Re: [expert] Heads up... Netscape 4.79
I have been using NS 4.79 for 3 or 4 days and have not seen anything more flaky than NS 4.78 nor has it crashed on me. It's a keeper. Bill Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: I am using NS 6.1 and I have to say it is quite good, nothing to do with 6.0x series. Stable and fast. It seems the fixed a lot of bugs. Jose El Martes 20 Noviembre 2001 10:42, Nick Thompson escribió: And I though 4.78 was flakey. I'm trying to use mozilla now, but its sooo slw :-( . Does anybody know when Moz 0.9.6 is due - I thought it was supposed to be last friday. Konqy is pretty good and fast, but it still chokes on too many pages and java never seems to work for me. Maybe I'll have to give Opera a spin. This won't help me for e-mail though. Nick. Pierre Fortin wrote: I've being *trying* to use NS4.79; but have just reverted back to 4.78. NS4.79 is the worst release I've seen to date... it crashes constantly. It messes up your mail *.summary files and if bad enough, any attempt to run NS4.79 will crash before displaying the first window; the only way to find the problem is to strace it and correct/delete the file it's croaking on... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Do not meddle in the ways of linux users for they are subtle and quick to anger... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 8.1 and dictd
Hi,
I have Mandrake 8.1 installed and have the same problem with dictd
as I had with Mandrake 8.0. It works fine while I'm online but
refuses to work while offline. Below is my /etc/dict.conf,
/etc/dictd.conf files and ifconfig lo.
Searches on the web show others have this problem. But to date, I've
not seen any fixes. Anyone have any thoughts about this?
ifconfig lo
---
[billt@darkside download]$ sudo /sbin/ifconfig lo
loLink encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1892 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1892 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:222572 (217.3 Kb) TX bytes:222572 (217.3 Kb)
/etc/dict.conf
--
server localhost
/etc/dictd.conf
---
access {allow localhost deny *}
database gazetteer {data /usr/share/dict/gazetteer.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/gazetteer.index }
database jargon { data /usr/share/dict/jargon.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/jargon.index }
database foldoc { data /usr/share/dict/foldoc.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/foldoc.index }
database elements { data /usr/share/dict/elements.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/elements.index }
database easton { data /usr/share/dict/easton.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/easton.index }
database hitchcock {data /usr/share/dict/hitchcock.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/hitchcock.index }
database world95 { data /usr/share/dict/world95.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/world95.index }
database web1913 { data /usr/share/dict/web1913.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/web1913.index }
database wn { data /usr/share/dict/wn.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/wn.index }
database devils { data /usr/share/dict/devils.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/devils.index }
database cze-eng { data /usr/share/dict/cze-eng.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/cze-eng.index }
database dan-eng { data /usr/share/dict/dan-eng.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/dan-eng.index }
database deu-eng { data /usr/share/dict/deu-eng.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/deu-eng.index }
database eng-deu { data /usr/share/dict/eng-deu.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/eng-deu.index }
database eng-fra { data /usr/share/dict/eng-fra.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/eng-fra.index }
database eng-hun { data /usr/share/dict/eng-hun.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/eng-hun.index }
database eng-ita { data /usr/share/dict/eng-ita.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/eng-ita.index }
database eng-lat { data /usr/share/dict/eng-lat.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/eng-lat.index }
database eng-nld { data /usr/share/dict/eng-nld.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/eng-nld.index }
database eng-por { data /usr/share/dict/eng-por.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/eng-por.index }
database eng-swe { data /usr/share/dict/eng-swe.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/eng-swe.index }
database eng-spa { data /usr/share/dict/eng-spa.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/eng-spa.index }
database fra-eng { data /usr/share/dict/fra-eng.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/fra-eng.index }
database hun-eng { data /usr/share/dict/hun-eng.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/hun-eng.index }
database ita-eng { data /usr/share/dict/ita-eng.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/ita-eng.index }
database lat-eng { data /usr/share/dict/lat-eng.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/lat-eng.index }
database nld-eng { data /usr/share/dict/nld-eng.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/nld-eng.index }
database por-eng { data /usr/share/dict/por-eng.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/por-eng.index }
database spa-eng { data /usr/share/dict/spa-eng.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/spa-eng.index }
database swe-eng { data /usr/share/dict/swe-eng.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/swe-eng.index }
Bill
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[expert] matroxfb framebuffer (non-X)
Hi, When my system boots, it comes up using vgafb. How can I change this to use matroxfb? Bill Mandrake 8.1 XFree86 4.1.0-21mdk Matrox G400 w/32MB SDRAM -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] PRoblem with MandrakeStore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I am sorry to have to post this email to this mailing list, but it is the only Mandrake list I subscribe to. I purchased the 8.1 CDs from MandrakeStore about 5 weeks ago (the money was charged to my Credit Card accordin to the statement), and MandrakeStore sent me an email saying that the package is on its way. that was 5 weeks ago. Needless to say, I have not received anything. I emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] several times, and to date, I have not received any response, or even an acknowledgement that they received my email. I was wondering if any of you have had problems with MandrakeStore, and how was the issue resolved. Thanks George Abdo Same problem. They claim it was shipped 8 Oct and my credit card has been charged. No reponse on my last enquiry. Until this order, I had always ordered from Cheapbytes. But I thought it would be better to support Mandrake in a more direct way. It's back to Cheapbytes next time out. Bill -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2 monitors
Martin Ignacio lange wrote: Hey, Does anybody knows how to put two monitors with linux. Do I explain myself? I want two monitors in one computer. Thanks Martin Good luck if you can get to fit in one computer.g Check google for xinerama. Bill -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] devfsd and cdrom
be prepared for this with 8.1. other msgs on this subject suggests using devfs is for adding a new feature for the kde desktop. not nice for non-kde users. bill On Thursday 27 September 2001 02:24, you wrote: My /dev/cdrom had changed (after update to 8.1-RC1) to /dev/cdrom0 - cdroms/cdrom0 It worked again when I edited fstab accordingly. -- Bjarne Dave Kufta wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2001 06:36 pm, J. C. Woods wrote: Dave Kufta wrote: I am having difficulty mounting my cdrom, cdrom is creative CDRW-6424, when I attempt to mount the cdrom I get the following argument: Today is Tue Sep 25 at 17:50:21. Computer is serving [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/etc]# mount /dev/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde 2.2.1
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/ reports that mandrake 8.1 rc1 has been upgraded to include KDE 2.2.1 on Mandrake sites. Apparently, no change in the filename was used. Bill On Wednesday 19 September 2001 20:21, you wrote: Does anyone know if the kde 2.2.1 will make it into the mandrake 8.1 release or will it end up with the buggy kde 2.2.0 I am just curious as I plan to upgrade my whole system with the 8.1 release. Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] matroxfb framebuffer
Hi, When my system boots, it comes up vgafb. How can I change this to use matroxfb? Bill Mandrake 8.0 XFree86 4.1.0 Matrox 400 -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Supermount 2.4.8-18mdk
Supermount and this kernel works fine with my cdrom drive, zip drive and floppy disk drive. Actually, my CD drive is a dvdrom drive. How do I set up fstab to detect both a dvd or cdrom? Bill -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Supermount 2.4.8-18mdk
Ibon, At any Cooker site. A quick check shows it's been replaced by: kernel-2.4.8-20mdk.i586.rpm I don't know if this one is supermount-aware. Also, check: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/article.php?sid=434mode=threadorder=0thold=0 for more information. Bill lhon wrote: Hello Bill, Where are find 2.4.8-18mdk ? Regards, Leo Hon Bill Thompson wrote: Supermount and this kernel works fine with my cdrom drive, zip drive and floppy disk drive. Actually, my CD drive is a dvdrom drive. How do I set up fstab to detect both a dvd or cdrom? Bill -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Clock timer configuration lost.
DataChannel wrote: What does it mean when probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard. scrolls up in my logs at random intervals between once every 10 seconds to once every 45 minutes on a motherboard (GA-5AX) that doesn't have a VIA chipset on a fresh installation of Mandrake Linux 8.0? I've been seeing this message for a coupla months and have not come up with an answer. BTW, I have the same motherboard. Bill -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cable mode problems
Hi, Friday, technicians will be at my home to do a cable modem installation. The software provided is ppoe from Network TeleSystems, Inc. I will be using a ZyXEL Prestige 941 cable modem and a nic card with a RealTek 9139C chip. I'm using Mandrake 8.0, 2.4.7-14mdk kernel and WindowMaker 0.65.1. The location is Bangkok, Thailand. Two questions - how can I setup switching between my dial-up modem and the cable modem. Second qestion - anyone have hands on tips for hardening a Linux system using a cable modem. Both successful and unsuccessful stories are welcome. Thanks, Bill -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cable mode problems
Never having use DSL or cable modem service, I couldn't say. The provider has both services available. Deities aren't what they use to be... Bill Digital Wokan wrote: I thought PPPOE was for DSL. Why would cable kill itself with this? And do cable systems continue working without having PPPOE installed? (So far, Cox@Home hasn't switched to using such a system. Thank whatever diety as appropriate.) Bill Thompson wrote: Hi, Friday, technicians will be at my home to do a cable modem installation. The software provided is ppoe from Network TeleSystems, Inc. I will be using a ZyXEL Prestige 941 cable modem and a nic card with a RealTek 9139C chip. I'm using Mandrake 8.0, 2.4.7-14mdk kernel and WindowMaker 0.65.1. The location is Bangkok, Thailand. Two questions - how can I setup switching between my dial-up modem and the cable modem. Second qestion - anyone have hands on tips for hardening a Linux system using a cable modem. Both successful and unsuccessful stories are welcome. Thanks, Bill -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cable mode problems
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 August 2001 21:49, Bill Thompson wrote: Hi, [snip] Two questions - how can I setup switching between my dial-up modem and the cable modem. In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, the scripts ifup-ppp, ifdown-ppp, ifup eth0 ifdown eth0 should do the trick. Although. There's no reason why you can't keep eth0 up while using the modem. Just be a little tricky with your routing table. Ok, I'll keep this in mind. Second qestion - anyone have hands on tips for hardening a Linux system using a cable modem. Both successful and unsuccessful stories are welcome. At freshmeat, there are many scripts to automaticly generate firewall commands. Ok, I'm will be looking at Bastille Linux, too. Ron - -- Tue Aug 21 09:10:15 2001 Seq. TimestampUptime - 1: Mon Jul 16 16:28:17 2001 - 35 16:41:54 - 2.4.6-3mdk -- 2: Thu May 17 01:44:04 2001 - 35 15:31:51 - 2.4.3-20mdk 3: Thu Jun 21 17:33:18 2001 - 10 05:29:02 - 2.4.3-20mdk 4: Sun Jul 1 23:03:05 2001 - 7 10:13:18 - 2.4.3-20mdk 5: Wed Jul 11 15:11:11 2001 - 5 01:16:26 - 2.4.6-3mdk 6: Tue Jul 10 02:55:19 2001 - 1 09:18:42 - 2.4.3-20mdk 7: Wed Jul 11 12:14:35 2001 - 0 02:20:37 - 2.4.6-3mdk 8: Wed Jul 11 14:39:19 2001 - 0 00:31:20 - 2.4.6-3mdk 9: Wed Jul 11 14:35:45 2001 - 0 00:03:01 - 2.4.6-3mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7gm0HjTz5dS9Us5wRAo5NAJ9FUr4IjioJ6oB6Dw9TdGfPrmEw0wCeJoiq XVlcLBp1pEujITrG/ctkY0E= =ftS7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Thanks, Bill -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cable mode problems
steve wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:13:08AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: I thought PPPOE was for DSL. Why would cable kill itself with this? And do cable systems continue working without having PPPOE installed? (So far, Cox@Home hasn't switched to using such a system. Thank whatever diety as appropriate.) FWIU, it's all about revenue. With PPOE they can cram more users on their pipes as everyone is not on 24/7 and...in Canada anyways, the offical reason is because legislation require them to open the pipes to competitors. Using PPOE type of sofware the cable company then can determine which user is theirs or a resellers. Thanks for this. PPOE actually was developed in Canada by Bell Sympatico for use with their high speed ADSL, they must have made in Open Source because it was since about 2 years ago, it has been provided by them for download by anybody who wished to do so. Actually, the version of PPOE supplied by my ISP was a RedHat 5.2 rpm binary!! I found the source that compiled without incident under MDK 8.0. Bill Thompson wrote: Hi, Friday, technicians will be at my home to do a cable modem installation. The software provided is ppoe from Network snip -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email/ \ Bill -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cable mode problems
Digital Wokan wrote: Considering the cable companies have managed to utterly keep out the competition, PPPOE seems like a pointless exercise. Of course, with Excite@Home burning in flames, I'm wondering if cable based Internet will survive. Here in Thailand, running a monoply is the modus operandi. steve wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:13:08AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: I thought PPPOE was for DSL. Why would cable kill itself with this? And do cable systems continue working without having PPPOE installed? (So far, Cox@Home hasn't switched to using such a system. Thank whatever diety as appropriate.) FWIU, it's all about revenue. With PPOE they can cram more users on their pipes as everyone is not on 24/7 and...in Canada anyways, the offical reason is because legislation require them to open the pipes to competitors. Using PPOE type of sofware the cable company then can determine which user is theirs or a resellers. PPOE actually was developed in Canada by Bell Sympatico for use with their high speed ADSL, they must have made in Open Source because it was since about 2 years ago, it has been provided by them for download by anybody who wished to do so. Bill Thompson wrote: Hi, Friday, technicians will be at my home to do a cable modem installation. The software provided is ppoe from Network snip -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email/ \ Bill -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cable modem
Give the 8139too driver a try. Bill Darcy Brodie, CJL wrote: A word of caution with the rtl8139. They work well with Mandrake 7.2, but the drivers that are available at this time for the rtl8139 cards do not work with Mandrake 8.0, and i have been unable to locate any drivers for the rtl8139 cards that will work in LM80. Darcy Franki wrote: Remember, if the problem is the network card not working, you can go and get a 20 dollar realtec card from a computer shop and it will work at 10 or 100 speed in either windows or linux and it will do it in linux with no driver necessary, (linux supports it out of the box, I speak of the rtl8139 cards,,, (look on the actual big chip on the network card, the numbers and brand on that will tell you what the card REALLY is, as opposed to what the box tells you its being sold as.) you may be lucky and find that the card is already supported and you are trying to load a driver that is not necessary. Its really alot easier in linux then you will believe, once you get it going, you'll wonder why you were having problems, ,it only seems hard because you are used to doin it the windows way rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Rankin Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2001 11:11 AM To: Guy R Gauthier Cc: mandrake Subject: Re: [expert] Cable modem Guy R Gauthier wrote: About a month ago, I subscribed to cable Internet access. It was not a problem getting it going in Windows. Now, however, I'm trying to get it going in Linux without any success. The disk that came with the ethernet card that came with the modem does have drivers for Linux. I wasn't able to install it though, and when I called the support line for the card, they told me they don't support Linux. I had tried to install following the directions in the drivers section. I wasn't able to do it. So now I'd like to ask anyone who knows Linux if they would help me. If need be, I can send the complete instructions on how to install it. To me, it doesn't seem to correlate. If anyone can help me, I'd be very grateful. Failing that, I'll probably have to stick with Windows. And that thought makes me shudder. So I'm looking forward to any help I can get. TIA Guy First, what ethernet card is it? Generally, you are provided with some linux driver (module file) say drivername.o To have Linux recognize the card is a matter of installing the module. (see man insmod and modprobe) After you can talk to your ethernet card, getting the cable modem working is simply a matter of configuring your ethernet interface (eth0 or eth1) to handle the IP from your cable ISP. linuxconf can automate the process of setting up eth0 or eth1 (your 1st and 2nd ethernet cards) to handle a dynamic IP assigned from your ISP via DHCP or set eth0 to handle a fixed IP assigned to you. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. ASEL -- Instrument Nacogdoches, Texas N31 34.7 W094 42.6 355 MSL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When all else fails, play dead!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] installed XFree 4.1 from cooker- now no DRI (mga)
I went throught the following drill last week and was successful. Get http://azz.us-lot.org/kernel-drm-4.1.0.tar.gz and compile using: make linux (or something like that) The resulting .o files replace those in /lib/modules/2.4.5-3mdk/kernel/drivers/char/drm. Note the i810 module does not get created. You might wish to backup the existing drm files. Copy over the new ones and gzip them. For a little extra humpf for the G400, add Option 2 to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. And it wouldn't hurt to replace DefaultColorDepth with DefaultDepth. Reboot and you should be in business. Bill Brian Hall wrote: I just installed the cooker XFree 4.1 RPMs onto my Mandrake 8.0 system. Went fine, although I had to back out the pam-0.75 install and revert back to pam-0.74 from CD#1 (glibc problem, don't want to update my whole system to cooker). The problem is, I no longer have DRI enabled. I think it is because the DRI versions aren't matching? My G400 was working great with DRI on XF4.0.3, is there a quick way to get it running with XF4.1 or do I have to recompile XF4.1 from source to get a working mga again? I did try to install the binary modules from the Matrox tarball, but they wouldn't install. I'm currently running the 2.4.5-ac14 kernel. -- http://www.bigfoot.com/~brihall Linux Consultant Plasma is another matter. -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
Re: [expert] installed XFree 4.1 from cooker- now no DRI (mga)
David E. Fox wrote: I went throught the following drill last week and was successful. Get http://azz.us-lot.org/kernel-drm-4.1.0.tar.gz and compile using: make linux (or something like that) Actually, 'xmkmf ; make -f Makefile.linux'. 'make -f Makefile.linux' alone also works. The resulting .o files replace those in /lib/modules/2.4.5-3mdk/kernel/drivers/char/drm. Note the i810 module does not get created. You might wish to backup the I saw some mga files as well. Do these replace the mga directory in XF 4.1? Do you still need to get (or copy) the matrox driver from the Matrox web site? I did this for X 4.0.3, in addition to building it from source. I don't know, I copied only the *.0 as described above. But I'll try the other mga files and see what happens. I believe the the matrox driver from the matrox web site is required if you want to use the recently released 'mgadesk' utility. I use a monolithic 2.4.x kernel and am wondering what to do with this kernel-drm-4.1.0 file. I built it, but should I just copy files into my linux source tree and rebuild? No need to rebuild anything. Yesterday, I upgraded to kernel 2.4.5-5mdk and the drm files didn't need replacing. Bill David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
[expert] viewperf problem
Hi, I downloaded and installed viewperf from a Mandrake ftp site of unsupported files. Can any one tell me where to install the AWadvs, DRV, DX, Light, ProCDRS and MedMCAO data files? Thank, Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
[expert] A Winbond-like problem
Hi, I'm getting a message on the console terminal (non-X) that is really getting to me. Has anyone any tips on how to get rid of it. Here's the message: probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard. probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. It's been plaguing me since the 2.4.3 kernels of Mandrake 7.2. Bill Mandrake 8.0 -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
[expert] ntpdate
Anyone know which rpm package for Mandrake 8.0 has ntpdate? Thanks, Bill
[expert] rpm problems???
some of the rpm files at ftp://ftp.eastwind.net/pub/mirrors/texstar/ gives the error: anacron ## var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48227: fg: no job control execution of anacron-2.3-7mdk script failed, exit status 1 running 'rpm -q anacron' shows: [billt@darkside download]$ rpm -q anacron anacron-2.3-6mdk anacron-2.3-7mdk i also have this problem in updating lpr. 'rpm -e anacron-2.3-6mdk' or 'rpm -e anacron-2.3-7mdk' doesn't delete either one. 'rpm --rebuilddb' doesn't help. can any one help. bill -- the world was created by GIMP and VIM and we see it clearly with Mozilla...
Re: [expert] Amazing, I'm the ONLY one!
donald hinds wrote: Is it really true? I'm the ONLY one to try and install a USB modem in LM-7.2? Since no one has an answer, it seems it must be so. Don ;-( http://www.signalground.com/article/3160886097 is an article on using the D-Link DSB-560 USB modem with Linux. A good report... Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
[expert] Framebuffer on the console
Hi, I've lost my way trying to get the matroxfb framebuffer to work correctly when booting up on a non-graphics logon. I'm using the non-LM 2.4 kernel with LM 7.2. Is matroxfb_base the correct module to use? If not, which of the kernel modules should I use? And how - so that the Tux logo is seen while the system boots? Thanks, Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
Re: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've d/l'ed and decompressed the 2.4 Kernal to /root/linux. When I try to make config, it tells me "No such file or directory". What gives? I'm running LM7.2. I use the 'howto' at http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jandr/Mandrake.htm to compile and install a 2.4 kernel. As someone said in the replies, do some research before starting. This 'howto' assumes you know about kernel configuration as I learned - 2.4 kernels, in particular.g But is still recommended. Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
Re: [expert] Advanced Packaging Tool for Linux Mandrake.
Mike, I didn't see apt-get under Cooker but I did see it under Contrib. I grabbed the source rpm and ran into a compile problem: Building program /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/apt-0.3.19cnc27/bin/hdlist2pkglist Installing desc.apt to /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/apt-0.3.19cnc27/scripts/dselect Installing install to /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/apt-0.3.19cnc27/scripts/dselect Installing names to /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/apt-0.3.19cnc27/scripts/dselect Installing setup to /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/apt-0.3.19cnc27/scripts/dselect Installing update to /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/apt-0.3.19cnc27/scripts/dselect make[2]: *** No rule to make target endors.list.5.yo', needed by endors.list.5'. Stop. make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.11168 (%build) Not making any headway with this, I went to Connectiva and downloaded their static source rpm. It compiled fine. Its /etc/* files are set up to fetch files from Connectiva. Anyone have what's needed to get them from Mandrake. BTW, the compiler of the original Contrib rpms and the Connectiva rpms is Alfredo Kojima of the WindowMaker project. He released 0.63.0 and 0.63.1 of WindowMaker, this weekend, if anyone's interested. Bill Mike MacCana wrote: For those of you who haven't heard the news, Mandrake Cooker now has APT-GET support. APT get is a rather nifty way of installing software on a computer. Comparing the task of installing, say, the latest Gimp on your machine Regularly... * Find out what the latest Gimp is... * Try Mandrake Update, rpmfind, gimp.org, and various other sources until you've got the package * Try and install it * Apparently you need libgimp. * Try the same thing for libgimp * Apparently libgimp needs a newer gtk * Try the same thing for gtk ad nauseum, until you've acquired all the relevant dependencies * Install gimp. Or give up, and decide your day would be better spent on a more enjoyable activity, like having all your teeth pulled out with a pair of pliers. :-| APT Get * apt-get install gimp [and the rest is done for you. Apt tells you the size of the downloads necessary to install gimp on your system, and asks for your OK to start downloading] This is A Good Thing. :-) So, does anyone [especially civileme (apologies in advance for bad spelling)] have any further info about when the next major distribution from Mandrake is due to arrive, and what Mandrake's intentions re: APT will be? I'm particularly interested in the the obvious GUI frontend I imagine Mandrake would be planning... Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
Re: [expert] avifile
Thanks, Mike, Bill Mike MacCana wrote: Try www.gnute.com. Cheers, Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Bill Thompson wrote: Mike MacCana wrote: I actually annoyed the avifile about qt locations and he fixed things accordingly for 0.53 :). So you prolly dson't need that anymore. Not that it will help your compile... Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Cecil Watson wrote: THanks for the suggestions. But alas, I tried it with that directive last night. It is a clean install, I've have no updates to qt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've compiled avifile 0.53 without a problem. I didn't have any errors. I only had to run configure with '--with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt2'. I remembered that 0.51 wouldn't compile without it (although configure would run without a problem). you can try that. also, did you update any qt libraries? mine are the original. good luck -- Haim I successfully compiled avifile and the xmms plugin for avifile. Can anyone tell me where I can get avi files to use for a test. The sites I tried, downloads have not been successful for one reason or another. Thanks, Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand... -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
Re: [expert] avifile
Ken Thompson wrote: I successfully compiled avifile and the xmms plugin for avifile. Can anyone tell me where I can get avi files to use for a test. The sites I tried, downloads have not been successful for one reason or another. Thanks, Bill If you have your windows CD lying about you can use the avi files on it as test material. Windows 95 has a nice one called "Good Times" on it. Windows 98 has several also. Thanks for the tip. Will check with friends since I don't use any of the above. Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
Re: [expert] avifile
Mike MacCana wrote: I actually annoyed the avifile about qt locations and he fixed things accordingly for 0.53 :). So you prolly dson't need that anymore. Not that it will help your compile... Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Cecil Watson wrote: THanks for the suggestions. But alas, I tried it with that directive last night. It is a clean install, I've have no updates to qt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've compiled avifile 0.53 without a problem. I didn't have any errors. I only had to run configure with '--with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt2'. I remembered that 0.51 wouldn't compile without it (although configure would run without a problem). you can try that. also, did you update any qt libraries? mine are the original. good luck -- Haim I successfully compiled avifile and the xmms plugin for avifile. Can anyone tell me where I can get avi files to use for a test. The sites I tried, downloads have not been successful for one reason or another. Thanks, Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
[expert] Python module missing...
Hi, Anyone know where the Python module dl (dlmodule.so) is located? It's not in python-1.5.2-12mdk. Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand... Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Cooker Packages For LM 7.2
Will these rpm files work with Linux boxes using 486/586 compatible CPUs? Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cooker Packages For LM 7.2 (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001213130438) So I've spend most of the day to get some of your favourite packages rebuilt for LM 7.2. It wasn't exactly what I call fun, but more about that in a later article. I could fulfill some wishes, others not. Read the scope. Of the packages I wanted to build, these dropped out: galeon (didn't compile), sawfish, nautilus and xmms. The latter three depend on more than four Cooker-only packages each (mostly GNOME stuff), and that would be just too much of an effort, especially since it likely that those packages in turn depend on others. I really regret the compile error with Galeon, I was keen on trying it out myself. I'll see what I can do. And no, I won't rebuild XFree: the Cooker package is some 40 MB +. It would take me about 90 minutes just to get this package ... So, what do I have then? Let's open the - hum - package: db1-1.85-3mdk.i686.rpm db1-devel-1.85-3mdk.i686.rpm db1-tools-1.85-3mdk.i686.rpm db3-3.1.14-2mdk.i686.rpm db3-devel-3.1.14-2mdk.i686.rpm db3-utils-3.1.14-2mdk.i686.rpm gimp-1.1.30-1mdk.i686.rpm gimp-perl-1.1.30-1mdk.i686.rpm libgimp1.1_30-1.1.30-1mdk.i686.rpm libgimp1.1_30-devel-1.1.30-1mdk.i686.rpm licq-1.0-5mdk.i686.rpm licq-autoreply-1.0-5mdk.i686.rpm licq-console-1.0-5mdk.i686.rpm licq-devel-1.0-5mdk.i686.rpm licq-forwarder-1.0-5mdk.i686.rpm licq-rms-1.0-5mdk.i686.rpm licq-update-hosts-1.0-5mdk.i686.rpm mozilla-5.0.0-0.M18.4mdk.i686.rpm mozilla-devel-5.0.0-0.M18.4mdk.i686.rpm pan-0.9.2-1mdk.i686.rpm rpm2html-1.5-1mdk.i686.rpm wine-20001202-1mdk.i686.rpm wine-devel-20001202-1mdk.i686.rpm These packages can be found on ftp://mandragon.org/pub/mandrake. If you are using Netscape to access the server, you will need to activate 'Send email address as anonymous FTP-password' (Edit - Preferences - Advanced). And of course some sort of email address in 'Identity'. You know it, I know it: these packages come without any guarantee, support or whatever. If they work for you, good, if not, tough luck. There's still room left on mandragon.org. If you weren't lucky the first time, here's your chance to try again ;). List your wishes, and I will see what I can do. -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand... Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Name Your Most Wanted Cooker Packages, Please
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Name Your Most Wanted Cooker Packages, Please (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001212151414) Just got my new 150 MB quota on mandragon.org, so I thought I might do some of you a favour and recompile wanted Cooker package for LM 7.2. Please check the current content of the 'unsupported' directory if your package of choice hasn't already been compiled (CUPS, ghostscript, KDE, Samba). Of course I would prefer if you want small packages, recompiling the Qt2 package from Cooker took some 50 minutes here ... So, say what you want and I will see what I can do. BTW, if someone else has recompiled packages, you might want to do your fellow users a favour, too ... tom Anyone have xfree 4.0.1z recompiled for LM 7.2 available for download? Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand... Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Call for help from Pingus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call for help from Pingus (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001012074800) Moulinneuf writes "Some of you may know it but some of you may not, Hi, MandrakeForum is very informative keeping me uptodate on things. I have one small problem with it, tho. It arrives here without any wordwrapping. I have to run up a Netscape compose window or save it to a file and read it in an editor. Bill Thompson MDK 7.1 Netscape 4.75 -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand... Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
