Re: [expert] Problems with higher capacity floppies

1999-08-23 Thread Thierry Vignaud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I've set up with mknod a device file for formatting 1743 KB floppies, and > after I do fdformat /dev/fd0H1743, i can mount them normally. However after > unmounting and mounting an 1.44 floppy, unmounting it and remounting the 1743 > floppy, it doesn't re

Re: [expert] Netscape Files

1999-08-23 Thread Thierry Vignaud
John Connell wrote: > > Can anyone tell me which files in Netscape contain the "Personal Bookmarks" > and the "Address Book?" > I found "bookmark.html" it had everything except the "personal" ones. I just > want to back them up so as not to have to go through the *big* hassle of > redoing them if

Re: [expert] finding modules dependence

1999-08-23 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Linux Group DIFI wrote: > > Hello, > > it's real necessary that all time Linux boot check modules dependences ? > May I desactivate modprobe -a line in /etc/rc.d when just exist modules.dep > file ? > you may safely replace it by "[ -s /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep ] && modprobe -a" --

Re: [expert] kernel

1999-08-19 Thread Thierry Vignaud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is this 4 expert? If. then i got a expert question. > I have kompile my kernel 2.2.9.19mdk on Mandrake 6.0 > Then when i try to boot i got this error scrolling on the screen... > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modeprobe -s -k binfmt-464c > errno=8 > > Are there an

Re: [expert] Kernel upgrade

1999-08-19 Thread Thierry Vignaud
John Connell wrote: > > "Ji-Haw, Foo" wrote: > > > I have installed Mandrake with kernel 2.2.9. 9 is good, but the app. I want > > to use asks for 10, so I am trying to install 2.2.11 (which is the latest). > > However the download Mandrake sites do not come with 9 or 10. I have the > > non-RPM

Re: [expert] file system caching?

1999-08-18 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > > > write "0-59/5 * * * * rootsync" in /etc/crontab, >it'll syncing cache > > (ie flush it to disk) every five minutes > > Well, isn't some daemon (or

Re: [expert] file system caching?

1999-08-18 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Ian W Douglas wrote: > > Hey all. > > How do I control the caching on my file system (ie: increase it or turn it > off)? > > Why? > > Well, our server is plagued with power problems and until we can justify a > few hundred bcks for a UPS, I'd like the system to write everything to > disk right

Re: [expert] Wine does not work. Help needed...

1999-08-18 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Zilvinas Atkociunas wrote: > > Hello, > Does someone know why I can not run wine > (wine-990518-3mdk, wine-debug-990518-3mdk) on venus ? > > Following are results of my attempt to run well known app: > [root@tomato ttf]# wine /msdos/windows/sol.exe > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

Re: [expert] What files to upgrade XFree86

1999-08-12 Thread Thierry Vignaud
"Aaron W." wrote: > >I would like to upgrade XFree86 to 3.3.4. I am running Mandrake 6. What > files do I need to get? I know I need the server for my card (SVGA). Do I > need the fonts? What else? >Do I do a rpm -Uvh XFree...rpm to install them? XFree86-3.3.4 XFree86-libs-3.3.4 XFre

Re: [expert] Emergency exit ??

1999-08-12 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Andrea Celli wrote: > > In the next days I had a trouble with my Linux-Mndk-6.0. > I done something wrong (may be installing vmware). > As result, when I tried to mount cdrom, keyboard and mouse > freeze completely and suddenly. I was no able to switch > console (cntl-alt-Fn), stop process (cntl-

Re: [expert] I need to move my server to a larger hard drive

1999-08-11 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Timothy Litwiller wrote: > > I have mandrake 6.0 on a server with a 2.1g drive and a 6.3g drive the > other ide cable has a cdrom and cd-rw on it. I need more disk space > badly so I want to upgrade the first hard drive . > > What is the most painless way to do this? 1) partition (cfdisk/fdisk/

Re: [expert] Compilation of the kernel

1999-08-10 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: > > Hi all, > > I tried it in the newbie list...but no one could give me a suggestion... > > I compiled a new kernel and get some error messages during boot: > > Aug 1 23:06:41 localhost modprobe: can't locate module lo:48 > Aug 1 23:06:41 localhost modprobe: can

Re: [expert] SB PCI 128

1999-08-09 Thread Thierry Vignaud
alann wrote: > > Is there an English version of this? :) Here it is. Sorry, i've forgotten i wrote this in french ... :-) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ somewhere between the playstation and the super cray --Thierry 0)

Re: [expert] SB PCI 128

1999-08-06 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Civileme wrote: > > Didn't work on what? > > There are some alternatives for sound setup, for the really weird > hardware Well, for "special" sound stuff, here is a doc i wrote for a poor lonesome linuxer who cannot get its sndcard working. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.c

Re: [expert] [Fwd: Need help]

1999-07-28 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Mindaugas Riauba wrote: > > > ISO-8859-13 is Latin7 > > Latin7 is going to cover the Baltic Rim and re-establish the Latvian > > (lv) support lost in Latin6 and may introduce the local > > quotation marks. > > > > Maybe iso-8859-4 (baltic languages) is a good replacement ? > > Does anybody know w

Re: [expert] core dump -> whats the main cause ?

1999-07-28 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Lang Zhi wrote: > > Hi, > > The program compiled fine, but with few warnings. > When try to run the binary, it give core dump. > So, any idea why this "core dump" happen ? > I mean generally, what is the main cause ? a bogus program ... I suppose your program get a segfault as it's the main rea

Re: [expert] Switching Back to 5.3 festen

1999-07-28 Thread Thierry Vignaud
"James J. Capone" wrote: > > So then do it like this > > make clean dep bzImage &>log tail -40 ERR_MESG_TO_SEND you have to put ";" before tail or just do make clean dep bzImage 2>&1|tail -30 &>ERR_MESG_TO_SEND and send us this file > Just like I have it there. Also Where is it going to save

[expert] [Fwd: Need help]

1999-07-28 Thread Thierry Vignaud
ISO-8859-13 is Latin7 Latin7 is going to cover the Baltic Rim and re-establish the Latvian (lv) support lost in Latin6 and may introduce the local quotation marks. Maybe iso-8859-4 (baltic languages) is a good replacement ? Does anybody know where an availlable implementation if latin-7 could be

Re: [expert] Switching Back to 5.3 festen

1999-07-27 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Dan Brown wrote: > > "James J. Capone" wrote: > > > That would be kind of Hard. I am not sure how to capture the screen. > > make zImage > output.txt | tail 30 > last30.txt > > (just guessing about the "tail 30" stuff, but the first part should > certainly work...) And then al

Re: [expert] Switching Back to 5.3 festen

1999-07-27 Thread Thierry Vignaud
"James J. Capone" wrote: > > That would be kind of Hard. I am not sure how to capture the screen. > > But the last error was > > ***make(1) (vmlinux)error1 it's not usefil : it's just make reporting a previous error > > This is just after is does a cleanup of the Directories. I will see if >

Re: [expert] Apache

1999-07-27 Thread Thierry Vignaud
"Nichols, Jason" wrote: > > Can anybody point me towards a good explanation of how to use .htaccess > files in apache? I just want to set up a basic username/password box for a > certain directory. > Thanks! > Jason First, you have to create the file : "htpasswd -c user1 passwd1" then you can ad

Re: [expert] Switching Back to 5.3 festen

1999-07-27 Thread Thierry Vignaud
James Capone wrote: > > I have tried to compile a new Kernel may time now. It creates no Image > regardless of make zImage or bzImage there is not a file in the > /usr/src/linux-2.2.9/arch/i386/boot . I noticed the Last time I tried it I > got the follwing error at the end of make bzImage > > (v

Re: [expert] Big Time Kernel Problems

1999-07-26 Thread Thierry Vignaud
B&B Access Technology wrote: > > > Have you reconfigured and rerun lilo ? > > Same problem here also...and yes reconfig'd kernel and ran lilo... > Suggestions welcomed. -renzo try this: * rm -fr /lib/modules/VERSION_OF_YOUR_NEWLY_COMPILED_KERNEL * make modules_install * depmod -a VERSION_OF_

Re: [expert] Big Time Kernel Problems

1999-07-25 Thread Thierry Vignaud
James Capone wrote: > > Ok Here it is. > >I recompiled my Kernel. Had some problems at first. It hung on Finding > Module dependencies.. > > So I did a ctrl-c and got it to boot. > > The I run depmod -a reboot > > I got abunch of Symlink errors. So I decided to run a make clean and make >

Re: [expert] Mandrake pre-login logo

1999-07-23 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Steven wrote: > > Talking of the logo, has anyone else with a Celeron A noticed that the logo > is split up by the machine description string? ("One 300 MHz Intel Celeron > " is too long to fit on one line when I boot up.) > change video mode to higher resolution : at boot, type "linux vga

Re: [expert] OT-Port for Various apps.

1999-07-22 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Al Smith wrote: > > Greetings, > >I know this is off topic. I am looking for a port of lotus notes and > microsoft project. Any assistance would be appreciated. A port? are you dreaming ? The odd are high we can wait a long time before we can see a native version of these apps for linux. Bu

Re: [expert] Well....Hello

1999-07-19 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Morpheus The Sinful Weeper wrote: > > Ok > > Everyone here knows my sad story of my SiS 620 > nowi downloaded XSiS and XSuSe instead of xfree-whatever > but when i type "XFCom_SiS" , the screen just completely clears and goes > black > thats it, i have to reboot after that cuz absolutely no

Re: [expert] Do I enable sound support in kernel for a isa pnp SB16 (? IRQ,DMA)

1999-07-16 Thread Thierry Vignaud
"Aaron W." wrote: > >I am running LM 6 and have a isa pnp SB16. If I enable sound support and > the SB driver it needs the irq, dma and soforth information. I do not know > since it is pnp. What is the proper way to set this up? If your bios support it, use it to initialize the card ('pnp os

Re: [expert] UDMA timeout 3

1999-07-16 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Marco Fioretti wrote: > > Jean-Louis, > > you asked: > > > what do you get with the command: cat /proc/ide/via? > > If this file does not exist at all, it almost certainly means > > that the VIA driver is not (fully) activated in your kernel." > > As a matter of fact, that file does not exist

Re: [expert] Sound under KDE

1999-07-16 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Al Smith wrote: > > ok, > > This seems to be a common problem that no one appears to be getting an > answer on. Well I am going to post mine again with a little more detail. > > I have a AOpen FX-3D sound card in my system. > It is properly configured using isapnp > the isapnp.conf file is co

Re: [expert] UDMA timeout

1999-07-16 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Marco Fioretti wrote: > > > hda: timeout waiting for DMA > > hda: irq timeout: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest > > Error } > > hda: irq timeout: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > hda: DMA disabled > > ide0: reset: success

Re: [expert] Laptops and Mandrake 6

1999-07-15 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Joshua Speer wrote: > > I have installed both Mandrake 5.3, as well as 6.0 on my compaq presario laptop. > It has a pentium 120, and IDE cdrom, the installation was flawless, only problem > I have is I can only do 8bit colors in KDE, or shadows will stay on the desktop > when I minimize windows.

Re: [expert] UDMA timeout

1999-07-12 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Hi Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > I had exactly the same, also on a VIA chipset. You must disable > (comment out) the "HD optimizations" in your rc.sysinit file. > See (for example) previous thread <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > from Thierry Vignaud. > To summarize, there is i

Re: [expert] How to turn off hd optimizations?

1999-07-12 Thread Thierry Vignaud
> Andrew Edwards wrote: > > How do I turn off hd optimizations..I am so worried because my hard > drive access light stays on all the time. Fresh installs don't do the > trick. I am running 6.0 on a k6-380 and a Tyan At100 motherboard > (128megs) with a Seagate udma2 ide hard drive. Can anyone gi

Re: [expert] Boot troubles

1999-07-08 Thread Thierry Vignaud
"Dan C. Stefanescu" wrote: > > I have trouble updating to 6.0. Here are the particulars: > > My computer is a Micron Powerdigm Xsu with dual CPUs(Pentium II 300MHz), > > Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller on which there is a 9G hard disk, an > Iomega Jaz 2G, a Plextor CDROM 32X and aPlexwriter CDR

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-08 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > > I'll give it a try, but I don't think the X66 will work: it is intended > for ATA/66, right ? Well the MVP3 (VT82C586B southbridge) only supports > UDMA/33, for ATA/66 I would need MVP4 (VT82C686 southbridge). At least > this is what the VIA docs say. > Besides, I'

Re: [expert] maximum file size

1999-07-08 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Lang Zhi wrote: > > What is the maximum size of a single file that Linux can handle ? > Any way to tweak it so that can have much bigger file size ? The maximum file size on a 32 bits machine (ix86, mac, ppc, atari and the like) is 2147483648 bytes (2^31 => 2Gb). Is it enough ? On 64 bits machin

Re: [expert] Problems with XFree86

1999-07-02 Thread Thierry Vignaud
The S3 Trios are known to be buggy. The S3Trio64 has the same problem whereas the S3Trio64V+ was fixed. As it seems to work before, you may re-use your old XF86Config if you have keep it. I known someone who have an analog problem with an S3Trio64V+ who have succeed in using it by installing the X