Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezesroutinely
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 18:01, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 07:46, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: I have now been running Mandrake 9.1 with the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel for about 3 weeks. At this point it is starting to be annoying that this kernel locks up more often than even Micro$oft Windoze. The lock up will happen anything from 5 minutes to 10 hours of boot. It must be the kernel locking up since there is no response to the SysRq+Alt+... keys. This happens routinely, but irregular, so I have no idea how to track it. I tried maximizing the information to syslog by choosing *.* /var/log/syslog in /etc/syslog.conf. A typical entry looks like this: Jul 6 14:42:18 pan spamd[5914]: identified spam (9.3/5.0) for turtle:501 in 0.4 seconds, 3321 bytes. Jul 6 14:45:00 pan CROND[5928]: (turtle) CMD (/usr/sbin/anacron -t $HOME/bin/shell/cron/anacrontab) Jul 6 14:45:00 pan anacron[5929]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2003-07-06 Jul 6 14:45:00 pan anacron[5929]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) Jul 6 14:47:12 pan syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Jul 6 14:47:12 pan /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifplugd eth1 Jul 6 14:47:12 pan ifplugd[1526]: Using interface eth1/00:02:2D:40:D0:92 Jul 6 14:47:12 pan ifplugd[1526]: ETHTOOL_GLINK failed: Operation not supported which means that I have booted around 14:46:45. Thus there does not appear to be any programs running just before the lock up. So at this point I would like suggestions: - how can I get more debug information from the kernel - should I change to a different kernel, e.g., vanilla 2.4.21. Or should I consider one of the patched ones. Thanks /Peter Couple of questions to get the ball rolling. One Have you run memtest on your RAM? I've had problems like this before and what the cause was, was a bad ramchip but high enough up that normal operation didn't see it but when it came to a higher ram usage (like say logrotate) it would lock the box tighter than a republicans hand around someone else's penny. This would be my first suspect. Second. Did it do this under the 13mdk version of the kernel (the one that comes with 9.1) Third what version of the kernel do you use. SMP Enterprise etc. James Let me help a little by rolling the ball further down the sidewalk. He should go to http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm And download the linux version of Prime95. Then run the stress test. This will test the cpu very extensively while using all available ram. If it passes Prime95 overnight then he's got a good machine. If it fails then he's got hardware problems somewhere. HTH, LX P.S. And it's a Democrat's hand around someone elses penny (aka taxes). :D The Reps have the vise grip on their own pennies. -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 10:56 pm, Tom Brinkman had this to contribute :- Could a few of y'all with Lite-On's post the results of 'cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0' Just the ID/Rev, and the last several lines are relevant. Here is the output from a couple of the Yamaha's here. Interesting... Cdrecord 1.11a31 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,2,0' scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : SYNC Vendor_info: 'YAMAHA ' Identifikation : 'CRW2100E' Revision : '1.0J' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : SYNC Vendor_info: 'YAMAHA ' Identifikation : 'CRW3200E' Revision : '1.0d' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE AUDIOMASTER FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/CSBhWOfRC7Rnmv8RAj/CAJ95aKrMa0M921UEe2wBIaEgniUaeACcCydZ o5tKn5E4oreyv0YRMj4T0hc= =1D3D -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
Remember. The vendor can report the correct write modes all he wants; but there is also the small matter of correct EFM encoding. That means actually testing the drive to see if the drive can reproduce exotic conditions like weak sectors. That in turn means that somebody needs to have actually tried to produce backup copies of exotic cd's in an attempt to create true 1 to 1 copies.and then reported their results. Like the results at the CloneCD hardware database, for instance. For an idea of what true quality drives are capable of and what they are up against, please check out the following: http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20021213/lg-13.html Not having perfect EFM encoding is the same thing as not having the correct raw hardware modes at all. For this info we need somebody's test results. On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 03:25, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 10:56 pm, Tom Brinkman had this to contribute :- Could a few of y'all with Lite-On's post the results of 'cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0' Just the ID/Rev, and the last several lines are relevant. Here is the output from a couple of the Yamaha's here. Interesting... Cdrecord 1.11a31 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,2,0' scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : SYNC Vendor_info: 'YAMAHA ' Identifikation : 'CRW2100E' Revision : '1.0J' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : SYNC Vendor_info: 'YAMAHA ' Identifikation : 'CRW3200E' Revision : '1.0d' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE AUDIOMASTER FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R - -- KevinO --LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.
once, i had the same problem, i don't know if it is related but after having update the gpg (form mdk update) i haven't got it any more. (i deleted ~/.gnupg directory and re-generated the key) Angelo --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Went to this page. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 following the instructions I created the .rpmmacros file edited it as it outlined. then I did gpg --gen-key filled in the blanks ... generated a key. now when I do (as the same user) rpm --sign --clean -ba somerpm.spec it asks for the passphrase... I enter the same one I did during the key-gen phase.. and I get Pass phrase check failed Anyone have a clue as to what I did wrong? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel bug still not fixed
Viestissä Maanantai 7. Heinäkuuta 2003 05:53, Glenn Burkhardt kirjoitti: I've built a stock 2.4.21 kernel, and applied the patch SGI XFS snapshot-2.4.21-2003-06-23_01:45_UTC and I can run the debugger. There are still a bunch of drivers to get straight, if I want to use it (which is why I prefer getting a kernel from Mandrake). This is 1.3 release. There is no patch for the 1.2 release for the 2.4.21 kernel; the only one is for the 2.4.19 kernel. No it's not... It's a 1.3 pre2 snapshot Which makes me wonder where the code in the current 9.1 releases came from. They all (including cooker linux-2.4.21-2mdk) have the version: snapshot 2.4.20-2003-01-14_00:43_UTC The official 1.2 release was made 2003/2/11. So was this an early release of 1.2 or 1.3, and how was the patch made compatible with the 2.4.21 kernel, since it was picked up a month before XFS 1.2 was released, Back in January the above snapshot was stated to become 1.2 Release I also verifyed it then when 1.2 got Released, and the code was the same.. which is, at least now, only available for the 2.4.19 kernel. You can still find the snapshots for 2.4.20 and a lot of other kernels at: ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches If IRC the 2.4.19 XFS 1.2 patches applies cleanly onto 2.4.20, so there is no need to keep duplicates... or maybe SGI knows of this promblem with 2.4.20, and therefore skipped the 1.2 Release for 2.4.20... And with 1.3 around the corner... who cares about the old stuff... ;-) It would at least be sporting if Mandrake would post a note on the Errata page that 9.1 shouldn't use XFS if the system is to be used for development. Apparently it's only the root partition that matters. I'm in the process of reinstalling both 9.1 and Cooker on my system, this time with everything on XFS, so I'll will track down thwe bug if/when it appears for me... Also, there's no mention of problems with 'gdb' on any of the XFS mailing lists or change logs, so my guess is that a patch for an older version of the kernel was force fitted to the 2.4.21 kernel, and this was an edge that got shaved off. well actually MDK 9.1 does not have a full 2.4.21 kernel (since it was released 2003-06-13), only a 2.4.21pre based + patches from some of the rc's + a lot of MDK addons... One thing is for sure (unless SGI drags their feets...) for the upcoming MDK 9.2 there will be a new shiny XFS 1.3 added AFAIK... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ntp problems
Hi I have an NTP setup for my home network that has always worked fine. I have a Stratum 3 server on FreeBSD to which all clients in my network sync. Yesterday I discovered that the time on my Mandrake 9.1 was 5 minutes off to the server. yet ntptrace reported my desktop still synchronized (stratum 4). If I shut down ntpd on the desktop, run ntpdate and restart ntpd everything is well again, till the next reboot... Any suggestions? How can ntptrace report a synchronised time when it is off? Kind regards Guy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Kazaa Lite
Has anyone gotten Kazaa lite running on mandrake using wine? Kazaa documents this on their website, but the install failed. I' using the stock version of wine that came with Mandrake 9.1. Thanks Guy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip
Grip as supplied (9.0 + 9.1) does ogg vorbis encoding without any addons. Xmms will play the .oggs happily. They are more environmentally friendly (read better license) than mp3. The oggs record at 44khz. On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 23:25:06 +0100 bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry no, i use lame from the plf notlame package bascule On Friday 04 Jul 2003 11:34 pm, Richard Bown wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 22:17, bascule wrote: have a look in /dev/and see what you do have and try: $grip --device=/dev/whatever bascule Thanks bascule that got it sorted, just to really confuse things /dev/cdrom =/mnt/cdrom3 Do you know which files I need to load to use mp3encode, drawn a blank with rpmdrake, so it must be part of another package, which one ?? thanks richard -- Rome wasn't burned in a day. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Resolved ! : [expert] fonts in gimp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It has been a while since I asked about this but I wanted to pass this along in case it helps or enlightens anyone. I finally got the font (flubber) to work. It is a hack, and I still don't understand why some of the fonts won't work the way Mandrake installs them, but I don't have the time nor the patience to make a major study of this. I expect this to work with many of the other 'broken fonts' that are found in /usr/share/fonts/ . Here is how I made the font work. (I basically just installed it into a 'more standard ?' location) 1) Copy the font into a new location: # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF # cp /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/flubber.ttf . 2) Create a line in fonts.scale for the font, using an editor. # vi fonts.scale My line looks like this (not totally correct but close enough): flubber.ttf -bh-Flubber-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 The fonts.scale file is set read-only so you will have to chmod the file or override the status (ie: w! in vi) 3) Issued the following commands to update and restart the font server. # mkfontdir # xset fp rehash # service xfs restart This has worked on both of the boxes I have tried this on. (Both Mdk 9.1) I should probably remove the old entry/location but at least this is workable. I stumbled upon this while I was installing a new font. Like I said, it is a hack but it works for me and I hope this will help someone else to live with the problem or perhaps find a better solution. I am not going to install/upgrade all of the necessary pieces to build the latest version of Gimp, just to fix a 'broken font' problem, but I do appreciate that advice also. I don't understand why we have fonts in two different places in the filesystem(s)... YMMV, KevinO Jack Coates wrote: I ran into this several years ago, and there was an FAQ on the gimp.org site about it. Have you read and tried anything from the gimp.org FAQ? Yes On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 02:55, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephlub wrote: I encountered this problem, I didn't solve it. suspect to be the font import module of Gimp which isn't able to pick some sorts of TTF. while it was not important for me, I made with Ooo the gifs I used with Gimp Bummer. I asked a friend of mine to check his 9.1 box and he has the same thing. I wonder if these fonts (flubber, for instance) work for anyone under 9.1... Toggling anti-aliasing or dynamic fonts makes no difference. Is this a change that was made to the gimp code or am I experiencing another 'distribution tweak?'. We have two Mandrake 9.1 boxes here and they both appear to have the same problem. A lot of the fonts (flubber, for instance) appear in the list of fonts for gimp but when you try to select them you get a message font is not available. The fonts in question are installed on both machines. The fonts can be used in open-office-writer and kwrite, on either machine. The paths to the fonts are listed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config. xlsfonts lists the fonts in question. I am starting to suspect some kind of a 'disconnect' between xfs and gimp. If I sit at one of our other boxes and open an ssh session to either of the 9.1 boxes, the fonts work fine. Any ideas? TIA - -- KevinO - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/CTdxWOfRC7Rnmv8RArvgAJ4wKk3MeAHE1u+bAc9cqJPsEHlQ6QCdEESK BM7/NuLaLMoXikQZWhfYvnY= =A9u3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Adams wrote: Grip as supplied (9.0 + 9.1) does ogg vorbis encoding without any addons. Xmms will play the .oggs happily. They are more environmentally friendly (read better license) than mp3. Ogg's are better but I can't put 100 or so on a CD and play them in my DVD player (or a portable). I have to play them on a computer, and that is a bummer. Anyone know of any stand-alone DVD players or portables that play ogg that have actually shown up on the market yet? (vaporware doesn't count) - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/CTrNWOfRC7Rnmv8RAj2OAJ9j566yCL3EyrrY47B2qztNfY3YFQCgg5sN lwsF8i2T9UCXy8zGZYeNNx4= =2Wmm -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite
Am Montag, 7. Juli 2003 10:44 schrieb Guy Van Sanden: Has anyone gotten Kazaa lite running on mandrake using wine? Kazaa documents this on their website, but the install failed. I' using the stock version of wine that came with Mandrake 9.1. Thanks Guy Hi ! I hope this will help you: http://frankscorner.org/kazaa_lite_2_0.html FranksCorner/FranksWorld is for me the nomber one ressource what belongs to wine. HTH Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezes routinely
Thanks for suggestions for various stress tests---I will try them tonight. To answer James Sparenberg's question: I have tried both the 0.13mdk and the 0.18mdk. I usually use NeTraverse' win4lin enabled kernel, but have reverted to the standard Mandrake kernels to see if this is the problem. I do not use the SMP kernels. I would be slightly surprised if it was a hardware problem, given that I have run Mandrake 9.0 for 3--4 months and 8.1 for about a year without problems of this sort. For the same reason, X is not too likely to be the culprit as I did not upgrade my low-level video driver when upgrading to 9.1 (I'm using a locally compiled version of Nvidia's proprietary driver). I'll keep you posted on results. /Peter -- http://www.linearity.org/turtle/contact.html ``If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us. If we're a humble nation but strong, they'll welcome us.''--George W. Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, Sevatio had this to contribute :- I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. It seems to depend who you talk to. I have trouble with all supermounts, others have none apparently when reading this list. Charlie -- Nothing is certain but uncertainty. G. K. Chesterton This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
Viestissä Maanantai 7. Heinäkuuta 2003 09:27, Sevatio kirjoitti: I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. Thanks, Sevatio I think you would be interested in this mail posted on the Cooker list: --- cut --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some of you might be interested in this 9.1 kernel update (based on 0.18mdk): - better supermount (supermount-ng.sourceforge.net) - fix for ldm_validate_partition and ppa cable warning messages - alsa emu10k1 oops fix - newer pci ids - bus_ide_piix and bus_ide_nvidia_udma100(nforce) fixes - aic7xxx_20030502 - driver_sonypi_1.19 - firewire update to 925 - vesafb ram fix - fix a panic of ide-scsi - add acls on xfs filesystems - patch for devfs deadlock - unlock grsecurity settings Special thanks to Andrey Borzenkov and Thomas Backlund for many of the patches. The kernel was tested by club members for some weeks now, I have had no complaints. Its on the mirrors in Mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub/9.1/i586/ To make it on-topic again: I would hope to have supermount-ng and ACLs in 9.2 kernel as well d. --- cut --- I'm running it myself with no problems what so ever... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
For my installation the install software wrote the supermount fstab entries incorrectly. It does not seem to be quite fool proof yet. I have been using it since it was first available in the Mandrake distribution and it has yet to deliver on the promises. Perhaps it is a matter of the three different boxes I have tried it on. On Sunday, July 06, 2003 at 11:27:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.
On 06 Jul 2003 21:38:35 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now when I do (as the same user) rpm --sign --clean -ba somerpm.spec it asks for the passphrase... I enter the same one I did during the key-gen phase.. and I get Pass phrase check failed. Unfortunately the Mdk rpm-how-to is not completly up-to-date For gpg your rpmmarcos should read %_gpg_name your_name (security) your_email Charles -- Necessity has no law. -- St. Augustine - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21.3mdk http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
On Monday 07 Jul 2003 11:53 am, arocho wrote: For my installation the install software wrote the supermount fstab entries incorrectly. It does not seem to be quite fool proof yet. I have been using it since it was first available in the Mandrake distribution and it has yet to deliver on the promises. Perhaps it is a matter of the three different boxes I have tried it on. On Sunday, July 06, 2003 at 11:27:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. Thanks, Sevatio No-one seems to know why some boxes simply can't use it, while others are fine. It's run without problems on this box under both 9.0 and 9.1. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
On Monday 07 July 2003 02:27 am, Sevatio wrote: I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. Thanks, Sevatio It works without problems for me on 9.1. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 00:27, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2003 04:52 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: It's not so much the difference between the atapi and scsi drives, it's the data bus. Copying a CD on the fly is a much safer and faster thing using scsi. wobo Agreed. Less system resource/cpu time, responsiveness, etc, etc. Its more like set it and forget it (to paraphrase a really annoying infocommercial!) :-) I can always tell a student/advocate of ESR when I see one. ;D --LX P.S. Cause ESR is a religious SCSI devotee.g -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
I am one who hasn't had problems, per se, with supermount in 9.1 or 9.0 (or others). Supermount causes problems, however, if you wish to use k3b, the kde cdburner app. It is a nice looking app but I cannot get it to work with my system setup with supermount, though I have no problems with X-CDroast or eroaster w/supermount. So, I suppose it depends on your system and what you wish to do. The fstab entries required/created by k3b are incompatible with supermount (unless someone can set me right on this). praedor --- charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, Sevatio had this to contribute :- I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. It seems to depend who you talk to. I have trouble with all supermounts, others have none apparently when reading this list. Charlie -- Nothing is certain but uncertainty. G. K. Chesterton This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
Have installed Mandrake 9.1 on many PCs, and and supermount is excellent in Mandrake 9.1.. 9.0 was a disaster.. Cheers Mark On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:27, Sevatio wrote: I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
Praedor Tempus wrote: I am one who hasn't had problems, per se, with supermount in 9.1 or 9.0 (or others). Supermount causes problems, however, if you wish to use k3b, the kde cdburner app. It is a nice looking app but I cannot get it to work with my system setup with supermount, though I have no problems with X-CDroast or eroaster w/supermount. So, I suppose it depends on your system and what you wish to do. The fstab entries required/created by k3b are incompatible with supermount (unless someone can set me right on this). Praedor, I may be the exception to the rule, but K3b and supermount work just fine on my Mdk 9.1 laptop. I've got separate mount points for cdrom and cdrecorder, and it seems to work fine that way. However, if I remember correctly, I *did* need to setuid root on the cdrecord and cdrdao programs. They are setuid in any case. This is obviously a security risk, but my laptop is mostly single-user (my wife occasionally plays Frozen Bubble on it). -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!' - Jack Sim, Restroom Association President Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezes routinely
On Monday July 7 2003 04:59 am, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: Thanks for suggestions for various stress tests---I will try them tonight. To answer James Sparenberg's question: I have tried both the 0.13mdk and the 0.18mdk. I usually use NeTraverse' win4lin enabled kernel, but have reverted to the standard Mandrake kernels to see if this is the problem. I do not use the SMP kernels. I would be slightly surprised if it was a hardware problem, given that I have run Mandrake 9.0 for 3--4 months and 8.1 for about a year without problems of this sort. For the same reason, X is not too likely to be the culprit as I did not upgrade my low-level video driver when upgrading to 9.1 (I'm using a locally compiled version of Nvidia's proprietary driver). Probly not hardware, but hardware still has to be eliminated as a first step. I'd suggest one pass of memtest86's tests (easy), then 'mprime -m', choose #17, the torture test (harder). Let it run for an hour. If you pass those tests, then cpuburn's 'burnP6' (Intel), or 'burnK6' (AMD), (extreme test). Let it run for 20 minutes while keeping an eye on cpu temp. There's no output, but abort with 'Crtl+C if temp goes too high. If it does, you need better cooling and over heating could well be your freeze problem. ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/mprime234.tar.gzcpuburn and memtest86 are on your CD's or available from Mandrake mirrors. Next step if your hardware passes uninstall nvidia and use Xfree's 'nv' driver. You'll also need to replace the nvidia tainted kernel. Uninstall any other closed source proprietary unknown apps or drivers. At least till you this problem sorted out. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Monday 07 Jul 2003 4:27 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I just thought it might be a good idea to investigate the cheap ones like Lite-On. Few things I need to ask, are the Lite-On's made by Lite-On, or are they rebadged from other manufacturers? Can the firmware be flashed from DOS, and are updates available (or have been)? I went to their site to look for myself, but got an 'under construction' message. You should do a bit of googling, I think, Tom. I know of people who are very happy with Lite-On drives, but I also know that my favourite parts supplier are very uncomfortable with some hardware combinations that include Lite-On. As far as I know, it mainly concerns an incompatibility with some cd/dvd drives. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Sunday July 6 2003 11:37 am, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] CDRW OK, thanks Ed, same mode supports as my old drive. I don't want burnfree, but it can be disabled. I'm thinkin this old drive has got to be replaced sooner or later ;) Is yours scsi? It might be worth keeping. but I think tese days that atapi is getting better and better. otoh, the newer drives can burn really really faxt :). It's an IDE burner, not SCSI. I'm not interested in burnin at over 8x. Most of the time I burn at 4x. Other than the quality drives (Plextor and Yamaha), I just thought it might be a good idea to investigate the cheap ones like Lite-On. Few things I need to ask, are the Lite-On's made by Lite-On, or are they rebadged from other manufacturers? Can the firmware be flashed from DOS, and are updates available (or have been)? I went to their site to look for myself, but got an 'under construction' message. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Monday July 7 2003 02:53 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Remember. The vendor can report the correct write modes all he wants; but there is also the small matter of correct EFM encoding. That means actually testing the drive to see if the drive can reproduce exotic conditions like weak sectors. That in turn means that somebody needs to have actually tried to produce backup copies of exotic cd's in an attempt to create true 1 to 1 copies.and then reported their results. Like the results at the CloneCD hardware database, for instance. For an idea of what true quality drives are capable of and what they are up against, please check out the following: http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20021213/lg-13.html Not having perfect EFM encoding is the same thing as not having the correct raw hardware modes at all. For this info we need somebody's test results. I agree with your basic premise Lyvim. Years ago I used CloneCD's data base and comments to choose Plextor, the darling of burners at the time. Keep in mind tho that CloneCD's Windoze software, and THG's review/test is also Winblows based. Linux/cdrecord/cdrdao/ mkisofs results may or may not be different. (probly better ;) Still ya gotta start somewhere ;) I'm mostly curious because I hear a lot of good reports on Lite-On's, even THG gave 'em a thumbs up. I'm thinking a good cheap burner might be a better alternative than keepin my old cd-rw and even older CDrom. Just use the burner for everything in my next system. I'm not a fan of direct CD to CDr copying anyhow, and burners are better readers than cdrom's ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezesroutinely
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 15:46:09 +0100 Peter Møller Neergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have now been running Mandrake 9.1 with the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel for about 3 weeks. At this point it is starting to be annoying that this kernel locks up more often than even Micro$oft Windoze. The lock up will happen anything from 5 minutes to 10 hours of boot. It must be the kernel locking up since there is no response to the SysRq+Alt+... keys. I don't think there is anything wrong with the kernel. My box runs for weeks on end with no problem. If I was to guess, I'd say X or hardware was involved. -Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes
I have built and installed the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel three times now without error. I have also generated the initrd and run lilo with success post build. Thus far it has been impossible to bootup the kernel, however. I can bootup my stock 2.4.21-0.13mdk and -0.13mdkcustom but cannot begin to boot 2.4.21-0.18mdkcustom (same config as -0.13mdkcustom). All I get is a black/blank screen after lilo. No errors, no kernel panic message, nothing. Then, after about 2 seconds, the system reboots and this cycle will continue forever (linux default bootup of course). I cannot even start it in failsafe. At the moment I am back to 2.4.21-0.13mdkcustom until/unless I can get a working -0.18mdk build. My system is an AMD Athlon XP2700+ with MSI KT333 mobo. Mandrake 9.1 with all the pertinent updates save the kernel, of course. Anyone see this sort of thing before? Have any ideas how to get a bootup or even a kernel panic out of this? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
Hmpf. My supermount setup has both my CDROM and CDRW setup as scsi-ide. If I try k3b, it fails to see them. All the other cdburner apps work fine with this. praedor --- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I am one who hasn't had problems, per se, with supermount in 9.1 or 9.0 (or others). Supermount causes problems, however, if you wish to use k3b, the kde cdburner app. It is a nice looking app but I cannot get it to work with my system setup with supermount, though I have no problems with X-CDroast or eroaster w/supermount. So, I suppose it depends on your system and what you wish to do. The fstab entries required/created by k3b are incompatible with supermount (unless someone can set me right on this). Praedor, I may be the exception to the rule, but K3b and supermount work just fine on my Mdk 9.1 laptop. I've got separate mount points for cdrom and cdrecorder, and it seems to work fine that way. However, if I remember correctly, I *did* need to setuid root on the cdrecord and cdrdao programs. They are setuid in any case. This is obviously a security risk, but my laptop is mostly single-user (my wife occasionally plays Frozen Bubble on it). -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!' - Jack Sim, Restroom Association President Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Monday 07 July 2003 11:51 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: copying anyhow, and burners are better readers than cdrom's ;) I can testify to that - my younger brother made some 800 meg CDs one time for me...only thing I had on 3 comps that would read'em was my good 'ole Plextor CDRW. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes
are you trying to use a frame buffer? vga=normal? On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:54, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have built and installed the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel three times now without error. I have also generated the initrd and run lilo with success post build. Thus far it has been impossible to bootup the kernel, however. I can bootup my stock 2.4.21-0.13mdk and -0.13mdkcustom but cannot begin to boot 2.4.21-0.18mdkcustom (same config as -0.13mdkcustom). All I get is a black/blank screen after lilo. No errors, no kernel panic message, nothing. Then, after about 2 seconds, the system reboots and this cycle will continue forever (linux default bootup of course). I cannot even start it in failsafe. At the moment I am back to 2.4.21-0.13mdkcustom until/unless I can get a working -0.18mdk build. My system is an AMD Athlon XP2700+ with MSI KT333 mobo. Mandrake 9.1 with all the pertinent updates save the kernel, of course. Anyone see this sort of thing before? Have any ideas how to get a bootup or even a kernel panic out of this? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
On Monday 07 July 2003 06:18 am, charlie wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, Sevatio had this to contribute :- I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. It seems to depend who you talk to. I have trouble with all supermounts, others have none apparently when reading this list. Charlie grin Charlie, you're not alone - I usually try supermount with each new distro release, but end up disabling it in the end. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
Praedor Tempus wrote: Hmpf. My supermount setup has both my CDROM and CDRW setup as scsi-ide. If I try k3b, it fails to see them. All the other cdburner apps work fine with this. praedor In fstab, my cdrom mount point is setup for supermount, but my cdrecorder mount point is *not* setup for supermount -- K3b mounts it on demand, and presumably unmounts the cdrom mount point at the same time, so there are no conflicts. If *both* mount points are setup for supermount, but they use the same device, wouldn't this be rather ... counterproductive? -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!' - Jack Sim, Restroom Association President Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Monday July 7 2003 12:15 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 11:51 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: copying anyhow, and burners are better readers than cdrom's ;) I can testify to that - my younger brother made some 800 meg CDs one time for me...only thing I had on 3 comps that would read'em was my good 'ole Plextor CDRW. :-) I can't find any 800mb CDr's in the stores ;( Where do y'all get 'em? USEnet's got some 715 to 775 movies. I can use mencoder to reduce their size to fit on 700mb CDr's, but at a loss of a little video quality. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/encoding.html#rescaling -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
I had thought that allowing k3b to install new lines into fstab, redundant entries for my /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom2, would cause problems. I thought that these k3b-added lines needed to be in replacement for the supermount entries. Having semi-redundant lines in fstab with and without supermount doesn't cause any problems? praedor --- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: Hmpf. My supermount setup has both my CDROM and CDRW setup as scsi-ide. If I try k3b, it fails to see them. All the other cdburner apps work fine with this. praedor In fstab, my cdrom mount point is setup for supermount, but my cdrecorder mount point is *not* setup for supermount -- K3b mounts it on demand, and presumably unmounts the cdrom mount point at the same time, so there are no conflicts. If *both* mount points are setup for supermount, but they use the same device, wouldn't this be rather ... counterproductive? -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!' - Jack Sim, Restroom Association President Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.
On Monday 07 July 2003 12:38 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Ok, Went to this page. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 following the instructions I created the .rpmmacros file edited it as it outlined. then I did gpg --gen-key filled in the blanks ... generated a key. now when I do (as the same user) rpm --sign --clean -ba somerpm.spec it asks for the passphrase... I enter the same one I did during the key-gen phase.. and I get Pass phrase check failed Anyone have a clue as to what I did wrong? Did you create a key as user but build as root? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Monday 07 July 2003 02:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I can't find any 800mb CDr's in the stores ;( Where do y'all get 'em? USEnet's got some 715 to 775 movies. I can use mencoder to reduce their size to fit on 700mb CDr's, but at a loss of a little video quality. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/encoding.html#rescaling Tom, I don't even have those CDs anymore - they were 4 CD's of the Lord Of The Rings that he ripped. I eventually bought the store version and threw them away. TBH, since I've thrown them away, I can't remember if they were true 800 meg CDs or 700 meggers jam-packed full. I know he (my brother) said they had 800 megs each on them. I'll ask him the next time I see him. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite
Thanks Steffen It didn't work however... I followed the instuctions to the letter, but it keeps complaining about not being able to move exe files... Yet the permissions are correct. It only copies non-exe files??? Guy On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 11:27, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Montag, 7. Juli 2003 10:44 schrieb Guy Van Sanden: Has anyone gotten Kazaa lite running on mandrake using wine? Kazaa documents this on their website, but the install failed. I' using the stock version of wine that came with Mandrake 9.1. Thanks Guy Hi ! I hope this will help you: http://frankscorner.org/kazaa_lite_2_0.html FranksCorner/FranksWorld is for me the nomber one ressource what belongs to wine. HTH Steffen __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes
My lilo entry have vga=788. I don't recall the failsafe entry (whatever default the system makes it as during install). I haven't tried starting throught the no-framebuffer entry as yet. I could try that this evening. Is there a framebuffer issue with the 0.18 kernel? praedor --- Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are you trying to use a frame buffer? vga=normal? On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:54, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have built and installed the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel three times now without error. I have also generated the initrd and run lilo with success post build. Thus far it has been impossible to bootup the kernel, however. I can bootup my stock 2.4.21-0.13mdk and -0.13mdkcustom but cannot begin to boot 2.4.21-0.18mdkcustom (same config as -0.13mdkcustom). All I get is a black/blank screen after lilo. No errors, no kernel panic message, nothing. Then, after about 2 seconds, the system reboots and this cycle will continue forever (linux default bootup of course). I cannot even start it in failsafe. At the moment I am back to 2.4.21-0.13mdkcustom until/unless I can get a working -0.18mdk build. My system is an AMD Athlon XP2700+ with MSI KT333 mobo. Mandrake 9.1 with all the pertinent updates save the kernel, of course. Anyone see this sort of thing before? Have any ideas how to get a bootup or even a kernel panic out of this? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
I'm running supermount with 3 cdroms, two burners , no problems with K3b as long as you tell it to eject after burning. But I must admit there is the occasional time when something crashed that no matter what you try that damn drawer just wont open. Not even starting one of the cd players and opening the draw from there. I'd say supermount is in the stage between nearly stable and idiot proof Richard On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 18:16, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 06:18 am, charlie wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, Sevatio had this to contribute :- I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. It seems to depend who you talk to. I have trouble with all supermounts, others have none apparently when reading this list. Charlie grin Charlie, you're not alone - I usually try supermount with each new distro release, but end up disabling it in the end. :-) -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 11:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's an IDE burner, not SCSI. I'm not interested in burnin at over 8x. Most of the time I burn at 4x. Other than the quality drives (Plextor and Yamaha), I just thought it might be a good idea to investigate the cheap ones like Lite-On. Times have changed. Plextor and Yamaha are no longer what they used to be in the days before computer users became technically savvy about cdrom technology. Plextor for instance now has an abysmal record with regard to EFM encoding. There are fully 20 drives tested in the following URL, and only one of them has correct EFM encoding. That drive was released *this* year; go figure. SEE: http://www.elby.ch/en/products/clone_cd/writers/p.html#plextor Yamaha is not really any better, in fact they are worse. Out of 28 tested drive models, NONE of them has correct EFM encoding!! SEE: http://www.elby.ch/en/products/clone_cd/writers/y.html#yamaha This is what happens when people are using word of mouth to buy drives instead of performance oriented test results from real world applications. The vendors can rest on their laurels and push an inferior product on an unsuspecting public for as long as they are allowed. Plextor has started reacting to the Liteon phenomenon as of this year by finally putting out a drive that encodes completely right. Now as long as you are doing elementary stuff, like burning ISO's from the image, or copying non-copy-protected audio or software cd's, you'll never know that the drive isn't all there. In that case it's fine to own an inferior burner. It's only when you are doing college level stuff like making backup copies of copy protected audio or software cd's that you will really see the problems or attributes of a drive. That's why I keep posting these links; they represent information from test results. That's the starting point; the test results. All clearly explains the Liteon phenomenon. Why exactly are they so popular? Well, the answer is very simple. Liteon drives, almost all of them without exception, are fully capable of giving you true 1 to 1 copies of copy protected cd's. Why? Because they have BOTH the hardware modes needed *and* correct EFM encoding. Look at Liteon's track record and you will see what I mean: http://www.elby.ch/en/products/clone_cd/writers/l.html#liteon Out of 12 drives tested, only three are questionable. By test results, not word of mouth. This is exactly why Liteon drives are popular; quite simply, they do the job that they are supposed to do under demanding circumstances. So the hacker guys that can get the jobs done under the demanding circumstances already know everything I've posted here because they are cdrw hackers; as such their opinions are respected and they are the ones recommending the drives to others trying to do the same thing. Other people like me, for instance. The push for all this recent popularity is the fact that the Liteon drives get the job done after UPS delivers them. I personally chose Toshiba, because I feel that Tosh drives offer more quality of hardware than the others, (for slightly more money) plus having immaculate hardware specs. This is all based on prior personal experience. Liteon succeeds mainly because young cdrw hackers can afford them (they are cheap) and they almost always get the job done. Few things I need to ask, are the Lite-On's made by Lite-On, or are they rebadged from other manufacturers? Liteon is it's own manufacturer to the best of my knowledge. There are others relabeling the Liteon brand, like Buslink, and they sell them at a lower price. So if you see any Buslink brand burners in Best Buy or elsewhere, jump on them and ask the guys there if it registers as a Liteon model number in system information when it is installed. A relabeled Liteon drive will always display it's true Liteon model number when installed in the system. We bought a Buslink burner from Best Buy as a birthday present for a hacker bud not too long ago, and I went to Liteon's firmware page, downloaded their latest firmware, and flashed the drive (under DOS) before I giftwrapped it and sent it on. We paid 25 bucks for the drive after rebate.It was actually a relabeled Liteon LTR-32123S. Can the firmware be flashed from DOS Yep , and are updates available (or have been)? Yep I went to their site to look for myself, but got an 'under construction' message. Please check the following URL: http://www.liteontc.com.tw/ HTH, --LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
Praedor Tempus wrote: I had thought that allowing k3b to install new lines into fstab, redundant entries for my /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom2, would cause problems. I thought that these k3b-added lines needed to be in replacement for the supermount entries. Having semi-redundant lines in fstab with and without supermount doesn't cause any problems? praedor No problems here. As long as they are not both mounted at the same time, it's not an issue. If both cdrom and cdrecorder were mounted at the same time, then there might be some file locking or other file access issues, but I am assuming that K3b is unmounting cdrom (which would have been automounted) before manually mounting cdrecorder. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!' - Jack Sim, Restroom Association President Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets
Hi I am experiencing a lot of errors on RX packets on several boxes running LM9.1 or LM9.0. They are all identical Dell 4100 workstations with the same network cards using the tulip module. note: using kernel from installation, no recompilation. [ 20:42:52 ::root#wallaby ::~ ] ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:10:05:A2 inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:37765 errors:35690 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12923 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:294951 (288.0 Kb) TX bytes:110951 (108.3 Kb) Interrupt:16 Base address:0xd000 I've tried to change the cables, get the switch out od the equation, etc.. with no success. Any idea what I could investigate? and How? Thanks. -- Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you for the in-depth information. I never fool around with the more esoteric uses so I have remained ignorant and blissful. I started using Yamahas years ago when I got a SCSI one and just stuck with them. I have suffered with some of the cheaper brands when my friends would get one and they would barly be able to burn an normal ISO file properly under Linux, and only after extensive tweaking. My next drive will probably be a Toshiba or Lite-On. (My personal workstation still has an older 16x LightSpeed) - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/Cc9OWOfRC7Rnmv8RAuz6AJ0V5FlFO8XrxdqF7a9JyY3b+J259gCdH3M7 t4BDvMof5DQoIJ2M9tSLTwk= =BuOs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
On Monday 07 July 2003 03:59 pm, Richard Bown wrote: I'm running supermount with 3 cdroms, two burners , no problems with K3b as long as you tell it to eject after burning. But I must admit there is the occasional time when something crashed that no matter what you try that damn drawer just wont open. Not even starting one of the cd players and opening the draw from there. Isn't the problem here that the burner is accessing the device directly, and bypassing the file system? This makes it incredibly hard for supermount to keep track of things. The burner app really should unmount the device before using it, and re-mount it afterwards. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] HP printers on USB
Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc, all work off the SIIG USB PCMCIA 4-port hub; but the printers will only work if connected to the laptop's builtin USB1.1 port. CUPS reports Unable to open USB device usb://hp/deskjet%205550: No such device, even after redoing the printer setup via http://localhost:631 Just moving the cable from the PCMCIA to the builtin port allows queued jobs to print. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Nokimichi cd changer
Hi, I have a Nokimichi MBR-7.4 7 disk cd changer. Mandrake 9.0 knows it exists and recognizes the first two luns. I have mknod'd the remaining luns replicating permsissions and ownership and incrementing major number for each lun (11,00-11,06; 00 and 01 already existing) then linked devfs nodes to old type /dev entries (like the first 2 luns) it still only sees 2 luns. Any suggestions? I have an AHA-15x2 type host adapter. thanks, mg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Savage 4 video adapter and Xine
My motherboard has an S3 savage4 video adapter and I thought I would save a few bucks and use it. I have 32MB put aside for video memory. The adapter, first of all, won't do 24 bits at 1280x1024 (should require about 8MB), it breaks up, so I have it set for 16 bits (probably no whoop, it's just inconsistent). The big problem is that Xine freezes the entire machine when I start it up (I am thinking lack of video overlay capability on the adapter). I am using the latest Xine, installed clean (not over the Xine that came with Mandrake). Do I need to part with the cash, or is there a way around this? I looked on the S3 web site but the driver there is from 2000, so I've got to believe it won't be an improvement, unless I am missing something. thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 06:28, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 00:27, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2003 04:52 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: It's not so much the difference between the atapi and scsi drives, it's the data bus. Copying a CD on the fly is a much safer and faster thing using scsi. wobo Agreed. Less system resource/cpu time, responsiveness, etc, etc. Its more like set it and forget it (to paraphrase a really annoying infocommercial!) :-) I can always tell a student/advocate of ESR when I see one. ;D --LX P.S. Cause ESR is a religious SCSI devotee.g When building the Ultimate Linux Box for Linux Journal a year ago it's the only point Rick Moen and ESR agreed on violently.. :) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezesroutinely
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 02:59, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: Thanks for suggestions for various stress tests---I will try them tonight. To answer James Sparenberg's question: I have tried both the 0.13mdk and the 0.18mdk. I usually use NeTraverse' win4lin enabled kernel, but have reverted to the standard Mandrake kernels to see if this is the problem. I do not use the SMP kernels. I would be slightly surprised if it was a hardware problem, given that I have run Mandrake 9.0 for 3--4 months and 8.1 for about a year without problems of this sort. For the same reason, X is not too likely to be the culprit as I did not upgrade my low-level video driver when upgrading to 9.1 (I'm using a locally compiled version of Nvidia's proprietary driver). I'll keep you posted on results. /Peter Peter, Not to doubt what you say... I don't, but I do have a collection of ram sticks that past the 1 year guarantee ... crapped out on me. In just the manor I stated. Since Linux is stricter than Windwos on this ... I've sent them to windwos boxes running at a lower ram bus speed. (133 rated running at 100) There they work ok for e-mail readers. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 04:33, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 06 Jul 2003 21:38:35 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now when I do (as the same user) rpm --sign --clean -ba somerpm.spec it asks for the passphrase... I enter the same one I did during the key-gen phase.. and I get Pass phrase check failed. Unfortunately the Mdk rpm-how-to is not completly up-to-date For gpg your rpmmarcos should read %_gpg_name your_name (security) your_email Charles Charles I got part of this from another source. But one question... is the (security) a constant I should insert or do I do that literally? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:54, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have built and installed the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel three times now without error. I have also generated the initrd and run lilo with success post build. Thus far it has been impossible to bootup the kernel, however. I can bootup my stock 2.4.21-0.13mdk and -0.13mdkcustom but cannot begin to boot 2.4.21-0.18mdkcustom (same config as -0.13mdkcustom). All I get is a black/blank screen after lilo. No errors, no kernel panic message, nothing. Then, after about 2 seconds, the system reboots and this cycle will continue forever (linux default bootup of course). I cannot even start it in failsafe. At the moment I am back to 2.4.21-0.13mdkcustom until/unless I can get a working -0.18mdk build. My system is an AMD Athlon XP2700+ with MSI KT333 mobo. Mandrake 9.1 with all the pertinent updates save the kernel, of course. Anyone see this sort of thing before? Have any ideas how to get a bootup or even a kernel panic out of this? Praedor.. for whatever reason 18 doesn't like one of the 7 boxes I have MDK on (here work and otherwise) Y I don't know... but with my laptop.. + 18mdk = no sound. (I haven't done a rebuild). However 16mm flies on this box. (I really mean flies my 500mhz laptop feels like my 1ghz desktop on 18mdk) Try it.. I've built a new one with this kernel (added the ck2 patch) and it went in sweet as could be. It even is without the bug that the other MDK kernels have concerning overwriting vmlinuz. James praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite
Hi, This is a little guide I published on: First of all, mdk's 9.1 wine rpm's ARE BROKEN. Any installer fails to install, with this error: file_set_error: No such file or directory fixme:ntdll:RtlNtStatusToDosError no mapping for 0001869f I had this problem in three different machines, IMHO, the problem are the rpm's. I tried wine20030508 update from mandrake but is broken too. This time kazaa install with an error at the end, but when trying to run it it shows other errors I don't remember now. Here are the steps I followed to get Kazaa Lite 2.1 running: 0) Uninstall your current wine. 1) Download wine from http://wine.dataparty.no/ and install it. I have installed wine20030623-opengl. 2) Get the system reg found in: http://www.franksworld.net/files/wineregistry.tgz and copy it to your .wine dir. 3) Install klitekpp210b3e.exe 4) Get these dll's and copy them to your system32 dir in your fake windows installation: commctrl.dll, shdoclc.dll, shdocvw.dll, shlwapi.dll,comdlg32.dll,ole32.dll, oleaut32.dll and ntdll.dll 5) Add these lines to your config file: [AppDefaults\\KazaaLite.kpp\\DllOverrides] * = builtin, native, so commctrl = native shdoclc = native shdocvw = native shlwapi = native comdlg32 = native ole32 = native oleaut32 = native ntdll = native Some people had to add urlmon.dll to that list. NOTE: ole32, oleaut32 AND ntdll are extra dll's I found to be need with newer wine versions. Without these ones kazaa started but when I pushed any button it freezed. Also note that I didn't had to rename KazaaLite.kpp to Kazaa.exe nor to copy the TopSearch.dll, kzscan.dll and bdcore.dll libraries. 6) go to the kazaa's lite installation directoy and run it with wine kpp.exe 7) Enjoy :-) On Monday 07 July 2003 08:44 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Has anyone gotten Kazaa lite running on mandrake using wine? Kazaa documents this on their website, but the install failed. I' using the stock version of wine that came with Mandrake 9.1. Thanks Guy -- Juan Luis Baptiste M. IBM Certified Linux Scholar http://www.merlinux.org http://knetworkconf.sf.net We're back to the times when men where men and wrote their own drivers Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP printers on USB
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc, all work off the SIIG USB PCMCIA 4-port hub; but the printers will only work if connected to the laptop's builtin USB1.1 port. CUPS reports Unable to open USB device usb://hp/deskjet%205550: No such device, even after redoing the printer setup via http://localhost:631 Just moving the cable from the PCMCIA to the builtin port allows queued jobs to print. Pierre, Is it possible.. (and this is a real stab in the dark.) that the printer doesn't recognize the hub as a real USB port? So it doesn't activate. I've got an Epson that does that no matter what OS is on the other end. When I boot the box with the printer connected to the USB hub... I don't get all of the chugging and churning I normally get when it's directly connected. We got rid of the hub plugged it in directly and ... poof it works. Go figure. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Savage 4 video adapter and Xine
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 18:15, Mike Grello wrote: My motherboard has an S3 savage4 video adapter and I thought I would save a few bucks and use it. I have 32MB put aside for video memory. The adapter, first of all, won't do 24 bits at 1280x1024 (should require about 8MB), it breaks up, so I have it set for 16 bits (probably no whoop, it's just inconsistent). The big problem is that Xine freezes the entire machine when I start it up (I am thinking lack of video overlay capability on the adapter). I am using the latest Xine, installed clean (not over the Xine that came with Mandrake). Do I need to part with the cash, or is there a way around this? I looked on the S3 web site but the driver there is from 2000, so I've got to believe it won't be an improvement, unless I am missing something. thanks Mike, two things.. there where some bugs in bugzilla related to the S3 problems. I'm told but cannot verify that both 18mdk and 16mm fix them to some extent. (btw 16mm works a lot better with Xine anyway.) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] wierd probs with tape drive
Hey, I am trying to recover files off of a tape - I did a backup last night, and the machine hung at the end of the backup. So I rebooted, and now (with another tape) am trying to bring in some files I had saved previously - these had reading troubles before. I usually so far haven't had issues with the tape drive, which is an HP Surestore DAT - SCSI using an Adaptec 2910C controller. Now tar is coming back with /dev/st0: cannot allocate memory. I'm using Cooker, with: Linux m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com 2.4.21-0.1mdk #1 Wed May 7 04:38:19 CEST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Kernel issue? Please i need these files :) David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] wierd probs with tape drive
I usually so far haven't had issues with the tape drive, which is an HP Surestore DAT - SCSI using an Adaptec 2910C controller. Bad form I know but it's starting to read the files. Dunno waht happened. I reset the machine, tried 2.4.16 older kernel, couldn't even get into the drive, said no /dev/st0. Modules looked like they were there, but possibly unused. With 2.4.21.0.1mdk, it lets me start tarring from the drive but it seems pretty slow - these are .mp3 files though. I was getting read errors from the drive yesterday... Please i need these files :) David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP printers on USB
On Monday 07 July 2003 03:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc, all work off the SIIG USB PCMCIA 4-port hub; but the printers will only work if connected to the laptop's builtin USB1.1 port. CUPS reports Unable to open USB device usb://hp/deskjet%205550: No such device, even after redoing the printer setup via http://localhost:631 Just moving the cable from the PCMCIA to the builtin port allows queued jobs to print. Pierre, Is it possible.. (and this is a real stab in the dark.) that the printer doesn't recognize the hub as a real USB port? So it doesn't activate. I've got an Epson that does that no matter what OS is on the other end. When I boot the box with the printer connected to the USB hub... I don't get all of the chugging and churning I normally get when it's directly connected. We got rid of the hub plugged it in directly and ... poof it works. Go figure. James I recall reading that some external USB hubs are not powered, and therefore are only usable with passive devices. That might explain James' problem, but probably not Pierre's. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CD Burner
I believe it is/ Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 23:53, Joseph Loo wrote: I tried looking around for some information on burning CD's. I have a Plextor 12/10/32 scsi on a ultrawide scsi card. When ever I try to burn a cd on the burenr, I can only get reliable burns if the write speed is set as 3x on gnome toaster. If I try to do anything faster than that 4, 6, etc. the system loks like it it burning the CD correctly. If I try to read it, the system does not recognize it as a valid cd. I am using the standard defaults with gnome-toaster except for the speed. Also how do you make a copy of a cd with gnome toaster? Is this a Plextor Model Number PX-W1210S ? --LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Joseph Loo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Partition resize...
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 22:18, John McQuillen wrote: Hi everyone, I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a larger hard drive. I created partitions on the new drive with larger sizes to fill the new drive, then cloned the partitions from the old drive one at a time with Norton Ghost. After recreating the boot loader from the rescue disk, my system has booted and everything works A-OK. The only problem is that although Diskdrake shows the new partitions at the new sizes, df still reports the old sizes and free space. It appears that the file systems have not grown to fit the new partitions. Is there anything that I can do to fix this, or do I have to start again? Ok, since no-one here seems to know the answer to this, I posted to another forum (SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group) and got the answer which was to use resize_reiserfs (in my case) to resize the file system to the partition size. I had to boot to the rescue disk after copying resize_reiserfs to a floppy, as I discovered it is not on the rescue disk :( and run resize_reiserfs /dev/hdax for each of the partitions [1,6,7,8] that required resizing. You learn something new every day! :) Cheers, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
