Re: [newbie] SATA Raid
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:58:17 +0200 Vincent Voois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your SATA bios already has troubles with both drives i would suggest the following: First check your master/slave jumpers on the harddrives (are they correctly set?) One of the drive's labels states; Master/slave jumper not required for SATA Jumpered pins 1 and 2 disable SSC (Spread Spectrum Clocking) Jumpered pins 3 and 4 enable PM2 (Power up in Standby) No mention of pins 5 and 6 or 7 and 8. Default is 1 and 2 jumpered The other drive simply says 3 and 4 enable PM2 Then check which drive the SATA card does see (on which connector) Then switch the drives and see if there is any change. I wasn't clear on this point... when I said no change when switching cables. etc., I meant only one drive lists all info - like so: 1 WDC WD1600JD-00FYB0 152627 MB The second drive shows as: 2 0 MB with pins 3 and 4 jumpered, and: 2 WDC WD1600 0 MB with pins 1 and 2 jumpered It's the same using data connectors 1 and 2 - or 2 and 3 or 1 and 3. That is, it's always the same physical disk that shows all info wherever it's placed and whichever cable is used to connect it. The thing is, this drive that isn't working properly is a replacement. When going into the SATA setup utility with the returned unit, I'd hear 10 rather loud clicks - so the it went back to the store. Now I'm hearing a single click (not so loud) when starting the setup utility, I see the info above and about 10 seconds later the drive spins down, while the other one just keeps on spinning. Guess it must be the drive again - but that strikes me as not likely - or at least odd. Both this troubled one and the one I returned had black cases, the one that works is in a silver case. Both were manufactured in 2004 in March and May. On top of that, the guy I've been dealing with tells me he's had WD drives (exclusively) running in 6 machines some for as long a seven years and never had a problem with them. ah well... .If not:the drives are both good, either your cable or card id defective, snip It seems the card itself is ok then - so I guess it's back to the store. For RAID functionality within any OS, you do require specific drivers to run. About Mandrake 10.0 is stated it has a couple of drivers you can select. Let's just hope your's is amongst them: http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html It is... SI says that the driver is included in the 2.6 kernel - it's the SIL3114 IIRC. Thanks for the input. Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SATA Raid
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:18:48 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm really not trying to be rude, just practical, but since this question actually has nothing to do with Linux, the support site for your card or motherboard might be a better place to ask about this. Yeah... I meant to adjust the topic before I sent it, just that there's so much knowledge/experience in the folks on this list, it's the first place I think to try. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SATA Raid
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:42:36 +0200 Vincent Voois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the drive is ticking / clicking when operating, this sounds not good, but you know for sure if you attach the drive to a single-bus IDE connector. Unfortunately, the drive has no IDE connector. If you buy a drive watch out for such vacuum-sealing methods, they're not properly designed to last long. Hmmm... I'm assuming you're talking about the label covering the top of the drive? Both the working and not-working drives have holes on the top besides the ones under the label.. so maybe I've dodged a bullet here? Another tip:avoid placing drives directly above or below cooling fans:they disrupt the drive and make it crash and even break it down. Also never EVER buy fan-racks for harddrives, it's not nesessary and your harddrive will die within three months if you nail those racks under your HD. There is a Compaq desktop type machine (DP/EP800 series) which have the harddrives mounted directly above the coolingfan of the CPU. These drives burn out constantly. (Fujitsu's in this case) May take a year or little longer, but they won't last three years. Thanks good to know! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SATA Raid
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:52:28 +0200 Vincent Voois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/richer/ens/deug2/ud44/img/dd4.jpg - the dark-grey strip covers a very large space. The newer techniques pasting the top plates onto the bottom-case. It is much better, but i still run into the older type of drives occasionally. I see yes I have an older model like the one pictured... I'll handle it much more carefully now. The only seal I can see on the newer drives are small foil oblongs on the side of the cases. This could be an expensive lesson to learn the hard way. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SATA Raid
I'm trying to set up RAID 1 array with two 160G WD Caviar disks. Both disks are new and blank POST shows the RAID PCI card but shows one disk as 0 MB. Switching cables, positions on the PCI card and the PCI slots themselves makes no difference. When I go into the SATA setup and choose RAID 1 the program freezes whether I choose automatic or manual setup. Occasionally when I choose RAID 1 (or 0) it tells me there are not enough drives to set up an array, If anyone experienced with setting up a RAID array might have an educated guess as to whether the PCI card or the mobo may be a cause for this behavior or any other ideas, it would be much appreciated. Thanks Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install problem
I have Mdk 10.0 on hda and just put Slackware 10.0 on hdc then thought I'd put Mdk on hdc's remaining space. The install fails after choosing language and accepting the agreement. Eventually it drops to the shell and says ...exited with signal 8 The last thing I see before the error message is the hard drive detection stage. I've also had Debian on the disk but Mdk won't go with it either. I've also tried the install with Mdk as the only OS on the disk. On a whim I downloaded and burned the 1st disc again (md5sum checks out) and tried with it, but no luck. The RAM (512 MB SDRAM) passes the Memtest86 tests with no problem. Any guesses would be appreciated. Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .mov sound
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:37:32 -0500 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root, modprobe snd_seq_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm_oss john # modprobe snd_seq_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm_oss FATAL: Error inserting snd-seq-oss (/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko.g z): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) dmesg had nothing in it related to sound. cat dmesg returns cat: dmesg: No such file or directory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .mov sound
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:07:05 -0500 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # modprobe snd_seq_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm_oss FATAL: Error inserting snd-seq-oss (/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss. ko.g z): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) dmesg had nothing in it related to sound. cat dmesg returns cat: dmesg: No such file or directory don't cat dmesg, just run it as any other command: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ dmesg Tell us what it says about that sound module when you try to modprobe it. You might have to reinstall the kernel (or upgrade it, they're up to 2.6.8.1 now). John Ok After running modprobe, dmesg shows Unknown parameter snd_pcm_oss -removing it from the command it then shows Unknown parameter snd_mixer_oss removing that, the command returns the command prompt only. This is telling me that those two modules are not installed, yes? I'm currently running 2.6.3-7mdk - urpmq kernel shows nothing more recent. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .mov sound
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:45:25 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think modprobe accepts only _one_ module name as parameter, so you would use: # modprobe snd_seq_oss # modprobe snd_pcm_oss # modprobe snd_mixer_oss # If you get back the command prompt everything went ok, but I think those modules are already loaded. You can always check with '/sbin/lsmod' which modules are loaded. HTH, -Frans Yes, it appears that all those modules are loaded. thanks Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] .mov sound
I'm getting no sound while playing .mov files in Totem. What should I be looking for to resolve this issue? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .mov sound
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:57:13 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 13:35, C. Tresenriter wrote: I'm getting no sound while playing .mov files in Totem. What should I be looking for to resolve this issue? Is it just .mov files? Possible causes may be :- Your mixer control is muted :- Play with all the sliders. Try a different sound server:- If you use KDE open KDEControlCentreSoundSoundSystem Select Alsa instead of auto detect. (KDE seems to select OSS even if Alsa is available) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org I don't use Totem much but have had the same results with .avi files Real Player works as does xmms. Tried Alsa but get a messages telling me there's no such device as /dev/dsp and it will continue to use the null output device. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .mov sound
My last post was a little misleading. I had tried alsa before I'd posted the original question. Don't remember exactly when I saw the ...null output messaage but it wasn't when I tried alsa - that just gave no sound as with oss. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: F@H/BOINC was: Starting folding at home automatically... Charlie
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 18:11:58 -0700 Roland Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have they got a Boinc client yet? The Seti group are going to the Boinc Boinc client in order to share the many pc's that currently run Seti. Roly Did a bit of research and found this. Similar aims as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and is on BOINC Still in alpha-test stage. http://predictor.scripps.edu/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:16:11 -0600
Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for reminding me! I totally forgot to turn the protein
folding back on when I switched to the new machine. Woops. Two
weeks lost. Thank {Deity} the old system is still chugging away.
Charlie
- --
I just realized the same thing after a rare reboot.
What would I need to do to make the prog start automatically on
reboot?
Would a cron job do it?
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Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:08:42 -0600
Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
On Friday 06 August 2004 04:42:04, C. Tresenriter wrote:
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:16:11 -0600
Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for reminding me! I totally forgot to turn the protein
folding back on when I switched to the new machine. Woops. Two
weeks lost. Thank {Deity} the old system is still chugging
away.
Charlie
- --
I just realized the same thing after a rare reboot.
What would I need to do to make the prog start automatically on
reboot?
Would a cron job do it?
I suppose you could cron the start up, but why go to that trouble?
If you're using either of the main window managers couldn't you
just save the session and watch it resume after you log back in?
I'm fairly positive kcron would do it, but the folding app runs in
user space so why get root involved at all? g
Hmmm... I never would have thought of that simple solution!
Thanks Charlie - and Paul for your responses
Curt
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[newbie] Starting folding at home automatically... Charlie
I must have misunderstood you. I have kde set to save the session when booting up and had the folding client running in a terminal on an unused desktop but on rebooting it didn't start. Obviously there's something else I need to do. What is it I'm missing? Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution default browser
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 17:27, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 03:22, C. Tresenriter wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 12:16, Stephen Kühn wrote: So do I understand correctly that I must start from the gnome desktop to access this? Either run it from a run dialogue, or from a terminal. stephen kuhn - proprietor Thanks... didn't have it installed. But it did resolve the issue, didn't it? stephen kuhn - proprietor Yes, thanks! It's now opening Opera... though it's replacing the currently open tab rather than opening the new one next to the current one. A little experimenting and I'll get it. Thanks again Stephen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution default browser
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:58, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 01:40, C. Tresenriter wrote: Where is the file that I would edit to make links in Evolution open opera rather than konq? I'm using kde for now. Thanks gconf-editor = desktop = gnome = url-handlers = http stephen kuhn - proprietor So do I understand correctly that I must start from the gnome desktop to access this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution default browser
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 12:16, Stephen Kühn wrote: So do I understand correctly that I must start from the gnome desktop to access this? Either run it from a run dialogue, or from a terminal. stephen kuhn - proprietor Thanks... didn't have it installed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Printer config
I am trying to set up network printing through an SMC Barricade router (4 port) I have tried several configurations with no success so far. I've entered the Gateway address for the Barricade but I believe that the default port (9100) is incorrect. How do I determine what port is used for printing? Thanks Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printer config
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:53:02 +0300 Amichai Rotman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Curt, If you're using the CUPS system, you need to enable port 631 HTH, Thanks Amachai, Haven't quite got it figured yet but I'm getting closer. Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install crashes computer
I'm attempting an upgrade as a last ditch effort after getting nowhere trying to troubleshoot a Kernel panic : No init found error. It's Mdk 10.0 Official Can anyone tell me what might be the problem from the error message? Entering step 'Language' Gdk-Warning ** locale not supported by Xlib at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps-gtk.pm line 165 Gdk-Warning ** can not set locale modifiers at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 165 Entering step 'License' Entering step Configure mouse' Entering step 'Hard drive detection' exited abnormally :-( --received signal 8 (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument sending termination signals. done Sending kill signal (etc) I've used the discs to do several installs, one just yesterday. Also have installed Deb and Slack on the hardware but not this hard disk. Thanks, Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 07:07:39 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: arts is the default sound system in KDE. You can, however, turn arts completely off and use OSS directly, you just won't get sounds in KDE or if you do get sounds, they won't coexist with other items such as xmms. To disable arts, disable it in Configuration, KDE, Sound System by turning system sounds off. However, as a first step, let me recommend that you add the PLF repository, or Charles' repository to urpmi and install xmms and xmms-arts plugin from those sites to make sure that you have the newest versions. Also, you might consider switching your hardware sound drivers from OSS to ALSA which is a newer architecture and might be better supported under newer versions of Mandrake. I believe it showed up as selectable after I switched from Auto to Threaded OSS for the audio device or maybe just after I re-started xmms - but it still crashed playing a file using the arts plugin. If your only sound concern is xmms, you might also try starting xmms under the soundwrapper application. Change the executeable link in your menu from xmms to soundwrapper xmms to see if that works better. - Bryan Phinney Thanks Bryan, I believe it's Charles version that I installed and PLF is already a source also. I'll get to switching drivers after the weekend and reading up on the process. Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Xmms crashes
I have 10.0 Official installed and get sound with Realplay but xmms has problems. When I load a CD to play and click on a track it crashes. If I start a stream, it buffers and looks like it's connected - shows that it's a stereo signal, but there's no sound and the timer sits at zero. Then if I try to close it with the 'x' button, the button stays depressed and the app stays open. If I then try to go to right click and go to options or grab it at the top it closes. I'd thought it had something to do with the Arts soundwrapper - which I remember solved another problem in the past but removing it from the xmms info in the menu tool didn't help. Seems like I resolved this in an earlier version of MDK but I'm coming up blank this time. Does this behavior sound familiar to anyone? Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:08:38 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Install the xmms-aRts plugin and open up xmms, go to Options, preferences and under output plugins, select the newly installed Arts plugin. Change the buffering to your desire and you should be good to go. -- Bryan Phinney Well I found an rpm - xmmsarts-0.4-1.i586.rpm - and installed it but it's not showing up in the choices drop down and it's not in the Plugins directory!? Tried to run the installer again and it told me everything was already installed. rpm -e pkg name tells me it's not installed. Which one's lying here?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 02:58:26 +0700 Bambang Gunawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try at xmms Preferences Output Plugins, choose arts output Umm embarrassed smiley yeah, but it's greyed out. use command: rpm -qa|grep xmms you'll see in there Yop there it is. Bambang Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:54:54 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open xmms, Click on the O before you play any file. Then Preferences. Under Audio I/O Plugins, look in the lower pain, you should see Output Plugin and it will be set to something like alsa or oss. Click on the drop down list and you should see an entry for aRts Output 0.7.1 [libarts.so] Select that one and click apply. Now try to play a file and see if it still locks up. If you are still having trouble, try deleting the ~/.xmms direcotry and letting it recreate the next time you start up. Then before you play anything, go into prefs and make the change. -- /g After deleting the dir the aRts output plugin was still the choice but it still crashed when playing a file and the stream did the same as before - looked connected but no movement in the timer. I'm wondering if getting xmms from a different source would make a difference. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:39:10 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 07:17 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: Umm embarrassed smiley yeah, but it's greyed out. Just to make sure that you are not expending time on something that is not a problem, why not try this, drop to a konsole and type killall artsd. Then run XMMS and play a music file, if you hear sound, then it is definitely the xmms-arts plugin that is the solution. If it still locks up when artsd is closed, then the problem is something else. That did it!! The CD's playing with the OSS output plugin - with the aRts plugin it still crashes. So it KDE's sound system that needs tweaking?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:59:49 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open xmms, Click on the O before you play any file. Then Preferences. Under Audio I/O Plugins, look in the lower pain, you should see Output Plugin and it will be set to something like alsa or oss. Click on the drop down list and you should see an entry for aRts Output 0.7.1 [libarts.so] Select that one and click apply. Now try to play a file and see if it still locks up. -- Bryan Phinney It doesn't lock up... it just shuts down. The stream acts the same as before. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:44:52 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 09:28 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: That did it!! The CD's playing with the OSS output plugin - with the aRts plugin it still crashes. So it KDE's sound system that needs tweaking?? My guess is that something on your system is not setup properly. Either artsd is not running at boot up or something else is locking it so that the xmms plugin can't use it. If arts isn't running at bootup why did killing it allow xmms to play? ...and what's the option to arts? Arts also isn't listed under 'systems' in mcc... I thought it was in 9.1 You might try tweaking the settings in KDE to run with a higher priority, also click on the Auto-suspend if idle checkbox and reduce the time allotted. We have seen issues previously multiple devices accessing the sound system would cause lockups and, at least on my system, reducing the auto suspend time to 3 seconds cleared those issues up. If the xmms-arts output plugin is not selectable, you are definitely going to have issues running xmms from within KDE. I believe it showed up as selectable after I switched from Auto to Threaded OSS for the audio device or maybe just after I re-started xmms - but it still crashed playing a file using the arts plugin. Now I have sounds from both streaming and a CD with the OSS plugin. Also, before I got no response when clicking the 'test sound' button in the configure KDE sound system - now I hear it. The auto-suspend function was already checked with 1 second for idle time Enabling the realtime priority doesn't seem to make a difference - xmms-arts still doesn't function but OSS is fine, which is ok with me except I need to kill arts every time before xmms will play. Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD playing? :-\
On 06 Jul 2004 16:09:52 -0400 Eric Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently reinstalled Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my good ol' Pentium 1 @ 233Mhz. It's an old computer, but it had a 40x12x48 CD RW drive. I have sound up and running fine (via sndconfig), but the CD player still doesn't play CDs. The counter runs and it does everything else it's supposed to do, except for actually spit out the sound. Anybody know how I can fix this? I'm pretty newbie so be basic. Thanx, ES Volumes are muted by default - run Aumix and/or Kmix and check. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Burning DVDs from an iso
Anyone have an opinion on the best way/program to burn a bootable iso to a DVD -R disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RESOLVED Troubleshooting hardware
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:48:12 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C. Tresenriter wrote: Appears I spoke too soon. Once I put the CD/DVD back on the cable I got the error again. BOth units are set to the cable select position. H. ? Strange. I wonder if there is a conflict in the IDE modes the units susport? I don't have any experence with DVD drives (yet), but with CD-ROM drives, I normaly try to hand them off a different interface then the hard drive, because of the access speed differences. I have also found some IDE devices that will not share the same cable. It is not as common as it used to be, but it still does pop up now and then. Is there any way you can put the devices on different IDE interfaces? Mikkel Mikkel Sorry for the delay in replying - I've been away for a while. When I got back to it, I experimentd with a few different CDROMs - all of which allowed me to boot the hd with no problem. I re-installed Mdk with one of them and was then able to use it with the DVD on the cable again. ?? I don't understand but it's working every time now. Thanks for the input. Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RESOLVED Troubleshooting hardware
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:06:01 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might do better to change the jumpers from cable select to explicit master/slave if you are trying to hook a hard drive up to the same controller as as CD/DVD. Also, Make the hd the master, not the CD/DVD device. And, in addition, CD/DVD devices routinely support lower transfer rates than do hard drives and IDE is limited to only connecting all devices at the highest possible speed of the lowest speed device. Thus, if the CD/DVD is only ATA33 and the hard drive is ATA100, hooking them to the same controller will limit the hard drive to ATA33 speeds. This is usually unacceptable from a performance perspective which is why people hook them up to separate controllers whenever possible. From personal experience, I have a machine right now that only has standard IDE controllers available. Two controllers and I currently have 4 devices in side it, 3 hard drives and 1 DVD+RW. On the channel where the DVD sits, I had to explicitly jumper the hd as master and the DVD as slave, or else I had device problems. You might be suffering from a similar issue.-- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Bryan I plan to put another hd in the machine - when I do it will be slave to the Seagate as you've suggested. I finally used a different unit - CDROM - and got Mdk re-installed and everything was working fine. After replacing the DVD as slave, it's still working. I'm at a loss to understand what was happening but *was* is the key word. Thanks for the ideas. Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT: This is so cool!!
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Re: [newbie] Troubleshooting hardware
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:58:35 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dumb question time - Are the connectors on that cable labeled for where they should be plugged in? (Motherboard, drive 0, drive 1) If so, are you plugging things in the correct place? You may also have to try cable select instead of master/slave... Mikkel -- They are labled... the end connector says it's the master one... and it's installed properly. I've never used cable select setting before - and it may work and allow me to avoid the issue altogther but if it's possible I would like to understand what's going on in addition to getting things working better than intermittently - failing that, getting things working would be good enough. If I understand correctly, a disk that sits at drive 0 would be looking for the boot record in one place and that same disk at drive 1 would be looking to boot from the same place but would want to see a different label - hdb as opposed to hda. Would this be basically correct? Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Troubleshooting hardware
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:56:13 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I were you, I would try changing to cable select, and see if that fixes the problem. I know that one setup I have does not work right when useing the cable select cable, and jumpering as master, or slave. (The drive also says to use cable select if possible...) Well that seems to have solved the issue, it's booting from the primary channel, master position on the cable. Guess I'll leave well enough alone. Thanks Mikkel! Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Troubleshooting hardware
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:57:08 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that seems to have solved the issue, it's booting from the primary channel, master position on the cable. Guess I'll leave well enough alone. Appears I spoke too soon. Once I put the CD/DVD back on the cable I got the error again. BOth units are set to the cable select position. H. ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Troubleshooting hardware
I'm trying to determine if my hard disk is bad or if the problem is motherboard related or something else entirely. When booting 10. CE, after running POST, I occasionally get: Disk boot failure: Insert systems disk and press enter to continue Yesterday I received a replacement mobo from ASUS, plugged everything in, Mandrake started up - everything worked. I switched to another machine via KVM switch where I was installing Slackware. When that install was complete, I switched back to the mdk machine to do some googling only to find the above mentioned error on the screen. I downloaded seagate's diagnostic tools and ran the long test on the hd. Three or four hours later, it informed me that the drive and cable had passed all the tests. Since the install was new and untweaked I thought I'd try to re-install mdk. The partitioning and install was flawless but on reboot I received the error message again. Later, on a whim I put the drive in the secondary slave position on the primary channel (it was installed as hda and the jumper is set to the master position) and lo and behold it booted and ran. I then put it back on the master connecter IDE cable and again it started the OS. I've switched them back and forth several times this morning and it has booted and run every time. On the seconday channel I get the error whtaever the position on the cable. My #2 machine is not in a state, at present, that I can use it to check the drive there. The Seagate techs told me that the error message would indicate a damaged boot sector and *I* thought that if the boot sector was bad (if, in fact it is) that it would never get to the stage where lilo runs. In an effort to figure out where to go next, I'm wondering if it's possible that *if* the boot sector *is* bad, could it still work on occasion?... or sholud I just exchange the drive to be safe? Since the behavior is intermittent, I'm thinking that the mobo may be the problem - although I'd expect that ASUS checked it out before sending it to me. Also... why does the drive run in either master or slave position on the cable (primary IDE channel only) with the hd jumper set to master? ...and yes, I'm sure it's not at the cable select position. The cable is a Cables Unlimited 18 2 device ATA 133 rounded - shielded cable. Specs: A7V8X-X Athlon XP 2700+ 512 MB DDR Seagate ST380013A 80G hard disk Enlight model EN 8420934 ATX 420W power supply I'd appreciate any thoughts anyone might have before I tear out what little hair I have left. Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urpmi main source
I'm running 10.0 official - updated from CE via downloaded iso's I can't seem to add a source for a main mirror. I've tried seven or eight different ones over the last two days trying both MCC and urpmi with no luck. Sources for plf, contrib, updates and a local folder were added with no problems - but main refuses to be added. I've done this a number of times in 9.2 and 10.0 CE and can't imagine what I might be doing wrong. Help! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Logitech mouseman and 10.0
On Thu, 6 May 2004 07:01:38 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 May 2004 08:14 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: XF86Config-4 is the same as 9.2 except the Device line in the Input Devices section says /dev/mouse where in 9.2 it says /dev/psaux... Changing it didn't help. Ccan someone give me a clue? In InputDevice Section, check for a Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 line. On my Logitech wireless mouse, the line reads 6 7 so YMMV. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Both 9.2 and 10.0 show it as 4 5 Tried switching to 6 7 no change I'm assuming you can scroll without problems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xmms only plays when started in CLI
If I go through startmultimediasound, xmms will load up and after entering the URL for the stream, it buffers the looks like it's playing - it shows a stereo signal and the address - but there's no sound and the timer stays at zero. In addition, afterwards, it will not close not via the GUI or a right click and I have to restart X. At the CLI, it works like I expect it to - I'm using 10.0 with the Official updates. Has anyone else experienced this? Any guesses about what to try would be appreciated. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Logitech mouseman and 10.0
I've just installed 10. CE and find that I can no longer scroll windows contents with the wheel. It's a USB cordless plugged in to a USB/PS2 converter which still works fine in 9.2 XF86Config-4 is the same as 9.2 except the Device line in the Input Devices section says /dev/mouse where in 9.2 it says /dev/psaux... Changing it didn't help. Ccan someone give me a clue? thanks Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] clock doesn't keep accurate time
NTP will synchronize your clock to UTC time. It will also maintain a drift file and get better with time at holding the machine's clock accurate. You can't set your clock to a local timezone. Rick, Just realized your reply to: is set to your address so you'll get this twice. Thanks for the help - the issue is resolved. Curt -- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] connectivity issue.... again
I just started gFTP to get the 10.0 iso and it is proceeding and only with occasional interruptions to the xmms stream I was using Opera's download manager which may have been part of the problem. I've lowered the Audio Buffer size (KDE) which seems to have improved the situation - though there are still some drop-outs. Top shows xmms using 2% to 9% of the cpu. This shouldn't be happening should it? Curt -- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little fingerWilliam James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] connectivity issue oops! thought I'd sent this....
My 9.2 upgrade (from 9.1) seems to be having a problem. I'm downloading the 10.0 betas but when I start the download it interrupts the stream playing on xmms - and then the stream will not reconnect - it will hang at the connecting phase or during buffering. On occasion it will start the stream for just a few seconds then quit. Has anyone seen this behavior or have a clue what might be happening? As a side note I've d/l'd CD 2 three different times from three different mirrors but the md5sum is always wrong - -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] clock doesn't keep accurate time
I've recently upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 and ever since I can't seem to make the clock keep correct time - everything else seems to be ok. At this moment, it's either 7 hours fast or 5 hours slow it's 11:08 CST but the clock reads 6:08. I chose ntp to sync time - just like I did in 9.1, so I'm not sure where the problem is. What I've found googling hasn't helped so far. In an effort to correct this, I've been fiddling with system time in webmin ... trying different servers so far with no effect. Can anyone give me a hint on this? Thanks, Curt -- Modern physics, quantum science and ancient traditions are now converging at this point, saying: 'The mind is ours.' That it is our collective intelligence that forms the matrix of all matter. ~Gregg Braden, Former Earth Scientist Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XMMS acting up
I've been unable to figure out why xmms will sometimes load a directory (/mnt/cdrom1) and sometimes it won't. There seems to be no rhyme or reason for it. Has anyone dealt with this behavior? -- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.- Albert Einstein Modern physics, quantum science and ancient traditions are now converging at this point, saying: 'The mind is ours.' That it is our collective intelligence that forms the matrix of all matter. ~Gregg Braden, Former Earth Scientist Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xawtv 9.1
I'm trying to get xawtv running here. Output tells me: This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.26mdk) can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory no video grabber device available Is the 'grabber device' referring to the video card? I'm using the ATI All-In-Wonder pro. Is there some configuration I need to do re: missing files/directories? I installed texstar's rpm for xawtv. Maybe there's some other package I need? -- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little fingerWilliam James Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you create the fact. - William James We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot hangs on startup (video problem?)
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:32:06 -0800 EH wrote: | # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandrake Linux are: | # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) | # 1 - Single user mode | # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have | # networking) 3 - Full multiuser mode | # 4 - unused | # 5 - X11 | # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) | # | id:3:initdefault: | | As has been said before on this list: level 6 emulates standard | Win95 behaviour. | | eric ROTFLMAO!| | -- | Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org | | -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson, September 28, 1820 Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little fingerWilliam James Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you create the fact. - William James We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 12:42:50 + JRS wrote: ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~snip*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ | Clearly , it's about whether I want to, | a) UPS my attic power supply, running 3 computers, and surge protect | only the one. | b) surge protect all 4 computers, no ups. | c) just accept the risks. | | But taking the first option , | How big an UPS do I need to protect a ring main running 3 computer, 2 | printers and say 12 other minor devices like externel modems, | calculators, yamaha sound keyboards,etc, et al. | | I come back to the question, what is an UPS ? | How does it fit in, | | I assume an UPS is basically a battery and a control device to make it | all work. | I have never heard of a 250V battery, so how is 250v stored ? | Do you just plug the UPS in to the ring main ? | Or do you have to break into the ring main circuit and install it in | some way ? | | Or is this all wrong ? | | Maybe the mains 250V is transformed into 12v, 5v,and 3.3v and sored | like that and supplied to the mobo in the same way as the PSU does, in | which case, how do you effect a connection to your mobo ? I only have | the one socket on my mobo, and that's used by the PSU. | | Sorry to ask all these very elimental questions, but I have never ever | seen an UPS before let alone installed one. So far the net has yielded | little info about them other than where to buy then, and defining the | term, UPS. | | | John. | | | -- | John Richard Smith | [EMAIL PROTECTED] John, Here's a link to a FAQ which has links to some manufacturers. One of them had a place to enter your system then gave a recommendation as to what size UPS would be necessary - sorry - not sure which one it was. HTH http://www.jetcafe.org/~npc/doc/ups-faq.html -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 04:36:01 -0500 J wrote: | On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:16:13 -0600 | C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | not even the updated kernel. Everything already installed... for | each. | | Well, you must be already up-to-date with at least the packages in | main, ie. Gnome 2.4, KDE, kernel, etc. It looks like the only thing | you are *not* right up on is the Texstar stuff, ie. KDE packages. As I | said before, if you want to install those, and they demand you install | an Nvidia package, I can't logically see any harm in doing so, since | you won't ever be loading it with X. | | What kernel are you running, the original 9.1 kernel? | 2.4.21-0.13mdk is presently installed I ran each source individually and texstar also returned Everything already installed - no NVIDIA_ etc choice at all this time. | The updated kernel should be in updates soon, if it's not there | already: urpmi --update kernel returns 0.18 and 0.25 minor version numbers for the 2.4.21 kernel this morning. I'll check again later -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
This doesn't seem right to me... On my 9.1 system, urpmi --auto-select -a returns: One of the following packages is needed: 1- NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk-4321-3mdk.i586 2- NVIDIA_kernel-enterprise-2.4.21.0.13mdk-4321-3mdk.i586 3- NVIDIA_kernel-smp-2.4.21.0.13mdk-4321-3mdk.i586 4- NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586 What is your choice? (1-4) I've been running the default kernel from the beginning and all hardware is the same as when I originally installed. What would cause any of these packages to be needed? My video card is ATI Thanks. Curt -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:51:59 -0500 J wrote: |On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:40:20 -0600 |C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I've been running the default kernel from the beginning and all |hardware is the same as when I originally installed. | What would cause any of these packages to be needed? | |IIRC, running urpmi --auto-select will return *all* packages which are |newer than the ones currently installed, comparing what's available to |everything on your system. | |If you only want packages which are updates, then, of course: | |urpmi --update --auto-select | |Otherwise you will upgrade every package on your system. | |It's kinda like apt-get --dist-upgrade on Debian. | |Check man urpmi for command line switches to exclude certain |media/packages from the auto-select. Thanks for the clarification Can't see any *need* for a different kernel, especially anything nvidia. I haven't used the --update option in the past but urpmi never wanted to install a different kernel. |-- |JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 |Registered Linux user #282046 |Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org |+++ |The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The |point, however, is to change it.-- Karl Marx -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:07:23 -0500 BP wrote: |Because one of the packages that you are trying to install was built |with an NVIDIA kernel, even though you don't have an NVIDIA card. You |need to check your sources to see where you are pulling files from, a |lot of the Texstar packages require NVIDIA kernel, IIRC. Texstar *is* one of my sources. So one of those is a package I *should* install? How do I decide which one - does it matter, or since texstar is one of my sources, should I choose his package? (2.4.21.0.25.2tex) My kernel is 2.4.21-0.13mdk - should the package number match the kernel version? I'm not using either enterprise or smp kernels - the other two choices. Other than that I have main,contrib, plf and updates along with the CDs and a local directory for downloaded RPMs -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:19:44 -0500 BP wrote: | Well, the choice is up to you but the standard Mandrake 9.1 kernel is | up to 2.4.21-0.25mdk, IIRC so that would match with that package. If | you have not upgraded to this version yet, you may be missing some | security updates that have been added to the kernel since 9.1 was | rolled out. | | If you don't install that version, you will get several errors when | trying to install some of Texstar's RPM's which means that you need to | either force them or install that version of the kernel. Would 'urpmi kernel-2.3.21-0.25mdk' be a mistake? If so, what would be the proper way to do it? If I understand, what I want is to have a new kernel added as a choice when LILO runs as opposed to replacing what's there now, yes? | | Other than that I have main,contrib, plf and updates along with the | CDs and a local directory for downloaded RPMs | You may want to pick a smaller set of sources before doing the update | or do it manually so that you can deal with issues as they arise. Thanks -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:55:28 -0500 J wrote: | On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:19:44 -0500 | Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Once again, that is not a kernel. If you look at the size, it is 648K, | the kernel is over 20MB. | | It is a driver module with the kernel version attached so you know | which kernel it goes with. Got it... so I should go with the tex package *if* I install the proper kernel first. | -- I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson, September 28, 1820 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:08:58 -0500 J wrote: | I would still investigate some way of skipping it altogether, since | any apps you are going to be running that require GL rendering are | just going to use your ATI driver, no? Makes sense to me. | | Maybe just try this instead: | | urpmi --media main --auto-select [.] Hmmm... running the media separately presented no NVIDIA packages at all, or any other packages for that matter!? ... not even the updated kernel. Everything already installed... for each. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:16:40 -0500 BP wrote: Well, you could instead choose NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586 which will give you the latest Mandrake Kernel along with the Nvidia module which will not load for you. That way, no more issues about dependencies from the Texstar packages. That's the one I meant. I'll give it a go. | Keep in mind that if you have compiled any modules for your kernel, | you will need to recompile those against the -25mdk kernel. Ahh... I did compile a couple . I wonder what they were. :-P Guess I'll find out sooner or later, eh? Thanks for the tips -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:16:40 -0500 BP wrote: | On Monday 01 December 2003 07:18 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: | | Would 'urpmi kernel-2.3.21-0.25mdk' be a mistake? | If so, what would be the proper way to do it? | | Well, you could instead choose | NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586 which will give you the | latest Mandrake Kernel along with the Nvidia module which will not | load for you. That way, no more issues about dependencies from the | Texstar packages. | Oops! #urpmi NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586 Preparing...### ## 1:NVIDIA_kernel ## modprobe: Can't locate module nvidia Failed to install nvidia.o error: execution of %post scriptlet from NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496 failed, exit status 1 urpmq kernel returns a number of choices, 2.4.21.0.13mdk along with smp, enterprise and secure versions... plus 2.4.21.0.25mdk with the same alternatives besides the minor # 18 secure version. Where can I read up on smp and secure versions? The kernel link at twiki didn't seem to have the info. I'm guessing the naming conventions are Mdk specific? I understand enterprise would be used for 1G + RAM beyond that I'm in the dark. -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Visio-like software for Linux/Mandrake?
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:57:12 -0800 MK wrote: |Sorry if this is repeat, got a bounce from sympa that the original was |Interpreted to contain a command. | | |OK, I'll admit I'm just jumping a step and going right to those who |have more time in the trenches w/ Linux. I'm taking a class that |requires creation of network diagrams. Recommended software (from the |instructor) is Viso for Windows. Well, I don't plan to do any |coursework in Windows, so I need to locate a similar software package |for Linux. Any suggestions? | |Thanks, |Mark Kirschner Yes, dia is similar -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install on old hardware
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:21:31 + E wrote: |have you tried the alternet kernels? and have you tried the 'noapic' ? After countless attempts at installing 9.1, using alt0 and alt1 - along with the stock kernel, with and without 'noapic', the farthest I can get is packages beginning to install but halting at glibc in one case and perl in another using noapic with alt0, IIRC - it installed perl but when installing perl-base, it suddenly re-booted. I just now tried Libranet 2.7-Classic,and it gave me the same '0Kernel panic: Attempting to kill idle task! In idle task - not syncing ' message (from my O P) as it began the base system install. Any other suggestions? -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson, September 28, 1820 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install on old hardware
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:21:31 + E wrote: [] |have you tried the alternet kernels? and have you tried the 'noapic' ? linux noapic goes as far as formatting the first partition and hangs with the caps lock and scroll lock lit up on the keyboard. I seem to remember doing an alternate kernel install with 7.0 or 8.1, starting the install with the second disk and being given a choice of kernels. I tried starting with the second disk (this is 9.0), it asked for the first one and I said 'alt1' at the prompt... it seems to be working- it's gone farther than every other attempt so far. (later) I had put the third disc in before I had to leave, just got home and found the hard drive and CD ROM lights both lit and a blank screen but it wouldn't wake. Re-booted and it gets as far as recognizing the HD and CD ROM, then Verifying DMI Pool Data and just sits there. I'll run through it again and see what happens. -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATAPI 52x CD-Rom Reader error
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:42:49 -0600 CT wrote: |On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:37:44 + |SN wrote: | ||I'm having some problems with my ATAPI 52x CD-Rom. [...snip...] I said: [...snip...]...to |theappend line in your /etc/fstab. That's it. DOH! (slap) I meant to say lilo.conf Sorry I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson, September 28, 1820 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATAPI 52x CD-Rom Reader error
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:37:44 + SN wrote: |I'm having some problems with my ATAPI 52x CD-Rom. It's supposed to be |my reader device in K3B, but right now it doesn't work. It isn't |currently set to scsi, but I don't know how to make it that way. What |could I do to get my CD Reader working in K3b? Add: hdx=ide-scsi (x being...b for the primary slave, c for the secondary master, etc...) to the append line in your /etc/fstab. That's it. -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install on old hardware
After several attempts to install 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 on a PT-5VMD mobo (VIA MVP3 chipset), I finally got through the formatting stage and packages began to install and then crashed with a (now) familiar message that I've seen at different stages - sometimes right after booting, sometimes when formatting failed: CPU:0 Oops: 0002 EIP:0010:[c010be96] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010002 eax: 07d10001 ebx: c0255460 ecx: edx: e00 esi: 000e00 edi: ebp: c0217e74 esp: c0217e4c ds: 0018 es: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c0217000) Stack: ff00 c0176888 0010 0202 0008 00d02400 c02554cc (etc two more rows here) Call Trace [c0176888] [c0189763] . (and two more rows here) Code 00 83 c4 0c c7 43 60 00 00 00 00 eb a1 90 fc 06 1e 50 55 57 0Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing The processor is an AMD K6 - 400 with 131 MB RAM and a Seagate 4.3 Gb hard disk. I'm guessing it's hardware related. Anyone have a clue what's happening? TIA -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best way to upgrade (apt or urpmi)
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:46:01 -0400 T wrote: |I have recently found that I need to desperately upgrade my Mandrake |9.0 installation. I noticed a few discussions on this list that deal |with apt and urpmi as upgrade tools. Which is the best option and where |can I get information on installing and using this option to keep my |Mandrake distro up to date. | |Thanks, | |-=Thinker urpmi seems to be the method of choice for most Mandrake users - it's simple to use - google for easy urpmi - the first hit will take you step by step through configuring your software sources - then it's a simple as # urpmi --auto-select -a (do urpmi urpmi first to update the urpmi package) to update every software package you have installed - although I think 9.0 sources are drying up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 VMware
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:20:33 -0400 LW wrote: |On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:39:24 -0400 |Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Does anyone use VMware successfully on Mandrake 9.2? | Paul | | |Works fine. Remember to install the source for the kernel and |VMware takes it from there. | |It's all fresh in my mind after getting the office up on 9.2 last |week, in case you need more info. | |Lee Does it matter if it's v3 of v4? I've got v3 but just haven't taken the time yet to get it running on 9.1 yet. Will it also work on 9.2? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] archives search
Has anyone been able to search the archives this past weekend? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] archives search
On 13 Oct 2003 08:48:29 -0400 ET wrote: |try the ones at marc.theaimsgroup.com |-- |++ |Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Cool! Thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:00:11 +0100 DJ wrote: IF I can jump in here I'm trying to add my CDROMs (powerpack 9.1) to the software sources |To do that from Mandrake Control CentreSoftwareSoftware Source |Manager select all the entries for your CDs and delete them. Close the |GUI | |Insert CD1 into your CD drive (which I assume is /mnt/cdrom) | |Now open a terminal. Enter su to become root user |urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom Should there be three /s there? In either case (one or two /s) I get: unable to access first installation medium I did enable scsi emulation and changed /etc/fstab to reflect /dev/scd1 mounted at /mnt/cdrom Is there something else I need to change? |That will automatically insert all 3 CDs into the list of sources and |you should then be able to use rpmdrake to install dia and lots of |other applications. Is there another command to add Cds 4,5,6, 7? Thanks, Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:14:47 +0200 HJB wrote: |You have to specify the RPMSx directory (where x is the number i.e. |removable://mnt/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMSx with ../synthesishdlist.cz | |good luck, |HarM Ahhh... Thanks HarM! good to know. curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] scsi emulation and CD sources
I've recently added scsi emulation for my ATAPI CDROM, would this be the reason I see, unable to retrieve pathname for removable medium for all CDs when I try urpmi?... and if so where do I change the path to scd1 for the sources? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] scsi emulation and CD sources
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:15:27 +0100 DJ wrote: |On Friday 10 Oct 2003 5:21 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: | I've recently added scsi emulation for my ATAPI CDROM, would this be |the reason I see, unable to retrieve pathname for removable medium |for all CDs when I try urpmi?... and if so where do I change the path |to scd1 for the sources? | Thanks | |You need to edit the line in /etc/fstab for your cdrom device |Replace the /dev/hdc (or whatever) with /dev/scd0 (or whatever) | |derek Thanks Derek. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Opening .ppz files
The file is a power point package presentation - as opposed to .pps A google search turned up a suggestion for Open Office Draw (Impress) but it wouldn't do it, complaining of a wrong format If you want to try, it's the link at the first bullet point (Demo) here: http://www.monroeinstitute.org/programs/hemi-sync.html# Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Maxtor Hard Drive Dual-Slave Jumper Setting?
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:54:34 -0500 TO wrote: |I have a Maxtor model 4W030H2 30GB drive I would like to make the Slave in a |dual Master-Slave setup. | |What is the correct jumper setting to make the Maxtor the Slave drive? IIRC the settings are not the same for all drives. Search here: http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=887 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Browser
On M Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Where? | |Miark | |http://www.texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html |On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:10:23 -0500, Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |I'm using Opera because I'm addicted to mouse gestures. Is there a | |OpenSource alternative with this feature? | | Firebird has them too | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Top 10 things to do with your SCO invoice
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1918229 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problen with Audigy 2
At 03:05 PM 8/1/03 -0300, you wrote: Hi, first, sorry for my english, is not soo good. That it´s my firs week with Linux, and more i don´t know. The Linux Mandrake 9.1, have detect my sound card (Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2), in the control center of linux mandrake apear emu10k2, thats if i don't mistake it's the procesator of my soundcard. but i dont have sound. i visited various web page for a one solution www.opensource.creative.com, this page don't have maintain, beose the last file it's of jenuary of 2002. www.opensound.com, this page have a driver but only works the frontal spaker (i've a 5.1 analigic speakers, i would like, if possible use all the spaker system)and is pay. www.alsa-project.org, this page have a driver but dont suport this sound card. and more. A freiend tellme of the alsa-mixer, for togle the mute, but this mixer i don have installed. if any of you cant tell me any solution i will most gratefully. thanks for all i'm waiting a answer. thanks Gustavo The default for Mandrake seems to have the mixers set to zero Open aumix - in multimediasound and you will probably see the volume at zero. I believe it is installed by default. I know of no program for rear speaker support but OSS is working on it. Hope that helps Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS is at it again...
There's plenty of blame to go around. It takes two to tango. It's just like politics... the Republicans blame Democrats and Democrats blame Republicans. The truth, I think lies somewhere in between. At 11:42 PM 7/22/03 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:28:53 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: That may work for you, but, unfortunately, this doesn't solve the problem for the newbies that come to the list and find some jerk insulting everyone when they state something that he deems to be below his intelligence level. How many people have dropped off of this list in the past 2 weeks due to an onslaught of over-the-top arrogance and abuse? It's unfortunate; because Joe is also one of the most personable (when you haven't offended his god complex) and *potentially* helpful people on the list. It would be nice to see more humility and greatfullness for the opportunity to share our skills with some who are open to learning new things. We get it Joe. You're great; we're not. Now let's get back to business; and not drive *anyone else* away. You know what? You can go fuck yourself, and so can everybody on here. I am sick of being blamed for the flame wars on here, every time there's a debate and I am involved, it's Joe. If there are people getting scared away, it's Joe. Joe has a God complex because he doesn't share your fucked up views, Joe this, Joe that. Fuck you all. Bye. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ 23:39:39 up 23:09, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 [Wisdom] is a tree of life to those laying hold of her, making happy each one holding her fast. -- Proverbs 3:18, NSV Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi... once more
At 02:08 PM 6/28/03 -0600, you wrote: quoting Curt Tresenriter; Saturday 28 June 2003 12:37 pm: Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did urpmi checkinstall - it reported two dependencies, I said yes and it failed saying some files were missing and that I might want to update my urpmi database. So I said 'urpmi.update local' tried urpmi checkinstall again and get the same message. I must be missing something here - besides the files, which are: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libcheckinstall1-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/checkinstall-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm Where do I go from here? thanks Curt Have you added a contrib software source? That's where those files come from I do believe. If you don't have contrib listed yet just use the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon easy urpmi page to pick one. Then use the; urpmi checkinstall command again to install it. If you're building RPMs from tarballs you'll want to set up a build directory and add that as a local source as well. Then you can install with urpmi from there after they're built and save some dependency grief. Just a suggestion. Regards; Charlie HI Charlie, Yes I did add contrib to my sources before trying to get the program. Thanks for the build directory tip. Curt -- Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo (cooked) 14:03:58 up 10 days, 19:19, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.16, 0.10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed 0.9.2
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:11:41 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll google for the manual - there has to be one right? Yeah, check here: http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ http://sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/welcome.html Found one for 0.8.3... maybe I missed it - I'll check again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting Mandrake's attention
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 06:19:21 -0700 owenb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get a response concerning defective Mandrake merchandise? I tried what e-mail and phone number I could find without any response. I bought, The Definitive Manual for version 9.0 just prior to the release of the 9.1 version. The book had nearly no use when the pages began falling out. Not one or two but in groups. It is obvious that the glue holding the pages in the binding has a problem. All I want is a replacement for this older version manual. I'm not trying to ding Mandrake for the 9.1 version. I didn't have any problem having Mandrake take my money when I bought the book, the 9.0 software and the 9.1 software. Does anyone know how to gain satisfaction? If you post a request to the club forum, Deno should take care of it. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:50:58 -0400 Charles Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John; Not sure if I understand all you have said! But to boot two OS: 1st OS install lilo in MBR 2nd OS install lilo in the 2nd OS's hard disk partition. like this root=hda5, boot=hda5 Change hda5 to where ever you installed the 2nd OS Add an 'other' line in the 1st OS lilo to point to the 2nd OS. like this: other=/dev/hda5 label=Debian or whatever In the 2nd OS lilo; boot=/dev/hda5 root=/dev/hda5 everthing else normal Now when you boot, select 'Debian' which will take you to the 2nd OS lilo. then select what you want from the 2nd Os. If you want I will send you my 2 lilo.conf's. HTH Charles Surprising how many question asked here that respond to questions I haven't asked yet. You people are good! Thanks John for asking my question and Charles for the answer. I'd be grateful to get a copy of your lillo.conf's Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:23:35 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 05:21:54 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: This happened a couple days ago - following some advice here, I removed all the CD sources to rely on the 'main' that I have added to sources. That was not particularly good advice, at least not without some context. You can add the install CDs back to your sources in the Mandrake Control Center or use urpmi.addmedia, see the man page. Thanks Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Boot error
I just re-booted to hdd - 9.0 install - to look at settings for sylpheed and play with xmms. When I tried to get back into 9.1, it halted with : EXT3-fs error (device ide0 (3,1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode 259074, block 524290 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Two more attempts gave the same results. On a whim, I shutdown, turned the power off, then removed the power and ribbon cables and replaced them and it booted normally. On a number of occasions in the past, on booting into that other os, I wouldn't see the hd where Windoze lives (during POST or in the boot menu in BIOS) and found that removing and replacing the cables caused it to show up again in both. Would anyone have a clue what might be happening here? BIOS has been flashed with the newest available update. thanks c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed 0.9.2
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:15:02 -0700 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure you don't have a browser open somewhere that's it's tabbing too? I am using claws 9.0, but it's manual is at: file:///usr/share/sylpheed/manual/en/sylpheed.html eric There's a manual in that directory but it's for 0.7.3 ?? The browser is open. Clicking a link switches me to the desktop where the browser is, but there's no tab, except the one that's already open - along with the error dialog. Curt Corrected the syntax (?) and links now open in opera - tho' it doesn't switch me to the desktop with the browser. I'll google for the manual - there has to be one right? c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:15:08 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark wrote: Drew, 1) Configure a Texstar source for urpmi: urpmi.addmedia texstar http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz all one line ? Yup! 2) Use urpmi to install mplayer: urpmi mplayer Will this list packages to be replaced and those replaced with before actual install ? It did for me, though I wasn't installing mplayer c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPMs, targz, bzip...
What kinds of problems might I encounter mixing anything with RPMs on my 9.1 install? I found a compression format for audio yesterday that I want to use - .shn - but the program isn't made in an RPM. thanks c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error
On 24 Jun 2003 22:17:08 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 21:28, C. Tresenriter wrote: I just re-booted to hdd - 9.0 install - to look at settings for sylpheed and play with xmms. When I tried to get back into 9.1, it halted with : EXT3-fs error (device ide0 (3,1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode 259074, block 524290 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Two more attempts gave the same results. On a whim, I shutdown, turned the power off, then removed the power and ribbon cables and replaced them and it booted normally. On a number of occasions in the past, on booting into that other os, I wouldn't see the hd where Windoze lives (during POST or in the boot menu in BIOS) and found that removing and replacing the cables caused it to show up again in both. Would anyone have a clue what might be happening here? BIOS has been flashed with the newest available update. thanks c Have you tried turning either off or on the PNP/OS setting? It's off, haven't treid with it on... a few years ago when I first took the plunge into the Open Source world, I kept reading that it should be off - lots of people were having probs installing Linux and it worked for me too. I suppose with the leaps Linux has made this isn't so critical anymore. I'll try turning it on, but the behavior is intermittent - tiem may tell. c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPMs, targz, bzip...
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:55:07 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:20:59 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What kinds of problems might I encounter mixing anything with RPMs on my 9.1 install? I found a compression format for audio yesterday that I want to use - .shn - but the program isn't made in an RPM. If you are talking about installing from source rather than RPM, then there is very little chance that you will damage your system. One way to make sure this does not happen is to compile the source package and run it from there, that way it cannot affect any of the / file system. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Installing from source huh? I've got another topic to read up on :) Thanks again BTW I wonder why my inbox is getting replies to my question before it gets my question?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:19:32 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you don't mind, please send to the lists at linux-mandrake, not mandrake-linux. I've not taken the time to setup my filters to catch everything (to anyone reading this with the full regexp string to catch the variations this list passes, I'd be very appreciative if you would share). The error sounds like a hardware one. You could have a bad hard disk, bad/flaky controller on the motherboard, or you could have a bad/flaky cable. I've had the problem with the motherboard controller on an old TX-II Pro motherboard (SIS chipset of the 233-300Mhz era). In that case under Windows, the controller would spontaneously reboot the machine every few days and give random data corruption. Linux would rarely run on it, and died very early, often during boot. My best guess is that Windows does not use that hardware as efficiently as Linux and thus shows the problems slower. Oops! :o and thanks c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPMs, targz, bzip...
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:01:20 +0200 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:55:07 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:20:59 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What kinds of problems might I encounter mixing anything with RPMs on my 9.1 install? I found a compression format for audio yesterday that I want to use - .shn - but the program isn't made in an RPM. I would rather guess that you will enhance the system by compiling as much as possible compared to using rpm's /Anders So if I understand, tar, bzip, etc. require compiling and RPMs are already compiled and did I read something about making an RPM out of some other format? Is there a tutorial or link to explain all aspects of compiling to a noob like me? c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPMs, targz, bzip...
http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=10 Juyst what I was looking for Derek Muchgrass! c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPMs, targz, bzip...
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:29:10 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most source packages will come with, ahem, detailed instructions (README or INSTALL). 9 times out of 10 the instructions are: unpack archive cd into new dir ./configure make this assumes you have all development tools installed like gcc and so on. and did I read something about making an RPM out of some other format? yes, SRPMs can be compiled with rpm --rebuild *.srpm, again, you need to have the development tools installed though. I knew those dev tools would come in handy! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Putting back cd's as sources
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:20:30 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I did a dumb-ass thing, following easy rpmi's suggestion last night when I added contrib as a source I reinitialized urpmi's setup, therefore of course my cd sources are gone. Don't know if I'll really need them again, but I would feel better if they were listed, so, how do I put them back? Checked the archives and didn't run across my specific problem. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:15pm up 3 days, 1:26, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.06 I was just working on that very thing.. I'm reading man urpmi.addmedia 8 - here I believe we'll find the answer! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Putting back cd's as sources
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:29:09 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:27:12 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I was just working on that very thing.. I'm reading man urpmi.addmedia 8 - here I believe we'll find the answer! waitaminnit, yer reading a manpage?! don't! those are the only questions I can answer on here! dammit! :)) Don't worry Joe I can't make heads or tails of 'em :) Ok so we got urpmi.addmedia --distrib /mnt/cdrom But there's a problem.. does it want /dev/hdb ? that's my cdrom mount point. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sylpheed 0.9.2
In an earlier version 0.8.* - that I used in mdk 9.0, I was easily able to set links in email to open with Opera - In 9.1, with this new version, I can't seem to find how to set this up, or maybe I just forgot.. Can someone tell me where to make this change? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin
As for seeing your playlist :- To start playing a CD with xmms select PlayDirectory and select /mnt/cdrom Then you can press the 'PL' button on the xmms GUI to see the playlist. HTH derek -- If I could jump in here I've been trying to figure this out but I must be doing something wrong. I've tried clicking the play button and get the 'load files' dialog - then get to the /mnt dir and choose cdrom, but the files window shows no files. I've tried R clicking the player, then choosing 'play directory' then expand /mnt, then choose /cdrom, then 'ok' - I then open the playlist, and it's blank. I've also tried the +file button on the playlist window then + directory and /mnt/cdrom, but nothing happens. Even the load list button doesn't seem to do anything. Am I missing something? - www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tux pics...
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:20:54 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In another thread (I think it was Femme!) posted some Tux gaming pics 'n stuff. I found a couple I had lying around the old HD, if anyone wants me to send them offlist. Of course, many of you probably already have these. I'd like to have 'em too. Should anyone be interested I have a great little clip of two penguins... real ones, that I'd be glad to email. Very funny! Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
