[expert] How to configure fax4cups?
Hi All I have spent some reasonable time both trying and reading and cannot get fax4cups working for my hylafax install. Current status MDK 91 Hylafax works 100% from such as KDEprintfax and sendfax etc CUPS works fine with my HPLJ2100 The CUPS web interface also works fine So everything looks good to use fax4cups I have tried the mdk version on the install CD and the website tarball and followed the installation procedure, BUT When you try to create a printer with URI of hylafax:/local as per installation info I get a client-error-not-possible message, which I think means it cannot recognise the hylafax backend, anyone have clue what else I need to do to get it working? Thanks Peter Peter Stokes Ashlyn Computer Services Ltd Tel: +44 (0)1636-627900 Mbl: +44 (0)7977-532320 Fax: +44 (0)1636-627909 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DVI graphics card work with Mandrake?
Hi Mate, if you don't want to do Basic I'd-Stuff - take a Matrox card. You can even get with 2 and up to 4 DVI Connectors. And for 2D - the XFree-Drivers work just fine. For 3D - you need to take closed source drivers - as for ATV/Nvidia. One advantage of the Matrox cards - they have much better Ramdac's - e.g. the Image quality is way better than on the others (I know what I'm talking about - I have all 3 Type of cards here...). Cheers Joerg On Friday 18 July 2003 00:58, Bryan Whitehead wrote: I'm looking for a graphics card that will work out of the box with mandrake 9.1. In otherwords, I don't want to download some binary driver, or rebuild X, or do some weird kernel hack The cards I've been looking at are these: ATI Radeon VE VGA and DVI ATI FIRE GL X1 1-2 VGA and DVI nVidia QuadroFX 500 VGA and DVI nVidia QuadroFX 1000 VGA and DVI nVidia Quadro NVS 280 VGA and DVI The card will be driving a 20 flatpanel UltraSharp 2000FP from Dell. I don't really have a problem with hacking the XF86Config-4 file, but I don't like having to hack in external drivers... Do any of these cards have opensource/xfree drivers that ship with mandrake that are good enough ? BTW, They do not need todo fancy 3D/OpenGL, all the apps will be basic 2D stuff... -- I know on which side my bread is buttered. -- John Heywood | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt1)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Alt2)| | Web: http://www.solsys.org: Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | PGP Fingerprint: AF0F FB75 997B 025F 4538 5AD6 9888 5D97 170B 8B7A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel
Has anybody else tried to recompile the new Mandrake 9.1 kernel. I am trying to apply the win4lin patches and recompile it for Athlon and make xconfig is dumping out with: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) if [ -f .need_mrproper ]; then \ rm .need_mrproper; \ make mrproper; \ make preconfig; \ fi make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.18mdk/scripts' cat header.tk ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse ../arch/i386/config.in kconfig.tk drivers/net/Config.in: 193: unknown command make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.18mdk/scripts' make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 Can anybody confirm this, or is it just me? -- Greg Hi, I'm not strictly speaking an expert, but currently have the same problem, but with an interesting twist. Firstly installed linux with the default mandrake selection for kde and mandrake system files. Loaded up kernel sources and played around with kernel settings making several new kernels using xconfig ( only problems I had were, couldn't get the boot splash to compile in, and wierd power problem where atx psu wouldn't turn off with new kernel, but would with the default). Anyway, decided to wipe everything and do a miminmum reinstall with reiserfs, and hand picked packages including the kernel source. System works fine but now when I run xconfig to make a new kernel I have this problem. I think its due to a missing rpm, as it worked on the same machine in one installation, but not the other. I had a book from the local library to guide me 1st time round and I think it shed some light in this area, but its gone back now. Will carry on searching and post a fix when (if?) i find out what i did correct first time round. Cheers Huw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel
Viestissä Perjantai 18. Heinäkuuta 2003 13:08, Huw Blackwell kirjoitti: Has anybody else tried to recompile the new Mandrake 9.1 kernel. I am trying to apply the win4lin patches and recompile it for Athlon and make xconfig is dumping out with: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) if [ -f .need_mrproper ]; then \ rm .need_mrproper; \ make mrproper; \ make preconfig; \ fi make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.18mdk/scripts' cat header.tk ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse ../arch/i386/config.in kconfig.tk drivers/net/Config.in: 193: unknown command make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.18mdk/scripts' make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 Can anybody confirm this, or is it just me? -- Greg This patch fixes it: (I posted them on qa at 2003-06-18) http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=516action=view - changes incorrect define_mbool = define_bool and while you are at it ... get theese two also: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=517action=view - removes menu duplicate (if ... fi) from drivers/char/drm/Config.in http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=518action=view - remove duplicate 'source sound/usb/Config.in' in file sound/Config.in Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to configure fax4cups?
You probably haven't logged into the web interface (it'll let you look without logging in). Click Administration and log in as root. On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 00:59, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi All I have spent some reasonable time both trying and reading and cannot get fax4cups working for my hylafax install. Current status MDK 91 Hylafax works 100% from such as KDEprintfax and sendfax etc CUPS works fine with my HPLJ2100 The CUPS web interface also works fine So everything looks good to use fax4cups I have tried the mdk version on the install CD and the website tarball and followed the installation procedure, BUT When you try to create a printer with URI of hylafax:/local as per installation info I get a client-error-not-possible message, which I think means it cannot recognise the hylafax backend, anyone have clue what else I need to do to get it working? Thanks Peter Peter Stokes Ashlyn Computer Services Ltd Tel: +44 (0)1636-627900 Mbl: +44 (0)7977-532320 Fax: +44 (0)1636-627909 __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel
On Friday 18 July 2003 07:08, Thomas Backlund wrote: This patch fixes it: (I posted them on qa at 2003-06-18) http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=516action=view - changes incorrect define_mbool = define_bool and while you are at it ... get theese two also: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=517action=view - removes menu duplicate (if ... fi) from drivers/char/drm/Config.in http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=518action=view - remove duplicate 'source sound/usb/Config.in' in file sound/Config.in Regards Thomas Thomas, This is for the 2.4.21-18 MDK-correct? What about others, like 2.4.22pres? Or are they now correct? Does it function with the ck patches for 2.4.21 vanilla? Sorry for all the questions at once. Robert Crawford Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] konqueror and streaming mp3s
hi james, i think i wasn't clear, i want to be able to play streaming mp3s not serve them, i had to play around with plugger4.0 to get links in konqueror to play in anything but xmms but even though i now get gmplayer to play them the page in konqueror also tries to load the m3u link and i get a blank page that requires a 'back' operation to return to the page with the link, when one clicks on a download link the page doesn't change, one just gets a download dialogue, playing streams should be like that, also i failed completely to get notun or any other player to play the streams from the link, it's possible that this was because the site with the links is password protected, in gmplayer you can see the user:pass in the url, but if this is not the case then i'd like to have noatun play these streaming links i've had no success using konquerors file associations and only using plugger4.0 seems to get anything done, i was surprised to see that mplayerplugin lists mp3 as a recognised file type but not m3u, since of course gmplayer will actually play m3u urls, i had hoped that mayber kmplayer woud do as well embedded in konq like its does quicktime etc. but apparently not :( i've tried adding mpegurl, x-mpeg-url to konqueror's file association list with plugger unsinstalled but this didn't work either bascule On Friday 18 Jul 2003 3:48 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 18:09, bascule wrote: having had a run in recently with plugger4.0 and trying to get streaming mp3s to work i 'd like to know what other konqueror users have set up, i'm interested in any setups that don't play using xmms and where clicking on the link will result in the stream being played but the page with the link still being displayed bascule Bascule, Although I don't have it running now, IceCast (better yet it's successor I don't remember the name of.) worked like a dream. For a while in an old office we had 3 simultaneous streams running (Jazz Classic Rock and Classical) from an older pII 300. Users could use any mp3 player they wanted that could connect to a URL and it just worked. (Even Winders disabled boxes) shoutcast.com is a great place to start for info on this product. James -- 'You're wizards!' she [Esk] screamed. 'Bloody well wizz!' (Equal Rites) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to configure fax4cups?
Peter Stokes wrote: Hi All I have spent some reasonable time both trying and reading and cannot get fax4cups working for my hylafax install. Current status MDK 91 Hylafax works 100% from such as KDEprintfax and sendfax etc CUPS works fine with my HPLJ2100 The CUPS web interface also works fine So everything looks good to use fax4cups I have tried the mdk version on the install CD and the website tarball and followed the installation procedure, BUT When you try to create a printer with URI of hylafax:/local as per installation info I get a client-error-not-possible message, which I think means it cannot recognise the hylafax backend, anyone have clue what else I need to do to get it working? Thanks Peter I can only suggest the error sounds like something coming from permissions/restrictions set in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, there might be a clue under /var/log/cups, and there are some helpful infos at linuxprinting.org Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CPU temperature question
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 01:22, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 12:11, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: You'll like this Lyvim... I've known for a while that my everything server cum router cum wife's workstation was overheating, but it's only been a major problem (e.g. interrupting task at hand) when she wants to play quake2. Last week I added a 95mm fan with a resistor on it, but didn't really look at the CPU because I have to pull the power supply to see it. So tonight we were playing some quake2 with a friend over the Internet, when her machine locked up a littler earlier than it normally would. No big deal, it started to reboot as usual, but then kernel panicked. So I gave it the three-finger salute, went to the BIOS CPU health page, and saw it ticking over from 98C to 100C -- yes friends, 212 degrees Fahrenheit or the boiling point of water :-) Needless to say I cracked it open and found that the CPU heatsink was blocked with cat hair and the cheap white thermal compound had burned away. In fact, that yellow pad on the bottom of my heat sink had also burned away. I scraped it all off and found a tube of Artic Silver II, took out the fan resistor and hooked a third fan up. I now have the 95mm in the front sucking in with no resistor (loud mofo) and two tiny fellers hooked to one of those auto-speed pyramid thingies -- one on the back of the case and one on the video card. That seems to be doing the job so far, and I plan to get that big fan onto the auto-speed thingie or a resistor because it is way loud. Wow. You are right...that is unbelievable. What was that TV show that was on one time? Now THAT's INCREDIBLE! Enjoyable story. I'm glad you didn't fry the silicon. It may be a loud mofo right nowbut you're one LUCKY mofo. ;) Keep up the good karma aura, whatever you are doing right... LX P.S. Send some this way while your'e at it... :) -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Filter That, Bitch! --Lanman, MDK Newbie List Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] konqueror and streaming mp3s
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, bascule wrote: i think i wasn't clear, i want to be able to play streaming mp3s not serve them, i had to play around with plugger4.0 to get links in konqueror to play in anything but xmms but even though i now get gmplayer to play them the page in konqueror also tries to load the m3u link and i get a blank page that requires a 'back' operation to return to the page with the link, when one clicks on a download link the page doesn't change, one just gets a download dialogue, playing streams should be like that, Well, while it doesn't really address your problem directly, one simple workaround might be to middle-click on the link, thus opening a separate (admittedly, blank) window; this should allow you to still read the original window (and/or navigate elsewhere) while playing the stream. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: perl(Authen::Smb::Smb)
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 7:30 pm, haywiremac wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:16:11 -0400 (EDT) Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... which you really ought to do something about, Norman. I know that Outbreak Express is a brain-dead mail app, but surely it has some sort of way to turn off all the superfluous MIME nonsense and just send plain text? It must, I've seen it done - I'm sure of it. Ask around. It *is* sent in plain text. As others have pointed out, the mutipart is because of the *footer* added by the list server. He is not sending html, rtf, or anything offensive to the list requirements as far as I can see. I copied his last message into the one folder where I allow trusted html. It displayed as plain text I probably shouldn't even be posting this, but I hate being misunderstood, and generally put considerable effort into making myself as clear as I can in my posts, none of which appears to be working for me in this instance. My complaint in regards to Norman's OE posts are *not* a multipart issue (as /everyone's/ posts here are multipart, but his posts are /not/ like everyone else's), nor are they an HTML vs. plaintext issue (as he clearly does not post in HTML, and has confirmed that fact himself). Nor am I alleging that he has violated any specific requirement of this list. The issue is that OE is including in the *body* text of his messages some non-compliant MIME-related stuff - which I fully realize that OE will not let him see in the manner that others can see it. While I do not use OE, I have in the past, and ISTR that it has something to do with a setting in the preferences somewhere involving quoted-printable vs. 8-bit chars, or something along those lines. But it may be something else in there. Viewing the raw message (headers and all) in any mail client, including OE, should clarify exactly what I am referring to here, especially when the *body* of that message is contrasted with others here on the list. Upon further investigation, the problem appears to hinge on what OE does *not* include in his posts, but all the various other standards-compliant mailers *do* include. I refer to the lack of a Content-Type declaration just after the first MIME boundary. An excerpt from the raw view of his original post: Subject: [expert] perl(Authen::Smb::Smb) Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=--=_1058395872-5877-492 Status: RO X-Status: A X-Keywords: X-UID: 2921 This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1058395872-5877-492 Hi, I'm trying to upgrade to the latest squid-2.5 proxy server from cooker. However I get the following error An similar excerpt from the post to which I am replying: Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=--=_1058469064-5877-779 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2974 This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1058469064-5877-779 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 7:30 pm, haywiremac wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:16:11 -0400 (EDT) Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One upshot of this incorrect encoding is that when I attempt to view his messages using SquirrelMail rather than my usual Pine, the body text of the entire message itself is not visible at *all*. All that's there is the footer that is tacked on by Sympa. Nothing more. While I readily concede that part of my motivation in bringing the issue up at all is that I personally find that cruft distracting, I would not have mentioned it but for the fact that it was clear to me that he had no idea that this was occurring, and I for one like to be informed when my software is exhibiting behaviors of which I am unaware, especially when those behaviors vary to some degree from the norm. I am now quite sorry I ever brought the whole thing up. My apologies to all concerned, and I will not raise the issue again in this forum. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In thebeginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] tar backups Fail on Restore
Hi, I have had 3 instances now (ALL failures) whereby I tried to restored Linux Backups done with tar. Steps I took: #Backup for Root file system:: tar cvfl /my/backup/place/root.tar / #Backup for other file systems for i in /usr /var /opt /home do tar cvfl /my/backup/place/`basename`$i.tar $i done This works fine, backing up to a 1TB Raid disk attached via SCSI. Then I switch the disk (exactly similar disk) on the host machine, boot with an install disk, rescue mode. I mount my partitions under /mnt, including the /sda1 drive. Utilize tar xvf to restore...all partition, root goes to hda1, /usr goes to hda6, just like the original disk. Then try to boot! Missing:: Cannot find tonnes of modules, /var/wtmp, and gets stuck completely at starting system logger! Cant go further than that. Where can i be going wrong? I thought i performed a FULL system backup by Filesystem, why should I have stuff missing then? Any help, clues, will be highly appreciated. = __ 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
[expert] test - Please ignore
This is a test. Please ignore __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tar backups Fail on Restore
stab in the dark -- file locking? On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 10:00, Tru64 User wrote: Hi, I have had 3 instances now (ALL failures) whereby I tried to restored Linux Backups done with tar. Steps I took: #Backup for Root file system:: tar cvfl /my/backup/place/root.tar / #Backup for other file systems for i in /usr /var /opt /home do tar cvfl /my/backup/place/`basename`$i.tar $i done This works fine, backing up to a 1TB Raid disk attached via SCSI. Then I switch the disk (exactly similar disk) on the host machine, boot with an install disk, rescue mode. I mount my partitions under /mnt, including the /sda1 drive. Utilize tar xvf to restore...all partition, root goes to hda1, /usr goes to hda6, just like the original disk. Then try to boot! Missing:: Cannot find tonnes of modules, /var/wtmp, and gets stuck completely at starting system logger! Cant go further than that. Where can i be going wrong? I thought i performed a FULL system backup by Filesystem, why should I have stuff missing then? Any help, clues, will be highly appreciated. = __ 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... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Is somebody tried Kernel-2.6.0-test1 ?
Hi, I tried it today (on a mdk9.0) but no screen on boot due to this: (I think) -- Jul 18 16:33:29 thierry_l kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. ...of course without modules ... jui 18 16:33:44 thierry_l linuxconf: Running Linuxconf hooks: succeeded Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l kernel: warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l kernel: Fix your initscripts? Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1359]: /dev/tty6: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1358]: /dev/tty5: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1356]: /dev/tty3: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1355]: /dev/tty2: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1354]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1386]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1374]: /dev/tty6: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1392]: /dev/tty6: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l init: Id 6 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Have a good GNU Linux weekend Thierry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] VPN client
Hi there. On my home computer, I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.1. My question is quite simple, so I'll go to it directly... Is there a VPN Client for Linux? I ask this because I often need a VPN connection when I work from home. For now, the only way I know is to reboot in Windoze to use it's builtin VPN client, but while Mandrake is my main OS now, I'd like to find alternatives to all M$ products. Thanks for your help! +---+ | Albert Charron| +---+ | Linux Registered user: 157482 | |- Registered computers: 164158, 195048, 205791, 205792 | | www.linuxcounter.org | +---+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VPN client
there are several VPN clients for Linux Linux, but Linux corporate is a little tougher. Are you using Check Point or Nortel? Those are the most common corporate clients. Nortel makes a commercial client for Linux, $100 IIRC. Linux using FreeS/WAN will talk to either of those as a router, but can't do the user-level auth required for what you're probably dealing with. On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 10:23, Albert Charron wrote: Hi there. On my home computer, I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.1. My question is quite simple, so I'll go to it directly... Is there a VPN Client for Linux? I ask this because I often need a VPN connection when I work from home. For now, the only way I know is to reboot in Windoze to use it's builtin VPN client, but while Mandrake is my main OS now, I'd like to find alternatives to all M$ products. Thanks for your help! +---+ | Albert Charron| +---+ | Linux Registered user: 157482 | |- Registered computers: 164158, 195048, 205791, 205792 | | www.linuxcounter.org | +---+ __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] konqueror and streaming mp3s
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 07:17, bascule wrote: hi james, i think i wasn't clear, i want to be able to play streaming mp3s not serve them, i had to play around with plugger4.0 to get links in konqueror to play in anything but xmms but even though i now get gmplayer to play them the page in konqueror also tries to load the m3u link and i get a blank page that requires a 'back' operation to return to the page with the link, when one clicks on a download link the page doesn't change, one just gets a download dialogue, playing streams should be like that, In kdemultimedia there is a product called kaboodle... it might do what you want. Seems to be a bit light on features but... it plays the mp3. You need to use aumix to set volumes for it. And it doesn't create the white page affect. also i failed completely to get notun or any other player to play the streams from the link, it's possible that this was because the site with the links is password protected, in gmplayer you can see the user:pass in the url, but if this is not the case then i'd like to have noatun play these streaming links i've had no success using konquerors file associations and only using plugger4.0 seems to get anything done, i was surprised to see that mplayerplugin lists mp3 as a recognised file type but not m3u, since of course gmplayer will actually play m3u urls, i had hoped that mayber kmplayer woud do as well embedded in konq like its does quicktime etc. but apparently not :( i've tried adding mpegurl, x-mpeg-url to konqueror's file association list with plugger unsinstalled but this didn't work either bascule On Friday 18 Jul 2003 3:48 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 18:09, bascule wrote: having had a run in recently with plugger4.0 and trying to get streaming mp3s to work i 'd like to know what other konqueror users have set up, i'm interested in any setups that don't play using xmms and where clicking on the link will result in the stream being played but the page with the link still being displayed bascule Bascule, Although I don't have it running now, IceCast (better yet it's successor I don't remember the name of.) worked like a dream. For a while in an old office we had 3 simultaneous streams running (Jazz Classic Rock and Classical) from an older pII 300. Users could use any mp3 player they wanted that could connect to a URL and it just worked. (Even Winders disabled boxes) shoutcast.com is a great place to start for info on this product. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] infamous ldm_validate_partition_table() bug still alive!
Experts, We have purchased a new Sharp Actius RD-10 laptop and are seeing the (infamous) error ldm_validate_partition_table() : read disk failed bug during boot and at other times. We've read the bug reports at https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=930 which seem to indicate that it's fixed. It's not! And the bug seems to break a lot of stuff in Mdk 9.1 on this machine. We've tried installing the latest update kernel Jun 4 19:53 kernel-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm but we get the same errrors. We get the error at least 3 times during boot. Once after the message that says Load module dependencies,one after CUPS OK We can't remember the third instance. It also happens while running, and seems to keep a number of other things from running. We think that either the SmartMedia/Secure Data slot, Compact Flash or Sony memory stick hardware, or some combination is tickling the bug. Any help will be appreciated. Dean S. Messing Display Algorithms Visual Optimization Lab Information Systems Technologies Dept. Sharp Laboratories of America E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: perl(Authen::Smb::Smb)
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 5:47 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: I am now quite sorry I ever brought the whole thing up. My apologies to all concerned, and I will not raise the issue again in this forum. Bill, there obviously has been some misunderstanding, but personally I'm glad you did bring it up, and even more glad that you wrote this last message, as it explains differences that have puzzled me when I have tried to understand the different header sets that I sometimes see. In future I will be checking to see whether all the 'oddities' come from OE Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CPU temperature question
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 07:30, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 01:22, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 12:11, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: You'll like this Lyvim... I've known for a while that my everything server cum router cum wife's workstation was overheating, but it's only been a major problem (e.g. interrupting task at hand) when she wants to play quake2. Last week I added a 95mm fan with a resistor on it, but didn't really look at the CPU because I have to pull the power supply to see it. So tonight we were playing some quake2 with a friend over the Internet, when her machine locked up a littler earlier than it normally would. No big deal, it started to reboot as usual, but then kernel panicked. So I gave it the three-finger salute, went to the BIOS CPU health page, and saw it ticking over from 98C to 100C -- yes friends, 212 degrees Fahrenheit or the boiling point of water :-) Needless to say I cracked it open and found that the CPU heatsink was blocked with cat hair and the cheap white thermal compound had burned away. In fact, that yellow pad on the bottom of my heat sink had also burned away. I scraped it all off and found a tube of Artic Silver II, took out the fan resistor and hooked a third fan up. I now have the 95mm in the front sucking in with no resistor (loud mofo) and two tiny fellers hooked to one of those auto-speed pyramid thingies -- one on the back of the case and one on the video card. That seems to be doing the job so far, and I plan to get that big fan onto the auto-speed thingie or a resistor because it is way loud. Wow. You are right...that is unbelievable. What was that TV show that was on one time? Now THAT's INCREDIBLE! Enjoyable story. I'm glad you didn't fry the silicon. It may be a loud mofo right nowbut you're one LUCKY mofo. ;) Keep up the good karma aura, whatever you are doing right... LX P.S. Send some this way while your'e at it... :) Well, since the rest of my life is being very challenging maybe the gods decided I needed a break on the computer :-) Besides, as long as it doesn't take the mobo or ram with it, a new CPU is only $25 -- I've spent a lot more than that on fans. Also the BIOS sensor seems to give a number about 10C higher than lm_sensors, FWIW. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is somebody tried Kernel-2.6.0-test1 ?
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 10:14, Thierry Terrier wrote: Hi, I tried it today (on a mdk9.0) but no screen on boot due to this: (I think) -- Jul 18 16:33:29 thierry_l kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. ...of course without modules ... jui 18 16:33:44 thierry_l linuxconf: Running Linuxconf hooks: succeeded Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l kernel: warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l kernel: Fix your initscripts? Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1359]: /dev/tty6: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1358]: /dev/tty5: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1356]: /dev/tty3: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1355]: /dev/tty2: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1354]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1386]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1374]: /dev/tty6: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1392]: /dev/tty6: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l init: Id 6 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Have a good GNU Linux weekend Thierry Thierry, There is a different kind of initrd file needed for the 2.5.x kernels and probably for the 2.6. Although at the moment I can't remember the rpm name. Thomas or someone may be able to shed more light on this. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is somebody tried Kernel-2.6.0-test1 ?
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 10:14, Thierry Terrier wrote: Hi, I tried it today (on a mdk9.0) but no screen on boot due to this: (I think) -- Jul 18 16:33:29 thierry_l kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. There is a different kind of initrd file needed for the 2.5.x kernels and probably for the 2.6. Although at the moment I can't remember the rpm name. Thomas or someone may be able to shed more light on this. Isn't it module-init-tools, or something similar? Something in that general ballpark, ISTR ... -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is somebody tried Kernel-2.6.0-test1 ?
On Friday 18 July 2003 14:09, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 10:14, Thierry Terrier wrote: Hi, I tried it today (on a mdk9.0) but no screen on boot due to this: (I think) -- Jul 18 16:33:29 thierry_l kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. ...of course without modules ... jui 18 16:33:44 thierry_l linuxconf: Running Linuxconf hooks: succeeded Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l kernel: warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l kernel: Fix your initscripts? Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1359]: /dev/tty6: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1358]: /dev/tty5: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1356]: /dev/tty3: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1355]: /dev/tty2: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1354]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1386]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1374]: /dev/tty6: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l /sbin/mingetty[1392]: /dev/tty6: cannot open tty: No such device Jul 18 16:33:44 thierry_l init: Id 6 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Have a good GNU Linux weekend Thierry Thierry, There is a different kind of initrd file needed for the 2.5.x kernels and probably for the 2.6. Although at the moment I can't remember the rpm name. Thomas or someone may be able to shed more light on this. James I think this is what James is thinking of: At this site is posted the new init stuff for 2.5 kernels that might work for 2.6pres. This isn't for supermount as the name implies, but you can get the supermount patch for 2.4's and I believe some 2.5's by going to the parent directory from the mdk-25 page. http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/mdk-25/ Robert Crawford Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] infamous ldm_validate_partition_table() bug still alive!
From: Dean S. Messing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Experts, We have purchased a new Sharp Actius RD-10 laptop and are seeing the (infamous) error ldm_validate_partition_table() : read disk failed bug during boot and at other times. We've read the bug reports at https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=930 which seem to indicate that it's fixed. It's not! And the bug seems to break a lot of stuff in Mdk 9.1 on this machine. We've tried installing the latest update kernel Jun 4 19:53 kernel-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm but we get the same errrors. We get the error at least 3 times during boot. Once after the message that says Load module dependencies,one after CUPS OK We can't remember the third instance. It also happens while running, and seems to keep a number of other things from running. We think that either the SmartMedia/Secure Data slot, Compact Flash or Sony memory stick hardware, or some combination is tickling the bug. Any help will be appreciated. grab the 22mdk kernel from one of the the mirrors in the directory: Mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub/9.1/i586/ It has that fixed, and then some... ;-) Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is somebody tried Kernel-2.6.0-test1 ?
From: Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I think this is what James is thinking of: At this site is posted the new init stuff for 2.5 kernels that might work for 2.6pres. This isn't for supermount as the name implies, but you can get the supermount patch for 2.4's and I believe some 2.5's by going to the parent directory from the mdk-25 page. http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/mdk-25/ Robert Crawford Andrey's stuff (the link above) will get you on the way, but all stuff is not finished yet, as we need updated module-init-tools, initscripts, and so on... This same problem is looked on by many people on the Cooker list, so I guess we will have a 2.6 alternative in 9.2... But the easiest way for now to build a 2.6 kernel is to build it without modules, only selecting the parts you really need to be built-in... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Internal mail
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 1:39 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Root is sending me messages that end up in /var/spool/mail/anne. I would like to set up KMail to bring these messages into a new folder, but don't know how to set up internal mail accounts. Is it possible without using extra services? What do I need to do? What should I read? If I can sort this out I would like to extend to internal mail across our mixed lan. Anne The project to get mail running across the lan has had to be postponed for a few days, but I'll get to it. Meanwhile, I am having a problem. I have some folders set up to use specific accounts, but my default 'From' is this one. For some strange reason I keep finding that mail fails to go out because it has used the local account instead of this one. I have checked the settings and the default settings haven't been changed. Anyone have any ideas what's happening? External mail just doesn't go out when it just comes from 'anne' g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VPN client
Albert Charron wrote: Hi there. On my home computer, I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.1. My question is quite simple, so I'll go to it directly... Is there a VPN Client for Linux? I ask this because I often need a VPN connection when I work from home. For now, the only way I know is to reboot in Windoze to use it's builtin VPN client, but while Mandrake is my main OS now, I'd like to find alternatives to all M$ products. Thanks for your help! You betcha! Check out http://www.freeswan.org Read the docs. It requires some set up work but is well worth the effort. Good luck, drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX Network/System Engineer http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.htm Let him that would move the world, first move himself. -- Socrates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VPN client
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:32:50 -0500 J.C. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Charron wrote: Hi there. On my home computer, I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.1. My question is quite simple, so I'll go to it directly... Is there a VPN Client for Linux? I ask this because I often need a VPN connection when I work from home. For now, the only way I know is to reboot in Windoze to use it's builtin VPN client, but while Mandrake is my main OS now, I'd like to find alternatives to all M$ products. Check with your VPN vendor. My company uses Cisco VPN. It has a linux client. -Mark -- Mark Belanger LTX Corporation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] DVD stuff
OK, so I've got a DVD player in my server and in one of my client systems. I've never used them for more than reading CD roms though. Today I got a wild hare and decided to try one. I tried to use xine + a plugin to browse the dvd but it crashed and I don't really see anything else here in my 9.1 distro that will do DVDs. I could use some tips. Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How to transfer from standard input to remotehost
I know it exists cause I saw it somewhere, but where?? I want something similar to ftp but accepting input file to transfer from standard input to be able to do something like: tar cz * | ftp remotehost Thanks -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia /\ Spain \/ |__ __| \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Internal mail
On Friday 18 July 2003 04:38 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have some folders set up to use specific accounts, but my default 'From' is this one. For some strange reason I keep finding that mail fails to go out because it has used the local account instead of this one. I have checked the settings and the default settings haven't been changed. Anyone have any ideas what's happening? External mail just doesn't go out when it just comes from 'anne' g I'll try to help, with two caveats: I'm not a regular Kmail user (actually, I just set it up to see what you may see ... it's not half bad these days g), and also I'm running 9.0 w/ KDE 3.05a, so what you see may differ somewhat from what I describe anyway. But throwing caution to the wind, and taking the whole procedure as if it were being done from scratch (for clarity's sake), here goes nothing ... ;) With this incarnation of Kmail, at least, what you want to do is to first create a second Sending account (Settings - Configure Kmail - Network - Sending - Add); make it of type SMTP, give it a name like LocalSMTP, and make the host localhost. OK your way out, and ensure that the previously-existing Sending account - the one which points to your ISP's SMTP server - is still marked as (Default); if not, move it up until it is. Next, you want to create a new and separate identity (Settings - Configure Kmail - Identity - New) by duplicating the settings from your Default identity, then changing the email address (General tab) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or to anne@ the FQDN, whichever). You then move over to the Advanced tab, check the Special Transport box, and select LocalSMTP from the two choices now appearing there . This new identity can have any name you like, but pick something other than LocalSMTP, to avoid any confusion later on (just Local is fine here; we'll postulate that for now). Henceforth, any messages you send using the Default identity should use the SMTP server defined as the (Default) under Network - Sending (your ISP's), and any messages sent under the Local identity will use the LocalSMTP setting (your local Postfix server). To be absolutely sure that there is no mix-up in this regard, you can go to the Identity section of the settings window, Default identity, Advanced tab, and explicitly set the Special transport for /that/ identity to the name of the one that points to your ISP's server. Then there should be no mistake as to which mail goes out via which server in the future. You then associate individual folders with the identity you wish to use when posting from them, by right=clicking on each name in the folder list and selecting Properties, then setting that folder's preferred identity from the drop-down list. From my few minutes of experimentation, it appears that when starting a new message, it will default to using whichever identity is set for the folder you currently have open. This bears watching, because if you are in a folder which is set to use the Local identity, and wish to create a wholly new message (say, a post to this list), it will try to use the Local identity due to where you're sitting when you start the process, when you'd really rather it use the Default one this time. You'll need to switch identities (above the To: box) before sending that mail. Perhaps this last bit is at the root of the current crop of misdirected mails. Postfix can be told to send these out via your ISP's SMTP server, but you probably don't want that, as the From: address on them may be wrong. Best to just resend those, by going into your sent-mail folder, right-clicking on each, choosing Redirect, and adjusting the identity on them to the one you want to use before hitting Send. Postfix will give up trying to send the copies that it got after five days (and will tell you so when it does). To see just which messages Postfix is trying and failing to send, type mailq at a prompt; it should show you enough to determine which ones they are. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DVD stuff
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Jim C wrote: OK, so I've got a DVD player in my server and in one of my client systems. I've never used them for more than reading CD roms though. Today I got a wild hare and decided to try one. I tried to use xine + a plugin to browse the dvd but it crashed and I don't really see anything else here in my 9.1 distro that will do DVDs. I could use some tips. Set up a plf source with the page http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon and get the RPMs you need for Xine from there, including the libdvdcss2 RPM if the DVDs you're trying to play are encrypted ones. You'll also want to get the xine-dvdnav RPM and a few others; before you install anything from there specifically, though, run urpmi --auto-select with the PLF source having been set, to update your existing Xine stuff to the PLF versions thereof. You can browse the PLF collection of RPMs for Mandrake 9.1 (i586) at: http://mirrors.zoreil.com/www.plf.org/9.1/i586 PLF also has RPMs for Mplayer, which plays DVDs nicely, and you may have better luck with those ... there appears to be no Mplayer equivalent to the dvdnav Xine plugin which allows you to use the DVD's menu screens, though. IMHO, that's a small sacrifice to make if you prefer the job that Mplayer does of displaying the movie itself (some do, some don't). It will also utilize the libdvdcss2 decryption library if it's installed, IIRC. Disclaimer: Use of PLF packages may be frowned on in some jurisdictions due to the naivete, ineptness, sloth, and/or purchasability of officials thereof, and the specific laws that these sluggards may or may not have already enacted or be currently considering. Discretion is advised. ;) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] infamous ldm_validate_partition_table() bug still alive!
On Friday 18 July 2003 03:20 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote: It has that fixed, and then some... ;-) I am not so sure Tom. I am running that kernel and got that error the other day after I unmounted my flash card reader and logged out of the console. I did rebuild it with the Win4Lin patches, so I could have changed something in the configs to cause it to pop again. Is there a setting in the config file that affects this? -- /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] DVD stuff
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:31:28 -0400 (EDT) Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Disclaimer: Use of PLF packages may be frowned on in some jurisdictions due to the naivete, ineptness, sloth, and/or purchasability of officials thereof, and the specific laws that these sluggards may or may not have already enacted or be currently considering. Discretion is advised. ;) New on this list, mostly lurking, love to see this kind of sense of humour! Thanks fer da chuckle... -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++ I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. -- Kehlog Albran, The Profit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] I've lost the ability to make intrd.img's
All, Suddenly I can't make a viable initrd.img I've removed and re-installed mkinitrd ... but no change. Here's the story. build 16mm with about 50% fewer modules, the ck2 patch and the win4lin patch. All patches applied without a problem. I'd previously built the 16mm kernel etc and it works. Do make mrproper, make xconfig, make dep, make bzImage, make clean, make modules, make modules_install, and make install. Up to make install everything is without error. When I do the make install the last few lines are. sh -x ./install.sh 2.4.21-wflplus bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/System.map + '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']' + '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']' + exec /sbin/installkernel 2.4.21-wflplus bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/System.map '' mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same of the initrd which mean you have a mdk kernel and not a mdk initrd you may go in trouble make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/boot' (Note the English above is as it appears Not my English) a check of /boot and /etc/lilo.conf show that all is there (including the intrd.img. And looks good. lilo runs without problem. Reboot and choose the new kernel. It starts I see loading vmlinuz the screen goes blank and I return to the lilo page. Ok. I try to install 18mdk from RPM. Same exact result. So I go into /boot move the img for a working 13mdk to the side and try to make an new image. This returns no error. run lilo and reboot to 13mdk it does the same as the new kernel. move the original intrd.img back and it now boots without a qualm. Conclusion... I can't build an initrd.img. Any thoughts here? Running MDK 9.1 fully upgraded. (except for the kernel I can't get to run.) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tar backups Fail on Restore
Change tar cvfl to be cvlf. Mike On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 10:00, Tru64 User wrote: Hi, I have had 3 instances now (ALL failures) whereby I tried to restored Linux Backups done with tar. Steps I took: #Backup for Root file system:: tar cvfl /my/backup/place/root.tar / #Backup for other file systems for i in /usr /var /opt /home do tar cvfl /my/backup/place/`basename`$i.tar $i done This works fine, backing up to a 1TB Raid disk attached via SCSI. Then I switch the disk (exactly similar disk) on the host machine, boot with an install disk, rescue mode. I mount my partitions under /mnt, including the /sda1 drive. Utilize tar xvf to restore...all partition, root goes to hda1, /usr goes to hda6, just like the original disk. Then try to boot! Missing:: Cannot find tonnes of modules, /var/wtmp, and gets stuck completely at starting system logger! Cant go further than that. Where can i be going wrong? I thought i performed a FULL system backup by Filesystem, why should I have stuff missing then? Any help, clues, will be highly appreciated. = __ 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 -- Michael Noble mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DVD stuff
Is it crashing when at dvd menu or while at film? To play menus you need xine-dvdnav plugin. I have a Mandrake 8.2 and see DVD with no problems at all. If I do (as root): rpm -qa | grep xine I get the following list of installed packages: xine-win32-0.9.13-3plf libxine0-0.9.13-3plf xine-ui-0.9.13-2mdk xine-esd-0.9.13-3plf xine-oss-0.9.13-3plf xine-divx4-0.9.13-3plf xine-xvid-0.9.13-3plf xine-dvdnav-0.9.13-1mdk libxine0-devel-0.9.13-3plf xinetd-2.3.7-1.1mdk xine-aa-0.9.13-3plf xine-plugins-0.9.13-3plf xine-dxr3-0.9.13-3plf xine-d5d-0.2.7-2plf xine-faad-0.9.13-3plf xine-ui-aa-0.9.13-2mdk xine-arts-0.9.13-3plf libxine0-docs-0.9.13-3plf xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf Anyway, give a try to se what gmplayer says, it is a really good player. Xine has better user interface (at least to me) but it seems gplayer has more resistent codecs (they suffer less corruptions found in the stream). If you can't get anything neither with Xine nor Gmplayer, it's probably a device config problem, so if so post detailed error message of both players. Good luck. El vie, 18-07-2003 a las 23:23, Jim C escribió: OK, so I've got a DVD player in my server and in one of my client systems. I've never used them for more than reading CD roms though. Today I got a wild hare and decided to try one. I tried to use xine + a plugin to browse the dvd but it crashed and I don't really see anything else here in my 9.1 distro that will do DVDs. I could use some tips. Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia /\ Spain \/ |__ __| \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
