Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 00:26, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 01:14 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:40, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 12:13 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: H.J. - Now I dared to connect my camera, but with the usual

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Even in runlevel 3 i can see the process going on (in /var/log/messages). The system connects/disconnects its USB device until hell freezes over or I reboot. As a last resort I re-installed 10.1 CE from scratch, copied nothing back from my

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 10:18, John Layt wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Even in runlevel 3 i can see the process going on (in /var/log/messages). The system connects/disconnects its USB device until hell freezes over or I reboot. As a last resort I

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 10:18, John Layt wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Even in runlevel 3 i can see the process going on (in /var/log/messages). The system connects/disconnects its USB device until hell freezes over or I reboot. As a last resort I

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:09:07 -0500, Tom wrote: Yes, but in newer Mandrake versions the CD drives are seen as dev=ATA:0,0,0 I use 0,0,0 for example only, 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' will return the actual numbers. The ATA device (burner) is linked to the numbers. EG, on

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:18 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: in terminal, dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum - (note the - on the end, don't leave it off. change the /dev/scd0 to whatever device setting your

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As a last resort I re-installed 10.1 CE from scratch, copied nothing back from my backup CDs, updated available rpms and tried anew. Still staring at my runaway box. I have reached the point of considering a switch to some other

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 14:13, Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As a last resort I re-installed 10.1 CE from scratch, copied nothing back from my backup CDs, updated available rpms and tried anew. Still staring at my runaway box. I have

Re: [newbie] [OT] Apache and users cgi

2004-10-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:16:40PM +0800, frankieh wrote: Todd Slater wrote: I am hosting a few sites for friends that need cgi access. I read something about cgi scripts shouldn't be in the web document root for security purposes--people being able to read them as text. I turned on cgi by

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 14:29, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 27 October 2004 14:13, Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As a last resort I re-installed 10.1 CE from scratch, copied nothing back from my backup CDs, updated available rpms and tried

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread Miark
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: ls -l iso image file Divide the size of the ISO image file by 2048 to get the number of sectors, and record that sum (=n, hereafter) If it comes out to a decimal, do I round up? Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: Why

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 13:56, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I have the feeling this is a kernel bug. Now, I have to reboot again :-/ After a few days' break I came back to this long thread. Out of curiosity I plugged my FujiFilm FinePix S304 into the one box that I have upgraded to 10.1. I had

[newbie] Weird mouse behaviour after updating 10.1CE

2004-10-27 Thread Edgars Smits
Just finished doing an urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum urpmi -auto-select on a clean 10.1 CE install that I've been running since the weekend. Prior to the update my mouse worked perfectly, or at least as I wanted it - if I held it over a window and scrolled the middle button the window would

[newbie] Thunderbird and Firefox

2004-10-27 Thread Miark
What is the relationship between Mozilla and Firefox, and Mozilla-mail and Thuderbird. Are the latter going to eventually replace the former? And if if not, why are the Mozilla folks promoting competing products? Miark Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird and Firefox

2004-10-27 Thread frankieh
Miark wrote: What is the relationship between Mozilla and Firefox, and Mozilla-mail and Thuderbird. Are the latter going to eventually replace the former? And if if not, why are the Mozilla folks promoting competing products? Miark One ofthe complaints leveled against the mozilla suite, was

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 17:39, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 13:56, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I have the feeling this is a kernel bug. Now, I have to reboot again :-/ After a few days' break I came back to this long thread. Out of curiosity I plugged my FujiFilm FinePix S304

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 09:33 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 27 October 2004 17:39, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 13:56, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I have the feeling this is a kernel bug. Now, I have to reboot again :-/ After a few days' break I came back to this

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On October 27, 2004 10:33, Kaj Haulrich wrote: ... The box in question has 10.1OE upgraded late last week from cooker, running 2.6.8-12 kernel (IIRC). Is there anything else you would like me to check for correlation? ... What went wrong with 10.1 ??? Kaj Haulrich. Just saw this on

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird and Firefox

2004-10-27 Thread Ryan Steffes
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:04:10 +0800, frankieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark wrote: What is the relationship between Mozilla and Firefox, and Mozilla-mail and Thuderbird. Are the latter going to eventually replace the former? And if if not, why are the Mozilla folks promoting competing

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 17:33, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Although I feel sorry for you, Anne (being unable to use your camera) I'm somehow conforted that I'm not alone ! ;-) It's not a big problem - yet! I don't need the camera on that box, but it certainly tells me not to install on box2 as I

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 17:52, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Just saw this on Linux Today: Mandrakeliux 10.1 Official Released http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2004102701526NWMDSW Might be worth downloading and doing a clean install (you've probably seen the oft-repeated advice that version

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: ls -l iso image file Divide the size of the ISO image file by 2048 to get the number of sectors, and record that sum (=n, hereafter) If it comes out to a decimal, do I round up? It doesn't. The sectors in question are the number

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 19:29, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 17:33, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Although I feel sorry for you, Anne (being unable to use your camera) I'm somehow conforted that I'm not alone ! ;-) It's not a big problem - yet! I don't need the camera on that

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On October 27, 2004 11:32, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 17:52, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Just saw this on Linux Today: Mandrakeliux 10.1 Official Released http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2004102701526NWMDSW Might be worth downloading and doing a clean install (you've

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 19:16, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Yes, and upgrade _should_ give you exactly the same end result as a clean install. There should be no difference other than the upgrade being faster (due to not having to reinstall packages that are already up to date). But history has

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread Marek Pawinski
John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: ls -l iso image file Divide the size of the ISO image file by 2048 to get the number of sectors, and record that sum (=n, hereafter) If it comes out to a decimal, do I round up? It doesn't. The sectors in

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 02:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 19:16, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Yes, and upgrade _should_ give you exactly the same end result as a clean install. There should be no difference other than the upgrade being faster (due to not having to

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 21:51, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip I know reverting to 2.6.8.1-10 from -12mdk solved boot up problems checking (Reiser) FS's after I added an SATA drive into a mix of IDE drives a few weeks ago. With 2.6.8.1-12 the system went crazy, but all is well with -10mdk.

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Marek Pawinski wrote: I picked this up, i don't know if it pertains to the issue: Bad Md5sums? (maybe not) Just burned a CD from an ISO image and the md5sum doesn't match? The CD may be just fine... what you may be experiencing is padding which alters the md5sum. Before throwing away the CD and

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 22:59, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Tom, do you have any idea as to where I can fetch kernel 2.6.8.1-10 ? I tried kernel 2.6.3, but it completely borked my ReiserFS. Kaj Haulrich. http://ftp.surfnet.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.1/i586/media/main/

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 21:59, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Tom, do you have any idea as to where I can fetch kernel 2.6.8.1-10 ? That was on the original download 10.1CE disk Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:20, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 27 October 2004 22:59, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Tom, do you have any idea as to where I can fetch kernel 2.6.8.1-10 ? I tried kernel 2.6.3, but it completely borked my ReiserFS. Kaj Haulrich.

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 03:59 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:     I know reverting to 2.6.8.1-10 from -12mdk solved boot up problems checking (Reiser) FS's after I added an SATA drive into a mix of IDE drives a few weeks ago. With 2.6.8.1-12 the system went crazy, but all is well with -10mdk.

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:41, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 27 October 2004 03:59 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:     I know reverting to 2.6.8.1-10 from -12mdk solved boot up problems checking (Reiser) FS's after I added an SATA drive into a mix of IDE drives a few weeks ago. With

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:39, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Therefore, I wanted to follow Tom's advice and install the 2.6.8.1-10 kernel. Can't find it anywhere, though. Even rpmfind.net doesn't come up with it. Maybe I should try the 2.4 kernel for 10.1 ? Kaj Haulrich. You could try the

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:41, Tom Brinkman wrote:     -10mdk is the kernel that 10.1 CE was released with.  So if you've got 10.1CE CD's you've got it. I went lookin for -10 on the mirrors, specifically 'kernel-source' but didn't find it. In my situation I'm still tryin to figure out why

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:50, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:39, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Therefore, I wanted to follow Tom's advice and install the 2.6.8.1-10 kernel. Can't find it anywhere, though. Even rpmfind.net doesn't come up with it. Maybe I should try

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:56, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Wish me luck. Kaj Haulrich. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you...as it sounds like a mess on your box right nowsweaty palms et all, heh?:) Don't uninstall/re-install too quickly though. Sounds sort of windosy to me to be a real

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 28 October 2004 00:06, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:56, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Wish me luck. Kaj Haulrich. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you...as it sounds like a mess on your box right nowsweaty palms et all, heh?:) Don't uninstall/re-install too

[newbie] System time

2004-10-27 Thread Thereidos
Hi there. I've got this peculiar problem with the time on my system. This begun to happen couple of days ago. After every system reboot or restart (yeah, I turn the computer off) the clock sets itself to something like -7 hours from my local time. Example: Now it's 00:13 and it shows me 17:13.

Re: [newbie] System time

2004-10-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:16, Thereidos wrote: Hi there. I've got this peculiar problem with the time on my system. This begun to happen couple of days ago. After every system reboot or restart (yeah, I turn the computer off) the clock sets itself to something like -7 hours from my

Re: [newbie] System time

2004-10-27 Thread Thereidos
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:49:14 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:16, Thereidos wrote: Hi there. I've got this peculiar problem with the time on my system. This begun to happen couple of days ago. After every system reboot or restart (yeah, I turn

Re: [newbie] System time

2004-10-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 18:17, Thereidos wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:49:14 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:16, Thereidos wrote: Hi there. I've got this peculiar problem with the time on my system. This begun to happen couple of days

Re: [newbie] System time

2004-10-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 07:17 pm, Thereidos wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:49:14 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:16, Thereidos wrote: Hi there. I've got this peculiar problem with the time on my system. This begun to happen couple of

[newbie] trojan?

2004-10-27 Thread M.Schild
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[newbie] Free space

2004-10-27 Thread Alan
Could anybody tell what is the easiest way to monitor the free space on my partitions. In Mandrake 9.1 I used kdiskfree (I think that was the right name) but I can find it on Mandrake 10. Thanks Alan -- -- Linux user 321006 --