Re: [expert] Lucent WinModem Problems

2002-04-12 Thread Sevatio
It turned out that I needed to modify /etc/devfs/conf.d/modem.conf to reflect the use of ttySLT0 instead of ttyS0. Sevatio wrote: > OS: LM8.2 > Driver: ltmodem 6.00c2 > > I installed the Lucent Modem driver from RPM. But after a reboot, kppp > is not able to contact the modem because /dev/mod

[expert] IDE Travan Tape backup on LM8.0

2002-04-12 Thread Jorge Giménez Mayorgas
Hi .   I have a problem with a IDE Tape Backup . I think is detected ok but when trying to work with it it gives me error when testing or trying to extract (testing tar -tvf /dev/ht0 , extracting tar -xvf /dev/ht0 ) I back up with tar -cvf /dev/ht0 /home with no errors.   This is what dmesg r

Re: [expert] mayday! mayday! mayday!

2002-04-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:35:03 -0500 David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A *quick* "mayday" response while I think on it... This can happen when you have a symlink that points back [in]to the parent directory. So you end up copying that directory/file recursively over and over until... "du -

[expert] kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 46390000

2002-04-12 Thread Sergei Vorobyov
Hi! My ML 8.2 with (no kernel changes) Linux version 2.4.18-6mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 2731 (Mandrake Linux 8.2 2.96-0.76mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 15 02:59:08 CET 2002 running on MSI K7T266 Pro with AMD Athlon 1.4GHz and 768MB of DDR266 breaks with the following kernel Oops when

[expert] Any issues with Cyber Drive CD writer?

2002-04-12 Thread Phil
Hello All, At long last I have made a move to buy a CD R/W drive. A local store sells a Cyber Drive that is affordable. It is an IDE device and according to the box, and Cyber Drive's web site, it Linux compatible. I was wondering if anyone knows of any issues that I should be aware of? -- R

[expert] kernel, bad swap file entry, and X

2002-04-12 Thread Sergei Vorobyov
Hi! Periodically my X server (from ML8.2, on NVidia Geforce MX400 graphic card) dies unexpectedly, with the following message to /var/log/messages. Any remedies known? Should I blame the kernel or the X server, or myself? Earlier today I reported a problem with the kernel: Unable to handle kern

[expert] Crystal Sound Problem

2002-04-12 Thread dallas
I have an IBM 300PL (PII 300Mhz - 128Mb ram). It has onboard Crystal CS4235 chipset. During install I get the message to configure sound after install is complete. When I run sndconfig it detects a 'ISAPNP Model : Crystal Audio:Disabled'. (It is enabled in the BIOS) sndconfig can play the Linus so

Re: [expert] mayday! mayday! mayday

2002-04-12 Thread Joel Esler
kcore is just what is in your Ram in your computer that very second. You know how linux likes to make dir's out of everything. look in "lost+found"? On Friday 12 April 2002 03:03 am, you wrote: > It's possible the mount failed and you actually did the copy to local hard > drive / instead of

[expert] msec vs. kernel-source

2002-04-12 Thread David Relson
Greetings, With msec set to level 3 and above, RPM_CHECK is turned on. This caused "rpm -V" to run, which isn't a bad thing. However, the kernel-sources package contains several hundred generated files. ALL of these files show up as changes on my system since I have compiled my own kernel.

Re: [expert] xscreensaver questions

2002-04-12 Thread Thomas Gamble
On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:53 pm, David Relson Pontificated: > Hi, > > I have xscreensaver configured to randomly pick a new screensaver every 5 > minutes and I have two questions. > > 1 - Some of the screensavers are very, very nice. Is there any way to > determine which screensaver is being r

Re: [expert] ps2pdf problem in Mandrake 8.2

2002-04-12 Thread Laura Conrad
> "kwan" == kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: kwan> The Sourceforge project for Ghostscript shows at least 5 bug reports kwan> similar to what you experienced. For now I'm dropping back to the kwan> version shipped with 8.1, since that one seems to be free of the kwan> problem

Re: [expert] xscreensaver questions

2002-04-12 Thread David Relson
At 09:00 AM 4/12/02, you wrote: >On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:53 pm, David Relson Pontificated: > > Hi, > > > > I have xscreensaver configured to randomly pick a new screensaver every 5 > > minutes and I have two questions. > > > > 1 - Some of the screensavers are very, very nice. Is there any wa

RE: [expert] Any issues with Cyber Drive CD writer?

2002-04-12 Thread Paul Fotheringham
Hi Phil, I tried a cheap Cyberdrive CD-RW (CW038D) with a Mandrake 8.1 box and had absolutely no joy whatsoever. It may not have been Linux that was the problem but I'm not convinced. Couldn't get a test CD to mount at all never mind doing any burning. Tried tweaking the BIOS and disabling DMA bu

Re: [expert] mayday! mayday! mayday!

2002-04-12 Thread David Rankin
You guys are GREAT! - Problem Solved. Well, the problem was that /mnt/tripod never got mounted and I did fill up /mnt/tripod with the recursive copy until it ran out of space. What was causing me problems was that I though I had created one large tmp file somewhere. All of my searches usi

Re: [expert] Any issues with Cyber Drive CD writer?

2002-04-12 Thread Tom
On Friday 12 April 2002 08:29 am, Paul Fotheringham wrote: > Hi Phil, > > I tried a cheap Cyberdrive CD-RW (CW038D) with a Mandrake 8.1 > box and had absolutely no joy whatsoever. It may not have been > Linux that was the problem but I'm not convinced. Couldn't get > a test CD to mount at all neve

Re: [expert] Need a recording utility !!!

2002-04-12 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
On 11 Apr 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: As already recommended: use gramofile! It's excelent. I've used it to 'transform' several k7 audio to CD! But I got a recipe: - I record and process the sound with gramofile; (initial input and final) - I use aumix to control the input/output levels; - I tran

Re: [expert] xscreensaver questions

2002-04-12 Thread Thomas Gamble
On Friday 12 April 2002 08:16 am, David Relson Pontificated: > At 09:00 AM 4/12/02, you wrote: > >On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:53 pm, David Relson Pontificated: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have xscreensaver configured to randomly pick a new screensaver every > > > 5 minutes and I have two questions. >

[expert] Mac ethernet questions

2002-04-12 Thread Yann Le Guen
Hi All, Not really a newbie to Linux but to Mandrake ;-) I've download 'Drak 8.0-PowerPC Edition... It installs like a charm ;-) Now let's talk about some problem... all macs have an integrated Ethernet port, but having much more than one mac around me, some also have additional cards... My p

RE: [expert] Is the Promise PDC20276 ATA133 RAID controller chipset supported byMDK8.2

2002-04-12 Thread Doug Gough
On the older promise cards, you had to pass some parameters to the kernel at boot time. If you download the FastTrak66 Red Hat Linux Driver from thier site, and untar it, you will find some readme files that explain what these parameters are. I don't know if it will work for you, but it's worth a

Re: [expert] xscreensaver questions

2002-04-12 Thread mike
There really aren't THAT many. Just preview the screensavers, one at a time, from the xscreensaver-demo gui. Turn on the ones you like, turn off the ones you don't (or that don't work). On Friday 12 April 2002 10:16, David Relson wrote: > At 09:00 AM 4/12/02, you wrote: > >On Thursday 11 Apri

Re: [expert] xscreensaver questions

2002-04-12 Thread David Relson
At 09:49 PM 4/12/02, mike wrote: >There really aren't THAT many. Just preview the screensavers, one at a time, >from the xscreensaver-demo gui. Turn on the ones you like, turn off the ones >you don't (or that don't work). True. There are a lot of 'em, but the number is manageable. Call me lazy

Re: [expert] Is the Promise PDC20276 ATA133 RAID controller chipset supported byMDK8.2

2002-04-12 Thread civileme
Doug Gough wrote: >On the older promise cards, you had to pass some parameters to the kernel at >boot time. If you download the FastTrak66 Red Hat Linux Driver from thier >site, and untar it, you will find some readme files that explain what these >parameters are. I don't know if it will work for

[expert] NAT/Firewalling/ICS with Iptables

2002-04-12 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 23:58, Rob Gillen wrote: > I'm pretty sure that most of what ICS accomplishes is done through > iptables, and from what I saw not in too secure a manner (at least it > doesn't in the "high" level security setting). For the most part, if > you know what you are doing, you

[expert] OK a little OT humor for slow night

2002-04-12 Thread J. Craig Woods
Ya, well it takes all kinds... Dr John, The Night Tripper I have not heard anyone explain this as well as Cliff Clavin on Cheers. One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm. Here's how it went: "Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo