[newbie] Re: [expert] 2.2.13-22 kernel update
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: OK, I was looking for an update for the stdlibc and gcc gcc+ libraries and such (got tired of installing software that required one library or another that didn't install when I selected "everything" from the 6.1 install) so me thinks "Let's try the update button on the KDE panel". Stupid move. Every thing d/l'd fine so I reboot and my machine erupts. I get " ~^[[24~^[[24 "'s streaming across my screen, the internal speaker is screaming as the filesystem is being mounted (NOT a pleasant thing at 12:30 am). Doah, I forgot to edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the new 2.2.13-22 kernel and rerun lilo. OK that's done but I still have the same problem and any time I enter into a terminal mode my screen again erupts into streaming " ~~" anytime I look at it crosseyed and seem to be having general keyboard problems typing this. I also now get an error msg that my kernel does not have kppp support but launches it anyway when I hit "OK". This folks is rediculous, I suppose it's my fault for trying to fix something that wasn't broke but all I wanted was the libraries that should have loaded in the first place. Please, anyone got any suggestions Joe Gardner are you running acon? -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Re: [expert] NIC installation issue
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Lief Erickson wrote: I have a couple of different issues that I encounter, depending which Mandrake version (6.1 or 7.0) I attempt to install. Problem 1 After I run autoboot.bat for v7.0 from the command line, it starts to load, a bunch of messages fly past and then I get the following message: Partition check...autodetecting RAID arrays autorun...autorun DONE. VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 I'm completely clueless as to how I should troubleshoot this. Any thoughts? (Read Problem 2 more information) It's trying to load off a scsi device. Do you not have an ide cdrom? Problem 2 While trying to install v6.1 I don't have Problem 1 and I can configure all of my options (mouse, keyboard, video) except the NIC. The installation process isn't recognizing the NIC, and the driver for my SMC 10/100 card (1211) is not part of the installation process. In order for the installation process to continue I must choose that I do NOT want networking installed for my machine, which, in fact, I do, because the machine will be a file and print server. My questions: 1) Is it possible to say that I don't want networking installed during the installation process, but after installation is complete to install the appropriate driver (already downloaded from the SMC website) for the NIC and can configure networking (eth0) at that point? Yes, 2) If so, how? Icon on your desktop labeled "DrakConf" :) -Lief Erickson -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Re: [expert] Missing 'egcs' in egcs packages for Mandrake 7.0!!
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Tom Barraza wrote: Has anyone else installed the egcs packages in Mandrake 7.0, and actually gotten the program 'egcs' to be installed? I've looked in all of the egcs-* packages, and have been unable to find 'egcs'! I had Redhat 6.1 installed on my machine, previous to doing a clean install of Mandrake 7.0, and had no problems using egcs. In fact, I used the kpackage manager tool to look at the contents of the egcs packages on the RedHat 6.1 CD, and the program /usr/bin/egcs is included, whereas for Mandrake 7.0, it is NOT! Should I install the RedHat 6.1 versions of egcs into Mandrake 7.0? I'm a little hesitant because I don't want to break anything! Any clues would be appreciated ... Thanks, Tom have you tryed gcc -Vegcs-2.91.66 ? -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Complaint
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Dreja Julag wrote: I unsubscribed from this list at the web site. Why am I still getting messages? I do not wish to recieve messages. Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well unless you entered the wrong email address they will stop, as soon as it sends you all that is init's queue for you. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Ident problems
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Darth Vader wrote: I'm on a cable connection and I have one box masquerading for the rest. The problem is I want to run mIrc sometimes and all the servers complain about ident failures. I read on a red hat how-to that the standard ident package has masquerading problems, so I tried oidentd. It still does not work. I was wondering if anyone has ident working with masquerading. Thanks Jason Should have read your man page and documentation for the identd server we provide, it would have saved you some time. Add the -q to the identd line in inetd.conf and setup your /etc/identd.masq (you of course need to get rid of the others you've installed, and reinstall the pidentd we shiped) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] in.telnetd
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, John Aldrich wrote: Hmm...it would appear that "custom" or "workstation" does not install the telnet server by default, but that "server" does. *shrug* John Not unless someones been playing in their comps file it doesn't... This is the third cause i left off the last email.
Re: [newbie] Why does aKtion play mpegs choppy but play AVIs smooth?
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Why does aKtion media player play mpeg files really choppy but play AVI files without problems? This is on a 333mhz Celeron running Mandrake. Seve it's the xanim codec, it pretty much blows goats
Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Ribbo wrote: Pada Jumat, 31 Dec 1999, John Aldrich menulis: You might try mpg123 from a command-line. That's a console-based mp3 player. John ... gqmpeg for its frontend http://gqview.netpedia.net Sense we're all nameing other mp3 systems, I'll once again take time (again) to give a shout to the guys writeing the globcom jukebox ;)
Re: [newbie] DVD-RAM?
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Traci Collins wrote: There seems to be a lot of information out there about using the recordable CD formats but I was wondering, does anyone know what is involved in getting started with a scsi DVD-RAM drive? Is there an FAQ or project you can point me to? Thanks. _basicly_ it's no different than any other cdwriter. execute cdrecord -scanbus and it should pick it up no problem. You just need to make sure you don't go over the size when you do your mkisofs. Theres maybe a link on the cdrecord homepage to a gui util that won't whine about going over 650 megs. There was a link at one time to an observatory useing cdrecord to burn thier dvd's. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] New Millenium
Circle gets a square... to paraphrase what ever that game show is. and to para-phrase the lady on cnn.. Isn't it amazing what the international community can acomplish when it pulls it's head out of it's a$$. I mean really. It shocks me that we can acomplish this and people are still starveing , and bathing in the same water they (well you know) in.. On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Jeffrey A. Crum wrote: H. Don't ya think that the hype about Y2K brought to light what people and companies had to do to make the fixes so there wouldn't be any problems? I am in the computer field and know for a fact that if we hadn't made the changes, our systems would NOT have worked. We are working with 10-20 year old code and they didn't even imagine that the programs would still be in use come 2000. -Original Message- From: Etien T. VanDenBroecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the lines we all lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who knows, all that I know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn out to be a big money making scam... Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine heard on the radio that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run generators for the Y2K blitz!! HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Etien On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote: There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through 1000 AD was the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for thought... Dan - Original Message - From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT | Happy new Millenium all... | | -- | Full plate packing steel! - Minsk I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not starting until 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the entire year of 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two millemia. This way, by the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts. The finest the new millenium has to offer to all, Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Josh McCaffrey wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: I'm shopping around for a good card to run under L-M 6.1. Is it a bad idea for me to just look at what chipset the card uses and amount of ram? I'm looking at NVidia Riva TNT cards w/ 8-16mb's. Could I expect any of these various cards to be supported even if the drivers are only for Windoze? I'm not a big gamer, but I expect my sys performance would increase noticably upgrading from 2mb to 16mb. Also, what cards use the Trident chipset? I'm still looking I really like the one I've got, it's just a bit outdated. The Riva TNT *is* supported well under both Linux and Windoze. At this time, though, you can only expect hw acceleration under Windoze with this card. John Hmmm, any supported cards that acceleration *is* supported, or is it something I shouldn't really worry about? I'm just looking for a good PCI card in the $50-150 US range. I think one card I was looking at (STB Velocity 4400) supported Direct 3D and OpenGL. Thanks! -Josh 3dfx, tnt, rage, and mga all have drivers rangeing from very closed source to GPL. The two top performers are the mga (g400max), and 3dfx. and just happen tobe the two extreams for licenses too. I think the g400 was a little ahead in the last bench marks i saw, but i've no clue what the 3dfx was running under either. The rage cards run under the mach64 accelerated server from XFree86, but the 32 megs on the g400 IMO picks up the slack. The rage cards glx driver is a bit faster than the tnt. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] OpenGL and Xfree86
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Cyril wrote: 2- I would like to test the TNT with an OpenGL program. So how can I install OpenGL ? Is it part of Xfree86 Actualy the best way is to test the 7.0beta while you can still say "hey somethings not right here". After you've setup your video (if you had to tweak it after install) add the following to the /etc/X11/XF86Config --cut Section "Module" load "glx-nv.so" EndSection --cut In a console run "gears" and then "glx gears" and you should see the improvement. There are 3 ways to do this. . .probably the best way to do it right now is visit mesa3d.org. If you can get Mesa31beta-3, grab that. . .31 final is a bit buggy when it comes to building. . .From looking at the makefile there is no specific option to build Mesa for a tnt, but that's not really a huge issue. . .any app is going to request libGL which will probably end up being symlinked to libMesaGL and its friends anyway sooo. . . Alternately you can visit nvidia.com and check out their linux offering. Note that neither one of these offers true hardware accelerated OpenGL support but i believe the nvidia vel does offer hardware GLX support. . . third would be to purchase Xi Graphics OpenGL Accelerated X Server. 99.95 but if your a hardcore gamel ol developer it migt be worth it. . . 3- could you please give me the address of a very simple OpenGL program that could test the board ? Mesa comes with a bunch of demos that should do the trick. . . -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] boot disk image prob.
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, chris wakefield wrote: Happy New Year Greetings Axalon: Just sent this to a member of my local linux users group. Been working many hours trying to do this! Hi alan: Thanks for your private reply. I tried what you suggested and RedHat still loads Gnome (which is beginning to grow on me). Now this is easy to fix.. you've got it installed an everything just change the defaults. /etc/X11/prefdm will either be a script (mdk systems) or a symlink to the prefered *dm (last redhat i saw up close) if it's a symlink update it. ln -sf ../../usr/bin/kdm prefdm and edit the system default in /etc/sysconfig/desktop no boot disk needed just "linux 1" at the boot prompt and "init 6" when your all done. Unless they really screwed something up of course..
Re: [newbie] Changing machines causes problems -- can't log on.
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Pete Clapham wrote: Hi, all -- I have loaded Linux-Mandrake onto a new server and have an odd problem. I configured it on a Pentium-II with a Millenium-II AGP video card while our old server was operating on the old operating system. When everything worked more-or-less correctly, I moved the hard drive to the final server, a Pentium-Pro with a Millenium-II PCI video card. Everything else about the two machines is identical. The new server works fine -- until you want to log onto the machine to make changes in anything. If you do that, the machine Exactly what are you trying to change that it's not letting you? hangs. Does anybody have an idea what the problem is - and more important how to solve it? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, its me again! I need an MP3 player for Linux, be it XWindows or shell. X11Amp plays an mp3 for about 4 seconds, and then they're slow and jerky. Possibly there is a way to make the buffer really super huge, but I haven't found one. In Windows, I was able to play MP3s by using a program called SCMPX and decreasing the quality to 22 khz. The mp3s played reasonably, although I couldn't run much else without it "skipping". My computer is 66 mhz. Dan Rasmussen delete X11amp and install xmms, it's from the same people X11amp was dropped/renamed whatever.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Windows to Linux networking
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gettin all my questions out of the way :) I have two PCs which are networked together. One runs Windows 98, the other has both WIndows 95 and Linux. It's working fairly well at the moment, but I would like to be able to transfer files back and forth between the Win 98 and the Linux comp. How do I do this? Dan Rasmussen ICQ 4689648 http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/index.html would be a good start :) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Printer Drivers
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Balaji Prasad wrote: I am working on hooking up my printer with my dual boot Linux/Windows Box. I have the Canon Multipass 5500 multi-functional printer. Does anybody know whether this is supported under Linux. I wouldn't mind if I able to use only the printing functions of this printer (i.e. I do not want to use it as a fax/scanner etc. atleast when I am under Linux). I am not able to find any information on the SuSE (whose distribution I have) web site regarding this. Thank you. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Paper weight. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] newbie rant
On 30 Dec 1999, William Temple wrote: salutations i am a new person to linux i want to state that i may be a slow learner but i do not believe i am brain dead. here are my problems. 1. when using my redhat 5.2 system at installation it recognizes my par-port iomega zip and there is no problems. when installing mandrake 6.0 the iomega is not seen. so i follow both the kernel howto and the zip howto to no avail. are you useing the supplied imm or ppa module, they both work you just need to know which drive you have. 2. when using redhat 5.2 i can mount floppies with no problem but with mandrake 6.0 i get the "wrong fs,bad header, to many mounted , blahblah" or "not a valid block device" specify the fs type on the command line if "auto" doesn't work for the disk. 3. my wife does graphics work and i would like my wacom sd420e digitizer and ati ati-tv wonder video capture board to work. wacom tablets have an Xfree86 module, it's included. The project developing facilities for ATI is named gatos, and i package fresh cvs all the time, it is included in atleast 6.1 and i don't remeber if it's in 6.0 you'll have to look and see. 4. we use an intranet package "ocs" from www.obsidian.co.za which works fine on rh 5.2 but try to install in mandrake and i get a failed dependancy error redhat 5.0= This is a problem with their package ask them to fix it, if they need any help I'll be more then happy to do so. i really liked my rh 5.2 system and i had been using the kde system with it, so when i decided to upgrade the kernel and os i chose the integrated simplicity of mandrake. now i feel it will be easier to return to rh 5.2 and then upgrade from there. Good luck on that libc5 - glibc ... if anyone would like to tackle the issues as to why there is such an integration problem with mandrake i would sincerely appreciate the guidance. I see one minor problem, one lack of information, and a little mis-information. thanks in advance bill temple If you really must go back to libc5 (for ocs) You may find linux-mandrake 5.3 a little bit of a time saver. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] archives
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, jeff wrote: Is there one ? If so how do I get to it? Thanks Jeff its ion the same page where you found inscrutions on howto subscribe to the lis.t -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] two monitors; experience with wine?; Database programs?
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Darth Vader wrote: If your serious about windows emulation try Vmware. I've played with the demo and it was very very impressive. As for performance issues you'll just have to try it and see. But, with VMware what you would really be doing is running windows in a bomb proof box. I think what your trying for is to grab the minimum of windows files and get the program up under Wine. For that all you can do is look up the wine homepage and the how-to. I don't know of any texts on wine currently, but if anyone does PLEASE let me know. Sorry. Jason Sam Walker wrote: I like the analogy Jason, "with VMware what you would really be doing is running windows in a bomb proof box" Computers are kind of like your car, it's a contained explosion when it goes wrong it goes real wrong, but when it works right WOW. ;-) Anyway as for a database we do some work with the people at pick systems (I'm pretty sure, as in don't quote me i'm just a hacker)
Re: [Re: [newbie] changing font] WOW whata dif
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Ed Santiago wrote: Ok, I changed the font to 100dpi and wow what an improvement. I had to go to the /etc/X11/fs/config file with the advanced text editor and switcheded everything that was 75 to 100 and all that was 100 to 75. Of course you have to install the 100dpi fonts off the installation CD. Then I shut down and restarted and it is wonderful. Thanks Tom for the hints toward the right direction. At 800X600 the 75dpi fonts are fine, but above that the 75dpi fonts are too small on my 17" monitor. Now it is great. snip OK, so how does one tell if the 100 dpi fonts are installed?? TIA rpm -qa|grep 100dpi -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] ftp program
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote: snag it out of oxygen. rpmfind should pick it up (maybe) Ok...which RPM is it in? I looked and didn't see an "iftp...rpm" file. Didn't really expect to, but... :-) John small L, not small I -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] ftp program
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Des Wass wrote: ++ /12/99, John Aldrich: On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote: Ok...which RPM is it in? I looked and didn't see an "iftp...rpm" file. Didn't really expect to, but... :-) John, I think they are referring to IglooFTP, which appears on my Mandrake 6 CD. From memory, it's a GTK app. No I'm refering to lftp -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Apache Server -- server refuses connection
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Pete Clapham wrote: Hi, all -- I am trying to run Apache Server on Linux 6 and have a very frustrating problem. It was running fine, but I needed to change the name and IP address of the machine and to copy a bunch of zipped files to the html area of the server. Now, an attempt to access the server gets the message that the server is refusing connection. The directories are all drwxr-xr-x from root to document root (and beyond through all appropriate html directories), and the owner of all htm, jpg, and gif files is nobody:nobody. Does anybody have an idea what is wrong? Is the server running?
[newbie] Re: [expert] Syntax to add an extra append
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Payne Stanifer wrote: I need to add the infamous append = "mem=128M" to my lilo.conf , but I already have an append and when I add the extra append it tells me I have a syntax error on line * and that I have an extra "append". What do I need to do to add the extra append? Thnks for everyone's continuing support. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com image=/boot/vmlinuz append="hdc=ide-scsi mem=128M" label="whatever" -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] NIC suggestions
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote: Season's Greetings! I'm considering setting up little LAN in my home and, since I'm completely inexperienced in networking, would like everyone's input regarding which NIC(s) to choose. I am only in the planning stages and have no NICs or Hub. Here is my situation: 1 PC dual booting L-M6.0 and Win98 1 PC with Win98 Both PC's have more than 1 of each PCI and ISA slots open. I intend to use the LAN for sharing files, and maybe the printer on the Win98-only PC if I can get Linux to do it. I would also like to be able to share the modem (and therefore Internet connection) in the Dual-booting machine (preferably while its running Linux). Even though I only have 2 PC's, I want the abillity to easily expand (although I'm not likely to go beyond 4 systems), so I will be getting a hub in stead of using a crossover cable. Here are my questions: (1)What would be easier to configure in Linux, a PCI or ISA NIC? Remember, I will be installing a NIC in a machine that previously had none. I prefer pci (2)Will 10-BASET be enough for me, or shall I aim for a 10/100 network? 10 is "enough", but excess never hurts :) anything but the wallet that is (3)Is there any benefit to having identical NICs in all the PC's on a network? Sure, you'll be familar with them all after your familar with one. Thanks for any info! Jeremy -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] comparision squid/netscape proxy
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, PC wrote: sorry but my question is not mandrake distro specific; but just to find out if any one knows the performance difference between squid on mandrake and netscape proxy server on NT? thanks. Check squids list, they'll have a better answer. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Cannot compile
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote: I'm running L-M6.0 and cannot compile any source code. I've been trying to get it to work for several weeks and still haven't found all the problems. Here is my latest problem. I'm trying to compile the source for the Spruce email client, and here is the output of ./configure: creating cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... yes checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... missing checking whether working makeinfo... missing checking whether make sets $[MAKE]... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking wheter the C compiler (gcc ) works... no configure: error: insallation or configuration problem: C ompiler cannot creat e executables. Yes, I'm running as root. I thought that compiling source code was a basic activity in Linux, but I've been using L-M6.0 for six months on 2 different PC's and have never been able to compile anything. How shall I fix this? tail config.log # what does it say? Jeremy -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] ftp program
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote: lftp kicks ncftp's ass all up and down the block ;) Hmm...I've been to linuxberg and FreshMeat and the closest I could come was "GUIFTP" on FMwas that what you were referring to? If not, could you post a url where one could download IFTP? I'd love to give it a shot. I mean if it kicks NCFTP's ass, it's GOT to be good! :-) John snag it out of oxygen. rpmfind should pick it up (maybe) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie]
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Theo Brito Ribeiro wrote: Dear Mandrake crew, I've recently downloaded Linux-Mandrake, but I can't configure my video card... It's a Diamond Monster Fusion and I'd like to know if there is any other video card that my Monster Fusion is compatible with, and if that card is compatible with linux!!! I really want to get the best graphics from linux... I restricted to do just a few things using Xwindows... e.g: I can't navigate on the web, because netscape keeps showing messages that it can't use all colors!!! I can only use vga colors Please, give me a reply as soon as possible Theo Ribeiro I'm not 100% positive about 6.1, but 7.0 should recognise it. Run this to find out. Xconfigurator --help ~/delete.me grep Diamond ~/delete.me -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] RE: Source Code
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Jennifer Ricki Wise wrote: I tried to take a look at the source code for Mandrake using the source code cd. I was unsuccessful, I tried to open it in Borland C++ but could not find any files that would display anything. Could someone please tell me how I can see the source code and which language it is written in. Thanks and Season's Greetings Jennifer Wise ICQ:6765592 You have to extract the tarballs from the src.rpms, then extract the files from the tarballs. You will need a linux machine todo this. windows doesn't cut it... -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] iNSTALL WOES , pHASE ii
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Glenn White wrote: Now that I have Linux installed. I am needing to setup my NIC and my sound card. My Nic is attached to my cable mode. The unit (NIC) is very generic in nature, so do I need to by one thats on the "approved list" or should I try it the one I have. in my experiances rr generaly supplies you with a 3com card. you need to know what the card is exactly though so pop the case and look. Next is toi setup my sound card, /I have a Diamond Monster card the I am duely imppressed with. I hope its on one of the " approved list" No clue, run sndconfig.. THanx again -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Email Client that can send receive multiple accounts... where to find?
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm in search of an email client that can receive and send multiple accounts. I've seen ones with the ability to receive from different accounts but they can only send from one. Seve Pine does it. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Weird problem
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, root wrote: Hi, I have a question for when I log on. Once kppp logs on to my ISP, I can't open the browser or ANY other program. This occurs as the root user and as a normal user. If I open a program BEFORE I log on, I can continue to use the program normally. However, I can't open any program that wasn't aleady opened before logging on. Thanks, Sam Walker Uncheck the "set hostname on connect", specifics of where to find it are in the archives.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Install failure was: (no subject)
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear who ever is reading this i have recently purchased linux-mandrake 6.5 and am having a small amount of difficulty with one part of the installation. After the "choose the components to install screen", it begins to install then an error message comes up and says that" Error Loading Installation" It may have something to do with the partitions but i am not sure.If you know what the problem is or how to fix it please tell me . Thank you very much and a response as quickly as possible would be appreciated. Do the install again, this time write down the full message. Cause it doesn't make that one ;) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] INETD
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Mikler wrote: Hello newbie, Well I guess I'm a newbie in net stuff in linux well - I am interested in rising speed of response of my INETD services such as FTP LOGIN POP3 and so on. They r some kind of hanging up on 30-40 secs after connection. I got P 166 MMX 16 RAM - that is not real fast but httpd is pretty fast Best regards, Mikler mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you have correct forward and reverse dns entrys? -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: TID Re: [newbie] Hpt 366 support In mandrake 7?
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, M Thompson wrote: Axalon, are you referring to the kernel source shipped with Mandrake 6.1 or the kernel source shipped with Mandrake 7.0? 6.1, haven't tested the 7.0 kernel.. 2.4 will be here soon enough.. Mickey, I wasn't able to apply the Andre Hedrick patch to the kernel source that ships with Mandrake 6.1, but YMMV. I hope you are able to apply the patch to the kernel source shipped with Mandrake 6.1. If you get it to work, please send me a personal E-mail and let me know. I very possibly did something wrong when trying to apply the patch to the Mandrake 6.1 kernel source. go read the archives. really.. Matt Wrong the patch can be applied to the kernel-source we provide. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] c++ Compiler problem
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Dana wrote: I am trying to install MySQL on my Mandrake 6.0 machine. I start the /configure file and it does some checking of the system. When it checks the c++ compiler it returns this error message and stops. anytime a ./configure fails you can look in config.log to se exactly why "The c++ compiler cannot make executables." Most likely missing libstdc++-devel This seems unlikely but I tried argueing with the machine and it just sits there. Can anyone shed some light on this problem. Dana It would be less touble to just install the rpms.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] S.O.S. Computer Down
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, G_REEPER wrote: I haven't used the boot loader in partition magic, but if you can get in windows go to run and type msconfig and check the autoexe and see if it's being started there. at the same time if you can get to a command prompt type fdisk /mbr which will remove anything in the master boot record and let winblows re take control of booting. You must make sure that partition magic isn't being loaded by the autoexe or config sys. Do the "step thru" option, it's like win /e at the end. On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hello list. I'm having a heck of a time with the "macmillian-mandrake complete linux OS 6.5" I followed the instructions to a tee. I even had linux running for a short while... however, I could not figure how to get rid of partition magic. Every time I started the computer, it would boot partition magic, and follow some endless cycle or rebooting - partition magic. Even when I initially installed linux, I had to use F5 to break out of this cycle. In the short run, I figured that I must of messed something up. So I uninstalled the linux partition on safe mode in win98 (only way past "partition magic"). I then attempted to reinstall another partition for linux. However, after this new partition was created, I went into win98 "safe mode" to deinstall partition magic, without deleting the linux partition. I'm now totally, utterly devastated. Neither OS works, and I am stuck in some endless cycle, where a question asks if I want exit dos mode into windows mode- reboot- the question again. ah... this is enough to make a preacher cuss. I really need win98 to operate again Please help! Harold Ensley -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Running cgi
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Johnson wrote: What do I need to do to set my Linux to use cgi written by perl locally? I can't use it although I've put it into /usr/cgi-bin/ ! urgent Please help! You an only run cgi thru apache, non cgi perl just works.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] sndconfig
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Matt G. Ellis wrote: I'm trying to get sndconfig working again. When i run it it detecks my card like always, but then when it tires to play the sample sound it complains about /dev/dsp. i cheked to see if dsp was in /dev and it was I have an Ensoiq AudioPCI card (not the Creative Version) Any ideas? this worked before i reinstalled Linux Install the updates. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] need practical advice about Realtek network cards
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Meditalika wrote: Hi, Have a lot of problem with network adapters (with realtek chips). I have small local network and all computers are with realtek network cards. I had installed Mandrake 6.0 on all computers, but I have problem, because any computer didn't want to find network card. After long experiments on few computers network cards start to work, but after few reboots, network cards decided that its to hard work with Linux and died. Since that time I cant make them work :(. Can anyone give me good practical advices how to make network cards work? I have Realtek 8029 and 8139. I know my irq and io. What more I need to know? Aurimas Raulinaitis My 8029 has a utility you need to use to set the io/irq once they're set right they work great -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] rpm upgrade via network?
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, WH Bouterse wrote: I have read docs, mans etc and seen various posts concerning this topic and in fact I think Axalone mentioned it a few thousand messages back, however I am not clear what the simplest approach is to: From machine 'A' Linux Mandrake 6.1 fully functional, with a directory full of new 'Cooker' rpms; To install and/or upgrade machine 'B' the 'testbed', with a minimal L-M 6.1 installed and network operational between the two machines. Ftp and Telnet are working "inhouse". Machine 'B' does not have internet access at this time, and will not get it until upgraded,"fully stable and functional", and secure. Is this the "kickstart" idea, or the ftp/wget rpm-upgrade, install "as you go" method which I never seem to understand or get right? Suggestions or Inspirations welcome! William Bouterse Juneau Alaska If your talking about cloneing a production machine, just clone the disk and run an upgrade. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Hpt 366 support In mandrake 7?
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, M Thompson wrote: Mickey, To over simplify things a lot, the Linux kernel is a file that enables the hardware and software talk to each other. The Mandrake 6.1 kernel source is just slightly different than the stock 2.2.13 kernel source. The hardware that it supports is just slightly different from that found in the 2.2.13 kernel source. The Mandrake 6.1 kernel source supports some very new hardware that the stock 2.2.13 kernel source doesn't support. And vice versa, the stock 2.2.13 kernel source supports some hardware that the Mandrake 6.1 kernel source doesn't support. The differences, IMHO, are so slight that you should not hesitate to download the stock 2.2.13 kernel source. We don't remove any hardware support unless you count arch specific hardware. We do add patchs for different hardware, like isdn (which is cronicly out of date generaly in the release kernels) and othr goodies like the dvd patches (i could go on for an hour) Andre Hedrick, the author of the Ultra-DMA patch, had to write his patch to work with a specific kernel source. He couldn't write a version to work with the COL kernel source, a version for the MDK kernel source, etc. Andre chose to write his patch to work with the stock 2.2.13 kernel source, and that explains some of the error messages that occur when we try to apply the patch to the Mandrake 6.1 kernel source. Are you running mips alpha ppc or sparc.. Niether is anybody else installing the i586 linux-mandrake ;) If your are a nervous newbie like myself, you can print out the Mandrake 6.1 kernel setup before you download and compile the stock 2.2.13 kernel. I did this so that I would have a crutch to stand on. I think the file was /usr/src/linux/defconfig. /usr/doc/kernel-doc-(version)/config/* or /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig HTH, Matt From: mickey Mutant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hpt 366 support In mandrake 7? Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:23:54 -0800 SNIP what is the point of running mandrake if i dont use the mdk kernel? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] c++ Compiler problem
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Dana wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Dana wrote: I am trying to install MySQL on my Mandrake 6.0 machine. I start the /configure file and it does some checking of the system. When it checks the c++ compiler it returns this error message and stops. anytime a ./configure fails you can look in config.log to se exactly why Aha. I learned something today. That is good. "The c++ compiler cannot make executables." Most likely missing libstdc++-devel So I downloaded libstdc++ and now the configure says You need libstdc++-devel aswell as libstdc++ "The c++ compiler cannot make executables." "/usr/bin/ld cannot open -lstdc++ no such file" I have searched and cannot find -lstdc++ so I am stuck again. Dana -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] extended file names
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Brian Gardner wrote: In mandrake linux, the file names are limited to 8 characters. How do I enable long file name support? They are not limited to 8 chars, and you don't have todo anything. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Installation on HP Pavilion computer
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Scott Steinman wrote: Has anybody gotten Linux-Mandrake installed on a HP Pavilion computer? I can't get X to display a screen larger than 680 x 480. The Pavilion has an Intel 810 chipset graphics driver which is capable of higher resolution, but it is not on the list of supported devices. I've also tried the generic SVGA and VGA settings with no luck. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Dr. Scott Steinman [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should test the new 7.0 beta, we've added patches for the i810, and the geforce -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Compiling imap source
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Dean Channing wrote:
Hello,
I am running Mandrake-Redhat Linux 6.0 on a PII 333Mhz, 64M RAM, 2 13Gig
HHDs, as a server for our modem pool, DNS, and pop3.
But I have run into a consistant problem when setting up the pop3 server.
I have downloaded imap-4.7.tar.Z from ftp.cac.washington.edu, and moved it
to the /usr/local/src directory. I issued 'tar -zxvf imap-4.7.tar.Z' and
the package was successfully unzipped and untarred. I cd imap-4.7 and
read the README which informed me that I should look in the Makefile to
get which OS I am installing on. After doing that, I issued 'make lnx'
('cause we are not running shadow paswords), and I always exit with an
error (all output from 'make lnx' has been attached in the file
output.dea).
Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? I have also tried
installing the imap package that came with our distribution of
Mandrake-RedHat Linux 6.0, and also some older imap packages as well. And
all of them exit with the same error.
Thanx in advance (and Merry Christmas!!)
Dean
Dean Channing
Systems Administrator
807-City Freenet Inc.
http://www.807-city.on.ca/freenet
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Well firstly i'd Much much rather tackle your original problem with the
supplied imap rpm. But your problem is because there is a missing -lcrypt
--
MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.5?
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Dave Bukove wrote: I haven't seen Mandrake 6.5 mentioned anywhere but this list. Is there a Mandrake 6.5, and where can I get it? is it stable, beta, or vapor ware? -- Dave Bukove [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's 6.1 Shoved into packageing by MacMillan..
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake boot problem
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Ron Peake wrote: Hi Gerry Exactly the same thing happened to me. The magazine states that this is a 'cut-down' distribution to fit on the CD and I guess that something was left out. I bought a There had better be a comment From them howto obtain the source code from them then. Otherwise it's a violation of the copyright. 'Cheap-Bytes' Mandrake 6.1 CD and the installation on the same PC went without a problem. Did you try to install it from Windows incidentally according to the pictures? But it makes no difference if you boot from DOS and run \DOSUTILS\AUTOBOOT from the cdrom. Regards, Ron FreeNet wrote: I've installed Linux Mandrake 6.1 from PC Answers CD-Rom. After booting I get the "local host:login" prompt but cannot log in. I've tried root password to no vail. Is there a special login password? Regards Gerry Cook -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Hpt 366 support In mandrake 7?
Ok so lied I gotta answer more about highpoint 366 On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, M Thompson wrote: FWIW - there is a kernel patch that can be applied to the stock 2.2.13 kernel that will enable the support. This patch cannot be applied to the Mandrake 6.1 kernel source. If interested, you need to download the 2.2.13 Wrong the patch can be applied to the kernel-source we provide. I won't however answer again why it's not incuded default. you'll have to go read the archives. kernel source from ftp://ftp.kernel.org and then apply the patch to it. I know I was very vague, but feel free to locate and read the Ultra-DMA mini-HOWTO. It is very well written. I tells where to download the patch that I mentioned above. HTH, Matt From: MickeyMutant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hpt 366 support In mandrake 7? Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:31:41 -0800 I was wondering if The Hpt 366 UDma 66 controler is supported in mandrake 7.0? (I have seen that it's going to be in kernel 2.4) But is it going to be in Kernel 2.2.14? All us Bp6 Motherboard owners would love to have it supported hehe Mickey __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Hpt 366 support In mandrake 7?
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, mickey Mutant wrote: i have tried the patch but it seems to try to find the 2.2.13-stable sorce tree It's just looking for some arch specific files we cut out, ignore them, the fact they say ppc/ and alpha/ is a dead giveaway :) and the mandrake sorce is NOT the 2.2.13-stable version i think it is 2.2.13-22mdk or 2.2.13-7mdk Huh?! well lets start with linus doesn't call them X.Y.Z-stable, I've not seen one yet i may be missing a lot here but every time i start the patch it asks me for each file name to patch Read the archives because it cant find what it expecs , I could alwas download the older stable kernal sorces but Nothing wrong with that, this is why we run linux isn't it? So we can customize what ever we want when we want exactly how we want.. what is the point of running mandrake if i dont use the mdk kernel? Why do you run it.. You did say you download and build your own kernels.. The kernel is just one part of the whole system. - Original Message - From: "M Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 11:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Hpt 366 support In mandrake 7? FWIW - there is a kernel patch that can be applied to the stock 2.2.13 kernel that will enable the support. This patch cannot be applied to the Mandrake 6.1 kernel source. If interested, you need to download the 2.2.13 kernel source from ftp://ftp.kernel.org and then apply the patch to it. I know I was very vague, but feel free to locate and read the Ultra-DMA mini-HOWTO. It is very well written. I tells where to download the patch that I mentioned above. HTH, Matt From: MickeyMutant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hpt 366 support In mandrake 7? Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:31:41 -0800 I was wondering if The Hpt 366 UDma 66 controler is supported in mandrake 7.0? (I have seen that it's going to be in kernel 2.4) But is it going to be in Kernel 2.2.14? All us Bp6 Motherboard owners would love to have it supported hehe Mickey __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Two systems
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote: My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word 'transfer' may be wrong, but can I use the two together somehow so that I can download software to the Linus system. Any help would be appreciated. I wouldn't necessarily take their word for it. They just don't WANT you to use Linux. AFAIK, a cable modem is just another network device, which uses coax to connect to your computer. John Unless they are useing one of the internal cablemodems it most likely to work. They general just plug into a ethernet card. They may require extra software however that doesn't have a linux port.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Two systems
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Eric Mings wrote: Unless they are useing one of the internal cablemodems it most likely to work. They general just plug into a ethernet card. They may require extra software however that doesn't have a linux port.. I have a cable modem connnected to the uplink port of an ethernet hub and it works great for my Macs. I haven't configured the linux boxes on my net to use it because I need static IP numbers for them. However, I can see no reason why it would make any difference what kind of machine on the network is going through the cable modem. Of course, then I could be completely wrong :-) :) like i said "may require", take for instance the rrlogin program.
Re: [newbie] This is the last question I promise!
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Jamey wrote: OK, I finally got another modem, and I have sound, and Video cards installed. I just have one question, I have searched through netscape and havn't found anything about Java. Do I need to download it or is there somewheres I havn't looked? Also I havn't had a chance to tell all of you whole help me ,Thanks! I hope everyone of you have a happy and safe X-mas and New years! Jamey Sorry for being annoying and taking your alls time and mail space up with my lame questions, again thanks for helping me. All the way at the bottm of prefernces if my memory serves me. But it's not the greatest thing on earth. (the java, not my memory be nice ;) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Im sorry
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Jamey wrote: I fixed it my self Unfortunatly most of use have no idea what your talking about because you started a totaly new thread here :)
Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0beta available
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalonthe only directions I found at that URL were these "Please check the list of FTP mirror down on this page, and choose one that is near your location." Well I picked one but there was no iso image there to download, just a bunch of navigable directories as if I'd mounted a CDRom. How does one download the oxygen distribution? Alan Well first you've missed the part about posting to the cooker list. (I'll personaly do removal of those that have troubles getting off as long as they try, and don't send multple requests over and over. after the beta) ;) for those who are now listphobic's Probably related to there not being an iso mentioned on the page ;) This doesn't help much either -- [root@Elminster oxygen]$ du -hsx i586/ 654Mi586 -- I think We got it worked out, and Linuxberg is mirroring (don't slam it or it's just gonna take it longer) now. You can of course create your own iso if you just can't wait.
Re: [newbie] compiling kernel
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm running Mandrake 6.5 and have tried twice to recompile the kernel,in order to run ax25 and both times the computer hangs while finding module dependencies. I used make mrproper,make xconfig,make dep,make clean,make bzImage,make modules,make modules install just like I have done many times with the Caldera distributions. Is there something different I must do with Mandrake? Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling again? Lilo is finding the right kernel. Thanks, Dan did you change the toplevel Makefile EXTRAVERSION = and run the depmod before rebooting? -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0beta available
Your posts are off topic on this mailing list, you should be asking on cooker@ The iso will be finished mirroring to linuxberg very shortly. As for the du output, how big is a 74minute cd.. Right and how big does it appear my i586 oxygen tree is. Thats why it took so long. (your on a modem so i recommend you wait for the iso, but you asked so) #mirror from ftp the oxygen/ directory preserving permissions and symlinks cd /mnt/disk lftp -c 'open ftp.somewhere.org; cd some/dir/oxygen; mirror' # Do a little prep to get the boot images to the start of the disk mkdir -p /tmp/r mv /mnt/disk/images /tmp/r mkisofs -R \ -o /output/dir/oxygen.iso \ -b images/gi_cdrom.img \ -c images/.catalog \ /tmp/r \ /mnt/disk On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalonthe only directions I found at that URL were these "Please check the list of FTP mirror down on this page, and choose one that is near your location." Well I picked one but there was no iso image there to download, just a bunch of navigable directories as if I'd mounted a CDRom. How does one download the oxygen distribution? Alan Well first you've missed the part about posting to the cooker list. Axalonno, I didn't miss that part. That is in the next part of the page with the heading "How to contribute to the debugging?" That part does not yet concern me since I haven't gotten anything to help to debug installed on a computer. What with a 600+ meg download at my paltry 28,800 connect speed, I figured I'd have lots of time to worry about subscribing to the cooker during/after the download. (I'll personaly do removal of those that have troubles getting off as long as they try, and don't send multple requests over and over. after the beta) ;) for those who are now listphobic's I'm sorry but I haven't any idea at all what the above paragraph means. There's a negative tone to it but I derive no meaning at all from the words. Probably related to there not being an iso mentioned on the page ;) What's related, my question as to how to download an image I can burn into a CD? Why yes, that was the problem I ran into, no apparent ISO, yep! This doesn't help much either -- [root@Elminster oxygen]$ du -hsx i586/ 654Mi586 -- I think We got it worked out, and Linuxberg is mirroring (don't slam it or it's just gonna take it longer) now. You can of course create your own iso if you just can't wait. Again, it seems like you're speaking in a foreign language to me in the above. What doesn't help much? You du'ed a directory on some system with switches that aren't listed in "Nutshell" and got 654 Meg as an answer? So? You have gotten what worked out? I don't slam things and don't know what I could possibly say or type that would make anything take longer?? Create my own iso from what? What are you talking about? I'm sorry, I simply don't understand your post at all?!! It was a simple question, "How does one download the oxygen distribution?" Alan -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] compiling kernel
Yep short answer, ctrl-c Long answer, search the archives it's well discussed i think, if it's not sufficiant say so, somebody will likely clear it up for you. Mandrakeuser proably has something more on it also On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Daniel Anderson wrote: No,never knew about that one.Exactly what do I put there? Haven't used depmod before,are there any options that I should use? Can the system be rescued without reinstalling? Thanks, Dan Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm running Mandrake 6.5 and have tried twice to recompile the kernel,in order to run ax25 and both times the computer hangs while finding module dependencies. I used make mrproper,make xconfig,make dep,make clean,make bzImage,make modules,make modules install just like I have done many times with the Caldera distributions. Is there something different I must do with Mandrake? Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling again? Lilo is finding the right kernel. Thanks, Dan did you change the toplevel Makefile EXTRAVERSION = and run the depmod before rebooting? -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] compiling kernel
Damned send button. for about depmod.. run this after you've "make modules_install" depmod -e -d -a type_kernel_version_here if it doesn't come up clean don't reboot simple as that.. On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Daniel Anderson wrote: No,never knew about that one.Exactly what do I put there? Haven't used depmod before,are there any options that I should use? Can the system be rescued without reinstalling? Thanks, Dan Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm running Mandrake 6.5 and have tried twice to recompile the kernel,in order to run ax25 and both times the computer hangs while finding module dependencies. I used make mrproper,make xconfig,make dep,make clean,make bzImage,make modules,make modules install just like I have done many times with the Caldera distributions. Is there something different I must do with Mandrake? Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling again? Lilo is finding the right kernel. Thanks, Dan did you change the toplevel Makefile EXTRAVERSION = and run the depmod before rebooting?
[newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0beta available
Linux-Mandrake 7.0beta available for download and tests. MandrakeSoft is very pleased to announce that its new Linux distribution is available, only for geeks and testers who can't wait to discover all the new killer features that have been introduced. This beta version (NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE) includes: - New perl/gtk based graphical installer Drakx, including support for many languages and the DiskDrake partitioner (lets one change the size of Ext2, FAT... disk partitions). - Use of supermount (integrated in kernel 2.2.14) in order to suppress the need to mount and unmount for most removable medias (cdrom, floppy, zip): Mandrake easier to use than ever! - Several security levels are available. They let you use your Linux box like a jail (extremely high security, restricted use), or like certain very common proprietary OSes (very poor security, no constraint in use). The default security level, medium, is the security level found in most standard Linux distributions. - Improved desktop integration with new tools like DrakConf and rpmdrake that let the user manage its Linux-Mandrake box like a charm. - New hardware configuration tools like lothar and XFdrake The new distribution has to be tested by many people to detect any problem that would not have been found internally. Hackers, Geeks, Nerds or simply curious users, just download Mandrake 7.0beta, have fun with it and report all the bugs! For this, just see http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/oxygenbeta.php3 and read the instruction! The Mandrake Team.
Re: [newbie] Display - Gtk warning
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Francois Massonneau wrote: Hi, When I want to run a program, this is the warning message I've (and of course, the program doesn't fire up) : Gtk-WARNING ** : cannot open display. I have a Matrox Millenium II, and have no problem when running Xwindow. What do I have to do to make it works ? Thanks. Francois Set $DISPLAY, and try again.. export DISPLAY=:0 -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Display - Gtk warning
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Audrey Beck wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Francois Massonneau wrote: Hi, When I want to run a program, this is the warning message I've (and of course, the program doesn't fire up) : Gtk-WARNING ** : cannot open display. I have a Matrox Millenium II, and have no problem when running Xwindow. What do I have to do to make it works ? Thanks. Francois Set $DISPLAY, and try again.. export DISPLAY=:0 I can export this ok and it shows in my env, but it doesn't fix the errors about $DISPLAY that I'm getting. Well, it fixes the part where it tells me $DISPLAY is not setup in env. Can you help here? # netcfg _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/lib/rhs/netcfg/netcfg.py", line 24, in ? from rhtkinter import * File "/usr/lib/rhs/python/rhtkinter.py", line 52, in ? e = Entry() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1288, in __init__ Widget.__init__(self, master, 'entry', cnf, kw) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1042, in __init__ BaseWidget._setup(self, master, cnf) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1017, in _setup _default_root = Tk() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 844, in __init__ self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className) TclError: couldn't connect to display ":0" It may be a stupid question, but is X running when you're trying to start netcfg? Looks like it's being denied, do 'xhost +local:' before you su. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Ati Rage 128
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Bassem Houballah wrote: Hi, how can i install my ati rage 128 under linux-mandrake 6.1 Thanks for any help look in the apps/ dir on your cdrom. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] KDE screen help
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, funboy wrote: First off, I just want to say that i installed my first LINUX system a few days ago, and apart from a few hangups, everything has been running great. I am very happy with the learning curve. Just sitting back and watching the emails has been a great catalyst for my own solutions. But there is one annoying little problem I still have and can't figure out how to fix Can you please tell me how to see the bottom (unviewable) portion of the KDE popup menus? My Utility menu is too large (vertically) to fit on screen, and, while it may be amusing for you all to contemplate, I have been forced to count and memorize how many arrow hits I made from the moment the focus went off-screen in order to access these apps. I'm sure the answer is quite obvious, but I just can't get it. thanks, ~phil Use the "utilities" box on the panel, it should roll over into another menu "more" -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] KDE screen help
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: Use the "utilities" box on the panel, it should roll over into another menu "more" -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon Yeah...it _should_ but it _don't_ I didn't say use K-Utilities, i said the utilities box _on_ the panel, which does wrap as needed. Guess the guy who did the menu had a 17" Monitor forgot about 15" 14" Notebooks I'd recon it's only a 15, the thing is he didn't install everything thus filling it up :) I recall a thread on this a while ago, something about using the menu editor to split the utilities menu in half, but when I tried it I got the Gnome utilities menu, not the KDE. If i remeber right the editor is in utilities i can see how that could be a big problem I usually launch apps from konsole or right clicking the screen to get a box, but it would be nice to know how to fix this.. I prefer alt-f2 when useing kde's wm -Warren. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Strange messages in my log files.
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Eric L. Damron wrote: I found this in my /var/log/messages log: kernel: ip_masq_ftp OUT: got PASV I find no indication that anything was transfered in the xferlog file. This is on a home server and I know for a fact that my family and I haven't been using FTP. In fact no one was logged on at the time of the message. Could this be an indication that someone is using my server as a WAREZ site? Thanks. If it wasn't you that initiated the ftp connection, you need to fix your firewall to only allow masq connections on the internal device.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Simple fdisk question Solved! (in the wrong order)
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, WH Bouterse wrote: Yes, sometimes the most obvious answers are the very ones which ellude us. 'mke2fs' was the command I was looking for! Thanks to Mike Fieschko for bringing that up. The file system is recognized and functioning reasonably well for being on an old 400 meg HD. So; fdisk /dev/hdc, create new partition /dev/hdc1 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /extralinux' 'mke2fs /dev/hdc1' Seems to have done it! Thats not the right order, formating a mounted disk is bad news umount fdisk mke2fs mount Thanks again, maybe I won't forget the next time ! :-) It would be nice to have a GUI which would do this for the coding/commandline impaired like myself. I have been using Linux for over 3 years and still make the most bumbling goofs! Actually I guess a GUI wouldn't help that either. Hows the progress with 'DiskDrake'? Has anyone used it with success? Very useable. And yes everybody useing cooker pretty much. Thanks again to those who helped. William Bouterse Juneau, Alaska -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Re: [expert] Mandrake SSH ...
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: Denis Havlik wrote: : The versions of ssh currently on the ftp and download sites : is the old 1.2.27. This version has a newly discovered : bug in the RSAREF2 module which leaves your computer wide : open to hackers to execute root code. : This bug works only if you have RSAREF compiled in the ssh. That is, only if you are using the us-version. ssh -V tells you if RSAREF is compiled-in. cu Denis --- Denis Havlik ||| http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik (@ @) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -oOO--(_)--OOo- checkout www.freshmeat.net and search for install-ssh-1.0.5 I nabed that little script which went out and dl'ed the latest ssh and installed it for me. Just because you have the latest doesn't mean it's secure. Also because you've used a script means you know less about it, both the code and what it configured. Does this script also verify the the sig of the file it downloads? (i'm checking sites way slow) The point I'm getting at is you have a false sense of security. If your not paranoid your broken into . Finished checking, it doesn't check the sig, and it does add RSAREF. Uninstall it like asap. ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/Mandrake-crypto/ ftp://ftp.tvd.be/packages/mandrake-crypto/ ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake-crypto/ ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-crypto/ ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-crypto/ ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake-crypto/ ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-crypto/ ftp://crypto.linux-mandrake.com/pub/crypto/ and install this from one of the above. RPMS/ssh-1.2.27-2mdk.i586.rpm -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Streaming Media for Linux -- Quicktime?
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: I have used XMMS to get streaming Audio Jeanette Jeanette to the rescue :) as me and Benjamin were so quick to over look we can stream audio 6 ways from sunday.
Re: [newbie] help
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, boris wrote: what version of mandrake can i install on laptop 486,75Mhz,4Mb,300Mb hdd. on readme file on mandrake 6.0 i read tat you have a special version for this tipe machine. thank you! sorry for my english b 5.1 5.2 or 5.3 -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Re: Geforce was: [glx-dev] Comments from NVidia about drivers (fwd)
For those that were asking about Geforce drivers... -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 04:07:42 +0100 From: Wim Taymans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: glx-dev [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [glx-dev] Comments from NVidia about drivers Darin Ohashi wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Myers W. Carpenter wrote: From an irc chat log found at http://www.bjorn3d.com/subpages/features/ceochat/ I saw another chat like this, it can be found here: http://www.rivaextreme.com/features/geforce/chat/ The only real interesting bits, (as far a linux/X) are: [Jar]2 orlock WIll they still be supporting Xfree86/Mesa3D/glx/linux/etc like they have in the past? Nick Triantos Yes. Nick Triantos Next? and IBMosher RickR Do you have any details on if and when you will support the xFree DRI? Nick Triantos Lemme say this... I've seen some amazing performance out of GeForce, and there are some other products out there, no names mentioned, that sound great on paper, but aren't real until they're real. We ship products that you can benchmark. Nick Triantos RickR, sorry, we haven't announced anything about that. Chris Donahue Next? Anyway I found this while looking to see if the GeForce has X support. Does anyone here know if there is a Geforce X server? You can find the GeForce drivers here: http://www.s2.org/~jpaana/nv/ Wim Darin --- Because all other Floccinaucinihilipilification Homepages are worthless. The Floccinaucinihilipilification Homepage http://www.biogate.com/darino ___ glx-dev mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openprojects.net/mailman/listinfo/glx-dev -- One Bell System - it works. ___ glx-dev mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openprojects.net/mailman/listinfo/glx-dev
Re: [newbie] terminal emulator wont work
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi... i use mandrake 6.1 my terminal emulator didn't work properly.. i cannot see the cursor although it is there. all i can see is black box... but when i type a command (without seeing it) the command work.. e.g xvidtune.. any suggestion? Quit fiddleing with colors? Which one are you running, we can't tell you how to put it back if we don't know which one is messed up. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Virus Protection
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Mike Fieschko wrote: "John" == John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, you wrote: Is there a virus protection software package for Linux? Where can I get it if there is??? John Don't surf the 'Net as Root and you have little to worry John about. :-) There is very little that can be done to your John Linux box unless you run a hostile app as root (or SU.) [snip] Question: if I have my checking account information accessed by cbb (Check Book Balancer http://cbb.sourceforge.net), all my data files live in ~/.cbb, and are owned by mike.mike, permissions 100600. If I received a virus, and I was running as "mike", and the virus was running as "mike", would not the virus be able to delete or change the cbb data files? Right, but if you have a specific login you use for cbb and nothing else, and follow strict rules on when to root and when not to. Your data is a lot safer than it would be if you didn't. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Streaming Media for Linux -- Quicktime?
[..] 2) Aktion is great and with the "plugger" plug-in for Netscape you can play Quicktime directly in Netscape (but NOT streamed). Most of the QuickTime files it plays are QT version 2.1 or possibly version 3. However, Aktion cannot play the latest Quicktime 4 nor, most importantly, Quicktime4's streaming media, which is now the third major streaming media on the Net (after RealPlayer, Windows Media Player). Aktion is just a frontend for xanim, xanim does have other modules we can't legaly ship. [..] -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM Samsung
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Miguel Escobar wrote: Do somebody know where I can get a patcg for the CD_ROM 45X Samsung because Mandrake seem that didnt have it. Miguel And what patch would that be? is it ide or scsi, and what specificly isn't it doing? -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Startup issues...revisited
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Sam Roza wrote: Hello guys, You've all helped me so much this afternoon getting my video card almost recognised by mandrake. (I'm Sam Roza). Now that I've used xf86config to set things up, I get a picture...but all text is LAME. I see through the boxes, it leaves streaks, everything. I've tried every setting for acceleration(vga, svga, etc.), and almost every monitor setting. I've had it detect my clocks, I've had it load defaults etc., all to no avail. Can someone help? I have a Cirrus logic 5436 card...I'm to the end of my rope pretty much. Sam search for "Cirrus logic 54" in the archives... -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Install woes
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Glenn White wrote: you are ofcourse assuming I can even get to a Linux '/' prompt. I cant do anything with 'cause when it comes back up (the system) it has Win98 instead. I have my disk divided as follows, 1 = Win98 - fat326gigs 2 = fat32 2gigs 3 = Linux native5gigs 4 = Linux Swap 2gigs When I go thru druid I point out these (3 4) and have them used as my Linux partitions. It accepts it and we move on when I get to the point of the LILO, it seems to work just as well, however I do remember the '*' being on the Linux partitions and it not letting me select the fat32 partition, but it still completes with out incident, and it just does not work the way I am doing it. So you see I cant even get to the directories that you are reffering to cause I cant get the dual boot option. glenn When the screen appears thats asks "Install or Upgrade, there is an open conosle on tty2, - Original Message - From: hugahog [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Install woes Here is one way. Boot with the installation CD-Rom and select "upgrade". A little later you will have the opportunity of editing its selections of , say yes but don't change anything, just indicate your are done. You should then be given the opportunity to make a boot disk and maybe even have lilo installed on your boot mbr ( I forget exactly about that) either way you're all set then. If all you get is the boot disk you can go into linux and edit your /ect/lilo.conf file to show dos/linux and the priority of booting.If you do edit lilo.conf (as root) you will then need to run /sbin/lilo to have it go into effect. Larry -Original Message- From: Glenn White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, December 16, 1999 11:27 AM Subject: [newbie] Install woes I have recently purchased the retail version on Mandrake ver 6.5, I tried installing several different ways, I have Win98 on my primary partition, with SysytemCommander booting up. First I tried by going thru the System Commander, however it does not recogniges the floppy as an install disk for the OS, so next I remove SystemCommander and I was going to use LILO to do the switch between the two. However after it said install was complete ( and I always try the defaults first) I rebooted the system only to have Win98 come up on its own, I am aparently doing something wrong but the Documents dont stipulate anything that I may be doing wrong, and I bought just for the documents, other wise I just would have used the copy I got from the COMDEX99 in Vagas! Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, Ive pretty much gave up until I can get such help. I tried to sign up for support for the version I bought thru the Macmillian Pub. but they make it too damn difficult to do so. So he I sit in my dark corner looking for a way into the light! glenn -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Ultra 66 controllers and Linux
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Balaji Prasad wrote: I have seen that the SUSE 6.3 Distribution claims to support Ultra66. Has anybody verified this on their system ?? Thanks for the correction. That explains why I pulled my hair out looking for it. I guess I should have read your previous E-mail a little better. Thanks again, Matt Andrea Hedrik, who writes the ide patch works at SuSE so it doesn't suprise me they choose to support HD's over cdroms. We went the other way.
Re: [newbie] How To AutoLoad Modules?
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: How do I autostart the module "modprobe bttv" ? Seve There should be a v4l howto that explains what needs setup in conf.modules, i don't remeber the aliases off the top of my head however so you getta go hunting. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Charles wrote: UNSUBSCRIBE almost, bet it'd work better if it was sent to the right address :) mailto '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' -s 'UNSUB newbie' -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Red HaT
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Tom Hicks wrote: I had Mandrake on my system. I just formatted it and want to install Red Hat. I am getting a loader error. It will go through the boot. I type in expert. says loading initrd.img. loading vmlinuzboot failed. Any suggestions? floppy disk with bad sector is the usual cause for this.
Re: [newbie] Problem with Telnet ????
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Eduardo P. Roman O. wrote: My hostname is eroman-pc, and try to do telnet eroman-pc, this don't work, becouse the linux say the remote hosts disconnect. How knows what happened here ? I have and IP and when I do a ping eroman-pc this replay OK. Eduardo install telnet-server -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Duplicate emails.
I hope maybe it's fixed and we just need to wait it out, i haven't seen this thread loop yet. On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, bluebottle wrote: Don't think this is a sender error as it's happening to nearly all mail. More likely to be a server error. On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, you wrote: I have been getting a LOT of duplicate emails. This is the 4-5th time for this one. Don't send multiple copies! It's driving me nuts, and there's no way to filter multiple copies in my email program. -Original Message- From: Tony Fey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 10:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Diamond SupraExpress Problem To anyone that can help, I just installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 and it did not setup my supraexpress 56k V.90 modem, chipset 2120. That is because the modem is pnp i'm guessing, went to www.linuxnewbie.com and read their article on installing an isapnp modem. Did all the setserial and editing the isapnp.conf file to change it to detect the modem at com1, both serial ports are diabled in the bios and i have no other isa cards. I keep getting a conflict with irq 4, when i set it for com2, i get a conflict with irq3, any setting right now gets a conflict. my computer is an amdk6-2 450, asus p5a mainboard, voodoo3 3000, sound blaster live value, intel pro100 management nic, and da modem. if anyone has seen this problem or knows the fix for it plz reply to the list or e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED], i checked the list archives and didn't see any problems like this one. thanks a whole lot in advance, this is the only reason why windows is still on my computer, once the modem works goodbye billie boy's software. tony
Re: [newbie] KDE expert needed
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Gene Zesch wrote: Thanks for your reply, Axalon. But after I su and have superuser powers shouldn't I be able to open the /root dir.? That would depend on how you got there. If your su'd in a terminal, no you wouldn't. If you've gone thru "Filemanager (SuperUser mode)" yes you would. Actualy you'd have access to it "from" the terminal you were su'd from, but not from kfm. -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linuxlist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE expert needed On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Gene Zesch wrote: My machine was turned off by accident, causing lots of file damage, and was unbootable. I managed to start it with the rescue boot disk and mounted and fsck'ed /hda1. It now starts, but if I log in as root there are no icons on the desktop, and the panel buttons dont work. If I log on as a user everything looks normal. cp -r /etc/skel/.kde ~/ A related symptom... if I su then open KFM the root directory icon and 2 of the 3 /home/xxx user directories icons have a belt and buckle around them, and KFM says it cannot list directory contents. Nothing wrong there you don't have permission to the dir this is how kfm shows it as locked. Anyone help me before I reinstall? Thanks, Gene
Re: [newbie] Axalon .. Junk Mail In List?
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Mark Fitzgerald wrote: Hi Axalon .. Just wondering how this found its way to the list? I got one direct aswell. Just wondering if you noticed it? They never quit .. do they?! Mark .. Properties: Appologies to all, this will(should/better) be fixed when they finish with the server changeover.
Re: [newbie] The FREE In Linux
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jeff Shaw wrote: I have this problem because my network uses DHCP instead of unique IPs. Linux's bootnet disk does not properly support my network's dhcp so I can't do network installs. This might be the case with your problem. jeff Is your experiance the same? Roughly 40-50 packages, and then it stops? Sounds like dhcp lease is expireing and not getting renewed. - Original Message - From: isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 9:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] The "FREE" In Linux you know if you take a dos disk and boot it up ( with cd support if your distribution is on cd ) and run the autoboot.bat file in the directory dosutils you dont need a boot disk On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, root wrote: Ok, Iv been Trying to Download Mandrake 6.1, I make a boot disk, for bootnet.img, And Start it up, I put in the FTP server, and it Starts Downloading, Then All of a sudden it starts downloading a new file and it dosnt start downloading it, I Try all the ALT Tabs, No Errors, Is Linux Really Free? Thanks, Plz Help It sounds like maybe you're having connection problems. Yes, Linux is really free; however, if you don't have a fast and stable internet connection you might be better off getting a Linux CD (only around 2 dollars U.S.). Or another way you can approach getting it off the net is downloading the distribution with a normal FTP program, and then installing from your hard drive. -Tom Or, if you have access to a cdr, you can download the iso image and make a bootable cd out of it... you may not want to do that over an unstable connection though. DvB -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] GeForce supported ?
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Lang Zhi wrote: Hi, Is Nvidia GeForce supported in Mandrake 6.1 ? Should run with the svga server, there isn't any acceleration that i know of. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] hdc1 win98 partition lost
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Bernard Pidoux wrote: I have to hard disks on a Pentium pro PC system. Booting Win98 or Linux from different partitions using lilo did not work on both drives. So I decided to have one disk with Win98 and the other with Linux. I was happy I could boot from one disk with Win98 and the other with Linux until I made a new installation of Linux mandrake 6.1 with server class option on /dev/hda. Thes installation was a succes. But while doing this the installation process apparently erased the win98 FATand boot sector on hdc1 hard disk. I am pretty sure the disk has not been formated but I don't know why the installation removed the boot record and the FAT on Win98 drive. Before I re-install Win98 on /dev/hdc, does somebody have any solution to recover the data on the win98 drive ? if you have a backup of the partition table, and have not written anything to hdc# yet it is recoverable. Thanks, Dr Bernard Pidoux, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Service d'explorations fonctionnelles neurologiques Groupe Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere 47-83 Boulevard de l'Hopital 75651 Paris Cedex 13 -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Install
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Tom Kyle wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Tom Kyle wrote: How would i go about that? Replaceing or adding? -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon ? I would like to Install Mandrake 6.1 Via my hard drive, how would i do that, sence i cant use a boot disk to install it Obviously to early that went right ver my head the first time. The prefered way is to download the iso and use that, but you want to install from HD likely cause you don't have a cdr. The best way to download is to get it in a tarball, your ftp client must beable todo a manual get, and the server must support 'get dir.tar' (most do), extract that to your HD and make the new floppy and yur off and running
Re: [newbie] enough already
And i've just verified there is no problem with sympa. On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Hugh Semmler wrote: Go to the mandrake site and click on lists. Under where you sign up for the list. Click remove with your address Simple I have tried it twice and it works On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, you wrote: I did. I followed them to the letter and i am still not off the list. Plus i have read all the email suggestions EXACTLY and still to no avail. So, chances are that you will continue to see these messages until the problem gets fixed. At 10:58 AM 12-09-1999 -0800, you wrote: Can individuals stop emailing everyone on how to get off this list. If they had kept the original email, it would save us alot of reoccurring emails. When I check my emails in the morning, half are about getting off the list. Read these emails that we are sending about how to get off and save them in a folder. Then in the future (if required) use the right info to unsubscribe. Thank you and I think I speak for everyone. Serpico "You talkin' to me?" -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Install
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Tom Kyle wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Tom Kyle wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Tom Kyle wrote: How would i go about that? Replaceing or adding? -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon ? I would like to Install Mandrake 6.1 Via my hard drive, how would i do that, sence i cant use a boot disk to install it Obviously to early that went right ver my head the first time. The prefered way is to download the iso and use that, but you want to install from HD likely cause you don't have a cdr. The best way to download is to get it in a tarball, your ftp client must beable todo a manual get, and the server must support 'get dir.tar' (most do), extract that to your HD and make the new floppy and yur off and running could i just download the ISO and use a hard drive install I don't think winimage handles rockridge format cds, but either way it will still need to copy the fies out to the HD -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Dialin .. ahhh?
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Mark Fitzgerald wrote: Hi all, I think I can get the dialin to my server working, but I need to know where to add a little more info for my provider. We have to use a script to connect and the server assigns the IP and Nameserver address. In Win95/98 .. the script looks like this: proc main transmit "^M" waitfor "ogin" transmit "user^M" waitfor "assword:" transmit "pass^M" waitfor "$" transmit "/usr/local/bin/ppp^M" waitfor "~" endproc How do I setup this script in .. Mandrake 6.1 as seen above? 'ABORT' 'BUSY' 'ABORT' 'ERROR' 'ABORT' 'NO CARRIER' 'ABORT' 'NO DIALTONE' 'ABORT' 'Invalid Login' 'ABORT' 'Login incorrect' '' 'ATF1' 'OK' 'ATDT##' 'CONNECT' '' '' '^M' 'ogin' 'userXXX' 'ord:' 'passXXX' '$' '/usr/local/bin/pppd' '~--' '' Thank You! -- Mark mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] " It is now safe to shutdown your computer _ or is it ... HaHaHaa ?! " -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] KDE and kpanel
Thought i answered this one but we'll try again. If you look in ~/ at the . files (ls -a) you'll see a file .Xclients-HOSTNAME-:0.0 you need to delete or edit it On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, R_Yeo wrote: I really messed up this time: Running KDE. On a whim, I decided to try out switchdesk. It came up and gave me 2 choices KDE and Anotherlevel. I chose Anotherlevel and clicked on the "Change only applies to current display" It then tells me to restart X. I did that but it then tells me something like "Chosen fwm2, but it does not appear to be properly installed. Using TWM" when I do a startx. It then dumps me into a blank X server. Fortunately, I have an xterm in Autostart which starts up. So I try switchdesk again and selected KDE. After going thru' everything,I get dumped into the plain X server again. I then try a startkde and I get my KDE desktop. But without the kpanel? bar at the bottom, and only one screen. I always boot up into level 3 and start X manually, but when I boot directly into level 5,(just to check) I get the full KDE environment. What's going on here? Is it that "Change only applies to current display" thingy? I would like to have my proper KDE desktop back again with my 6 virtual desktops(starting X manually). Help. Please point me to the files I have to edit, etc. TIA -- Ronald -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] cant enable ound event in enlightement
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Michel Gratton wrote: Hi ! I cant enable sound events in gnome or enlightenment... i get an error message when i try to enable it in e-conf error cant connect to esound other sound apps work fine. ( Like xmms ) any ideas ? Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] are you useing the oss, or esound output plugin for xmms? cp /etc/esd.conf ~/.esd.conf and edit out the '-nobeeps' this will let you know if it's actualy starting. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Kernal Probs
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote:
Is there a way of checking what is compiled in the default
2.2.13-22 Kernal? I'd like to use it as a base for compiling
Me too. It would be great if Mandrake took the .config file used for the
stock kernel, and put it in the kernel-source package, to give a newbie
kernel-compilers a good base to start from.
try kernel-docs, specificly /usr/doc/kernel-doc-%{version}/config/
-Tom
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--Axalon
Re: [newbie] Fw: Unsubscribing method [OT]
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Ken wrote: Send an email to 'sympa@linux-mandrake' with the subject 'UNSUB newbie' The list was just changed over from majordomo, the website should be updated (soon?) Above is a copy of a recent message from Axalon. If you wish to leave this excellent group follow the instructions. Alternatively you can use a 14lb sledgehammer on your computer. Did that, and got this back: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - sympa@linux-mandrake - Transcript of session follows - 550 sympa@linux-mandrake... Host unknown (Name server: linux-mandrake: host not found) Well obviously its a typo from me, theres not tdl .linux-mandrake A little common sense put the .com on the end -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] KDE desktop icon permissions
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Pierre Lucas wrote: On Mon, 06 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Pierre Lucas wrote: I have an ATI Mach 64 (CT) card running at 1024X768 in 16 bpp. The resolution is fine, like it has always been in OS/2 including xfree86OS/2., but when I scroll vertically or move a window on the display, I see thin white lines flicker across the screen. I uncommented the memory line in the config file and changed the refresh rates to match the monitor specs to no avail. Is this something that can be fixed with XConfigurator? No problems here on the AIW :( Sorry, I don't understand the AIW but the :( doesn't look good. ATI - All In a Wonder, same chipset.. If there's no other way than to try out different modelines, I guess I eventually will but would prefer a simpler solution. I must add that the scrolling also produces interference in the sound, in Netscape and locally also. The CDs play fine though as the player is connected directly to the soundcard. Sounds like a k6 to me. Do you mean an AMD K6 cpu? It's actually an IBM/Cyrix 6x86 PR166+. Is anything wrong with AMD or IBM/Cyrix cpus? They have (bigger) io problems with sound. People say everything from "Works here(tm)", "OSS, fixed my problem", and of course some say "Alsa". So i assume it's more of a User+Pc thing, mp3's and non acclerated graphics just pretty much don't mix.. [..] Unplug the phone cord from the modem and see if that makes a difference. I tried with the computer off. If I unplug the phone cord from the modem and You need it isolated from the pc, powering off isn't enough. it works, what should I then do? Can I do this unplugging business while the Complain to the Teleco and modem manufacturer (tell them both the other said it was their problem, or they'll bounce you around). What would be happening in that case is the modem is shorting the signal, or bleeding power, which means the modems fryed or your teleco company sucks and they can send somebody to retune the lines so the signal is as it should be. computer is running? Just to be sure, you do mean the actual phone cord, not yes, you don't need to loose uptime just to disconnect the modem, any transfers will stop of course. the cord that is plugged in the wall outlet? The "Telephone Cord", from either the back of the pc or the wall which ever is easiest to get at. I've read so much during the last six weeks trying to find answers to these little problems, and others that I managed to settle on my own, and I read somewhere that the modem could be picking up the signal, letting it through to the phone but not giving back any signal, or something. Something like the Lets clarify what kind of TAD (Telephone Answering Device) your trying to get working. From your original post i thought it was the "electronic answering" that most teleco's provide here. Is this what we're talking about? Or are we talking run of the mill off the shelf answering machine? Or useing a voice modem to setup the linuxbox as ananswering machine? modem command set or something. I'll try to find where I read that, but if you can point me in the right direction it will be appreciated. When a modem is set to answer data calls and pass voice calls onto a phone, they do funny things to determine if it's data or voice. I don't recommend it as a stable setting, if at all affordable get one line for voice one for data/fax. Much thanks in advance. Pierre Lucas -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate problems
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jim Vaughan wrote: When I go to install the update for MandrakeUpdate I get a dependency problem. Supposedly wget and grpmi are not installed on my system. Where should I go to find these two files on the Mandrake distribution? or where can I download them from? Thanks in advance, Jim Vaughan Cute, I dunno how it happened but they are on the cdrom. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
