Re: [newbie-it] Cambio di scheda video
- Original Message - From: Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 8:46 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Cambio di scheda video ciao a tutti come sempre :) allora ho cambiato scheda video e naturalmente X non parte, la scheda in questione e' una Hercules 3D prophet 4500 Kyro non credo che sia supportata dal pinguino...ora: 1. come faccio a configurare X? 2. posso continuare ad usare linux anche se non e' supportata la scheda? grazie dell'attenzione e...alla prossima :) by Spider Potresti provare a configurarla com semplice SVGA oppure FBVGA (usa le risorse del sistema) tutto questo in attesa di un futuro supporto per questo gioiello di tecnologia , magari sarà la stessa Guillemont a creare dei driver oppure il produttore del chip grafico (come capita con i chip di Nvidia) che dovrebbe essere STMicroelectronics (ho controllato!!) -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che ti paga: clicca http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Non importa in che modo investi.L''importante e' consultare Spystocks! Notizie, Rumors, Commenti sui mercati azionari per farti guadagnare Clicca http://www.email.it/cgi-bin/j?6
[newbie-it] Grazie a Tutti!
Grazie a tutti per avermi aiutato!
[newbie-it] [MDK 8] fonts di konqueror
Buongiorno a tutti, chiedo aiuto a coloro che usano già da tempo linux mandrake: non riesco a visualizzare correttamente i fonts in konqueror. Cioè leggo le lettere, ma sono tutte storte e malmesse ed in alcuni casi ciò rende impossibile la lettura. Ho cambiato le impostazioni inserendo il font predefinito ed aumentandone la dimensione ma nulla è cambiato... :( Se qualcuno ha avuto lo stesso problema... :)) Ps: chiedo scusa se la domanda è già stata fatta in precedenza, ma ho cercato anche sui NG senza trovare risposta :( Il fatto è che in alcuni casi è veramente impossibile capire ciò che è scritto. grazie e un saluto a tutti -- chris [ linux ManDraKe PPE 8.0 ] Solo due cose sono infinite: lo Spazio e la stupidità umana. Ma sulla prima ho ancora dei dubbi. Albert Einstein
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con floppy
Il 07:23, lunedì 18 giugno 2001, freefred ha scritto: On Sunday 17 June 2001 19:06, dott.ruffolotti wrote: purtroppo,come il collega che ha scritto precedentemente non riesco a leggere il floppy, tantomeno cambiando i diritti di accesso come root devo per caso ricompilare qualche cosa?? sorry non ricordo il mesaggio precedente. Non riesci a leggere nessun floppy? hai provato a montarli? cosa c'e' scritto nel tuo /etc/fstab? bye Anche io ho il floppy e il cd bloccati. In /etc/fstab c'è: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/sda 0 0 Cosa devo modificare? Grazie, P.S. Finalmente riesco a postare con linux!!!
[newbie-it] Server sonoro
Apparentemente senza una causa evidente il sever sonor non si avvia all'avvio per cui non si ascolta piu' il motivo sonoro di apertura. La cosa non succede quando avvio linux come altro utente.Se vado in centro di controllo-suono-server sonoro la prova del suono funziona. La prima volta mi e' successo dopo aver avviato Mandrake update ed aver istallato arts .Ho il dubbio che questo sia un bug. cosa devo fare per risolvere la cosa ? Qualcuno sa dirmi se devo fare qualche aggiornamento o altro ( purche' mi venga spiegato in modo semplice ... ) Saluti Francesco
R: [newbie-it] Scheda Audio ISA Opti Audio 16
Ciao non saprei come aiutarti sul problema specifico, ma la Red Hat l'hai mai provata? E' sicuramente più affidabile e graficamente non ha niente da invidiare alla mandrake!!! Diego -Messaggio originale- Da: Pinco Pallo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: venerdì 22 giugno 2001 1.12 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [newbie-it] Scheda Audio ISA Opti Audio 16 Mi rendo conto della pochezza del problema: ho una scheda audio Opti che funzionava benissimo su mdk 7.2, ho fatto l'aggiornamento alla 8.0 che trovo molto bella, con molte semplificazioni di vita: ebbene, in avvio mi dà continuamente modprobe call: can't locate module isa-pnp L'errore si riverbera inesorabilmente su HardDrake (can't locate module isa-pnp) e alla fine di tutto il sistema è muto con mia grande tristezza. ho provato sndconfig fuori da X e niente ho provato a capire un po' modprobe ma con scarso successo (il tempo è sempre tiranno e mandrake di solito ti vizia) Se qualcuno avesse soluzioni dettagliate gliene sarei molto grato Paolo ***Internet Email Confidentiality Footer*** Qualsiasi utilizzo non autorizzato del presente messaggio nonche' dei suoi allegati e' vietato e potrebbe costituire reato. Se lei ha ricevuto erroneamente il presente messaggio, Le saremmo grati se, via e-mail, ce ne comunicasse la ricezione e provvedesse alla distruzione del messaggio stesso e dei suoi eventuali allegati. Le dichiarazioni contenute nel presente messaggio nonche' nei suoi eventuali allegati devono essere attribuite esclusivamente al mittente e non possono essere considerate come trasmesse o autorizzate da SIA S.p.A.; le medesime dichiarazioni non impegnano SIA S.p.A. nei confronti del destinatario o di terzi. SIA S.p.A. non si assume alcuna responsabilita' per eventuali intercettazioni, modifiche o danneggiamenti del presente messaggio e-mail. Any unauthorized use of this e-mail or any of its attachments is prohibited and could constitute an offence. If you are not the intended addressee please advise immediately the sender by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and destroy the message and its attachments. The statements and opinions expressed in this e-mail message are those of the author of the message and do not necessarily represent those of SIA. Besides, The contents of this message shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by SIA S.p.A.. SIA S.p.A. does not accept liability for corruption, interception or amendment, if any, or the consequences thereof.
[newbie] Re: installing the 2nd Disk - SWAP sizw - Software manager -
On Monday 18 June 2001 17:14, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Actually, I would like to be able to install the 2nd disk for it includes some important stuff that I need. (I have 30G drive) However during the installation process, LM8.0 didn't ask me to insert the 2nd cd. I saw that it is full of rpm's and I am in the process of learning how to use rpm, but is there an easy way to install most if not all of the 2nd disk? That's odd... You should've been asked during the installation if you had the second CD on hand. Thank you Dhanapalan for your help. Actually it was a hardware problem. Since I was low on resources, Mandrake choose not to install the 2nd cd. during the last couple of days, I have been busy upgrading my hardware: new mobo, more ram... and Mandrake judged it to be sufficient ;-) so the install went ok, including cd2. With swap, the law of diminishing returns really kicks in as your approach 256MB. Ideally, you should be able to load everthing in main memory, since a hard drive is much slower than RAM. If you're actually using as much as 256MB swap, your system will be so slow it'd be unusable. Any more than 256MB of swap is simply a waste of space. Thanks, I use the opportunity that I had to reinstal to resize my swap. The Software Manager doesn't work. If I launch it, it freezes whilst loading the first screen. Then, the only way to get out is to kill the application. Same as above. Hardware was not good enough. Since upgrading, I no longer have any problem. broken and you need a reinstall, you can get the package rpmdrake from rpmfind.net. This link is always useful. Thanks. blessings, an-guo
[newbie] Linux Mandrake as unstable as Windows98??
no, it is not a rant: I would appreciate help on this one. I newly installed Mandrake 8.0 on a new machine which does not include windows (yet), so this time one cannot blame microsoft (damn!). Linux, or maybe more precisely xwindows/KDE has crashed on me several times already and that puzzled me. I had to make a hard shut down which of course I'd like to avoid (I wouldn't want to have to reinstall everything again). the situation is like this: I run one application when I suddenly notice that in the background the whole desktop disappears, meaning the desktop icons, the control panes and even the window's frame (with the resize buttons) which I guess is controled by KDE/xwindows. I can then carry on using the application I was using but of course can no longer resize, move, minimize the window. I can quit the application using the pull down menu. If I do, I can then close other windows/ applications that were open in the background. The application that were running but whose windows were minimized are of course no longer accessible. Once I close everything, I am left with a clear background with absolutely nothing on it. There is no key stroke that I found that could bring up any dialog box or at least allow me to shut down properly. crt+alt+dek doesn't help either. At that point the only solution is to make a hard shut down. On startup the kernel of course complains that devices were not properly unmounted. I get a series of messages saying things like: i-blocks is 64, should be 8. FIXED. So I guess it's a problem with the windows environement. I thought linux was more stable than windows. I now have three questions: 1- how do I manage to shut down properly, should that happen again? 2- what can I do to help diagnostic what is the source of the problem? 3- and of course, how can I fix the problem? It happened several times already and each time I was running KMail and Netscape at least. (only that plus a small game last time it happened). I guess netscape could be involved in the problem (I didn't open it so that I could write this email). It was already pretty shitty under windows, made it crashed. I thought such a thing couldn't happen under Linux. Still, I may be wrong about netscape because the funny thing is that I could carry on using it after the desktop crashed. What do I do now? Is someone able to help me?
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake as unstable as Windows98??
On Thursday 21 June 2001 15:41, you wrote: Dear Sir, For killing the Window use ctrl+alt+backspace keys. For shutting down, ctrl+alt+delete will work wonderfully if you have not Oh! Thank you for that! I am still looking for a howto with all those tips that any complete beginner should know. I just tried that and it worked fine. I'll try again if my window freezes up again. made the installation as high security. Otherwise it will ask for root login before shutting down. I have loaded MKL 7.2 and 8.0 and found no problems. But Redhat linux 7.1 gives a lot of problems especially with SCSI adapters. I have looked on the KDE web site (I should have done that first, sorry to bother you first) and it is possible that it is a kde bug though I am not sure. http://bugs.kde.org/db/20/20748.htm : this bug seems a little bit similar ??? If it happens again, I'll use gnome instead and see if it is better. Thanks. An-Guo
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake as unstable as Windows98??
the situation is like this: I run one application when I suddenly notice that in the background the whole desktop disappears, meaning the desktop icons, the control panes and even the window's frame (with the resize buttons) which I guess is controled by KDE/xwindows. .. There is no key stroke that I found that could bring up any dialog box or at least allow me to shut down properly. crt+alt+dek doesn't help either. Hmmm. If even C.A.D. won't work, then the system is very much banged up. You prolly can't do a ctrl-alt-f2 to get to a new command window? If you can do that, log in as root, do a ps -ef and try to locate the pid of the programs that are making the mess. Then kill -9 these PID's. At that point the only solution is to make a hard shut down. On startup the kernel of course complains that devices were not properly unmounted. I get a series of messages saying things like: i-blocks is 64, should be 8. FIXED. THis is normal after such a hard reboot So I guess it's a problem with the windows environement. I thought linux was more stable than windows. I now have three questions: 1- how do I manage to shut down properly, should that happen again? 2- what can I do to help diagnostic what is the source of the problem? 3- and of course, how can I fix the problem? You should first try to find out what the offending program (or combination of programs) is. Also check if all the hardware in the computer is fit for Linux (no memory with different speeds etc.) What is the hardware you have? hth Paul
[newbie] Restoring KDE Virtual Desktop on taskbar
I accidentally removed my Virtual Desktop monitor (the default 4 window pane) from the KDE task bar. I can't seem to find it in the Control Center under Look-n-Feel Desktop, the Utilities folder, and general searches via the CLI. How do you restart the thing and/or what's the name of the component? TIA, Steve
[newbie] Linux laps up more of server market
Found on http://www.usatoday.com/money/tech/2001-06-20-linux.htm Paul 06/20/2001 - Updated 09:02 AM ET Linux laps up more of the server software market by Byron Acohido, USA TODAY SEATTLE Linux, the free computer-operating system, is winning at least 10% of new computer server software sales, posing an increasing threat to Microsoft. Continually improved by computer programmers worldwide, Linux has emerged as a very significant competitive force, says Microsoft's President Rick Belluzzo. Linux momentum is building: Inconsequential 3 years ago, the crash-resistant Linux today accounts for 10% to 27% of server software shipments, surveys show. Researcher IDC pegs Linux as the fastest-growing server software 2 years running, complicating Microsoft's hope to dominate servers as it does PC operating systems. Servers allow many users to access software programs. Japan's Lawson uses Linux to run sale kiosks in 7,600 convenience stores. The Royal Dutch Shell Group uses it to crunch data in search of oil, and Boeing to calculate aircraft fluid dynamics. Linux is maturing faster than any other operating system in history, says Steve Solazzo, IBM's vice president of Linux marketing. Linux is winning big backers. IBM will spend more than $1 billion this year exploring ways to use Linux for large computing chores. IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Computer Associates recently chipped in $24 million to give leading-edge Linux programmers high-powered hardware with which to test juiced-up Linux versions. Schools, such as Troy, New York-based Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, are using Linux to train software writers. Many, such as recent Rensselaer graduate Christina Carkner, 22, are die-hard fans. With a Linux machine. .. I'm in better control, says Carkner. That's because the heart of Linux, or kernel, is open and can be continually tweaked. Microsoft's code is proprietary. Linux was created by Linus Torvalds of Finland, who, with others, used the Internet to expand it. Thousands of programmers now work on it because, they say, code should be improved for the good of society. That extends the research arms of firms such as IBM and Intel, which bundle Linux into hardware, and Oracle and SAP, which make software to run on it. Microsoft is competing against a faceless enemy, says Matthew Szulik, CEO of Red Hat, which resells Linux with services. Not surprisingly, Microsoft casts Linux as a threat to intellectual-property rights. It also says companies want its fuller range of software solutions. That's where we think we're way ahead, says Doug Miller, Microsoft competitive strategy director.
Re: [newbie] Volume Control in KDE?
Is there a volume control anywhere in KDE desktop? I hate to admit to being used to the slider in windoze You can always run aumix from the command prompt. I don't use KDE, so I can;t tell where it is hidden in the menus... Paul
Re: [newbie] I need some help
Any common Ethernet card should work fine. If not, you can always buy another one as the low end ones are pretty cheap (and you're not going to get more than 10 Mb/s on your DSL connection anyway). I have a Realtek also (I forget if it's 8139 or 8129), and I bought it for probably $15-20 USD. From what I hear, it's not close to say 3COM quality, but it's good enough for me for desktop use. You can check out www.scyld.com/network for more info on supported vs. unsupported Ethernet hardware. I think these guys are the ones responsible for many of the Ethernet drivers. Steve On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:29:15AM +0200, Paul wrote: It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:37:46 +0900 when KoRn wrote: I user a Realtek 8139 which works really fine. Hi, My name is Israel, i live in japan, but i am not japanese, i will buy the Mandrake 8.0 in spanish, i am using windows 98 second edition,i am using a ADSL internet connection, my PC is a laptop, i need to insert a card in to my pc to connect it to the ADSL modem, that card is called LAN card, if i wanna use that card i need to install it, it works good in Windows 98 second edition, but i dont know if it going to work in my linux mandrake, in the box says that this LAN card is for windows, i am looking for a LAN card for linux, but i cant find one all are for windows... what should i do?
[newbie] Disabled Mouse
Hi! In HardDrake I misconfigured my mouse, and I dont know how to reconfigure, becouse with the keyboard I can start hardrake, but can't start the mouse configuration! Please help: Thanks: Poetro __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Question
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 17:25, Jay needs a Guinness wrote: Can I safely uninstall printpro and it's related files safely. I can't You should be able to do that without that many problems but you might need to reconfigure your printer again. Personally, I would uninstall printpro relarted files, along with all of the ghostscript rpms, then reinstall ghostscript, and finally run the printer configurator again (at least that is what I did last time I really hosed up my printing in 7.2). configure my printer and I believe printpro to be the culprit. When I installed LM 7.2 from a single CD, me printer was configured OK. Only when I installed the Power Pack and all the CD's, did my printer become impossible to configure. -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
Re: [newbie] Volume Control in KDE?
multimediasoundkmix, check the setting so that on close it docks with the panel, bascule On Thursday 21 June 2001 6:50 am, you wrote: Is there a volume control anywhere in KDE desktop? I hate to admit to being used to the slider in windoze
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Bankrupt??
Chris Keelan wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2001 18:15, you wrote: Hi!! A friend of mine (who is in the business and is pro-OS/2 and anti-windows tells me that he heard the Mandrake had gone bankrupt. Is there any truth to this? Before I load Mandrake for the first time, i would like to make sure I am not going down a dead end street. Hopefully, he is wrong. He is. Mandrake's been bit by the tech collapse and have recently done some restructuring but they're still alive and well and living in France! - Chris Most of the tech sector has been restructuring. This is normal. It's just when some one posts a question or comment on the list, it turns on an alarm for the subscribers. Mandrake is here to stay. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility
[newbie] fully-qualified domain names....
This one should be really easy, but it has me baffled. I'm supposed to give my computer a fully-qualified host name, and I don't know what name to give it. At the moment it is not connected to the Internet so I don't suppose it is that important, but when I do get it connected (a task that will involve recompiling the kernel with support for the Alcatel ADSL USB modem I anticipate much grief) it probably will. On the other hand, I won't be using the system to provide any services outside the local area network (192.168.1.0); my website is remotely hosted and I collect my mail from a remote server, so no external clients need to use DNS to find my machine. An additional possible complication: I use one ISP - call it isp.com - for the connection (and outgoing mail); another company (call it hostingco.com) hosts my webspace and mailboxes; while a third (domainco.com) provides my domain names and forwards mail and http to hostingco.com. (It just worked out cheaper that way). So should the fully qualified host name be: myhost.isp.com myhost.hostingco.com or myhost.mydomain.com (where mydomain is registered with domainco.com) Or doesn't it matter? And where does the Samba workgroup name come in?
Re: [newbie] Disabled Mouse
It tough to get around and sometimes it's impossible to do everything in a gui without a mouse. But you can press a windows key (a key with the ms windows logo on most keyboards these days) and your start menu will open and you can navigate to apps with the arrow keys. I would probably open a terminal and su to root and type mouseconfig, or you could type harddrake and try get around in it with your arrow keys. If you don't have a windows key, I imagine you could play around and some combination will open the start menu. -s On Thursday 21 June 2001 04:46 am, you wrote: Hi! In HardDrake I misconfigured my mouse, and I dont know how to reconfigure, becouse with the keyboard I can start hardrake, but can't start the mouse configuration! Please help: Thanks: Poetro __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] fully-qualified domain names....
So should the fully qualified host name be: myhost.isp.com myhost.hostingco.com Hi Ed, I don't think it matters anything. The 192.168.x.x IP group is for private LAN only, as is 10.0.x.x and 127.0.x.x You can name the machine anything. I have 2 PC's, one is paul.merlin and the other is tbird.merlin. Merlin just because I like it. Paul was the first machine I got, and tbird is from the AMD Thunderbird processor inside. So you can call it edward, eddy as the shipboard computer on the Heart of Gold (Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy), edward.linux, anything you like. The only thing I can do with Samba is dance it. I don't have that package actively installed on the machines... hope this helps Paul
[newbie] Motherboard Swap went flawlessly..!!!
Hi all, I mentioned the other day that I got a new Abit MB and Duron 900 CPU, well, I replaced the overclocked Celeron and BX MB After making sure that I didn't change any of the drives.. (ie primary master stayed primary master.) I booted it and it worked flawlessly, far simplier then if I had done it in Winblows.. Only thing is, I don't think it is making use of the ATA100 yet, it still seems to be using ATA33... Have to play with that unless someone has any suggestions... regards Frank
[newbie] Scanner Blues and Red and Green
Hi all, I have a real problem wih may scanner. The hardware is listed below: P120 Chip with 160Meg Ram, Adaptec SCSI-2 card model AVA-2904 HP5p SCSI scanner. The machine is networked and provides print and scanner services to my home network using Mandrake 8 on each network machine. The scanner is perfectly fine when scanning in grey mode, but fails with an I/O error when attempting color scans. I have included the output from scanimage in test mode and also the dmesg output for the scsi card. The scanning software is SANE 1.0.4 and using the SANE-hp backend. I prefer to use scanimage from the command line so as to incorporate the commands in a batch file for quick scan to file turnaround. Scanimage tests: scanimage -T scanimage: scanning image of size 2550x3507 pixels at 1 bits/pixel scanimage: acquiring gray frame, 1 bits/sample scanimage: reading one scanline, 319 bytes... PASS scanimage: reading one byte... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 2 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 4 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 8 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 16 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 32 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 64 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 128 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 256 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 512 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 511 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 255 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 127 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 63 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 31 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 15 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 7 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 3 bytes... PASS scanimage -T --mode color scanimage: scanning image of size 2550x3507 pixels at 24 bits/pixel scanimage: acquiring RGB frame, 8 bits/sample scanimage: reading one scanline, 7650 bytes... FAIL Error: Error during device I/O Dmesg output: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:0f.0 to 32 ahc_pci:0:15:0: Host Adapter Bios disabled. Using default SCSI device parameters scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.1.8 Adaptec 2902/04/10/15/20/30C SCSI adapter aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/255 SCBs Vendor: HPModel: C5110ARev: 3701 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0, type 3 scsi0:0:4:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message scsi0:0:4:0: Command found on device queue aic7xxx_abort returns 8194 scsi0:0:4:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message (scsi0:A:4:0): Queuing a recovery SCB scsi0:0:4:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB Recovery code sleeping Recovery SCB completes Recovery code awake aic7xxx_abort returns 8194 scsi0:0:4:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message scsi0:0:4:0: Command not found aic7xxx_abort returns 8194 scsi0:0:4:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message scsi0:0:4:0: Command not found aic7xxx_dev_reset returns 8194 If anyone has any clue to what the problem could be, I would be really grateful. Thanks, Dave.
[newbie] Gtk error ececuting DrakConf in LM8
well I have LM8 installed on laptop. I have a recursive error executing xwindows applications...one of the more importants on my system DrakConf When I execute DrakConf I receive the message: - [root@Notebook /root]# DrakConf new_font is not of type Gtk::Gdk::Font at /usr/X11R6/bin/DrakConf.real line 207. [root@Notebook /root]# - and the applications crashes...how I can fix the problem? Thanks to all
Re: [newbie] Motherboard Swap went flawlessly..!!!
After making sure that I didn't change any of the drives.. (ie primary master stayed primary master.) Congrats!! I booted it and it worked flawlessly, far simplier then if I had done it in Winblows.. Only thing is, I don't think it is making use of the ATA100 yet, it still seems to be using ATA33... Have to play with that unless someone has any suggestions... Somewhere (in lilo.conf??) is something with a pio= parameter which should be set. I can't recall exactly, but think along those lines Paul
RE: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake
Just thought I should clarify something here,, It originated with Redhat 5.2, but all the current release version are either equal to or newer then the equiv redhat so mandrake 8, has many newer versions then redhat 7.1 rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2001 12:28 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:22:33 -0500 when Mark Johnson wrote: What are the the differences betw. Mandrake and RedHat... any sigificant differences? Mandrake is built on the Redhat 5.2 sources. From there things started splitting up. So the differences of the added tools etc should be pretty big. Basic Linux should be the same though. Paul -- Well begun is half done. -Aristotle http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] Install error
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 05:48 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:
Charles (or anyone else),
Noticed your post, thought you might be able to answer a few
questions related to shrinking Windows partitions:
1. Sometimes when I defrag a Windows partition there are clusters
that can't be moved in various locations throughout the partition
-- can resize move those while shrinki
Boot to DOS, then you need to strip the hidden and system
attributes from all files. These are the files that defrag can't move.
IIRC, that would be 'attrib -s-r-h *.*' on the CL in C:\. At least you
don't need to be root ; Check the syntax before you try it
('attrib /?'), it's been a _long_ time since I've fooled around in
Winblows. Defrag also does a better job if you Uncheck the 'speed up
programs' option and run it several times.
While you're at the DOS prompt, you can also clean up and compress
your registry. 'scanreg /fix', followed with 'scanreg /opt'
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Install problems - update
Hi all Just to let you know that I solved the problem (sticking at filesystem setup - the defrag problem..). It appears that Norton Speed disk was to 'blame'. I had forgotten that the default is to put rarely used files at the end of the disk. This of course does not show in Windows defrag. Thanks for all the helpful replies I did get for this problem. I am now enjoying the Linux experience. Now if I could only get my HP 420 deskjet to work, i'll be laughing... :-)) Gary Now Tux powered
[newbie] Help with Intel 815e mb
Hello, I've been trying to install 8.0 on a new 815e mb (Intel D815EEA2L). I know it has problems with the integrated LAN (eepro100) but I can almost get it to work sometimes (and I know there are patches in the work, so I figured I'll ride it...). I'm now stuck because even though ifconfig says that I have eth0 and eth1 running (eth0=integrated LAN, eth1=linksys), when I try to bring eth0 up by /etc/init.d/network restart, It says that eth0 does not exists. HardDrake does not see either card. /etc/modules.conf has info on both cards... Where is HardDrake looking for its info? Any other ideas? Thanks! Art --- Arturo J. Morales, Ph.D. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computational Biology Group, Bioinformatics Genome Therapeutics Corporation 100 Beaver Street Waltham, MA 02453-8443 www.genomecorp.com - Tel: (781) 398-2374 - Fax: (781) 893-2470
Re: [newbie] fully-qualified domain names....
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:23, Edward Barrow wrote: This one should be really easy, but it has me baffled. I'm supposed to give my computer a fully-qualified host name, and I don't know what name to give it. At the moment it is not connected to the Internet so I don't suppose it is that important, but when I do get it connected (a task that will involve recompiling the kernel with support for the Alcatel ADSL USB modem I anticipate much grief) it probably will. On the other hand, I won't be using the system to provide any services outside the local area network (192.168.1.0); my website is remotely hosted and I collect my mail from a remote server, so no external clients need to use DNS to find my machine. An additional possible complication: I use one ISP - call it isp.com - for the connection (and outgoing mail); another company (call it hostingco.com) hosts my webspace and mailboxes; while a third (domainco.com) provides my domain names and forwards mail and http to hostingco.com. (It just worked out cheaper that way). So should the fully qualified host name be: myhost.isp.com myhost.hostingco.com or myhost.mydomain.com (where mydomain is registered with domainco.com) Or doesn't it matter? And where does the Samba workgroup name come in? The hostname is what your computer will be called on a network. It is synonymous with a computer name in Windows. It doesn't really matter what the hostname is -- you could call your computer Bob if you really wanted. -- 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] Help configuring Xwindows on Gateway Laptop
Help, I am trying to install LM 7.2 on my Gateway 5300 laptop. However, when I get to the Xwindows configuration options, I cannot find a combination that works. According to Win 2k (the other OS installed) I have an S3 Inc Savage/IX video card, I cannot find that on the list, and the various S3 generic drivers do not do the job either. Any ideas?? Glenn Cannon 'That Damn Brit' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Level II Certified DCI Judge Head of The GR Crew - Event Staff 'There is no spoon.'
Re: [newbie] Install error
Tom,
Wonderful! Thanks!
One followup question: Must I restore those attributes for any
(functional) reason after the defrag? (I mean, is there any reason
something (in Windows) would not work because the attributes have been
changed?)
Thanks,
Randy Kramer
Tom Brinkman wrote:
Boot to DOS, then you need to strip the hidden and system
attributes from all files. These are the files that defrag can't move.
IIRC, that would be 'attrib -s-r-h *.*' on the CL in C:\. At least you
don't need to be root ; Check the syntax before you try it
('attrib /?'), it's been a _long_ time since I've fooled around in
Winblows. Defrag also does a better job if you Uncheck the 'speed up
programs' option and run it several times.
While you're at the DOS prompt, you can also clean up and compress
your registry. 'scanreg /fix', followed with 'scanreg /opt'
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 and Promise FastTrack RAID 1
Dear all, FALSE HOPES !!! In my previous email I said that I can access both IBM drives on the Fasttrack RAID controller, however this is not true. On installation, I was able to format and select a mount point for the first drive but not for the second drive. Then using Harddrake I was able to format and set the mountpoint for the second drive on the array after the installation. This let me to thinking that now I was able to access both of them. However, today on reboot, I could not re-mount the second drive. Although, Harddrake shows it to be formatted as Linux Native, I am not allowed to set a new mount point. Even deleting the partition and trying to set a new mount point does not work. Sorry for raising your hopes on the Fasttrack RAID controller. I suppose, I will have a look at the 3ware's version of RAID controllers or just use Linux Software RAID. Anyway, thanks for your help. Norman civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/01 12:24am On Wednesday 20 June 2001 11:45, Norman Teferle wrote: I have posted a message with respect to my Mandrake 8.0 box with a Promise FastTrack Ultra ATA-100 RAID 0 - 1 controller a couple of days ago with no response. Scrolling throught the mailing list archive, I can see that this topic has come up recently numerous times. Anyway, following the recommendations of the www.promise.com linux support for RH6.2/7.0 and some recent mailings (ie Richard Kleeman - Fix for Mandrake8.0 install on Promise IDE controller from Friday June 15, 2001) I have managed to install Mandrake 8.0 and can access my 3 harddrives hda, hde and hdg, with hde and hdg being two IBM DTLA 307075 drives. W2k and M8.0 live on hda, and the idea was to have RAID 1 configuration using both IBM disks. From some mails (Civileme - Common Errors - 28 May, 2001 and Civileme - Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fasttrack 66/100, Lockups, only sees one channel - 18 May, 2001) I also learned that it is possible to gimmick a RAID1 configuration by only installing one drive and using it in mirroring mode, using the controller to copy to the second drive. Could someone please tell me how to do this? Could you please tell ME how you got that thing working? We'll post it and give you credit. ;-) Well if you have identical drives, you ask the controller to make a copy to the second drive in RAID1 configuration. But if you have THREE drives on that controller, then leave it is straight IDE mode and RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID4 and RAID5 using any pieces you choose of those three drives all belong to you through linux software raid, which is just as efficient as the controller's RAID 1 and far less restrictive. As with most Linux facilities, linuxdoc.org has a giant HOWTO on this which, for once is not especially difficult to read. You will also find Software RAID partitons available as a partition type at install time. Civileme Civileme Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks Norman
[newbie] MandrakeFreq install
Well I downloaded the MandrakeFreq iso files and installed them. The install was good and I could actually boot into Mandrake 8.0 for the first time with my Promise ATA100 controller card. Much thanks go to Civileme who has been helping me to get the release version of Mandrake 8.0 to work with the Promise card on my computer. Anyway, I just wanted to say that if you have an ata 66 or 100 drive and can't get Mandrake past the kernel panic you might want to download or order the cd for MandrakeFreq because it worked for me. Wilson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] ESS688 install problem
Hi! I've got an other problem after that mouse thing. Thnak you for figuring it out. So I have an old ESS688 soundcard, which worked well under Mandrake 7.0 without recompiling the kernel. But now in 8.0 I can't figure it out, how to get it to work. The HardDrake doesn't detect it. So please help with it Thank you: Poetro __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Just a Newbie question
Hi Everybody. I have 2 PC's in my home 1° AMD K6 III, 400 MHZ, 128Mb Ram (Window$ 2000 Prof ) this machine have one network card RealTech and Modem 56Kb ISA 2° AMD Athlon, 1 GHZ, 128 Ram (Mandrake 8.0) This machine have only a network card RealTech. Can Anyone tell me how can I connect the second machine in Internet, using the same modem, it's mean shearing the modem connection to Internet. TKS. Lucio Costa (Brazil) _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] External Hardware
Dear List, My only computer is a Toshiba Laptop, I dont really have any intention of buying a desktop system, yet I feel the need to upgrade my hardrive (4.3gig). The least expensive way of me doing this is to buy an external one, but are these supported by Linux? I think they come in USB and Parallel versions. I would also like to consider an external writer. Any comments would be appreciated, has anyone had any success stories with any particular brand? Much appreciated, cheers.. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 and Ricoh MP9120A-DP DVD CD-RW
On Thursday 21 June 2001 09:49 am, Norman Teferle wrote: Dear all, I have seen some mails on RICOH CD writers in the newbie archive but none for this specific model: RICOH MP9120A-DP. Also, RICOH's websites do not seem to mention Linux anywhere. The LHD says that older models are compatible. Still, has anyone got any experience with this DVD-CD-Rom drive? I am not necessarily interested in getting DVD to work, I will need the cd writer mainly to backup data. Any comments are very appreciated, Norman My first CD-RW was a Ricoh. It died. Fortunately just within the warranty. Mechanical drive failure. Still, it was a huge and expensive fiasco. I'd never buy anything Ricoh. I believe if you research Ricoh CD* anything, many have had the same experience and come to the same conclusion as myself. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie]
On Saturday 21 July 2001 09:46 am, João Coimbra wrote: Hi all How can I kwnow the version of kernel that I have in the Linux? In a terminal, 'uname -r' (without the 's) will tell you what the currently running kernel version is. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Problems in LM80 with keyboard
Title: Problems in LM80 with keyboard Hello *. I have one problem in 3 linux machines. I installed LM8.0 an when i start the graphics interface, my keyboard not responding, because i dont have the symbols with ALT GR. Can you hel me?. thanks Cordialmente, Ing. Yesid Camilo Luengas C. Departamento de Sistemas BANCA VIRTUAL BANCO UNIÓN COLOMBIANO
Re: [newbie] Install error
Thomas, Thanks very much! I made one correction (which I think matches your intent) so that anybody else reading this is not confused. I think you meant: attrib +r +s -r c:\*.sys Hmm, and I'm not sure why the +r ... -r -- guess I'll learn when I try it. (If I'm confused, correct me!) Thanks, Randy Kramer n6tadam wrote: I would make sure that all *.sys files are set to read-only, thus in dos: attrib +r +s -r c:\*.*
Re: [newbie] Install error
On Thursday 21 June 2001 08:15 am, Randy Kramer wrote:
One followup question: Must I restore those attributes for any
(functional) reason after the defrag? (I mean, is there any reason
something (in Windows) would not work because the attributes have
been changed?)
No. There's no permissions in Winblows, which is one reason it's
so inherently insecureable. M$ uses those attributes (ie, hidden and
system) so most users won't know those files exist, and hopefully won't
fool with 'em. BTW, defrag with some Windoze systems won't move swap
files either. There's a few work-arounds, but the easiest is to set
virtual memory to -0- (only if you have 64mb ram or more), and then
reboot and defrag. This isn't usually a problem tho.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Thanks,
Randy Kramer
Tom Brinkman wrote:
Boot to DOS, then you need to strip the hidden and system
attributes from all files. These are the files that defrag can't
move. IIRC, that would be 'attrib -s-r-h *.*' on the CL in C:\. At
least you don't need to be root ; Check the syntax before you try
it ('attrib /?'), it's been a _long_ time since I've fooled around
in Winblows. Defrag also does a better job if you Uncheck the
'speed up programs' option and run it several times.
While you're at the DOS prompt, you can also clean up and
compress your registry. 'scanreg /fix', followed with 'scanreg
/opt'
Re: [newbie]
On Sat, 21 July 2001, João Coimbra wrote: Hi all How can I kwnow the version of kernel that I have in the Linux? Try 'uname -a' Barry
[newbie] Problem with install modem.
I have a modem ASMAX multiSYS on chipset TOPIC TP560i/9922S14. I did anything with instruction but it doesn't work in my MANDRAKE 8.0. Maybe who's know how it works ??? nobodyor
Re: [newbie] MORE installation troubles
JP, Try typing linux single if aurora gives you the option (if not, there should be some way of booting to single user mode). Once in single user mode, then run linuxconf and switch off the xfs service temporarily--also make sure to edit /etc/inittab so you are booting to runlevel 3. Reboot, and you should at least be able to get to a command prompt where you can further debug whatever is going wrong with XFS and / or get any information that might be useful for the list. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 11:38 AM 06/21/2001 -0500, JP Urban wrote: Okay... I'm the one who posted a while back and listed my whole system specs and walked through my installation to the point of the error. Now I'm having a whole new problem! The system just will not boot... and what's worse... with Aurora doing my booting, I can't find any of the data that would normally help me figure out what's wrong. Civilme suggested back when I had the install trouble to do a memory test. I've done that and had no luck, because my memory all checked out. Right now, I'm freezing up at Starting X Font Server. I cannot get to a login or a command prompt, and I've tried pretty much everything I can think of. :( Any ideas here?
Re: [newbie] Problems in LM80 with keyboard
LM8 doesnt seem to come out with a latin american keyboard map. This sucks bad. And trying to fix it using xmodmap is plain hell. I have a Microsoft Elite keyboard and (only in X) i cant use AltGr for key combinations. I have a fix, but it makes the Windows key freeze the keyboard. :/ I have one problem in 3 linux machines. I installed LM8.0 an when i start the graphics interface, my keyboard not responding, because i dont have the symbols with ALT GR. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie]
Hello if you are using MDK then type: rpm -qa | grep kernel --- João Coimbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all How can I kwnow the version of kernel that I have in the Linux? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 and Ricoh MP9120A-DP DVD CD-RW
I had a Ricoh RW9120A cdrw/dvd that was compatible with linux. However mine only worked for like two days. I ended up having to send it back. Anyway, the answer to your question is, yes it's compatible. (The dvd is the easy part, just make a link from /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd.) -s On Thursday 21 June 2001 09:49 am, you wrote: Dear all, I have seen some mails on RICOH CD writers in the newbie archive but none for this specific model: RICOH MP9120A-DP. Also, RICOH's websites do not seem to mention Linux anywhere. The LHD says that older models are compatible. Still, has anyone got any experience with this DVD-CD-Rom drive? I am not necessarily interested in getting DVD to work, I will need the cd writer mainly to backup data. Any comments are very appreciated, Norman
[newbie] Southbridge (was: Motherboard Swap went flawlessly..!!!)
It was Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:00:48 -0400 when civileme wrote: Until a reliable kernel 2.4.6 is out, if you want to use ATA-100, you need to install kernel-2.2.19. Your Motherboard has a VIA chipset and the kernel is gimmicked to cripple itself away from DMA to avoid the vicious hardware bug associated with the 686B SouthBridge/IDE -PCI Controller. Hi Civileme, Could this be the problem that is kicking my ISDN down too? The new mobo has the same Southbridge thing-ama-jig, and I also run 2.4.3. Paul -- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. -Aeschylus http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] Partition Tragic
I saw this one coming, but anyway... I took my first stab at changing my partitions, and it was a complete failure. Here's the story: Single 30GB IDE drive w/ LM8.0 installed and running. I booted from a FreeBSD floppy to start that install, but I wasn't able to configure the drive the way I needed to in fdisk/label editor, so I exited, popped out the floppy and booted like always into LM. I started xwindows and ran the partition editor from HardDrake, not making any changes to existing partitions -- I only created new ones (a FAT 16, a BSD, and a BSD swap). Now LM gets kernel panic, can't mount fs, even booting from the LM floppy. Please help me before I toast another install and start from scratch again. TIA, David Easy + Automatic = EMATIC E-commerce enable your web site AND sell your product on ours. Accept credit cards with no merchant account. Free email and hosting. Do it all yourself at www.ematic.com.
[newbie] CD-RW at hdc inaccessible
Hi all, I'm running 8.0 and can't read my Creative CD-RW RW8433E drive at hdc. I looked through old messages, but couldn't find a solution. Here's my set-up: hda - hard drive hdc - CD-RW hdb - nothing hdd - DVD-ROM Here are other details: * /dev/cdrom is sybolically linked to /dev/scd0 * LILO includes append= hdc=ide-scsi mem=1024M) * An lsmod reports the presence of ide-scsi 7568 0 * hdc and hdd are on a 40-pin cable * KDE reports the permissions at basically 777 * ls -la on /dev/cdrom is identical to cdrom2 (w/ lrwxrwxrwx) * ls -la on /mnt/cdrom is identical to cdrom2 (w/ drwxrwxrwx) * ls -la on /dev/scd0 is brw-rw--- I'd very much appreciate your insights! Thanks, Miark
[newbie] Configuring Fonts
I've run into some of the same font problems that just about everyone else has run into. I've figured out that I have a problem with my Fixed font. So I've gone into the KDE Configuration Tool and under Look N Feel and under Fonts and reset all of the fonts to True Type Fonts and the correct ISO number that the KDE website says you need to have set. However, whenever I click the change button for the Fixed font the entire KDE system hangs and I almost always have to Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc to get control over the system again (I wait over 5 minutes to see if it comes back on its own). So... In general does anyone know how to get around this problem? Specifically, is there a configuration file which I can modify that will get around this problem? Thanks, Travis Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot.
Re: [newbie] Conecting COM 1 and COM 2
Carlos Eduardo Colon Rangel wrote: Hi, How can I stablish a connection between COM port 1 and COM port 2? Thanks, Carloswith a nullmodem adapter and an rs232 cable, or with an rs232cable wired as a nullmodem (these are available commercially, but I can't say where). :) -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Volume Control in KDE?
Ed Kasky wrote: Is there a volume control anywhere in KDE desktop? I hate to admit to being used to the slider in windoze But... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Improve the computing world. Toss a Mac off a cliff. Edwith konqueror, navigate to your ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory and right-click on konqueror's background, Choose 'Create new' then choose 'Link to Application'. In the execute tab under 'Command' put this: kmix -caption %c %i %m when finished click on the new icon and a cyan colored speaker will appear in the area to the left of the KDE clock display. Close konqueror. In the future that icon will show up there all the time. Click it when you need to adjust the volume. :) -- Alan
[newbie] XKDE crash/ATI Xpert 2000 setup
Hi everybody, I'd be grateful if somebody could please help me with the following problem. Every now and then ( once a day!) Xfree86 crashes on me. I may be inside KDE, doing my work or just browsing away in konqueror when it crashes and restarts and I get the graphical login. Sometimes it crashes during bootup, causing the computer to fall down into runlevel 3. What do you think is the likely reason? I can't find anything in /var/log/messages. My guess would be the graphics card setup. I have ATI Xpert 2000, 32 MB memory, 2xAGP I've set it up using Xfree 4.0.3, w.o. 3-D accel, and I've gone into /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and commented out the lines where the glx and dri modules are loaded, but it kept crashing. Resolution: 1024x768, 16bpp. XFdrake detects the card as Rage 128. Should I be using that or should I be setting it to Xpert 99? (I'm testing that right now, getting some display artifacts, but no crashes yet). Or should I switch to Xfree86 3.3.6? I really appreciate your help, Narfi. - H. Narfi Stefansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Other setup info: Mandrake 8.0, I downloaded the 2 GLP CDs. Kernel 2.4.3, Xfree 4.0.3, 384MB memory, 466MHz Celeron, Intel440BX motherboard, Viewsonic E771 17 monitor.
Re: [newbie] Quake II - rpm installing problem
Thanks for the help. What´s the difference between Mandrake and Mandrake Cooker? On Thu 21 Jun 2001 16:36, you wrote: Hi, I would go to rpmfind.net and search for each of the libraries (example: libm) it will give you a whole list and you need to look for the Mandrake Cooker file it will have an extension of i586.rpm. Then you can run rpm -i 'package' and it will install the libraries from that package. Then try to install Quake 2 again. Joe At 04:46 PM 21/06/01 -0400, you wrote: Hello all. I am trying to install Quake 2. I have downloaded quake2-3.20-6.i386.rpm and also quake2-3.20-glibc-6.i386.rpm files. And when I execute: rpm -i quake2-3.20-6.i386.rpm system says: error: failed dependencies: libm.so.5 is needed by quake2-3.20-6 libdl.so.1 is needed by quake2-3.20-6 libc.so.5 is needed by quake2-3.20-6 Also I try: rpm -i quake2-3.20-glibc-6.i386.rpm system says: error: failed dependencies: libglide2x.so is needed by quake2-3.20-glibc-6 libvga.so.1 is needed by quake2-3.20-glibc-6 My system is Linux Mandrake 8.0 running on a Pentium2 300 Mhz with 64 Mb of RAM and an ATI XpertWork 4 Mb. Many thanks for your help and comments. Juan Carlos __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
[newbie] KDE apps freezes
Sometimes one application freezes on KDE. It could be any. It stop of working and redrawing. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Registered Linux User # 219425 __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
[newbie] Install Questions
Sorry to bother you all with my questions. Should I use BootMagic or LILO to allow me to dual boot Linux and Windows 98? Opinions seem to me mixed on this. What are the pros and cons. The MD 8.0 manual says to set the BIOS switch that asks if a PNP OS is Installed to No'. I have not seen that statement elsewhere. If I do this I lose my Network card under Windows. Comments please. Preston --- Betti Ann Preston Smith Head of St Margaret's Bay, NS [EMAIL PROTECTED] MGB RV Owners
Re: [newbie] Install Questions
preston smith wrote: Sorry to bother you all with my questions. Should I use BootMagic or LILO to allow me to dual boot Linux and Windows 98? Opinions seem to me mixed on this. What are the pros and cons. The MD 8.0 manual says to set the BIOS switch that asks if a PNP OS is Installed to No'. I have not seen that statement elsewhere. If I do this I lose my Network card under Windows. Comments please. Preston --- Betti Ann Preston Smith Head of St Margaret's Bay, NS [EMAIL PROTECTED] MGB RV Owners PrestonBootMagic is administered from Windows, Lilo is administered from Linux. They do pretty much the same job other than lilo (or something like it) is needed to boot linux anyway whether or not you use BootMagic as the multi-os bootmanager. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Connect w/ ISP, but unable to surf/ver. 8.0
Rita F. Koenigs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 8.0. I have been attempting to surf the internet without success -- after logging onto the network using KDE kppp. I use http://www.nocharge.com, a free internet provider for parts of WA, OR, and NY...the connect link says that nocharge should work in the Macintosh, Linux, Unix platforms. Here's what happens: I log onto the network (I check connection icon, and see the connection speed, duration, bytes sent/recd, etc. in the kkk log). When I try to enter a URL in Konquerer or Netscape, I get nowhere. When I do a ping in terminal, the error message is: unable to connect to remote host.. Same with pinging as the root. Any ideas on how to solve this? The odd thing is, right now I'm using a windows 98 machine, and I'm connected using the same tel. #, IP address, etc. Just doesn't work for Linux, although nocharge claims to support it. == What does your /etc/resolv.conf say?? Did you edit it appropriately?: search nocharge.com nameserver dns# nameserver dns# dns#'s should be provided by the ISP. HTH, 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] Quake II - rpm installing problem
Just a little late. I have installed Quake2 with some rpm I need to add.
I am not sure If I use some rpm Mandrake Cooker. When I try to uninstall the
rpm added the system tell me they aren't installed.
Doesn't matter. The game works now. And the system likes OK.
On Thu 21 Jun 2001 19:02, you wrote:
Sorry Juan,
I made a slight error. Do not use the Cooker, I looked it up and it is
an experimental distribution.
Sorry, just use the 'Mandrake' packages with the mdk.i586.rpm extension
Joe Pyrczak
At 11:24 PM 21/06/01 -0400, you wrote:
Thanks for the help.
What´s the difference between Mandrake and Mandrake Cooker?
On Thu 21 Jun 2001 16:36, you wrote:
Hi,
I would go to rpmfind.net and search for each of the libraries
(example: libm) it will give you a whole list and you need to look for
the Mandrake Cooker file it will have an extension of i586.rpm. Then
you can run rpm -i 'package' and it will install the libraries from
that package. Then try to install Quake 2 again.
Joe
At 04:46 PM 21/06/01 -0400, you wrote:
Hello all.
I am trying to install Quake 2. I have downloaded
quake2-3.20-6.i386.rpm and also quake2-3.20-glibc-6.i386.rpm files.
And when I execute:
rpm -i quake2-3.20-6.i386.rpm
system says:
error: failed dependencies:
libm.so.5 is needed by quake2-3.20-6
libdl.so.1 is needed by quake2-3.20-6
libc.so.5 is needed by quake2-3.20-6
Also I try:
rpm -i quake2-3.20-glibc-6.i386.rpm
system says:
error: failed dependencies:
libglide2x.so is needed by quake2-3.20-glibc-6
libvga.so.1 is needed by quake2-3.20-glibc-6
My system is Linux Mandrake 8.0 running on a Pentium2 300 Mhz with 64
Mb of RAM and an ATI XpertWork 4 Mb.
Many thanks for your help and comments.
Juan Carlos
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RE: [newbie] XKDE crash/ATI Xpert 2000 setup
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of H.Narfi Stefansson Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] XKDE crash/ATI Xpert 2000 setup Hi everybody, I'd be grateful if somebody could please help me with the following problem. Every now and then ( once a day!) Xfree86 crashes on me. I may be inside KDE, doing my work or just browsing away in konqueror when it crashes and restarts and I get the graphical login. Sometimes it crashes during bootup, causing the computer to fall down into runlevel 3. What do you think is the likely reason? I can't find anything in /var/log/messages. My guess would be the graphics card setup. I have ATI Xpert 2000, 32 MB memory, 2xAGP I've set it up using Xfree 4.0.3, w.o. 3-D accel, and I've gone into /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and commented out the lines where the glx and dri modules are loaded, but it kept crashing. Resolution: 1024x768, 16bpp. XFdrake detects the card as Rage 128. Should I be using that or should I be setting it to Xpert 99? (I'm testing that right now, getting some display artifacts, but no crashes yet). Or should I switch to Xfree86 3.3.6? I really appreciate your help, I am using the same card on 2 of my systems and have never had any X problems from them with any distro that I have installed. You should be able to use it with full 3-D accel, I do. I, when given the options such as with Mandrake will set the card as the Rage Fury AGP because basically that is what the 2000 is, but it also runs just as well if set-up as the generic Rage128.. Is there any other device on your system that is using the same IRQ as your vid card? Charles Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
Re: [newbie] Volume Control in KDE?
there is a kconfigkdesoundmixer dialog with a 'load volumes on login' setting but i don't know if this launches the panel icon as well, also a long winded way is to manually launch and dock kmix, logout with 'save setting' and from then on as long you don't accidentally exit kmix before logging out it will always be launched, at least this is how i deduced i got it to work for me bascule On Thursday 21 June 2001 10:29 pm, you wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: Is there a volume control anywhere in KDE desktop? I hate to admit to being used to the slider in windoze But... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Improve the computing world. Toss a Mac off a cliff. Edwith konqueror, navigate to your ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory and right-click on konqueror's background, Choose 'Create new' then choose 'Link to Application'. In the execute tab under 'Command' put this: kmix -caption %c %i %m when finished click on the new icon and a cyan colored speaker will appear in the area to the left of the KDE clock display. Close konqueror. In the future that icon will show up there all the time. Click it when you need to adjust the volume. :)
Re: [newbie] CD-RW at hdc inaccessible
On Thursday 21 June 2001 12:53, you wrote: Hi all, I'm running 8.0 and can't read my Creative CD-RW RW8433E drive at hdc. I looked through old messages, but couldn't find a solution. Here's my set-up: hda - hard drive hdc - CD-RW hdb - nothing hdd - DVD-ROM Can you read it as /dev/cdrom? How about as /dev/scd0? I can't recall why but I think you're not supposed to reference hdc except as /dev/scd0--/dev/cdrom/. On my system ( I have a harddrive at hda and a cd-rw at hdc) there are no symlinks from any of the hdN devices. Instead, my drive is /dev/scd0 which is linked to /dev/cdrom. Any particular reason why you need to reference hdc? - Chris
Re: [newbie] Using ULTRA DMA 2 getting the most from your hard disk.
On Thursday 21 June 2001 02:15 pm, Franki wrote: Hi all, Is there any problems switching my 7200RPM ATA100 with Mdk 7.2 and reiserFS??? While I've been using ReiserFS 24/7 for almost a year now with no problems, and many benefits I'd swear by it's still a beta FS. You need to thoroughly investigate the pros cons and make your own decision. I use it on an old 5400rpm/256k WD slave with a 250mb /swap and the rest of the 8 gigs all in one big / partition. Abit KT7a (capable of ata100) with bios dated this month.. Linux Details. ReiserFS. Kernel 2.2.19-4MDKsecure all updates except kde loaded. Can anyone make any suggestions as to what my settings should be for maximum speed? It currently tests at: Buffer cache: 125.49 MB/sec Buffered: 29.91 MB/sec Civileme's already given you the best advice along the lines I mentioned in a prior post. There's VIA/mobo(specially **Abit KT7a)/HDD (specially ***WD) issues, any OS. You seem to have gathered together the hardware that's most susceptiple. **Research why AMD dropped Abit's and particularly KT133a chipset models (KT7a with/without raid) from their recommended mobo list last February. Only the Biostar M7VKD and Soyo K7VTA Pro KT133a boards still remain. *** Civileme seems to imply all WD HDD's are affected, I've only heard/read that some, mostly newer models were. Still, I'd trust anything Civileme tells you. I was getting 22mb buffered, with my BX chipset and an old Quantum 4.3gig... 22 up to 29.91 doesn't seem like that much of an impovement... Especially since I have a ATA drive and motherboard connected with the ATA100 cable, An 80 wire cable is nothing more than a good'ol ata/33 40 wire cable with the other 40 wires doin nothin more than separating the real 40 wires to reduce inductance. Count the pins on the connector ; Maybe I'm infering too much, but you seem to be enamored with ata/100. Fact is, all HDD's whether they're ata/33, /66, or /100 still run on the motherboard's 33.3mhz IDE bus. The ata/66 and /100 are enhancements that don't, as their nomeclature implies, double or more than double thu-put, or as many seem to believe, bus speed. What improvement they may provide also comes at a price of risk and problems. IMO, more than they're worth. Also, like AGP 1x,2x,and 4x, the enhancement comes at the price of draining off other system resources, namely cpu/cache/ram. There's no free lunch. If you're getting 30mb/sec, be happy. Be aware tho that that's a benchmark rate, real world transfer rates are much less. I doubt that with a stopwatch you could tell much difference tranferring a huge amount of files, whether the HDD hparmed at 20mb/sec, or 30mb/sec. The drive is a 7200RPM model and I believe it has a 2mb internal cache... (I do think the buffer cache speed is far better then it was.) The drive is the only ide device on the primary ide interface. 'hdparm -i /dev/hd?' will tell you the buffer (cache size). It'll be a little less than 2mb (2048k). The HDD's firmware uses the missing k's. IMNSHO, higher rpm and bigger buffer HDD's are a much better idea than the current fads of ata/100 and software-firmware raid kludges like Abit's. An IBM 7200/2mb HDD would'a been a better choice tho ; ...and a Soyo K7VTA Pro ;~ YMMV -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] CD-RW at hdc inaccessible
On Thursday 21 June 2001 22:42, you wrote: On Thursday 21 June 2001 12:53, you wrote: Hi all, I'm running 8.0 and can't read my Creative CD-RW RW8433E drive at hdc. I looked through old messages, but couldn't find a solution. Here's my set-up: hda - hard drive hdc - CD-RW hdb - nothing hdd - DVD-ROM Can you read it as /dev/cdrom? How about as /dev/scd0? I can't recall why but I think you're not supposed to reference hdc except as /dev/scd0--/dev/cdrom/. On my system ( I have a harddrive at hda and a cd-rw at hdc) there are no symlinks from any of the hdN devices. Instead, my drive is /dev/scd0 which is linked to /dev/cdrom. Any particular reason why you need to reference hdc? - Chris Look in lilo.conf and see if you are booting the hda with the following scripts in lilo: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy quiet vga=788 read-only except the above hdd= will read something differrent. If the hdc=ide-scsi line is not there then you should add it and then as su in console at the prompt type lilo without the quotes. Sorry if you already know some of this. Any way, that should get you ability to read your cdrw. If not come back and let us know. Onward , -- Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842
[newbie] Is this some kind of Linux virus?
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[newbie] Re: Is this some kind of Linux virus?
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[newbie] gaim compile issues
Trying to compile the new version of Gaim 11 pre 14 I ran into the follwing errors: I typed ./configure --enable-panel then make at the end of the usual stream I get the following: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb1 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [au2h] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/files/gaim-0.11.0pre14/sounds' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/files/gaim-0.11.0pre14' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 What can I do to fix this? Also, how can I check what version GTK I have installed? -Paul R _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] who da man? who da man?
http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/business/forbes_list that's who -- +- + Jeffrey M. Reed + Linux System Administrator + Metro West Boston Linux User Group + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + (508)792-6070 +-
[newbie] Error: Winbond Super-10 detection....
Hello My linux is on runlevel 3. Everytime I rum my linux box and before I get the the login prompt a message comes up saying Winbond Super-10 detection, now testing ports 3F0, 370, 200, 4E, 2E SMSC Super-10 detection, now testing ports 3F0, 370.. What is this. Any ideas. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Error: Winbond Super-10 detection....
On Friday 22 June 2001 01:14, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello My linux is on runlevel 3. Everytime I rum my linux box and before I get the the login prompt a message comes up saying Winbond Super-10 detection, now testing ports 3F0, 370, 200, 4E, 2E SMSC Super-10 detection, now testing ports 3F0, 370.. What is this. Any ideas. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ does it look something like this? Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=52 devrev=f4 oldid=ff Winbond chip type 83977EF / SMSC 97w35x Winbond LPT Config: cr_30=01 60,61=0378 70=07 74=03, f0=00 Winbond LPT Config: active=yes, io=0x0378 irq=7, dma=3 Winbond LPT Config: irqtype=pulsed low, high-Z, ECP fifo threshold=0 Winbond LPT Config: Port mode=Standard (SPP) and Bidirectional(PS/2) SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... i think it's the kernel trying to recognize the southbridge portion of your motherboard's chipset. the southbridge gives all the functionality to ports like the PS/2 and printer ports. i get the same weird message when i log in. haven't found a way to work around it yet. hmmm. -- +- + Jeffrey M. Reed + Linux System Administrator + Metro West Boston Linux User Group + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + (508)792-6070 +-
Re: [newbie] Disabled Mouse
At a root console, run DrakConf. There is a mouse configuration tool there. On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:46, Galiba Péter wrote: Hi! In HardDrake I misconfigured my mouse, and I dont know how to reconfigure, becouse with the keyboard I can start hardrake, but can't start the mouse configuration! Please help: Thanks: Poetro -- 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] Is windows REALLY easier to install?
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 17:29, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Civilme: I ran a test today that may be of interest. I'm in the process of assembling a second computer (Lazarus) from some old stuff that I've accumulated; eventually, it is to be a server for a home network. Right now, Lazarus consists of: TMC Socket 7 motherboard AMD K6-2-500 CPU 128 mb RAM Maxtor 15 gb HD Trident 975 based video card Creative CD-ROM Logitech wheelmouse on PS/2 port Generic floppy and keyboard NO printer, modem, sound card The test consisted of doing default installations of Win98SE and LM 8.0, and comparing the elasped time between booting the installation CD and logging in. The results were as follows: Win98SE: 0:27 LM 8.0: 0:24 I then deleted the Mandrake installation, and re-installed it, but this time I chose expert, server partitioning, and selected ALL of the packages. Total time: 0:39. Note that the Windows installation time does not include the time for partitioning and formatting the hard drive (0:28 with Partition Magic), nor the time to load the graphics and VIA drivers. It does, however, include the time to feed my old Win 3.1 floppies to prove that I was entitled to do an upgrade. Of course, with Mandrake, the disk operations are included in the installation time, and neither drivers nor 7 year old disks were necessary. OTOH, Windows really shuts down in a hurry if there's nothing else installed! Regards, Carroll civileme wrote: A friend of one of the folks here is finishing a Ph.D. in mathematics. He uses an IBM laptop and he was running mandrake 7.1. Recently, he installed 8.0. It didn't like his mouse, so he used an alternate image and installed kernel 2.2.19 and set up that one in the bootloader. His total time to install was 1.5 hours. Now to keep someone else happy, he had to install PowerPoint on the same laptop. He tried the Win98 restoration disk. It was missing so many drivers that he despaired of ever finding them all. He bought windows ME. The CD wasn't bootable. He restored 98 and tried to use it to start the ME disk. The program told him that this was a CD for computers without windows and that he needed to buy the upgrade edition. He tried Windows NT. He had to seek professional advice (from the staff of a linux company because Microsoft wasn't helping) to get it installed. Then he discovered drivers simply were NOT available for some of the features he needed to run power point. He tried ME again, this time generating the famous 98 boot disk that is the closest thing to a swiss army knife Microsoft ever produced, Well, stage one--he couldn't format the partition. He booted into linux and fired up disk drake and took care of that ornery partition, even formatting it. WindowsME install program upchucked saying some nonsense about 64K clusters which it did not support. OK NOW the windows98 boot disk could format the partition. 4K clusters were verified. And ME still complained about 64K clusters and shut down. So, with 4 days and the purchases of two systems wasted, he is using Konqueror on the web to track down Microsoft Win98 drivers for his notebook. Then he will finally be able to load PowerPoint, we hope, unless it wants to see a different version of Windows, like XP. I am beginning to believe that if I took someone completely ignorant of computers, then he could install linux and have a fully functioning system a lot sooner than with windows. Yep, it does. :-} I wasn't thinking of time but of the necessity in almost all cases to dust off cases for CD Keys, drivers, and whatnot. In addition, how big is that installed windows? How many application programs does it offer, stock? If you did a 2-disk installation of 8.0 with all the servers, you did about 800 application program loadings in addition to the base system. But thanks for the info--I am saving it so the next time I find myself at the next table to a microsoft engineer or such, I will have something. (The one I was at the next table to last night for dinner thought that we had to recompile the kernel just to add a driver.) Civileme
RE: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake
Is there any such thing as a Mandrake kernel or a Redhat kernel or a Debian Kernel or can you just down load the 2.4.* kernel and install it to any distribution? -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:49 AM To: Rules Address for MDK; Paul Subject: RE: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake Just thought I should clarify something here,, It originated with Redhat 5.2, but all the current release version are either equal to or newer then the equiv redhat so mandrake 8, has many newer versions then redhat 7.1 rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2001 12:28 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:22:33 -0500 when Mark Johnson wrote: What are the the differences betw. Mandrake and RedHat... any sigificant differences? Mandrake is built on the Redhat 5.2 sources. From there things started splitting up. So the differences of the added tools etc should be pretty big. Basic Linux should be the same though. Paul -- Well begun is half done. -Aristotle http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] How can I figure out my IP address?
Terry, Try ifconfig as the root user. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 02:56 PM 06/21/2001 -0400, Terry wrote: I'm curious .. How can I determine what my IP address is from my local machine? Is there a command similar to M$'s IPCONFIG command? Thanks! -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User # 218330
Re: [newbie] How can I figure out my IP address?
On Thursday 21 June 2001 14:56, Terry wrote: I'm curious .. How can I determine what my IP address is from my local machine? Is there a command similar to M$'s IPCONFIG command? Thanks! type ifconfig as root and you should get something like this: [root@alpha1 jeff]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:0D:F2:BF inet addr:192.168.0.11 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:375060 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:339800 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:7 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:473529387 (451.5 Mb) TX bytes:24387955 (23.2 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:664 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:664 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:62000 (60.5 Kb) TX bytes:62000 (60.5 Kb) pretty awesome looking. eth0 is my ethernet card and lo is my 'loopback' so i can ping myself. you can also use ifconfig to set the properties of your network card. to do so, i would simply type (using the example above): ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 up as long as i have the proper module (aka driver) loaded for my ethernet card, i should be able to start pinging other computers on the network...regardless of what OS they're running. good luck and don't forget about http://www.linuxdoc.org/ !!! -- +- + Jeffrey M. Reed + Linux System Administrator + Metro West Boston Linux User Group + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + (508)792-6070 +-
Re: [newbie] Question
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 17:25, Jay needs a Guinness wrote: Can I safely uninstall printpro and it's related files safely. I can't configure my printer and I believe printpro to be the culprit. When I installed LM 7.2 from a single CD, me printer was configured OK. Only when I installed the Power Pack and all the CD's, did my printer become impossible to configure. Printpro conflicts with cups--both use the cupsd daemon but different versions. If you we5re able to install both, you have the kde 1.99 version of 7.2 and should at a minimum update to the 7.2 mandrakefreq, and also should reinstall NOT selecting everything (any other size is good, just not the Everything) And yes, printpro is a commercal version of CUPS plus their own drivers Civileme
RE: [newbie] Linux Mandrake as unstable as Windows98??
you most likely have a x config error.. Firstly ctrt-alt-Backspace will kill just X, not the linux box, the unmout errors are caused by you reseting.. or restarting.. you need to run Xconfigurator, type in : locate xconfig then go there (locate will tell you where it is...) then run it... then you will need to enter all your screen and graphics adaptor details again... when you post a question like this, its a good idea to mention the following: 1. What graphics adaptor? 2. How much ram (adaptor and main memory.) 3. Motherboard brand Model and chipset. 4. CPU type and Speed.. 5 log messages.. go to /var/log and have a look at the log messages... they will most likely tell you what caused it... That will help alot in determining your problem.. regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of An-Guo Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2001 3:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux Mandrake as unstable as Windows98?? no, it is not a rant: I would appreciate help on this one. I newly installed Mandrake 8.0 on a new machine which does not include windows (yet), so this time one cannot blame microsoft (damn!). Linux, or maybe more precisely xwindows/KDE has crashed on me several times already and that puzzled me. I had to make a hard shut down which of course I'd like to avoid (I wouldn't want to have to reinstall everything again). the situation is like this: I run one application when I suddenly notice that in the background the whole desktop disappears, meaning the desktop icons, the control panes and even the window's frame (with the resize buttons) which I guess is controled by KDE/xwindows. I can then carry on using the application I was using but of course can no longer resize, move, minimize the window. I can quit the application using the pull down menu. If I do, I can then close other windows/ applications that were open in the background. The application that were running but whose windows were minimized are of course no longer accessible. Once I close everything, I am left with a clear background with absolutely nothing on it. There is no key stroke that I found that could bring up any dialog box or at least allow me to shut down properly. crt+alt+dek doesn't help either. At that point the only solution is to make a hard shut down. On startup the kernel of course complains that devices were not properly unmounted. I get a series of messages saying things like: i-blocks is 64, should be 8. FIXED. So I guess it's a problem with the windows environement. I thought linux was more stable than windows. I now have three questions: 1- how do I manage to shut down properly, should that happen again? 2- what can I do to help diagnostic what is the source of the problem? 3- and of course, how can I fix the problem? It happened several times already and each time I was running KMail and Netscape at least. (only that plus a small game last time it happened). I guess netscape could be involved in the problem (I didn't open it so that I could write this email). It was already pretty shitty under windows, made it crashed. I thought such a thing couldn't happen under Linux. Still, I may be wrong about netscape because the funny thing is that I could carry on using it after the desktop crashed. What do I do now? Is someone able to help me?
Re: [newbie] Motherboard Swap went flawlessly..!!!
On Thursday 21 June 2001 06:32 am, Franki wrote: Only thing is, I don't think it is making use of the ATA100 yet, it still seems to be using ATA33... Have to play with that unless someone has any suggestions... What does 'hdparm -i /dev/hd?' and 'hdparm -v /dev/hd? say (as root)? (replace hd? with the proper drive letter) FWIW, I'd wait a while to make sure everything else is OK before you try and tune your HDD. IIRC, there's issues with VIA chipsets, and particularly some motherboards, and some HDD's. So you want to research that first. Then read 'info hdparm' and it'll explain how to set the various options. Once you've determined the best for your HDD/Mboard/ chipset, then you can add those lines to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local EG, mine are (ata/33 drives, CD drives on a oc'd BX board) hdparm -m8 -c1 -d1 -k1 -A1 /dev/hda hdparm -m8 -c1 -d1 -k1 -A1 /dev/hdb hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hdc hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hdd You might also want to read thru the KT7 FAQ's (Google 'kt7 faq') -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Quake II - rpm installing problem
Sorry Juan, I made a slight error. Do not use the Cooker, I looked it up and it is an experimental distribution. Sorry, just use the 'Mandrake' packages with the mdk.i586.rpm extension Joe Pyrczak At 11:24 PM 21/06/01 -0400, you wrote: Thanks for the help. What´s the difference between Mandrake and Mandrake Cooker? On Thu 21 Jun 2001 16:36, you wrote: Hi, I would go to rpmfind.net and search for each of the libraries (example: libm) it will give you a whole list and you need to look for the Mandrake Cooker file it will have an extension of i586.rpm. Then you can run rpm -i 'package' and it will install the libraries from that package. Then try to install Quake 2 again. Joe At 04:46 PM 21/06/01 -0400, you wrote: Hello all. I am trying to install Quake 2. I have downloaded quake2-3.20-6.i386.rpm and also quake2-3.20-glibc-6.i386.rpm files. And when I execute: rpm -i quake2-3.20-6.i386.rpm system says: error: failed dependencies: libm.so.5 is needed by quake2-3.20-6 libdl.so.1 is needed by quake2-3.20-6 libc.so.5 is needed by quake2-3.20-6 Also I try: rpm -i quake2-3.20-glibc-6.i386.rpm system says: error: failed dependencies: libglide2x.so is needed by quake2-3.20-glibc-6 libvga.so.1 is needed by quake2-3.20-glibc-6 My system is Linux Mandrake 8.0 running on a Pentium2 300 Mhz with 64 Mb of RAM and an ATI XpertWork 4 Mb. Many thanks for your help and comments. Juan Carlos __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
[newbie] Connect w/ ISP, but unable to surf/ver. 8.0
I have 8.0. I have been attempting to surf the internet without success -- after logging onto the network using KDE kppp. I use http://www.nocharge.com, a free internet provider for parts of WA, OR, and NY...the connect link says that nocharge should work in the Macintosh, Linux, Unix platforms. Here's what happens: I log onto the network (I check connection icon, and see the connection speed, duration, bytes sent/recd, etc. in the kkk log). When I try to enter a URL in Konquerer or Netscape, I get nowhere. When I do a ping in terminal, the error message is: unable to connect to remote host.. Same with pinging as the root. Any ideas on how to solve this? The odd thing is, right now I'm using a windows 98 machine, and I'm connected using the same tel. #, IP address, etc. Just doesn't work for Linux, although nocharge claims to support it. Rita __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake as unstable as Windows98??
I now have three questions: 1- how do I manage to shut down properly, should that happen again? I'm not sure what ctrl-alt-dek is, but the command should be ctrl-alt-backspace 2- what can I do to help diagnostic what is the source of the problem? You could try booting from the boot floppy you made during the install and see if that helps. 3- and of course, how can I fix the problem? What install did you use? recommended, custom, or expert? It happened several times already and each time I was running KMail and Netscape at least. (only that plus a small game last time it happened). I guess netscape could be involved in the problem (I didn't open it so that I could write this email). It was already pretty shitty under windows, made it crashed. I thought such a thing couldn't happen under Linux. Still, I may be wrong about netscape because the funny thing is that I could carry on using it after the desktop crashed. What do I do now? Is someone able to help me?
