Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader
It may be that you need to modprobe usb-storage and then mount it as /dev/sda1 I have done modprobe usb-storage and mounting returns this: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist I have tried other mount points too: /dev/sda /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb, along with the appropriate fstab changes, and nothing has worked yet. It was suggested to do MAKEDEV /dev/sda1 here's the results of that attempt: MAKEDEV /dev/sda1 don't know how to make device /dev/sda1 Here's some additional information from harddrake under other devices: Vendor: Microtech Model: CameraMate SmartMedia and CompactFlash reader Kernel Module: unknown Bus Type: USB Informations: This device hasn't been identified by HardDrake, please send `/proc/bus/*' files and this device ID `07af0006' to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From what I have read so far it seems that some people have had luck doing modprobe usb-storage and then entering #mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/whatever. So far I have not had luck doing this. I appreciate the assistance given so far, and it appears others are hoping that this issue can be resolved. Thanks to all who have helped with this. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB smart media reader
I've seen several threads concerning people trying to make USB compact flash/smart media readers work, but this hasn't been fully resolved in all cases. I have been reading this thread because I have a USB microtech compact flash card reader and I have been having the same problem attempting to mount it as others have. Here's the information from Harddrake: Vendor: eUSB Model: Compact Flash Device: /dev/sda Bus Type: SCSI Capacity: 1047 MB Heads: 64 Sectors: 32 Cylinders: 1023 Here's my fstab entry: /dev/sda /media/camera vfat ro,noauto,user 0 0 This is the response I get when attempting to mount this device: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/camera mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems I hope someone can shed some light on why this won't mount. Thanks for the help. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader
Dont mount as /dev/sda, mount as /dev/sda1. /dev/sda is the, as I see it, top of the sda device list, the header, and sda1, sda2, are the devices. I don't have a /dev/sda1, but just to make sure I changed fstab to reflect /dev/sda1 and then tried mounting it: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera and received this response: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Thanks for assisting me with this. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader
MAKDEV, or makdev, or mkdev don't seem to be the correct commands. I just keep getting command not found. TC try this, MAKDEV /dev/sda1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned
I tried several ways to use diskdrake and it just wouldn't resize the partition, that's why I used FIPS. To make life as simple as possible I created a DOS boot floppy disk, copied FIPS onto it, booted from the floppy and ran FIPS. All of this may not actually be necessary but I like to keep things a simple as possible when doing things to my hard drives. Since I didn't catch the beginning of this thread I am assuming that you ran defrag in windows before starting all of this. Good luck. TC --- daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 20:42:00 -0700 Charles Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Wednesday 26 December 2001 06:11 pm, you wrote: Maybe I am confused. I thought that Mandrake was using diskdrake to do the partitioning during the install and it wasn't able to do the resize. Is that wrong? chuck Chuck, yes, diskdrake is used during the install, however, diskdrake will do everything you need it to do. it's not quite as robust as partition magic in some ways, but it's darn close, and in other ways it surpasses Partition Magic. It will resize, reformat, (many different filesystem types) and a lot of other stuff that escapes me at the moment. it's a heck of a tool. You can access it from a running Linux installation, or from the install CD's. either way will work just fine. give it a shot. -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 9:05am up 11 days, 54 min, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.22, 0.26 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned
I helped a friend deal with the same situation by using a little utility called FIPS. You can find it on your Mandrake CD's. It doesn't have a fancy GUI but it will take you through the resizing process step-by-step and is really pretty easy to use. TC --- tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Jennings wrote: This ones got me baffled. I am trying to install Mandrake 8.1 on my wifes computer. It's a pentium with a 10 gig hard drive running win98. I try to install in the expert mode and resize it. I get the massage that it can't be resized. After scandisk and defrag, and looking into fdisk, there is 6.1 gig free but the whole disk is active for win. I don't know why diskdrake won't resize it. I am not competent to use fdisk (never done it and I don't want to erase the wife's hard drive by error). Any suggestions on what might be the cause and the solution? Thanks. This one means that a windows program has placed a non-relocatable cluster near the end of the disk or that you are using the NTFS filesystem which we do not write-enable in the install kernel. SInce you are running 98 which does not support NTFS, do the disk defrag and scroll down on the full display--near the bottom you will find one or more red-marked clusters. The solution is non-trivial, Either remove programs one by one and defrag and try linux after each such removal or install linux on another large disk with a grub boot, copy all of your windows data over (but not your installed programs), then scrub windows and go back to fdisk and set up windows on a smaller primary partition, reinstalling software then set up linux again on the primary master drive and mount the second drive to restore the data you wanted to back up. I have done this in another situation--a rather full 10G disk where Win98 was installed and the user attempted an XP upgrade, losing mouse and keyboard (both Microsoft brand hardware products, BTW) in the process. I could not shrink the winpartition enough to make room for the 2.2G of data he wanted to rescue, so I used a second disk and a linux install on it, then scrubbed the first disk after copyiong over the info he wanted. The clean install of XP still could not see his mouse or keyboard, so he is running 98 and Mandrake dual boot these days, and he seems very grateful that linux was able to save his data from an otherwise trashed situation. Civileme 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 Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Galeon install
I think this may have come up in the recent past but I coulnd't find it in the list archives sooo.. I am trying to install Galeon 1.0.1 but I get this message error: failed dependencies: mozilla = 0.9.6 is needed by galeon-1.0.1-1mdk. The problem is that I have already installed mozilla 0.9.6. If I'm using urpmi how can I point it to this file (mozilla 0.9.6)? I have a slow dial-up internet connection and I really don't want to have urpmi, or any other package manager install mozilla again. Thanks for the help. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Software?
Take a look at www.videolan.org TC --- Pete Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend the best DVD playing software? I'm using 8.1. Thanks, Pete Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] booting windoze
I sent this yesterday but did not see it appear in my newbie list mail, so here it is again. Because of reasons of my own making I had to do a fresh install of mandrake 8.0. I set up Grub to make Linux my default OS. When I attempted to boot into windows, the bootup made it to chainloader +1 and wouldn't progress beyond that point. I tried using LILO, it made it to Loading Windows and wouldn't progress any further. I am using an ABIT KT7A Raid MB with an IBM hard drive plugged into ide2. Windows partition is hde1, and Linux root partition is hde5. Here is the Grub menu.lst entry: timeout 5 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd0,4)/boot/grub/messages keytable (hd0,4)/boot/us.klt altconfigfile (hd0,4)/boot/grub/menu.once default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde5 hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy quiet vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde5 hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde5 hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy failsafeinitrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title windows root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 Here's the windows entry from lilo.conf: other=/dev/hde1 label=windows table=/dev/hde What's wrong? Thanks for the help. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VIA bug?
--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You face yet another problem. There is --no ifs ands or buts-- a _hardware problem_ with the 686B southbridge, and another with the KT133A Northbridge. When our 8.0 kernel sees the chipset it will dive into crippled mode with DMA turned off. hdparm will report it turned on but you will be unable to burn CDRWs and CD-Rs and the behavior will be rather more sluggish than not. This is (halfway) fixed in our most recent kernel update, meaning we have a workaround for the _hardware_ bug, but not a high-performance one. Your computer will seem fairly normal, having jumped from 1.8Mb/S to 13.40Mb/s ide read speed as measured by the benchmark programs, but will be well below the expected benchmarks of 31.9 to 36.2 Mb/S as is usual for udma4 or udma5 operation. Civileme I'm very puzzled, I have an Abit KT7A raid, VIA KT133A chipset, IBM IC35L020AVER07-0 20GB ATA100 hard drive, AMD T-bird 1.2 GHz. Using hdparm, (I realize it's maybe not the best hard drive benchmarking tool, but it is the one most people have available) and I get the following results doing hdparm -tT /dev/hde /dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.78 seconds =164.10 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.73 seconds = 36.99 MB/sec I may be misunderstanding what you are saying, but my performance seems pretty good to me. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] terminus
I am trying to run the Terminus game demo and have this response when I start it: ./terminus: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory I did a search for libstdc++.so.2.8 and can't find it. Is this lib not included with 8.0? Sorry for what may be a very simple question, but there's a reason I've subscribed to the newbie list. ;-) TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] terminus
I am trying to run the Terminus game demo and have this response when I start it: ./terminus: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory I did a search for libstdc++.so.2.8 and can't find it. Is this lib not included with 8.0? Sorry for what may be a very simple question, but there's a reason I've subscribed to the newbie list. ;-) TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2.4.7 kernel
The last time I ran hdparm on Mandrake 8.0 I was using a different ata100 hard drive and was getting timing buffer disk reads of only 21 MB. I am now using a new IBM hard drive and I'm getting: /dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.78 seconds =164.10 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.73 seconds = 36.99 MB/sec Abit KT7A raid, VIA KT133A chipset, IBM IC35L020AVER07-0 20GB hard drive, AMD T-bird 1.2 GHz. I'm surprised at the difference between my 2 hard drives, both using pretty standard installs of Mandrake 8.0. --- skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:47, you wrote: [root@tuxmachine /]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.91 seconds =140.66 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.78 seconds = 35.96 MB/sec Using IBM DTLA-307075 7200 rpm and Asus mobo with i815 chipset. (But using kernel 2.4.3-20mdk). My hd is so much slower than yours! Using 60GB IBM DTLA-307060 7200rpm and Soltek SL-75KAV mobo with North Bridge VIA VT8363A (KT133A) chipset (and South Bridge VIA VT82C686B?) on AMD T-Bird 1.0GHz. Using kernel 2.4.3-20mdk with udma2 (ATA-33 ?): root@localhost skinky]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.78 seconds =164.10 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.14 seconds = 20.38 MB/sec [root@localhost skinky]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.77 seconds =166.23 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.18 seconds = 20.13 MB/sec Big difference! Cheers skinky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 2.4.7 kernel
I remember civileme saying that hard drives were limited to ata33 in Mandrake 8.0 because of some problem in the kernel with the Via chipset. Does anyone know if this has been fixed in the 2.4.7 kernel? If so, has anyone compiled the 2.4.7 kernel (mandrake version from cooker) and found that they could use ata100? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)
Thanks. I already used the nv_check.sh script and it said that everything was OK. Based on the information I have been seeing I am thinking that I need to try installing the 1251 drivers from the tarball instead of the rpm. Should I uninstall the drivers I installed from the rpm first and then install the tar files? TC --- james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i used to get segmentation errors when using OpenGL - it was because i hadnt installed the kernel properly - there is a shell script called nv check which checks if everything is installed ok get it at : http://www.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/nv_check.sh just cd to the dir and type : $ sh nv_check.sh oh year - with rpms you may want to type : $ rpm -i NV_GLX.blahblah.rpm --nodeps --force this will force the install of rpms even if your system says it is already installed - Original Message - From: Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:09 PM Subject: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again) I am wondering if I may be able to resolve the segmentation fault errors I am getting trying to run Chromium, or Tuxracer by changing to the nVidia 769 drivers instead of using the 1251 drivers. Has anyone tried this to resolve the seg. fault problems? I have already made sure that I am not using KDM, I have tried booting into run level 3 and using startx, I have tried using gdm. The black screen and seg. fault errors started after I tried to run BZflag and it locked up. No GL games have worked since. Also, what exactly is a segmentation fault? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] nVidia driver installation
Dan, I have been following the various threads concerning nVidia drivers. I was hesitant to use the 1.0 drivers at first, but they ended up being my best option and work great for me. Tuxracer and Chromium look great full screen. I followed the instructions from nVidia for the 1.0 drivers using the mdk rpm's. In my case the only problem I am having is getting it to let me use 32 bit color instead of 24 bit, which isn't that big of a concern, but would be nice. I did use the nv_check.sh script to verify my installation, and I had to change my /etc/X11/X link because in my case Linux kept wanting to use XFree86 3.3.6 and I had to force it to use 4.0.3 by linking X to /user/X11R6/bin/XFree86. TC --- Dan Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry-- I don't know if you've been following it here on the list, but I've been having a heck of a time getting GL to work properly in full-screen GL mode using a GeForce2 MX AGP card under Mandrake 8. I suspect you're where I am: X is clearly using the nVidia drivers, stuff's generally looking good, windowed GL things run just great, but the minute you do something full screen all hell busts loose. If you DO have fullscreen GL working, though, I'd love to hear about it. In particular, what happens when you run tuxracer? If you don't know, I request you try it! And if you hang at a big black screen, ctrl-alt-del and 'esc' will get you back, if you're patient. Let us know! I know I'm not the only one eager to hear that it works for somebody! --Dan On Sunday 22 July 2001 12:40 am, you wrote: I have just installed the 1.0 nVidia drivers and they are working great except for one thing. When I first tried to startx after the installation and modifying XF86Config-4 the attempt failed. It said that the chipset did not support the color depth I had set up, which was 32 bit color. I changed XF86Config-4 to select 24 bit color and everything works fine. I know my geforce2 MX will support 32 bit color, so what do I have to do to make it work? Thanks to civileme for his assistance earlier in getting my install of 8.0 to use, and stay with XFree86 4.0.3. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Tuxracer
I did the install from the mandrake rpm's on the nvidia website and followed the instructions on that site. Tuxracer was working, it's great fun, but now it won't. I should be starting X with gdm. Here's a copy of the appropriate portion of /etc/X11/prefdm: if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/desktop /dev/null 21 [ -n $DISPLAYMANAGER ] DESKTOP=$DISPLAYMANAGER if [ $DESKTOP = GNOME -o $DESKTOP = Gnome ]; then preferred=gdm elif [ $DESKTOP = KDE -o $DESKTOP = KDE1 -o $DESKTOP = KDE2 ]; then preferred=/usr/bin/gdm elif [ $DESKTOP = AnotherLevel ] ; then preferred=/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm This should have me starting in gdm. If not then perhaps someone could show me the error of my ways so that I can fix this. Thanks for the help. TC --- Kernell32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you install the drivers from tar or from rpm? Which instructions did you follow to install them? And last but not least do you boot into x and do you use kdm? I recommend to install from tar : unzip both tars (nvidia_kernel and nvidia_glx) then enter first the nvidia_kernel dir and type: make install Then enter the nvidia_glx dir and type: make install (all of this as root) Then edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file (add: Load glx to the modules section and replace nv with nvidia in the device section) Then you should not boot into x directly rather set runlevel3 as default runlevel and type startx to go into grafical, or if you want to boot into x directly use gdm instead of kdm (that is probably your problem) that is easily done by creating a textfile in /etc/sysconfig containing a line: Desktop=GNOME im not quite sure about the caps gotta try =) that will make mandrake use gdm instead of kdm as loginmanager. Good luck On Sunday 22 July 2001 18:07, you wrote: After commenting about how wonderful Tuxracer is with the nVidia 1.0 drivers in full screen I went back to play it and it wouldn't start. I tried to start it from a terminal and it said: segmentation fault. Yesterday trying to run Chromium I had the same thing happen. What's going on and what can I do about it? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Tuxracer
After commenting about how wonderful Tuxracer is with the nVidia 1.0 drivers in full screen I went back to play it and it wouldn't start. I tried to start it from a terminal and it said: segmentation fault. Yesterday trying to run Chromium I had the same thing happen. What's going on and what can I do about it? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[newbie] nVidia driver installation
I have just installed the 1.0 nVidia drivers and they are working great except for one thing. When I first tried to startx after the installation and modifying XF86Config-4 the attempt failed. It said that the chipset did not support the color depth I had set up, which was 32 bit color. I changed XF86Config-4 to select 24 bit color and everything works fine. I know my geforce2 MX will support 32 bit color, so what do I have to do to make it work? Thanks to civileme for his assistance earlier in getting my install of 8.0 to use, and stay with XFree86 4.0.3. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Internet college classes
Marcia, webct is a browser based interface and I have used it with Netscape on Linux before without any problems. Taking Unix classes can be very helpful to you as you learn Linux. There are some differences, but over all much of what you learn for Unix will apply to Unix too. TC --- Marcia Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I am considering taking some computer college and/or internet classes. My area college has internet instruction using webct software which supposedly works with Unix. Does that mean that it would work with Linux? Unfortunately, they offer no classes teaching linux but several for Unix. Linux is my interest but is Unix just about the same thing? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] curious X information
Here's the link: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 29 Jun 23 00:19 X - ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA* --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2001 17:06, Terry C wrote: I am getting conflicting information concerning the version of X I'm running, and the color depth. When I bring up X-Server - KDE Control Module it tells me that I am running XFree86 3.3.6 and a 24 bit color depth. If I run XFree86 -version in a terminal it tells me that I am running XFree86 4.0.1. I tend to believe the info from running XFree86 -version, but why the discrepancy? I need to make sure that I have 4.0.1 running before I install the nVidia drivers, so how can I verify which is correct? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ Where does /etc/X11/X point? Civileme __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] KDM to XDM
Which file do I need to change so that I boot into XDM instead of KDM? I am going to install the nvidia drivers instead of using the XFree86 drivers for my video card and have read that there are some problems which have been attributed to using KDM. Thanks. Terry __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] curious X information
I am getting conflicting information concerning the version of X I'm running, and the color depth. When I bring up X-Server - KDE Control Module it tells me that I am running XFree86 3.3.6 and a 24 bit color depth. If I run XFree86 -version in a terminal it tells me that I am running XFree86 4.0.1. I tend to believe the info from running XFree86 -version, but why the discrepancy? I need to make sure that I have 4.0.1 running before I install the nVidia drivers, so how can I verify which is correct? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Nvidia which drivers
There is a discussion concerning the nVidia drivers on Mandrakeuser.org. After reading the threads I decided to use the older drivers myself. TC --- The Conways [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer has a bx mobo and a geforce 2 mx 32 meg of ram graphic card. Which are the best drivers? I understand there are some problems with the new nvidia drivers. Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] sound.
I hope someone can tell me what is going on with my sound. When I start KDE I used to get a little sound file playing, now I get nothing. When I look at /dev I see the following highlighted in red and flashing: snd - ../proc/asound/dev What is the highlighting and flashing trying to tell me? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] nvidia drivers
I just did an install of 8.0 and from what I've read I don't think that I want to use the 1251 drivers. (VIA chipset) :-( Anyone know where I can find the 769 drivers? Also, what is the best way to deal with the KDM problem? What are the alternatives? Right now I have it set up to auto login when I boot up. Thanks TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] sound.
I hope someone can tell me what is going on with my sound. When I start KDE I used to get a little sound file playing, now I get nothing. When I look at /dev I see the following highlighted in red and flashing: snd - ../proc/asound/dev What is the highlighting and flashing trying to tell me? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] nvidia drivers
I just did an install of 8.0 and from what I've read I don't think that I want to use the 1251 drivers. (VIA chipset) :-( Anyone know where I can find the 769 drivers? Also, what is the best way to deal with the KDM problem? What are the alternatives? Right now I have it set up to auto login when I boot up. Thanks TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] sound.
The only change I made was changing from XFree86 3.3.6 to 4.0.1. Right after making this change is when I began having sound problems. TC --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Mon, 2 Jul 2001 09:01:29 -0700 (PDT) when Terry C wrote: I hope someone can tell me what is going on with my sound. When I start KDE I used to get a little sound file playing, now I get nothing. When I look at /dev I see the following highlighted in red and flashing: snd - ../proc/asound/dev What is the highlighting and flashing trying to tell me? It means that this link is pointing to nowhere. The destination (/proc/asound/dev) seems to be no longer there. Did you do anything to the system? Paul -- Conference: a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] sound.
I see that I do not have /proc/asound. How can I go about rectifying this? Thanks for the help. TC --- Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul wrote: It was Mon, 2 Jul 2001 09:01:29 -0700 (PDT) when Terry C wrote: I hope someone can tell me what is going on with my sound. When I start KDE I used to get a little sound file playing, now I get nothing. When I look at /dev I see the following highlighted in red and flashing: snd - ../proc/asound/dev What is the highlighting and flashing trying to tell me? It means that this link is pointing to nowhere. The destination (/proc/asound/dev) seems to be no longer there. Did you do anything to the system? Paul [frans@localhost frans]$ ls -l /proc/asound/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 0 - card1/ dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 card1/ -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 cards dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 dev/ -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 devices -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 hwdep -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 oss-devices -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 pcm dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 seq/ -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 sndstat -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 timers -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jul 2 20:04 version [frans@localhost frans]$ cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.5.10b. Compiled on Apr 15 2001 for kernel 2.4.3-20mdk with versioned symbols. This is Mandrake 8.0 . It set up the OSS/free soundcard drivers for me, it worked OK :) Then I switched to ALSA for this install and it also works :) -Frans __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] kppp
I tried dialing into my ISP yesterday and was greeted with, pppd has unexpectedly died. I brought up the debug window and found that the login would progress to connected at 115,200, and the bottom of the window would say starting pppd, and then after s short period of time the window would pop up telling me that pppd had died. Help! What do I need to look at or do to rectify this problem. Thanks for your help. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8
Please let us know as soon as you have the disk optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard drive and I'm not getting the performance I should from it yet. TC --- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 08:01, Irv wrote: From: Pelle Poluha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8 Hello! I'm working as a developer and needs a stable environment to develop and test deployments in. So I want to switch from Windows. I need stability but at the same time I want speed and a practical UI (read GUI). I need a smooth file manager, easy access to OS, an editor, browser, email client (the usual I guess) and a C++ Java IDE. That you'll have - but not with KDE 2, I'm afraid. Even people with 1ghz / 256 mb machines have reported slowness. My 300mhz / 128 meg pc is too slow to be usable, but not quite as slow as you report - usually KDE takes 30-40 seconds, and new apps or windows 10 - 20 seconds. The good news is that KDE 1.x works just fine. Try an older version of Mandrake or SuSE or RedHat. They're all plenty fast. Regards, Irv I opted for Mandrake because I've heard a lot of good things about it. So I downloaded 8.0 last week and eagerly installed it on my AMD K333 machine (96 mb, Riva TNT) on a 2 gig partition. As I've followed the development of KDE with great interest, I chose KDE as default windows manager (and it has KDevelop). But it's really slow. Just loading Mandrake takes like 3-4 minutes. Some of it, I can understand. In the installation process, I included lots of apps and some of them gets loaded when Mandrake starts (like MySql and postgres, probably some more servers). But that surely doesn't account for the immensly slow loading of the OS. And then I start KDE... It takes another 2-3 minutes. And using it is awful. Loading a simple app might take 10-20 secs and everything just crawls. I just can't use it. I tried Window Maker instead and it worked better. But I don't want to drop KDE just yet. There must be something wrong with the configuration. I also tried Gnome but it started to look for a trash folder which it didn't find. Although I canceled that search, it seemed like it continued to search for the folder because the hd were working really hard all the time and everything worked even slower than in KDE. There are also some more strange things happening: - when I leave the windows manager and come to the 'console', I get a line typed on the screen all the time: Sending ICMP signal...failed (or something like that). It effectively stops me from working in console mode. - it seems like I've lost my internet connection. During installation, I selected 'DHCP-server' when asked for IP address. And I managed to do some surfing using Konqueror. But after installing Gnome and Window Maker, something must have happened to the configuration. - shutting down or restaring the OS always hangs the machine. - when I start Windows instead, using the boot manager, the initial loading process seems to be slower now than before. It's not a big deal because it works fine when Windows is loaded but it might give a clue to why the system is so slow when I start Linux. Please advice! Regards, Pelle Poluha Sweden G! The speed you perceive will be related to the performance of your HDDs more than any other single factor. I am doing fine with a Celeron 366 and a well-tuned disk drive which turns up a read rate of 31.89Mb/s I should have a disk optimizer out next week for testing. It will probably make a world of difference. Civileme __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] boot loader problem
I have just installed LM 8.0. The biggest problem I have with it is that I have to boot from a floppy. After the install I rebooted and ended up with a kernel panic. After a little research I found out that I had to enter linux ide=reverse when I boot lilo from a floppy. OK, easy to fix, just boot up, add the appropriate info to lilo.conf, and I should be up and running. Doesn't work that way. I try to run lilo -b /dev/hda to install it in my MBR and I get the 1024 cylinder error. Shouldn't happen with this version of lilo. I try to use Drakeboot, select Grub and it continually tries to use lilo. It won't use Grub, only lilo. My hardware and the file system may have something to do with this. FIC AZ-11 MB, with a Promise ATA 100 controller card. IBM 16GB ATA 100 hard drive, partitioned 1/2 for windoze, and 1/2 for Linux, using reiserfs. Except for not remembering the exact wording of the error I get when I try to run lilo this pretty well sums up the situation. Thanks for the help in getting this resolved. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] About GeForce 2 MX
It will not be a problem. nVidia's driver works for their entire range of graphics processors. I also have an GeForce2 MX card (terrific video card) and it also is using the XServer for the GeForce 2 DDR. No problems. If you want to do accelerated 3D in Linux, such as for games, you will need to get the latest Linux drivers from nVidia. Someone has also written a How-to to install these drivers in Mandrake 7.2, the instructions from nVidia, and the instructions on linuxnewbie don't work for 7.2. If you look back through the archives of this list you can probably find the URL for it. If you can't find it let me know and I'll try to get the instructions for you. Terry --- KWOK HO YU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I just installed Mandrake 7.2. After the installation, I can successfully start Xwin. However, it find my display card as a GeForce 2 DDR. Actually, it's a GeForce 2 MX (Hercules 3D Prophet II MX). Will this damage my display card and monitor? Thank you for your help ^__^ _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)
I have an Epson 740. Some things have changed since I posted this message. I did an upgrade to the latest version of CUPS and I can now print. But all is still not well. When I print a StarOffice document the lpr print window comes up, I click on OK, and then the qtcups window comes up. I again click on OK and the document will print. The problem here is that after the document prints another page prints with error messages and then stops without feeding the page completely through the printer. I am at work now so I can't show what is printing out after the print job. It also only prints in the color setting. I have tried to have it print in greyscale, but it prints in color anyway. This only happens when printing in Star Office. I can print from any other application and printing works great. --- Till Kamppeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What printer do you have? When you print to a file by choosing "File" and then "Print" and marking the "Print to file" check box in the printing dialog of Star Office, can you display this file with "gv"? Can you print the file with "xpp"? Till Terry C wrote: I followed the instructions on mandrakeuser.org and ended up with the following problem: From a terminal I ran spadmin and changed the default print queue to qtcups from lpr in the generic printer driver. I then printed a test page. A page printed correctly, then it continued to print and printed mulit-colored random characters. It continued to do this until I turned the printer off. After turning the printer back on I tried to print again and nothing would print. I tried xpp in addition to qtcups. Nothing. A printer window will come up and it looks like it should print, but nothing comes out of the printer. I tried to go back to lpr, still nothing prints. I finally convinced my wife to work with StarOffice instead of Microsoft Office, and now this happens. :( Lets just say that she's not very happy with me right now. Thanks for any help you can provide. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)
Now that I'm home; here's the printer error message: Error /undefined in rce %stopped_;ush --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- fa lse 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec 2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval Dictionary stack: --dict:908/941 (G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:51/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 1091317 Thanks for your help with this. Terry --- Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Epson 740. Some things have changed since I posted this message. I did an upgrade to the latest version of CUPS and I can now print. But all is still not well. When I print a StarOffice document the lpr print window comes up, I click on OK, and then the qtcups window comes up. I again click on OK and the document will print. The problem here is that after the document prints another page prints with error messages and then stops without feeding the page completely through the printer. I am at work now so I can't show what is printing out after the print job. It also only prints in the color setting. I have tried to have it print in greyscale, but it prints in color anyway. This only happens when printing in Star Office. I can print from any other application and printing works great. --- Till Kamppeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What printer do you have? When you print to a file by choosing "File" and then "Print" and marking the "Print to file" check box in the printing dialog of Star Office, can you display this file with "gv"? Can you print the file with "xpp"? Till Terry C wrote: I followed the instructions on mandrakeuser.org and ended up with the following problem: From a terminal I ran spadmin and changed the default print queue to qtcups from lpr in the generic printer driver. I then printed a test page. A page printed correctly, then it continued to print and printed mulit-colored random characters. It continued to do this until I turned the printer off. After turning the printer back on I tried to print again and nothing would print. I tried xpp in addition to qtcups. Nothing. A printer window will come up and it looks like it should print, but nothing comes out of the printer. I tried to go back to lpr, still nothing prints. I finally convinced my wife to work with StarOffice instead of Microsoft Office, and now this happens. :( Lets just say that she's not very happy with me right now. Thanks for any help you can provide. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
[newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)
I followed the instructions on mandrakeuser.org and ended up with the following problem: From a terminal I ran spadmin and changed the default print queue to qtcups from lpr in the generic printer driver. I then printed a test page. A page printed correctly, then it continued to print and printed mulit-colored random characters. It continued to do this until I turned the printer off. After turning the printer back on I tried to print again and nothing would print. I tried xpp in addition to qtcups. Nothing. A printer window will come up and it looks like it should print, but nothing comes out of the printer. I tried to go back to lpr, still nothing prints. I finally convinced my wife to work with StarOffice instead of Microsoft Office, and now this happens. :( Lets just say that she's not very happy with me right now. Thanks for any help you can provide. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
[newbie] promise ultra 100 card and FIC AZ-11
My MB, an FIC AZ-11, originally came with just ATA-66 on it. I installed Mandrake 7.2 onto an IBM ATA-100 hard drive. FIC now sells either bundled, or seperately for those who purchased the MB earlier, the Promise Ultra 100 card. The difference between the FIC bundled card and the retail card is the the boot ROM has been removed from the controller and the boot info put into the MB BIOS. I would like to use this card with my current installation and I'm wondering if anyone has some experience with this setup, and what hoops I may have to jump through to make ATA 100 work with my current installation. I will reinstall if I have to, but would rather not. Thanks for your help. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] CUPS challenge
Check out www.linuxprinting.org TC --- -michael- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an epson stylus scan 2000 printer that I would love to have on line while using linux but can't seem to find a driver in the CUPS directory that will even make it burp. Anyone out there got an idea as to where I could look? -- ;-) -michael- __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] MODEMS
Take a look at www.linmodems.org --- TiGereYe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, Once somebody posted a web page that listed modems and if they are real modems or winmodems and if there is any linux drivers for them... does anybody have it?. plus i have a question...if it is a winmodem and there is no linux driver for it...is it basically rendered useless in linux? Yes! TC thanks TiGereYe - Accept No Substitutes - - Dont Start Racin Or I will Start Racin...Bets On That You'll Be Disgracin. __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
[newbie] xfree86
I may have missed something during install that would haved solved this but, I wanted to install XFree86 4.01, Linux-Mandrake 7.2 installed XFree86 3.3.6, even though it also comes with 4.01. What do I need to do to install run 4.01? I have a GeForce MX video card and want to use the new nvidia drivers. Thanks Terry __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
