guide", "Reference Manual", man and how-to > pages, and the archives of this list. > * Checked to see the video adaptor identified by Mandrake Control Center > is indeed what I have (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434 PCI). They match. Because > of the scaling problem mentioned above, I am unable to see enough of the > Control Center window to further check information or try changing > settings, nor am I able to make the Control Center window smaller. > * Disabling "Plug and Play aware OS" in the BIOS and reinstalling. Same > result. > * Tried booting in failsafe mode. Same result. > * Reinstalled, but instead of accepting the default monitor offered, I > selected a generic monitor that matched my monitor's specifications. > Same result. > * Booted into Windows to insure that the display is fine. It is, which > tells me that I don't have a hardware or cable failure. > > In all cases I've been using the "recommended" installation mode, never > the "expert" mode. I have always deleted my Linux partitions and > reinstalled; never updated the installation. > > Hardware: > PC clone, AMD K5/100 MHz, 128 MB RAM > Video adaptor: Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434 PCI > Monitor: Techmedia TCM-2148C, which I am installing as "Generic > non-interlaced SVGA, 1024x768 @ 60 Hz, 800x600 @72 Hz", which matches my > monitor's documentation > > What else can I try to solve this display issue? My whole family is > dying to get LM running on this box. Even my technophobe wife can't wait > to try it out. > > Thanks in advance, > Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 Video display garbled
On Monday 29 October 2001 08:00 pm, you wrote: > I've finally received and installed LM8.0, hurray! (Thanks, s!) On one > of my boxes the video display is garbled: duplicate images appear > horizontally, corresponding with vertical bands of video noise. In > addition, the display image is not scaled properly and some 3/4 of the > desktop spills off the right and lower edges of the physical screen. My answer to this was to install and take the actual install-video setting instead of going with XFree86. I had no problem activating XFree86 as a post-install, but otherwise I was experiencing the same problem as you describe. --mapdock Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM8.0 Video display garbled
I've finally received and installed LM8.0, hurray! (Thanks, s!) On one of my boxes the video display is garbled: duplicate images appear horizontally, corresponding with vertical bands of video noise. In addition, the display image is not scaled properly and some 3/4 of the desktop spills off the right and lower edges of the physical screen. Here's what I've tried: * Consulted the LM "User Guide", "Reference Manual", man and how-to pages, and the archives of this list. * Checked to see the video adaptor identified by Mandrake Control Center is indeed what I have (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434 PCI). They match. Because of the scaling problem mentioned above, I am unable to see enough of the Control Center window to further check information or try changing settings, nor am I able to make the Control Center window smaller. * Disabling "Plug and Play aware OS" in the BIOS and reinstalling. Same result. * Tried booting in failsafe mode. Same result. * Reinstalled, but instead of accepting the default monitor offered, I selected a generic monitor that matched my monitor's specifications. Same result. * Booted into Windows to insure that the display is fine. It is, which tells me that I don't have a hardware or cable failure. In all cases I've been using the "recommended" installation mode, never the "expert" mode. I have always deleted my Linux partitions and reinstalled; never updated the installation. Hardware: PC clone, AMD K5/100 MHz, 128 MB RAM Video adaptor: Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434 PCI Monitor: Techmedia TCM-2148C, which I am installing as "Generic non-interlaced SVGA, 1024x768 @ 60 Hz, 800x600 @72 Hz", which matches my monitor's documentation What else can I try to solve this display issue? My whole family is dying to get LM running on this box. Even my technophobe wife can't wait to try it out. Thanks in advance, Warren -- http://sites.netscape.net/srcopan/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 Freezes
Civileme, Thanks for your help. I have disabled Aurora and use Xtart to start the X window manager KDE. My question now is, where do I go from here? Will this be a permanent "condition", because I would like to access my Linux box using Exceed as well, which it does not seem to allow me anymore? Norman
[newbie] LM8.0 Freezes
Hi all, I am slowly getting desperate here.my LM8 box freeces completely now and then for no apparent reason. Sometimes it happens when I highlight a window or something in KDE or Gnome. After that: no keyboard or mouse response, and no pinging from another computer is possible. I have to hardware restart. If I have used KDE before the crash, KDE won't start, until I had a session using Gnome (maybe just due to the crash). My box is: Intel P4 256 MB Ram ATI Radeon Fujitsu 10Gb HDD (with LM8 and W2k (using Fat 32)) 3ware RAID using 2 IBM 75Gb HDD Ricoh DVD In order to investigate what is happening, which logfiles do I need to look at and what should I look out for? Please help, Cheers, Norman
[newbie] LM8.0 and 3ware 3DM Disk Management Utility
Dear all, I have installed a 3ware Escalade 6200 IDE RAID controller on my PC and re-installed Mandrake 8.0. During installation HardDrake recognised the controller and my installation was successful (as has been reported in previous posts to the mailing list archive). My question now is, how do I configure the 3DM Disk Management Utility under Linux Mandrake 8.0. The install script provided by 3ware only supports RedHad and Suse. I am supposed to create kill script links to /etc/rc.d/init.d/3dmd and all other run levels that don't suupport full user functionality (e.g. rc0.d, rc1.d, rc6.d, rcS.d) Further, start script links should be setup /etc/rc.d/init.d/3dmd that support full user functionality (e.g. rc2.d, rc3.d rc5.d) What are kill and start script links? Has anyone configured 3DM using LM8.0? Any help would be very much appreciated. Regards, Norman --== Sent via Deja.com ==-- http://www.deja.com/
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 and Promise FastTrack RAID 1
Dear all, FALSE HOPES !!! In my previous email I said that I can access both IBM drives on the Fasttrack RAID controller, however this is not true. On installation, I was able to format and select a mount point for the first drive but not for the second drive. Then using Harddrake I was able to format and set the mountpoint for the second drive on the array after the installation. This let me to thinking that now I was able to access both of them. However, today on reboot, I could not re-mount the second drive. Although, Harddrake shows it to be formatted as Linux Native, I am not allowed to set a new mount point. Even deleting the partition and trying to set a new mount point does not work. Sorry for raising your hopes on the Fasttrack RAID controller. I suppose, I will have a look at the 3ware's version of RAID controllers or just use Linux Software RAID. Anyway, thanks for your help. Norman >>> civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/21/01 12:24am >>> On Wednesday 20 June 2001 11:45, Norman Teferle wrote: > I have posted a message with respect to my Mandrake 8.0 box > with a Promise FastTrack Ultra ATA-100 RAID 0 - 1 controller a > couple of days ago with no response. Scrolling throught the > mailing list archive, I can see that this topic has come up > recently numerous times. > > Anyway, following the recommendations of the www.promise.com > linux support for RH6.2/7.0 and some recent mailings (ie > Richard Kleeman - Fix for Mandrake8.0 install on Promise IDE > controller from Friday June 15, 2001) I have managed to > install Mandrake 8.0 and can access my 3 harddrives hda, hde > and hdg, with hde and hdg being two IBM DTLA 307075 drives. > W2k and M8.0 live on hda, and the idea was to have RAID 1 > configuration using both IBM disks. > > From some mails (Civileme - Common Errors - 28 May, 2001 and > Civileme - Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fasttrack 66/100, Lockups, > only sees one channel - 18 May, 2001) I also learned that it > is possible to gimmick a RAID1 configuration by only > installing one drive and using it in mirroring mode, using the > controller to copy to the second drive. Could someone please > tell me how to do this? Could you please tell ME how you got that thing working? We'll post it and give you credit. ;-) Well if you have identical drives, you ask the controller to make a copy to the second drive in RAID1 configuration. But if you have THREE drives on that controller, then leave it is straight IDE mode and RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID4 and RAID5 using any pieces you choose of those three drives all belong to you through linux software raid, which is just as efficient as the controller's RAID 1 and far less restrictive. As with most Linux facilities, linuxdoc.org has a giant HOWTO on this which, for once is not especially difficult to read. You will also find Software RAID partitons available as a partition type at install time. Civileme Civileme > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks > > Norman
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 and Promise FastTrack RAID 1
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 11:45, Norman Teferle wrote: > I have posted a message with respect to my Mandrake 8.0 box > with a Promise FastTrack Ultra ATA-100 RAID 0 - 1 controller a > couple of days ago with no response. Scrolling throught the > mailing list archive, I can see that this topic has come up > recently numerous times. > > Anyway, following the recommendations of the www.promise.com > linux support for RH6.2/7.0 and some recent mailings (ie > Richard Kleeman - Fix for Mandrake8.0 install on Promise IDE > controller from Friday June 15, 2001) I have managed to > install Mandrake 8.0 and can access my 3 harddrives hda, hde > and hdg, with hde and hdg being two IBM DTLA 307075 drives. > W2k and M8.0 live on hda, and the idea was to have RAID 1 > configuration using both IBM disks. > > From some mails (Civileme - Common Errors - 28 May, 2001 and > Civileme - Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fasttrack 66/100, Lockups, > only sees one channel - 18 May, 2001) I also learned that it > is possible to gimmick a RAID1 configuration by only > installing one drive and using it in mirroring mode, using the > controller to copy to the second drive. Could someone please > tell me how to do this? Could you please tell ME how you got that thing working? We'll post it and give you credit. ;-) Well if you have identical drives, you ask the controller to make a copy to the second drive in RAID1 configuration. But if you have THREE drives on that controller, then leave it is straight IDE mode and RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID4 and RAID5 using any pieces you choose of those three drives all belong to you through linux software raid, which is just as efficient as the controller's RAID 1 and far less restrictive. As with most Linux facilities, linuxdoc.org has a giant HOWTO on this which, for once is not especially difficult to read. You will also find Software RAID partitons available as a partition type at install time. Civileme Civileme > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks > > Norman
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 question/problem
I have a swap of 313 on one of my machines (I just used what was left after making the other partitions - I thought "that's close enough".) Anyway, no problems on that computer. Of course it (the swap file) never gets used So I don't think it's a problem if yours is 400mb, fairly sure that ain't your problem (though I can't tell you what is...) -s On Sunday 17 June 2001 06:43 pm, you wrote: > Hi all > I recently installed LM8.0 in my home box ( i already have a laptop > running LM7.2) with this conf > > AMD motherboard > PIII-750MHz, 192MB RAM > 20 GB HD (15 for windows, 5 for linux) > Nvidia TNT2 card with 16 MB shared ram memory, which leaves 176MB of ram > Sony CD-RW 8X > Creative Labs CD 52X > +soundcard, ethernet card, modem cable > > i set the swap partition to about 400 MB (is this too much?) recently > someone posted that there is a 256MB maximum > > Also the Xserver has been freezing a lot, i think someone posted > something related to a few gtk packages > > what should i do with the swap (resize or leave it like that?) > and HOW CAN I STOP THE XSERVER FROM FREEZING? > > Carlos
[newbie] LM8.0 question/problem
Hi all I recently installed LM8.0 in my home box ( i already have a laptop running LM7.2) with this conf AMD motherboard PIII-750MHz, 192MB RAM 20 GB HD (15 for windows, 5 for linux) Nvidia TNT2 card with 16 MB shared ram memory, which leaves 176MB of ram Sony CD-RW 8X Creative Labs CD 52X +soundcard, ethernet card, modem cable i set the swap partition to about 400 MB (is this too much?) recently someone posted that there is a 256MB maximum Also the Xserver has been freezing a lot, i think someone posted something related to a few gtk packages what should i do with the swap (resize or leave it like that?) and HOW CAN I STOP THE XSERVER FROM FREEZING? Carlos
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 boots to console mode only.
On Friday 15 June 2001 10:34, Charles Darcy wrote: > Hi, > > I've lately installed LM8.0 and had it running well for > the last month. > > The only problem I've had is Sawfish crashing > periodically. I think this may be linked to the Desk Guide > applet, which crashed at the same time Sawfish dies. I've been > able to continue by restarting Sawfish. The problem occured > about once a week, until last night, when it happened several > times. > > This morning when I booted Linux, I was presented with the > non-graphical console login screen, instead of the usual > graphical login. I thought the X server might be the problem, > so I tried to start it manually with 'startx', which gave the > following messages: > > FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno = 2 > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1 > fatal server error: could not open default font > 'fixed'. > > I'm afraid I'm too new to Linux to know what to do to fix > this problem, so I very much appreciate advice from anyone as > to how to fix it. As a very last resort I guess I could try > re-installing LM8.0, but its taken me weeks to get my > development environment nicely setup, and I would hate to have > to do it over again. > > > regards, > > Charlie. Errr! The problem took out the fontserver. There is a way to recover, but considering your status, I think it might be less than educational to try. Back up your data, reinstall, and go grab the mandrake_desk update. You can find it by clicking on www.linux-mandrake.com the banner at the top of the page that says "security". Now as for your development environment, when you install, do expert and go to individual package selection and click the button at the bottom that says "flat list" to assure your packages are all installed properly, then pick them out. You can save time against doing this _again_ by clicking on "Advanced" when you reach the congratulations statement and making an auto-install floppy. If you have a separate /home partition, don't format it and most of your config info will be intact. Civileme
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 boots to console mode only.
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:34, Charles Darcy wrote: > Hi, > > I've lately installed LM8.0 and had it running well for the last > month. > > The only problem I've had is Sawfish crashing periodically. I > think this may be linked to the Desk Guide applet, which crashed at > the same time Sawfish dies. I've been able to continue by restarting > Sawfish. The problem occured about once a week, until last night, > when it happened several times. Hmmm... I thought I was the only one with that problem. I found that the problem for me was with the version of GTK+ that comes with GNOME 1.4 (1.2.10). Here's how I solved it: 1. In a root console, I uninstalled libgtk+1.2, libgtk+1.2-devel, and gtk-engines. $ rpm -e --nodeps libgtk+1.2 libgtk+1.2-devel gtk-engines 2. I got the equivalent packages from my Mandrake 7.2 CD-ROM (gtk+, gtk+-devel, and gtk-engines). If you don't have a 7.2 CD handy, you can have a look on Mandrake download mirrors (there's a list of them at http://www.linux-mandrake.com) or on http://www.rpmfind.net. You can even use packages from Helix/Ximian GNOME 1.2 (not the latest 1.4). These will have a similar name but will have "mdk_helix" somewhere in the filename. 3. I put these packages in their own directory (so they wouldn't get mixed up with other files) and installed them. $ rpm -Uvh *.rpm I have been going like this ever since Mandrake 8.0 was released, and I have not had a single problem. 4. If you use the below solution to fix X, you'll have to do the above again. > This morning when I booted Linux, I was presented with the > non-graphical console login screen, instead of the usual graphical > login. I thought the X server might be the problem, so I tried to > start it manually with 'startx', which gave the following messages: > > FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno = 2 > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1 > fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'. Usually when I get this error it means the X font server (xfs) has crashed. > I'm afraid I'm too new to Linux to know what to do to fix this > problem, so I very much appreciate advice from anyone as to how to > fix it. As a very last resort I guess I could try re-installing > LM8.0, but its taken me weeks to get my development environment > nicely setup, and I would hate to have to do it over again. The one time I got this error and it wasn't a problem with xfs, I first tried running DrakConf from a console. There is an X configuration option there. I finally managed to fix the problem with the 'sledgehammer' approach (after trying everything else I could think of first, of course). I'm sure there *is* a proper way to fix it, but I couldn't find it. Note that this should *only* be an option of last-resort: 1. From a root console (you need to be root to use RPM, $ rpm -qa |grep XFree86 2. Uninstall the resulting files using the --nodeps tag. 3. Pop your first Mandrake CD in and reboot. When the installer (Drakx) asks if you want to upgrade or install, choose install. When you get to DiskDrake, mount your drives as they were before, but don't format anything. When it comes to installing packages, uncheck whatever you can. Go through the rest of the install without changing anything from what it was before. If you can get X working in Drakx (towards the end of it), then you should be fine. Reboot and all should be well. 4. You should have been able to keep most of your old settings with this method. You may need to run userdrake (as root) to verify all the user settings are correct. 5. If you had used my solution to fix GTK+ (above), then you'll have to do it again. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] LM8.0 boots to console mode only.
Hi, I've lately installed LM8.0 and had it running well for the last month. The only problem I've had is Sawfish crashing periodically. I think this may be linked to the Desk Guide applet, which crashed at the same time Sawfish dies. I've been able to continue by restarting Sawfish. The problem occured about once a week, until last night, when it happened several times. This morning when I booted Linux, I was presented with the non-graphical console login screen, instead of the usual graphical login. I thought the X server might be the problem, so I tried to start it manually with 'startx', which gave the following messages: FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno = 2 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1 fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'. I'm afraid I'm too new to Linux to know what to do to fix this problem, so I very much appreciate advice from anyone as to how to fix it. As a very last resort I guess I could try re-installing LM8.0, but its taken me weeks to get my development environment nicely setup, and I would hate to have to do it over again. regards, Charlie.
Re: [newbie] LM8.0
On Sunday 10 June 2001 14:25, you wrote: > I was thinking about buying 8.0 but wanted to hear > from some who already have it Is it worth the > money or should i wait > thanks > greg > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- Wait for what ? It's great now - but it will keep getting better so you could wait forever :-) Poogle Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated by it)
Re: [newbie] LM8.0
Greg, why don't download the two iso images and try? For me MDK 8 is runing fine, but perhaps your hardware could give problems; if you first try with this main installation you could have an experience to decide buy or not. I have the 8.0 installed in 3 computers, one of them a laptop, runing lot of hardware: Hitachi dvd (movies with xine and videolan fine) Soncy CRX160 cd-writer (now, with the patch for xcdroast, burning cds fine) Teach cd-driver Epson Perfection 1200 USB scanner (runing fine) Cable módem and other lan conexion runing fine (the cable modem with IP masquering is also used by the laptop) Epson Stylus Color 760 USB printer HP LaserJet 4 L pritner Avermedia TVCapture 98 tv-card (wonderfull, even decodifing cable television and nagra codified channels) Voodo3 3000 runing fine with DRI (aceleration) activated (Quake II and so on runing fast) ATI Rage video card Maestro 2 and CreativeLab PCI 128 sound cards runing fine If your hardware is compatible, I do recommend you Mandrake 8.0! Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) > Greg G wrote: > > I was thinking about buying 8.0 but wanted to hear > > from some who already have it Is it worth the > > money or should i wait > > thanks > > greg
Re: [newbie] LM8.0
I think 8.0 is better. On my box, it was harder to install. I tried several times before it succeded in fully instaling. Configuring my modem and zip drive had to be done after installation, whereas in 7.2, they were configured during installation. All things considered, 8.0 is worth the trouble. I even have a trimmed down (1GB) 8.0 on my laptop. Greg G wrote: > I was thinking about buying 8.0 but wanted to hear > from some who already have it Is it worth the > money or should i wait > thanks > greg >
[newbie] LM8.0
I was thinking about buying 8.0 but wanted to hear from some who already have it Is it worth the money or should i wait thanks greg __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 installation
On Sunday 10 June 2001 00:46, ivan miranda wrote: > I ordered a LM8.0,however to my dismay,I could not proceed form one step > of installation.The boot CD will boot ,after loading the Ram disk and it > gives error and aborts the installation.I confirmed that it was a CD > problem.However LM support choose to ignore all my e-mails and > fax asking for a replacement CDnot even a reply in spite of quoting > my registration ID.Then i spent three full days trying to down load > cd1...and finally suceeded. > My next problem is that ,the software cannot mount the SCSI cd > drive.The SCSI card i have is BUSlogic BT-946C.The CD boots from the > drive,BUs logic card is detected then it gives me an error saying "no > Cdrom device found".I tried to boot from a boot > disk made with windoz and booted from it.Here also the SCSI card was > detected,then i get an error saying"I could not mount a CD on device > /dev/scd0".The CDrom i have is plexter PX-8XCS.However LM7.2 loads and > runs verywell in this same setup. > I need some help on this. > > OK as soon as you boot, hit ctrl-alt-f2 and "modprobe BusLogic" without the quotes. If that doesn't work, you will need to put the BusLogic driver (a kernel module) on a floppy and hit F1 at the splash screen then type "expert" (without the quotes) and put the floppy in at the next screen. Civileme QA Team > > - > Ivan Miranda > General Instrument Engineer/IT support > Po Box 8746,Doha,Qatar > Ph:974-4402524/4402773 > Fax:974-4323380
[newbie] LM8.0 installation
I ordered a LM8.0,however to my dismay,I could not proceed form one step of installation.The boot CD will boot ,after loading the Ram disk and it gives error and aborts the installation.I confirmed that it was a CD problem.However LM support choose to ignore all my e-mails and fax asking for a replacement CDnot even a reply in spite of quoting my registration ID.Then i spent three full days trying to down load cd1...and finally suceeded. My next problem is that ,the software cannot mount the SCSI cd drive.The SCSI card i have is BUSlogic BT-946C.The CD boots from the drive,BUs logic card is detected then it gives me an error saying "no Cdrom device found".I tried to boot from a boot disk made with windoz and booted from it.Here also the SCSI card was detected,then i get an error saying"I could not mount a CD on device /dev/scd0".The CDrom i have is plexter PX-8XCS.However LM7.2 loads and runs verywell in this same setup. I need some help on this. - Ivan Miranda General Instrument Engineer/IT support Po Box 8746,Doha,Qatar Ph:974-4402524/4402773 Fax:974-4323380
[newbie] LM8.0 bug fixes
as i said a few days ago, my LM8.0 installation failed because of my thinkpad's ps/2 mouse. have someone installed this new version perfectly with this kind of mouse/computer? if not, does any one know if there is a way to patch the kernel or when 8.1 is being released? Carlos
[newbie] lm8.0 - joystick
Has anybody got a joystick to work in Linux Mandrake 8.0? Just an analog stick. In previous versions I got my joystick to work by inserting "joystick" in /etc/modules. That doesn't work with lm8. I can't even find the joystick testing utilities, like jstest, etc ... It is in some joystick rpm that I can't find now. Thanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] LM8.0: KMail font observation
Just for the record I noticed tonight that the strange font rendering issues I was having with KMail in my latest install of LM 8.0 appear to be directly related to the value that "charset" is equal to in the header of the messages. If the header happens to read something like this: ... charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 ... Than my fonts look like they were hit by acid-rain, but if the headers look like this: ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ... then everything is okay. What I have done for now to work around this is to set "use unicode fonts for messages" to true under the "configuration/appearance" dialog within KMail. Just thought I would mention this. Peace, Steven
[newbie] LM8.0 - ksh error on login
Hi: When using ksh as the shell for a user on Linux-Mandrake 8.0, the .profile is not executed. I also tried this: $ su - test Password: [1] 1388 ksh: /etc/profile.d/mc.sh[12]: export: -f: unknown option [1] + Done (1) export -f mc $ where test is a user using ksh. It looks to me that something in bash is not compatible with ksh. Do you have the same problem? ksh users?? I submitted this as a bug to Mandrake but have not gotten a response yet. Can anybody help? I need ksh. Thanks Jason _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
