[newbie-it] Ricompilazione Kernel Mandrake 7.2
Ho installato Mandrake 7.2 Sto tentando di ricompilare il Kernel, ma alla fine del processo mi da questo errore: drivers/sound/sounddrv.o: In function `start_cards': drivers/sound/sounddrv.o(.text+0x256c): undefined reference to `sound_preinit_lowlevel_drivers' drivers/sound/sounddrv.o(.text+0x2660): undefined reference to `sound_init_lowlevel_drivers' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Ho un Pentium 166 MMX Scheda Audio: Sound Blaster Awe 64 Scheda Video: S3 Trio 64 V2 (DX/GX) Scheda di Rete Ethernet Realtek RTL 8139 Ho provato a compilare il kernel disabilitando il supporto ai "lowlevel drivers", crea il kernel, ma poi quando eseguo "Make Modules" da nuovamente errore. ...se a qualcuno viene un'idea... grazie, Stefano.
Re: R: [newbie-it] star office come desktop in mndk-7.2
Il 09:14, sabato 13 gennaio 2001, scrivesti: Anche io vorrei riuscire ad installare star office ma i comandi che impartisco dove li devo impartire? per esempio: se io entro come root, e vorrei installare un programma, su quale cartella devo andare?...sulla cartella del programma..ma io nella mandr7.2 avevo il setup di installazione di Star Office direttamente nel menu di Kde ed partito da solo...e poi dipende da quale programma installi e che tipo di file ...se un rpm basta installarlo con Pakage manager sempre che le dipendenze siano soddisfatte ...se tar.gz devi scompattarlo con tar xvzf (nome programma) entrare nella cartella scompattata e poi fare nella shell: ./configure make make install nella maggior parte dei casi i comandi che tu scrivi di seguito dove devono essere inseriti? Questo se vuoi far partire Star Office come desktop da solo Ti devi creare un file in /etc/X11/wmsession.d con tutte le restanti impostazioni che hai letto qua. Ciao Fede - Original Message - From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] star office come desktop in mndk-7.2 ioadamo wrote: Configurazione di Star Office come desktop in mndk-7.2 .. drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 dic 24 20:28 wmsession.d/ A questo punto e` bastato copiare 01KDE in 03StarOffice NAME=StarOffice ICON= DESC=Star Office Environment EXEC=/usr/bin/soffice SCRIPT: exec /usr/bin/startsoffice Due cose: 1) cos'e` "startsoffice"? /usr/bin/startkde e` il programma di avvio di kde, "startsoffice" non l'ho mai sentito. $ which startsoffice /usr/bin/which: no startsoffice in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin) 2) in tutte e due gli exec metterei "$HOME/office52/soffice" in modo che ogni utente avvi il proprio soffice con le proprie configurazioni. Questo a meno che tu abbia messo personalmente un /usr/bin/soffice come link simbolico o come script ma non successo nulla e al momento del login non parte e mi ritorna la finestra di login. Se come exec gli dai dei programmi inesistenti e` naturale che non faccia nulla :-) ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] Mi presento!
Salve a tutti! Sono un nuovo arrivato. Ho appena instalato Linux Mandrake 7.2 su un vecchio PC 166, dopo aver tentato di installare la versione per Power Mac su un G4 (senza successo, per via di alcune schede non identificate che creavano un 'kernel panic' all'avvio - spero vada meglio con la nuova versione, che non, ho ancora provato). Ho gi un piccolo problema da sottoporre all'attenzione di chi vorr gentilmente aiutarmi: ho installato sul PC 166 una scheda USB economica, windows 98 l'ha riconosciuta, invece Linux me la segnala come hardware sconosciuto. A questo punto che posso fare per farla 'vedere' anche a Linux? grazie e a presto sergio -- Sergio Orrao ICQ 19394829 See my photos at: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=217794Auth=false and don't forget to sign the guest book!
[newbie-it] kernel 2.4, installazione?
Ho scaricato il kernel 2.4, ma ora, prima di fare qualche grosso pasticcio vorrei qualche dritta per sostituirlo al kernel esistente. Come posso fare? Grazie per l'eventuale aiuto
R: R: [newbie-it] star office come desktop in mndk-7.2
Ti ringrazio Fede ora provo e poi ti dico... - Original Message - From: ioadamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 6:37 PM Subject: Re: R: [newbie-it] star office come desktop in mndk-7.2 Il 09:14, sabato 13 gennaio 2001, scrivesti: Anche io vorrei riuscire ad installare star office ma i comandi che impartisco dove li devo impartire? per esempio: se io entro come root, e vorrei installare un programma, su quale cartella devo andare?...sulla cartella del programma..ma io nella mandr7.2 avevo il setup di installazione di Star Office direttamente nel menu di Kde ed partito da solo...e poi dipende da quale programma installi e che tipo di file ...se un rpm basta installarlo con Pakage manager sempre che le dipendenze siano soddisfatte ...se tar.gz devi scompattarlo con tar xvzf (nome programma) entrare nella cartella scompattata e poi fare nella shell: ./configure make make install nella maggior parte dei casi i comandi che tu scrivi di seguito dove devono essere inseriti? Questo se vuoi far partire Star Office come desktop da solo Ti devi creare un file in /etc/X11/wmsession.d con tutte le restanti impostazioni che hai letto qua. Ciao Fede - Original Message - From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] star office come desktop in mndk-7.2 ioadamo wrote: Configurazione di Star Office come desktop in mndk-7.2 .. drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 dic 24 20:28 wmsession.d/ A questo punto e` bastato copiare 01KDE in 03StarOffice NAME=StarOffice ICON= DESC=Star Office Environment EXEC=/usr/bin/soffice SCRIPT: exec /usr/bin/startsoffice Due cose: 1) cos'e` "startsoffice"? /usr/bin/startkde e` il programma di avvio di kde, "startsoffice" non l'ho mai sentito. $ which startsoffice /usr/bin/which: no startsoffice in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin) 2) in tutte e due gli exec metterei "$HOME/office52/soffice" in modo che ogni utente avvi il proprio soffice con le proprie configurazioni. Questo a meno che tu abbia messo personalmente un /usr/bin/soffice come link simbolico o come script ma non successo nulla e al momento del login non parte e mi ritorna la finestra di login. Se come exec gli dai dei programmi inesistenti e` naturale che non faccia nulla :-) ciao, Andrea
[newbie] Installing a printer on 7.1
I've got an Epson Color 850 I want to install on my Mandrake 7.1 system, but I ran into all kinds of dependency problems when trying ot install Kups 0.9-1, Cups 1.1.5-3, Cups-common, and Cups-drivers. Although, I was able to install the Red Hat rpms for Ghostscript 6.50-2 and Ghostscript fonts 6.0-2. What do I need to do now? Are there any good directions on the web? Any help appreciated, Victor
RE: [newbie] modem..kernel Hsp56 micromodem
This is a WinModem, created specifically to be run with Windows. There is an attempt to get WinModems to run with Linux, but you are much better off getting rid of your modem and getting a "real" one... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of german torres Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] modem..kernel Hsp56 micromodem some1 know what to do with my problem, i just get the right linux driver 4 my modem and now ther is a problem because of im using lnx4win and the driv3er said that it was 4 kernel 2.2.5 and ln4win is 2.2.17k im new at linux and i would like to know what to do, i dont know maybe updating kernel or something. thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] free VMWARE
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Emilio Correa wrote: VMware is a commercial product... Paul Hi, thanks for all whose answer my questions. I could fix my problem with kppp. No I wonder if exist a free version of VMWare and where I can download it and where to find information abut the free soft. Thanks on regards, Emilio -- Whats so fine with Pagans? They worship the ground you are walking on! http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
RE: [newbie] booting disaster
Boot your installation CD and type rescue at the prompt. Charles Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vicar In A Tutu Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 12:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] booting disaster Oh, all right, I'm an idiot. Flame away if you want to. The thing is, when I ran DiskMinder under Winbloze (I wanted to defrag the win partition, and the bloody thing saw "errors" on the hdd), it somehow mangled my boot sector (hint: never press enter thoughtlessly), so now the Mandrake partition won't boot! I've got about three or four reserve lilo floppies, but not one that would boot my current Mandrake 7.1. They all start a kernel panic while booting... any boot floppy images that look for your local Tux realm at /dev/hda5 lying around ??? Exasperated, Mickey, dropping his long string of titles out of despair.
Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux
yes...thank you MandrakeSoft. I'm in 100% agreement there with Dennis. I love what you're doing with this Distro. Absotlutely the best. :) Even if it does make me nuts sometimes. Just means I have more to learn. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, you wrote: http://www.upside.com/Open_Season/3a5b574d60.html HM. I'm afraid I agree with Mr. Poole. There's a difference between bloat and choice. Frankly, I like the choices I'm given with the Powerpack Deluxe. If I wanted just a desktop I would have stayed with the net d/l or bought the Deluxe box. This way I can try a lot of different things and work my way into development as I slowly learn how to do the programming. Thanks MandrakeSoft, I enjoy your product. Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64
Isn't glide for 3dfx based video cards ? Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, Don't really wanna "horn" in, but I've a simillar situation with my Diamond Viper 770D (it's got the tnt2 chip). With XFree4.01 it's almost dead. I'd installed the glide module some games picked up, but (I suppose those not using glide) are unchanged. Switched to the other XFree 3.xx?) with lm7.2, have little change.
Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux
Come now...taking over the world PC market isn't going to happen over night. It has to progress normally one PC and one user at a time. In my opinion what really needs to happen is that all the different distros and window managers need to quell "aLL" of the infighting and fussing that is going on between them, i.e. the Gnome - KDE war of this past summer, and show a united _LINUX_ front. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, john rigby wrote: Ha folks, The real problem with the slow uptake of the fantastic Linux System is that it *is* trying to be all things to all people. There is a VAST difference between the BASIC USER and the TRADITIONAL *ux HACKER. The 99.99% of people out in the Cyberbog that Linux NEEDS to reach/convert to save us all from Bill, do not need now, in the future, ever, ANY Development Tools. The ideal install situation is maybe a 2 disk set: Disk A: SIMPLE up-and-go basic Linux with USEABLE *OFFICE* APPLICATIONS vis: StarOffice, KDOffice, Browser, IE Lookalike Mail program and that is it. NO, repeat NO, Developer stuff needed. Disk B: All the Developer stuff - and certainly no GUI needed. Hackers like to get dirty and "change their own oil". :-) Cheers, John-The-Perpetually-Frustrated-User-ONLY- (Since Fortran and CP/M) - Original Message - From: "Adrian Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux quote from the artical: The week before Christmas, CNET News.com editor Todd Volz blasted most of the major commercial distributions, including Mandrakesoft, for shipping bloated product. While most of the bloat comes in the area of developer-oriented features, i.e. mulitple compilers, screen setting controls etc., Voltz viewed the business community's reluctance to slim things down for the regular user a distressing sign.
Re: [newbie] menu editor changes don't work
On Friday 12 January 2001 08:21 pm, bascule wrote: can someone tell me exactly what files menu editor edits I don't really know, but take a look at /home/user/.menu/menu Somewhere I saw a mini-howto on how to manually edit that file to add/ subtract menu items, but I don't remember where. i cannot therefore personalise my menus except by editing the icon files by hand and this only lasts until i logon again, this isn't th only sort of change that gets undone but that's another story i would be grateful if someone could help me to personalise my menus with some certainty of those change being permanent! bascule I had similar behavior, particularly for menu items I added for non-Mandrake apps I've added, and for some reason a few apps like Archiver. Here's my work-around. When the menus are how I want them, I copy /home/user/.kde/share/applnk/ (the dir and all it's files) to a bakup dir (eg, /home/tom/bakup/applnk). Then I logout as user and login as root. I start two instances of Konqueror, and drag the /home/user/bakup/applnk dir onto the /home/user/.kde/share/applnk/ dir and OK the overwrite. Really all I'm doing by this is to make root the owner and group of my user menus, and I also have menu bakup. I'm sure there's a more elegant way to do this, but I've been doin it this way since 7.2b3/KDE1.94. Thru numerous upgrades to KDE2, XF-4, etc. I've never lost my user menu changes. 'Course I have to go thru the above process all over again to add or delete anything on my menu, but it works, so I keep doin it this way. Also, some apps, eg, Staroffice, aren't 7.2 menu compatible. So you'll need to make your own menu item for those since, my method above won't keep them. Also, I don't use icons. I hate 'em. First thing I do after an install, any OS, is to delete all the icons in /Desktop to clean 'em off the desktop (trash can is a little difficult) ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] modem..kernel Hsp56 micromodem
On Friday 12 January 2001 08:08 pm, german torres wrote: some1 know what to do with my problem, i just get the right linux driver 4 my modem and now ther is a problem because of im using lnx4win and the driv3er said that it was 4 kernel 2.2.5 and ln4win is 2.2.17k im new at linux and i would like to know what to do, i dont know maybe updating kernel or something. thanks Here's your real problem http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001115080820 ... and the fix is to get a real modem -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Nutzo-insane RPM software
OK, I apologize for funnin with ya. But Michael's right, you'd only get that error with a current cooker, or an incompatible RH7 package. Please post the rpm's full name that you're tryin to install. It's possible to install cooker/RH7 rpm's, but you have to be very careful as to what, or you'll break your system. Current cooker RH7 is almost completely incompatible with 7.2 due to abrupt changes in glibc, rpm-4, gcc 2.96, etc. Your best chance is to get a cooker src rpm and rebuild it with 7.2's gcc-2.95.3/glibc-2.1.3. As simple as 'rpm --rebuild package'. Even then, the resulting rpm can be a system buster (which would be a 'user'error' ;). So what're ya tryin? Well that explains why me trying to go to upgrade my system somewhat was bombing all the time... Has anyone one managed to find a somewhat easy way to upgrade the system. There are so many interdependencies for the new kernel its a mess... I might try the above but would perfer to know if it will break the system before I do it... that way I can have my disks ready :^) Pascal Poirier 8^) ** "Time is just one damn thing after another!" -Anonyms Fifth Year Electrical Engineering Daltech, Nova Scotia **
Re: [newbie] menu editor changes don't work
On Saturday 13 January 2001 03:21, you wrote: can someone tell me exactly what files menu editor edits because on my system it does not edit those files under ~/.kde/share/applnk/i know this because if i use the menueditor to change the command for kpackage to include kdesu at the beginning it is not reflected in my menu, in fact menu editor reports the command to execute as kpackage -u, whereas ~/.kde/share/applnk/./kpackage.desktopright clickpropertiesexecute shows kpackage -u -caption etc.etc (or some such-it's definitely not the same though). if i change this here to read 'kdesu kpackage etc' then launching from the menu gives me a password box before launching kpackage BUT, AFTER I LOG OUT AND LOGON AGAIN it has been reset to launch kpackage in user mode, i cannot therefore personalise my menus except by editing the icon files by hand and this only lasts until i logon again, this isn't th only sort of change that gets undone but that's another story i'm using kde under lm7.2 i have always found this to be the case depite several reinstalls (for other reasons), the last reinstall was onto freshly formatted space incl. the /home partition. i would be grateful if someone could help me to personalise my menus with some certainty of those change being permanent! bascule do not use the kde menu editor... Do not use the editor off the panel bring up a terminal $ su - password: (root password) # cd /home/username # menudrake Make your changes in the menu and then hit the Save button and wait. When the message banner at the bottom says save completed--you are OK If you try to edit menus as a user with menudrake in a terminal, you will see that it fails to save to /etc/menu because the permissions are wrong. Civileme
[newbie] Dual PIII 600 7.2 install went well
Sometimes things just work. 7.2 Mandrake went on easier (much) than Win/98. Quite a pleasant surprise. I haven't tried the modems, yet, but all the basic stuff went in without a hitch, excepting my 640 x 480 Zenith Flatscreen, which the install code didn't like in combo with my 3D Blaster Savage4 card. I substituted a 1024 x 768 Optiquest 17" while the install was still running and it worked. System config: Gigabyte 6BXDS Dual Pentium MB (with IDE and Dual Adaptec 3895 UW SCSI Channels) 2 - Intel PIII 600's 512 mb SDRAM 2 - Seagate 18xl 5.4 ms UW SCSI 9.1 gb drives (one on each channel) 1 - IBM SCSI CD Boot 1 - Ricoh IDE CDRW MP7040A (not tested, yet) 1 - Motorola ModemSurfr 33.6k Internal Voice Modem 1 - US Robotics 56k Ext Voice Modem Pro (probably won't work), have Actiontec 56k Voice to swap 2 - SMC 10/100 Fast PCI Ethernet cards (from CDW for under $20 ea) 1 - Creative Ensoniq PCI Sound board (not tested) The 2nd Barracuda didn't get partitioned by the install, automatically, but I'm sure thats not major... BobC
[newbie] system hangs at LMK 7.2 installation
After problems installing Mandrake 7.0 (mouse didn't work) I've got LMK 7.2 and now I have an even worser problem: After booting from CD and loading the kernel, the system hangs with the message 'starting please wait'. I've already tried to boot from diskette and also using text- installation, but same problem. Is this a known bug? Chris my hardware: - Diamond Viper V330 4MB graphical interface - Asus SP98AGP-X mainboard - IBM 6x86MX-PR200 processor - 64 MB RAM (DIMMs) - IBM DHEA-36481UltraDMA/33 hard disk (6.5 Gigs) - SCSI-controller (SYM53C810) - Samsung SCR-3230 32x CDROM - Mitsumi CR-2600TE CD-writer and some more...
Re: [newbie] Earthlink and CHAP and PAP
On Friday 12 January 2001 09:28 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Strange. I've been logging on to Earthlink for four years using PAP. But Tom swears by CHAP. Well, I don't swear by, at it maybe ;) Here's how I got the correct Earthlink info before their Windoze CD came. I went over to a neighbor who reccommended EL to begin with. In lookin thru his windoze setup, besides different DNS numbers than EL gave me, I saw he was setup to use CHAP. EL support had told me PAP. Using the neighbor's info I was finally able to get a connection. A coup'la days later when my EL windoze CD came, I loaded it. It dials an 800 number during setup and gets the login info, even which local number(s) to call. It got the same DNS I got from my neighbor, and also set authentication to CHAP. BTW, as somebody already mentioned, there's no CHAP choice during Mandrake install/ppp setup. I asked 'em to add it in a post to the cooker list some time ago ... we'll see. I still believe most of EL's BS is the 6% market share NutScrap-Enterprise servers they use. If it wasn't for Aol and EL (No 1 No2), NUtScrap-E wouldn't even exist and Apache's share would rise to 70% ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Getting support
yes, and not to mention that is what this list is all about. by the way...I think the reply-to us broken on here. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, you wrote: Hey, I've registered my 7.2 and posted a question dated 12 Dec 2000. Till date I've not gotten any response from Mandrake. Anyone with a similar problem getting help from Mandrake? Well, while I've not actually posted via their site, I've issues with two of my cards (Diamond Viper 770D a Crystal Audio sound card (cs4236) had sent the info requested in drakconf to some MandrakeSoft address a few weeks ago. I've heard nothing from them but the auto-responder to let me know they'd got each of the e-mails. So, is MandrakeSoft any better at support than, say, M$? Meph I sent in an e-mail for support and got a response back in about 24 hours.
Re: [newbie] Gnome/v7.2 question.
You can make Gnome the default X mandager by setting it as such with Switchdesk. Once you're logged in and X is running it's on the menu somewhere, but I've always called it from a terminal. Just type in Switchesk, and then choose Gnome from the menu and tell it to apply the change. that's all there is to it. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: When it boots to the login box that wants either the user + password or root + password there is a button that has kde on it click on that button and all of the installed choices including gnome will drop down. Click gnome and pull up a mushroom. Oh, then click "go" sorry my strange sense of humor got in the way back there. grin Okay, first of all I didn't make my message clear enough. My brother and I both know how to change from a *graphical* login. Neither one of us do that though. We both boot up to the time-honored command line/prompt. So...how or what do you change from there to switch? Thanks! PS...or is it still easier to run DrakConf and set it to a graphical login, pick Gnome as default, then run DrakConf again, and tell it NOT to start X automagically? ;-) PSS I'd still like to know the other way, for curiosities sake... ;-)
Re: [newbie] Visor, jpilot, usb, and Mandrake 7.2
I've been trying for a few weeks now to do the same thing at work on my workstation but I've been unsuccessful so far. Is there a problem doing this with the Mdk 7.2 kernel that it requires kernel 2.4 to be able to sync with the Visor? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Aaron Zuercher wrote: Jim, I have a Visor, which I'm attempting to Sync with Mdk 7.2. Not much luck with the USB. So i bought a serial cradle, and that has wokrked fine. Once I upgrade to 2.4 I'm going to attempt the USB cradel again. Anyhow... about your problem... one thing that is different between the two computers is the chipset on your motherboard. With your older Pentium you had an Intel chipset (probaly VX or BX) But with your new Duron you've got a Via KT133 chipset. Now I don't know if this is the cuase of your problems or not, but its something to look into. Also, out of curiosity, at what point in the sync does it fail? I had some problems with jpilot trying to sync the mail program on my Visor, even whenI didn't use the mail program. Aaron On Saturday 16 December 2000 10:22, you wrote: Does anyone on this list use jpilot to sync their Handspring Visor via a USB cradle running Mandrake 7.2? I recently purchased a new PC. Though I never had problems with the above configuration on my ol' 133 MHz Pentium, my sync fails after only a few files on my new 700 MHz Duron. I'm wondering if the extra speed is the reason??? Thanks -- Jim http://www.lads.com/~jim
[newbie] Linux Mandrake update disk
Hi folks, I received in the mail a disk from MandrakeSoft for updates to KDE as well as some other patches. When I registered the boxed set of LM Powerpack Deluxe (the McMillan set) I checked a box indicating I would like the update when available. Well, three weeks later here it is and with the exception of two packages that said they weren't signed or GNUPG was incorrectly installed, the update took KDE 1.99 to KDE 2.0 and some other things that are transparent to me, all without a hitch. Thanks MandrakeSoft. Just wanted everyone to know that the company is working on customer satisfaction and I am. -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Nutzo-insane RPM software
On Saturday 13 January 2001 07:47 am, Pascal Poirier wrote: Has anyone one managed to find a somewhat easy way to upgrade the system. There are so many interdependencies for the new kernel its a mess... I might try the above but would perfer to know if it will break the system before I do it... that way I can have my disks ready :^) Most of the cooker rpms that have been rebuilt and 7.2 compatible are in a new dir, /unsupported, on cooker mirrors. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 I've found the European mirrors (France, Germany, Belgium) are the best maintained ones, quickest to be updated, YMMV There's a few other sources also, http://texstar2020.tripod.com and ftp://mandragon.org/pub/mandrake/I've used rpm's from all these sites without problems, YMMV Generally cooker src rpms can be rebuilt to your 7.2 system, but you might wanna read this first http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20010108083356mode=flat You can always keep your ear to the ground, find out what works/doesn't work with what after lurking on the cooker mailing list for a while. BUT please, it's for developers and active testers, so refrain from posting if you're not active in the development proccess. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Gnome/v7.2 question.
Ah .. the good old days but alas switchdesk doesn't come with 7.2 Greg Mark Weaver wrote: You can make Gnome the default X mandager by setting it as such with Switchdesk. Once you're logged in and X is running it's on the menu somewhere, but I've always called it from a terminal. Just type in Switchesk, and then choose Gnome from the menu and tell it to apply the change. that's all there is to it. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: When it boots to the login box that wants either the user + password or root + password there is a button that has kde on it click on that button and all of the installed choices including gnome will drop down. Click gnome and pull up a mushroom. Oh, then click "go" sorry my strange sense of humor got in the way back there. grin Okay, first of all I didn't make my message clear enough. My brother and I both know how to change from a *graphical* login. Neither one of us do that though. We both boot up to the time-honored command line/prompt. So...how or what do you change from there to switch? Thanks! PS...or is it still easier to run DrakConf and set it to a graphical login, pick Gnome as default, then run DrakConf again, and tell it NOT to start X automagically? ;-) PSS I'd still like to know the other way, for curiosities sake... ;-) -- It said use Windows 98 or better so I installed Linux.
[newbie] xf86config fails due to : warning server.......
hi all ! I am having troubles to setup my system with xf86config. The reason why i ran xf86config was my monitor shutting down to standby mode every 5 seconds when working in X. Upon being prompted to choose my video card from the list i didnt get the list but following error : Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9660 (generic) (line 2513) Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9680 (generic) (line 2519) Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident Cyber 9320 (generic) (line 2537) followed by a cancel of xf86config and a core dump, leaving me at command prompt. i have been searching this on deja and the mandrake mailing lists archives and found indeed lots of other people having the exact same problem, but none of them had a solution to this. my system : P200 MMX S3 TRIO 64UV+ video card mandrake 7.1 hope somebody of u can bring some light into this. thanx in advance, --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power
Re: [newbie] Kodak cameras
On Saturday 13 January 2001 01:29 am, you wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2001 04:29, you wrote: Has anyone set up a Kodak DC3400 to work in gphoto or whatever in linux. Or is there a site set up to check on drivers for digital cameras. Kodak support is ok but this camera isn't listed in gphoto. TIA for any help. I selected the DC 280 from the dropdown list. Not many of the functions of the DC 3400 work but I can download pictures. Now if only I could get the camera to work with the usb port instead of the serial port! I can't get a connection on usb either, and when I try on the serial port I get a message "missing serial device permissions--check permissions (see manual)". Does anyone know how I would set the serial device permissions? Thanks for any help, -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Gnome/v7.2 question.
Mark Weaver wrote: You can make Gnome the default X mandager by setting it as such with Switchdesk. Once you're logged in and X is running it's on the menu somewhere, but I've always called it from a terminal. Just type in Switchesk, and then choose Gnome from the menu and tell it to apply the change. that's all there is to it. -- Mark Coolness, Mark...thanks! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
[newbie] BIND File Missing
My dnskeygen file is missing in the following RPM: bind-8.2.2P5-1mdk.i586.rpm Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address in Cc: and my email address in To:. * Signed, SoloCDM
Re: [newbie] Gnome/v7.2 question.
maybe so, but I'd imagine you've still got your 7.1 disks around as I do and it wouldn't take but a few minutes to install the switchdesk package from the CD to the system. On Saturday 13 January 2001 09:55 am, you wrote: Ah .. the good old days but alas switchdesk doesn't come with 7.2 Greg Mark Weaver wrote: You can make Gnome the default X mandager by setting it as such with Switchdesk. Once you're logged in and X is running it's on the menu somewhere, but I've always called it from a terminal. Just type in Switchesk, and then choose Gnome from the menu and tell it to apply the change. that's all there is to it. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: When it boots to the login box that wants either the user + password or root + password there is a button that has kde on it click on that button and all of the installed choices including gnome will drop down. Click gnome and pull up a mushroom. Oh, then click "go" sorry my strange sense of humor got in the way back there. grin Okay, first of all I didn't make my message clear enough. My brother and I both know how to change from a *graphical* login. Neither one of us do that though. We both boot up to the time-honored command line/prompt. So...how or what do you change from there to switch? Thanks! PS...or is it still easier to run DrakConf and set it to a graphical login, pick Gnome as default, then run DrakConf again, and tell it NOT to start X automagically? ;-) PSS I'd still like to know the other way, for curiosities sake... ;-) -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
Re: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64
It's been a while since I'd read the docs, but I'm sure I'd installed it on the recommendation set there. Evidently, it was necessary in RH 6.0 for me to play the one accelerated game I could even compile -- Quake II. It also had a positive effect in lm7.2, as I can now get acceleration in a few games which before lagged for very long periods before indicating they'd not actually crashed;-). Meph Isn't glide for 3dfx based video cards ? Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, Don't really wanna "horn" in, but I've a similar situation with my Diamond Viper 770D (it's got the tnt2 chip). With XFree4.01 it's almost dead. I'd installed the glide module some games picked up, but (I suppose those not using glide) are unchanged. Switched to the other XFree 3.xx?) with lm7.2, have little change. -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Tomcat Apache (Suggestions Please)
This question is in regards to designing the best system for operating Tomcat and Apache on an LM 7.2 box. The knowns: First, the peak number of users is 2000 users in one night. Second, the hardware needs to be an Athlon system. Third, the hard drive must be a SCSI 40 GB. HOW would you design this system for the best performance so that every user who visits the site is quickly and properly served. Assumptions: The more RAM the better. Adaptec's SCSI 29160 Athlon 1.1 GHz ASUS A7V Has anyone tried a system similar to this? Any known issues or problems? In terms of the distribution :-) How much tweaking is going to be required to get this system PERFECT? Will all of the dependencies work out of the distro box? Will all of the drivers be present? Should the Kernel be moved to 2.4.0 before deploying the server? Apache in the 7.2 distro is optimized by SGI - any hiccups from these code changes between Apache and Tomcat? Do you see anything MAJORLY wrong with designing a system around Tomcat and Apache using LM 7.2? ___ Layne P. Heiny Linux Tests Webmaster Colored my first punch card in 1968 ICQ #9097776 AIM: DoubleLinux [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.linuxtests.org == Testing New PC Hardware under GNU/Linux =
Re: [newbie] Tomcat Apache (Suggestions Please)
I have an Athlon 900Mhz, 768Mb Ram, Asus A7V, but IDE Drives. Absolutely no Problems. Have fun, Good Luck. Do yourself a favor, though. Before installing, disable your Plug 'n' Pray in the BIOS. See if you can successfully disable ACPI as well. Install should go better. Dan - Original Message - From: "Linux Tests" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 11:36 AM Subject: [newbie] Tomcat Apache (Suggestions Please) This question is in regards to designing the best system for operating Tomcat and Apache on an LM 7.2 box. The knowns: First, the peak number of users is 2000 users in one night. Second, the hardware needs to be an Athlon system. Third, the hard drive must be a SCSI 40 GB. HOW would you design this system for the best performance so that every user who visits the site is quickly and properly served. Assumptions: The more RAM the better. Adaptec's SCSI 29160 Athlon 1.1 GHz ASUS A7V Has anyone tried a system similar to this? Any known issues or problems? In terms of the distribution :-) How much tweaking is going to be required to get this system PERFECT? Will all of the dependencies work out of the distro box? Will all of the drivers be present? Should the Kernel be moved to 2.4.0 before deploying the server? Apache in the 7.2 distro is optimized by SGI - any hiccups from these code changes between Apache and Tomcat? Do you see anything MAJORLY wrong with designing a system around Tomcat and Apache using LM 7.2? ___ Layne P. Heiny Linux Tests Webmaster Colored my first punch card in 1968 ICQ #9097776 AIM: DoubleLinux [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.linuxtests.org == Testing New PC Hardware under GNU/Linux =
[newbie] XFree86
Hello, I have found an RPM package that I need but I do not know where I can download it, the package that I need is called: XFree86-devel-4.0.1-26mdk and I found it at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72/index.php3?cd=installpwps=./XFree86-devel-4.0.1-26mdk.i586 The thing is I can not find the place to download it! If I click on the title I get sent back to the listing of RPM's. There I can of course find the the file that I want, but if I click that link I am back where I started again! I know what I want but I don't know where to get it, could someone give me a hint? /Tomas
[newbie] LM 7.2 as a Server
This semester as a project for a class i am hosting a ebsite on my own person;a server. I would like to here from some people who run web and ftp servers on LM systems about any problems they have encountered, advice they have to give, etc. about using Linux Mandrake as a server. How stable it is? How Secure can it be? Any advice would be much appreciated. -Dru
Re: [newbie] XFree86
Tomas Hurtig wrote: Hello, I have found an RPM package that I need but I do not know where I can download it, the package that I need is called: XFree86-devel-4.0.1-26mdk and I found it at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72/index.php3?cd=installpw ps=./XFree86-devel-4.0.1-26mdk.i586 The thing is I can not find the place to download it! If I click on the title I get sent back to the listing of RPM's. There I can of course find the the file that I want, but if I click that link I am back where I started again! I know what I want but I don't know where to get it, could someone give me a hint? /Tomas ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-devel-4.0.1-28mdk.i586.rpm -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Philips Acoustic Edge Sound Card
On Saturday 13 January 2001 02:47 pm, Wilson wrote: Does anybody know if this sound card works in Mandrake 7.2. I'm getting ready to purchase a new sound card and have heard good things about this one. If not guess I'll get the Soundblaster Live. Well, ya just haft'a ask yourself ... feelin lucky ? or like Dick Tracy ; 'SAA7785 PCI' research that sound chip and it's usabilitiy in anything but windoze. Then decide if ya want to fork out $75 (pricewatch) based on advertiser driven reviews. ps, it took me 2 minutes on Google to find out what chipset the card uses, "Philips Acoustic Edge" means nothin' -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] =ModeM-
im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) thanx __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] =ModeM-
On Saturday 13 January 2001 06:40 pm, german torres wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] menu editor changes don't work
thanks civileme, though guess this stills begs the question of what files menudrake is editing as my example of kpackage still holds, in menudrake the options to the command 'kpackage' consist of '-u' and thats it, in .kde/share/applnk/ they are '-caption and a few others', not the same! i get the message in a terminal message cannot open: /root/.menu but not if i cd to /root first in the same terminal so i'm guessing that running menudrake as root still edits the menus for the user whose home directory one is in? but then why would menudrake want to load anything from /root/.menu? okay now i'm really confused, i just looked, there is nothing in /root/.kde/share/applnk ! zip in /root/.menu and 3 items in ~user/.kde/menu the pedant in me is irked and that means some loss of sleep as i research this thing! right now after many attempts to add kdesu to the kpackage menu item i have two different entries reported by menudrake and a third different entry in the actual ~user/.kde.. .desktop file!, the file, menudrake run from the k menu or from the panel and menudrake run from a terminal as root while in /home/user it's a small thing i guess, but it speaks to the very usability and friendliness of the system, you are a user, you make a change to something that only affects you, it is after all the desktop that you as a user see, the changes should stay changed, if for any reason the system allows root to prevent such changing in office workstation scenarios then you should be told OY! NO!, not instead allowed to mess with the system only to have all the changes disappesar at next login, now that could really lead to office timewasting! ah zebedee, there you are! bascule bascule do not use the kde menu editor... Do not use the editor off the panel bring up a terminal $ su - password: (root password) # cd /home/username # menudrake Make your changes in the menu and then hit the Save button and wait. When the message banner at the bottom says save completed--you are OK If you try to edit menus as a user with menudrake in a terminal, you will see that it fails to save to /etc/menu because the permissions are wrong. Civileme
Re: [newbie] =ModeM-
german torres wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) thanx __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ USR V-everything external. Expensive, has every bell and whistle and every setting is configurable. But really, any external serial modem will work, and work well with linux. I have the above modem, an old Hayes 56K external, a regular sportster external, and a Phoebe ISA internal with a Cirrus Logic chip--all work fine, but avoid any possible hassles and get an external serial port modem.
Re: [newbie] XFree86
On Saturday 13 January 2001 05:32 pm, Tomas Hurtig wrote: I have found an RPM package that I need but I do not know where I can download it, the package that I need is called: XFree86-devel-4.0.1-26mdk and I found it at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72/index.php3?cd=installpwps=./XFre e86-devel-4.0.1-26mdk.i586 The thing is I can not find the place to download it! If I click on the title I get sent back to the listing of RPM's. There I can of course find the the file that I want, but if I click that link I am back where I started again! I know what I want but I don't know where to get it, could someone give me a hint? On how to search? at http://ftpsearch.lycos.com a search on XFree86-devel-4.0.1-2?mdk (ask yourself next if you wanna be messin' with cooker ;) returns (as many as you ask for:) : 1 -rw-r--r--1.7M 2000 Oct 27 ftp.darenet.dk /mirrors/new/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-devel-4.0.1-28mdk.i586.rpm [ftp sites 2 thru 30 deleted to spare y'all] 31 -r--r--r--1.7M 2000 Oct 20 ftp.uni-kassel.de /Mirrors/ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-devel-4.0.1-28mdk.i586.rpm ... and another zillion below patch level 28, includin' a bunch of 26mdk's. Judgin' by the dates/version tho, they're all very obsolete. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] hdd: packet command error
I'm trying to use an older CD-ROM drive, but am getting error messages at
startup. I have a dual boot machine and the CD-ROM drive works ok under
Windows. I have included the output of dmesg.
Thanks, Jon Dowd
Linux version 2.2.17-21mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3
19991030 (prerelease)) #1 Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000
Detected 501134 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 999.42 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127668k/131072k available (1136k kernel code, 416k reserved, 1724k
data, 128k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K L1 D Cache: 32K
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb490, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: chipset revision 194
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2800-0x2807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2808-0x280f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: ST310212A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ST34340A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: FX400D, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: ST310212A, 9768MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1245/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: ST34340A, 4103MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=8894/15/63, DMA
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: packet command error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error }
hdd: packet command error: error=0x04
hdd: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdd: drive not ready for command
ATAPI device hdd:
Error: No sense data -- (Sense key=0x00)
No additional sense information -- (asc=0x00, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Mode Sense 10" packet command was:
"5a 00 2a 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 "
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: packet command error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error }
hdd: packet command error: error=0x04
hdd: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdd: drive not ready for command
hdd: lost interrupt
ATAPI device hdd:
Unknown Error Type: No sense data -- (Sense key=0x00)
No additional sense information -- (asc=0x00, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Mode Sense 10" packet command was:
"5a 00 2a 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 "
hdd: request sense failure: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error }
hdd: request sense failure: error=0x04
hdd: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdd: drive not ready for command
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: packet command error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error }
hdd: packet command error: error=0x04
hdd: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdd: drive not ready for command
hdd: lost interrupt
ATAPI device hdd:
Unknown Error Type: No sense data -- (Sense key=0x00)
No additional sense information -- (asc=0x00, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Mode Sense 10" packet command was:
"5a 00 2a 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 "
hdd: request sense failure: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error }
hdd: request sense failure: error=0x04
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 1053.846 MB/sec
p5_mmx: 993.648 MB/sec
8regs : 709.041 MB/sec
32regs: 456.438 MB/sec
using fastest function: pII_mmx (1053.846 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda3 hda4
hdd: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdd: drive not ready for command
hdd:
Re: [newbie] =ModeM-
On Sunday 14 January 2001 12:51 am, you wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2001 06:40 pm, german torres wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html Do the research like Tom shows above so that you have a good idea of what to look for and what to reject. Now, in my case I have two internal and 1external modems. The external and 1 internal are Best Data Modems. That doesn't tell you much except that as a general rule external modems that say on the box " works with all operating systems" will and internal modems that are jumpered so that you can preconfigure the IRQ and Com Port are generally ok with linux whether they be ISA or PCI architecture. The key is generally. So find the ones that are not winmodems in the online websites and go shopping accordingly. By the way Best Data Modems say right on the box.."works with linux OS". Have fun, -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
[newbie] floppy permissions query
Icon on desktop as per default on installation, but access not permitted. Right click to Properties and ticking (already seemed correct) doesn't fix.
Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 08:48, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 12 January 2001 03:36 pm, Vic wrote: I would like to know why every time I attempt to install something worthless RPM says: "only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM" what bullsh** is this? user error The package was compiled for RPM 4, which comes with Red Hat 7 but not with Mandrake 7.2. These packages cannot be used with Mandrake (unless you install RPM 4, which is not recommended). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [newbie] VMware
Do you have the latest version of VMware? Earlier versions will not work in Mandrake 7.2. On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 02:57, James Hallam wrote: hi all, i am trying to get VMware to run on Mandrake 7.2 the install goes ok, but when i run the config script vmware-config.pl it throws back an error about half-way thru the set-up it asks something about header files. i was wondering if anyone came across this prob and if they managed to fix it the error it gives is : ... thanks in advance -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [newbie] hdd: packet command error
On Saturday 13 January 2001 07:33 pm, Jon Dowd wrote:
I'm trying to use an older CD-ROM drive, but am getting error
messages at startup. I have a dual boot machine and the CD-ROM drive
works ok under Windows. I have included the output of dmesg.
==
hdd: lost interrupt
==
hdc:hdc: irq timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
hdc: DMA disabled
Well, there's a lot there, but mostly it smacks of marginal and/or
misconfigured hardware. You've got some problems on ide1 (second ide),
_both_ drives (hdc and hdd) . "works ok under Windows" is a derogatory
statement. Windoze' claim to fame is a tolerance for poor hardware/
sloppy configuration. Hell, Billy seems to encourage it more'n
more lately.
Both the master HDD on ide1 and the slave Cdrom are havin problems.
Check your connections (eg, re-seat ide cable) and bios config's.
Double check the jumper setings. If one or both are set to 'cable
select', that might be the problem. hdc should be set MS, hdd should be
set SL, but it might be better to have that second ide HDD as a slave
on ide0(?) I've got'a feelin one or both those ide1 drives has a
yellow! by it in windoze device manager.
Post the results of (as root) 'hdparm -i /dev/hdc' and 'hdparm -i
/dev/hdd' plus 'hdparm -v /dev/hdc' and ../hdd' might help too.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] What Files must I edit to add a new window manager to the kdm login window
I've downloaded the latest windowmaker and installed in /usr/local. I used the kde control center - system - login manager to add a new entry to the menu of window manager choices offered at login time. Invoking this menu item doesn't work. (I get the icewm instead -- I think). Under MDK 7.1 I edited the file /etc/X11/window-managers in order to get the menu to actually do something. That file seems not to be present in my current installation of MDK 7.2. Has this information moved to a new file? Also, are there plans to have the kde control center do more than add the menu item (i.e., add the menu item and alter whatever files are necessary to cause the menu to work)?
Re: [newbie] Kmenu
I have the exact same problem and symptoms. If you get a reply I'd like to hear about it. Thanks in Advance. Dan - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 5:31 PM Subject: [newbie] Kmenu HELP-please !! I need help...in editing the kmenu system... when I click 0n the big "K" on the kpanel... I now see...4 menuitem LINKS to each app mentioned.. I tried re-installing kdebase, menu, and everything else I could think of in RPMsI tried SUing to root...and commanding: update-menus -v and menueditor both in user, and in root mode how can I fix this...? Shop online without a credit card http://www.rocketcash.com RocketCash, a NetZero subsidiary
Re: [newbie] =ModeM-
How about external USB modems? On 13 Jan 2001, at 17:30, eryl wrote: german torres wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) thanx __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ USR V-everything external. Expensive, has every bell and whistle and every setting is configurable. But really, any external serial modem will work, and work well with linux. I have the above modem, an old Hayes 56K external, a regular sportster external, and a Phoebe ISA internal with a Cirrus Logic chip--all work fine, but avoid any possible hassles and get an external serial port modem.
Re: [newbie] =ModeM-
On Saturday 13 January 2001 11:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about external USB modems? Some are win-modems. You can find out here http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] =ModeM-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about external USB modems? Not supported yet--and word is that many of these are actually Winmodems, so they probably won't (and shouldn't) be. How about it, anyone on the list hear of a USB modem that will actually work with linux? As far as USB goes, my feeling is that it's such a hassle now, that I simply don't attach it to any of my linux boxes, even though there is a lot of hardware supported. I use my wife's Win98 box as a network USB server for my printer, zip drive, and Sandisk (which doesn't support linux either, even though they are the biggest name in memory card readers). My linux boxes will read and write fine through the Win box, though. Hey, that means I've found a use for Windows! On 13 Jan 2001, at 17:30, eryl wrote: german torres wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) thanx
Re: [newbie] =ModeM-
At 13-01-2001 -0800, you wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) FYI I am using external 3Com U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem with Linux-Mandrake 7.1.The modem works; also 'cured' my Bios port IO conflict at 2f8 : com2 aka /dev/ttyS1.
[newbie] acrobat reader install
While trying to install acrobat reader 4.0 on Linux Mandrake 7 under KDE 2 I got this message. At this point I'm at a lose as to what to do next. The text below is copied form my terminal window. To accept the terms and conditions of this agreement enter "accept". To decline the terms and conditions of this agreement enter "decline". Please type "accept" to accept the terms and conditions license agreement; Type "decline" to exit. accept This installation requires 16MB of free disk space. Enter installation directory for Acrobat 4.0 [/usr/local/Acrobat4] Directory "/usr/local/Acrobat4" does not exist. Do you want to create it now? [y] y Installing platform independent files ... Done Installing platform dependent files ... Done ./INSTALL: ed: command not found ERROR installing /usr/local/Acrobat4/bin/acroread [root@localhost ILINXR.install]# Kenneth Legg
[newbie] sound card
Does anyone have a Mandrake Linux driver for my sound card? In Windows it works fine and the driver is called ESS Allegro-1 Device Manager Thanks in advance
[newbie] acrobat install
While trying to install acrobat reader 4.0 on Linux Mandrake 7 under KDE 2 I got this message. At this point I'm at a lose as to what to do next. The text below is copied form my terminal window. To accept the terms and conditions of this agreement enter "accept". To decline the terms and conditions of this agreement enter "decline". Please type "accept" to accept the terms and conditions license agreement; Type "decline" to exit. accept This installation requires 16MB of free disk space. Enter installation directory for Acrobat 4.0 [/usr/local/Acrobat4] Directory "/usr/local/Acrobat4" does not exist. Do you want to create it now? [y] y Installing platform independent files ... Done Installing platform dependent files ... Done ./INSTALL: ed: command not found ERROR installing /usr/local/Acrobat4/bin/acroread [root@localhost ILINXR.install]# Kenneth Legg
[newbie] mandrake boot problem
Hi All, I've been in the computer game a long time but new to linux... I just got an old compaq 6000 PC, 200mhz Pentium Pro, with a 6gig IDE Maxtor HDD, IDE cdrom, Matrox MGA video card. Blank HDD to install linux on. I installed mandrake a few days ago fine, no problems the instalation went great. The from console mode i did a reboot command. It reset and came up with the GRUB boot screen started linux automatically then almost right away says uncompressing kernel and the machine reboots. I tried failsafe mode did the same thing. So thought easy fix, format the drive and reload linux back on. Did that, but on the first bootup after installation, the same problem occured. I've tried everything from different video cards to resetting the bios etc. Any ideas? I'm ready to give up. Joel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] gcc compiler - no such file ...
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 15:20, you wrote: Hi all, I have installed some programs which use X11 and a compilation with gcc, I know, uses the option -lX11 to compiler look for libX11.so, which is in the /usr/include directory! OK! Actually, the libX11.so won't be in /usr/include, but in /usr/X11R6/lib. /usr/include is for header files, and /usr/X11R6/lib is for X libraries. xdrvr.c:38: X11/Xos.h: No such file or directory Most likely the X include files and/or libraries are not installed. Check your install media for fileswith 'devel' in their names. These are development RPMs that you need to install if you compile programs that use these services (for instance, if you have a program that uses the jpeg stuff, then you need to install the libjpeg and libjpeg-devel RPMs). Look for the XFree86-devel RPM on your install media and install it (rpm -i XFree86-devel-*.i586.rpm as root). Jose -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
[newbie] user icon and password at login..
i just installed LM 7.2. pls tell me how to solve following problems. 1. i don't want the icon of user to be displayed at login screen. how do i change this default setting. 2. when i enter the password it shows me the stars whereas i want nothing to be displayed at login screen thankx in advance --jiten
Re: [newbie] MP# encoder?
On Monday 08 January 2001 19:06, I previously wrote: Hmm. Last time I tried that one it was hard coded to use a different glibc than the one I had. I was running Redhat 6.0 (more or less) at that time. I will give it another try with Mandrake 7.2. OK, reinstalled the Music Match software. Upon running the supplied shell script (mmjb) I get two lines about not being able to stat /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom, which is OK since I don't have those things mounted. Then it sits for about a few minutes, and without giving any output, it just ends and goes back to the prompt. If I look at the system in another window using ps etc. I can tell that a few processes get created by this but they stay in sleep mode for the duration. I filled out a problem report with the MusicMatch people. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 and Mime Types
On Thursday 11 January 2001 11:18, you wrote: I would like to shift to Netscape 6 instead of 4.7x because of its ability to manage multiple e-mail accounts for a single Linux user (under 4.7x I had to keep a separate user account for each e-mail account). My problem is that the scripts which come with RealPlayer8 for Speaking of netscape 6, am I alone in not being able to run it? Netscape 4.7x runs OK, but after downloading netscape 6 and running it, all I get is a whole bunch of text about java services etc not working and then it's back to the shell prompt. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] mandrake boot problem
Joel Fitzgerald wrote: Hi All, I've been in the computer game a long time but new to linux... I just got an old compaq 6000 PC, 200mhz Pentium Pro, with a 6gig IDE Maxtor HDD, IDE cdrom, Matrox MGA video card. Blank HDD to install linux on. I installed mandrake a few days ago fine, no problems the instalation went great. The from console mode i did a reboot command. It reset and came up with the GRUB boot screen started linux automatically then almost right away says uncompressing kernel and the machine reboots. I tried failsafe mode did the same thing. So thought easy fix, format the drive and reload linux back on. Did that, but on the first bootup after installation, the same problem occured. I've tried everything from different video cards to resetting the bios etc. Any ideas? I'm ready to give up. Joel [EMAIL PROTECTED] My experience with spontaneous reboots is that it is a hardware problem (has been for me every time -- I'm an overclocker). So, my guess is it's iffy hardware, but I can't tell you which piece is the problem. I once searched for 3 months on a machine before I discovered my problem was a bad network card -- I finally found it when the darn card got so bad it would reboot another machine when I was transferring files. Who would have thunk that a network card would reboot a machine? Had the same thing happen when an ide controller died, and bad memory did it to me too. Since it happens during a disk read the first thing I would look at would be the hdd or the hd controller. Anyway, let us know what you find so that I can file it in the gray matter. BTW, hardware that is faulty may still operate with Windoze but linux is less forgiving.
