Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install
On Thursday 30 January 2003 01:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 6:30 pm, et wrote: Snipped I would suggest you turn of DNS, caching name server, named, routed and yp services and other YP services (unless you need them and understand how to correctly configure them seems that named (a DNS) would be the only one i need of the ones you mentioned as i am attempting to setup a server/dumb terminal network as per www.ltsp.org and need dns. the rest were deactivated as per your suggestion. Dennis M. had mentioned that on his system leaving the bios set to auto detect contributed to a slow and unstable system and suggested doing a hd detect in bios. perhaps with both suggestions i can get this thing moving! thank you (and Dennis M.) for your time and suggestion. -iggy DNS, if not configured correctly is one of those things that will sure as hell start a system to crawl, as your box might decide it needs to look on the Internet for //iggy.ISP.com/home/Iggy/fileIneed.txt instead of /home/iggy/fileineed.txt, and look to the dns servers upline before timing out and looking for the file where it is supposed to be. this might only take ten seconds while your network is up, but 10 seconds added to the time to open each file can sure make it seem like it is crawling. IMHO, better to not try to setup a dns server untill the rest of the box is setup correctly. When I got dns wrong it affected absolutely everything. Opening a file from the desktop took upwards of a minute. Sure the startup was very, very slow, but so was every other time the system needed it. Maybe this setup has a correct entry coupled with one or more incorrect ones, so that eventually gets there, while mine just had to time out. Anne i stopped the deamon from starting at boot, rebooted and checked to make sure that the deamon was stopped. it was... however, i'm still quite slow. it does not take me 1 minute more like 15 - 20 seconds to open programs. i do remember that the only other time i did a default install (mdk 8.2) i also had a slow system. once i did a custom install (checking only the programs i wanted and needed) the system ran fine. i'll reinstall if i have to :^( but i'm not looking forward to it (reeks of ms crap i went through w/ win98). anyother ideas would be greatly appreciated. -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install
On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:53 am, robin wrote: iggy wrote: dear all, ***symptoms*** i recently installed 9.0 and have noticed that it is painfully slow. i'm very surprised as 8.2 ran like a bat out of hell. ***pertinate info*** msi mobo(i don't remember the model offhand), amd 1700+ cpu, 256 mb ram (unknown manufacturer), wd 40gb hard drive, sony 16x dvd, verbatim 40x,12x, 48x cdrw, d-link 10/100 network card and hub, g-force 2 64mb w/ tv out, sound blaster audigy mp3 sound card, (and i hope i didn't forget anything else! lol) ***specifics*** slow starting kde, slow starting each and every app, fast logging out, fast boot to graphical log in. any additional info you may need, please feal free to ask (i'm a n00b, so i may be RTFM on how to retreive that info!) as always, thanks to those volunteers and others whom take time to generously help out those of us with less experience. An obvious question, but have you checked to see what daemons are running (Mandrake Control Center-System-Services)? A couple of times I've clicked on a package I didn't actually need during installation, so then Mandrake obligingly started the appropriate demon. Some of these can be real resource-hoggers, fetchmail being one of the wrost offenders. Sir Robin thanks for the tip. i had noticed that when i rebooted (i dual boot with win98 for a few games i have) that the squid deamon was failing to stop normally. i attempted to stop the deamon through the services menu and it failed to stop also. i then uninstalled it. also, i noticed that mysql and postgresql were both installed. since i'm only interested in learing mysql (for now), i stopped the postgresql deamon and uninstalled it also. the innd deamon ran installed and running. since i'm not creating my own news server i stopped the deamon and removed the program. if anything i've done seems (or is) wrong, please feel free to let me know. thanks, again. -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] locked floppy and cdrom2 drives (resolved)
On Thursday 30 January 2003 02:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 2:24 am, iggy wrote: i've searched through the archives looking for past threads and have been unsuccessful, so here goes... if i log in as iggy or root, either way the floppy drive (fd0, i only have one) and cdrom2 have a locked icon in konqueror. in the control center (this may or may not be related to the locked drives), when i attempt to configure users i get the error message Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist This bit is one part of the problem (apart from the no-disk-in-the-drive). Check /etc for one of the files mentioned above, and delete it if you find one (or both). They are temp files left behind when something goes wrong. Anne that did it. after i deleted the files i was able go into userdrake and add cdrom2 and floppy to user iggy. afterwards, i was able to browse both. thank you and Douglas B. (same suggestion) very much. -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] locked floppy and cdrom2 drives (resolved)
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:29 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 29 January 2003 08:24 pm, iggy wrote: i've searched through the archives looking for past threads and have been unsuccessful, so here goes... if i log in as iggy or root, either way the floppy drive (fd0, i only have one) and cdrom2 have a locked icon in konqueror. in the control center (this may or may not be related to the locked drives), when i attempt to configure users i get the error message Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist if you know where i can go to RTFM or have some pointers for me to try, any help is appreciated. ***extra info*** i am attempting to setup a linux terminal server using the resources at www.ltsp.org and need to create a boot diskette for the clients. thanks to all whom take time out of their busy lives to help a n00b like me :^) -iggy iggy, if there are no media in the devices they will show as locked. If you have media in the devices then do you do userdrake as su or root? Try it from a console? HTH thanks for the tip. however, there was media in the drives. When i did userdrake from the console (as su) i had the same errors. Anne W. and Douglas B. both suggested removing the /etc/ptmp and /etc/gtmp files. i did go ahead and remove them. then went into userdrake though the console and added the groups cdrom2 and floppy to user iggy. The locked icon went away for cdrom2 but not for floppy. however, i was able to use the floppy drive to delete and copy files to the floppy disk meaning that i was (obviously) able to use /mnt/floppy. i remain unconcerned about the locked floppy icon as the drive is usable. thanks for the suggestion. i now know of a quick way to change user specifiy configurations (i usually have a console open). su, then userdrake. -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] locked floppy and cdrom2 drives (resolved)
that did it. after i deleted the files i was able go into userdrake and add cdrom2 and floppy to user iggy. afterwards, i was able to browse both. thank you and Anne W.. (same suggestion) very much. -iggy On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:44 am, Douglas B. wrote: don't know about the drives but regarding configuring users - just deleting /etc/ptmp and /etc/gtmp (as su) seems to have no ill effects and frees up useradd, configuring groups and users, etc. Doug On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 02:24, iggy wrote: i've searched through the archives looking for past threads and have been unsuccessful, so here goes... if i log in as iggy or root, either way the floppy drive (fd0, i only have one) and cdrom2 have a locked icon in konqueror. in the control center (this may or may not be related to the locked drives), when i attempt to configure users i get the error message Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist if you know where i can go to RTFM or have some pointers for me to try, any help is appreciated. ***extra info*** i am attempting to setup a linux terminal server using the resources at www.ltsp.org and need to create a boot diskette for the clients. thanks to all whom take time out of their busy lives to help a n00b like me :^) -iggy __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] locked floppy and cdrom2 drives
On Thursday 30 January 2003 05:22 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 2:24 am, iggy wrote: i've searched through the archives looking for past threads and have been unsuccessful, so here goes... if i log in as iggy or root, either way the floppy drive (fd0, i only have one) and cdrom2 have a locked icon in konqueror. in the control center (this may or may not be related to the locked drives), when i attempt to configure users i get the error message Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist if you know where i can go to RTFM or have some pointers for me to try, any help is appreciated. ***extra info*** i am attempting to setup a linux terminal server using the resources at www.ltsp.org and need to create a boot diskette for the clients. thanks to all whom take time out of their busy lives to help a n00b like me :^) -iggy This may be a silly question... But.. Is there a CD or floppy in the drive? Supermount will show the drive as locked until there is media in it. If you do have a CD in the drive, then please post the contents of your /etc/fstab file BTW: An audio CD does not count. An audio CD is not a file system and cannot be browsed by Konqueror. (Well not unless you press the 'Services' button which is the bottom button in the divider betweeen the left and right Konqueror panes) derek i did have data cd and diskette in drive. as it turned out, i needed to delete /etc/ptmp and /etc/gtmp exist to get to userdrake. then i added the groups cdrom2 and floppy to user iggy. while the icon shows locked for the floppy drive, i am able to use it normally. thank you (and everybody else) who took the time to help me. -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install
On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:42 am, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of iggy Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:53 am, robin wrote: iggy wrote: dear all, ***symptoms*** i recently installed 9.0 and have noticed that it is painfully slow. i'm very surprised as 8.2 ran like a bat out of hell. ***pertinate info*** msi mobo(i don't remember the model offhand), amd 1700+ cpu, 256 mb ram (unknown manufacturer), wd 40gb hard drive, sony 16x dvd, verbatim 40x,12x, 48x cdrw, d-link 10/100 network card and hub, g-force 2 64mb w/ tv out, sound blaster audigy mp3 sound card, (and i hope i didn't forget anything else! lol) ***specifics*** slow starting kde, slow starting each and every app, fast logging out, fast boot to graphical log in. any additional info you may need, please feal free to ask (i'm a n00b, so i may be RTFM on how to retreive that info!) as always, thanks to those volunteers and others whom take time to generously help out those of us with less experience. An obvious question, but have you checked to see what daemons are running (Mandrake Control Center-System-Services)? A couple of times I've clicked on a package I didn't actually need during installation, so then Mandrake obligingly started the appropriate demon. Some of these can be real resource-hoggers, fetchmail being one of the wrost offenders. Sir Robin thanks for the tip. i had noticed that when i rebooted (i dual boot with win98 for a few games i have) that the squid deamon was failing to stop normally. i attempted to stop the deamon through the services menu and it failed to stop also. i then uninstalled it. also, i noticed that mysql and postgresql were both installed. since i'm only interested in learing mysql (for now), i stopped the postgresql deamon and uninstalled it also. the innd deamon ran installed and running. since i'm not creating my own news server i stopped the deamon and removed the program. if anything i've done seems (or is) wrong, please feel free to let me know. thanks, again. -iggy One thing I found on my system, Gigabyte MB w/ Maxtor HD and Athlon 1800 cpu, was that if I had the bios set with HD detection on auto my whole system ran poorly, as in slow and glitchy. As soon as I did an detect hard drives in bios and then rebooted, we went into highgear and everything works well. I have no explanation since I don't know how the auto function works but, seems like it may be something to look at. HTH Dennis M. good idea... off to do a reboot! btw, seems like a good idea to shave a few seconds off the rare reboot (i do use win98 for several games). -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install
On Thursday 30 January 2003 12:56 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:42 am, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of iggy Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:53 am, robin wrote: iggy wrote: dear all, ***symptoms*** i recently installed 9.0 and have noticed that it is painfully slow. i'm very surprised as 8.2 ran like a bat out of hell. ***pertinate info*** msi mobo(i don't remember the model offhand), amd 1700+ cpu, 256 mb ram (unknown manufacturer), wd 40gb hard drive, sony 16x dvd, verbatim 40x,12x, 48x cdrw, d-link 10/100 network card and hub, g-force 2 64mb w/ tv out, sound blaster audigy mp3 sound card, (and i hope i didn't forget anything else! lol) ***specifics*** slow starting kde, slow starting each and every app, fast logging out, fast boot to graphical log in. any additional info you may need, please feal free to ask (i'm a n00b, so i may be RTFM on how to retreive that info!) as always, thanks to those volunteers and others whom take time to generously help out those of us with less experience. An obvious question, but have you checked to see what daemons are running (Mandrake Control Center-System-Services)? A couple of times I've clicked on a package I didn't actually need during installation, so then Mandrake obligingly started the appropriate demon. Some of these can be real resource-hoggers, fetchmail being one of the wrost offenders. Sir Robin thanks for the tip. i had noticed that when i rebooted (i dual boot with win98 for a few games i have) that the squid deamon was failing to stop normally. i attempted to stop the deamon through the services menu and it failed to stop also. i then uninstalled it. also, i noticed that mysql and postgresql were both installed. since i'm only interested in learing mysql (for now), i stopped the postgresql deamon and uninstalled it also. the innd deamon ran installed and running. since i'm not creating my own news server i stopped the deamon and removed the program. if anything i've done seems (or is) wrong, please feel free to let me know. thanks, again. -iggy I would suggest you turn of DNS, cacheing name server, named, routed and yp services and other YP services (unless you need them and understand how to correctly configure them seems that named (a DNS) would be the only one i need of the ones you mentioned as i am attempting to setup a server/dumb terminal network as per www.ltsp.org and need dns. the rest were deactivated as per your suggestion. Dennis M. had mentioned that on his sytem leaving the bios set to auto detect contributed to a slow and unstable system and suggested doing a hd detect in bios. perhaps with both suggestions i can get this thing moving! thank you (and Dennis M.) for your time and suggestion. -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best way to find things out
some things! Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Russ. Take the `Virtual Tour' of Behne's `Backyard' Nursery: http://www.angelfire.com/linux/behnesnursery/ ``The right to be let alone...'' ``The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness...They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.'' -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928, dissenting opinion, Olmstead v. U.S. this is my $.02 and it's gpl... LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition (Version 1.0.0) by Paul Sheer at http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz good stuff -- iggy Registered user 287116 at http://counter.li.org Registered computer 168591 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mysql deamon needs to be started by hand even though...
in the mandrake control center it is configured to start on boot. A pain to start the control center to start mysql. thanks in advance for any ideas. -- iggy Registered user 287116 at http://counter.li.org Registered computer 168591 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] phpgroupware documentation
i've been poking around in my system looking for the help files on phpgroupware and have not found them as of yet. could someone point me in the right direction? mandrake 9.0 (and loving it!) BTW, when i was using 8.2, i'd downloaded it, installed it and knew where everything was. my luck, i guess -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] phpgroupware documentation
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 09:42 pm, Spencer wrote: On October 8, 2002 06:23 pm, iggy wrote: i've been poking around in my system looking for the help files on phpgroupware and have not found them as of yet. could someone point me in the right direction? mandrake 9.0 (and loving it!) BTW, when i was using 8.2, i'd downloaded it, installed it and knew where everything was. my luck, i guess -iggy If it's installed file:/usr/share/doc/phpgroupware-0.9.12 Spence There it is. Thanks! -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
I've been reading the documentation for mandrake 9.0 rc2 and came across this little gem of a linkat http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . I thought I'd share it with everyone as I can state, definatele, I've been guilty of these. Maybe I'm not the only one :^) Still RTFM! -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
On Monday 23 September 2002 05:40 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:00, iggy wrote: I've been reading the documentation for mandrake 9.0 rc2 and came across this little gem of a linkat http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . I thought I'd share it with everyone as I can state, definatele, I've been guilty of these. Maybe I'm not the only one :^) It has value up to a point, but is too rigid and is ignorant of people with abilities different to those of the author. It reminds me of the frightful proscriptive grammar textbooks used when education was a little less enlightened. For example, Write in clear, grammatical, correctly-spelled language sounds wonderful until someone who is dyslexic wants to ask a question, for example; not everyone's strength is in the written form of a language, and one has to be forgiving. Alastair Point well taken. BTW, did you notice any spelling mistakes in my original post? following the smart-questions essay, I'd at least be ignored, or worse. Here's hoping I never get to busy to be polite. -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble making a boot floppy
On Thursday 19 September 2002 11:21 am, mudder wrote: On Thursday 19 September 2002 10:49 am, iggy wrote: On Thursday 19 September 2002 10:10 am, mudder wrote: Hello Has anyone had trouble creating a boot disk? I've been playing around with this since the first beta, and have had problems with the boot floppy.From the first beta through RC2 I would get something like the following Boot: loading vmlinuz.(17 periods) boot failed: Please change disks and press a key to continue I just loaded RC3 this morning and it is telling me that the boot floppy is not a bootable disk. Anyone have any advice? I have installed Elx Linux, Lycoris Desktop LX, and Mandrake 8.2 and have not had this problem. The floppy drive is a Epson SD-800 3-1/2 5-1/4 combination drive. Any help would be appreciated Epson SD-800 3-1/2 5-1/4 combination drive? shame on you ;^) did you try the simple things first? disk drives fail, diskettes go bad, etc. have you tried replacing the diskette? replacing the drive? by the way, you didn't try to make a 5-1/4 the boot disk? there may not be enough room on one of those for all the info. good luck. -iggy ps, assuming hardware failure first. btw, were you able to create a boot disk whene you first installed rc3? Shame on me?? I need the 5-1/4 drive because I program some older types of gearcutting machines that use old computers and 5-1/4 360k floppy disks. (yea, I'm old. But not too old to learn something new.) I have installed Elx Linux, Lycoris Desktop LX, and Mandrake 8.2 all in the last few days and I was using brand new disks. I was able to write a disk when I installed rc3 and in a terminal window I can see that it has these files on it. boot.msg initrd.img syslinux.cfg and vmlinuz and it tells me that it is not bootable? I am able to format disks inside of linux, write text files and read them on other machines in both drives. And I had just installed mandrake 8.2 last night and all was well. I'm going out to buy a floppy drive later on today, buy I have a hard time believing that the drive is bad given all of the conditions that I see here. Thanks for replying so fast. before buying a new drive, as a test, i'd fill the drive w/ one large text file and then verify that the contents of the drive. i'f the drive was failing, then the file inards would be screwed. if the text was fine then no need to replace the drive and the problems are elsewhere... i'll help by checking the mail list archives for similar problems (if any) at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 and mandrake forum at http://www.mandrakeforum.org/. i'm new to linux but (relatively) old to hardware (10+ years). -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble making a boot floppy
On Thursday 19 September 2002 12:15 pm, Charlie M. wrote: On Thursday 19 September 2002 9:21 am, mudder wrote: snip Shame on me?? I need the 5-1/4 drive because I program some older types of gearcutting machines that use old computers and 5-1/4 360k floppy disks. (yea, I'm old. But not too old to learn something new.) I have installed Elx Linux, Lycoris Desktop LX, and Mandrake 8.2 all in the last few days and I was using brand new disks. I was able to write a disk when I installed rc3 and in a terminal window I can see that it has these files on it. boot.msg initrd.img syslinux.cfg and vmlinuz You're missing ldlinux.sys for one thing. and it tells me that it is not bootable? I am able to format disks inside of linux, write text files and read them on other machines in both drives. And I had just installed mandrake 8.2 last night and all was well. I'm going out to buy a floppy drive later on today, buy I have a hard time believing that the drive is bad given all of the conditions that I see here. Thanks for replying so fast. Great resource these lists, aren't they? There have been a LOT of cooker updates lately. Last week there was an update to mkbootdisk to version 1.4.5-4mdk to fix problems people were having with making a boot disk. In a terminal as super user check the version installed with: rpm -qa mkbootdisk If it's older than the version number I reported above you'll likely have to update it and syslinux too I believe. There was a post on the cooker mailing list about this. More than one in fact. That's a great place to read about all this fun stuff. :-) With the fun and games in drakconf over the past two weeks the GUI boot configuration utility from the control center may not work either. I had to build my boot disk using mkbootdisk kernel version from a terminal. If none of that helps and the drive checks out OK then I don't know. Sorry. found help from civileme (spelling?)... seems he ran into another person with a similar problem, diskette was corrupt. try different disk. iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE REGISTER?
On Thursday 19 September 2002 04:21 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 16:05, Gabriel Gonzalez wrote: Hello all, Just I have installed by first time the mandrake 8.0 and I would like to register this but I get this software thought a magazine and does not had included the Serial Number. What I can do to get one Serial Number or How I can register the software? Unlike Windows or MacOS, with Linux software there's usually no such thing as registration and there certainly isn't any with Mandrake Linux. In fact, Linux is based on a _completely different_ philosophy from other operating systems, as you'll see here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.es.html One of the best things about Open Source / Free Software is that, even when the software costs money, you just pay it. There are no registration codes, serial numbers or other things to lose :) Should you decide that you want to reward MandrakeSoft for their efforts there are at least two things you can do: i. buy a boxed set from http://new.mandrakestore.com/ ii. join the Mandrake Club http://www.mandrakeclub.com/ Alastair i LOVE this e-mail and reply coming from MS WinCrap, i can COMPLETELY understand the confusion. Such freedom confused me at first. Thoughts such as: i can download it instead of buying it? *see note 1, i can give you a copy, you can copy it, and pass along a copy, LEGALLY! *see note 2, etc. what to do with the new found freedom? squander it? it's your right, if you wish. Perhaps it might be better to: *note 1: buy it instead of downloading it. some well deserved developers would appreciate it. not to mention, it is A LOT less expensive than MS products. heck, i've paid more for software to catch a crash in MS Winblows than i did for mandrake 8.2. *note 2: copy and encourage copying. mandrake linux is a gift that shows you care. why give them crapware? a windows installation is a massive security risk for their very_personal information. if anybody needs confirmation on this just visit any tech news site. even those catering to MS cannot hide the multiple warnings (they seem to be growing exponentially). patch windows, office, etc, etc. no hiding it, security holes are found in linux, but they are usually patched at a phenomenal speed and mandrake makes it so very painless to patch (often, with no rebooting, try THAT with winblows!) how about contributing something back to support this new found freedom? this newbie mailing list is great to not only get help but to help those who need it. there are many ways to enjoy this freedom, have fun! -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] updating 9.0 rc 2
hi, all! does anyboby know if 9.0 rc 2 will be updatable (is that a real word?) to 9.0 final version or i'll have to download 9.0 when it becomes available? -iggy ps. with 9.0, i finally feel i can dump MS crap and be able to do all the things i need. OO, databases, spreadsheets, etc. save for my favorite games, i'd loose my broken_windows_98 partition faster than the release cycles for ms viruses! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ot - file sharing tools
hi, all. was wondering is anyone knows if anybody knows of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity to kazaa? side note... i mainly work in kde, for what it's worth. 9.0 rc2 thanks in advance -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation
i saw that phanton account. on a previous install of 8.2, i did the initial wizard at first login (after the install). i had the same problem, could not delete the account. i needed to do a reinstall (other problems) and skipped the initial wizard and setup the accounts manually in kmail and have not seen the phantom account since. BTW, i also had the phantom account in KNode. On Tuesday 16 July 2002 05:15 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: At 10:05 PM 7/16/2002 +0100, you wrote: Well not every seems to get that phantom account. I did not. To get rid of it do this. Thanks. I'm on my way out the door to a meeting but will try this when i return. Regards, joe -- my windows broke. so i replaced it with Linux. i once was blind, now i see the light! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation
from the disheveled desktop of iggy: let me guess... it was an internal pci fax/modem (not voice). i went through the exact same hassles less than a month ago. after bashing my head repeatedly, i exchanged it for an external USR (they can't #^% that one up). ain't had a problem since. On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:10 am, you wrote: Hi all, I have Mandrake 8.1 installed and am using KDE. I bought what I thought was a Linux-compatible modem (it says so on the damn box), yet when I try to install in Hardrake it shows the correct modem id but won't configure it as it says it's a Winmodem. I'm a bit ticked by that, but anyway.. I went to USR.com and downloaded their rpm file for Linux which is saved as LNUX_3ComMdm-1.0-1.i386.rpm and did a rpm -i. It errors out with the message that IRQ 12 is in use. Hardrake offers advice to be found at www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and that's nice, but truthfully it's all a bit over my head and setserial didn't work for me either. My modem model is USR325610b. Someone please help and hold the acronyms please. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] windows sucks, but it does sound nice
thank you for the tips. i tried it and still don't have audio (of any flavor (cd, mp3, etc)). this is what my /etc/modules.conf looks like: alias net-pf-4 ipx alias usb-interface usb-ohci alias eth0 8139too alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio alias char-major-81 bttv alias usb-interface1 usb-uhci alias usb-interface2 usb-uhci alias usb-interface3 usb-uhci alias tvcard0 bttv you'll notice that i set it back to the original configuration. i had set it to your suggestions and rebooted (can you tell i an a newbie :^( ) by the way, all i get is static on my tv card. it works fine on my copy of monopolistic,_you_will_be_assimilated,_you_will_go_today, _crashdoze_O.S. my system: the mobo is an msi k7t266 pro2-ru (ms-6380 v2.x) with a via vt8366a (522bga) and a via vt8233 (376 bga) chipsets amd athlon xp 1700+ 256 mb ddr ram (1 stick) 64 mb nvidia gforce 2 w/ tv out 40 gb seagate h.d. 16x dvd 8x cd (don't need any faster for music (or i'm cheap :^)) floppy On Monday 08 July 2002 01:57 pm, you wrote: iggy wrote: Chip intergrated (2 channel S/W audio) - DIrect Sound AC97 Audio since i dual boot, i checked amongst the broken windows and found that the sound card (chip) was a via 8233. 2nd attempt ,08.07.02,19.00hrs BST Go to /etc/modules.conf with a text editor and add:- # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via8233 If there is anythy other sound chip support, hash (#) it out. Then go to Mandrake control center and make sure you have aRts enabled, if you want multi chanel sound configuration. Then go to the sound mixer app in kstart menu and make sure all the led's are bright green ( not midgreen which is the default, and rather confusing). Good quality sound is then enabled. The via 8233 sound chip is OK and once the above is enabled it works flawlessly john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] no sound w/ msi mo_bo/via 8233 intergrated sound
hello, all! i looked in the msi website for any info in regards to configuration under linux with no success. looked in the mo_bo manual and noticed it said: Chip intergrated (2 channel S/W audio) - DIrect Sound AC97 Audio since i dual boot, i checked amongst the broken windows and found that the sound card (chip) was a via 8233. i'm thinking that i'm going to be shelling out pesos for a sound card, UNLESS... one of you good people know how to resolve my little problem! many thanks to you -iggy -- my windows broke. so i replaced it with Linux. i once was blind, now i see the light! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: downloaded mandrake 8.2 (ftp), need directory struct. for disk 3
On Saturday 22 June 2002 02:37 pm, you wrote: hello to all the good people out there. i downloaded via ftp mandrake 8.2 download edition (over dialup! yes, it took weeks! dedication baby!). anyway, i have disks 1 and 2 already as they came w/ a magazine i bought. the problem is that i went to install kde 3.0 and it was asking to have disk 3 loaded into the cd rom. hence, my need for the directory structure and contents. can somebody point me in the right direction? as always, many thanks for your assistance this time and for past times also. -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] my system locks when shutting down/rebooting w/ error...
my system locks when shutting down/rebooting with this error message umount: /net: device is busy. reinstalled to make sure i didn't have a bad install (it did happen, once). got the same error message. my system is a: amd athlon xp 1700 w/ 256 mb ram, msi motherboard, 40 gb hard drive, cd and dvd rom drives, dlink network card (and hub) any help will be greatly appreciated. -iggy ps, not afraid of RTFM, but have been unsuccessful in finding any references to my particular problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
