Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?
On Saturday 15 November 2003 4:01 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: As stated before... They are the same as the ISO's on the MandrakeClub and the ones shipped of to paying customers... Ummm. I tried to upgrade my laptop with 9.2 by ftp this evening. I used the pcmcia.img from my club isos, and when I tried to start an FTP download, I got a complaint for an image with a good package list. The one from the ftp server works perfectly, however. The balk occurred when the kernel was attempted to be downloaded, so it appears that there is a kernel version number change. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?
From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 15 November 2003 4:01 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: As stated before... They are the same as the ISO's on the MandrakeClub and the ones shipped of to paying customers... Ummm. I tried to upgrade my laptop with 9.2 by ftp this evening. I used the pcmcia.img from my club isos, and when I tried to start an FTP download, I got a complaint for an image with a good package list. The one from the ftp server works perfectly, however. The balk occurred when the kernel was attempted to be downloaded, so it appears that there is a kernel version number change. Well, the installer kernel on the mirror ftp tree is using 21mdk kernels, so you *must* download the floppy images from the ftp site to make it work Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))
James Sparenberg wrote: Well, that concludes that Kde really is the culprit, doesn't it. But what in Kde? /Björn err... puncuation would help let me try again. What I see that you use that I don't are, iptables, shorewall, netfs nfs and lisa, linuxconf httpd and atd. I've got nessusd smartd and win4lin, that you don't have. I'm suspicious that Lisa is what is polling your HDD but not sure. In my case as well, dm is the only diff between rl 3 and 5. My initial reaction would be, turn off (if possible) the ones you have that I don't, one at a time, then if it doesn't stop the polling, turn it back on and go to the next one. Hmm, I removed the ones you don't have, except shorewall, since I'm directly connected to the internet. Wouldn't want to be without it... I did shut it off for a minute though, but I still got disc activity every 6 seconds! I even tried the classical M$ trick (reboot) but still no luck, but I now finally got rid of some services I don't need, like nfs... I also went in to Kde's control center and played with Compoments|Servicemanager and shut everyting I could off, like KWrite deamon, and Mount watcher, essentailly everything I could find, but still no luck Everything associated with Lisa is also turned off, on the client side. The KAlarm deamon looked suspicouis, but killing it made no difference... Starting to kill my processes one by one, starting with 'kded'. Got lucky, this is the one. Now I can google it, and found: kded continually accesses the disk about once per second, and as a result, even when I'm not doing anything so to speak on my computer, my hard drive will never spin down. I had a similar effect some time ago on a SuSE box. In my case I could make that repeating disk access to stop by mounting that specific *reiserfs* partition with the 'noatime' option. Give this a try... and reboot cries of happiness And YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES /cries of happiness That did it :) As for the 9.1 + texstar combo. Yes love it. That's why my laptop won't be in a hurry to move to 9.2. I'm thinking that kernel 2.6 would make me upgrade, so I'll wait for a stable release that won't make me recompile the kernel. Every time I tried, I always end up with a new install :( I'm always doing something wrong! Thanks for your patience, all /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Sound woes with 9.2
I somehow got sound working on my laptop after problems immediately after installation of 9.2 on it. Not sure what I did but it stuck. In any case, I installed 9.2 on my desktop (Athlon XP 2700+, KT333 mobo) which has a VIA 8233A onboard soundsystem. It worked fine in 9.0 and 9.1. It doesn't work at all in 9.2. I have tried using ALSA and OSS (KDE arts sound setup changes as well) with no results. My mixer settings are correct but at no time have I ever gotten sound to work. This is true of the default 2.4.22-10mdk kernel and the 2.4.22-21mdk kernel I built last night in hopes I could get sound working. Anyone have any ideas? I looked at Twiki and saw nothing of use in this case. praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] test - ignore
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Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't take the risk. LG now have a firmware update available on their site. Install that first and you should be OK. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Weird automount message
open the /etc/auto.master with kedit andput the # sign at the fisrt of linescorresponding to /misc and /net . then restart the autofs by using the following command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs restart . that's ok. David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mates,Has anyone else seen strange automount messages? The messages are asfollows:Nov 13 12:28:00 Nemesis automount[15360]: lookup(file): lookup for * failedNov 13 12:28:00 Nemesis automount[15361]: lookup(yp): lookup for * failed:Request arguments badNov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[443]: attempting to mount entry /misc/*Nov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[15675]: lookup(file): lookup for * failedNov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[458]: attempting to mount entry /net/*Nov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[15676]: lookup(yp): lookup for * failed:Request arguments badThis is the first time I've seen something like this. Any thoughts would beappreciated.--David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC510 Ochiltree StreetNacogdoches, Texas 75961(936) 715-9333(936) 715-9339 fax--Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comKaveh Gh. Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard
Re: [expert] Ethernet Problem
Bill Mullen wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Sven L. wrote: I am using MD 9.1 on my laptop with an static ip adress on eth0. Ifplugd deletes the ip adress of eth0 if the cable is unplugged and this is the reason for an jboss error. I need a real static ip adress on eth0. All ideas are apreciated. You could try adding this line to (or editing the existing line in, as appropriate) your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes Then restart the network service (service network restart at a root prompt). IIUIC, this will disable the NIC's ability to report that the cable is unplugged, which should keep ifplugd from reacting. Hopefully. :) HTH! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It works thank you!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))
I had a similar effect some time ago on a SuSE box. In my case I could make that repeating disk access to stop by mounting that specific *reiserfs* partition with the 'noatime' option. Is there any problem with setting the fs to noatime? It keeps the file access time from being updated. Do any programs rely on that? I'll give this a try, too, i think. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't take the risk. LG now have a firmware update available on their site. Install that first and you should be OK. HTH Thanks, Anne. I bit the bullet and downed the host machine shortly afterwards. It was one of those laziness things :D Plus I had to walk someone through the process without any idea of what the firmwate update screen read... Then there was the 216 day uptime :( On a side note, the setup on this remote site is pretty interesting. The DNS and web server run completely inside a VMWare session. Complete system backups are as simple as copying a file. Testing is a breeze since I can test identical systems without bringing the main one down. -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http://www.digitalhermit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns - THANK YOU
On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 1:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction, For posterity's sake here is what I have done. Greg, I would say that should *definitely* be on the TWiki - would you oblige? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade
yeah it would be, but unfortunately I am not a student any more :-) I me neither! try to do bug reports when I get a chance, but I frequently don't get a chance. If you ask sometimes you get an answer! regards __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] /dev/dsp always in use
high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running that has anything to do with sound. this means, Xine doesn't play sound because of that. mplayer brings a error at the start of a movie, but then plays with sound, but i can't control the volume on mplayer. most games bring an error on /dev/dsp and some of them can play sound with artsdsp -m quake3 if i'm lucky. and sound in flash movies doesn't work.. i suspect its also because of that. as /dev/dsp seems to be the default sound device (which in my case has got some problem), maybe i need to change this somewhere and set another sound device for default ? i'm very confused.. can somebody clear it for me please ? tnx a lot! lukas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use
On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote: high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running that has anything to do with sound. this means, Xine doesn't play sound because of that. mplayer brings a error at the start of a movie, but then plays with sound, but i can't control the volume on mplayer. most games bring an error on /dev/dsp and some of them can play sound with artsdsp -m quake3 if i'm lucky. and sound in flash movies doesn't work.. i suspect its also because of that. as /dev/dsp seems to be the default sound device (which in my case has got some problem), maybe i need to change this somewhere and set another sound device for default ? i'm very confused.. can somebody clear it for me please ? If you are running KDE desktop, the artsd which is the Arts Sound daemon is running and that will cause dsp to always be busy. You can configure Xine to use arts sound and then it should coexist peacefully with artsd, and the same is true for mplayer. Never had a problem with flash, so I don't know why that would be a problem. I do have problems with realplayer and in most cases, need to kill artsd before running any real media files and then just start it back up again. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use
elPunishar said: high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running that has anything to do with sound. this means, Xine doesn't play sound because of that. mplayer brings a error at the start of a movie, but then plays with sound, but i can't control the volume on mplayer. most games bring an error on /dev/dsp and some of them can play sound with artsdsp -m quake3 if i'm lucky. and sound in flash movies doesn't work.. i suspect its also because of that. as /dev/dsp seems to be the default sound device (which in my case has got some problem), maybe i need to change this somewhere and set another sound device for default ? i'm very confused.. can somebody clear it for me please ? tnx a lot! lukas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Both mplayer and xine can be set to use artsd, and in konqueror, under plugins/plugins, you can set them to use artsd for playback. You can also disable artsd when you want to play a game via kcontrol, then turn it back on when done. -- Live fast, die young, You're sucking up my bandwidth. J.P. Pasnak, CD CCNA http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use
On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:19 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote: high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running that has anything to do with sound. this means, Xine doesn't play sound because of that. mplayer brings a error at the start of a movie, but then plays with sound, but i can't control the volume on mplayer. most games bring an error on /dev/dsp and some of them can play sound with artsdsp -m quake3 if i'm lucky. and sound in flash movies doesn't work.. i suspect its also because of that. as /dev/dsp seems to be the default sound device (which in my case has got some problem), maybe i need to change this somewhere and set another sound device for default ? i'm very confused.. can somebody clear it for me please ? If you are running KDE desktop, the artsd which is the Arts Sound daemon is running and that will cause dsp to always be busy. You can configure Xine to use arts sound and then it should coexist peacefully with artsd, and the same is true for mplayer. Never had a problem with flash, so I don't know why that would be a problem. I do have problems with realplayer and in most cases, need to kill artsd before running any real media files and then just start it back up again. You can also reduce the artsd timeout in kcontrol so that programs that cannot use arts still can get the dsp if necessary. -- /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
[expert] Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?
OK, I now have 9.2 installed on my laptop via FTP. It was about a 4 hour experience for me. Draksound is not able to detect the ISA card, and is not useful for this card. Everything is working pretty well, except for the sound, it has a Crystal 4237B, which is found on the ISA bus, and I am able to mess with it using the CS423x driver in sndconfig, but I have not gotten any sound from it yet. Apprently it can emulate a Soundblaster, AdLib or WSS card, but using the SB driver crashes the machine so that the only way out is to crash the system. The AdLib driver crashes sndconfig. The WSS driver also locks up the system like the SB. Any ideas or experiences configuring the sound on this machine. My introduction to this machine was from the Linux Laptops website, and my life is not as simple. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Clean up old logs (more specific)
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 08:34, David E. Fox wrote: My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While trying = to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various stu= Please don't post HTML. Adrian, isn't logrotate working? Or do you want to clean the stuff up now? At any rate, find would do the job: # find . -type f /var/log -mtime 30 | xargs rm That gets rid of files modified over 30 days ago. When I tried doing the line you defined above, I get this output: find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path...] [expression] rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. So I did it this way: find /var/log -type f -mtime 5 | xargs rm And it works. The only thing that catches my attention is that in the 'find' man page, '-mtime' says: -mtime n File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago. This would seem to me to mean a static multiplyer. In other words, '-mtime 30' would be any logs created exactly 30 days ago - not 31, not 29. How would you state 'anything over 30 days'? And why did you create the syntax the way you did above; with the '.' after 'find' and the order of commands? Thanks! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 81. The drive ate the tape but that's OK, I brought my screwdriver. --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3
On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:06 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Glenn Could I be so bold as to trouble you to do a cut and past of the above e-mail into a bug report? I'm quite sure you aren't alone with your problem. Thanks. James http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com I'm ahead of you. Please see http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6367 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cd writer fails...
Looks to me like dummy mode is turned on, so no actual write should occur. Turn off dummy mode, and try again. But the operation should work in dummy mode, shouldn't it? Anyway, I tried it in real mode, and the same thing happens. The Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request occurs at the very beginning, just as the burn is supposed to start. Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'LG ' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8080B ' Revision : '1.04' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1024000 = 1000 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Track 01: audio 45 MB (04:28.49) no preemp Track 02: audio 35 MB (03:31.80) no preemp Track 03: audio 54 MB (05:21.53) no preemp Track 04: audio 36 MB (03:38.93) no preemp Track 05: audio 63 MB (06:17.10) no preemp Track 06: audio 44 MB (04:26.00) no preemp Track 07: audio 33 MB (03:20.40) no preemp Track 08: audio 37 MB (03:42.02) no preemp Track 09: audio 165 MB (16:21.04) no preemp Track 10: audio 41 MB (04:04.06) no preemp Track 11: audio 27 MB (02:44.96) no preemp Track 12: audio 31 MB (03:06.17) no preemp Lout start: 620 MB (61:26/40) = 276340 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 6 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6) ATIP start of lead in: -11231 (97:32/19) ATIP start of lead out: 359847 (79:59/72) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 27 Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc. Blocks total: 359847 Blocks current: 359847 Blocks remaining: 83507 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in real TAO mode for single session. Performing OPC... /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s Track 01:0 of 45 MB written. write track data: error after 0 bytes Writing time:5.020s Average write speed 734.9x. Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 04 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x04 (current program area is empty) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets. /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 05:39, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: Well, that concludes that Kde really is the culprit, doesn't it. But what in Kde? /Björn err... puncuation would help let me try again. What I see that you use that I don't are, iptables, shorewall, netfs nfs and lisa, linuxconf httpd and atd. I've got nessusd smartd and win4lin, that you don't have. I'm suspicious that Lisa is what is polling your HDD but not sure. In my case as well, dm is the only diff between rl 3 and 5. My initial reaction would be, turn off (if possible) the ones you have that I don't, one at a time, then if it doesn't stop the polling, turn it back on and go to the next one. Hmm, I removed the ones you don't have, except shorewall, since I'm directly connected to the internet. Wouldn't want to be without it... I did shut it off for a minute though, but I still got disc activity every 6 seconds! I even tried the classical M$ trick (reboot) but still no luck, but I now finally got rid of some services I don't need, like nfs... I also went in to Kde's control center and played with Compoments|Servicemanager and shut everyting I could off, like KWrite deamon, and Mount watcher, essentailly everything I could find, but still no luck Everything associated with Lisa is also turned off, on the client side. The KAlarm deamon looked suspicouis, but killing it made no difference... Starting to kill my processes one by one, starting with 'kded'. Got lucky, this is the one. Now I can google it, and found: kded continually accesses the disk about once per second, and as a result, even when I'm not doing anything so to speak on my computer, my hard drive will never spin down. I had a similar effect some time ago on a SuSE box. In my case I could make that repeating disk access to stop by mounting that specific *reiserfs* partition with the 'noatime' option. Give this a try... and reboot cries of happiness And YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES /cries of happiness That did it :) As for the 9.1 + texstar combo. Yes love it. That's why my laptop won't be in a hurry to move to 9.2. I'm thinking that kernel 2.6 would make me upgrade, so I'll wait for a stable release that won't make me recompile the kernel. Every time I tried, I always end up with a new install :( I'm always doing something wrong! Thanks for your patience, all /Björn Cool! I may not have had an answer but I hope I helped in finding it. James __ 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] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:18, Eric Huff wrote: I had a similar effect some time ago on a SuSE box. In my case I could make that repeating disk access to stop by mounting that specific *reiserfs* partition with the 'noatime' option. Is there any problem with setting the fs to noatime? It keeps the file access time from being updated. Do any programs rely on that? I'll give this a try, too, i think. eric Eric from what I've seen and also from Hans' own mouth with the current version of Rieserfs it's the preferred method. Where as not using this is intended to give a faster access time you really have to play around tuning the fs to keep from going nuts. Hans said at a recent lug where he spoke that the next version should do this much more elegantly (I took this to mean it wouldn't drive people nuts.) In fact I'm so used to reiserfs being mounted notail,noatime that like a fool I didn't even ask Bjorn about it. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 17:30, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:06 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Glenn Could I be so bold as to trouble you to do a cut and past of the above e-mail into a bug report? I'm quite sure you aren't alone with your problem. Thanks. James http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com I'm ahead of you. Please see http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6367 I did just notice one thing. The bug report is there in cooker. But the link I gave is for the bug reporting system for the current version. They are two different products/locations. I guess this one actually should go in both, given the nature of the beast. Thanks. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:20, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't take the risk. LG now have a firmware update available on their site. Install that first and you should be OK. HTH Given that VMWare allows direct hardware access I would go with Anne 216 days is a lot to lose yes, but your going to lose it anyway when you consider that you'll have to replace the drive. Console yourself in this one. The current record is 4.6 years and climbing. (A FreeBSD box.) So although it's nice. We pale in comparison. (I just took down one with 192 days uptime. Kernel upgrade.) James Thanks, Anne. I bit the bullet and downed the host machine shortly afterwards. It was one of those laziness things :D Plus I had to walk someone through the process without any idea of what the firmwate update screen read... Then there was the 216 day uptime :( On a side note, the setup on this remote site is pretty interesting. The DNS and web server run completely inside a VMWare session. Complete system backups are as simple as copying a file. Testing is a breeze since I can test identical systems without bringing the main one down. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns - THANK YOU
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 1:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction, For posterity's sake here is what I have done. Greg, I would say that should *definitely* be on the TWiki - would you oblige? Anne Greg, When you get it up let me know. For 9.1 (due to some differences in that it doesn't do profiles as well.) I've another system I use for the 4 locations my laptop goes regularly. Basically I have 4 ifcfg's in a holding directory and just switch one for the other and restart pcmcia. (all wireless connections with different WEP keys.) I'll post a neutered version of mine along with yours so that they are on the same page. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 15:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, I now have 9.2 installed on my laptop via FTP. It was about a 4 hour experience for me. Draksound is not able to detect the ISA card, and is not useful for this card. Everything is working pretty well, except for the sound, it has a Crystal 4237B, which is found on the ISA bus, and I am able to mess with it using the CS423x driver in sndconfig, but I have not gotten any sound from it yet. Apprently it can emulate a Soundblaster, AdLib or WSS card, but using the SB driver crashes the machine so that the only way out is to crash the system. The AdLib driver crashes sndconfig. The WSS driver also locks up the system like the SB. Any ideas or experiences configuring the sound on this machine. My introduction to this machine was from the Linux Laptops website, and my life is not as simple. Rob Rob draksound AFAIK is only effective on PCI type cards. Since your is ISA, using the old standby of sndconfig (just urpmi sndconfig) This should bring you online no sweat. One note. You have to run it from a regular tty not a konsole or xterm window for it to work right. I've used this chipset in the past and it works well, sndconfig has it in it's database and can get you up. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
