Re: [expert] What is going on?
I'm looking for a new CD-ROM. 6.0 doesn't like my old Mitsumi at all. Any suggestions? I don't want to upgrade L-M. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Misbehaving ls error in console -- almost solved!
Dear Jean-Louis: Thanks for writing. You are right. I had to uncomment the alias color line in /etc/bashrc. Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[expert] txt_boot
Hi everybody I made a boot disk using txt_boot.img , to install mandrake 7.0 from my hard disk but unfortunatly , it asks me only for a cdrom drive , nothing about hard disk. Also i used txt_bootnet.img , it asks only for a cdrom drive too. Can someone help me to install from my hard disk. PS : the graphic mode using hd.img and network.img doesn't work , perhaps problem of display adapter , taht's why i like to use "TXT" Thanks. Wahid
[expert] Mandrake 7.0 and S3 Trio 3D
A lot of people are having problems with S3 Trio 3D cards in Mandrake 7.0. I have got this combination works perfect replacing XF86_SVGA file by the one which comes in the xsvga-3.3.5-38.i386.rpm packet from SuSE. XFree-3.3.6 SVGA server from SuSE works only if I limit the vertical refresh to 85 Hz (?!). XFree-3.3.5 and XFree-3.3.6 SVGA servers from Mandrake don't work at all in my computer (an Athlon at 500 MHz.). I hope this information is useful for somebody. Greetings.
Re: [expert] MDK7, somne small issues...
Aureal claim they are SMP compilant. And yes.. the 2.2.13 kernel was compiled with SMP support. / Rickard On 27-Jan-2000 Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: Is the AUREAL drivers SMP compliant? I heard somewhere that they aren't. Was the 2.2.13 kernel that you had uniprocessor kernel? At 06:59 PM 26/01/00 , you wrote: Another thing, which may not be an issue with mandrake, but I tried to compile the mx300 (Vortex2) drivers from Aureal with the mandrake 2.2.14-15mdksmp kernel installed, I didn't succeed, I ended up with missing symbols. ;( It worked fine with the 2.2.13 kernel I used before.
Re: [expert] HPT366 Boot help, I've been through the archives blah blah blah... but there seems to be no answer to my problem.
I`v got the same problem, it is the issue of driver for this controller. I had a problem with instalation too - when installer says to insert a floppy to start the instalation from floppy - floppy recognise the controller but I have error in assignation of IRQ... Is there ANY POSSIBILITY that this controller WILL WORK correctly under Linux Mandrake some day?!!!
Re: [expert] Accelerated 3D graphics
AFAIK the stuff for TNT is only *beta* won't work properly 'till X 4.0 comes out. Warren. (Who's glad he's got a Voodoo3) - Original Message - From: "Cajus Pollmeier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 1:55 AM Subject: [expert] Accelerated 3D graphics Hi! I've a problem with the 3D support of my RIVA TNT2 in LM 6.1. Just installed the Xserver / glx.o /libGL* from nvidia's ftp server. Compiling the xscreensaver package works - the opengl stuff of these screenhacks like gears/sproingies etc. work fine and accelerated. But if I try to use some stuff linked to MesaGLU, everything segfaults. Tried a Quake II demo or UT demo. Both just crash. The gl screensavers of KDE show a black screen and do nothing - they are linked to the new gl libs, KDE . I'm wondering if I need a special libMesaGLU for that or if something else is not "compatible" enough. Installed everything like explained in the nvidia faq's Some expierences? -Cajus
Re: [expert] Misbehaving ls error in console
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I am experiencing a strange bash error IN THE CONSOLE ONLY, that is in the real console, NOT in xterm. At the user prompt (even after reboot), I type pwd, and I get the correct answer: $/home/sher But when I type "ls" I get a long series of similar lines listing all the contents of my home directory as follows: [home/sher]$ls bash: 34mDesktop: command not found bash: command not found bash: lynx_bookmarks.html: command not found bash: command not found bash: 34mwp80 command not found bash: command not found etc. etc. Every file or directory in my home/sher directory is listed. Some have a number plus "m" prefixed to them (usually 34m or 31m) and others just list the file name. I don't have the faintest idea what this means. Could someone please enlighten me on this. Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net The number/m things are the codes to highlight/color the list (i.e. directories are blue etc). Did you change anything in bash or change your terminal type? I don't remember where these are set up, sorry.
Re: [expert] Misbehaving ls error in console -- almost solved!
Benjamin Sher wrote: Thanks for writing. You are right. I had to uncomment the alias color line in /etc/bashrc. Okay, that's better ... for now ! It still looks like your xterm (???) has a problem with ANSI escape sequences. But why ??? -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
Re: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1
"Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - There's no "back" button (I know this was mentioned before). If you make a mistake, you must give the machine the 3 finger salute. you can click on the green lights on the left - The formatting option does a quick format, not a detailed format. I like the increase in speed, but am I sacrificing anything for that feature? quick format? what's it? it is normal mke2fs that's used! - If you have a partition table already set up, the install won't give you the option to "check for bad blocks", and I was in "expert" mode. you kidding? i added it myself, so you must be testing oxygen ?... I got to this point (of having a partition table with no formatting or bad block checks) because I 3 fingered a previous install of LM7.0 gone sour. I find the RedHat partition program (a girl's name which escapes me now) worked better for me. At least give the "expert" users the choice of which partition program to use. i don't understand what you speak about here - Why do I still get, on booting the CD, the ability to pick "expert" on the lilo line? It doesn't seem to do anything. it doesn't do much, true. - This is nit-picking, but the install asked if I wanted to create an emergency floppy. I had only hard drives and a CD drive installed. floppy detection is not there yet :(
Re: [expert] gnupg
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 04:49:30PM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Jack Coates wrote: I really need to get my public key exported so I can put it on my website and send it to people and (most importantly) give it to Lenny so he can verify my contrib RPMs. I've finally got RPM to use gpg instead of pgp, but I can't export my key so I can finally upload the half-dozen new contrib RPMs I have to upload! Can anyone give me some help here? Thanx a million in advance! Are you giving it a file to go into? gpg --export mykey.asc I didn't think that would make a difference, but I tried it. Sorry for the attachment, but the output is attached (it might cause problems if I imported it into the message itself). It's an absolute high-ascii mess... =( Unless I have to specify ascii of some sort (maybe it's trying to make a binary key?). The info that comes with gnupg doesn't give a whole heck of a lot of info on exporting keys... Yes, you have to specify that you want ascii ouput. Try 'gnupg -a --export'... Karsten -- - Why do we have to hide from the police, daddy? Because we use emacs, son. They use vi. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnupg-key vom keyserver oder unter http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0008422/home/k.roemling.asc -- Medienwissenschaftler in BS: http://www.tu-bs.de/institute/mewi/
Re: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time
AS T wrote: I have the following problem on my linux gateway machine (at my home). The machine has two NIC cards. Eth0 is DHCP via adsl. Eth1 has static ip for my internal network. IP_MASQ is on to forward packets from my internal network. Everything works nicely, except that if I went to work and tried to ping my home (gateway) machine I notice that the ping does not "always" respond. I tried to track this and found out that eth0 seems to "fall a sleep" once in a while. However, my internal network has never had any problem getting out. All I can say is that once eth0 falls a sleep I would have to try later and it will somehow wake up by itself (no reboot or anything is required to get to work again, just waiting about 10-30 minutes). APM is turned off on the BIOS and the OS. The only way I was able to remedy this is to have the gateway machine ping an external site (ex. www.yahoo.com) every 1 minute. With the ping on, I can alawys get to my gateway machine from work. I have few peopel on the web that have the same problem and none could figure out what the story is. Any help is highly appreciated. Thansk __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com You might want to check your ISP and see if they have a NetBios provision installed to "prevent IP spoofing". If so you can expect to have a sleepy network unless you are running windows. Civileme
RE: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time
What kind of NIC's are we talking about? And how do we know that it's not your ISP that's blocking the pings? Where do the traceroute's end? A traceroute when it works and when it fails would be usefull here. Also my ISP changed routers last summer and they now block all pings traceroutes from the outside world. It's also possible that your ISP has timeouts against keeping track a route to your linux gateway and that sending a ping is just refreshing their router tables. Lyle -Original Message- From: AS T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time I have the following problem on my linux gateway machine (at my home). The machine has two NIC cards. Eth0 is DHCP via adsl. Eth1 has static ip for my internal network. IP_MASQ is on to forward packets from my internal network. Everything works nicely, except that if I went to work and tried to ping my home (gateway) machine I notice that the ping does not "always" respond. I tried to track this and found out that eth0 seems to "fall a sleep" once in a while. However, my internal network has never had any problem getting out. All I can say is that once eth0 falls a sleep I would have to try later and it will somehow wake up by itself (no reboot or anything is required to get to work again, just waiting about 10-30 minutes). APM is turned off on the BIOS and the OS. The only way I was able to remedy this is to have the gateway machine ping an external site (ex. www.yahoo.com) every 1 minute. With the ping on, I can alawys get to my gateway machine from work. I have few peopel on the web that have the same problem and none could figure out what the story is. Any help is highly appreciated. Thansk __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1
Mattthe "back" button is the column of colored circles on the left side of your screen. Alan "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: Finally gave up and went with RedHat 6.1. Maybe when LM7.1+ comes out I'll take another look... Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I was running Mandrake 6.1 at home and work. I upgraded the home machine to the Oxygen beta and everything still works (still running the beta), although I haven't stressed that machine yet. At work, I had to load Linux on another machine that was going to be used as a low-end server. I tried installing LM7.0 Air six times! Every time, the damn install failed to install something (one time it was Drake stuff, another it was ncftp). To top it off, the later installs couldn't load X. It kept giving me a 'Id "x" is respawning too fast. Waiting five minutes.' or something close to that. Plus, supermount never worked, saying it wasn't supported by the kernel. Never did figure out the problem. I, luckily, found a site with the mandrake61-1.iso file. LM6.1 loaded up with minimal problems (nothing critical) and it is running fine right now. I'm impressed with some of the new features promised in 7.0. However, it came out the door with too little testing. Some examples: - the selection of packages is completely non-intuitive. I can't figure out what is going on. Plus, accidentally unclicking an item ripples a bunch of other packages to the "don't install" mode. How the heck am I supposed to guess which buggers were turned on? The old install package selector wasn't pretty and wasn't easy, but it sure got the job done. - There's no "back" button (I know this was mentioned before). If you make a mistake, you must give the machine the 3 finger salute. - The formatting option does a quick format, not a detailed format. I like the increase in speed, but am I sacrificing anything for that feature? - If you have a partition table already set up, the install won't give you the option to "check for bad blocks", and I was in "expert" mode. I got to this point (of having a partition table with no formatting or bad block checks) because I 3 fingered a previous install of LM7.0 gone sour. I find the RedHat partition program (a girl's name which escapes me now) worked better for me. At least give the "expert" users the choice of which partition program to use. - Why do I still get, on booting the CD, the ability to pick "expert" on the lilo line? It doesn't seem to do anything. - This is nit-picking, but the install asked if I wanted to create an emergency floppy. I had only hard drives and a CD drive installed. I know the Mandrake team invested a lot of time into this release. They are to be commended for their past accomplishments (up thru 6.1) and the desire to push the envelope. When the Mandrake team wants to add major feature changes to the distribution, however, a much longer beta period is needed. I will help with beta testing 7.1 when you reach that stage.
Re: [expert] Sever Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1
Did you use DiskDrake to re-size your fat32 partition? I did and lost everything on my 10 gig drive in the process. After recovering from my Ghost image, I re-installed 7.0 on a second drive. But, all was not well.. I chose to do a beginner install. I thought I'd see just how well it would go. Everything installed and came up just fine. But, I tried to set up KPPP to dial to my ISP.. That was no problem either. Except that once I was connected to my ISP, I could no longer open any applications in KDE.. As soon as I disconnected from my ISP, I could once again open applications. So, I thought I'd be slick and open stuff up before starting KPPP. Well, that worked, but I couldnt connect to anything.. Not even by entering the direct IP address. So, I blew that install away and re-installed in expert mode. This time I was able to get things set up and going. Then, I decided to upgrade another system I have from MDK 6.1 to 7.0 That too turned into an exercise in futility. Once the upgrade was complete, my pppd settings no longer worked, the supermount system didnt like the devices or the IO chip on that system (Its a Compaq Deskpro so that part doesnt surprise me very much) and most of the software I had set up on this system was gone. So, I completely wiped the partitions on that system and reinstalled 6.1. It took 6.1 20 minutes to install, another 30 minutes to set up config files and compile a few applications and it was back in business. The Compaq system is a system I use for work and has to be up and online at all times, so I didnt feel like tinkering around for the next day or two trying to get 7.0 to behave. I do see great things in the new installer and the Drake utilities. But, they need more work and more testing before I will consider using them in a production environment. Especially DiskDrake and its partition re-sizing code. I really like the feel of the installer. It does need a few improvements to make it more intuitive for both new users and experienced users. Like everyone else, this has not soured me on Mandrake.. I will be downloading 7.1 when its made available.. Darin - Senior Systems Engineer On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, you wrote: tommiyI'm sorry but I don't have any ready solutions for your present problems. What I do have are some suggestions as to how to prevent such problems in the future. Anyway here's what I do. I have one primary partition and one extended partition on my 9.1 gig scsi hard drive. The primary partition has windows on it and uses 1/3 of the space (just under 3 gigs) on the drive. The extended partition takes up the rest of the drive and contains 6 partitions. It has in order a 15 meg ext2, a 128 meg swap, a 2.6 gig ext2, a 15 meg ext2, a 128 meg swap, and a 2.6 gig ext2. The primary partition is sda1 and the extended partition contains sda5-10. This leaves room for 2 linux installations of /boot, swap and /. When a new release comes out I install it clean on the set of 3 partitions I'm not currently using. Then I can slowly customize and install updates till I'm ready to stop using the old version and start using the new one on a daily basis. I've never upgraded, but instead always installed each new version fresh and migrated to using the new release slowly. There are other ways too, but this method is mine and I've never had any severe disappointments. Alan tommiy wrote: Well when 7.0 came out i got excited and bought the CD thinking...hey 6.1 was cool...damn 7 must be betterwhat a dissappointment. I selected an upgrade and now I find I have an absolute multitude of problems to work throughseems lots of things are now brokenall come with the distro... First my ppp scripts no longer function...cool huh and all I used to use was ifup ppp0. This is now broken by a new app in the initscripts called ppp-watch. Now if I try the old ifup ppp0 ppp-watch barfs and rejects it. Off to the source code time to resolve that...in the mean time I probably broke everything and went back to the init scripts from 6.1 to make it work again oh by the way this also appears to make linuxconf ppp side of life to fail as well...it gives the same errors in messageskppp still goes but I hate KDE! Would seem to identify where the testing went thou. Also appears that the IDE patches weren't in the kernel cause my ALI board chipset is no longer recognised and installed as simplex...DOH! off to get another patch and patch the kernel Next for some reason starting gnome is as slow as an absolute wet week!!! On 6.1 it came up faston 7.0 it takes approximately 3 minutes for the desktop icons to appear... Sigh appears that the reasons I went to Mandrake are fast dissappearing ;(( Anyone have some cluse to the slow enlightenment startup I would appreciate. Regards
[expert] M13
Is it me, or is it M13? I downloaded it, and it worksbut. It sure is quirky. Loading pages, it jerks around. It does not seem to allocate space for images, and then jerks the page around to accomodate them. Like IE in Windows does. It is also very slow on my Pentium II-300 running MDK 6.1. This thing is nowhere near release as far as I can tell. My other impression is that the Mozilla crew has made a bad mistake by following the Communicator idea. Netscape 3.0 would have been a better role model, specially for Linux. We do not need "Profiles" in Linux, that is what user accounts are for in Linux. I suppose there is some use for it, but nothing like in Windows. The email in Communicator/M13 is dreadfully slow, not like in Netscape 3.x. Try it with 1000 emails in a folder and it just bogs down. 3.x never did that even with over 8000 in a folder. I hope Opera and/or KFM does well, because I think we have a disaster coming with the Mozilla-for-Linux thing as being the browser of choice for Linux. I'd use 3.x if it wasn't the browser crashes often on Java. Its beautiful, simple and fast. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: [expert] What is going on?
I have a mitsumi 32x that has worked fine with 6.0, 6.1 and 7.0. - Original Message - From: "ibi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 2:54 AM Subject: Re: [expert] What is going on? I'm looking for a new CD-ROM. 6.0 doesn't like my old Mitsumi at all. Any suggestions? I don't want to upgrade L-M. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] problems with modules
Elizabeth Dolan wrote: i recently compilied and installed 2.2.14 kernel due because i have no sound so i downloaded the the kernel sourse as well as th cmi8338 source code everything i think went well anyway i got to do what was said in the driver readme file so i did: modprobe -a \* -displays all the modules but it came up with that everone had unresolved symbol i go on to do: modprobe -a then comes up wit han error modprobe: not and ELF file does anyone know what the problem is as i still don't have any sound can anyone tell me how to fix this or what the problem is thank you Do a: mv /lib/modules/2.2.14-XX /lib/modules/2.2.14-XX.old before you recompile your kernel. BTW, what's your soundcard/chip?
Re: [expert] QuickTime for Linux -- Petition
I think it is too late... the *.mov files can now be played by soft "xmovie". http://heroine.linuxbox.com/xmovie.html Bartek Alan Shoemaker wrote: BenI'd gladly sign a petition for them NOT to port it to Linux. Alan Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > If you would like to see Quicktime for Linux, please consider signing a > petition that will be presented to Apple. Here is the URL: > > http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=1aid=6670 > > Benjamin > -- > Benjamin and Anna Sher > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sher's Russian Web > http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0
What do you mean it won't proceed to commercial release I was at Microcenter this weekend and the shelves were full of Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack? Jeanette - Original Message - From: "Ron Stodden" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 9:11 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0 On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Harvey B. Herman wrote: I was very happy with the earlier version of Mandrake (6.5). As a server, it performed flawlessly for months at a time. I decided to upgrade to Mandrake 7.0; don't ask me why. Now, when I try to logon and start ppp, it says it can't authenticate the remote machine. I worked around by logging into root and using a noauth parm in pppd. This is not pleasing to me esthetically, so is there an easy fix? MandrakeSoft has announced that Mandrake 7.0 will not proceed to commercial release. Quality was the given reason. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
RE: [expert] Mount broken for cdrom
I had that problem with my cd-rw. I had to change my type from auto to iso9660, and all is well in Mdk. 6.1 I used /dev/sr0 as well... Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -Original Message- From: Ron Stodden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 10:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mount broken for cdrom On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: Using scsi emulation, I usually mount my cdrw on /dev/sr0. Here's my /etc/fstab entry: /dev/sr0/mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 Now I can't mount; when I try, it just hangs there. Trying kill -9 on the process doesn't kill it either. Any help appreciated. If you are talking Mandrake 7.0 (but there the cdrom is supermounted, and you don't seem to be), you now have to use /dev/scd0 to access the reader side of an ATAPI CD-R under SCSI emulation. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
RE: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time
It is not my ISP simply because when I boot under NT the problem goes away. Also the traceroute stops at my machine when it doesn't work. Again the funny thing is the network comes back alive after some times (between 10 min and 40 min). I also tried several NIC (3com and Reltek ) and the problem is persistant. I also tried Mand. 6.1 and 7.0 and the problem is still there. --- Lyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of NIC's are we talking about? And how do we know that it's not your ISP that's blocking the pings? Where do the traceroute's end? A traceroute when it works and when it fails would be usefull here. Also my ISP changed routers last summer and they now block all pings traceroutes from the outside world. It's also possible that your ISP has timeouts against keeping track a route to your linux gateway and that sending a ping is just refreshing their router tables. Lyle -Original Message- From: AS T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time I have the following problem on my linux gateway machine (at my home). The machine has two NIC cards. Eth0 is DHCP via adsl. Eth1 has static ip for my internal network. IP_MASQ is on to forward packets from my internal network. Everything works nicely, except that if I went to work and tried to ping my home (gateway) machine I notice that the ping does not "always" respond. I tried to track this and found out that eth0 seems to "fall a sleep" once in a while. However, my internal network has never had any problem getting out. All I can say is that once eth0 falls a sleep I would have to try later and it will somehow wake up by itself (no reboot or anything is required to get to work again, just waiting about 10-30 minutes). APM is turned off on the BIOS and the OS. The only way I was able to remedy this is to have the gateway machine ping an external site (ex. www.yahoo.com) every 1 minute. With the ping on, I can alawys get to my gateway machine from work. I have few peopel on the web that have the same problem and none could figure out what the story is. Any help is highly appreciated. Thansk __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time
I think you migh have hit it. Because when I boot under NT the problem goes away. Could you please tell me how to work around this. And perhapse if you can point me to some doc about this feature. Thanks alot. --- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AS T wrote: I have the following problem on my linux gateway machine (at my home). The machine has two NIC cards. Eth0 is DHCP via adsl. Eth1 has static ip for my internal network. IP_MASQ is on to forward packets from my internal network. Everything works nicely, except that if I went to work and tried to ping my home (gateway) machine I notice that the ping does not "always" respond. I tried to track this and found out that eth0 seems to "fall a sleep" once in a while. However, my internal network has never had any problem getting out. All I can say is that once eth0 falls a sleep I would have to try later and it will somehow wake up by itself (no reboot or anything is required to get to work again, just waiting about 10-30 minutes). APM is turned off on the BIOS and the OS. The only way I was able to remedy this is to have the gateway machine ping an external site (ex. www.yahoo.com) every 1 minute. With the ping on, I can alawys get to my gateway machine from work. I have few peopel on the web that have the same problem and none could figure out what the story is. Any help is highly appreciated. Thansk __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com You might want to check your ISP and see if they have a NetBios provision installed to "prevent IP spoofing". If so you can expect to have a sleepy network unless you are running windows. Civileme __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] QuickTime for Linux -- Petition
Muryn Bartlomiej wrote: I think it is too late... the *.mov files can now be played by soft "xmovie". http://heroine.linuxbox.com/xmovie.html Bartek There's the misunderstanding. Quicktime 4 uses two codecs (Sorenson, and I've forgotten the name of the other one) for which Apple has signed exclusive licensing agreements to use in Quicktime. Thus, Apple's official Quicktime is the only program where you can play movies using those codecs. Unfortunately, Sorenson has become rather popular on the 'net, so Linux users are locked out of a lot of movie trailers and other things that have shown up on the net in the past 6 months or so (the Star Wars trailer, for example). I truly hope that Apple either modifies these licensing agreements so that Linux developers can use them or ports Quicktime to Linux. The former would be a lot less costly for them, since Quicktime support for Linux is already done (Xanim and Xmovie). All those authors need are the codecs. Or, maybe one of those authors wouldn't mind donating or selling their code to Apple so that Apple doesn't have to start from scratch. Andrew Post
Re: [expert] ntfs LM-7.0
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 12:32:32PM -0600, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: - I am using dual boot on one pc, Main OS Linux, secondary Win98... - - well, just upgraded to Win2000-Pro and switched from FAT32 to NTFS - - obviously the files are not being seen by linux, what should I use - - now in fstab, just replace the vfat for auto? or does linux recognizes - - ntfs ? what should I try? go back to vfat maybe? TIA There is a driver that will allow Linux to see, and possibly write to, NTFS where NT version is less than 5. Unfortunately, W2K forces your NTFS partitions to be NTFS version 5. The information at the NTFS driver's home page (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/ntfs/) suggests that it does not support NTFS 5. If you want data interchangeability, you could build a small FAT parking partition. However, of you want full access to the NT partition, you should format it for FAT16, NOT fat 32. Or do later versions of Linux support FAT32? -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
Re: [expert] getting set prompt=$p$g functionality in bash
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi, Where would I put the Linux equivalent to the above dos statement in order to get a prompt showing the current directory ($p) and the greater than ($g) symbol? Is there some documentation as to all of the options I can put into my bash prompt? man bash from a console prompt. John
[expert] Mozilla M13 and Opera
I agree with Ramon I find this latest M13 to be quirky and actually less stable on my machine than M12 was and all that extra Communicator emulation stuff is unnecessary. Anyhow M12 worked better for me without the mail which does in fact really bog M12-13 down to an unusable level. So far I have found the latest Opera beta to be faster and more stable at least on my systems. If they actually get their features working especially the multiple window views and it is as least as stable as this massive 4.7 which I am now using, I will gladly pay for it. 35$ for something that works is not too much in my estimation. We take so much for granted in the "free" give and take in the Linux world it wouldn't hurt to "give" when the product is worth it. My non-programmer-developer opinion of course :) William Bouterse Juneau Alaska
Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0
Ron Stodden wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Harvey B. Herman wrote: I was very happy with the earlier version of Mandrake (6.5). As a server, it performed flawlessly for months at a time. I decided to upgrade to Mandrake 7.0; don't ask me why. Now, when I try to logon and start ppp, it says it can't authenticate the remote machine. I worked around by logging into root and using a noauth parm in pppd. This is not pleasing to me esthetically, so is there an easy fix? MandrakeSoft has announced that Mandrake 7.0 will not proceed to commercial release. Quality was the given reason. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux. That's for the best - I've tried to install it on 3 machines, it failed on two of them and made a mess of the third. I can't wait for 7.1 though! Jack -- Last reboot caused by: moving the CD CD-RW drives into this machine's replacement. 7:32am up 16:43, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.20, 0.50
Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: MandrakeSoft has announced that Mandrake 7.0 will not proceed to commercial release. Quality was the given reason. Where was this announced? I haven't been able to find anything to this effect on the Mandrake web site. Would you care to comment, Axalon? -- Phil Edwards Technical Specialist == Travellog Systems Phone +44 (0)1444 459016 The Priory, Haywards HeathFax +44 (0)1444 456655 West Sussex, RH16 3LB mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] United Kingdom http://www.travellog.co.uk ==
Re: [expert] M13
OK... I posted a question about M13 a few days ago. I'm not dreaming! M13 is pretty bad with LM. It crashes continuously on me both with 7.0 and with 6.1. I was wondering how it does on RH. Presumably not better. -- Jean Meloche
[expert] Dupe Loops
I'm seeing what appear to be dupe-loops. Is anyone else seeing this? It's almost as if someone has subscribed this list to itself or something Axalon, would you look into this? Thanks... John
[expert] problems with titlebars icons
i have a annoying problem with the titlebar shortcuts within a window the buttons that go back or forward through the windowsis not there but in fact has a scambled mess does anyone know how to kix this problem thank you
[expert] problems with modules
i recently compilied and installed 2.2.14 kernel due because i have no sound so i downloaded the the kernel sourse as well as th cmi8338 source code everything i think went well anyway i got to do what was said in the driver readme file so i did: modprobe -a \* -displays all the modules but it came up with that everone had unresolved symbol i go on to do: modprobe -a then comes up wit han error modprobe: not and ELF file does anyone know what the problem is as i still don't have any sound can anyone tell me how to fix this or what the problem is thank you
RE: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1
-Original Message- From: Pixel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1 - The formatting option does a quick format, not a detailed format. I like the increase in speed, but am I sacrificing anything for that feature? quick format? what's it? it is normal mke2fs that's used! When installing with LM6.1, the formatting took 1-2 hours. LM7.0 did it in 5 minutes. Did they optimize mkesfs 2500% in the last few months or are different command line options being used? - If you have a partition table already set up, the install won't give you the option to "check for bad blocks", and I was in "expert" mode. you kidding? i added it myself, so you must be testing oxygen ?... I guarantee it was LM7.0, not Oxygen (only loaded that at home). I was given the option to test for bad blocks the first, second and third installs; all those times I had reconfigured the partition table at that particular step. Install attempt 4 was aborted by 3-finger salute after partition was written. Install attempt 5 kept the partitions as is and Drak only gave a dialog for picking which partitions to format (which I was always choosing all since I was having so many problems), and NO dialog or option appeared for bad block checking. It wouldn't have been a big deal normally. But between install #3 and #4 I had added a second IDE HD to give me enough space for my intended use of the system. Install #4 wrote the partitions but never got to format or badblock test. Install #5 never gave the option to test bad blocks. I got to this point (of having a partition table with no formatting or bad block checks) because I 3 fingered a previous install of LM7.0 gone sour. I find the RedHat partition program (a girl's name which escapes me now) worked better for me. At least give the "expert" users the choice of which partition program to use. i don't understand what you speak about here Sorry, I was way off here. "Disk Druid" is what I was trying to think of (had to dig out my old RedHat books). - This is nit-picking, but the install asked if I wanted to create an emergency floppy. I had only hard drives and a CD drive installed. floppy detection is not there yet :( I figure as much but thought I would throw it out there for future feature. In the near future, many systems probably won't come with a regular floppy drive. My system at home has an LS120 which is an IDE device, not floppy controller. In any event, the point of my long message(s) was to provide some constructive feedback on the particulars of what problems I had. I've seen quite a few flames on LM7.0 with minimal explanations given for why they disliked it. Matthew Zaleski
Re: [expert] Journaling (EXT3;ResierFS)
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:47:30PM -0500, William Ahern wrote: Could somebody point me to some resources on building a system resting ext3 or reiserfs? I'm not too interested on some sort of hybrid system that boots ext2 and mounts another partition for ext3. i'd like to keep it simple as i don't have an alterior need to create seperate partitions... plus i'd like journaling to keep the boot device clean, too. Well, I can't help you on ext3, but on reiserfs. Go to www.devlinux.com/namesys/ (I think, if it's the wrong URL get back on me) and check that out. If you want to install on reiserfs right away, you need to customize a bootdisk I guess. But you still need to put /boot on ext2, if you want to use lilo... If the system is already installed, try to copy it over to a new disk, formatted with reiserfs... Karsten -- - Why do we have to hide from the police, daddy? Because we use emacs, son. They use vi. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnupg-key vom keyserver oder unter http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0008422/home/k.roemling.asc -- Medienwissenschaftler in BS: http://www.tu-bs.de/institute/mewi/
[expert] What Happenned to the Newbie List?
Is it me or did the Newbie List just dropped out of sight? Seve
[expert] ISDN adapter questions
Hi ! I've just got ISDN installed and am in the process of deciding which ISDN TA to buy. I have decided that I want an internal PCI/ISA adaptor and have found two models that I think might be quite good. However, I'm not familiar with ISDN and the technology that comes with it. The cards that I have found, is one Asuscom and one without name that is based on the HFC chip. I hope that someone would be able to tell me the pros and cons of thos cards. I want to get the most for my money. Yours /Jocke! PS. Please excuse my bad english, but I'm a bit too tired to be able to write with correct grammar and spelling. -- "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed. Here's another of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android
Re: [expert] Kernel Panic Using SMP and Mandrake 7.0
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.0 and have an Abit MB and two 366 celerons overclocked to 550. When I install mandrake everything goes good. When I use the Linux config. from LILO it crashes with a kernel panic. When I use the Linux-up config it runs fine. I have tried without having the cerlerons overclocked but still get the same prob. I have used mandrake 6.0 and everything worked fine using SMP. I don't really know what to do next besides re-loading 6.0. I have the 2.2.14 kernel and have tried to re-compile and see what it does, but no luck. Anybody had this prob??? Also, how do you retain current settings when trying to compile a new kernel. I would like to recompile the Linux-up config by just adding SMP support, but I can never get my settings back like the were before. Turn off overclocking and see if it doesn't work like it's SUPPOSED to. When you overclock, you make your hardware SIGNIFICANTLY less stable! John
RE: [expert] problems with titlebars icons
Are you using KDE? If so there is a known problem and fix at: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/troubles/tquick2.html#Pixmaps i have a annoying problem with the titlebar shortcuts within a window the buttons that go back or forward through the windowsis not there but in fact has a scambled mess does anyone know how to kix this problem thank you
Re: [expert] Dupe Loops
Yep, seeing it here too! Alan John Aldrich wrote: I'm seeing what appear to be dupe-loops. Is anyone else seeing this? It's almost as if someone has subscribed this list to itself or something Axalon, would you look into this? Thanks... John
Re: [expert] Aureal disappointment
With all due respect, if Mandrake, Redhat, SUSE, Caldera, Slackware and who-ever start modifying the kernels so that drivers and binaries will not run between them, You just killed the movement and handed power back to Microsoft. I have been through this garbage in the Unix world and it divides and conquers yourself. I love how easy Mandrake is to install, but will switch in a second it is the companies position that compatibility and reliability will be compromised for any reason. If not, or I misunderstood your post, I apologize. Christopher Cox -- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Aureal disappointment Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 2:20 PM On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, S. Newhouse wrote: Hello, One of our machines is a Dell with the Turtle Beach Montego sound card. I was happy to see that Aureal wrote drivers for it (from their web site), but then I found out that the drivers worked only for the RedHat kernels in 6.0 and 6.1. I tried to install them in Mandrake and (of course) they did not work. Anyone have ideas about how we can get these people and others to release sources to their drivers so that they can be compiled for every distribution? -sen http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Advocacy.html -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [expert] Sever Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from6.1
I guess that answers my questions if I am going to go to Mandrake or stay on RedHat. On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, tommiy wrote: Well when 7.0 came out i got excited and bought the CD thinking...hey 6.1 was cool...damn 7 must be betterwhat a dissappointment. I selected an upgrade and now I find I have an absolute multitude of problems to work throughseems lots of things are now brokenall come with the distro... First my ppp scripts no longer function...cool huh and all I used to use was ifup ppp0. This is now broken by a new app in the initscripts called ppp-watch. Now if I try the old ifup ppp0 ppp-watch barfs and rejects it. Off to the source code time to resolve that...in the mean time I probably broke everything and went back to the init scripts from 6.1 to make it work again oh by the way this also appears to make linuxconf ppp side of life to fail as well...it gives the same errors in messageskppp still goes but I hate KDE! Would seem to identify where the testing went thou. Also appears that the IDE patches weren't in the kernel cause my ALI board chipset is no longer recognised and installed as simplex...DOH! off to get another patch and patch the kernel Next for some reason starting gnome is as slow as an absolute wet week!!! On 6.1 it came up faston 7.0 it takes approximately 3 minutes for the desktop icons to appear... Sigh appears that the reasons I went to Mandrake are fast dissappearing ;(( Anyone have some cluse to the slow enlightenment startup I would appreciate. Regards
[expert] Resend of HPT366 Boot help, I've been through the archives blah blah blah... but there seems to be no answer to my problem.
Sorry to spam the mail list, I am resending this because it was originally formated in html. Original Message dated 31/01/00, 05:57:47 AM Author: "David Stringer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: [expert] HPT366 Boot help, I've been through the archives blah blah blah... but there seems to be no answer to my problem. : I've been through the archives and I know that this subject has been beat to death, but I have an issue with getting my HPT366 controller on a Abit BE6 motherboard to boot my Quantam 18.2 gb hardrive. This is the message that I have posted on several news groups, can anyone PLEASE tell me what the heck I am doing wrong ?!?!?!?!? I am trying to get Mandrake 7 (linux kernel 2.2.14) to boot off a drive connected to the HPT366 controller on my Abit BE6 motherboard. I have gone over the instructions that are availible on http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/ several times now, and I can get it to ALMOST work. The lilo will come up, the kernel will start to load, the HPT drivers seem to recognize the drive, then it freezes. In order to demonstrate how far the kernel boots, I have copied this messages file from http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/messages and have indicated below where my system comes to a halt. (Of course there are other differences, but it should illustrate my point). To Recap: My current configuration is: -Abit BE6 motherboard with a built in HPT366 controll -18.2 GB Quantum Fireball KA -The disk is partioned like so: 1: 2 gb fat 32. 2: 4 gb fat 32 3: 16mb ext2 (/boot, this is within the first 1024 cylenders) 4: 3.8 gb ext2 (/) 5: 256 swap 6: 2gb fat 16 7: 4gb fat 16 -128mb ram -OS - Linux Mandrake 7 -Kernel 2.2.14, fresh from the source. -I have tried the three latest IDE patches from Hendrick. -Lilo looks like it's configured properly (boot=/dev/hde,Disk=/dev/hde, bios=0x80,root=/dev/hde7) -The system will boot fine with the kernel not compiled with the IDE patch and using the backward compatibility features of the controller. -Sad part is the controller works great with WINDOWS 98! ***SAMPLE MESSAGE FILE Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Software Watchdog Timer: 0.05, timer margin: 60 sec apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9) apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe. Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 . ... no scsi controllers installed . VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed Adding Swap: 377520k swap-space (priority -1) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20 PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98 HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later HPT366: reg5ah=0x01 ATA-66 Cable Port0 ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99 HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later HPT366: reg5ah=0x01 ATA-66 Cable Port1 ide3: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio hda: CR-4802TE, ATAPI CDROM drive hdc: FUJITSU MCC3064AP, ATAPI OPTICAL drive hdd: Conner Peripherals 420MB - CFS420A, ATA DISK drive hde: IBM-DJNA-370910, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 18 ** The system comes to a halt right here ** I don't think there is much more I can add ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ? Thanks, David Stringer
Re: [expert] Journaling (EXT3;ResierFS)
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/ Is Stephen C. Tweedie's "official" ext3 ftp site, with patches and such. The README there explains everything. If you're interested, there's even a gzipped postscript file that explains how journalling works. This release seems relatively stable. I had a few problems with it, but I'm thinking it was due to bad hardware. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] stunnel v. sslwrap
anybody have experiece w/ stunnel and/or sslwrap for encrypting pop and imap services? stunnel seems to operate as a deamon, whereis sslwrap runs from inet and loops back to the unencrytped service.
[expert] Sources of the installer
Hi! Can someone tell me where to find the sources of the install routines of LM? I need the ones of "install" in the bootnet.img initrd. Thanks, -Cajus
Re: [expert] HPT366 Boot help, I've been through the archives blah blah blah... but there seems to be no answer to my problem.
Muryn Bartlomiej wrote: I`v got the same problem, it is the issue of driver for this controller. I had a problem with instalation too - when installer says to insert a floppy to start the instalation from floppy - floppy recognise the controller but I have error in assignation of IRQ... Is there ANY POSSIBILITY that this controller WILL WORK correctly under Linux Mandrake some day?!!! I'm really hoping that once the driver is stable (is it already?) that it is available in the new kernels. It is becoming pretty common now, not just on various brands of motherboards but on PCI controller cards as well. Easy way to add on 4 more UDMA/66 devices, or it's supposed to be easy, anyway :) Best, John.
[expert] LIDS, Openwall and IPSec questions...
Hi, Has anybody used LIDS (Linux Intrusion Detection System) and/or patches from the Openwall project before? These look really exciting from a security standpoint Also, I get the impression that IPSec and IKE are much more mature on OpenBSD then on Linux (given the confusion w/ FreeS/Wan and exactly what it supports and which kernels it works on). I'm leaning towards an OpenBSD firewall/gateway and Mandrake-Linux w/ the LIDS and Openwall patches for our servers. Also, could anybody point me toward Pop3 and/or Imap servers that support SSL? If I can force SSL for mail, then I can force remote users to use SSH too (otherwise there's no point if mail pass's go in the clear). TIA, Bill -- William Ahern MIS, JINSA - JINSA Online http://www.jinsa.org/ -
Re: [expert] gnupg
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: Ok, I'm trying to export my key using the gnupg that comes with LM7.0 and it's screwing up my console bigtime. When I use "gpg --export" I get a bunch of high ascii and it turns everything into high ascii, including prompts and everything. I really need to get my public key exported so I can put it on my website and send it to people and (most importantly) give it to Lenny so he can verify my contrib RPMs. I've finally got RPM to use gpg instead of pgp, but I can't export my key so I can finally upload the half-dozen new contrib RPMs I have to upload! Can anyone give me some help here? Thanx a million in advance! Try gpg --export somefile.txt John
Re: [expert] What Happenned to the Newbie List?
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: Is it me or did the Newbie List just dropped out of sight? Just you, my friend! I've been getting TONS of messages in there today! John
[expert] Compile Kernel
How do you maintain your current config. when re-compiling a kernel? Every time I compile the kernel something else does not work so I have to go in and do it all over again to get it working again. Thanks..
Re: [expert] ISDN adapter questions
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi ! I've just got ISDN installed and am in the process of deciding which ISDN TA to buy. I have decided that I want an internal PCI/ISA adaptor and have found two models that I think might be quite good. However, I'm not familiar with ISDN and the technology that comes with it. The cards that I have found, is one Asuscom and one without name that is based on the HFC chip. RUN from the HFC chipthat's a WinModem chipset, I believe... Second, I use an external ISDN router made by Netgear (who's parent company is Bay Networks...) It works like a charm! I'd really recommend that, because you KNOW it works with ANY operating system! I've got one at home and am using it with both Linux and Windows machines. We also highly recommend it at the ISP where I work. The Lucent/Ascend Pipeline series are nice, but they're rather expensive... John
Re: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time
I too had this problem with a static IP and cable-modem setup. Civileme and Axalon helped me through my gripes and confusion, and yet it took me almost two weeks and talking on the phone with not one, not two, not three, but four tec-support individuals to track down the problem and it was one who runs L-M 6.1 at home that actually came up with the proper diagnosis and solution. First be patient with your tech people. Have your MAC address handy. If you need to check , try 'ifconfig' (as root or su) and its the 'HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx' (numbers and letters of course) on you gateway card. Then ask them to check and see if they have "tacked" a 'NetBios filter' on your assigned IP address and to please remove it. Don't rant about the inadequacies of M$ and the "prowess" of Linux. That just gets them defensive. If necessary, (if you dont already have it), ask for a staic IP (usually about 10$ extra) at least With my ISP. Anyhow good-luck and I second or third Civileme's motion to discover, design or invent a Linux method to by-pass this kind of filtering agent. William Bouterse Juneau Alaska
[expert] KDE Menu
Hey! I join this mailingslist just a few days and i didn't find the answer in the (not existing) FAQ for mandrake 7, so i don't know if some else asked this question... I changed the KDE menu for a normal user and after a reboot, the personal menu was filled up with the default gnome menu stuff again. So I'm irritate and I asked myself, why does someone write a script to do something like this? Or is this a small bug in Mandrake 7? In Mandrake 6 (or 6.1) the /etc/issue was changed to the original one every time by the rc.local script. It was easy to find (for me). But I don't want to do this every new version! Now it is too late for today. I will look for the small bug tomorrow... Or does anybody know where to look for it? cu Helmut
Re: [expert] Kernel Panic Using SMP and Mandrake 7.0
I have already tried that and I get the same thing. Everything was working fine when I was using 6.1, NT also works fine so I don't think its that. I thought maybe I would recompile the kernel but I cant always get the same settings back to do that. John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.0 and have an Abit MB and two 366 celerons overclocked to 550. When I install mandrake everything goes good. When I use the Linux config. from LILO it crashes with a kernel panic. When I use the Linux-up config it runs fine. I have tried without having the cerlerons overclocked but still get the same prob. I have used mandrake 6.0 and everything worked fine using SMP. I don't really know what to do next besides re-loading 6.0. I have the 2.2.14 kernel and have tried to re-compile and see what it does, but no luck. Anybody had this prob??? Also, how do you retain current settings when trying to compile a new kernel. I would like to recompile the Linux-up config by just adding SMP support, but I can never get my settings back like the were before. Turn off overclocking and see if it doesn't work like it's SUPPOSED to. When you overclock, you make your hardware SIGNIFICANTLY less stable! John
Re: [expert] Compile Kernel
When running your chosen config script (I know menuconfig and xconfig allow this), choose "Save Configuration to an Alternate File," and you'll be able to load it next time you want to configure your kernel. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Allen Denton wrote: How do you maintain your current config. when re-compiling a kernel? Every time I compile the kernel something else does not work so I have to go in and do it all over again to get it working again. Thanks..
Re: [expert] Compile Kernel
There is the option to 'save kernel as', save it to a good place. Then reload that config next time you need it. David Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Allen Denton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 3:28 PM Subject: [expert] Compile Kernel How do you maintain your current config. when re-compiling a kernel? Every time I compile the kernel something else does not work so I have to go in and do it all over again to get it working again. Thanks..
Re: [expert] M13
Dear Ramon and friends: My thanks to Ramon and other gurus for your evaluation of Mozilla 13. As a non-techie, it is all too easy for me to be won over by the lovely design and shiny chrome. It's good to know that what's under the hood still needs a lot of work. I am, of course, disappointed to know that Mozilla 13 is not yet ready for prime time, but truth, in the long run, never hurt anybody. Let's hope the Mozilla folks continue to improve their new Communicator. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] Misbehaving ls error in console
Dear Audrey: Thanks for writing. I have corrected the problem by commenting out the "alias ls=color" line in /etc/bashrc. Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] gnupg
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Are you giving it a file to go into? gpg --export mykey.asc I didn't think that would make a difference, but I tried it. Sorry for You have to wrap it into an ascii armor: gpg -a --export mykey Aha! Thanks to everyone who replied to this one... muchly appreciated! -- Vincent Danen, ICQ: 54924721 . telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org BBBS/LiI . Internet Rex for Linux Beta . Freezer Burn BBS Linux Information and other Goodies at Freezer Burn: www.freezer-burn.org
Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Jeanette Russo wrote: What do you mean it won't proceed to commercial release I was at Microcenter this weekend and the shelves were full of Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack? I refer you to my previous messages in this mailing list (please keep up to date) on this subject, and Mandrake's apparent withdrawal yesterday of its previous README.img announcement. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Phil Edwards wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: MandrakeSoft has announced that Mandrake 7.0 will not proceed to commercial release. Quality was the given reason. Where was this announced? I haven't been able to find anything to this effect on the Mandrake web site. In the README.img file on the 7.0 updates mirrors. Since I reported it to this mailing list, this file has been updated and the announcement quietly removed. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
[expert] releasing ipaddress
I have to release the ipaddress of the cable modem from my isp an, it used to not be that way . I could switch back an fore from my windows an linux machine with the cable an not have to release the ip to get a lease on the other machine. what is the linux command to release the ip address thanks jack Jack Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ballistic.com/~jemalone Luke 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." (NIV)
[expert] Lilo question...
I added RH 6.1 to my mix of Mandrake 6.0 and Win98. Here is the layout: /dev/hda1 - win98 /dev/hdb1 - Mandrake /boot /dev/hdb2 - Mandrake / /dev/hdc - CDROM /dev/hdd1 - RH /boot /dev/hdd2 - RH / I have lilo installed on /dev/hda , and I'm able to boot LM and 98, but I can't get lilo working correctly to allow me to boot RH. I am thinking that I need to do the following: add the following to /etc/lilo.conf (on LM) other=/dev/hdd label=rhlinux Then, try to install lilo onto /dev/hdd . I tried, while booted into LM, using the -r and -C options w/ lilo to install it onto /dev/hdd , but was unable to do so. Does anyone have the patience to let me know what is the best way to get lilo configured? Thanks, Chris
Re: [expert] Compile Kernel
Not too hard. Once you've run make menuconfig from /usr/src/linux, do something like: cp .config ../myKernelConfig Since that would put it one directory up, you can then copy it back into the linux directory next time you need to recompile. -- Stephen On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, you wrote: How do you maintain your current config. when re-compiling a kernel? Every time I compile the kernel something else does not work so I have to go in and do it all over again to get it working again. Thanks..
Re: [expert] Aureal disappointment
Well, I must not understand your post! 1. It seems to me that drivers written for say the Turtle Beach Montego II card are of little or no use to one who has not bought the card. 2. Why not supply the source to the driver so that anyone can compile a kernel which will run the card? They *do* want to sell the card, right? If they don't make it easy to get drivers, most (including me) will simply buy another card.Why are sound card drivers different in this respect from video cards, scsi controllers, cdroms drivers, etc.? 3. One of the great things about Linux is that you *can* build custom kernels to suit your machine and get better performance. Given that Aureal will add Linux support, why don't they supply the source to the driver? I wrote to their support site, but I don't know if it will make a difference. -Cheers, -sen Christopher Cox writes: With all due respect, if Mandrake, Redhat, SUSE, Caldera, Slackware and who-ever start modifying the kernels so that drivers and binaries will not run between them, You just killed the movement and handed power back to Microsoft. I have been through this garbage in the Unix world and it divides and conquers yourself. I love how easy Mandrake is to install, but will switch in a second it is the companies position that compatibility and reliability will be compromised for any reason. If not, or I misunderstood your post, I apologize. Christopher Cox -- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Aureal disappointment Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 2:20 PM On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, S. Newhouse wrote: Hello, One of our machines is a Dell with the Turtle Beach Montego sound card. I was happy to see that Aureal wrote drivers for it (from their web site), but then I found out that the drivers worked only for the RedHat kernels in 6.0 and 6.1. I tried to install them in Mandrake and (of course) they did not work. Anyone have ideas about how we can get these people and others to release sources to their drivers so that they can be compiled for every distribution? -sen http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Advocacy.html -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [expert] Lilo question...
Christopher Quale wrote: I added RH 6.1 to my mix of Mandrake 6.0 and Win98. Here is the layout: /dev/hda1 - win98 /dev/hdb1 - Mandrake /boot /dev/hdb2 - Mandrake / /dev/hdc - CDROM /dev/hdd1 - RH /boot /dev/hdd2 - RH / I have lilo installed on /dev/hda , and I'm able to boot LM and 98, but I can't get lilo working correctly to allow me to boot RH. I am thinking that I need to do the following: add the following to /etc/lilo.conf (on LM) other=/dev/hdd label=rhlinux No, you can't do this. "other" is for Microsoft OSes (and possibly OS/2 too). The way to do it is: 1. make your RH boot partition known to the Mandrake Linux by putting an entry in its fstab, e.g: /dev/hdd1 /mnt/RHboot ext2 ro 0 0 then mount it. 2. add to your Mandrake /etc/lilo.conf: image=/mnt/RHboot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 label=RH root=/dev/hdd2 read-only 3. execute lilo (generate the boot tables). 4. that's all, folks ! Explanation: the "image" you point the lilo entry to, must be found by lilo when it's executing (generating the boot tables) so you have to make the RH boot partition readable (read-only if you prefer) to your Mandrake linux, if you are executing lilo under Mandrake. Likewise if you want to execute lilo (generate boot tables) under RH, you have to make your Mandrake boot partition readable there. Hope this helps. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
[expert] M13
Alpha version of Mozilla makes debut Mozilla.org has released the long-awaited "alpha" version of its open source Web browser, dubbed M13, in a signal that the troubled project may finally be putting some of its problems behind it. With the alpha, which is posted on Mozilla's Web site, the organization is expressing its confidence that the software is stable enough to be a user's primary browser and mail client, although it still will go through several versions before a final release. In general, an alpha version is not considered stable enough for the public, but Mozilla watchers may want to give it a test spin. Neither Mozilla nor Netscape could be reached immediately for comment. The release is a major milestone for Mozilla, which was founded by Netscape Communications to handle the open source development of the Communicator browser. During its short history, the group has struggled to meet deadlines and has suffered several key employee defections. http://update.winfiles.com/cgi-bin2/flo?x=dhBBmYouAwoouhuB Pj
Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0
Ronwell I for one still don't understand. I read your previous message and the message from Jeanette was in response to that message, so she obviously didn't get it either. Where would we have been able to see this "README.img announcement" before its "apparent withdrawal"? Do you have a copy you can attach or upload, so we can see what was apparently withdrawn? I am very confused. Alan Ron Stodden wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Jeanette Russo wrote: What do you mean it won't proceed to commercial release I was at Microcenter this weekend and the shelves were full of Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack? I refer you to my previous messages in this mailing list (please keep up to date) on this subject, and Mandrake's apparent withdrawal yesterday of its previous README.img announcement. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
[expert] PPP strange in MDK
The only major problem I have with Mandrake on the install is setting up PPP. I can get it to find my modem and actually dial, but it wont hold the connection (not a winmodem :) ) I did some poking around on the mandrakeuser.org site and found a really strange PPP setup. Will regular scripts work under MDK? I've heard this is the case a few times on this list. I'm using the box for a server so PPP is pretty important. On a side note, MDK finds my 3com905b as a tulip, is this normal? And can anyone tell me how well ipchains works under 7.0...I'd hate to get it all set up and find that they do not work at all. I love MDK on my "fun" machine, connected to internet through a LAN, I had no probs setting it up and everything works perfectly, but the other day I tried to replace RedHat 6.1 on my server with Mandrake 7.0 and had a terrible time of it. I finally put RH back on. I guess I too will wait for the 7.1 which is a shame because other than the PPP nightmare everything, as I said, is golden. Mike
[expert] [devel] gnupg
Ok, I'm trying to export my key using the gnupg that comes with LM7.0 and it's screwing up my console bigtime. When I use "gpg --export" I get a bunch of high ascii and it turns everything into high ascii, including prompts and everything. I really need to get my public key exported so I can put it on my website and send it to people and (most importantly) give it to Lenny so he can verify my contrib RPMs. I've finally got RPM to use gpg instead of pgp, but I can't export my key so I can finally upload the half-dozen new contrib RPMs I have to upload! Can anyone give me some help here? Thanx a million in advance! -- Vincent Danen, ICQ: 54924721 . telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org BBBS/LiI . Internet Rex for Linux Beta . Freezer Burn BBS Linux Information and other Goodies at Freezer Burn: www.freezer-burn.org
