Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem
Set the CD jumper to cable select and try again Ian - Original Message - From: S Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:50 PM Subject: [newbie] Cdrom problem I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my mandrake 9.1, dell dimension 8100 to put into my new computer, and put an old cdrom from a OLD 233 pentium II into the dell/linux box. I didnt do any remove hardware thingy in linux nor was the box ON when i did it. At first it booted fine, maybe the first 2-3 boots and i never tried to test the cd-rom. After a few more days and 1 or 2 more boots i would get a cannot find secondary disk drive strike F1 to continue ( i have 2 hdd in the linux box). no problem to me because i havent gotten far enough to use the second disk ( i think :-/). To keep this long and boring story short I am now wanting to install mandrake 9.2 or Mandrake Move (any suggestions onto which one?) but my cd rom is not detected in the bios. I was thinking that it was a connection issue so i opened it up and all the proper cables are in the proper areas. This leading me to believe it may be a bad cable. Ive come up to two conclusions. 1. putting back the original roms and original cable or 2. maybe there is a floppy boot disk i can use that will enable a driver for the cdrom. Any help or hey everybody lets point and laugh at the kid withhis pants down would be greatly aprreciated thanks a billion -boardrider 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] Mandrake juice, anyone?
but we're not petrified yet - Original Message - From: Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 3:18 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake juice, anyone? My gf rented harry potter 2 today. Anyone care for any Mandrake Juice? 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] Install problems
If the master and slave jumpers are set correctly, position on the cable is immaterial. For cable select setting, end connector is master, middle connector is slave. Maxtor drives (and all Dell computers) now come set as cable select by default. Ian On June 21, 2003 11:19 am, Andy Davidson wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:12:22AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: Also, it's correct practice to have master on the cable's end connector, not the middle one. That I didn't know. Why? andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM
I very much doubt it http://www.browning.co.uk/ Ian On June 21, 2003 07:14 am, RichardA wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:22:43 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:21:34 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but I get concerned that any time the government gets involved One of my favourite quotes, I still have no idea where it came from: When I hear the word 'government', I reach for my gun. Herman Goering said When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my Browning. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NOTICE: CNet no longer support LINUX download !!!
I would guess that CNet have done this on the advice of their legal department. If this is representative of the views in the legal community, how long will it be before other organisations follow suit (suits?) Old Canadian joke: Q. What do you call 10 lawyers at the bottom of Lake Ontario? A. A good start! - Original Message - From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] NOTICE: CNet no longer support LINUX download !!! On Tuesday 10 June 2003 06:47 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Here's a mistake in the making! http://download.com.com/1200-2002-997312.html Stephen: Does anyone actually download linux software from CNet? (Personally, I prefer ZDNet -- same articles, but the Talkback threads are priceless. Kinda like high tech Jerry Springer.) -- cmg 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] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.
Bugbear.B Another very good reason for not reading your personal mail on the M$ computers at work! Spent all morning getting rid of the sucker! Ian - Original Message - From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:53 PM Subject: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie. Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! It has an attachment titled Address-denon021122.WAB.scr which is 70.5k, the entire message is 96.8k. Looks like one of the rapidly spreading new virus's. Second suspicious mail I've gotten today. This didn't come in through the list however as you can see by the headers. Good thing Linux is immune to these things. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from smtp1.cwidc.net ([154.33.63.111]) by eagle (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 19o5032123NZFji0 Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [219.52.168.63] (helo=ccc170) by smtp1.cwidc.net with smtp (Exim 3.20 #4) id 19O4zk-0005Ux-00; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:22:12 +0900 From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=--YXMI19LKW1DBEQY Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:22:12 +0900 X-Status: N -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux 9.0 7:43pm up 14 days, 23:45, 3 users, load average: 0.73, 0.18, 0.06 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] dyndns setup and apache
7 pm EST - 404 on http://www.bustedbox.homelinux.net/ Ian - Original Message - From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:38 PM Subject: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache Hello Everyone, I am attempting to setup a personal website from my SBC Ameritech/Yahoo internet connection. I have a dynamic ip. I am also doing network address translation, but I have access to port forwarding in the router. After signing up for dyndns.org service and starting port forwarding from incoming 80 on the router to incoming 80 on my linux box I was in shock that it seems to work. I thought that Ameritech (or SBC whoever they are now) would block it since all I have is the cheap residential service. Any way I have two questions: Is there any utility bundled with Mandrake 9.1 to update my dynamic ip with dyndns.org (it must get the address from the router). Also is there any gui tools for apache. I am reading the docs now, but I think it will be awhile before I fully grasp it. Yes I know it's a very insecure setup since I don't fully understand what I'm doing, but I must learn somehow. If someone could also check http://www.bustedbox.homelinux.net/ and let me know that it's not just being served in my lan I would also appreciate it. TIA __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache
That's better! Ian - Original Message - From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache --- cF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That address doesn't work for me. At 01:38 PM 02/04/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hello Everyone, I am attempting to setup a personal website from my SBC Ameritech/Yahoo internet connection. I have a dynamic ip. I am also doing network address translation, but I have access to port forwarding in the router. After signing up for dyndns.org service and starting port forwarding from incoming 80 on the router to incoming 80 on my linux box I was in shock that it seems to work. I thought that Ameritech (or SBC whoever they are now) would block it since all I have is the cheap residential service. Any way I have two questions: Is there any utility bundled with Mandrake 9.1 to update my dynamic ip with dyndns.org (it must get the address from the router). Also is there any gui tools for apache. I am reading the docs now, but I think it will be awhile before I fully grasp it. Yes I know it's a very insecure setup since I don't fully understand what I'm doing, but I must learn somehow. If someone could also check http://www.bustedbox.homelinux.net/ and let me know that it's not just being served in my lan I would also appreciate it. TIA Oops should have been http://bustedbox.homelinux.net __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound!
Sometimes, in addition to the BIOS setting you need to change a jumper on the motherboard. Just a thought. Ian - Original Message - From: c0ldfusi0n [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] No sound! That's a pretty wise answer Stephen. I've disabled OnBoard sound, but i still see that CM8738 in Mandrake Control Center, and XMMS still won't play music. Would you mind telling me step by step what you did in order to make your sound work? Thanks On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 15:40, Stephen Kuhn wrote: It would seem to me that your onboard sound card is conflicting with your added soundcard (Soundblaster Live!) - if you disable the onboard sound card in BIOS you should be able to get the Soundblaster working properly...same card I have, and my mobo has the same onboard sound as well - so it's just a matter of reconfiguration in the BIOS mate... 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: lspci command doesn't work [was]: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected
Among the many functions on the motherboard provided by the chipset is the CPU to PCI bridge. If the correct driver for this is not loaded by the operating system, it won't work or will work inefficiently. Sorry if you've answered this before, but what make is your motherboard (i.e. who's chipset does it use?) Someone else is going to have to jump in and tell you how to find out what you've got or how to install what you want, 'cos i'm still real new (like 3 weeks) at Linux. If you have sound in Windows but not in ML it's not a hardware problem, it's a driver for something somewhere! Ian We regret to announce that in the interests of economy the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. - Original Message - From: lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:22 PM Subject: Re: lspci command doesn't work [was]: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:07 am, et wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:51 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 03:24, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 06:06 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 01:29, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:10 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 23:33, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 03:18 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:14, lewis wrote: Sorry. I don't understand what 'lspci-v' is. Where do I need to look? Brenda Open a terminal windows (Konsole, Xterm or something similar) and type: lspci -v And note what is shown! You'll do right mate! I typed it in and it said: pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method. 'PnP OS' is set to 'no' in the BIOS ? -Frans It was set to yes and I changed it to no, but sndconfig gave me the same messages as before. pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method. Brenda But what does 'ls -l /proc/bus/pci' and 'lspci -v' say now? -Frans 'lspci -v' says the same thing and 'ls -l /proc/bus/pci' says: No such file or directory. Brenda Anyone any idea? Since the card is a SB 16 PCI this computer _has_ a PCI bus :) TIA, -Frans What does as root cat /proc/pci say? I tried this command and it said: No such file or directory. A friend was wondering if you need a bridge in the hardware. Does anyone have any idea? I do have sound in the windows partition. Thanks. Brenda 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: lspci command doesn't work [was]: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected
PS As has been said before, the Ensoniq based SB cards can be a trifle uncooperative! There are several versions of them, and the drivers do not seem to be interchangeable. I have one here that was working when I transferred it to the Mandrake 9.0 box which was then unable to see it. I solved the problem by getting a SB Live card. By the way, I haven't been able to get the 128 working on a Windows box again either! I'm about to try the 4th set of SoundBlaster 128 PCI drivers. Don't take it personally. Ian We regret to announce that in the interests of economy the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. - Original Message - From: lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:22 PM Subject: Re: lspci command doesn't work [was]: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:07 am, et wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:51 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 03:24, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 06:06 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 01:29, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:10 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 23:33, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 03:18 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:14, lewis wrote: Sorry. I don't understand what 'lspci-v' is. Where do I need to look? Brenda Open a terminal windows (Konsole, Xterm or something similar) and type: lspci -v And note what is shown! You'll do right mate! I typed it in and it said: pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method. 'PnP OS' is set to 'no' in the BIOS ? -Frans It was set to yes and I changed it to no, but sndconfig gave me the same messages as before. pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method. Brenda But what does 'ls -l /proc/bus/pci' and 'lspci -v' say now? -Frans 'lspci -v' says the same thing and 'ls -l /proc/bus/pci' says: No such file or directory. Brenda Anyone any idea? Since the card is a SB 16 PCI this computer _has_ a PCI bus :) TIA, -Frans What does as root cat /proc/pci say? I tried this command and it said: No such file or directory. A friend was wondering if you need a bridge in the hardware. Does anyone have any idea? I do have sound in the windows partition. Thanks. Brenda 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] HELP-BIOS can't recognize new HD
The latest beta BIOS for the P5A and the P5A-B will recognise large hard drives. I'M running one of each with 40Gb Maxtor discs (Under W98) with no difficulties.(other than the MS related ones!) The BIOS is No 1011.005 and can be downloaded from http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=P5A Be warned that the ASUS site is probably one of the most annoying that you are likely to come across - it seems to be designed to hide the information you are looking for and each page takes an eternity to load! If you can find your way into the German FTP site things go much quicker. There's also more to choose from. Ian In the interests of economy, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. - Original Message - From: todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP-BIOS can't recognize new HD On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:05 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:33:38 -0500 todd slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anybody knows of a good but cheap mobo that will support large hard drives and take an AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED], and at least 512MB RAM, I'm all ears. Todd, another option be to get an add-on pci ide controller card. Since they operate with there own bios they would be able to bypass the hd limitations of your mobo bios. You can find them online for $25 or less. Charles That's a great tip, thanks Charles! I'm going to check it out soon as I get some thorns pulled out! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest
You mean some folks actually have cases on their computers? Seriously though, make sure that any vents, holes etc especially those in the back of the power supply are not blocked by dust, as this is often the only way to exhaust hot air from the case. If you do have a case fan, make sure it's working. Ian - Original Message - From: Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Beginners' Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 14:14, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: Hi. snip Make sure you,ve got good air circulation, esp. round your vid card - they can get real hot too. Agreed. A good test (not for the faint-hearted :-) is to run with open case and use a hair-dryer or alike (on cool setting - or whatever that might be called) in direction of the CPU and see if it makes a difference in how long it needs until the CPU locks up. snip Actually no need to be too nervous - I've been running my PC without its back for the last 18 months [but no fan], after it started repeatedly shutting down or re-booting while running Win$ or during boot-up, all because of dicey CPU cooling. Now, no problems. Good luck! -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] cpuburn and memtest
Should be fine at 50C. If your memory is in 2 sticks, try taking one out. If it still crashes, switch them! If it's ok you've found your problem. Make sure you,ve got good air circulation, esp. round your vid card - they can get real hot too. What speed and timings are you running the memory at? Try slowing it down to CAS 2.5 or set it to a safer setting in BIOS Good luck! Ian - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK-Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 10:02 PM Subject: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest Okay, I'm still having some hardware problems. I installed and ran memtest overnight, about 24 passes with no errors. I grabbed and installed cpuburn 1.4 last night, then ran burnMMX. It won't run longer than 2 minutes before I get a full lockup that requires a hardware reset or powerdown and back up. That from a shell with X running and without. This is an AMD XP2100, 512megs DDR (PNY) Ram, Soyo Dragon Plus MB, Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti4200, etc, etc, with nothing overclocked. The CPU has a 5 1/4, 3000 rpm fan/heatsink attached to it, and BIOS reports 50 degrees celsius for it, and 27 degrees Celsius for the system. Intense games cause crashes, some with direct references to memory. Example, Warcraft 3 gives this: --- This application has encountered a critical error: FATAL ERROR! Program: C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\war3.exe Exception: 0xC005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 0023:6F58A844 The instruction at '0x6F58A844' referenced memory at '0x7FF8FE63'. The memory could not be 'read'. --- The literature with cpuburn suggests that my CPU is not getting cooled enough but from what I've read, 50 degrees Celsius should be okay, right? So what does everyone else think? Sure could use some insight. (Tom Brinkman, you around anywhere? grin) PS Note that all the hardware is basically new, less than 3 months old. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ 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
