[newbie-it] come si spegne il computer?
Un saluto a tutti. Come posso fare per dire a linux di spegnere da solo il computer? Per spegnere non intendo lo shutdown, ma l'azione fisica dello spegnere con on/off. Spero che mi abbiate capito. Un grazie anticipato a chi mi aiuta. Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] come si spegne il computer?
- Original Message - From: "Baddy76" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:23 PM Subject: [newbie-it] come si spegne il computer? Un saluto a tutti. Come posso fare per dire a linux di spegnere da solo il computer? Per spegnere non intendo lo shutdown, ma l'azione fisica dello spegnere con on/off. Spero che mi abbiate capito. Un grazie anticipato a chi mi aiuta. Daniele Da consol devi digitare halt
Re: [newbie-it] linux thinkpad ibm
At 01:31 PM 10/19/2000 +0200, you wrote: verifica che a bordo non ci siano winmodem altrimenti sono dolori,non tutti sono supportati da Linux cos'è winmodem? in effetti c'è un modem... marco E' un aborto di modem che sfrutta la cpu della macchina ed il software esegue l'emulazione,non per niente si chiamano winmodem . Sono stati espressamente realizzati per quella piattaforma, l'unico vantaggio e' il costo ridotto
Re: [newbie-it] come si spegne il computer?
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:23:15 +0200, Baddy76 said: Un saluto a tutti. Come posso fare per dire a linux di spegnere da solo il computer? Per spegnere non intendo lo shutdown, ma l'azione fisica dello spegnere con on/off. Spero che mi abbiate capito. Un grazie anticipato a chi mi aiuta. Daniele C' è una opzione nel kernel che si chiama "power off" o qualcosa di simile (nella sezione apm mi sembra) che esegue lo spegnimento automatico quindi se sei sicuro che il tuo hardware lo supporta (es. da win ti si spegne) vuol dire che non è attivata e la soluzione è...ricompilare. Ciao -- __ Sebastiano Cordiano
[newbie-it] scheda audio
..di tanto in tanto torno a farmi sentire...mandr7.1 non mi ha riconosciuto la scheda audio ma la fa funzionare comunque...o meglio, gli mp3 si sentono una bellezza i cd si sentono con qualità scadente...che posso fare? grazie mille per l'aiuto e salutatemi a bil gheiz ciao, osva
Re: [newbie-it] linux thinkpad ibm
E' un aborto di modem che sfrutta la cpu della macchina ed il software esegue l'emulazione,non per niente si chiamano winmodem . capito :). no, cmq il modem è interno standard con scheda ethernet. mi chiedevo... tutti quei programmini tipo la gestione avanzata del risparmio energetico, l'ibernazione ecc. (nonchè vari tasti funzione aggiuntivi per internet ed altro ancora...) c'è modo di recuperarli con linux o è possibile farli funzionare solo sotto win? tu hai esperienze dirette di installazioni su portatili? se si con che distro? marco
Re: [newbie] howto raid
Aaron Lynch wrote: ok, I'm a dumbass. I figured it out. How big does a /boot partition need to be? AaronIt really depends on the space that you anticipate needing. I have 2 kernals (along with the other associated files for each of them) in my 7.1 /boot partition and it uses a total of 2.7 meg of the 7.8 meg I allocated to it when I created it with Partition magic. For the drive that I was using 7.8 meg was the smallest size partition that Partition Magic would allow me to create. Linux fdisk will allow the creation of smaller partitions than that. -- MandrakeSoft Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Altadena, CA USA --Alan
Re: [newbie] network setup
Ok and thanks. I wish now that I had not mentioned the windows machine. Both "linux" and "compaq" are running linux. Using "compaq" I can ftp to and from "linux" but if I use "linux" I cannot ftp to or from "compaq". You are right, I think, in saying there is a setup problem on "compaq" in that it will not accept a connection (of any kind) from "linux" What I am looking for is some pointers as to where to look for the setup problem - local knowledge and experience is limited. Windows connections remain as problems for another day but your helpful comments are noted. Thanks again. Alan In article 025901c03977$795f15e0$02070a0a@sysii400, Greg Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes You did not note what you are using for an FTP server on the 98 box. Windows 98/NT does not come with a standard FTP server so you have to buy one if you want that type of capability. Windows comes with an FTP client which you used to connect the Linux boxes but no standard FTP server. I'm only able to (almost) figure this out after reading Mike's response... Do you mean by 'reverse the arrangement and try to use "linux" as my workstation' that you are running windows on the "compaq", and linux on the "linux" machines? And, then getting a timeout error when trying to connect to the Windows 98 "compaq" via ftp *from* the "linux" machine? Whoa! Head rush. Yes, Mike is rght, if what I just hashed is correct. You need to run IIS of some version in order to have ftp server capability on the Windows machine. I think Personal Wed Server will give you this option, but I'm not sure. And, yes, you have to pay for it (well, unless...I won't get into that). However, if you mean that you are trying to connect from "linux" running linux, to "compaq" running linux, and getting the timeout using ftp, then there's a configuration problem on the, well, let's see...[great big pause] "compaq" running linux machine. But, if the dishwasher, running windows 98, cannot connect to, let me see, Afghanistan with linux... Oh hell. I can't think anymore! :-) Could you make a step-by-step list of what you wanted? --Greg - Original Message - From: "D.M. Mattix (Mike)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 9:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] network setup On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Alan Dunford wrote: In an attempt to learn more about Local Area Networks, I have set up a simple three machine net but am experiencing some difficulty and I wonder if a more experienced person could please help. The configuration is:- Machine 1 Pentium 3 running Windows 98 as IP 192.168.1.1 (alias windows) Network card SMC EtherEZ 8416 Machine 2 Pentium 2 running Mandrake Linux 7.1 as IP 192.168.1.2 (alias linux) Network card Genius GF100TXRII Machine 3 Pentium 1 running Mandrake Linux 7.1 and Windows 98 as IP 192.168.1.3 (alias compaq) Network card Realtek RTL8029 This machine also has an internal 56 k non-Win modem and a connection to the Internet. The machines are connected to each other via a base10 hub with short twisted pair cables. The physical installation seems ok as I can ping any machine from any other and get fast return times. The problem I have, though, concerns machines 2 and 3 whose configuration was intended to be identical. Using common log-on user names and passwords and with the Compaq machine as my workstation, I can log on to "linux" and ftp files to and from that machine. Further, I can download files from the Internet and then pass them to "linux". So far so good. If, however, I reverse the arrangement and try to use "linux" as my workstation, I can connect briefly to the Compaq machine but the connection times out in two or three seconds and if I use ftp at the command line, I get an error message "421 Service not available remote server has closed connection". gFTP reports that I am already logged on and then waits for 30 seconds before trying (unsuccessfully) again, even if "compaq" is waiting for a log on of some kind.. The /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files are blank on both machines apart from their comments and there are no entries in /usr/sbin/tcpd file either. Before I tear out what remains of my hair, I wonder if someone could please point me in the right direction. Thanks for any help offered. -- Alan Dunford e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public PGP keys at http://www.pgp.uk.demon.net:11371 and others
[newbie] X problems
hi i was wanting to know what file i have to edit for this problem i have each time i start any program from console i get this message Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server GtK-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 i know how to fix this by typing in xhost +localhost but i have to this each time start a new X session so does anyone know what file i have to edit to fix this???
Re: [newbie] Install problems
Chris, It sounds to me like the install program is having a hard time with your SCSI card. You might try running the installation after removing the card. I have a feeling that it will install just fine after that. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 1:36pm ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake...: I have yet another question. Last night, I tried to add Linux MDK 7.1 to my computer. I have a 4gig HD and the first 2gigs are devoted to Winbloze. The second 2 are setup to take Linux. Here is my problem. I boot from the CD and start the 7.1 install. I pick the automated install and continue. It gets to a point were it asks me if I have any SCSI drives on my machine. I tell it yes, pick the appropriate driver and attempt to continue. It asks yet again, "Do you have any SCSI drives?" This time, I pick no and it asks me again, and again, and again. I'm stuck! It will not go past this point. So, I tried running the Customized install and the Expert install and I hit similar snags. I'm getting very frustrated. Am I doing something wrong? I have done an install of 7.1 before on this HD. The only difference is that the HD has Winbloze on it now. Before it was clean. Help Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] LM install going from bad to worse... Help!!
Larry, I don't think these folks realize that there is a very powerful GUI partitioning tool included with the Mandrake installation software that will do a nicer job, IMHO, than Partition Magic. All one has to do is boot the CD. Of course they're going to have to perform the expert install and configure the thing themselves, but that's just part of this adventure known as Linux! -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 7:01pm ,Larry Marshall spake passionately in a message: use your windows boot disk and use fdisk it has an option to create a dos primary partition then you should be able to load the installer, other options buy one of the many partitioning utilitys out today like partition magic partition commander they usually include a diskett to get you started on creating partitions Doesn't it cause you to quiver just a bit to recommend that a guy buy Partition Magic to make a partition so he can load an installer that brags about having Partition Magic built into it (grin)? Cheers --- Larry
RE: [newbie] g++ compiler
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, you wrote: hmm, this compiled and ran fine on my installation of 7.1... what kind of error did you get? And so it should as it's perfectly legitimate (and basic) code. The error is caused by the lack of existence of the iostream library. I'm kinda surprised that you can compile it as I can find no evidence of the standard lib anywhere in the package listings. Can't find iostream.h anywhere. I even reinstalled everything in expert mode, making sure that I had all packages that even remotely were associated with C++ loaded. the rpm you are missing is libstdc++-devel I think that it was on the second cdrom -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] This is friggin stupid!
Hi Larry, As to which install I'm running. I'm running the expert-developer-got-everything-including-the-sink-and-my-wifes-purse install. The really annoying this is that the files that is says it can't find are ones that "are" there and are in the src dir's that come with the kernel. They "are" part of the kernel source code. I'm not sure which compiler it is as far as version goes. And I didn't compile Quanta. I downloaded the RPM and installed that way, however I've never had any troubles comiling and instaling applications. Only kernels. This one is about to be demoted, however, to a lowly, bowl-cleaning private last class if things don't soon straighten out. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 4:27pm ,Larry Marshall spake passionately in a message: Is there a compilable kernel anywhere on this planet that will not bail What compiler are you using Mark? You recommended that I download Quanta and I did. The compile blew up telling me that I don't have iostream (that's how I realized that I don't have the basic C++ library). I've noticed that these were added to 2.95-2 (I think that's the one). I'm assuming you had no such compile problems so I wonder why. In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36, from scripts/split-include.c:26: /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory Looks to me that this is the beginning of the fall. The question is why you don't have that. I just checked it and I've got it from a standard 7.1 developer install. You aren't using 2.96 are you? It's available, RedHat's included it in their v7.0, but it won't compile the supplied kernel code. cp loop.o nbd.o rd.o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/block/ cp: loop.o: No such file or directory cp: nbd.o: No such file or directory cp: rd.o: No such file or directory So where are they? Have they been compiled or did their compile fail too? Wish I could help but I haven't played with rebuilding the Linux kernel. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] This is friggin stupid!
Hi Lonny, Attached to this message are the results of the search for the "errno.h" file -- I did try to paste them into this message, but that wasn't happening. Thank you though for taking the time. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 2:47pm ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake passionately in a...: Is there a compilable kernel anywhere on this planet that will not bail on your with a ridiculous error making it impossible to update or recompile your kernel in any manner? Below is the result of my latest attempt to configure and compile a linux kernel. This one is 2.4.0-test9. Frankly I'm beginning to think its a lost stinkin cause. sincerely fed up and frustrated, Mark Ummmok first you are going to have to do some digging to find out what you need for the header/include files you are missing OR if you have them ... check to see where the current tree (for the compile) is looking for them. Can you send the output from a find / -name errno.h none of what you have posted is *post* compilation and it looks like it couldn't create the .o files to link in in order to continue. Compiling isn't always as easy as "./configure, make, make install" ;-) or make make bzImage make dep make modules etc etc, trouble shoot this first by figuring out where the missing includes are or if you have them "usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory" (you may have to look in the Makefile(s) to see what the root dir is in order to find out "where" it thinks linux/errno.h is or what linux actually is pointing to ... its usually a sym link to the CURRENT kernel source ls -l should be pretty easy to work from there =o) -Lonny + In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36, from scripts/split-include.c:26: /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory make: *** [scripts/split-include] Error 1 make -C kernel modules_install make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test9/kernel' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test9/kernel' make -C drivers modules_install make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test9/drivers' make -C acpi modules_install make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test9/drivers/acpi' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test9/drivers/acpi' make -C block modules_install make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test9/drivers/block' mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/block/ cp loop.o nbd.o rd.o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/block/ cp: loop.o: No such file or directory cp: nbd.o: No such file or directory cp: rd.o: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [_modinst__] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test9/drivers/block' make[1]: *** [_modinst_block] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test9/drivers' make: *** [_modinst_drivers] Error 2 [root@epix mdw1982]# find / -name errno.h /mnt/win_c/tcwin/include/errno.h find: /proc/6/fd: Permission denied /usr/include/bits/errno.h /usr/include/errno.h /usr/include/sys/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/include/asm-i386/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/include/linux/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/linux/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/asm-i386/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/asm-mips/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/asm-alpha/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/asm-m68k/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/asm-sparc/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/asm-ppc/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/asm-sparc64/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/asm-arm/errno.h /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/asm-s390/errno.h /usr/i586-glibc20-linux/include/errno.h /usr/i586-glibc20-linux/include/linux/errno.h /usr/i586-glibc20-linux/include/sys/errno.h
Re: [newbie] This is friggin stupid!
John, I was under the assumption that when you download any tarball that everything you need to compile the program, other than the standard C, and C++ libraries are included with the rest of the source code. Otherwise I would have grabbed the RPM. I didn't get the RPM because I wanted just to recompile to allow for a different sound card and installing a kernel from an RPM can get a little messy. Whereas booting a kernel that has been compiled is much cleaner and offers far more control over it and the system. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 1:37pm ,John Rye spake passionately in a message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a compilable kernel anywhere on this planet that will not bail on your with a ridiculous error making it impossible to update or recompile your kernel in any manner? Below is the result of my latest attempt to configure and compile a linux kernel. This one is 2.4.0-test9. Frankly I'm beginning to think its a lost stinkin cause. sincerely fed up and frustrated, Mark Ummmok first you are going to have to do some digging to find out what you need for the header/include files you are missing OR if you have them ... check to see where the current tree (for the compile) is looking for them. Can you send the output from a find / -name errno.h none of what you have posted is *post* compilation and it looks like it couldn't create the .o files to link in in order to continue. Compiling isn't always as easy as "./configure, make, make install" ;-) or make make bzImage make dep make modules etc etc, trouble shoot this first by figuring out where the missing includes are or if you have them "usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory" (you may have to look in the Makefile(s) to see what the root dir is in order to find out "where" it thinks linux/errno.h is or what linux actually is pointing to ... its usually a sym link to the CURRENT kernel source ls -l should be pretty easy to work from there =o) -Lonny + In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36, from scripts/split-include.c:26: /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory snip Did you download the matching kernal-headers? I had something similar when I attempted my first kernal compile on 2.2.16 from a tarball. Cheers
RE: [newbie] Install problems
But, I don't have a SCSI card. That's the whole problem. Whether I press yes or no, it stalls at that point in the installation. -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:00 AM To: 'Newbie' Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems Chris, It sounds to me like the install program is having a hard time with your SCSI card. You might try running the installation after removing the card. I have a feeling that it will install just fine after that. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 1:36pm ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake...: I have yet another question. Last night, I tried to add Linux MDK 7.1 to my computer. I have a 4gig HD and the first 2gigs are devoted to Winbloze. The second 2 are setup to take Linux. Here is my problem. I boot from the CD and start the 7.1 install. I pick the automated install and continue. It gets to a point were it asks me if I have any SCSI drives on my machine. I tell it yes, pick the appropriate driver and attempt to continue. It asks yet again, "Do you have any SCSI drives?" This time, I pick no and it asks me again, and again, and again. I'm stuck! It will not go past this point. So, I tried running the Customized install and the Expert install and I hit similar snags. I'm getting very frustrated. Am I doing something wrong? I have done an install of 7.1 before on this HD. The only difference is that the HD has Winbloze on it now. Before it was clean. Help Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] g++ compiler
/usr/include/g++-2/iostream /usr/include/g++-2/iostream.h /usr/include/g++-2/stdiostream.h /usr/include/g++-3/iostream /usr/include/g++-3/iostream.h /usr/include/g++-3/stdiostream.h Sure makes sense that they should exist there but they don't on my installation. There's no libstdc++ in /usr/include/lib either. I'm really not sure what that means as my current installation (a new install to see if I could fix this as it seemed odd) comes from a late issue of the 7.1 commercial package. Thanks much for at least letting me know they're not supposed to be in some odd place in Linux. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Re: xlib problems
--- Michael Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: sorry guys but i found the fix for it all i had to do was go back to out of beeing root and type in xhost +localhost Michael Dolan wrote: hi today i tried to install mozilla M18 for the first time today but i get this error message when i rin the installer [root@CO3005336-A mozilla-installer]# ./mozilla-installer Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server GtK-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 any ideas on how to fix this i'm sorry. i installed mozilla whit the rest of the Mandrake 7.1. but if i install Mozilla M18, i will say you. (if my english is not very good, sorry..) regards. Chema. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] g++ compiler
Hrmmm I was going to say all I did was install the developer installation but I do remember selecting packages as well and also installed any rpms that included dev in them =o\ didn't realize they didn't do it by default for a second there I thought I typed something wrong =o) If you go through the expert install it shows you that they do install the c++ compiler by default. That's what's so odd as the blurb associated with it explicitly says that the c++ compiler package doesn't include the ANSI library. I've been told elsewhere that the reason for this is that the ANSI library is maintained separately. Still, you'd think that if they're going to include the compiler they'd include the library. What's even more wierd is that some folks (maybe everyone but me and the few other guys who have asked about it) has them on their system. I'll take another look. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] g++ compiler
There are 3 or 4 RPM's : egcs-XXX The egcs-c++ contains the header files. I believe that the full set of egcs's has everything for gcc, g++, g77 . Yes it is strange. I setup as "developer". Now, if one is a "developer", presumably one would occasionally be called upon to "develop" some code and maybe even try to compile same. So what are they thinking when the "developer" load doesn't have the appropriate files and doesn't tell you where to find them? Kevin Larry Marshall wrote: Hrmmm I was going to say all I did was install the developer installation but I do remember selecting packages as well and also installed any rpms that included dev in them =o\ didn't realize they didn't do it by default for a second there I thought I typed something wrong =o) If you go through the expert install it shows you that they do install the c++ compiler by default. That's what's so odd as the blurb associated with it explicitly says that the c++ compiler package doesn't include the ANSI library. I've been told elsewhere that the reason for this is that the ANSI library is maintained separately. Still, you'd think that if they're going to include the compiler they'd include the library. What's even more wierd is that some folks (maybe everyone but me and the few other guys who have asked about it) has them on their system. I'll take another look. Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] POP3
Hello All, I'm trying to set up my system so that I can pop mail from it. My wife has been having some serious issues with the @home mail (I'm sure a few of you know what I mean)way back when the earth was cooling though I used to be able to just uncomment the POP3 line in inetd.conf and run sendmail with a bunch of options and I was good to gonow I'm not so sure any moreand I'm not nearly as comfortable with postfix but would like to learn more about it...if someone could help in walking through the steps of setting up my server to be able to POP mail I'd appreciate it. If it helps at all I'm running 7.1 with Kernel 2.2.16-9mdkI thought that it might be easier from the webmin console but it wasn't. Hope this isn't too basic a question for this group and I hope it is within the topic range...if not just say so! :-) Later, -- __ _) (, /) ,/ /) /---( __ _ __ / ___ _ __ _ // ) / )/ (__(_(_(_/ (_ / / ) (_(_/ (__(/_(/_ (_/ ( ( /
[newbie] mandrake 7.2
hi currently i have mandrake 6.5 and i want to upgrade should i wait for 7.2 final or get 7.1 thank you
[newbie] docs for blackbox?
Where can I find some doc about using blackbox? The man page is very brief and does not provide any usage info other than the location of the config file which is very brief. Blackbox opens with a very blank screen and a panel at the bottom. The menu does not have a help choice that I can find. Thank you. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
[newbie] Which xfce version to download?
I am running Mandrake 7.1 The xfce contained on it is ver 3.4. I found out that the latest version of xfce is 3.5.2 and there is an rmp for it at xfce.org. Preferring to use a "Mandrake" rpm to avoid problems I went to the Mandrake site but the lxfce listed there is version 3.3.2! Is there a xfce rpm version 3.5.2 that Mandrake puts out? Thanks. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: [[newbie] docs for blackbox?]
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find some doc about using blackbox? The man page is very brief and does not provide any usage info other than the location of the config file which is very brief. Blackbox opens with a very blank screen and a panel at the bottom. The menu does not have a help choice that I can find. Thank you. == Try this link: http://blackbox.alug.org/ Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] Install problems
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: But, I don't have a SCSI card. That's the whole problem. Whether I press yes or no, it stalls at that point in the installation. Whoa - hang one here.. You don't have any SCSI cards? But - from your original posting you are answering YES to the question about SCSI drives Why?? What type(s) of drive do you have? Give it another burst - this time say NO to the SCSI question.. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:00 AM To: 'Newbie' Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems Chris, It sounds to me like the install program is having a hard time with your SCSI card. You might try running the installation after removing the card. I have a feeling that it will install just fine after that. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 1:36pm ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake...: I have yet another question. Last night, I tried to add Linux MDK 7.1 to my computer. I have a 4gig HD and the first 2gigs are devoted to Winbloze. The second 2 are setup to take Linux. Here is my problem. I boot from the CD and start the 7.1 install. I pick the automated install and continue. It gets to a point were it asks me if I have any SCSI drives on my machine. I tell it yes, pick the appropriate driver and attempt to continue. It asks yet again, "Do you have any SCSI drives?" This time, I pick no and it asks me again, and again, and again. I'm stuck! It will not go past this point. So, I tried running the Customized install and the Expert install and I hit similar snags. I'm getting very frustrated. Am I doing something wrong? I have done an install of 7.1 before on this HD. The only difference is that the HD has Winbloze on it now. Before it was clean. Help Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
[newbie] missing emacs, kpackage, etc.
I just installed mandrake 7.1 on a new hard drive using the second installation class (forgot term but not automated or expert) then selected server type and continued. After all was complete, I was missing emacs, the autoupdater, kpackage, the graphical linuxconf, harddrake, and a few others. Has anyone else had these problems? How can I get them back without trying a totally new install? Thanks in advance. *** Cam Grant, M.Sc. P.Eng. VE3CA, President Grant Systems Engineering Inc. Tel: (905)895-9436 Fax: (905)836-8365 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.grant.ca Pager Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (100 char max) ***
Re: [newbie] This is friggin stupid!
Mark Weaver wrote: John, I was under the assumption that when you download any tarball that everything you need to compile the program, other than the standard C, and C++ libraries are included with the rest of the source code. Otherwise I would have grabbed the RPM. I didn't get the RPM because I wanted just to recompile to allow for a different sound card and installing a kernel from an RPM can get a little messy. Whereas booting a kernel that has been compiled is much cleaner and offers far more control over it and the system. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 1:37pm ,John Rye spake passionately in a message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a compilable kernel anywhere on this planet that will not bail on your with a ridiculous error making it impossible to update or recompile your kernel in any manner? Below is the result of my latest attempt to configure and compile a linux kernel. This one is 2.4.0-test9. Frankly I'm beginning to think its a lost stinkin cause. sincerely fed up and frustrated, Mark Ummmok first you are going to have to do some digging to find out what you need for the header/include files you are missing OR if you have them ... check to see where the current tree (for the compile) is looking for them. Can you send the output from a find / -name errno.h none of what you have posted is *post* compilation and it looks like it couldn't create the .o files to link in in order to continue. Compiling isn't always as easy as "./configure, make, make install" ;-) or make make bzImage make dep make modules etc etc, trouble shoot this first by figuring out where the missing includes are or if you have them "usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory" (you may have to look in the Makefile(s) to see what the root dir is in order to find out "where" it thinks linux/errno.h is or what linux actually is pointing to ... its usually a sym link to the CURRENT kernel source ls -l should be pretty easy to work from there =o) -Lonny + In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36, from scripts/split-include.c:26: /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory snip Did you download the matching kernal-headers? I had something similar when I attempted my first kernal compile on 2.2.16 from a tarball. Cheers I agree that all should be there in the tarball as well, I don't remember which files the complier couldn't locate nor which files had the 'funny' missing character errors, as I said earlier I hunted thru the files referenced but couldn't see where the error was coming from. Bearing mind that it's more than 10 years since I did any C programming, it probably something very obvious to someone else. I think that what got to me most was the errors appeared to be random from one run to the next. I was attempting 2.2.17 - just wouldn't go so pulled 2.2.16 down and tried that. For what ever reason - it worked!! Sorry mate - I don't have an answer, Maybe you need to throw this one into the expert list? Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Xmms
I am no expret, but this is what i did to solve problem In XMMS Options - Preferences - click on OSS-Driver 123 Configure button, go to buffering and increase this to maximum 1ms, I did that and have no more problems.
RE: [newbie] Install problems
I have one IDE drive hooked up to an Ultra ATA/66. Even if I select "no" at the prompt, it brings it back up...(sigh) -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: But, I don't have a SCSI card. That's the whole problem. Whether I press yes or no, it stalls at that point in the installation. Whoa - hang one here.. You don't have any SCSI cards? But - from your original posting you are answering YES to the question about SCSI drives Why?? What type(s) of drive do you have? Give it another burst - this time say NO to the SCSI question.. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:00 AM To: 'Newbie' Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems Chris, It sounds to me like the install program is having a hard time with your SCSI card. You might try running the installation after removing the card. I have a feeling that it will install just fine after that. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 1:36pm ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake...: I have yet another question. Last night, I tried to add Linux MDK 7.1 to my computer. I have a 4gig HD and the first 2gigs are devoted to Winbloze. The second 2 are setup to take Linux. Here is my problem. I boot from the CD and start the 7.1 install. I pick the automated install and continue. It gets to a point were it asks me if I have any SCSI drives on my machine. I tell it yes, pick the appropriate driver and attempt to continue. It asks yet again, "Do you have any SCSI drives?" This time, I pick no and it asks me again, and again, and again. I'm stuck! It will not go past this point. So, I tried running the Customized install and the Expert install and I hit similar snags. I'm getting very frustrated. Am I doing something wrong? I have done an install of 7.1 before on this HD. The only difference is that the HD has Winbloze on it now. Before it was clean. Help Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] MOBO Change Question
I've this just this succesfully a couple of times... the only thing I had to worry about was the PnP settings in the BIOS, which altered the order in which the NICs were found and set up, and some other BIOS settings which were drastically different from the previous board/CPU. I don't believe you should need to re-install unless you've tried changing the BIOS settings to the point of insanity, and still haven't gottten anywhere. As long as there is no real major hardware/driver conflict I would think all should go well. Mine, also, could be a uniquely easy case. I don't know. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] John, I just did the CPU and MB. Linux wouldn't load for me because (i think) the I/O ports changed. That is why I am having the (re)install problems... -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] MOBO Change Question I'm about to change my mobo amd cpu. Can (may) I do just that and expect everything to carry on as it does at present except somewhat quicker? I'm moving from Pentium 120 to AMD K6 on an Epox MVP3E Atx motherboard and expect to just powerdown swap cards and drives and re-power. Do I expect to much here? Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] new problem with memory
If you are using lilo to boot, add (as the very first line) the following: append="mem=128M" re-run lilo, re-boot, and you should be fine. If you are running Grub... can't help ya there--never seen it, never used it, never tried to look for it. Sorry. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Emerhawk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I installed another 64 megs of memory on my machine. Total of 128 megs. Linux is only recoginizing 64 megs. Does anyone Know how to get Linux to locate the extra memory. Thanks Emerhawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] MOBO Change Question
John: To reinforce Greg's posting, I made a simple (I thought) motherboard upgrade in June, and it was not as painless as I'd expected. Going over my log, the problems were related to IRQ assignments, BIOS settings and stuff like that. Getting the Win98SE half of this beast operational was particularly troublesome. It took several evenings. Great quantities of amber fluids and nicotine were consumed (there being no hair left to tear out), and the air was filled with profane mutterings about a certain Bill G. It must be noted that the Penguin was not particularly happy with the change, either, but once the settings mess was resolved, Mandrake bought into the deal, and pretty much said, "OK, big deal. So you spent a few bucks. Now what?" All that I did was to use the bootdisk and CD-ROM, select upgrade, and ten minutes later I was on the web. YMMV. And RTFineM -- several times. And, if the new board uses the VIA chipset, pay attention. Finally, enjoy the new system. (And how many UNIX installations are there now? My guess is at least 200.) -- Best regards -- Carroll Greg Stewart wrote: I've this just this succesfully a couple of times... the only thing I had to worry about was the PnP settings in the BIOS, which altered the order in which the NICs were found and set up, and some other BIOS settings which were drastically different from the previous board/CPU. I don't believe you should need to re-install unless you've tried changing the BIOS settings to the point of insanity, and still haven't gottten anywhere. As long as there is no real major hardware/driver conflict I would think all should go well. Mine, also, could be a uniquely easy case. I don't know. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] John, I just did the CPU and MB. Linux wouldn't load for me because (i think) the I/O ports changed. That is why I am having the (re)install problems... -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] MOBO Change Question I'm about to change my mobo amd cpu. Can (may) I do just that and expect everything to carry on as it does at present except somewhat quicker? I'm moving from Pentium 120 to AMD K6 on an Epox MVP3E Atx motherboard and expect to just powerdown swap cards and drives and re-power. Do I expect to much here? Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] sound card stopped working
I have installed Mandrake 7.1 just recently and everything was just fine! except that a few days ago, I decided to try an MPEG program called MTV. A little bit later I realized that my sound card stopped working. Of course I have finally removed the program, wishing the sound card would come back to life again. I have rebooted the computer but with no success. I do not know how my original files were changed and which ones are used to configure the sound card. I sought a configuration tool to check it but I could not find any. Please, do you know how can I restore my sound card functions? Sincerely, Paulo Godoi
Re: [newbie] new problem with memory
Emerhawk: If you're using grub, become the superuser, call up an editor, and load /boot/grub/menu.lst. Just under the line title linux there is a line: kernel (hd1, 0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 (or something similar) change it to read: kernel (hd1, 0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 mem=128M Reboot and put that new chip to work. (Something I learned 2 weeks ago here.) Regards, -- carroll Greg Stewart wrote: If you are using lilo to boot, add (as the very first line) the following: append="mem=128M" re-run lilo, re-boot, and you should be fine. If you are running Grub... can't help ya there--never seen it, never used it, never tried to look for it. Sorry. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Emerhawk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I installed another 64 megs of memory on my machine. Total of 128 megs. Linux is only recoginizing 64 megs. Does anyone Know how to get Linux to locate the extra memory. Thanks Emerhawk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] confusing logitech wheel mouse
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote: hi about 2-3 months ago , thanks to this newletter , i managed to installed wheel on my LM 7.0 . now i have installed LM 7.1 . the confusing part is i have both XF86Config and XF86Config-4 in my /etc/X11 folder. so i edited both of them according the description on mandrakeuser.org and linuxbrit.co.uk and copied imwheelrc as .imwheelrc to home directory with right permissions. sad part begins when i login as non su user and run imwheel -k i get an error massage as following :file or folder does not exist.imwheel process could not be verified.imwheel file could not be removed. operation not permitted." the only way of getting the wheel to run is using su command. do u have any suggestion about what i should do to get imwheel running without using su ? what shall i do to make it autostart ? thanks in advance This is a newbie answering but I've been where you are. Yes you can put it in your autostart folder. First you must make a kdelink for it which you put in the autostart folder. To create a kdelink on your desktop, right mouse click/new/folder. Put in a name like imwheel.kdelink. Under execute put in imwheel -k. Close it and then drag it into your autostart folder. The anser to the su problem is that when su starts up it runs imwheel -k replacing it with a imwheel.pid that su created and owns. The normal user cannot overwrite it and thus imwheel is non functional in the user world. To correct this, you need to put imwheel -k in your root (the su) bash_logout file. That causes it to kill its own imwheel.pid when it exits and thus allows the user to create another one that the user owns and works for him. I hope this helps. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: [newbie] TAR Issue
Well everything was working fine. I was on my third tape when it reached ./proc/kcore and it just sat there! I tried the whole routine again, and once again it died in the same place with different tapes. What is ./proc/kcore? Anybody know how I can get around this situation? I want a total back up of my system before I install Mandrake 7.1! BTW- Can I upgrade form 6.0 to 7.1 with minimal impact on PHP PostgreSQL etc? [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/19/2000 02:20:43 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Lad Gaal/MarconiMedical) Subject: Re: [newbie] TAR Issue "Lad. Gaal" wrote: I want to back up the hard drives on my unit to a SCSI 8mm tape (exabyte 8205) drive. For the life of me I can't figure out how to get the tar command to go more than one tape. [...] I've tried tar -cvf /dev/tape /. but when the tape fills it dies, so I tried tar -cvLf /dev/tape /. I just get a bunch of ASII across the monitor. Try this one : tar cMvf /dev/tape / This will create a multi-volume archive. But maybe if you compressed it (with the 'z' flag), it would take only one tape. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~!
Re: [newbie] TAR Issue
Nothing in /proc is "really" a file. These are generated by the kernel when you cat the file for information. They appear as files... but only "somtain" something when reqeusted. You should leave this directory out of your backup as it will be re-created should you need to restore. --Greg - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well everything was working fine. I was on my third tape when it reached ./proc/kcore and it just sat there! I tried the whole routine again, and once again it died in the same place with different tapes. What is ./proc/kcore? Anybody know how I can get around this situation? I want a total back up of my system before I install Mandrake 7.1! BTW- Can I upgrade form 6.0 to 7.1 with minimal impact on PHP PostgreSQL etc? [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/19/2000 02:20:43 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Lad Gaal/MarconiMedical) Subject: Re: [newbie] TAR Issue "Lad. Gaal" wrote: I want to back up the hard drives on my unit to a SCSI 8mm tape (exabyte 8205) drive. For the life of me I can't figure out how to get the tar command to go more than one tape. [...] I've tried tar -cvf /dev/tape /. but when the tape fills it dies, so I tried tar -cvLf /dev/tape /. I just get a bunch of ASII across the monitor. Try this one : tar cMvf /dev/tape / This will create a multi-volume archive. But maybe if you compressed it (with the 'z' flag), it would take only one tape. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~! __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Install problems
If your ultra interface is a plug in card some of these look like SCSI cards to the software. I have a promise card which always detects as a SCSI controller. What is your motherboard and IDE interface etc?? Rod - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 3:38 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Install problems I have one IDE drive hooked up to an Ultra ATA/66. Even if I select "no" at the prompt, it brings it back up...(sigh) -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: But, I don't have a SCSI card. That's the whole problem. Whether I press yes or no, it stalls at that point in the installation. Whoa - hang one here.. You don't have any SCSI cards? But - from your original posting you are answering YES to the question about SCSI drives Why?? What type(s) of drive do you have? Give it another burst - this time say NO to the SCSI question.. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:00 AM To: 'Newbie' Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems Chris, It sounds to me like the install program is having a hard time with your SCSI card. You might try running the installation after removing the card. I have a feeling that it will install just fine after that. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 1:36pm ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake...: I have yet another question. Last night, I tried to add Linux MDK 7.1 to my computer. I have a 4gig HD and the first 2gigs are devoted to Winbloze. The second 2 are setup to take Linux. Here is my problem. I boot from the CD and start the 7.1 install. I pick the automated install and continue. It gets to a point were it asks me if I have any SCSI drives on my machine. I tell it yes, pick the appropriate driver and attempt to continue. It asks yet again, "Do you have any SCSI drives?" This time, I pick no and it asks me again, and again, and again. I'm stuck! It will not go past this point. So, I tried running the Customized install and the Expert install and I hit similar snags. I'm getting very frustrated. Am I doing something wrong? I have done an install of 7.1 before on this HD. The only difference is that the HD has Winbloze on it now. Before it was clean. Help Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
[newbie] XServer woes ....
Hi all, I have installed Ulysses on my thinkpad 365XD. It runs fine at runlevel 3 (without X) but trying 'startx' causes the display to go into block mode... not nice. I decided to run through xf86config and setup the TRIDENT CYBER 9320 (which is the specific graphics chipset) - no avail. exactly the same result I then tried using a standard VGA configuration - still no luck. Worse still, when I exit 'X', my character mode VGA display is screwed up, I have to reboot to get back to something readable. Any advice on where I go to from here ? thx. Garry PS. The machine only has 24MB ram, but I paired down the install to reduce overhead - could this impact X ?
[RE: [newbie] MOBO Change Question]
Just make sure that you have your kudzu or hardrake setup to run at startup. That way it can make the proper changes to your system upon reboot. Cheers --Al "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, I just did the CPU and MB. Linux wouldn't load for me because (i think) the I/O ports changed. That is why I am having the (re)install problems... -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] MOBO Change Question I'm about to change my mobo amd cpu. Can (may) I do just that and expect everything to carry on as it does at present except somewhat quicker? I'm moving from Pentium 120 to AMD K6 on an Epox MVP3E Atx motherboard and expect to just powerdown swap cards and drives and re-power. Do I expect to much here? Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [RE: [newbie] Install problems]
Do you have a CD burner on your computer? If you do then it is perfectly normal for Linux to install the SCSI support as it recognizes a CD burner as a SCSI whether it is one or not. If the answer is yes to my question then just let it be because without it you don't have a CD burner. Cheers --Al "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one IDE drive hooked up to an Ultra ATA/66. Even if I select "no" at the prompt, it brings it back up...(sigh) -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: But, I don't have a SCSI card. That's the whole problem. Whether I press yes or no, it stalls at that point in the installation. Whoa - hang one here.. You don't have any SCSI cards? But - from your original posting you are answering YES to the question about SCSI drives Why?? What type(s) of drive do you have? Give it another burst - this time say NO to the SCSI question.. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:00 AM To: 'Newbie' Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems Chris, It sounds to me like the install program is having a hard time with your SCSI card. You might try running the installation after removing the card. I have a feeling that it will install just fine after that. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 1:36pm ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake...: I have yet another question. Last night, I tried to add Linux MDK 7.1 to my computer. I have a 4gig HD and the first 2gigs are devoted to Winbloze. The second 2 are setup to take Linux. Here is my problem. I boot from the CD and start the 7.1 install. I pick the automated install and continue. It gets to a point were it asks me if I have any SCSI drives on my machine. I tell it yes, pick the appropriate driver and attempt to continue. It asks yet again, "Do you have any SCSI drives?" This time, I pick no and it asks me again, and again, and again. I'm stuck! It will not go past this point. So, I tried running the Customized install and the Expert install and I hit similar snags. I'm getting very frustrated. Am I doing something wrong? I have done an install of 7.1 before on this HD. The only difference is that the HD has Winbloze on it now. Before it was clean. Help Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [[newbie] missing emacs, kpackage, etc.]
The installation class was customized. Did it give you the option to install %100 of the server packages or did you accidentally trim them to a lower number yourself? Also you could have "inadvertantly" or "accidentally" (as the evil empire would call it) unselected package options. i.e. Archiving Communications Development Packages etc. etc. etc. I know this because I'm a veteran of installations and upgrades. I had alot of trips and slips on the way to where I am now. Cheers --Al "Cam Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed mandrake 7.1 on a new hard drive using the second installation class (forgot term but not automated or expert) then selected server type and continued. After all was complete, I was missing emacs, the autoupdater, kpackage, the graphical linuxconf, harddrake, and a few others. Has anyone else had these problems? How can I get them back without trying a totally new install? Thanks in advance. *** Cam Grant, M.Sc. P.Eng. VE3CA, President Grant Systems Engineering Inc. Tel: (905)895-9436 Fax: (905)836-8365 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.grant.ca Pager Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (100 char max) *** Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
[newbie] iostream existence in Mandrake
Given that I lost 4h this morning doing 4 different installs of Linux I thought I'd give an accounting of what I found regarding the ANSI C++ library. Unfortunately I no longer have my earlier 7.1 disks (where the problem all started as I gave that package to a friend. A quick recap of that, however. I installed 7.1 from the disk that came with Maximum Linux. I found that the ANSI C++ library wasn't on my system. In looking around I found that the actual library is called libstdc++ and should reside with the other libraries in /usr/lib. John Rye took the time to tell me that the include files should be in /usr/include/g++. I gave my old disk away because I recently bought a copy of 7.1 Complete. This particular copy can be identified from earlier releases of 7.1 as it now includes Star Office 5.2 and some other stuff which are marked with "New" on the box. I did an expert install and included EVERYTHING in the development section. I can report that there was a single file listed under C++ and it's description said that it was the compile but that the ANSI library was not part of that package.. All of this was verified as being true when I checked at the end of the distribution...no ANSI C++ library in this copy of 7.1 Last night I downloaded the Oct 12th version of Ulysses which is supposed to be the final (except for bug fixes) that we're going to see on the market at 7.2. This is a newer version than the original Sept 22 version. I burned some isos and did some installs. This version still gives me garbage as LILO should be starting but if I boot from the floppy I get the graphical LILO interface and once in LM the video works fine. I don't know what that means and it's not relevant to the C++ quest. When I did a normal install there is no ANSI C++ library in the resultant installation. An interesting thing that I realized only in hindsight is that I didn't remember being asked if I wanted developer, workstation, or server as we've been asked in the past. So, I did another install, this time in expert mode. They seemed to have fixed the network card lookup as not only did it find it, it let me configure rp-pppoe during the installation. Because they're using CUPs and Gimp-print there's a lot more printer support as well. This version also identifies my sound card properly and actually installs it. Previous versions seemed to know what it was but I always had to run sndconfig to get it work. Again, this doesn't have anything todo with C++ but I thought I'd mention some of these nice additions Once into package selection I'm greated with several C++ packages, including the ANSI C++ library. Yippee!!! What's interesting is that the result following installation is that libstdc++ is right where I expect it but in /usr/include there are two, apparently identical directories (at least at the filename level) called g++-2 and g++-3 that include the ANSI header files. Lo and behold, C++ programs will compile under this installation. What I'd REALLY like to understand is why some of you have iostream in 7.1 and others do not. This somewhat confirms my view that all versions of versions aren't equal. Those different iso sizes do have meaning methinks. Thanks to all who provided assistance. I'm hoping I don't have to do another install for a while...Oh...did I mention that in the process I screwed up my working installation so I had to reinstall it as well :-) Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] mandrake 7.1 vs sound
hello i am a newbie and i have a problem. i have a cmi 8330 cs sound card which is supported by linux, but the problem i am running into is that i can not get any sound out of my system. i go to the configuration program and get errors, (which i do not understand) i have tried to change the settings for the card and still keep getting the errors. i know that it sees the card and states what kind of card it is i have also enabled sound for the x desktop, but alas, no sound. is there something else i need to do, something i need to download. (i.e. css) if there is, what it tar and gunzip and where do i get them if this is what i need. please help, i really want to learn linux and try to get away from microsoft windows as much as i can. thank you rick
RE: [[newbie] missing emacs, kpackage, etc.]
Thanks Al. No, I am almost certain it was at 100%. I thought the server configuration may have left it out, but I guess I will have to reinstall if it worked for others. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Altoine Barker Sent: October 19, 2000 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] missing emacs, kpackage, etc.] The installation class was customized. Did it give you the option to install %100 of the server packages or did you accidentally trim them to a lower number yourself? Also you could have "inadvertantly" or "accidentally" (as the evil empire would call it) unselected package options. i.e. Archiving Communications Development Packages etc. etc. etc. I know this because I'm a veteran of installations and upgrades. I had alot of trips and slips on the way to where I am now. Cheers --Al "Cam Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed mandrake 7.1 on a new hard drive using the second installation class (forgot term but not automated or expert) then selected server type and continued. After all was complete, I was missing emacs, the autoupdater, kpackage, the graphical linuxconf, harddrake, and a few others. Has anyone else had these problems? How can I get them back without trying a totally new install? Thanks in advance. *** Cam Grant, M.Sc. P.Eng. VE3CA, President Grant Systems Engineering Inc. Tel: (905)895-9436 Fax: (905)836-8365 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.grant.ca Pager Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (100 char max) *** Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
[newbie] port forwarding of a range of ports
While there is lots of documentation on using ipchains and ipmasqadm to forward ports, nothing I can find can allow you to assign a large range (i.e. udp 1024 to 65535 for netmeeting). Does anyone know how to beat this other than making entries for each port? thanks in advance *** Cam Grant, M.Sc. P.Eng. VE3CA, President Grant Systems Engineering Inc. Tel: (905)895-9436 Fax: (905)836-8365 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.grant.ca Pager Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (100 char max) ***
Re: [newbie] Install problems
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: I have one IDE drive hooked up to an Ultra ATA/66. Even if I select "no" at the prompt, it brings it back up...(sigh) Does LM 7.1 fully support ATA66? I seem to remember something about 7.2 would but can't recall where or when, I'm getting old and crotchetty. Somebody know about ATA66? -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] sound card stopped working
"Paulo H.C. Godoi" wrote: I have installed Mandrake 7.1 just recently and everything was just fine! except that a few days ago, I decided to try an MPEG program called MTV. A little bit later I realized that my sound card stopped working. Of course I have finally removed the program, wishing the sound card would come back to life again. I have rebooted the computer but with no success. I do not know how my original files were changed and which ones are used to configure the sound card. I sought a configuration tool to check it but I could not find any. Please, do you know how can I restore my sound card functions? Sincerely, Paulo Godoi Hi Paulo. Thats odd, I use MTV (MPEG TV, registered version) with my Soundblaster Xgamer Live! card, and I've had no problems at all. Sure it couldn't be something else? Any other software/hardware you might have installed or changed at about the same time? Talk to ya later... -- /\ DarkLord \/
[newbie] X windows on start-up
I have installed LM 7.1 again after trying a few other distros. Thats the problem with Linux being free. You can try as many different distros as you like. Anyhow I opted not to have X start automatically and when I logout of X the monitor shuts down and all I can do is give the three finger salute and reboot the system. Does anyone know how to configure X to start automatically? Thanks, John W _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] question about backing up over a network
Ok, here's the deal.we have a small lan consisting of three computers. One of the computers is runing Mandrake 7.1 and serves for IP masquerading, print server and file server along with an intranet web site. The next computer is running Windoze NT4.0 because one of our software suppliers requires it and the third computer is a laptop running dual boot MD-7.1 and windoze 98. I have samba set up and everything is running fine, all the computers talk to all the others and peace fills the world, or at least the office so far. :-) Now the problem, I have been using mondo to backup our linux server since it was being used to store all our critical data. Mondo generates multiple ISO images of our linux system that I can then burn to a CDRW which is installed on the linux box. What I am wanting to do is to generate ISO backup images of the other two computers (the win98 part of the dual booting laptop and the entire hardrive of the NT machine) and then transfer them to the linux server where they will get burned to CDRW. I also would like to be able to use these images to restore the backups without having to go through the tedious process of re-installing all the microsoft stuff first. This means that I want to be able to completely format the harddrives on the windoze machines and then stick in the CDRWs that I made, boot off of them and then restore the whole system (OS, programs and data) from them. I would really love for this to be something fairly simple that I can write into a script and leave alone overnight only having to use the linux machine for the actual CD burning over the weekend. I also need as cheap a solution as possible which is why i put linux on our server machine in the first place. Any advice, tips or comments are GREATLY appreciated. Thanks, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Install problems
7.1 is supposed to support ultra66. But it depends on the chipset I think, and if its a plug in card or not. Rod - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Install problems "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: I have one IDE drive hooked up to an Ultra ATA/66. Even if I select "no" at the prompt, it brings it back up...(sigh) Does LM 7.1 fully support ATA66? I seem to remember something about 7.2 would but can't recall where or when, I'm getting old and crotchetty. Somebody know about ATA66? -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] new problem with memory
tor, 19 okt 2000, skrev Emerhawk: I installed another 64 megs of memory on my machine. Total of 128 megs. Linux is only recoginizing 64 megs. Does anyone Know how to get Linux to locate the extra memory. Thanks Emerhawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] You must edit /etc/lilo.conf and put append="mem=128" ind the top -global- section You must run lilo to upgrade "itself" (boot record) reeboot with shutdown -r now. Gunnar
Re: [newbie] Linux
Mersudin Korkutovic wrote: Yasterday I buy LINUX 7.1 for Windows insttall that. When I turn on computer or click on icon on desktop for linux come out to enter host and I entered LOCAL DOMAIN it asks for PASSWORD and I enter password: podrinjac and ask for USER name and I enter user name podrinjac After that comes something out like this [podrinjac@localdomain podrinjac]$ what I need to put next to $ to start my linux. WHAT COMMAND = http://www.mersudin.cjb.net Type in: startx -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.1 vs sound
hi, well i ran into the same problem before i keep getting exactly what you are saying...try downloading "isapnptools" from http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/index.html and install it on your system and try running sndconfig again.. good luck TiGereYe - Accept No Substitues - No stress---No seas, No stem---No sticks __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
