[newbie-it] configurazione mouse
Buongiorno a tutti, non riesco a configurare il mouse intellimouse della Microsoft, se vado in drak config lo riporta come tipo ma anche se lo clicco per assegnarlo lui si comporta come un normalissimo mouse senza la rotellina che e' d'un comodo... Qualcuno ha avuto e risolto lo stesso problema? Grazie
Re: [newbie-it] Settaggio monitor
Se come molti sfortunati (me compreso) hai un Brilliance 105 "di prima generazione" (quelli senza menu sullo schermo) allora devi sapere che: 1) un buon monitor, con tempi di latenza molto brevi (ci consente, smanettando, di aumentare leggermente le prestazioni della scheda video) ma diversi da quelli dei Brilliance con OSD; di conseguenza, 2) durante l'installazione di Linux, non devi scegliere "Brilliance 105" ma cercare il monitor con il numero di modello giusto (lo trovi sul retro del monitor); in tal modo, 3) ottieni una immagine discreta a 1024x768 ( solo un po' piccola), mentre le altre risoluzioni sono sballate. Per un punto di partenza... 4) La Philips dichiara che il monitor "programmabile", ma non ti dice come farlo, se non con l'apposito programmino (che temo sia solo per Win). 5) La soluzione pi comoda pare sia costituita dall'uso del suddetto programmino, attraverso WINE, in modo da modificare alla bisogna la taratura del monitor impostata dalla configurazione automatica Linux (col giusto modello di monitor - vedi sopra). E se ti chiedi come mai non ti invio semplicemente il file di configurazione, la risposta semplice: non ho ancora avuto il tempo di completare il punto (5) e chiss se mai l'avr. Di conseguenza, se riesci a farlo, ti sar grato se me lo invii tu! In bocca al lupo. Francesco Fabbri P.S.: Se qualcuno fosse al corrente di nuovi parametri di impostazioni, batta un colpo! Francesco Speranza wrote: ho come monitor un Philips 105 brillance ma non riesco a centrare perfettamente lo schermo in quanto questo e' spostato leggermente a destra nascondendo la barra di scorrimento costringendomi ogni volta a spostare le finestre verso sinistra . Ho provato a selezionare con drakconfig altri monitor ma il risultato lo stesso . . Se seleziono il mio modello di schermo, il video si deforma ancora di piu'.La scheda grafica una NVIDIA TNT2 64. Ho notato che per pochi secondi prima che venga effettuato il test video lo schermo risulta perfettamente normale quindi ci deve essere una soluzione o un settagg io standard che mi consenta di vedere bene . Vi prego di aiutarmi .. ho iniziato ha usare Linux solo da poche settimane.
Re: [newbie-it] DVD III
Ciaoo, grazie della risposta e scusa: Io ho una vodoo3 - 3dfx. Scusa l'ignoranza, che e' davvero abissale, cosa vuol dire ridurre il colore a 16 bit, e soprattutto, come posso farlo ? Puoi lanciare DrakConf e poi Change X resolution (o Cambia risoluzione di X, se hai l' italiano). Qualcosa ho fatto, anche se non mi e' sembrato molto pulito. Al limite ci ritorno sopra, se vedo che non vado avanti. Comunque qualcosa e' successo, nel senso che almeno adesso il DVD parte. Il DVD che sto usando e' preso da una rivista (DVD magazine) in cui c'e' una parte iniziale (la "sigla" della rivista) che ora si vede bene (non e' piu' distorta), e poi c'e' un film (piu' altre cosette come le musiche, i backstage, ecc.). La sigla parte bene, ma poi il tutto si chiude, dando Segmentation fault. Che manchi il plugin che ho visto citato in qualche mail ? Il supporto XVideo dipende dalla tua scheda e relativo driver: funziona bene con le matrox ma forse anche con nvidia e ati; io ho una matrox e va benissimo anche il fullscreen, ora sto provando ad attivare l' uscita tv.. inolre, quando premo il tasto "play" ho in risposta: error: couldn't find demuxer for DROP A FILE ON XINE Ammesso che il dvd si trovi nel lettore :-)) credo che dovresti creare un symlink in questo modo: ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/dvd riferito alla posizione del tuo lettore. Prova Questo ho provato a farlo, ed effettivamente funziona: a dir la verita' il DVD che sto cercando di leggere era partito bene, nel senso che leggeva le prime immagini (anche con l'audio!) e poi si fermava. Dopo un po' di volte che l'ho lanciato ora ha il seguente comportamento: parte, ma l'immagine e' tutta distorta, non si vede praticamente nulla. Ho anche segmentation fault, dopo molte immagini saltate Una domanda un po' ovvia è questa: con Windows li vedi bene? Se non sbaglio la vodoo3 non ha il supporto per i dvd (è cominciato dalla 5 mi pare) e con Linux si ottiene il massimo solo con XFree 4.01 e le schede Matrox, Ati e Nvidia. Con Windows sono riuscito a vedere il film, anche se ogni tanto ci si perdeva qualche fotogramma. Il risultato era comunque godibile. Puoi controllare quale versione di XFree hai con il comando "XFree86 -version" Questo (ahime') e' il risultato: a proposito, che cos'e XFree ? [alberto@master alberto]$ XFree86 -version bash: XFree86: command not found Una cosa: io ho un processore Athlon Duron: ma qual e' il file RPM che avrei dovuto scaricare ed installare ? Io ho preso il xine-0.3.5-0.i686.rpm a dir la verita' un po' a caso. Anche tu hai usato lo stesso ? Grazie, ciao. Questa è la versione per la serie Pentium III ma il Duron essendo nuovissimo non so in quale fascia si colloca; se non ricordo male il K7 era nella famiglia dei 586 quindi al limite prova con questa versione. Ciao Provero'. P.S.: dovresti lasciare vuoto il campo Reply to nella configurazione di Kmail altrimenti le risposte arrivano direttamente a te invece che alla lista. Hai ragione, scusa, non sapevo neppure ci fosse. Ho scoperto dov'era, ora dovrebbe essere sistemato (spero). Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] configurazione lilo
Ho un computer su cui ho installato windows 98 e linux 2.16. Vorrei far s che lilo avviasse di default windows e non linux come attualmente fa. Nel file lilo.config alla voce default= ho sostituito "linux" con "dos", ma non ho sortito effetti. Avete qualche consiglio? Grazie, Luca.
Re: [newbie-it] configurazione lilo
luca laghi wrote: Ho un computer su cui ho installato windows 98 e linux 2.16. Vorrei far s che lilo avviasse di default windows e non linux come attualmente fa. Nel file lilo.config alla voce default= ho sostituito "linux" con "dos", ma non ho sortito effetti. Avete qualche consiglio? Grazie, Luca. Se, visto la ML list a cui scrivi, hai una Mandrake recente il loader utilizzato non e` lilo ma Grub. Quindi devi modificare il file /boot/grub/menu.lst e lasciar perdere il lilo.conf. Se per qualche ragione hai lilo, questa e` una vecchia FAQ che trovi sicuramente su www.ziobudda.net/faq o siti simili. Basta eseguire "lilo" dopo aver modificato lilo.conf. Operazione non richiesta per grub. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] Aiuto : Linux Bloccato e non parte
Dunque ho il seguente problema. Ho notato che Apache non partiva perch la rete non era attiva. L'ho riavviata manualmente ed infatti Apache partito. Fatto questo sono andato nei servizi da attivare al boot ed ho attivato la rete. Quindi ho riavviato. Quando effettua lo start dei servizi prima mi si bloccato per circa 20' poi ho riavviato su : console mouse services, poi al 3 colpo ha passato senza problemi questa voce e si bloccato su http-perl (voce che sino a questa mattina passava senza problemi). L'unico errore che d in precedenza : bringing up eth0 : Determining IP information from etho via dhcpcd (failed) Cosa debbo fare ? Attendere sperando che prima o poi superi tutto ed arrivi alla login ? Esiste un metodo per saltare l'ostacolo ? I dischetti di boot li ho fatti Alla prompt del rescue non so che cavolo scrivere per provare a sistemare. Grazie Pier Antonio
Fw: [newbie-it] Asuscom isdnlink 128k interno
- Original Message - From: "caterina" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: [newbie-it] Asuscom isdnlink 128k interno Con Mandrake 7.2 riconosce detta scheda che interna, per la connessione isdn. Durante l'installazione configuro per la connessione, ma poi non trovo come fare a connettermi, anche se clicco su DrakConf, digito la password di root, poi clicco su Configurazione internet e rete locale e subito dopo sono connessa a internet con la linea isdn. Con kisdn, non riesco a capire, perch dopo che lo avvio la prima volta non si riavvia pi, in pi non s come funziona e come impostarlo (se deve essere fatto) anche perch dopo il primo riavvio non si apre pi e non si intalla pi. Se qualcuno ha un metodo pi semplice per connettersi a internet con la linea isdn con la suddetta scheda, vi prego aiutatemi. Grazie Con kppp, non riesco ad arrivare alla connessione, sente la linea isdn ma non arriva a connettersi. Caterina
[newbie-it] errore-kppp
Ciao a tutti sono Lele, ho da poco installato mandrake 7.2 seguendo la installazione raccomandata ,dopo aver settato il modem (spero in maniera corretta) un asuscom isdnlink 128k adapter interno ho cercato di entrare in rete, ma continua darmi questo segnale "errore -kppp,errore nel pppd controllare che il pppd sia installato e che la pach corretta", ho provato un po' di tutto ma non sono riuscito a combinare niente.Ciao a tutti!
[newbie-it] xine e DVD
Ciao, dopo un po' di peregrinazioni ho fatto un decisivo passo in avanti, anche se l'optimum non c'e' ancora. Innanzitutto ho visto che su xine.sourceforge.net c'e' una nuova release: la 0.3.6. L'ho presa, ho fatto l'upgrade con rpm -Uvh xine-0.3.6-0.i686.rpm ed ho quindi la nuova versione. Ho provato a leggere un DVD, e mentre prima si fermava solo alla "sigla", ora va avanti, e si riesce a vedere direi bene il film. Ho notato che pero' balla un po', nel senso che, se magari vado avanti, il film non procede tranquillamente, ma si vedono alcune immagini e subito dopo altre immagini di qualche secondo prima. Se do il comando in una shell compaiono continuamente messaggi del tipo: [alberto@master src]$ xine This is xine - a mpeg 1, 2 player v0.3.6 - (c) 2000 by G. Bartsch. testing for audio driver: alsa oss -(successfully initialized) Using oss audio output driver. Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0". Using X Window System shared memory extension for video output. Using MMX for IDCT transform Using 3DNOW for motion compensation input plugin found : /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/input_dvd.so(input_dvd.so) input plugin found : /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/input_file.so(input_file.so) input plugin found : /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/input_net.so(input_net.so) input plugin found : /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/input_stdin_fifo.so(input_stdin _fifo.so) input plugin found : /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/input_vcd.so(input_vcd.so) lb_number : 346 ac3 sampling rate stream: 48000 Hz, output : 48000 Hz (3072 - 3072 samples) ac3 sampling rate stream: 48000 Hz, output : 48000 Hz (3072 - 3072 samples) yuv2rgb: 16 bpp, mode : 1 yuv2rgb: using MMX for colorspace transform video_out : throwing away image with pts 198000 because it's too old (diff : 187 5 1800). 200 frames delivered, 93 frames skipped, 7 frames discarded video_out : throwing away image with pts 885600 because it's too old (diff : 192 0 1800). video_out : throwing away image with pts 957600 because it's too old (diff : 246 0 1800). video_out : throwing away image with pts 975600 because it's too old (diff : 196 5 1800). 200 frames delivered, 81 frames skipped, 28 frames discarded video_out : throwing away image with pts 1486800 because it's too old (diff : 98 23 1800). video_out : throwing away image with pts 1641600 because it's too old (diff : 20 53 1800). video_out : throwing away image with pts 1645200 because it's too old (diff : 27 73 1800). . etc. etc. Qualcuno sa se vogliono dire qualcosa di importante ? Grazie, Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Settaggio monitor
Caro Francesco ti ringrazio per la tua disponibilit ma ho risolto il problema brillantemente e spero che cio' che ti sto per dire ti possa aiutare. Ho risolto il problema con un programma( scoperto dopo ore e ore di ricerca su gli HOWTO) che presente in mandrake e che si chiama xvidtune ; non devi fare altro che digitare xvidtune da una schermata nera e ti si presenter' un programma di settaggio( [root@dada /root]# xvidtune ) . Ignora l'avviso di pericolo che ti verr' segnalato su un'altra finestra e chiudila, nell'altra finestra potrai settare le frequenze orizzontali e verticali . Nel mio caso , in cui lo schermo era spostato a sinistra ho aumentato con gli appositi tasti i valori della fraquenza verticale fino ad ottenere lo schermo perfettamente settato.Una volta raggiunto l'aspetto desiderato devi copiarti i valori delle frequenze ( nel mio caso ho dovuto modificare quelle orizzontali ) e inserirli nel file XF86Conf che si trova in etc/X11, ( fai una copia di riserva mi raccomando prima di provarci in caso di blocco del sistema puoi ricopiare l'originale). L'inserimento lo puoi fare con vim( root@dada /root]# vim )da un terminale ( basta premere il tasto " i " e il programma pronto ad inserire i caratteri da te digitati ) poi salva tutto. Nel mio caso, che avevo selezionato un monitor 800x600 a 60 mz ho modificato, nella sezione monitor del XF86Config, la stringa del monitor 800x600 con frequenza oriz di 60 correggendo le sole frequenze orizzontali ( devi modificare solo le due cifre centrali), ho salvato e riavviato tutto. Adesso il monitor perfetto. Ti invio il mio XF86Conf che settato per una sceda NVIDIA TNT2 64 e monitor generico 800x600 a 60 mz. Se hai problemi scrivimi. A proposito di settaggio ... purtroppo ho problemi con il modem , un ELSA microlink ISDN esterno, il quale si riesce a connettersi solo dopo 2-3 tentativi falliti durante i quali mi da un messaggio di errore 16 . Qualcuno mi ha consigliato di usare kisdn invece di pppd ma dopo aver tentato di settare il programma questo non compare piu se richiamato di nuovo. Potresti aiutarmi a risolvere questo problema??? saluti Francesco - Original Message - From: "Francesco Fabbri" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Settaggio monitor Se come molti sfortunati (me compreso) hai un Brilliance 105 "di prima generazione" (quelli senza menu sullo schermo) allora devi sapere che: 1) un buon monitor, con tempi di latenza molto brevi (ci consente, smanettando, di aumentare leggermente le prestazioni della scheda video) ma diversi da quelli dei Brilliance con OSD; di conseguenza, 2) durante l'installazione di Linux, non devi scegliere "Brilliance 105" ma cercare il monitor con il numero di modello giusto (lo trovi sul retro del monitor); in tal modo, 3) ottieni una immagine discreta a 1024x768 ( solo un po' piccola), mentre le altre risoluzioni sono sballate. Per un punto di partenza... 4) La Philips dichiara che il monitor "programmabile", ma non ti dice come farlo, se non con l'apposito programmino (che temo sia solo per Win). 5) La soluzione pi comoda pare sia costituita dall'uso del suddetto programmino, attraverso WINE, in modo da modificare alla bisogna la taratura del monitor impostata dalla configurazione automatica Linux (col giusto modello di monitor - vedi sopra). E se ti chiedi come mai non ti invio semplicemente il file di configurazione, la risposta semplice: non ho ancora avuto il tempo di completare il punto (5) e chiss se mai l'avr. Di conseguenza, se riesci a farlo, ti sar grato se me lo invii tu! In bocca al lupo. Francesco Fabbri P.S.: Se qualcuno fosse al corrente di nuovi parametri di impostazioni, batta un colpo! Francesco Speranza wrote: ho come monitor un Philips 105 brillance ma non riesco a centrare perfettamente lo schermo in quanto questo e' spostato leggermente a destra nascondendo la barra di scorrimento costringendomi ogni volta a spostare le finestre verso sinistra . Ho provato a selezionare con drakconfig altri monitor ma il risultato lo stesso . . Se seleziono il mio modello di schermo, il video si deforma ancora di piu'.La scheda grafica una NVIDIA TNT2 64. Ho notato che per pochi secondi prima che venga effettuato il test video lo schermo risulta perfettamente normale quindi ci deve essere una soluzione o un settagg io standard che mi consenta di vedere bene . Vi prego di aiutarmi .. ho iniziato ha usare Linux solo da poche settimane. XF86Config
Re: [newbie-it] DVD
Sebastiano ... Aiuto !!! inolre, quando premo il tasto "play" ho in risposta: error: couldn't find demuxer for DROP A FILE ON XINE Ammesso che il dvd si trovi nel lettore :-)) credo che dovresti creare un symlink in questo modo: ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/dvd riferito alla posizione del tuo lettore. scusa ma hdx per che cosa sta ciao! francesco
Re: [newbie-it] DVD
che e' quello che non riesco proprio ad installare Per esempio io ho appena scaricato la 0.3.5 di xine e la 0.1.1 del plugin, mentre per la 0.3.4 c'era la 0.1.0 ecc Dimmi, per favore, dove si reperisce il plug in e se con questo riesci a vedere tutti i tuoi dvd ciao francesco m.
Re: [newbie-it] DVD
I Il supporto XVideo dipende dalla tua scheda e relativo driver: funziona bene con le matrox ma forse anche con nvidia e ati; io ho una matrox e va benissimo anche il fullscreen, ora sto provando ad attivare l' uscita A parte il fatto che cosi' mi fai morire di invida :)) allora ho una Voodo 3 agp ci vogliono i driver ? un symlink in questo modo: ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/dvd riferito alla posizione del tuo lettore. Questo l'ho fatto e funzia ma no fullscreen devo isntallare i diriver ?
[newbie-it] Scheda audio FM801: modprobe: can't locate module snd-pcm-oss
Non riesco a settare il sonoro, ho una scheda fortemedia FM801, la quale mi viene riconmosciuta da HardDrake, quando pero' cerco di settarla mi dice che "modprobe: can't locate module snd-pcm-oss".Cosa devo fare? Qualcuno e' cosi' gentile da spedirmelo e dirmi dove metterlo? Ha quanto ho capito i driver di linux sono dei moduli, parte del kernel chesono caricatidinamicamente. Dove posso vedere quali sono i moduli che la mdk usa per gestire le mie periferche e il mio hardware?? Ricompilando il kernel non mi viene elecata la mia sound card tra quelle disponibili... devo perdere ogni speranza?
Re: [newbie] l-m doesnt detect my modem or printer
On Monday 22 January 2001 23:41, you wrote: hi, i recently installed l-m 7.1, and it detects neither my modem (56K, V.90 compatible data/fax modem) nor my printer (hp deskjet 710c). the printer drivetrs are not on the list it shows - is there anywhere i can download them? mind you, that wont help unless i can connect. thanks, michelle your modem and printer are designed to be run by secret, windows specific software. They transfer the tasks usually done by a real modem or printer to the processor and memory. Linux-mandrake 7.2 does drive your printer with a reverse-engineered program called pnm2ppa. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=61472 will lead you to that driver, though installing it for 7.1 will probably best be done with help from the list. As for the winmodem, several people have gotten various winmodems working. It depends on the chipset used and the state of the software for that particular one. In linux, open a terminal and run lspcidrake to get more information on the type of modem then go to www.linmodems.org to see the status of reverse engineering. A plain vanilla no frills external serial modem will work with your computer, but be careful about USB modems, because most of them are winmodems. If in doubt, read the box. If it says "requires windows 95/98" then pass it by. Some Winmodems don't even have drivers for WinNT or W2K. With a litle more information on your system, we might be able to help you better. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 00:52, you wrote: I have a 1 Ghz Athlon, Asus A7v motherboard, Plexwriter 8/4/32A CD-RW, 128 MB ram. I downloaded the two Mandrake 7.2 iso files and validated the md5 sums. I burned my own CD-RWs with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4. I created the CD-RWs from the iso images. Selecting Create CD Disc-at-once options (I also tried Track-at Once). The CD-RWs burned successfully. I rooted from the install CD-RW and after it got to the initializing CDROM point, I got a message saying that the CDROM device did not seem to contain a Linux Mandrake CDROM. Any Ideas about what is causing this message? Well, you most likely made it properly--use ctrl-alt-f3,4,5 to get the information from the other screens. If you are plugged into the on-board promise controller, you may have to give some special instructions to the kernel. Civileme -- http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $7.99/mo! --
RE: Re: [newbie] sing both cdrw and cdrom from X
Dave, I am very glad for the good impression you have of Murcia or as least of the murcian people. I work as a professor in the Biology Faculty at the University of Murcia (I don't know if the murcian student you mention came from the University or from a secondary school; do you imagine? it could be incredible if hi was a Biology studend!!. Well, tolking about your problem, if you can see both cd-drivers, perhaps could be a little problem with fstab or a kudzu bug; In the page of Mandrake (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en) there is a tutorial link when they have put a very interesting tutor about cdrw installation. Have a look, perhaps your problem is solved there. On the other hand, I neither have a scsi device; both cd-driver of mine are ide-atapi devices but under linux to have a ide-atapi cdwriter working it is necessary to do a scsi emulation. By the way, there is a mistake in the message I put yesterday in the list; the step 2) should say: mknod scd 1 b 11 0 (remember, the old message put mknod scd 1 b 11 8). I hope this help! By the way, If you finally come to Spain and specially to Murcia, please, call me or send me an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] At least I could recommend you some interesting places to visit (I have travelled several times all around Spain; I am a botanist, this is my research work and I need frequently to travel to make vegetation maps or study plants and vegetation), where to find good restaurant and typical wonderfull food, and so on. Regards Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Dave Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Martes, Enero 23, 2001 3:08 am Asunto: Re: [newbie] sing both cdrw and cdrom from X Hola; After reading your details, I noticed you are from Murcia! While I havenever been to Spain, my son and I have hosted 3 exchange students from Spain, and the last was from Murcia. Alejandro Romero Tejero. I have not heard from him in a while but I know I will again one day. I would like to visit Spain a lot. I'm real glad to have known all 3 boys. Anyway, your message is timely as I just installed Linux-Mandrake for the first time and my CD-ROM and CD-RW are not working although I can see them both in the device manager. What confused me until your message was that there were 2 incidents of the CD-RW, the second, a SCSI. I have no SCSIdevices or interface on my machine. What you said sorta cleared up that mystery and also gave me an avenue of approach to make my drives operational. Gracias, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again This is not a message with a problem, but with a solution. Under mandrake 7.1 in my old Pentium II xcdroast detected both, the cdrom and the cdwriter. Under MDK 7.2 just the cdwriter emulating scsi is recognized, so the cdwriter must work hard, reading the origen cd and writing the new cd. Actually this is the situation using MDK installation, but I have read that this could be solved, I will show the steps I have followed in my case. I have a Sony CR-X160E cdwriter and a Hitachi DVD. The scsi emulation has been installed by Mandrake 7.2 just for the cdwriter, but it is also possible to do that for the DVD. Firs of all in my case the cdwriter is the hdc (ide 1, master) and the DVD is the hdd (ide 1, slave). 1) In all the lines of /boot/grub/menu.lst for start linux I had to add "hdd=ide-scsi" 2)From a konsole I typed "mknod scd1 b 11 8" 3) From konsole, I typed "ln -s scd1 cdrom2" 4) Due to a kudzu bug, I could not acces to cdrom2 for normal use; I needed to type also:" "cd /dev rm cdrom2 ln -s scd1 cdrom2" to solve the wrong link created by kudzu. 5) Restart linux It was easy to comprobate if everything were running; I try to read pc-cdroms from both cdrom units; no problems. I load the udf module and my DVD Hitachi could read a DVD disk. And to know if the scsi emulation was also running I use the next commands: cdrecord --scanbus (both cdrom and cdwriter were shown) cat /proc/scsi/scsi (similar results) run xcdroast and go to setup; both drivers appears. Now I can read the cds using my Hitachi DVD and burn they using the Sony CDwriter. great! Se you soon Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Dave Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Martes, Enero 23, 2001 3:08 am Asunto: Re: [newbie] sing both cdrw and cdrom from X Hola; After reading your details, I noticed you are from Murcia! While I havenever been to Spain, my son and I have hosted 3 exchange students from Spain, and the last was from Murcia. Alejandro Romero Tejero. I have not heard from him in a while but I know I will again one day. I would like to visit Spain a lot. I'm real glad to have known all 3 boys. Anyway, your message is timely as I just
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Not Functioning On Laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All: Newbie with a capital "N" here. I just installed Linux for the first time a couple of days ago. So far everything appears to this uninitiated person to be OK (e.g. connecting to the Internet), but I can't for the life of me get the sound card to work. Or, I should say that I can get the system bell to work using the "Test" button in the Control Center, however I can't for example get the CD Player to produce any sound. I have a Quantex TS30H1 laptop with A PII 266 CPU, 80MB RAM and a NeoMagic 128XD video card. Problem is I can't even see what kind of sound card I have as HardDarke doesn't see it. Unfortunately Qunatex is of no help as they went down in flames last year. None of the doumentation for the laptop says anything beyond "16-bit wavetable sound." Any ideas or advice as to how to troubleshoot this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, rob = Welcome!! As root, try running "soundcfg" or "sndconfig" (w/o quotes, of course). See what that turns up. Are you dual booting with windoze? If so, in windows, what can you find out about the soundcard (or on board chip...) Mike -- "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there." --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie] Boot manager problem???
Hi , I installed linux on a machine with 20 GB HDD. I had configured lilo while installing but it doesn't show up during boot. It gives an error that there are more than 1024 cylinders or something like that. How do i solve this problem? Also can anyone tell me that if i want to use Grub as my boot manager, How do i configure it? I have never used it, so please tell me the procedure from the beginning... Thanks Looking forward for some responses Bye, Ameya
[newbie] Saving Netscape settings
Dear Neville: 1) Thanks so much to you and everyone for responding. If everything is in my hidden .netscape directory, then I can just save the entire .netscape directory. Right? As for the mail (nsmail), I really don't need it since I usually save any and all important messages to a file and then copy the file to my zip drive and to my storage area online. So, please confirm that indeed this is all I need to do. That is, that after a new install I can automatically copy and OVERWRITE all files in /home/sher/.netscape directory with my saved /home/sher/.netscape directory (from my zip drive). If this is all I need to do, then hooray. Will do so and never have to rebuilt my address book and filters again. 2) Now, here is a kettle of a fish. I wonder if any of you have had this problem: The last two times that I reinstalled LM72, I discovered that when I clicked on my /home directory, LM72 would NOT install any files from the second CD. I had formatted only hda, NOT hdb (/home) nor did I resize it. My /home directory is on a separate Linux hard drive -- my Linux system consists of hda for /boot, /swap and /system + applications and hdb which has only one directory /home), It would stop at vlock, then ask me to insert my second CD, then start working but, just as suddenly, just barely out of the station, so to speak, it would suddenly say: "Post-Installation" and it would go on as if it had installed the remaining 8 minutes of applications. After seeing this happen twice, I caught on, did a new install in which I completely reformatted BOTH hda and hdb. This time, LM72 installed everything, including every file on the second CD right down to the last 10 seconds (I did a Custom, Install). Anyone have this problem? Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] /home and LM72 install enigma
Dear friends: Here is something for you to chew over. I wonder if any of you have had this problem: The last two times that I reinstalled LM72, I discovered that when I clicked on my /home directory, LM72 would NOT install any files from the second CD. I had formatted only hda, NOT hdb (/home) nor did I resize it. My /home directory is on a separate Linux hard drive -- my Linux system consists of hda for /boot, /swap and /system + applications and hdb which has only one directory /home), It would stop at vlock, then ask me to insert my second CD, then start working but, just as suddenly, just barely out of the station, so to speak, it would suddenly say: "Post-Installation" and it would go on as if it had installed the remaining 8 minutes of applications. After seeing this happen twice, I caught on, did a new install in which I completely reformatted BOTH hda and hdb. This time, LM72 installed everything, including every file on the second CD right down to the last 10 seconds (I did a Custom, Install). Anyone have this problem? Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Saving Netscape settings for reinstall
Dear Neville and friends: Thanks so much to you and everyone for responding. If everything is in my hidden .netscape directory, then I can just save the entire .netscape directory. Right? As for the mail (nsmail), I really don't need it since I usually save any and all important messages to a file and then copy the file to my zip drive and to my storage area online. So, please confirm that indeed this is all I need to do. That is, that after a new install I can automatically copy and OVERWRITE all files in /home/sher/.netscape directory with my saved /home/sher/.netscape directory (from my zip drive). If this is all I need to do, then hooray. Will do so and never have to rebuilt my address book and filters again. Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Clicking on floppy icon does not work on desktop
Hi all, I was wondering, do you always have to navigate to the command line to "mount" the floppy? I wanted to view the files on my boot disk. However, when I clickthe floppy icon, the following message appears: "Unable to enter file:/mnt/floppy You do not have access rights to this location" I am logged in as user. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Charged Email
[newbie] Hdparm question
I have yet another question... I was playing around with hdparm last night, and I found my optimal settings. Now, here is my question. I know that I have to add a line somewhere in /etc/rc.d/???. Can someone please give me instructions on how to make my hdparm settings reload upon start-up? Any help is much appreciated. Ciao, Chris Kelly Your mouse has moved. Windows must now reboot to recognize these changes.
[newbie] Problem to compile the kernel 2.4.0 with ADM Athlon setting.
I have problem to compile the 2.4.0 kernel when I'm setting the optimization to AMD Athlon. I can do the make dep, but not make bzImage. It end's after a couple of sec with error 1 /Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Romanator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 23 januari 2001 12:30 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mne: [newbie] Clicking on floppy icon does not work on desktop Hi all, I was wondering, do you always have to navigate to the command line to "mount" the floppy? I wanted to view the files on my boot disk. However, when I clickthe floppy icon, the following message appears: "Unable to enter file:/mnt/floppy You do not have access rights to this location" I am logged in as user. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Charged Email
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2+Dialup Sharing
Hi, I just install Mandrake 7.2 (2cd Download ver) And I want to share my dialup connection between my linux box (with the modem) throught my ethernet card for my other box (Win Me). I set up my network so I can ping my other box. So what Can I do now, because the option in Mandrake (Share you connection) dosen't work. It screw my network everytime. How can I manually change that, so it dosen't use DHCP. Are they any way ? Or should I use a proxy so my other box can go on the net ? (IF yes , wich program is simple to install ?). Thanks Yannick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2nd request, please [newbie] 2.4.0 kernel upgrade make modules fails
didn't see any responses. Am I asking the wrong q? wrong group? Not enough info? too much info? Am i wearing the wrong color tie? big TIA! Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 19:40:25 -0700 From: Keith Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 2.4.0 kernel upgrade make modules fails All, am running mandrake 7.2 modutils 2.4.0 am trying to compile kernel 2.4.0. am a semi-newbie but have succesfully compiled kernels in the past, without this problem, which is: modules won't make. I get the following errors: mem.c: In function `memory_open': mem.c:573: `random_fops' undeclared (first use in this function) mem.c:573: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once mem.c:573: for each function it appears in.) mem.c:576: `urandom_fops' undeclared (first use in this function) mem.c: In function `memory_devfs_register': mem.c:601: `random_fops' undeclared (first use in this function) mem.c:601: initializer element is not constant mem.c:601: (near initialization for `list[6].fops') mem.c:602: `urandom_fops' undeclared (first use in this function) mem.c:602: initializer element is not constant mem.c:602: (near initialization for `list[7].fops') make[3]: *** [mem.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/char' make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/char' make[1]: *** [_subdir_char] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers' make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2 and no modules get built in /lib/modules/2.4.0 any help greatly appreciated. my config follows... -- Keith pantry at home dot com # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_ISA=y # CONFIG_SBUS is not set CONFIG_UID16=y # # Code maturity level options # # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y # # Processor type and features # # CONFIG_M386 is not set # CONFIG_M486 is not set # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set # CONFIG_M586MMX is not set CONFIG_M686=y # CONFIG_M686FXSR is not set # CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set # CONFIG_MK6 is not set # CONFIG_MK7 is not set # CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5 CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_PGE=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y # CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set CONFIG_MICROCODE=y # CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set # CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_MTRR=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set # CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set # # General setup # CONFIG_NET=y # CONFIG_VISWS is not set CONFIG_PCI=y # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set # CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y # CONFIG_EISA is not set # CONFIG_MCA is not set # CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y # CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT is not set CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y # CONFIG_PM is not set # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set # CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set # # Memory Technology Devices (MTD) # # CONFIG_MTD is not set # # Parallel port support # CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_1284 is not set # # Plug and Play configuration # CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_ISAPNP=y # # Block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set # CONFIG_PARIDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set # # Multi-device support (RAID and LVM) # # CONFIG_MD is not set # # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y # CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set CONFIG_NETLINK=y CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y # CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set # CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set # CONFIG_FILTER is not set CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set # CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y # # # # CONFIG_IPX is not set # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # CONFIG_DECNET is not set # CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set # # Telephony Support # # CONFIG_PHONE is not
[newbie] * * * * * T E L N E T P R O B L E M S * * * * *
I need to configure the next files rc.local and telnet.conf, but I can't to find how do that. Anybody know how do? Anybody Know which lines i need to modify? If anybody whant to help me can to see the next files:telnet.conf is in /etc and rc.local an write to me what said your lines. I need make a telnet from windows computers. Thanks. _ Do You Yahoo!? Obtenga su direccin de correo-e gratis @yahoo.com en http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install
This is assuming Ben has a separate /home partition. If not, this won't work. Ben, from within Netscape you can bring up your address book, then click the Directory entry (on the left) that you wish to save. Once it is selected, from the File menu choose Export, and you will get a Save As prompt. Give the file a name with a .ldif extension. Now, your address book is backed up and you may import it later into Netscape or any other email client which supports the ldif file format. Dave At 11:23 PM 01/22/2001 -0700, you wrote: Put everthing you want to keep in your /home directory. When you reinstall, do not change the size or name of your /home paartition and do not format the /home partition during your install. That should preserve all your essential files. Frank - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 11:03 PM Subject: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install Dear friends: I am too embarrased to ask this question but better late than sorry. I have been using Linux for nearly three years and have learned an awful lot, but there is one thing I have never learned: In case I need to reinstall Linux, what files do I need to save in Linux (and in Win98 I might add -- but especially in Linux) to preserve my Netscape Address Book, filters and mail? I know how to save my bookmarks (just save the bookmarks.html file in Netscape's hidden directory). But believe it or not, I have yet to figure out how to save my address book and filters. So, every time I have had to reinstall Linux (quite often, I might add), I start from scratch. It would be nice to have copies of my mail, address book and filters on my zip drive so that I could easily replace them after doing a fresh install. Well, there you have it -- a full confession. Now I am looking for an absolution or is it a resolution of the issue. Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Sherman SoftServ Business Systems, Inc. "Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
Re: [newbie] Hdparm question
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 06:37, you wrote: I have yet another question... I was playing around with hdparm last night, and I found my optimal settings. Now, here is my question. I know that I have to add a line somewhere in /etc/rc.d/???. Can someone please give me instructions on how to make my hdparm settings reload upon start-up? Any help is much appreciated. Ciao, Chris Kelly Your mouse has moved. Windows must now reboot to recognize these changes. I usually add it to the rc.local file. This file is executed upon completion of booting. -- Mike Mattix [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Hdparm question
Just add the line? hdparm -X66 -m16 -u1 -d1 -c3 /dev/hda Just plop it in there? Chris Kelly Why use Windows when you can use the door? In a world without fences, who needs Gates? -Original Message- From: D.M. Mattix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hdparm question On Tuesday 23 January 2001 06:37, you wrote: I have yet another question... I was playing around with hdparm last night, and I found my optimal settings. Now, here is my question. I know that I have to add a line somewhere in /etc/rc.d/???. Can someone please give me instructions on how to make my hdparm settings reload upon start-up? Any help is much appreciated. Ciao, Chris Kelly Your mouse has moved. Windows must now reboot to recognize these changes. I usually add it to the rc.local file. This file is executed upon completion of booting. -- Mike Mattix [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2 with Window$ 2000
Hello! I recently tried to install Mandrake 7.2 on my computer that has windows 2000 on it also. Before anything, I want to describe the setup I have. I have 2 hardrives. The primary drive has windows 2000 on it and the second drive is for Mandrake. Anyway, I installed Mandrake on the second drive and everything seems fine UNTIL I was done with the mandrake install and I had to reboot. When the computer rebooted, I was hoping to see LILO or Grub but instead I saw a "NTLDR Not found" error. I know in the past that I was able to install with no problems. I would usually get LILO and when I chose Windoze I would get the Windoze 2000 boot menu. This time I didnt get anything. What am I doing wrong? Thanks! JohnCatral __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Hdparm question
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 06:37 am, Kelly, Christopher wrote: I was playing around with hdparm last night, and I found my optimal settings. Now, here is my question. I know that I have to add a line somewhere in /etc/rc.d/???. Can someone please give me instructions on how to make my hdparm settings reload upon start-up? Add the line to the end of rc.local in the /etc/rc.d/ directory with any text editor (as root). I like to use 'mc'. Start an Xterm, type 'cd /etc/rc.d', then 'mc'. Scroll down to the file 'rc.local' and press F4. This opens the file for editing. Add your hdparm line to the end of the file and press F2 to save. F10 exits 'mc'. Now, while your still in the dir, /etc/rc.d/, type './rc.local' which runs rc.local and the hdparm line you just added. No need to reboot, but when you do reboot the machine in the future, the hdparm line will be run (as is everything in rc.local) on boot up. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
RE: [newbie] Hdparm question
Great! Thanks Tom. Chris Kelly Why use Windows when you can use the door? In a world without fences, who needs Gates? -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hdparm question On Tuesday 23 January 2001 06:37 am, Kelly, Christopher wrote: I was playing around with hdparm last night, and I found my optimal settings. Now, here is my question. I know that I have to add a line somewhere in /etc/rc.d/???. Can someone please give me instructions on how to make my hdparm settings reload upon start-up? Add the line to the end of rc.local in the /etc/rc.d/ directory with any text editor (as root). I like to use 'mc'. Start an Xterm, type 'cd /etc/rc.d', then 'mc'. Scroll down to the file 'rc.local' and press F4. This opens the file for editing. Add your hdparm line to the end of the file and press F2 to save. F10 exits 'mc'. Now, while your still in the dir, /etc/rc.d/, type './rc.local' which runs rc.local and the hdparm line you just added. No need to reboot, but when you do reboot the machine in the future, the hdparm line will be run (as is everything in rc.local) on boot up. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Problem to compile the kernel 2.4.0 with ADM Athlon setting.
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 06:42 am, Blomquist, Niklas wrote: I have problem to compile the 2.4.0 kernel when I'm setting the optimization to AMD Athlon. I can do the make dep, but not make bzImage. It end's after a couple of sec with error 1 http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jandr/kernel.htm Do you have modutils-2.4.1-1mdk ? Try 'make bzImage' several times. If it errors out in different places, your problem is most likely hardware. If your motherboard supports it, try underclocking it a little (ie, reduce FSB) and try again. If it errors out in the same place every time, then go here http://mandrakeuser.org/basics/bsource.htmland here http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade.html -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Help
I think that you can do a litle help to me. I installed linux mandrake 7.1 in one machine ( Pentium II with 128 MB Ram ). I installed a new hard disk IDE Quantum Fire ball with 30 GB , but linux is not seeing all the space, is seeing just around 2 GB. There is something that I nedd to procedure or to do to linux see this Hard disk ? Can you help me ? Thanks a lot ! best regards , Edward John Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] NET - Infraestrutura - Vrtua - SP Tel.: + 55 (11) 5186-2319 Nextel ID : 4399
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Not Functioning On Laptop
--- Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All: Newbie with a capital "N" here. I just installed Linux for the first time a couple of days ago. So far everything appears to this uninitiated person to be OK (e.g. connecting to the Internet), but I can't for the life of me get the sound card to work. Or, I should say that I can get the system bell to work using the "Test" button in the Control Center, however I can't for example get the CD Player to produce any sound. I have a Quantex TS30H1 laptop with A PII 266 CPU, 80MB RAM and a NeoMagic 128XD video card. Problem is I can't even see what kind of sound card I have as HardDarke doesn't see it. Unfortunately Qunatex is of no help as they went down in flames last year. None of the doumentation for the laptop says anything beyond "16-bit wavetable sound." Any ideas or advice as to how to troubleshoot this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, rob = Welcome!! As root, try running "soundcfg" or "sndconfig" (w/o quotes, of course). See what that turns up. Are you dual booting with windoze? If so, in windows, what can you find out about the soundcard (or on board chip...) Mike Mike: Thank you for the response. I'm not dual booting with Windows. I tried running "sndconfig" which gives the message "No PnP devices found." Then it gives me the option of choosing from a list of sound cards, which puts me back at square one :-((. Any other ideas welcomed. Cheers, rob P.S. I could, I suppose, install Windows (I have NT 4.0) for the express purpose of seeing what sound card I have...ouch ;-))! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] dialin ppp connection
Maybe I am being dense but I want to find a way to dial into my LM 7.2 box at work from him and establish a PPP connection that will allow me to use that connection to surf the net and such. I have tried looking for 'dialin' in the list archives and possibly that is not what I should be looking for.. My purpose is to have a 'backup' internet access point thru work as well as a way to dial in and diagnose local network problems if our main connection is down. -- Carl Lafferty | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.netins.net/showcase/carl -The-UQWK-guy-| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.fclib.org Need your daily fix of B5?? Check amazon.com or your local bookstore for B5 in print.
SV: [newbie] Problem to compile the kernel 2.4.0 with ADM Athlon setting.
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 06:42 am, Blomquist, Niklas wrote: I have problem to compile the 2.4.0 kernel when I'm setting the optimization to AMD Athlon. I can do the make dep, but not make bzImage. It end's after a couple of sec with error 1 http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jandr/kernel.htm Do you have modutils-2.4.1-1mdk ? I downloaded that, but I got the same error. Try 'make bzImage' several times. If it errors out in different places, your problem is most likely hardware. If your motherboard supports it, try underclocking it a little (ie, reduce FSB) and try again. If it errors out in the same place every time, then go here http://mandrakeuser.org/basics/bsource.htmland here http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade.html It is on the same place all the time. I did not find anything there that could help me. Is there someone else that have the same problem? /N -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Appending to Grub
Does anyone have an idea how to append a line in Grub to inform the kernel that there is actually more system RAM than actually being is being reported? I know how to do this in Lilo, however Grub eludes me.
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and usb zip drive
Hello, I am trying to get a usb zip drive to work under Mandrake 7.2. Usb storage and usb interface is loaded at boot. When I look at HardDrake devices under usb interfaces I see Intel 82801 AA Usb. The kernel module loading is usb-uhci. If I look at mount points I see cdrom,floppy,windows,and zip. If I try to access the zip drive I get an error message saying "Could not enter directory /mnt/zip" My Fstab is below: /dev/hdb6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 My Mtab is below: /dev/hdb6 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /home ext2 rw 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 Is it posssible to use a usb zip under this kernel 2.2.17-21mdk? Any help would be appreciated. Thank You, -- Dale Kunz
[newbie] postscript lament
And a very nice one to you too. Kindly allow me to inquire whether any software is available that would enable me to transfer rtf files into postscript documents. The only way of doing it now is opening a text file with Netscape, save it as postscript and then feed the thing to the printer. In case you doubt my abilities of finding the print button in applications, allow me to state that the real manifestation of my idiocy was the purchase of an Oki printer - but then again, in those halcyon days who could have known that I might want to run Linux on this box? So, basically, the way to print things is: oki4drv necronomicon.ps (as root), then wait and pray to Nyarlathotep the paper doesn't jam, for if it does, you have to print the whole thing from the beginning again. A tiring and frustrating activity. All information on the subject would be highly appreciated. Love, Pope Mickey the 23d, Patron Saint Of Moronic Oxymorons, Zee Blue Rat Ov Kaos, Psychic Terrorist, Offender Of The Faith. All hail Discordia! _ "The earth is full of ghosts now Ghost that sweat and ghosts that sigh Instead of peace just stop and cease A final and a sweet release" Coil, "The Dark Age Of Love" _
[newbie] change source rpms to mdk rpms?
I know I have seen and used the command to rebuild rpms from source to mandrake can anyone refresh my memory?
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and usb zip drive
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 12:17, you wrote: Hello, I am trying to get a usb zip drive to work under Mandrake 7.2. Usb storage and usb interface is loaded at boot. When I look at HardDrake devices under usb interfaces I see Intel 82801 AA Usb. The kernel module loading is usb-uhci. If I look at mount points I see cdrom,floppy,windows,and zip. If I try to access the zip drive I get an error message saying "Could not enter directory /mnt/zip" Is it posssible to use a usb zip under this kernel 2.2.17-21mdk? Any help would be appreciated. Thank You, Hi Dale. As far as I'm aware, Mandrake 7.2 IS supposed to support these drives - that is the main reason I upgraded from 7.1. However, I have exactly the same problem as you do, and as yet no-one has been able to help me... This is almost the only thing that keeps me dual-booting with Windoze. I need access to that drive. Once that is sorted, I just need to get my sound working, my USB webcam going and my scanner (which is a Canon BJC-80 with a scanner cartridge instead of the ink one) and I will be completely Windoze free! Please let us know if you have any success. Regards, Ozz.
Re: [newbie] postscript lament
One way is to use a program called Apsfilter. It automatically recognizes and transforms documents into PostScript, and can then pipe the document through ghostscript to your printer. It supports LPR and ghostscript 5 uniprint driver support. It also supports printing of HTML and PDF documents. Get it at Downloads.com On another note, there is Logictran RTF Converter. It will convert to HTML and then maybe you could get a convertor from HTML to .ps? Also at downloads.com I know this isn't what you want to hear but there is a program I used to use in windows that would "print" to PDF files and an option was to save as .ps as well. I wonder if it might run under an emulator? This gave great quality and was real easy to use. The other options I have not actually used since I have no use for them. It might be a little screwy but if it works, maybe you could script it to be automatic. ??? Other than that someone else probably has better knowledge... Good luck, --Matt White Bear Lake, MN - Original Message - From: "Vicar In A Tutu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 7:38 AM Subject: [newbie] postscript lament And a very nice one to you too. Kindly allow me to inquire whether any software is available that would enable me to transfer rtf files into postscript documents. The only way of doing it now is opening a text file with Netscape, save it as postscript and then feed the thing to the printer. In case you doubt my abilities of finding the print button in applications, allow me to state that the real manifestation of my idiocy was the purchase of an Oki printer - but then again, in those halcyon days who could have known that I might want to run Linux on this box? So, basically, the way to print things is: oki4drv necronomicon.ps (as root), then wait and pray to Nyarlathotep the paper doesn't jam, for if it does, you have to print the whole thing from the beginning again. A tiring and frustrating activity. All information on the subject would be highly appreciated. Love, Pope Mickey the 23d, Patron Saint Of Moronic Oxymorons, Zee Blue Rat Ov Kaos, Psychic Terrorist, Offender Of The Faith. All hail Discordia! _ "The earth is full of ghosts now Ghost that sweat and ghosts that sigh Instead of peace just stop and cease A final and a sweet release" Coil, "The Dark Age Of Love" _
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Not Functioning On Laptop
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 08:23, you wrote: P.S. I could, I suppose, install Windows (I have NT 4.0) for the express purpose of seeing what sound card I have...ouch ;-))! Ouch is right! I wouldn't do that. ;-) Among other things, NT wants to be the big kid on the block and will grab the Master Boot Record if you install it after linux. If I were you, I'd do some research on Google to determine the provenance of your card. Then once you've narrowed it down to a few likely candidates, run sndconfig and try out different drivers. You'll know immediately if you're successful because sndconfig plays a sound file of LInus Torvalds saying, "My name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce linux "leeenoooks"." Cheers. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] change source rpms to mdk rpms?
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 11:33 am, Jon Doe wrote: I know I have seen and used the command to rebuild rpms from source to mandrake can anyone refresh my memory? rpm --rebuild packagesrc.rpm -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] postscript lament
I think that's actually "a2ps" as in "anything to postscript". The URL is: http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/ M. On Tuesday 23 January 2001 09:49, you wrote: One way is to use a program called Apsfilter. It automatically recognizes and transforms documents into PostScript, and can then pipe the document through ghostscript to your printer. It supports LPR and ghostscript 5 uniprint driver support. It also supports printing of HTML and PDF documents. Get it at Downloads.com On another note, there is Logictran RTF Converter. It will convert to HTML and then maybe you could get a convertor from HTML to .ps? Also at downloads.com I know this isn't what you want to hear but there is a program I used to use in windows that would "print" to PDF files and an option was to save as .ps as well. I wonder if it might run under an emulator? This gave great quality and was real easy to use. The other options I have not actually used since I have no use for them. It might be a little screwy but if it works, maybe you could script it to be automatic. ??? Other than that someone else probably has better knowledge... Good luck, --Matt White Bear Lake, MN - Original Message - From: "Vicar In A Tutu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 7:38 AM Subject: [newbie] postscript lament And a very nice one to you too. Kindly allow me to inquire whether any software is available that would enable me to transfer rtf files into postscript documents. The only way of doing it now is opening a text file with Netscape, save it as postscript and then feed the thing to the printer. In case you doubt my abilities of finding the print button in applications, allow me to state that the real manifestation of my idiocy was the purchase of an Oki printer - but then again, in those halcyon days who could have known that I might want to run Linux on this box? So, basically, the way to print things is: oki4drv necronomicon.ps (as root), then wait and pray to Nyarlathotep the paper doesn't jam, for if it does, you have to print the whole thing from the beginning again. A tiring and frustrating activity. All information on the subject would be highly appreciated. Love, Pope Mickey the 23d, Patron Saint Of Moronic Oxymorons, Zee Blue Rat Ov Kaos, Psychic Terrorist, Offender Of The Faith. All hail Discordia! _ "The earth is full of ghosts now Ghost that sweat and ghosts that sigh Instead of peace just stop and cease A final and a sweet release" Coil, "The Dark Age Of Love" _ -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Appending to Grub
It seems Grub reads the lilo.conf file? That is where I set my 'append "mem=56M"' (8M gets used for video) and it fixed my video problems. KDE (etc) shows 56M now. Don Does anyone have an idea how to append a line in Grub to inform the kernel that there is actually more system RAM than actually being is being reported? I know how to do this in Lilo, however Grub eludes me.
Re: [newbie] Boot manager problem???
Hi Ameya Hi , I installed linux on a machine with 20 GB HDD. I had configured lilo while installing but it doesn't show up during boot. It gives an error that there are more than 1024 cylinders or something like that. How do i solve this problem? Also can anyone tell me that if i want to use Grub as my boot manager, How do i configure it? I have never used it, so please tell me the procedure from the beginning... Thanks Looking forward for some responses Bye, Ameya I'm assuming you gave a good part of the beginning og the drive to another os? Which would put Linux fairly high up the drive so to speak. Did you check the option during installation for using lba? I had a similar prob trying to install LM on my system above the 8gig mark. Checking the lba option during installation solved it for me James
Re: [newbie] install with /home unchanged
yes, just choose to not format that partition Busterfred wrote: I run mandrake 7.1, with /, /home, /user/storage, swap on separate partitions. I wish to install mandrake 7.2. Can I leave everything except / untouched and retain my music binaries in /user/storage and my four identities and their desktop preferences in /home ? Or is it simpler and cleaner just to start over? I assume I just avoid formatting my storage and home as I install. Any help appreciated. Busterfred -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
[newbie] restore aurora
its a long story, but i edited /etc/inittab to start in runlevel 3, after my problems with X were fixed, i re-edited to start in runlevel 5, but i did not get aurora back, anyone know how to restore it?
Re: [newbie] Clicking on floppy icon does not work on desktop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was wondering, do you always have to navigate to the command line to "mount" the floppy? I wanted to view the files on my boot disk. However, when I click the floppy icon, the following message appears: "Unable to enter file:/mnt/floppy You do not have access rights to this location" I am logged in as user. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Charged Email == Hey Roman, You might try editing /etc/fstab by adding the word user in the line for your floppy devise. Mike -- "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there." --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Not Functioning On Laptop
rob wrote: Mike: Thank you for the response. I'm not dual booting with Windows. I tried running "sndconfig" which gives the message "No PnP devices found." Then it gives me the option of choosing from a list of sound cards, which puts me back at square one :-((. Any other ideas welcomed. Cheers, rob P.S. I could, I suppose, install Windows (I have NT 4.0) for the express purpose of seeing what sound card I have...ouch ;-))! = Nah..., don't add windows just for sound hehehe. Try this forte hell of it. Go back to the list of cards and choose sb compatable (or something like that). It just might work. Mike -- "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there." --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie] netgear fa 510 pcmcia nic failing....
While installing Mandrake 7.2 my pcmcia card came back with this error: "* warning: insmod'ing module imm failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 479".When I leave the card in at boot I get:"cardmgr[207]:executing:'modprobe' cb_enabler' " Then it hangs,hard reboot needed. lsmod shows: Module Size Used by soundcore 2800 0 (autoclean) (unused) lockd 32208 1 (autoclean) sunrpc 54640 1 (autoclean) [lockd] irda 80304 1 autofs 9456 2 (autoclean) usb-uhci 19184 0 (unused) usbcore43632 1 [usb-uhci] ds 6448 2 i82365 22928 2 pcmcia_core45984 0 [ds i82365] nls_cp437 3952 2 (autoclean) vfat9408 1 (autoclean) fat30432 1 (autoclean) [vfat] reiserfs 128592 2 modprobe tulip shows : /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/tulip.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/tulip.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/tulip.o: insmod tulip failed I guess this means I have a resource conflict, lmao ! I am sort of a newbie, please help, I can not find any info on fixing my problem. Thanks in advance..
Re: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install
Dear Dave: Thanks so much for the advice! I like your suggestion because even though I have a separate /home partition (and on a separate drive all unto itself), LM72 will not properly install unless I completely reformat everything, i.e both hard drives including /home (see my earlier message to the list on this subject) I just saved my Personal Directory as you instructed me by exporting it to a file under the name "her.ldif". Now I can copy it to my zip drive and later install it if and when I need to reinstall. One more question: What about my filters? How do I save them to a file? Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install
Ben, I wish I could help you there, but I don't know how to export filters, or even if it is possible in Netscape. If you follow the other suggestions, about simply backing up your ~/.netscape directory, then your filters should be in there somewhere :-/ Dave On Tuesday 23 January 2001 15:07, you wrote: Dear Dave: Thanks so much for the advice! I like your suggestion because even though I have a separate /home partition (and on a separate drive all unto itself), LM72 will not properly install unless I completely reformat everything, i.e both hard drives including /home (see my earlier message to the list on this subject) I just saved my Personal Directory as you instructed me by exporting it to a file under the name "her.ldif". Now I can copy it to my zip drive and later install it if and when I need to reinstall. One more question: What about my filters? How do I save them to a file? Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
[newbie] first successful linux virus reported
I found thid story this morning on the linux.org site. http://www.mobilecomputing.com/shownews.cgi?1347 Just visiting this planet have a nice day. Jesus is Love. Anthony Daniell
Re: [newbie] modem problem
I bought a zoom 2920 Linux compatible modem? and it's not working. I have been to linmodems.org and downloaded the ltmodem-5.78d.tar.gz file and now it sees my modem, but no dial tone. If you have the same model as I have, can't figure this one out, my soundblaster live sound great! my Cannon BJC-6000 with usb cable is working great! But no modem. I have tried different init strings but nothing seems to work. I heard kernel 2.4 is supposed to set it up with something called automagic (not sure). - Original Message - From: "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 7:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] modem problem On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 03:39:54 ,Mark wrote: i recently bought a zoom 56k fax/modem. i added it to my computer and configured it properly. i then went to dial my isp and when it tried to initialize, it sat there for ever. and it did not dial. i am using mandrake 7.2 with kde. i was wondering if there was something i am overlooking. mark --- Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:12:00 Well Mark, I just went through a long struggle to finally get my Zoom 2920 working sucessfully You need to give a little more info...is it PCI? are you trying with KPPP? what errors are you getting? Olly P Biloxi
[newbie] Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root ??
I installed Linux for windows. And Everything went perfect until I went to boot up for the first time. I get this error: Request_module [block-major-71] root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07 kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:07 I get the same error on my laptop. WindowsME AMD Athlon 900 320mbs ram could it have something to do with WinME?? Thanks Michael
[newbie] menu system problem
Is there a way to fix multiple entriesin the Kmenu system? after an attempt of installing an app called: "rmagic" for analog (which also used CPAN to install some needed modules) I now have multiple entries of everything in my kmenu... there's 4 entries of each app... I re-installed kdebase 2.0...which fixed it momentarily last night...but when I just logged on tonight...it's back to multiple entries again. Then I tried menu editor and that helped for a short time...but it's back again also. I tried re-installing menu, and everything else I could think of in RPMsI tried SUing to root...and commanding: update-menus -v and menueditor both in user, and in root mode how can I fix this...? -- 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] first successful linux virus reported
Firstly, a worm is not a virus. Worms are more like Trojan Horses, in that they exploit security holes and use them to open systems from the inside. Besides that, this isn't a bad article. Here, I shall use the word "virus" to represent all viruses, Trojans and worms (and anything else I may have left out), for the sake of simplicity. This whole incident really lets you appreciate how good open source and Linux is. In the M$ world, if virus/worm/Trojan exploited WinDOS weaknesses and holes (and there are plenty of them) what would M$ do about it? Absolutely nothing. The sane thing to do would be to actually *fix* these holes so the offending programme is now immune to the threat. This is what Red Hat did, and the speed at which it was done could only have been possible with open source. A closed source company, on the other hand, must spend $$$ to fix these problems, and they have found that it is far cheaper to simply hide the problem as much as possible and pass the blame onto virus scanning companies (e.g. Symantec) for not finding and eradicating the virus/Trojan/worm. Virus scanning companies work quickly, at great expense, to find how to defeat the virus, and then pass the expenses onto the consumer by charging for the boxed product and updates. Of course, no virus scanner is perfect (as tests always show), and some viruses slip through. Since the system is still hole-ridden, there is nothing to stop the virus. This is a far from perfect situation. On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:39, Anthony Daniell wrote: I found thid story this morning on the linux.org site. http://www.mobilecomputing.com/shownews.cgi?1347 Just visiting this planet have a nice day. Jesus is Love. Anthony Daniell -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] Yamaha SoundCard
I have a Yamaha ymf724 pci sound card, and is is detected under Mandrake 7.2 but my problem is that it doesn't work when i try to do a sndconfig it tells me that my card is not supported, does anyone know if I can find the drivers somewhere? because I can't live without my radio! Thank you in advance! Julio *** Life gets boring when your computer is working fine and there is nothing to trobleshoot! ***
[newbie] Compiling source and system speed improvements
I have a Pentium II 350MHz with 256MB of RAM. Would there be any speed benefit in compiling my most often used packages (e.g. the Kernel and X) myself? It looks like a good thing to do with faster processors (and I would definitely do this if I had and Athlon or a Pentium III), but I'm not sure if it'll do much (if any) with a Pentium II, since Mandrake is compiled for Pentiums, which is not much of a step down from where I am. I am trying everything I can to speed up my slightly-slow system. I have already optimised my hdparm settings and I plan to switch from ext2 to ReiserFS sometime soon. My system isn't slow enough to really consider changing my software (e.g. I use Konqueror and GNOME), but it still is a bit kludgy and worth trying to improve. Thanks for any suggestions. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Not Functioning On Laptop
If you can get into the box to get a good look at the sound card, you can find the FCC ID tag which has 3 letters and a string of alph-numeric, then go to http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccidand enter that data in the look up boxes. This will tell you the manufacturer and possibly more. Then you can find the manufacturers web site (if they have one) and determine if it is supported. Good Luck. Dennis On Tuesday 23 January 2001 07:47 pm, you wrote: rob wrote: Mike: Thank you for the response. I'm not dual booting with Windows. I tried running "sndconfig" which gives the message "No PnP devices found." Then it gives me the option of choosing from a list of sound cards, which puts me back at square one :-((. Any other ideas welcomed. Cheers, rob P.S. I could, I suppose, install Windows (I have NT 4.0) for the express purpose of seeing what sound card I have...ouch ;-))! = Nah..., don't add windows just for sound hehehe. Try this forte hell of it. Go back to the list of cards and choose sb compatable (or something like that). It just might work. Mike -- "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there." --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ -- Dennis Myers registered linux user #180842 -- Dennis Myers registered linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Compiling source and system speed improvements
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 07:52 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I have a Pentium II 350MHz with 256MB of RAM. Would there be any speed benefit in compiling my most often used packages (e.g. the Kernel and X) myself? It looks like a good thing to do with faster processors (and I would definitely do this if I had and Athlon or a Pentium III), but I'm not sure if it'll do much (if any) with a Pentium II, since Mandrake is compiled for Pentiums, which is not much of a step down from where I am. I am trying everything I can to speed up my slightly-slow system. I have already optimised my hdparm settings and I plan to switch from ext2 to ReiserFS sometime soon. My system isn't slow enough to really consider changing my software (e.g. I use Konqueror and GNOME), but it still is a bit kludgy and worth trying to improve. The only possible answer to your questions, is you just have to try compiling against _your hardware_ and see if you can see or measure any gain. I doubt you'd see anything. IMO tho, it's much more important to optimize your hardware. On shop built or ready made systems there isn't much or any option to do so. That's the main reason home building and overclocking have become so popular. For example, I had a p2-350 a few years ago, I ran it at 474Mhz with 128mb pc100 ram at 135mhz cas2, and L2 cache timings at 3 ticks rather than the default 8. It benched better than ready made p3-500's. About 1 years ago I swapped out the p2-350 for a p3-450, and run it at 608mhz (4.5x135), L2 =3, with the old pc100 and an added 128 of pc133 at 135mhz cas2-3-3. Getting back to your system tho, I can almost guarantee you that the performance/design of the motherboard your 350's in, how fast you can set the ram timings, combined with a correspondingly optimized cache latency change, high rpm HDD(s), etc., would make a lot bigger difference than recompiling source trying to make the system faster. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] * * * * * T E L N E T P R O B L E M S * * * * *
what exactly do u want to do? -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in
Re: [newbie] Yamaha SoundCard
I also have a Yamaha SC and DrakeConf has beautifully configured it. I am not sure whether you tried DrakeConf as yet. I t certainly gives lower output as compared to its operation on Win9X but is sufficient if you increase the volume on you speakers!!! -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in
Re: [newbie] Compiling source and system speed improvements
Dear SD, I have loaded MKL7.2 with just a P 166 with 64 M of RAM and its is working fine though slightly slower. Therefore I donot think that ur processor and the 256 m of RAM is any cause for concern!! Go ahead and reload the system with a swap space inthe hdd of about 500 MB and everything will be fine. I even use Macromedia Flash for Linux on the P166 System with flourish. -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in
Re: [newbie] Compiling source and system speed improvements
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 23 January 2001 07:52 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I have a Pentium II 350MHz with 256MB of RAM. Would there be any speed benefit in compiling my most often used packages (e.g. the Kernel and X) myself? It looks like a good thing to do with faster processors (and I would definitely do this if I had and Athlon or a Pentium III), but I'm not sure if it'll do much (if any) with a Pentium II, since Mandrake is compiled for Pentiums, which is not much of a step down from where I am. I am trying everything I can to speed up my slightly-slow system. I have already optimised my hdparm settings and I plan to switch from ext2 to ReiserFS sometime soon. My system isn't slow enough to really consider changing my software (e.g. I use Konqueror and GNOME), but it still is a bit kludgy and worth trying to improve. The only possible answer to your questions, is you just have to try compiling against _your hardware_ and see if you can see or measure any gain. I doubt you'd see anything. IMO tho, it's much more important to optimize your hardware. On shop built or ready made systems there isn't much or any option to do so. That's the main reason home building and overclocking have become so popular. For example, I had a p2-350 a few years ago, I ran it at 474Mhz with 128mb pc100 ram at 135mhz cas2, and L2 cache timings at 3 ticks rather than the default 8. It benched better than ready made p3-500's. About 1 years ago I swapped out the p2-350 for a p3-450, and run it at 608mhz (4.5x135), L2 =3, with the old pc100 and an added 128 of pc133 at 135mhz cas2-3-3. Getting back to your system tho, I can almost guarantee you that the performance/design of the motherboard your 350's in, how fast you can set the ram timings, combined with a correspondingly optimized cache latency change, high rpm HDD(s), etc., would make a lot bigger difference than recompiling source trying to make the system faster. Very true, but unfortunately my motherboard's jumpers don't allow me to go past a 100MHz FSB, and therefore I can't overclock it (I didn't even consider overclocking when I bought the computer a few years back). Can I still change the RAM timings and the cache latency to get better performance (without overclocking the FSB)? If so, what would be a good setting? My hard drive is a bit slow (I bought it for the size, not the speed), but I can't afford to spend any more money on this machine or on a new manchine right now (I've already spent quite a bit to buy more RAM and a CD burner). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] Running shell script at startup or shutdown, how?
How do I run a shell script at startup or at shutdown with LM7.2? I know 7.1 had an autostart folder on the desktop, how was that done? Actaully I am more interested in running a shell script at shutdown, or logout.
Re: [newbie] Running shell script at startup or shutdown, how?
i was wondering the same thing, i pulled this off the kde user archives: Start the Control Center and select "Loook Feel"/"Desktop"/"General". There's a setting named "Autostart path" on the "Desktop" tab. You can enter your autostart folder here. Jon Doe wrote: How do I run a shell script at startup or at shutdown with LM7.2? I know 7.1 had an autostart folder on the desktop, how was that done? Actaully I am more interested in running a shell script at shutdown, or logout. -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners." - Ernst Jan Plugge
Re: [newbie] Running shell script at startup or shutdown, how?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:49:05 -0500 Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I run a shell script at startup or at shutdown with LM7.2? I know 7.1 had an autostart folder on the desktop, how was that done? Actaully I am more interested in running a shell script at shutdown, or logout. Assuming your shell is bash, you can put logout commands in ~/.bash_logout. If you don't have a ~/.bash_logout file you can make one. ' ~ ' means your home directory, i.e. /home/user, you/ if you use some other shell than bash I don't know what the equivalent file would be. If you don't know what shell you use type " echo $SHELL " at a prompt (without the quotes.) hope that helps, -- Keith
[newbie] backup solution wanted
looking for a way to backup my entire linux system to an iso file which i can then transfer over my network to another machine that has a cd burner on it. I would really like for it to meet the following requirements: 1 - free or cheap, this will be used on a small home network and used to backup only one machine so i am not wanting to spend an arm and a leg for it :) 2 - able to write the backup files to ~650meg iso files stored on the linux box which can later be burned to a CDR 3 - able to boot from the backup cd or some type of bootdisk to perform a recovery. This will be used to make full system backups. I really dont care if it has a lot of bells and whistles or nice GUI frontends. I just want a way to backup my entire system and do a simple restore when it becomes neccesary. Anyone have any ideas or recomendations? Thanks in advance, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Odd backslash in gnome-terminal
Not life threatening, but this is a problem/fault that has bugged me since installing LM7.2 a couple of months ago with UK English support. Gnome-terminal displays the backslash character as a Y symbol with two crossbars (Yen symbol?) yet all other applications, as far as I can see, including xterm, treat it correctly. Does anybody know if there are any setup tables or configuration files for Gnome which control this kind of behaviour? Oddly enough, in the Settings-Preferences popup window, "Select-by-word characters" entry field, the backslash is a backslash, with a preceding backslash to make it literal. ??? Cheers -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation
Re: [newbie] Yamaha SoundCard
Oops! Forgot to add that you have to run modprobe snd-ymfpci at the end
