Re: [newbie-it]
meucci wrote: dopo un black-out il mio sistema linux mdrk 7.2 non sia avvia pi dicendo /dev/hda6:unexpected inconsistency, run fsck manually (i.e.,without-a or-p options) e ora ?che f? run fsck manually = lancia "fsck" a mano ( da una console) ossia, entra nel sistema con in modalita` console/single e lanci "fsck" senza le opzioni -a o -p. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] configurazione masterizzatore
Fiore Adolfo wrote: Ho recentemente installato Mandrake 7.2 su un Pentium III 450. Al termine dell'installazione il sistema vedeve regolarmente il masterizzatore ide Waitec e l'altro cdrom utilizzato per la lettura. Dopo aver settato la scheda audio Sb 16 (non riconosciuta automaticamente ma manualmente utilizzando soundconfig ) il sistema mi segnala che cambiato qualcosa nella configurazione e non vede pi il masterizzatore impedendomi di entrare e settare opportunamente X-Cd-Roast. Cosa pu essere successo ? forse sndconfig ha assegnato lo stesso IRQ del masterizzatore alla scheda audio. (?) Prova a vedere da kde-control-center (c'e` un'apposita utility) come sono assegnati gli irq e riconfigura la Sb16 assegnandogli un irq libero. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] I: Urgesi moduli
A chiunque abbia una mandrake 7.1 con kernel 2.2.15: Sareste cos gentili da inviarmi 3 moduli contenuti nella directory /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc, ve ne sarei immensamente grato (i miei li ho erroneamente sovrascritti con 3 pi vecchi per installare un modem asuscom isdn pci). I moduli incriminati sono: -1) isdn.o - 2) dss1_divert.o -3) hisax.o Grazie a chiunque voglia perdere tempo a fare ci! Germano
[newbie-it] java runtime environment
Ho scoperto Linux solo da poche settimane e sto cercando di iniziare i primi passi . Ho installato piu' volte Mandrake 7.2 nel tentativo di installare correttamente Start office 5.2 . Infatti nel programma di installazione si richiede il Java runtime environment che permette il corretto funzionamento ma non so proprio come istallarlo. Domande : posso installare Java utilizzando i CD di mandrake ? ese si che file devo trovare ? . Ho scaricato il file compresso JDK 1.1.8 richiesto da Startoffice ma non so come fare per istallarlo . Chi puo' aiutarmi ??
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 and Mime Types SOLVED!!!
Thanks, I haven't had time to do it all yet but I'm glad to get a comprehensive answer that definitely looks like it has gotten all the bases covered. Traci Altoine Barker 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 mime and plugin support only work with 4.7x and not 6. Has anyone already gone through the process of getting the mime types to work properly with Netscape 6? Are there simple edits that could be made to the scripts which will make them work with Netscape 6? There are dozens of mime types that mention realplayer in the 4.7x configuration and I would really like to avoid adding them one by one under 6. Also six seems to have some problems with editing or delete mime-types where you made a mistake. Does anyone know the name and location of the file that holds this information so that I can manually delete an error that I can't seem to remove any other way. Thanks. Any help would be appreciated. -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html Traci, I found a webpage on linuxnewbie.org that had just what you and I were looking for! It was written by Avatar but I've did some modifications for our period of instruction. They were written for Netscape 4.7x but I found them compatible with Netscape 6 (ie v.6 or v.7) RealPlayer basically is running the show using these MIME types; 1. Open up Netscape and click on "Edit" and then "Preferences." 2. On the new screen that appears, click the little arrow next to "Navigator" and then "Helper Applications." On the right, you should see a list of all the mime types already in the system. This is where we will be adding in the info to configure the G2 player. 3. Click the "New type..." button to bring up a new mime tpye. 4. Enter the follwing settings, ***REMOVE THE CHECK IN THE CHECK BOX*** then click the "OK" button to save them. Description of type: RealMedia File File extension: .rm MIMEType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s The description doesn't matter, but the rest does. Make sure to click the box nextto "Application" to enable G2, and don't forget the "%s" part or it will just open G2 and not stream. If G2 installed somewhere other than /usr/bin/realplay, replace that part with your path. Another thing to watch is that you put the "." in front of the suffix. 5. Add all of the following using the steps 3 4. Description of type: RealVideo File File extension: .rv MIMEType: video/vnd.rn-realvideo Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description of type: RealAudio File File extension: .ra, .ram MIMEType: audio/vnd.rn-realaudio Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description of type: RealAudio File 2 File extension: .ra, .ram MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s *Special Note* I couldn't get Netscape 6 to recognize both RealAudio files but I have had no problems... yet! :) ***REMOVE THE CHECKS IN THE CHECK BOXES*** Now, your G2 player should work great with Navigator 6. But say you hop over to live365.com and you want to listen for awhile. Well, live365.com sends you a mp3 play list, not a standard stream. This is nice if you're sitting behind a firewall and your administrator has blocked streamed data. To get this up and running on you Linux box, add this last part into Netscape, again using steps 3 4. Description of type: Live365 File extension: .pls MIMEType: audio/x-scpls Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s So, now maybe you want to hop over to MP3.com and have a lsiten over there. No problem. look down the list for "MPEG Audio." Once you find it, click on it, then click on edit. Change the follwing: Description of type:MPEG Audio File extension: MIMEType: audio/mpeg Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s ***REMOVE THE CHECK IN THE CHECK BOX*** (Click OK) We have to add another one now. Follow step 3 4 to add this one in. Description of type: MPEG Audio 2 File extension: .m3u MIMEType: audio/x-mpegurl Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s ***REMOVE THE CHECK IN THE CHECK BOX*** (Click OK) That should do it. Now the G2 player will handle all that media from the web with little or no hickups. Enjoy! Cheers Everyone -- Al __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] audio software recommendations please - the more the better
My dear, dear fellows, I have a question which I would very much like answered thoroughly, extensively and possibly off-list to avoid generating excess traffic (this address is also on the Discordian egroup, and the postings of the two mix in a way inspired by Eris herself. The question is: what about audio software? (Yes, what about it?) Audio software. There is no need for me to start raving and ranting about how detestable a turd Microsoft WinThroes are; however, some very decent proggies were written for the platform. Cubase. Fruity Loops. ReBirth. Rubber Duck, which is my absolutely favourite TB-303 emulator. Kindly relate all the information you consider relevant - you would oblige me incredibly. I would really like to find out what noise one can make on a Linux box. Don't point me towards Macs and BeOS - I haven't got a bloody Mac, nor do I need one; BeOS runs black and white and horribly on my video card, and for this reason it, too, hardly deserves any of my attention at the moment; I'll consider it when I become obscenely rich and invest in a new box. So: audio software for Linux, please. All kinds. Http and ftp links to sites with rpms and cvs links a preference, but anything goes. Thanks in anticipation, and may the hodge and the podge be balanced in you all in the name of Eris and Saint Eddie Izzard, amen! Pope Mickey the 23rd, Zee Blue Rat Ov Kaos, Patron Saint Of All Runaway Eggdrops, Messenger of Discord, Offender Of The Faith.
Re: [newbie] HDParm and DMA
On Thursday 18 January 2001 01:27 am, Blomquist, Niklas wrote: When I turn on the UDMA the speed is increasing a lot, but I can't start any program. The Icons on the destop is removed when I click on the and the panel is gone when I click on that one... What does "turn on the UDMA" mean ? I'm guess'n you're referring to 'hdparm -d1' /dev/hd*' ? What does 'hdparm -v /dev/hd*' say? -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 17:36, you wrote: Duplicate entry 'append' near line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf what this mean? my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="65532k" append="hdd=ide-scsi" read-only It means that you cannot have two appends make it append="hdd=ide-scsi mem=64M" Civileme
Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost
I am a real Newbie too (two weeks) but have learnt a lot in that time. Especially useful are two PDF files included on the 7.2 CDs (after installation). First is RUTE.pdf and the other is the Mandrake Reference Manual (another pdf). If you search for *.pdf you will find them. I printed them out (400 pages plus) and have put them in a folder. You should read them at least three times and go through the examples they recommend while reading. You will have it in no time. Gray - Original Message - From: "Steve Maytum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost Ralph , can't help right now , but i'll try to e-mail tonight (17/01/01) with help. Meantime send info on your system. Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Ralph Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:29 AM Subject: [newbie] I'm completely lost I've been tinkering with this Linux for some time, but I still don't understand it at all. I've read the posts on this message board (All 150+) every day, but everyone's completely out of my league with their responses. I have Mandrake Linux (I think 6.2). I managed to get it up and running, I can even connect to the internet. I have no idea how I did it. I am trying to get my sound card and NIC card to work. I downloaded some files that are supposed to be the drivers. They're in tar.gz format. I've gunzipped them, and even tarred them. I have a bunch of files now, and I have no idea what to do with them. There's an Adobe PDF with one of them. I downloaded the latest version of Acrobat to read it. It makes no sense. When I log out of KDE (Or any other GUI) I often lose my mouse. The cursor goes to the extreme upper right corner, and I can't do squat after that. All I can do is hit Reset. The computer's not locked up, but it won't let me do anything when I return to the GUI. I would imagine there was a command that could be executed which would activate the mouse again. Is there anyone out there willing to do some one-on-one tutoring, and help someone who's really really trying?
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 17:55, you wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2001 08:20 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 09:23 pm, Vic wrote: Ok I concede. how I do to get this dangbusted stupid cd recorder to work??? Is there a kludge or a hack?? Please just tell me what to type and I will do it. I am using mandrake 7.0-2 Yes, I'm afraid there is a kludge with 7.0, solved with 7.1 and perfected with 7.2. there was a fix/tutorial on Mandrakes web page, but it's no longer there. Best I can remember it had to do with the needed "append=ide-scsi" linked wrong. The line would be : append="hdx=ide-scsi" added to the lilo.conf I believe. I will go through my notes at home and see if I can confirm the location, unless someone else can jump in here and confirm or correct. Correct, but there was an additional problem with 7.0. IIRC, even tho the ide-scsi line was properly implemented, the hd* or the /cdrom2 was improperly, or not even linked to /dev/scd0. Again, IIRC, the fix was to delete the offending link and then to create a new correct link. The tutorial use to reflect this, but since 7.0 is getting almost ancient, the tutorial no longer reflects the needed link fix for 7.0. It's got to be in the ML archives somewhere. If I'm the only one that remembers it this way, I'll try to hunt up the fix, but I can't get to it right now. 'Course a sure fix would be to upgrade to 7.2 ;) This may not be as good as a tutorial but it shows how to solve the general problem. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg56553.html Vic please please please test the effects on scanbus with that ZIP removed if it doesn't show up after you fix the append. and make sure you run /sbin/lilo after you do fix it. 7.0 and later editions had some issues with ZIPs in a few of the possible configurations. Civileme
[newbie] found out the problem with mandrake
ok i think i found out the prob with linux mandrake. i have a mobo with integrated video display sh*t. i dont use that one anymore. i use a 3dfx voodoo3 2000 pci. how can i set it to use that display card rather then the built in on the mobo? can you please be specific in the command i am supposed to put?
Re: [newbie] CDR
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 22:37, you wrote: Stupid question time: I have a Memorex 1622 CDR that is working just fine in Linux (Mandrake 7.2). The problem is, I can only write to it as the root (superuser). When I have a regular cd in it (already written), the permissions read wide open all the way across, but if I put a blank in the permissions change and the write permission is only enabled in root. If I log in as non root and try to write, (xtoaster), the program comes back with a permission denied message. It works great as root though. I've never been able to write to a cd and surf the web, play games, etc in Windoze 98. Whenever I wrote to a cd, and then did something else,crash city big time. Linux seems to be rock solid. Just switch to a differnet desktop and go for it. Life is good. Thanks in advance, DJW Just login as a normal user and raise a terminal window. Then $ su - password: (your root password) # (toaster command) Then go about your business cdwriting is a root privilege, but you don't have to login as root to use it, only set user id to root in a virtual terminal. the $ is the normal system prompt the # is root prompt, (Toaster command ) is one of the following xcdroast gtoaster kisocd cdrecord (followed by a list of options for the more 'l33t folks) Civileme
SV: [newbie] HDParm and DMA
I'm guess'n you're referring to 'hdparm -d1' /dev/hd*' ? That is correct, when I'm turns this on, the system become unstable and do strange things... What does 'hdparm -v /dev/hd*' say? Multcount = 16 on I/O Support = O unmaskirg = 0 using_dma = 0 keepsettings = 0 nowerr = 0 readonly = 0 readahead = 8 This is before I change anything. I can tweek it a little like: hdparm -X66 -u1 -c3 -m16 /dev/hda But I only get 9Mbs, when i turn on the -d1, i get 35, but I can't use the computer... /N -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
RE: [newbie] audio software recommendations please - the more the better
Hi Loved your email and sense of humour. Can't help you. Oh dear. -- Original Message -- My dear, dear fellows, I have a question which I would very much like answered thoroughly, extensively and possibly off-list to avoid generating excess traffic (this address is also on the Discordian egroup, and the postings of the two mix in a way inspired by Eris herself. The question is: what about audio software? (Yes, what about it?) Audio software. There is no need for me to start raving and ranting about how detestable a turd Microsoft WinThroes are; however, some very decent proggies were written for the platform. Cubase. Fruity Loops. ReBirth. Rubber Duck, which is my absolutely favourite TB-303 emulator. Kindly relate all the information you consider relevant - you would oblige me incredibly. I would really like to find out what noise one can make on a Linux box. Don't point me towards Macs and BeOS - I haven't got a bloody Mac, nor do I need one; BeOS runs black and white and horribly on my video card, and for this reason it, too, hardly deserves any of my attention at the moment; I'll consider it when I become obscenely rich and invest in a new box. So: audio software for Linux, please. All kinds. Http and ftp links to sites with rpms and cvs links a preference, but anything goes. Thanks in anticipation, and may the hodge and the podge be balanced in you all in the name of Eris and Saint Eddie Izzard, amen! Pope Mickey the 23rd, Zee Blue Rat Ov Kaos, Patron Saint Of All Runaway Eggdrops, Messenger of Discord, Offender Of The Faith.
Re: [newbie] Increasing font size in Netscape on Mandrake 7.2
Netscape does fonts badly they are small even on 800x600. I have used the following in Mandrake 7.0 Mandrake 7.2. The main problem is that Netscape wants to use 75dpi fonts which is typically too small. You can fix this by specifying the appropriate X resources in your .Xdefaults file: Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 20 Netscape*documentFonts.xResolution*iso-8859-1: 100 Netscape*documentFonts.yResolution*iso-8859-1: 100 The number 100 can be chosen arbitrarily. For example, if you like your fonts really large than you could use 150 instead. After changing .xdefaults logout and reboot your machine. Andrew D On Wednesday 17 January 2001 10:14, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Netscape, under the VIEW menu, the options to "Increase Font" and "Decrease Font" are grayed out. How are these activated? Video resolution is set to 1024x768 and thus some of the fonts are pretty small. What's the solution to this problem? Thanks, =Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ What version of X are you running and are your fonts servers started at bootup? Cheers -- Al __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie] Increasing Netscape Fonts
Netscape does fonts badly they are small even on 800x600. I have used the following in Mandrake 7.0 Mandrake 7.2. The main problem is that Netscape wants to use 75dpi fonts which is typically too small. You can fix this by specifying the appropriate X resources in your .Xdefaults file: Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 20 Netscape*documentFonts.xResolution*iso-8859-1: 100 Netscape*documentFonts.yResolution*iso-8859-1: 100 The number 100 can be chosen arbitrarily. For example, if you like your fonts really large than you could use 150 instead. After changing .xdefaults logout and reboot your machine. Andrew D On Wednesday 17 January 2001 10:14, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Netscape, under the VIEW menu, the options to "Increase Font" and "Decrease Font" are grayed out. How are these activated? Video resolution is set to 1024x768 and thus some of the fonts are pretty small. What's the solution to this problem? Thanks, =Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ What version of X are you running and are your fonts servers started at bootup? Cheers -- Al __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] Re: soundcard
How do you do a Google search?
[newbie] No sound can't find in archives
I installed 7.2 today. No sound. Why? Soundblaster Awe64 ISA sndconfig 'command not found' where did it go? Where is the sound?
Re: [newbie] Re: soundcard
Go to http://www.google.com and there should be a little space for putting the search words in. Then press the Enter key or click the Search button On Thursday 18 January 2001 05:09, cstoh wrote: How do you do a Google search?
Re: [newbie] No sound can't find in archives
Ok I got it now, somehow, sndconfig did not get installed, so went and downloaded the rpm, now have sound. Weird, must have been a funky iso image. On Thursday 18 January 2001 05:33, you wrote: do it as root and before you startx hth Vic wrote: I installed 7.2 today. No sound. Why? Soundblaster Awe64 ISA sndconfig 'command not found' where did it go? Where is the sound?
Re: [newbie] No sound can't find in archives
do it as root and before you startx hth Vic wrote: I installed 7.2 today. No sound. Why? Soundblaster Awe64 ISA sndconfig 'command not found' where did it go? Where is the sound?
Re: [newbie] Patch
Hey Tom, Thanks for the heads up. That nt is kinda cool. The installer even put a link in my menu. I haven't used it yet, but it opens to a nice comfortable gui. I'll have to read up on later when I have more time, as I've never used downloader before (with 99% being spyware for windows all). -s On Thursday 18 January 2001 03:43 am, you wrote: Well yeah I'd suggest one if you're wantin to grab several files unattended. I suspect you're gettin refused with a 'need password' mesg or somethin like that, for no other reason than the site is overloaded, ie, too many users. "Specially lately with all the clueless Christmas computers getin online. BUT IMNSHO... Browers, any of them, really suck as ftp agents. If you're in the habit of d/l'ing a lot (and what linux user isn't?), use a specific ftp utility. Many like to use the CL. Not me. I like a Russian app called Webdownloader (nt, it's available on any Mandrake /contrib mirror, nt-1.19-1mdk ). It does retries, resumes, and you can throttle it so you can surf, email, newsgroups while it's d/l'ing. It's idiot simple to configure and use, but mainly it works so well it's BulletProof FTP
Re: [newbie] Re: soundcard
On Thursday 18 January 2001 06:09 am, you wrote: How do you do a Google search? http://www.google.com -- 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] Increasing font size in Netscape on Mandrake 7.2
type this command in to see rpm -qa | grep XFree and look for anything with "fonts" in the package name. Also, do you have your system setup as a dual boot? P.S. Sorry for taking so long to reply but I had killed my X server trying to compile it and had to trace my errors. Now all I need to do is figure out how to use the cvs for tdfx! Laters -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Al, OK, X -version shows Xfree 3.3.6, and Mach64 accelerated server for ATI, Patchlevel 1. Now, how do I check for font servers? I tried: ps -ef | grep font and got nothing but 'grep font' which I expected. So, how to check for font servers under Mandrake 7.2 ? Thanks! Keith --- Altoine Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Netscape, under the VIEW menu, the options to "Increase Font" and "Decrease Font" are grayed out. How are these activated? Video resolution is set to 1024x768 and thus some of the fonts are pretty small. What's the solution to this problem? Thanks, =Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ What version of X are you running and are your fonts servers started at bootup? Cheers -- Al __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1
If your a new linux user. Don't! Upgrade to 7.2. The dependencies require a bunch of additional packages and stuff. Also, 2.1 should be out in a month so this gives you plenty of time to upgrade :-) On Wednesday 17 January 2001 06:18, Cristiano de Lima Logrado wrote: Hi, I'm a new user ... and i'd like to know where can I get the KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1 ? Thanks, C.Logrado Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
[newbie] No hard disk
Hi everybody! I've got a problem with Mandrake 7.2 installation. All goes well until the programme asks me for existing SCSII driver. Recording to the manual of my motherbard (ASUS VIA 761 Chipset) there is a driver Promise. There is no such a driver in the list I have to choose from. Anyway I try to say no SCSII device and then the programme say there is no valid device where the file system can be placed, check for hardware error. My hard disk is Seagate Barracuda IDE 30,8GB, so I assume that thye error is not connected with possible SCSII device error that I probably do. An additional information is that my BIOS doesn't detect hard disk, the field Primery Master say None when booting. Also in the Bios Setup when I choose autodetect Primery Master the Bios doesn't recognize any data (like PIO level or UDMA level). When I set Secondary Master autodetect it chooses CD-recorder and gets the information on PIO or UDMA. Sorry if I haven't included enough information - I'm not to good at it. I am very determined to install Linux on my desktop, but can't deal with that stuff. If it helps the windows 98 goes almost well and it recognizes all my three partitions of the drive, which have been made by firm I bought the computer from (thay used Partition Magic or some stuff that sounds similiar, made three partitions 10GB each, and the partitions are in the format compatibile with DOS or smth.) Appreciate any comment michal
RE: [newbie]
This happens because you are not running Sndconfig "properly". Sound config needs to be run on a system that has -NO- sound components already loaded. Get out of Xwindows altogether. Make sure that any window managers or X sessions are "killed" and you are at a prompt at the console logged in as root. Now type # lsmod You'll get back. 3c59x 20176 1 (autoclean) ipx13472 15 (autoclean) awe_wave 159040 0 sb 34752 0 uart401 6384 0 [sb] sound 58368 0 [awe_wave sb uart401] soundlow 464 0 [sound] soundcore 2800 7 [sb sound] st 24496 0 (unused) ipip5104 0 (unused) ip_gre 6688 0 (unused) ip_masq_portfw 2608 0 (unused) ip_masq_user3552 0 (unused) And maybe a bunch of others, including the emu10K1 which does not show up on my listing. Now you have to remove them in "reverse" order. I.E. For my example above # rmmod awe_wave # rmmod sb # rmmod uart40 # rmmod sound # rmmod soundlow # rmmod soundcore In your case you'll also have to # rmmod emu10k1 If at any point you get a device "busy" error, then you tried to remove a module without first removing another one that depends upon it. That is you removed one in the wrong order. Try again until all the sound related modules are gone... Type "lsmod" to double check. Finally when they all disappear, run SNDCONFIG again. This will cure the problem. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Schroeder Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hi everyone, I'm trying to get my sound blaster live X-gamer working. I got some ideas from some people here yesterday to try and went home last night and really went nuts on trying to get it to work. I even yanked my network card and swapped slots with it to see if that helped. Anyway, here is a website with the screen dump of the error that sndconfig gives me... http://ariesplanet.tripod.com/sndconfig_screenshot.htm (I only did this in a KDE environment to get the screen capture. I did it logged in as root like you're supposed to without X) If anyone knows anything about this I'd be grateful to hear what you have to say. --Matt
RE: [newbie] audio software recommendations please - the more the better
Try: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/ Let me know what you think! -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vicar In A Tutu Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 3:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] audio software recommendations please - the more the better My dear, dear fellows, I have a question which I would very much like answered thoroughly, extensively and possibly off-list to avoid generating excess traffic (this address is also on the Discordian egroup, and the postings of the two mix in a way inspired by Eris herself. The question is: what about audio software? (Yes, what about it?) Audio software. There is no need for me to start raving and ranting about how detestable a turd Microsoft WinThroes are; however, some very decent proggies were written for the platform. Cubase. Fruity Loops. ReBirth. Rubber Duck, which is my absolutely favourite TB-303 emulator. Kindly relate all the information you consider relevant - you would oblige me incredibly. I would really like to find out what noise one can make on a Linux box. Don't point me towards Macs and BeOS - I haven't got a bloody Mac, nor do I need one; BeOS runs black and white and horribly on my video card, and for this reason it, too, hardly deserves any of my attention at the moment; I'll consider it when I become obscenely rich and invest in a new box. So: audio software for Linux, please. All kinds. Http and ftp links to sites with rpms and cvs links a preference, but anything goes. Thanks in anticipation, and may the hodge and the podge be balanced in you all in the name of Eris and Saint Eddie Izzard, amen! Pope Mickey the 23rd, Zee Blue Rat Ov Kaos, Patron Saint Of All Runaway Eggdrops, Messenger of Discord, Offender Of The Faith.
Re: [newbie] local unix-win microlan
At 06:44 18.01.2001 +, you wrote: How are the two machines connected? Via a hub/switch or just a single cable? If you want to connect them with a single cable from one to the other then this needs to be a crossover cable. An ordinary cat5 ethernet cable will not work. they are connected with a normal thin ethernet coaxial cable with BNC connectors at each end ( and they are terminated if this would be your next question ;) ) should work, shouldnt it ? --quay Chris SW === Chris Slater-Walker BA(Hons) CCNA CCDA MCSE Cisco, Windows NT, Linux, Samba, DNS French German Spoken == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.slater-walker.net/ == - Original Message - From: "Quaylar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 10:15 PM Subject: [newbie] local unix-win microlan hiho, im trying to set up a unix-win microlan (how it is called in the mandrakeuser.org-guide) and ive followed the steps as described in the guide at mentioned adress: unix side : ethernet card is recognized eth0 modules are loaded without probs local ip adress configured by ifconfig to 192.168.0.1 route add -net 192.168.0.0 eth0 . set win and unix machine entries in the /etc/hosts file win2k side properties for local connection : TCP/IP : 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 (unix side too) set DNS of my isp and entered the unix box as gateway so far everything seems to be ok..but i cant ping the machines...neither win from unix nor unix from win.always reaches a timeout, has somebody a point regarding this i might have missed ? furthermore id have a question regarding the difference between ip masq/proxy/micro lan: ip masq howto tells me that if one uses ip masq the server would NOT act as a proxy and the clients would be DIRECTLY connected to the internet through the server, although for the external network all clients would have the ip of the server. so how is this meant ?..what is the difference to the proxy server then ? and can i also do connection sharing without masq but only the "win/unix microlan" ? would be glad if somebody can bring some light into this, cause id really like to "understand" what im doing ;) regards, --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power
Re: [newbie] No hard disk
Dear Micha; You can't install Mandrake, because you don't have any free partitions left. You said that you had 3 - 10Gb partitions all formatted with DOS? you need at least one partition UNFORMATTED for Mandrake. It will format the partition for Linux-Mandrake while it is installing. If all 3 partitions are already formatted for DOS/Windows, there is no place for Mandrake. Also, check the CD that came with your ASUS board. See if it has a driver section for the Promise ATA100 adapter on the M/B. There may be a Linux Driver on it. If your BIOS doesn't detect the drive, check the drive to make sure that the jumpers on it are set to Master. If they are, replace your IDE cable (it may be defective,..but probably not). Borrow another IDE drive and see if your BIOS will detect it. If it does, there may be a problem with your drive. In any case, you'll have to delete one partition (the second one is your best bet) in order to make room for Mandrake. Make sure that you back up your data first! Good luck! Dan LaBine Registered Linux User #190712 - Original Message - From: "Micha POZARZYCKI" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 8:40 AM Subject: [newbie] No hard disk Hi everybody! I've got a problem with Mandrake 7.2 installation. All goes well until the programme asks me for existing SCSII driver. Recording to the manual of my motherbard (ASUS VIA 761 Chipset) there is a driver Promise. There is no such a driver in the list I have to choose from. Anyway I try to say no SCSII device and then the programme say there is no valid device where the file system can be placed, check for hardware error. My hard disk is Seagate Barracuda IDE 30,8GB, so I assume that thye error is not connected with possible SCSII device error that I probably do. An additional information is that my BIOS doesn't detect hard disk, the field Primery Master say None when booting. Also in the Bios Setup when I choose autodetect Primery Master the Bios doesn't recognize any data (like PIO level or UDMA level). When I set Secondary Master autodetect it chooses CD-recorder and gets the information on PIO or UDMA. Sorry if I haven't included enough information - I'm not to good at it. I am very determined to install Linux on my desktop, but can't deal with that stuff. If it helps the windows 98 goes almost well and it recognizes all my three partitions of the drive, which have been made by firm I bought the computer from (thay used Partition Magic or some stuff that sounds similiar, made three partitions 10GB each, and the partitions are in the format compatibile with DOS or smth.) Appreciate any comment michal
RE: [newbie] local lan problem
im experiencing the same problem.connecting a win and linux box directly via ethernet cards..all things configured properly but as u said 100% packet loss..so u r not alone..;) --quay At 02:04 18.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: Post the output of: ifconfig route -n cat /etc/resolv.conf Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fireman71 Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] local lan problem I am using static ip addys on the local network, ppp connection to the isp is dynamic. linux machine is 192.168.0.2 and the windows machines have 192.168.0.1 and .0.3. netmask on all machine is 255.255.255.0 I do not have any other network cards in the machine, 56k modem that is external off of ttyS0. PPP works fine btw. Just the local net isnt doing anything. I setup the local network during installation of LM7.1 as i have seen several people post that it is usually better to do it then and my own personal experience has been that its also easier to do it then as well. I did not setup internet connection during installation though, again in accordance with advice that has been posted here in the past. hostnames are all as follows and seem to be setup correctly: 192.168.0.1 - windows - comp1.possumtrot.net 192.168.0.2 - linux - comp2.possumtrot.net 192.168.0.3 - windows - comp3.possumtrot.net Many thanks in advance, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Istvan Bereti Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 4:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] local lan problem Hi, Definitely your netcard is not properly configured on Linux. Are you using DHCP or fixed IP-s? Do you have an other netcard in your linx box? Check hostname and IP addresses. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fireman71 Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] local lan problem No, i cannot ping from either of the win 98 machines to the linux box, nor from linux to the windows machines but i can ping from one windows machine to another one fine. Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Istvan Bereti Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] local lan problem Hi, Can you ping from the win98 the network card of the Linux? ping ipaddr. And also vica - versa... BR, Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fireman71 Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] local lan problem Trying to setup a linux machine as a firewall and web server on a lan for a friend of mine. He also wants the linux machine to handle IP masqing. Installed LM7.1 on a HP Vectra series 5 machine that he had purchased off the internet to use specifically for Linux. We then put a realtek 8029 PCI network card in, installed LM7.1 and all appeared to be good in the world, until Trying to access anything on the local net is impossible. 100% packet loss, etc, etc. Currently on the lan there are two other machines both running windows 98 and then the LM7.1 machine. Both of the windows machines can see and talk to each other fine but they cant see the linux box. I double and triple checked all the system settings and everything seemed to be fine. Drakconf detected the network card, linuxconf showed that all the values i had entered for IP Addy, netmask, etc were fine. Thinking this might have been caused by a bad cable we tried three other cables with no results and also tried every free spot on the hub with a known good cable from one of the windows machines just to make sure that there wasnt a bad connection or something in the hub. During bootup it shows that eth0 is starting up ok and ifconfig reports that everything seems to be there and working fine as far as i can tell. I am completely lost at what to do to fix this problem and would appreciate any and all advice. One thing i did notice was that when the cable was unplugged from the network card in the linux box or the hub the light on the card showing that the network connection was present went off as you would expect it to. When we plugged the cable back into the hub or the card it returned just like everything was working normally. On the hub side the light never did come on showing that there was a connection. The hub is listed as being *nix compatable and I am using a similar realtek 8029 card in another linux machine at my own home with no problems. Linux machine info in case this helps... HP Vectra Series 5 P133 CPU 16M RAM 2.5Gig HD Realtek 8029 SB AWE16 Generic noname (as far as i can find) SVGA video card Fresh install of Linux Mandrake 7.1 Many thanks in
RE: [newbie] Halt Command
HALT is normally the last step of the shutdown process. You are not permitting your system to shut itself down properly. Try running "shutdown" instead. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of AL Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 11:34 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Halt Command Hi! Running LM 7.2. The system reboots ok but when I issue the 'halt' command it hangs up and errors/segmentation faults appear. What is causing this? Thanks!
RE: [newbie] DHCP Server
Getting Linux to "share" your single internet connection is very simple under 7.2. There is a GUI interface to set this all up for you. In 7.1 you need to do all the work yourself. 1) Edit your /etc/rc.local file Make sure it includes the following lines: # #CRITICAL: Enable IP forwarding since it is disabled by default since # #Redhat Users: you may try changing the options in /etc/sysconfig/network from: # # FORWARD_IPV4=false # to # FORWARD_IPV4=true # echo "1" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # # Load up MASQ support # /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio # The above three are more than enough. # Though you might want to enable other MASQ modules as well # /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/8 -j MASQ -d 0.0.0.0/0 # This assumes that you have an existing working internet connection of some sort -AND- another ethernet interface connected to your internet "private" network. In the above case my private network is using the reserved IP address range of 10.0.0.1 thru 10.254.254.254, far more than most people need! My ethernet card on my internet connected linux box, that will be used to talk to the "other" machines is at 10.0.0.1 (though any address will work). Since I'm using a few Winblows machines: They all have their default gateway address pointing to 10.0.0.1 They all have reserved IP addresses for their Ethernet cards starting with Machine One: Eternet 10.0.0.10 Sub-Netmask 255.0.0.0 Machine Two: Eternet 10.0.0.11 Sub-Netmask 255.0.0.0 etc. They DNS entries all point to the DNS server at my ISP (though you could set up your own to get much faster responses!) And each machine has a unique name. Remember: (Normally, unless you REALLY know what you are doing) you should have two connections on your Linux box, one to the internet. The Internet Connection may be thru dialup (using PPP), a Cable Modem or DSL (normally using a seperate ethernet card, configured as eth0), etc. The "local" connection is seperate (in this case eth1), configured by me manually as the second connection. Normally the first connection gets automatically configured for you by your DSL or Cable provider using a DHCP -CLIENT- on your machine. If you can surf the internet you already have this set up! That's about it. The above configuration is considered a bit "open" since there are almost no restrictions on what services Linux "provides" to the internet. After you have things up and running, you can deal with cutting down the services Linux provides to the internet and thereby increase security. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Belkie Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] DHCP Server Does anyone know of any good docs for a DHCP server setup? I have Mandrake 7.1 Corp server installed with webmin and I want to plug the Linux box in at my house on my DLS line and run multiple computers through it. Maybe 3 or 4. Any Ideas? And by t the way that corp. server install was soo stupid easy! Yeah Mandrake!
[newbie] Enlightenment install problem
Hi everyone, I'm trying to install the latest version of Enlightenment. I downloaded the tarball from ftp.enlightenment.org, untarred it and tried to do a ./configure. It said that it couldn't find my IMLIB_CONFIG. I know that I have IMLIB_CONFIG. It's in usr/bin (which is also in my path). I've been trying to edit the configure.in file to see if I can figure out how to get it to find the IMLIB_CONFIG and I'm not having any luck. It appears to be looking in $PREFIX/bin. What exactly is $PREFIX? Anyone have any ideas of how I can get this damn thing to compile? Tim Goodaire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Quaylar Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] local unix-win microlan hiho, im trying to set up a unix-win microlan (how it is called in the mandrakeuser.org-guide) and ive followed the steps as described in the guide at mentioned adress: unix side : ethernet card is recognized eth0 modules are loaded without probs local ip adress configured by ifconfig to 192.168.0.1 route add -net 192.168.0.0 eth0 . set win and unix machine entries in the /etc/hosts file win2k side properties for local connection : TCP/IP : 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 (unix side too) set DNS of my isp and entered the unix box as gateway so far everything seems to be ok..but i cant ping the machines...neither win from unix nor unix from win.always reaches a timeout, has somebody a point regarding this i might have missed ? --- Being able to ping your machines across the LAN is the first important step. This establishes that your LAN cards are correctly configured and that your wiring is ok. Assuming for the moment that your lan cards are correctly configured, look again at your wiring. Since you are using CO-AX, you -MUST- have a BNC plug at each end of the cable and then a "T" connector. I.E. [=-|--|-=] | | Computer The "[=" represents the terminator at each end. While the -|- represents the "T" connector. Also, I know this sounds funny, but it's true. If your cable is TOO short, some lan cards see the unusually low resistance as an "open" connection and shut down their transmitters. Make sure your cable is at least 15 feet in overall length. You could add another segment if it is too short. Put an Ohm meter across the center ping to the shield with the cable unplugged from the computers and you should get 1/2 the value of each terminator's resistance. If not you have a short or a wiring problem. BTW: Twisted pair Ethernets are far easier to debug since the hubs normally have lights to tell you if everything is hooked up properly. You must start off by being able to ping the different machines... --- Re: Proxy Masq Proxy and Masq are different, though in some confusing ways very similar. With Proxy servers, the user's application "logs" into the PROXY server as a user and submits a request to the internet. The PROXY then transmits the request back to the client. With proxy servers, you applications must directly support PROXY usage. Many programs do not! -- With MASQ, each machine believes that it is "on" the internet. That is that it has it's very own internet connection via the Linux box, which acts as a gateway. What really happens, though, is that they client machine is set up to have a "private" ip address. This private address creates packets which are not permitted to be sent out via the internet. The internet would actually disregard them! Instead the packets arrive at the "gateway" (Linux box). Linux strips off information from the packets and "repackages" them with it's own VALID IP address, and sends them up to the internet. When the response comes back in, Linux does the opposite. Linux can do this VERY quickly. As far as your other computers are concerned, they all have connections to the internet. As far as Linux is concerned, it is "routing" masq'd packets to the internet. As far as your ISP is concerned, your Linux box is a very busy machine, but you only have ONE internet connected computer. Thus Linux is a great way to fool your ISP into believing that you only have one machine "on" the internet. For the most part the ISP doesn't care, since they are only supporting one computer connection. Everyone is happy, since you pay less! -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- furthermore id have a question regarding the difference between ip masq/proxy/micro lan: ip masq howto tells me that if one uses ip masq the server would NOT act as a proxy and the clients would be DIRECTLY connected to the internet through the server, although for the external network all clients would have the ip of the server. so how is this meant ?..what is the difference to the proxy server then ? and can i also do connection sharing without masq but only the "win/unix microlan" ? would be glad if somebody can bring some light into this, cause id really like to "understand" what im doing ;) regards, --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power
RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan
--- Being able to ping your machines across the LAN is the first important step. This establishes that your LAN cards are correctly configured and that your wiring is ok. Assuming for the moment that your lan cards are correctly configured, look again at your wiring. Since you are using CO-AX, you -MUST- have a BNC plug at each end of the cable and then a "T" connector. i DO have...;) I.E. [=-|--|-=] | | Computer The "[=" represents the terminator at each end. While the -|- represents the "T" connector. Also, I know this sounds funny, but it's true. If your cable is TOO short, some lan cards see the unusually low resistance as an "open" connection and shut down their transmitters. hmm.the cable is about 10 meters (about 30ft)..so long enough i think . Make sure your cable is at least 15 feet in overall length. You could add another segment if it is too short. Put an Ohm meter across the center ping to the shield with the cable unplugged from the computers and you should get 1/2 the value of each terminator's resistance. If not you have a short or a wiring problem. i think that the wires are ok because i used them before on 2 windows boxes without any problems. and i just changed both resistors to new ones...so i think we can also take this out of consideration. BTW: Twisted pair Ethernets are far easier to debug since the hubs normally have lights to tell you if everything is hooked up properly. ahm..i dont have a hub.i use direct connection with coax thin ethernet. You must start off by being able to ping the different machines... yeah..i know that..ip masq howto also states this. --- Re: Proxy Masq Proxy and Masq are different, though in some confusing ways very similar. With Proxy servers, the user's application "logs" into the PROXY server as a user and submits a request to the internet. The PROXY then transmits the request back to the client. With proxy servers, you applications must directly support PROXY usage. Many programs do not! -- With MASQ, each machine believes that it is "on" the internet. That is that it has it's very own internet connection via the Linux box, which acts as a gateway. What really happens, though, is that they client machine is set up to have a "private" ip address. This private address creates packets which are not permitted to be sent out via the internet. The internet would actually disregard them! Instead the packets arrive at the "gateway" (Linux box). Linux strips off information from the packets and "repackages" them with it's own VALID IP address, and sends them up to the internet. When the response comes back in, Linux does the opposite. Linux can do this VERY quickly. As far as your other computers are concerned, they all have connections to the internet. As far as Linux is concerned, it is "routing" masq'd packets to the internet. As far as your ISP is concerned, your Linux box is a very busy machine, but you only have ONE internet connected computer. Thus Linux is a great way to fool your ISP into believing that you only have one machine "on" the internet. For the most part the ISP doesn't care, since they are only supporting one computer connection. Everyone is happy, since you pay less! -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] hey...this is a very good explanation, ..u made the difference clear to me it often happens that although one reads the how-tos u really dont understand certain things, that are not explained very clearly - so thank u very much for your help ;) --quay
Re: [newbie] Increasing font size in Netscape on Mandrake 7.2
Hi Al, rpm -qa | grep XFree sounds good. I now have a dead video card, when that's swapped out I'll try the command. Thanks for all your great help. ===Keith --- Altoine Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: type this command in to see rpm -qa | grep XFree and look for anything with "fonts" in the package name. Also, do you have your system setup as a dual boot? P.S. Sorry for taking so long to reply but I had killed my X server trying to compile it and had to trace my errors. Now all I need to do is figure out how to use the cvs for tdfx! Laters -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Al, OK, X -version shows Xfree 3.3.6, and Mach64 accelerated server for ATI, Patchlevel 1. Now, how do I check for font servers? I tried: ps -ef | grep font and got nothing but 'grep font' which I expected. So, how to check for font servers under Mandrake 7.2 ? Thanks! Keith --- Altoine Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Netscape, under the VIEW menu, the options to "Increase Font" and "Decrease Font" are grayed out. How are these activated? Video resolution is set to 1024x768 and thus some of the fonts are pretty small. What's the solution to this problem? Thanks, =Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ What version of X are you running and are your fonts servers started at bootup? Cheers -- Al __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] No sound can't find in archives
On Thursday 18 January 2001 12:30, you wrote: I installed 7.2 today. No sound. Why? Soundblaster Awe64 ISA sndconfig 'command not found' where did it go? Where is the sound? the installation of alsa detects pci very well but not ISA You do need to use sndconfig but first you need to install it It could have been selected during install but that wasn't done but it is on one of the install disks Use KPackage to look at the CDs and install it then run it. Civileme
[newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM
Hello,installed the KDE2 rpms and all went well.I did a "rpm -Uvf *.rpm --test" and it came back with no failed dependencies.I then installed from text console outside of x.I then did a "rpm --rebuilddb" followed by "update-menus -v" Once I went to log in I found a whole bunch of system users,no biggie,but I now only have KDE, default, and failsafe, all other window managers are gone. I have seen that this seems to be common, anyone have a fix for the bug? Should I report it and to who? Thanks for your time.
Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux
this will be a shock to you all, but i have an opinon here. =) i agree with Tom -- although i fully confess Tom is much better at saying than I am. probably because i am an obnoxious and arrogant and Tom isn't. but i can't figure this one out ether, why do you guys care so much about converting windoze users? should we make 18 wheelers with automatic stick shifts so that everyone who drives a car can drive a semi-truck? a honda accord has a purpose. a freightliner tractor/trailer rig has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. a hunting rifle has a purpose. a 50mm vulcan cannon has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. windows has a purpose. linux has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. use the right tool for the right job. if i wanted linux to be like windows, why wouldn't i have just kept using windows? i may not be the sharpest crayon in the box, but i just don't understand this. no product can be everything to everybody. no product. name any one *specific* product that fills every need held by every person on the planet. i think the "must be like windows" concept is a bad thing. i'll try to stuff a sock in my mouth now. =) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9:29:15 PM 1/17/01 OK y'all !!This marks the last time I'm gonna start a thread starting with a news wire URL, well maybe ; Actually I thought it was a business story that kind'a illustrated Linux's present state, and the perception of. The first full install I did of Mandrake was ~500mb. A current 'du -ch /' with my windoze drive umounted is ~4 gigs! ... and I've uninstalled a lot of the apps I don't use, and there's linux stuff on the windoze drive, not in that count. I like it just the way it is, the installer that is. What brandNewbie doesn't install several times before they 'settle in' ? ...and for experienced users, it's easy, albeit time consuming, to install just what you want. As much or little. LM's installation let's YOU choose. I believe there's nothin that needs changin. I like the current trend in Mandrake's installs. As to the 'convert windoze users', and get "linux on everybody's desktop' vein this thread has denigrated to. WHO CARES? Seriously, be more concerned that Linux continues to attract the people that built it to begin with ... the people all over the world that contribute to this free, open source, volunteer effort. Without them, Linux is dead. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
RE: [newbie] Hard drive light always lit
Some IDE hard drive/cdroms have jumpering configurations which differ from what you expect. I.E. the factory default may be |--... |. and the user jumpers one as master ..|... ..|... and the other as slave .|... .|... however the "leftmost" jumper which was originally installed makes or breaks the LED problem you are seeing. Normally this is the result of using slightly different IDE drive technologies from two different manufacturers. It is the result of improper jumpering, (you almost have it correct, it works but the LED stays lit) or a bad IDE cable. You also might have left the "cable select" jumper incorrectly set... Rarely it's a bad IDE controller chip. If the light goes out in Windows, but stays on in Linux it's normally one of the above. I've seen this too. Rejumpering or changing the cable has always fixed this problem. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelly, Christopher Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 7:52 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Hard drive light always lit Did you build this machine yourself? Maybe you've got the LED's crossed on the Mobo? -Original Message- From: Po Kwok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 7:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hard drive light always lit Miark wrote: I don't think memory is the problem--I have 384 MB! Any other insights? Miark - Original Message - From: "Irwan Hadi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:57 PM 1/5/01 -0700, Miark wrote: Hi all, I dual-boot to Windoze and Mandrake 7.2. In Windoze, the hard drive light on my case acts as you'd expect, but in Linux, it _never_ turns off. Does that mean that my drive is always running, or that the hardware mechanism that controls the light just loses its mind while running Linux? Probably you need more memory, because perhaps you have too many services run at boot which consume the memory. to control the services, do ntsysv as a root. tell us your hardware configuration in details. eg. what kind of motherboard is it? how many internal and external devices do you have .. etc... etc.. aston sydney, australia
RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan
Assuming your cabling is ok, then it's time to look for trouble with Linux vis-a-vis your ethernet cards. First type in lsdev This will show something like this... DeviceDMA IRQ I/O Ports aic7xxx 5 e800-e8fe cascade 4 2 dma 0080-008f dma1 -001f dma2 00c0-00df eth0 e400-e47f fpu 13 00f0-00ff ide0 14 01f0-01f7 03f6-03f6 f000-f007 --- Snip --- Notice the ethernet entry. Make sure you see yours. IRQ does not show up, because I'm using a PCI card. Next type ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:04:36:65 inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 IPX/Ethernet II addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet SNAP addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet 802.3 addr:00105A043665 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:547913 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1007164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:403747 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:1423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 If you can see your eth0 interface, then Linux knows how to talk to it and it is correctly configured hardware wise. The software configuration might be in error though. Post the output of ifconfig see I can see it. Next type dmesg The output from dmesg will include information about your ethernet card like this... IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. 3c59x.c 16Aug00 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe400, 00:10:5a:04:36:65, IRQ 10 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d. MII transceiver found at address 0, status 786d. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. Post it as well. Notice that dmesg displays not only the connection speed but also the type of port the card is connected to. It could very well be that Linux is trying to utilize an AUI or 10BaseT port on your LAN card instead of the thinnet port. Normally this is set up using a DOS software utility. You may have to run the software utility for your LAN card that selects the thinnet port, and sets the IO and IRQ for the card. If your ethernet interface is PCI also run lspci to make sure it is recognized. Also double check your netmask and gateway settings. These are the most problematic for most users. route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 10.0.0.010.0.0.1255.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo Remember that your Linux box connected to the internet, should have ROUTING active but the "default gateway" should be blank. Your clients should have the default gateway set to the IP of the Linux machine's local lan interface. Post the output so I can have a look. -JMS
Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM
On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:02, regarding [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM, you said: Hello,installed the KDE2 rpms and all went well.I did a "rpm -Uvf *.rpm --test" and it came back with no failed dependencies.I then installed from text console outside of x.I then did a "rpm --rebuilddb" followed by "update-menus -v" Once I went to log in I found a whole bunch of system users,no biggie,but I now only have KDE, default, and failsafe, all other window managers are gone. I have seen that this seems to be common, anyone have a fix for the bug? Should I report it and to who? Thanks for your time. Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Dale: I have the same problem; all my users except me, root and user2 are penguins with program names...when I boot to KDE I get icewm, when I do default it is enlightenment and I assume that failsafe is a command line. I can only get this when i type init 5 instead of startx(which produces enlightenment). I miss my old KDE! -- ~enjoy!~ -michael-
Re: [newbie] Grub Question
Its just a text file - make sure you are root, and use whatever text editor you prefer. Save the file and thats that - your changes will be in effect when you boot. cheers, philomena At 07:11 AM 1/12/2001 -0500, you wrote: I know that this has been covered, because I remember seeing it. So, please forgive my ignorance. How can I edit the Grub menu after it has been installed? I know that the list resides in /boot/grub/menu.lst. How can I edit that file? Thanks y'all, Chris Kelly --- Boy of Destiny King of Nothing
[newbie] e-mail
Sorry about the re-posts guys. My e-mail server at work is having trouble and it is re-sounding the messages from the last week or so. My apologies... Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it...
RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan
At 11:17 18.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: Assuming your cabling is ok, then it's time to look for trouble with Linux vis-a-vis your ethernet cards. First type in lsdev alright..lsdev.command not found.but i know what u are aiming at...so here we go : first : DMA 4: cascade second : irqs: CPU0 0:1192243 XT-PIC timer 1:919 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 9: 1 XT-PIC HiSax 10:359 XT-PIC eth0 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 31822 XT-PIC ide0 15: 8 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 third : ios -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 0300-030f : 3c509 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) 1400-1401 : HFCS isdn f000-f007 : ide0 f008-f00f : ide1 forth : devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 36 netlink 43 ttyI 44 cui 45 isdn 128 ptm 136 pts Block devices: 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 22 ide1 fifth : modules 3c509 5964 1 (autoclean) hisax 126536 4 isdn 91604 5 [hisax] slhc4440 1 [isdn] these are all the outputs of cat /proc/* This will show something like this... DeviceDMA IRQ I/O Ports aic7xxx 5 e800-e8fe cascade 4 2 dma 0080-008f dma1 -001f dma2 00c0-00df eth0 e400-e47f fpu 13 00f0-00ff ide0 14 01f0-01f7 03f6-03f6 f000-f007 --- Snip --- Notice the ethernet entry. Make sure you see yours. IRQ does not show up, because I'm using a PCI card. Next type ifconfig ok..so this is my ifconfig : eth0 Linkverkapselung:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:71:06:D9 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Maske:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Empfangene Pakete:0 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Verschickte Packete:2874 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:2874 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlnge:100 Interrupt:10 Basisadresse:0x300 ippp0 Linkverkapselung:Punkt-zu-Punkt Verbindung UP PUNKTZUPUNKT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 Empfangene Pakete:0 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Verschickte Packete:0 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlnge:30 lo Linkverkapselung:Locale Schleife inet addr:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 Empfangene Pakete:2877 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Verschickte Packete:2877 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlnge:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:04:36:65 inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 IPX/Ethernet II addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet SNAP addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet 802.3 addr:00105A043665 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:547913 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1007164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:403747 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:1423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 If you can see your eth0 interface, then Linux knows how to talk to it and it is correctly configured hardware wise. The software configuration might be in error though. hmm--so maybe in sw. Post the output of ifconfig see I can see it. Next type dmesg ok..here is dmesg with all msgs that belong to eth0: eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 60 08 71 06 d9, IRQ 10. 3c509.c:1.16 (2.2) 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: ippp_ccp: allocated reset data structure c1e75800 eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.this is because i set route in rc.local at bootup The output from dmesg will include information about your ethernet card like this... IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. 3c59x.c 16Aug00 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone
Re: [newbie] Supermount and new kernel
I've just installed kernel 2.2.18 and I have 3 things that don't work as before : - Kheader : I solved this one by adding a "0" in the kheader file and it works now. - Supermount : I do not have supermount anymore. How can I do to get it back ? - The alsa drivers I have installed with my previous kernel, don't work. Does that mean I have to reinstall them ? I'm running Mandrake 7.1 Thank you. Francois Whoa which 2.2.18? 2.2.18-1mdk ? and was it the ready made, or did you compile it, and from mdk source, or vanilla source ... with the appropriate 7.1 patches ? I believe you can see I'm gettin at there can be endless variables here I downloaded the one I found on kernel.org named "linux-2.2.18.tar.bz2" I compiled it, but I do not know about the "appropriate 7.1 patches" you're speaking about. Francois
Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM
I've not noticed that I lost all the other window managers, I'll have to check that, but I do have a user named Tina on the login gui. So does anyone know what that is all about, and is it safe to delete Tina as a user? Probably need to report to Mandrake and kde.org, it is a bug accountable to one or the other. Could look on the KDE web site to see if the things already been reported. It still shows up in the KDE2.1beta as welll as the so called stabel KDE2.0. -michael- wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:02, regarding [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM, you said: Hello,installed the KDE2 rpms and all went well.I did a "rpm -Uvf *.rpm --test" and it came back with no failed dependencies.I then installed from text console outside of x.I then did a "rpm --rebuilddb" followed by "update-menus -v" Once I went to log in I found a whole bunch of system users,no biggie,but I now only have KDE, default, and failsafe, all other window managers are gone. I have seen that this seems to be common, anyone have a fix for the bug? Should I report it and to who? Thanks for your time. Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Dale: I have the same problem; all my users except me, root and user2 are penguins with program names...when I boot to KDE I get icewm, when I do default it is enlightenment and I assume that failsafe is a command line. I can only get this when i type init 5 instead of startx(which produces enlightenment). I miss my old KDE! -- Dennis Myers Registered Linux user #180843
Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM
Christopher Molnar wrote: I just got back from a Sun Developers conference in Boston :-) (have to spy on the other people every once in a while). I am about to kick off my build scripts so let's see what happens when I put out some 20010119 RPM's in about 8 hours. I suspect this problem may be fixed. (no money-back gaurantee though.). -Chris Any more souped up Java support for Konq' in the Sun sessions? And we appreciate whatever you do for us... -michael-
RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Quaylar Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan At 11:17 18.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: Assuming your cabling is ok, then it's time to look for trouble with Linux vis-a-vis your ethernet cards. First type in lsdev alright..lsdev.command not found.but i know what u are aiming at...so here we go : --- lsdev not found? Did you perform a full installation? --- first : DMA 4: cascade second : irqs: CPU0 0:1192243 XT-PIC timer 1:919 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 9: 1 XT-PIC HiSax 10:359 XT-PIC eth0 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 31822 XT-PIC ide0 15: 8 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 third : ios -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 0300-030f : 3c509 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) 1400-1401 : HFCS isdn f000-f007 : ide0 f008-f00f : ide1 forth : devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 36 netlink 43 ttyI 44 cui 45 isdn 128 ptm 136 pts Block devices: 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 22 ide1 fifth : modules 3c509 5964 1 (autoclean) hisax 126536 4 isdn 91604 5 [hisax] slhc4440 1 [isdn] these are all the outputs of cat /proc/* This will show something like this... DeviceDMA IRQ I/O Ports aic7xxx 5 e800-e8fe cascade 4 2 dma 0080-008f dma1 -001f dma2 00c0-00df eth0 e400-e47f fpu 13 00f0-00ff ide0 14 01f0-01f7 03f6-03f6 f000-f007 --- Snip --- Notice the ethernet entry. Make sure you see yours. IRQ does not show up, because I'm using a PCI card. Next type ifconfig ok..so this is my ifconfig : eth0 Linkverkapselung:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:71:06:D9 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Maske:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Empfangene Pakete:0 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Verschickte Packete:2874 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:2874 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlnge:100 Interrupt:10 Basisadresse:0x300 ippp0 Linkverkapselung:Punkt-zu-Punkt Verbindung UP PUNKTZUPUNKT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 Empfangene Pakete:0 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Verschickte Packete:0 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlnge:30 lo Linkverkapselung:Locale Schleife inet addr:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 Empfangene Pakete:2877 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Verschickte Packete:2877 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlnge:0 --- Until you have everything running, why don't you bring down the ppp link, just in case you have a routing problem? --- eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:04:36:65 inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 IPX/Ethernet II addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet SNAP addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet 802.3 addr:00105A043665 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:547913 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1007164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:403747 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:1423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 If you can see your eth0 interface, then Linux knows how to talk to it and it is correctly configured hardware wise. The software configuration might be in error though. hmm--so maybe in sw. Post the output of ifconfig see I can see it. Next type dmesg ok..here is dmesg with all msgs that belong to eth0: - eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 60 08 71 06 d9, IRQ 10.
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subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I loaded Mandrake 7.2. Everything worked well. Then I tried to make a change. Theerror belowoccured after I added a subdirectory to my user home directory. I could not make the addition, while logged in as the user, so I logged out and back in as root. After adding the subdirectory Stuff to jim/home, I could not start XWindows again. I looked for a clue in the user groups, and they say to edit the XF86Config-4 and XFConfig files to remove the font section. This solution does not work. XFree86 Version 4.0.1 / X Window System(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400)Release Date: 1 July 2000If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newerthan the above date, look for a newer version before reportingproblems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)Operating System: Linux 2.2.17-21mdksmp i686 [ELF] Module Loader present(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Jan 17 12:53:18 2001(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown.(==) ServerLayout "layout1"(**) |--Screen "screen1" (0)(**) | |--Monitor "Generic|High Frequency SVGA, 1024x768 at 70 Hz"(**) | |--Device "Trident 3DImage975 (generic)"(**) |--Input Device "Mouse1"(**) |--Input Device "Keyboard1"(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30"(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"(**) XKB: model: "pc105"(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"(**) XKB: layout: "us"(**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1"(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"(**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"(--) using VT number 7 (II) Module ABI versions:XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1XFree86 Video Driver: 0.2XFree86 XInput driver : 0.1XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.1(II) Loader running on linux(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a(II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project"compiled for 4.0.1, module version = 1.0.0Module class: XFree86 Font RendererABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.1(II) Loading font Bitmap(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a(II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project"compiled for 4.0.1, module version = 0.1.0ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.2(II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1(II) PCI: Config type is 1(II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1106,0305 card , rev 02 class 06,00,00 hdr 00(II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1106,8305 card , rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01(II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 1106,0686 card 1106, rev 1b class 06,01,00 hdr 80(II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 1106,0571 card , rev 06 class 01,01,8a hdr 00(II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 0e class 0c,03,00 hdr 00(II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 0e class 0c,03,00 hdr 00(II) PCI: 00:07:4: chip 1106,3057 card , rev 20 class 06,00,00 hdr 00(II) PCI: 00:07:5: chip 1106,3058 card 1106,3058 rev 21 class 04,01,00 hdr 00(II) PCI: 00:0a:0: chip 10ec,8029 card , rev 00 class 02,00,00 hdr 00(II) PCI: 00:0b:0: chip 11c1,0442 card 1436,0001 rev 01 class 07,80,00 hdr 00(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 1023,9750 card 1023,9750 rev f3 class 03,00,00 hdr 00(II) PCI: End of PCI scan(II) LoadModule: "scanpci"(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a(II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project"compiled for 4.0.1, module version = 0.1.0ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.2(II) UnloadModule: "scanpci"(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0c (VGA_EN is set)(II) Bus 1 I/O range:(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:[0] -10xd400 - 0xd5ff (0x200) MXB(II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range:(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) Trident 3DImage975 rev 243, Mem @ 0xd540/22, 0xd580/17, 0xd500/22(II) Addressable bus resource ranges are[0] -10x - 0x (0x0) MXB[1] -10x - 0x (0x1) IXB(II) OS-reported resource ranges:[0] -10xffe0 - 0x (0x20) MXB(B)[1] -10x0010 - 0x3fff (0x3ff0) MXBE(B)[2] -10x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MXB[3] -10x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MXB[4] -10x - 0x0009 (0xa) MXB[5] -10x - 0x01ff (0x200) IXBE(II) Active PCI resource ranges:[0] -10xd600 - 0xd7ff (0x200) MXBE[1] -10xd000 - 0xd3ff (0x400) MXBE[2] -10xd500 - 0xd53f (0x40) MXB(B)[3] -10xd580 - 0xd581 (0x2) MXB(B)[4] -10xd540 - 0xd57f (0x40) MXB(B)[5] -10xe400 - 0xe4ff (0x100) IXBE[6] -10xe000 - 0xe0ff (0x100) IXBE[7] -10xdc00 - 0xdcff (0x100) IXBE[8] -10xd400 -
[newbie] Pre Instalation query; partitions
I am preparing to install Linux Mandrke 72 as a second OS on my currently Win98 machine (Celeron 366, 128 RAM, 10 gig). For now, I just want to begin learning it; I have no programming skills. My HD is partitioned into 4; OS on C:\ (1.17 gig avail), applications on D:\ (911 meg avail), data I back up nightly (databases, email etc.) on E:\ (1.54 gig avail) and music files on F:\ (178 meg avail but 2 gig potentially so). MY CD-Roms are G:\ (40x) and H:\ (8x8x24x). I am not keen on (but not adamently opposed to) any further partitions if that word is used as I currently understand it. I'd like to put Linux on C, have the option of which OS I want to use when I boot and not alter the drive letters of the remaining drives.. my many shortcuts won't work in that case nor will I have access to my data (on E:\) without re-configuration. Where (and how) might you suggest installing Linux given these particulars? -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA
Re: [newbie] Xfree86 RPMs for Mandrake 7.0
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 18:49, root wrote: I have mandrake 7.0 and everytime I try to update Xfree86 to v4.0.2 it screws up my whole system so I thought if I used RPMs for Mandrake it would make sure everything worked right, well anyways where can I get the RPMs and which ones do I need? Sending email as root is not a good idea. Hint (and very strong suggestion): create a user acount and use that. As for 7.0 and Xfree 4.02, please consider updating to a more recent Mandrake version before you try. There have been packaging changes that will make it very difficult to install the current packages on a 7.0 distribution. I wouldn't even attempt it. -Chris
RE: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux
-Original Message- From: Adrian Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux a honda accord has a purpose. a freightliner tractor/trailer rig has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. a hunting rifle has a purpose. a 50mm vulcan cannon has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. windows has a purpose. linux has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. I get what you are saying, but there is a subtle difference between the magnitude of purpose between the hunting rifle/cannon and linux/windows. Presumably, both linux and windows are multiple purpose generic OSs and are able to solve the same problems in the same domains. Both OSs can be deployed for server purposes or desktop purposes. In that respect that are more reasonably interchangeable than the rifle and cannon scenario. There is no reason why Linux cannot or should not be as accessible as MAC and Windows are. (There is no reason that Solaris should not be as accessible as MAC and Windows are -- and in terms of cost as accessible as MAC, Windows, and Linux are) The reason why, is that Linux is not as accessible as MAC and Windows is because Linux doesn't have paying customers that have UI requirements like the other OSs. Consequently, the UI priorities are not the same for linux as Windows, but that's just because of the nature of the Open Source methods and linux's roots. use the right tool for the right job. if i wanted linux to be like windows, why wouldn't i have just kept using windows? In short, because you and I and the most of the linux community typically have philisophical problems with the way MS behaves, beyond any technical merit of the OS and application it runs. i may not be the sharpest crayon in the box, but i just don't understand this. no product can be everything to everybody. no product. name any one *specific* product that fills every need held by every person on the planet. You're exaggerating. Yes, it is reasonable to say that linux can address everything that comprises an OS and server/desktop platforms just as well as any other general-purpose OS can address. i think the "must be like windows" concept is a bad thing. I don't know if the argument is really "linux must be like windows", but rather, "Why can't linux be as accessible as windows and mac and beos?" ps: I think these tangent discussions are very good, as more people of different backgrounds look to solve new problems with linux it will make linux just that much better. pps: It's too bad I can't convince the VPs here to use linux as our production machines instead of solaris, because quite frankly linux has a better (more accesible) devlopment enivronment! (But if you read the unix newsgroups they complain about linux like we complain about windows -- imagine that!)
Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02
Thank you Chris, Your advice is to download .tgz files, but I have already downloaded the XFree4.02 rpm source file. I've just finished to rebuild the files from the source file, and now I have the following files built : -rw-r--r--1 root root 1274861 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 10686424 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1101761 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 622913 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-Xnest-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1675192 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 385112 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1967017 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-devel-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 9273769 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-doc-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 622058 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-glide-module-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 2128405 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-libs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 6343726 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-server-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1756340 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-static-libs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 422201 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-xfs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm Is it enuf ?? With my XFree3.3.6 install, I saw that I have the following files not created for Xfree4.02 : XFree86-XF86Setup XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts XFree86-SVGA XFree86-VGA16 XFree86-server-common Do I have to find them for this upgrade ? Do I need anything else ? Thank you. Francois - On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote: You need to go download the binaries for your system from ftp.xfree86.org. Here is a list of the minimum files you need: Xinstall.sh extract Xbin.tgz Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xfnts.tgz Xfenc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xvar.tgz Xxserv.tgz Xmod.tgz Just put them in the same directory and type "sh Xinstall.sh". It will ask you a couple of questions. I said no to the first question and left the answers as default to the rest. Fairly easy to do. Good luck and I hope this helps! - Original Message - From: "Francois Massonneau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02 Hi, I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with XFree3.3.6 I guess (that's the one that comes with Mdke7.1) I would like to upgrade XFree4.02, so I downloaded a file named "XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.src.rpm" To rebuild it, I've got to upgrade 4 files (freetype... and VGlide ). While I'm writting this message, I'm rebuilding this XFree source rpm file. Now the questions : - Do I need something else ? - How do I do to install this new XFree. ? - Do I have to uninstall XFree3.3.6 then install 4.02 ? All your help will be very appreciated, because I 'm really afraid about that upgrade. Thank you. Francois
RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan
At 15:52 18.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Quaylar Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan At 11:17 18.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: Assuming your cabling is ok, then it's time to look for trouble with Linux vis-a-vis your ethernet cards. First type in lsdev alright..lsdev.command not found.but i know what u are aiming at...so here we go : --- lsdev not found? Did you perform a full installation? no, i did a server installation with LM 7.1 because i only have 2x500 MB HD --- first : DMA 4: cascade second : irqs: CPU0 0:1192243 XT-PIC timer 1:919 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 9: 1 XT-PIC HiSax 10:359 XT-PIC eth0 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 31822 XT-PIC ide0 15: 8 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 third : ios -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 0300-030f : 3c509 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) 1400-1401 : HFCS isdn f000-f007 : ide0 f008-f00f : ide1 forth : devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 36 netlink 43 ttyI 44 cui 45 isdn 128 ptm 136 pts Block devices: 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 22 ide1 fifth : modules 3c509 5964 1 (autoclean) hisax 126536 4 isdn 91604 5 [hisax] slhc4440 1 [isdn] these are all the outputs of cat /proc/* This will show something like this... DeviceDMA IRQ I/O Ports aic7xxx 5 e800-e8fe cascade 4 2 dma 0080-008f dma1 -001f dma2 00c0-00df eth0 e400-e47f fpu 13 00f0-00ff ide0 14 01f0-01f7 03f6-03f6 f000-f007 --- Snip --- Notice the ethernet entry. Make sure you see yours. IRQ does not show up, because I'm using a PCI card. Next type ifconfig ok..so this is my ifconfig : eth0 Linkverkapselung:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:71:06:D9 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Maske:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Empfangene Pakete:0 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Verschickte Packete:2874 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:2874 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlnge:100 Interrupt:10 Basisadresse:0x300 ippp0 Linkverkapselung:Punkt-zu-Punkt Verbindung UP PUNKTZUPUNKT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 Empfangene Pakete:0 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Verschickte Packete:0 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlnge:30 lo Linkverkapselung:Locale Schleife inet addr:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 Empfangene Pakete:2877 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Verschickte Packete:2877 Fehler:0 Weggeworfen:0 berlauf:0 Rahmen:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlnge:0 --- Until you have everything running, why don't you bring down the ppp link, just in case you have a routing problem? alright.let me try..doesnt work.despite of bringing down the ippp interface --- eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:04:36:65 inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 IPX/Ethernet II addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet SNAP addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:00105A043665 IPX/Ethernet 802.3 addr:00105A043665 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:547913 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1007164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:403747 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:1423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 If you can see your eth0 interface, then Linux knows how to talk to it and it is correctly configured hardware wise. The software configuration might be in error though.
[newbie] I'm using a hotmail acct fot this user group and
I don't know how to be removed from this very busy usergroup. How do I ask to get removed please?
[newbie] windows/word
I recently installed lm 7.2 and i'm still learning it, but my question is, is there a way to access and use microsoft word from ,my other partition. I can access my windows fine but i can't run any programs from that OS. Just curious Kurt
[newbie] how do I caopy a file from another Linux box?
I have samba setup, how do I get a file off it into another linux box?
[newbie] NIC Cards
I have just installed Mandrake on a P60 with 2 3Com 3c509b Ethernet cards. The system doesnt recognise the cards, what command can I use to add the correct device drivers ?? Rob
Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02
H... I can't really help you now because I've never installed using RPM's. :( I've always used the tar files. I'm sure someone else can tho. - Original Message - From: "Francois Massonneau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02 Thank you Chris, Your advice is to download .tgz files, but I have already downloaded the XFree4.02 rpm source file. I've just finished to rebuild the files from the source file, and now I have the following files built : -rw-r--r--1 root root 1274861 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 10686424 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1101761 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 622913 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-Xnest-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1675192 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 385112 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1967017 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-devel-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 9273769 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-doc-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 622058 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-glide-module-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 2128405 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-libs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 6343726 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-server-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 1756340 Jan 18 22:01 XFree86-static-libs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root 422201 Jan 18 22:02 XFree86-xfs-4.0.2-4mdk.i686.rpm Is it enuf ?? With my XFree3.3.6 install, I saw that I have the following files not created for Xfree4.02 : XFree86-XF86Setup XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts XFree86-SVGA XFree86-VGA16 XFree86-server-common Do I have to find them for this upgrade ? Do I need anything else ? Thank you. Francois - On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote: You need to go download the binaries for your system from ftp.xfree86.org. Here is a list of the minimum files you need: Xinstall.sh extract Xbin.tgz Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xfnts.tgz Xfenc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xvar.tgz Xxserv.tgz Xmod.tgz Just put them in the same directory and type "sh Xinstall.sh". It will ask you a couple of questions. I said no to the first question and left the answers as default to the rest. Fairly easy to do. Good luck and I hope this helps! - Original Message - From: "Francois Massonneau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02 Hi, I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with XFree3.3.6 I guess (that's the one that comes with Mdke7.1) I would like to upgrade XFree4.02, so I downloaded a file named "XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.src.rpm" To rebuild it, I've got to upgrade 4 files (freetype... and VGlide ). While I'm writting this message, I'm rebuilding this XFree source rpm file. Now the questions : - Do I need something else ? - How do I do to install this new XFree. ? - Do I have to uninstall XFree3.3.6 then install 4.02 ? All your help will be very appreciated, because I 'm really afraid about that upgrade. Thank you. Francois
Re: [newbie] Disappearing memory... and non accessilble CD-ROM
I don't know why, but Linux sees my 733 processor as a 735 and my 256 mb ram as 255. So I would say: 255. -s On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:19 pm, you wrote: Hooorah if at the boot prompt I type "linux mem=256M" I get the full amount ... however, try as I might I cannot get lilo.conf to automatically see the memory. I've tried append="mem=256m" and I've tried label="linux mem=256m" and it still doesnt work (and yes I did run lilo before rebooting). Can someone send me an example lilo.conf with label="linux mem=256" so I make sure I've got it in the right place. I'd send my lilo.conf but I'm not at that machine at the moment. Finally, if I have 256Mb what amount should I specify. I notice that for 64Mb linus starts with "65M" does this imply that for 256Mb I should start with 260MB . or is 256 the most. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="InterScan_Disclaimer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
[newbie] Help! Need analysis of freeze during 7.2 install
Help! I need to get Mandrake 7.2 Complete installed! I would like to obtain detailed error message information but cannot read messages briefly displaied during stage 1 of install. (they scroll by too quickly to read) After about 30 reboots I did piece together a stage 1 message: Unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00, device 79, VID=1166, DID=0211 But I do not know if it is relevant. Next message suggested try "text expert idebus=33" but made no difference. Is there a command I can enter at prompt boot: that would allow me to step through install processes and read each message? Or view all stage 1 messages before stage 2 of install is started? I have no idea how to procede. Help! Problem seems to be related to IDE or SCSI controllers. Or maybe that data cannot be written to harddisk. I have tried both IDE and SCSI CDROMs and both embedded Symbios SCSI and Adaptec 29160 SCSI card for harddisk. I have tried disabling (via Phoenix BIOS) of various combinations of embedded chips on motherboard (see below): sound, network, SCSI, IDE, floppy, PCI slots but install always freezes as follows: Install Behavior In general, the install of 7.2 Complete is freezing (mouse, keyboard do not respond for 30 minutes and reboot necessary). Freeze occurs when installing first or second driver during stage 2 of install. I have tried modes expert, text expert, custom and recommended. The freeze always occurs just after clicking on either workstation, server or developer and showing one of dialogs below (depending on hardware attempt): Please wait Installing driver for scsi|disk card Symbios|53c1010-33 Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (module sym53c8xx) Please wait Installing driver for scsi|disk card imm (module imm) FYI: I want to kill module imm ;-) What is this beast? When an Adaptec 29160 card is used to replace disabled, embedded Symbios SCSI chip the Adaptec driver seems to install ok but freeze then occurs on the imm driver install. Motherboard Info More info on my super fast hardware (that don't work) http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunder2500_p.html Tyan Thunder 2500 (S1867DLU3AN) with: Note: this motherboard has all 64bit PCI slots of which 2 run at 66MHz and 4 at 33MHz (more complications!) Server Works (RCC) Sever Set III HE with: Two 40-pin IDE connectors (primary / secondary) Up to 4 drives Integrated dual channel SCSI via: Symbios 896 on chip LSI SYM1010 SMC 37B787 Super I/O chip with: Two 9-pin 16550 UART Serial ports One 25-pin ECP / Epp Parallel port Floppy Controller PS/2 Mouse Keyboard ports Phoenix BIOS on 2 Mb flash RAM with: Auto detection of memory size Auto configuration of IDE hard disk types Multiple boot options DMI 2.0 / PC 99 compliant No ACPI support Ensoniq 1373 PCI Sound Ensoniq AC'97 Codec Sound Blaster™ Compatible 16-bit Stereo Line-in, Line-out, MIC and Game / MIDI ports Disk Drives Info Seagate Cheetah X15 (ST318451LW) AND Plextor CDROM (UltraPlex Wide (PX-40TSUWi)) OR Generic IDE CDROM Thanks for your time, Any suggestions appreciated, Bradford Sturtevant __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie]Linux careers
http://linux.com/jobs/ Dear Anyone, Are there any Linux career possibilities? Is there a place to research this on the internet? Thank you, Marcia -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
[newbie] 3com NIC
I have just installed Mandrake on a P60 with 2 3Com 3c509b Ethernet cards. The system doesn't recognise the cards, what command can I use to add the correct device drivers ?? Rob --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.226 / Virus Database: 108 - Release Date: 05/01/2001 _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02
I should mention that when I followed Chris' directions several times, you cannot boot anymore. I finally traced it to running graphical login (xdm) although I was able to get the upgrade to work if I used a shell login, and copied my old /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc from 3.3.6 back onto the new one. This allowed me to keep KDE instead of twm as the default. But DONT reconfigure after upgrade for a graphical logon, or you can't boot anymore. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote: You need to go download the binaries for your system from ftp.xfree86.org. Here is a list of the minimum files you need:Xinstall.sh extract Xbin.tgz Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xfnts.tgz Xfenc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xvar.tgz Xxserv.tgz Xmod.tgz Just put them in the same directory and type "sh Xinstall.sh". It will ask you a couple of questions. I said no to the first question and left the answers as default to the rest. Fairly easy to do. Good luck and I hope this helps! - Original Message - From: "Francois Massonneau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02 Hi, I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with XFree3.3.6 I guess (that's the one that comes with Mdke7.1) I would like to upgrade XFree4.02, so I downloaded a file named "XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.src.rpm" To rebuild it, I've got to upgrade 4 files (freetype... and VGlide ). While I'm writting this message, I'm rebuilding this XFree source rpm file. Now the questions : - Do I need something else ? - How do I do to install this new XFree. ? - Do I have to uninstall XFree3.3.6 then install 4.02 ? All your help will be very appreciated, because I 'm really afraid about that upgrade. Thank you. Francois
[newbie]] Linux Careers
Dear Anyone, Are there any Linux career possibilities? Thank you. Marcia
RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan
jose, i found the config utility u spoke from, i configured the card to use the BNC port and linux came up recognizing that the card was supposed to use the BNC port. ( *hurray*) i added eth0 routes as u specified but unfortunatly the original problem persists ( *argh*) as before i am not able to ping either the win box from linux nor the linux box from win.. do u have another idea what could be going on here ? --quay
RE: [newbie]Linux careers
Can anyone suggest a good place to informally find folks interested in being hired for development positions? A place for sponsors/recuiters to informally discuss potential projects? Like a certain newsgroup or something? -Original Message- From: Anthony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]Linux careers http://linux.com/jobs/ Dear Anyone, Are there any Linux career possibilities? Is there a place to research this on the internet? Thank you, Marcia -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] No sound can't find in archives
had same problem vic...turn on icq... Vic wrote: I installed 7.2 today. No sound. Why? Soundblaster Awe64 ISA sndconfig 'command not found' where did it go? Where is the sound? -- Registered Linux User:167369 ==http://www.KompuKit.com Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST)
Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux
Heavens! don't do that. ToJams don't wash down too easily. And I happen to agree with what you said. All things have a purpose and I, like you, don't want Linux to be anymore like windows then the next guy. -- 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, 18 Jan 2001, Adrian Smith wrote: this will be a shock to you all, but i have an opinon here. =) i agree with Tom -- although i fully confess Tom is much better at saying than I am. probably because i am an obnoxious and arrogant and Tom isn't. but i can't figure this one out ether, why do you guys care so much about converting windoze users? should we make 18 wheelers with automatic stick shifts so that everyone who drives a car can drive a semi-truck? a honda accord has a purpose. a freightliner tractor/trailer rig has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. a hunting rifle has a purpose. a 50mm vulcan cannon has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. windows has a purpose. linux has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. use the right tool for the right job. if i wanted linux to be like windows, why wouldn't i have just kept using windows? i may not be the sharpest crayon in the box, but i just don't understand this. no product can be everything to everybody. no product. name any one *specific* product that fills every need held by every person on the planet. i think the "must be like windows" concept is a bad thing. i'll try to stuff a sock in my mouth now. =) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9:29:15 PM 1/17/01 OK y'all !!This marks the last time I'm gonna start a thread starting with a news wire URL, well maybe ; Actually I thought it was a business story that kind'a illustrated Linux's present state, and the perception of. The first full install I did of Mandrake was ~500mb. A current 'du -ch /' with my windoze drive umounted is ~4 gigs! ... and I've uninstalled a lot of the apps I don't use, and there's linux stuff on the windoze drive, not in that count. I like it just the way it is, the installer that is. What brandNewbie doesn't install several times before they 'settle in' ? ...and for experienced users, it's easy, albeit time consuming, to install just what you want. As much or little. LM's installation let's YOU choose. I believe there's nothin that needs changin. I like the current trend in Mandrake's installs. As to the 'convert windoze users', and get "linux on everybody's desktop' vein this thread has denigrated to. WHO CARES? Seriously, be more concerned that Linux continues to attract the people that built it to begin with ... the people all over the world that contribute to this free, open source, volunteer effort. Without them, Linux is dead.
Re: [newbie] Disappearing memory... and non accessilble CD-ROM
Try capitalizing the "M" in "append=256M" otherwise the problem is with your bios (I think) Cheers -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why, but Linux sees my 733 processor as a 735 and my 256 mb ram as 255. So I would say: 255. -s On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:19 pm, you wrote: Hooorah if at the boot prompt I type "linux mem=256M" I get the full amount ... however, try as I might I cannot get lilo.conf to automatically see the memory. I've tried append="mem=256m" and I've tried label="linux mem=256m" and it still doesnt work (and yes I did run lilo before rebooting). Can someone send me an example lilo.conf with label="linux mem=256" so I make sure I've got it in the right place. I'd send my lilo.conf but I'm not at that machine at the moment. Finally, if I have 256Mb what amount should I specify. I notice that for 64Mb linus starts with "65M" does this imply that for 256Mb I should start with 260MB . or is 256 the most. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="InterScan_Disclaimer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie]] Linux Careers
Has anyone succesfully installed Resin ( JSP and Servlet engine) with the Apache Server which comes with Linux Mandrake? I am confused with the configure and make commands. I have Mandrake 7.0 Thanks
Re: [newbie] Disappearing memory... and non accessilble CD-ROM
On Thursday 18 January 2001 10:27 am, s wrote: I don't know why, but Linux sees my 733 processor as a 735 and my 256 mb ram as 255. So I would say: 255. -s The clock generator chip on any motherboard is never exact. That's a 133.33mhz bus cpu and the motherboards givin it 133.63mhz. So 5.5 (the multiplier for that cpu) times 133.63 = 735mhz. Something in the system, prob'ly the motherboard is grabin some ram to use, so you only have 255 left. Actually with any motherboard that's faulty enough to require an append= fix, 1mb should always be subtracted. Any board with integrated video, sound, modem, etc. also uses the system ram and forcing linux to see all the ram, eg append=256M, will sooner or later cause the system to crash. Say the vendor said the computer has 8mb onboard video (a lie). In that case you could only safely use append=247M If the board also has integrated sound, then append=245m, or safer yet =243M. It's just another of the many reasons why onboard crap should be avoided, any OS. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] x-config.SOLVED
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Andres wrote: Hi, is there a way of changing the xfree server(4.0.1) back to the 3.3.6 using drakonf? or the only way is by "upgrading" the O.S.? Yes, and here is your answer. snip From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same problem til a kind sole told me that I needed to tell X which version to link to: "What defines your X version, is the link /etc/X11/X if it is linked to something like /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_ then it is the 3.3.6 if it is linked to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86then it is 4.0.x Also, /var/log/XFree86.0.log is the output of your last X session, and you can find lot sof info there too, just a good way to check out things :) To make it 4.0.x straight delete the link and remake it in the correct way rm /etc/X11/X ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X will do the job. Goodluck Onur" snip __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie] RESIN with APACHE
Has anyone succesfully installed Resin ( JSP and Servlet engine) with the Apache Server which comes with Linux Mandrake? I am confused with the configure and make commands. I have Mandrake 7.0 Thanks
Re: [newbie] Disappearing memory... and non accessilble CD-ROM
Better yet, you are right! Send us your actual lilo.conf file and all it's entirety and we will know for sure what is wrong. Expecially if you have SCSI specified in your lilo.conf. Cheers -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try capitalizing the "M" in "append=256M" otherwise the problem is with your bios (I think) Cheers -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why, but Linux sees my 733 processor as a 735 and my 256 mb ram as 255. So I would say: 255. -s On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:19 pm, you wrote: Hooorah if at the boot prompt I type "linux mem=256M" I get the full amount ... however, try as I might I cannot get lilo.conf to automatically see the memory. I've tried append="mem=256m" and I've tried label="linux mem=256m" and it still doesnt work (and yes I did run lilo before rebooting). Can someone send me an example lilo.conf with label="linux mem=256" so I make sure I've got it in the right place. I'd send my lilo.conf but I'm not at that machine at the moment. Finally, if I have 256Mb what amount should I specify. I notice that for 64Mb linus starts with "65M" does this imply that for 256Mb I should start with 260MB . or is 256 the most. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="InterScan_Disclaimer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] Disappearing memory... and non accessilble CD-ROM
Better yet, you are right! Send us your actual lilo.conf file and all it's entirety and we will know for sure what is wrong. Expecially if you have SCSI specified in your lilo.conf. Cheers -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try capitalizing the "M" in "append=256M" otherwise the problem is with your bios (I think) Cheers -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why, but Linux sees my 733 processor as a 735 and my 256 mb ram as 255. So I would say: 255. -s On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:19 pm, you wrote: Hooorah if at the boot prompt I type "linux mem=256M" I get the full amount ... however, try as I might I cannot get lilo.conf to automatically see the memory. I've tried append="mem=256m" and I've tried label="linux mem=256m" and it still doesnt work (and yes I did run lilo before rebooting). Can someone send me an example lilo.conf with label="linux mem=256" so I make sure I've got it in the right place. I'd send my lilo.conf but I'm not at that machine at the moment. Finally, if I have 256Mb what amount should I specify. I notice that for 64Mb linus starts with "65M" does this imply that for 256Mb I should start with 260MB . or is 256 the most. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="InterScan_Disclaimer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] 3com NIC
At 22:51 18.01.2001 +, you wrote: I have just installed Mandrake on a P60 with 2 3Com 3c509b Ethernet cards. The system doesn't recognise the cards, what command can I use to add the correct device drivers ?? Rob rob, at first u will have to ensure that your precompiled kernel has built-in (or module) support for your ethernet cards. i assume that is has not built-in because the drivers didnt come up at boot time. so you should check for a module called "3c509" (this is the module for these cards, at least in kernel 2.2.18) in /lib/modules/ and all subdirectories. if u dont find the module u have to recompile your kernel to support your ethernet cards. if this is the case i suggest u read the Kernel-Howto located in /usr/doc/HOWTO or www.linuxdoc.org and first make sure to configure the kernel for your eth cards ( and at least to fit your other needs, btw...if u recompile your kernel.i suggest doing it with a new version, 2.2.18 worked good for me, u can download it and all other versions at www.kernel.org ). greetings, --quay
[newbie]Linux careers
Dear Anyone, Are there any Linux career possibilities? Is there a place to research this on the internet? Thank you, Marcia
Re: [newbie] No hard disk
Be aware of any IRQ sharing with the promise controller. In windows sharing seems to work ok with that device but I've had some serious problems in linux. The (can't remember for sure) third or fourth pci slot from the top (agp slot) always shares with the promise controller. If you really have problems you may need to move that device to a different slot altogether. Abe Dan LaBine wrote: Dear Micha; You can't install Mandrake, because you don't have any free partitions left. You said that you had 3 - 10Gb partitions all formatted with DOS? you need at least one partition UNFORMATTED for Mandrake. It will format the partition for Linux-Mandrake while it is installing. If all 3 partitions are already formatted for DOS/Windows, there is no place for Mandrake. Also, check the CD that came with your ASUS board. See if it has a driver section for the Promise ATA100 adapter on the M/B. There may be a Linux Driver on it. If your BIOS doesn't detect the drive, check the drive to make sure that the jumpers on it are set to Master. If they are, replace your IDE cable (it may be defective,..but probably not). Borrow another IDE drive and see if your BIOS will detect it. If it does, there may be a problem with your drive. In any case, you'll have to delete one partition (the second one is your best bet) in order to make room for Mandrake. Make sure that you back up your data first! Good luck! Dan LaBine Registered Linux User #190712 - Original Message - From: "Micha POZARZYCKI" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 8:40 AM Subject: [newbie] No hard disk Hi everybody! I've got a problem with Mandrake 7.2 installation. All goes well until the programme asks me for existing SCSII driver. Recording to the manual of my motherbard (ASUS VIA 761 Chipset) there is a driver Promise. There is no such a driver in the list I have to choose from. Anyway I try to say no SCSII device and then the programme say there is no valid device where the file system can be placed, check for hardware error. My hard disk is Seagate Barracuda IDE 30,8GB, so I assume that thye error is not connected with possible SCSII device error that I probably do. An additional information is that my BIOS doesn't detect hard disk, the field Primery Master say None when booting. Also in the Bios Setup when I choose autodetect Primery Master the Bios doesn't recognize any data (like PIO level or UDMA level). When I set Secondary Master autodetect it chooses CD-recorder and gets the information on PIO or UDMA. Sorry if I haven't included enough information - I'm not to good at it. I am very determined to install Linux on my desktop, but can't deal with that stuff. If it helps the windows 98 goes almost well and it recognizes all my three partitions of the drive, which have been made by firm I bought the computer from (thay used Partition Magic or some stuff that sounds similiar, made three partitions 10GB each, and the partitions are in the format compatibile with DOS or smth.) Appreciate any comment michal
Re: [newbie] windows/word
Kurt wrote: I recently installed lm 7.2 and i'm still learning it, but my question is, is there a way to access and use microsoft word from ,my other partition. I can access my windows fine but i can't run any programs from that OS. Just curious Kurt = Hi Kurt, If all you're trying to do is open some of your M$ docs to work on or manipulate in Linux, then you don't really need to run M$ Word itself (though that might be possible with VMWare, possibly even Wine). Use StarOffice or Applixware (SO is free!!). StarOffice can open almost any Word, Excel, or Powerpoint doc I've thrown at it, more often than not flawlessly! I've had students e-mail me essays as Word attachments. I've opened in SO, made my comments and corrections in red, saved as a Word 97 file, e-mailed it back as an attachment. No worries; no problems ;o) Give it a try. Open SO, Open file, go to /mnt/win98 (or whatever you call your windows partition) /mydocuments and try opening a Word file. You'll be pleasantly surprised. HTH, Mike -- "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] Tecra8100 + Mandrake 7.2
James Hallam wrote: hi again, has anyone had any experience of installing drak7.2 on a Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop i can install 7.2 but cannot get X up and running. thanks in advance I have a Satellite Pro 465 CDX, which I have used some Tecra settings, which worked for me, when there were none for a 465 CDX. I can't even find 465 CDX on Toshiba's website, but that's beside the point. I assume that they are somewhat similar. I am still a newbie at this, but this may help you. I have been running LM 7.1 for a while with no problems. I ran 6.5 before that. 6.5 was allright, but since I have a Win modem, I couldn't connect. 7.1 reads my Win modem without a hitch (I am writing this from my 465 CDX running LM 7.1). I didn't do anything special, I just set up a DNS with ELN/ and it worked from the get go. 7.2 however, would not read it. It seems that some people like 7.2 better, but I went back to 7.1, for more than one reason. The Modem was just one of them. I had problems with 7.2 on both my 465 CDX and on my Gateway desktop, so I'm not sure if it is system specific or if it is something I am doing wrong. Neither one of my boxes are even close to what could be considered Linux compatible hardware, so it's amazing that it will run at all on them. Even if it is something I am doing wrong, 7.1 is a safer option. 7.2 is pretty, but I want something fuctional. It's a shame though, that K Office thingie loooks sweet. I read somewhere on this list, that slackware is a better alternative for notebooks. I might check that out next. No matter how much trouble it is, it's got to be less than Windows. ShalomOut Chal
Re: [newbie] No hard disk
you've got an A7v? Promise 100 controller? the mandrake 7.2 installer down't recognize that controller correctly at boot time. You have to pass the loader a command to get it to work. I can't remember the hack though ;-( Try looking at http://www.mandrakeforum.com for it. You could also search the archives for this list. Abe Micha POZARZYCKI wrote: Hi everybody! I've got a problem with Mandrake 7.2 installation. All goes well until the programme asks me for existing SCSII driver. Recording to the manual of my motherbard (ASUS VIA 761 Chipset) there is a driver Promise. There is no such a driver in the list I have to choose from. Anyway I try to say no SCSII device and then the programme say there is no valid device where the file system can be placed, check for hardware error. My hard disk is Seagate Barracuda IDE 30,8GB, so I assume that thye error is not connected with possible SCSII device error that I probably do. An additional information is that my BIOS doesn't detect hard disk, the field Primery Master say None when booting. Also in the Bios Setup when I choose autodetect Primery Master the Bios doesn't recognize any data (like PIO level or UDMA level). When I set Secondary Master autodetect it chooses CD-recorder and gets the information on PIO or UDMA. Sorry if I haven't included enough information - I'm not to good at it. I am very determined to install Linux on my desktop, but can't deal with that stuff. If it helps the windows 98 goes almost well and it recognizes all my three partitions of the drive, which have been made by firm I bought the computer from (thay used Partition Magic or some stuff that sounds similiar, made three partitions 10GB each, and the partitions are in the format compatibile with DOS or smth.) Appreciate any comment michal
[newbie] Mandrake / Redhat
In a debate over Flavors of Linux, How different would you say Mandrake is from Redhat? Sincerely, Dan Belkie hostinghouse.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hostinghouse.com ***We are now giving away free .com domains names!*** _
Re: [newbie] Disappearing memory... and non accessilble CD-ROM
Try capitalizing the "M" in "append=256M" otherwise the problem is with your bios (I think) Cheers -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why, but Linux sees my 733 processor as a 735 and my 256 mb ram as 255. So I would say: 255. -s On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:19 pm, you wrote: Hooorah if at the boot prompt I type "linux mem=256M" I get the full amount ... however, try as I might I cannot get lilo.conf to automatically see the memory. I've tried append="mem=256m" and I've tried label="linux mem=256m" and it still doesnt work (and yes I did run lilo before rebooting). Can someone send me an example lilo.conf with label="linux mem=256" so I make sure I've got it in the right place. I'd send my lilo.conf but I'm not at that machine at the moment. Finally, if I have 256Mb what amount should I specify. I notice that for 64Mb linus starts with "65M" does this imply that for 256Mb I should start with 260MB . or is 256 the most. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="InterScan_Disclaimer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
RE: [newbie]] Linux Careers
Welp, I work in Silicon valley.. We use only Linux on our servers and more then half our workstations. We're using Linux as a replacement to Exchange. I love it. I've been paid to setup Linux for web servers, firewalls, file servers, and backup solutions always a joy. And to further answer your question. "Linux is where the money is." - one of our network consultants, who was being paid $150/hour to say this. Linux and Win2k active directory. Samba should replace Active Dir soon right? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of marcia Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]] Linux Careers Dear Anyone, Are there any Linux career possibilities? Thank you. Marcia
Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02
Those directions were just what worked for me. I have an NVIDIA Geforce 2 MX and it worked just fine. I had no problems booting either way. mark wrote: I should mention that when I followed Chris' directions several times, you cannot boot anymore. I finally traced it to running graphical login (xdm) although I was able to get the upgrade to work if I used a shell login, and copied my old /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc from 3.3.6 back onto the new one. This allowed me to keep KDE instead of twm as the default. But DONT reconfigure after upgrade for a graphical logon, or you can't boot anymore. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote: You need to go download the binaries for your system from ftp.xfree86.org. Here is a list of the minimum files you need:Xinstall.sh extract Xbin.tgz Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xfnts.tgz Xfenc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xvar.tgz Xxserv.tgz Xmod.tgz Just put them in the same directory and type "sh Xinstall.sh". It will ask you a couple of questions. I said no to the first question and left the answers as default to the rest. Fairly easy to do. Good luck and I hope this helps! - Original Message - From: "Francois Massonneau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02 Hi, I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with XFree3.3.6 I guess (that's the one that comes with Mdke7.1) I would like to upgrade XFree4.02, so I downloaded a file named "XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.src.rpm" To rebuild it, I've got to upgrade 4 files (freetype... and VGlide ). While I'm writting this message, I'm rebuilding this XFree source rpm file. Now the questions : - Do I need something else ? - How do I do to install this new XFree. ? - Do I have to uninstall XFree3.3.6 then install 4.02 ? All your help will be very appreciated, because I 'm really afraid about that upgrade. Thank you. Francois
Re: [newbie] Preliminary Survey Results
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 06:18, civileme wrote: Keep Mandrake as is : 20 Add a "simple" option to install: 13 of whom 9 recommended a system I guess it doesn't hurt to have a "simple" option, as long as nothing else changes. As a new user gets more experienced, they can make choices for themselves. I have made the below recommendations based on what I believe a newbie should begin with, and these should be included in the "simple install". KDE: 3 WindowMaker with OpenOffice: 1 FVWM with vi: 1 Sawfish with SIAG: 1 Gnome with Gnome-apps and Netscape: 1Helix-Code Gnome (Ximian Gnome): 1 Blackbox with both KDE and Gnome apps: 1 While I myself prefer GNOME, I think KDE is the best default desktop choice, as long as it is just as easy to choose something else. GNOME (preferably Ximian GNOME) should be included as well, so it can be chosen if the user wants and so the many GTK and GNOME apps can be run. XFce wouldn't be a bad choice either, particularly since it is small yet very functional. I have said it before (on the newbie list), and I'll say it again, I really like the menudrake system of uniform menus across desktop environments. This should be built upon in the future. Losers: NO VOTES or less Mozilla As pathetic as it is, we need Mozilla. Its cross-platform nature makes migration from Windos and the Mac easier. Also, it means that HTML pages rendered in Windos/Mac can look exactly the same in Linux. If Mozilla is being included, perhaps something lighter that uses Gekko (e.g. Galeon and/or SkipStone) should be too. Cooledit Kedit (KDE users wanted KWrite) I quite like Kedit. It is small and fast, a real boon for slower systems. I usually bring up a text editor for jotting quick notes. I really get irritated when I have to wait for more than a second or two for the programme to load. Windos Notepad is good because it is small and very fast (note: this is not an endorsement of M$). We need something similar for Linux. If a user really needs more sophistication, then they can bring up KWrite or KWord. Joe (One negative vote) Mandrake badly needs a default console text editor that anyone can use. I could never figure out VIM, and after some experimentation I finally settled on Jed. Joe claims to be user-friendly, but I could never get the hang of it (although I admit I never read any of the documentation). I found Jed to be highly intuitive, very much like the MS-DOS Edit which I used to use. E E is a great environment, and it really showcases how lovely the Linux desktop can look, particularly in comparison to Windos. I think it should be included. emacs(One negative vote) Too powerful and complex for a newbie. nist (What-we-gonna-do-for-a-DVD-Player?) Yes, we need a DVD player. Mandrake needs a more centralised media player (perhaps XMMP?). While I don't mind having several different players for different things, this could easily confuse newbies who have grown accustomed to programmes like Windows Media Player. Also, Mandrake needs better support for playing AVI, ASF and DivX movie files. To get these files working in mdk7.2, I had to compile the latest version of avifile myself. The Mandrake version of libaviplay combined with Xtheater did not work for me. IceWM(One negative vote) A must. IceWM is a light, speedy WM that is also very functional from a newbie perspective (more so than E or WindowMaker). We must not neglect those with slower systems, since many people change over to Linux since they cannot afford or don't want to buy a faster computer. A light WM will also showcase Linux's speed. It's one thing getting Linux, but we need apps that grab people so that they will contimue to use it. Blackbox is another good choice here. It's not as user-friendly as IceWM, but it's very fast. gtoaster xcdroast Gtoaster, X-CD-Roast and Gnome-Toaster are essential for CD burning. They all have their own strengths and weaknesses. I use all three, since they all complement each other very well. KVirc An IRC client is mandatory, since IRC is a great way for a newbie to get help. I prefer Xchat to KVirc, though. It would also be good to include Mozilla's IRC client. A newsreader like Pan could be useful, too. Licq gAIM We need a client for at least ICQ and AIM. Licq and GnomeICU are great for ICQ, with the former more suited to KDE and the latter to GNOME. While I haven't tried EveryBuddy, I have heard good things about it. A unified IM client would be great, as long as all features were supported. spruce elm mutt biff For newbies, Kmail currently is the best, especially since it is integrated with Konqueror. Evolution should be great when it comes out, particularly for newbies since it looks like M$ Outlook. Mozilla's mail client is good because of its use of Gekko and is cross-platform. About 1000 others A downloader like Downloader for X (my favourite) and/or GTM should be included, since browsers
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Downloadable Version...
hey all, Is the kde 2.0 that comes with the downloadable version of mandrake a beta version? I can't seem to find the theme manager in it. Thanks. Chris
RE: [newbie] Mandrake / Redhat
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Belkie Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 8:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake / Redhat In a debate over Flavors of Linux, How different would you say Mandrake is from Redhat? Dan At one time Mandrake was basicly RH with some extras, similar to what VAlinux is now. But with each released new versions they have become more divergent. Mandrakes basic package is still RPM, a RH child which was royally screwed up in RH 7 with the introductoin of RPM 4, but even this should change in the near future when Mandrake offers widespread implementation of apt-get to its package management system. Today Mandrake, RH, SuSE, Storm, etc. are all Linux and will always have certain basics in common but each stands on its own as an OS and each IS different from the other. If you wish a more embellished list of differences you are welcome to contact me off list. I shall endeavor and succeed in providing you with several pages. If your question was prompted by the quandary of deciding which to install you should definitly aqueous to Mandrake 7.2, it is by far the superior of the two especially when you consider that it can require the services of Roto-Rooter to clean up the blockage that RH 7 can cause. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
Re: [newbie] No hard disk
Dan LaBine wrote: Dear Micha; You can't install Mandrake, because you don't have any free partitions left. You said that you had 3 - 10Gb partitions all formatted with DOS? you need at least one partition UNFORMATTED for Mandrake. One solution to this problem is to get a copy of PowerQuests Partition Magic. Install it in Windows, then use it to alter the size of your partitions and free up enough space to install linux. I've done it many times with many different operating systems.
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment install problem
Tim Goodaire wrote: I've been trying to edit the configure.in file to see if I can figure out how to get it to find the IMLIB_CONFIG and I'm not having any luck. It appears to be looking in $PREFIX/bin. What exactly is $PREFIX? Anyone have any ideas of how I can get this damn thing to compile? $prefix is /usr/local (it should be near the top of configure.in). Strange though, I didn't have any trouble installing E 0.16.5 a few weeks ago. You can try changing $prefix to /usr or enabling fsstd, but I have no idea what the problem really is. My imlib_config is also in /usr/bin, and I actually tried installing E twice - with and without fsstd enabled - and it worked fine both times. I did have one problem though; Linux Mandrake 7.1's graphical login manager thing was still looking for E in /usr/bin (or wherever LM7.1's installer CD-ROM puts it), even if I change .xsession to where the new version of E was installed. I actually renamed the old E (I guess I should just delete it), and moved the new E to where the old E was. I really need to clean those duplicate E files up. :) Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best." -- Oscar Wilde
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Downloadable Version...
There isn't one. Look for it in the upcoming KDE 2.1. M. On Thursday 18 January 2001 19:02, you wrote: hey all, Is the kde 2.0 that comes with the downloadable version of mandrake a beta version? I can't seem to find the theme manager in it. Thanks. Chris Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] HDParm and DMA
How do you know that the speed is increased? I have been having problems where when I use the -d1 option by itself, the next disk access locks things up. I get around this by explicitly setting the x-fer rate (-X66 for Ultra33, -X68 for Ultra66, and -X69 for Ultra100.) "Blomquist, Niklas" wrote: Dear everyone! Is there anyone who has problem with using UDAM? When I turn on the UDMA the speed is increasing a lot, but I can't start any program. The Icons on the destop is removed when I click on the and the panel is gone when I click on that one... Any suggestions? /N
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Downloadable Version...
On Friday 19 January 2001 03:02 am, you wrote: hey all, Is the kde 2.0 that comes with the downloadable version of mandrake a beta version? I can't seem to find the theme manager in it. Thanks. Chris Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: 7.2 doesn't have a theme manager in it. KDE 2.1+ is supposedly going to add a theme manager. but for now you have to use a somewhat cumbersome download and install(compared to the old thememanager) procedure. Sorry, I'm waiting too. -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: SV: [newbie] HDParm and DMA
Does your hard drive actually support DMA? If it doesn't you could damage your data (and possibly the drive itself) by having it turned on. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:56, Blomquist, Niklas wrote: I'm guess'n you're referring to 'hdparm -d1' /dev/hd*' ? That is correct, when I'm turns this on, the system become unstable and do strange things... What does 'hdparm -v /dev/hd*' say? Multcount = 16 on I/O Support = O unmaskirg = 0 using_dma = 0 keepsettings = 0 nowerr = 0 readonly = 0 readahead = 8 This is before I change anything. I can tweek it a little like: hdparm -X66 -u1 -c3 -m16 /dev/hda But I only get 9Mbs, when i turn on the -d1, i get 35, but I can't use the computer... /N -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
[newbie] Download to CD?
I aim to write the downloadable files to CD. How should the files be distributed between the 2 (if even both CDs of data are included in the downloadable files)? Anyone work this way to install 7.2? I read in one place and here that only 1 CD is necessary to install the most important files. I read in the tutorial that space is frequently a limiting factor in determining which components to install. I read on the web pages that the parts required for the download (Mandrake tree and Images tree) consume 1 Gig of HD space.. 2 CDs. Any feedback? Finally, any other parts of the downloadable files "must have"? -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA
[newbie] Compa LTE5300 Dock Sta.
I have Mandrake 6.5 installed as a standalone OS on my Compaq LTE 5300 laptop. * Pentium 133mmx, 80 meg RAM, 1.3 GB HDD, sound, video, etc. Docking station is plugged into a 3 workstation peer to peer WIN 9x network, laptop has a 33.6K USR (Megahertz) PCMIA modem. * Install was done via CDROM in the docking station. Upon rebooting the system hangs while checking the PCMIA slot(s). I've uninstalled and reinstalled twice and get same result. If I take the laptop out of the docking station and run it off the power supply or battery it boots and runs just fine, including using the modem and kppp to connect to the internet. Pop it into the docking station and it never finishes the boot process. I've probably attempted booting in the docking station over 25 times with same (non) result. Any ideas? Your Correspondent typing in Lee, MA "The Gateway to the Berkshires" Ken Browne
Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux
If everything "has a purpose" then what exactly *is* Linux's purpose? Is it to run desktop workstations? Servers? Supercomputers? PDAs? Web pads? Wristwatches? Linux has been proven to run well on all these devices, and it is continuing to push both downwards (towards embedded devices, etc.) and upwards (towards high-end servers, etc.), while consolidating its position in the middle (desktop computers, etc.). While I believe that Linux can be an excellent alternative to M$ Windos, I must admit that my greatest fear is that it will be "dumbed down" to cater for ordinary users. This fear, while not totally baseless, is unlikely to eventuate. There will always be serious computer users, who don't want a "dumb" OS. There are, and always will be, apps to cater for these people, especially since these are the people who code most Linux apps anyway. KDE too "dumb" for you? Use WindowMaker, or BlackBox, or XFce... Think the default Linux kernel is too bloated? Recompile it and include only what you need. Linux is the most scalable OS ever to exist, and this scalability is increasing with time. Linux can be whatever you make it to be. Want it to run a Windos competitor? With GNOME and KDE it already is. Want it to work at the enterprise level? Kernel 2.4 supports the high-end processors like the Itanium in multiprocessor configurations and up to 64GB of RAM. Want it to run a PDA? Compile a tiny kernel and run something like QT-embedded or GTK-embedded. And the most important point is that Linux excels in all these scenarios. See my point? On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:35, Adrian Smith wrote: this will be a shock to you all, but i have an opinon here. =) i agree with Tom -- although i fully confess Tom is much better at saying than I am. probably because i am an obnoxious and arrogant and Tom isn't. but i can't figure this one out ether, why do you guys care so much about converting windoze users? should we make 18 wheelers with automatic stick shifts so that everyone who drives a car can drive a semi-truck? a honda accord has a purpose. a freightliner tractor/trailer rig has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. a hunting rifle has a purpose. a 50mm vulcan cannon has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. windows has a purpose. linux has a purpose. they are not the same purpose. use the right tool for the right job. if i wanted linux to be like windows, why wouldn't i have just kept using windows? i may not be the sharpest crayon in the box, but i just don't understand this. no product can be everything to everybody. no product. name any one *specific* product that fills every need held by every person on the planet. i think the "must be like windows" concept is a bad thing. i'll try to stuff a sock in my mouth now. =) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9:29:15 PM 1/17/01 OK y'all !!This marks the last time I'm gonna start a thread starting with a news wire URL, well maybe ; Actually I thought it was a business story that kind'a illustrated Linux's present state, and the perception of. The first full install I did of Mandrake was ~500mb. A current 'du -ch /' with my windoze drive umounted is ~4 gigs! ... and I've uninstalled a lot of the apps I don't use, and there's linux stuff on the windoze drive, not in that count. I like it just the way it is, the installer that is. What brandNewbie doesn't install several times before they 'settle in' ? ...and for experienced users, it's easy, albeit time consuming, to install just what you want. As much or little. LM's installation let's YOU choose. I believe there's nothin that needs changin. I like the current trend in Mandrake's installs. As to the 'convert windoze users', and get "linux on everybody's desktop' vein this thread has denigrated to. WHO CARES? Seriously, be more concerned that Linux continues to attract the people that built it to begin with ... the people all over the world that contribute to this free, open source, volunteer effort. Without them, Linux is dead. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
