Re: [expert] Partition resize...
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 01:34, John McQuillen wrote: 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... John, it seems that you were the only one qualified enough to answer your own question. :D --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
[expert] Wireless network - wlan0: No such device
I am trying (still) to get a Belkin F5D6020 wireless adapter to work under Linux. PCMCIA recognizes the card when I plug it in. Using the prism2_cs driver, 'ifconfig -a' shows a wlan0 device, with no HWaddr or IP address. Running ifup wlan0 reports the error 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device'. Am I using the wrong driver? Missing an option? Something else entirely? What I've tried: (1) Using the orinoco_cs driver. No network devices ever appear for 'ifconfig -a'. (2) 'ip link set wlan0 up' returns the same error message as 'ifup wlan0'. (3) Added 'alias wlan0 prism2_cs' to /etc/modules.config. It had no discernible effect. (4) Calls to iwconfig fail, saying there is no device wlan0. (5) Google for SCIOCSIFFLAGS prosm2_cs and SCIOCSIFFLAGS belkin turned up no useful information. (6) 'lsmod' reports that prism2_cs is loaded. Hardware: Toshiba Libretto 50CT Belkin F5D6020 wireless PCMCIA (not CardBus) adapter -- Robert W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. -- Revelations 21:6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wireless network - wlan0: No such device
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 22:15, Robert W. wrote: I am trying (still) to get a Belkin F5D6020 wireless adapter to work under Linux. PCMCIA recognizes the card when I plug it in. Using the prism2_cs driver, 'ifconfig -a' shows a wlan0 device, with no HWaddr or IP address. Running ifup wlan0 reports the error 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device'. Am I using the wrong driver? Missing an option? Something else entirely? What I've tried: (1) Using the orinoco_cs driver. No network devices ever appear for 'ifconfig -a'. (2) 'ip link set wlan0 up' returns the same error message as 'ifup wlan0'. (3) Added 'alias wlan0 prism2_cs' to /etc/modules.config. It had no discernible effect. (4) Calls to iwconfig fail, saying there is no device wlan0. (5) Google for SCIOCSIFFLAGS prosm2_cs and SCIOCSIFFLAGS belkin turned up no useful information. (6) 'lsmod' reports that prism2_cs is loaded. Hardware: Toshiba Libretto 50CT Belkin F5D6020 wireless PCMCIA (not CardBus) adapter Robert, In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts does the file ifcfg-wlan0 exist? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP printers on USB
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 4:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: 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 Ah well, rather annoyingly when I was having this problem a month or two back I was connecting to the USB port on the pc. I never did resolve the problem - which was that the printer would freeze the whole m/c. It is now connected via a USB hub, W2k and samba :o( regards Daryl 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 -- A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension. -- Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Wireless network - wlan0: No such device
Robert W. wrote: I am trying (still) to get a Belkin F5D6020 wireless adapter to work under Linux. PCMCIA recognizes the card when I plug it in. Using the prism2_cs driver, 'ifconfig -a' shows a wlan0 device, with no HWaddr or IP address. Running ifup wlan0 reports the error 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device'. Am I using the wrong driver? Missing an option? Something else entirely? What I've tried: (1) Using the orinoco_cs driver. No network devices ever appear for 'ifconfig -a'. (2) 'ip link set wlan0 up' returns the same error message as 'ifup wlan0'. (3) Added 'alias wlan0 prism2_cs' to /etc/modules.config. It had no discernible effect. (4) Calls to iwconfig fail, saying there is no device wlan0. (5) Google for SCIOCSIFFLAGS prosm2_cs and SCIOCSIFFLAGS belkin turned up no useful information. (6) 'lsmod' reports that prism2_cs is loaded. Hardware: Toshiba Libretto 50CT Belkin F5D6020 wireless PCMCIA (not CardBus) adapter I had my own problems with a netgear wireless pcmcia on my sony vaio. in my case the module that was loaded automatically was the orinoco_cs this is how I eventually solved the problem : 1) I removed the acpi=off parameter from my LILO config (I suggest that you add an experimental LILO config ...) 2) using the TEXT based linuxconf tool, there I found I could specify module (orinoco_cs) and IRQ for the eth1 adapter (I entered the IRQ in use when using windows) now both eth0 and eth1 are avaialble at boot time and I'm happy with my Mdk9.1 Edoardo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets
Hmm I had the same problem with a davicom card.. changed the network card to a realtek and problem was gone.. I know that a lot of people will think that the realtek cards ain't very good, but over the last few year I have found them very reliable. Cheers Mark On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 05:47, Frederic Soulier wrote: 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. -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP printers on USB
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 4:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: 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 I use a powered external hub with my DeskJet 990Cxi, and Mdk finds it and prints without problem. Windows, however, will not install the printer if it is on the hub. I have to plug in to a direct port to install, after which it prints from the hub - which only proves that usb is an utter mystery:-( Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite
On Monday 07 Jul 2003 10:43 pm, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: Hi, This is a little guide I published on: long snip Juan Luis, I think this would be of interest to many people. Would you consider putting it onto the TWiki pages? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP printers on USB
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 23:57:46 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 Yikes! During testing, the power connector had fallen out of the PCMCIA adapter (where's my epoxy..?); but that is not my problem since I've rechecked... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Using Postfix with no network.
Hi, I use Postfix to deliver my mail from mutt on my laptop running Mandrake 9.1. Sometimes I would like to compose mail while offline and have postfix queue it and deliver it when I'm back online. When I try to send mail mutt tells me there's no sendmail/network available. and I can't have the email queued. Is there a way to set Postfix to accept the email and then deliver it when I'm back online transparently? I wold not like for Postfix to bounce the mail back to me either. This may be a question for postfix/mutt mailing lists, but since Potfix is the default MTA on Mandrake I thought I might get help here. TIA for help and/or pointers. -- //Christian Registered Linux User #228949 at: http://counter.li.org/ -- What if it all means something? -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.
On 07 Jul 2003 12:36:37 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? Yes you list it as a constant Your_name (security) Your_email If you use a GUI program such as seahorse you can easily see that you have more than one key. You have a public and a secure. If you do not list which to use in your rpmmarcos you will always get the failed pass phrase. Charles -- It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. -- Cervantes - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21.3mdk http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Using Postfix with no network.
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:00:03 -0500 Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use Postfix to deliver my mail from mutt on my laptop running Mandrake 9.1. Sometimes I would like to compose mail while offline and have postfix queue it and deliver it when I'm back online. When I try to send mail mutt tells me there's no sendmail/network available. and I can't have the email queued. Is there a way to set Postfix to accept the email and then deliver it when I'm back online transparently? I wold not like for Postfix to bounce the mail back to me either. I never used mutt; but most mailers have a Send Later option... wouldn't that be less resource intensive than running postfix just to queue messages while offline...? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla disappears trying to Print Email
I've been using Mozilla Mail under LM9.0 for some time and it has been printing email w/no problem. A day or two ago Mozilla started to disappear every time I try to print email. This happens under KDE, Gnome and IceWM. Other programs print with no problem. I've found that the print problem is only with *my* email. Web pages print ok for me, and Everything prints ok for other users on the same box. (Puzzler ! ) Anyone have a clue as to what's happening and how to correct it? Much thanks, Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?
I'm using a 9.1 system. I'm trying to install the mplayerplugin rpm. However, everytime I go to install, it complains about a conflict with the mozplugger package. Hey, I've got my config files setup so that the two can co-exist. So, looking at the man page I see that I can pass the rpm options of --force and --nodeps by using the --allow-force and --allow-nodeps of urpmi. urpmi --allow-force --allow-nodeps mozplayerplugin still wants to remove the mozplugger package. Is the man page wrong, urpmi broken or am I doing something wrong? --Jerry -- Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP printers on USB
On 07 Jul 2003 12:49:05 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Sounds plausible... though anyone without a USB port on a laptop would need a PCMCIA hub -- only to have a printer that doesn't work with it... Never looked into it; but the line 2650 error is always there... even with no devices or USB/PCMCIA plugged in; only the builtin USB port... The timeouts have always been there with no apparent impact; though when the printer is not connected or does not work, those lines are not there... so I suspect they are from the printer -- confirmed with only printer connected to builtin. BTW, the builtin is UHCI: # lsusb -v | grep i Invalid product/subclass spec at line 2650 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB UHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 1860 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 and the PCMCIA appears as two OHCI hubs on a PCI hub... # lsusb -v | grep i Invalid product/subclass spec at line 2650 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 3 Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk ehci-hcd iProduct2 PCI device 1033:00e0 iSerial 1 02:00.2 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB OHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 e08b1000 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB OHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 e086c000 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 ### builtin... idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB UHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 1860 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 Here is the full dump... [Actually, the original msg with full dump fails to end with a FIN, so I've truncated it to give the gist of the problem for now...] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ADSL PPPoE modems/routers : advices ?
Hi everyone. I am looking for an ADSL PPPoE modem/router. Can some people do suggestions ? I was looking to the web, netgear seems to be nice (G814) but seems to have a lot of problems of synchronisation. The Efficient 5400/5500 has good review though, and an integrated firewall. Have you some good/bad experiences to share ? Thanks Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Monday July 7 2003 02:32 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: 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. Oh for sure I agree. Any hardware needs to be investigated at anticipated purchase time, not prior history. Hence my interest in Lite-On's 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 Thanks for the concise summary of current burners. I agree also, given better quality hardware, I'd spend the extra bucks. Savings in the long run. Unfortunately many brand names
Re: [expert] Mozilla disappears trying to Print Email
Bob Read wrote: I've been using Mozilla Mail under LM9.0 for some time and it has been printing email w/no problem. A day or two ago Mozilla started to disappear every time I try to print email. This happens under KDE, Gnome and IceWM. Other programs print with no problem. I've found that the print problem is only with *my* email. Web pages print ok for me, and Everything prints ok for other users on the same box. (Puzzler ! ) Anyone have a clue as to what's happening and how to correct it? Much thanks, Bob I've had such a problem for *sending* mail and tracked down a bugzilla report that seemed related: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168516 Deleting the XUL.mfasl file (it gets regenerated and continues to grow in size) in my profile under .mozilla worked for this and is the first thing I try for other mozilla crashes. Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Monday July 7 2003 01:44 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: 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. A 700 mb CDr has two sizes. 80 minutes, and 700mb. Only time minutes is important is audio images. I often burn way over 800 mb's of wav's to a CDr, but the time needs to be just under 80 minutes of playing time to make the CDr stable on cheap junk CD players. Movies OTOH don't go by minutes, they need to fit 'data wise' in MB's on a CDr. Guess I'll just keep re-encoding the 'too big' ones ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] rsh and passwd:
Hi List, With MDK 9.1 in two boxex, when using rsh I'm prompted to passwd:, i.e., it's not rlogin automatically (after set .rhosts etc.). During installation I set security HIGH, could it be the source of this issue? I need rsh to run lam-mpi. Any help here would be welcome. Cheers, -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Kernel Problems
Hello, I have a problem building a 2.4.21 Kernel. I use the sources of kernel.org with the supermountng patch and the preempt patch but I have tried with and without the patches. The problem stayes the same : 1. the partition check of hdb fails. That is my ide zip-drive. 2. the read/write remount of the / filesystem fails. And that makes booting impossible. At the moment I use the 2.4.20 kernel build of the sources from kernel.org. I have tried the same configuration with the new kernel. The problem stayes the same even with the new pre-patches for 2.4.22. If anybody has build a working kernel of the vanilla sources I would ask for the configuration he has used. I hope somebody has experience with a working 2.4.21 kernel because I am running out of ideas. Greetings Sven Lösekann Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:09 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: A 700 mb CDr has two sizes. 80 minutes, and 700mb. Only time minutes is important is audio images. I often burn way over 800 mb's of wav's to a CDr, but the time needs to be just under 80 minutes of playing time to make the CDr stable on cheap junk CD players. Movies OTOH don't go by minutes, they need to fit 'data wise' in MB's on a CDr. Guess I'll just keep re-encoding the 'too big' ones ;) Talked to him. :-) He said they were 700s jammed full. Guess thats why my fairly new Toshiba DVD drive would not read them, but my Plextor CDRW would. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:04 am, Jerry A! wrote: Is the man page wrong, urpmi broken or am I doing something wrong? --Jerry Jerry, here I just use those commands with urpmi like I did with rpm. In other words: urpmi --force --nodeps filename IIRC. If not, just use rpm --force --nodeps filename. It will still work, as far as I know. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:09 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: A 700 mb CDr has two sizes. 80 minutes, and 700mb. Only time minutes is important is audio images. I often burn way over 800 mb's of wav's to a CDr, but the time needs to be just under 80 minutes of playing time to make the CDr stable on cheap junk CD players. Movies OTOH don't go by minutes, they need to fit 'data wise' in MB's on a CDr. Guess I'll just keep re-encoding the 'too big' ones ;) Talked to him. :-) He said they were 700s jammed full. Guess thats why my fairly new Toshiba DVD drive would not read them, but my Plextor CDRW would. There have been some Toshiba firmware updates addressing media support; you probably would be served best if you made sure the drive was flashed with the latest firmware. I've got a link I'll send you that also includes region free firmware updates. ;) --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] HP printers on USB
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 04:13, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 4:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: 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 I use a powered external hub with my DeskJet 990Cxi, and Mdk finds it and prints without problem. Windows, however, will not install the printer if it is on the hub. I have to plug in to a direct port to install, after which it prints from the hub - which only proves that usb is an utter mystery:-( Anne Anne have similar fun with MDK and my optical mouse via kvm With MDK I have to directly connect the mouse during install. After that it only loses it sometimes... James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Radeon 9200
The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video input. I took it back to the vendor, who said they didn't have one that I could use (I want to attach my camcorder), and suggested changing my graphics card to a Radeon 9200 Atlantis. He said that one of their employees had said that he had used this card with linux - but I have looked at the ATi site and there is no linux driver for this model. Is anyone using it? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:04, Jerry A! wrote: I'm using a 9.1 system. I'm trying to install the mplayerplugin rpm. However, everytime I go to install, it complains about a conflict with the mozplugger package. Hey, I've got my config files setup so that the two can co-exist. So, looking at the man page I see that I can pass the rpm options of --force and --nodeps by using the --allow-force and --allow-nodeps of urpmi. urpmi --allow-force --allow-nodeps mozplayerplugin still wants to remove the mozplugger package. Is the man page wrong, urpmi broken or am I doing something wrong? --Jerry Your not doing something wrong.. the conflict is apparently coded into the mplayer and mozplugger rpms. Usually this is done because they share a filename... but not content. It's possible you could download the smaller of the two src rpms. Then edit the spec file for it and install that way. I've got mplayer on my box and I'm not missing mozplugger myself... but that's just me. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 05:59, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 07 Jul 2003 12:36:37 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? Yes you list it as a constant Your_name (security) Your_email If you use a GUI program such as seahorse you can easily see that you have more than one key. You have a public and a secure. If you do not list which to use in your rpmmarcos you will always get the failed pass phrase. I'll check out seahorse, and it makes sense... I sign with secret, check with public. K will try this I'd love to get this product into contribs for 9.2 (kyim a yahoo messenger client that works) James Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP printers on USB
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 06:48, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 07 Jul 2003 12:49:05 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Sounds plausible... though anyone without a USB port on a laptop would need a PCMCIA hub -- only to have a printer that doesn't work with it... Never looked into it; but the line 2650 error is always there... even with no devices or USB/PCMCIA plugged in; only the builtin USB port... The timeouts have always been there with no apparent impact; though when the printer is not connected or does not work, those lines are not there... so I suspect they are from the printer -- confirmed with only printer connected to builtin. BTW, the builtin is UHCI: # lsusb -v | grep i Invalid product/subclass spec at line 2650 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB UHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 1860 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 and the PCMCIA appears as two OHCI hubs on a PCI hub... # lsusb -v | grep i Invalid product/subclass spec at line 2650 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 3 Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk ehci-hcd iProduct2 PCI device 1033:00e0 iSerial 1 02:00.2 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB OHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 e08b1000 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB OHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 e086c000 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 ### builtin... idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB UHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 1860 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 Here is the full dump... [Actually, the original msg with full dump fails to end with a FIN, so I've truncated it to give the gist of the problem for now...] I wonder if the problem comes when both pcmcia and hotplug are trying to manage the same device? However I still feel that since other devices work and only the printer doesn't it's a problem with the printer not acknowledging the device rather than MDK not acknowledging the device. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets
Hi Well I do not think it's a pbm with the network cards because I have 2 boxes with LM9.1 and 1 box with LM9.0 using the same type of card and they all show the same pbm. Also these Dell 4100 workstation come pre-installed with W2K and I don't have this pbm under Windows... What would be the best way to investigate this pbm? Thanks. /Frederic From: Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets Date: 08 Jul 2003 18:43:22 +1000 Hmm I had the same problem with a davicom card.. changed the network card to a realtek and problem was gone.. I know that a lot of people will think that the realtek cards ain't very good, but over the last few year I have found them very reliable. Cheers Mark On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 05:47, Frederic Soulier wrote: 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. -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials -- Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla disappears trying to Print Email
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:30, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Bob Read wrote: I've been using Mozilla Mail under LM9.0 for some time and it has been printing email w/no problem. A day or two ago Mozilla started to disappear every time I try to print email. This happens under KDE, Gnome and IceWM. Other programs print with no problem. I've found that the print problem is only with *my* email. Web pages print ok for me, and Everything prints ok for other users on the same box. (Puzzler ! ) Anyone have a clue as to what's happening and how to correct it? Much thanks, Bob I've had such a problem for *sending* mail and tracked down a bugzilla report that seemed related: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168516 Deleting the XUL.mfasl file (it gets regenerated and continues to grow in size) in my profile under .mozilla worked for this and is the first thing I try for other mozilla crashes. Rolf Just for fun I checked this file on one of my boxes... It had grown to over 5 megs... removed it... restarted mozilla. It's now 700k James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] ADSL PPPoE modems/routers : advices ?
I have a dlink DSL504 and I have to say, its very nice. I have flashed the latest firmware on it and the web interface is very nice, as an added benefit, it has a serial point, with witch i can connect my linux box and script commands to the router where necessary. Has the firewall, VPN passthrough, port forwarding and a ton of other stuff I have yet to work out.. plus its dirt cheap. rgds Franki htmlfixit.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, 8 July 2003 9:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] ADSL PPPoE modems/routers : advices ? Hi everyone. I am looking for an ADSL PPPoE modem/router. Can some people do suggestions ? I was looking to the web, netgear seems to be nice (G814) but seems to have a lot of problems of synchronisation. The Efficient 5400/5500 has good review though, and an integrated firewall. Have you some good/bad experiences to share ? Thanks Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets
Viestissä Tiistai 8. Heinäkuuta 2003 22:50, Frederic Soulier kirjoitti: Hi Well I do not think it's a pbm with the network cards because I have 2 boxes with LM9.1 and 1 box with LM9.0 using the same type of card and they all show the same pbm. Also these Dell 4100 workstation come pre-installed with W2K and I don't have this pbm under Windows... What would be the best way to investigate this pbm? Thanks. /Frederic What card? Name? what module does it use? could you post the output of lspcidrake -v Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:54:02PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: : On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:04, Jerry A! wrote: : I'm using a 9.1 system. I'm trying to install the mplayerplugin rpm. : However, everytime I go to install, it complains about a conflict with : the mozplugger package. : : Hey, I've got my config files setup so that the two can co-exist. So, : looking at the man page I see that I can pass the rpm options of : --force and --nodeps by using the --allow-force and : --allow-nodeps of urpmi. : : urpmi --allow-force --allow-nodeps mozplayerplugin still wants to : remove the mozplugger package. : : Is the man page wrong, urpmi broken or am I doing something wrong? : : --Jerry : : Your not doing something wrong.. the conflict is apparently coded into : the mplayer and mozplugger rpms. Usually this is done because they : share a filename... but not content. It's possible you could download : the smaller of the two src rpms. Then edit the spec file for it and : install that way. I've got mplayer on my box and I'm not missing : mozplugger myself... but that's just me. The conflict comes from the fact that both the default setups for mozplugger and mplayerplugin control the various video/* mime-types. Regardless, I can download either of the two rpms and install it via rpm --nodeps rpm and everything is all cool. I'm curious as to why --allow-force/nodeps isn't being passed to rpm by urpmi. --Jerry -- Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets
(from lspci -v) 02:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 31) Subsystem: Unknown device 4554:434e Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at d400 [size=256] Memory at ff9fec00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at ff98 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 It uses the tulip module. tulip 44032 1 (autoclean) I've seen a few posts mentioning using the module dmfe instead of tulip. I will give that a go. /Fred On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 21:47, Thomas Backlund wrote: Viestissä Tiistai 8. Heinäkuuta 2003 22:50, Frederic Soulier kirjoitti: Hi Well I do not think it's a pbm with the network cards because I have 2 boxes with LM9.1 and 1 box with LM9.0 using the same type of card and they all show the same pbm. Also these Dell 4100 workstation come pre-installed with W2K and I don't have this pbm under Windows... What would be the best way to investigate this pbm? Thanks. /Frederic What card? Name? what module does it use? could you post the output of lspcidrake -v Regards Thomas __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel Problems
Sven, Here's an idea. Make sure you have this set in make xconfig when you compile: # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y and then under # SCSI low-level drivers check these lines: # CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_EPP16 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_SLOW_CTR is not set I don't have a zip drive, so I didn't set mine when I did xconfig. You should at least set them for modules. I've never had a zip drive, so I don't know if they need to be in the kernel, or not. Also check the file systems section and see if anything looks amiss that would affect zip drives, or anything else. I can send you a copy of my .config file that works fine with 2.4.21 and the ck patces, if you like. You would need to load it into xconfig, and the edit it to suit your hardware, save, and then dep, clean, bzImage, modules, modules_install. I've found manually copying bzImage and System map to /boot works better than make install. In my case, I don't use an initrd on non-MDK kernels. Robert Crawford. On Tuesday 08 July 2003 02:23 pm, Sven L. wrote: Hello, I have a problem building a 2.4.21 Kernel. I use the sources of kernel.org with the supermountng patch and the preempt patch but I have tried with and without the patches. The problem stayes the same : 1. the partition check of hdb fails. That is my ide zip-drive. 2. the read/write remount of the / filesystem fails. And that makes booting impossible. At the moment I use the 2.4.20 kernel build of the sources from kernel.org. I have tried the same configuration with the new kernel. The problem stayes the same even with the new pre-patches for 2.4.22. If anybody has build a working kernel of the vanilla sources I would ask for the configuration he has used. I hope somebody has experience with a working 2.4.21 kernel because I am running out of ideas. Greetings Sven Lösekann Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 13:52, Jerry A! wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:54:02PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: : On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:04, Jerry A! wrote: : I'm using a 9.1 system. I'm trying to install the mplayerplugin rpm. : However, everytime I go to install, it complains about a conflict with : the mozplugger package. : : Hey, I've got my config files setup so that the two can co-exist. So, : looking at the man page I see that I can pass the rpm options of : --force and --nodeps by using the --allow-force and : --allow-nodeps of urpmi. : : urpmi --allow-force --allow-nodeps mozplayerplugin still wants to : remove the mozplugger package. : : Is the man page wrong, urpmi broken or am I doing something wrong? : : --Jerry : : Your not doing something wrong.. the conflict is apparently coded into : the mplayer and mozplugger rpms. Usually this is done because they : share a filename... but not content. It's possible you could download : the smaller of the two src rpms. Then edit the spec file for it and : install that way. I've got mplayer on my box and I'm not missing : mozplugger myself... but that's just me. The conflict comes from the fact that both the default setups for mozplugger and mplayerplugin control the various video/* mime-types. Regardless, I can download either of the two rpms and install it via rpm --nodeps rpm and everything is all cool. I'm curious as to why --allow-force/nodeps isn't being passed to rpm by urpmi. --Jerry It's my understanding that when a Conflicts parameter is set in the rpm spec file it overides the force / nodeps. Doing this you could theoretically do a conflicts between say KDE and Gnome and you would only be able to install one. I'll have to check out MaximumRPM to verify my info is current but AFAIK I am. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.
James, I think MOTD is an excellent suggestion. I guess it would work somewhat like a random sig generator, in that respect. I don't really need to do it with X- I always boot to a text login. I would probably have considered MOTD, if there were no one to ask. PITA that I am, I tend to wonder if there is a MDK way for this type of thing. Of course I now have the problem of understanding the LFS hint. I will get there in the end and be a lot wiser, i'm sure. No help please. Unless I come back begging :) Also, I'm still wondering if anyone knows about showing asterisks for the password. My daughter keeps asking why we can't have asterisks to show how many characters have been typed. I quite like the asterisks too. Sorry to have hijacked this thread, BTW. Hoping you-all will want to show how knowledge of time present relates to time past ;-) Respect! Janet Blankfield - hoping she isn't trying to blend various distros into a grey goo! The ideal love affair is one conducted by post. JBS - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... life's a beach ... - On 06 Jul 2003 20:49:30 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 20:29, Jack Coates wrote: X or no? you can just put it at the end of .bashrc, but you'll break less and probably some other stuff :-). If you want it when you login to X, look for a fortune-shower for your favorite DE (say http://gfort.sourceforge.net/) and put a link to it in ~/Desktop/Autostart. Actually I've seen it at the end of /etc/motd. (man motd for absolutely no help what-so-ever *grin*) Here is the info on how the Linux-from-itch people do it... might help. http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002/06/0015.html James On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 19:44, kiosk wrote: Robert - I'm not in a hurry. I'm not a hardcore gamer. I like the traditional ways of wasting time, like fortune - for me, fortune has always been one of the main attractions of linux. My slackware installation on my old box gives me a fortune every time I log on. With MDK I have to run it. I need to work out which script I need to modify in MDK in order to have fortune acknowledge my logging on. I also need to find out how to get asterisks for passwords. In slackware it was explained in a comment in some file or other. So little time - so much to do! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 17:40, kiosk wrote: James, I think MOTD is an excellent suggestion. I guess it would work somewhat like a random sig generator, in that respect. I don't really need to do it with X- I always boot to a text login. I would probably have considered MOTD, if there were no one to ask. PITA that I am, I tend to wonder if there is a MDK way for this type of thing. Of course I now have the problem of understanding the LFS hint. I will get there in the end and be a lot wiser, i'm sure. No help please. Unless I come back begging :) Also, I'm still wondering if anyone knows about showing asterisks for the password. My daughter keeps asking why we can't have asterisks to show how many characters have been typed. I quite like the asterisks too. in a text login or in kdm? Sorry to have hijacked this thread, BTW. Hoping you-all will want to show how knowledge of time present relates to time past ;-) Respect! Janet Blankfield - hoping she isn't trying to blend various distros into a grey goo! The ideal love affair is one conducted by post. JBS - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... life's a beach ... - On 06 Jul 2003 20:49:30 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 20:29, Jack Coates wrote: X or no? you can just put it at the end of .bashrc, but you'll break less and probably some other stuff :-). If you want it when you login to X, look for a fortune-shower for your favorite DE (say http://gfort.sourceforge.net/) and put a link to it in ~/Desktop/Autostart. Actually I've seen it at the end of /etc/motd. (man motd for absolutely no help what-so-ever *grin*) Here is the info on how the Linux-from-itch people do it... might help. http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002/06/0015.html James On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 19:44, kiosk wrote: Robert - I'm not in a hurry. I'm not a hardcore gamer. I like the traditional ways of wasting time, like fortune - for me, fortune has always been one of the main attractions of linux. My slackware installation on my old box gives me a fortune every time I log on. With MDK I have to run it. I need to work out which script I need to modify in MDK in order to have fortune acknowledge my logging on. I also need to find out how to get asterisks for passwords. In slackware it was explained in a comment in some file or other. So little time - so much to do! __ 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] ntp error
ntpd is not configured for general use 'out of the box'. Its default configuration assumes that you have a timeserver on your local network, whcih is on subnet 224.0.1.1. The documentation good - read it. You have to choose some time servers on the internet, and add entries for them in /etc/ntp.conf. Comment out the lines with multicastclient and broadcastdelay. On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:16 pm, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, I notice that ntp on 9.1 is not synchronizing. I did a more /var/log/messages | grep ntp, and got the following. Jul 8 16:19:48 www ntpd: ntpd shutdown succeeded Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpdate[1000]: no server suitable for synchronization found Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 7 02:44:50 EDT 2002 (1) Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: precision = 17 usec Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: kernel time discipline status 0040 Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: frequency initialized -5.714 from /etc/ntp/drift Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: bind() fd 8, family 2, port 123, addr 224.0.1.1, in_classd=1 flags=0 fails: Address already in use Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: ...multicast address 224.0.1.1 using wildcard socket Jul 8 16:25:02 www ntpd[1017]: kernel time discipline status change 41 Does this mean the ntp server that I'm trying to sync is not replying? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ntp error
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 20:42, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: ntpd is not configured for general use 'out of the box'. Its default configuration assumes that you have a timeserver on your local network, whcih is on subnet 224.0.1.1. The documentation good - read it. You have to choose some time servers on the internet, and add entries for them in /etc/ntp.conf. Comment out the lines with multicastclient and broadcastdelay. Cheaters way to configure it. If you have the wizards installed. (urpmi wizards will get it.) It will give you a new icon on the left called Server Configuration. Chose Time Wizard from the list (it's at the bottom scroll down.) and it will give you a list of working time servers... and set things up to a working condition. James On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:16 pm, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, I notice that ntp on 9.1 is not synchronizing. I did a more /var/log/messages | grep ntp, and got the following. Jul 8 16:19:48 www ntpd: ntpd shutdown succeeded Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpdate[1000]: no server suitable for synchronization found Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 7 02:44:50 EDT 2002 (1) Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: precision = 17 usec Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: kernel time discipline status 0040 Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: frequency initialized -5.714 from /etc/ntp/drift Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: bind() fd 8, family 2, port 123, addr 224.0.1.1, in_classd=1 flags=0 fails: Address already in use Jul 8 16:21:49 www ntpd[1017]: ...multicast address 224.0.1.1 using wildcard socket Jul 8 16:25:02 www ntpd[1017]: kernel time discipline status change 41 Does this mean the ntp server that I'm trying to sync is not replying? Regards, Norman __ 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, It is now published in http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome in the howto's section . You can also find it in: http://www.merlinux.org/merfaq/kazaalite2.1_english.html Question: Why I don't get any of my reply posts to the list, only when someone else reply to one of my posts? it's very annoying, could be a problem of my mail account? Cheers, Juan Luis On Tuesday 08 July 2003 11:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Juan Luis, I think this would be of interest to many people. Would you consider putting it onto the TWiki pages? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome -- 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] Radeon 9200
I use Radeon All-In-Wonder with all functions available. you need to use Gatos project drivers to get everything working. http://gatos.sf.net/ On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:34, Anne Wilson wrote: The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video input. I took it back to the vendor, who said they didn't have one that I could use (I want to attach my camcorder), and suggested changing my graphics card to a Radeon 9200 Atlantis. He said that one of their employees had said that he had used this card with linux - but I have looked at the ATi site and there is no linux driver for this model. Is anyone using it? Anne __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Seppo Jarvinen,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Never trust an operating system Kenttäkatu 9 A 2,76100 PIEKSÄMÄKI you don't have sources for. GSM +358 40 568 1756 You never know what you're facing Power the World, With Linux! unless you dare to LOOK AT IT. Technology lies on the leading edge Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs
**From:* Roger Ellison * *Subject:* [expert] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs * *Date:* 6 Jul 2003 21:03:58 - I just got a Compaq Presario 2500. The 9.1 install hangs in the graphical installer with the following on the screen: 'installing driver for bus/firewire card Texas Instruments|TSB43AB21 iEEE-1394 controller (PHY/Link) 1394a-2000' The 1394 is builtin and can't be disabled in BIOS. Is there a workaround; such, as a kernel parameter which'll disable loading of the driver? Thanks Roger Try the linux noauto to bypass the hardware detection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. First, I installed the MDK multimedia kernel kernel-source rpms in the usual manner. Then I copied the resulting source directory placed in /usr/src to my kernels directory in ~/home. Then copy the .config file to another location, go to a console, cd to linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk and do make mrproper. Then go into the above mentioned Makefile, and comment out the current MK7 flags, and add the new flags stanza, like shown below. --- #ifdef CONFIG_MK7 #CFLAGS += $(shell if $(CC) -march=athlon -S -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null /dev/null 21; then echo -march=athlon; else echo -march=i686 -malign-functions=4; fi) #endif ifdef CONFIG_MK7 CFLAGS += -march=athlon-xp -falign-functions=16 -falign-labels=1 -falign-loops=16 -falign-jumps=16 -mfpmath=sse -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fprefetch-loop-arrays endif The =16 values set things to corelate precisely with the athlon-xp's design parameters, which I would think are pretty important. This is said to allow the on-die cache to be fully utilized and filled with 16 byte segments. Then do make xconfig, and import the config file you copied before, and do any editing needed. (In my case, I removed some 3rd party stuff that caused depmod errors for modules concerning ethernet cards etc. not found when rebooting, but it does no harm.) Save the config file, edit the main extra version Makefile (not the one you put flags in) like below: VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 21 EXTRAVERSION = -0.16mmxp Then do the usual: make dep make clean make bzImage make modules su to root make modules_install You will get a warning in make modules (among a few other minor ones) as shown here: cc1: warning: -fprefetch-loop-arrays is not supported with -Os This only occurs in one small section where -Os apparently takes over, and does no harm AFAIK. -Os then releases, and -fprefetch-loop-arrays comes right back. (Can anybody explain this?) As long as you get done with no actual errors and compile bail outs, you are OK. I don't do the usual make install, but manually copy bzImage and System.map to /boot, adding the kernel name-version, like below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk]# cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.21-0.16mmxp [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk]# cd /home/wrc1944/kernels/linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# cp bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.4.21-0.16mmxp Then edit lilo, adding the stanza for the new xp optimized mm kernel, omitting the initrd line: image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.21-0.16mmxp label=2421mmXP root=/dev/hda10 append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet vga=788 read-only Save, run lilo, and then reboot. I don't think I left anything out. wrc1944 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
What kind of speed difference are you seeing between the xp-optimization and the stock kernel? On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 01:36, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. First, I installed the MDK multimedia kernel kernel-source rpms in the usual manner. Then I copied the resulting source directory placed in /usr/src to my kernels directory in ~/home. Then copy the .config file to another location, go to a console, cd to linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk and do make mrproper. Then go into the above mentioned Makefile, and comment out the current MK7 flags, and add the new flags stanza, like shown below. --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
