[newbie] Nebula DigiTV
Does this digital TV card work with Linux 10? When I use the TV Card control tool in Manrake Control Centre I select Nebula DigiTV in the card model area and Auto-detect in the tuner type area. When it starts tuning a console window pops up and then disappears after about 1 second. Is there any way of finding what my problem is? Andy Tuson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OpenOffice.org starts in different language!
I installed OpenOffice during the installation, and everything else installed with English as the default languae, but for some reason open office opens in something thats similar to spanish. I went to the language setting and tried different versions of English EUA, Canada, Australia, etc, but it won't change the language! How do I get it to go into english??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound DVD problems
I can't seem to get my sound to work on my old computer. I did a fresh install of Mandrake 10.1 community, but the sound doesn't work. I had this same problem under Debian 3.1 on this same computer. The chip is just an onboard Creative PCI128 and uses the kernel module es1371. I was trying to play a DVD and didn't have any sound. The Mandrake hardware control center detects my sound card right, but trying to run kmix fails because it can't find alsa, and the Gnome volume control doesn't have any channels to adjust either! Alsa is installed configured to run in Init 3-5, so I don't know what the problem is there. I did a simple 'modprobe es1371' command from a root shell and the sound works fine now. I don't want to have to manually load the kernel sound module everytime I startup, so how do I fix the sound settings? Also, both Xine and Totem will not read my DVDs. Xine plays the first intro track (MGM Studio scene etc...) and then says the video is encrypted, and totem won't even play. MPlayer plays the DVD fine (with sound after the modprobe command), but I can't find an RPM for the gui version and I don't have time right now to compile the sourcecode. Where can I find the Xine DVD plugins and the gmplayer rpm packages? The urpmi says they can't be located. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Updating the system after install
Hello, I just downloaded the 1st install CD of Mandrake 10.1 community because I wanted to try out this distro. I have an old computer that some other distros seemed to have some trouble with, but MandrakeMove booted fine from CD, so I deciced to try the full OS on it. Since I only installed packages from the one CD, the system has very minimal components installed. It has defaulted to using IceWM, but I would like to install Gnome instead. Also, there are no web browsers installed either! I tried installing more software, but the only installation medium I can chose is the CD, and when I select Gnome and Mozilla packages, they are not installed, yet the program reports the installation/update was a success??? I tried updating from the list of ftp servers that it found, but I keep getting an error saying that the servers are not conifugred... Does Mandrake's RPMDrake work similar to Apt-get or similar package managers? How do I install new software from online rather than just the CD? Is there an Apt repo for mandrake anywhere? Does this require me to subscribe to the Mandrake club? I don't want to pay any money just yet, so thats why I downloaded the community ISO version. Then If I like Mandrake, I will contribute get the full version. But I would at least like to try out Mandrake before I decide to sign up for the club. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mutt and Procmail...blah
Hey guys, I am kind of new to this list but I was just curious who uses mutt and procmail because I cannot seem to get it to work the way I want it to with folders and such. I just want to have folders that all my newsletter and mail from friends gets sorted into and I wanted to setup some spam filters as well but apparently im not doing something right. I have looked at many other sample .muttrc files and all that and still cannot get it to work HELP!! -- .-. | Andrew Rice Jr | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| .| http://www.kryptonplanet.org | `. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 13:38, Mike Adolf wrote: size of the second partition) BUT I FOR GOT TO RECOMPILE and was running the same a.out. Dah! Oops- that is embarrassing! :) Happens to us all sometimes... Thanks for you time. No problem at all- glad you found the problem! A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 17:17, Mike Adolf wrote: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 5.8G 2.4G 3.2G 43% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7 49G 756M 48G 2% /home total bytes = (1510072 * 4096)/1024/1024/1024 = 5.7G free blocks =( 902426 * 4096)/1024/1024/1024 = 3.44G WHICH LOOK LIKE THE VALUES FOR LINUX ROOT (target1/part5) instead of part7, I can't see anything obvious that you've done wrong. The values do look suspiciously close to those for your '/'! At a guess you've maybe found a bug which was ironed out by the official release? Can you try upgrading to the official edition of 10.0? If it is something specific in your set-up that is triggering a bug (that hasn't yet been fixed) it would be worth reporting it to the developers. I suspect though that they'll want you to upgrade to the latest version before they'll be interested in investigating. Let us know if you make any progress! A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 07:57, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 19 May 2004 19:48:18 -0400 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The numbers don't add up. What am I missing? I'm running 10.0 CE. Yeah- your numbers are way off. Could we see the program which generated those results? printf( free blocks: %ld\n, partition.f_blocks ); f_blocks is the total number of blocks, not the number free. Assuming this your results are fine- 34.6GB ~= 35GB Could somebody else check this out under Mandrake 10? filesystem type: EF53 block size : 4096 total blocks : 2786971 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 11G 11G 448M 96% /home (4096*2786971)/1024/1024/1024 == 10.6GB ~=11GB So my results are fine on 10.0 oe. A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] two Ximian Evolution questions
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 21:54, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Is there a way to make Evolution download mail on startup? And is it Not as far as I'm aware. possible to make a distribution list with a number of names in one list in the contacts list? Yes- definitely. Just go into your contacts and click on the downward pointing arrow next to the New button in the top left of the screen. Then choose Contact List in the menu which pops up. You then can name your list and add addresses and contacts to it. Once saved the list can be used in the way you would a contact all mail will got to everyone on the list. Archie. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] two Ximian Evolution questions
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 17:48, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: night, but I can't find a way to make it Evo fetch mail on start up yet If you don't find a way, might be worth taking a look at the KDE mail client called 'Kontact'. I don't use it but I've heard very good things and I've just located a 'check mail at startup' option in it, so if it's important to you might be worth switching!? It has import options so you should be able to move fairly painlessly! A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xmms only plays when started in CLI
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 18:43, C. Tresenriter wrote: If I go through startmultimediasound, xmms will load up and after entering the URL for the stream, it buffers the looks like it's playing - it shows a stereo signal and the address - but there's no sound and the timer stays at zero. In addition, afterwards, it will not close not via the GUI or a right click and I have to restart X. At the CLI, it works like I expect it to - I'm using 10.0 with the Official updates. Has anyone else experienced this? The problem lies with soundwrapper. When you use it from the CLI xmms interfaces directly with the soundcard device. When you start it from the menu it runs 'soundwrapper xmms'. As I understand it, soundwrapper allowed multiple programs to produce audio which was then transparently mixed by the KDE sound daemon. This allowed multiple channels before that functionality was implemented in hardware kernel device drivers. Most likely you do not now need it. soundwrapper is a way for applications that uses sound to be rerouted to use arts (the sound daemon for KDE) before going into the sound driver. This way, multiple applications that uses sound can be run at the same time (i.e. hearing those warning signals in gaim while playing your favorite mp3 in xmms). This is useful if you have a soundcard that doesn't support multi-channel sound sources right from the hardware (or if the linux sound driver for that hardware doesn't support multi-channel). http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=12260 So essentially this is a bug which you must work around. The solution is to right click on the K and go to Menu editor. In there locate the entry for xmms and remove the 'soundwrapper' text from the command. A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi --noclean
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 07:59, Job Evers wrote: Is there a way I can enable the --noclean option permanently? You can set the global options in /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg and they should always be used. Cleaning options are set with global booleans. See 'man urpmi.cfg' for more information. A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] data loss - what's happening
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 21:25, Weiers Coetser wrote: I'm running Mandrake 9.2 in a dual boot set-up with Windows. Same here. On at least three occasions I've lost some of my working documents in the process of rebooting. When I log out the Open Office Documents are open, but when I log on they are nowhere to be found, not in my Trash or in the place where I saved them last. I save frequently, so it is not an issue of losing the document because I never saved. Once or twice when I started Open Office, the filename was displayed and I was asked if I wanted to restore the session or save it... I can't remember exactly, but I think I chose both the options at different times and each time the result was that the file dissappeared for good. Does anybody have any clue what happened. I've lost some crucial data in the process. What am I doing wrong? I've had precisely the same experience- with regularly saved documents. I lost a 3000 word essay that was due in a few days! Searched *everywhere* but it was gone. It's clearly some sort of bug with the way OOo is closed/restored when you log out. It is handy to have KDE reopen all yr windows so you can start exactly where you left off, I do the same. BUT the trick seems to be to close all yr OOo windows before logging out. If I find the time I'll report this one of these days. Just not exactly sure who to report it to- mdk, kde, or OOo? Wish I had found some logs of what exactly goes wrong. So- no advice really! Just sympathy- wanted to let you know it isn't just you! A. ps. This experience has rekindled my enthusiasm for *very* regular backups- back up as regularly as you can afford to loose data. There's no guarantee yr next shutdown won't be yr last! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RPMS, RPMS2 RPMS3
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 09:20, Stephen Reynolds wrote: I've found a local mirror that's working and want to add the appropriate rpms directories using urpmi. What is the difference between the RPMS, RPMS2 RPMS3 directories? RPMS is the main rpm repository for the distribution. This is where all the official, initially released packages are. RPMS2 is a symbolic link to 'contrib' and RPMS3 is a symbolic link to 'jpackage'. They are far from essential. If you have installed them separately or don't want them then it's safe to ignore them. If you're using plf you probably do want contrib, tho. A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ATI Radeon 9000Pro
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 17:00, Lanman wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2004 17:12, Lanman wrote: Here's the down-side. I can't run the Radeon in 3D Accelerated mode. If I try to select the XFree86 with 3D Acceleration, the http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linuxprodType=graphic=productsLINUXdriversubmit.x=12submit.y=6submit=GO%21 OK Kaj. That just made a little too much sense! can't believe I didn't try that first! DoH ? If you're a club member then you can also get it packaged. I only mention it because I had a hell of a time getting it installed on 9.2, before I realised it was a simple 'urpmi' a couple of config changes away... http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/MandrakeClub/comm/10.0/i586/System_Kernel_and_hardware.html Good luck! A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Backing up files.
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 23:46, Marc wrote:
Well my upgrade to ML 10.0 official was not a total success. It looks like I
will have to do a clean installation from scratch.
I haven't tried the upgrade option recently but I've had limited success
with it in the past. In a way it's fair enough- there are an enormous
number of packages and making sure that the users' data the system
settings are still valid (syntactically semantically) for every one of
those constantly evolving pieces of software is a huge job. Technically
I think it is the responsibility of the software to upgrade the data
structures if they are from a previous version (Evolution does this
well) but generally the non-commercial packages don't seem to. And
guessing at which packages are required is tough. It seems to me it
might be best to take that option out and force people to properly
back-up only the data they need and select the packages they want. These
unsuccessful upgrades don't do a great deal for the image of the distro.
Just my $0.02.
I would like to do this clean installation without lozeing to much stuff,
espicially bookmarks in opera, emails in kmail and contact list in kmail. It
seems like every time I try this I have problems with those things.
The trick is to find the directories, in your home directory, in which
these user-specific settings/data are stored and only move those to the
new set up. For instance opera stores its settings in '.opera', so
backing up this will save your bookmarks. Kmail settings will be in the
'.kde' directory, I'd think. I wouldn't recommend carrying all that
folder forward. Best just to copy the actual kmail folder, which might
be at '/home/bar/.kde/share/apps/kmail/' but I don't use it so don't
really know. Go in and look at the file structure/date stamps/file sizes
and see if this tallies with yr data and latest check of mail.
I would be thankful for any advice on what to back up or any tips on how to
make this as painless as possible.
Back up everything, all the time! ;) But seriously, it is worth taking
backups, as regularly as you can afford to loose the data.
Make sure you can get back to the state you're in at the moment if it
all goes pete tong. Although I've recommended moving as few directories
as possible, to keep success rate as high as possible, make sure you
back everything up.
Generally what I do when moving to a new version of mdk is (as root,
clearly- with nobody else logged in):
1) move my home directories to a different place on my home partition.
ie. mv /home/bar/ /home/foo/ .
2) Then I run the install, choose the 'new installation' option (or
whatever it's called!) then, at the partition formatting stage I leave
the home partition deselected. That way it doesn't delete my data.
3) On restart I log in as root, copy (not move- I want to keep the
integrity of my old home dir) the directories I want to salvage to the
new account and change the owner of them, recursively, to the new user
('bar'). (Unless you've got lucky and put yr users back on in the same
order yr UIDs match from last install.)
4) Profit. Or at least u'll be able to log on fire up yr apps with all
old data intact.
For apps which don't let you use old setting/data directories there are
ways to salvage the situation. If you have any of those then let us
know.
YMMV- if you're not completely comfortable with what I've just described
then just restore from media. In either case copy yr data onto removable
media before installing. Don't take any risks!
Good luck!
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Re: [newbie] My browsers suffers from Altzheimer
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:05, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 00:39, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well Stephen, how do you view web pages without a browser ? links or lynx Sorry to be pedantic but just to correct this before it ends up in the archives: lynx is a browser! It is text based but no less a browser for it! Maybe my old clunker here has become so fast on 10.0 that some relativistic effects become prominent, such as going backwards in time ? :) Was looking forward to making the move to 10.0! Perhaps it's too dangerous... Clearly your problems are to do with local caching at some level. Strange that you get the same behaviour from all browsers! Which have you tried? A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] My browsers suffers from Altzheimer
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 15:08, Kaj Haulrich wrote: magazines are, displays articles from march 15.th ! - Only when I reload the page it seems to get updated. Funny. Do any of you have Hmm, on checking, I am seeing links from march as well, and reloading the page doesn't help. I'm on mdk 9.2. Possibly a problem with whatever script mandrake uses on its server to keep them up-to-date? A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:19, John Richard Smith wrote:
cd /mnt/win_c2/downloads2
downloads2]# ls -a
./ dnloads/ .Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso*
../ .Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso.segments*
I've no idea why there is a '.' at the start of these file names or what
the '.segments' file is for. I imagine they are partially downloaded
copies? What download client did you use to get them?
Now the interesting thing about this iso file is that it has acquired text file
icon status, when it was unknown icon status.
What is text file icon status? Is this in a graphical file manager?
The 'ls' command doesn't produce anything I'd describe as icons! could
you give a bit more detail on what you're seeing to worry you?
If you are worried about the integrity of a file (and I probably would
be given the weird naming) then the authoritative way to test the file
is using 'md5sum' ('man md5sum' for details) which will compute an MD5
message digest. You then have to compare to the one on the mandrake
download site- if they match you have the file in it's entirety, ready
to burn to CD.
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Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 11:52, John Richard Smith wrote: if I transfered the file to an ext2 file system situation I could then reset the icon attributes of the iso file ? and if so what part to chattr would do that do you think ? or am I barking up the wrong tree I'm pretty sure chattr is not what you are looking for. You could certainly use it on the file after copying to an ext2 FS but it is a very low level tool and has nothing to do with icon displays. Where are you seeing this icon? In which file manager? I'm pretty sure isos don't have any embedded icon information- it will be the file manager that assigns one based, probably, on the extension and which application you have told it to open the file type with. Have you tried to open isos with a text editor? A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 13:38, John Richard Smith wrote:
How may one change file attributes ?
'chmod' for file access access permissions ('man chmod' for details),
for other (more obscure, less advisable to play with) attributes, try
'man chattr'.
and how do you unhide hidden files ( the .file type) in a consul ?
The period that proceeds the filename is to indicate that it is to be
hidden during normal browsing- for settings etc. This hiding isn't due
to any attributes (as far as I'm aware). To view these files you just
have to overwrite the behaviour of the file browsing application you are
using. For instance, if you are at a console you're probably using 'ls'.
From 'man ls' the switch to use is -a, so 'ls -a' should display all the
files.
In graphical interfaces such as Konqueror there are settings that
achieve the same effect.
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Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 19:03, Andrew Archibald wrote: The period that proceeds the filename is to indicate that it is to be hidden during normal browsing- for settings etc. This hiding isn't due It is perhaps worth noting that the period is in fact *part of* the filename. My wording was a little unclear on that. The very fact that the filename begins with '.' is what the file listing software is reacting to. A. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] How to create UTF-8 encoded text files?
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 20:23, Arys P. Deloso wrote: Can anyone point me to the right direction in creating/editing a text file with UTF-8 encoding? Any of the applications listed at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#apps although UTF-8 support is now a pretty standard feature for most well-maintained packages so I'd try your favourite editor! A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to create UTF-8 encoded text files?
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 20:34, Andrew Archibald wrote: although UTF-8 support is now a pretty standard feature for most well-maintained packages so I'd try your favourite editor! Normally it is a setting in the menus. For instance, in KWrite: View- Set Encoding- Unicode (utf8) As ever, the place the setting is found in the various editors varies widely! A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Totem
It has been almost 24 hours and I haven't seen this appear, while other mail has been getting through fine, so here it is again: --Forwarded Message-- From: Andrew Archibald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Mdk list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Totem Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 14:26:53 +0100 On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 07:23, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:26:10 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2004 01:36 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Question is, it's one saving grace besides the graphics you have to disable for any sort of stability is that it shows the song title and artist while playing some streams. Can anyone tell me how to do that with xmms or another player? I'm assuming you're talking about shoutcast (or similar mp3 based) streams? In XMMS: Options-preferences then in the input plugins box select MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Player 1.2.8 [libmpg123.so] then click configure. In the box that comes up select the streaming tab. At the bottom of the tab there is a section titled SHOUT/Icecast. This is where you want to select the Enable title streaming option. The reason this is disabled by default is because of a bug where there would be disruptions to the audio playback. As I remember it some sort of popping/hissing? Anyway I think that bug was fixed a while back. Works for me... Let us know how you get on, A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake RPM for XPde?
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 15:31, frankieh wrote: I have next to no knowledge of making rpms, but if nobody with more experiance pops up their heads and volenteers.. I will give it a shot and make it publically available.. Interestingly a story about the latest version of XPde has cropped up on slashdot: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/03/2322233mode=threadtid=106tid=185tid=189 I don't have any experience but from some browsing the installation instructions are: General installation instructions: -Decompress the tar.gz in /usr/share as root -Edit the .xinitrc file of the user you want to run XPde and put this line: /usr/share/xpde/bin/startxpde -Start X http://support.xpde.com/ If you're looking to build an rpm, you'd presumably have to write a script, which does some of the above. I've heard that checkinstall is very good for capturing the behaviour of the script and putting it all together, if you work out how to write the script! I'm not quite sure what you would do for the user specific stuff- maybe do it system wide in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ? Or leave it to the user to actually enable it if they want? Perhaps this software needs some adapting to work with a package based system! Good luck! A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] foo, master foo
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 16:57, Thujan wrote: Can somebody explain what these terms means, foo, foo bar, You might want to check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable Archie. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake RPM for XPde?
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 17:36, The Other wrote: Does 'checkinstall' make actual RPMs? Yes, it does indeed. because I was under the impression 'checkinstall' will make an RPM entry into Mandrake's Software Manager section so everything can be removed from the Uninstall Packages menus. (I'm not entirely You can uninstall the package using any of the rpm package managers (including mdk's). I've never figured out if 'checkinstall' makes the actual RPM and there is a file somewhere on computer. Additionally, this script will leave a copy of the installed package in the source directory (or in the storage directory you specify) so you can install it wherever you want. http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/docs/README Archie. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect
If you have problems try it this way...
- Firmware (mgmt.o) in /usr/share/speedtouch/ (ALREADY DONE)
- Run through dragconnect wizard and put all your ISP details in (PROBABLY
ALREADY DONE)
- Goto command line and type: /usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh start
- ('/usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh stop' to close connection)
I can't connect directly through the wizard, but it always works from the
command line.
-Original Message-
From: JRH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 March 2004 13:26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect
Lee,
I have since upgraded from 9.2 to 10, and it shouldnt have really changed
things much. However, I have my connection set to start at boot, both green
lights began to flash on my modem, (as is normal), and then the ADSL light
went yellow, and that was it, a failure message.
I'm going to try setting it up with the Speedtouch package from the 9.2
Distro. The modem firmware code is the same as I have always used.
Like you said, 9.2 is now history on this box. so if I cant get things
to go my way, I'll reinstall 9.2, and let a Linux guru buddy of mine have a
play with it at a later date.
James Hill
- Original Message -
From: Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:44:36 +
JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I'm currently downloading Mandrake 10.
I downloaded and Installed Mandrake 10 RC1 a while back, and had
some issues with Drakconnect, and my USB ADSL modem.
The problem I had, was that unlike Mandrake 9.2, the auto
detection wizard just wouldnt set the modem up properly. For
example, the wizard would bring up a list, asking me to choose my
ADSL provider. There was only 2 UK providers on the list, not one
of them being my provider!. This, coupled with other problems,
made for a non working internet connection, and it was
uninstalled, and I went back to 9.2.
Does anybody here have any experience of the Alcatel Speedtouch
330 USB ADSL modem and Mandrake 10?. Can someone offer a step by
step guide to installation and config? (I have the modem firmware
code, so dont tell me I havent installed that!)
Many Thanks,
James Hill
Before you leave 9.2 get a list of your drivers that are working.
You can choose them manually if the automagic install picks the
wrong ones.
Happened to me when it was already too late (9.2 was history on that
box) I had to find someone with the same setup. He listed his
config and I was running in minutes.
Lee
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[newbie] To Clarify urpmi Errors
Hi all, I've been reading around the Internet about these errors I've been getting while using urpmi, and the general feeling is that it's a bug in Mandrake 9.2. Anyway, I'd just like to clarify this before I do anything stupid... Basically, I've installed MDK 9.2 from the discs one and two, right after that I've done a 'urpmi.removemedia -a' and then updated it so urpmi update, contrib, etc looks to new ftp mirrors on the web. I get something like this: --- $ urpmi sylpheed blah blah... you must install these extra packages... blah blah... medium contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method the following packages have bad signitures... blah blah... Missing signature (sha1 md5 OK) Do you want to continue installation? (Y/n) --- If I do 'y', the packages install and there seems to be no problem. If that's the case and there is no problem with doing this, is there any way to stop it from giving me this warning each time I want to install something? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] To Clarify urpmi Errors
Excellent. Thanks Derek, I'll check that out. -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 March 2004 11:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] To Clarify urpmi Errors On Thursday 18 Mar 2004 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been reading around the Internet about these errors I've been getting while using urpmi, and the general feeling is that it's a bug in Mandrake 9.2. Anyway, I'd just like to clarify this before I do anything stupid... Basically, I've installed MDK 9.2 from the discs one and two, right after that I've done a 'urpmi.removemedia -a' and then updated it so urpmi update, contrib, etc looks to new ftp mirrors on the web. I get something like this: --- $ urpmi sylpheed blah blah... you must install these extra packages... blah blah... medium contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method the following packages have bad signitures... blah blah... Missing signature (sha1 md5 OK) Do you want to continue installation? (Y/n) --- If I do 'y', the packages install and there seems to be no problem. If that's the case and there is no problem with doing this, is there any way to stop it from giving me this warning each time I want to install something? Thanks. You can get rid of the invalid list file: warning if you remove the file /var/lib/urpmi/list.contrib then edit your /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg and remove the line: list: list.contrib for your contrib source... As for the bad signature warning check that your contrib source has a GPG key associated with it in the Software Sources GUI in Mandrake Control Centre. BTW: If you want sylpheed you might like to try Charles Edwards' version. It is newer than the one in contrib http://www.eslrahc.com/ It can be set up as a urpmi source. (Good job Charles) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2
Hello people, There is an abundance of software available for Linux, which is great, but I don't have time to look through it all at the moment. So I was hoping you could recommend me some of the best (or THE best) software for the following things for MDK: - Movie player. - MP3 player. (including playlist feature) - HTML editor / Web site construction software. - Image creating/editing. - FTP client. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2
That's because Gnome wins hands down. Heheheheh. By the way, what is the best text editor? Chuckle... -Original Message- From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 March 2004 14:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:00:24 +0200 Alaa The Great disseminated the following: you trying to say HTML is not written in text editors?? next you'll be telling me people use wysiwyg tools to write memos and reports. Heh, see my post above. I thought of that a split second after I hit 'send'. Dammit, not the 'which is best text editor' thread again!! I've only been in this a few years and I've seen it a thousand times already... I'm pissed he didn't ask about WM's...no opportunity to point out, for example, that KDE is developed by Maoists and uses baby seals as test subjects. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 09:15:08 up 3 days, 23:46, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 ++ True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth. -- The SNAFU Principle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPM Package Installation Issue
Hi, I recently updated all my links for the MDK 9.2 software packages and updates to the UK Canterbury FTP site using urpmi. However, when I try to install some of the packages on the list it gives me an error like The following packages... ... have bad signatures, continue to install? I was told this might be because I have not downloaded all the updates for the existing software. So I did that and I still get this error with most packages. Also - if I tell it to continue with the install the package still seems to work okay when its finished. So I'm not sure what it's getting at? Is there any genuine reason why it is giving this error? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Control Center Down
Hi, When I go to start Mandrake Control Center or click Configure My Computer it prompts me for the root password and after that it just hangs on the splash and just says Loading... please wait at the bottom, but never actually loads. It had worked fine previously. I'm not sure this has anything to with it - but I did a bunch of updates for my Mandrake 9.2 last night through the update option in the control center. Any ideas on what I should or can do to get the Conrol Center back? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Fixes CD
Ah, interesting. Is there a way to specify that Mandrake gets normal software from the web as opposed to the installation CDs, because my installation CDs have ceased to work. Could anyone give me specific details/servers to input if so? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2004 10:54 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Fixes CD On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:44, Ron Joordens wrote: Good Afternoon, I bought the Fixes cdrom along with Mandrake 9.2 but can't figure out how to use it. Anyone? Ron Melbourne Hi Ron, You can use Software Media Manager under Software Management in drakconf to add this as a security updates source. Mandrake Update will then look there for updates rather than going out on the net. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Apollon (from plf) on mdk 9.2 won't run.
I have installed apollon from the penguin liberation front (plf) source but can't get it to run. When I run it I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elizabeth]$ apollon kbuildsycoca running... apollon: relocation error: apollon: undefined symbol: _ZN7Apollon10giFTSocketC1EP7QObjectPKc [EMAIL PROTECTED] elizabeth]$ Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy I have tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it with no effect. The history of this is that I installed it initially and then (accidentally) ran it as root (forgot to 'exit' back to user account). It started to the configuration screen where I put in a user name and clicked ok. It then failed to start. Now, even after a reinstall, it won't bring up even this initial setup screen (for root or a normal user). I have never had the actual main program load on that machine. I would think it might be a bad package on plf but I've definitely installed apollon successfully on another 9.2 machine. My suspicion is that it is something to do with running it as root initially. The system must be holding some sort of state information or something which isn't removed with the package- I just can't find it. I don't know if it's relevant but this machine, for space reasons, does not have GNOME or most of the development libraries installed. I wouldn't guess this would make any difference as it is a KDE application. It is up-to-date with mandrake updates. Just for completeness the commands I'm using to install/uninstall are (respectively): 'urpmi apollon' and 'urpme apollon-0.9.1-2plf.i586 gift-0.11.4-5plf.i586 gift-fasttrack-0.8.5-1plf.i586 libapollon0-0.9-1plf.i586 libgift0-0.11.4-5plf.i586' I'd very much appreciate any light that anyone could shed on this! I hope it's something obvious that I'm missing! Thanks in advance, Andrew. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apollon (from plf) on mdk 9.2 won't run.
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:44, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 11:35 am, Andrew Archibald wrote: I have installed apollon from the penguin liberation front (plf) source but can't get it to run. Yes I had that problem too. Looks like the latest update broke it. When I checked yesterday one of the plf mirrors still had the older version of Apollon that works OK. I think it is the one in Slovakia Thanks for your prompt response and advice. I've now got the older version installed and it is running smoothly! I couldn't see any mention of this issue on the plf-discuss list so I have reported it. Thanks again, Andrew. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fw: Mplayer sound out of sync
- Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Fw: Mplayer sound out of sync On Friday 21 November 2003 06:05 pm, Andrew Mann wrote: I have just ripped a dvd using mplayer , which I have done many times before ok. but this time the picture is not in sync with the sound and i had a different message appear in the output script as below Mencoder dev-CVS--3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team What CL syntax are you usin with mencoder to do this? I'm mostly just curious as I only recently got a DVD/CDrom myself. I've had a lot of luck just copying all the files in the VIDEO_TS directory on the DVD to a HDD dir. Then play the movie with 'mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /path/to/movie/name_of_movie' Or you can 'dd if=/dev/hdc of=name_of_movie' that'll make a copy of the DVD in the dir you run the command from. You'll just get an extra 500mb's of useless M$ setup BS tho. Out of 9 DVD's I have, only two refuse to be copied (an they're both older movies?). Well, I can copy 'em, but some of the .vob files come out -0- byte. No matter how I copy 'em. I've even tried playin the movie to a file, eg, 'mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc /home/tom/name_of_movie' The same .vob's come up -0- byte. Evidently there's some copy protection libdvdcss isn't gettin around (?). I've done alot of reencoding .avi, .mpg, .wmv files with mencoder and it often results in a sound not in sync situation. I just deal with it by using the + and - keys to sync sound during playback. Which is why I like mplayer so much, the ability to adjust contrast, brightness, tint, color level, sync, and sound volume on the fly during playback. I'm currently usin, mplayer-1.0-0.pre2.4plf mencoder-1.0-0.pre2.4plf libdvdread3-0.9.4-2mdk libdvdcss2-1.2.8-1plf plus all the other PLF codecs -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas The command I use is mencoder dvd://$DVDTRACK1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=$BITRATE -oac mp3lame -forceidx -lameopts br=96:cbr -alang en -o $FILENAME1.avi The reason for the $DVDTRACK1 etc is because i use a bash script to run it, as follows echo D I V X RIPPING TOOL echo ; echo echo Written by Spike (credits also to ralph) echo ; echo echo 1 pass rip echo Enter the details for the DVD track number echo ; echo echo -n Enter the DVD track number: ; read DVDTRACK1 echo ; echo echo -n Enter a filename (no .avi): ; read FILENAME1 echo ; echo echo ; echo echo Enter the bitrate for the track; echo ; echo echo -n Enter the bitrate for the track: ; read BITRATE echo ; echo #1 RIP OPTION mencoder dvd://$DVDTRACK1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=$BITRATE -oac mp3lame -forceidx -lameopts br=96:cbr -alang en -o $FILENAME1.avi Thanks for the tip about +/- I didn't know you could do that. One other question I would kie to know the answer to is , if I rip a dvd that is out of sync is it mplayer that gets out of sync or is the actual recording out of sync I would like to know as I am just about to buy a divx player to connect to the tv , and wondered what it would make of a divx that is out of sync ?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fw: Mplayer sound out of sync
- Original Message - From: Andrew Mann To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 6:02 PM Subject: Mplayer sound out of sync I have just ripped a dvd using mplayer , which I have done many times before ok. but this time the picture is not in sync with the sound and i had a different message appear in the output script as below Mencoder dev-CVS--3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Using built-in default codecs.conf File not found: 'frameno.avi' Failed to open frameno.avi Reading config file /root/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory Reading disc structure, please wait... There are 18 titles on this DVD. There are 19 chapters in this DVD title. There are 1 angles in this DVD title. DVD successfully opened. success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x1E582000 Selected DVD audio channel: 128 language: en MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x1002 size:720x480 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334 == Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 448.0 kbit/s Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 56000-192000 (448.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52) == Opening video filter: [expand osd=1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1 (-1=autodetect) osd: 1 == Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.3.1 Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2)) == MP3 audio selected Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit - 48000Hz/2ch/16bit... Writing AVI header... VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. videocodec: libavcodec (720x480 fourcc=58564944 [DIVX]) High quality encoding selected (non real time)! New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). subtitle font: load_sub_face failed. Pos: 0.0s 1f ( 0%) 0fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 0.1s 4f ( 0%) 0fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.010 [0:0] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 0.3s 9f ( 0%) 0fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.027 [0:0] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 0.4s 11f ( 0%) 0fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.033 [0:0] demux_mpg: 3:2 TELECINE detected, enabling inverse telecine fx. FPS changed to 23.976! 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 0.6s 16f ( 0%) 0fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [0:95] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 0.9s 24f ( 0%) 0fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [0:96] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 1.2s 32f ( 0%) 0fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [58:96] 1 duplicate frame(s)! And the output at the end of recording is as follows 1 duplicate frame(s)! a52: CRC check failed! ) 27fps Trem: 0min 52mb A-V:-0.006 [561:96] a52: error at resampling 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 664.6s 15940f (100%) 27fps Trem: 0min 52mb A-V:-0.020 [560:96] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 664.7s 15944f (100%) 27fps Trem: 0min 52mb A-V:-0.036 [560:96] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 664.9s 15948f (100%) 27fps Trem: 0min 52mb A-V:-0.053 [560:96] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 665.0s 15951f (100%) 27fps Trem: 0min 52mb A-V:-0.065 [560:96] CBR audio: 12000 bytes/sec, 288 bytes/block Writing AVI index... Fixing AVI header... Video stream: 560.957 kbit/s (70119 bps) size: 46631914 bytes 665.034 secs 15951 frames Audio stream: 96.000 kbit/s (12000 bps) size: 7986528 bytes 665.544 secs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop] Does anybody know what the line demux_mpg: 3:2 TELECINE detected, enabling inverse telecine fx. FPS changed to 23.976! means ?? my Mplayer version is -20030901 my lame package is - 3.93.1 Andrew
[newbie] Apache permission problems
Having problems with file permissions and Apache on a Mandrake 9.0 box. Error message is: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /bookmarks2.htm on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.26 Server at mail.shadowdog.com Port 80 Permissions for the enclosing directories for the site are as follows: drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Mar 17 13:12 home/ drwx--x--x4 shadowdog apache 4096 Nov 19 08:43 shadowdog/ drwxr-xr-x 11 shadowdog apache 4096 Mar 5 10:13 public_html/ I've been through this before, but can't seem to remember what the magic permission combo is. Any help is appreciated. Andy Miller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare Installation Questions
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 3:03 pm, Brian wrote: Hello All, I am installing VMWare 3.2 and I am being asked for some information that i do not know. I am running a fairly out-of-the-box installation of Mandrake 9.0 and I am being asked the location of the C header files that match my running kernel. Does anyone know where I would find these? thanks, Brian I had the same problem. You need the kernel header files which I think are on the installation CD2. Or I think you can use rpmdrake and click on the development option in the tree view. Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fuji finepix 2200 camera
Just got my first digital camera as it was sooo cheap. It is a fujifilm finepix 2200. Anyone know if any software outthere supports this. I've checked fuji web site with no luck and gphoto did not list it as a camera it supports though there were a few fuji models so maye I'll give it a try and find out. Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RAID configuration problems
Having big trouble trying to configure MDK 9.0 with a Promise IDE RAID. If there are drives attached to the the RAID controller, in this case a couple of Western Digital 80 giggers, the BIOS allows me to set up the RAID. However, the Mandrake 9.0 installer only sees two separate drives. It also seem to insist that these are hda and hdc, making the other drives in the box hde and hdf. I want to use the drives the installer sets to hde as the boot disk and location for the root directory, but since I can't seem to get the installer to see the array as a single volume, I tried to have the bootloader put on hde, with the plan to configure the RAID array later. But then the machine won't boot. Default location for the bootloader is on hda and it looks like the machine fails to find it on hde. Is there a different strain of Mandrake Linux that will properly see the RAID array at installation? Is there something I'm just missing here? Been beating my head on this for a day and it seems like it shouldn't be so difficult. The Promise controller is on the mtherboard, processor is an AMD XP2200+ with a gig of PC2700 RAM. Any help with this is appreciated. The machine has been running fine with just the two original drives (100 gig IBM 75GXP's) in it, but it just won't go with the array. Andy Miller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount
I'm having probs also with mounting the CDROM even with supermount uncheked. Whenever I try I get nothing at all. It just wont read the CDROM! Tried typing the command as root to disable but it just comes back saying supermount: command not found Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 10:40 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: /usr/sbin/supermount -i disable Thanks that Alan. Got rid of the supermount but I still cannot accesss my CDROM. Heres my /etc/fstab file for anyone interested: /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,ro,umask=0 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,iocharset=iso8859-15,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] vmware hosting
Hi all. Just installed vmware and set it up as host omly but how can I access the internet from this setting. When using Nat I can easily access once I login with my linux box but then cannot access the host file system. It seems it's either one or the other at present whereas I would like them both. I do not have an ethernet card but instead aiming to run as a virtual network. Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cd not working
Hi all Got a prob with my cd/dvd player. Whenever I put in a cd, say from a linux magazine, it cannot be read saying that the files do not exist. Sometimes the files names are shown but when I click on them I get theabove message. This means I have to place all the apps I want onto my windows partion (which I want o ditch) and the reboot into linux and copy them across. Can anyone help!!! Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 3:31 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:01 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty with this release! Well Andrew, I have a question for you: R U a Troll? I've seen this same message a couple of times now. In fact, as is per normal for this list, it received excellantly reasoned and constructed responses. LOL Something went wrong I think somewhere. Sorry :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] C header files
Hi all Much conventional question this time (sorry about the last one I really didn't mean to offend or annoy). Anyway I'm trying to install VMware 3.1 and after installation I get this message when trying to run: VMware Workstation Error: VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator must find and run vmware-config.pl. After running vmware-config.pl I get this message: None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? After choosing yes I receive another message: Argument gcc (GCC) 3 isn't numeric in numeric ge (=) at /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 1476, STDIN line 1. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] Where are these files please they are not in the directory it suggested [/usr/src/linux/include]. I've tried allsorts but with no luck. Thanks in advance Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
Hi all Can I please state for the record that I am a complete Linux supporter. I have been with Mandrake since version 6 and although having left the arena, so to speak, for sometime now I still believe that linux is the best OS system around and Mandrake the best version. What my original e-mail was trying to show (and I apologise for not making this clear) is the average end user perspective. There is much talk here, as there always has been, of Linux-v-Windows and I was just illustrating, after my installation of XP, as to what a windows user must think when faced with Md9 or any other linux version for the first time. In my opinion too much time and effort is directed towards converting the windows user to linux and basically I was showing that although linux is by far the better of the two, XP gives people what they want and damn fast. Some of you have said that chaning desktops will improve preformance but as I originally stated I don't want to, again getting my head into a windows users perspective where KDE or Gnome is the more familiar. Showing some new person Enlightenment or even ICEwm is not going to impress at all. They want familiararity, hence my choice of desktop. I hope this has made my stance clear, Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] worried
Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty with this release! Anyway the point is I've just upgraded my windows98 to XP and I must admit in all fairness for the desktop, I know nothing of computers, average user, XP is better. Now before I get flamed let me explain. I run a small 500mhz Athlon with 64mg memory but for speed and effeiciency XP is by far the fastest. My Md9 is a minimal installation (although having most of the HD) but still pales in comparison to XP even when a large number of apps are working. With XP I boot and hey-presto I'm logging in with Md9 I can make a brew etc etc. (well not literally but you get the point) I beleive that as far as the end user is concerned speed is the most important factor. Not how much software is free or that linux is more stable and reliable. The average user wants speed. You click on an icon and up pops the application IMMEDIATELY!!! With XP even my little 500 acheives this performance but alas (and I mean that with a heavy heart) Md9 is a slow monolith beleiving that placing god knows how many apps into their installation cd's will convert new customers. Just my thought Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200
. There is no way you can run KDE 3.0 on 32MB of RAM - you need 128MB for even tolerable speeds, and 512MB would be necessary to give full performance. As a comparison, 32MB is barely enough to run Windows 98, and Mandrake 9.0 is not the equivalent of Win98, it's more like XP (except that it doesn't give the world access to your computer, and you don't have to sell your soul to install it). Sir Robin Oh contrare Sir Robin :) I have installed Md9 along with on a friends cyric 300Mhz 32mbRAM just fine. A little slow compared to windows but then what can you expect. Guess what, he also dual boot to Windows98 and that works perfectly. Maybe these larger chip sizes that companies keep telling us we MUST have make us forget how useful the older slower ones can still be! Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live
Good evening everyone, I have a Dell Dimension 4550 series Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system configured to dual boot a fully patched MDK v9 and Windows XP Professional. The PCI Sound Blaster Live card installed on the system is not functioning under MDK v9. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this working under MDK 9? Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I searched the FAQ list but all I could find were references to ISA cards. When You Earnestly Believe You Can Compensate For A Lack Of Skill By Doubling Your Efforts, There's No End To What You Can't Do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand
If Iraq refuses to comply, then Bush will give him a helping hand. As with many Americans, he has my support. Russ It has been said by politicians on both sides of the atlantic that bush and blair will go to war even without UN supportHang On, one reason we are having to use military might is because Iraq does not comply wih the UN but then we will ignore the UN so as to go to war with Iraq for the exact same reasons. This is getting complicated. Another thing, when is america going to compensate the families of those who died in the terrorist attacks in england at the hands of the IRA which america supported, funded and supplied military weapons to for decades??? Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ooopps lost X!!!
Hi there, I don't know if this is something I've done or just md9 going screwy on me. Anyway I was in gnome as a user and to shutdown I gave the command shutdown -h now in the command line utility on the task bar. Now although in run level 5 whenever I reboot I get the console as if in rl3 and though I type startx nothing happens exept my X server crashing. This happens in all accounts including root. How can I get my X server back??? Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] wine worries
Hi again, Got a prob in wine which I have just installed from the tarball. wine: error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. Checked in /etc/ld.so.conf but found /usr/local/lib already there. Even so I still ran ldconfig -v just to be sure and now I get this message when trying to work with wine: wineserver: chdir /home/andrew/.wine: No such file or directory Anyone knows whats going on? Thanks Andrew PS: Anyone know where the C header files are located as I am trying to give VMware a test run, cheers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MPEG2 to .AVI conversion
Hello all, Is it possible to convert mpeg2 to .avi with any linux programme like mencoder Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] pppd keeps dieing!
Hi all, Got a problem getting onto the internet. After entering the relevant account details and connecting to my ISP after about 30 secs I get the error message that says the pppd has died unexpectedly. Any help would be nice. Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server
I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I used a pair of 100 GB IBM Deskstars (120GXP's I believe). IBM is having problems with these drives failing and now recommends only using them 330 hours a month, something less than 50% of the time (see http://www.sheller.com/ibmpress.htm). My question is whether my use of these drives in a server application is something I should avoid? Also, is there a setting for power savings that would sleep the drive when it is not getting any hits (most of the time). Looks l could add a decent SCSI drive that is meant for always-on use. Your feedback is welcome. Andy Miller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mount
Hello, I am using hdc (a new larger Hd-disk, reiserfs) and want to read and get files from hda (the old Hd-disk reiserfs). Hda will no longer mount at start-up even using the bios, if it did my problem would be in reverse. After getting the files I will move the old HD to another computer. Statement; reading about mount, /ect/fstab/, ect/mtab, has left me without enough info. Queston; How do I go about reading and copying files from hda while in and using hdc? I thought it might be good to mount and read it from /home/xxx/ Mndk 8.2 KDE Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed installation on Mandrake 8.1
Wei, 0.85 0r .86 is the current stable ver. I found it (.85) more stable than .76. Andrew On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:41:44 + Wei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the previous mail without title I am trying to install sylpheed 0.7.6 on Mandrake 8.1. And I got the following error message. I checking for flex... no checking for lex... no ./configure: flex: command not found checking for flex... lex checking for yywrap in -ll... no checking lex output file root... ./configure: lex: command not found configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up Then I tried to install Flex2.5.4, I got this message when doing make install yacc -d ./parse.y make: yacc: Command not found make: *** [parse.c] Error 127 I searched yacc in google but couldn't find a package called yacc. Is it a package? If it is not, how can I obtain it? Wei Please excuse me for these silly and primitive questions. I am trying to start to use Linux and keep getting messages telling me I need this and that for installing this software. Wei _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mozilla 1 on Mandrake 8.1 dependency problem
Wei And All, I am a newbie but have reciently found rpm --rebuilddb to help after installing and making changes. Please let me know it this does not apply, here. Andrew On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:57:00 + Wei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this question should be for mozilla mailing list. But could anyone using mozilla galeon give me a hand here? I have mozilla 0.9.4 and am trying to upgrade to 1.10. I downloaded mozilla-1.1-10mdk.i586.rpm from mandrake rpms.cooker When I test this rpm I get this error message: error: failed dependencies: libnspr4 = 1.1-10mdk is needed by mozilla-1.1-10mdk mozilla = 0.9.4 is needed by mozilla-mail-0.9.4-3mdk RESULT=1 But when I try to install libnspr4-1.1-10mdk.i586.rpm I get an error message like this: error: failed dependencies: mozilla 0.9.9 conflicts with libnspr4-1.1-10mdk RESULT=1 Is this some kind of cross-dependency problem? What am I going to do now? Trying to solve this problem, I downloaded a mozilla 1.01 from mozilla website. Hoping that installing 1.01 would allow me to install libnspr4-1.1-10, then consequently I could upgrade to mozilla 1.10. But the README told me that I have to install it in a clean(new) directory. So I installed it in /usr/local/mozilla (my old 0.9.4 is in usr/lib/mozilla). Now how can I make the system recognize this new version as default mozilla? I mean after I installed mozilla 1.01 in a different directory, libnspr4.rpm still thinks I have mozilla 0.9.4. What should I do? Many thanks, Wei _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Japanese Language Problems
Hi, Can anyone help me with this problem. I use Linux all the time now having no need to boot into my windows partition. I have also been ebcouraging my girlfriend (though I think she would use the term pestering) to make the switch but because she is Japanese she prefers the fact that in windows xp she can input japanese characters in her applications. Is there anyway that this can be done in Linux. I can get it to display Japanese letters in the applications but some still show in english (desktop icons, application titles and some menu items). I did install the Japanese character sets and I beleave a program that allows the user to enter Japanese in KWord but I cann't get it to work proper. Basically what she would like is when she logs in to her user account it is for all intents and purposes a Japanese computer. Please help me convert another to the delights of Linux AH SO! :) Andrew Scotchmer (san) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Java Woes in Galeon
Hi All, I've been away from the linux world for a couple of years (last mandrake was 7.0) but now glad to be back though I have found that with Linux moving forward so rapidly I have to start from scratch again but never mind. The fun is in the learning. One problem I have is with the Galeon web browser on Gnome. I have installed the necessary java run time enviroment (J2RE.so) and it acknowledges the plugin but when loading a java game site the browser crahes and closes down. I have tried this on a few sites and it always happens. The browser is checked for Java in settings. Cheers Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Configuring e-mail Web-url location
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:56:09 -0400 Richard Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 01:54:25 -0400, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have found the greatest e-mail program sylpheed. It is a keeper, I've used it for a few hours and love it. One problem; When I highlight a URL, and up pops a window that asks which browser to use...I want to use Mozilla. It has 3-4 other browser choices that work, but I want my Mozilla. It lists Mozilla as a choice but my new install of Mozilla is I guess in a different place. In KDE where do I look to point this web-url thingy to my new mozilla install? I tried the suggestion below and nothing happened/ same as before, no change. How does Sylpheed know where to find Mozilla? *Is there a config file?* Or can I type the path directly in the dialog box? Also tried having a Mozilla page open on the desktop, no joy. In Configuration|Common Preferences| (press the little to see more, then) Other|Web Browser I'm using: opera -newwindow '%s' you should try: mozilla -newwindow '%s' I've not tried it with mozilla but the other goes straight to opera. HTH. regards, Richard. Mndrk 8.2 Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot install OpenOficce1.0
Oyaji, There are no stupid questions! Write back If you need more help. Andrew On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 03:44:03 -0500 Todd Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I cannot install OpenOffice1.0. Could possibly teach me how to install OpenOffice on my computer step by step pelase? I am using Mdk 8.2 and Gnome. I know that this is a very stupid question, but I am a beginner for Linux. Thank you for your help. Regards, Oyaji __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Configuring e-mail Web-url location
Hi All, I have found the greatest e-mail program sylpheed. It is a keeper, I've used it for a few hours and love it. One problem; When I highlight a URL, and up pops a window that asks which browser to use...I want to use Mozilla. It has 3-4 other browser choices that work, but I want my Mozilla. It lists Mozilla as a choice but my new install of Mozilla is I guess in a different place. In KDE where do I look to point this web-url thingy to my new mozilla install? Mndrk 8.2 Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF
Hi Shane, You're sure you've mapped\opened all the necessary ports for HL\TFC? By default SNF allows any outbound connections, and lets established connections carry on, but has nothing mapped for incoming from teh net. Im not sure if this is even close (I built a couple of SNF boxes for friends), but HL has been known to be a tad picky (:P) net-code-wise, and it cant hurt opening the specific ports for a test... :) Dont know if thats any use to you, sorry if you felt I was talking down, GL with solving it. -Andrew Tuesday, September 03, 2002, 4:01:28 AM, you wrote: s -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- s Hash: SHA1 s right, here goes again s i have a choice right now to run my connection sharing either through s mandrake SNF or a linksys router. now the router is ok, does the job, but s when i use the SNF on an old p90 i consistently get anywhere from s 150-300kbps faster. despite the extra power draw i really prefer the SNF s machine. :) s here is the trouble. with SNF everything i do works just great. except TFC s (half-life version) which tells me there is no internet. i know the s machine works, cause i have gotten email, and downloaded updates on it. s but no games. any ideas? s not that i play more than 3 times a year. s - -- s As I've Matured, I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you s can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. s shane s Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html s Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 s Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ s Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ s -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- s Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) s Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org s iD8DBQE9c4tZBwq+ZwvIN/oRAg90AJ0fWOBfQAE+cEcvGME6egGWqPvGWACffvUE s DzciGXdplRMEfDed5ge4MZU= s =NZ63 s -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[4]: [newbie] SNF
Hi shane, Wednesday, September 04, 2002, 1:45:55 PM, you wrote: s -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- s Hash: SHA1 s On Tuesday 03 September 2002 1:01 pm, Andrew Burt did speak unto the huddled s masses, saying: UDP 7002 -Half-Life Auth Server s well i had the others but didn't know about that one, i bet that helps a s lot.. thanks! Sweet! GL! Tell us how you get on! Harro from teh New Zealand too... :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
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[newbie] [Fwd: tv out for nvidia geforce 3 graphics card]
---BeginMessage--- HOW DO YOU CONFIGURE THE XFREE86 CONFIGURE FILE TO MAKE TV OUT WORK ON AN NVIDIA GE-FORCE 3 GRAPHICS CARD. I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO PLAY DVD'S ON MY COMPUTER AND WATCH THEM ON MY TV , BUT ALSO KEEP THE MONITOR WORKING AS WELL. I HAVE ENTERED THE FOLLOEING LINES IN /ETC/X11/XF86CONFIG-4 * * # Graphics device section * # * Section Device Identifier Generic VGA Driver vga EndSection Section Device Identifier NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown Driver nv # VideoRam 65536 # Clock lines # Uncomment following option if you see a big white block # instead of the cursor! # Option sw_cursor Option DPMS on # TV out configuration Option TwinView Option SecondMonitorHorizSync 30-50 Option SecondMonitorVertRefresh 60 Option MetaModes 1024x768, 1024x768; 800x600, 800x600; 640x480, 640x480; Option TVStandard PAL-I EndSection I CANNOT GET A PICTURE ON MY TV - ANY IDEAS PLAESE SPIKE ---End Message--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] installing abiword probs
Before updating to mandrake 8.2 (prev 8.0) I use to run abi Word. On my new computer which I installed 8.2 on I decided to install Abi Word 1.02 now it is asking for libpng.so.2. So looking at what is installed I can find libpng3 but no libpng2. On RPM find I found libpng2. My question is if I install libpng2 will this effect libpng3? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems
Being a new Linux user with +1 day's experience, one thing I did see on the net is that the KNE111TX card can get a bit funny with Linux. Someone else I'm sure will know a hell of a lot more about this than I. Andy Sweetman (Off to a strip club in 30mins, and has got Friday off =) ) -Original Message- From: Steve Mendizabal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 16:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems Hello listers, just joined, just installed and hopefully won't get too many RTFM responses: On init these show as failed and its taking a long time to boot up. 1-2 min eth0 eth1 Now I believe these to be my ethernet cards. Any reason why they would be failing? Also I cant get my DSL to work either. I know the 2 are related but where to start to find the answer? Mandrake 8.2 DL version 10G partition 1Gig swap Dell 8200 128MB ram ethernet cards: Kingston EtherRx KNE111TX PCI Fast Ethernet CNet PRO200WL PCI Fast Ethernet (is there anyway to know which is which IE; eth0, eth1?) 1 partridge 1 peartree Steve Mendizabal Multimedia Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XFree86 freezes
I am running: Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. Hardware: P166 MMX 64 Mb Ram 120 Mb Swap S3 Virge 2D card Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, running combinations StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, open when a crash occurs. I don't think that its a hardware issue, as this never happens under Win98SE, and HardDrake properly detected all my hardware. I have tried looking in some log files in /var/log to find a pattern. No luck. My questions: 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? 2. What specific log files should I look at? 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? Thanks, Andrew Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] XFree86 freezes
I run in the Kicker ksysguard and system monitor to see cpu usage, memory usage, and hard disk accesses. This morning I had a crash, and the frozen image on the kicker showed about 25% cpu usage, 50% free RAM, and 60% free swap. I've also had it crash while using IceWM. Andrew Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Bill Davidson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 16:06:57 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running: Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. Hardware: P166 MMX 64 Mb Ram 120 Mb Swap S3 Virge 2D card Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, running combinations StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, open when a crash occurs. I don't think that its a hardware issue, as this never happens under Win98SE, and HardDrake properly detected all my hardware. I have tried looking in some log files in /var/log to find a pattern. No luck. My questions: 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? 2. What specific log files should I look at? 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? Thanks, Andrew Could it be a memory problem, as in running out. 64MB doesn't seem like enough to run kde by itself, nevermind run applications on top of it. Of course that's pure speculation on my part. I have a 300MHz PII with 160MB of and I find kde painfully slow. That's why I tried xfce. Anyway, you prolly wanna look in /var/log/messages. If there are any clues, they're prolly in there. You might also wanna run free and/or top periodically to check your memory usage. HTH. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual CPU Query
Thanks for your suggestions, but I haven't managed to get it working, yet. The second CPU is working - it is recognized at boot up, and Windows XP Pro recognizes that there are 2 CPUs. I have tried booting with the Mandrake smp kernel and get the same result as my own kernel; only one CPU is initialised. Since both CPUs work with XP, it leads me to believe that it is a Linux problem, not the motherboard or the BIOS. Amdrew Tuson. On Sunday 14 Apr 2002 2:17 pm, LtCdData wrote: On Saturday 13 April 2002 8:15 pm, you wrote: Hi ive had 2 vp6 motherboards so far, atm im using a gigabyte.. i got a bit annoyed at 2 vp6 motherboards going down :( the second vp6 gave me similar problems shortly before i replaced it the fix was to do a flash bios update, usually got the second cpu working ok.. the flash utility is very easy on the vp6. however for me the motherboard was on its way out so was replaced, i hope this is not the case for you. as for mandrake it installs the SMP kernel as default if you have and smp machine mandrake 8.2 here too :-)) good luck LtCdData Andrew Tuson wrote: I have built a twin 1GHz P111 box, using an Abit VP6 motherboard. I installed Mandrake 8.2, and followed the HowTo to rebuild the kernel with multiprocessor support. When the machine boots up, the initial boot screen shows that 2 CPUs are present, and using dmesg to view the Linux boot text I get the report: Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: OEM0 Product ID: PROD APIC at: 0xFEE0 Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17 Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17 I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC0. Processors: 2 A liitle further down it shows the first processor being initialized, but not the second. After logging in, cat /proc/cpuinfo only shows one CPU. Does anyone know what my problem is, and how I can coach Linux to recognize my second COU. All help gratefully received. Andrew Tuson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com puzzled look I installed 8.2 and I can boot either linux or linux-UP on my old dual PPro. I did not rebuild the kernel, just let the installer supply me with the SMP kernel, and added the UP kernel during package selection in case I ever take out one processor and still want to use the machine. So did you use the default SMP kernel provided? It might be a good fall-back until you can tune your customized kernel. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dual CPU Query
I have built a twin 1GHz P111 box, using an Abit VP6 motherboard. I installed Mandrake 8.2, and followed the HowTo to rebuild the kernel with multiprocessor support. When the machine boots up, the initial boot screen shows that 2 CPUs are present, and using dmesg to view the Linux boot text I get the report: Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: OEM0 Product ID: PROD APIC at: 0xFEE0 Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17 Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17 I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC0. Processors: 2 A liitle further down it shows the first processor being initialized, but not the second. After logging in, cat /proc/cpuinfo only shows one CPU. Does anyone know what my problem is, and how I can coach Linux to recognize my second COU. All help gratefully received. Andrew Tuson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NVIDIA RPMS - newbie experience
I just had a run in with the nvidia driver installation last night on mandrake 8.2 Although I thought I was following the directions right I wasn't. I was in X and I shouldn't have been when doing the compile. When I booted to the console only logon as root and did my thang' it worked fine after all the steps were completed. Although I will have to say when I try and run quake3 as a userright from the KDE desktop file manager it just messes up my resolution to a "magnified" appearance. I run it as root from the console it'll be open quake3 properly but then it can't open /dev/dsp... my sound card is an aureal vortex 2 i installed the drivers vis cvs and tested the configuration through harddrake. Why doesn't the installation of drivers for any particular hardware work unilateraly from user to user on the same system. If I have to install it as root and only root then wouldn't you think it should apply for that computer system regardless of whomever is to log on?
RE: [newbie] PHPnuke or Postnuke
When I was setting up my website (http://www.drewvogel.com), I initially selected PHPNuke (5.0, 5.01, 5.20) and ran it for a while. Once I evaluated PostNuke, it became clear that PostNuke was the right choice for my site... It offered some small features unavailable in PHPNuke that were important to me, so I switched. I've been very happy with PostNuke and intend to continue running it. -Original Message- From: Todd Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] PHPnuke or Postnuke On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:26:28 -0500 William R. Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was playing with PHPnuke 5.5 today. I like the way it works but some of my friends told me to use postnuke that it was better then PHPnuke. I was wondering which is better phpnuke 5.5 or Postnuke 7.1. Bill Nash If you're shopping for a content management system, you might also look into Geeklog (http://geeklog.sourceforge.net/) or phpwebsite (http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/). I didn't do a ton of research on it, but what I read suggested that Geeklog was more secure than the nukes. I installed it and was pretty pleased, but I can't compare it to either nuke.-- Todd Slater 10:25pm up 1 day, 23:52, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.10 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. (Mark Twain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Downloads
Hi All, I there is a choice of files between noarch and i586 for updating stuff which is a better choice? What is noarch? i586 is my processor -- Have an extra nice Day!, Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NVIDIA X Windows doesn't start for ROOT (long)
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA (II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER (**) Option Protocol IMPS/2 (**) Mouse1: Protocol: IMPS/2 (**) Option CorePointer (**) Mouse1: Core Pointer (**) Option Device /dev/psaux (==) Mouse1: Buttons: 3 (**) Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 (**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (II) Keyboard Keyboard1 handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Mouse1 (type: MOUSE) -andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1
Gentlemen! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Disabling devfs did the trick -- my ZIP drive now works as expected! I truly appreciate your assistance, Dennis Charles -- you two led me to the solution, and I would not have gotten there by myself. Warm up your brains -- I've got one more small problem to contend with, and I'll post it later today (probably). Thanks again! -drew -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:25:22 -0500 Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running devfs=mount... What are the implications of changing it to =nomount? Will it break anything? If not, I'd be willing to try it. Not completely sure if I will upgrade to 8.2. I want to get the current system running well, and then I will consider upgrading to the 8.2 PowerPack. No running devfs=nomount will not break anything and in fact in 8.1 on many systems it is a help. The drawback is that devfs is here to stay and eventually the ability to load devices will be removed from the kernel and be completely controlled by devfs. For now if you want to try devfs=nomount, go for it. I would change the hdd=ide-scsi append to hdd=ide-floppy and replace the sda4 entry in fstab to that which Dennis noted. It could work, you won't know for sure unless you try. Are you running with devfs=mount or with devfs=nomount? With =mount dev handles the loading of device modules, with =nomount the kernel handles that task. I was able to get my drive working with devfs=mount. Does ls -l /dev/sda give any out put? Are you planning to get 8.2.? I am not trying to pass the buck, but devfs in 8.1 is pretty flaky but in 8.2 it does the job as intended, though it was necessary for me to edit fstab and create an entry for sda4, but the block device itself was created so it was not necessary to screw around with MAKEDEV or mknod. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1
I'm running devfs=mount... What are the implications of changing it to =nomount? Will it break anything? If not, I'd be willing to try it. Not completely sure if I will upgrade to 8.2. I want to get the current system running well, and then I will consider upgrading to the 8.2 PowerPack. -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:40:42 -0500 Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did all you recommended (including the chown)... root.drewvogel:~$ mknod /dev/sda4 b 8 4 root.drewvogel:~$ chown drewvogel.disc /dev/sda4 chown: `drewvogel.disc': invalid user root.drewvogel:~$ chmod 0666 /dev/sda4 root.drewvogel:~$ ls -l /dev/sda4 0 brw-rw-rw-1 root root 8, 4 Mar 21 18:37 /dev/sda4 root.drewvogel:~$ root.drewvogel:~$ ls -l /dev/sda 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:05 /dev/sda - scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc root.drewvogel:~$ ls -l /dev/hd* 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hda - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hda1 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hda2 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hda5 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hda6 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hdb - ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hdb1 - ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 30 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hdc We may want to slow down for a minute so that we do not screw up your system too much. Are you running with devfs=mount or with devfs=nomount? With =mount dev handles the loading of device modules, with =nomount the kernel handles that task. I was able to get my drive working with devfs=mount. Does ls -l /dev/sda give any out put? Are you planning to get 8.2.? I am not trying to pass the buck, but devfs in 8.1 is pretty flaky but in 8.2 it does the job as intended, though it was necessary for me to edit fstab and create an entry for sda4, but the block device itself was created so it was not necessary to screw around with MAKEDEV or mknod. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1
Charles... I got all excited when I read your email, so I tried it in a hurry, and got the following... root.drewvogel:~$ cd /dev root.drewvogel:/dev$ ./MAKEDEV sda\* bash: ./MAKEDEV: No such file or directory root.drewvogel:/dev$ So I tried... root.drewvogel:/dev$ locate MAKEDEV /sbin/MAKEDEV /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8.bz2 /usr/share/doc/MAKEDEV-3.2 /usr/share/doc/MAKEDEV-3.2/COPYING /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.8/video4linux/bttv/MAKEDEV So then I tried... root.drewvogel:/dev$ /sbin/MAKEDEV sda\* don't know how to make device sda* root.drewvogel:/dev$ Now I'm stumped again, but I do appreciate your help! -andrew -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:14:23 -0500 Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this is weird... I made the following changes to my system, based on emails from Charles Dennis... * edited the line in /etc/fstab to read (notice that rw is removed): /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 (now my /etc/fstab has the following lines for the ZIP drive: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip1 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 ) * added the following append in /etc/lilo.conf (added the hdd=ide-floppy): image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 append= devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi read-only I then re-ran lilo without problems. When I got home last night, I rebooted (with a known-good ZIP disk in the drive). Once the system had booted, I logged in and typed: root.drewvogel:/usr/sbin$ mount /mnt/zip mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device root.drewvogel:/usr/sbin$ mount /mnt/zip1 mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist Andrew Run Hardrake and see how many listings there are for your Zip drive. It will be under the floppy heading. You should have 2. One as /dev/hdd and one as /dev/sda. If you only have the one, /dev/hdd then you will need to do the following. Open a terminal and su to root: # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV sda\* Do not enter the # that is only a notation for the prompt. The above will create the special device files for sda and you should then be able to access your zip through sda4 using /mnt/zip1. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1
I did all you recommended (including the chown)... root.drewvogel:~$ mknod /dev/sda4 b 8 4 root.drewvogel:~$ chown drewvogel.disc /dev/sda4 chown: `drewvogel.disc': invalid user root.drewvogel:~$ chmod 0666 /dev/sda4 root.drewvogel:~$ ls -l /dev/sda4 0 brw-rw-rw-1 root root 8, 4 Mar 21 18:37 /dev/sda4 root.drewvogel:~$ root.drewvogel:~$ ls -l /dev/sda 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:05 /dev/sda - scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc root.drewvogel:~$ ls -l /dev/hd* 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hda - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hda1 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hda2 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hda5 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hda6 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hdb - ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hdb1 - ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 30 Mar 21 18:03 /dev/hdc - ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd /dev/hdd: total 0 /dev/hdd4: total 0 root.drewvogel:~$ STRANGE! Just to review... FSTAB: /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,nosuid,noauto,user,exec,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,sync,nosuid,exec,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhid e 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 LILO.CONF: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 append= devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 append= devfs=mount failsafe read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe Still stumped, but ever-appreciative of your help! -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:45:07 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simple did not work. So lets do one that is a little harder, you'll have to use mknod. su to root and enter: #mknod /dev/sda4 b 8 4 Knew I forgot something. After the step above enter the following: #chown drewvogel.disc /dev/sda4 next: #chmod 0666 /dev/sda4 next: #ls -l /dev/sda4 The last command should produce the following output for your system: [root@localhost charles]# ls -l /dev/sda4 brw---1 charles disk 8, 4 Mar 21 02:35 /dev/sda4 Now try to access your drive. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1
Title: Message Here is my /etc/mtab... I've got no experience with it, so I'm attaching the whole file... /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0none /proc proc rw 0 0devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0/dev/hda6 /home ext2 rw 0 0/dev/hdb1 /var ext2 rw 0 0/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0automount(pid1179) /misc autofs rw,fd=8,pgrp=1179,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0automount(pid1207) /net autofs rw,fd=8,pgrp=1207,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 -Original Message-From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:54 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:31 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 I've got an ATAPI ZIP drive installed in my Linux-Mandrake system (running on a Celeron 533, 256 megs memory), and it's not working (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel and harddrake reports it as hdd). The drive powers during POST, so I know the connections are good. I've got the following in my /etc/fstab: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 When I enter "mount /mnt/zip" with a known-good ZIP disk in the drive, I get the following: root.drewvogel:/etc$ mount /mnt/zip mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device Dmesg reports it as there: hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC AC26400R, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive I'm not sure how to proceed. Can someone help? Hi, take a look at your /etc/mtab, what does that say for the zip drive? Let us know, this is nudging at my memory, seems like I have the answer in my log at home. I'll check tonight if you don't have a solution by then. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1
Title: Message Hi Dennis... I hope that mtab is the problem, and that it can be solved. I really liked being able to use my ZIP drive! If you (or someone else reading this!) can tell me what the correct entry into mtab would be, I would appreciate it. I also found information about "/etc/auto.misc" out there, and MY /etc/auto.misc shows the following. Does it shed any light? # $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:04 hpa Exp $# This is an automounter map and it has the following format# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location# Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage kernel -ro,soft,intr ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linuxcd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom # the following entries are samples to pique your imagination#boot -fstype=ext2 :/dev/hda1floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0#floppy -fstype=ext2 :/dev/fd0#e2floppy -fstype=ext2 :/dev/fd0#jaz -fstype=ext2 :/dev/sdc1#removable -fstype=auto :/dev/hdd#zip -fstype=auto,rw,nosuid,nodev :/dev/zip -Original Message-From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:00 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:28 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Myers, Dennis R NWOSubject: RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 Here is my /etc/mtab... I've got no experience with it, so I'm attaching the whole file... /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0none /proc proc rw 0 0devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0/dev/hda6 /home ext2 rw 0 0/dev/hdb1 /var ext2 rw 0 0/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0automount(pid1179) /misc autofs rw,fd=8,pgrp=1179,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0automount(pid1207) /net autofs rw,fd=8,pgrp=1207,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0[Myers, Dennis R NWO] Ok, the problem I see is that there is no entry inmtab for the hdd device. Mtab is mounttable. Again I am not at home, and using a M$ computer so I can't give you the entry, but if someone on the list will jump in here and provide a line. I think that you need to add an entry in lilo append line also. Have you tried going to harddrake and seeing if the zip shows up there, if so, is the configuration bar active at thebottom of the screen.If it iscan you do a configuration from there? I will check the entry for mtab and a zip device when Ican get to my home office computer, assuming we don't have some help from the list by then. HTH Dennis M.
[newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use?
I've got a LiteOn LTR-12101B IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot burn to the CD... There was a CD reader installed before (and it worked fine). I want to use the excellent MONDO/MINDI (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) as a system backup tool from the command line. I'd also like the burner to work from within X, but my main concern is that it burns from the command line, since the machine is primarily a server. HardDrake 0.9.3 reports the burner under CD-ROMS as Unknown LITE-ON LTR-12101B (the Unknown is for the Vendor), Device /dev/hdc, with a Bus Type of ATAPI/IDE. My /etc/fstab entry for the CD is: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,exec,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 ...but I don't know for sure if that's right for the burner. It was what was in there when the previous CD reader was installed. So, what I've been trying to do is to use Mondo/Mindi to create a test CD image (saved as an iso file), which I would then like to burn to the CD burner using CDRECORD (the tool specified by Mondo/Mindi). I don't know what command line parameters to pass to CDRECORD... Can someone help by telling me if my /etc/fstab entry is correct, and the command line parameters to use to make the CD burner operate from the command line? Thanks in advance... This has been a frustrating problem! -drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 8.2 Release date
Do you think 8.2 will allow my CD burner and ATAPI ZIP drive to work (which they did under 8.0, but never have under 8.1)? -Original Message- From: tester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aryan Ameri Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.2 Release date On Thursday 14 March 2002 10:29 pm, Aryan Ameri wrote: Does Anyone know when will Mandrake Linux 8.2 Gold be officially released? I am very eager to purchase it. For most of you, pre-orders at www.mandrakestore.com are possible. Also, if you decide to join Mandrake Club, you will likely find more of that information. Civileme And, of course, Mandrakestore has burning/printing capabilities so they don't have to wait a month for commercial CD pressing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bash-monitor
Hi, How to adj monitor so bash CL does not run of the bottom. I loose the last few lines after a few commands. Makes for a very difficult learning experience. -- Have an extra nice Day!, Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux-Mandrake TROUBLES
I am having THREE very persistant, very annoying problems with my Linux-Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack installation on a Celeron 533 machine... Here they are. Can ANYONE help me? 1. Cannot log into X as root. I know, I know I shouldn't use X as root, but I need to be able to do it! I'm using Sawfish 1.01 and XIMIAN GNOME 1.4 (I think it's that version; not sure). 2. IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot write to the CD... There was a CD reader installed before (and it worked fine). I want to use the excellent MONDO/MINDI (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) as a system backup tool. 3. ATAPI ZIP drive not recognized. I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel and harddrake reports it as hdd). It used to work just fine under 8.0, but since I did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, it isn't recognized within Linux. The drive powers during POST, so I know the connections are still good. I've got a known good ZIP disk in the drive. * From dmesg (anything that looked interesting or remotely related is included here, the rest cut): Linux version 2.4.8-34.1mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 2731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk))Memory: 254824k/262080k available (1086k kernel code, 6868k reserved, 397k data, 712k init, 0k highmem) ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC AC26400R, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 12715920 sectors (6511 MB) w/448KiB Cache, CHS=791/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=6149/64/32, UDMA(33) hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p5 p6 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 ide-floppy driver 0.97 Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... SB 4.11 detected OK (220) Sound Blaster 16 (4.11) at 0x220 irq 7 dma 0 Sound Blaster 16 at 0x330 irq 7 dma 0,0 cdrom: open failed. /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 devfs: devfs_register(): device already registered: 0 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake TROUBLES
1. Cannot log into X as root. I know, I know I shouldn't use X as root, but I need to be able to do it! I'm using Sawfish 1.01 and XIMIAN GNOME 1.4 (I think it's that version; not sure). Must be a security issue. Set the security level down, I think that should help. Actually, what isn't working is this: My system boots into TEXT (not graphic) mode. So, I log in as root and type startx at the command prompt to enter X. Then I just get a blue GUI screen, but no icons, no taskbar, etc... Did you set up the append=ide-scsi routine in lilo.conf? See mandrakeuser.org for the gory details. I just followed the steps at http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hremov3.html in the CD-R(W) section... I'll test when I get home. Thanks for your help so far. I hope it works! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?
Thanks again for your help. I'll try these things out tonight (I'm not at my machine right now!) and let you know how it goes. I really appreciate your assistance! Do you know anything about ZIP drives? See below... ;-) I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel). It used to work just fine under 8.0, but since I did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, it isn't recognized within Linux. The drive powers during POST, so I know the connections are still good. I've got a known good ZIP disk in the drive. * Here is my entire FSTAB: /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,exec,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,sync,nosuid,exec,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhid e 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 * And from dmesg (anything that looked interesting or remotely related is included here, the rest cut): Linux version 2.4.8-26mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 2731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)) #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001 Calibrating delay loop... 1064.96 BogoMIPS Memory: 254824k/262080k available (1086k kernel code, 6868k reserved, 397k data, 712k init, 0k highmem) ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC AC26400R, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 12715920 sectors (6511 MB) w/448KiB Cache, CHS=791/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=6149/64/32, UDMA(33) hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p5 p6 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 ide-floppy driver 0.97 Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... SB 4.11 detected OK (220) Sound Blaster 16 (4.11) at 0x220 irq 7 dma 0 Sound Blaster 16 at 0x330 irq 7 dma 0,0 cdrom: open failed. /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 devfs: devfs_register(): device already registered: 0 cdrom: open failed. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 cdrom: open failed. I've tried: Mkdir /mnt/zip Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd4 (harddrake reports the ZIP drive as HDD -- it's the 2nd device on the 2nd IDE channel) ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device ...so I tried: Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device root.drewvogel:~$ ls -ail /dev/ide total 0 3640 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ./ 10 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 ../ 10620 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 21 11:28 cd/ 6770 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 20 14:50 hd/ 3650 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 10:32 host0/ 6760 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:19 zip/ root.drewvogel:~$ ls -ail /dev/ide/zip/ total 0 6760 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:19 ./ 3640 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ../ Any ideas? I hadn't noticed the /dev/ide/zip directory before, but it's empty... Don't know how to proceed! Some more information: mount -t vfat /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/p4 /mnt/zip Tried the following, with a known-good ZIP disk in the drive: root.drewvogel:~$ mount -t vfat /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/p4 /mnt/zip/ mount: special device /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/p4 does not exist root.drewvogel:~$ cd /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0 root.drewvogel:/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0$ ls total 0 0 disc 0 part4 0 zip/ root.drewvogel:/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0$ mount -t vfat /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/zip /mnt/zip/ mount: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/zip is not a block device root.drewvogel:/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0$ Stumped! --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === -Original Message- From: s [mailto:[EMAIL
[newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?
My Linux-Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack box was running NVIDIA drivers under X. I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.8-34.1mdk, and can no longer get into X. I believe that I need to re-install the NVIDIA pieces, using NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.i386.rpm and NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.mdk81smp.i686.rpm (by the way... How do I know if I should use the SMP or UP version of this file?), executing depmod -a (which I read on LM's errata page), and rebooting. Is this all I need to do in order to get my X working with my NVIDIA card again on my machine? --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?
Thanks for the reply. Since I'm a newbie (never done a manual build of the kernel!), I don't know how to do it. Could you provide a clear, step-by-step guide for how to do it? -Original Message- From: s [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 5:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update? On Wednesday 13 February 2002 02:43 pm, you wrote: My Linux-Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack box was running NVIDIA drivers under X. I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.8-34.1mdk, and can no longer get into X. I believe that I need to re-install the NVIDIA pieces, using NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.i386.rpm and NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.mdk81smp.i686.rpm (by the way... How do I know if I should use the SMP or UP version of this file?), executing depmod -a (which I read on LM's errata page), and rebooting. Is this all I need to do in order to get my X working with my NVIDIA card again on my machine? Well, I believe those rpms were compiled for the stock 8.1 kernel. You will probably have to download the tarballs or src.rpms and build them to your new kernel. smp is for if you have more than one processor. There's a little bitty app on nvidia's download page that will tell you the packages to install. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Stalled a lot
Hi All, What can I do to speed up my constantly stalled cable connection. If the slow down is Mandrake 8.0. I seestalled near continuously in e-mail and Browser. And megabit downloads take a day or two. The ISP convinced me it is my PC. At least I expect the Linux PC should load continuously. Y/N P150- 64mg ram Tulip driver eth card ? Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive
I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel). Harddrake sees it as hdd. It used to work just fine under 8.0, but since I did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, I cannot mount it within Linux. The drive powers during POST, so I know the connections are still good. I've got a known good ZIP disk in the drive. * Here is my entire FSTAB: /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,exec,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,sync,nosuid,exec,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhid e 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 * And from dmesg (anything that looked interesting or remotely related is included here, the rest cut): Linux version 2.4.8-26mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 2731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)) #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001 Calibrating delay loop... 1064.96 BogoMIPS Memory: 254824k/262080k available (1086k kernel code, 6868k reserved, 397k data, 712k init, 0k highmem) ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC AC26400R, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 12715920 sectors (6511 MB) w/448KiB Cache, CHS=791/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=6149/64/32, UDMA(33) hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p5 p6 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 ide-floppy driver 0.97 Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... SB 4.11 detected OK (220) Sound Blaster 16 (4.11) at 0x220 irq 7 dma 0 Sound Blaster 16 at 0x330 irq 7 dma 0,0 cdrom: open failed. /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 devfs: devfs_register(): device already registered: 0 cdrom: open failed. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 cdrom: open failed. I've tried: Mkdir /mnt/zip Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd4 (harddrake reports the ZIP drive as HDD -- it's the 2nd device on the 2nd IDE channel) ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device ...so I tried: Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device root.drewvogel:~$ ls -ail /dev/ide total 0 3640 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ./ 10 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 ../ 10620 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 21 11:28 cd/ 6770 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 20 14:50 hd/ 3650 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 10:32 host0/ 6760 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:19 zip/ root.drewvogel:~$ ls -ail /dev/ide/zip/ total 0 6760 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:19 ./ 3640 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ../ Any ideas? I hadn't noticed the /dev/ide/zip directory before, but it's empty... Don't know how to proceed! --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive
Thanks for the tip. I tried that, and got: mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device Tried it also with /dev/hdd4, and got: mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === -Original Message- From: s [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:56 am, you wrote: I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel). Harddrake sees it as hdd. I've tried: Mkdir /mnt/zip Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd4 (harddrake reports the ZIP drive as HDD -- it's the 2nd device on the 2nd IDE channel) ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device ...so I tried: Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device Well, I'm not sure it makes any diff, but I think it's mount -t type dev dir. So, try: mount -t vfat /dev/hdd mnt/zip if that works, fix your fstab. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How do I upgrade existing 8.0 to 8.1?
Thanks for your message. Here's what I get: root.drewvogel:~$ ls -ail /dev/ide total 0 3640 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ./ 10 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 ../ 10620 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 21 11:28 cd/ 6770 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 20 14:50 hd/ 3650 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 10:32 host0/ 6760 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:19 zip/ root.drewvogel:~$ ls -ail /dev/ide/zip/ total 0 6760 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:19 ./ 3640 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ../ Any ideas? I hadn't noticed the /dev/ide/zip directory before, but it's empty... Don't know how to proceed! --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === -Original Message- From: Lyvim Xaphir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I upgrade existing 8.0 to 8.1? Have you tried descending into the dev directory to find out if the partition devices are actually there? I.E.: ls -ail /dev/ide/host1/bus0/target0/lun0 or: ls -ail /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0 After you verify that the device you are looking for is there, you then try mounting it. Using the targets you found above. On Thursday 07 February 2002 16:02, you wrote: If 8.2 doesn't have GOOD, out-of-the-box ATAPI ZIP support, I'm switching to RedHat. I'm spending FAR too much time on this seemingly simple problem. I do appreciate the help of other users on this board, but the problem persists. What's the schedule for 8.2? --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
