Re: [newbie] [OT] found on the forums
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2003 02:15 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: There was a big discussion in the Club forums about whether these guys are really partners of MandrakeSoft or whether they are just being sleazy and trying to make it look like they are. None of there agreements list Mandrakesoft as a actual signatory, although the descriptions represent that they are authorizing all of this. The discussion on the Club started because some guy that was selling the download edition on e-bay got his auctions yanked because himandrake represented themselves to ebay as the owner of the mandrake trademarks and copyrights. If this is a US based partner of MandrakeSoft that is enforcing an exclusive agreement, fine, but they could also be a sleazy outfit that is trying to profit off of Mandrake's good name. I am more inclined to think the latter because I don't see anywhere on the himandrake site where they state they are an official partner, and every place where they might say so, it refers only to himandrake or Heavy Industrial and there are no links to the MandrakeSoft or linux-mandrake websites. Greg: Evidently HiMandrake _does_ have some sort of an arrangement with Mandrake. See the November 5 post by fbhancilhon (AKA Francois -- IIRC, he is Mandrake's marketing HMFIC). It's partway down this page: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=viewtopictopic=13891forum=12start=0 Let me see if I've got this straight: 1. Mandrake invented the Mandrake Club two years ago as a way of resolving its cash problems. 2. In order to increase Club membership, Mandrake recently sweetened the pot by allowing only Club members to download 9.2 for the first few weeks after release. 3. Mandrake's distributor (HiMandrake) gets the Club-only files, burns some CD's, and offers them on e-bay _before_ the ISO's are available to man + dog. Sorta defeats the Club exclusivity feature, doesn't it? 4. The same distributor also shuts down anyone else who tries the same scam^H^H^H^Hdeal, claiming to have exclusive rights. 5. Mandrake's marketing guy says, No big deal. Huh? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Maybe they are burning the CDs for Mandrake and part of the deal is they can distribute the CDs. Or maybe, their agreement with Mandrake said they could sell CDs after such and such date, which was with the assumption the box sets would be ready. Or maybe they paid Mandrake some some of money to be able to do this. Regardless, they have Mandrake's blessing. Besides, Mandrake is making $1 per set which is $1 more per set than all the bittorrent iso generated. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] found on the forums
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 09 Nov 2003 2:36 am, aronsmith wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2003 06:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: 5. Mandrake's marketing guy says, No big deal. Huh? Cash poor companies have done dumber things I wouldn't have thought anyone could stop them marketing dealerships, but they should not be able to claim exclusive dealerships, since anyone can legally distribute. At least, that's my reading. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Technically, wouldn't you have to strip out all of the Mandrake trademarks and copyrights to redistribute (without a deal, that is). That's the same thing that happened with people distributing Redhat, they were stopped because of the Redhat trademarks. Besides, there is a difference between DISTRIBUTING (ie making CDs for friends, club, installfest, etc.) and SELLING copies. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet tax
C. Tresenriter wrote: (11-07) 10:47 PST WASHINGTON (AP) _ A drive to permanently ban Internet access taxes stopped dead in the Senate on Friday, stuck in a clash over whether the legislation would shear millions from the budgets of state and local governments. The problem arose over the definition of Internet access -- services that connect consumers to the Internet. The strongest proponents for a permanent ban want to make sure that all access technologies -- from phone lines to DSL to cable modems -- get equal freedom from taxation. Opponents said the definition supporters crafted to incorporate new technologies was too vague and could go too far -- eliminating taxes on many types of Internet technologies and telecommunications delivered through the Internet. Several states currently collect taxes on Internet access services, and opponents of the ban are worried that the legislation could limit this revenue source. You could see billions and billions of dollars lost, said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. Definitions are everything. The two sides scrapped a planned Senate debate and instead began negotiations, hoping to strike a compromise by next week. The proponents of the permanent ban offered a compromise -- a temporary extension of the ban for about 5 years, as long as the new bill treats all Internet technologies equally. If you can have the set of definitions that ensure competitive environment, that you don't favor one set of providers over another, I'm willing to consider a very significant concession, said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com There's a lot that we don't consider interent that would be affected, too. For instance, SWBell is planning on converting their telephone service to VoIP. As such, it would be exempt from taxes if the internet tax ban was in place. So, if you uses Sprint, you would have to pay tax, if you used SWBell, you wouldn't! That is what the debate is about, in ensuring competition. In addition, the internet tax ban in it's current form would effectively remove from taxation almost all kinds of communication networks and would thusly seriously affect the already dismal tax situation in many states. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
Afonso Guerra Assunção wrote: The ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt has the complete final isos if you like... Have fun, and please don't overload it :P Afonso Guerra Assunção -Mensagem original- De: Mark A. Lawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: quinta-feira, 6 de Novembro de 2003 17:56 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO Has anyone has any trouble installing via an ftp mirror? Aside from the need for a broadband connection, is there anything one should worry about? I've done that with Suse in the past, and it is through their list that I have found numerous mandrake FTP mirrors. They've pretty much got the planet covered. Mark - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO Pawel Nozderko wrote: I'm just wondering: today is 6'th of november and normal people who isn't a mandrake member must wait to download a new iso - why it takes so long ? Could anybody share your iso in a public ftp !! Do a google search for 9.2 iso's... Thats how I found it.. I found an australian mirror with the real ISO's (not rc2) and a local mirror of all the updates... loading it on my new webserver now. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. 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 Do you know if the ISOs have the updates included or are they the same as the bittorent ones with the LG drive patch? Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Compiling in 9.2
Sharrea Day wrote: Hi all I need to build my own kernel so that I can use my satellite card for internet connection. The driver is compiled with gcc-2.96 and requires the kernel to be compiled with the same. No problem in 9.1 but having just installed 9.2, the make dep gives an error: /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/scripts/mkdep -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -- acpi.c acpitable.c acpitable.h acpi_wakeup.S apic.c apm.c bluesmoke.c cpuid.c dmi_scan.c e820.c elanfreq.c entry.S gx-suspmod.c head.S i386_ksyms.c i387.c i8259.c init_task.c io_apic.c ioport.c irq.c ldt.c longhaul.c longrun.c mca.c microcode.c mpparse.c msr.c mtrr.c nmi.c p4-clockmod.c pci-dma.c pci-i386.c pci-i386.h pci-irq.c pci-pc.c pci-visws.c powernow-k6.c powernow-k7.c powernow-k7.h process.c ptrace.c semaphore.c setup.c signal.c smpboot.c smp.c speedstep-centrino.c speedstep-ich.c sys_i386.c time.c trampoline.S traps.c visws_apic.c vm86.c .depend make[2]: *** [fastdep] Error 139 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/arch/i386/kernel' make[1]: *** [_sfdep_arch/i386/kernel] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk' make: *** [dep-files] Error 2 Does anyone know how to get past this error? I'm using the config from the current Mandrake kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk. Any help much appreciated. Sharrea Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com First, let me say that I don't know the answer to how to fix your compile, but I do have a couple of things for you. First the -wall in your make file will cause all errors AND warnings to stop the process. If you don't want warnings to stop the compile, remove the -wall. Second and more important, have you tried just compiling the drivers as a module and using insmod to use them? If you do compile them as a module, you will get an error about the kernel being compiled with 3.x and the module with 2.96, but it may still work if you use insmod -f mymodule (the -f says to force the module). On the otherhand, it may not work. On one of my boxes with a winmodem, the driver must be inserted with the -f because it, too, has an object file that was compiled with gcc 2.96, even though I am using gcc 3.3. Don't know if either of the two items will help or not, but you might try them. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] i586 vs i686
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the things I read when doing research on getting Linux running mentioned i586 as the designator for modern PC-type chipsets. Looking around in KDE's start menu, I saw the KDE Control Center. I have been using the Mandrake Control Center so I decided to see what the KDE one looked like. Under the Index tab (with no tree options selected) I see i686 listed as my machine type. So what is the difference between these two? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com i586 designated the original Pentium class machine (whether Intel or AMD equivelant). Since then, improved designs have occurred (Pentium II, III, IV, Athlon, etc.). The i686 refers to these newer Pentium class machines. If things are compiled for i686 you might see improved performance. The reason I say might is because there are so many things that factor into performance that compiler optimizations are just a small part. For instance, a 3GHz processor running a slow hardrive or in a machine with limited memory, won't see any benefit from the i686 optimizations. Likewise, a relatively slow processor (i.e. 500mhz) with 128MB of RAM would see a big performance increase going to 256MB of memory, but you probably wouldn't notice a thing with i686 optimizations. Now on a fast machine, with lots of memory and a fast harddrive, the i686 optimizations might get your Mozilla browser to load in six seconds instead of eight. If that's worth recompiling everything to you, then go for it, but for most people probably won't see enought of a difference to justify the effort. It's kind of like my mom who people keep trying to convice she needs a new computer (she uses it just for internet and word processing). I tell her that a new computer won't maker her type any faster (word processing), nor will it make her e-mail or web browsing any faster (she uses a 56k modem). It might make things seem snappier, but real work on the system will take about the same amount of time (I should point out that she is 80 years old and her current computer is 450mhz). In short, in theory, the i686, can let your computer get certain cpu tasks done quicker, but if the cpu is spending most of it's time waiting for you to do something (ie type), then you won't see a major difference. Not to start a distro war, but on Gentoo's web site (which there distro is compiled based on cpu type, so i686). They have some benchmarks showing how i686 Gentoo out performs Mandrake's stock install (this is in response to an article showing Mandrake out performing Gentoo). The important part is their conclusion which states something like for some tasks the stock Mandrake (i586) is faster and for others Gentoo (i686) is faster. So again, it depends on how you use your computer as to the benefit you will see. If you are doing some gene resequencing, then yes, i686 optimizations will make a difference. If you are doing high graphic intensive gaming, then, it might make a difference. If you are using it for general word processing, mp3 playing, internet, etc. i686 probably won't have a noticable effect. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] access to internet with cable and dialup
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I want both cable and dial system to coexist. As usual my cable fellow says he can do it for windows only. Recent posts has shown some light that they want only hardware number which I hope I can get by ifconfig. Is there any possibilities of both coexisting and easy switching from one system to another. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I'm not sure if this will help or not, but Delboys Web Corner ( http://www.jennings.homelinux.net ) has an article on switching back and forth between dial-up and ethernet for access. The link is: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=13 It's for 9.1 but looks like it should work for 9.2, too (9.0 has a different procedure). Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!
Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 03:38 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: On the Mandrake club site there are a few articles on bittorrent and how to make it work. They have tried to make this easy and have been letting people test the bittorrent set-up's before hand. If you are having problems login to the club and read the postings. I had a few errors yesterday, and it was going slow. Left it running all night and I have 8 hours to wait. That's not so bad as I will be at work for 9 so it should be finished by the time I get home. Yeah, it may be a bit slower, but it means more people get it faster. Tony. snip I did the testing and opened the suggested ports for port forwarding. Testing worked, but not the real deal. I could connect then but not now. ??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Try downloading the .torrent file again. If for some reason your IP address changed, then the .torrent will be incorrect for your new IP. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!
Glenn wrote: After ca. 6 hrs, I've still only got about 10% downloaded (with DSL). Only got about 43 hours to go. Wooo h!! Not too impressed with Bittorent so far g. On Tue October 14 2003 21:00, Miark wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:44:31 -0500, Avi Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting Download rate of 165 KB/s and Upload rate of 55 KB/s on my company's T1. I'm doing well, too. Logged into the Club with no hassle. Clicked on the BitTorrent link and it started the download immediately. After five minutes of running, I'm getting a download speed of 45KB/second. I'm sure that'll go up slowly. I'm not doing somersaults about BitTorrent because it's kinda clunky and I don't know if/how to throttle the upload speed. But it works for me, and I understand Mandrake's desire to spare their servers, so I can't complain. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Did you open up the ports it says to? Without doing so, download speed sucks. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Chmod for usr/share folder
emim limam wrote: Hi how could i change the ownership of usr/share folders everyone? I actually need to copy a folder to share but it doesn't accet it because of permission. I tried as su from command line but couldn't do it. And i don't know how could i login to KDE as root. any help appreciated thx emin __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com To change the permissions, you would need to be logged in as root or su'd as root. But, if you could do that, you would be able to copy the folder. Assuming you have the root password, you can always hold down alt + ctrl + F1 (or F2 or F3, etc. to F6) to start a new tty session and log in as root and then copy the files. Hit exit to logout and then alt + ctrl + F7 to return to your X-window session. Joeb p.s. it is a real security issue to chmod /usr/share!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Making Mozilla the default browser in KDE
Flávio Henrique wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 20:45, Jamie Taylor wrote: Sorry for not replying to the correct thread but I beleive someone wanted to know how to do this. I wanted to do the same thing as I like the feel of Mozilla better than Konqueror. After much thrashing aroud on the web I found out that this is how you do it. I assume you're using KDE 3.1.0 because I think you said you were using Mandrake 9.1 which is the same distro as I'm using. Open the KDE Control Centre and go to Components, File Associations, text, html and in the Application Preference move mozilla to the top of the list. If it's not there add mozilla %u and then move it to the top. Hope this helps as I'm a newb as well and I'm finding Linux a bit intimidating coming from being spoonfed by Windows all my PC life ;-) Cheers Jamie Taylor yes... I did what you said but I think my Mozilla installation is not right, cause after hit alt+f2 ant typing www.yahoo.com, e.g., the MD says: Could not find 'mozilla' executable I'll try reinstall Mozilla and try it again... But now I now where I can change the files associations... that is the point... Thanx Jamie... Thanx a lot !! (now, is I'll find out how to remove the mozilla... ahaha!!) Flávio Henrique __ 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 If you have mozilla installed, but not in your path, you could (as root) issue a ln mozilla /path to where mozilla is installed/mozilla /usr/bin/mozilla. So, if your mozilla was installed under /usr/local/bin/mozilla, you would type: ln -s /usr/local/bin/mozilla /usr/bin/mozilla That would create a link in the /usr/bin directory pointing to your mozilla. /usr/bin is by default in your path. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
RichardA wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:42:56 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try running mounting auto, rather than supermount, and use KwikDisk. Tried with and without supermount. And doesn't KwikDisk just automate the mount command? I don't think this is just a case of supermount being broken. The previous filesystem to be mounted seems to be'remembered' after it has been unmounted, which stops a second one being mounted. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com You might try creating a second directory under /mnt and add an additional line to the /etc/fstab for /dev/sdb1. IIRC, the first USB is being seen as SDA1, then when you plug a different one in, it gets assigned SDB1. I'm sure there is some setting to keep it from caching the device, but I don't know what it is. I have the same problem with a USB key and a card reader. Whichever is mounted first becomes SDA1 the other SDB1. Maybe, multiple USB keys do the same. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The difference between RH and Mdk
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've been using Mdk for all my life. I love it. However, when our company called a software house to develop a web application using PHP + mysql, they said we should change our server from Mdk to RH. We haven't asked them in details for the reasons, but maybe you can help me here. What is exactly the difference between RH and Mdk, maybe in terms of security, directory structure, performance, etc? This thing really makes me confuse, because I understand that Mdk is the descendant of RH? Thanks, - -- Fajar Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 11:47:50 up 4:07, 11 users, load average: 1.56, 0.82, 0.41 I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth. -- Kirk, Errand of Mercy, stardate 3198.9 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Xq7gUrYxG8KGMVERAr//AJ9QuJLobTzGb/BAiwmQrdl56yXNhACeKve3 Hg+V/yRrOtc7fEivef6kkeE= =R6st -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I imagine they want you to change because they have RH installed. The real question shouldn't be what's the difference between RH and Mdk, but why would PHP and mysql be different between the two (they shouldn't). As for Mdk being a descendant, well that's true, Mdk started as modification to RH that used KDE as the default desktop (IIRC). But that was a long time ago. Mdk is it's own distribution now. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE4 rc3
Ken Rhodes wrote: Alright! I am delighted to find that XFCE4 rc3 is out. Now can any one tell me if the redhat 9.0 rpm tarball with all the goodies will install on Mandrake 9.1? Just call me Casper Milquetoast. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Why not just get Mandrake RPMS from http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ I haven't tried the RC3 yet, but the RC2 worked great! Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
---Original Message--- From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08/11/03 04:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow On Sunday August 10 2003 06:21 pm, Joeb wrote: Just to add to this, if he's using /dev/hda and /dev/hdb aren't they both on the same IDE controller on most systems? Since IDE can only write to one drive at a time per controller, improved performance would result in using the secondary IDE controller. To further complicate it, since they're both on the same controller (and cable) and one is UDMA 133 and the other UDMA 100, the fastest they will go is 100 and maybe only 66 because of the mismatch (although I'm not positive on the 66 part). Finally, I believe Windows is caching it's writes which will speed things up, at the expense of safety. Joeb There's two parts involved, the drive firmware (controller interface) and the controller on the motherboard. So unless you've got separate PCI controller cards, all the drives use the one controller, whether they're on the same cable or not. What is to be avoided is putting a CD drive and HDD on the same cable. In any event, no matter the number of controller cards you might have, they all use the one old and tired 33mhz PCI bus. There's a new PCI spec comin, PCI eXpress with a 66mhz bus. Like the AGP gimmick tho, it only marginally (+5%) improves performance. [root /tom] $ hdparm -tT /dev/hd[ab] /dev/hda: (ata/133, udma6) Timing buffer-cache reads: 1232 MB in 2.00 seconds = 616.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.00 seconds = 46.67 MB/sec /dev/hdb: (ata/100, udma6) Timing buffer-cache reads: 1252 MB in 2.00 seconds = 626.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 122 MB in 3.02 seconds = 40.40 MB/sec Both hda and hdb are on ide0. I have a cdrom and a burner on ide1. BTW I've got a week old motherboard. Aopen AK77-400 Max/n, KT400a chipset, IDE controller. It has 3 ide ports, ide0, ide1, ide2 and a Serial/ATA port. So I could'a separated the HDD drives, one to a cable (ide port). But I knew there's no point in that. I believe the hdparm numbers back me up on that opinion ;) OTOH, hdparm spits out burst numbers. In the real world I get about 20mb/sec transfers, ReiserFS to RieserFS, whether just moving files on the same HDD, or hda to hdb. I didn't wanna try separating the HDD's. When I installed the new mobo/cpu/ram, I configured the ide's just as they were on the old mobo. So when I booted up for the first time, my existing Mandrake 9.2 install found the new onboard NIC, and then went on like nothin was amiss. If I had Windoze, I'd still be installing new drivers ;) The latest cooker 2.4.22 kernel has support for the Serial/ATA port, but I don't have a S/ATA drive to try out. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Some correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm sure someone on this list will :) ). But with two drives on a single IDE controller, hdparm will never show a degredation of speed because it tests each drive seperately, one after the other. As such, at the time of testings, only one drive is being accessed so there is no contention. If that is how the drives are used in real life, one at a time, then no problem, but for instance, let's say hda contains your web site and hdb has your ftp site and both have heavy access (of course, this is hypothetical, because if they are heavily accessed, you probably should be using SCSI). Anyway, if that is the scenario, IDE0 can only talk to hda OR hdb, not both so you will introduce a contention. If the hdb drive is moved to IDE1 (thus becoming hdc), then both hda and hdc can handle requests simultaneously. On a more practical note, I do a lot of compiling of software. To keep things simple, I have a source volume on a separate drive, and there is a noticable difference when the source I'm compiling is on a different controller than the lib and headers of the actual linux distro. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but it is significant in the amount of time difference (some things seconds, others minutes to hours). Anyway, for normal use, it probably won't make much of a difference, but if you're trying to squeeze maximum throughput out of a system and you have the extra IDE channel available, why not use it? Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Session management on logout
ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 18:04, Heather/Femme wrote: I liked in MDK 8.2 the ability to save my KDE Session as it was when i last booted into KDE. That option (a tickbox on the logout screen) asked if i want to save sessions. NOw i can't find it in 9.1! WTF? I've looked for it in different places no luck. ugh... why does KDE make such changes?...sigh... it was fine as it was IMO... now I can't get my session restored. :( as I understand it, it was done to keep winblows users confused, and then when they ask, we get to tell them that they have many choices on how to do things in GNU-linux g Ok really problem is mdkkdm id the 'display manger' so the solution, is in the mandrake control center, hardware, display mangler choser, pick kdm (or gdm, since for all I know you might swing that way this week [gnome, that is]) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I could be wrong, but I think he is asking about the check box that used to appear when you would log out of KDE asking if you wanted to save your session. Switching from mdkkdm to kdm doesn't return the missing check box. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Glaxium
Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 04 August 2003 02:37 pm, Toran Korshnah wrote: MM, denis, I use MD 9.1, btw... The 7 CD set... Toran Ok, that explains it, I have the 7 CD set for 9.0 but am running the 9.1 d/l'd set of only 3 discs at the moment. No glaxium unless it will load from my 9.0 set of CDs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It's also available through MandrakeClub as a download. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday August 10 2003 11:38 am, Anarky wrote: hi everybody ... me new ... I just had a very embarassing moment today. A friend came by with his hdd .. and I was copying about 1Gb of data from one hdd to another. My linux preaching was going pretty well .. and he was pretty much willing to give it a try too ... but then ... well .. copying from one hdd to another was SOO slow that I had to reboot in windows. very embarassing. anyway, now I've done some tests and copying with Krusader gave me some speed results: the copying starts off at a boooming nice 8Mb/second .. and then gradually by the time it copies 200Mb it's at like 1Mb per sec .. and my hdds are making a noise like they're going to die ... plz help. It can't be hardware problems because in windows it copies the stuff fast .. and at a constant speed (can't say exactly ... but I got a feel for the time it takes to copy 700Mb ... and it takes a LOT longer in linux) Now for my specs: I should mention that Im copying from on fat32 partition to another. running mandrake 9.1, no updates, the tested drive speeds are: [EMAIL PROTECTED] void]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.87 seconds = 34.22 MB/sec [EMAIL PROTECTED] void]# hdparm -tT /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.87 seconds = 22.30 MB/sec both my drives are udma if I read the output of 'hdparm -i /dev/hda' 'hdparm -i /dev/hda' correctly: for hda: UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 udma5 udma6 and for hdd: UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 so that's not it ... umm .. what else: I've got 256Mb SD ... and I don't know the motherboard type exactly (kt133B?) ... anyway, the proc is K7 Athlon 550Mhz slot A he me ... please!!! greets thanks in advance to everybody [root /tom] $ hdparm -tT /dev/hd[ab] /dev/hda: (ata/133, udma6) Timing buffer-cache reads: 1232 MB in 2.00 seconds = 616.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.00 seconds = 46.67 MB/sec /dev/hdb: (ata/100, udma6) Timing buffer-cache reads: 1252 MB in 2.00 seconds = 626.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 122 MB in 3.02 seconds = 40.40 MB/sec Your hardware is a good part of the slowness. OTOH, you didn't say how you were transferring. I suspect it was with a GUI. If you'd have used the CL, Linux would smoke Winblows. Maybe not necessarily faster, but Linux does proper verification, Winsux slides over this. Google 'CRC checks' Also, if the files had been on a real file system, and not subject to M$ fragmentation, the transfer would'a been no problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Just to add to this, if he's using /dev/hda and /dev/hdb aren't they both on the same IDE controller on most systems? Since IDE can only write to one drive at a time per controller, improved performance would result in using the secondary IDE controller. To further complicate it, since they're both on the same controller (and cable) and one is UDMA 133 and the other UDMA 100, the fastest they will go is 100 and maybe only 66 because of the mismatch (although I'm not positive on the 66 part). Finally, I believe Windows is caching it's writes which will speed things up, at the expense of safety. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1 and Mozilla 1.4 update
John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know if anyone else is experiencing it but since I updated the standard Mozilla version to V1.4 , last night, the download speed for emails has more than halved. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Does that mean it's done in half the time or takes twice as long? Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit
Is it possible to configure the switch itself? Usually, the Sis900 just works without needing to set any options. Where did you find the 0x40 option to set? Also, you don't have something like zeroconf enabled do you? What happens if you hard code an IP address? Joeb On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:47:53 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to tell: When I do a ifstatus I'm told the cable is unplugged. Mii-tool exits with: no link -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joeb Verzonden: maandag 7 juli 2003 6:36 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit If you do a modprobe sis900, what do you get? Joeb On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 12:05:51 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I can't adjust the speed in CMOS. It's an auto-detect problem for sure. I have some experience with this problem in Windows, and it only works when I fix the card to 10 mbit speed, and turn auto-detect off. My only problem is how to do this in Linux. I tried ethtool, but I got the error message this function not supported when I try to get auto-mode off. I also tried to add this to modules.conf (I found this in internet) alias eth0 sis900 options sis900 options=0x40 That also didn't work. I prefer adjusting modules.conf because the change are applied automatically on boot. Does anybody know what option I exactly need to add to modules.conf? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joeb Sent: zondag 6 juli 2003 5:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit The reason I ask, is that I have a MB with a Sis900 ethernet that wouldn't work correctly with my 10mb hub. It turns out, though, that in my CMOS, it was set to 100mb. I changed it there and things have worked like a charm ever since. If it's not a CMOS thing for you, I know we've had problems at work with other ethernet adapters where duplexing was a problem. Evidently, we had cards trying to connect to switches in the wrong duplex mode, I believe it was a problem with the switches, although I don't remember all of the details. Finally, we've also had some marginal network cables that worked fine at 10mb or 100mb, but never auto-detect. Once replaced, things worked fine. Just some thoughts, although the simplest thing would be to not auto-detect and manually set it. Joeb On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 22:53:43 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the computer connected to a ethernet-adsl modem (thomson 510). It has an integrated 100/10 switch. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joeb Sent: zaterdag 5 juli 2003 22:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit Is your hub 10mb or 100mb? Joeb On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:36:55 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a network over a 10 mbit network cable (4 wires). My sis900 only works when I switch of autodetect and fix the card to 10 mbit. Does anyone know how to do this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit
Another thought - what happens if you do a mii-tool -V -F 100baseTx-HD (or -FD)? That should turn off auto negotioniation. Joeb On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:47:53 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to tell: When I do a ifstatus I'm told the cable is unplugged. Mii-tool exits with: no link -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joeb Verzonden: maandag 7 juli 2003 6:36 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit If you do a modprobe sis900, what do you get? Joeb On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 12:05:51 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I can't adjust the speed in CMOS. It's an auto-detect problem for sure. I have some experience with this problem in Windows, and it only works when I fix the card to 10 mbit speed, and turn auto-detect off. My only problem is how to do this in Linux. I tried ethtool, but I got the error message this function not supported when I try to get auto-mode off. I also tried to add this to modules.conf (I found this in internet) alias eth0 sis900 options sis900 options=0x40 That also didn't work. I prefer adjusting modules.conf because the change are applied automatically on boot. Does anybody know what option I exactly need to add to modules.conf? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joeb Sent: zondag 6 juli 2003 5:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit The reason I ask, is that I have a MB with a Sis900 ethernet that wouldn't work correctly with my 10mb hub. It turns out, though, that in my CMOS, it was set to 100mb. I changed it there and things have worked like a charm ever since. If it's not a CMOS thing for you, I know we've had problems at work with other ethernet adapters where duplexing was a problem. Evidently, we had cards trying to connect to switches in the wrong duplex mode, I believe it was a problem with the switches, although I don't remember all of the details. Finally, we've also had some marginal network cables that worked fine at 10mb or 100mb, but never auto-detect. Once replaced, things worked fine. Just some thoughts, although the simplest thing would be to not auto-detect and manually set it. Joeb On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 22:53:43 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the computer connected to a ethernet-adsl modem (thomson 510). It has an integrated 100/10 switch. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joeb Sent: zaterdag 5 juli 2003 22:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit Is your hub 10mb or 100mb? Joeb On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:36:55 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a network over a 10 mbit network cable (4 wires). My sis900 only works when I switch of autodetect and fix the card to 10 mbit. Does anyone know how to do this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
Sorry to butt in. While I have been an ardent supporter of HP56 (PCTel) modems in the past, I don't believe they are a good choice for Linux anymore. The problem is that the ptserial driver is compiled with gcc 2.9x and most current versions of Linux use gcc 3.x. What this means is that when you insmod the drivers, you must issue an -f to force the module to load (otherwise, you get an incompatible compiler message and the load fails). Since it has to be forced to load, simply inserting it in modules.conf will fail to load it, too. The only option is to load it manually (or through a script). To the best of my knowledge, this driver is not open source, so it's not an option to just recompile it with the new(er) gcc. Loading it through a script does work, but it is an ugly kludge. Just my two cents, Joeb On 07 Jul 2003 17:42:33 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 04:31, paul klatt wrote: Does any one know of a driver for an hsp56 micromodem preferably in the rpm form for mandrake 8.0, kernel2.4.3-20mdk? I seem to remember seeing a driver for the HP56 however there are several model of the HP56 You could try rpmfind.net or source forge still the external modem is the best way to go lots of luck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit
If you do a modprobe sis900, what do you get? Joeb On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 12:05:51 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I can't adjust the speed in CMOS. It's an auto-detect problem for sure. I have some experience with this problem in Windows, and it only works when I fix the card to 10 mbit speed, and turn auto-detect off. My only problem is how to do this in Linux. I tried ethtool, but I got the error message this function not supported when I try to get auto-mode off. I also tried to add this to modules.conf (I found this in internet) alias eth0 sis900 options sis900options=0x40 That also didn't work. I prefer adjusting modules.conf because the change are applied automatically on boot. Does anybody know what option I exactly need to add to modules.conf? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joeb Sent: zondag 6 juli 2003 5:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit The reason I ask, is that I have a MB with a Sis900 ethernet that wouldn't work correctly with my 10mb hub. It turns out, though, that in my CMOS, it was set to 100mb. I changed it there and things have worked like a charm ever since. If it's not a CMOS thing for you, I know we've had problems at work with other ethernet adapters where duplexing was a problem. Evidently, we had cards trying to connect to switches in the wrong duplex mode, I believe it was a problem with the switches, although I don't remember all of the details. Finally, we've also had some marginal network cables that worked fine at 10mb or 100mb, but never auto-detect. Once replaced, things worked fine. Just some thoughts, although the simplest thing would be to not auto-detect and manually set it. Joeb On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 22:53:43 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the computer connected to a ethernet-adsl modem (thomson 510). It has an integrated 100/10 switch. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joeb Sent: zaterdag 5 juli 2003 22:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit Is your hub 10mb or 100mb? Joeb On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:36:55 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a network over a 10 mbit network cable (4 wires). My sis900 only works when I switch of autodetect and fix the card to 10 mbit. Does anyone know how to do this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit
Is your hub 10mb or 100mb? Joeb On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:36:55 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a network over a 10 mbit network cable (4 wires). My sis900 only works when I switch of autodetect and fix the card to 10 mbit. Does anyone know how to do this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit
The reason I ask, is that I have a MB with a Sis900 ethernet that wouldn't work correctly with my 10mb hub. It turns out, though, that in my CMOS, it was set to 100mb. I changed it there and things have worked like a charm ever since. If it's not a CMOS thing for you, I know we've had problems at work with other ethernet adapters where duplexing was a problem. Evidently, we had cards trying to connect to switches in the wrong duplex mode, I believe it was a problem with the switches, although I don't remember all of the details. Finally, we've also had some marginal network cables that worked fine at 10mb or 100mb, but never auto-detect. Once replaced, things worked fine. Just some thoughts, although the simplest thing would be to not auto-detect and manually set it. Joeb On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 22:53:43 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the computer connected to a ethernet-adsl modem (thomson 510). It has an integrated 100/10 switch. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joeb Sent: zaterdag 5 juli 2003 22:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit Is your hub 10mb or 100mb? Joeb On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:36:55 +0200 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a network over a 10 mbit network cable (4 wires). My sis900 only works when I switch of autodetect and fix the card to 10 mbit. Does anyone know how to do this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:45:45 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well all I can say is that I took particular care on my last M9.1 install to try and find a skip lilo install facility, and if it's there I couldn't find it. Part of the problem lies with the changed layout and method of install of DrakeX itself. We did have a series of active tabs down the lefthand side of the installer window and in most cases it was possible to merely skip onto the next item on the list when install boot loader came up. this is now no longer possible. It insists on you at least entering the install bootloader programme, so I assumed there must be some way of clicking a cancell tab , but as I say I couldn't find one. Someone please inform me ! John I'm thinking that you might need to use the expert mode to install MDK and not install LILO, but I'm not sure about that. Just in case, that is not correct, make a backup copy of your existing lilo.conf and then do the install. One of two things will happen. Your new install will put lilo on the MBR of the new HD (meaning when your original mounts on reboot, your new one won't be there in the list, since the old lilo doesn't know about the new drive). If that's the case, just add the lines to lilo.conf for your new drive, rerun lilo and reboot. All should be fine. On the other hand, your new install might overwrite the original MBR and you are now without your original lilo.conf. If that is the case, add either add the lines to the new lilo.conf for your original drive or copy the backup of the lilo.conf back, edit it for the new drive. Either way, run lilo before rebooting. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
When installing the second 9.1, don't install any boot loader. Then, reboot to your old linux, modify the lilo.conf and add the lines pointing to the second copy (don't forget to rerun lilo). Then reboot and select the second install and it should come up. Joeb ---Original Message--- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06/26/03 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS The question is this . Install 1, OS M9.1 on /dev/hda7 lilo in MBR.fine, this reads /etc/lilo.conf from partition/dev/hda7 Install 2, OS M9.1 on /dev/hda6 lilo still in MBR but overwrites previous LILO this will read which /etc/lilo.conf ? because now you have two /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf on /dev/hda7, or /etc/lilo.conf on /dev/hda6, and what is more, if I want to make it read /etc/lilo.conf on /dev/hda7 how do I do that ? Is it possible ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed 0.9.2
Try the Configuration menu == Common Preferences and then select the Other tab (if it's not displayed, you need to hit the scroll arrows next to the tabs). Joeb On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:15:57 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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]
On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 04:17:54 +0100 g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to which 'subject:' of this 'thread' do you post??? or, are you making a point?? gbwg peace out. tc,hago. g . I'm not sure I quite understand your question or comment, but I was responding to the post from Shuan who was having problems mounting CDs. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tip: When the Winmodem goes AWOL
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 21:47:14 -0500 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 06/02/03 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Winmodem (PCTel HSP Micromodem, CM8738) has always worked better in Linux than in Windows. But yesterday it suddenly stopped working. It took me a full day to find a solution, but is so simple that I'm posting it for the benefit of others. All I did was remove the modules and device files, and then recreate and reload. Duh! In my particular case: Warren, Joeb; Would a similar fix help me? My computer is only up when I have time to use it. So it gets halted once, and sometimes twice a day. Nearly everytime I bring it back up, the system has lost my Winmodem settings and I have to run hcfpciconfig, the configuration program for the Conexant chipset it uses. (The modem is a Zoom, model 3025). After I run the config everything is back to normal and the modem is usable. Why is the system loosing my config settings? What can I do to make the config settings permanent? Thank you, The Other. I am not familiar with the Conexant chipset modems (since I don't have one), but for the PC-Tel modems, you can insert a couple lines in the /etc/modules.conf that force Linux to load the modules automatically when needed. You might check the readme for the drivers and see if they have similar lines to manually add to your /etc/modules.conf. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla spell checker?
On Sat, 31 May 2003 21:01:30 -0500 Harv Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got the Mozilla 1.4b. I could only get that to work by stripping out the 1.3-mdk. Now, when I try to add the spell checker back in, it gets P.O.'d cuz it can't find the 1.3 Mozilla. I'll try re-installing it, ignoring the dependencies. Also gonna try the Mozilla 1.4RC1. Maybe they put the spellchecker back into that build. Thanks a bunch Harv You will need to get a spellchecker packaged for Mozilla 1.4b. Another option, but somewhat risky is to install the 1.3 spellchecker by forcing it (i.e. urpmi --force mozilla-spellchecker). You would have to do this from the command line (or in a terminal and be su'd as root). I don't know if this will work or not, so use at your own risk (if it fails, just type urpme mozilla-spellchecker to uninstall it). Your best bet for 1.4 spell checking will be to wait until it is finalized and the packages are made (usually a within a few days). Is there something you need in 1.4 that 1.3 doesn't give you? Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:22:12 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you sure it's spending a long time checking for new hardware or the step that follows (and just hasn't displayed the text of that step, yet)? Also, per chance, do you have an empty memory card reader attached? If so, it might be timing out waiting for the virtual drive to come active (which it will never do, because it's empty). If so, try putting a card in it or unplugging it from the USB port and see if that speeds things up. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Oops - what happened?
On Tue, 27 May 2003 20:36:31 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:30 pm, rikona wrote: Hello, As I was reading email on another comp, Mandrake 'went to sleep' as it does after a short time. It has been doing this quite often, without incident. When I just moved the mouse to 'awaken' MD, all the many things I had open are gone, including the 'process' bar (or whatever it's called) at the bottom of the screen. In a root shell, ps lists essentially nothing. What happened? It also occured to me that I don't know how to exit from this safely, either. :-( What shell command is used to shut down MD safely after an 'incident'? I'm not sure what happened but you can try hittine ctl-alt-F6 and that should take you to a console screen where you can type reboot. There is probably a more elegant way to recover, so anyone who knows jump right in here. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 ctl-alt-backspace will restart the window manager. That might be all that is needed instead of a complete reboot. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem awol
Chances are your 56K modems were winmodems. They won't be detected until you download and install the drivers for them. Check out www.linmodems.org for more info. As for your 28.8K modem. I'm assuming it is using one of the first four serial ports (com1-com4 on Windows machines). If that is the case, then whichever it is using might be conflicting with the TTY port for your regular serial ports (again using windows terms, com1 and com3 share interrupts as do com2 and com4). If you think that is the case, then in your CMOS settings, you can disable the on-board serial port (most likely com2). And then see if it's detected. An easy way to detect a modem under Mandrake is to switch to a console window (not a shell) by pressing ctrl-alt-F1 (assuming you boot to a gui). Once there, log in as root and issue the command modemconf. A window should be displayed and you can click on the button to locate it. If it finds the modem, it will automatically create the /dev/modem link and point it to the appropriate port. See if that helps, and let us know. Also, if you have problems figuring out what you need from the linmodem site, I'm sure some on this list will probably has the same modem (chipset) and can offer assistance in getting it to work. Joeb On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 17:20:15 -0500 Rachel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I install - manually, a modem on Mandrake 9? It was installed before. Its a crappy 28k. I tried to install two different 56k's but they were not 'seen' and suprisingly this isn't either. It's given me a massive headache. Also, about SAMBA - how do I set up username passwords again? I can browse my husbands XP but he cannot browse mine. I lost the text file I had saved the how to's you guys gave me. NT is proving to be the hardest to network for some reason. Thanks in advance, Rach Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 does not work
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:57:26 - QingHua Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I downloaded 3 cds of Mandrake 9.1 yesterday, but when I try to install it this morning I find it can not resize my hard drive, which is a fujitsu MHR2030AT all in NTFS with a size of 27.9 GB. (the intsller just said it's not resizeable) Can anyone please give some pointers to fix it? Many thanks in advance. BTW, even the install failed I think this version of 9.1 is very nice Wishes, QingHua I haven't installed to an XP system, but when I did to a Windows 2000 system, I first had to defrag. Next, I had to remove the swap file because Windows insisted on putting it at the very end of the free space (IIR, you remove it by setting the virtual memory to 0 and rebooting). After removing the swap file and rebooting the install CD things worked fine. Once everything is installed, don't forget to go back and turn the virtual memory/swap back on in Windows. Again, this worked in Windows 2000, for XP, YMMV! Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released
Eric, While the ISO images do allow you to boot from the CD (assuming your computer allows it), the purpose of the ISO images is to keep from having to download all the individual files to some directory somewhere and then installing across a network or worse yet, from installing from the download site across the internet! Basically, the ISO images are direct copies of the CDs so you can duplicate the original. Once the CDs are burned, the ISO images are no longer needed. Most of the problems with burning the ISO images were with the 9.0 images that used 700MB CDs (80 minute). Older CD burners couldn't write them. Mandrake 9.1 went back to the 650MB images because of this (who says they don't listen to users). Joeb On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:18:27 -0800 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very new to linux, and am trying to figure out why ISO images are needed. I searched around, but too many hits... Is the purpose of using an ISO image simply that you can boot from the CD and have it reformat the drive? Shouldn't there be a way to have a boot cd that would then use info from another cd to install? The reason i ask is that i have seen people having issues burning the cd properly from an ISO image... thanks for any insight, huff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Starting MySQL at boot time
This is in 9.1, but I think it holds true for 9.0, also. Go to the Mandrake Control Center, and go to the System option. From there, there should be an option called DrakServices. Select it and it gives you all the various services installed. Select the one for MySQL and tell it to start at boot. Joeb On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:06:57 -0800 (PST) Christopher Shaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the easiest way to get MySQL server to start when the system boots? I just installed Mandrake 9.0, and installed MySQL server from packages, but it does not start at boot time. Thanks, Chris Shaffer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW
Anne, I'm not sure if you're the one who started this thread or not, but if you are looking for a way to backup an entire partition (Linux or Windows, Novell), you might want to check out InstantRecovery from NovaStor Corporation: http://www.no-panic.com/recovery/irecover.html It's not free, but is pretty cheap (around $40 US). It basically works like Ghost and makes an image of the entire drive or individual partitions. It will create the image on bootable CD and CD/RW media, too. And best of all, it actually is based on Linux (at least version 3.1-the version I have is). Joeb On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 10:35, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 6:05 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: OK , I attatch the file for everone John John, I'm really confused by this. First, I don't understand where Gentoo comes into the equation? You give the Gentoo url, then say download the iso from the partimage website. On the partimage website I could not see what you were recommending to download. There is an rpm for partimage on the distro, so what made you choose to download another? Having installed the rpm from Mandrake, I could quite happily use it as it stands, *except* that I can't see how the bootable image disk is made, and without it I can't see a restore being possible. I'm used to DriveImage, so I understand the process - I just can't see how it fits together with PartImage. Anne -- Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Stuck with PCTel Modem Driver
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 09:23, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:37, Joe Braddock wrote: You should not need to download anything to compile the PCTel driver. Everything is on your installation CDs for Mandrake (I know, because I recompile this all the time). You definately do not need to compile a new kernel, nor do you want to download a different kernel source as some have suggested. I've compiled this driver with versions 8.0 through 9.1RC1 of Mandrake (although the 9.1 betas and RC1 needed some tweaking of the script to get it to work). I'm not at my linux box right now, but will be this this evening.But I can check then on my notes as to anything special I had to do. Almost always, with Mandrake, the error you are getting means that the actual kernel sources were not installed (or installed correctly). What version of Mandrake are you running and what package did you install for the kernel sources (and did you change the name of the install directory)? Joeb Thanks for your response. I am already back working with the old and good 2.4.19-16. And waiting for 9.1. Thanks again, Were you trying to compile against one of the beta or RC1 releases? If so, the kernel for those versions have pre imbedded in the version name. This causes the ./configure script to choke when it tries to determine what kernel version you are using (it looks for an integer for each part). Anyway, you can modify the script and hard code the version name with the pre embedded in it (just remember to change it back when 9.1 is really released). Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] non-profit??
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:02:19 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arrrggghhh!!! A not-for-profit corporation may or may not be tax exempt. The Boy Scouts for example, are NOT tax-exempt. Contributions to the Boy Scouts are not deductible from your taxable income. The essence of non-profit is that proceeds are NOT distributable to members, officers, directors of the corporation. If you want exemption for taxes then charitable, educational, snip Not to comment on the rest of your excellent post, but in the U.S., at least, the Boy Scouts are a tax exempt charity. Contributions to the Scouts (not a particular troop, but the council itself) are deductible from taxes and many scout councils are also funded by the local United Way. As for being tax exempt (i.e. when they purchase goods and supplies), most state laws require the purchase to be made/paid for with a check from the organization itself. If the organization reimburses an individual for the purchase, the individual actually is making the purchase and taxes are charged. If the individual makes the purchase but uses a check from the scout office or troop, then it is a tax exempt sale. Anyway, since this list has wide distribution, I just wanted to clarify that in the U.S., at least, the Boy Scouts as a non-profit and tax-exempt organization (Girl Scouts are, too). Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Broken Spell Check in OpenOffice
I think OO actually uses myspell. Installing myspell-en will take care of it if you use English. You will also need to check the settings as Anne pointed out after installing. Finally, you might want to also install OpenOffice.org-help, which are the help files for OpenOffice.org. If you aren't sure how to install files, the easiest way would be to click on the Install Software menu under KMenu==Configuration==Packaging. Then select all packages alphabetical and scroll through the list till you get to myspell and click on your language and scroll to you get to the OpenOffice.org-help and click on your language and finally click the install button. Joeb On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:53:15 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 12 Jan 2003 4:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the OpenOffice version 1.0.1 that came with Mandrake 9.0 and everything works fine except the spell check. Running the spell check on a document doesn't identify (by underling I'm assuming) the miss spelled words, but doesn't give any errors. The soffice.dic is being pointed to. Any advice? There was a long thread about this in December, IIRC. You might like to search the archives for the details, but in essence, the spell checker is not installed by default. I can't remember whether OO uses aspell or ispell, but you have to install it separately. You also have to check the settings under Options, Language. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice 1.0.1 menu items gone
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:02:16 -0500 Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've searched with Google and through the Newbie/Expert archives for this, but to no avail. On my parents stock LM 9.0 install, OpenOffice installed just fine and ran great for a while. Now, when any user logs in at the desktop and starts up any OO application, the File, Edit, Format, etc. menus are all gone. There is a space for them and the drop down menus still work, there are just no words in them. It's tough to explain, so I took a screenshot with Gimp and posted it on my web site here: http://dilbert.dnsalias.com/graphix/oo_menu_gone.jpg Now, I also use VNC to admin it remotely (from my bedroom to the family room). When I start a VNC server (vncserver :5 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16) and access the machine that way, I can start OO and the menus display fine. The only difference that I see is when using VNC, it's using VNC's X11 server instead of XFree86. The resolution is also different. My parents use 800x600, depth 16. The things that I have tried are as follows: 1. When the problem first appeared, I shut down OO, logged out, restarted the X server, logged back in 2. Tried restarting the dm service 3. Tried removing the .openoffice directory from users home dir, then running OO 4. Tried rebooting the PC (years worth of Windows training taking over) 5. Tried removing the whole OO package, rebooting, re-installing None of the above have worked thus far. I have some more ideas to try, but they are fairly in-depth. No other application has this problem. I'm about ready to wipe re-install. I have /home separate, so it won't be a real big deal. Just the time to do it. I would however like to find a solution to the problem. I hate giving up and doing a re-install. I have been performing weekly updates through MDK Update. Any bug fixes, security patches normal upgrades I automatically download. One of those might have been the culprit. The specs on the machine are: Compaq Deskpro, 233 MHz, 192 MB, 3.2 GB, S3 Trio 64V2/DX (built-in) and Intel 82559 Ethernet (built-in). If anybody needs any other hardware specs, let me know. Anybody run into something like this before? Any solutions would be greatly appreciated. Chad There was a thread about this in the December archives, but in short here are a few things to try. First, if you installed any version of freetype2 other than what came with Mandrake, you will need to uninstall it and reinstall the original. It seems that the later versions of freetype2 are broken. If that's not the case (or even if it is), you might try editing /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf and change the line that UI_FONT=AUTO to something like UI_FONT=Verdana or something like that. You may also have to change the FONT_SCALING setting, too. If the UI_FONT isn't set to AUTO, you might try setting it as such. If neither of those work, you might check out www.ooodocs.org and see if anyone there can help. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PC Chips 810LR motherboard results
Over the Christmas holiday, I decided to upgrade my old 500Mhz AMD K6-2 system. I had purchased a PC-Chips 810LR motherboard and AMD 1200 Mhz Duron from EconoPC for $70.00. If you are not familiar with this board, it only has two PCI slots, 1 AGP slot and on-board LAN, sound and VGA. It is based on the Sis730S chipset and supports AMD Duron through XP processors. My decision to use this board was also influenced by my aging Voodoo Banshee video card. I simply did not have the money to order a new CPU, motherboard and video card and I couldn't see buying a new motherboard/cpu and still using the old video card. So, while it may not be suitable for heavy duty server use, with only two PCI (and an AGP) slot, for desktop and development use, it works quite well (particularly if you are on a very limited budget). After installing the system board in the case, I connected my existing CD-ROM, Hardrives and floppy to the motherboard connectors. I was curious as to what would happen if I simply powered the computer on, and so I did. I dual boot, so first I tried Windows. It would not boot, except into safe mode, and failed to even find the second IDE controller (it was still using the old driver files for IDE and video). To my surprise, booting into Mandrake 9.0, everything came up great, except for X-Windows (which I didn't expect it to). A quick reconfigure of the X-Server for the new video and everything was running normal. I was really impressed that Mandrake found all the new devices and reconfigured itself so smoothly. I had already decided that I was going to reformat the drives and reinstall both Windows and Mandrake, so I did that next. I started with Windows and it was a headache, to say the least. To make a long story short, it took about 2.5 hours from start to finish on installing Windows and the applications I wanted to use. This included six reboots during driver installs. The Mandrake install, on the other hand, went smoothly and flawlessly. Mandrake automatically detected and installed the correct drivers for the built in video and lan. From start to finish, it took about 35 minutes and that included installing and configuring my applications and restoring my home directory! Overall, I am extremely pleased with the upgrade. Boot time on this computer is in the neighborhood of 10 seconds. I boot directly to an X login (kdm) and to launch KDE takes about another 8 seconds. Everything loads very quickly (Mozilla takes about three seconds). Well, everything but OpenOffice.org, which still takes some time. My old 500Mhz system would take about 45 seconds to boot and about another 30 for KDE to load. In additions, I have not run into any compatibility problems. In short, I would like to say that if you are looking for a low-cost system board/cpu and don't require a lot of expansion slots, you may want to check out the PC Chips 810LR. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] strange hardware question .. how to tell the Wattage (Watts?) of a P/S
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:38:55 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:06 PM 12/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 15:50:00 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject says it all... any ideas besides reading a label? Besides the label (watt listing or model )or your comp manual, if it is a pre-built system, you could use a voltage meter to check the output. Oh Is there any diff between AT ATX P/S's? The form factor is different. They are made to fix different case types, through there are some that are supposedly usable in either. Charles hm ... volt meter... i think we have one.. and b/f is very good @ electronics. I asked about the AT/X thing cause this mobo is bizarre. It accepts both factors. And I have a 250 watt P/S case available...and if the original p/s that came with the comp is underpowered I'll just use the ATX 250 watter. - FemmeFatale Using the ATX power supply may not work for you. Even though the board may accept either one (I've got a board like that), the power switch on the case won't! Most likely, the power switch is a mechanical switch that actually has wires from the power supply going to it. ATX power supplies don't have these power wires, instead the momentary contact switch used as the power switch goes to the system board (that's why many ATX power supplies have a physical on/off switch on the power supply itself). Unfortunately, without the momentary switch, you won't be able to turn the computer on/off. This sounds like an older system. What are you trying to run that you don't thing the 250 watts will be enough? Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] linux office suite comparison?
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 11:52:13 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 2:57 am, Andrei Raevsky wrote: What does StarOffice6 offer which OpenOffice 1.0.1 cannot do? Not a lot. There are a few extra modules, which I haven't explored yet, but look as though they are things like a quick access to label templates, etc. I understood that Adibas database was part of SO6, but it hasn't loaded as part of the install, so I'll have to explore the disks to see if it's there. Anne Does anyone know if StarOffice6 will import/export Wordperfect 6.0 and later documents (OOo doesn't)? I'm trying to move a non-profit from their Windows environment, and they are willing, but they are heavily invested in Wordperfect. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:51:22 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Where is it written that Mandrake has to turn out a new release every six months? We've always done it that way and Everyone else does it that way are not acceptable responses. There was some talk this summer about extending the release interval and, IIRC, the response was largely favorable. As a boss of mine once said, Right now we have to deal with the alligators that are biting us in the ass; we'll get back to draining the swamp later. An added benefit to a longer development cycle is that it would encourage more users to participate in beta testing. It's my understanding that Mandrakesoft was under contract (with McMillan?) to produce a new release every six months (regardless of stability). I don't know if that is one of the contracts that the new capital increase refers to or if it's already expired. I do know that there has been talk of it on this list and the Club boards a while back and the general consensus was to slow down the release cycle, assuming they could get out of the contract. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Truetype fonts
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:22:08 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening (at least here in portugal)! First of all let me thank this great list! You guys should be awared for all your help you gave here! :) I've learned a lot with this list. Thanks. I'm looking to move all my Truetype fonts from my windows partition to my linux. I suppose that they are compatible. Or am i wrong? I've been searching the net for a replacement program for my Bitstream Font Navigator. Do you know about any? I just want to calalog all my 7500fonts. Cheers, Filipe p.s - I have other problems that are bugging me but i'll post them later. For all the newbies like me that are giving their firsts steps in linux here's a URL that helped me and now maybe you: www.linuxfree.net AFAIK, all Truetype fonts should be compatible. But, I don't think you want to move 7500 of them to your Linux partition. Maybe you do, but any application that's going to use them is going to have to load the entire list each time and that will slow things down. My recommendation would be to move only the ones you really plan on using. If you need one of the other ones, you can always install it at a later date. BTW, the slow down due to a lot of fonts isn't just a Linux thing. Windows and Macs suffer from the same thing. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus -- Civileme is back! On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:11:24 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some good news and some urgent news 1. I will be returning to the lists. I will have an email address that can handle list level traffic. 2. All of you are desperately needed to complete the push to get Mandrakesoft on a self-sustaining level. For the second one, here is the real story: Mandrakesoft started on a shoestring and a hope, originally as a spare-time project for one person. It was immensely popular from inception and soon MADE A PROFIT. Then arrived the venture capitalists They invested monies but wanted an international team of executives to manage the company. Such a team was acquired. Under that team, the expenses went up about 400% without a concomitant increase in revenue. The direction was modified from a linux distributor to an internet education company with a hook to linux. The soundness of that idea was never proven, as the dot.com bubblke burst and investors worldwide went into full retreat. For Mandrakesoft this was a curse and a blessing. The curse was the negative cash position and high burn rate and the blessing was a return to being a linux company. Mandrakesoft has made huge strides in bringing revenue up to meet expenses and in cutting expenses. They tended to trust the word of others which has made their forecasts look overly optimistic several times. But now the break-even point, in the worst-case scenario, is in sight and in a few months. The short term still requires more cash than they have now, to get out that next release. In that next release will be a special piece of software I am contributing. With little to do since my layoff, I have designed a semi-intelligent linux binary installer that can handle most of what you are able to download. It even has hooks to look for things like WineX and to atempt to install windows executables if you have an emulator for them. But if you want to see that next release, consider a club membership or giving club memberships as Christmas gifts or buying stock at approximately the right price. (BTW, MIcrosoft stock which sells at Like $52 /share has 8 billion shares outrstanding on a company that earns $25 billion a year in revenue BEFORE expenses--call that a heavily ewatered stock) Mandrakesoft stock is selling for what the company is probably worth. Remember its assets are PEOPLE and their products. People like Pixel and Gael Duval and Denis Havlik and Guillaume Cottenceau make the product and the company what it is. Mandrake also has a hidden asset in the loyalty of contributors, And they are finally selling the right way--software is free if you want it and rather expensive if you expect extensive support. So anyway, expect to see me return to the lists now that I have an email that will handle it without quota problems and (I hope) without any more crack attacks or DDOSes which is what originally set me to dropping my mailserver and forwarding to a hidden webmail host. Still loyal to MandrakeLinux, Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting new hardware recognised.
Since it's a USB LS120, try unhooking it and removing the reference to it in your /etc/fstab (might want to write it down, or backup fstab, just in case this doesn't work). After removing the reference, reboot (still with the LS120 not plugged in). Once everything comes up, plug in the LS120 and see if Mandrake auto-detects it and creates the fstab entry for you. Worst case, it won't and you will have to re-add the line you removed. Joeb On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:25:02 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 12:39 am, Joseph Braddock wrote: Have you disabled Supermount? If I'm not mistaken, a USB camera is seen as USB storage (maybe /dev/sda1??). If Supermount is disabled, then you would have to manually mount it. Is your usb hub powered? Some USB devices require more power than what can be delivered from the computer's USB port and need a powered hub to operate reliably. Supermount works fine for me on all but my LS120 (usb) - and it worked on that until I screwed it up and haven't been able to get it back, so I'm using icon mount/umount on it. LS120 is sda, and I'm not seeing any other sdx devices. I use a powered hub. However, I plan today to pull out the furniture and try every possible combination of usb slots on the back of the computer, just in case it doesn't like being on a hub at all. I know that under windows some devices don't work on a hub, so it's not impossible. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
