[newbie] Mandrake 9.2
Hi, I have an Athlon 64. I want to know if I can install a Mandrake 9.2 i586 on that. I have to do this becouse I couldn't find a grapfic driver for Mandrake for 64 bit for my video cardand I'm trying to work with one older. For 9.2 for 32 bit I found already a driver. thanks gica
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 to 10.0: Upgrade or fresh install?
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 13:54, Anguo wrote: Hello, I have 9.2 which is fairly customized and I don't really want to loose all this with a fresh 10.0 install. I WILL back up and make notes on the most important stuff I have in /usr and /var that would be lost during a reformating of the drive, but a flawless upgrade would make many things easier. Have any of you attempted to upgrade from 9.2 to 10.0 (powerpack/official)? How did it go? Any reasons why I should consider doing a fresh install instead? thanks, Anguo As a test of upgrade path, my girlfriend first installed 9.1 and customised it, then upgraded to 9.2. Coolbeans. Worked with minor tweaks and twangs. Customised it further, then upgraded to 10.0. Only issue was a video driver issue and now she can't run VMWare - which I haven't taken the time to look at yet...other than that, seemed to work alright and I might have to go that route. stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 20:13:23 up 1 day, 5:01, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.17, 0.10 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 to 10.0: Upgrade or fresh install?
Hello, I have 9.2 which is fairly customized and I don't really want to loose all this with a fresh 10.0 install. I WILL back up and make notes on the most important stuff I have in /usr and /var that would be lost during a reformating of the drive, but a flawless upgrade would make many things easier. Have any of you attempted to upgrade from 9.2 to 10.0 (powerpack/official)? How did it go? Any reasons why I should consider doing a fresh install instead? thanks, Anguo -- www.masquilier.org Condorcet, Approval alternative voting. In order to prevent people from receiving viruses that would seem to originate from my email, if you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me. Of course, this does not apply to GNU/Linux users. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 doesn't recognize Maxtor's Diamond plus 9 SATA hard drive!!!!!
Hello everyone! I've recently downloaded mandrake 9.2 and trying to install it to my amd 64 3400+ system. My problem is with serial hard drive. It doesn't recognize my Maxtor's Diamond plus 9 SATA 120GB hard drive. It uses Promise's SATA 378 ide controller. And maxtor doesn't provide any linux driver. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem?? Thanks. --LL3 _ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 crash problem
I had my Mandrake 9.2 box running with Evolution open, checking some e-mail accounts. I had a freeze of Evolution, so I tried a reboot. Now it goes to a Grub prompt and stops there. Is there anything I can do to get back into Linux? Thank you, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Updates
Hello, Sorry for the stupid question: I am unable to update my Mandrake 9.2 install. Here is the error message: Unable to update medium, it will be automatically disabled. Errors: retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for source update_source problem reading synthesis file of medium update_source I am sure this is an easy one. Thanks for the help! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Updates
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 17:53, Michael Begin wrote: Hello, Sorry for the stupid question: I am unable to update my Mandrake 9.2 install. Here is the error message: Unable to update medium, it will be automatically disabled. Errors: retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for source update_source problem reading synthesis file of medium update_source I am sure this is an easy one. Thanks for the help! Mike Have you pointed your browser to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and set up the sources ? Have you updated them lately ? #urpmi.update -a I think you have to remove your e-mail from the reply-to field...Otherwise messages will only get to you and not to the list. -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Updates
On Friday 30 January 2004 02:53 pm, Michael Begin wrote: Hello, Sorry for the stupid question: I am unable to update my Mandrake 9.2 install. Here is the error message: Unable to update medium, it will be automatically disabled. Errors: retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for source update_source problem reading synthesis file of medium update_source I am sure this is an easy one. Sounds like the mirror you chose is either busy or otherwise unavailable. Many errors or failures in urpmi are caused by the mirror being saturated The first thing I would try would be to try another mirror. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Updates
- Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 14:37 Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Updates On Friday 30 January 2004 02:53 pm, Michael Begin wrote: Hello, Sorry for the stupid question: I am unable to update my Mandrake 9.2 install. Here is the error message: Unable to update medium, it will be automatically disabled. Errors: retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for source update_source problem reading synthesis file of medium update_source I am sure this is an easy one. Sounds like the mirror you chose is either busy or otherwise unavailable. Many errors or failures in urpmi are caused by the mirror being saturated The first thing I would try would be to try another mirror. -- /g Or several other mirrors. It worked for me. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Update Problem
Hi all, I recently built a desktop machine with Mandrake 9.2. I used Mandrake Update to update the system, including all the latest security fixes, bug fixes and updates. All appeared to go well, but now, I've lost most of the applications that were formerly listed in my menu, my icons in the taskbar no longer work, and I can't even get to my home directory from the desktop shortcut. To open Konqueror, I have to go to a terminal sessionand type in Konqueror. If I then shut down the terminal session, Konqueroro goes with it. What can I do to get this beast back under control, and my desktop life back to normal? I'm paranoid to update my laptop that I just installed Mandrake on last night (it had Fedora Core) because of this. Rob Smith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Update Problem
On Tuesday 13 Jan 2004 1:33 pm, Smith, Robert A wrote: Hi all, I recently built a desktop machine with Mandrake 9.2. I used Mandrake Update to update the system, including all the latest security fixes, bug fixes and updates. All appeared to go well, but now, I've lost most of the applications that were formerly listed in my menu, my icons in the taskbar no longer work, and I can't even get to my home directory from the desktop shortcut. To open Konqueror, I have to go to a terminal sessionand type in Konqueror. If I then shut down the terminal session, Konqueroro goes with it. What can I do to get this beast back under control, and my desktop life back to normal? I'm paranoid to update my laptop that I just installed Mandrake on last night (it had Fedora Core) because of this. Rob Smith hit CTl+Alt+F1 to get a text console. Log in as root and type update-menus -v Ctl+Alt+F7 will take you back to a graphical interface and your menus should be OK It is a known bug in the rpm package. There is an updated package on the update servers. It should have been installed when you updated. 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] Mandrake 9.2 and Hauppauge pvr-250
- Original Message - From: Toth Bela [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 1:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 and Hauppauge pvr-250 Hi! I first (at the first probe) try use hardrake, but this was in the command line when I try run detect in hardrake (I have a ATI Radeon 9200 video card): WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support. can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory no video grabber device available The /dev/v4l/video0 device not exist, but I don't know what (and where) setting create it. I try compile my own kernel, but the device wasn't created. I write letter to hungarian mplayer user list, and here sad me: try use ivtv, because the ivtv's driver good for PVR-250 card's. what method did you attempt the install? I have just been given the same card I don't know if you _need_ ivtv. I would put the card in and run harddrake first. Thanks your answer! Toti well Toti,, I feel your pain,,, After your last note, I decided to remove my old winTV (based on a bttv 848 chip) that has worked with out fail since about MDK7.2, and replace it with a new pvr250, to see if I could get it running,,, but so far,, just spinning my wheels, I am sorry to say. I looks like ivtv 'should' be _the_ program for this card, but I have not yet been able to get the RPMs to install. Sorry I don't have better news,,, but keep watching this list, when I get it running, I will let you know. so far it looks like you should try the 'multimedia' kernel since it should already be compliled with v4l. have you attempted to urpmi or use MCC to find the/a multimedia kernel (it will have mm in the name of the kernel)? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 packaging of gCvs
I'm having difficulty with the Mandrake 9.2 version of gcvs. I installed both it and the version of cvs that come on the distribution. When I try to set preferences, gcvs complains something like alternate cvs does not support gui redirection. I remembered from the last time I used this reading that gcvs needs a special version of cvs that recognizes the --cvsgui option, so that it can capture the output from cvs; the package description actually says this. I looked in the detailed description for the Mandrake version of gcvs and saw no cvs included there So I went onto the wincvs site and downloaded the version of gcvs I found there (the i386 RPM package). Sure enough, it contains its own cvs, which it installs in /usr/local/bin. After installing this version, it works fine. Am I doing something incorrectly, or is this a packaging issue I should submit as a bug? -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 and Hauppauge pvr-250
On Sunday 04 January 2004 06:52 am, Toth Bela wrote: Hi! I first (at the first probe) try use hardrake, but this was in the command line when I try run detect in hardrake (I have a ATI Radeon 9200 video card): WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support. can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory no video grabber device available The /dev/v4l/video0 device not exist, but I don't know what (and where) setting create it. I try compile my own kernel, but the device wasn't created. I write letter to hungarian mplayer user list, and here sad me: try use ivtv, because the ivtv's driver good for PVR-250 card's. what method did you attempt the install? I have just been given the same card I don't know if you _need_ ivtv. I would put the card in and run harddrake first. Thanks your answer! Toti Well I stuck my pvr250 in my box and removed the winTVpci that I had been using since about 2000. seems this card uses a connextent chip, and not a bttv chip. seems to be not as well supported as the bttv chip, but should still be able to get working. looks like mythtv is the application for this card. at this point I am hunting down required files for the src. rpm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 and Hauppauge pvr-250
ed is gonna post 'inline',,, so get over it, or hit delete now On Friday 02 January 2004 08:15 pm, Toth Bela wrote: Hi! I have a Hauppauge WinTV pvr-250 video recorder (model 986) with Epox 8k9a motherboard. I try install this card under Mandrake Linux 9.2 Download version, but something wrong. what method did you attempt the install? I have just been given the same card for a gift, and have had great luck with a wintv card previously, but have not attempted to install this card. Maybe I don't understand every step in ivtv documents, and this is a problem. What I do: -download ivtv (December 21, 2003 version) I don't know if you _need_ ivtv. I would put the card in and run harddrake first. -compile Mandrake 2.4.22-21mdk kernel with all I2C, Media/Video modules. And restart computer with new kernel -make device /dev/video0 mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 - cd ivtv folder, and copy videodev2.h to driver folder, and try compile ivtv driver. End this is the end: aa7115.c:68:2: warning: #warning Using temporary hack for missing I2C driver-ID for saa7114 saa7115.c:1117: error: unknown field `inc_use' specified in initializer saa7115.c:1117: warning: excess elements in struct initializer saa7115.c:1117: warning: (near initialization for `i2c_driver_saa7114') saa7115.c:1118: error: unknown field `dec_use' specified in initializer saa7115.c:1118: warning: excess elements in struct initializer saa7115.c:1118: warning: (near initialization for `i2c_driver_saa7114') make: *** [saa7115.o] Error 1 * I try use Mandrake original kernel (/lib/modules/2.4.22-21mdk/kernel/drivers/media) with the next rpm file: ivtv_kernel-2.4.22-21m~031004.4thac.i586.rpm But this is not work really. Don't find /dev/video0 device (but this is exist). I read some list archives and readme files, but don't find the answer for my questions. Please help me! Thanks! Toti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 USB configuration
On Friday 26 December 2003 02:34, Ramin M wrote: Apparantly the USB modules are already loaded in the running kernel and i did not have to recompile the kernel. I could configure and start using my multi-reader USB card under linux. I am not sure what i did! But i think it was just that i ran the hardware configuration when the card reader was connected to the computer and then Mandrade automaticly configured the USB devise. Now whenever i connect the card-reader with a card inserted, two links to the card location appear on the desktop. Regards, Ramin That sounds very likely. In my experience, the first time something is added you really do need to run harddrake. Glad you got it going, though. Multi-reader usb cards have been very difficult under previous versions. John Richard Smith will be interested in this. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
Thanks David for the tip. I willcheck if i need to recompile the kernel for usb support. I hope not because i am not that knowledgeable in these. Regards, RaminDavid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:38:50 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe, in the append line it is acpi=ht That's the way it it is now, so it's already disabled? I did some quick Googling and it seemed to indicate switching it to acpi=off. :-\ -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.-- Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
Still waiting to install 9.2 but after reading all the problems with 9.2 I am undecided. Any feedback on this would be helpfull. - Original Message - From: Ramin M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 11:55 PM Subject: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often Hi, I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and now all the freezings are gone! Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: it just pops up once you click! Thanks to all those who tried to give me some hints. Regards, Ramin --- E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had problems with the Mobility version of this card on a laptop. There is something wrong with the dri (direct rendering) implementation with the drivers, but I haven't heard that the problem extends beyond the mobility chip. My lockups would occur at shutdown, however, and only very rarely during use. Just as a test, you might try commenting out the # Load dri line in your xconfig-4 Module section, to see if the problem might go away. GLX doesn't look too good if your system acts up running gears, either, but one thing at a time. Perhaps SuSe is writing the xconfig-4 file for the Radeon somewhat differently than Mandrake does it? For the record, I like SuSe a lot, but use Mandrake because I like the Mandrake config tools better than YAST. e On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:46 am, Ramin M wrote: Another problem during the installation was that the second time that i installed mk9.2 (i had to do this for some reason), it detected two graphic cards on my machine (on pci buses 1:5:0 and 1:5:1) where there is only one graphic card. Running glxgears after the first installation was giving me 2600fps and now after the second installation it gives 1900fps. Besides running glxgears now causes lines of lights flashing on my monitor and make the OS very unstable. I just removed the lines related to the second graphic card in etc/x11/xconfig-4 file and the xwindows is still working. So the problem might be related to this bad detection of the graphic card! My hardwares are as follows: motherboard: Asus A7M266-D CPU: MP2000 dual processor sound card: sound blaster live! (dolby 5.1) graphic card: ATI 9000pro scsi adapter: Adatec 29160 U160 three scsi hard disks from fujitsu and seagate 15k and 10k rpms. minolta scan elite scsi scanner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca 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: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
I simply did this through the hardware control center where it has an option for activating/disactivating ACPI. The output is /etc/lilo/conf is acpi=ht. Regards, Ramin --- JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:55:58 -0500 (EST) Ramin M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and now all the freezings are gone! Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: it just pops up once you click! Just out of curiosity, how did you disable ACPI, is it in /etc/lilo.conf, in the append line, ie. ACPI=off? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.-- Timothy Leary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
Joe, in the append line it is acpi=ht That's the way it it is now, so it's already disabled? I did some quick Googling and it seemed to indicate switching it to acpi=off. Here is what i turned up on the ht thing: acpi=ht will use ACPI for enumerating processors, and then ACPI will exit. ACPI will not be used to configure interrupts and the interpreter will not run so you'll get no run-time events. Does this mean that with single processor boxes there's no need to run it ht? 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: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
My main problems have been 1- freezings: that were solved by disactivating ACPI. 2- no sound: solved by switching to ALSA (in KDE control center) and raising the sound volumes in kmix. 3- I connected a USB multi card reader. Though it is seen by Mandrake, but nothing happens (and i don´t know what to do next. More minor problems: 1- I still don have sound from the back speakers (i have a 5.1 system). 2- I had to reinstall the Mandrake once again for some reason and noticed that if i do the upgrades from another server, the menus in KDE do not break. 3- I am going to test CD burning performance in Mandrake and will let you know about the result. Regards, Ramin --- P J Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still waiting to install 9.2 but after reading all the problems with 9.2 I am undecided. Any feedback on this would be helpfull. - Original Message - From: Ramin M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 11:55 PM Subject: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often Hi, I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and now all the freezings are gone! Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: it just pops up once you click! Thanks to all those who tried to give me some hints. Regards, Ramin __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
I've had the same problem. I installed 9.2 download edition, then installed security and bugfixes through MCC (but not the kernel, since I don't have an LG drive), and experienced three system freezes in a row. Since other MDK releases were rock solid, and it was the first time that I tried the online upgrading process, I reinstalled 9.2 download edition and did not upgrade security and bugfixes. Now it is as stable as it should be. So I concluded there was a problem with the security and bugfixes download, or that the fixes themselves where not tested enough. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am new to the list and mandrake. More than a year ago, i tried with mandrake 9.0 for a short time and decided that i prefered suse. Recently i decided to try mandrake once again. I became a silver member of mandrake club and downlowd the powerpack 3 CD version and installed it. The installation seemed very smooth much better than 9.0 where erased the entire partion table on my machine several times. THe only wrong thing with installtion was that on default the users are not given write permision to the home directory! So i have to first log in as root and change the write permission. The sound is by default mute. I have to change the sound to advanced linux sound system to have it work and unmute the sounds! Then i did upgrading through internet. About 300MB download. Right now my main problem is that it freezes so often. It freezes when i am just in konqueror or mozilla serfing the web! The whole OS freezes. No mouse, or keyboard functioning! Even ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to run level one does not work. It freezed also once after i ran a command in the terminal to add a ftp address to the list of download mirror sites. If somebody can tell me where to look for the source of problem and what i can do in this regard, i would be very grateful. Please tell me if you are experiencing similar problems or not and if so, what you have done to remedy the situation. I am overall very happy with the speed of the OS. It is as fast as windows XP on my machine (other than the boot process!) Konqueror is now so nice and fast to use comparing to suse 8.1, redhat8.0 and libranet 2.7 and 2.8 that i have tried. It seems that they have removed some of the KDE configuration options. I hope they are not going the way of removing even more configuration options. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca 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
Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
Hi, I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and now all the freezings are gone! Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: it just pops up once you click! Thanks to all those who tried to give me some hints. Regards, Ramin --- E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had problems with the Mobility version of this card on a laptop. There is something wrong with the dri (direct rendering) implementation with the drivers, but I haven't heard that the problem extends beyond the mobility chip. My lockups would occur at shutdown, however, and only very rarely during use. Just as a test, you might try commenting out the # Load dri line in your xconfig-4 Module section, to see if the problem might go away. GLX doesn't look too good if your system acts up running gears, either, but one thing at a time. Perhaps SuSe is writing the xconfig-4 file for the Radeon somewhat differently than Mandrake does it? For the record, I like SuSe a lot, but use Mandrake because I like the Mandrake config tools better than YAST. e On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:46 am, Ramin M wrote: Another problem during the installation was that the second time that i installed mk9.2 (i had to do this for some reason), it detected two graphic cards on my machine (on pci buses 1:5:0 and 1:5:1) where there is only one graphic card. Running glxgears after the first installation was giving me 2600fps and now after the second installation it gives 1900fps. Besides running glxgears now causes lines of lights flashing on my monitor and make the OS very unstable. I just removed the lines related to the second graphic card in etc/x11/xconfig-4 file and the xwindows is still working. So the problem might be related to this bad detection of the graphic card! My hardwares are as follows: motherboard: Asus A7M266-D CPU: MP2000 dual processor sound card: sound blaster live! (dolby 5.1) graphic card: ATI 9000pro scsi adapter: Adatec 29160 U160 three scsi hard disks from fujitsu and seagate 15k and 10k rpms. minolta scan elite scsi scanner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:55:58 -0500 (EST) Ramin M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and now all the freezings are gone! Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: it just pops up once you click! Just out of curiosity, how did you disable ACPI, is it in /etc/lilo.conf, in the append line, ie. ACPI=off? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.-- Timothy Leary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
On Monday 22 December 2003 07:40 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:55:58 -0500 (EST) Ramin M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and now all the freezings are gone! Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: it just pops up once you click! Just out of curiosity, how did you disable ACPI, is it in /etc/lilo.conf, in the append line, ie. ACPI=off? Joe, in the append line it is acpi=ht . HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
With 9.1, I haven't had any problem with the Nvidia drivers, but my cards are all at least a year old, so I can't guarantee what happens with the newest hardware. I've been using the proprietary Nvidia drivers for a couple of years now, with cards from the old TNT to GeForce (depending on which machine I'm using) and they've been trouble-free. Proprietary or not, Nvidia seems to have their act together with Linux support, and the installation has gotten easier over time (now it's just a .run, unless you are installing under SuSe, and then you need to jump through some relatively simple steps). I truly believe that we Linux users should buy our hardware from companies that go the extra step to fully support our systems, even if the support is in a proprietary format. e. On Saturday 20 December 2003 09:34 pm, Ramin M wrote: I have heard that nvidia graphic cards usually work better under linux and mandrake already includes them in the power pack version like the ati drivers. Do you know about if they are trouble free unlike the ati cards? I am thinking to buy one and sell out my ati card. Financially this is not much loss. Regards, Ramin --- E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had problems with the Mobility version of this card on a laptop. There is something wrong with the dri (direct rendering) implementation with the drivers, but I haven't heard that the problem extends beyond the mobility chip. My lockups would occur at shutdown, however, and only very rarely during use. Just as a test, you might try commenting out the # Load dri line in your xconfig-4 Module section, to see if the problem might go away. GLX doesn't look too good if your system acts up running gears, either, but one thing at a time. Perhaps SuSe is writing the xconfig-4 file for the Radeon somewhat differently than Mandrake does it? For the record, I like SuSe a lot, but use Mandrake because I like the Mandrake config tools better than YAST. e On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:46 am, Ramin M wrote: Another problem during the installation was that the second time that i installed mk9.2 (i had to do this for some reason), it detected two graphic cards on my machine (on pci buses 1:5:0 and 1:5:1) where there is only one graphic card. Running glxgears after the first installation was giving me 2600fps and now after the second installation it gives 1900fps. Besides running glxgears now causes lines of lights flashing on my monitor and make the OS very unstable. I just removed the lines related to the second graphic card in etc/x11/xconfig-4 file and the xwindows is still working. So the problem might be related to this bad detection of the graphic card! My hardwares are as follows: motherboard: Asus A7M266-D CPU: MP2000 dual processor sound card: sound blaster live! (dolby 5.1) graphic card: ATI 9000pro scsi adapter: Adatec 29160 U160 three scsi hard disks from fujitsu and seagate 15k and 10k rpms. minolta scan elite scsi scanner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
E. Hines wrote: With 9.1, I haven't had any problem with the Nvidia drivers, but my cards are all at least a year old, so I can't guarantee what happens with the newest hardware. I've been using the proprietary Nvidia drivers for a couple of years now, with cards from the old TNT to GeForce (depending on which machine I'm using) and they've been trouble-free. Proprietary or not, Nvidia seems to have their act together with Linux support, and the installation has gotten easier over time (now it's just a .run, unless you are installing under SuSe, and then you need to jump through some relatively simple steps). I truly believe that we Linux users should buy our hardware from companies that go the extra step to fully support our systems, even if the support is in a proprietary format. I agree in general, though I wouldn't pass over a better product in favour of a less good one just because the latter provided Linux drivers. You also need to bear in mind that some companies who do not provide Linux drivers also support Linux by adopting a cooperative attitude to developers who want to write Open Source drivers. This said, Nvidia have a pretty good record. I've been using their cards for a few years (first GeForce II, now GeForce IV) and have been very happy with them. I've used the XFree86 drivers (which are fine if you don't want hardware acceleration), the download from Nvidia and, briefly an RPM from either Texstar or PLF. There should be no problems so long as you follow the instructions in the README (older versions had some problems with conflicts with stale OpenGL symlinks, but I haven't noticed that recently). Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:41 am, robin wrote: E. Hines wrote: With 9.1, I haven't had any problem with the Nvidia drivers, but my cards are all at least a year old, so I can't guarantee what happens with the newest hardware. I've been using the proprietary Nvidia drivers for a couple of years now, with cards from the old TNT to GeForce (depending on which machine I'm using) and they've been trouble-free. Proprietary or not, Nvidia seems to have their act together with Linux support, and the installation has gotten easier over time (now it's just a .run, unless you are installing under SuSe, and then you need to jump through some relatively simple steps). I truly believe that we Linux users should buy our hardware from companies that go the extra step to fully support our systems, even if the support is in a proprietary format. I agree in general, though I wouldn't pass over a better product in favour of a less good one just because the latter provided Linux drivers. You also need to bear in mind that some companies who do not provide Linux drivers also support Linux by adopting a cooperative attitude to developers who want to write Open Source drivers. This said, Nvidia have a pretty good record. I've been using their cards for a few years (first GeForce II, now GeForce IV) and have been very happy with them. I've used the XFree86 drivers (which are fine if you don't want hardware acceleration), the download from Nvidia and, briefly an RPM from either Texstar or PLF. There should be no problems so long as you follow the instructions in the README (older versions had some problems with conflicts with stale OpenGL symlinks, but I haven't noticed that recently). Sir Robin I have to agree,,, I use Mandrake because it 'works best', and I use NVidia cards because they 'work best' (and I use ATI cards just as often) anything that is 'just out' will have updated drivers in a few months, no matter what OS. but back to the problem in the subject line. turn off 'plug and pray aware' OS in BIOS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
--- et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 but back to the problem in the subject line. turn off 'plug and pray aware' OS in BIOS. Sorry, is this in reply to my problem? Why should i turn off this in BIOS? Regards, Regards, Ramin __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
On Sunday 21 December 2003 10:36 pm, Ramin M wrote: --- et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 but back to the problem in the subject line. turn off 'plug and pray aware' OS in BIOS. Sorry, is this in reply to my problem? Why should i turn off this in BIOS? Regards, Regards, Ramin __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca because linux is not 'a plug and pray aware OS', and you may be having conflicts with IRQs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
It is getting better now as the lockup´s are less frequent than before but still they happen. A few minutes ago, i was typing a message that the OS suddenly rebooted the machine with no apparant reason! Yes i am dual booting with windows. Regards, Ramin --- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, how long does it take to freeze? and is it dual booted with M$? i have no lockup problems at all ever... -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
--- E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday Have any other users out there noticed that the /home/username directory isn't user writable after installation? I haven't seen that one before (and I installed 9.2 on a friends laptop last week). The lockups are happening less than before, though this is the second time that i am writing this message! The first time, when i was typing, the OS suddenly rebooted the machine! Actually there were some there (perhaps minor) problems during the installation like when during partitioning i mount a particular partition and then i decide to unmount it because i forgot the format the partition, it gives me error and does not unmount the partition. Another problem during the installation was that the second time that i installed mk9.2 (i had to do this for some reason), it detected two graphic cards on my machine (on pci buses 1:5:0 and 1:5:1) where there is only one graphic card. Running glxgears after the first installation was giving me 2600fps and now after the second installation it gives 1900fps. Besides running glxgears now causes lines of lights flashing on my monitor and make the OS very unstable. I just removed the lines related to the second graphic card in etc/x11/xconfig-4 file and the xwindows is still working. So the problem might be related to this bad detection of the graphic card! My hardwares are as follows: motherboard: Asus A7M266-D CPU: MP2000 dual processor sound card: sound blaster live! (dolby 5.1) graphic card: ATI 9000pro scsi adapter: Adatec 29160 U160 three scsi hard disks from fujitsu and seagate 15k and 10k rpms. minolta scan elite scsi scanner I haven yet got time to check if my scanner is detected and works under mandrake. Nor have i checked if the how properly my cd burner and dvd/cd rom work. The sound is by default mute. I have to change the sound to advanced linux sound system to have it work and unmute the sounds! Yeah, people have been complaining about this for over a year. . Right now my main problem is that it freezes so often. It freezes when i am just in konqueror or mozilla serfing the web! The whole OS freezes. No mouse, or keyboard functioning! Even ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to run level one does not work. It freezed also once after i ran a command in the terminal to add a ftp address to the list of download mirror sites. If somebody can tell me where to look for the source of problem and what i can do in this regard, i would be very grateful. Please tell me if you are experiencing similar problems or not and if so, what you have done to remedy the situation. This sounds very much like a hardware problem. My first guess, from the symptom, is that it is an issue with the video card/driver combination. Tell us about your hardware. I'm still using 9.1, because it works flawlessly on numerous desktop and laptop systems where I've installed it (although I had to do some tweaking on a couple of them because of hardware issues), and I just can't see a reason to upgrade--yet. e. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
I have heard that nvidia graphic cards usually work better under linux and mandrake already includes them in the power pack version like the ati drivers. Do you know about if they are trouble free unlike the ati cards? I am thinking to buy one and sell out my ati card. Financially this is not much loss. Regards, Ramin --- E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had problems with the Mobility version of this card on a laptop. There is something wrong with the dri (direct rendering) implementation with the drivers, but I haven't heard that the problem extends beyond the mobility chip. My lockups would occur at shutdown, however, and only very rarely during use. Just as a test, you might try commenting out the # Load dri line in your xconfig-4 Module section, to see if the problem might go away. GLX doesn't look too good if your system acts up running gears, either, but one thing at a time. Perhaps SuSe is writing the xconfig-4 file for the Radeon somewhat differently than Mandrake does it? For the record, I like SuSe a lot, but use Mandrake because I like the Mandrake config tools better than YAST. e On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:46 am, Ramin M wrote: Another problem during the installation was that the second time that i installed mk9.2 (i had to do this for some reason), it detected two graphic cards on my machine (on pci buses 1:5:0 and 1:5:1) where there is only one graphic card. Running glxgears after the first installation was giving me 2600fps and now after the second installation it gives 1900fps. Besides running glxgears now causes lines of lights flashing on my monitor and make the OS very unstable. I just removed the lines related to the second graphic card in etc/x11/xconfig-4 file and the xwindows is still working. So the problem might be related to this bad detection of the graphic card! My hardwares are as follows: motherboard: Asus A7M266-D CPU: MP2000 dual processor sound card: sound blaster live! (dolby 5.1) graphic card: ATI 9000pro scsi adapter: Adatec 29160 U160 three scsi hard disks from fujitsu and seagate 15k and 10k rpms. minolta scan elite scsi scanner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
Hi, I am new to the list and mandrake. More than a year ago, i tried with mandrake 9.0 for a short time and decided that i prefered suse. Recently i decided to try mandrake once again. I became a silver member of mandrake club and downlowd the powerpack 3 CD version and installed it. The installation seemed very smooth much better than 9.0 where erased the entire partion table on my machine several times. THe only wrong thing with installtion was that on default the users are not given write permision to the home directory! So i have to first log in as root and change the write permission. The sound is by default mute. I have to change the sound to advanced linux sound system to have it work and unmute the sounds! Then i did upgrading through internet. About 300MB download. Right now my main problem is that it freezes so often. It freezes when i am just in konqueror or mozilla serfing the web! The whole OS freezes. No mouse, or keyboard functioning! Even ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to run level one does not work. It freezed also once after i ran a command in the terminal to add a ftp address to the list of download mirror sites. If somebody can tell me where to look for the source of problem and what i can do in this regard, i would be very grateful. Please tell me if you are experiencing similar problems or not and if so, what you have done to remedy the situation. I am overall very happy with the speed of the OS. It is as fast as windows XP on my machine (other than the boot process!) Konqueror is now so nice and fast to use comparing to suse 8.1, redhat8.0 and libranet 2.7 and 2.8 that i have tried. It seems that they have removed some of the KDE configuration options. I hope they are not going the way of removing even more configuration options. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 19:54, Ramin M wrote: Hi, I am new to the list and mandrake. More than a year ago, i tried with mandrake 9.0 for a short time and decided that i prefered suse. Recently i decided to try mandrake once again. I became a silver member of mandrake club and downlowd the powerpack 3 CD version and installed it. The installation seemed very smooth much better than 9.0 where erased the entire partion table on my machine several times. THe only wrong thing with installtion was that on default the users are not given write permision to the home directory! So i have to first log in as root how long does it take to freeze? and is it dual booted with M$? i have no lockup problems at all ever... -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
On Friday 19 December 2003 06:54 pm, Ramin M wrote: Hi, I am new to the list and mandrake. More than a year ago, i tried with mandrake 9.0 for a short time and decided that i prefered suse. Recently i decided to try mandrake once again. I became a silver member of mandrake club and downlowd the powerpack 3 CD version and installed it. The installation seemed very smooth much better than 9.0 where erased the entire partion table on my machine several times. THe only wrong thing with installtion was that on default the users are not given write permision to the home directory! So i have to first log in as root and change the write permission. Have any other users out there noticed that the /home/username directory isn't user writable after installation? I haven't seen that one before (and I installed 9.2 on a friends laptop last week). The sound is by default mute. I have to change the sound to advanced linux sound system to have it work and unmute the sounds! Yeah, people have been complaining about this for over a year. . Right now my main problem is that it freezes so often. It freezes when i am just in konqueror or mozilla serfing the web! The whole OS freezes. No mouse, or keyboard functioning! Even ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to run level one does not work. It freezed also once after i ran a command in the terminal to add a ftp address to the list of download mirror sites. If somebody can tell me where to look for the source of problem and what i can do in this regard, i would be very grateful. Please tell me if you are experiencing similar problems or not and if so, what you have done to remedy the situation. This sounds very much like a hardware problem. My first guess, from the symptom, is that it is an issue with the video card/driver combination. Tell us about your hardware. I'm still using 9.1, because it works flawlessly on numerous desktop and laptop systems where I've installed it (although I had to do some tweaking on a couple of them because of hardware issues), and I just can't see a reason to upgrade--yet. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't find the internet
I am not terribly good with linux - I ran Red Hat for a while and then with all this fedora BS desided to move over to Mandrake. The install went great - the only issues are that a) My Sound Blaster Live Platnum produces no sound and My ATI All In Wonder Pro doesn't seem to be reconized as a TV device. These problems are minor in my mind (though if somebody has ideas, lemme know) The main problem is I can't get mandrake to find the internet. I have a cable modem (opt Online) plugged into a linksys router. The machine worked fine in it's last config (WinXP Pro and Redhat 9 - dual boot - both OS's found the net find) I can ping other computers on the network no problem (and they can ping the mandrake box) but can't ping anything outside the network. Resolve.conf seems to have the correct DNS settings on it (least it's got the same IP as all my other boxes find). Inside Network Internet Drak-Connect, I get: Type: LAN Gateway: 192.168.1.1 (which is my router which handles the DHCP) Status: Not Connected Lan Config: eth0 192.168.1.102 dhcp 3c59x and status is UP (the ip should be right - my router says that's the ip it asigned to it) Please help!!! Chymmylt Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't find the internet
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 10:52 pm, Chymmylt Bwoid wrote: The main problem is I can't get mandrake to find the internet. I have a cablemodem (opt Online) plugged into a linksys router. Themachine worked fine in it's last config(WinXP Pro and Redhat 9 -dual boot - both OS's found the net find) I can ping other computers on the network no problem (and they can ping themandrake box) but can't ping anything outside the network. Resolve.conf seems to have the correct DNS settingson it (least it's got the same IP as all my other boxes find). Inside Network Internet Drak-Connect, I get: Type: LAN Gateway: 192.168.1.1 (which is my router which handles the DHCP) Status: Not Connected Lan Config: eth0 192.168.1.102 dhcp 3c59x and status is UP (the ip should be right - myrouter says that's the ip it asignedto it) It may be a name resolution problem. Can you ping 66.218.71.198 (That's yahoo.com) If you can then you need to investigate why name resolution is not working. If not then it's a problem talking to the router. And please, please, please, try to get your posts into plain text. I think this one came through as HTML and rich text. Many of us on here can't read those, so we get a load of gobbldeygook. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't find the internet
On Sunday 14 December 2003 04:52 pm, Chymmylt Bwoid wrote: snip terribly good with linux- I ran Red Hat for a while and then with all this fedora BS desided to move over to Mandrake. The install went great -the only issues are that a) My Sound Blaster Live Platnumproduces no sound and My ATI All In Wonder Pro doesn'tseem to be reconized as a TV device. These problemsare minor in my mind (though if somebody has ideas, lemmeknow) You might try going into the Mandrake Control Center (just type mcc in a console cli. and click on hardware and then click on the ATI device and configure button. It should set it up. We hope. The main problem is I can't get mandrake to find the internet. I have a cablemodem (opt Online) plugged into a linksys router. Themachine worked fine in it's last config(WinXP Pro and Redhat 9 -dual boot - both OS's found the net find) I can ping other computers on the network no problem (and they can ping themandrake box) but can't ping anything outside the network. Resolve.conf seems to have the correct DNS settingson it (least it's got the same IP as all my other boxes find). Inside Network Internet Drak-Connect, I get: Type: LAN Gateway: 192.168.1.1 (which is my router which handles the DHCP) Status: Not Connected Lan Config: eth0 192.168.1.102 dhcp 3c59x and status is UP (the ip should be right - myrouter says that's the ip it asignedto it) Please help!!! Chymmylt This all looks right so I am guessing that what is stopping you is the shorewall firewall. While in the mcc click on security and then the setup firewall, you will see an allow everything box, put a check mark in it and apply and then see if you can access the internet. If you can go back and click on the check mark to take it out and you should still be able to access internet and e-mail. That way you still have the firewall going or you can leave it off and rely on your router firewall for protection. let us know how it goes. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install
On Thursday 04 December 2003 05:22 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: Thursday 04 December 2003 8:11 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:50 am, Dan Gordon wrote: DG To check the iso's download the md5sum file from the ftp site, I dont DG remember how to use the file but it checks the iso's to verify proper DG size and stuff. I had the same problem but i got hold of a bad batch of DG cheap cd's (dont buy cheap cd's they suck) and i had only three out of DG 20 that were any good. DG DG Regards, DG Dan Gordon DG I always use cheap CD-R disks Dan. From the last spindle (100 disks, CDN$38.74 incl GST) all of the 700 MB blanks I have used so far were between 825 and 913 MB available space. Not bad for generic 700 MB High Speed (Max 48X) CD-R Media. BTW; only one coaster but that was a result of PEBCAK. ie.: the loose nut on the keyboard syndrome. Can't possibly be more than 702 to 703 MB's. 'Cept for audio CD's where 825 to 913 MB's of wav's will fit as long as the total playing time of the wav's is = 80 minutes. I use xmms to check playing time. Just hi-lite all the files and the total time is displayed. Overburn will only add about an additional 20 seconds (and probly won't work). Very cheap CDr's is a crap shoot. Often very good disks can be obtained, but sometimes they're a real headache. Check for who really makes 'em with 'cdrecord -atip dev=0,0,0' (assuming burner is scd0). Good quality burners like Plextor will tolerate poor CDr media better than cheap drives like LG. Even with good, cheap CDr's tho, the problem remains that the label side coating (where the recording is actually done) is most often very thin and fragile. Cheap CDr's should not be used for anything you wanna keep very long. Brands like FujiFilm are very good, they're made by Taiyo-Uden (the best manufacturer IMO), and only cost a little more per CDr, but hard to find around here. Others are CMC Magnetics (good), and Ritek (OK). I just got stuck with 200 TDK blanks ($30/100 on sale). Salesman said they were CMC's, -atip says they're Ritek's ;( I knew I should'a got Imation (CMC Mag's) even tho they're $42/100. Just md5sum name of iso image the resulting string of numbers should identically match whats posted on Mandrakes' web site. When you download the ISOs also download the md5sums.asc file. Then use the command Ron posted but add a -c flag: md5sum -c name of md5sums.asc file to do a check against that official check file. It should check all the download disks. Do this before burning anything unless you don't have enough coasters already. g If you've already done the deed (burnt the disk without checking) put the disk in your regular read drive and use the following command to check. Assumes you have mkcd installed: mkcd --checkmd5 /dev/hdX where X is the drive with the install disk. You'll have to do that for each disk, the first method is faster, checks all disks, and wastes less blanks. (-; HTH Charlie 'md5sum /dev/scd0' is the most reliable way to check the integrity of burned iso's. The md5sum might not match tho unless the iso was burned with DAO (SAO). EG, cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -dao name_of.iso Burning at lower speeds, even 4x, is recommended for iso's. In any event, speed should not be more than 1/2, the lower of, what the media or burner is rated at. IMO, use of GUI programs should be avoided. Specially iso's should be burned with the CL. It's actually easier than with a GUI anyhow if you make an alias. EG, alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -dao' To burn the iso you simply type 'biso name_of.iso' (just type the first 3 or 4 letters of the iso name and hit Tab). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:57:17 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/0 error I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system. I tried reburning the CD from the ISO and tried installing on a different computer (both are Compaqs). I'm going to guess the ISO is bad and I need to download it again. But I'd like to make sure here. Any suggestions? I for the ISO from the secsup mirror if that matters... To check the iso's download the md5sum file from the ftp site, I dont remember how to use the file but it checks the iso's to verify proper size and stuff. I had the same problem but i got hold of a bad batch of cheap cd's (dont buy cheap cd's they suck) and i had only three out of 20 that were any good. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Dec 4 09:46:39 EST 2003 09:46:39 up 31 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04 The only really masterful noise a man makes in a house is the noise of his key, when he is still on the landing, fumbling for the lock. -- Colette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install
On Thursday 04 December 2003 02:50 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:57:17 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/0 error I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system. I tried reburning the CD from the ISO and tried installing on a different computer (both are Compaqs). I'm going to guess the ISO is bad and I need to download it again. But I'd like to make sure here. Any suggestions? I for the ISO from the secsup mirror if that matters... To check the iso's download the md5sum file from the ftp site, I dont remember how to use the file but it checks the iso's to verify proper size and stuff. I had the same problem but i got hold of a bad batch of cheap cd's (dont buy cheap cd's they suck) and i had only three out of 20 that were any good. Regards, Dan Gordon instead of enter, hit f1, and type linux noapic mem=xxxM considering the instructions about shared video memory and reduce the amount of system memory based on how much memory you give to the (onboard/shared memory) video card, so a box with 256 memory installed, and using 16 megs for video would say 'mem=240M' . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install
On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:50 am, Dan Gordon wrote: DG To check the iso's download the md5sum file from the ftp site, I dont DG remember how to use the file but it checks the iso's to verify proper DG size and stuff. I had the same problem but i got hold of a bad batch of DG cheap cd's (dont buy cheap cd's they suck) and i had only three out of DG 20 that were any good. DG DG Regards, DG Dan Gordon DG Just md5sum name of iso image the resulting string of numbers should identically match whats posted on Mandrakes' web site. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install
Dan Gordon wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:57:17 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/0 error I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system. I tried reburning the CD from the ISO and tried installing on a different computer (both are Compaqs). I'm going to guess the ISO is bad and I need to download it again. But I'd like to make sure here. Any suggestions? I for the ISO from the secsup mirror if that matters... To check the iso's download the md5sum file from the ftp site, I dont remember how to use the file but it checks the iso's to verify proper size and stuff. I had the same problem but i got hold of a bad batch of cheap cd's (dont buy cheap cd's they suck) and i had only three out of 20 that were any good. Regards, Dan Gordon Before you download the ISO again, do this, test iso cd to directory iso file md5sum isofilename.iso 5a2d86513cdd302bfe546a5463312dd21f32c isofilename.iso The 32-digit hex number is a unique hash based on the data in the file. Then burn to CD in the usual way. Then , test1 burnt cd = You can also check the MD5 hash of the resulting CD-ROM. ls -ls isofilename.iso to find the filesize, in bytes, of the ISO image Divide that by 2048 to find the number of sectors:(xx) Put the CD into a drive but don't mount it. dd if=/dev/(x) bs=2048 count=(xx) | md5sum - where (x) is your device(eg. hdc, or scd0), where (xx) is the number of sectors They should agree.If they do you have good ISO's and CD's John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install
Hi all, I just downloaded Mandrake 9.2 and tried to install. I am brought to the inital splash screen where I hit Enter to continue. Next I see the text fly by but am stopped by this error: error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/0 error I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system. I tried reburning the CD from the ISO and tried installing on a different computer (both are Compaqs). I'm going to guess the ISO is bad and I need to download it again. But I'd like to make sure here. Any suggestions? I for the ISO from the secsup mirror if that matters... __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install
Happened to me also with the downloaded images, more or less the same error. I powered off and tried again and it worked ok. I had to repeat the installation the day after, this time it worked immediately ok. I don't know what happened. The system is an oldish AMDK6-2/550 with 128Mbyte RAM, for what it's worth. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just downloaded Mandrake 9.2 and tried to install. I am brought to the inital splash screen where I hit Enter to continue. Next I see the text fly by but am stopped by this error: error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/0 error I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system. I tried reburning the CD from the ISO and tried installing on a different computer (both are Compaqs). I'm going to guess the ISO is bad and I need to download it again. But I'd like to make sure here. Any suggestions? I for the ISO from the secsup mirror if that matters... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 04 December 2003 8:11 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:50 am, Dan Gordon wrote: DG To check the iso's download the md5sum file from the ftp site, I dont DG remember how to use the file but it checks the iso's to verify proper DG size and stuff. I had the same problem but i got hold of a bad batch of DG cheap cd's (dont buy cheap cd's they suck) and i had only three out of DG 20 that were any good. DG DG Regards, DG Dan Gordon DG I always use cheap CD-R disks Dan. From the last spindle (100 disks, CDN$38.74 incl GST) all of the 700 MB blanks I have used so far were between 825 and 913 MB available space. Not bad for generic 700 MB High Speed (Max 48X) CD-R Media. BTW; only one coaster but that was a result of PEBCAK. ie.: the loose nut on the keyboard syndrome. Just md5sum name of iso image the resulting string of numbers should identically match whats posted on Mandrakes' web site. When you download the ISOs also download the md5sums.asc file. Then use the command Ron posted but add a -c flag: md5sum -c name of md5sums.asc file to do a check against that official check file. It should check all the download disks. Do this before burning anything unless you don't have enough coasters already. g If you've already done the deed (burnt the disk without checking) put the disk in your regular read drive and use the following command to check. Assumes you have mkcd installed: mkcd --checkmd5 /dev/hdX where X is the drive with the install disk. You'll have to do that for each disk, the first method is faster, checks all disks, and wastes less blanks. (-; HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 21:57:16 up 13:05, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.08 This is a good time to punt work. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zsSAZqvqlrLPr5YRAhDAAKCEMW5MBGYbHbJKKUS556HxtCqIDwCfYSbD D2/yZy/6NHJ/r1cst8mL9a4= =4sV3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 wireless usb
On Monday 01 Dec 2003 4:45 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: SNIP Thanks a lot, Derek. It seems everything is set now. I still do not get into Internet, though. First, as you said, iwconfig gives: wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:2WIRE193 Nickname:castillo.nuthouse.nut Mode:Managed Channel:6 Access Point: 00:0D:72:17:AA:E9 Bit Rate=11Mb/s RTS thr=1536 B Fragment thr=1536 B Encryption key:9442-9454-75 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:100 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 The fact that we can see the MAC address of your Wireless Access point tells us that the wireless link is working. However Link Quality :0 usually means that the encryption key is wrong. It could be your key is actually an ASCII string even though it looks like a number. Try with WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=s:9442945475 If that does not help you can confirm if the problem is with the encryption key by disabling encryption in the router and Linux client. You can test if the link is working with ping ping 172.16.1.34 will test your local interface ping 172.16.0.1 will test the wireless link to your router I wrote the two lines you mention in blacklist. I guess the problem is in my ifcfg-wlan0 file. I worte it as: %% DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=172.16.1.34 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.1 this should be NETWORK=172.16.0.0 ONBOOT=yes KEY=94:42:94:54:75 It should really be WIRELESS_ENC_KEY= 94:42:94:54:75 but from the output above it is clear it has accepted what you put. WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_MODE=managed WIRELESS_ESSID=2WIRE193 %% Note that the line giving the value of BROADCAST is absent, I simply could not figure out what to put there. BROADCAST= 172.16.0.255 Only thing to mention is that my wireless modem is a router too. I then wrote everything as if the adaptor saw an static configuration. Although the external IP may vary (dynamic account), the internal IP's are always the same. For NETWORK, I wrote the router address, and also for NETMASK, the router NETMASK, the IPADDR is the internal one. For the WIRELESS_MODE, I would have written: infrastructure, but in your web example you select managed, so, perhaps it is not what I am thinking. The driver understands two modes 'Managed' for use with a wireless access point, and 'Ad-hoc' for peer to peer networking without an access point. Thanks so much for helping me with this. Teilhard. no problem derek BTW: If you also have an Ethernet on this computer, then you need to tell it which interface to use for internet access. To do that edit /etc/sysconfig/network and insert the line GATEWAYDEV=wlan0 and it might also help if you declare your router to be a gateway GATEWAY=172.16.0.1 (assuming that is the address of your router) -- -- 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] Mandrake 9.2
On Monday 01 Dec 2003 4:45 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: snip iwconfig gives: wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:2WIRE193 Nickname:castillo.nuthouse.nut Mode:Managed Channel:6 Access Point: 00:0D:72:17:AA:E9 DEVICE=wlan0 IPADDR=172.16.1.34 NETWORK=172.16.0.1 For NETWORK, I wrote the router address, and also for NETMASK, the router NETMASK, the IPADDR is the internal one. For the WIRELESS_MODE, I would have written: infrastructure, but in your web example you select managed, so, perhaps it is not what I am thinking. Thanks so much for helping me with this. Teilhard. Hold on. I just realised something. You are using Class B addressing in this network. In that case the broadcast address I gave you is wrong. It should be BROADCAST=172.16.255.255 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] Mandrake 9.2
On Sunday 30 Nov 2003 6:40 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 7:44 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: I posed this question before and I was greatly helped by Derek. I had problems in Windows XP, and two months have passed before I solved them. I am trying to configure a wireless internet access on a desktop computer by means of an SMS2662W USB adaptor On Mandrake 9.2. Derek advised me to use one of two drivers: at76c593a or atmelwlandriver. I never tried them because I felt I had to fix problems in Windows before trying in Mandrake. I also have the drivers provided by SMC. The problem with this one is that I can simply do not see how the driver is called. The file to download is SMC2662WV2_Linux.tar.gz, and upon de-compression it gives the folder: SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W. No more references to how the driver is called. There are here 2 tools to configure the driver, I have used one and I think the driver is now ready. If I go to configuration to Internet access, I can select from a list of drivers, but the ones Derek suggested do not appear in 9.2. I apologize to you, Derek, because I suddenly disappeared, but I have had very little time to configure my computers. I would appreciate it if you will still help me this time. Teilhard As it happens the at76c593a driver is included with 9.2 and it works beautifully. The only problem is that the atmelwlandriver is also included and will claim your SMS2662W first. The atmelwlandriver is my opinion a right pig to configure especially since the configuration utility is *not* included in 9.2 I have a workaround described here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticle; artid=19 Thanks so much, Derek. It seems that my adaptor is not recognized by the OS. However, when I write: iwconfig. the right parameters of the wireless networking appear in eth0. I just get info; I do not know how to use it as a configuration utility. Please tell me where I find the drivers you recommend and how to load them. For the driver provided by SMC, I get a configuration utility which I have used already. Seems the driver is properly configured now, but I do not even know its name. Teilhard. When you type iwconfig and see eth0 appear that tells me that the atmelwlandriver has been loaded. (It uses eth0 by default) If the at76c503c driver was loaded the device would be called wlan0 Follow the advice in my workaround and it will work. All you have to do is move the folder /lib/modules/2.4.22-xxmdk/kernel/3rdparty/atmelwlan (where xx is the version of kernel you are using) to somewhere outside the /lib folder and the atmelwlandriver will no longer load. 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] Mandrake 9.2 and a SMS 2662W USB NIC
On Sunday 30 Nov 2003 5:38 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: SNIP Here is the section of your boot log that shows it being dealt with: Nov 29 18:23:04 castillo /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usbvnet_rfmd at76c503-rfmd for USB product d5c/a002/100 Note here that it is selecting the at76c503 module, not the wrong module. It is loading the wrong module. usbvnet_rfmd is the atmelwlandriver at76c503-rfmd is the correct module, but it is loaded second behind the usbvnet_rfmd module. SNIP Nov 29 18:23:05 castillo ifplugd(eth0)[471]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 up'. This is a very good note, as eth0 is made to be alive. And you should be succeeding with a network connection. eth0 is the default device name used by atmelwlandriver. at76c503-rfmd would call the device wlan0 The driver is indeed loaded and working, but atmelwlandriver is not (fully) configured by iwconfig, and the correct setup utility lvnet is not included in Mandrake Now, if you are having problems still, you need a Linux Wireless Guru, not me, as I am no guru at all, just a hack. Rob -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2. Many proprietary apps gone...
Everything for Mandrake and Gnome are gone. I still have KDE so I can still activate things and use the OS to a degree. But things like... Mandrake Control Center 9.2, Configure your computer, HardDrake, DrakConf ( sorry if I'm repeating things these are just my visual methods of reaching a goal.. so I'm listing what I would usually use to accomplish such a task ) Evolution, ect... all gone... I seriously don't understand what happened. The only major changes that I have made was to update urpmi @ http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and installed Never Winter Nights ( and played a little ) It seems that everything is fine EXCEPT all the mandrake stuff that makes the operating system so valuable. I still have internet access and the computer functions properly, imagine in windows, you just LOSE the 'add/remove programs', or for that matter the entire control panel... and all applications that came with the disks... Thanks in advance, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2
On Sunday 30 November 2003 15:40, Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP When you type iwconfig and see eth0 appear that tells me that the atmelwlandriver has been loaded. (It uses eth0 by default) If the at76c503c driver was loaded the device would be called wlan0 Follow the advice in my workaround and it will work. All you have to do is move the folder /lib/modules/2.4.22-xxmdk/kernel/3rdparty/atmelwlan (where xx is the version of kernel you are using) to somewhere outside the /lib folder and the atmelwlandriver will no longer load. derek Actually I just realised there is an even easier way of forcing hotplug to install the at76c503c driver instead of the atmelwlandriver. All you have to do is put the names of the atmelwlandriver in /etc/hotplug/blacklist Just inserting usbvnet_rfmd usbvnet_r505_2958 should do the trick. You still have to define the configuration file by hand (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ) since draknet will not recognise the interface derek Derek, do you think this would work for the PCMCIA card too? I've got a Belkin F5D6020 rev2 I'm trying to get to play nice. -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org -Please do NOT reply to this message in HTML-format as it will be deleted as spam- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 hotplugging
On Sunday 30 Nov 2003 5:10 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2003 15:40, Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP When you type iwconfig and see eth0 appear that tells me that the atmelwlandriver has been loaded. (It uses eth0 by default) If the at76c503c driver was loaded the device would be called wlan0 Follow the advice in my workaround and it will work. All you have to do is move the folder /lib/modules/2.4.22-xxmdk/kernel/3rdparty/atmelwlan (where xx is the version of kernel you are using) to somewhere outside the /lib folder and the atmelwlandriver will no longer load. derek Actually I just realised there is an even easier way of forcing hotplug to install the at76c503c driver instead of the atmelwlandriver. All you have to do is put the names of the atmelwlandriver in /etc/hotplug/blacklist Just inserting usbvnet_rfmd usbvnet_r505_2958 should do the trick. You still have to define the configuration file by hand (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ) since draknet will not recognise the interface derek Derek, do you think this would work for the PCMCIA card too? I've got a Belkin F5D6020 rev2 I'm trying to get to play nice. I don't think so. As I understand it hotplug handles usb, and iee1394 while pcmcia is handled by yenta_socket. To change the driver loaded when you insert a pcmcia card edit the config map file /etc/pcmcia/config If you do 'cardinfo' you can see how your card advertises itself and either edit or create an entry in /etc/pcmcia/config accordingly. 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] Mandrake 9.2. Many proprietary apps gone...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 6:34:06 AM PST, you wrote: Have you applied any updates to the system. It sounds like the menu disappearing bug has bitten you. Try running 'update-menus -v' as root and see if that fixes it. I was bitten by that same bug, and it took a bit more than update-menus -v to fix it (just doing that didn't do anything for me), but I did eventually recover my missing menu items. I had to go into menudrake, then deal with the Menu Style bit, re-setting/saving the default KDE menu style (I'm not in Linux at the moment, so I can't remember the exact wording of the option, but it's fairly obvious once you see it). Then, after a re-start of the x-environment/KDE, I had my missing menu items back. Interestingly, during the time those menu items were missing from KDE, they were still there in Gnome desktop. - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/ymtGjVbXUvsE8ukRAlMNAKCuHvvp1gA8rJ/xbUZ/zBtFQvigVwCgitPo TN3jfv2w1JGd0Oav1kbV7/s= =sNR6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 SNIP When you type iwconfig and see eth0 appear that tells me that the atmelwlandriver has been loaded. (It uses eth0 by default) If the at76c503c driver was loaded the device would be called wlan0 Follow the advice in my workaround and it will work. All you have to do is move the folder /lib/modules/2.4.22-xxmdk/kernel/3rdparty/atmelwlan (where xx is the version of kernel you are using) to somewhere outside the /lib folder and the atmelwlandriver will no longer load. derek Actually I just realised there is an even easier way of forcing hotplug to install the at76c503c driver instead of the atmelwlandriver. All you have to do is put the names of the atmelwlandriver in /etc/hotplug/blacklist Just inserting usbvnet_rfmd usbvnet_r505_2958 should do the trick. You still have to define the configuration file by hand (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ) since draknet will not recognise the interface Thanks a lot, Derek. It seems everything is set now. I still do not get into Internet, though. First, as you said, iwconfig gives: wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:2WIRE193 Nickname:castillo.nuthouse.nut Mode:Managed Channel:6 Access Point: 00:0D:72:17:AA:E9 Bit Rate=11Mb/s RTS thr=1536 B Fragment thr=1536 B Encryption key:9442-9454-75 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:100 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 I wrote the two lines you mention in blacklist. I guess the problem is in my ifcfg-wlan0 file. I worte it as: %% DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=172.16.1.34 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.1 ONBOOT=yes KEY=94:42:94:54:75 WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_MODE=managed WIRELESS_ESSID=2WIRE193 %% Note that the line giving the value of BROADCAST is absent, I simply could not figure out what to put there. Only thing to mention is that my wireless modem is a router too. I then wrote everything as if the adaptor saw an static configuration. Although the external IP may vary (dynamic account), the internal IP's are always the same. For NETWORK, I wrote the router address, and also for NETMASK, the router NETMASK, the IPADDR is the internal one. For the WIRELESS_MODE, I would have written: infrastructure, but in your web example you select managed, so, perhaps it is not what I am thinking. Thanks so much for helping me with this. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2
SNIP When you type iwconfig and see eth0 appear that tells me that the atmelwlandriver has been loaded. (It uses eth0 by default) If the at76c503c driver was loaded the device would be called wlan0 Follow the advice in my workaround and it will work. All you have to do is move the folder /lib/modules/2.4.22-xxmdk/kernel/3rdparty/atmelwlan (where xx is the version of kernel you are using) to somewhere outside the /lib folder and the atmelwlandriver will no longer load. derek Actually I just realised there is an even easier way of forcing hotplug to install the at76c503c driver instead of the atmelwlandriver. All you have to do is put the names of the atmelwlandriver in /etc/hotplug/blacklist Just inserting usbvnet_rfmd usbvnet_r505_2958 should do the trick. You still have to define the configuration file by hand (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ) since draknet will not recognise the interface Thanks a lot, Derek. It seems everything is set now. I still do not get into Internet, though. First, as you said, iwconfig gives: wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:2WIRE193 Nickname:castillo.nuthouse.nut Mode:Managed Channel:6 Access Point: 00:0D:72:17:AA:E9 Bit Rate=11Mb/s RTS thr=1536 B Fragment thr=1536 B Encryption key:9442-9454-75 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:100 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 I wrote the two lines you mention in blacklist. I guess the problem is in my ifcfg-wlan0 file. I worte it as: %% DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=172.16.1.34 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.1 ONBOOT=yes KEY=94:42:94:54:75 WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_MODE=managed WIRELESS_ESSID=2WIRE193 %% Note that the line giving the value of BROADCAST is absent, I simply could not figure out what to put there. Only thing to mention is that my wireless modem is a router too. I then wrote everything as if the adaptor saw an static configuration. Although the external IP may vary (dynamic account), the internal IP's are always the same. For NETWORK, I wrote the router address, and also for NETMASK, the router NETMASK, the IPADDR is the internal one. For the WIRELESS_MODE, I would have written: infrastructure, but in your web example you select managed, so, perhaps it is not what I am thinking. Thanks so much for helping me with this. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2
I posed this question before and I was greatly helped by Derek. I had problems in Windows XP, and two months have passed before I solved them. I am trying to configure a wireless internet access on a desktop computer by means of an SMS2662W USB adaptor On Mandrake 9.2. Derek advised me to use one of two drivers: at76c593a or atmelwlandriver. I never tried them because I felt I had to fix problems in Windows before trying in Mandrake. I also have the drivers provided by SMC. The problem with this one is that I can simply do not see how the driver is called. The file to download is SMC2662WV2_Linux.tar.gz, and upon de-compression it gives the folder: SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W. No more references to how the driver is called. There are here 2 tools to configure the driver, I have used one and I think the driver is now ready. If I go to configuration to Internet access, I can select from a list of drivers, but the ones Derek suggested do not appear in 9.2. I apologize to you, Derek, because I suddenly disappeared, but I have had very little time to configure my computers. I would appreciate it if you will still help me this time. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2
On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 7:44 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: I posed this question before and I was greatly helped by Derek. I had problems in Windows XP, and two months have passed before I solved them. I am trying to configure a wireless internet access on a desktop computer by means of an SMS2662W USB adaptor On Mandrake 9.2. Derek advised me to use one of two drivers: at76c593a or atmelwlandriver. I never tried them because I felt I had to fix problems in Windows before trying in Mandrake. I also have the drivers provided by SMC. The problem with this one is that I can simply do not see how the driver is called. The file to download is SMC2662WV2_Linux.tar.gz, and upon de-compression it gives the folder: SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W. No more references to how the driver is called. There are here 2 tools to configure the driver, I have used one and I think the driver is now ready. If I go to configuration to Internet access, I can select from a list of drivers, but the ones Derek suggested do not appear in 9.2. I apologize to you, Derek, because I suddenly disappeared, but I have had very little time to configure my computers. I would appreciate it if you will still help me this time. Teilhard As it happens the at76c593a driver is included with 9.2 and it works beautifully. The only problem is that the atmelwlandriver is also included and will claim your SMS2662W first. The atmelwlandriver is my opinion a right pig to configure especially since the configuration utility is *not* included in 9.2 I have a workaround described here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=19 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] Mandrake 9.2 and a SMS 2662W USB NIC
On Saturday 29 November 2003 11:44 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: I posed this question before and I was greatly helped by Derek. I had problems in Windows XP, and two months have passed before I solved them. I am trying to configure a wireless internet access on a desktop computer by means of an SMS2662W USB adaptor On Mandrake 9.2. If I go to configuration to Internet access, I can select from a list of drivers, but the ones Derek suggested do not appear in 9.2. Around here, Mandrake 9.2 is not a great description of your problem. You might mention that it is about a wireless USB adapter. Of course, sorry about that. Now, onto the problem. Does your usb connection see the wireless NIC? I would recommend running in a root console tail-f /var/log/messages and then see if the system is working well. You should see the USB system detect new hardware, and then identify it, and set it up for use. If not, you need to solve usb problems for it. Only after that, can you move on. I only had success with tail -f /var/log/messages, but the ten lines displays do not show much. I am very inexperienced reading logs, so, I logged out and rebooted again and copied the entire boot log. I give it to you at the end. I do not think the adapter is recognized, but my USB printer is, so, I must expect the USB filesysten is all right. A query on Google gives over 400 hits for SMS 2662W Linux one page tells me it works with a at76c503a module (driver) which is available in Mandrake 9.2. You just need to pick it from the list. I suppose you mean the list which appears when one chooses expert mode in DrakConnect. There must be something wrong in my system, because I do not find it. If you mean another list, please tell me as I do not know about it. Now, is it working? Not yet. log file Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.22-6mdk Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo partmon: Checking if partitions have enough free diskspace: Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Loaded 21034 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.22-6mdk. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.22. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Loaded 482 symbols from 25 modules. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Linux version 2.4.22-6mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk)) #1 Sun Sep 7 18:11:19 EDT 2003 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 - 000a (reserved) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: 0010 - 1fff (usable) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: 1fff - 1fff3000 (ACPI NVS) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: 1fff3000 - 2000 (ACPI data) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: 511MB LOWMEM available. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 131056 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: zone(1): 126960 pages. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: zone(2): 0 pages. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 VIA694 ) @ 0x000f76c0 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x1fff3000 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x1fff3040 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x1000 MSFT 0x010c) @ 0x Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: Vendor VIA694 System AWRDACPI Revision 0x0 has a known ACPI BIOS problem. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: Reason: Bogus table. This is a non-recoverable error Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: BIOS listed in blacklist, disabling ACPI support Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Building zonelist for node : 0 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=2105 devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdh=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde6 splash=silent Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ide_setup: hda=ide-scsi Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ide_setup: hdh=ide-scsi Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: bootsplash: silent mode. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Found and enabled local APIC! Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Initializing CPU#0 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Detected 1396.942 MHz processor. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Calibrating delay loop...
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 and a SMS 2662W USB NIC
On Saturday 29 November 2003 6:52 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2003 11:44 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: I posed this question before and I was greatly helped by Derek. I had problems in Windows XP, and two months have passed before I solved them. I am trying to configure a wireless internet access on a desktop computer by means of an SMS2662W USB adapter On Mandrake 9.2. If I go to configuration to Internet access, I can select from a list of drivers, but the ones Derek suggested do not appear in 9.2. Around here, Mandrake 9.2 is not a great description of your problem. You might mention that it is about a wireless USB adapter. Of course, sorry about that. Now, onto the problem. Does your USB connection see the wireless NIC? I would recommend running in a root console tail-f /var/log/messages and then see if the system is working well. You should see the USB system detect new hardware, and then identify it, and set it up for use. If not, you need to solve usb problems for it. Only after that, can you move on. Here is the section of your boot log that shows it being dealt with: Nov 29 18:23:04 castillo /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usbvnet_rfmd at76c503-rfmd for USB product d5c/a002/100 Note here that it is selecting the at76c503 module, not the wrong module. Nov 29 18:23:04 castillo /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 0/0/0 Nov 29 18:23:04 castillo /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 0/0/0 Don't sweat these your NIC is not 0/0/0. Nov 29 18:23:05 castillo /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifplugd eth0 Nov 29 18:23:05 castillo ifplugd(eth0)[471]: Using interface eth0/00:04:E2:5D:E7:65 Notice that it has now been made eth0, so you are working right here. Nov 29 18:23:05 castillo ifplugd(eth0)[471]: Using detection mode: wireless extension Nov 29 18:23:05 castillo ifplugd(eth0)[471]: ifplugd 0.15 successfully initialized, link beat detected. Nov 29 18:23:05 castillo ifplugd(eth0)[471]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 up'. This is a very good note, as eth0 is made to be alive. And you should be succeeding with a network connection. Now, if you are having problems still, you need a Linux Wireless Guru, not me, as I am no guru at all, just a hack. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2
On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 7:44 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: I posed this question before and I was greatly helped by Derek. I had problems in Windows XP, and two months have passed before I solved them. I am trying to configure a wireless internet access on a desktop computer by means of an SMS2662W USB adaptor On Mandrake 9.2. Derek advised me to use one of two drivers: at76c593a or atmelwlandriver. I never tried them because I felt I had to fix problems in Windows before trying in Mandrake. I also have the drivers provided by SMC. The problem with this one is that I can simply do not see how the driver is called. The file to download is SMC2662WV2_Linux.tar.gz, and upon de-compression it gives the folder: SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W. No more references to how the driver is called. There are here 2 tools to configure the driver, I have used one and I think the driver is now ready. If I go to configuration to Internet access, I can select from a list of drivers, but the ones Derek suggested do not appear in 9.2. I apologize to you, Derek, because I suddenly disappeared, but I have had very little time to configure my computers. I would appreciate it if you will still help me this time. Teilhard As it happens the at76c593a driver is included with 9.2 and it works beautifully. The only problem is that the atmelwlandriver is also included and will claim your SMS2662W first. The atmelwlandriver is my opinion a right pig to configure especially since the configuration utility is *not* included in 9.2 I have a workaround described here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=19 Thanks so much, Derek. It seems that my adaptor is not recognized by the OS. However, when I write: iwconfig. the right parameters of the wireless networking appear in eth0. I just get info; I do not know how to use it as a configuration utility. Please tell me where I find the drivers you recommend and how to load them. For the driver provided by SMC, I get a configuration utility which I have used already. Seems the driver is properly configured now, but I do not even know its name. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 installation with HPT374 onboard Raid device
Does anyone know how to get the Highpoint HPT374 Raid device to work during the Mandrake 9.2 installation. I need it to recognise my raid array attached to the HPT374 device. i have a Abit AT7MAX2 motherboard which has an on oard hpt374 raid device. on this I have attached 2 80 GB Maxtor HDs, I also have two smaller (2GB and 8GB) HDs on the normal IDE channels. I have tried the opensource files provided by highpoints web site: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/374drivers_down.htm But i cant get them to work with the Mandrake 9.2 installation, maybe I'm not using them correctly? Nilesh. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 and HPT 372
Well, I did manage to narrow it down, it is definitely an issue with the HPT 372 controller card and Mandrake 9.2. 9.2 just will NOT boot with the RAID controller enabled in the BIOS, I tried just about every option that I know of on the lilo screen, including noapic, nolapic, ide=reverse, acpi=ht, acpi=off, etc. It always panics at the point where it should be loading the hde and hdf drives. When I turn the RAID controller completely off with the BIOS, it goes right to the setup screen without a hiccup. The BIOS is the newest version and I have even flashed the ROM for the HPT controller to make sure that it was at the newest revision. Mandrake had some weird issue with shipping on my DVD order for 9.2 and given my problems with the ISO images, I have just canceled the order and may wait it out until the next version which will hopefully have better support or my motherboard. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2
Well, I rsynced the Mandrake 9.2 directories to my local machine last night including the ISO images. I burned them this morning, tried to boot to run an upgrade and I get a kernel panic every time, right after it tries to load the two primary hard drives attached to the HPT372 controller. So far, I have tried to boot with the ide=reverse, noapic, acpi=off and mem=860M options all added to the linux line. Still get a kernel panic each time. Anyone else had that problem that can offer some suggestions? -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2
On Friday 21 November 2003 08:29 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, I rsynced the Mandrake 9.2 directories to my local machine last night including the ISO images. I burned them this morning, tried to boot to run an upgrade and I get a kernel panic every time, right after it tries to load the two primary hard drives attached to the HPT372 controller. So far, I have tried to boot with the ide=reverse, noapic, acpi=off and mem=860M options all added to the linux line. Still get a kernel panic each time. Anyone else had that problem that can offer some suggestions? Try to disable the highpoint in the BIOS just to see if that is causing the hangup. I know it won't give give you a drive to install on, but if it boots past that point, you have narrowed down the problem. I have a hpt 372 and have not had a problem though. Is it set as a RAID device or a standard ATA controller. -- /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] Mandrake 9.2 Hanging on Boot
On Saturday 15 November 2003 08:54 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The boot stops at Starting ALSA 0.9.6. This is the same problem that I had with 9.1 which was solved with the help of this list. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the solution was! Please help. . . Rich Do you have any USM equiptment attached that can stop an install dead in its tracks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Hanging on Boot
The boot stops at Starting ALSA 0.9.6. This is the same problem that I had with 9.1 which was solved with the help of this list. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the solution was! Please help. . . Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Hanging on Boot
On Saturday 15 November 2003 17:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The boot stops at Starting ALSA 0.9.6. This is the same problem that I had with 9.1 which was solved with the help of this list. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the solution was! Please help. . . Rich When asked during booting to press ESC to enter verbose mode do so. Then when it says 'press 'i' to enter interactive setup' (or something like that) do so too :) You should then say no to starting ALSA. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Hanging on Boot
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:50, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 17:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The boot stops at Starting ALSA 0.9.6. This is the same problem that I had with 9.1 which was solved with the help of this list. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the solution was! Please help. . . Rich When asked during booting to press ESC to enter verbose mode do so. Then when it says 'press 'i' to enter interactive setup' (or something like that) do so too :) You should then say no to starting ALSA. That did it, thanks. . . Rich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 How do I leave NT Boot loader.
Mark Tiller wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of et Sent: 08 November 2003 20:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 How do I leave NT Boot loader. I don't do a thing, and tell lilo to boot from hda, you will get setup where lilo gives a choice called windows, and that will give you the NTbootloader, at least it works that way for me with win2kpro. of course when you get right down to it, I ain't sure where the NT bootloader sits. Yeah, but that will give me two boot loaders, if I can add Linux to the NT then I only have one I think you ask the wrong question. You really want to know how to remove lilo that you are forced to install ? On a dos prompt,use a dos switch, fdisk/mbr that removes lilo, you will be left with windblows bootloader. you already know how to configure it to boot linux. Personally , I've tried both methods and would still elect to chain boot load with lilo. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
Has anyone ever made a Mandrake webcam server? Then, the only thing left running on Winsux qwould be the Tax Software. Seems like every upgrade/release his margin (reason for being) gets a little slimmer . Other than a firmware upgrade, Tax software is the only thing that might force me to winboot. -- 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] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
Has anyone ever made a Mandrake webcam server? I could not get a Linux driver for my _really_ obscure webcam. I could not get the winblows software to work with wine so in the end I bunged XP on a old Digital Ppro 200 and networking it to my server. XP seems to be able to manage it and it runs quite happily for months at a time without any intervention. You can get webcam server stuff for Mandrake. I guess its just a case of making sure you can get a driver and working out how to set up the program. -- 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. 09:13:46 up 4 days, 1:11, 1 user, 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] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
On Saturday 08 Nov 2003 7:54 am, Eric Huff wrote: Has anyone ever made a Mandrake webcam server? Then, the only thing left running on Winsux qwould be the Tax Software. Seems like every upgrade/release his margin (reason for being) gets a little slimmer . Other than a firmware upgrade, Tax software is the only thing that might force me to winboot. Wouldn't that work under Crossover Office? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 How do I leave NT Boot loader.
Hi all, Because I have various flavours of windows installed selected using the NT/XP bootloader. I'd prefer to keep using it and just have one boot loader. Now I know how to add Linux to the NT boot loader, but how do I stop the MDK 9.2 installer from overwriting the boot sector on HDA? Any help gratefully received. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 How do I leave NT Boot loader.
On Saturday 08 November 2003 08:46 pm, Mark Tiller wrote: Hi all, Because I have various flavours of windows installed selected using the NT/XP bootloader. I'd prefer to keep using it and just have one boot loader. Now I know how to add Linux to the NT boot loader, but how do I stop the MDK 9.2 installer from overwriting the boot sector on HDA? Any help gratefully received. Mark I don't do a thing, and tell lilo to boot from hda, you will get setup where lilo gives a choice called windows, and that will give you the NTbootloader, at least it works that way for me with win2kpro. of course when you get right down to it, I ain't sure where the NT bootloader sits. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 How do I leave NT Boot loader.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of et Sent: 08 November 2003 20:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 How do I leave NT Boot loader. I don't do a thing, and tell lilo to boot from hda, you will get setup where lilo gives a choice called windows, and that will give you the NTbootloader, at least it works that way for me with win2kpro. of course when you get right down to it, I ain't sure where the NT bootloader sits. Yeah, but that will give me two boot loaders, if I can add Linux to the NT then I only have one Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
I'm just wondering: today is 6'th of november and normal people who isn't a mandrake member must wait to download a new iso - why it takes so long ? Could anybody share your iso in a public ftp !! -- Linux user: #333581 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
On Thursday 06 Nov 2003 8:39 am, Pawel Nozderko wrote: I'm just wondering: today is 6'th of november and normal people who isn't a mandrake member must wait to download a new iso - why it takes so long ? Could anybody share your iso in a public ftp !! Pawel, if you have been reading anywhere about Mandrake 9.2 you will know of the problems that have been found with LG drives. The ISOs will be made public as soon as new ones are ready that fix that problem. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Nov 2003 8:39 am, Pawel Nozderko wrote: I'm just wondering: today is 6'th of november and normal people who isn't a mandrake member must wait to download a new iso - why it takes so long ? Could anybody share your iso in a public ftp !! Pawel, if you have been reading anywhere about Mandrake 9.2 you will know of the problems that have been found with LG drives. The ISOs will be made public as soon as new ones are ready that fix that problem. any idea of a rough ETA for that? (I've been planning my new Mandrake install for 1moth + now ;) ... didn't install the rc12 just because I though it would come out any minute now :P ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
Pawel Nozderko wrote: I'm just wondering: today is 6'th of november and normal people who isn't a mandrake member must wait to download a new iso - why it takes so long ? Could anybody share your iso in a public ftp !! Do a google search for 9.2 iso's... Thats how I found it.. I found an australian mirror with the real ISO's (not rc2) and a local mirror of all the updates... loading it on my new webserver now. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
On Thursday 06 Nov 2003 9:20 am, Anarky wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Nov 2003 8:39 am, Pawel Nozderko wrote: Pawel, if you have been reading anywhere about Mandrake 9.2 you will know of the problems that have been found with LG drives. The ISOs will be made public as soon as new ones are ready that fix that problem. any idea of a rough ETA for that? (I've been planning my new Mandrake install for 1moth + now ;) ... didn't install the rc12 just because I though it would come out any minute now :P ) 'Any day now' g Don't forget that if you follow Franki's route you are installing the version with the LG problem. OTOH, I'm going to install that one anyway, since I don't have an LG drive. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
Has anyone has any trouble installing via an ftp mirror? Aside from the need for a broadband connection, is there anything one should worry about? I've done that with Suse in the past, and it is through their list that I have found numerous mandrake FTP mirrors. They've pretty much got the planet covered. Mark - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO Pawel Nozderko wrote: I'm just wondering: today is 6'th of november and normal people who isn't a mandrake member must wait to download a new iso - why it takes so long ? Could anybody share your iso in a public ftp !! Do a google search for 9.2 iso's... Thats how I found it.. I found an australian mirror with the real ISO's (not rc2) and a local mirror of all the updates... loading it on my new webserver now. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. 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] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
The ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt has the complete final isos if you like... Have fun, and please don't overload it :P Afonso Guerra Assunção -Mensagem original- De: Mark A. Lawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: quinta-feira, 6 de Novembro de 2003 17:56 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO Has anyone has any trouble installing via an ftp mirror? Aside from the need for a broadband connection, is there anything one should worry about? I've done that with Suse in the past, and it is through their list that I have found numerous mandrake FTP mirrors. They've pretty much got the planet covered. Mark - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO Pawel Nozderko wrote: I'm just wondering: today is 6'th of november and normal people who isn't a mandrake member must wait to download a new iso - why it takes so long ? Could anybody share your iso in a public ftp !! Do a google search for 9.2 iso's... Thats how I found it.. I found an australian mirror with the real ISO's (not rc2) and a local mirror of all the updates... loading it on my new webserver now. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. 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] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
On Thursday 06 Nov 2003 10:35 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Nov 2003 9:20 am, Anarky wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Nov 2003 8:39 am, Pawel Nozderko wrote: you will know of the problems that have been found with LG drives. any idea of a rough ETA for that? (I've been planning my new Mandrake install for 1moth + now ;) . 'Any day now' g Don't forget that if you follow Franki's route you are installing the version with the LG problem. OTOH, I'm going to install that one anyway, since I don't have an LG drive. Any news of that DVD drive you had problems with? You suspected that 9.2 had killed it. Was it true, or was it something else? I have a cheap PC-World DVD drive here that doesn't give a manufacturer in its ID strings. I'm just paranoid enough to be worried. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
Afonso Guerra Assunção wrote: The ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt has the complete final isos if you like... Have fun, and please don't overload it :P Afonso Guerra Assunção -Mensagem original- De: Mark A. Lawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: quinta-feira, 6 de Novembro de 2003 17:56 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO Has anyone has any trouble installing via an ftp mirror? Aside from the need for a broadband connection, is there anything one should worry about? I've done that with Suse in the past, and it is through their list that I have found numerous mandrake FTP mirrors. They've pretty much got the planet covered. Mark - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO Pawel Nozderko wrote: I'm just wondering: today is 6'th of november and normal people who isn't a mandrake member must wait to download a new iso - why it takes so long ? Could anybody share your iso in a public ftp !! Do a google search for 9.2 iso's... Thats how I found it.. I found an australian mirror with the real ISO's (not rc2) and a local mirror of all the updates... loading it on my new webserver now. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. 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 Do you know if the ISOs have the updates included or are they the same as the bittorent ones with the LG drive patch? Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
Do you know if the ISOs have the updates included or are they the same as the bittorent ones with the LG drive patch? Joeb No, Looking at the kernel version I have installed, it doesn't have the LG fix kernel.. The fixed kernel is in the updates directory on the same site though.. I didn't load it because I am thinking of trying packet writing on the HP 9500 burner in this unit.. If you want the LG resolved version, you'll probably have to wait till Mandrake releases it, unless you want to modify the ISO of CD1 yourself.. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mandrake 9.2 and Radeon 9200 need a simple newbie howto
I have mandrake 9.2 installed and was disappointed to see my Radeon 9200 not natively supported. despite that facti would like to get X up and running with the Radeon drivers from ATI's site. I am not a mdk veteran and despite having a basic knowledge of linux i am by no means totally fluent. if someone could break down what i need to do in easy steps to get X up and running i would greatly appreciate it.. i love mandrake and really want to test this out on a dual boot on my system. i only have the 3 install cd's not the contrib purchased from spidertools.com. thank you
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Network install through web proxy
Hi Guys, Am part of a V.large distrubuted university network which gives me 10Mps download speeds (yeah!) but no control over network settings... I want to do a fresh install of Mnadrake 9.2 off the uk mirror ftp server. Therefore last night I got the network boot floppy image, created a boot disk with it and got cracking. All appears to be going well, set up dchp with hostname domain etc, ftp site and bang, hit that brick wall.. The error message is error: bad hostname. However checked it by typing hostname @ the command prompt of my current, networked mandrake 9.1 install it all matches up (I didn't think I'd got it wrong to start with.). My current theory, the install program cannot get to the ftp site because all web access is through a proxy with a unusual port number. My network also doesn't support pasv ftp. Now I know the relevant ports and address's, but cannot see how I can configure the installer to access the ftp site through the proxy server on the relevant port. Does anyone know how, or is this a feature in the installer that needs adding at a later date... And what about PASV, is this used by the downloader, or can I switch it off? Am I stuffed until the ISO images appear or is there hope? I'd much rather ftp, as I don't need half the programs on the iso download and would rather save the download time... Cheers Chewwit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Network install through web proxy
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 11:03 am, h w blackwell wrote: Hi Guys, Am part of a V.large distrubuted university network which gives me 10Mps download speeds (yeah!) but no control over network settings... I want to do a fresh install of Mnadrake 9.2 off the uk mirror ftp server. Therefore last night I got the network boot floppy image, created a boot disk with it and got cracking. All appears to be going well, set up dchp with hostname domain etc, ftp site and bang, hit that brick wall.. The error message is error: bad hostname. However checked it by typing hostname @ the command prompt of my current, networked mandrake 9.1 install it all matches up (I didn't think I'd got it wrong to start with.). My current theory, the install program cannot get to the ftp site because all web access is through a proxy with a unusual port number. My network also doesn't support pasv ftp. Now I know the relevant ports and address's, but cannot see how I can configure the installer to access the ftp site through the proxy server on the relevant port. Does anyone know how, or is this a feature in the installer that needs adding at a later date... And what about PASV, is this used by the downloader, or can I switch it off? Am I stuffed until the ISO images appear or is there hope? I'd much rather ftp, as I don't need half the programs on the iso download and would rather save the download time... Cheers Chewwit If you can see the Mandrake mirror by typing ftp://blah..blah in the URL line of a browser, then it isn't going to stop the network install either. More likely you are simply giving the wrong url. I think you need to point it to either the /Mandrake directory, or the /base directory (Not quite sure which) For example ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/base or is it ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 rc2
Can anyone tell me what Clic-PH1-9.0-snap_dec2002.iso is. I found it at the download site Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 rc2
On 10 Sep 2003 09:05:33 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me what Clic-PH1-9.0-snap_dec2002.iso is. I found it at the download site its for Clustering BeoWulf clusters. if you want a copy I have the 2 cd set for it... b/f downloaded it by accident assuming it was normal linux. email off list for it. Pharmaceuticals R Us! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 rc2
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 02:05, Aron Smith wrote: Can anyone tell me what Clic-PH1-9.0-snap_dec2002.iso is. I found it at the download site Yes. 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 -- Killing turkeys causes winter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mandrake 9.2 rc1
would somebody please point me to some website or something explaingin me how the Mandrake versions go and how to get the latest version. Now I'm starting downloading 9.2 rc1 .. but what does that mean? I know there is beta 1 2 .. which I know what it means .. but what does rc1 mean? is that a final? And many people are talking about 'cooker version' .. what is that? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 Released
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 03 August 2003 10:04 am, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 11:15, John Richard Smith wrote: === Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 Released. Mandrake Linux 9.2 Beta 1 has arrived to offer you the opportunity of summertime bug squashing. Join forces with the Mandrake Development team by installing the Beta then submitting bug reports. Remember: This release is for testing purposes only and is not suitable for production machines. Learn all the details: http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3 *http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3 === How to report bugs* Bugs must be submitted to BugZilla http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ and technical discussions (for developers) are hosted on the Cooker mailing list. == So how does one in all practicle terms do this on a 56kdialup modem. By the time I've downloaded 3 iso's , done the md5sum's, written the iso's to disc, tested the discs to be faithful reproductions, installed OS, done a minimum of half a day's post install reconfiguring, to get it up and running, and then probably a week's fiddling around in all the apps looking for faults to report , mandrake have gone on to bets2 or beta3 releases. John Tom Brinkman has posted some directions (I think it may have been on the expert list) about how to do this. basically it involves getting setup and updating only as cooker is updated, and not re-downloading the complete ISOs, just sucking down the changes. Search the archives for cooker update ought to help Right, once you have the first beta d/l'd cooker updates work or you should be able to run rsync to cut down time to d/l new beta's or release candidates. Rsync only d/l's the changes. See man rsync or google cause there are some good tutorials on it. HTH So which is best , slap in a repeat of my already configured and pretty well running M9.1 using a drive image programme. write a stanza to boot it. and then urpmi that as far as possible, which would have to be done at night as It's the only chance I have to get about 2 hours uniterrupted install. or , download the 3 iso cd's and burn to disks and install etc. and then urpmi this install. from my point of view the first option is quicker. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 Released
On Sunday 03 August 2003 04:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 03 August 2003 10:04 am, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 11:15, John Richard Smith wrote: === Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 Released. Mandrake Linux 9.2 Beta 1 has arrived to offer you the opportunity of summertime bug squashing. Join forces with the Mandrake Development team by installing the Beta then submitting bug reports. Remember: This release is for testing purposes only and is not suitable for production machines. Learn all the details: http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3 *http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3 === How to report bugs* Bugs must be submitted to BugZilla http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ and technical discussions (for developers) are hosted on the Cooker mailing list. == So how does one in all practicle terms do this on a 56kdialup modem. By the time I've downloaded 3 iso's , done the md5sum's, written the iso's to disc, tested the discs to be faithful reproductions, installed OS, done a minimum of half a day's post install reconfiguring, to get it up and running, and then probably a week's fiddling around in all the apps looking for faults to report , mandrake have gone on to bets2 or beta3 releases. John Tom Brinkman has posted some directions (I think it may have been on the expert list) about how to do this. basically it involves getting setup and updating only as cooker is updated, and not re-downloading the complete ISOs, just sucking down the changes. Search the archives for cooker update ought to help Right, once you have the first beta d/l'd cooker updates work or you should be able to run rsync to cut down time to d/l new beta's or release candidates. Rsync only d/l's the changes. See man rsync or google cause there are some good tutorials on it. HTH So which is best , slap in a repeat of my already configured and pretty well running M9.1 using a drive image programme. write a stanza to boot it. and then urpmi that as far as possible, which would have to be done at night as It's the only chance I have to get about 2 hours uniterrupted install. or , download the 3 iso cd's and burn to disks and install etc. and then urpmi this install. from my point of view the first option is quicker. John I don't know for sure which is faster. I don't know for sure what the first is for. For Beta testing the d/l and then do a rsync on one of the mirrors for beta 2 , 3 etc would be faster. My guess, again not sure how much change will be made between betas. My $.02 -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 Released
On Sunday 03 August 2003 08:15 am, John Richard Smith wrote: === Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 Released. Mandrake Linux 9.2 Beta 1 has arrived to offer you the opportunity of summertime bug squashing. Join forces with the Mandrake Development team by installing the Beta then submitting bug reports. Remember: This release is for testing purposes only and is not suitable for production machines. Learn all the details: http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3 *http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3 === How to report bugs* Bugs must be submitted to BugZilla http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ and technical discussions (for developers) are hosted on the Cooker mailing list. == So how does one in all practicle terms do this on a 56kdialup modem. By the time I've downloaded 3 iso's , done the md5sum's, written the iso's to disc, tested the discs to be faithful reproductions, installed OS, done a minimum of half a day's post install reconfiguring, to get it up and running, and then probably a week's fiddling around in all the apps looking for faults to report , mandrake have gone on to bets2 or beta3 releases. John No Arguement there but rembember 300 baud modems it could be worse |;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 Released
=== Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 Released. Mandrake Linux 9.2 Beta 1 has arrived to offer you the opportunity of summertime bug squashing. Join forces with the Mandrake Development team by installing the Beta then submitting bug reports. Remember: This release is for testing purposes only and is not suitable for production machines. Learn all the details: http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3 *http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3 === How to report bugs* Bugs must be submitted to BugZilla http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ and technical discussions (for developers) are hosted on the Cooker mailing list. == So how does one in all practicle terms do this on a 56kdialup modem. By the time I've downloaded 3 iso's , done the md5sum's, written the iso's to disc, tested the discs to be faithful reproductions, installed OS, done a minimum of half a day's post install reconfiguring, to get it up and running, and then probably a week's fiddling around in all the apps looking for faults to report , mandrake have gone on to bets2 or beta3 releases. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 Released
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 11:15, John Richard Smith wrote: === Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 Released. Mandrake Linux 9.2 Beta 1 has arrived to offer you the opportunity of summertime bug squashing. Join forces with the Mandrake Development team by installing the Beta then submitting bug reports. Remember: This release is for testing purposes only and is not suitable for production machines. Learn all the details: http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3 *http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3 === How to report bugs* Bugs must be submitted to BugZilla http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ and technical discussions (for developers) are hosted on the Cooker mailing list. == So how does one in all practicle terms do this on a 56kdialup modem. By the time I've downloaded 3 iso's , done the md5sum's, written the iso's to disc, tested the discs to be faithful reproductions, installed OS, done a minimum of half a day's post install reconfiguring, to get it up and running, and then probably a week's fiddling around in all the apps looking for faults to report , mandrake have gone on to bets2 or beta3 releases. John Tom Brinkman has posted some directions (I think it may have been on the expert list) about how to do this. basically it involves getting setup and updating only as cooker is updated, and not re-downloading the complete ISOs, just sucking down the changes. Search the archives for cooker update ought to help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
